Jimmy and I agreed to keep it a secret until I could tell the father, no one else could know about this just yet so I made him promise he wouldn't open his big mouth. He didn't know Troy was the father so that made me feel a little better, I had to do this at my own pace, and it wasn't like I had no intentions of telling him. We all had front row seats for the last basketball game of the season and we were there to support Chad and Troy, even Taylor was there wearing the colors of the team and she looked happier than anyone else I bet because in just a few hours she would be having her honeymoon. Jimmy transformed into my shadow, he wouldn't leave me alone and I could get that he was worried about me and everything but when a guy walks you to the freaking bathroom you just know he took it to the next level.
I decided to wait until the season was done because I didn't want to be a distraction for Troy. Jimmy let me have a hotdog which made me really happy. Karma and Sharpay seemed to really like each other even after the blonde just left her on her own a few nights ago. I didn't even know why Sharpay was there, her only connection to the group was Troy and even when she kind of bonded with some people it was like she had nothing to do at one of Troy's basketball games.
The girl just irritated me so I'm sorry.
The only sport I actually knew something about was soccer, all the other sports looked the same to me, it didn't matter how many times Troy tried to explain me the rules. Either way, I had to be here and support him because well…what kind of best friend would I be if I didn't? I was sitting next to Jimmy, Taylor was sitting next to me, Karma was sitting next to Taylor and Sharpay was sitting next to Karma.
A random dude was sitting next to Sharpay.
Taylor looked at the new best friends and then looked at me like it was my fault. She clapped for her husband and then looked at me again.
"Can you explain this to me?" She said. The other two girls were completely ignoring us.
"I'm completely innocent" I replied.
"I'll be gone for a few weeks so good luck" She finally said and cheered for Chad again. I thought she was cute. "You show them, honey!" She exclaimed.
Jimmy bought a bottle of water for me and made me drink it. The game was on a break now and I couldn't see Troy anywhere. Karma turned to us I'm guessing because Sharpay went to the bathroom or something like that. I don't know why she left her to take off alone, didn't she know what happened to Hermione that one time she went to the bathroom alone?
"Guess what?" Karma asked not letting us actually guess "Sharpay is planning to get back together with Troy!" She squealed like it was the best thing in the world. I didn't know how to feel about that, I mean I wasn't in love with Troy or anything but that would just make things way more awkward when I tell him.
"What?" Taylor was the one to speak for us "Is she crazy?"
"What do you mean?" Karma's excited face was now gone.
"She can't just go back to him after what she's done!" Taylor's voice was high and offended.
"Of course, she can!" Karma fought back "She loves him, he loves her, and they need to be together"
"No, she needs to stay away from him" Taylor crossed her legs, like that was the end of the conversation "She's nothing but bad news to him" Karma actually did stay quiet so mental high five for Taylor. Soon the game was back on and the guys were out again, Troy and Chad were staring at each other sending some kind of mental signal or something. They passed each other the ball and ran down the court when suddenly one of the guys from the opposite team knocked Troy down. The whole place stood in silence for a while.
"Oh my God," I said. He wasn't standing up. Why wasn't he standing up? Jimmy grabbed my arm because I was unconsciously walking over to them. Chad kneeled next to him and told him something; he then pulled Troy up and told him something else, Troy just nodded. The crowd was screaming Troy's name, he looked around and rubbed his eyes before clapping and returning to the game, I was kind of worried about him, but he seemed to be better now.
"Who's winning again?" I asked Jimmy, he chuckled.
"Troy's team," He said. I sighed in relief and went back to the game. Taylor was just yelling the funniest stuff ever.
"No Chad! No! Take your right! Your right!" She yelled "The one that's not your left boy!" everyone around just laughed at that. The game went on for a while until I saw part of the crowd cheering and celebrating, I didn't know what was happening until I saw Taylor jumping on and down screaming that we won. I smiled and celebrated with her.
Later we were eating at a near restaurant because we wouldn't see Chaylor in a while and it was a nice way to say goodbye. I was happy because I was seriously hungry, the hotdog I ate barely did something in my stomach, I was hungry all the time now and I'm guessing it's little's fried chicken's fault. I know that didn't make any sense, I named the baby depending on what I wanted to eat at the moment. I was really into some fried chicken with some really good French fries and a giant glass of coca cola.
"So how long will you guys be gone?" Karma asked them, Chaylor looked at each other and smiled.
"For about three to four weeks maybe" Chad was the one to answer, he stole one of my fries and I groaned at him.
"Yeah, that's enough," Troy said with a little sarcasm and laughed, I rolled my eyes and Taylor smacked the back of his head for being rude.
"It should be" Chad replied, and it was his turn to be smacked by Taylor. Troy stole another of my fries and I just had enough.
"If someone else touches my food I swear I will flip," I said. My stomach wasn't happy to see the food just fly into other people's mouths. Chad grabbed a bunch of fries from my plate and stuffed them all into his mouth. I saw the whole thing happen with puppy eyes. Everybody started to laugh at me except for Jimmy who was nervously looking at me, he thought I was going to be so upset I would start killing people. Truth was…
…I felt sad.
I didn't know exactly why but I was crying, sobbing actually, my feelings were all over the place and that just erased everyone's smile in a split second. I grabbed a single piece of chicken and popped it into my mouth, with the tears running down my cheek.
"Gabs?" Chad's voice was nervous. I just shook my head and continued to eat my chicken. Jimmy wrapped an arm around me for a while. "I'm sorry, look I'll get you more fries ok" Chad was freaking out. I wanted to stop but the stupid tears were not listening to me.
"I-I-It's o-o-okay" I sobbed. Everybody just stared at me in shock. Jimmy looked around.
"Just ignore her," He said, "She loves to fake cry with me all the time" Everybody slowly went back to their food and I was so thankful for Jimmy. I tried hard to calm down until I finally did. I kept quiet for the rest of the night until everyone started to part ways. Jimmy and Karma were having an argument about if she should or not have the front passenger seat, he wanted me to have it and she wanted to have it.
"Gabs?" Troy called my name and I turned around to see him running towards me. I tried to smile at him. He stared at me for a while and then grabbed my arm. "Are you ok? You seemed a little off earlier"
"Yeah, I…" I scratched the back of my head nervously "Actually there's something I need to talk to you about" My palms were sweating.
"Yeah, I can take you home if you want" He pointed at his car "We can talk on the way there…I also have something to tell you"
"Ok" I turned around to look at Jimmy and Karma still arguing "She can have it! Troy is giving me a ride home, so we can talk" I yelled at them. Jimmy just nodded and gave me a thumb up before jumping into his car, Karma did the same with a smile on her face, and I just shook my head.
We walked to his car and got inside; he soon got out of the parking lot and drove away. I was really nervous about what I needed to say, and I didn't know if it was the right time to say this but I had to tell him someday. He looked at me a couple of times before actually speaking.
"So, what do you want to tell me?" He asked, there was no way I was going to speak first.
"How about you tell me first?" Was my response. He looked at me before facing the road again.
"You're going to let me speak first?" He laughed "Oh my God, I have to be in some other parallel universe" I punched his arm playfully.
"Shut up and tell me" I scolded him.
"You do know I can't do both right" He was still playing around! There's the Troy I know.
"Just tell me you dork" I giggled and rolled my eyes.
"Well turns out Sharpay actually asked me for a second chance" He lifted an eyebrow looking very proud of himself "I actually thought I would have to go there and make her come back to her senses"
"Oh," I said…Well, this makes it harder, I should've spoken first! Damn it! "What did you tell her?"
"I'm just going to make her wait for a while," He said with a huge smile on his face, oh I hated so much to be the one to take it away so soon. "I don't want to be easy"
"Of course not," I said. My nails flew to my mouth, I wasn't so sure about telling him now, that would just end his possibilities of having a relationship with Sharpay, I didn't like her but who was I to decide who he should or shouldn't date.
"So, what do you want to talk about?" Troy was still smiling. Oh dear lord help me.
"The thing is…" I started "Remember Chaylor's bachelor party night?" I asked.
"You want to talk about that night?" He seemed very surprised by this fact "Oh boy this must be good" He laughed. I glared at him.
"Shut up" I groaned "Well…how do I say this?"
"You know someone once told me that to say things you just have to…say them" he smiled. I was going to slap him across the face. "Don't be mad at me those were your words" I did say that once but at that time I didn't know I would have to tell my best friend ever that I was pregnant with his baby. I had to go for it.
"Well if that's what you want then fine" I turned a little to face him and he switched between looking at me and looking at the road. "I'm pregnant," I said.
So, a couple of things happened then, the car almost went out of the road, I saw my life going through my eyes and I realized I've been partying too much in my life, I needed a change. Troy regained control of the vehicle and the flashbacks stopped, he wasn't looking at me while he slowly parked the car at the side of the road.
"Are you freaking crazy?!" He yelled. "You just don't say stuff like that while I'm driving! Are you trying to kill us?!"
"Well, you were the one insisting on just saying it" I replied. My heart was still racing.
"Yeah, but I didn't know it would be something like that!" He took a deep breath "God you're crazy!"
"Well I'm sorry but I'm new at this if you haven't noticed" I crossed my arms over my chest like a five-year-old. I also didn't like his tone.
"How is that even possible?" He frowned.
"I don't even remember that night Troy. I can't tell" I looked out the window because I didn't want to see his expression.
"God" he complained. I felt the tears coming to my eyes and just closed my eyes shut. I couldn't cry right now. Do not cry right now. "This is not happening" I took a deep breath.
"Look, Troy, I'm just telling you this to let you know…it's not like I actually need you to be there, I can perfectly do it on my own." I said, "You can be part of the baby's life as much as you want to be" He turned to look at me; his blue eyes were so intense that I just couldn't stop staring at them.
"Gabs" He gave me a stern look "Of course I'm not going to let you do this alone." He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me over to his chest "We'll figure this out together I promise" he rubbed my back and I sighed in relief.
"I know we will"
"Who else knows about this?" He asked as he pulled away and played with my hair for a while.
"Just Jimmy, he helped me out a lot" I answered.
"So that's why he's acting like your shadow" Troy chuckled.
"Yes, and now I can have breakfast in bed, so I can say it's pretty awesome" Having Jimmy make breakfast for me every day is one of the best things about being pregnant. Troy laughed at me.
"I'll take you home now," He said.
"Are you sure?" I looked down at his hands "Can you drive with shaky hands?"
"Be quiet" He waved me off and started the engine once again. This promised to be interesting.
….
The next morning, I woke up with an uneasy feeling in my stomach, I had a bad feeling about those fries and my chicken at that very moment. I decided to stay still for a moment, maybe that way the food would stay inside my body. There was a soft knock on the door and then Jimmy came inside carrying a tray with my breakfast, this just wasn't the time to bring food. I closed my eyes.
"Feeling bad?" He asked. I just nodded. "I bought some fruit; I bet it'll do you good." I groaned. "Eat something!" He ordered. I sat on my bed and looked at the various fruits he bought for me, they actually looked really tasty, and I then grabbed a small piece of apple and popped it into my mouth. After feeling I could eat the whole thing without actually covering my bed with vomit I continued to eat my breakfast.
"Better?" He asked with a smile.
"Better" I replied.
"Great" we heard the doorbell "I'll be right back" then Jimmy left to open the door. I moved from the apples to the grapes, I was slowly feeling better; I would have to get a few books about pregnancy because I didn't understand a single shit about the whole thing. Jimmy came back upstairs with Troy following close behind. I looked at them with curiosity.
"How are you feeling?" Troy asked and then he sat on my bed next to me. I nodded as I ate a piece of a really delicious peach. "Good" He smiled at Jimmy who waved and left us alone for a while. "So, I've been thinking" He started "I'm going to cut things with Sharpay for good" A grape fell to my plate from my hand.
"What?!" I was shocked.
"Yeah, I mean I can't focus on her and her drama right now. I have more important things to focus on" He said.
"But Troy, you love her," I said like it wasn't obvious as hell. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah but my child comes first" He answered "Always" I almost cried.
"I think you're making a mistake"
"No Gabs" Troy grabbed my hand and kissed it softly "I feel right doing this, we didn't plan this at all but I want to be all in and I can't do that if Sharpay is constantly demanding my attention"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes" He stood up "Now stop being a pain in the ass and get ready" I pushed the covers and got out of the bed.
"Why? Where are we going?"
"First we have a doctor's appointment and then we have a long trip to New Mexico"
Wait! Say what again?
He laughed at my expression "That's right we need to tell our parents" Troy shrugged "And I know my mom won't be happy if I tell her over the phone"
I froze. We were going back home.
