This is Your Daughter.

Chapter 9

"Mom, I have to admit you are right." Gabriella said on the phone to her mother.

"Why what happened?" Ms. Montez asked.

"Troy." Gabriella simply said as she looked over to him and their daughter playing with a basketball outside the apartment.

"He loves you still?" Ms. Montez asked knowing the answer.

"Yes and he is a great father." Gabriella replied.

"I knew he would be… So it there a ring on your finger yet?" Ms. Montez asked excitedly.

"Mom, we just got back together four days ago. I haven't even moved in yet." Gabriella exclaimed.

"Yea but that boy will ask in no time and I know you won't turn him down." Ms. Montez said knowingly.

"How do you know?" Gabriella asked curiously.

"I just do sweetheart… I just do." Ms. Montez told her.

"Well I got to go mom I'll talk to you later." Gabriella told her mom.

"Kay baby, I can't wait to see Troy again… I love you, bye." Ms. Montez said hanging up the phone.

Gabriella looked back out at the two and found that Troy had picked her up and was now lifting her in circles above his head. Seeing this, Gabriella couldn't help but chuckle at the two, they were so alike. Every day for the last nine years, Gabriella had watched Corrie, and found her behaviors similar to that of Troy. She shook her head and got up, going to the kitchen she started making macaroni for the two. Smiling the whole time, Gabriella finished and set the table for three. That was one more than usual and it was great. Heading outside, she shut the door behind her and watched them for a moment as they still dribbled the basketball around together. Like father like daughter.

"Troy and Corrie!" Gabriella yelled out to them from the distance and held up a waving hand. The two jogged together over to Gabriella and looked confused.

"Dinner." Gabriella stated and their expressions turned to that of an 'Oh'.

"Hurry up guys." Corrie exclaimed as she started to run into the apartment and up the stairs leaving the two grown ups standing dead still before Troy laid his hand on her back and started guiding her to the elevator.

"She's got a lot better since I last saw her play." Gabriella stated to him.

"Really? That must mean I'm a great teacher." Troy said faking over confidence.

"Get over yourself." Gabriella laughed pushing him slightly.

"Did you just push me?" Troy said playing around.

"Why yes I did, what are you gonna do about it?" She played along.

"How about this." Troy said as he took her in his arms and carried her all the way to the elevators. When they got there, Troy put her down and tickled her.

"TROY!" Gabriella laughed in a fit of giggles.

"That's what you get for pushing Troy Bolton." Troy said standing tall and proudly.

"Ok I'll never push you again." Gabriella swore before smiling widely.

"I don't believe you." Troy stated as they walked out.

"And you shouldn't…" Gabriella said smirking.

"I'm scared now." Troy said sarcastically and reached for the knob of the door.

"You should be." Gabriella whispered in his ear from behind his back right before he pushed the door open.

"Hurry up!" Corrie exclaimed from the kitchen.

"We're coming." Troy told her as they walking into the kitchen.

"Give me your plate." Gabriella told Corrie and Troy and they did so.

"Thanks for making us food Gabs." Troy said graciously.

"Yea thanks mom." Corrie said also.

"No problem. Did you guys have fun?" Gabriella asked.

"Yea totally!" Corrie exclaimed.

"Sure did." Troy agreed.

"That's good to hear." Gabriella assured.

"Mom! What happened to Ginger?" Corrie asked.

"Don't worry, Grandma is taking care of her and Leo." Gabriella reassured her daughter.

"Who's Ginger?" Troy asked.

"Our cat." Gabriella told him.

"Corrie, you should have told me you had a cat, we could have flown her here." Troy said.

"Well I guess I was just so excited I was meeting my dad that I totally forgot about little Ginger." Corrie said shrugging her shoulders.

"Hey Corrie, we need to talk to you after dinner ok?" Troy asked.

"Yea sure." Corrie agreed.

Dinner went by fast before the three ended up on the couch.

"Corrie, what do you feel about living here?" Troy asked.

"It's been awesome I've had so much fun with you!" Corrie exclaimed cheerfully.

"What would you feel about living here with me?" Troy asked.

"I'd love to live with you… but I can't just leave mommy." Corrie said sadly. Troy looked up at Gabriella and smiled knowing that Corrie would love the news.

"What would you feel if mommy moved here with you?" Troy asked the last question.

"Really?" Corrie asked excitedly.

"Really." Gabriella confirmed to her daughter.

"This is great!" Corrie yelled running to her room.

"Yea, it is." Troy had said to himself but Gabriella heard him.

"I'm glad you found out about her Troy." Gabriella told him sincerely.

"I'm glad I have you back in my life." Troy told her.

"Well I'm glad to be back in your life." Gabriella said back smiling widely again.

"Now that I have two girls, I think that it calls for a bigger house than this apartment." Troy said.

"Troy, this apartment is huge!" Gabriella said.

"Yea but I think we should get a house, you know, to start new." Troy suggested.

"Ok ok you're the boss this is your apartment." Gabriella gave in.

"This could be the start of something new." Troy told her.

"I know one thing for sure, it feels so right to be here with you." Gabriella said back before the two started to laugh together at their reference to that certain song. Not long after there was a knock on the door.

"Hey guys!" Taylor said barging in.

"Hey Taylor what's up?" Gabriella asked.

"Well I was just thinking, I can't let you move here without me so… I'm moving to L.A. too!" Taylor exclaimed.

"You fell back in love with Chad didn't you?" Gabriella asked because she knew Taylor had been staying at Chad's the past couple days.

"Yes and I can't believe how much I missed him." Taylor admitted.

"Well I'm sure he missed you too, you were the longest girlfriend he every had." Troy told her.

"I have to go, Chad's bringing me out." Taylor told her two friends.

"Bye Taylor." Gabriella told her.

"She's crazy." Troy said.

"I know but I learned to live with it." Gabriella sighed.

"You're beautiful you know that?" Troy asked.

"Thanks you're not that bad looking yourself." Gabriella said looking up at her love.

"We need to get out, I mean without Corrie, like a date." Troy told her.

"Well, I don't want to leave her with a stranger and-" Gabriella was cut off by the doorbell… Troy got up and opened it to find…