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Baby S

Chapter Ten

"Baby, are you sure you can miss these classes this week." Troy asked as he talked to Taylor on his cell as he sat in his office. They were both planning on leaving for New Mexico so that they can be there for the retiring of his jersey.

"Yes, baby I can miss the classes this week…we are only meeting for two days and the other classes Gabby said she would take notes for me okay." She assured him with a laugh, sometimes it seemed that he was more worried about her education then she was. When he didn't answer she spoke again. "Baby I have a 4.0 seriously this week will be fine."

"Okay then, baby I believe so are you driving over here or should I come and pick you up." He asked as he picked up a pen and started tapping it on the edge of his desk. Nodding his head to the beat he wanted for Taylor to answer.

"Um, I'll drive over there so I can leave my car in the garage I don't really trust the school parking lot." Troy nodded his head. He didn't really trust the parking lot at UCLA either. He had heard of two many carjackings recently to even remotely feel safe about Taylor having late classes or just coming back from dinner after dark on that campus.

"Alright that's fine with me."

"Okay, I'll be over there right after my last class." She declared.

"Um, so what time will that be, baby."

"Probably six….so we're leaving in the morning." She asked, Troy nodded his head before telling her yes. "So are we staying with your parents or mine?"

"Mine…cause frankly I remember your dad and he scares me." Taylor laughed at his answer and shook her head for a moment.

"He wouldn't hurt you, Troy and you know it, he's a huge Lakers fan he'll probably want an autograph and a picture for the mantle in the den." She replied with a roll of her eyes as she thought about how her father had went crazy that one time they saw a Laker at the local mall during her freshman year.

"Well, we're still staying with my parents and we'll have dinner with your parents later on during the week. I mean we have to take this time to tell them all that we're getting married and having a baby." Taylor sighed nervously. "Baby, calm down everything will work out for the best I promise you that." He said soothingly over the phone line not wanting Taylor to get to nervous before they even arrived in New Mexico.

"You're right I do need to calm down because it isn't good for the baby." She replied, Troy smiled.

"That's my girl…now I gotta let you go alright see you tonight." He said hanging up, Troy closed the cell phone and sat it on his desk and he tapped his finger on the mouse pad on his laptop, and waited for the computer to come out of sleep mode. As he waited he reached down and opened his desk drawer looking for a pen and pad, however he froze with he saw the cocaine there. "I need to stop using that." He mumbled with a sigh as he looked at the substance. Quickly he reached inside and pulled out the pen and pad and sighed after slamming the drawer shut. Rubbing a hand over his face he took a shuddering breath just as his phone went off again. He quickly answered thinking it was Troy. "Hey baby what you wanna talk about now?" he replied thinking it was Taylor.

"Baby…I would really prefer it if my son would call me mom." He jumped as he heard his mother's voice.

"Oh…um hi mom what are you doing calling me?"

"I'm your mother, Troy I can call you anything I want." She said laughing at how nervous he sounded over the phone. "So I guess something is going on with you and Taylor." She inquired; Troy just shook his head before answering.

"No ma'am I was just playing…we can't wait to see you by the way."

"Your father and I can hardly wait as well…you know he's excited about the ceremony…his only child about to have their jersey retired at East High." She gushed leaving no doubt in Troy's mind that she was proud as well.

"I can only imagine how you feel."

"Just wait till you have a child…and then you'll know exactly how we feel. Troy, your father and I are just amazed that we raised a man like you." Troy chuckled and shook his head.

"Ma."

"No, Troy it's true…you are a wonderful man and I know Taylor thinks the same way she is such a wonderful woman."

"And I'm lucky to have her in my life." He pointed out softly thinking about last night and early this morning before she left for her classes. His mother laughter floated over the phone line.

"I see you are smitten with her."

"Head over heels mom." He countered. "She really is the one for me…and when we get there tomorrow we both have some things to talk about." He said hoping that he hadn't given away that they were engaged and expecting.

"Okay…well how is everyone else." Troy glanced down at his desk and shrugged his shoulders before answering.

"Everyone's fine, ma."

"Good, you tell them that I said hi." She replied. "I gotta go Troy okay. I can't want to see you and Taylor here tomorrow we are going to have a good time bye."

"Bye mom." He said hanging up and looking at the phone for a moment, he suddenly felt real nervous. What if his mother got angry at him for getting Taylor pregnant before he married her? And what if Tay's father killed him once he heard the news? Mr. McKessie could be a huge basketball fan, but he was pretty sure that wouldn't matter once he learned that his little girl was pregnant and not married. With a sigh he reached into the drawer that had the cocaine and took out the baggy looking at the substance for a moment he sighed and sat it on top of his desk, before grabbing the small silver tray and blade. Pouring out a small amount he cut it into lines and quickly snorted them. Coughing he leaned back and allowed the drugs to flow into his system and wash the nervousness away.

"So, I guess you told your man that I wasn't a problem." Wesley said as he leaned against the counter while Taylor made an incision in their cat which was their class project for the day. She glanced up at him for a moment pausing.

"Troy was just a little on edge nothing serious."

"He's possessive, Taylor…and a loose canon." She rolled her eyes and went back to cutting while Wesley watched her from his position.

"He's never like that…I mean after the way his last girlfriend left I'm not surprised he's a little nervous seeing me laughing and talking with a handsome guy." Wesley smiled at her compliment before shaking his head.

"Well maybe you need to tell him about himself."

"Oh I did, and I handle it." She said putting the scalpel down and turning around to look at him. "And then guess what?" she exclaimed as he moved around her to get to the cat so he could start his part of the project.

"What?"

"We're getting married." She said taking off her glove and flashing him her ring, Wesley looked over at her for a moment before smiling and nodding his head.

"Well congrats and I hope you too have a wonderful life together." He said sincerely as he watched Taylor beam at his response. "I guess he must be a good guy because I know you wouldn't put up with any bullshit."

"Wes." She exclaimed

"What." He answered back playfully before returning to his work.

"Using such foul language…I'm appalled." He shrugged his shoulders and sat out one of the organs on their tray.

"To bad." He said with a smile as they both got back to work, Taylor just smiled and put her glove back on and got ready to work. "So you're going to be getting married."

"Yes I am." She whispered still silently thinking about Troy, Wesley smiled at her and looked her up and down. "What?"

"Anything else, that I need to know as your lab partner." He asked

"Well, I guess I can tell you since you're a friend."

"Just a friend."

"A good friend," she said laughing. "I'm pregnant…Troy and I are going to have a baby." She said watching as he paused over the cat, and glanced over at her and smiled. He sat his tools down and pulled her into a good of a hug as he could give her with out getting his gloves on her.

"Well again I guess I should say congrats…do you know what the baby is going to be…I mean-." He asked stuttering over his words, Taylor shook her head.

"No, it's to early to determine yet but I promise you I'll tell you when we find out." He nodded his head and looked at her for a moment before speaking.

"You're gonna make a wonderful mother."

"Thanks, Wesley." He shrugged and smiled. "So when am I going to heard about you and your love life…I mean you know to much about mine."

"Well I'll let you know when I met a good that's half a beautiful as you and just as smart." Taylor blushed and shook her head, as Wesley said those things. "I know you're involved and I respect that."

"Well thank you for that, Wes. Besides any woman should consider herself lucky to be with you." He sighed and nodded his head as he continued to work.

"Well, Troy is lucky as hell to be with you."

"And I'm lucky to be with a man like him." They stood in silence for a few moments before she looked at their cat and glanced at the clock on the wall. "Come on let's hurry up and finish." Wesley nodded as they started to get back to work.

The shrill of his cell phone brought Troy out of his drug induced stupor; moaning he reached out lazily and picked the phone up glancing at the caller i.d. he realized that it was Chad. "Yo." Troy said hoping that Chad wasn't going to talk his ear off because he knew that would really kill his buzz.

"Troy, man you okay man you sound…well I really don't know different." Troy rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair already thinking that his buzz had been killed. "Troy?" Chad exclaimed when he didn't receive an answer.

"Yeah man I'm here man what is it?"

"Did you take the drugs to the coach and tell him what is going on?" Chad asked, Troy looked down at the bag on his desk in guilt for a moment before sighing taking it off his desk and putting it back in the drawer.

"Yeah, man they said they would handle it…I hope they help them out with that man. They really don't need to be using that stuff it isn't going to help them in the long run."

"You think it will really help them out in the long run."

"Maybe…I mean what if their addicted or something." Chad said, Troy cleared his throat and slowly rubbed his nose trying to clean it of all the white powder that he thought still coated his nose.

"Man, it can't be that addicting."

"It's a drug, Troy of course it's addicting." Chad shot back; Troy sighed and looked down at his desk.

"Alright man…I was just hoping that well maybe that Jackson and Trevor will be alright I know they might be mad at me if they knew I told on them about the drugs." He replied, he could mentally see Chad shrugging his shoulders.

"Don't worry about it when they get better they'll thank you believe me, man."

"Look Chad I really got to go man and I love to continue to talk to you but I got some other things to do."

"Sure man…um tell Taylor I said hi and that I hope you guys have a good trip and again congrats on the jersey retirement."

"Thanks man…bye and I'll tell Taylor what you said man." Troy said, once Chad said good-bye for the second time he hung up the phone and leaned back looking at the ceiling. Throwing his arms up he laughed and shook his head as the words Chad had spoken earlier went through his mind. "I'm not hooked man." He said loudly before chuckling and shaking his head while reaching for the drawer that held his stash.

Taylor entered the house sometime later that day, closing the door she called to Troy who bounded down the stairs two at a time and wrapped her up in his arms before kissing her passionately. "Hey baby." She said as she hugged him back just as tightly, he smiled and led her into the living room.

"I'm glad you came when you did I was just about to go out and try to find you." He said as he sat down on the sofa and pulled her down into his lap. Trailing a finger up and down her exposed leg he kissed her and smiled. "I am so ready to tell my parents about our marriage and the baby." He said as he placed a hand on her stomach and looked back up at her. She smiled and placed her stomach over his.

"I'm ready too…baby so did you talk to them today."

"Yeah, my mom called and so did Chad."

"Chad, what was he calling about." She asked rubbing her fingers up and down Troy's neck.

"Nothing just calling to talk and he wanted to tell me congrats on the ceremony and you that he said hi." He said as Taylor just nodded her head and decided not to comment, he watched her for a moment before sighing and leaning back pulling her with him. "So how were your classes?"

"Fine."

"Fine! You mean to tell me that the future best surgeon of America thought her classes today were just fine."

"Well Wes and I dissected a cat."

"Wes? Isn't that the guy I snapped at…like yesterday."

"Yes, he is…I still can't believe you acted like that." Troy threw up his hands, and laughed at her expression. "I'm serious, Troy."

"I know baby…and I'm sorry." He replied kissing her again before smiling and pushing her gently to her feet. "Come on let's go cook something to eat."

"What you mean to say is come on cook something to eat while I try my best to distract you." She said shaking her finger at him, only to jump back as he tried to bite it. Laughing she dashed into the kitchen knowing he was on her heels. Once they both were in the kitchen he smiled.

"So I guess you're ready to cook huh."

"Whatever Troy." She said with a bright smile as she started getting ready. "Well what do you want?"

"I don't know surprise me." He said as he came up behind her while she was searching in the fridge for some things.

"I'm sure you don't want to me surprise you with food." She said looking over her shoulder at him. She saw him looking at her butt, and wiggled it for a moment before turning around.

"Why do you always do that?" she said snapping Troy out of his trance, he glanced up at her and smiled shrugging his shoulders.

"Cause."

"You are so childish sometimes." She said smiling letting Troy know that what he had been doing didn't really bother her at all.

"I love you too." He said with a smile as he crossed his arms over his chest; Taylor smiled and turned back around bending down so she could search the refrigerator. "And I watch your back cause it's your best asset." He said laughing as she threw a head of lettuce at him.