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Adoption

FOUR YEARS LATER

"Aliyah come on we're gonna be late." A now 20 year old Gabriella yelled from the middle of the living room waiting for her beautiful little angel. After Aliyah was born Gabriella and Troy still went to high school and then when she was two years old her parents both graduated from East High, both with full scholarships to Duke.

"Coming Mommy!"

Gabriella sighed impatiently noticing that Aliyah was running late, a trait that she got from her father, while running into the little girl's room. When she walked into her room she noticed Aliyah was sitting away from her wearing some pajama's and still playing with her dolls, so Gabriella ran and picked her up and twirled her around.

"Ahhhhhh….mommy!!!" Aliyah laughed uncontrollably. "Put me down."

"Come on peanut we have to go." Gabriella said after putting her back down. "We're going to be late for daddy's game, and you're not even dressed yet. Come on vamos!!!"

Aliyah stuck her tongue out at her mother she knew that when her mother talked in Spanish she meant business, so she and Gabriella got her in cute jeans and a Duke Blue Devil t-shirt. While Gabriella was also wearing jeans she was wearing Troy's blue jersey, since Troy was wearing the white one, because he was playing on home court.

Once they were all ready they walked to the gymnasium since it was only a little way from their apartment. When they got into the gym they could see that there was only a few minutes until the game started so they got settled in their seats and waited for it to start.

After another successful victory for the blue devils Troy walked out of the locker room and saw the love of his life and highlight of his life waiting for him. Troy always had Gabriella and Aliyah wait in the gym for him so that they could walk home together.

"Hey baby." Troy said before kissing Gabriella softly on the lips.

"Hey. Great game." She said kissing him back only a little more roughly.

"Hey!!" Aliyah yelled trying to get the attention back on her.

"Sorry booger." Troy said while picking her up and kissing her cheek. "What have you been doing today?"

"Oh my gosh." Aliyah started and Troy knew he was going to get a play by play of her day. "Today after mommy took me to day care um… I was playing with Michaela when Justin came over and started poking me. Really hard. And so I told Mrs. Banks and she made him go sit in time out. It was really funny. Then after lunch he came up to me and said sorry and then he kissed my cheek. I think Mrs. Banks told him too, but it was still really yucky." She finished her rant with a fake gag.

Gabriella couldn't help but laugh at how much Aliyah was like her father. When she was first born Troy was always sure that the only thing that she got from him was his eyes. But she got almost everything personality wise from Troy and got most of her looks from Gabriella.

When they finally got back to their apartment it was almost time for Aliyah to go to bed.

"Come on sweetheart we got to get you in a bath and then into bed." Gabriella said grabbing her from Troy and walking her into the bathroom. While Gabriella was getting a bath ready Troy was in the bedroom getting ready for bed himself. He stripped down to only a pair of boxers and went to lie down in his bed.

About a half hour later Gabriella finally got Aliyah cleaned and asleep and walked into the bedroom to see Troy struggling to stay awake.

"Hi, baby." He said in a drowsy voice.

"Hey." She laughed at him. She then changed into a pair of Troy's boxers and an undershirt and climbed into bed with him.

"So how was your day?" Troy asked while grabbing Gabriella and pulling her close so that they were snuggling together.

"It was good. Class was longer then usual but it was fine. How about you?"

"Good. Before the game during class I was talking to Mitch and he said that he and Amy are going to get married pretty soon." Troy said referring to some of the friends that they made while attending Duke.

"That's so exciting for them. Taylor called me earlier today and said that she and everyone else got in the airport safely and are on their connecting plane probably right now. So we need to pick them up tomorrow. Okay?"

"Yeah that sounds cool. Everyone is with her?"

"Yeah. They are all coming down. But your parents and my mom are going to be getting here about two hours earlier."

"Alright, are you sure that Aliyah doesn't know anything about it?"

"She doesn't suspect anything. She just thinks that we are celebrating her birthday just by ourselves."

"OH MY GOD!!!!" Gabriella, Taylor, Sharpay and Kelsi all exclaimed while running towards each other. After not seeing each other for a couple months all the girls were over animated in their reunion. Troy stood back and watched them interact and waited for the guys to come out of the terminal.

One by one Chad, Zeke, and Ryan walked off of the plane and over to Troy while the girls were still greeting each other.

"Man, could they be more girly?" Chad said.

"No kidding man." Troy agreed.

"So where's Aliyah, I thought today was her birthday? Shouldn't she be here?" Ryan asked.

"She's with my parents and Gabriella's mom right now. They got here earlier today and are doing some grandparents stuff. You are actually her surprise."

"Ahhhhhh…." Aliyah screamed and ran up to all of her aunts and uncles. Chad was the first person that she ran to. "Uncle Chad."

For the rest of the day, everyone celebrated Aliyah's fourth birthday. Troy and Gabriella were so happy with the way everything turned out. They were so happy that their friends could come to North Carolina just to be with each other. But they were so happy with the way they made their life. Because Aliyah was the best thing that could have ever happened to them.

AN: I know the ending was crap, but I just didn't know how to end it. Sorry. But please still review. And thank you for reading. xoxo