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After they changed their clothes, Gabriella and Troy stood in the gym waiting for class to begin. She looked over to where Zeke sat against the wall with his head in his hands. "Go talk to him," she said, giving Troy a little nudge.

Troy walked over to Zeke and sat down next to him. "Want to talk about it?" he asked.

Zeke picked his head up and rubbed his face with his hands. "Why am I such an idiot?" Troy was unsure what direction Zeke was going, so rather than say something wrong, he stayed quiet. "I mean, the signs were all there. I should have known. I thought I knew her inside and out, but then she gets pregnant and I had no idea. Then when she tells me, I freak out and yell at her. She's going to hate me."

"She won't hate you."

"How do you know?"

"Well, let's just say I wasn't exactly prince charming when I found out Gabriella had a baby. She forgave me and got over it when she barely knew me. Sharpay loves you; she'll forgive you and get over it, too."

"How do you do it?"

"Do what?"

"Date a girl with a baby. Isn't it hard?"

"Not really. Things just work with us. I mean it kinda sucks that I can't tell my parents about Biz, but that is Gabriella's choice, not mine. If it were up to me, I would have already told them. Honestly, the hardest part is remembering that Biz isn't really mine."

"Doesn't it bother you to not be able to do the things you used to?"

"What, you mean party all the time?" Zeke nodded. "Not at all. We could still go to parties after Biz goes to sleep, but we just don't want to. I don't mind missing parties or going to the park instead of the movies. It's kind of neat having my own little family. Besides, giving all that up is worth it to have them in my life." Troy looked across the gym to Gabriella. She felt eyes on her and looked up at him. He grinned and winked at her and she shook her head with a smile and turned back to her conversation.

"You love her, don't you?" Zeke asked.

Troy watched her and smiled. "Yeah," he said. "I guess I do." A comfortable silence fell over the two before he spoke again. "You're going to be a dad."

"Yeah…" Zeke thought for a moment and a small grin appeared on his face. "I'm going to be a dad!"


"Sharpay," Zeke said, sitting down beside her at lunch.

"Zeke," she replied.

"I'm sorry I got upset earlier. Shar, I thought you were going to leave me or had some deadly disease. When you told me you were pregnant, I was so relieved that I wasn't going to lose you that I acted like an idiot, and I'm sorry."

She looked up at him. "You were relieved?"

"Yeah, I just don't understand why you felt like you couldn't tell me. I've told you a million times that I want a family and a future with you; it just seems we're starting on the family a little sooner than we planned, and that's okay. I love you, Sharpay."

A silent tear rolled down her cheek. "I love you, too, Zeke. And I'm sorry I didn't tell you. It's just… the other girls in the class… well, their baby's daddies told them all the same things and left them anyways. I was afraid you were going to leave me and I thought that by not telling you I could hold onto us a little longer. I'm sorry."

"It's okay. We both screwed up, so we're even. Let's just forget about it." She nodded and he kissed her on the nose. "I want to show you something." He handed her a piece of paper.

She took the paper and looked it over. It was a copy of his class schedule. "Yeah, your schedule. What about it?"

"My new schedule. Take a closer look."

She looked at it again. She gasped and brought a hand to her mouth when she realized what he meant. He no longer had gym fourth period. Instead he was in TAPP with her. "Zeke, you don't have to do that. You love gym."

"I know I don't have to, but I want to. Just don't ask me to quit the team," he joked.

Sharpay laughed. "Never." She grabbed his shirt, pulling him close to her and kissing him passionately.

When they broke apart, Zeke held her at arm's length. "God you're beautiful." She blushed and looked at the ground, so he placed a hand under her chin and lifted her face to look her in the eyes. "Shar," he said, his eyes filled with love and happiness. "We're going to have a baby!"

She smiled and laid her head on his shoulder. "Yeah. Yeah we are."


"Gabs, I know it's not really any of my business," Troy said while pushing Izabelle in a swing at the park the next Saturday. "But if Scott is going to be a part of her life, he needs to help support her. It's not fair that you work your butt off to provide everything for her and are there for her through the good and the bad and he does nothing for her and is only there for the good."

Gabriella sighed. "I know. I've been thinking about how to approach it with him. I know he's going to flip."

"So what? He created her, he needs to support her. It's his responsibility."

"I know that and you know that, but I doubt he sees it that way."

"Well, if he refuses, there are options through the courts."

"I know; I just don't want to go that route. I'll call him when we get home and I get Belle to sleep."

Troy nodded. He hated that his girlfriend was struggling to make ends meet and take care of her daughter while Scott was living carefree. He tried to help her himself, but she refused to accept anything from him saying it wasn't his responsibility. He knew it wasn't, but he wanted to anyways; he was in love with her and thought of Izabelle as his own, of course he hadn't gotten the nerve to tell her that yet.

When they were done at the park, Troy dropped them off at home and wished her good luck with Scott. Once Gabriella got Izabelle down for a nap, she called him.

"Hello?" he said when he answered the phone.

"Hey, Scott. It's Gabriella."

"Hey, what's up?"

"Well, my prom is April 26th. That's in almost a month. I was seeing if you wanted to watch Belle that night?"

"Yeah, sure. Is that all?"

"Well, I, um…" Gabriella took a deep breath. It was now or never. "I also wanted to say that if you want to be a part of Izabelle's life, you need to start supporting her. You know, financially."

"No."

"What? Scott, it's your responsibility."

"No, it's not. I only get to see her a few hours a week. You have her the entire rest of the time. If you want more money, you need to get another job."

"I already have two jobs."

"Then you should have no problem supporting her."

"Scott, I-" She was interrupted by the sound of a dial tone. She rolled her eyes. "That went well."


A week later, Gabriella found herself calling Scott again. He was supposed to be watching Belle while she and Troy went out to dinner and he was late.

"Where are you?" she asked when he answered the phone. "You were supposed to be here like thirty minutes ago!"

"Yeah, about that…" he said. "I'm not going to make it today."

"And you couldn't call to let me know that ahead of time?!"

"I guess not," he replied and hung up on her.

She yelled in frustration and slammed the phone back onto the receiver just as there was a knock on the door.

"Ready to go?" Troy asked cheerfully when she opened the door.

"Not exactly," she answered.

"What do you mean?"

She swung the door completely open to reveal Izabelle crawling happily towards him. "Scott flaked out."

"Again? That's like the second time this week."

"Yeah, I know. Looks like dinner is a no go."

"Don't be silly. Just bring her with us."

"To a fancy restaurant? Are you kidding me?"

"We can go to Chuck E. Cheese instead," he suggested and pulled out his cell phone.

"I don't think Zeke and Sharpay will like that."

Troy laughed as he hit send and put the phone up to his ear. "Well they better get used to it."


"I haven't been to a Chuck E. Cheese in forever!" Zeke exclaimed as he looked excitedly at all of the arcade games.

"So tell me about Belle," Sharpay said as they sat down at a table. "This is the first time we've ever hung out with her here."

"Well," Gabriella started. "She just turned one in February. Her favorite color seems to be purple, she loves music and dancing, she cruises around the house but doesn't walk unassisted yet, she's a cuddlebug, she's really smart-"

"She's as stubborn as her mother," Troy said with a grin.

"Hey!" she exclaimed, playfully smacking him in the arm.

"Well, she is!" he defended himself. "She will not say Troy. I try to teach her to say it and she laughs at me. She knows I want her to, but she's just as stubborn as you are, so she won't!"

"I guess I taught her well then!" she joked.


The next Thursday morning, Gabriella walked determined out to the van. As soon as she and Izabelle were buckled in, she turned to Gina. "Can you help me get the forms to file for child support and stuff?"

Gina smiled. "Of course I can. Finally decided to take that loser to court, huh?"

"Yeah. I'm going to get visitation set up, too. I'm tired of him saying he will come and then not showing up or switching it around at the last minute."

"He didn't show up last night?"

"Nope! But he swears he will be there next weekend for prom. I'm going to kill him if he doesn't show up."

When they pulled up to the school, Troy was waiting at the entrance. "Morning, girls," he said, giving Izabelle a kiss on the head.

Gabriella pouted. "Where's mine?" He smiled and kissed her quickly on the mouth. "Do you think you can give me a ride somewhere after school?" she asked as they walked into the TAPP building and got the kids settled.

"Yeah, where?"

"To the courthouse. I'm filing for child support."

Troy picked her up and spun her around with a grin. "Of course I will take you!" he exclaimed. He set her back on the ground and looked into her eyes. "I'm so proud of you."

"I'll go use Mrs. Morrow's computer and print them out. I think she can notarize them for you, too," Gina said.

Gabriella spent the whole day in her classes filling the forms out. When she finished, Mrs. Morrow notarized them for her and before she knew it, she was walking into the courthouse with Troy by her side holding Izabelle.

"It will be twenty dollars to the sheriff's department to have the petition served to the respondent," the cashier said, looking over the pages to make sure they were properly filled out and notarized. "Since it is a Thursday, they won't get the papers until tomorrow and they won't be served until Monday or Tuesday."

Gabriella nodded and gave the woman the money. "That's fine. Do I need to take a copy to the clerk of courts to file?"

"No, we will take care of all of that for you once we receive notification the respondent has been served."

"How are you feeling?" Troy asked as they walked back to his car.

"Really, really, nervous," she answered. "He's going to freak out."

"He had to know it was coming sooner or later. It can't be that bad."

"We'll see…"


Tuesday evening, Gabriella was pacing the floors waiting for Scott to bring Izabelle home. She received a call only an hour before letting her know that Scott was served with her petition for child support. Lost in thought, she nearly jumped out of her skin when the doorbell rang.

She opened the door and Izabelle squealed in delight. "How was she?" Gabriella asked as she took her from his arms.

"She was good," he answered casually and handed over her diaper bag.

"So I'll see you on Saturday?"

"Yep. Five o'clock."

"Great," she said. "See you then."

"Later," he replied and walked away.

Gabriella shut the door behind him and heaved a sigh of relief. That went much better than she expected. Maybe Scott was starting to shape up.


Saturday afternoon, Gabriella stood in the bathroom and watched in the mirror as Audrey did her hair for prom. When she was done, Gabriella admired her work. Her hair was parted on the side and swooped across her forehead into a loose half ponytail in the back. Her long brown locks fell in curls down her back. It was simple and elegant; not extravagant by any means, but then again, she wasn't the extravagant type. That could be left up to Sharpay.

"It's perfect, Audrey," she beamed. "Thank you so much!"

"No problem!" Audrey replied. "We have to go, but you have fun tonight!"

Gabriella smiled. "I will. And good luck this weekend." Three years after she got pregnant and was kicked out of her house, Audrey's parents called and asked her to visit. She would be spending the weekend at their house in Carlsbad.

Audrey smiled nervously. "Thanks." She grabbed her keys and led her two and a half year old daughter out to the car.

Gabriella looked at the clock on the wall. Leave it to Scott to be late today, she thought. She checked on Izabelle, who was still happily playing with her blocks in the toy room, and returned to the bathroom to start on her makeup. Just as she was putting on the finishing touches, there was a knock at the door. She hurried to get Izabelle and the diaper bag and answered the door.

When she opened it, Scott shoved a manila envelope into her chest and walked away. She watched in confusion as he got in his car and drove away. She stared at the envelope in her hands, afraid of what might be inside. Slowly, she closed the door and put Izabelle back on the floor. Taking a deep breath, she slid the papers out.

"What?" She gasped when she saw the heading. Tears filled her eyes. "No…"


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