Chapter 3

"Hello?" Gabriella answered her phone. "You want to talk to whom?" she asked the person.

"Sharpay." She nodded. "Okay." She gave the phone to Sharpay. "It's for you." She smiled.

"Are you sure it's 9 years Gabs? Didn't Troy have another girlfriend on your 19th birthday?" Taylor asked.

"So it's been 7 years. So what?" Gabriella asked. "What was his other girlfriend's name?" Sharpay asked as she hung up.

"Who did you talk to Shar?" Ryan asked. "My cousin; she knows Gabriella's phone number." Sharpay replied.

"Ashley Tisdale; Shar, I thought she was our cousin." Ryan implied. "She is." Sharpay smiled. Ryan rolled his eyes.

"When's Ashley coming?" Taylor asked. "Uh she said sometime later this evening at 5pm." Sharpay replied.

At 5pm; everyone drove to the airport and waited at the gate from LA to Albuquerque.

Ashley, followed by her friends walked out and greeted Sharpay. "Ahem!" Ryan said and he was also greeted by Ashley.

"Ry, don't feel bad. You're not always left out." Gabriella hugged her friend. "Thanks a lot Gabs;

I really appreciated everything." He smiled as she smiled back. "Introduce us Shar." Ashley said to Sharpay.

"These are my friends: Gabriella, Taylor, Chad, and Troy." Sharpay pointed out. "Hey, I know you."

Ashley pointed towards Troy. Troy was confused. "Who? Me?" he asked her. Ashley nodded.

"Yeah; you went out with my best friend Ness. Don't you remember her?" she asked.

It took a while for Troy to recall Vanessa and he told Ashley, "Yeah, I remember her."

"Well, she's over there talking to Zac if you'd like to talk to her again." Ashley suggested.

Troy placed his hand in his pockets and Gabriella saw that as being nervous. "No, it's—"

"C'mon Troy. Don't you want to meet her again?" Gabriella interrupted as she grabbed Troy's arm and led him to Vanessa.

"Gabby!" Vanessa hugged Gabriella. Gabriella hugged Vanessa back. "Are you two friends?" Zac asked.

Troy was going to ask the same question, but he knew that it would be answered the same way.

"We're not just friends; we're step-sisters." Vanessa explained. "What?" Stella (who wanted to come along with Ness) asked.

"How do we not know this?" Dylan (who was forced to come because of Zac) had asked.

Troy and Zac were just as shocked as Stella and Dylan. "Well, before Gabriella's mom died which was like 4 years ago, my dad proposed to her mom.

Her mom said yes and they both told us the news. During that time, Gabriella called me and told me everything what happened between her and Troy.

I felt bad for her, so I decided to visit her the week after they got married. That was on a Saturday.

Suddenly she got sick and I tried giving her soup, but she was still sick; and her mom was out on a date with my dad.

I guess they met because of me and Gabriella. So anyway, I took her to the hospital.

We finally got to the hospital and the doctor told us that she wasn't sick at all. It was just a symptom.

Then he told us that she was pregnant and Gabriella thought it was impossible.

So I was the only one who found out, besides Gabby. Troy, she missed you and she really wanted to tell you.

But she didn't know if she could." Vanessa explained. "Why didn't you tell me Gabs?" Troy asked.

"I'm sorry Troy." Gabriella answered him. "Hey, let's go over to Gabby's house so we can sort everything out."

Monique suggested. "Yeah; great idea." Ashley agreed. They twelve of them headed over to Gabriella's house.

Gabriella headed upstairs and her daughter was playing with her dollies. "Ali, want to meet some of mommy's friends?"

She asked her daughter as Ali nodded. Ali put her dollies away and went downstairs with Gabriella.

"Aww, your daughter's so cute Gabby." Taylor complimented. Gabriella just smiled.

But inside she was thinking if she should tell Troy or not. All she had to do was wait for the right moment.

"But she doesn't have your eyes." Sharpay observed. Gabriella's heart pounded against her chest.

"She's had blue eyes ever since she was born." She explained, even though she could hear her heart pounding rapidly.

"Hey Troy, have you ever thought about having kids?" Monique asked. "It depends." He said.

"Depends?" Sharpay asked. "Yeah." He got up and walked outside. Gabriella told her daughter to stay with her friends.

Ali obeyed her mom and watched as Gabriella walked outside, following behind Troy.

She saw that Troy was sitting on the pavement and sat next to him, looking up at the stars.

She started to sing, but it was really soft so that only he could hear.

"If this were forever,

What could be better?

We've already proved it works,

But in 2,123 hours;

A bend in the universe,

Is gonna make everything,

In our whole world change;

And you know that where we are,

Will never be the same."

She stood up and grabbed his hand. They stood across from each other, but she kept on singing.

"Right here, right now.

I'm looking at you,

And my heart loves the view.

Coz you mean everything.

Right here, I promise you somehow.

That tomorrow can wait,

For some other day to be,

Coz right now there's you and me."

She smiled and he smiled as well; Troy started to sing along with her.

"We know it's coming,

And it's coming fast.

So let's make every second last.

Make it last;

Right here, right now.

I'm looking at you,

And my heart loves the view.

Coz you mean everything.

Right here, I promise you somehow.

That tomorrow can wait,

For some other day to be,

Coz right now there's you and me.

You and me

You and me,

But right now there's you and me." They finally ended. "You okay Troy?" Gabriella finally asked.

"Tell me something that I don't know." He answered. "Ali needs her dad." Gabriella kissed Troy's cheek.

Troy watched as she walked away into the house. He looked up into the night sky and sighed.

2 weeks later; Gabriella is at the park with Ali and they were sitting on the bench when Ali suddenly asked a question.

"Who's my dad?"

"Troy Bolton sweetie." Gabriella answered.

"Who's Troy Bolton?"

"Ali, Troy Bolton is a wonderful guy. He loved no one else but me and he would make a really great father."

Gabriella said to her daughter which made Ali smile. Ali had that Bolton smile and Gabriella wished that someday, Troy would really see that Ali is his daughter as well.

Troy watched from afar and didn't bother to walk up to Gabriella after the fight they had.

It didn't take him much to realize that Ali was his daughter because he noticed her blue eyes and that Bolton smile.

He sighed and watched as Gabriella stood up and walked home. Her daughter walked happily beside her.

After 1 week, Troy decided to see Gabriella again. He rang the doorbell to Gabriella's house.

It took about 5 minutes for Gabriella to answer the door; she saw that Troy was standing there with hands in his pockets.

"Why didn't you tell me about her?" he asked.

"About Ali?" Gabriella asked confusingly, not knowingly that Troy already found out that Ali was his daughter just by looking at her.

Ali went to the front door and hugged Troy. Troy looked down and Ali looked up. He looked into her blue eyes.

He saw a lot of him and a lot of Gabriella. Ali smiled, which made Troy smile back.

"I didn't know that you cared Troy; I thought that you loved Sharpay instead of me." Gabriella said, fighting back tears.

"Mommy, it's Troy Bolton." Ali told her mom. Troy leaned against the door frame.

"Look, I never cared about Sharpay. I only cared about you and no one else. Remember that Gabs."

Troy turned and walked away. Ali was sad to see him go; Gabriella was sad as well.

Chad stopped by Troy's house and noticed Troy was missing every shot. "It's about Gabriella, isn't it?"

He asked. Troy looked and told Chad, "You're definitely right. It seems like she won't forgive me.

It might take months for her to realize that I still love her." "Maybe a few days.

Why don't you just go to her balcony and sing to her like you did in high school?" Chad asked.

Not a bad idea. Troy thought to himself smiling as he took a shot and made a WHOOSHING sound through the net.