Hello there. I just writed this thing awhile ago, like years ago. I recently just found it and thought to myself that I shouldn't just delete this. So I'm posting it now to just get it out of my system. I hope that once you've read it you'll let me know your thoughts ;). Here we go :).
Disclaimer; I feel it's crazy I have to tell everybody that I don't own the High School Musical franchise. Seriously, I think people know.
My Baby
Chapter 1.
It was a saturday morning, and Gabriella Bolton was sleeping in - at least in her own little world she was. When she woke up it was 7:30 in the morning, and that was sleeping in for Gabriella. She couldn't remember who woke her this particular saturday, though. If she woke on her own, or if it was the three kids jumping squealing into the bed between her and her husband that did the trick, but she definitely woke up.
She rubbed the sleepdust out of her eyes, and then she watched her kids with a smile while Troy slowly woke up. She was a morning person, and he clearly wasn't, but they suited each other anyways. She had a smile for him as well, and then they both watched the kid, jumping up and down in the bed. They were going to the zoo today, Troy had promised them. Gabriella couldn't go, though, she had to work at the clinic.
Gabriella had two jobs, and only one of them payed. Mondays to fridays she worked as a pre-school teacher, and on weekends she offered her help to the clinic. She had always been kind of a good samaritan like that, even in high school she did deeds no-one else at her age - no matter how angel-like - would ever do.
Troy had his weekends off. He was playing for Albuquerque's local basketball team, still trying to get into the NBA and being unsuccessful so far. He was trying, and he had been trying for as long as Gabriella had known him. They had met in college, gotten married in college, had kids in college, but that never took Troy's head out of the game.
They were both 23, so they had been out of college for a while. They got married at 19, had their first kid together at 20 and their next at 21, and that would make them 3 and 2. Their names were Kyle and Alyssa. Kyle was the oldest of the two, and he would never let Alyssa hear the end of it. They were Troy's only kids, but Gabriella had one who was slightly older than the two toddlers. She also had a daughter who went by the name Shelby and was 6 years old.
Troy had been shocked when he and Gabriella had first started going out, and he learned that Gabriella at 18 already had a 1 year old, but he had been great with Shelby from the very beginning. Maybe he wasn't her biological father, but that didn't mean that he wasn't Shelby's real father, and to be honest Shelby was a total daddy's girl.
Gabriella had a great life. She concluded that while watching Troy grab Shelby and tickle the life out of. Gabriella cracked a smile, and then she grabbed Kyle in one arm and Alyssa in the other, pulling them in for a hug while Shelby was still being tickled. That girl had the most amazing laugh, it was so infectious, and it made other people want to laugh as well.
"Okay!" Troy then shouted with his 'look at me everybody' voice, and then he stood up and took Shelby under his arm and carried her with him out of the bedroom while he said; "Who is ready to go to the zoo?"
Kyle and Alyssa couldn't get out of their mother's arms fast enough and hurried after their father, afraid that if they didn't keep up they wouldn't get to go to the zoo. They loved animals, especially Alyssa. When she grew up she wanted to own a unicorn farm. Gabriella hadn't had the heart to tell her that unicorns didn't exist.
"Hey!" Gabriella yelled after them when she was left all to herself, but she quickly got of bed as well and made her way into the kitchen. Breakfast wasn't gonna make itself, and Troy only knew how to cook chicken noodles (did I mention it was cup noodles). "So what do we want for breakfast today?"
She didn't know why she even asked that question. It was a zoo day, and they had special cereal in this house that they only got on zoo days. It was cereal shaped like different animals with chocolate filling inside. They loved it, but they only got it on zoo days, and Gabriella reckoned it was one of the reasons why they loved zoo days so much.
"Oh, I know! How about these?" She questioned and acted all excited, as she pulled the cereal box out of the cabinet. All three kids squealed in delight, and Gabriella and Troy both chuckled. She put the cereal box down on the kitchen table and got some milk out of the fridge for them. "There you go, sweet peas. Your special zoo cereal."
Troy grabbed the box and helped pour it into a bowl both for Kyle and Alyssa, as they were too young to do it themselves. They had insisted once and had also been allowed, but then there had been cereal everywhere, and that hadn't been a pretty sight. When he was done with that he handed it to Shelby, as she was capable of doing it herself, and then he poured milk on the cereal for them. They happily ate it.
Gabriella watched as the kids ate, and she hated that she couldn't go with them to the zoo, but she felt obligated to do all these good deeds somehow. She turned to Troy and decided to let him know what was going on in her mind. "I really wish I could go with you to the zoo." She revealed with a sigh, and Troy showed his support by reaching across the kitchen table and grabbing her hand, squeezing it to let her know he was there for her whenever. "I just... I don't know. I just feel like I have to be at the clinic."
"Yeah, but you're only volounteering, right?" Troy asked her, and Gabriella nodded with a confused expression on her face, and Troy got a soft expression on his as he explained further; "I mean, you could just not volounteer today or something, and then you could go with me and the kids. It would be fun."
A smile played on Gabriella's lips while looking at the kids still eating cereal. They were so occupied that they didn't even hear their parents' conversation. Troy was right in a way. She wasn't obligated to be there, but she felt obligated to be there. It was weird in a way, and she felt like she was letting someone down if she didn't go, so she had to go.
She looked at Troy again and said; "You know I can't do that, as much as I want to." She poured herself a cup of coffee and took a sip, and then she dumped it in the zink immediately after. She had to be on her way soon. She rushed over to Troy and placed a gentle hand at the back of his neck and rested her forehead against his. "It's not that I don't wanna go with you. I really do, honey, and you know that. I just wanna help these people."
Troy nodded and offered her a little smile. He understood, and he was proud his wife wanted to help others that much. She smiled back and gave him light peck on the lips, and then she kissed each of the kids on the top of their head and rushed out of the kitchen, throwing a quick goodbye over her shoulder.
"Wow, and you thought she would never leave!" Troy tried being funny with his kids, but they just looked at him like he was crazy, and then they dug into their cereal again. "Nevermind."
- BB -
After Gabriella had finally left, and the kids had been done eating, Troy rushed them to the bathroom to brush their teeth and such. He brushed their hair as well and helped them get clothed. He wasn't that good with finding clothes for the girls, but he thought he'd managed to do it quite well.
Kyle was denim pants and a red hoodie, as that was Kyle's favorite colour. It had never been green or blue or anything, and if the other kids told him that red was a colour for girls, he stood up for himself and said that he liked red better, so he didn't care whether or not it was meant for girls. He probably didn't say it like that, though, he probably just said something along the lines of 'I like red'.
Troy had forced his youngest daughter into a light blue dress with penguins on it, and Alyssa had screamed bloody murder that she wanted on her pink dress with the unicorns, but that was unfortunately for Troy's ears in the wash, so Alyssa would have to settle for the penguin dress. Alyssa only had dresses and was a really girly girl, and all of her dresses had animals on them as well because she simply loved animals so much. Troy saw a future vetenarian in his little girl.
Shelby had been a lot easier to dress because she understood a little bit more, and he could reason with her better than the two little ones. Shelby got in a pair of purple leggings, a white skirt and a pink hoodie. She had picked it out herself because when Troy finally got to her, he was too stressed out to find her some proper clothes, as Alyssa was still screaming about her unicorn dress.
Now they were finally at the zoo, and Alyssa had stopped screaming about her unicorn dress. Troy was being pulled in a hundred different directions by the kids. Alyssa wanted to go see the horsies, perhaps there was a unicorn amongst them. Kyle wanted to go look at the tigers, and Shelby was begging to go see the giraffes first.
"Okay, listen to me kids." He said loud enough so the kids could hear him over their bickering at each other, demanding their attention. They needed to figure this out, they couldn't possibly start three places at once. When they finally stopped bickering and looked at their father, he continued; "This is what we do. I'm gonna look at a thing and tell you what colour it is, and the first who guesses what it is that I'm looking at decides where we go first. That means if Alyssa guesses it we go see the horsies first, and if Kyle guesses it we go see the tigers first, and if Shelby guesses it first we go see the giraffes. Everybody on board?" The kids nodded. "Ok, I'm seeing something red."
"Uh!" Alyssa raised her hand and started jumping up and down, thinking she had spotted what Troy was looking at. Troy nodded in her direction, and she pointed at some pink birds. "A flamingo."
"A flamingo is not red." Kyle argued, it being is favourite colour. "It's stupid pink."
"It's, too, red!" Alyssa shouted and stuck her tongue out at her older brother and stomped her foot into ground.
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Kids!" Troy yelled and rushed over to them to break them apart, and then he smiled at his little girl to comfort her, and then he said; "The flamingos weren't the red I was going for, sweetie. I was looking for something different red, but good guess." He turned to Kyle and continued; "And Kyle, flamingos might not be red in your world, but right now you're trying to find what I'm looking at, so it's what's red in my mind, okay?"
They both nodded, feeling slightly ashamed. They carried on looking along with Shelby who had been totally unaffected by her siblings' little argument, she had been looking intense for what her father was talking about. She really wanted to go see the giraffes first, they were her favourite animal after all.
Then she spotted the only thing she thought was proper red, though it wasn't entirely red, but in her mind it was the only thing Troy could have meant. She pointed at it and said; "It's the parrot, right daddy? Or does it have to be red everywhere?"
"I was actually thinking about the parrot, so I guess we're going to see the giraffes first." He announced and took Kyle and Alyssa by their hands again, two kids who definitely did not look happy with that announcement. They hadn't thought as long as they were gonna be there all day, so Troy decided to lighten up their mood a little bit - no need to be sad on a day at the zoo. "And afterwards we'll go see the tigers because they are the closest to the giraffes, and then we'll go see the horsies after that. How does that sound?"
Alyssa squealed and hugged her father's leg, and Kyle was happy too. They began walking to the giraffes now that the two young ones had calmed down, and Shelby were already way ahead of them. She was practically running to get to the giraffes.
When Troy and the youngest kids finally got to the giraffes Shelby was already standing there, bouncing up and down in excitement while she pointed towards the giraffes.
"Look, daddy, there is a baby giraffe." Shelby told her father with bright shining eyes and happiness in her voice, and then she let the arm fall down to her side, and Troy saw that she was right. There was indeed a baby giraffe. "It's named Dotty."
"What a pretty name." Troy acknowledged, and then he bent down and picked Alyssa up to sit on his shoulders, so she'd get a better view of the animals. Alyssa whispered something in Troy's ear, and he had to hide a chuckle. "No, you can't ride the giraffes like a horsy, Alyssa."
"Giraffes are boring." Kyle said while leaning up against the fence, his fingers sticking through the holes. He was unimpressed, mainly because giraffes couldn't raw like tigers.
Shelby looked at Kyle with piercing angry eyes. "You are boring." She shot back, making Kyle run over to Troy and grab his leg, starting to cry.
"It's okay, Kyle, I'm sure Shelby didn't mean what she said. She just got upset with you because giraffes are her favourite animal. Just like you would be upset, if Shelby told you tigers were boring." Troy explained to his only son who wiped his tears away. Troy smiled and continued; "There you go."
"Why's giraffe her favourite animal?" Kyle questioned, looking up at his dad with big wide eyes. In his world tigers were the only cool animal.
"I don't know. You'll have to ask your sister, won't you?" Troy told his son with patience while bringing his youngest daughter down from his shoulders.
Kyle looked at Shelby with the same big eyes as he'd looked at his father with and asked; "Why?"
"'Cos they are yellow and brown, and I like those colours. Plus they have pretty eyes, and they are cute." Shelby explained to her littlebrother who made a face at the mention of cute. He was a boy who hated the word cute, especially being called cute by their mother. He wanted to be cool.
Alyssa tugged at her father's jeans leg in an attempt to get his attention. When he looked down she whined; "When are we gonna go see the horsies?"
Troy smiled and looked at Shelby and Kyle who were bickering about tigers and giraffes. He knew they probably wouldn't get to the horses untill late, especially with Shelby and Kyle being like that. He knew Shelby would think about her siblings, and what they wanted to see, but Kyle would refuse to leave the tigers once they first got there.
He knelt down to be on eye level with Alyssa. "Soon." He promised, but he was no where near sure about his words. He looked over at Shelby and Kyle again, and it looked like Kyle had surrendered and admitted that giraffes were cool as well as tigers. He looked at Alyssa again and smiled. "It all depends on Shel and Kyle." He stood up and called on the two kids. "Hey, Shelby and Kyle, get over here."
They both groaned and protested, but turned around nevertheless and began walking towards their father. They thought they'd be in trouble because they had been arguing, and they really didn't wanna get a lecture about arguing, and they didn't wanna leave the giraffes either.
"She started it." Kyle exclaimed when they reached Troy and pointed an accusing finger at Shelby, and she looked at her brother with wide eyes and mouth, like she was in complete shock that he would accuse her of that.
She looked at Troy with those puppy eyes that he couldn't resist and shook her head, so he knew that she definitely wasn't the one who started it. Kyle had been the one who kept ranting about tigers anyway.
Troy nodded at her, letting her know that he knew, but he hadn't called on them for that. "Your sister wants to go see the horsies soon, so if we could go to the tigers now?" He proposed to them, and Kyle quickly got all excited, but Shelby looked back over her shoulder at the giraffes with a sad expression in her eyes, but when she looked back at Troy again she nodded her pretty little head. "Good, let's go then."
He grabbed Alyssa's hand and Kyle's, and then they proceeded towards the tigers. This time Kyle was the fastest, almost dragging Troy and Alyssa with him, and Alyssa's legs were far too small to go that fast, so Troy had to slow Kyle down a little bit.
Shelby was a few feet behind her family, walking while looking down at the ground, deep in thought. The thrill of having seen the giraffes was already over, and now she started wondering about things. Like why their mother never came along on outings like this? Was it Shelby's own fault? Didn't her mother like her?
She had often wondered why she didn't look like her mother like Kyle and Alyssa did. Kyle had his mother's eyes and skin tone, and the rest of him was all Troy, but at least he looked like their mother a little bit. Alyssa was almost a spitten image of their mother, except for her hair colour. She had Troy's hair colour. Shelby didn't look anything like Gabriella, not even a freckle resembled her, and maybe that was why her mother didn't like her, or maybe that was why she didn't feel as connected to her as Kyle and Alyssa?
How could she possibly not look anything like her own mother? Sure, she had brown eyes, but they didn't sparkle like Gabriella's. Her skin wasn't like Gabriella's, and neither was her hair. It was really messing her up because she couldn't understand it. She was only 6 years old, and she didn't understand about genes or anything. She just knew her mother felt more connected to Kyle and Alyssa, but maybe that was because she was with Troy, and he was their father? He wasn't Shelby's because she didn't even know hers.
They were looking at the tigers now, and Troy was entertaining Kyle and Alyssa and everything while they were looking at them, but Shelby was being quiet, thinking about things a kid her age shouldn't even wonder about. She wasn't excited about the zoo anymore.
She was confused. She was so close with Troy who wasn't even her father, but her real mother she wasn't as close with, and shouldn't it be the other way around? She could tell Troy anything, and she was a total daddy's girl - that was what she called him after all - and they had so much fun together, but why wasn't it like that with her mother? Why did she feel so disconnected.
She knew she shouldn't be thinking these things, seeing as she could just as well look like a grandmother or even her father. She just felt off and it was weird. She was so wrapped up in these thoughts that she hadn't even noticed she was standing there by tigers all alone, but she was pulled out of her thoughts when Troy grabbed her hand and told her they were going to the horses now.
Shelby smiled and went with her father over to the horses, and it was now Alyssa's time to be excited about the animal they were looking at. She even asked a zoo keeper if she could get to ride one of the horses, but you couldn't ride the horses untill 2, so they would have to wait a while, and that was when they decided to go to one of the playgrounds nearby the horses.
"I wanna see if I'm a kangaroo." Alyssa cheered when they reached a field of grass by the playground and ran towards it. There was a place on the playground where there were some wooden walls lined up with animals on, and then you were supposed to see how far you could jump, and then you'd know which animal you were.
"No way, you are a stupid little bunny." Kyle teased her just for fun, and then he ran with her. In his mind he was racing her, but he didn't say it out loud incase she beat him. Alyssa was a fast runner after all.
Troy watched his two kids trying to jump as far as a kangaroo on the playground while chuckling a little bit, and then he sat down on the grass, keeping an eye on them to make sure they behaved themselves and didn't get hurt. If they had as much as a scratch on them when they got home, Gabriella would have a fit, and then he wouldn't wanna be himself.
He was a bit surprised when he saw that Shelby sat down next to him, instead of running towards the playground with her siblings to jump like a kangaroo. He was even more surprised when she was wearing a melancholy expression on her face. She was usually this happy girl, and that was partly why he was so attached to her.
"What's the matter, Shelbel?" He questioned his sad little daughter and pulled her in for a hug, stroking her hair with one of his hands. "You know you can tell me anything. I'm not just your dad, you know."
She looked at Troy with a sad smile playing on her lips. She could tell him anything, yes. "I just... don't get why I don't look anything like mom." She revealed to him, and he nodded while paying attention to what she said. It seemed important to her, and he was there. "I know I have a father too, though I don't really know him, and maybe I look like him, but aren't you supposed to look a little bit like both your parents?"
Troy looked at his daughter and thought that she was right. She looked nothing like Gabriella. Shelby had brown eyes, but they weren't like Gabriella's. Shelby's eyes were more chocolate brown, and Gabriella where just dark brown and had that sparkle. Shelby's were more sad in that area. Her hair wasn't brunette either, it was more strawberry blonde or something like that. He had never really thought about it before, but Shelby really didn't look anything like Gabriella.
He wasn't about to add to Shelby's sadness, so he thought long and hard about what to say before he spoke; "You're probably right, you don't look that much like her, but that doesn't make her love you any less." He kissed her forehead and locked eyes with her, and he could see that what he had said helped a little bit, and he decided to drag it all the way home and give her some resemblence to her mother. "Maybe you don't look like your mother that much, but you're small just like her, and that's looking like her too."
"You think so?" Shelby questioned with her big eyes staring into Troy's more intense than before, and when he nodded she cracked a smile and snuggled up closer to him. "Thanks, daddy. You're the best."
Troy smiled at her sweet words, and then he lowered his head to her ear and whispered; "And don't tell your mother this, but I think you're way prettier."
"But why isn't she here?" Shelby wanted to know, acting almost like she hadn't heard what Troy had just told. "It's because she doesn't like me, isn't it?"
"Why would you even say that, Shelby? You mother loves you very much, you should know that." He tried to explain to her, but she got free from his arms and stood up, and then she started to walk away from him. He quickly got up and walked after her, stopping her by placing his hands on her shoulders. "Hey, hey, hey. Shel, listen to me here. Your mother is at work, and that's the only reason she isn't here. She would have loved to spend the day with you because she loves you very, very much just like me, do you hear me?"
He made her turn around and look into his eyes, and she nodded her head and offered him a small half-hearted smile, but he decided to take it. It was the best she could give right now.
He wiped the tears that had started to form in her eyes away with his fingers, and then he wrapped his arms around her for another hug, and when they pulled apart she smiled at him again, and this time it seemed like she meant it more. He was glad, but he could tell she was still sad. He knew what every move she made, every expression on her face and almost everything else meant, so her knew that she was sad even if she was smiling at him.
"Hey, I know that look." Troy told her as he held her away from him with stretched arms, so he could look at her properly. "You're craving some strawberry yoghurt to cheer you up, aren't you?"
Shelby nodded. Troy just knew it, he was never wrong when it came to Shelby. When he had met Gabriella on one of the first days of college, and he learned that she had Shelby, it had just been a huge plus for him when he got to know the both of them, and he had quickly learned that the adorable little Shelby loved anything strawberry.
"Okay, then go get Kyle and Alyssa and tell them that we're going to get some yoghurt. I'll wait right here." Troy gave her the instructions, and then she sped as fast as she could to the playground to collect her siblings, so they could go and get some yoghurt.
Troy watched as she ran, and he felt deep in his heart that he would go anywhere with her. It had no importance that he wasn't her biological father or had any blood relations with her. He was her real father where it mattered: in his heart. No matter what would ever happen she would always have him. He would be there for her always, through thick and thin. She was his little angel and everything, but it did worry him how she felt about Gabriella.
It also worried him a great deal that now she had put thoughts into his head. Now he started to wonder about a lot of things. Who was Shelby's dad? What did he look like? Did Shelby look like him? Did that have anything to do with her not looking like Gabriella. Why didn't she look like Gabriella? He decided to brush the whole subject off and figured, she might start to look like Gabriella later on. You never knew.
Shelby came back quickly, hand in hand with Alyssa and Kyle. They almost couldn't keep up, but Shelby was just that into getting her strawberry yoghurt. So Troy took them to buy some yoghurt. Shelby got her strawberry, Kyle got peach, and Alyssa got natural because she didn't like the fruit lumps.
They had fun the rest of the day, watching all the animals. Shelby had forgotten all about her Gabriella issues, and Troy had forgotten about the thoughts Shelby had provoked him to have. They just had fun and to make sure Shelby didn't go back to being sad, Troy made sure that their last stop of the day was the giraffes again.
-BB-
That day turned out to be quite the hectic day. It was like everybody had decided to go to the free clinic on the exact same day, and there wasn't much Gabriella could do to actually help the doctors. Sure she volounteered and helped out and all that, but she was no doctor and could only do so much.
It got a bit more calm as the hours proceeded, and when it stopped being as stressful as in the morning Gabriella's mind went to Troy and the kids. She wished she could have been at the zoo with them, but it was as she had explained to Troy many times. She felt obligated to go. She felt she owed it somehow.
Maybe it was the secrets from her past? Secrets she had hid from Troy. It wasn't that what she had done was anything bad, but she had kept it from Troy, and she still had fears about her past coming back to haunt her. Would she be able to keep what she had achieved? Somehow she believed doing good work would keep the bad away.
She didn't wanna think about it. She stared at watch hanging on the wall in the waiting room at clinic, and she saw that she only had another half an hour left at the clinic before she could go home. She couldn't wait untill she could go home and see her kids again.
She got ripped out of her thought when someone placed a hand on her shoulder. She looked over her shoulder and saw one of the doctors smiling at her. His name was Sebastian Tate, and he was the youngest of the doctor there. She smiled back.
"Hey, what's up, Dr. Tate?" Gabriella questioned, wondering what she could do to help out. She genuinly wanted to help, her subconscious just made her work even harder at helping others. "You need some help with something?"
"Yeah, Gabby. I've got to give this young boy a shot, but he is being completely hysterical, and I was wondering if you by any chance occupy him while I give him the shot?" Sebastian requested as Gabriella turned fully around, and then he took one of the lollipops he would give to kids after exams out of his pocket to tempt Gabriella. "I'll give you a lollipop."
Gabriella pushed the lollipop away. "I don't need a lollipop. I would love to help." She said with a giggle, and then followed Sebastian into the examination room where she knelt before the crying boy. "Hey, what's your name?"
"D-Daniel." The boy, whose named was Daniel, managed to stutter through his many tears. Gabriella reached out a hand and dried away his tears with her fingers.
"Wow, that's a pretty name." Gabriella smiled at the little boy, and he smiled back at the compliment. She took his hand in hers and began stroking it with her thumb while trying to calm him further down. "You know what I think is cool?" The boy shook his head and hickupped. "I think bionicles are cool, and I happen to have some in my pockets. Do you wanna see?"
The boy nodded, and as Gabriella dug into her pocket for the bionicles she winked at Sebastian to let him know to get ready to give the boy the shot. She pulled out a red and a blue bionicle and handed the blue to Daniel.
"Do you like bionicles?" Gabriella asked as Sebastian got the shot ready, and Daniel nodded a bit shy and yet excited. "Me too. Which one is your favourite?" Daniel held up the blue one in his hand to tell Gabriella that the blue one was his favourite. "That's a good one. But I don't remember what his powers are. Can you help me, Daniel?"
Daniel nodded his head eagerly and was so wrapped up in Gabriella talking to him, about to explain the powers of the blue bionicle that he didn't even notice that Sebastian was now giving him his shot. Daniel had been so afraid that the needle would hurt, but Gabriella had occupied his mind, so he hadn't noticed getting the shot at all.
"The blue bionicle is the bionicle of water." Daniel explained to Gabriella with big excited eyes, waving his hands all over the place and making WOOOSH noises to illustrate water to her. He pointed at the red bionicle in Gabriella's hand and smiled. "That's the bionicle of fire."
"That's so exciting, Daniel, and you know what?" Gabriella asked him with a smile and let go of his hand. Daniel shook his head, and Gabriella continued; "You're done now. All better."
The little boy's mouth formed an 'O', and he looked up at Sebastian with wide eyes, completely surprised and shocked that it was over because he hadn't felt anything. Sebastian nodded to confirm, and Daniel jumped up and gave Gabriella a hug. He was that happy to get out of there.
"And you know what more?" Gabriella asked as Daniel let go of her. He shook his head again, and then she handed the red bionicle to him as well, so he had both of them now. He looked down at the toys in his hand and up at Gabriella, confused. "You can have these because you've been such a good boy."
"Now let's go see if your mother is ready to take you home, Daniel." Sebastian told the little boy and placed a hand on his back, letting him out of the examination room. Before he exited to room completely he looked over his shoulder and said to Gabriella; "You're done now, too, Gabriella. You may go home now."
Sebastian and Daniel had now gone out of the room, and Gabriella was excited to finally being able to go home to Troy and the kids. She might be home before them, but that was just even better. She could cook for them then and prepare to get all cosy with them. There was no better feeling.
The day had begun so stressful, and she had been out of it when she left the house this morning. She almost couldn't get properly ready or anything, and she even lost her track on the way to work - her kids had been in her mind. She wanted to be there for them, but she wanted to help people too. It was hard being this torn.
But now the day was all over for her, and she could go home to relax. She was already making plans for what to make for dinner, and what movie to pop in to watch with the kids as she went into the reception to gather her things. She only had a coat to put on and a bag to carry over her shoulder, and then she would be all set.
She was thinking indian, and then she put on her coat while smiling to herself, knowing that both Shelby and Troy absolutely loved indian food, and Kyle and Alyssa were beginning to have a taste for it as well. She had also thought that they should put on The Emperor's New Groove later - the kids loved that movie, and she found it hilarious as well.
She couldn't wait to have a perfect family night with her husband and kids. She loved her family, and she had been convinced ever since meeting Troy that nothing could ever mess things up. She was scared they could, yes, but this was her family, and if something was supposed to ruin it, wouldn't it have already? Or was Gabriella just being silly?
She threw her bag over the shoulder, and then she dug her hand into it, getting out her cell to text Troy.
On my way home. Love you and the kids, see you soon.
The bell on the door rang, and Gabriella put the cell phone back into her bag, and then she searched for her keys in there. She found them and got them out, and then she closed the bag, all ready to leave.
"Gabriella?" Gabriella turned around to see who was talking to her, and when she saw who it was she let out a loud gasp. "I want my baby back."
-BB-
There you have it. The end of chapter 1. I hope you enjoyed reading it, and I hope you'll leave me a review. I might not update it right away because I have a bunch of other stuff in works, but I will eventually. I don't know exactly when, but I thought it was about to get back in the game after some personal struggles and just post everything I've been working on so far. Hope you enjoy, thanks :).Laters, AK-tutti :D
