DISCLAIMER:Kay so the HSM isn't mine. Special thanks to coloradogirl42, your reviews were really sweet.
There should be a teen version of What to Expect When Expecting. Gabriella had officially decided that and if she made it out of her best friend's house unscathed, she would write it. Chapter one would be How to Tell Your Friends. She took a deep breath; she was in for one hell of an afternoon. Before she even reached the first step the heavy front door swung open.
"Oh my gosh! Your here I thought you had forgot, I've been calling your cell all morning, hurry up the pageant starts at three." Gabriella looked at the girl dumbfounded for a second before realizing she indeed forgotten about her best friends pageant, a very important one at that. Miss Teen Georgia.
"I'm sorry, I got here as quick as I could." She lied, following the girl into the house to her bedroom where dresses lay strewn about. "Where in the heck did you get all these?" she almost had to stifle a laugh, some of the dresses were rather ridiculous.
"The ghost of pageants past. I'm not sure about the one I bought. That's why I've been calling you all morning. "
Gabriella smiled. "I'm sure we can pull something together." She looked at all the gowns that surrounded the room. "Are you going to have any problem letting some of these go?"
"Why what do you have in mind?"
Three hours later Gabriella had pulled together an amazing gown. A gown that won her best friend a first runner up spot in the pageant.
"Remind me again why you aren't going into fashion merchandizing?" Sharpay asked as they walked to Gabriella's car.
"I don't know, It's just a hobby, you know that, besides I've always wanted to be-"
"A journalist. Yeah yeah I know."
Gabriella smiled but then realization hit her she still had something very important to tell her friend.
"Shar, would you mind if I just crashed at your place toninght?"
"Duh, we have to celebrate and you know what that means."
Celebration meant a whole junk food spread and a Sex and The City Marathon. They had been doing it since middle school, and why ruin a tradition. Gabriella was to worried to stomach any of the snacks, she had to tell her. Might as well be straightforward, she thought to herself.
"Umm, so you know Troy isn't going to USC."
"WHAT? Since when?" Sharpay whipped her head away from the television and looked at her best friend.
"Since he decided to stay here with me."
"He what? I don't understand."
"I'm pregnant."
In all the years that Gabriella Montez had known Sharpay Evans she had never known her to be speechless, this was an exception. After what seemed like hours, she finally spoke.
"Wow."
"Yep."
Sharpay reached over and pulled her into a tight hug.
"You must be so scared. Listen Gabs whatever you need? If you need anything at all? I'm here. You know that right?" Sharpay's blue eyes glistened slightly.
"Of course. You're my best friend." Sharpay nodded.
"So, can I be the god mother?" Gabriella burst out laughing. The fact that Sharpay was totally serious made her laugh even harder.
Troy on the other hand was definitely not laughing. In fact he was sick to his stomach. He had to tell Chad. They were supposed to meet at the old red barn at six and he was twenty minutes late and nervous as hell. He saw Chad's beat up Chevy in the nearby field and he pulled in beside him.
"What's so important dude? Is everything alright?"
"Gabriella's pregnant." He immediately covered his mouth he hadn't meant to blurt it out.
"I know."
"Huh? How?"
"Dude we've been friends forever, and I know you wouldn't turn down a scholarship unless it was something big, and I dunno, I kind of just put two and two together."
"So what do you think? Do you think I'm making a huge mistake?"
"No man, I really don't. At first I did, but when I really thought about it, I just realized that love, a family, all that stuff is a hell of lot more important than playing football."
"So how did it go?" Gabriella kept her steering wheel steady and balanced her cell phone as she drove home the next afternoon.
"He already knew."
"What? How? I haven't even had a chance to tell Tay yet."
"He just knew. I can't explain it; somehow me and him, I don't know, we just get each other."
Gabriella smiled. "I know exactly what you mean."
"So I take things went well on your end too."
"Yeah, she's already calling dibs on God mother."
Troy let out a soft chuckle. "What about Tay? When are you going to tell her?"
"I don't know, I don't want to do it over the phone, but she won't be back from Paris until next week, so I think I'll wait until then"
"Dude how did she get such a badass graduation present?"
"Her grandparents are loaded." She replied nonchalantly. "So tell me handsome, are you busy right now?"
"Maybe, maybe not. What did you have in mind?"
"Well…"
"I could get used to this." Troy remarked as Gabriella snuggled closer to him.
"Oh yeah what's that?"
"Sitting here, just me and you, watching the sunset. I could do this every night for the rest of my life."
"Mmm, me too." She lent up gently capturing his lips in a sweet simple kiss.