Chapter 17

Not long now, Gabs was 36 weeks now so it was 3-4 weeks until Gabriella's due date. She was getting more and more uncomfortable, we were going to an LA Galaxy game today to try and cheer her up; hopefully it'll work.

"Baby, are you ready?" I asked, walking into her room.

"Yeah," She sighed, tugging the LA Galaxy zip-up on over her plain t-shirt and shorts, along with flip-flops.

"Hey," I frowned, walking up to her, tilting her chin so she was looking up at me "Please cheer up," I mumbled "I hate seeing you down," I added, glancing at her lips before kissing them softly with my own. "For me?" I asked, wrapping my big arms around her.

"Fine," Gabriella said "Only for you," She smiled up at me, playing with my collar on my blue stripy polo.

I grinned at her "Love you, you know?" I teased, letting my hands wondering down to her butt, giving it a gentle pat before a soft squeeze.

"I know and I love you too, handsome," Gabriella said, her arms snaking around my neck, loosely.

I locked eyes with her and bent down to share a long, soft, slow kiss with my girlfriend; we haven't had many of these for the past couple of months, it's been hectic to say the least. I felt her smile into the kiss and I slowly pulled back from the kiss, pecking her lips once more before opening my eyes to meet hers.

"Come on, let's go," I smiled, kissing her forehead before lacing my right hand with her left and walking to the front door.

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Once we arrived at the home ground of LA GALAXY we found our seats, we being: me, Gabriella, Chad and Bubba. Gabs sat in-between me and Chad and Bubba was the other side of me.

"Excited?" I said into Gabriella ear, over the loud clapping, draping my arm on her thigh so my hand rested against the inside of it.

"Yeah, I've never actually been to a soccer game before," Gabriella said, turning her head toward me.

My eyebrows raised "Well I'm honoured to be the first person to take you," I said, cheekily while giving her thigh and gentle squeeze.

"Cheeky," Gabriella smirked.

My eyes narrowed at her "My phrase," I pouted.

"Eh," She giggled, pecking my lips before looking back at the pitch where the players were warming up.

I smiled at her, kissing her cheek before wrapping my arm around her shoulders. Looking towards Bubba once I felt a tap on my shoulder. "S'up dude?"

Bubba tilted his head backwards as if to gesture for me to look that way, my jaw dropped. No fucking way.

"Hey!" I shouted, in their direction, grinning.

All 3 of their heads turn towards me and the closet which was like 2 seats away, slapped my back. "Dude! How you doing, man?" Lloyd said, the closest one too me.

"I'm good," I chuckled, bumping fists with the three. "You?"

All of them nodded "Pretty good," Rory answered.

"Yeah same," Lloyd and Aiden agreed.

I smiled "What are you guys doing up here anyways?" I asked.

"We came up to visit you for a couple of weeks and come watch a game or two," Aiden said.

Lloyd, Rory and Aiden were my best friend from down in Arizona from when I lived there. We have kept in touch ever since I moved, I lost contact with them a little since Gabriella got pregnant.

"That's amazing," I grinned, I felt a hand slide onto my thigh. "Oh guys, this is Gabriella, my girlfriend, Bubba and Chad my friends and guys, baby these are my friends from Arizona, Lloyd, Aiden and Rory," I introduced, moving my arm from behind her.

"Hey," Gabriella smiled, reaching for my hand for some support, I guess.

"Hey," Aiden replied.

"Glad to put a face to the name," Lloyd smirked at me.

I glared at him and Gabriella giggled. "I'm just going to get a drink, Troy," Gabs said, standing up slowly, holding her bump.

"Ha! No your not, not with a load of adrenaline filled guys jumping around," I said, grabbing her hand again so she couldn't walk off.

"Pwease," She pouted "I'll take Bubba and Chad with me," She said, sweetly.

I sighed "Fine," I began "Don't let anything happen to her," I glared at Bubba and Chad who stood up.

"We won't, we won't," Chad chuckled, holding up his hand in surrender.

"Stop sweating it, man," Bubba said, amusedly, smacking my shoulder as he went passed me.

I grumbled and quickly kissed Gabriella hand before letting her go.

"Pregnant!" Lloyd exclaimed once they went inside.

I jumped and turned back around "Oh yeah, I never told you that did I," I said, innocently.

"No!" They all shouted at once, I winced.

"Hey guys, guess what? Gabs is pregnant," I said, clapping, putting on a big smile while laughing.

The guys just shook their heads at me and I laughed "Yeah, just over 8 months,"

"And you bring to a soccer game, smooth Troy, smooth," Lloyd said, eyebrows raised and lightly chuckled.

"She's been fucking depressed for the past few days so I thought it would do her good to get out," I shrugged, biting my lip.

"Hello," I felt a pair of lips behind my ear and I turned to my girlfriend and helped her gently to her chair.

"You okay?" I asked, stroking her hair away from her face.

"Yeah," She smiled, offering me some of her drink. "Cola,"

"Thanks babe," I took a sip of her drink and gave it her back. Turning back round to the Arizona kids "I'll catch up with you later," I smiled and turned back round to Gabriella, nudging my nose against her cheek, pulling her closer to me.

"I can't wait til he's out," Gabs grumbled into my ear. Mood swings.

"Me either, babe," I smiled against her hair and gently rubbed her stomach which was now starting to get in the way.

Suddenly a loud roar echoed through out the stadium and the LA Galaxy team started to run out of the tunnel and onto the pitch.

Sooner or later the match had finished, the ending score being 2-1 to Galaxy. Everybody went crazy. Gabriella was getting tired so that meant she was getting moody so that meant she was arguing with me so that meant I was getting slightly pissed so that meant we were arguing… again.

"Gabriella, seriously," I groaned, running my hands through my hair, giving a slight tug.

"Just take me home," Gabriella grumbled, frowning at me.

"Fine," I shouted, standing up "I'll see you guys later," I said to Chad, Bubba, Aiden, Lloyd and Rory. "We'll do something," They nodded.

"Oh so you want to spend time with them and not me," Gabriella complained.

"When your being like this, yes," I said, getting into my truck.

"Asshole," Was the last thing we said to each other. We took the journey to her house in complete silence. Once I pulled up next to the beach house, Gabriella got out, slammed the door behind her and waddled down the path. I watched her go in and then drove the 10 minute drive to my house.

Once I got there, Chad's car was pulled up outside. I sighed and got out, walking into my house to see the guys sitting in the living area with Dylan and my mom.

"Hey," I nodded, flopping down on the arm chair.

"We heard about you and Gabriella," My mom commented.

"I don't wanna talk about it," I told her, scratching my head.

"You know she's just hormonal. It's not her fault," Dylan said, shrugging.

I groaned "I wish people would stop fucking taking her side! I thought you realized it's not just her who's going through it the last time we had this conversation," I exclaimed, getting up and walking out back, grabbing a soccer ball on the way.

I sat on the grass, lying down and throwing the ball up and catching it, letting the Californian heat hit my already tanned skin.

"Hey," I heard Lloyd's voice behind me.

"Hi," I mumbled, holding the ball against my chest.

"Your mom and Dylan mean well," He said, sitting next to me.

I shrugged "I know," I whispered "Me and Gabs had this big argument a couple of months back and I just thought they'd realize it's hard on me as well as her. I'm giving up my dream college to stay with Gabs and the baby," I said never moving my eyes from the sky.

"Yeah, it's a big thing man. I'd give you some advice but I don't know the whole story because someone lost contact," I moved my eyes to look at Lloyd to see him smirking.

I chuckled "Yeah, you got me there," I shook my head "Long story short. Me and Gabriella have been together for 2 and a half years. I got her pregnant when she was 16, we decided to keep the baby. We had one big argument and a few little ones since the baby," I told him, keeping him up to date.

"16?" Lloyd asked, shocked.

"Yeah," I lightly chuckled "2 months off 17," I corrected.

"Still 16," Lloyd said, knowing he was right.

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"You really should just go talk to Gabriella. She's due in like 3 weeks, what if she goes into labour early with stress," Bubba said.

They were all trying to get me to go to visit Gabriella and make up with her and they were coming up with these awful reasons. Half of which weren't even true.

"No, she can come to me for once," I mumbled, flicking over the channels to find something good on.

"God, your both as stubborn as each other," Chad grumbled, folding his arms over his torso.

I bit my lip "Why should I be the one always going after her why can't she come to me. Show me she loves me and actually comes after me," I said, shaking my head. "God I can't wait til the kid is born," I licked my lips.

"Me either," They all mumbled.

"Aw, I think he'll look so cute," Bubba smiled.

We all looked at him and laughed, giving him weird looks. "What?" I asked, grinning.

"I mean come on, he's got you and Gabi as parents. Gabriella the frigging knocked up beauty of the school, most guys hate you and want to be you. Your practically pounced on by girls and according to the latest 'cheerleader gossip' you're the hottest guy in school," Bubba said, his voice going all different pitches as he waved his hands about.

Everybody was silent for a few moments, just staring at Bubba open-mouthed because everybody just burst out laughing at his comments.

"Oh geez," I said, through bursts of laughter.

"Hey! Stop laughing," Bubba pouted.

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A couple of hours later, it was dark and everybody had gone so now it was just me, Dylan, mom and dad. Ollie was visiting in a couple of days and staying for a couple of weeks, over Gabriella's due date so if she went into labour my brother would be there. He still teases me about getting a girl pregnant before he did. Oh, he's actually got a girlfriend so he's bringing her back with him. He says she's hot.

"So have you and Gabriella got everything ready for the birth?" My dad asked me.

I tore my eyes away from the screen and toward my dad, nodding "Yeah, just need to make up and we're all ready," I said, partly lying because seriously? Who is ever ready for the responsibility of a child.

"Everything?" My dad asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Yes dad, everything," I sighed, looking back at the TV.

"Seriously, Troy make up with Gabriella, I hate it when your like this," Dylan moaned, throwing a cushion at me.

"Shut up," I growled, throwing it back at my 16 year old brother.

"Boys!" My mom shouted, making Dylan put the cushion down next to him.

My phone started to ring and vibrate in my pocket, I pulled it out and saw Gabriella's name flash on the screen. I sighed and answered it.

"Hey," I mumbled, walking out of the room, sitting on the stairs.

"Troy," Gabriella breathed. Her breathing heavy.

"Whoa, baby. Are you okay?" I said, suddenly went into panic mood over my girlfriend's pained voice and heavy breathing.

"My water's broke, Troy. I've been having contractions since like an hour ago," She said, quickly.

My jaw dropped "Oh my god," I mumbled, closing my eyes.

"Troy," She let out a whimper.

"Sh, it's okay. I'm coming to pick you up now, I'll be there as soon as I can. Where are you?" I asked, hurriedly standing up and pulling on my converse trainers.

"The beach outside my house," She cried.

I nodded even though she couldn't see me. "Okay, I'll be right there. I love you," I told her.

"Love you," She answered.

OOOOOOOO.. The baby is 3 weeks early! Any complications? What do you think he's gonna be called?

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