Pregnant By A Bully - Chapter 14 - Home Schooled (18th April)

Gabriella's POV

It's been a month since the Troy and Sharpay incident and since then things have been strained between us but we have been grown up about the situation and we have been trying to work things out much to my mother's dismay. I know she doesn't like Troy and would prefer it if me and Troy stopped having contact with each other and I moved on and found someone else but tough I don't want to make myself lonely just to make her happy. Surely I don't need all of this pressure at 7 months pregnant.

Even though Troy and I still wasn't a couple yet he still came around to mine and came to the doctors appointments still and even brought things for my house for the baby that he knew I wanted but couldn't afford. He knew I was sick of always asking my mom and George to help me pay for things so he had helped me out a great deal. My mom was getting irritated at how much time we have been spending together even though we wasn't a couple but as I had explained to her many times Troy had been great to me and had helped me out with baby things and he was there just when I needed to talk. I asked her yesterday if she would have preferred it if Troy had walked up and left me high, dry and pregnant and asked her if she would have preferred it if I was a single teen mother… another statistic but she just walked away without answering me so I knew I made my point.

I reached the steps of the school I saw Troy sitting there doing some homework so I sat down next to him "Need any help?" I asked him looking over at his maths homework and saw that he had three of the five answers wrong.

"If you don't mind. I'm really struggling with this" He told me.

Until we had to go to homeroom I tried to explain what he had to do the best way possible and I also told him that three of the answers he had given were wrong and to look over them again now that I had explained it to him and see if he got a different answer which he did.

"See you just need someone to explain it better. I know Mr Shields likes to make things difficult. Look if you ever need help with any of it then all you need to do is ask" I told him and he smiled at me before closing his books.

I got home from school I couldn't believe how good of a day I had considering it's been terrible since the day I started. Everything was starting to look up for me at school so you can imagine my shock when my mom wanted to talk to me about home school.

"Gabriella you don't need all this extra stress that you've been getting from school and all of the bullying and everything else so I have decided that you are going to be home schooled for the rest of your school year. You will not argue with me about this I have made my mind up and I called the principle already and you're tutor starts tomorrow" She explained.

"Mom I graduate in a few weeks what's the point? Do you know what… screw the tutor I don't need a tutor I'll be fine I'll just E-Mail my teachers or whatever but I'm not being officially home schooled no way! I know you have my best intentions at heart but I'm not being put down as a home schooled student. I knew I was going to have to stop going to school soon as I'm getting bigger and my due date is getting closer but I'm in shock" I told her.

For the rest of the night we spoke about everything properly for the first time and we both now understood each other. She knew how I felt about Troy and said he would give him a chance as he has been better then she thought he would be and I understood finally what it was that she was thinking. I felt like we had really connected tonight and we were going to be fine now and we could move on and both start enjoying the time we're having in our lives right now.

Around half 8 that night the front door knocked so George got up and answered it coming back moments later with Troy. I got up off my chair and we went up to my bedroom so we could talk properly. I wanted to tell Troy that I wanted us to get back together and sort everything out if he still wanted me.

"I'm actually quite glad you came round I wanted to talk to you about something" I told him as we sat on my bed "I've been thinking about us and my feelings for you and I'm ready to get back into a relationship with you… if you'll still have me that is. If you've changed your mind then fine we can forget this conversation and we can go back to just being friends. I don't want you to feel like you have to say yes and stay here if you don't want to" I explained to him.

"Of course I want to be back with you!" He exclaimed and we hugged and kissed "I can't wait to go back to school and hold your hand so everyone knows that we're a family and nothing can break us" He said and I had to break the news that I wasn't going to East High anymore.

"Troy I'm not going to be going back to East High. When I got home from school today my mum explained that she was going to get me home schooled as I was getting closer to giving birth and because of all the bullies and stuff. She thought I couldn't handle everything. She's got me a tutor and everything but I told her I didn't need one and I would be fine" I explained to him and he looked sad "Don't be sad you can still come and visit everyday" I told him.

"So you're never coming back to East High?" He asked.

"No today was my last day and I didn't even know it. I'm sorry Troy" I told him and he just shrugged his shoulders "Why don't we go out for ice cream or something? We can ask Taylor, Kelsi, Zeke and Jason to come" I suggested.

I was sitting in the ice cream parlour at a table with the girls as the guys went up to buy my ice cream and just as they were walking back with our orders the door opened and in came Chad with a couple of the other basketball guys. The guys went over to greet them but they ignored us. Troy brought Chad over to the table and Chad said hello to Kelsi and only her which I knew bothered Troy then Chad started walking out and Troy followed. I got up to go after them but Zeke told me to stay so they could sort it out amongst themselves.

Troy's POV

I followed Chad outside "Chad wait a minute!" I shouted out he stopped in his tracks "Why are you acting like this? Gabriella is my girlfriend who I love and she is carrying my baby and my best friend won't even say hello to her? What the hell is your problem?" I asked him angrily.

It angered me that Gabriella would smile at him at school or say hello and he would ignore her. He throws her dirty looks and it pissed me off that he couldn't even be civil to her.

"You wanna know what my problem is? I've lost my best friend to a girl you used to hate! You bullied her as bad as the rest of us did and what because you slept with her and made her pregnant I'm supposed to stop hating her and become her best friend? You don't even come and hang out anymore with just the boys you always gotta bring her with you. Why can't you ever just hang with the boys and be the Troy you used to be, my best friend Troy not this machine she has turned you into. You're at her place after school, you hang out with her in school, if you go out she's gotta come with you. I want my buddy back and I hate her even more then I used to hate her because now she's took you and I've lost you. We were like brothers and now I'm lucky to talk to you for half an hour on your own" He stated.

"I'm sorry I can't come and hang out after school but I have things that I need to take care of now. I'm going to be a dad and I'm trying to finish school and get into a good college so me and my family can have a better life. I'm trying to do the right thing here but it seems no matter what I do someone is going to get upset by what I do. You're pissed off I hang out with Gabriella and she gets pissed when I hang out with you because you bad mouth her all the time! I'm trying to make everyone happy and it would be so much easier on me if you two could sit in the same building for ten minutes and be civil towards each other. What if I marry her? I would want no one else to be my best man but you. I wanted you to be my child's Godfather and I wanted to do so much but I can't because the two of you hate each other" I explained to him.

By this point we had sort of squared up to each other a bit and I know it must look like we're about to fight each other but I could never hit him and I knew he would never hit me "I won't be at your wedding and I won't be Godfather to your child because I hate her and I don't want anything to do with her" He told me.

"Troy is everything OK?" Gabriella's voice asked.

"See what I mean?" Chad asked angrily and stormed off.

I called him multiple times but he didn't listen he just carried on walking.

"For God sake Gabriella can't I have a conversation without you breathing down my neck?" I shouted at her and seen her look shocked at me.

"I'm gonna go home. I'll get Taylor to drive me" She said and walked back into the ice cream parlour.

I didn't mean to shout at her like that I was just irritated that her and Chad couldn't get along. There doesn't seem to be a reason why he hated her he just did and Gabriella had been civil to him for my sake and he could've done it back. He said we were like brothers and if that was true he would stick by me and be my friend when I needed him and when I told him I was in love and I was going to be a dad he could at least pretend to be happy for me. Everything was a mess and I didn't know what to do to fix it.