Troy rolled over hitting the snooze button, silencing the annoying buzz that rang throughout the room. In exactly an hour Troy would be seated across from his ex high school sweetheart and next to his wife, having the dreaded conversation. He dragged himself over to his shared bathroom, splashing cold water on his face in an effort to wake himself up. He stood up straight; squaring his shoulders he studied his reflection in the mirror. His eyes were blood shot, purple lines were forming under his aqua blue eyes and as he ran his hands down his face, an action of stress, he could feel the stubble starting to grow, to top it all off he had a throbbing headache. Last night for Troy Bolton, was a fairly sleepless night, thoughts raced around in his mind. Who was the father? Had Gabriella cheated whilst they were together or gotten a new boyfriend after the split? I mean you do the math 13 years ago they ended things and 13 years ago Grace was born and 13 years later is where they are now. Troy sighed and washed his face once more.

"Come on Troy, don't dawdle we have to leave soon" Celina was leaning against the door frame peering in. Troy flinched and nodded his head making his way into their bedroom, pulling open the wardrobe doors he scanned for an outfit, pulling out a pair of jeans, a polo and an old wildcat hoodie. Troy jogged downstairs to find Celina sipping on a hot cup of coffee and catching up on the current events in today's world.

"Let's get this over and done with." Troy grabbed his car keys swinging them around his index finger he waited from Celina to pull on her coat.

"Stop acing so childish Troy." She said as she pulled her right arm through before walking out the front door.

Sitting in silence they waited to be called in to meet with Dr. Montez. Troy sat there, his right leg moving up and down; Celina sat watching out of the corner of her eye.

"Will you cut that out?" She whispered in a rough tone. His leg continued to jig. Celina was about to go off her top when the older of the two nurses waved them through to the office. When Celina entered she found Gabriella dressed in a white lab coat bent over a bench to the left of the room holding a tray in her hand full of pills, syringes and small round containers.

"Hi Dr. Montez." Celina said as she made her self comfortable in the chair across from Gabriella's big oak desk. Gabriella nodded in response, before carrying the tray over and placing it on a flat surface to the left of the examination table. She sat down facing Celina, not even acknowledging Troy and got on with the medical side of things.

"Today I'm just going to take a few blood and urine samples and show you how to administer the correct dosage of medication via syringe." They got right into it. Troy sat starring at the ceiling bored as Gabriella drew blood from Celina's arm, the two of them making small chat about babies probably—they both have that in common right? Soon Celina headed off towards the bathroom with a urine sample cup in hand as Gabriella took her place behind her desk. She sat tapping away at they key board whilst Troy sat twiddling his thumbs starring at her contemplating an apology. He didn't mean to sound like he was accusing her of something but you do the math. 13 years ago they ended things, 13 years ago Gracie was born either a) she cheated on him, b) its his (which is highly unlikely since they had sex a total of, what? Three times, being safe each time) or c) she found a new partner after they ended it. Trying to ignore the feeing of Troy's eyes drilling holes into the side of her head, Gabriella let out a frustrated groan. She couldn't think whilst he was watching her. Her head snapped up and her eyes were dark.

"What Troy? What do you want?" He opened his mouth to reply when the sound of the toilet flushing interrupted him. Celina entered the room with her little container full.

"Here you go!" Celina handed it over cheerfully, unable to sense the tension in the room. Gabriella placed it with the blood samples, ready to be sent of to pathology.

"Do you two have any questions before you leave and I take these over to be tested?" Celina nodded her head.

"We were wondering, if maybe after your shift we could meet up for coffee, we have news." Gabriella knew what this was about; she glanced at her clock, which read 11:30. She nodded her head; surely the nurses could call in Doctor Lansing.

"How about I call in for emergency and we meet at star bucks on the shopping strip. Give me 5?" Celina nodded taking Troy's hand before exiting the room.

Celina and Troy sat in a corner booth in star bucks discussing ways to tell Gabriella.

"I think we just drop it." Troy shook his head at his wife's suggestion

"No, that's not very considerate"

"You have a better idea?"

"As a matter of fact I do. We--" Celina cut Troy off mid sentence as she spied Gabriella approaching the table. As Gabriella neared Celina racked her brain for some sort of discussion to have with Troy, time was running out so she said the first thing that came to mind.

"And the cat stepped on the ball!" Troy gave Celina a weird look as Gabriella pulled up a chair.

"So…" Gabriella started as she began to play with the hem of her shirt. Suddenly she was extremely nervous so in an attempt to cool her nerves she began to trace the patterns on the wooden table's surface.

"You've met our daughter Grace, right?" Gabriella nodded as Celina continued. "Well she's adopted and well there's no easy way to say this but umm…uhhh…" Gabriella sat waiting patiently "She umm yours." Gabriella had never really had time to think about it. The daughter she gave up 13 years ago was living with the man that had been in her thoughts for 4745 days.

"Gabriella?" She looked up her eyes brimming with tears as the realization hit her like a ton of bricks. "Are you alright?" she nodded slightly causing some tears to spill out over the lid.

"I'm fine Celina." She dropped her gaze to her hands.

"Okay then. Because there's something more we'd like to discuss." Troy was now extremely intrigued. He had only been informed of informing Gabriella on the where about of her daughter.

"Go on." Gabriella prompted Celina.

"Whilst we understand that she is yours and that you must love her, we were just hoping that maybe you wouldn't mind if she wasn't told about you?" Troy's mouth dropped and Gabriella head shot up.

"Celina we never discussed this. We said we'd tell Gracie and it was her choice whether or not she is in Gabriella's life and vice versa." Celina silenced Troy and turned to Gabriella waiting for a response.

"Umm… Not to be rude or anything Celina but I would like to get the chance to get know Gracie." Celina's eyes darkened at the use of Grace's nickname.

"Well if you wanted to get to know her why'd you give her away."

"Because I was 18 and irresponsible. I wasn't ready for a child. The love of my life had left me; I had my whole future ahead of me. But now I'm going to take the time and get to know her." Celina stood up in her chair, Gabriella following her actions also rose.

"Like hell you are." Celina looked about ready to slap Gabriella as Troy sat watching. "Come on Troy, back me up here." Celina glanced to her left, over at Troy.

"Actually I'm with Ella on this one." Gabriella noticed the name slip up and so did Celina because she walked over to Troy so she was standing in front, Towering over him.

"What did you call her?" Troy nervously scratched at the nape of his neck.

"Umm…errr…Dr. Montez?" Troy stammered unconvincingly.

"No you didn't you called her Ella." Troy sat there he didn't know what to say and neither did Gabriella. She sat there watching the two argue. She glanced down for a second and when she looked up she saw Troy clutching his cheek and Celina storming off in a huff. More tears escaped Gabriella's eyes as she realized she had been the cause of their argument. Gabriella sat silently sobbing until she felt an arm snake around her waist pulling her into his chest. Gabriella looked up at him, her vision of Troy's perfect face and eyes blurred.

"Sorry." She whispered. He wiped away her tears whilst softly replying

"It's okay, it's not your fault." She buried her head into his chest as he slowly ran his hands up and down her back in a comforting manner. She pulled back and looked at the hoodie only just noticing.

"I remember this hoodie." She quietly stated. "Is it still there?"

"Why don't you take a look?" He leant forward so she could get a better view of his back. A giant head of a wildcat was situated in the center and just above that was Troy's name . And under the wildcat image written is neat cursive water proof sharpie black marker was: I Love you Wild Cat: Always and Forever. Gabriella looked up at Troy giving him a watery smile. Troy shifted uncomfortably.

"I should probably go and find Celina." Gabriella's smile fell from her face.

"Wait Troy, stay a little bit longer. We need to discuss this." But deep down she wanted him to stay for comfort, he knew it and she knew it. And as much as he was aware of this he shook his head.

"Sorry. I've got to go." Her jaw dropped open. He was walking towards the door when Gabriella said to her self

"Screw you Bolton." And she knew full well he had heard.

Celina sat on her bed in her parent's house refusing to turn and face Troy who had known exactly where to find her. It was know 8:30 pm Saturday evening and Troy had left a message on the machine for Grace saying that he and Celina were out to dinner and wouldn't back until late.

"Come on Lina, it's just a name." She shook her head.

"No it's not just a name Troy…It's a pet name…" Troy grabbed her by the arms and pulled her into his lap patting her hair.

"Baby, I love you nothing will change that. I married you didn't I?" She nodded her head.

"I suppose." She smiled and leaned up and placed a kiss on his lips.

Grace and Amy were up in Graces room, magazines spread out on her bed, nail varnish out and music blaring unable to hear a thing, not even each other.

Gabriella sat on her bed Indian style, starring at the phone in her hand. It was like it was taunting her. Rubbing I the fact that both of the residents of that house were most likely mad at her but Gabriella, being Gabriella felt to guilty not to call. She quickly keyed in the digits she had found in the phone book not to long ago.

'Hi you've reached Troy, Celina and Grace Bolton please leave a message after the beep.' Gabriella took a deep breath, waiting for that beep.

Grace leant over Amy's wet feet and shut of the music that was blaring.

"I'm hungry let's go downstairs see what we've got." They ran downs and into the kitchen. "We've got 20 bucks…Fancy a pizza? On me." Amy laughed and went over to the phone.

"You also have one new message."

"Hit play then." The girls sat on the sofa waiting for the message to start playing. They heard a high pitch beep then a deep breath.

'Uhh…Hi Troy and Celina…look I just called to say I'm sorry. I know you're just looking out for Grace but I think I deserve the chance to at least meet her properly, maybe spend a day with he maybe take her shopping, all girls still love that right?… not as mother and daughter but as you know friends…I mean she's not that fond of me already but I'm willing to work at it. Look Troy has my number but incase he lost it or deleted it it's 0494-821-501. So umm I dunno call me? Bye.' The high pitched beep went of again. Amy looked over at Grace; she looked like she'd just seen a ghost. Amy picked up the phone and dialed the digits the woman on the machine had said.

"Amy what are you doing?" Amy looked up from the black, hand held phone.

"Dialing that number of course." Amy laughed at her friends expression.

"Why on earth would you do that?" Amy rolled her eyes before explaining.

"She didn't say her name…You don't know that name of your mother…So lets find out." She said as she pressed 'talk' on the phone. After 4 rings someone picked up Amy immediately put it on speaker phone.

'Hello Gabriella Montez?' Graces eyes went wide. Her mother was Gabriella Montez?

The woman who had kissed her father? The woman who had been sharing secret phone calls to her father? The woman who she thought was trying to steal her father?

Uh-oh, her parents have a lot of explaining to do.

A/N- Sorry about the LONG delay. I have many reasons but i wont bore you with them all. I had exams so i was studying! Funzies! Okay so they have a new GREEN view button Go on click it you know you wanna see what else is different!