I have to say I didn't plan this! But….if you realize that this is chapter what? 25. And it's the what? Christmas chapter. And Christmas happens on the what? 25th of December. HA I am laughing that wasn't even planned. But yea onto the chapter.

December 25, 2008 – 12:00 am

"Hello?" I laughed slightly when I heard Troy's tired voice through the line. I know it's 2 am over there but I have to call it's tradition.

"Merry Christmas." I said with a smile. Troy chuckled on the other end and was most likely looking at his clock right around now.

"Merry Christmas baby,"

"So what'd you get me for Christmas?"

"Nothing." My jaw dropped instantly.

"Are you serious?"

"No but I sure wish I could have seen your face." I felt myself blush even though Troy wasn't in the room.

"Tory you are terrible."

"Oh come on Ria have a sense of humor."

"I do have a sense of humor, you're just not very funny."

"Well I think I'm pretty damn hilarious."

"Okay Troy, let's just hope that Santa didn't leave any coal in your stocking."

"Never! I'm a good boy."

"Sure you are Troy."

"I am, you don't believe me?"

"Uhh…sure."

"Gabriella!" I giggled at how Troy was taking this so dang serious.

"I'm kidding, but you know after you played that horrible kiss joke on me I think you should have been put on the naughty list."

"Well I'll be naughty as long as you can be my punisher." I scrunched my face.

"Ew, Troy come on we already have a kid on the way. I think I've punished 20x over."

"Yea well that night was amazing."

"You still remember it?"

"Of course! On the elevator, on the counter, in the kitchen, then in the bathroom-"

"Okay Troy! We do not need to relive that night."

"Oh on the contraire darling, everytime we see our amazingly cute child we will think of that wonderful night we…made love all night loooong." I squirmed a little when I heard Troy singing the last part.

"Uh, Troy this is a holy day don't get confused now."

"I know I was just saying."

"Okay whatever you say."

"Well what should I sing?"

"I don't know! anything you'd like really."

"How about….I don't want a lot for Christmas there is just one thing I need…" I smiled and rolled my eyes before adding a line.

"I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree…."

"I just want you for my own…"

"More than you could ever know…"

"Make my wish come true…"

"All I want for Christmas…is….you…"

"Beautiful I tell you beautiful!!" Troy said with a smile I could hear in his voice.

"Troy you are too much."

"I love you too."

"I love you more."

"I don't think that's possible."

"Oh really Bolton? Is that a challenge."

"I think it is Montez."

"I think I love you way more than you could ever love me."

"No I still don't see how that is possible Montez, see I love you times a hundred."

"Well I love you times a thousand."

"I love you times a million."

"I love you times a billion."

"No I've got it! I love you times infinity!"

"No, no, no Bolton see I have beaten you once again. I love you times infinity plus 1."

"What's the plus one got to do with anything? I thought infinity was infinity?"

"Well you forget I have to count the love for you from the baby right?"

"That is right…well I guess you won this one Montez. But I need to let you get some rest, I know you guys have that party later and we don't need you passing out while I'm not there."

"I know Troy I'm being good trust me."

"Are you going to watch the game?"

"Please half of the guys that are going to be there wouldn't miss it for the world."

"Well that's good to know. I'll win it for you and the peanut."

"Hey don't call my baby a peanut!" I said resting my hand comfortingly on my stomach.

"What?! I didn't mean anything by it, and she is my kid also."

"Well are you the one carrying her?"

"No…"

"exactly then it's my baby."

"I think I should have the first one, you can have the second one."

"I think I should get the first baby, and who says that we'll have another?"

"Babe, trust me at the end of all of this you'll be one fertile Bolton. Listen I have to get some sleep before my run, Love you."

"Love you too." I said in somewhat of a daze.

Did he just say I'm going to be a fertile Bolton?

6:04 pm

"Gabi you look fine," Ryan said from his spot on our bed.

"No I don't I look pregnant."

"Aren't you pregnant?" Ryan asked

"Well yea but I just don't know what to wear Ry!"

"Why don't you wear a dress or something."

"It's freezing outside I'll catch a cold." I said turning to him.

"Well maybe if you would have gone maternity clothes shopping like Taylor told you to you wouldn't be going through this." Ryan scolded.

"I am not going to wear those hideous clothes!" I said before storming back into the clothes rummaging through my flowy dresses.

"They aren't that bad."

"Yes they are! They aren't cute or….anything okay?" I said in a big huff. I heard Ryan get off the bed and walk into the closet.

"we're already late, why don't you just wear this?" Ryan held up a red babydoll style dress.

"That's what I had the first time." I said with tears welling in my eyes.

"Hey sweetie it's okay just put the dress on and we'll go."

"I don't wanna go anymore. I haven't curled my hair, my makeups ruined. I just I look horrible." I said sinking to the ground putting my head in my hands. Ryan knelt next to me wrapping his arms around me.

"Hun what's wrong?"

"Nothing really, I'm just a little tense right now."

"Why?"

"Brody kissed me." I whispered daring a look at him. Ryan's jaw dropped then formed into a smile.

"OH MY GOSH!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!"

"Yea…"

"Did- you didn't kiss him back did you?"

"NO!! My eyes were open the whole time!"

"Well this is gold! I mean he obviously has been in love with you for years and-"

"He only did it to make sure we no longer had a spark in our kiss." I said sniffing a little.

"Exactly! Only to see if you didn't- hey you kissed before?!?!" I groaned and slapped my forehead.

"I'm stupid, I'm stupid, I'm stupid." I stood up and grabbed the red dress and walked out to the bathroom and put it on.

"WHEN THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?!?! WHY WASN'T I TOLD!"

"I thought I told you."

"Well uh no!"

"Well I am sorry Ryan it must have slipped my mind."

"Slipped your mind?!? Slipped your mind?!? Gabriella this is something major why didn't you tell me?"

"Like I said I must have forgotten, I'm sorry."

"So was he good?"

"No, I mean yea but there was no…anything. I mean when we kissed the first time Junior year I was…emotional-"

Flashback

"Hey," I looked up through my tears at Brody.

"Hi," I said mid sob.

"What wrong?" I looked away and wiped my face though tears kept falling.

"I'm making a big deal out of nothing." Brody sat down next to me on the bench.

"You're crying, it can't be nothing."

"It is, I just saw Troy hugging this other girl. It wasn't the way you would hug a cousin or something it was a real hug. A hug he would give me putting his face in my hair, and pulling me as close as possible."

"Maybe the girl just needed a hug."

"God I hope you're right."

"I mean you wouldn't leave Troy would you?" I heard hope in his voice which made me look at him.

"No, I don't know I'm just confused."

"You often are confused when it comes to Troy."

"Shut up." I said shoving him lightly.

"There's that smile." He touching my nose softly.

"So I'm overreacting."

"Well, I think you need to talk to Troy. I mean make sure things are clear and such. He'll understand, dating someone when there's such an age difference is hard."

"Tell me about it." I said wiping my face more successfully this time.

"You straight?" he asked wrapping an arm around me.

"Yea I'm straight." He wrapped his other arm around me in a full hug and we rocked a little.

When we pulled apart I looked at Brody and glanced at his lips. I looked back at his eyes and found myself leaning forward.

"Brody I don't think-"

I didn't get to finish that thought since his lips landed on mine. He put his hand behind my head and brought me closer.

The worst part I kissed him back.

End Flashback

"Whoa! That's major, what were you thinking?" Ryan asked leaning against the doorframe as I curled my hair.

"I was on my damn period, when I saw Troy I could have ripped his head off. I'd rather kiss another guy than rip off Troy's gorgeous head." I said going from a loud forceful voice to a soft tender one.

"Well did you ever tell Troy?"

"Yea he knows."

"About both times?"

"Of course what kind of girlfriend would I be?! I carrying his damn child Ryan!" I said pushing him out of the door and finishing my hair.

Hospital

"You look gorgeous!" Taylor said coming over and giving me a hug.

"Thanks it took forever to find something I could squeeze into." Taylor rolled her eyes and bent over and rubbed my stomach.

"Well baby we need to tell mommy to get clothes that fit." She stood up and shook her head.

"You're going to get sick dressing like this." She scolded.

"Well this is all that I had. I'm sorry."

"That's not an excuse, Troy makes enough money for you to buy anything you want. You actually do." Taylor said as we walked over to the Christmas tree.

"I know okay I'm just busy,"

"Doing what? Classes don't start again until next year."

"I kissed Brody."

"And didn't feel anything and told Troy right away like the good girlfriend I know you are. Troy being the amazing guy he is forgave you, though he didn't garentee that if he ever saw Brody he wouldn't touch but, you know."

"Well at least he didn't act how Chad did when you kiss Robert." I said with a sing song voice.

"Oh please Robert was a child who I didn't really mind anyways."

"Come on Tay! Robert was SEXY! Why do you think he transferred Hospitals?" Taylor gave me a look as if saying continue.

"Chad scared the living shit out of him! I have never seen a man run so fast in my life. I mean Chad was going through the hospital with a baseball bat yelling 'Robert, come out, come out wherever you are' looking like our very own Jason, I was scared myself." I said placing a hand over my heart.

"Oh come on it wasn't that bad."

"Tay." Taylor rolled her eyes.

"Okay fine but Chad has never done it again has he?"

"That's because no guys around here will even come near you without looking both ways."

"Hey Girls!!" I turned to see Sharpay coming over holding Ashley.

"Hey," I said waving, Sharpay frowned when she saw me.

"What are you wearing?"

"Clothes."

"I got that but aren't you freezing?"

"No I'm warm now."

"I told her and the baby that if she keeps dressing like that, that she'll get sick." Taylor said shaking her head.

"We are so going shopping…how about next week?" Shar asked with a huge smile.

"Of course Shar I couldn't think of anything I would rather do than go shopping with you." I rolled my eyes before heading over to Emily who was staring at the tree.

"You know this looks pretty good for a job that was done at 3am."

"Yea, it does actually." I tilted my head to the side a little.

"Guys you have to try these cookies." Kristen said coming over eating a personalized cookie.

"Oo that looks good." I said looking at it.

"Where did you get that?" Emily asked looking around

"Over at the Elves Cookie Maker. You get these plain sugar cookie to decorate and everything."

"Wow Veronica went all out this year." Emily said as we started walking over to the cookie maker.

We all grabbed a cookie and started designing them with anything we wanted. Of course our fun of playing Martha Stewart stopped when Veronica came over to me since Emily and Kirsten were on the other side of the table.

"Gabriella, I see you're enjoying our food around here."

"Well Veronica it is the Holidays that's when many pig out." Veronica nodded and looked at my cookies again.

"I know but Gabriella sweetie we need to talk." I glanced at Emily and Kirsten who shrugged. I decided to follow Veronica over towards the entrance to the room where not many people were standing at the moment.

"Gabriella are you having a hard time right now?" She asked giving me a fake sincere voice. I resisted from rolling my eyes.

"No Veronica why do you ask." She placed a hand on my arm.

"It's just that…how do I put this nicely?...you're looking a little on the fat side." Even though I tried not to, I felt my skin get hot from embarrassment before tears started stinging my eyes.

"What?" I managed to breathe out.

"Many girls eat to hide their pain and I know you must have a hard time knowing that your boyfriend could be doing anything behind your back. But I want you know something that I will be here to help you loose the weight before he comes back. When the sign up sheet for the hospital comes back up I'll be sure to give you more walking distance."

I stared at her in shock as a tear rolled down my cheek, I was too shocked to even brush it away. Veronica turned to start walking away, but turned back to me.

"Maybe that's why he won't marry you, you're too…curvy."

Even though I saw the evil smirk on her face I couldn't keep myself from feeling like I'd gone to school in my underwear. I felt more tears roll down my cheeks even though I begged for them not to. I turned around the corner away from the party before anyone could talk to me. I need time to calm down by myself and I know just the girls I'll be visiting.

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"Hey why aren't you at the party?" I looked up to see Lena walking my way with a plate of cookies in her hand.

"I came to visit you guys." I said with a smile forcing my tears to stay in my eyes, though I know my face is red.

"Oh, well everyone just went down…are you okay? The baby doesn't like need anything does she?" I laughed a dry laugh before shaking my head.

"No it's just something Veronica said."

"Ugh, her why do you listen to her?"

"I didn't try to it's just the hormones really."

"Well don't even think about it. It's Christmas and you should be happy and singing everybody a song."

"No I don't feel like singing."

"Come on we can sing together. You know I will make a fool of myself."

"No you have an amazing voice!"

"I sound like Destiny Cyrus,"

"She changed her name hun,"

"Oh well same thing."

"Okay whatever you say."

"Now I hear there is a cookie making thing too, I can't wait to do that" I shook my head and linked arms with her as we headed back to the party.

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Troy's POV

"AND THE LAKERS WIN THE GAME AGAINST THE CELTICS 92 TO 83!!! THAT WAS ONE HELL OF A GAME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I'M JOHNATHAN SMITH AND I'M SIGNING OUT. MERRY CHRISTMAS! DRIVE SAFELY!!"

I shared a hug with Chad as we moved through the crowd. I saw Coach coming my way, sure he looked happy but not happy enough.

"Bolton, that game was close…too close."

"I noticed." I said breathing heavily still.

"Well you know what that means you'll be doing instead of celebrating." I looked up at Coach with a tired smile and nodded.

"Running?"

"Like it's going out of style." I nodded and headed towards the locker room.

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