2 MONTHS LATER

Troy and Chad was at Gabriella's watching Grace while she was at class.

They were doing great they fed her,burped her, bathed her and put her to bed.

"Finally!" Chad clapped his hands "let's get some xbox going"

Troy closed Grace's door but cracked it and went to join Chad.

The boys were into the game for about an hour when Troy heard his daughter fussing. He quickly stood up to get her.

"Hey daddy's girl" he picked her up from her vanity crib and kissed her but she continued to cry like she was in pain "What's wrong baby"

'Waaaah waaaah waaaah waaah' a wailing Grace cried louder every few seconds

Troy started to panic,she never cried like this with him.

"Ay Chad come here" he called his friend from the living room as he put his daughter on his shoulder and patted her back. "Dude I don't know what's wrong with her"

"She's not hungry or wet" Chad got on eye level with Grace and looked at her teary blue eyes wetting her long eyelashes with her tears "what's wrong Gracie"

She cried louder alarming Troy

"Here take her, I'm gonna text Gabriella" he handed the baby to Chad.

Grace continues to cry in Chad's while staring at her daddy.

He grabbed his phone and texted his girlfriend

"Hey Grace is fussy n I have no idea what's wrong with her"

Gabriella quickly texted back

"She may be running a fever,her thermometer is on her dresser"

Ok she's saying she may have a fever" he told chad who was bouncing the baby while he got the thermometer from where Gabriella said it was.

"Alright come here princess" he grabbed her and laid her on her changing table. She screamed louder as he tried to put the ear thermometer into her ear but she started fighting her dad by moving her head side to side

'WAAAAAAAAAHH WAAAAAAH!!' She screamed

and Troy back away.

"Dude wassup?" Chad said holding Grace's head still.

"I don't wanna hurt her" Troy said staying calm.

"That thing is completely safe,she's fine I think she's crying louder because she's being restrained"

Troy went back over to his daughter, put the probe in her ear and thermometer read 100.3 and he texted her mother back.

"Fever is 100.3"

"Okay, grab her Tylenol from my bathroom and give her .5mls"

Troy went and got her medicine and put the necessary dose in the syringe and fed it to his daughter but she spat it out and kept crying even louder.

"Well we know her lungs work" Chad said holding her hands and her head still.

"Come on Grace, you have to take it so you'll feel better" he put another .5mls into the syringe and tried to feed it to her but this time he put it to the inside of her cheek.

She stopped crying to swallow the liquid and Troy picked her up and rocked her to calm her a little.

"Troy you're a great dad man" Chad said grabbing Grace's little hand "who would've known...hoops being a daddy"

"Thanks man" he said kissing Grace's forehead "definitely doesn't come with a manual,Gabriella is way more smarter in the parent department"

"Y'all doing great though" Chad said.

"Thanks" he continues to rock his baby.

"She's just so beautiful, looking like Gabriella with your eyes" Chad cooed over his niece "a blue-eyed Montez"

Grace started to whine again followed behind a huge spit up on his shoulder and a blowout in her diaper.

"Oh come on Gracie give daddy a break" Troy bounced her laughing

1 HOUR LATER

Gabriella came walking in the door spotting a sleeping Troy with Grace on his bare chest, she didn't want to disturb them so she tip toed passed him and the mess with baby clothes and a little of Troy's clothes he had around the living room floor and furniture.

"Hey sneaky" he opened one eye shifting himself carefully not to wake the baby "how was class?"

Gabriella spun around to see him looking at her.

"It was fine but I missed my baby" she walked over to Troy kissing his lips and the top of her 3 months old's head.

"How'd it go here?" She asked him looking around at the mess around the house.

"Our daughter's a pig" he laughed and she hit his thigh for his comment "but no really,it went okay Chad and I got her to take her medicine the first attempt didn't go well, prior to her fever we fed, burped and bathed her"

As he talked Gabriella checked the infant's forehead To assure the fever was gone.

"Then pretty much this mess" he said waving his finger at the clothes "is from this vomit princess here,every time I changed her, she'll shit all over her clothes, me and herself, part of the carpet"

"Ooh nooo"

"Yeah. That or she'll throw up everywhere" he laid his head back exhausted.

"Awe I'm sorry she gave you a tough first time"

"It's cool. I enjoyed every bit of it" he grabbed her hand "after the panic attack.

"I hope Chad got pictures" she laughed slightly

"Gabriella, I can tell you now, neither one of us was thinking about pictures, I was about to stamp 'broken' on her forehead and return to sender" he motioned pretending to stamp her little head.

"I watched you with her Troy" she looked into his eyes after her smile faded "and...I couldn't ask for a better father for her"

"Thanks babe...she already have the greatest mom in the world, I just learn from you"

Gabriella smiled and let out a quiet "thanks"

Grace started to move around at the Sound of Mother's voice.

"I think she'll be getting hungry in a few" Troy patted her tiny back. "I'll go warm up a bottle"

" it's okay Troy, I'll breastfeed her, I was sooooo engorged in class, leaking everywhere" unbuttoning her shirt she told him taking the baby from his chest and positioning her at her right breast.

'Waaah' Grace cried impatiently as Gabriella took her enlarged breast from her bra.

Grace opened her little mouth before Gabriella latched her on. she started sucking fast and hard.

"You were hungry,princess" Gabriella stroked Grace's curly dark hair.

"I can't get over how beautiful she is" Troy paused "I still look at her like the day she was born, her beauty amazes me"

Gabriella gave Troy one of infamous ear to ear grins as he expressed the beauty of their child.

(There's a picture of Grace of how I pictured her in profile)

Troy watched Gabriella bond with her baby before getting up to clean up the living room and put everything away where they belong, washing dishes and bottles,taking out the trash.

"Okay baby I'm gone" he said grabbing his car keys and walking over to kiss Gabriella's lips and his daughter's head while she was still attached to her mother.

"Okay" Gabriella looked up at him with saddened eyes "do you have to go? I just wish you'd move in already"

"Well you know I have class at 8am tomorrow which is the reason I'm leaving now and you know I told you I would move in when the school semester is over"

"Yeah whatever" she sneered with an attitude "I just don't think you want the everyday responsibility with Gracie, because Berkeley is only a 25 minute drive from my house"

"Yo, cut that shit out, Grace have nothing to do with why I wouldn't, I love taking care of my daughter I would do it everyday if I could"

"Oh you would?!"

With that being said Gabriella took her breast from the baby's mouth, stood up and handing her to Troy

"Then you would"

She walked into Grace's room and grabbed her already packed diaper bag and handed it to Troy.

"Gabriella. Seriously?" Troy said still cradling his daughter who was constantly startled and jumping from her mother raising her voice which made her bust out in a holler.

"Oh I'm dead ass serious,Troy" she told him while getting Grace's pacifier and putting it in her mouth "you don't even bother to take her off my hands for a few hours"

"You're not playing fair Gabriella" Troy started to raise his voice "I come over here in between my classes every fucking day to look after my kid while you go to class and you still don't want to play fair" he pointed at her "so you saying fuck my schooling huh!"

"No that's not what I'm saying Troy but my whole day with classes and have to come home and take care of Grace,which is the best thing that ever happened to me, but laundry, cooking, bathing and feeding her by myself for 90% of the week if your and my mom isn't available"

"Shit" he ran his free hand through his hair and looked at Grace who was staring back at him with her reflective blue eyes, he looked back at Gabriella "I love my daughter Gabriella don't get me wrong, but this is the exact reason why I didn't want a baby in the first place"

"Well I said the same thing when things get tough but she's here now,and abortion was out of the question so deal with, it we're raising a baby together" she put her hands on her hips

"What the hell am I suppose to do about her milk if you breastfeed?"

Gabriella disappeared into the kitchen and came back with pouches breast milk from the freezer and placed it in his hand.

"I also pump, don't act like you don't know" she said getting smart "what you think you been feeding her when I'm away"

"Okay I can show you I can do these couple of days and bring her back in one piece, you go and get your beauty rest princess,I got my daughter" he sarcastically said and squinted his eyes at her

Gabriella rolled her eyes at Troy and went in closer to kiss the baby cradled by her daddy's arms

"Be good for daddy,Gracie ok?"

Troy didn't say nothing else to Gabriella after she said goodbye to Grace he just turned around and walked out the door and headed to Berkeley with his kid.