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Later on that night, the doorbell rang, but everyone but Troy were out by the pool in the back yard, so he answered it.
"Bella's out back with her friends." Troy said before he looked up.
"Thank you sir." The lady said as she started walking away.
"Wait! Who are you?" Troy asked eyeing her. She was so familiar.
"Oh, maybe Bella has said something about me, I'm Ella." Gabriella said.
"Nice to finally meet you Ella." Troy said.
"Are you her father?" Ella asked.
"Yes, I'm Troy." Troy said.
"Nice to meet you too Troy." Gabriella smiled and started walking to the back.
"Wait… Gabriella?" Troy yelled to her. She stopped and turned slowly.
"Yes?" She asked turning slowly.
"Gabriella Montez?" Troy asked.
"How do you know my name?" She asked.
"Gabi, it's me, Troy." Troy said making the brunette's eyes widen.
"Tr-troy as in Bolton?" Gabriella stuttered.
"Yea." He said.
"What… or where… huh" Gabriella was confused.
"I can't believe you're here, alive in L.A." Troy said.
"I can't believe any of this." Gabriella said.
"Gabriella, I missed you so much." Troy said.
"Troy, why did you leave me?" Gabriella asked.
"Truth is, I couldn't sit and watch to die. People said you would die, deep in my heart I knew you wouldn't. I just trusted other people's word before my heart and I was wrong." Troy said.
"I don't believe this. I was just going to live out my life trying to forget I had a daughter and you. I was going to let you live in peace." Gabriella said.
"Hey let's go inside." Troy said leading her to his room.
"I was going to let you move on with your lives but now…" Gabriella said.
"Now, you're here. Tell me what happened." Troy said.
"I woke up two years after the crash, and I had lost all my memory. My mother helped me get my memory back and soon I remembered I was pregnant before the crash so I asked my mom. She said you took her and went to start your life… I went to college and became a math professor at a nearby university and now I live alone in a nice apartment. I was doing so well of keeping you out of my mind, now I will never erase it." Gabriella teared up.
"Gabriella, I don't want you to forget. I don't want to forget. You were the best thing to ever happen to me, right before Bella, because I needed you for her existence… Anyway, I prayed every day that you were ok and that you would just show up on my doorstep and we would live happily ever after with our daughter." Troy smiled.
"What about Bella?" Gabriella asked.
"She will be happy when she finds out." Troy said.
"She can't Troy. If she did, she would expect us to kiss and get back together and live happily ever after as a family." Gabriella said.
"Well why can't we?" Troy asked.
"Troy, you can get any girl you want now, no need to go back to the past." Gabriella whispered.
"For a math professor, you don't get much. I want you. I need you. I love you. If Bella told you I was going to get married, I was, but I was trying to move on. Now I don't have to and frankly I really don't want to. Bella doesn't know that I look at pictures of us every night, she doesn't know that I asked you to marry me at nineteen, and she doesn't know that I would give everything, but her, just to have you back in my life. If she knew she would know how much I wanted you back." Troy told her as he slowly closed her into a corner.
"Do you really mean it?" Gabriella whispered.
"I've never meant anything more." Troy whispered back.
"I love you." Gabriella told him in a whisper.
"I love you too." Troy said back, but as soon at the words hit Gabriella's ears, his lips were on hers and they were passionately making out. It brought many memories back. The same sparks and tingles were there… maybe stronger. The kiss lasted longer than either knew, but as they walked down the stairs, there were only three other people left Brenda, Frankie, and Kent. The four were talking about the fun time they just had.
"Hey daddy where were you?" Bella asked without looking up, but the other three did. They stared at the two and were quiet.
"Bella send your friends home, we need to talk." Troy said looking down to his daughter who slowly looked up at the pair.
