Troy slowly walked up the stairs into his sleeping daughter's room

Troy slowly walked up the stairs into his sleeping daughter's room. It was Monday, a school day. He tiptoed in trying not to make a sound before he reached her bed. He stood over her, hands ready and waiting. He then attacked her sides, instantly waking the girl sending her into fits of laughter.

"Da--Dad--Stop--Can't breathe." He chuckled releasing her from his grip.

"Come on it's a school day squirt." She slowly pulled the covers off and made her way to the bathroom. Troy headed downstairs to find his wife Celina. He found her humming, hovering over the stove.

"Good morning beautiful." He kissed her cheek before making his way over to the fridge to pull out the orange juice. Taking off the lid he took one huge gulp before placing the lid back on and setting it back on the refrigerators shelf.

"How many times must I tell you Troy? Don't drink out of the carton! Is Grace up?" Troy nodded his head before he grabbed his bag and gave his wife another kiss on the cheek. "Bye Grace." He shouted so she could hear him leave. He heard a soft 'bye pa' before heading out to work.

Troy had followed in his fathers footsteps and become a Basketball coach/Gym teacher for all the kids at St. Joseph's. He pulled into an empty parking space and made his way towards his office.

"Grace come on! You're going to be late" Celina called to her thirteen year old daughter.

"Chill I'm coming!" Grace came bounding down the stairs her book bag full with text books, note paper and pens. They both headed for the car buckling up and heading for Grace's school. Celina pulled up outside the school gates and waved Grace off "Bye-bye mum."

Troy entered the kitchen after a long day at work and grabbed a bottle of water. He desperately needed to have a shower. He stunk. Actually that was an understatement. He had a two hour training session after school for the up coming basketball game and Troy usually participated in all of the team's work outs.

"Hey. I thought I heard you come in." Celina smiled and made her way over to Troy. "Oh boy! Go and have a shower" Troy chuckled and made his way upstairs to take a nice hot shower.

When Troy was nice and clean he made his way down stairs in search of his wife. He found her in the family room on the phone.

"Tomorrow? 11:30am? Alright see you then." She placed the phone back in its cradle and turn to meet Troy. "We have an appointment with a doctor tomorrow and I expect you to be there." Troy sighed.

"Celina we've talked about this. We have to tell Grace before we try for another baby." Celina stood up, tears threatening to fall.

"I will tell her soon but just for now can we just forget it? Please?" Celina stood up and tried to get past Troy but he grabbed her hands and pulled her into his chest comforting her while she sobbed.

"Don't worry I'll be there tomorrow. I'll call in sick." He stroked his wife's hair lovingly trying to get her to calm. When her sobs slowly subsided she lifted her head to get a better view of her husbands face.

"Thank you." She whispered before hiding her head in his chest once more.

"Lets go to bed we've got a long day tomorrow." She nodded her head and allowed Troy to lead her up stairs to their room.

Today was the day. They had just dropped Grace off at school, and Troy and Celina were searching for a café to have some breakfast and coffee, before heading off to meet with their doctor.

"Look, Celina I think we need to tell Grace soon. This weekend perhaps? We'll get her that movie she's been going on about, buy her, her favorite take-away food and then before she goes to bed we'll tell her." Celina sighed.

"What if she wants to find them? What if she wants to get to know them? Live with them even?"

"Then we'll support her decision because that's what parents do. Stick by one another when times get rough."

"What if she hates us?" Celina was close to tears again and all Troy could do was sigh. Celina looked down at her watch, noticing the time she jumped up, placed the money on the table before grabbing Troy's arm and dashing towards the car.

They sat in the Doctor's office, Celina nervous and fidgety and Troy bored to death. The walls were white giving Troy a headache and the place smelt like a hospital. The nurse behind the counter sat with her feet on the desk, phone balancing in between her shoulder and ear and a magazine on her lap. The white door to the left of the Nurses station opened and a doctor stepped out dressed in black pants and a green shirt with a white lap coat over the top indicating she was indeed a doctor.

"Bolton, Celina?" Troy and Celina stood up and made their way into the exam room.

"Hi I' m Doctor Lansing but you can just call me Mary. I'm not your actual doctor but she was called to New York for an emergency surgery. She's one of the best."

"I'm Celina and this is my husband Troy." Troy shook Mary's hand and Celina imitated his actions.

"I understand you've been trying for a child but its just not happening?"

"Yes." Celina answered quickly without hesitation.

"Well, we have a number of options but I'd like to suggest IVF?" an image of confusion was placed upon Celina's face.

"IV what? Isn't an IV a drip?" Troy asked slightly confused. Mary laughed.

"I'm not talking about Intravenous therapy I'm talking about In vitro fertilisation." Troy nodded still a little lost. Then Celina spoke up.

"What does that involve?"

"Well it's basically when the eggs are fertilised outside of the womb and then the fertilised egg is transsfered back into your uterus resulting in, what we hope to be a sucsessfull pregnancy." Mary explained.

"So how much does his cost?" Troy asked a little wary

"Roughly around 4500.00 paid upfront and that's just for the fertilization."(A/N that's in Australian dollars) Troy's mouth fell open considering its usually free and fun to make a child.

"Celina we're going to have to talk about this.' Celina sighed and stood up

"Thank you Mary. We'll see you tomorrow with our decision." Mary and Celina shook hands

"Well actually I won't be here tomorrow your real doctor should be back." Troy shook her hand and they headed back home.

Once inside the great debate started.

"Celina, baby I'm not so sure about this. We don't exactly have money just lying around."

"We'll ask my dad for money." Celina argued

"I'll never hear the end of it if he does lend us money." Troy sighed and sat down on the couch. "I know you want another child but we already have one gorgeous daughter to care for. Isn't that enough?"

Celina sighed "Now don't get me wrong I love Gracie but I want another. Ask Gracie if she wants a sibling I'm sure the answer will be yes." Troy sighed he knew that was true. When Grace was younger she would bug them for hours on end asking for a little sister to play dollies with or a little brother to dress up as a sister to play dollies with. Grace was a beautiful girl. Bright blue eyes and brown hair. She always reminded Troy of some one but he could never put his finger on it.

"Well fine. We'll borrow money But only because I love you. There's also one condition." Celina nodded her head signaling for him to continue. "If we do this tomorrow we tell Gracie tonight." Celina opened her mouth to reply but noting came out

"Fine." Troy smiled.

"Great I'll get everything ready."

Later that evening when Grace was up in her room doing her homework, Celina was down stairs fretting. She had to verbally tell her daughter. Could this day get any worse? Well actually today wasn't that bad they're trying for another baby via IVF but that all depended if Celina went through with telling Grace the truth. Troy had gone to the video store to rent the movie and to pick up the pizza and carbonara pasta from Sophia's.

"Gracie come downstairs your father will be back soon with dinner and a movie." Grace came bounding down the stair in her baggy gray trackiepants with one of her dads old East High hoodies.

"Mum are you okay? You look a little pale." Grace grabbed an apple and sat on the counter top.

"I'm fine. Put that apple down dinner is on its way." Grace rolled her eyes and put the apple back in the fridge and right on cue in walked Troy with a stack of DVD's and pizza boxes and a plastic take-away container full of pasta.

"What's the special occasion dad?"

"What? Can't a father do something special for the daughter he loves?" Grace shook her head.

"It's exactly the same as when I call you Daddy then ask you for money to go shopping. So what do you want?" Troy chuckled

"Nothing." Grace raised one eyebrow "Nothing" He put his hands up defensively. "Now pick a movie." Grace gabbed Pirates of The Caribbean: At Worlds end and ran into the living room. Troy was close behind carrying the food and then Celina carrying the plates and cutlery. They sat there eating, laughing and watching Pirates until the end credits began to roll. Grace grabbed the remote and forwarded to the hidden ending.

"You know I've never seen that part before." Troy stated

"That's because you're stupid dad." Grace replied as nicely as she could

"Ha.Ha.Ha. Now go upstairs and brush your teeth then come back down here because your Mother and I need a word." Grace sighed and stood up.

"Knew it." She ran upstairs brushed her teeth quickly before taking a seat across from her parents. "Shoot."

"Okay. Gracie we have two things to tell you. Good and Bad news. We're going to tell you the good news first." Troy began.

"Well sweetheart you may be getting a brother or a sister if this IVF treatment works." Grace squealed and hugged her mother.

"Are you serious!? That's awesome! Oh my gosh I can't believe it. Anyway bad news?"

"Well the bad news is… Troy you tell her. I can't." Troy wrapped an arm around his wife.

"Grace, we love you very much but there is something you should know. You're adopted."

"Wait. What?" Grace was in complete and total shock she wasn't sure she heard right.

"You are adopted." Grace started to laugh but then she noticed the tone in her father's voice. He was serious.

Completely and totally serious.

A/N- Okay so it's pretty bad now but i'm hoping it will get better! i've got to go do some stupid report on Captain James Cook now so thank you for reading and please review i'd love to hear what you all think!

XxPeace OutxX