Chapter 8

"I wish you could come," I mumbled against her hair as we hugged.

"Me too but you and I both know I can't," Gabriella said, pulling back but keeping her arms around my torso.

"I know," I leant down and kissed her quickly. "Be safe yeah? Look after our little 'un," I grinned, running my thumb over her bump.

"Promise," She smiled and kissed me again. "Have a good time, I love you,"

"I love you," I replied, kissing her forehead and walking towards the cab. I threw my bag in and got in with Chad, Bubba and Zeke who were also looking into going to Duke. I knew I was going there but they were just checking it out.

I waved to my mom, dad, Dylan, Gabs from the cab as it took off toward the airport.

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"Guys! This is gonna be awesome," I exclaimed as we walk through the front of Duke.

"Tell me about it," Chad mumbled, looking around. I looked at him just to see him wink at some college girl. I chuckled and shook my head. "What?"

"Your such a flirt," I chuckled.

"Eh," He shrugged and laughed.

"So where to first?" Bubba asked.

"Well the guy at the front said that we meet in some lecture hall," I shrugged, seeing other students walk in. "Hey man, do you know where we have to go for the freshmen tour?" I asked, some dude who was about the same height as me, not as tanned and blonde hair.

"Hey, yeah we're going that way now? Wanna tag along?" He asked, gestured to two other guys.

"Sure, thanks dude," I said and we all followed these three guys.

"I'm Alex by the way," The blonde said.

"Troy," I told him.

Everybody introduced themselves, there was an afro American guy called: Jay and a shorter, black haired guy called Diego.

We all went into this lecture hall and took our seats in a row.

"So where are you guys from?" Diego asked, leaning forward to see us.

"California, what about you?" Bubba answered.

"New York," They answered.

"So you're along way from home?" Jay stated more than asked.

"Yeah," We all nodded.

"Ready for the college experiences," Alex smirked and gestured to a couple of girls who just entered the hall.

"Hell yeah," Chad chuckled.

"Born ready, man," Zeke said. He broke up with Sharpay this morning and Sharpay just agreed and to be honest? Couldn't care less.

"Definitely," Bubba chimed in.

"Troy here is staying with the high school sweetheart," Chad said, grabbing the back of my neck.

I chuckled and blushed slightly "It's true,"

"No way," All there jaws dropped.

"Yeah," I laughed, smirking.

"How long you two guys been together?" Alex asked, leaning back against the cushioned chairs.

"Almost 2 years," I licked my lips.

"Hot?" Diego stuck his tongue out.

I just laughed and felt a hand in my pocket. "Dude, what the fuck," I said, holding my pocket but Chad already got my phone out and went straight to my pictures and clicked on one before Gabriella was pregnant. It was of me and Gabriella at the beach, me in shorts and Gabs in a black bikini. My arm was around her waist and we both smiled at the camera.

"Wow, man," Alex said.

"Hmm," I agreed.

"So where's she going for college?" Jay asked.

"She'll still be in high school next year, senior," I told them, nodding.

"She's younger?"

"Yeah," I confirmed and then the next picture came up which was of the 12 week ultrasound and silently cursed, not that I was ashamed I was far from it. I just meet these guys and wasn't ready to tell them.

"What's that?" Alex asked.

"My girlfriend's 12 week ultrasound," I whispered looking at the picture.

"You mean the girl on the picture, is pregnant?" Diego asked, shocked.

"Yeah, she's 16 weeks with my baby," I admitted, putting my phone away.

"Well I guess, Congrats, man," Jay said, shrugging.

"Yeah, congrats," Diego said.

"What they said," Alex chuckled and pointed at Jay and Diego.

I laughed but stopped when the lights dimmed and a guy started to talk. I scratched my cast as he spoke, glad I was getting it off when I went home.

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For most of the day we went round to different meetings, the actually tour of the whole place was tomorrow and then the 3 days after there was a couple of meetings about what you can do there and so on but most of the time you could explore yourself. The last day though, we had training with the Blue Devils soccer team.

We decided that we'd hang around with Diego, Alex and Jay at night so right now we were just walking round campus, when I felt a vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out and saw Gabriella flash on the screen and answered.

"Hey baby," I cooed into the phone.

"Hey handsome," I heard Gabs say. "How's Duke?" She asked.

"Amazing," I answered simply "We're just walking round campus now. We had a bunch of meetings today," I told her.

"It sounds good," She sung into the phone with a giggle.

I smiled "Yeah," I replied quietly "So how's your day been, babe?" I asked, switching ears.

"Hmm, okay," She mumbled.

"Just okay?" I frowned.

"I had no one to hang out with," Gabs explained "Plus all the girls were giving me dirty looks," She mumbled.

"Hey, I'll be home in 4 days. Just tell someone if anybody says anything, okay? And ring me," I told her "On a happier note, how's the baby?"

"Good, according to your mom mine is a very easy pregnancy considering I haven't been sick just a couple of cravings here and there but mainly really weird dreams," I could hear the smile on her voice by the way she was talking.

I chuckled "That's good though, right?"

"Of course," Gabs giggled.

I grinned and looked at my friends and saw that some of the soccer team had just walked up to us. "Hey babe, I have to go. Some of the soccer team is here,"

"Okay, have fun," She exclaimed.

"I will, be careful with the baby and everything. Love you,"

"I promise," She laughed into the phone "Love you too, night,"

"Night gorgeous," I whispered and hung up the phone, turning to some of the Blue Devils who were talking to everyone.

"Hey," I said, nodding at them, feeling slightly nervous.

"Ah your Troy Bolton?" One of them asked.

"Yeah," I said, confused on how they know me.

"Coach has big hopes for you," Another guys said.

"He has?" My eyebrows shot up.

"Hell yeah," He chuckled.

"Wow," I chuckled and nodded.

"You gotta live upto expectations, dude," The first one said again.

I nodded and bit my lip "I will," I smiled.

"You wanna come play a bit?"

"Sure," We all said, grinning.

We then got into a little bit of a game with the Blue Devils. I was mega excited to start college here but Gabs flashed across my mind and I remembered that this college is across the country to her.

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It was the last day on campus, I was disappointed to go but I knew I'd be back to spend 4 years here. Yesterday was my 2 year anniversary with Gabriella along with the 17 week mark, she had told me that the bump had grown well according to her brother anyway. She had moved in with her brother about 2 days ago.

Today we were just gonna roam around campus, check out things we haven't yet. Then go the airport for four pm.

"Let's go," Zeke shouted, banging on the wall like drum.

I laughed at my friend, adjusting my beanie on my head. "You heard the boy," I joined in and we quickly made our way out the door, carrying our duffel bags down to the reception where they said they'd hold them.

"I say we go check out the soccer stadium," Bubba said, practically skipping out of the door.

"Same and the football one," Zeke said, clapping his hands.

"We saw that when we went to that game the other night," I said, pulling Zeke into a head lock, I didn't notice the couple of girls that walked up to us.

"Hey," Chad said, giving them a once over that made me realize that some girls were there. I let go Zeke and nodded at the girls. Yeah they were pretty but they have nothing on Gabriella.

"Hey, me and Cassie wondered if you wanted to come to our party tonight?" A blonde asked, raising an eyebrow and biting her lip.

I frowned slightly and Bubba spoke up "Sorry girls, we're going home today,"

"Maybe we could get a flight tomorrow?" Chad suggested.

"You guys can but I'm going home," I told them shrugging.

Zeke's arm went around my neck "He misses his girl," Zeke chuckled and messed up my hair.

I chuckled and shrugged "It's true, mate," I licked my bottom lip.

"Sorry girls," Zeke said and waved sarcastically as they walked away.

"Just after Troy then," Bubba said.

I made a disgusted face "They were way to blunt. You guys can do a hell of a lot better than that," I flung my arm in the direction they went as we started to walk to the soccer stadium.

"Wow, it's huge compared to the high school's," I said, looking at the front of the stadium.

"Your telling me," Bubba said.

"You think you'll be playing here?," Zeke asked, slapping my shoulder.

"I don't know. I mean this is my dream place to go and everything but I'll be across the country and my girlfriend and baby will be the other side, I'll barely see them. I just think it'll be easier to stay in California. There are some amazing colleges for soccer there. UCLA is in the top 20 in the country," I said. "Just comes down to whether I want to go to my dream college or stay with my family,"

"Which do you want?" Chad asked.

"Family," I swallowed "I'm more than willing to go there, I got offered a scholarship there and still haven't told them if I'm going to take it. It was between Duke, UCLA, USC and Creighton anyways," I licked my lips.

"UCLA, then?" Bubba asked "Absolutely certain?"

"Yeah," I smiled. Looking up at the stadium and biting my lip. Surprisingly I wasn't upset that I wasn't going to be attending here. Maybe UCLA is where I'm supposed to go. "Where are you guys going?"

"I think I'm gonna go here," Bubba said.

"Same, if it's cool with you?" Chad said.

"Yeah, if it's okay with you," Bubba repeated.

"Of course, it's fine," I chuckled, nudging them with my arm.

"I think I'm gonna into cookery," Zeke said, shrugging.

"You are amazing at that man," I said "Cookies when we get home, yeah?" I pointed my finger in his chest and laughed.

"Course man," Zeke laughed.

"Good cause Gabs is craving them," I chuckled.

"Oh geez," Zeke shook his head, smiling.

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