Chapter 9- Shocker

I tapped my foot against the pavement as I looked at the baseball field. The Wildcats had closed practices, so I couldn't even get close. I was parked right next to Troy's car. My mom and I took a fast trip out to Florida to visit my dad who was in the midst of Spring Training.

I never really left the hotel room except to eat meals. My parents had there own hotel room and honestly I didn't really want to know what the hell was going on in that room.

All I know is that it's Friday, I havent seen Troy since Saturday last week and I missed him like crazy. I played with the string on my jacket as I hopped onto the hood of my car. After a week with my dad I was happy and feeling a hell of a lot better. I looked around to see if I saw anybody.

"Whoa I have never seen a girl sitting outside of baseball practice before." I turned to see a big stalky guy coming towards me. I squinted my eyes for a moment as I looked around. "I'm talking to you honey bunches," I rolled my eyes as I knew he was really talking to me now.

"Why are you talking to me?" I asked him, he shrugged his shoulders. "Why are you sitting on your very fancy car hood outside of a wildcat baseball practice? Probably the worst sport here." He said laughing; I felt a tug at my heartstrings. "I'm sorry; I actually think it's the best sport here."

The guys bellowed a laugh, "The only reason this sport is good for the population is so us football players can rag on them!" I felt a laughter run through my throat. "You are the wimps. You wear thousand of pads to get hit." I paused to look all of them in the eye.

"All of these guys have no pads on. These guys have balls thrown near there bodies at 80MPH and you are lucky to get yours to go 50MPH." I let out another little laugh, "You are insane, who do you think you are?" the guy asked me.

"I think I am Gabriella Montez, Alex Montez, the Yankees player, daughter." I told him with a matter of the fact smile, "I know this sport better than anybody else out there. So do you think you want to mess with me?"

All three of the boys had a smirk grow over his face. "Wow, this is Alex Montez daughter. This is the one Troy Bolton has been all over." I felt like there smirks grew bigger. I jumped off of my car and I strode to the door. "Running away honey?" I looked back towards the two of them. "Go away jerks."

"You know, Troy has never been our friend. We have been enemies ever since they stole the spotlight away from us. First with the basketball team and then the baseball team. Football takes 3rd place around here."

"Good. Somebody finally sees the stupidest in the sport. Everywhere in the country its football. Football needs to take a backseat in this lifetime. Baseball is the fucking best."

"What the hell? What are you three doing talking to her?" I looked up to see Troy marching towards us. His bag was slung over his shoulder and he looked pissed. "Oh Bolton, we were talking to Princess Montez. The one who thinks baseball is the fucking best."

Troy dropped his bag before he threw a quick punch. I gasped as I backed into my car hitting the side of it sharply. I groaned as I knew it was going to bruise. I double over in pain as I held my side. "Hey are you okay? Did they touch you?" Troy said laying his hand on my back.

"No," I gasped as I stood up; I pulled my shirt up to see the large bruise forming. "Oh God, Gabi what the hell happened?" Troy's finger traced over it was I winced. "When you punched him it scared me." I whimpered slightly, "and I jumped backwards my hip hitting the door handle of some shit." He gripped me into a hug and held me tight.

"I'm sorry. I have not seen you in forever and this is how I see you again." He took a quick deep breath before pulling back. "Come on lets go get something to eat." He tossed his bag into the car, "Meet me at Applebee's. I'll follow you there." He opened my car door for me and I nodded my head.

I turned the keys in my car and I started it. I pushed on the pedal and I pushed the car forward. The guy was holding his jaw as he walked away with blood dripping from his nose. I smirked, Troy threw the punch hard and I didn't feel bad at all.

I drove down the quiet streets as Troy followed me through the town. People were crazy to think that this town was party city; I have lived in party city.

I pulled into the Applebee's parking lot and I pulled into the parking spot. I shut off my car and I got out. Troy was waiting at the back of my car. He held out a jacket for me. "You know it does get cold here. I know you are used to that Florida heat by now." He joked nudging my shoulder. I grabbed the jacket from his arm and slipped it over my shoulders.

"So how was it?" Troy asked as he opened the door for me. I stepped into the restaurant and Troy held up two fingers to a girl from our school yet I couldn't place her name.

"Oh it was amazing. It was warm and the sun was glowing the entire time. I slept out on the beach and I got to hang out with my dad. My mom and he had there own hotel room." Troy laughed as he flipped his keys into his hand. The waitress showed us to our booth. "Thank you," I said to her as I climbed in.

"How is your mom doing?"

"Good, I guess. I mean she is almost five months pregnant." I said, "She is getting bigger, since she is starting to wear normal clothes. I can not believe they hid it from me by her wearing baggy clothes. It shows you how much I pay attention to everything." I mumbled

"Hi, I am Katie and I will be your waiter." Troy looked up into the blondes eyes, "Why hi Katie," he flirted with her. I didn't know how much jealousy just ran through my blood. I didn't know I would even be jealous.

"Troy Bolton," she blushed "I didn't know who this would be such a great day." She looked towards me before clearing her throat. "Uhm, I will just have water." I mumbled

"Water." Troy added before opening up his menu. Katie walked away and I looked at him. "Wow," I said trying not to laugh.

"Yea, well I have to be looking for a girlfriend for the season. My dad does not really know this but I usually have a girlfriend for the season. It is the girl to take to the party but they never really last the whole season, hell they rarely last the first week. Girls don't like going to the games. They prefer football or basketball."

I shrugged my shoulders, "Well I prefer baseball, I can tell you that much." Troy gave a quick smile before pointing at a two for twenty. "Wanna get some?" he asked, I nodded my head. "If you tell me how bad your week was?"

He grinned, "All right fair enough." Troy laughed as Katie came back over. Troy ordered for the two of us. "Alright so Darbus was a bitch the whole week. I mean I guess when you are here its better. She is happy with you around," he joked with me. I gave him a quick smile. "Yea, I am pretty sure she hates me." I told him

He cracked a smile, "Nah, nobody could hate you." I picked up my straw laying on the table. "Those guys sure seemed too and those girls back at my old school seemed too."

Troy's eyes softened with the mention of my past. "Those guys are jack wagons." I laughed at his description "And those girls well they were bitches. They thought they could get everything they wanted whenever they wanted. You have dreams and you can not let them crush your dreams." He reached over on the table to grab my hand.

"I'm not letting them crush my dreams. I just want to have a clear future. I don't know what I want in my future yet. I just want to explore with options, I just don't know anymore." I sighed as I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out to see my mom calling me. I ignored the call and texted her telling her I was at Applebee's with Troy.

"So are we still on for April 1?" he asked as he flipped through the sugar packets. "Hell yea, we are leaving March 31 though," he nodded his head. "Im excited. Baseball season will be in mid swing, life will be good again." He smirked, "I can start pitching weekly," His eyes glowed, "You know what the means right?"

"What?" I asked as he was cute when his eyes were all excited. "I can start pitching everyday if I wanted. I can do what I love and I mean play a little first or something." He shrugged his shoulders as if it was no big deal.

"If you went to the majors what would you want to be?" I asked him, he tapped on his chin, "A pitcher but I love batting and im good at batting so honestly I don't know." I nodded my head, "basically whatever they wanted me as."

Katie slides our drinks onto the table and I quickly grabbed it to take a drink. "My dad says hi and he can't wait for you to come up to New York. Some of the guys on the team saw the video of you batting and they want you to practice with them one day." His eyes grew so wide I thought they were going to pop out of his head.

"No way." His mouth was a little stunned, "So we are now going to leave Thursday after your game." He jumped out of the booth and pulled me into a hug. "Have I ever told you, that you are the bestest best friend ever!" I giggled as he hugged me tighter to his chest.

"See, I am not using you." Troy said, I giggled, "How do I know you are not using me. Look how you just acted."

"But I didn't ask for it, I am excited that I get to but I am not just going to ask for these things." I narrowed my eyes a little towards him, "Seriously because I know that if I am nice enough you will just give it to me." He winked and I threw my straw at him. "You're a jerk!"

He chuckled as he picked up my closed straw. "I know, that was mean but no, I promise to be good."

"Good dog," he baffled a laugh before he shook his head. "You wanna go with me to Cody's tomorrow? I am taking Luke with me, we might play some pick up ball but you are more than welcome to come. Pizza, Brandon and some girl may be making out but its pretty fun."

"Yea, I will probably go because I have nothing better to do in this town."

"It could lead to some party but I won't take Luke to that,"

"You won't?" I asked raising an eyebrow, "You are a piece of work Ms. Montez." I grinned while looking at him, "Yes I am Mr. Bolton."


I smoothed out my Yankee tshirt I had on. It was my dads, the one they gave to the player's family. I was meeting Troy at his house in twenty minutes.

I was going to be hanging out with all of the boys tonight. I had gotten to know Cody very well but the others were a little iffy. I grabbed my jacket that was hanging on the back of the chair.

I opened up my bedroom door to walk down the stairs towards my mom who was crying at the kitchen table. "Mom?" I asked as I walked closer to her. She let out a sob and I quickly pulled her into a hug. "Are you okay? Is the baby okay?" I asked growing concerned and scared.

She nodded her head sobbing, "The baby is fine," she mumbled as she got up from the chair. Her mascara had been running and her hair was a complete mess. "Mom," I asked with a slight warning

"I don't know if I can do this Gabi," she said turning to look at me, "What do you mean?"

She put her hand on her growing stomach, "This! The baby! Babies!" She cried before bowing her head and letting her head drop into her hands. I felt the wind knocked out of me. "Babies?" I gripped the chair for extra support as this news frightened me. She nodded her head sniffling.

"At my doctor appointment yesterday after we got home they told me I was having twins." My mom cried harder and I didn't even know what the hell to do. This was my dad's job; this was sure as hell not mine. I was the one supposed to be in her position having to tell my husband that but I am the one dealing with this.

I went over to my mom to hug her. "It will be okay," I told her quietly; I lead her to her bedroom where I let her lay down. "I think we should call dad." I told her shakily, I pulled out my iPhone while dialing the number. "Gabi please, he will want to come home,"

"No, we won't let him but he needs to know." The phone began to ring and I realized I needed to be heading to Troy's place. "Hey baby girl," my dad said, "Hey dad, I think you and mom need to talk for a moment." I told him as I handed my phone over to her.

I put it on speaker as she slide the phone closer to her face. "Hi honey," my mom said, "Ky, what's wrong?" he asked, I swallowed as I looked at the clock near the back of the room.

"Uhm, so I had my doctor appointment yesterday as you know,"

"Yea you were supposed to call me afterwards and you didn't." my dad added, "Alex, please let me finish." He sighed, "I was scared and I didn't know how to tell you but…we are having twins." The room was quiet. I felt the breeze shift in the air as nobody moved or talked.

"Really?" he said, he then started laughing. I felt a wave of relief wash over me. "That's fantastic Kylie! Oh I wish I could be there with you right now!" My mom smiled as she was so worried about this for nothing. "I love you," she said with a dreamy sigh.

"Hey, I don't want to ruin this love fest but I need to leave so can I have my phone back?" I asked my parents both giggled and my mom said bye to my dad.

I got my phone back and I took it off speaker. "Hey," I said to my dad as I waved goodbye to my mom. "Oh shit, Gabi I am so worried twins? You have to be kidding me," my dad let out a deep breath.

"What? I thought you were happy?" I asked him, he didn't talk for several minutes. "I am excited but I havent done this baby thing in almost seventeen years. It's been a long time and with two of them? These babies will be coming around July; I will be right in the middle of baseball season.

"Dad, don't freak okay? You know we will probably come and see you during the summer. Before and after the babies are born. There are two of us to take of them, I will help mom through a lot but I wish you would have told me before she was basically five months along." I grumbled

"We are completely sorry Gabi, we found out and we were kind of stuck. Once you didn't come home we knew we needed to tell you. I thought I was going to go broke on money from buying your mom expensive baggy clothes." I rolled my eyes, "You should have just told me."

"I know, but you know now. These babies will be coming soon than later."

"Yea, four months for me to live my life. Fantastic." I then hung up with my dad, I needed to get away, and Troy was the closest I had to that.

I zoomed through the city as I was already ten minutes late. I pulled into his driveway and I ran up to the door, my fingers contacted the door with a hard thud. A string ran through my hand as the door quickly open. "He is still getting ready," Lucille said but I flung through the door.

It's been a month since we had moved here and I was already passed the stage of wait. Troy and I were good friends for me to just barge in his room. If he wasn't done getting ready that meant he was doing something special.

"Troy?" I asked knocking on the door, "Come in," he said, I pushed the door inward to see Luke sitting on his bed with a big grin on his face. He was in a Montez tshirt with his hair in a Mohawk. "Well don't you look cute," I said as he got up to come give me a hug.

"Be prepared to play some baseball," Troy said from his bathroom, I picked Luke up and I held him at my waist. "Sorry, I'm late."

"No need, im running behide myself." He threw a quick grin my way as I caught a glimpse of him with no shirt on. "Yea, well my mom decided to tell me that she is pregnant with twins, lucky me huh?" I tickled Luke's stomach, "Hi Gabi!" Emily ran through the door to give me a quick hug.

"Hey, how is that volleyball going?" I asked her, "Its fun!" she gave a cheeky smile before Jack called for her. "Twins huh?" Troy said popping his head out the door. "Yea, so I get to help with babies until my dad can come home, this won't be until forever." I grumbled. Troy came out of the bathroom while slipping on a plain white tshirt and then a bottom up shirt.

"Hey, it will be fun. I can stay around and help,"

"They are going to be born in July or August Troy." Troy's eyes turned to land on mine, "Baseball season," I nodded my head, "I think my mom might go up and stay in New York after the babies are born to be closer to my dad. He may be on the road but he will still be there." I set down Luke for him to go running to the door. I hugged my arms to my chest while Troy gave me a hug.

"Well, I promise you that it will be amazing in the end. You might have to miss a few of my touneys but that will be all right."

"I might need a couch to sleep on," I joked as we picked up our stuff and headed for the door. "Hey, its wide open." he said pointing towards it. I giggled as Emily came running towards us again, "Gabi are you staying for dinner?"

"Em, she is coming with me." Troy said to her annoyed, "Can I go with you too?" She asked, "You wouldn't like it." Troy said brushing past her. I frowned. "Luke always gets to go!"

"Luke likes baseball Emily, you don't." She crossed her arms over her chest. "Fine," she grumbled before going off to grab the remote.

"Hey Gabi," Jack said, I gave him a small wave. "You look tired,"

"Pregnant mom, no dad, kind of hard around the house at the moment." I said giving a shrug, "Your moms pregnant?" Lucille asked, I nodded my head, "She is only 33."

"Oh, no I wasn't meaning anything by it; I just had Luke a while ago." She gave me a smile, "Oh I know but its like im seventeen and this baby is going to be seventeen years apart from me. That's me and my parents age gap." Lucille nodded her head, "Yea that is kind of crazy. How far along is she?"

"Mom, I know you really love talking about babies but we need to leave." Troy interrupted; he had Luke on his waist and a bag over his shoulder. "Alright fine,"

"I would love to talk some other time, maybe at one of Troy's games." I gave a quick smile before I followed Troy out of the house. "Make sure to get Luke back by a decent hour!" my mom yelled as the door slammed behide us.

Troy buckled Luke in while I climbed into the front seat. "I will. No worries on that part!" he yelled back, Luke's door snapped shut as I leaned my head back.

"You are going to get dragged into a lot of things tonight."

"Really?" he nodded, "Drinking, dancing, oh and making out with somebody." I laughed out loud, "Whatever, I will make out with nobody."

"You say that now."

Rolling my eyes Troy drove through the town and into the country, "You will also have to play a game of baseball."

"Wow, shocker." I told him as he came up to Cody's house. Cars were parked along the grass and Luke started to giggle in the background. "Cody!" he shouted, "This is Luke's favorite place."

"I see,"

Troy popped open his door and he slipped his keys into his jean pockets. I got out grabbing my jacket, "You going to come up and watch me play sand volleyball this weekend?"

He raised an eyebrow, "You are playing sand volleyball this weekend?" I nodded my head, "Like I do all summer," he nodded, "I will be there,"

"Good," we made our way to the door and Luke was running ahead of us. He went banging onto the door for Cody's mom to answer the door. "Luke! Well did you drive here?"

"Cody!"

"Cody Hm…" she looked up to see Troy and then her eyes looked over at me. "Well Troy, who is this?"

"Gabi," he said picking Luke up tossing him over his shoulder. "Oh, this is the one that beat Cody in the base jumping." I felt my lips tug into a smile. "Yea, well." She let us through the house and Troy took control from there. Luke squirmed in his arms and he kicked open the basement door before letting him fly through the room.

"Luke!" I bunch of them screamed out; Troy pulled my arm through the door. "Thanks, guys." They all looked towards us, "Gabi," they waved towards me as I waved back.

"Hey,"

"How was Florida?"

"Good," I replied, "Happy I got to see my dad."

"So I say we hit a party tonight," Brett finally said after Troy and I collapsed onto the floor in front of the couch. "Which one?"

"At the old drive-in where that on restaurant is, you know they are having one out there. Blasting music through all of the old speakers."

"Hell yea, let's go!"

"Doesn't start until like ten tonight and they are letting that restaurant stay open. I guess its somebody dad's."

"Cool, but what are we going to do until then."

"Baseball!" Luke screamed, all the guys looked at each other and I looked at Luke.

"I call Gabi!" My eyes opened and I glanced around the group, "Huh?" but before I could say anything more they were running out of the door. "You do know the first one out there is your team." I rolled my eyes as Troy helped me up.

"I guess."

"Just make sure I am placed with you,"

"I will try my hardest."


Changing into a pair of bootie shorts and a tank top that barely covered my stomach, "It's a warm Friday night," I told Troy when he saw me in his jeans still.

"You will probably fit right in." he said as we walked through the parking lot of cars. The party hadn't started yet when we had just shown up. The guys all high-fived as we worked our way through the crowd, Cody had his arm wrapped loosely around his girlfriend as a buzz of talking came about.

We came into the circle when Troy dispatched away from me and went to grab a drink from the keg feet ahead. I awkwardly stood there seeing all of the other girls in the same thing I was. My hair was up in a bun but I decided to let loose tonight. I let my hair drop to my shoulders as I shook out my curls.

People raised a few eyebrows across the group. "What? I lived in New York, I know how to party." That's when the music started to blast; I felt my body come alive like when I lived in New York. Black and Yellow blasted through the speakers and it made it all roll through my body. Dancing was the other thing I loved to do. Random guys came up to me and we danced.

"Who are you?" I smirked, "Gabi," the guy laughed, "Is that all I get? Gabi…" he questioned, his green eyes battled mine for a few seconds. "Nope. Just Gabi," I teased, he laughed and nodded. "Fine by me," he leaned down and kissed my lips simply. Kissing random guys was never good on my part but it seemed to always happen.

The guy broke apart from me for a minute, "So who are you here with? I have never seen you before," I tried to get over the kiss that had just happened, it was amazing. "Oh, uhm, I came with a baseball team." My eyes darted around to see Troy holding two beers in his hand. His jaw was tight as he noticed us.

"Oh, what baseball team?"

"Something Elite, I don't know," my eyes didn't leave Troy's as he shook his head, his lips touched the red cup before taking a large gulp of beer.

"You don't mean SE right?" my head traveled around to look at the guy, "SE? What the hell is SE?"

"Southern Elite, the big badass baseball team here?" I scrunched my eyebrows up, "Is that supposed to mean something?" The guy walked away shaking his head. "I can't get caught up in that group, not with one of there girls," I looked at the guy, "I am not one of there girls," he snorted, "They brought you right?" I nodded my head, "That means one of those guys likes you."

He began to walk away when I yelled after him.

"Do I even get your name?" I asked him.

"Evan…" I looked at him, "Evan…" he smirked, "That's all you get." He kissed my cheek before he disappeared into the swarm of people. I snorted, what the hell do these guys do. I turned around throwing my hands on my hips. I am sure as hell not one of there girls and nobody on this dumb ass team likes me. That was a hot guy!

"He is part of the Rebels," I swirled around to see Brett standing behide me. "Our team and there team, they don't get along too well."

"So what does that have to do with me," I asked looking at him, "Nothing but he must know who you came with," my eyes bored into his. "Is there some code," Brett snorted, "You have no idea,"

Brett walked away and I rolled my eyes, "This is a joke." I walked over to Troy and I grabbed the beer that was sitting on the railing, full to the brim.

"Don't ever go kissing that guy again," Troy said as he took another drink of his beer. I looked at him as I downed mine. "What do you mean, Evan?" he looked at me and nodded, "That is Evan Nelson part of the rebels." I shook my head as I finished off the beer.

"So are you going to be my dad of who I can and can not date?" I asked, Troy shrugged his shoulders, "Why not?" I grumbled and I looked at the line of people at the keg. Music that I had no clue what they were saying filtered through the old drive in.

"I will go get you one if you say please," Troy purred into my ear, I flipped my hair into his face. "I don't need you doing everything for me…dad," I said striding over towards the line. His eyes bounced with entertainment as I passed a bunch of guys to fill up my red cup.

That is when I noticed Evan again. I smiled as I walked over to him, my cup still hard in my hand. "Evan," Evan's eyes bounced up to mine, "I think you should prove my little friends wrong. I think you should kiss me, right here." I said pointing to my lips. Evan laughed, "You don't stop do you?" I shrugged my shoulders as I walked closer. I could feel eyes on me, "I don't want to get hurt for this,"

I pushed his shoulder gently, "Those asses would never hurt you," I cooed gently as I went up to kiss him, he dodged the kiss but I wrapped one of my hands around his neck. "I really think you're hot," I whispered into his ear.

"I think your pretty hot too." That's when he finally kissed me again. I gripped onto my beer tighter as I leaned forward into his body. I craved more as I let my fingers play with a short strand of hair on the back of his neck. Evan broke off the kiss as I took a deep breath.

"You are an amazing kisser," he said laughing, I smiled as I finished off my drink. I let the cup slip out of my hand as Evan formed his hand with mine. "You know I will get my ass kicked for this," Evan said laughing, "I don't care if you get your ass kicked, those guys are sometimes jerks. I think you're hot and I am plenty single."

Evan let a smile crinkle against his forehead, "Well that's fantastic," I turned as I let my lips kiss him harder. Another song popped through the stereo.

"So, how many beers have you had?" I shrugged, "Two or so," he nodded as he gave me another one. I looked at it and then I took a small drink. Evan wrapped his arm around my shoulder as I smiled towards him, "East or West?" I asked him, "East. I play with Troy, the one who hasn't let his eyes leave you yet." He mentioned, "This won't go over well on the team,"

"Okay, so what if Troy likes me?"

"That means I can't like you." He mentioned casually, "Troy doesn't like me though," I protested, "We are only friends and since my dad isn't around he is watching out for me." Evan nodded his head, "I know that is why I am going to kiss you once more and then we are going to go our separate ways."

I chewed on my lip, "Can we save that kiss until the end of the party?" I finished off another drink as I suddenly felt a little lightheaded already. "I really don't think we should…" he tried to get away as I gripped my fingers to his chest. "Don't," I said quietly. I could see Evan looking around before I felt somebody's hands on my hips.

"Gabs, I am thinking it's about time to go." I looked up at Evan as he gave me a smile. "Hey, I think you are beautiful, I told you, I can't get into a girl like you." He kissed my lips softly once more before he wavered through the crowd.

My knees weakened as I let out a long breath. Troy held me tightly as I felt my head grow foggy, I was done with tonight.


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