"Gabby, look is this cute?" Shar said holding up a bright pink maternity shirt up.
"For you." I said trying not to be rude. "Shar you know I hate pink." It's true. It makes me want to throw up. Once it actually did.
Thanks a lot Pepto-Bismol.
"Yeah, your right." She put the shirt back in the rack and sighed," Why can't they have an emo maternity clothes store?"
I shook my head "One, I don't know. And two, I'm not emo. I'm Goth –"we put our heads together and said "On the inside!"
"You are such a dork." Sharpay said with a little laugh but then immediately gasped. "Wait, Purple! Next best thing to black." She handed me the shirt and it was perfect it said 'Rocker Mom!" in the front.
"I'll take it!" we searched for more shirts and then we ended up in a restroom.
For the seventh time.
"Why do pregnant women have to pee a lot?" I heard Shar, who was standing outside my stall, say.
"Gee, I don't know Shar." I said as I was just sitting there - well you know.
"You should know. You are the one pregnant." Thankfully the stalls were tight together allowing me to kick her from under the door. "Owe, what was that for?"
"Oh I think you know why." I said in a pissed of way.
"Sorry." She stated in her little baby voice.
"Okay good girl."
I can picture her smiling huge and forcing her body up straight "Wow you sounded like your mother just now." I kicked her one more time but this time harder. "I'll go wait outside."
"Yeah, you do that." She picked up the bags and walked out leaving me in the restroom alone. Let's fast forward a few seconds to the point that I was washing my hands. I looked myself in the mirror and thought. In a couple months my life was going to change drastically. I was no longer going to be seventeen year old Gabriella Montez. I was going to be seventeen year old Gabriella Montez, the one that recently put a man in jail, helped her worst enemy recently turned best friend find his dad, and recently had a baby. Well two-thousand-ten really took its toll huh?
I reached for the paper towel but my feet lost balance on the wet floor and fell. I groaned in pain as I tried forcing myself up on the sink but failed as I sat back down and instantly grabbed my stomach.
"Gabriella!" I felt familiar arms around me and I faintly heard her voice screaming "Someone call nine-one-one!" before it all went blank.
"Gabriella, you have to wake up?"
"Dad?" I asked looking for him but he was no where to be found.
"Don't worry. I will promise to visit you in your next dream but you have to wake up, if you don't your baby is going to die. WAKE UP!" I turned and turned hearing many voices. Voices arguing, screaming.
"No, you are not touching her!" I heard a male voice scream with ruffling noises in the background.
"Mr. Bolton, leave! We have to do what we have to do or else they both die!"
"No, she is my best friend! There has to be another way! Let go of me you ass wholes! Please! I can't loose her!" A velvet voice announced.
"Neither can I, she's everything to me please!"
"Take them away from here, NOW!"
"Please, if that was your wife sir? The love of you life lying there, what would you do?" there was a pause. "Please, I don't know what I would do without her. She made me who I am today. You have no idea. I'm not loosing both of them. She saved me too many times. Let me save her and the baby. I promised to be there when it is born and help Gabby raise the baby and show it right from wrong. Have a heart and do not press that god damn button!"
"What did I say about language around me Troy Bolton? " I said ever so slightly not opening my eyes one bit.
"Gabby? Let go of me!" I can imagine him shaking the guards of him. "Gabbybear?" I felt his hands run my hair out of my face.
"What did I say?" I asked again waiting for my answer.
I could feel him smile and say "That the baby would hear and come out screaming cuss words like that kid from the forth grade."
"Exactly" I heard a little chuckle from Troy "Where's my mom and my brother?" I asked feeling a little pain.
"He took her to take a shower and eat. She wouldn't leave your sight the whole time." He whispered slightly to me.
"Let's leave them a few moments. We'll be back to check on her in five minutes." I felt the doctors walk out and not long after I heard the door close.
"How long was I out?" I asked finally opening my eyes to find only Troy and Sharpay in the room.
"Four weeks." I can feel the pain in his voice as he said that. I soon felt the pain in my stomach increase badly. I squinted tight yelling a bit and fell towards Troy's chest. "Gabby? Gabby what's wrong?" before I could yell again Troy yelled at Sharpay to call for the doctors. Not long after the doors flew open as doctors and nurses piled in. The doctors started yelling to each other and at nurses telling them to get this and get that.
"Will you step out Mr. Bolton?" I heard my doctor say but Troy would not move "Please Mr. Bolton!"
"No!" I gripped Troy's hand tight screaming once again "Don't leave my side!"
I felt his lips on my forehead as a nurse helped lay me back down. "I'm not going anywhere. I promise."
Everything went like a blur to me. The doctors would be yelling and demanding to the nurses. Nurses doing their job listened. I felt my legs going up and going down my arms going everywhere and my stomach being touched by many, many things and hands.
And Troy, well Troy just sat there looking at the doctors and nurses doing many things to me not once letting my hand go unless necessary. With his touch I can feel and see the physical and emotional pain seeing this first hand is causing him. With every scream I make he squeezes my hand tightly and that oddly made it just less painful for me. As if his touch was my cure, as if he was all I needed to forget that I was in a hospital bed possibly loosing my child as we speak and loosing my life as well.
Everything became very slow and mute. Soon enough my life went black for the second time.
I opened my eyes and found myself at the well known bench "Holy—am I dead?"
"No, of course not, you are asleep, resting."
"Am I alright?" I felt so stupid asking that.
My father chuckled "Yes you are okay."
I sighed and looked down at my stomach and it hit me. I snapped my head to him "And – and my ba—baby? Is my baby alight?"
"The baby is fine. He is fine."
I sighed in relief when a word he said caught my attention. "He? Did you say he? As in boy? Do you know something I don't?"
He closed his eyes as of in regret "I shouldn't have said that. Damn"
I hit him across the chest "Language. I don't want my baby coming out like that—"
He finished my sentence "Like that kid from the fourth grade. Yes I know I've heard."
"Ugh I'm afraid to change and shower knowing that you are watching."
"What you think I'm Greg? Ewe, you're my little girl, Abby." He said looking at me in disgust as I just sighed in relief.
"Hey you never know. There are creeps like that."
"Touché, poor, poor Ashley Benson."
"Ashley Benson? Fifth grade Ashley Benson? Nerdy, quiet Benson?"
His face turned blank as if he regretted ever saying that. "Yeah, her uncle well let's just put it this way she has one baby and is expecting another one."
"Oh my gosh. Poor Ashley, and I thought I had it bad." I looked down feeling sorry for her. She was an awesome friend in grade school until she moved during freshman year. She always seemed so happy but at least now I know why she was quiet.
"Yeah, she has been through a lot. Luckily that creep is locked up for a very long time."
"Thank god." Just thinking about how her kids must be made me think of mine "So you said 'he'. Is my baby a boy?"
He groaned knowing that I wasn't going to give up, but it shouldn't be a surprise to him since I am his daughter. "Yes, it's a boy. God, why did you have to turn out just like me?"
"What can I say? I'm a daddy's girl?" I smiled as he pulled me into a hug. "Now speaking of a daddy who is my baby daddy?"
"Now that I'm not going to tell you." He said with a chuckle. Oh dose he love to mock me.
"Why not? Come on. That's not fair. Just a hint." I begged with my big eyes and pouted my lower lip.
"Awe come on don't give me that." He tried looking away but I knew he couldn't resist. I tried this on him as a little girl and every single time it worked. "Ugh, fine he is someone very, very close to you."
"Okay that can be only like 3 people."
"Well you will have to choose from those 3 people. And choose wisely." He kissed my forehead. "Now wake up."
"Okay." I wined as I kissed his cheek.
"Hey, you. You gave us a scare there." Ryan Evens said looking at me.
"Hey." I smiled weak. "I haven't seen you around for a bit."
"Well how could you when you were fighting a big scary guy." He chuckled. "Congrats on fighting it though."
"Thanks." I looked behind him "Chadster, best buddy!"
He walked to the other side of me and smiled kissing my forehead, "Hey buddy. How have you been? You almost scared my hair away."
I giggled reaching for his curls "Well I'm glad they are still here or I'd miss them."
"They'd miss you too." I smiled but my smile faded away when four important faces weren't present.
"Where's mom, James, Kevin and Troy? Aren't they here?"
"Yes they are, Troy and Kevin went to get coffee and James and your mom are praying. Tay went to go get them." Chad answered smiling.
"Oh okay." I relaxed in my bed. "How's Tay?"
"She's doing well. She was terrified when she heard what happened to you though. We both were." I grabbed my hand.
"How are you two? Did you guys make up yet?" Can you believe me? I was basically in my death bed and I'm asking if he and Taylor are okay. Chad smiled and right when he was going to say something two familiar faces rushed in.
"Baby sister!" James rushed over to my side and took me in his arms as I heard my mother crying behind me and press her face into my hair kissing it. I felt relieved the second I felt both of their skins touch mine. He pulled away cupping my face just long enough to say "You scared me. I thought I almost lost you." And pull me back into a hug.
"You could never loose me." I cried into his shoulder. "Never, I will be fine. I will be okay."
"Hijita, you scared me. I thought I was going to loose another daughter." I heard my mother say into my ear and right there I heard the scare I gave her.
I pulled away from James and hugged my mother tight. "You will never loose me. You won't go thought that again. I promise."
She pulled away smiling through her tears cupping my face "Good because I am really looking forward to being a grandma now." We laughed wiping the falling tears from our face.
"Where is she?" Kevin ran in shoving his cups into Ryan and Chad before running into my arms.
"Baby girl." He kissed my head "You stupid, stupid little girl. How can you scare me like that?"
I laughed and he pulled away looking at me "I scared a lot of people didn't I?"
"Hum, yeah you did." He said looking at me with a small chuckle. "How's the baby?"
"He's fine." I smiled at him
"How do you know? The doctor hasn't spoken to you yet. You just woke up." Ryan stated confused. I didn't want to tell them that I have spoken to my dead father in my head. They would just look at me weird. That is so not weird. Is it?
"I'll go call the doctor. Just incase." My mother patted my leg and walked up. She had that with the face expression that said 'my daughter is going insane'. I giggled to myself and sat there happy laying my hands on my tummy.
"So you know that it's a boy?" I heard a soft voice ask and that voice belonged to Taylor McKessie.
"Not written in paper, but lets just say I have had a dream that I had a boy." I said looking up still rubbing my belly smiling.
"If it was a boy what would you name him?"
"I know for sure his middle name would be Keith like my father." I looked up at my brother and grabbed his hand. He smiled and kissed my head, "And his first would be Dylan or Zyler."
"Zyler is cute. Unique and something you never heard before." Taylor bent over and spoke to my stomach. "Hey Zyler, I'm your Aunty Taylor. You just need to know one thing. Don't get crazy on me or I will hurt ya."
I laughed "Taylor!"
"What? I'm just informing the kid that he will not go crazy on me." She said putting her hands up in defense.
I looked over at Sharpay who was standing at the wall. She looked depressed and I kind of knew why. I looked over at my friends and family that were around my bed "Can you guys give me a minute with Sharpay?" they all nodded and walked out. I looked at Sharpay once I heard the door close. She didn't make a move. "Shar, come here please." I said patting the space beside me on my bed. She walked over very slowly not making any eye contact as she sat down "Please talk to me."
"I was scared." She whispered barley enough for me to hear.
"Scared of what?"
"You dieing. I knew it was going to be my fault and I didn't want to loose my best friend once I finally got her back." She looked at me with tears running down her face. I felt her pain. I didn't want to but I did. I pulled her into a hug as she cried into my shoulder.
"Who gave you that crazy idea that it was your fault?" I felt my eyes water up.
"I left you in there alone. I shouldn't have done that." She managed to say in between sobs. I pulled back grabbing her face forcing her to look at me.
"It wasn't your fault. You couldn't have known that I would collapse. I could have some kind of illness that you didn't know about. Hell a sickness that I myself didn't know about." I wiped her tears. "Don't beat yourself up about it. We'll just have to wait and see what the doctor tells me." She nodded and I smiled at her "I love you and you are like my sister. I know you would never hurt me on purpose." She laughed and hugged me but our hug was interrupted by the Dr. Harris walking in.
"Glad to have you back Ms. Montez." He smiled at me as he walked over to me.
"Glad to be back. Apparently I gave a huge scare to many people." I said sarcastically.
He laughed "Yes, so I've been told." He looked at Sharpay for a second than back at me "Can we speak in private please?"
"Well that's my cue." She stood up and looked at me "Do you want me to call your mom in?"
"Yes, please. I want her and my brother and cousin here as well please." She nodded and kissed my forehead. Not long after my request family members walked in closing the door behind them. My mother walked to my side and grabbed my hand tightly as my brother wrapped his arms around her shoulder.
"So what's up doc?" I asked placing my loose hand on top of my mothers.
"What have you been doing lately?"
"Nothing really but I did help a friend get divorced and get away from her abusive husband and help another friend find his true father."
He looked at his chart then back at me "And how did that go?"
"Well he went to jail and united the father and son. We did have some rough spots with the jerk but it was all taken care of." He nodded "He did push me down a few times but nothing really serious that I suffered huge pain and the times he did paramedics came and they checked me out. They said I was fine." As I said that I could feel my mother grip my hand a bit more. James and Kevin just curled there hands up and had the death glare upon their face.
"Okay well good news. It seems that it's nothing serious just a lot of stress and the baby couldn't handle it." He finished writing in his pad and looked at my mother "She just needs lots of rest. Not bed rest necessarily but just a lot of rest. I would suggest keeping her out of school for just a week. Let her calm down and then she will be back to normal."
"So she is perfectly fine?" asked a very concerned Kevin.
"Yes perfectly. The stress was just a tad bit too much to the baby and since she just drastically stopped being so active and up and running her body system collapsed, but like I said everything is fine. Just rest is the medicine to recovery." He smiled at my family then at me "Take care Miss. Montez. I will see you in a few days for your scheduled appointment. Have a good day." She shook my hand and my family's before he walked off.
I looked up at my mom and she just looked at me. I smiled back and said "It's fine mom. I'm fine. It was just stress. I promise to relax and not do to much." I kissed her hand.
"Oh Gabby." She pulled me into a hug. "I'm just glad you are okay and it wasn't anything serious."
"Exactly, nothing serious, mom. Danger is out of the way." She pulled back and kissed my forehead. I looked over at James and Kevin who were talking very low and secretive. "Hey what are you two talking about?"
"Nothing we were talking about nothing." I glared at them but then looked at my mom "Mommy can you make sure that Sharpay is okay and tell her that I'm okay. She was worried about me. I just want a few minutes with the guys." She nodded and walked out. As soon as the door closed I looked at the boys "Now tell me what you two were talking about?"
"Okay…" James smacked him across the chest "What? She's going to realize sooner or later. Might as well tell her now!"
"Tell me what?" I exclaimed.
"Troy is missing." Kevin simply said.
"What do you mean missing?" I asked feeling my heart race out of concern.
"He dropped me off in the front saying that he was going to get a parking spot but I haven't seen him since and its been about an hour ago." You can say I panicked but I didn't show it.
"Have you guys called him? Text him? Anything?"
"Yes but never an answer." Before I can answer to that Lizzie and Jack walked in.
"Sweetie, how are you?" Lizzie asked as she walked over to me before hugging me,
"I'm good thank you." I pulled away and smiled at her. I looked over at Jack and smiled "Hey Jack, not going to hug me?"
He chuckled and made his way into my arms. "I was worried about you princess."
I smiled at the way he called me princess, "Well I'm sorry to give you such a scare." I pulled away and smiled at them.
"So how the baby?" Lizzie asked rubbing my belly a bit.
"The baby is fine and healthy. The doctor said I would be fine that is just all my stress and that my drastic stop just confused my body and I collapsed. I just need to rest and that's it." I looked over at Jack "And now that a school faculty is here I will just inform you that I will take the week off for my rest. I'll ask the doctor to give me a note before I leave and you can drive by my house and pick it up to give it to the office for me."
"Sure no problem baby doll." He nodded at me.
"Thanks Jack." I smiled at him. Jack and Lizzie stayed to chat a bit. We spoke about a lot of things. One thing we spoke about a lot was how they good they were doing. They recently had new furniture into Lizzie's home so they won't remind her of Greg and Jack will be moving in next weekend. They will keep his home up for rent this way they still have extra money coming in and everything is coming out perfect for them. They really are a dream couple. "Thank you for coming to visit. It really means a lot."
"Your welcome sweetie it's the least we could do since you brought us together." Lizzie put her arm around her boyfriend and smiled at him.
"Take care, baby girl. We will see you soon." I waved smiling as they walked out of my room. I looked down at my baby bump and placed my hand on top of it sighing. "Who's your father kid? If it wasn't Greg, who?"
"Gabby?" Sharpay walked in. "Gabby can we talk? Heart to heart?" I nodded as she closed the door. "The gang left and you mom and Kevin and James went to go eat at the cafeteria." There was silence for a bit. "So do you want to tell me who it happened?" she said looking at my stomach.
"I don't know now. I thought it was all Greg's fault. You know he abused of me and now they proved him innocent of that - I don't know. Look I want to tell you something but you promise not to tell?" she nodded as she sat down beside me on my bed. "I can talk to my dad." She looked at me with a confused look. "I know it might sound crazy but he comes to me. Ever since I found the papers of Lizzie's case I have seen him in my dreams. We talk."
"Oh honey, what do you guys talk about?" she took my hand and gave it a nice squeeze.
"Everything; the case, mom, James, my life and how it's all screwed up. And recently we spoke about my baby and he knew all along that Greg wasn't the father." I felt tears forming in my eyes as my voice broke at that last word.
"He knows? Then who is?"
"That's the thing. He won't tell me and I'm running out of time. Shar, I don't want my baby to be born without a father." Finally my tear streamed down my face. Sharpay wiped away her own tears that were starting to form. "I don't know what to do."
She took me in her arms and said "I don't know honey. Do you have any idea as to who it could be?"
The second she said that something came across my mind, I pulled apart from the hug and sat up straight. "Sharpay I need you to do something very important."
Okay sorry its late but I had writers block and quick correction. I noticed I wasn't quite right in a few episodes back about how long ago she is in the pregnancy. She was about 6 or 7 months. So when she wake up she is about to turn 8 months. Another thing I have a new series up but you have to watch the first season on You tube :D. xoxo