Disclaimer: I do not own High School Musical or anything associated with it, i do own the characters of Andrew, Evan and Carly.

Recap

"Gabriella…"he began.

"DON'T" I shouted as I dropped Troy's hand and ran upstairs.

End recap

Maria's POV

"You need to go," I told him.

"Not until she talks to me," He said.

"She won't talk to you, Gabriella's stubborn, you left her when she was young, you left her confused, she finds it hard to trust anyone because of you" I told him.

"Er, I'm gonna go check on Gabi?" I heard Troy say.

I nodded and motioned Taylor and Chad to go with him, she'd need them right now.

"Tell her to come down" Andrew told Troy.

"NO" He shot back, he didn't even know who this man was, all he knew was that Gabriella didn't like him there and he'd jumped straight into protective mode.

"Just go Andrew, leave me and my daughter…"I began to say.

"OUR DAUGHTER" He shouted, shocking his other children.

"She may be yours biologically but emotionally my second husband was her dad, he was there, he picked up the pieces when you left, he looked after us when you disappeared, he would still be here if he hadn't died when she was 15" I explained calmly.

"Kev died?" He asked.

I nodded.

"I didn't know, all I knew was that you married him," He continued.

I saw him glancing at the pictures on the walls, the pictures of me, Gabi, Isobel and Kevin.

"He replaced me," he said.

"Not at first, it took her a while to get used to it, she knew him as daddy's friend, she was 7 when she figured out daddy wasn't coming back, she did what kids do, she moved on, and now you show up here, after 12 years, expecting her to play happy families with you and your new family" I said to him.

"She's part of my family…"he started.

"Try telling her that, as far as she's concerned your just the man who left her, the man who didn't think she was good enough, the man who replaced her" I spoke, glancing at his other two children towards the end of my sentence.

He noticed my glance.

"They didn't replace her," He said.

"That's not how I see it, and more importantly, that's not how she feels." I stated.

I noticed Chad standing at the bottom of the stairs and looked at him questioningly.

"Gabi didn't want you alone with him" He explained.

I looked up the stairs to see my daughter staring down at me, her eyes piercing mine; she'd been crying I could tell, Troy and Taylor were standing behind her.

She slowly began to walk towards me, quickening her pace with each step.

I pulled her into a hug as soon as she reached me, she didn't let go when I did so I carried on hugging her.

Gabriella's POV

I didn't want to talk to him, but I had to stay with my mom,along with my sister Isobel, I was all she had left, she needed me, we needed eachother.

"Cookie?" He asked.

"My name is Gabriella," I said harshly, breaking free from my mom's grip and glancing at the kids behind him.

" Ok, well this is Evan, he's 10, and Carly, she's 8" He told me.

"What do you want?" I asked as Troy appeared behind me.

"Well, if it's ok with you, I was hoping we could go out sometime, just the 4 of us" he told me, gesturing to Evan and Carly.

"She goes nowhere alone with you" Troy defended, speaking my thoughts.

"Who are you?" My father asked him.

"He's my boyfriend, Troy," I told him carelessly.

"Boyfriend, aren't you a little too young for a boyfriend?" he asked.

"I'm 17!" I spoke defensively.

"Yes, of course" he sighed.

I felt Troy take my hand in his and realised he still had no idea who this man was, that he knew nothing about him except from the fact that I didn't like him being here, and some other stuff I yelled earlier.

"Troy, Taylor, Chad, this is my biological father, don't make the mistake of saying he's my dad, my dad died 2 years ago" I told them.

I turned to Andrew "You need to go, disappear, your good at that"

I actually enjoyed writing that bit, the actual plan didn't involve Gabi's dad, but I decided to change the plan, the original plan also included dragging out the Troy/Gabi/Sarah thing for a while but changed my mind but don't worry, Sarah will be back, and there will be more trouble.