I'm sorry this is late but I had writer's block and started another story but I asked people for ideas and I want to thank Bluebell140 for the idea for this chapter. I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 11

Comfort

"Gabby!" Aiden started jumping on her bed to wake her up.

Gabriella groaned, "Aiden, go back to bed. It's Saturday."

"But someone is here for you," she opened her eyes to look at him confused. "She said her name was Maria Montez or now Maria Lopez?"

Gabriella woke up immediately. Why was she here? Did she want to talk about what happened at the dinner a few weeks back? Everything was all so confusing.

"Ok, thank you." Aiden nodded before jumping off the bed about to leave the room, "Oh and Aiden, don't mention that she's here to Troy and stay upstairs."

Aiden then again nodded before walking out of the room. Ever since the winter formal, Troy and Gabriella were getting back the way things were before he was popular. He was starting to gain respect from everyone again include the gang. Mark has stayed away from them knowing that he hasn't been forgiven yet and probably will not be. Gabriella doesn't want Troy to know that Maria is here because he's going to want to be with them since the last time they were together; he wasn't able to help her because they weren't friends but now that they are, he would pounce on the woman.

She sighed before pulling the blanket off of her. She knew she didn't have time to put on regular clothes so she decided to just stay in her pajamas. She then slowly transferred into her chair trying not to make any sounds so Troy wouldn't hear her knowing that he was still sleeping. Gabriella really didn't want him to know but knew he would find out soon but didn't want to be when they were talking because she had a feeling this wasn't going to be good.

Gabriella wheeled out of her room and took a deep breath seeing Troy's door closed before wheeling towards the living room seeing Maria looking around the living room at all of the pictures.

"Maria?"

Maria Mon…Lopez has turned around to see Gabriella, "Hello Gabriella."

"Hi," Gabriella felt the tension between them and knew this wasn't going to end up well, "how are you?"

"I'm not doing so great and you know why," she glared at Gabriella.

Gabriella knew what she was talking about, "I'm terribly sorry to hear about you and Dad divorcing. When Nate told me, I blamed but he told me that I had no reason to but if I did anything wrong that caused it, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to."

"You should feel sorry because it was your entire fault," Maria kept glaring at her as she crossed her arms, "If you haven't come to dinner that night, everything would've been fine. Greg wouldn't want you to be in his life again. You're even taking Anthony and Sasha away from me because they always want to see you and never me. In court, I only won visitation rights for them but whenever I do get to see them, they don't want to or they're busy or they're with you and Nate. All because you came to dinner that night."

Gabriella shook her head knowing that there was more there and she wanted to hear it, she was waiting to hear everything since she was two years old and now was her chance, "Let me get things straight! I didn't want to be at your house. Nate did. He talked me into it. He wanted me to be there and begged me because I was going to dump him. I was sick of him ditching our special days and his promises so I was going to end things but he's the one that asked me to come so don't bring this all out on me."

"Oh so my plan was working, huh?" she smirked.

Gabriella eyes widened and gasped, "It was you. It was you that made him ditch me all the time. But why? It wasn't like you had to see me."

"Because you were already ruining my family," Maria shook her head, "I gave you up to have a perfect family and I was finally getting one and then Nate spilled that he came to see you two years ago and wanted to be in your life. I couldn't take it so I started making sure that he had to do something with us and knew he couldn't say no so there you have it. Anything else you want to know why I'm here?"

Gabriella glared at her mother, "Yeah why are you here?"

"Oh why am I here?" Maria smirked, "I'm here to blame you for my divorce which I've already did, have you figure out about Nate, and oh one last thing make you realize what a mistake I made in having a daughter like you."

"Like you didn't make that any clear at the dinner or the first two years of my life," Gabriella rolled her eyes.

"Yeah well if I knew what the outcome of having a bitch of a daughter like you, I would've aborted you and had no problem with it," Gabriella looked at her shocked as tears started coming to her eyes, "you may think people like you but really you're just a goody-two-shoes handicap who thinks she can get whatever she wants. If Greg and Nate wants to have you in their lives then so be it but I will not have you destroy the lives of my precious Anthony and Sasha if I had anything to do with it."

"Oh yeah and how can you do that when Dad has custody of them, huh?" Gabriella wasn't letting her win even though everything she was saying was having her eyes filled up with tears, "Like you said, they don't want to see you when you're allowed to see them. Back to the Nate thing before about how he wanted me back in his life, he has the right because he was 19 and an adult who doesn't need his bitch of a mother to tell him what to do. Plus there is no such thing as a perfect family, which I remember perfectly clear, that's what Nate told you when I was in the living room. Don't think I wasn't listening at what you were talking about. I heard everything and I know Dad didn't want to give me up and they both tried to tell you what you were saying was all wrong which was."

"You know what," Maria shook her head, "Forget you, forget Greg, forget Nate, forget the whole fucking family. I'm done with all you people especially you fucking disabled handicapped goody-two-shoes bitch. I wish you were never born. I wish I never even knew you existed that I if had a chance to abort you, I would've have needed to because I wouldn't have known you. Goodbye Bitchella which should've been your name in the first place."

Maria fumed out of the room and slammed the door shut. Gabriella was sitting there with tears falling down her cheeks and they weren't going to stop anytime soon. As soon as the door slammed, Aiden ran down the stairs and into the living room to see Gabriella.

"Gabby?"

Gabriella looked at him shaking her head before racing out of the kitchen into her room locking the door and went into the bathroom. She transferred down out of her chair to lean against the bathtub moving her arms to grab her legs to move them close to her as she cried letting all the tears out.

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"Troy," Aiden was trying to waking Troy up by shaking him, "Troy…Troy…TROY!"

Troy jumped up from him screaming his name and hit his head on the headboard. He groaned as he rubbed his head before opening his eyes seeing Aiden looking at him.

"What Aiden?" Troy closed his eyes a little bit, "Can't you see that I was asleep?"

"It's important," Aiden looked at him really worried, "it's about Gabriella."

Troy's eyes opened right away, "What happened?"

"Some woman named Maria Montez, or now is Maria Lopez came to talk to her," Troy's eyes widened, "she told me not to wake you up to tell you and to go upstairs but then I heard yelling, then the door slammed, and I ran down the stairs to see Gabriella crying her eyes out. I wanted to see if she was ok but she shook her head at me and then wheeled away to her room but it's locked."

"Alright buddy, thanks for telling me," Troy started getting up, "by the way, where is Sandy?"

"Remember, she's working all day today," Troy nodded, "Will Gabby be ok?"

"I'll make sure of it, ok?" Aiden nodded, "Now go back upstairs and get some rest while I go try and help her."

Aiden nodded once again as he left Gabriella's room. Troy was beyond worried now. Maria must have said some harsh stuff for Gabriella to lock herself in the room. If the room is locked, did she lock the bathroom? He looked at the bathroom door noticing that it's closed and one of the rules was not to go in the bathroom unless the door was opened but he needed to be with Gabriella.

He put his ear up to the door and heard crying meaning Gabriella was in the bathroom. Troy then reached his hand down to the knob of the door and slowly turned it to find that it was unlocked so he slowly pushed it opened to find a crying Gabriella leaning against the bathtub. His heart broke just then seeing her like she is.

He walked slowly over to her and bent down on his knees and whispered, "Gabs?"

Gabriella looked up a little to see Troy kneeling there, "Troy?"

"Yes sweetie, I'm here," he slowly moved next to her and placed his arm around her shoulders, "What happened?"

Gabriella slowly moved to cuddle up to Troy as she tried to tell him, "S-s-she s-said i-f s-she knew what was going to happen, she would've had an a-a-a…"

"A what Gabs?" Troy looked down to Gabriella.

She looked up so he could see the tears coming down her cheeks, "an abortion."

Troy's eyes widened with anger. How could she say that to her? Gabriella did not deserve that. He looked down again and kissed her head knowing there was more to it than just that.

"What else did she say?"

Gabriella shook her head not wanting to say anything else and just placed her head on Troy's chest wanting to be held. That's all she wanted at this moment. Troy looked down at her once again and saw that, that's all she wanted, he decided he won't push her until she's ready.

"Come on, this isn't good for your back, leaning on a bathtub," he slowly moved Gabriella off of him before standing up, then reaching down picking her up bridal style, opening the door that lead to her room and brought her over to her bed placing her on it, "how's that?"

"Better," Gabriella still had tears falling down her cheeks, "can you lay with me?"

"Of course," Troy smiled before getting as close as he could to her before wrapping his arms around her, "Comfy?"

Gabriella cuddled a little more to Troy as she nodded as the tears started to slow down. Troy stroked her hair and leaned down kissing her forehead.

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Troy and Gabriella were in the backyard watching the boys. Gabriella was still not herself and Troy knew that, that's why he decided it was a good idea to be outside.

Troy looked at Gabriella, "How are you doing?"

"Better than before," she smiled softly, "thank you."

He smiled at her before moving his lawn chair closer to her wheelchair. She smiled softly before placing her head on his shoulder. He placed his arm around her shoulder. They felt right at this moment. They both wish they could stay like this without drama but also not just as friends but, maybe even more.

"Troy, I think you should know what else she said to me," she picked her head off of his shoulder looking at him while they turned their chairs so they are facing each other.

Troy took her hand and looked her in the eyes, "Only if you're ready to tell me. I don't want to force you."

"I want to," Gabriella nodded, "If I have to tell someone, I want you to be the first person to tell because I'm sure Nate is going to want to know about what happened but I don't think things will turn out right. Everything is just happening so fast. First Nate is back in my life, he misses all of our special days, Mark becomes a jerk, you come along and basically do the same, Nate invites me to my parents' house for dinner to find out that my Dad wanted me and not my Mom, then you and me are back to being you and me, and now all of this with my Mom. I mean Maria. It's just all happening so fast and so much. More happened to me in the past three months, than the past two years since Nate came back to my life but I was expecting that this was going to happen one day, I just wasn't expecting it to happen so fast."

"Woh Gabs," Troy chuckled, "That was a mouthful and that wasn't even about today yet."

Gabriella rolled her eyes giggling softly as Troy was trying to make a small joke to enlighten the mood which worked kind of, "I'm serious. I do want to tell you."

"Then tell me, I have all the time you need and the boys are very into the game they are playing," Troy nodded to the boys who were playing soccer, "just go slow and explain to me what you want me to know. There is no rush in it, whatsoever."

Gabriella took a deep breath as she looked at Troy who was still holding her hand but started stroking the back of her hand to give her strength. Gabriella took another breath before slowly telling him everything that happened. Troy was trying hard to keep his anger to himself as she kept going on about what her mother said. One thing he's happy about all of this is that she only has visitation rights of Anthony and Sasha and they don't even want to see her which is kind of funny to him. Troy accidentally let out a chuckle without realizing it.

Gabriella looked at him confused, "What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing, just something came into my head," Troy looked at him, "please continue."

Gabriella still looked at him like he was crazy. She started to keep telling him more of what happened when her mother was there. Troy was listening intently to what she was telling him and he was definitely beyond ready to pound Maria Lopez's face, too bad, he can't. He so wish, he was a guy.

"So that's what happened," Gabriella looked down, "I was a screw up that wasn't meant to live."

"Hey, hey," Troy scooted forward in his chair placing his thumb under her chin lifting her head to look in her eyes, "you are not a screw up. You are the most honest, smart, amazing, and beautiful girl that I've ever met. Don't let your mother get to you like that. She doesn't know who you are. She's just jealous that you had a family that made you the person who you are now who is amazing and will be more than she will ever be. Gabriella Montez, you are not a screw up and never have been. If you were, would I do this?"

Gabriella looked confused at him as there were tears in her eyes from his kindness before she saw him moving closer to her. She sort of lost her breath realizing what was happening. Troy Bolton was going to kiss her. Troy Bolton, the guy she liked for awhile was going to kiss her. She then closed her eyes but right when Troy's lips were going to touch Gabriella's, there was screaming coming from a couple of the boys that split Troy and Gabriella apart.

Gabriella blushed at what almost happened before looking at the boys seeing that there were only three of them, "Where's Aiden?"

Ooh so close of their first kiss! But they got interrupted by the boys screaming. But there are only three boys? Where is Aiden? What did you think of what Maria now? Tell me what you thought of this chapter. Please review!