Chapter Started: February 20, 2011

Chapter Finished: Unknown

Author's Note: Well, here's a new one and I really hope you guys like it. Enjoy, hopefully…

TROYELLA*IS*AN*AH-MAZING*KINDA*LOVE

=ANFF2: America's Sweetheart's Engagement=

-Chapter 9-

(February 1, 2010 – Washington D.C.)

"Babe, do you see them?" Gabriella immediately asked her fiancée as they stepped off Air Force One once it landed at the airport.

"Yes, Baby, yes," Troy replied with a laugh. Smiling, he pointed them out, "They're right there."

"MOMMY! DADDY!" Gabriella and Sharpay squealed together when they saw their parents who had come in limos to pick them all up.

Inez and Derby both smiled and stepped aside knowing what was coming and they were right when their daughters dropped their LV carry-ons and jumped into their daddy's arms, their arms around their necks and their legs around their daddy's torsos as their dad's hugged them tightly.

"I've missed you sooo, sooo, sooo, sooo much Daddy," Gabriella whispered as she hugged her dad tightly as he gently twirled her around in his arms.

"Oh I've miss you too Baby Girl, so, so, so much," Greg told his daughter, not caring that she was getting his Gucci tux wet with tear drops, "You have no idea, Baby Girl, no idea."

"But I do, Daddy, but I do," Gabriella replied as she pulled her head up and placed a kiss on his cheek before setting her head back down on his shoulder, but turned it so she could greet her mom, "Hey Mommy."

"Hi, Mija," Inez greeted back as she cupped her daughter's cheek and stood on her tip toes to place a kiss on her daughter's forehead, "How are you?"

"Tired," the only child replied after a yawn slipped through her perfect lips.

"I'm sure you are," Inez agreed with a soft smile and nod.

"I think we all are," Troy said as he walked over to the family with a tired, yet loving smile on his face.

"Troy, it's so good to see you," Inez said as she got on her tippy toes so she could wrap her arms around his shoulder and hug him.

"Same here, Inez, same here," Troy replied as he hugged his soon-to-be mother-in-law tightly and placed a kiss on her cheek.

"Troy, I'm sure you can understand why I can't greet you right now," Greg told the NBA player.

"Of course," Troy replied, "You know she's been looking forward to this since we set forth back in LA. Every time anyone brought up our trip to February for the month, she would squeal and jump up and down like a little kid on Christmas. She's missed you guys so much."

"But of course she missed her daddy more, right Mija?" Inez asked her daughter knowing she'd probably agree with her mother, and Inez was just fine with that she knew that Gabriella loved Greg the most and she was thankful that her daughter and her husband had such a tight, loving, trusting, and unbreakable bond; but all they got was silence. "Mija?"

"She's sleeping, Izzy," Greg softly told his wife with a smile.

Inez just smiled and shook her head a little bit. Picking up her daughter's carry-on she then looped her arm with Troy's and followed the tired crowd towards the limos.

HSM*HSM*HSM

At mid-night that night, Troy and the rest of the Wildcats with Troy's family were watching from Gabriella's bedroom doorway as Greg carried his beautiful baby girl towards her bed where Inez pulled the blankets down on it.

They watched as the couple worked together to take off Gabriella's black UGG's and set them on down on the floor at the bedside. Greg and Inez smiled at each other as they gently took off Gabriella's winter jacket, gloves, scarf and hat before they both took the blankets and pulled them up over their only child. With a soft whistle, Greg had managed to call in his German Shepherd, Ace; Inez's beautiful white Samoyed, Duchess; and Gabriella and Troy's dogs that they brought to DC with them: Gabriella's Golden Retriever, Buddie, who was famous for doing all the Air Bud movies; another Golden Retriever that belong to Troy named Layla, Gabriella's black Toy Poodle named Shadow, and the Border Collie puppy that Troy adopted from ASPCA in December for Gabriella as a birthday present, Aurora; into the bedroom and they all watched as each dog took a spot in the room, guarding and cuddling up to the girl – Ace was at the balcony doors to make sure no intruder that could pass the Secret Service could enter her room, Duchess underneath the computer stand and on the pillow with her head poking out looking around while Buddie, Aurora and Shadow were on the bed with the girl and Layla sat with beside Troy waiting for her owner to go to bed where she would retire and watch over him.

"I always love watching them tuck her in," Sharpay whispered to no one in particular, "it makes you think and makes you believe that no matter what the strong between family is always strong and full of love."

Some of them nodded their heads as they watched Inez put Gabriella's UGG's in the closet while Greg put her gloves, scarf, hat, and jacket on the coat rack in a corner of the room. Smiling, the mom and dad duo then walked back towards their baby girl and each kissed her forehead and whispered an 'I love you' to her before they walked towards the gang.

Before Greg shut the bedroom door, they all heard him whisper one single command to his beloved pet, "Ace, you protect her like I know you will. Bark if there's trouble boy."

They all watched as Ace could be seen moving his head up and down before looking at the door and they all knew that he dog heard his best friend loud and clear, he would protect America's Sweetheart with his life as would all the dogs, young and old, as would the people in the hall.

To Be Continued…

Well, I know that was a really short one, but it's kind of a filler for the location and what not for the next few chapters. The next one also might be a filler to kind of clue you in on what's happening in the month of February for them.

Love,

Jessica.

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. They're your best friend and the closest thing to God on earth."

~J.L.A