Chapter Five – The Secret is Revealed
"Gabriella Nicole Montez!" Maria exclaimed. I woke up in a panic to see my mom standing right there. I realized how suspicious the situation must've seemed.
"Mom, I can explain-" She cut me off midsentence.
"Gabriella, it is pretty clear to me what you and Troy did last night. You don't need to explain anything to me," she replied.
"No, really, Ms. Montez," Troy defended, "we were just watching a movie and we fell asleep. Nothing happened." My mom just glared at him, then she grabbed my arm.
"Come on Gabriella, let's go. We're going to go to the doctor's to see if you're pregnant. If you are, we need to prepare. A baby is serious business." I just gasped. Then Troy asked if he could come along. My mom reluctantly agreed, because "After all, it is your baby," as my mom put it.
We got into the car and endured a very tense car ride to the doctor's office. Troy and I sat in the back seat, and he held my hand the entire way there. We both knew what the tests would prove, that I was not pregnant, but there was no changing of my mother's mind. She'd have to see it to believe it. When we got to the doctor's office, my mom grabbed my arm and pulled me inside. Since I was still holding on to Troy, it made for sort of a strange chain. We sat in the waiting room until the receptionist called my name. My mom and Troy both came in with me. My mom explained the situation to the doctor, while Troy and I rolled our eyes. Then the tests began. She took a simple blood sample, and then went off to a room to analyze it. When she came back she looked a bit confused.
"Well, the tests show that Gabriella is not pregnant. In fact, they show that Gabriella has never even had sex. I think there has been some kind of misunderstanding here," the doctor reported.
My mom's eyes welled up with tears and she whispered to me that she was sorry. The three of us walked out of the room and back to the car.
"Gabi, Troy, I am so sorry for jumping to conclusions. I should have remembered that you are both responsible young adults and would not do something like that. Please forgive me."
"It's ok, mom," I replied. "It must've looked a little suspicious. I understand how you must have felt." Troy nodded in agreement.
"Well, I guess I deserve to give you guys an explanation. This is a bit hard for me to talk about. But when your father, Troy, and I were in high school, we were dating. Right after we graduated, we got married. But things weren't really working out for us. We planned to divorce. Then we found out that I was pregnant. We went through with the divorce and gave our baby boy up for adoption. We went our separate ways. He moved out here to Albuquerque and eventually married Troy's mom. And I stayed in Dallas and married Gabriella's dad. That's why I was not in favor of your relationship. I didn't want for either of you to make the choices that Jack and I made. It was very painful for us," she explained.
Troy and I were both shocked. We never would have guessed. We had a brother out there somewhere!
"I understand now why you felt the way you did. But now can't you see how mature Troy is? We're not going to get married yet mom, don't worry!" I smiled at Troy and he smiled back.
"So, Ms. Montez, when was he born?" Troy asked.
"Well," my mom said, "He was born five years before you and Gabi. We named him Aaron Tyler Bolton – yes, I was a Bolton before I married Gabi's father. He lives in Dallas. We wrote each other letters over the years, and I told him about you, Gabi. Troy, I don't know if your dad was in touch with him at all. You know what, I'm going to drop the two of you off at our house and I'm going to go talk to your dad, Troy. He needs to know his son is dating my daughter and that you know about Aaron." And with that, she left Troy and I at my house. We were both speechless.
"I can't believe I have a brother!" Troy exclaimed.
"He's my brother too!" I added. "Wow, it feels so weird that your brother is my brother. It almost feels like we're related. But we're not. Luckily. Otherwise we couldn't date each other." I giggled. Troy just smiled.
"I'm so happy I finally have a sibling," Troy exclaimed. "It's pretty lonely with just me and my parents."
"I know exactly what you mean!" I added. "With just my mom and I, there's nothing to do around here." With that, Troy started tickling me.
"Well," he said seriously, "you could always spend more time with me!" I laughed.
"I surrender, I surrender! Just stop!" I shrieked.
"Why should I?" Troy asked with a boyish grin on his face.
"Well, if you stop, I'll give you a kiss," I offered. He stopped. We both sat up and leaned together. Our lips connected. Troy deepened the kiss and after a little while I pulled away.
"We better stop, Troy, or my mom'll come in and take me to the doctor's office again!" I giggled. Troy silently agreed with me. We spent the rest of the afternoon talking about our brother. We hoped we would get to meet him someday. That someday would come sooner than we thought.
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Well, the mystery has been solved. There's one more chapter left after this. I've been considering doing a sequel, but I don't know what it would be about or anything so if you think I should do a sequel and you have ideas for me please let me know!
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