'Mum!' Lily Bolton shouted down the hallway of the hospital that her mother worked at. She ran towards her mum; who was stood at the nurse's station.

'Lil? What are you doing here? I thought you were staying at Aunt Taylor and Uncle Chad's for the day?' Gabriella Montez asked her daughter as she came to a stop in front of her.

'Mum that's why am here, you have to come quick its uncle Chad, he's been in an accident' as soon as she said that they were both running down the hallway. They ran into the waiting area to see Taylor Danforth; Gabriella's best friend since high school in tears with Sharpay Evans, who had become close to the two women after high school, trying to comfort her.

'Tay? What's happened?' Gabriella asked sitting on the other side of her. Taylor tried to answer but she couldn't get the words out so Sharpay answered.

'Chad was in a car accident on the way home from practice, he hit his head hard, they told us to wait out here' Gabriella nodded then stood up.

'I'll find out what's happening ok?' she said and then walked into Chad's room.

'What we got?' she asked professionally whilst putting on a pair of surgical gloves.

'33 year old restrained driver of the car, he has a laceration to his frontal lobe' the nurse cut off and I went to inspect it… sure enough in front of Chad's fuzzy hair there was a deep cut into his skull.

'Ok, I want a CT and call and an MRI to rule out other injuries, page me when you know what's what.' I said before letting them wheel him out.

I went back to the waiting area where Kelsi and Jason Cross, who had gotten married a few years ago, Ryan and Martha Evans, who had gotten married after Lily was born, had all arrived.

'Tay?' I asked gently, her head shot up. 'We're taking him for a CT and an MRI to rule out any other injuries and to see if there is any damage to his brain ok? I should have the results in less then ten minutes alright?' she nodded.

'Y...Yo…you'll be the one to o…op…operate right?' she chocked out.

'If he needs one yes.' I said rubbing her back comfortingly. My pager went off.

'That's Chad's results… I'll let you know as soon as I know anything ok?' she nodded and I walked off after I smiled at Lily; she was sat with Kelsi.

'Gabs?' Chad said as he came to.

'Hi there' Gabriella said smiling. He was laid in a hospital bed… she'd just finished stitching up his head.

'What…What happened?' he asked panicking slightly.

'Don't worry, your at the hospital; you were in a car crash. You remember that?' he nodded slightly. 'I've checked you out and you just needed sowing up… you can go home in about an hour' she said smiling. His hand instantly went to his hair.

'Phew!' he said after making sure it was all there. She laughed.

'You and your hair.' She said shaking her head.

'It's my pride and joy' he said sticking his tongue out.

'Whatever Chad, I'll go tell Tay she can come and sit with you.' She got up and walked out of the door. She walked into the waiting room and told Taylor she could go see him now, she was up out of her seat in an instant and her yells of the panic and anger she had felt in the last hour was let out as she told him off for crashing the car.

'Mum?' Lily asked.

'He'll be fine… I err I finish in about half an hour, you can wait for me if you want' Gabriella said to her sixteen year old daughter. Lily nodded.

'Ok…' Gabi nodded and kissed her daughters head before standing up to go check on her other patients before she went and clocked out.

Half an hour later she walked into the waiting area to see everyone waiting for her.

'We ready to go?' she asked. They all walked out of Albuquerque general hospital.

When they got to their house Lily went straight up to bed. Gabi and Lily lived in her mother's old house on their own. Gabi went to her room, which was still the same as when she was in high school, and got changed out of her dark blue scrubs; she didn't have to wear them for work but she just rather a patient throw up on or bleed all over a pair of scrubs then her everyday clothes. If you hadn't already guessed it Gabriella Montez was a Neurosurgeon, a world renounced one to be precise. She worked at Albuquerque General; she worked unruly hours but always managed to make time for her daughter.

Gabi, now in her light blue hot pants and white vest top, went to go check on her daughter. Lily was laid awake when Gabi walked in.

'Can't sleep?' Gabi asked her. She shook her head no.

'Tell me the story please?' Lily asked Gabi, just like she did every night.

'Aren't you bored of this story yet? It's been the same one for sixteen years Lil' Gabi asked but never the less sat on her daughters queen sized bed.

'You know it's my favourite' Lily said and Gabi nodded before starting the story off.

'Once upon a time there was a girl called Brie, now Brie was an ordinary girl, nothing special about her; she loved to read and write and was really intelligent. She'd won the scholastic decathlon for her previous schools at least four times. On New Years Eve she was sat reading her favourite novel; Pride and Prejudice, on a sofa at the ski lodge that her and her mother had gone to for the holidays. Brie's mother reminded her that she had to attend a party so begrudgingly Brie went to get a shower and get changed for this party. When she arrived she thought that she was going to have a horrible time, yet surprisingly it turned out to be a night that changed her life forever. You see she met this boy; Tom. They were practically forced to sing karaoke together up on stage, afterwards they got talking and Brie thought that he was amazing, they exchanged numbers and he promised he would call her the next day… of course he didn't, she went looking for him around the stables but he had already left. Brie's mother was transferred again so her and her mother moved houses and Brie started at a new school, unknown to her that Tom went to that school too. They met up and accidentally ended up auditioning for the winter musical, none of their friends were happy about it and they tried to split them up. It worked too Brie stopped talking to Tom and he had no idea why. Their friends saw how miserable they were without each other and so they decided to tell them that they had planned it all. Tom's friends went up to him and told him that they had filmed him in the locker rooms when he was saying horrible things about Brie, things that they had made him say. Tom went round to Brie's house that night and apologised, they were doing the call backs again, a lot of drama happened on call back day; Brie had the scholastic decathlon match and Tom had a basketball championship game, however after some careful planning and teamwork they managed to do all three… after high school Tom had promised Brie that they would be together forever, but he was offered a scholarship at UCLA. It was his dream… however Brie's dream was going to the university of Albuquerque, then going on to study medicine, even back then she knew she wanted to be a doctor; so that she could help people. They tried the long distance relationship but it didn't work out… so she dumped Tom she told him that she didn't want a boyfriend who didn't have time for her; she had a secret though… she had just found out that she was pregnant and she knew that if he found out, he'd drop everything in LA and come home to them… she knew that he'd give up on his dream for her and their baby… but she couldn't allow that, it was her fault; she'd forgotten to take her pill. So they lost contact and after seven months she was blessed with the most amazing gift a person could ever be blessed with; a baby. A girl to be precise, she named her Lillian, after all that was the name her father had said that he loved when they first started going out. She made a promise to herself that she'd do everything she could for her little girl, and that one day she'd tell her all about her father and that she would let her baby girl decide if she wanted to find out where he was or not… one day… but not yet… she wasn't ready to loose her.' Lily had fallen asleep. Gabi smiled wiping away a stray tear that fell from her eye and kissed the top of lily's head before walking to the door turning the light off and shutting it behind her.

Meanwhile half way across the city a 34 year old Troy Bolton was just stepping off the plane at Albuquerque international.

'God its good to be home' he sighed. Before walking down the stairs and into the terminal to meet his father.