Chapter 34: Fighter but A Lover

"So now that you're home...what are we gonna do next?" Gabriella asked.

After 2 weeks in a hospital i'm finally home with my family.

"How about we just relax..." I said.

"What does that word mean?" she said sarcastically.

We need time to relax and just be with each other and our kids...

"No more stress" I said. She rolled her eyes.

We were driving the next day to go to the store.

"Wait troy pull over!" she yelled really quick. The kids were at my moms and it was just me and her. I was confused why I had to pull over so quick but I did as she said.

"Troy look!" she said pointing to a little spot in the grass on the side of the road.

"What is that?"

"I think it's a dog...i'll be right back" she said. I tried stopping her but she didn't listen.

I watched her go up to the dog slowly. She was petting it and loving up to it. I knew what this meant...

than she looked more into the grass and she bent down. I got out when I couldn't see her anymore.

"Babe come look!" she said. I walked over there and saw a pit bull and pit-bull puppies...

"Oh my god..."

"Looks like someone just dumped them..." she said.

I sat petting the mom for a little bit.

"Come on troy we have to get them to a vets" she said. She started to pick the puppies up and put them in the car. The mom was skinny and looked a little sick...the puppies were no more than 3 days old...

I got her in the car and we drove to the nearest vets office.

"What do we have here?" the doctor came in.

She examined the puppies first.

"They're newborns definitely but looks like mama took good care of them..." she said.

"But we want to do some tests on her real quick for heartworms and such." she said after looking at the mom.

"You guys can wait in here with the puppies and we're going to take her away. We find that it's easier if she's not around her pups" she said. She took her out and Gabriella was holding a puppy.

"Babe...we can't..." I said.

"Troy...please..."

"Gabriella no" I said sternly. Than she looked up at me...

"Oh come on that's not fair!" I said. Than she put a puppy in my arms.

"you play really dirty Mrs Bolton" I said. She smiled.

"I always get my way" she said. She snuggled the puppy. There were 7 puppies...4 girls and 3 boys. After about 10 minutes the vet came back in with her.

"So she has some really bad fleas but that's easy to handle...no heart worm or parasites. She is very malnourished and will need a lot of care. If you guys would like we can call the animal shelter to take them"

"no...we would like to take them" Gabriella said.

"Ok well I will suggest to just let her take care of her puppies keep them away from Rocky and the kids for right now just until they all recover a little bit. We are going to go ahead and give her a flea bath and comb the puppies out. She is full pit bull, blue to be exact as you can see. She seems very gentle a little scared...it's a shame that someone did this to them...it's a good thing you guys saw them. Who knows how long she would have survived" she said.

I can't believe we did this...leave it to Gabriella to fall in love with them...now we have two kids and 9 dogs! Like come on now!

We loaded them all back in the car and went to the pet store. I stayed in the car with them.

"Your going to have a nice home" I told her. She had the saddest look on her face...i felt so bad.

"Don't worry girl you have a mommy now that will spoil you guys rotten" I said to her and she lied her head in my hand and I rubbed under her chin. She was so cute...

Gabriella came out with two carts full of stuff.

"I told you she was going to spoil you rotten" I said again.

"A little over board?" I said.

"No..this is all the stuff we need. We have bowls, and dog food and puppy food and puppy milk and a bed and blankets and toys and treats and look at these!" she said holding up bows. I rolled my eyes.

It was a half hour drive back home from the store.

"What should we name them?" I asked.

"uh-mm what about Lady" she said.

She looked up at Gabriella right when she said it.

"I think she likes it" I said. Gabriella smiled.

"I think with the puppies we have to wait until they're older so we can see what they look like..." I said. Gabriella agreed. We got home and put food and water in the bowls first and Lady ate a whole bowl up. So we poured another one and she ate that one.

"Slow down Lady your going to have food whenever you want" Gabriella said. I set up a space in our room for them. I knew that Noah wouldn't go in there and we could close the door to keep Rocky out. Who was outside freaking out.

I put the puppies in there and they snuggled up and slept. Then Lady went in there and we put food and water next to her.

Later on that night all of us were home and Noah was in bed and Charley was in my arms sleeping.

We were in our room and lady came up to Gabriella and laid her head on her lap.

"Hi beautiful" Gabriella said kissing her head.

Lady jumped up on the bed and we didn't stop her. The vet took care of the fleas and said we should have nothing to worry about. She sniffed Charley a little bit and then lied down at the foot of our bed.

"I have a feeling we have a new bed buddy" I said. Gabriella laughed.

The next day we introduced Rocky and Lady. Just so that Rocky will stop freaking out. Lady was a little hesitant at first but they warmed up to each other.

"Puppy" Noah kept saying. Lady licked Noah's which made him laugh.

About three weeks later Lady and the puppies were really looking better. The puppies were moving and had there eyes open and getting into all kinds of stuff.

Charley is 3 months old now and is having more expressions herself. It's so cute to see her look around. Noah loves to play with the puppies.

Today our families are coming over for a cookout and to officially meet the newest members of our family.

"Guys they are so cute!" my mom cooed.

"oh can we take one?" her sisters asked.

I looked at Gabriella and she just shrugged. I know she wanted to keep at least two of the puppies for the kids.

"ask Papi" Gabriella said.

"Oh gabs can I get one?" her brother asked. She just nodded. We were planning to find really good homes and selling them. But at least this way they can still be close.

By the end of the night we were left with one boy puppy and one girl and then we had Lady. They're going to be able to take them in a few weeks.

"At least we won't have 9 dogs..." Gabriella said later on.

"mhmm" I said. She put my arm around her.

"I like this..." she said.

"Like what?"

"Having our families around and our kids...all 6 of them" she said smiling.

It was nice. A lot has happened but we're all together and that's all that matters. I have my wonderful wife my kids and our dogs, we have both sides of our families. Sure we struggle...but that's life. I wouldn't change anything about my life. I used to think my life was ruined because of having Noah so young...I was scared and I didn't have a clue what to do. But Noah and Charley are the best things that ever happened to us. I love watching them grow and see new things.

"Hey guys take a family picture!" Adriana said.

Gabriella held Charley and I held Noah then the dogs got in it. I wanted to hold onto this exact moment forever.

I'm a fighter but when it comes to my family i'm a total and complete lover.

Hey guys so this is it! I will be posting the new story either today or tomorrow! Most likely today! When I do I will post on this chapter again and tell you the name of it. Thank you guys for loving the story so much! =]

So the new story is up! It's called The Fight. So go ahead and read that! I'm working on Chapter 2 right now! it should be up soon!