Chapter 14
I looked at my girlfriend as I heard her sharp in take of breath and her hand clutch her stomach, her full bottom lip went straight between her teeth, biting hard.
"Yeah, he just elbowed me near my ribs," Gabriella said rubbing the spot. "He was trying to get Chadster off," Gabriella joked, looking at Chad who had a open-mouthed expression on his face.
"I am going to be the best baby sitter ever, so," Chad claimed and stuck his tongue out. Gabs giggled at him before pushing him away smiling.
"Hey, can I talk to you for a sec?" I mumbled, looking at Bubba who was slightly behind me, he gave me a confused look but nodded. "Back in a min," I said, kissing the back of Gabriella's head and she nodded, looking at me for a second.
I walked outside of the room with Bubba who had the same confused look on his face. "What's up man?" He asked.
"Will you come with me at lunch tomorrow to get two tattoo's?" I asked "We have free period after lunch so we have like 2 hours," I licked my lips and rubbed my upper arm.
"Yeah, sure. What you getting?" Bubba asked, he already had a tattoo it was of a naked angel on his side.
"I've wanted feathers like under my bicep for ages now but even though I gave Gabs a promise ring she's still a little insecure about me leaving her so I thought if I got a tattoo of her name or something she'd finally believe me that I'm not gonna leave, you know?" I asked, blushing slightly. "But yeah, I want her name like on my hair line on my neck, at the side," I pointed to the place, turning my head to the left.
"That would look good, in curly writing," Bubba said, his uncle being a tattoo artist "If we go to my uncle's, I could get you a bit knocked off?" Bubba shrugged, knowing the price would be a little high.
"Seriously?" I asked, my eyebrows raised.
"Absolutely," Bubba said.
I leant forward and did our complicated man handshake just when Gabs came out of the room, looking exhausted. "Hey," I cooed, finishing the handshake and brushing some hair out of her eyes. "You look so tired," I said, pulling her close to me and Bubba crept back in the room.
"I am and they all think you proposed, I tried to tell them it's a promise ring but they wouldn't listen," She mumbled against my chest, hugging my torso.
"You go climb into bed, I'll tell them what happened and I'll be there as soon as I can," I said, pecking her lips, lightly once I pushed her chin up gently.
"Okay but I need a shower," Gabriella said, pulling back from me.
"Have one tomorrow morning, babe," I kissed her forehead "I know, I am," I told her, hugging her once last time before she nodded and walked into her room, closing the door behind her.
I walked into the baby's room and was greeted with 'congratulations' and I just shook my head, chuckling "We're not engaged," I said, licking my bottom lip "It's a promise ring," I added. "Gabs was really insecure about me going off with some girl at college so I repeatedly told her I wasn't so I gave her a promise ring and promised to stay faithful and I'll propose someday," I told them, blushing slightly while rubbing the back of my neck.
"Ah, my boy is in love," Chad said, pulling me into a head lock, I grabbed his neck and pulled him down as well.
"I am," I said, kicking his leg and he yelped, letting go of my neck. "Right I said I'd clear that up with you lot then go snuggle," I chuckled "Let yourselves out but lock the door behind you," I said, walking out of the room and across the hall to Gabs room. "Hey bab," I smiled watching her little body turn over to face me, her bump showing clearly through the sheets.
"Hey," She smiled softly before her face screwed up.
"What's wrong?" I asked, quickly walking over to the bed and kneeling next to her.
"Just another sharp elbow again," Gabs giggled, rubbing the spot he elbowed with her palm.
"You gotta stop giving me a heart attack," I laughed softly, leaning down to kiss her gently before getting off the bed and stripping down to my plaid blue, cotton boxers and climbing into bed, tugging Gabriella closer to me, spooning her body against mine. My hands rubbing over her stomach as I placed little kisses on her neck. "I love you Gabriella Lea," I whispered, nuzzling her neck.
"I love you, Troy Alexander," Gabriella mumbled back, lacing my hand with hers over her stomach.
"You better do," I grinned against her neck.
"Or what?" She challenged, smiling as I looked at her face.
"Or I'll go home," I whispered, kissing her ear lobe.
"You wouldn't dare," I joked, stroking her belly.
"Wouldn't I?" I said, eyebrows raised, grinning cheekily at my half-asleep girlfriend.
"No, now shut up, I wanna sleep or you'll have a cranky, pregnant girlfriend on your hands tomorrow," Gabs squeezed my hand.
"Sorry," I said, quickly, settling back against the pillows, pressing one last kiss to her cheek and closing my eyes. Keeping a protective arm over her stomach.
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"Troy," I heard a very familiar voice say behind me and I spun around.
"Baby, what are you doing here? You supposed to be at home," I said, cupping her face gently, looking over her face to see if she was in any pain.
"I'm bored," She pouted.
"Gabriella," I said, firmly, giving her a look.
"No, I don't wanna go home," She whined, pushing my hands off her face.
"Your going, have you taken your vitamins today?" I asked, looking at her with raised eyebrows.
"No," She mumbled.
"Go home," I said, kissing her forehead. Gabriella was very irritable lately, she was now 31 weeks pregnant.
"Troy," Gabs whined again, pouting.
"Nuh-uh," I said, cupping her face again, bring my lips lightly to her's.
"You suck," Gabriella sighed, tracing the tattoo on the right side of my neck, on my hairline, the words 'Gabs'.
"Go home, please? You know it's not long now until the baby, please don't hurt yourself," I whispered "I couldn't bare it if I lost you or the baby," I said glancing down at the bump that was snugly between us.
"Fine, I'll see you later," She said, leaning up and pecking my lips before walking away with a cute little waddle in her step.
"So how's you and Gabi, doing?" Chad asked from behind me, leaning his forearm on my shoulder.
"Good. I haven't seen her that much, the past week because I've been working and soccer has recently finished, yeah," I said, turning to my locker and pulling out my math book before shutting it again.
"When's she due, she's getting big now," He asked again.
"July 8th, like 9 weeks away," I smiled "Fucking scared, man," I mumbled. "I have like a month with her and the baby and then I'm off 3 hours away.. Just sucks," I told my best friend and he nodded.
"But didn't you say Gabi said she'd come down and stay with you for a while because she's got three months off," Chad said, slapping the back of my head "Think positive, man. Your gonna be a great dad, 'kay?" Chad wasn't too good on words but he always got things across and somehow Chad saying it in his words made me relax a lot.
I nodded "Thanks dude," I smiled, just as the bell rang, signalling that everybody had to go to their homeroom.
Me and Chad walked to homeroom to walked to Zeke and Bubba who were sitting on Bubba's desk, I nodded at them but then bumped into somebody, knocking there stuff out of their hands.
"Oh shit, I'm sorry," I said, bending down to pick up the couple of books before standing up again and looking at the person I knocked. Sharpay. I shoved her books at her before going to walk away.
"Think your better than everybody else now your gonna be a daddy," Sharpay said and I turned around and watched her smirk, putting her hand on her hip.
"You talk utter shit," I told her, mono-tone voice.
"I wonder if the baby will be as ugly as it's mother," Sharpay poked, rubbing her chin which was covered in make-up.
I looked at her in disgust "Your just jealous," I growled.
"Why because I haven't been fucked by you and gotten pregnant, getting huge and having no friends and family to support me? Yeah, really jealous, Troy," Sharpay said, sarcastically, earning a little laugh from Bailey. I glared at her.
"Jealous of that me and Gabriella are starting a family and managing to stay together through a really hard time," I corrected.
"Please," Sharpay looked at her nails "I am not jealous of that fugly bitch,"
"You better shut the fuck up, Sharpay," I shouted, earning the attention of everybody in the room plus a few passers by in the hall.
"Don't talk to her like that, dude," A guy, I recognised from the football team said, throwing his arms over Sharpay's shoulders.
"See, I'm not pregnant, I can keep my legs shut," Sharpay smirked.
"I swear to fucking.. UGH, fuck you!" I shouted at her, my jaw clenching.
"Man, calm down" Bubba put his hand on my shoulder.
"Don't!" I yelled "You heard the shit she's been saying," I breathed. "FYI Sharpay, I'm the only one Gabriella's slept with. She's not a fucking slag," I whipped back round to Bubba and bit my lip.
"Please," Sharpay giggled "But you've fucked most of the girls at this school," She raised an annoying eyebrow.
"I haven't," I said, shaking my head "I'm not fucking discussing my sex life with you,"
"So is it even your baby?"
"Shut the fuck up." I screamed, pointing at her. "You don't speak about me or Gabriella or anybody like that, you stuck up cow," I suddenly felt a punch in my eyes, I stumbled back a little and opened my eyes to see the football player standing there shaking his hand. I went for him, punching his jaw. Soon enough a fight broke out but Chad and Bubba grabbed me and pulled me off and Zeke and some guy pulled the football player, aka. Jamie Lichfield, off.
"Don't come near me again," I shouted, looking at a shocked Sharpay and an angry Jamie. Jamie wiped his nose of blood.
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"Why do it though, Troy," My dad asked as we walked into my house about half an hour after the fight. We got suspended for 3 days.
"You should of heard the stuff he was saying though, dad," I whispered, sitting on the couch "I wasn't the one who threw the first punch, I didn't want a fight but god, they wound me up," I sighed, pressing the heel of my hand into my eyes but wincing and pulling my hands away before touching my left eye with my finger tips and wincing.
My dad nodded "Why don't you go over to Gabriella's? Relax a little, there won't be much time to do that once the baby comes," My dad told me what I already knew but I nodded and got up, walking out of the room but walking back in a second later "Hey, thanks dad," I smiled at him and he just gave me a nod before I grabbed my keys and wallet before running out of the house and jumping into my drunk, driving straight to Gabriella's.
Once I arrived I got out of my truck and used the spare key to unlock the beach house and I walked in. "Gabs?" I shouted into the house. "Gabriella?" I repeated after I got no reply.
I heard bare feet paddling across the floor and saw Gabs comes round the corner and see her standing in the entrance of the living area and a gasp escaped her mouth.
"Troy, what happened?" Gabs asked, walking over to me, raising a head and brushing her thumb against the side of my nose which had a slight lump on.
"I got into a fight with Jamie Lichfield," I mumbled, rubbing the back of my neck, knowing Gabriella won't be happy.
"What!" She exclaimed "Why?" Gabs screeched, placing her hands on her stomach.
"Sharpay was saying some stuff about us and I started shouting at her and then from no where I felt this punch by my eye and yeah, we just started fighting," I shrugged "3 days off school," I smiled
"Troy," Gabriella said, firmly "There are going to be loads of people who say stuff about us and the baby but you can't get into a fight every time they do," Gabriella said, playing with the hem of my plaid shirt, I just looked at my wise-beyond-years girlfriend and hugged her tightly to my body.
"I love you," I mumbled, weaving my calloused hands into her long hair.
"I love you," She replied, her arms wrapping around my neck.
"I have work off for the next week or so because they don't want me working like this," I said, shrugging, pulling back from Gabs to put my hands on her hips.
"More time with me then," Gabriella grinned.
"Mhm," I smiled and leant down for a kiss but she pulled back, I leant in a little more but Gabs pulled back again. "Gab," I whined, resting my forehead on her shoulder.
"Yeah?" She giggled, innocently.
"Can I have a kiss?" I asked, looking between her eyes and full lips.
"Mhm," She leant forward a little and I touched my lips to her's softly, a couple of times. Her nose then nudged mine and I winced but only ever so slightly pulled back. "Ouch," I said, touching my nose.
"Sorry, babe," Gabriella cooed, holding my face and pecking my lips once more.
"Don't worry about it," I smiled "You wanna go out today?" I asked, moving my hands to rest on the bare skin of her back under her shirt.
"Yes!" She shouted "I haven't been out in ages," She grinned up at me.
I smiled down at my 5'3 girlfriend "Starbucks then the beach? It's April so it'll be nice," I suggested.
"Yup, lemme just go change," She squealed, pecking my lips.
"Okay," I chuckled and tapped her butt while she waddled away only receiving a slight glare. I walked to the small mirror in the hall way, crouched down a little and winced at how I looked. My left eye was bruised which lead down to the side of my nose, I had a cut and bruise on my right cheek and my bottom lip was split. I looked bad.
"Come on, bad ass, let's go," Gabriella giggled a few minutes later.
"A story to tell the kid," I chuckled "7 months pregnant and your dad got into a fight, nice one," I pumped my fist in the air. Gabriella laughed and I smiled at how I could make her laugh, saying the slightest thing.