A/N: I'm going to apologize for not mentioning sooner that the fast few chapters and mostly this one is taken out of "Boy Meets World". While I was writing the fast few past ones I kept on meaning to mention that detail but I was trying to type them up and get them up fast before I left. I'm very sorry if you felt like I didn't give correct credit to the show or anything like that b/c that was my intention. Also, you may see other drama that reflects other shows in the future, but not as heavily involved (no one saw it, but the pregnancy scare reflected that of the one on friends before Chandler and Monica's wedding), so if any show is going to be loosely seen it will probably be Friends (those writers are geniuses and hilarious and so is the cast). So once again I apologize for mentioning it and for the fact that a lot of people think that I will follow the same color…. It won't. And I agree- all I needed was the "I see dead people" kid LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

ALSO, this wonderful lil' chappie (which was about 14 pgs in my little notebook, but I have big writing and it was a small notebook) was written on the way up to Pennsylvania for the leadership camp which turned out to be a great experience, especially the after parties in the dorms that was thrown in 242, by some of the overnight boys… 242 throws the best parties EVER LOL! Anyway, I learned so much, met so many new friends, and had experiences that I will never forget…

Disclaimer: I don't own HSM or the past ideas inspired by "Boy meets World"… I luv that show!

So past the babble and to the story!

Family Sticks Together

Blown out of Proportion

"What," was all Gabi was able to get out as she stepped foot into their apartment after a hard first day of classes and work. It was already close to ten at night and all she wanted to do was go to sleep. Unfortunately, to her delight, the apartments drab colored wall were just replaced with a fresh coat of paint of red. In the middle of the main room, Troy turned around to Gabi's arrival and flashed a killer smile, one of achievement and happiness. "Oh wow," Gabi soon spat out it in a more enthusiastic and happy tone as she realized that he actually liked the color, "its red".

"Yeah, Chad and I worked on it all day," he responded as he inched towards Gabi and placed his hands on her hips, pulling her close to his chest.

"It's great," she quietly stated as she laid her head on his chest and gave a slight sigh. All Gabi knew as her lack of happiness was not about the color, but his forgetfulness to include her in the choice.

"No you don't," Troy quickly stated as he pulled Gabi from his chest and looked deep into her eyes, "stop playing with me and give me the truth." He sternly finished, angry at her choice to spare him what she really thought. At this, Gabi pushed his hands off of her shoulders and turned round heading into the bedroom.

"It's just, how could you decide without me?!" she yelled from the bedroom as she changed in her pajamas, just to turn around and find Troy in the doorway.

"It's called a surprise Gabi," he responded as he tried to stay calm.

"Well, I didn't exactly want THAT to be a surprise," she stated back with a slight trace of sadness in her voice as she pointed at the color on the wall, not only did the guys decide to paint the main room the color; they painted all the walls red. With this, she pushed past Troy in the doorway and went to the kitchen pulling a water bottle out of the white fridge.

"Well geez, sorry," he sarcastically said to Gabi as he followed her into the kitchen and took a seat on one of the stools at the bar.

"So that's all you can say," Gabi questioned him as she headed towards the table next to the door and picked up her keys and bag.

"Where are you going?" asked Troy as she headed out the door. Unfortunately for him, his only response was a slam of the door, "Thanks for the wonderful fight…" he sarcastically yelled to the door, "if you can even call it that." He finished muttering it to himself before throwing his head down on the bar with a sigh.

"How could he?" Gabi asked as she sat in Taylor's dorm releasing all her troubles while eating all of Taylor's stored chocolate. Taylor just laid out across her bed listening to Gabi's problem as Gabi continued to eat the chocolate at Taylor's computer desk.

"Well, first," Taylor started as she pulled herself up from the bed and snatched the bag of chocolate away from Gabi's reach, "Stop eating all MY chocolate. And two," she continued as she changed her voice to a sweeter tone, "go talk to him, not me." She finished as she convinced her to talk to Troy instead of storming into her dorm at 10 o'clock at night.

"Geez, no reason to be snappy," responded Gabi as she ate the last piece of chocolate in her hand and got up from the chair, "and also, do you know it's red?" Gabi questioned Taylor as she took a seat next to Taylor on the bed and tried to describe how the apartment looks.

"For the whole place, man that is a horrible dark color," she responded with a look of disgust on her face.

"Yeah tell me about it," she started, "at least the furniture is white." She finished trying to put the problem into perspective, finally.

"See… this isn't stuff you should be telling me… but… him," Taylor told Gabi as she looked right into her eyes and was given a slight nod.

"Fine…" she started with a sigh, "maybe your right." she finished with the roll of her eyes.

"Come on," Taylor whined as she picked herself off of her bed and stood in front of Gabi, "I have an early class." She finished in a high pitch whine as she grabbed hold of Gabi's arms and pulled her up. With this, Gabi got the point and got up from the bed, first grabbing the bag of chocolate off the bed and then running out the dorm door and down the hallway. Taylor ran out the door and chased Gabi all the way down to the front entrance to the dorms. "I'll get you later," she yelled out of the front door of the building at Gabi realizing that she was already to her car. With this, Gabi turned around and blew a kiss before stepping into the car and driving away.

"How could you let me paint it like that?" questioned Troy as he looked down at Chad who was lounged across Troy's couch engrossed in the basketball game that was on, stuffing chips into his mouth. "Earth to Chad," yelled Troy as he hit Chad over the head sending Chad into a coughing fit.

Dude, I'm eating," he responded once his coughs subsided and turned his attention from Troy back to the game.

"Dude, you're here to help, not empty my cupboards," spat Troy angrily as he tried to figure out what to do.

"Just leave her alone, she'll come around," proposed Chad as he sat up and shrugged his shoulders.

"Oh that's a great idea," Troy sarcastically replied as he took a seat next to Chad on the couch, just then there was a knock on the door.

"See, I was right," Chad stated with a smirk across his face, "not such a bad idea after all." Troy rolled his eyes at Chad's cockiness and got up to answer the door.

"Now Gabi, I think…" he trailed off though when he realized that it wasn't Gabi at the door but a man about his height with dark brown hair and emerald green eyes.

"Oh wow, my wife has called me out for acting like a woman, but now I look like one too," the man on the other side said with a sarcastic tone. Troy stood there confused at the sudden stranger's arrival and was hoping he would introduce himself. "Oh, sorry about that, I'm Josh Derling, from next door, my wife, Allie, sent me here to check on you," he stated as he held a hand out for Troy. Troy took it and shook it, trying to rack his brain to where Allie sounds familiar from, but then it hit him, the woman with the baby.

"Oh right, I remember, from yesterday," Troy responded as he stood to the side and welcomed Josh into the apartment. The two men made their way over to the couch in which Chad was still sitting on and all took a seat.

"So you were sent?" asked Chad, at the question, Josh hung his head and gave a defeated nod.

"She is a nosy person," was all Josh stated with a sigh as he leaned back into the couch. "I was watching this game." He said as he pointed towards the television with his pointer finger.

"Stay and 'talk' then," Troy told his while he put quotations around the word talk, "Gabi won't be back for a while.""So what happened," questioned Josh to Troy after a few moments of silence.

"The color," Chad answered before Troy could answer.

"Wait… and you are…" he asked Chad pointing a finger at him.

"Chad," he answered before Troy intervened.

"Chad gave me a brilliant idea to surprise Gabi with painting the apartment," he said while staring at Chad with a face of anger.

"Whoa, don't just blame it on me," Chad said as he tried to defend himself from Troy, "I believe your exact words were 'that's a great idea'."

"Whatever, anyway, she came home and got upset at the color and something about not consulting her," he told Josh as he got up from the couch and went to get three sodas from the fridge. When he came back he handed the other two guys each a soda before resuming his seat on the couch in between Chad and Josh.

"That's rough dude," Josh responded, "I know how you feel, sometimes Allie just goes off the deep end, especially when she was pregnant that was the worse." At the pregnant part, Troy gave a slight chuckle and cringe; thank god he dodged that bullet a few weeks ago.

"So what is the story with you two," Chad jumped into the conversation while switching the spotlight onto Josh.

"What, Allie and I?" Josh asked, with Chad and Troy's nods, he took a deep breath before continuing, "Well, we knew each other since middle school, basically our families were very close and we just got along very well. During high school though, we pulled away a little bit and ended up dating other people and not hanging out as much. So, when we ended up going to the same college we clung to familiarity and held on to the relationship that we had with each other, which was very strained in high school. When we got to college and realized that we fit together really well we just started dating, but unfortunately, half way into sophomore year we broke up. Luckily for us, we were able to stay friends and decided to go to a friend's college party at the beginning of junior year, which was last September, and well… we kinda got wasted and one thing led to the next and before we knew it, it was nine months later and we had Lizzie." As he finished both guys had their mouths opened and in shock. "Oh and then, right after she was born, our parents decided it would be best for us to get married, and we knew that it was best for Lizzie … so… we did."

"So you're a senior," stated Troy as he got over Josh's story.

"Yup, we sure are, one year left, thought it would be fun, but with a kid that's not exactly the case, it just makes things so much more complicated."

"So what are you going to do?" Chad asked out of the blue since they both thought that he turned his attention back to the game that was finishing up.

"Investment banker" Josh stated. "How about you guys?"

"Well, we're both on the basketball team, so we are hoping pro ball, but just in case, both of our fall backs is Recreational Therapist." Troy answered his question as the boys turned their attention back to the game. After a few minutes of silence, Troy started to talk again, "the thing that gets me, is that she didn't even look in the bedroom," he told the other two guys after the final buzz of the NBA game.

"What?" Chad asked as he showed a sign of confusion on his face.

"My problem… with Gabi," Troy pointed out to his clueless friends who didn't catch the bathroom part.

"Talk to her," Josh told Troy as he pulled himself off the couch and realized the time, "holy crap, it's a little after midnight I better get back before she comes to get me." He finished as he waved to the two guys and left for next door.

"It's been two hours, man, I wonder where Gabi is," Troy asks as he starts to clean up.

"I don't know but I'm leaving," Chad stated as he got up and headed to the door, "See ya." He yelled as he closed the door leaving a very lonely Troy in the red apartment. To Troy's happiness he realized that he had a ten o'clock class the next day and that he should get some sleep before it all started, so with this, he finished cleaning up, turned off the television, and headed into the bedroom to get some sleep.

Quietly, Gabi opened the door to her apartment with her keys and tried to make sure she got in without disturbing Troy, since she figured he was probably asleep considering it was twelve thirty in the morning. She made her way to the bathroom first since she was already in her pajamas, but as soon as she turned on the bathroom light tears came to her eyes. She couldn't believe the sight in front of her, all four walls were a light shade of pink and the towels were matching with stripes of white and pink. With this, she quickly finished up getting ready for bed and then made her way to the bedroom, silently waking Troy up.

"Hmmm," Troy responded as Gabi shook him awake.

"Honey, I'm so sorry," Gabi told him as tears rolled down her face. She put her head on his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Oh baby, I just wanted to surprise you, there's no reason to cry," responded Troy as he wiped away Gabi's tears with his finger and rubbed her back.

"I'm sorry, I just saw the bathroom… you didn't have to," she told him while trying to calm down.

"Yeah I didn't, but I did," he responded with a slight chuckle. "By the way, I hate to break this up, but there's class tomorrow…" he trailed off as Gabi nodded her head signaling she understood that he had to get some sleep.

"I love you," she told him as she pulled the sheets up and feel asleep on his chest.

"I do too, babe… I do too," he muttered as he laid a kiss on Gabi's forehead and returned his head back to the pillow, only to be met by a deep sleep.

Sorry if it's confusing or hard to follow I'm running on a night of no sleep and then a night to make up for it (even that doesn't make sense)… all I'm tryin to say is that I am not exactly thinking straight so hopefully there aren't a lot of questions… R&R and THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!