Troy was in his car riding. He had no clue where he was going. All that he did know was that he couldn't go back to the apartment and see Gabriella.

He thought about going to his parents house, but he couldn't tell his mother. She was so happy about having a grandchild and he couldn't break the bad news to her.

He was about to just park into a parkind lot and just sleep in his car until his cell phone rang. He looked at the caller id and it read: Chad Stud.

"Yo." He answered the phone.

"Hey, what's up man?"

"Nothing, why?"

"Taylor just called me and told me what is going on, and I'm sorry."

"Nah, you have nothing to be sorry for. She's the one that's going to have to raise that baby with a jerk, or on her own."

Chad laughed.

"What's so funny?" Troy asked getting irrirtated.

"Man, did you just hear what you said?" He asked still laughing.

"Yeah."

"Troy, you don't even know if the baby is yours or not. There is still a chance that you might be the father of that baby."

"Says the man who has chancroid? Did you even tell Taylor, yet?"

"Would you stop changing the subject. I called you for a reason and your about to make me change my mind."

"Alright, why did you call me?" He turned off the car engine and sat there in the cold. He was in an abandoned mall parking lot.

"I know that you need your space and time to think. So I was going to offer you a place to stay."

"Nah, man you really don't have to do that."

"Yeah, I kind of do. I owe you for everything that you did for me these past couple of days."

"Are you sure that your famz is okay with this?" He asked a little skeptical about what Chad was saying.

"My momz said she was cool with it. Leesha and Banqueesha said they fine with you staying here for a week or two. Brian and Kadeem said the cool with it as long as you don't touch their stuff. It's my step dad you gotta be worried about. That dumb nigga."

"Yo you betta stop ragging on that man. He is married to your mom and they did have Banoqueesha and Kadeem together."

"Yeah, but he stay cheating on my mom, and she always stay with him. He has seven different baby mamas and they all try to start with my mom."

"You know that you just described what you do to Taylor, right?" Troy asked thinking about it.

There was an ackward silence. When Chad finally spoke he seemed pissed. "I'm nothing like that damn looser, and if you ever say that again imma punch you in your mouth. Now, do you need a place or not?"

"Sorry man, sure."

"Whatever, it's not that much. I can only give you a pull out couch, food, and a pot to piss in."

"That's all I need. If you could just have that ready for me, because I'm crazy tired."

"Don't woirry man I got you."

"Iight peace."

"Lata."

Troy closed his cell phone and sat in the darkness for another minute. He couldn't help, but wonder how Gabriella and the baby were doing. "No!" He thought to himself. "I have to get those two out of my head." He said to himself again. He turned the car back on and he blasted the music. But even the music didn't owork he didn't want to admit it to himself, but no matter what he did Gabriella was and always would be in his heart.

Montez/Bolton Apartment:

"So is that baby still kicking?" Taylor asked while she entered the bedroom where her friend was. She had a tray with fruit salad on it.

"Yeah, I have a little kicker in here." Gabriella said rubbing her stomach. She stopped on the side where the baby was kicking. It felt like a little thud.

Taylor watched as a smile appeared on her friends face. She hadn't seen one of those in a while. "Here" she said placing the tray on the bed where Gabriella was laying.

"So, did you call Chad?" Gabriella asked looking into the bowl. She wasn't really that hungry so she just put the bowl on the night stand.

"Yeah, he said that he wouls call and asked Troy if he needed a place to stay. He was just as concerned as you were."

"Are you sure that Troy is alright?" Gabriella asked. One million and one bad things were running threw her mind. She just had a horrible feeling in her chest that something was worng.

"Everything is fine. Troy is at Chad's house sleeping on his pull out couch as we speak." Taylor said sitting down next to her friend. "You need to calm down, eat, and get some sleep."

"What are you my doctor?" Gabriella asked getting a little annoyed by her firends constant nagging."

"Not, yet. I will be a docotor hopefully in the near future. So I do know that when your pregnant you need to stay healthy and right now your not."

"Look, I'll admit that I am a little stressed, but I feel fine. I'm sure that if I had something to worry about than my body would tell me."

"Fine, I'm finished with arguing with you." Taylor said giving up. "I need to go home anyway. I have an interview with Harvard tomorrow morning, and I con't reschedule. It took me months for me to find a slot."

"Taylor go home and go to sleep. I'll be fine here by myself."

"Are you sure?" Taylor asked a little skeptical to leave. "I mean I can always get somebody off of the debate team to come and check up on you."

"No, I don't really feel comfortable with other people looking at me. They always sit there and stare at me in disgust." She said looking down.

"You made a mostake, and it just so happened to be the best mistake of your life." Taylor said smiling.

"Yeah, but I'm scared." She admitted. "I mean I've been reading all of the books and searching everything on line."

"Your going to be fine with the birth part." Taylor said interrupting her.

"No, it's not that. I'm scared that I might get post pardom depression." Gabriella said honestly.

"I'm sure that your not going to get that. You will love that baby as soon as they lay it down on your chest."

"Yeah, but most teenagers get it, and this baby has caused many problems with my life already. I'm scared that I might not love it for that."

"Don't worry. I know that you will love this baby to death when it comes out of you. Your going to be a great mother, and you shouldn't worry about this stuff. It's not good for the baby."

"Thank you." Gabriella said smiling. " I feel a little better now. If Troy would just talk to me then maybe I would feel a lot better."

"What will happen if the baby isn't Troy's?" Taylor asked nervously.

Gabriella cleared her throat. "The baby is Troy's." She said like she was trying to make herself believe it as well.

"Gabriella I know that you want the baby to be Troy's, but what if it isn't?" Taylor repeated her question.

"No, Taylor you don't understand. The baby is Troy's. It can't be anybody else's because I love Troy and I need him."

"There might be a possiblilty that it isn't Troy's. What are you going to do if it isn't?"

"I don't know. I never imagined the baby being anybody else's but his. I always see us getting married and raising this baby together."

"You know what I think you need to get to bed so I'm going to leave. I'll ask Chad to call every now and then. Be sure that you answer all of the calls or I'm going to call the cops."

"Alright, but I'm going to be fine. I'm not hurt or anything. I'm just pregnant."

"I understand that, but while Troy is clearing his mind I'm in charge of you, and I don't think he'd like it if you got hurt."

"It's not like he would care." Gabriella said very low.

"For the last time he does care." She said. "Now sleep, eat, and try not to worry to much. I'll be back tomorrow around five."

Gabriella nodded her head and waved her friend good bye.

"Bye" Taylor said in a very peppy voice and left.

When Gabriella heard the door close she quickly got out of bed. She went over to the front door to amke sure that it was locked. Then she went over to the phone and made sure that she could here a dial tone.

She quickly took a deep breath and went back to the bedroom. She stared at the bed that Troy and her went used to sleep in together. She couldn't help but miss the way that he smelled. The way that he smiled and the way that he always made her smile.

She got out of her quick day dream and just stood there. It was quiet and she wasn't used to it. It reminded her of when she used to live with her mother. "Well at least I don't have to worry about my mother coming in drunk or high." She said out loud. She stood there somemore and then decided to watch some t.v.

She was half way into watching "Ugly Betty" when there was a knock on the door. "Who could this be?" She asked herself.

She went over to the door and looked through the peep whole. Then there standing knocking on the door was a police officer. She opened the door with a smile and looked at the young officer.

"Hello, I'm officer Wilsonoff." The young brunette officer said holding out his hand.

"I'm Gabriella Montez." She said shaking his hand.

"Can I come in?" He asked with a smile.

"Sure, but if you don't mind my asking what for?"

"Are you related to a Mariah Montez?" He asked entering the apartment.

Gabriella knew exactly where this was going. "Yeah, she's my mother." She said.

"Yesterday, a neighbor went over to Mrs. Montez's house and found a guy dead. I've went to a number of people and they all have said that they have not seen your mother in quite a while."

"I know she's gone." Gabriella said disappointed. She had finally gotten over her mother's dissappearence and this just made her even worse."

"Yes, I'm aware of that. The thing is I'm not sure if she's dead or alive."

"The last time I saw her was about two weeks ago. She was alive then, but now I'm not sure if she is or not."

"Do you have any idea where she might be?" The cop asked taking out a flip notebook and a pen.

"I really don't know."

The Officer looked at Gabriella and put his note book away. "It must be hard." He said looking at her up and down.

"What?"

"Well as I can see you are pregnant aren't you?"

"Yeah, so what are you going to do now? Are you going to judge me because if you are you might as well save it." She siad jumping the gun.

"No, I just understand what you are going threw."

"Yeah, sure. You know what it feels like to be all alone with a baby on the way. You have no idea what I'm going threw, and I'm tired of people pretending that they do." She snapped.

"Yeah, well once I had a one night stand. The girl finds out she's pregnant. Then she realizes that she's not ready to be a mother. She drops the kid off and then leaves."

"Really? Where is the kid now?"

"He's at my moms house while I'm on duty. He's six now, but when she left he was five months."

"Does he ever ask about his mom?"

"Yes, and I don't know what I'm going to tell him when he gets older. I can't just tell him that his mother didn't want him."

"I know how that little guy feels. Sometimes I think my mother didn't want me."

"Well, think about it this way. If your mother really didn't want you than she could have just had an abortion. However she didn't therefore she must have at least wanted you."

"I guess your right, and if I knew where she was I would have told you. All I know is that Antonio is dead and I think that he deserved to die."

"I don't think he deserved to die, and if you ever do get in touch with your mother than tell her that if Antonio started with her than she could still be found not guilty. She could say it was self defense."

"How do you know she killed him?"

"I'm a cop. It's my job." He said with a smile.

Gabriella flashed one of her award winning smiles back at him and then said good bye.

"See you later, Gabriella." He said winking. "And don't worry it'll take some getting used to but you'll be a great parent."

"Thank you."

He tipped his hat and then he left.

When the cop finally left Gabriella couldn't help but notice how he looked somewhat like Troy. "I need to stop thinking about him." She said to herself. But the truth was she could never stop thinking about him. Troy Bolton was and always would be in her heart.

Sorry if there are a lot of spelling mistakes in this chapter, but my spell check is not working for some reason. Hopefully it doesn't throw you out of the story.

Thank You for all of the reviews, and don't worry to all of you that want to know what's going on with the colleges? Or if the baby is a boy or a girl? Or if Mrs. Montea will ever come back? Or if Troy and Gabriella will get back together? I will try to answer some of the questions in the next few chapters.

Again I love all of you guys and love all of the reviews. You guys are the reason I keep this story ging and expect the next chapter to be up by next Saturday since that's the only day that I can really type.