Moving On
Rated: T
Disclaimer: I do NOT own HSM
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Summary: Troy and Gabriella broke up during university. Six years later, Troy gets a new job at a law firm, quickly befriending a man named Jake. When he gets invited to Jake's house for dinner, he meets Jake's pregnant wife, who happens to be his highschool sweetheart.
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Hey everyone.
I am back sooner than expected. Hopefully I will be back to post the next chapter sometime tonight or tomorrow. Special thanks to HSMandChelseaFCfan for helping me sort out my thoughts and expanding to them!
Don't know if many of you watched American Idol last season- well I did and my favourite idol contestant of all-time, ELLIOTT YAMIN- well his CD comes out today and well I downloaded his first two singles, and ironically one is called Movin' On- haha. Title of this fanfic, I was stoked. AND then, some of you probably know, my first story was called Waiting, and his other song is called Wait For You. Geez... too bad I couldn't have used that in there. Luckily I still have the chance with this story, so you will probably see Movin' On somewhere in here- I'm hoping. Hehe. Anyway, buy Elliott's CD! Listening to him singing really makes you wonder how Taylor won. Hehe.
Anyway, Hope everyone likes this chapter.
Hope to be back soon,
Dancer2319
PS.
Thanks for all of your lovely reviews last chapter. They mean a lot and make me so inspired.
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Previously on Moving On:
"Do you really think that it is easy for me to see you with him?" He quietly spoke as she turned around, "Do you really think it is easy for me to see you so happy?"
"I'm sorry that it is hard for you, but I moved on. It was your decision to cut me out of your life, and you broke my heart, so I put the pieces back together and met Jake. I fell in love again, which I never thought would have happened after you. I mean, I am really, really happy Troy, you know that. So don't resent me for repairing the damage you did to me on my own. You should be thanking Jake for taking care of me, and being their for me, when you weren't." Gabriella and Troy stood their staring at each other for a few moments, with tears in Gabi's eyes, and disappointment and regret in Troy's.
"I'm sorry." Troy said, as the door was opening. Gabi turned around to see Jake standing in the doorway.
"Is everything alright out here?" Jake asked.
"Yeah, it's fine." She said, looking back at Troy, and walking back inside the house.
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As Gabriella got ready for bed, she couldn't help but think about her and Troy's earlier conversation. She was having a hard time undoing the zipper on her dress so she went around the house to find Jake. After checking almost every room in their house, she found in the soon to be nursery. She peeked her head in the doorway to find him staring out the window. "Hey," She quietly spoke.
"Hi," he said, not turning around.
"Can you undo my zipper?" She asked, walking towards him. He nodded and unzipped it, taking a long time.
"Thanks." She smiled, spinning around, wrapping her arms around his torso, "Mmm..." She said, breathing in his scent. He followed suit- wrapping his arms around her as well, "What's the matter Jake?"
"Nothing." He whispered.
"Jake, I would like to think I know you a little better than that. You can tell me, what's the matter?"
"You and Troy." He said, feeling her letting out a shaky breath. Jake moved his head so he could rest it on top of her own.
"Don't worry about our past. It's not important." She whispered, pulling him tighter, and closer towards her.
"If it makes you upset, it is important." He said, now speaking in a normal voice. She pulled away, looking into his bright eyes, giving him a reassuring smile.
"I wasn't upset, well I guess I was. I was just taken back to when I was a teenager, being around him. The past was brought up, which was a painful time in my life. But it won't happen again, you have nothing to worry about." She softly spoke, raising her hand to gently caress his face, "Lets go to bed." She said, grabbing his hand, pulling him towards the door.
"No." He said, Gabriella very confused, "Not before you tell me about your past."
"Jake, it's not important right now." She said.
"I need to know. I'm your husband, he's my good friend- just tell me Gabi." He said.
"You want to know? Fine. What do you want to know?"
"Anything that I need to know."
"What do you want me to say? Do you want me to say that I loved him? Fine, alright, I loved him. I loved him for the three years we were together and probably another year after he broke up with me! Do you want me to say that it is weird being around him? Fine, I don't like being around him because of how awkward and forced it is between us when you are around. Sure we seem fine but we try too hard not to make it awkward it is! And now- now he is blaming me! ME! He was the one who shattered my heart and he has the balls to blame me! And then make me feel guilty about moving on and being extremely happy with you!" She said crying.
"Gabi... I'm sorry..." He said, wrapping his arms around her.
"The damage is done Jake. I'm fine." She whispered, wiping away the tears that had fallen down her face.
"No you aren't Gabs. You aren't okay. Tell me what you need."
"Just hold me."
"I can do that." He said, pulling her as close as possible, kissing her forehead as she buried her face in his chest, "I love you," He whispered in her ear.
"Love you too." She whispered back, pulling him as close as possible.
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"I really screwed up, Chad."
"What did you do dude?" Chad asked.
"Listen, first of all, I am sorry for calling so late but you are the only one who will understand."
"No worries Troy. Tell me what happened."
"Basically she wanted to talk to me, and she brought up what happened. And well, I sort of just got really angry and blamed her and told her how it was hard to see her with Jake."
"Man..."
"Yeah, I tried to convince myself that I was fine with them, and I was happy that she was as happy as she is, but... really... I'm not."
"What are you going to do man?"
"I have no idea Chad. I mean I really fucked things up, again."
"Yeah, no offence dude but you really did." He chuckled, "Maybe just apologize to her, actually, just do what you think you should do."
"Yeah, thanks man. I'll call you later."
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Gabriella lied in her bed, with her head on Jake's solid chest. His arm encircled her waist to pull her closer, as the other one was rested on her stomach, so he could feel when the baby kicked. "Gabi?" He whispered, "You awake?"
"Yea." She whispered.
"How did you and Troy's past come up? I mean, how would you even begin to talk about something like that."
"I thought we already talked about this." She softly spoke.
"Not really. How did it come up?" Jake asked, Gabi just remained silent, not sure of what to tell him, "Tell me Gabi."
"I needed to confront him about some things."
"You? You were the one who brought it up?" Jake asked.
"Jake, it's not like that. I felt that before me and Troy could move on as being friends without it being forced, we had to talk about what was both on our minds."
"So, you and Troy's relationship has been on your mind a lot lately?" He accusingly asked, pulling away from her.
"No, Jake, don't do that." She said, removing her head from his chest.
"What do you expect me to say Gabi? That I am happy that you and Troy still aren't mature enough to forget about the past?"
"Jake."
"No Gabi. Explain to me why it was so important. What did you even ask him?"
"Jake... I didn't want it to be such a big deal, because it's not. I just don't think that me and Troy can become friends before we talk about our break up and what happened." She said, feeling tears come to her eyes.
"Gabi! Please tell me you wouldn't be asking me the exact same questions if your new friend was my ex girlfriend, who I loved for probably more than four years and I still hadn't let go of. Even if I was happy with you!"
"Jake.. Let me explain."
"No.." He said, standing up, and walking out of the room, "I'll sleep in the guest room tonight."
"Hunny... don't. Please Jake." She cried.
"Goodnight." He said, leaving the room. Gabriella then sunk back into their big bed alone, tears falling slowly down her face. She laid their for several minutes before getting up and opening the door to go into their guest room. She peaked in the room to see Jake laying their with his eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling.
"I'm sorry." She quietly spoke, with red eyes from crying.
"I know, let's not to this right now." He said, "Just go back to bed Gabi, I'm not in the mood right now."
"Kay." She cried, walking back to her room. Sinking into her king sized bed, she felt very lonely, hugging his pillow for comfort. Breathing in his scent with tears falling slowly onto the pillow, making a small puddle.
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