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Disclaimer: I don't own High School Musical or Cheaper By The Dozen 1 or 2. I don't own Rob Zombie's Halloween (SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't seen it, and plan on seeing it, and do not wish to know what happens, skip over any mention of the movie), which is used in this chapter, although I wish it could be erased from my mind. I don't own Prom Night, which is mentioned. I also don't own Gavin DeGraw. His song, "Follow Through", is used in this chapter.

"Why did I let you get me pregnant?" Jade yelled. "Oh god, that HURTS!"

Gabriella winced. They could hear Jade all the way in the waiting room. Her entire family and about half the guests in the wedding were sitting in the waiting room, making it extremely crowded. Gabriella leaned her head on Troy's chest. She hadn't been able to get a seat, so Troy had offered her his lap.

They heard her painful screams, and then the cries of the baby. It had gone faster than they had all thought.

"I can't believe this," Debbie muttered. "She had to go into labor on my wedding day!"

Gabriella rolled her eyes. "Let it go," Debbie," she said.

"It's not Jade's fault," Josh said.

"Joshie, it's our wedding day!" Debbie wailed.

Josh opened his mouth, but he was interrupted by Blake bursting through the doors. "They're boys!" he said, a smile on his face. "Two sons!"

The entire Montez family stood up and moved to go in, but a doctor stopped them. "Only family is allowed in," the doctor said.

Nathan smiled and shook his head. "This is the family," he said.

Troy gave Gabriella a light kiss. "I'll wait here for you," he said.

Gabriella smiled at him. "Thanks," she said.

Her family walked into the waiting room. Jade was holding one of the babies, and Blake had the other. Both of the infants were wrapped in blue blankets.

"Andrew Nathan and Anthony Marcus," Jade said. She was smiling brightly, even though a few minutes ago she had been screaming in pain. "Gabby would you be Andrew's godmother? And Carrie, would you be Anthony's?"

Gabriella and Carrie looked at each other, and beamed. "Of course!" they said at the same time.

"Josh, would you like to be Andrew's godfather? Blake's brother Devon will be Anthony's."

Josh smiled at Jade. "Of course," he said.

"They're so tiny," Gabriella whispered.

"Do you want to hold him?" Jade asked. Before Gabriella could answer, Jade had laid little Andrew into her arms.

Early the next morning, Troy and Gabriella woke to the sun shining through the curtains. Troy held Gabriella closer to him as she stirred and opened her eyes. He started to sing quietly in her ear, his fingers tracing patterns on her back.

Late last night, they had gone into Troy's guest house once again. It was quickly becoming the place they went to when they wanted to be alone. They had fallen asleep, Troy's arms wrapped around Gabriella.

"Oh, this is the start of something good, don't you agree? I haven't felt like this in so many moons, you know what I mean? And we can build through this destruction, as we are standing on our feet. So, since you wanna be with me, you'll have to follow through, with every word you say. And I, all I really want is you, you to stick around. I'll see you every day. But you have to follow through. You have to follow through."

"That's a nice song," Gabriella muttered. "I didn't know you listened to Gavin DeGraw."

"I am a man of many surprises," Troy said. He leaned down and gave her a kiss. It quickly grew more passionate. All of the sudden, they were interrupted by a knock on the door.

Troy and Gabriella groaned in unison. Taking that as the signal to open the door, Chad came stumbling in.

"Why do you have to do that?" Troy asked in a slightly disgruntled voice.

Chad looked slightly confused. "What do you mean?"

Troy waved his hand between himself and Gabriella. "Every single time, you come in and interrupt us!"

Chad raised an eyebrow. "Interrupt what, exactly?"

Gabriella's cheeks began to heat up. She nudged Troy. "Nothing," she said. "Absolutely nothing."

"He's a big boy, Gabriella," Troy said with a smile. "I think he can handle it."

"Handle what?" Chad asked as he scratched the back of his head. Then, his eyes went wide. "Oh," he said, his cheeks turning pink. Gabriella couldn't help herself—she smirked. She had never seen Chad blush before. "Were you two having… uh… sex?"

That made the smirk slide right off Gabriella's face. She looked down, suddenly overly-embarrassed. She pulled her knees up to her chest and took a deep breath. Troy loved her. He said so.

"Way to go, Chad," she heard Troy say quietly.

"What?" Now Chad sounded like himself. "What did I do?"

Gabriella heard something hit Chad hard. "You don't ask that question, jackass!"

"Jesus, Troy!" Chad exclaimed. "That hurt! And what the hell was I supposed to think?"

"We were making out!"

"How was I supposed to know?"

"You could have—"

"Oh, calm down, Troy," Gabriella finally said. "It's fine."

Troy looked at her, his blue eyes intense. He opened his mouth, then shut. Instead, he wrapped his arm around Gabriella and pulled her close once more. He closed his eyes and buried his face in Gabriella's hair, inhaling deeply. Finally, he opened his eyes and looked up at Chad, who was watching the couple uneasily.

"Sorry, Chad," he said.

Chad looked relieved. "No problem," he said. He sat down on the bed next to them. "I guess I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions."

Gabriella also looked relieved. She didn't need to be the indirect cause of a fight between two best friends. "Well, moving on…"

"Was it really that bad?" Taylor asked.

Gabriella nodded her head and ran a hand through her wet hair. She had just gotten out of the shower when Taylor had showed up at her house, wanting to know how Jade, Blake, and the twins were doing.

"He threw something at him," Gabriella replied. She picked up a sweater off of her bed and pulled it over her head. "I didn't know he would get that mad. I don't think Chad had intentionally meant to make Troy angry."

"Well, what do you think made him so angry?" Taylor said.

Gabriella smiled despite herself. She had thought that Taylor might be mad at her—after all, her boyfriend had nearly gotten into a fight with Taylor's boyfriend. But she hadn't seemed to get upset at all. In fact, she had seemed rather diplomatic about it.

Just as Gabriella was about to speak, there was a knock on the door. The girls went down the stairs and into the foyer, where Gabriella answered the door.

When she opened the door, Troy and Chad were standing in front of them, a handful of movies and a bowl of already-made popcorn in hand.

Gabriella raised an eyebrow as she leaned over to give Troy a kiss. "Not that I'm not happy to see you," she said as she pulled away, "but what are you two doing here?"

"We just wanted to spend some time with our girlfriends," Troy said.

"Is that so hard to believe?" Chad finished. Gabriella smiled. She was glad that the previous spat earlier that day had not affected their friendship much.

"Yes," Taylor said.

"That's hurts, baby," Chad said.

Taylor rolled her eyes but held her hand out. Chad placed his hand in hers, giving her a warm smile as she led him into the house. Troy and Gabriella exchanged a smile. Neither of them had seen those two exchange any sort of intimate moment. It was a nice change.

"What did you two want to watch?" Taylor asked as Troy and Gabriella walked hand-in-hand into the living room.

"We have the ultimate Halloween movie," Chad said.

"But Halloween was two months ago," Gabriella said, clearly confused.

"You've never heard of Halloween in December?" Chad asked.

"Chad, no one has heard of Halloween in December," Troy said.

"So? I can't make things up?"

"Just tell us what the movie is," Taylor said.

"Rob Zombie's re-make of the movie Halloween," Troy said.

"It's great," Chad said. "All of the blood and the gore… and it's the un-rated and the un-cut version."

"I don't know," Gabriella said uneasily. She had never done well with scary movies. The last (and first) scary movie she could actually handle was Prom Night, and even then she had closed her eyes when someone had been killed.

"Don't worry," Troy said as he wrapped an arm around her. "I'll protect you."

Gabriella smiled up at Troy. "Okay," she agreed.

Gabriella Montez was beginning to regret her decision to watch the movie.

Instead of burying her face in Troy's chest, she instead just looked away, at the floor. However, killing scenes always seemed to last at least five minutes, so when she looked back up, a person was still in the process of being brutally murdered.

Taylor and Chad were sitting on the left side of the couch. Chad was leaning forward, clearly engrossed in the movie (though Gabriella had suspected that he was engrossed in the more… graphic parts of it), and Taylor was leaning back, her arms crossed, an indifferent look on her face. She kept on going on and on about how she thought the movie wasn't scary at all.

Troy and Gabriella were sitting on the right side. Troy's arm was still wrapped around Gabriella, and he was just watching the movie. Gabriella looked away from the movie at least twice every five minutes. They were bloody graphic scenes, sexual graphic scenes, and plain disturbing graphic scenes.

All in all, Gabriella had heard most of the movie, not watched it. She looked up to see the last few minutes, watching as the blood sprayed all of the face of the main character, and as she began to yell, scream, and shake. Gabriella shuddered and couldn't stop the immense feeling of relief as the screen went black and the credits popped up.

"That wasn't so bad, was it?" Chad asked, looking over at Gabriella.

"Why do you have to look at me?" Gabriella automatically asked.

"Gabby, you were shaking," Chad replied, a smile forming on his face.

"I was not!" Gabriella said indignantly.

Troy chuckled. "Yeah, you were," he said.

Gabriella playfully pushed Troy in the shoulder. "Whose side are you on?"

Taylor smiled and stood up, stretching her arms overhead before reaching for her purse. "Personally, I didn't think it was scary at all. I have to go home now, anyway. It's getting close to curfew."

Looking at the clock, Gabriella saw it was eleven o'clock at night. She nodded her head and walked Taylor and Chad towards the door. They said good night and Gabriella quickly shut the door behind them, not wanting to take a look into the dark night.

"Are you scared?" Troy whispered in her ear.

Gabriella jumped and let out a small yelp. Troy was standing behind her, his mouth at her ear. She turned around and playfully pushed him again.

"That's not funny!" Gabriella exclaimed as Troy laughed. "You scared the shit out of me!"

"I'm sorry," Troy said as he pulled her close. He gave her a soft kiss and pulled back. "I just couldn't resist."

"You might have to stay with me tonight," Gabriella said. "I don't think I'll be able to sleep."

"But your parents…" Troy said gently.

"Aren't here," Gabriella finished. "They're at some convention thing. And thankfully, my entire family is out doing something tonight and is most likely spending the night at their friend's houses."

Troy stayed silent for a few moments, making it clear that he was thinking about her proposition. "Alright," he finally said. "I'll stay."

Gabriella had to do her best to suppress a smile. Normally, she wouldn't care if Troy saw, but he seemed to be unsure about whether or not he should stay. Gabriella bit her lip, took his hand, and pulled him upstairs with her.

Once she was settled in his arms in her room, she toyed with the ends of her hair, trying to decide if she should ask him about the way he was acting. Finally she took a deep breath.

"What's wrong?" Troy and Gabriella asked at the same time. They both laughed.

"You go first," Troy said.

Gabriella nodded her head. "What's wrong, Troy?" He raised an eyebrow, and Gabriella smiled. "What I mean is, why are you acting this way?"

"What way?" Troy asked, clearly trying to feign innocence.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." What Troy didn't say anything, Gabriella took another deep breath. It looked like she was going to have to be the one to say it out loud. "Troy, you don't even want to be in the same room as me. We're just sleeping. Nothing else is going on."

Troy didn't respond. After staying silent for a few moments, Gabriella shook her head. She wanted him to feel like he could talk to her about anything—if he couldn't tell her what was bothering him, she didn't know where that left them.

Suddenly, it hit her. "Does it have something to do with what Chad said this morning?"

Troy looked at her, and then glanced away. "Yes," he finally said in a quiet voice.

Gabriella's face softened. She was finally getting through to him. She put her hand on his arm. "Why?" she asked gently.

Troy took a deep breath, and, despite herself, Gabriella smiled. Their positions had been switched. He ran a hand through his hair and tightened his other arm around Gabriella.

"I didn't want you to feel pressure," he finally said.

Gabriella smiled. "Troy, you don't ever make me feel pressured." She reached up and put her hand on his cheek. "Don't worry about what Chad and his big mouth say."

Troy sighed before he smiled back down at her. "I guess you're right."

Gabriella raised an eyebrow at him. "You guess?"

He chuckled. "Well, I'm just stroking your ego, aren't I?" Gabriella laughed, and Troy pulled her closer. "Besides, it's not like Chad is getting any, anyway."

Updated Author's Note: I changed this chapter up a little bit. I didn't really like how it was before... I hope you all enjoyed the new version of this chapter!