SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY!! I seriously must be the worst fanfic writer when it comes to updating. I know it's been like way over a month but this story is definitely not going anywhere. I've been working on it slowly but surely and I finally finished chapter 2. I've just been really busy with school and stuff so that's my excuse for the long delay. Anyway that shouldn't be happening any more cause I'm finally back into working on this story so updates should be more frequent. Anyway here's chapter 2 hope you all like it, I made sure to make it longer than usual, to make up for the lack of updating, but it's not too drama filled just yet but it's starting to show up so no worries, everything will start to happen shortly. So I'm gonna shut up now and get on with the story, so read and review!! They always get me writing; I love hearing what you all think, so let me know what you all want to see/general comments about anything. Anyway onto chapter 2…
"No!" Gabriella screamed as she woke up suddenly. Within seconds Troy sat up to find his wife shaking and crying. He immediately wrapped his arms around her to try and calm her down but nothing was working.
"Gabby what's wrong?" he asked quietly, hoping not to make the situation worse. She didn't answer him, she just continued sobbing. Troy knew something was really wrong so he tried more and more to console her. But the more he tried the more she tried to get away.
"Troy let me go." She mumbled as she tried to pull away. "No Gabby not until you tell me what's wrong." He said and tightened his grip around her shaking figure. "Troy let me go! I need my babies!" she cried out and finally broke free from Troy's grasp. She carefully but quickly pulled herself off the bed and raced out of their bedroom. Gabriella practically ran down the hallway and into the twins' room. She quietly walked in between Amber and Addie's beds and let out a huge sigh of relief. But unfortunately for her it was just loud enough to wake up the girls.
"Mommy?" Addie said quietly as both she and Amber sat up in their beds. Gabriella smiled a bit with tears stilling rolling down her cheeks. "Yeah sweetie, its mommy." She finally said. She sat down on the end of Addison's bed and gently pulled her daughter onto her lap. Amber, being her usual semi-jealous self quickly hopped off her bed and glued herself to Gabriella's side. "Why you crying mommy?" Addie asked and Gabriella wiped her eyes free of tears once again. "Oh mommy's just being silly." She said letting a small smile creep on her face. "Mommy had a bad dream."
"Oh that's bad." Amber said as she climbed off the bed and grabbed her favorite stuffed animal off of her own bed. "Here you go mommy. You can sleep with Teddy." She smiled and set her stuffed bear in Gabriella's lap. "Aww thank you Amber that's so sweet." Gabriella smiled and then had another stuffed animal set on her lap. "And you can sleep with Martin." Addie giggled a bit at the name she had given her new stuffed dog. "And thank you Addie." Gabriella laughed a bit too.
"Alright you two back to bed. I can't keep you up all night." Gabriella said as she tucked Addie back in and then followed Amber to her bed before tucking her in too. "Night mommy." She heard them both say quietly before they fell right back asleep. "Good night girls." Gabriella whispered before tears threatened to fall once again. She just stood in the middle of their room, holding on to the two stuffed animals tight, letting a few tears escape from her eyes.
"It's a sign Troy." She muttered, knowing he was standing behind her in the doorway. "Come on Gabby don't think that way." He said quietly and then wrapped his arms around her waist after he entered the room. "No Troy, I'm serious. These nightmares are getting worse. Last night I lost the baby and tonight the girls were taken away from me." Gabriella sobbed as Troy turned her around and held her tight against his chest. "I think this means something. It's like telling me I'm a bad mother or something." She cried softly and buried her face in Troy's neck.
"Gabriella stop it. You are an amazing mother and you know it. These dreams mean nothing." Troy said, holding her close and then kissing her head a few times, trying to calm her down. "No Troy. I'm serious. What if something is wrong with the baby?" Gabriella mumbled and held on to him tighter, not wanting him to let go. "Gabby look at me." Troy said softly and waited until she slowly looked up at him and her dark tear-filled eyes met his. "Nothing is wrong with the baby. We're going to the doctor tomorrow anyway, and you'll find out exactly how everything is going. Stop worrying." He said as he wiped away the tears that were rolling down her cheeks and she nodded.
"I guess you're right." Gabriella sighed, resting her head against his chest. "Aren't I always?" he smiled, hoping to get some sort of laugh or even a smile out of her but unfortunately he got nothing, just a soft sob and a small sigh. "Come on lets get you back to bed." He said after a few minutes of comforting her. "No. I'm gonna stay in here tonight." She said quietly as she pulled away from Troy and turned around to face the twins again. "Brie you can't stay in here lets go back to sleep."
"Troy I just want to be with the girls right now." Gabriella snapped as she turned around and narrowed her eyes at him. "You can go back to bed, but I don't want to." She said quietly before pulling the rocking chair into the middle of the room and sat down. Troy sighed and finally headed back to his own room. Even though he wouldn't admit it, he was starting to worry about Gabriella. He had never seen her like this before, and he wasn't sure if it was the fact that she was pregnant or not. He didn't know she was pregnant with the twins during the first couple of months, so this was all new to him. He just hoped that her nightmares would eventually let up and she'd be back to her usual bubbly self.
--Catch Me When I Fall--
Gabriella woke up to the sound of the twins squealing with laughter and the sound of Troy getting very annoyed. "Guys come on, give daddy two more minutes and then we'll play. I promise." Gabriella smiled at the sound of Troy begging their two three year olds to sit still for a few minutes. After listening to Troy bargaining with their daughters for a little while Gabriella finally pulled herself off of the rocking chair she had fallen asleep in the night before and made her way down stairs. When she finally got to the living room she almost burst out laughing at the sight in front of her. Her two daughters were literally attacking Troy, with not only themselves but also their toys and pretty much anything they could find. Troy on the other hand was trying his best to avoid getting hit with all the flying objects that were being thrown at him, and trying to watch a basketball game he had recorded the day before at the same time. And unfortunately for him it wasn't working.
"Okay whoever can be quite the longest gets to have cookies for breakfast." Troy said as some sort of stuffed animal hit him in the face. Amber and Addie immediately stopped what they were doing and Troy let out a sigh of relief. "Blackmailing our three year olds again Bolton?" Gabriella smiled as she entered the room and reverted back to using last names like she had in high school. "Mommy!" Amber and Addie squealed at the same time before they hopped off the couch and raced into Gabriella's open arms.
"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. Either way it was working until you came in. Thanks a lot." He laughed as he got off the couch too and planted a loving kiss on Gabriella's forehead. "Welcome." she smiled sweetly and poked Troy jokingly. "Now who wants breakfast?" she said as the twins raised their hands, and Troy copied them. "We do!" they all said, which instantly caused Gabriella to giggle. "Since when do I have three kids?" she laughed as they all filed into the kitchen.
Troy helped each of the girls into their chairs at the table while Gabriella started in on her daily routine of making everyone breakfast. "Do we still get cookies mommy?" Amber asked after Troy set her down. "No sweetie you two are going to have pancakes." Gabriella answered hoping that would be a fair enough trade for them. "But daddy said…" Addie said but was cut off by Troy. "Don't worry I'll steal some cookies for you two after breakfast." He whispered and the girls giggled and nodded in approval.
Troy then made his way over to Gabriella, who was still working on breakfast, and wrapped his arms around her waist from behind. "Feeling better?" he asked softly and kissed her head. "Much." She smiled and turned around to face him. "I don't know what was wrong with me last night, but I think you're right. I'm sure everything is fine. I guess I just want to hear it from the doctor today. Then I'll be okay for sure." She said while running around the kitchen and finally finished making everything. "Oh and Troy?" she said while he sat down at the table with the girls. "Yes my love?" he smirked and Gabriella giggled as she set his plate in front of him. "I'm sure you know that you will be the one telling the girls that daddy lied and they won't be getting any cookies after breakfast." She whispered in his ear before joining him at the table. He just laughed and replied with, "How do you do it? You weren't even near us when I said that." Gabriella smiled and looked at him. "I'm a mother its what we do." She said with a giggle and then returned to helping the twins finish their breakfast.
--Catch Me When I Fall--
"Okay Troy you did call your mom and made sure it was okay to drop the girls off right?" Gabriella yelled from the front door as she tried to get the girls in their coats and shoes, which was getting more difficult everyday with her growing stomach always in the way.
"Uhh no. You said last week that you were going to do it." He said as made his way to the front door and kneeled down on the floor to help Gabriella. "No I didn't I said that if you needed me to do it I could but I never said I was going to." She said, standing up and then looked at Troy with a bit of anger in her eyes. She moved out of the way so the girls could wait in the living room and then made her way into the kitchen, with Troy following right behind her.
"Well what do you want me to do Gabby? Neither of us called and my parents are away this week. What about your mom?" Troy asked, trying to keep Gabriella calm, he really didn't want a replay of the night before. "She's gone too. That's why we decided to ask your parents instead." She snapped. "What are we going to do now? We can't take the girls with us."
"Why not? I'll watch over them." Troy offered with a small smile, hoping that he would be helping the situation. "It doesn't matter. First of all I want you with me, not worrying about what the girls are doing every second. And second of all don't you know how long the first couple of appointments are? They'd never make it through. I thought you would have known that." She said, making it out like Troy wasn't helping at all, like he was supposed to know everything.
"Well I'm sorry Gabriella but if you remember correctly I wasn't informed of these things when you were pregnant with the twins because I didn't even know you were." Troy growled, but still had a hint of sadness in his voice. He never really got over the fact that Gabriella waited to tell him and lied to him about her pregnancy with the twins. It bothered him to know that his own wife didn't or couldn't tell him something that huge. He had always thought that they could tell each other everything but ever since then he still can never tell if she's hiding something from him, and that was something he truly hated. He watched Gabriella immediately turn guilty and look away from him. He felt bad for making her feel that way but he couldn't help it, she had hurt him bad and he didn't think he would ever be able to forget about it.
"Troy I thought we talked about that?" she said defensively and looked down at her feet. "Yeah we did, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Gabby we were going to have a baby, two actually. And weren't planning on telling me. Do you know how that made me feel?" he asked with a bit of anger in his voice, and Gabriella shook her head slightly.
"It was awful. It was like you didn't trust me or something. Or you thought I would be mad and leave you. I would never do anything like that. You should have known that. Ever since then I don't know if everything you tell me is the whole truth, and that's what sucks the most." He sighed and Gabriella looked at him with tears in her eyes. She slowly made her way over to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. She held onto him as tight as she could, given her close to now five-month pregnant stomach getting in the way. "Troy I am so sorry. I know that doesn't make up for anything, but I really mean it. I was just so confused and scared and I just didn't know how to tell you." She cried onto his shoulder. He kissed her head softly and sighed, knowing he shouldn't have brought that whole thing up. "Brie its okay. I overreacted. Stop crying babe." He said and rubbed her back as Amber and Addie quietly made their way into the kitchen.
"Daddy make mommy cry?" Amber asked and Troy and Gabriella looked up at the same time. "Oh no sweetie, mommy got a boo-boo but it's all better now." Gabriella smiled a bit and linked hands with Troy. He smiled down at her and kissed her quickly and the twins covered their eyes. "Eww!" they squealed in unison and both Troy and Gabriella laughed. "Okay you two how would you like to go to mommy's doctor appointment?" Gabriella asked and the girls looked at her and smiled. "Yay!! Do we get to see our baby?" Addie asked and Gabriella smiled at the fact that she and Amber were fully convinced that the baby was theirs. "Maybe, so you guys want to come?" Troy asked and both girls nodded their heads and ran to the front door. Troy and Gabriella followed them hand in hand.
--Catch Me When I Fall--
The entire Bolton family was waiting as patiently as they could in the small examination room for Gabriella's doctor to return. Surprisingly the twins were on their best behavior. Both Troy and Gabriella knew this was exciting for them, but they didn't know they were this happy. The whole car ride over all they talked about was 'their' baby. They both obviously wanted a girl, they practically demanded it, and so it took a little while for Gabriella to explain that it wasn't their choice. Finally after what seemed like and eternity Dr. Lee arrived with hopefully all good news.
"Morning Bolton's." She smiled as she sat down next to Gabriella, who was lying down on the examination table. "Who's ready to see their new baby brother or sister?" she asked and the twins immediately jumped off of Troy's lap and smiled. "We are!" they screamed and raised their hands. "Alright then I guess we'll have to take a look then huh?" Dr. Lee said as she got Gabriella ready for her ultrasound. The twins and Troy watched, all of them truly interested on what was going on. Gabriella reached her hand out and waited for Troy to hold it. She didn't know why but she always got nervous when it came to going to the doctor. Especially when it was for her kids and soon-to-be newborn. She squeezed Troy's hand a bit as Dr. Lee turned on the machine. It took her a few seconds to find exactly what she was looking for, which got Gabriella even more worried. Troy sensed her un-easiness right away and gave her hand a supportive squeeze. She wanted to give him one back but she truly was too nervous but she let out a huge sigh of relief when she saw Dr. Lee smile and turn the screen towards her.
"And there's your baby." She smiled as all four Bolton's looked up at the screen. Obviously it was hard to figure out exactly what they were looking at but Gabriella saw it right away. Tears threatened to fall when Dr. Lee pointed out everything, like arms, legs and it's heartbeat. She was so relieved to see everything was okay. "Wow." Was all Troy could say. He couldn't tear his eyes away from the screen. He couldn't believe he was looking at their newest addition to their family. He honestly couldn't wrap his mind around it, it was more amazing than he ever could have imagined. "Hi baby!" Addie said as she and Amber waved at the screen. Everyone in the room smiled while Dr. Lee turned off the machine and helped Gabriella get cleaned off.
"So everything's okay right?" Gabriella asked right away, making sure that she wasn't just imagining everything was fine. "From what I saw everything looked beyond fine, you two have a very healthy baby on the way. So those dreams you were worrying about mean nothing." She smiled and handed them a picture of the ultrasound. "Now go home, hang that on the fridge and get some sleep." She said with a laugh before saying her good byes and made her way out of the room.
"See Gabby everything is fine. You have nothing to worry about." Troy smiled as he helped her off the table and wrapped his arms around her. She set her head on his chest and let out a small sigh. "I know that now, thanks to you. I love you." She smiled as she looked up at him. "I love you too babe, always will." He smiled before giving her a loving kiss.
A/N: So there's chapter 2, sorry again for the huge delay!
But I hope you all liked it and I can promise chapter 3 will not take as long to get up. Review, it would make me write a million times faster.
