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Adoption

"How much longer?" Gabriella Montez asked her best Taylor McKessie. Both teenagers were sitting in Taylor's bedroom waiting an excruciating long two minutes before a tiny plastic stick determines either a life altering change or a not-so-funny scare.

"30 more seconds." Taylor answered Gabriella. "Gabi, just so you know whatever happens I'll be here for you."

"Thanks Tay. That means a lot. But it's probably nothing I'm just overreacting." Gabriella told herself more then Taylor. "I hope" she silently whispered to herself.

"Okay it's time." Taylor said grabbing the pregnancy stick.

"Well? What does it say?"

"Oh sweetheart. I'm so sorry." Taylor said tearing up.

"Oh my God, it's positive?" Gabriella was sobbing by this point. Thinking how did this happen? Troy and I were always safe. What's going to happen now?

Taylor ran over to Gabriella and engulfed her in a hug.

"Honey it will be alright." For the rest of the night Taylor and Gabriella just sat on her bed and hugged and cried. No words could be said now.


Gabriella walked into East High the next day looking down, with no emotion on her face. I'm only a junior; I can't take care of a baby. She thought to herself. All night after her and Taylor broke apart from their hug they talked about how they would deal with this. But mostly they thought about what Gabriella was going to say to Troy. They came up with a plan to just come out and say it. So that's what she was going to do right now.

Walking up to her boyfriend at his locker Gabriella could hear her heart pounding against her chest, going at the pace of a helicopter.

"Hey baby." Troy said kissing Gabriella softly.

"Hi" she replied softly.

"What's wrong?" He asked knowing that when she doesn't look you in the eyes when you're talking with her something was wrong.

"I need to tell you something…suddenly overcome with nerves she said "but not right now. Can you come over after school today? It's really important."

"Yeah of course sweetheart what's wrong?"

"I promise I'll tell you later."

After a dreadfully long day filled with nothing but silence on Gabriella's part Troy didn't think he could take another minute of it. So when he pulled up to her house in his truck with Gabriella in the front seat he immediately turned the car off and led her into her home.

"Is your mom home?" Troy asked.

"No she has to work late tonight. Do you wanna go up to my room?"

"Yeah." Troy then grabbed Gabriella's hand and led her up to her bedroom. Sat her on her bed and looked her right in her eyes.

"What's going on baby? You've barely talked to me all day, and its killing me not knowing what's wrong and not being able to help you."

Gabriella started crying uncontrollably while whispering "I'm sorry" over and over again.

"What? What are you sorry for?" Troy asked grabbing her hands and intertwining their fingers.

"I'm pregnant." She said in a voice so quiet but she barely heard herself but to Troy it was like someone just screamed it right in is face. She was kidding. She had to be. Every time they made love they were always so careful. What is going on?

"I'm sorry." Sorry seemed like the only thing she could say right now. Like saying that would make all of this just go away.

Troy came back down to reality after kind of zoning out for a little, and the reality was that the love of his life told him that they were going to have a baby at the age of 16 for her and 17 for him. What was she sorry for? He got her pregnant.

"Baby look at me." When she didn't move he gently grabbed her by her cheeks and kissed her passionately. "Gabriella Anne Montez you listen and you listen good! You have nothing to be sorry for, alright? It took both of us to make the baby. None of this is you fault. I'm just in shock, because I thought we were careful every time."

"Yeah I thought so too. But condoms are only 97% effective." Gabriella said bitterly.

"I guess we ended up in the 3% group." Troy sighed. "Do you need me to do anything? Like are you okay?"

"No I'm fine but um…I have a doctor's appointment during school at 9:30 if you wanna go. I would really like it if you did."

"Okay. Yeah I'll take you also; I don't think we should tell our parents until we are a hundred percent sure."

"Alright, thank you. I love you."

"I love you so much more." A little while later Troy went home and then went straight to bed skipping dinner and cried his eyes out. Little did he know but Gabriella was doing the same thing. What are we going to do, they both thought together.


After they had gotten back from the doctors, confirming that Gabriella was indeed about 8 weeks pregnant, Troy and Gabriella decided to talk about some of the options that the doctor had suggested to them at Gabriella's house since her mom was on another one of her business trips. One of the options that stuck out most was adoption.

"I think the best thing we should do is give it up for adoption. Because you and I both know that we'd never be able to take care of a baby when we're this young." Troy said. "How do you feel about that?"

"I feel okay with that. I actually feel really good about that. But we're going to give our baby to a family; a good one that wants one and can take care of him better then we could ever be able to. Okay?"

"Yeah, are baby is going to have the best life. This is going to work out. I promise."


AN: This is going to be my attempt at a full story. Or at least 5-10 chapters. So I would like it if you were somewhat nice because I know I'm not the best writer but I try.