Hey every one! This is my first high school musical fic...so be gentle!! I hope you all enjoy this as much as I am enjoying writing it.

SUMMARY:Gabriella left for school when high school was over...two years later she finally comes home. With a secret...

Gabriella Montez sighed as she put some toys in a box.

"Nervous?" A voice came from the doorway.

Gabriella looked up and moved over to sit in the window seat. "A little. So much has changed, mom." She picked at a loose piece of paint on the window sill.

Ms. Montez went over to Gabriella and sat next to her. "Gabi, everything will be fine."

"How do you know? How do you know that they won't hate me?" Gabriella whispered, "You know I never told any of them about Aaron. Not even Troy. What if they don't understand?"

"Then that's their problem. You have been a great mother to Aaron, be proud of that." Ms. Montez tried to reassure her daughter.

"I am proud of that. That little boy is my whole life. I just want them to understand and not hate me, especially Troy." Tears formed in her eyes when she said his name a second time. Troy Bolton, her first and only love. They were perfect. Voted cutest couple their senior year. When college came around they parted ways but swore that they would make it work. But the distance was just too much for both of them.

Gabriella couldn't focus on school and Troy's basketball struggled. They had decided, mutually, that they should take a break til summer and when they both came home they would decide where they stood with each other. But Gabriella never came home. She just couldn't face him. Now two years later here she was, mother to two year old Aaron and getting ready to move back to Albuquerque with her mother. What would she tell them? Tell Troy?

"Gabi, you need to stop worrying. Everything will be okay." Ms. Montez looked at her watch, "Come on, we need to pick up Aaron and hit the road."

Gabriella picked up the box of Aaron's toys and looked back at the empty room. She wished that she could just hide in the corner. She just wasn't ready to face any of them.