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January 2nd, 2017 3:00 pm

"Listen to that Troy." I told him sitting in our hotel room in Providence, Rhode Island.

"Listen to what? I hear nothing." Troy told me as I wrapped my arms around him.

"Exactly. We don't have to listen to the kids bicker about watching TV or arguing about something else. It's just you and I for 5 days." I told him leaning over and kissing him.

"Hm . . . I see where you're taking this." Troy said picking me up and throwing me on the bed in our suite.

I giggled as he attacked me with his lips. We made out for a good twenty minutes until my stomach started to growl.

"Are you hungry?" Troy asked me putting his head on his hand and looking at me.

"I am. Where do you want to go get something to eat?" I asked him grinning.

"How about we explore the town until we see something that sounds good?" Troy suggested as I got off the bed and walked towards the door.

"Hey Troy?" I asked him turning and facing him.

"What love?" Troy asked me as he stood up and turned towards my voice.

"Have you seen my engagement ring?" I asked him searching the bathroom and the dresser.

"I haven't. Are you sure you brought it with you to Rhode Island?" Troy asked me quietly.

"I never take that thing off. Oh well I guess I'm going to have to look for it when we get back. Let's go." I told him taking a hold of his outstretched hand and walking out of the hotel room.

"Is there anything that you really want to do while we're here?" I asked him as we walked out of the hotel and onto Main Street.

"Well I would like to take you out to dinner at a fancy place tomorrow night if you don't mind dressing up a little." Troy asked as he swung our linked hands back and forth.

"I would love to go. I would like to go to Manning Hall again and just go around the college a little bit." I told him rubbing my hands up and down my arms, trying to keep warm.

"I think that can be arranged. Oh Gabi look. It's starting to snow!" Troy told me as we watched the snowflakes fall.

"This use to be my favorite part of Rhode Island. I always loved it when it snowed." I told him giggling.

"I remember that one time you called me up and told me to come outside. And then you tackled me and we got into a huge snowball fight. Remember that?" Troy asked wrapping his arms around me, trying to get the two of us warm.

"How could I not? I never laughed so hard in my life." I told him giggling at the thought.

"You didn't stop for like 20 minutes." Troy said shaking his head as we continued to walk.

"That was good. Ahh how simple life was back then." I told him holding his hand and gently swinging them.

"We didn't have to worry about anything. We just went to school and then we got to spend our time together." Troy said quietly as we continued to walk.

"How about dinner here?" I asked coming up to the Trinity Brewhouse.

"That sounds good. Let's go in." Troy told me opening the door for me and letting me go in.

We immediately got a table and sat down. We looked at the menu and immediately decided what we were getting. It was good for the two of us to sit through dinner and not get interrupted a million times by children. I grinned as I looked around the restaurant.

"They've redone this place." I told him thinking back to how it was done when we first started coming here.

"They've painted the place and added some artifacts." Troy said as I sighed.

"You're sighing a lot. What's up with that?" Troy asked as I grinned.

"I can't believe our parents did this. I'm so happy they did." I told him reaching over and grabbing his hand.

"I'm glad they did too. You ready to get out of here?" Troy asked as I nodded.

We got up and walked back out to the cold outside. I smiled when I felt snowflakes land on my eyelashes. Troy took a hold of my hand and started in another direction.

"Where are we going?" I asked him quietly as we walked the streets.

"You'll see. Do you want it to be a surprise or no?" Troy asked me as I grinned.

"I want to be surprised." I said looking at the historic buildings around the city.

"All right. No more questions from now on." Troy told me kissing me as we continued to walk.

We walked a few more minutes before Troy pushed open a heavy metal gate and we walked through the courtyard. I gasped when I realized where we were.

"Does this place bring back memories?" Troy asked me quietly as he wrapped his arms around my body.

"It's Manning Hall and this is where you proposed to me." I told him grinning.

"I sure did. Now I have something I would like to ask you." Troy said unwinding his arms and twirling me around to face him.

"What's that?" I asked him quietly as he tried to control his breathing.

"10 years ago we graduated high school and we promised that we would be together always. I broke up with you right before you left to come here. I regret that decision every single day. But 9 years ago while on vacation, I came and stood in front of your house. You caught me being a chicken and asked if I wanted to take a walk down to the park. We talked about everything and decided to give the relationship another try." Troy said momentary stopping to take a breathe.

"I then told you the news that I had applied and been accepted to Brown. I will never forget the excitement you had when I told you that. We made it through our three and a half years of college together. On April 8, 2009, we stood in the exact place we do now and I asked you to be my wife. You agreed in front of all of our friends and family." Troy said which I smiled at how good his memory was.

"I did indeed and never for a minute have I forgotten that." I told him quietly.

"Now I stand here, grinning like the idiot I am, and asking you again. Will you, Gabriella Marie Bolton, marry me again?" Troy asked dropping to one knee.

"I would be honored to marry you again, Troy Michael Bolton." I said as he got up picking me up and spinning me around.

"Um . . . honey, I kind of lied to you early." Troy said as he put me back on my feet.

"Oh really? How exactly did you lie to me?" I asked him as he dug in his pocket and pulled something out.

"You asked me earlier if I had seen this and I told you I didn't." Troy told me putting my engagement ring back on my finger.

"You scared the crap out of me, Troy Michael Bolton." I said hitting his shoulder.

"For a girl you've got a good arm." Troy told me as I flashed him a smile.

"Thank you but that's doesn't excuse you for making me worry that I lost your engagement ring." I told him glaring at him.

"Honey remember what I just did?" Troy asked as I grinned at him again.

"Well I guess I can forgive you because you just proposed to me again." I told him leaning over and capturing him in a gentle kiss.

"Well if it isn't Brown University's most famous love birds?" A familiar voice asked as I tried to put a name with the voice.

I turned around and to my amazement I saw Liz, Jake, and three little ones I didn't know. I ran over and wrapped her in a hug.

"Oh My God. What are you guys doing here?" Liz asked me as we hugged.

"This is mine and Troy's Christmas present from our parents. We haven't had a vacation together in a long time so they decided to send us back to our college town. What are you guys doing here?" I asked as Jake came over and gave me a hug.

"We live here. We decided after we got married we came to live back up here in our college town." Jake said as I grinned.

"Hey Wonder Woman how's life been treating you? And how long have you guys been married?" Troy asked Liz while giving her a hug.

"I can't believe you remembered one of my many nicknames. It'll be five years the end of the month. You guys must be going on what eight years?" Liz asked me grinning.

"We'll celebrate eight in June. And who are these little ones?" I asked Liz and Jake as they grinned.

"These are our little ones. Drew is our oldest, he'll be four; Madelyn is 2; and our youngest, Brooklyn just turned 10 months." Liz told us proudly.

"Congratulations you guys. You guys look so happy." Troy said as we both grinned.

"We are happy. What about you guys? You guys must have some kids." Jake told us as I nodded to Troy.

"Mackenzie is our oldest at 2 1/2; Aidan is 14 months; and our youngest, Belle is 5 months old." Troy said noticing Liz's face.

"Dang you two have been busy." Liz said as I laughed at her.

"Mack and Aidan our natural children and we just adopted Belle from a colleague of mine." I said as Liz nodded her head.

"Ahh I see. So how long are you guys in town?" Liz asked me as I looked at her.

"Until the 7th. We should get together sometime and hang out like we use to." I told her grinning.

"I think that sounds good. How about the 4th?" Jake asked us as I looked at Troy.

"That works for us. Here's our number and we'll give you a call to set up a time." I said writing our phone number down on one of the restaurant's business cards.

"You two have your own restaurant?" Liz asked us in disbelief.

"A high school friend and I started it up when we moved back to Albuquerque." Troy said grinning.

"Wow that's pretty cool. We'll have to come out that way sometime." Jake said grinning.

"Well we'll give you a call sometime tomorrow to set up a time. Have a great night you guys." I said hugging Liz and Jake again.

"Will do. Have fun guys." Liz told us as we watched them walk away.

Troy and I looked around the courtyard noticing nothing had really changed. We were interrupted by the ringing of my cell phone.

"Hello Chad what do you want?" I asked taking a quick peek at the caller id before answering the phone.

"Why don't you and Troy come down to the restaurant? There's news to be shared." Chad told me as I looked at my watch which read 11 o'clock which meant it was 8 o'clock in Albuquerque.

"I would love to but we're not in the state currently." I told him as I heard Chad tell the others.

"Well do you want to tell us where you are?" Chad asked as I heard him switch the phone to speaker.

"Did you just put me on speaker?" I asked giggling.

"Yeah he did. So where are you and Troy?" Kelsi asked me as I turned my phone to speaker phone.

"Hi guys. We're out of the state currently." Troy said as I shook my head at him.

"We know that but where?" Sharpay asked as I tried to catch some snowflakes on my tongue.

"Well I'll give you a hint. Gabi's trying to catch snowflakes currently." Troy said as I giggled.

"Did you guys take a surprise trip up to Providence?" Taylor asked us as we both laughed.

"Yeah we're back in our college town." I said as I felt snowflakes land on my eyelids.

"What are you guys doing up there?" Jason asked as I heard a bell ring in the background.

"What was that?" I asked as I heard more people's voices.

"Troy your parents are here with the kids. We're talking to Gabi and Troy right now." I heard Ryan said to our parents.

"Hello children. How's your vacation so far?" Amanda asked coming closer to the phone.

"It's great. We outside of Manning Hall right now." I told them as they all aww.

"I just re-proposed to her." Troy told them proud of himself.

"Well congratulations and you guys seem like you're having a good time." Jack said coming closer to the phone.

"We are. Thanks for sending us here." I said grinning.

"You never answered my question, Bolton." Chad said as I grinned.

"Oh the parents decided to go in together and send Gabi and me on a vacation for just the two of us. So they sent up back here to Providence." Troy explained to our friends.

"Oh cool. That sounds like fun." Brooke said as I looked at Troy.

"How much you wanna bet the news is that Brooke and Ryan are engaged?" I asked my husband grinning.

"What's the bet?" Troy asked me as I thought it over.

"I'll let you know later. But do you want to bet?" I asked him as he shook his head at me.

"You're on." Troy whispered to me as I turned my attention back to the phone.

"So guys what's the big news that you had to interrupt our vacation for?" I asked grinning.

"Well we asked you guys all here tonight for a certain reason. Christmas Eve I asked Brooke to be my wife and she said yes." Ryan announced as I stuck my tongue out at Troy.

"I told you." I said as I heard everyone celebrating in Albuquerque.

"Congratulations guys!" Troy and I both yelled as we got met with more celebrating.

"Have you guys planned anything yet?" We heard Taylor ask Ryan and Brooke.

"Not yet. I'm due in June so I would like to be married by the time the baby comes." Brooke told everyone.

"Well if you need any help, you've got 4 girls who are willing to help." I said causing the guys to groan.

"She didn't say the guys had to help." Kelsi said as the girls all agreed.

"So when are you two lovebirds coming home?" Ryan asked totally changing the subject.

"We'll be home on the 7th." I said watching the snow come down harder.

"That's cool. Got any plans for the rest of the time?" Sharpay asked us.

"Do you remember my college roommate, Liz?" I asked them as I heard a couple of people agree.

"Yeah what about her?" Taylor asked me as I grinned.

"We ran into her, her husband and their three kids just a little bit ago so we're going to go out with them a couple of nights while we're here. And then I don't know what else." I said.

"That's cool. Well we'll leave you guys for now. Have fun!" Chad told me as I told him to hang on.

"Can you take me off speaker and give the phone to Mack?" I asked him as I heard him take it off.

"Mommy?" Mack asked as Troy and I both grinned.

"Hi sweetheart. Are you having fun with grandma and grandpa?" I asked her as she talked to Aidan.

"Yeah we got ice cweam." Mack told me as I giggled.

"Oh you did? Was it good?" I asked her looking at Troy.

"Yup good." Mack said as Troy grinned at me.

"That's good. Behave and be good to grandma and grandpa all right?" I asked her as she laughed at something.

"I will mommy. Daddy hi." Mack said not forgetting about her father.

"Hi Mack. Give Aidan and Belle a kiss for us, all right?" Troy asked our oldest daughter.

"Will do. Bye momma, daddy!" Mack said obviously finished with the conversation.

"I guess she was tired of talking to us." I said flipping the phone shut.

"I guess she was too. Let's finish our walk so we can go back to the hotel and warm up." Troy suggested as we started heading back.

We got to the hotel and instead of going straight up to our room, Troy suggested we sit in the lobby and drink hot chocolate. I leaned against Troy and grinned happily.

"Did you ever imagine we would be here, just the two of us?" I asked Troy.

"I knew we would eventually but not this early on. I love the alone time but I miss our children." Troy told me as I nodded my head.

"Me too. I miss putting them to bed and saying prayers with them." I told him.

We sat down in the lobby until our yawns overcame us. Troy helped me up and held me steady as we walked to our room. I changed into my PJs and climbed into bed. I was asleep before Troy even came and crawled into bed.


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