Here it is guys, chapter fourteen, the end. It's sad that it's finally coming to an end, I've had a great time writing it, but all good things come to an end. Thank you all so, so much for all the reviews, I love them all, hopefully your reviews will amaze just one more time. Anyway, the final chapter, enjoy!
Oh, by the way, I'm from the UK so I have no idea how senior year actually works, this is simply my take on it, sorry if I'm really wrong! Anyway…
One Year On…The Future
There are two things that all seniors look forward to: prom and graduation, although opinions on graduating are different for everyone.
Some people can't wait to graduate and move on; some don't want to leave behind their High school memories and friends, some prepare themselves for the fact they probably won't even graduate and will be moving into the school library, and some can't quite get over the fact it's time to move on and become college students. This is how are four Wildcats are felling and it's down to Troy, Gabriella and the other adults in their lives to help them get through the last year of their High school career.
So far they'd been doing pretty well, but today things had taken a turn in the wrong direction, and Troy had received a visit from an unexpected visitor.
"Troy?"
Troy looked up from the lesson plan he was doing, to find a very sad looking Bella, alone in his office doorway. "Hey Bella, what are you doing here? Is everything alright?"
"I'm not sure really, is it okay to talk to you for a minute?"
"'Course it is, I'm not sure how much help I'll be, but I'll try, take a seat." Troy said, as he got up from his desk chair and gestured for Bella to take a seat with him on his office couch.
He wasn't very good at this kind of thing; he always left the girly chats to Gabriella or Lucille. But, Bella had come specifically to him, and so he was going to give her the best answers he could.
TGTGTGTG
'Awws' and chuckles could be heard, as Gabriella chased Ebonnie and Oscar down one of East High's long corridors. This is the first time she hadn't put them in their pushchair or carried them in the school. Last time they'd been there they could walk, but only just, so Gabriella had carried them until she got to the gym, where she was sure the basketball team would keep an eye on them.
She hadn't planned on coming in today, but since Taylor was taking Anna back to hers with Connor, and Troy had called to ask her into the school to pick up Bella and Katie, instead of just wandering down to the bus stop, with the twins, to meet them, that plan had changed.
Gabriella stopped her run when she realised the twins were no longer running away from her because they'd been kidnapped by their favourite Aunt and Uncle.
"Hey Gabs, I thought you were meeting us off the bus like normal?" Katie asked her sister, as Cam pinched Ebonnie from her.
"I was, but Troy called and specifically asked me to come in and get you two, I'm not sure why, but I'm assuming it's nothing to do with you? Which means that narrows it down to something being wrong with Bella."
"What's wrong with Bella?" Alex asked, upon hearing his girlfriend's name.
"I don't know, all Troy said was that I need to pick the girls up from here and not the bus stop, and to meet them in the gym because that's where they were gonna meet anyway. Has she said anything to you guys?"
The three teens shook their heads.
"Well then, I guess we should go find out." Gabriella concluded, as she started her way to the gym with the others in tow.
TGTGTGTG
"You have been spending way too much time with Alex." Troy commented, as Bella shot another perfect three point basket.
"Yeah well, I live with him, and he lives with your Dad, who used to coach basketball, I've picked up a few things."
"Yeah my Dad always used to push me hard, but look where that got me, so it's not all bad. Just don't let him push Alex to hard, this is your senior year, he needs grades not just a great basketball skill to graduate." Troy said, as he picked up a ball and shot a basket himself.
"Yeah you're right, and I think Jack knows that too, he only works with Alex when he wants to, he doesn't push him. He says it's easier than when you and Gabs were seniors because he isn't living with two one year olds."
"No, but he is living with three eighteen year olds, I'm not sure what's worse, considering he acts like a teenager most of the time, I wouldn't wanna be my Mum when you guys are all in the same room."
Bella laughed. "Lucille's good though, she can handle us all now, she just tells Jack off and he sulks for the next half hour, it's highly entertaining."
"Yeah, I can imagine."
The two continued to shoot hoops, as Troy waited for the basketball team and Bella waited for Katie to turn up, Troy had called Gabriella while she was in the bathroom, so she didn't know she was coming.
Suddenly the gym doors flung open and there stood two, laughing toddlers.
"Go on then! Get him!" Gabriella said, before Ebonnie and Oscar took off running in Troy's direction.
Troy bent down to catch the twins with open arms, and picked them up and spun them around once they reached him.
"Hey guys, how are you?"
"Balls!" Oscar exclaimed when he saw some of the basketball team come out of the locker room with basketballs in their arms.
Oscar and Ebonnie started to wiggle in Troy's arms, until he put them down and allowed them to run over and play with the boys.
"Thanks guys, I love you too!" Troy laughed, as Gabriella approached him. "I love you too though."
"Good, I'm glad, seeing as you dragged me all the way here without telling me why, what's going on?" Gabriella asked, as she wrapped her arms around Troy's waist, they didn't mind showing their affections to each other in front of the team, they'd seen it all before.
"I can't tell you here." Troy replied, as he linked his hands with Gabriella's making them drop to their sides. Troy then looked round the gym until he found the two people he was looking for running out of the changing rooms. "Alex, Cam, you're in charge, you don't need to start practise, not everyone is here yet anyway, just make sure nobody does anything stupid, I'm just gonna take Gabi to my office to talk to her for a bit, we won't be long."
"Okay, just make sure you two behave in there, I don't want anymore nieces and nephews, not any time soon anyway!"
Gabriella stuck her tongue out at Alex, as Troy turned round and shot Bella a reassuring smile, letting her know that everything was going to be okay.
TGTGTGTG
Gabriella left Katie's bedroom and quietly closed the door behind her. Troy had explained to her that Bella was worried about prom night and graduation because neither one of her parents would be there to see her. He explained to her how Bella had cried her eyes out in his arms, and while he did his best to console her, he knew the best person for that would always be her.
Gabriella has taken Katie and Bella home, along with the twins, and while the twins went down for their afternoon nap, Gabriella sat down with Katie and Bella and had a proper girly chat. Bella had once again broken down, and as the tears came to an end, it was clear that Bella had been losing a lot of sleep over this.
So, Gabriella and Katie had managed to convince her to have a quick lay down in Katie's bedroom, and neither of them were surprised when she was out as soon as her head hit the pillow.
"What are you two doing?" Gabriella asked, as she came back down stairs to find Katie had brought the twins back down with her, and they were now running round the living room, their arms stretched out to their sides.
"Pwanes Momma!" Ebonnie told her Mum, as she continued to run round with her brother.
"If they fall over and hurt themselves, you can look after them." Gabriella told her sister, as she took a seat next to her on the couch.
"What if they want you?"
"Then I'll look after them, but you'll get the blame."
"Fair enough." Katie replied. "How are we gonna tell Alex about Bella? He already knows something's not right, the fact that she's now asleep is just gonna make him ask more questions."
"Yeah I know, but Troy's gonna talk to him at the end of practise, Bella asked him to, she said she couldn't tell him to his face, she didn't want it to seem that she was being selfish, 'cause her parents are at least still alive, when Mum and Dad aren't."
"They've had this conversation so many times before, we all have. She knows we treat Jack and Lucille as our Mum and Dad, of course I still think about our birth parents, but as far as I'm concerned Jack and Lucille are our parents now."
"Yeah I know, and I think that too, you and Al have fewer memories of Mum and Dad than what I do, and I think Bella just thinks that her being upset about her parents not being around will remind Alex, that Mum and Dad won't be around to see him, or you both even, do those things as well."
"I think about things like that Gabs, of course I do, but I know that I'm always gonna have Jack and Lucille, and you and Troy to be there for me, and that's all I need." Katie said, as she shuffled along the couch and gave her sister a hug. They stayed that way until they heard cars outside.
"Let the fun begin!" Gabriella said, as the door opened and the boys walked in.
TGTGTGTG
They both looked absolutely amazing. They were all tired and this was the third shop they'd been in, but now they were here, both girls had found a dress they liked, and both dresses suited the girls perfectly.
The only thing that made Gabriella laugh and not cry at the sight of the girls was the fact that Cam was going to have to wear a bright pink tie!
Today was prom shopping day, and after dropping off all small children at Jack and Lucille's Troy, Chad, Taylor and Gabriella had taken the four teenagers out to buy dresses and suits for prom.
Troy and Chad had been instructed to buy suits along the lines of the ones they wore for prom and were told that the colour of the boys' ties would be texted to them when the dresses had been chosen.
Gabriella and Taylor had taken the girls to dress shops they had looked in for their own prom dresses, and funnily enough the shop they were currently stood in was the very one where the girls had brought their dresses in, those many years ago.
Bella's dress was floor length and a beautiful purple in colour. The ribbon around the waist separated the bottom from the top which was covered in sparkling sequins, some shaped into flowers. The dress was strapless and was done up with ribbons at the back, much like a corset would be.
The dress simply suited Bella; it was exactly what she'd been looking for and exactly what the others had imagined her to want.
"Bells, you look absolutely amazing!" Katie said, as she turned to look at her friend for the first time since coming out of her changing room.
"Thanks, but so do you."
Katie's dress was also floor length but was a bright pink in colour. The skirt part was bunched up into frills and had bunches of sequins were hidden in these frills. The dress was strapless with a beautiful sequin design across the chest, it would, like Bella's be done up at the back with ribbons, although not all of Katie's ribbon was done up, leaving it to be tied in a small bow.
"Okay girls." Gabriella spoke up, as she took her phone out of her bag. "Are these the ones? Are these the colours of the ties I should be telling the boys to buy?"
"Definitely." Bella answered, as she smiled at Taylor, who was already taking pictures of them.
"Katie? Is Cam going to have to wear a pink tie for prom?"
"Yep." She simply stated, as she and Bella wrapped their arms around each other for Taylor to take one more picture, before they changed out of the dresses and made them their own.
Al needs a deep purple tie and Cam needs a pink one! Gx
Gabriella quickly snapped a picture of the bottom of each dress, not giving too much away, but so the boys would still have something to go by and sent the message to Troy.
It suddenly seemed like the end of senior year was coming along way to fast.
TGTGTGTG
The boys' mouths dropped open as Gabriella and Taylor helped Katie and Bella to make their way downstairs.
The boys had been sent to Jack and Lucille's while the girls stayed at Troy and Gabriella's and made Katie and Bella look beautiful.
They had curled their hair and put it in a half up half down style, something easy the girls would be able to take down at the end of the night.
"Girls, you look amazing!" Troy was the first to break the silence that had filled the room since the girls had been revealed.
"I agree son, and as honorary father for the evening I more than definitely approve." Jack said, as he gave both girls a hug.
"You look like princesses!" Anna exclaimed, as she ran her hands over the dresses. "They even fee like princess dresses."
"You can be a princess as well one day; you can even be one today if you put your dress up outfit on."
"Great idea Bella." Anna was about to run off when Alex caught her.
"Not so fast banana, you need to be in the pictures with us, go stand with the girls and let them hold you between them."
Anna did as she was told and soon their eyes were dazzled by the amount of pictures Lucille, Gabriella and Taylor were taking.
"That's enough ladies, the limo's here."
"Are you serious?" Katie asked, as looked at the stretch limo outside the house.
"Couldn't be more serious, here's something else we're serious about, these," Jack said, as he handed some keys to Alex, "are my house keys, I know you haven't got yours so take mine, but don't loose them."
Alex took the keys. "I don't get it; I thought you were going to be there?"
"Lucille and I are staying here tonight; we are trusting the four of you to act responsibly in whatever you do while you're there. No one else will go back to the house, just the four of you, Cam your parents know and gave us an overnight bag for you this morning. All we are asking is that one of you texts Gabi to tell her you've all arrived home and that you go to bed a decent hour, because one of us will be over at one in the afternoon, not to make you get up, but just to make sure you're all okay, understood?"
"Yeah I think so, thanks Dad." It wasn't often that Alex would call Jack Dad, but when it happened hugs were usually exchanged and the subject was quickly forgotten.
"Okay guys, lets break it up, the limo and your prom are waiting, go!"
"Geez Chad keep your hair on!" Katie said, as she hugged Chad on the way out of the door.
The four teens pilled into the limo and waved out of the windows as they drove off down the street, one thing was for sure, this would be a night they'd never forget.
TGTGTGTG
She wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry, but either way she knew she needed to pull herself together because she was the member of staff that this year's seniors had picked to give a speech at their graduation.
She took a deep breath, as her named was called and she made her way up onto the stage.
The seniors clapped and cheered, somewhere in their high school career, Mrs Bolton had played a big part, which is why she was stood in front of them today.
"Alright guys settle down, you know I'm rubbish when it comes to speaking in front of crowds, the longer you clap the longer I have to get nervous, so shush!"
The seniors all laughed but soon settled down.
"This is it guys, you're done with high school, it's time to move on, grow up and become part of the real world, not just the East High one. I could stand up here and tell you so much about what you should and shouldn't do when you leave here for the last time today, but I'm not going to, you know as well as I do, I hate lectures, so you're gonna have to find some other adult to give you this one!"
The seniors once again cheered, but soon quietened down, knowing Gabriella was nervous.
"I hate to admit this guys but I am actually gonna miss you guys, you've been the year group that has got to know me the most because you have to put up with four very special people, who I have to embarrass. When I graduated Katie and Alex were one and didn't sit still long enough to see me collect my diploma, they were more interested in chasing a butterfly round the field. What I'm saying is I remember sitting where you are today, listening to Troy give us all one final pep talk, Katie and Alex came and sat still for that! It's not gonna be easy guys, but you all know that anyway, you don't need me to tell you that, that's you parents job. But like I was saying, I really am gonna miss you lot, unfortunately the four of you who I really wanted to get rid of aren't going anywhere 'cause they're all going to U of A, so the peace I was hoping for is never gonna come! Guys if you take one thing away from today, then let it be this, we'll always have each other!"
The seniors cheered, as Gabriella left the stage and walk into Troy's arms, the realisation that her baby brother and sister were graduating from high school today, finally setting in.
The four seniors soon walked over after throwing their caps and a group hug quickly commenced, as the tears started to flow.
"Here's the thing guys." Troy said, as the guys all held their other half's close. "We always will have each other, not matter where we are, or what we're doing, our family will always be waiting with open arms."
TGTGTGTG
There it is, the last chapter of We'll Always Have Each Other, I'm pretty happy with it, so I hope you are too!
I'm sad it's come to an end, but I've really enjoyed writing it and the reviews I've had, have always been amazing, so thank you!
Hopefully, if I get it right, their will be links to the dresses that Bella and Katie wore to prom on my profile!
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