The paper ripped as Troy tugged at the yellow flap that was holding vital information for the future of his family. The seal was now completely broken allowing him to slowly reach in and pulled out a few A4 sheets of paper. He scanned his eyes along the page.

Name: Grace (Bolton)

Birth Date: August 12th 2009

Birth Time: 1:30am

Date joined: August 12th 2009

Joining Time: 3:20 am

Date Adopted: December 12th 2009

Adoption Time: 2:55pm

Weight (at birth):3.2 kg

Height (at birth): 49.9cm

Adoptive Father: Bolton, Troy

Adoptive Mother: Bolton, Celina

And neatly highlighted in orange was the information they were after:

Biological Father: Unknown

Biological Mother: Montez, Gabriella

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Troy's eyes widened as Celina took the paper from his hands, her eyes washing over the small black font.

"Our Doctor is our daughter's mother?" She asked, stunned at the coincidence. Troy stormed upstairs pulling his phone out of his pocket dialing Gabriella's number.

"Hello?" Her voice was soft and calm as she spoke.

"Gabriella?" He didn't sound mad but that's only because he was trying to keep his cool…for now.

"Umm…No…Dad?" Troy groaned and mentally slapped his forehead before pulling the phone from his ear to check the phone number was Gabriella's. It was, indeed, her phone.

"Gracie, what are you doing answering Dr. Montez' phone?"

"She's trying on a dress. Sharpay told me to answer it. What are you doing calling Dr. Montez' phone anyway?"

"None of your business. Is she there?" Grace stood up and made her way towards the dressing room that Gabriella was locked in.

"Gabriella, Open up. Phone." Grace knocked on the door waiting for Gabriella to respond.

"Grace, be polite." Troy's voice on the other end said. Grace handed the phone over to Gabriella before joining Sharpay who was patiently waiting for Taylor.

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"Hello?" Gabriella's voice rang through the ear piece.

"Hi Gabriella, We need to meet up."

"Umm okay? When? Tomorrow"

"No ASAP. It's kind of important."

"Okay, well let me get changed and I'll take a cab to the star bucks near the Shopping Strip." Troy agreed, hanging up the phone he grabbed his jacket and ran down the stairs, past his confused wife and out to his car.

"Okay ladies, I have to get going now." Gabriella said placing a kiss on both of their cheeks "Bye Grace." Grace just rolled her eyes

"Tell my father I said hi." Gabriella let a nervous chuckle slip out.

"I'm not meeting with your father." Grace let out a mocking laugh before turning to face Gabriella

"Oh yeah and I'm the new Queen of England." Gabriella shot a glare in her direction before picking up her bag and leaving the store. She got into the next cab she saw, making her way down to Star bucks.

Celina sat on the couch flipping through the papers when the front door opened and slammed shut. She looked up, half expecting to see her husband but instead found her daughter. Face flushed, looking cranky.

"What's wrong Gracie?" Grace didn't turn her head or make any eye contact. She replied with a huff followed by 'nothing' before storming up to her room to find Amy.

"Oh yeah, that's clearly nothing." Celina said sarcastically before she turned back to the papers.

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"I can't believe him! Why would he call her?" Amy rolled her eyes as Grace paced around the room. Grace and Amy were best friends but the one thing that annoyed Amy most about Grace was that she read way too much into things. Like the phone call for example. Grace had been ranting for about half an hour on the possible reasons for her father to make a call to Gabriella and so far they had all been implying the exact same thing. He was having an affair.

"Grace would you please just stop?" Amy begged, not being able to take another minute of her whining loop.

"Stop what?"

"You're constant ranting. Your father has a female friend so what, big deal. My mum has friends that are guys. Does that mean she's cheating?" Grace flumped on the bed taking a seat beside Amy.

"I'm sorry. I'm also sorry for leaving you with mum and dad whilst I was with Shar, Tay and Gabriella."

"It's okay. I cleaned your room in order to help time pass. Ta Da!" Grace glanced around her room and sure enough her clothes had been removed from her desk chair, floor and any other visible surface and the handy screwdriver and papers/books she kept on her bed were all in their rightful places. Grace groaned

"Great now I don't know where anything is. But thank you."

She entered star bucks; her eyes scanning the seating area, a smiled found its place on her face as her brown eyes came in contact with his intense blue ones. She took a seat opposite him.

"Hi." Troy focused his eyes on her; she could tell he was confused. "Why'd you need to see me ASAP?"

"Well I'd like an explanation."

"An explanation of what?" Troy stared at her, not blinking, not moving just staring. His eyes washing over her flawless face, her sparkling eyes and red glossy lips.

"Why don't you take a look?" Troy took a folded piece of paper from his pocket and slid it across the wooden surface to her. Gabriella slowly unfolded the paper scanning the information set in front of her. As Gabriella reached the part of importance she let out a gasp.

"What?" she whispered. She slowly raised her eyes to meet his.

"So…anything you want to… Oh I don't know possibly explain?" Gabriella sighed and leaned back in the hard wooden chair.

"What do I need to explain?" Troy rolled his eyes but as he went to reply his mobile phone started to ring. He shoved his hand into his pocket pulling out his slick black phone.

Gabriella sat patiently waiting for Troy to finish his phone call and as she sat she tried to process all the information she had just received. Her daughter, the one that was constantly on her mind was so close. Gabriella took a deep breath as Troy hung up the phone.

"Sorry, that was just Celina. I have to go soon so, an explanation?" Troy said once again going serious. Gabriella let out an aggravated huff.

"What do you want me to explain? It's pretty obvious what happened. I had sex, got pregnant and gave it up for adoption because I didn't think I could cope."

"That's not what I meant."

"Then what the hell did you mean?! What else is there to explain?" Gabriella's voice was raising and she was beyond frustrated.

"I don't know okay. And could you please stop yelling people are staring." Gabriella stood up grabbing her purse

"I don't care if people stare. I'll see you tomorrow at 10:30 for Celina's appointment." With that Gabriella left Troy sitting there alone to think about what just went down.

Troy entered his house throwing his keys on the hall stand before making his way into the lounge room. There he found Amy and Grace watching Grey's Anatomy and eating a tub of ice cream.

"Where's your mother?" Troy asked and instead of a verbal reply he was met with Grace's hand pointing in the direction of the kitchen.

"Honey I'm home." He walked over and placed a kiss on Celina's cheek.

"Hi Troy." Celina said flatly.

"Baby, what's wrong?" Celina turned around from the soapy sink.

"How do we plan on telling Dr Montez the daughter she gave up is our daughter we adopted?"

"I'm not sure. Look don't worry we'll sort it out. Now I'm going to take a shower. Send the two rug rats to bed will you? they have school." Troy headed upstairs listing ways to tell Gabriella that Grace was hers when she already knew …

That was a mighty fine question Celina.

A/N- Sorry it took a while but itz my holidayz and I've been out and stuff plus my interbnet is running slower than a snail because my brother likes to watch 777's take off and land on youtubeGEEK! and i've been brainstorming new story ideas just for funzies! Any way i wasn't a fan of this chapter but i felt guilty for keep ya'll waiten so sorry for mistakes and non-sensical sentences!

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