Faith sighed as Gabriella tucked her into bed. "I understand what you were trying to do sweetie, you were hoping to get us back together, but Troy and I are never getting back together, and he's going to be getting married to this Meredith woman by Saturday."
"But you and dad were perfect together." Faith said.
"That was in high school, sometimes when people get older, things just change." Gabriella explained.
She was really glad that she got to meet Hope after all these years, and finally be able to see and sing with Troy again, even if he did end up breaking her heart with his harsh words. She still had feelings for the man, and jealousy took over knowing that he would soon have another woman in his arms, still she wished the best for him, and maybe some day she would meet a new special guy and move on from her emptiness.
After she read Faith a story about princess Cinderella, she gave her a kiss on the cheeks, turned off the lights and gently shut the door.
She sighed as she walked to her room, a lot of unsuspecting events really took place tonight, and she just wanted to move on but she couldn't.
Troy seemed as happy as her when they were up there singing. Everything was perfect and at ease when she saw his beautiful smile and looked into his deep blue meaningful eyes.
When Gabriella entered her room, she sat down on the bed and rummaged through her drawers until she found a photo album. In that photo album, were pictures of her and Troy from when they were in high school and a few years after, as Gabriella looked back she remembered how different the two really were. They were like living a fairy tale when they were a couple, everything was almost always perfect between them, just the way they connected and communicated with each other so well. It was like she was his Cinderella and he was her prince charming, and swept her off her feet.
She slightly smiled as she looked through the whole book. She just sometimes wished that her and Troy could go back to that day when their love was falling apart and prevent it from happening. What caused it to shatter anyways? Right of course, being responcible and busy grown ups, having to do bills, fix things, problems, having diffrent ways and ideas of doing things.
Troy sighed as he sat on his bed. His thoughts of Gabriella and their magical night together really took over. He just wanted her back again, and he felt guilt as he realized he really hurt her feelings with his harsh words.
He still couldn't get it out of his head, that Hope and Faith switched places and went through all that trouble just to get them to reunite and fall in love. And he was still in love with her, but he couldn't let the twins know that, and he still had Meredith to worry about.
Every time he stared into Gabriella's beautiful chocolate brown eyes, he felt himself space off. When he thought of all the good times they used to have together, that made him miss her and long for those days more.
A voice in Troy's head was screaming at him, telling him to end things with Meredith, don't marry her, get back with Gabriella, but maybe that was just his heart.
He had to face it, in two nights he was going to marry Meredith Baxter Dimly, whether he still wanted to or not.
The next day arrived and everything felt slow and kind of dull for Troy. It was basically just the same routine, he had to get up early, wake up Hope, make breakfast, shave, get dressed and clean.
"Are you okay dad?" Hope asked concerned.
He nodded his head, he didn't want Hope to feel guilty and like everything was her fault.
Troy went outside to get some air.
Later at night.
Hope sighed as she walked to the kitchen. She really needed to talk to Faith, they couldn't give up, they just couldn't. Troy and Gabriella are still the perfect couple and they had to make them both realize that, Meredith could go and dig herself a ditch, Hope and Faith wouldn't care. She was completely selfish and vain, and to top it off she's a real gold digger.
She picked up his cellphone and dialed Gabriella's phone number.
Faith answered the phone. "Hello?"
"It's me. We can not allow Meredith to become a part of the family, we have to do something to stop it." Hope explained.
"What can we do?" Faith asked with doubt.
"You have to get mom to come, and we have to show dad what kind of woman Meredith really is." Hope answered.
Faith sighed. "Okay, but my cousins are coming over tomorrow afternoon, so that would be a perfect time to call me back, cause mom and the other grown ups will be distracted." Faith explained.
Hope and Faith hung up.
