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Part 12

Jazz had spent the last thirty minutes picking out the right outfit for meeting her dad. She also chose to put her hair up in a ponytail so it was out of her face.

Why was she stressing? It was just ice cream. Yeah ice cream with your father, she reminded herself.

"Jasmine Alexandra Montez you are going to make both of us late" her mother scolded from the living room

"coming momma" Jazz yelled taking one last look. "it's now or never" she said as she grabbed her backpack and opened her bedroom door.

Gabriella got to her office right on time even though Jazz had taken extra long to get ready this morning. Gabriella walked to her office as Sarah filled her in on her days schedule.

"then at three this afternoon Mr. Marsh wants to see you" Sarah said snapping Gabriella back to reality.

"I can't at three see if you can move it back and I'll be picking Jazz up from school today" Gabriella had said as she sat at her desk turning on her computer.

"ok anything else?" Sarah asked as she took notes.

"That's all thank you" Gabriella said dismissing Sarah and picking up her Blackberry.

"Taylor call me please" gabriella had tapped out the text and a few minutes later her phone had rang.

"Don't you have class to teach today?" Gabriella asked about her friends quick response.

"Students have the day off, so what's wrong?" Taylor asked

"what I can't say hi to my best friend?" Gabriella said avoiding her friends question.

"gabby" Taylor said worried

"ok I told him, I told Troy about Jazz" Gabriella choked out

"when and how?" Taylor asked trying to sound like she knew nothing of the pre-arranged meeting that her and Chad had helped set up.

"Yesterday Jazz was here at my office and he meet her, she told him her age and he figured it out" Gabriella said on the brink of tears.

"oh Gabs you ok?" Taylor asked

"yeah but I'm nervous because they actually get to meet as father and daughter today after school today" Gabriella said giving Taylor a brief rundown of the days events.

"it won't be that bad" Taylor said trying to reassure her friend.

"but I don't know how it's gonna be after we move to Albuquerque" Gabriella said forgetting she didn't tell her friend about the decision she had made yesterday with Jazz.

"You're moving back?" Taylor squealed in excitement.

"Yeah my boss gave me the choice of staying in LA or running his other firm there" Gabriella said with a smile.

"I'm so happy first Zeke and Shar now you and Jazz" Taylor said briefly putting her hand on the receiver and yelling the news to Chad.

"But Tay I have to go I have to go over a case with a client" Gabriella said thinking about how the rest of her friends would react.

"ok I'll just call you later" Taylor said trying to hear over Chad's excitement.

"ok bye Tay and tell Chad to contain himself" Gabriella joked.

"I will bye Gabs" Taylor said relaying her message to her husband.

"bye Tay" Gabriella said ending the call and placing her phone on the desk in front of her.

Jazz waited after school with Ashley as both their moms were supposed to pick them up.

"I can't believe you're gonna move" ashley said hugging her best friend

"yeah but that's not for a few weeks" Jazz said recalling what her mom had told her last night.

"still it's so far" Ashley said on the brink of tears.

"it will be ok" Jazz said tearing up herself.

"but you get to meet your dad" Ashley said wiping her tears way.

"yeah, I'm just nervous" Jazz said adjusting the straps of her backpack.

"don't be" Ashley said comforting her friend.

"Ashley time to go" Mrs. Landing called her daughter from the parking lot.

"bye Jazz don't be nervous" Ashley said as she hugged her best friend and headed off in the direction of her mother.

Jazz sat alone for a few more minutes before she heard her mother's voice calling her name.

Jazz ran towards her mother and buried her face into her mothers stomach.

"what's wrong jazz?" Gabriella asked her daughter

"do you think he'll like me?" jazz asked as she looked up.

"your dad? He'll love you, why wouldn't he?" Gabriella asked as she lead Jazz to the door to the backseat and wriggled herself from her daughters grip.

"are you sure?" Jazz asked as she climbed into her mothers Camry.

"I'm positive" Gabriella said as she got into the drivers seat.

Troy waited in his car in the parking lot of the ice cream parlor. He didn't want to go in just yet, he wanted to go in with Gabriella and Jazz. He smiled as he saw both of them get out of Gabriella's car.

Troy got out of his car and walked over to the two.

"hey" he said kind of nervous.

"hi Jazz you remember Troy right?" Gabriella said as she pushed the seven year old in front of her.

"hi" Jazz said quietly all of her confidence was gone she was scared.

"we should head inside" Troy suggested as both Jazz and Gabriella followed him.

The trio sat in a booth in silence for a few minutes before Troy spoke first.

"Jazz your mom tells me you're good at sports, what's your favorite?"

"soccer, I love soccer" Jazz said as she smiled slightly

"well basketball is mine, I think it's kinda of obvious since I play professionally" Troy said grinning he had sports in common.

"hey jazz I wanna talk to Troy for a second why don't you go get an ice cream cone" gabriella suggested as she handed jazz five dollars

"ok I'll be back" jazz said as she slowly walked away

"she's shy" Troy noted.

"she's nervous, but I wanted to tell you what we decided" Gabriella said as she looked in the direction jazz walked away. "we're moving" Gabriella said flat out

"you're moving, but what about jazz how does she feel?, how will I get to see her?" Troy asked his dominant father instincts came into effect

"jazz wants to move, and as far as I'm concerned you only get to see her if she wants cause right now your just her father not her dad" Gabriella said getting angry how could he demand time after leaving me? She asked herself.

"what's the difference?" Troy asked

"a dad is there for your whole life, a father is just someone who supplied half the DNA" Gabriella said glaring at Troy

"don't give me that Gabriella you chose not to tell me about her"

"you chose to leave and I had to make the decision that was best for her"

"bullshit, you just didn't want to deal with me" troy said but soon realized it was a mistake when he felt Gabriella's hand collide with his face.

"no I didn't, and as far as jazz is concerned, you will not she her unless she wants to other than that, you can leave us alone" Gabriella said as she stood up and grabbed jazz who was on her way back to the booth.

"momma what happened?" jazz asked as her mother pulled her out of the ice cream parlor.

"nothing your father just made me upset" Gabriella said as they walked across the street to Gabriella's office building.

That night jazz woke up and found her mother's side of the bed empty. She got up and headed to the living to find her mother sobbing on the couch.

"god why do I love him? And why can't I get over him?" she heard her mother cry out.

Jazz was stunned, her mom never cried she was always this strong person and never let her feelings get in the way of her daughters happiness. Jazz felt guilty she had set this all up just because she wanted to meet her father and didn't think about her mom's feelings. She was a horrible daughter, she brought up feelings that her mother had buried long ago. If this was how it was gonna be after every encounter with her father she wanted nothing to do with him. She meet him and now he knew of her, that would have to be ok for the moment until her mother was completely over the man that broke her heart.

So Jazz is blaming herself, is she right? Also I wasn't gonna post when BlueBell140 was gonna post What I've Been Looking For. But I couldn't resist :D