Troy stood there unblinking, unmoving, not knowing what to do. He sat down on the arm chair and put his head in his hands and started to laugh.
"Troy this isn't funny." He nodded his head as he stood up.
"Yes, Celina it is. This whole situation is hilarious! My wife's IVF doctor is my high school sweet heart. We tell our daughter she's adopted and she wants to know who her real parents are who is it? Oh that's right my high school sweet heart! You want to know who the father of my high school sweet hearts child is and who is it? Oh me! Her high school sweet heart! It's unbelievable!" It was obvious Troy was shocked, beyond shocked even. "Unbelievable, unbelievable, un-fricken-believable! Jesus Christ Gabriella! why didn't you tell me all those years ago!?! Actually you know what; I don't want to hear it. I need air, I need to get outta here! Don't wait up." Troy grabbed his jacket and car keys and stormed out of the house. Celina turned to Gabriella and stared at her, she went to say something but was cut of by the sound of sniffling and quiet sobs coming from the entry to the kitchen.
"Dad is my dad and he's mad about it?" Grace walked further into the room looking expectantly at both her mothers.
"No Grace he's not. He's jus confused as to why I didn't tell him about you. Come here." Grace slowly walked over to Gabriella wiping her eyes every now and then. She sat down next to Gabriella and as Gabriella was reaching for Graces hand Celia snapped.
"Gabriella Montez, get out of my house this instant. If you do not leave I will have no other choice than to dial 911." Grace had never seen her mother act in this sort of way. I mean sure she got mad and yelled, maybe grounded her a few times but never in the presence of people who weren't family, and Amy wasn't family. She stood forgotten at the doorway that leads to the kitchen. Amy felt nothing but sorrow for her friend I mean sure nobody died but with all this drama going on it seemed like they just got news that the family pet had been hit by the neighbor's car, which is weird because they don't have a pet.
"Why do I have to leave Celina? Just let me stay until Troy gets back, please? I really need to explain myself to him." Celina rolled her eyes but nodded none the less, she wanted to get the point across that she wasn't a complete cut-throat bitch.
"Fine. But one condition." Gabriella nodded her head, eager to stay. "You stay on the second story and don't come down." Gabriella nodded her head and made her way towards the winding staircase located in the entrance walk way off to the left. As she started to ascend the stairs she heard the patter of four sock clad feet. She stopped walking and turned around to see Grace and Amy standing there at the bottom of the steps.
"What are you two doing? You should be down with Celina, your mother." Amy and Grace ran up the steps and stopped when they reached Gabriella Amy took her left hand and Grace took her right.
"Well you're my mother too and I think its time we got to know each other." They tugged on her hands to get her to move forward and make her way up the stairs. They led her down a corridor abruptly turning right bringing them to Graces room.
True to her word pink and yellow are her favorite colors; the colors were displayed on her walls, her bed, and her floor. Gabriella laughed as she moved further into the room.
"Gosh it's creepy." Amy said as she took a seat on Graces bed.
"What is?" Grace asked as she took a seat next to her BFFL on her comfy bed. Gabriella was seated on the pink desk swivel chair waiting for Amy to answer.
"You and you." He said pointing to Grace then Gabriella. "You're so similar. You have same laugh, you talk the same and just before when we were spying on you adults I noticed you and Grace do the same thing when you're nervous."
"Amy you weren't supposed to tell her we were spying." Grace whispered loudly shoving her friend.
"Oh come on! Don't you think on some level she already knew."
"She's right I was a kid once. Now what do we both do when we are nervous?" Gabriella asked, wanting to be fill in years of missed information.
"You both do the whole cheek biting thing and you pick at your nails." Gabriella smiled and she and Grace laughed simultaneously. Grace lent back on her bed picking up her round orange basketball pillow and began throwing it in the air.
"Did your father give you that pillow?" Grace nodded her head in conformation as Gabriella clapped her hands signaling for Grace to throw her the pillow. "He's had this for years. I made it for him in Mat Tech, I gave it to him right before I left."
"I didn't know that, he always told me his father gave it to him." Gabriella looked up at Grace and laughed
"Of course he did. How are Mr. Jack Bolton and Lucille? I haven't seen them in years" Grace walked over to her wardrobe and pulled out a big black book she then took her seat back on her bed before calling Gabriella over to take a seat next to her. Gabriella moved from her chair taking a seat on the soft cushiony bed.
"They're good." She said as she opened the book. "Here this is a photo album of all our Christmas'." Grace placed the book in Gabriella's lap allowing her to flick through it. The first few pages were full of pictures of Grace as a baby. It shocked Gabriella that when Grace was so young she was the spitting image of her father but as she grew up and matured she started to look more and more like her. Gabriella felt the tears stinging the back of her eyes, but she wouldn't cry, no. Not in front of her daughter.
Celina sat on the couch staring at a picture of Troy, her and Grace. It had been taken a few hours after they had taken Gracie home from the agency. Celina place the photo back on the mantle with a sigh, she then picked up the next photo, and it was of her and Troy on their wedding day. They hadn't known each other long before they got married and adopted Grace. They met whilst they were on holiday with their families in December of 2008. As they both got to know each other more they discovered they both lived in the same place so they met up started going out and were, from then on, inseparable.
Troy popped the question on New Years Eve at midnight of 2009 with them getting married on Valentines Day with Troy completely unaware he had knocked up his ex-girlfriend November of last year. They looked so happy in both of those pictures and now everything was so screwed up.
Celina shuffled into the kitchen expecting to see Amy and Grace eating the cookies and milk that were set on the counter for them but they where no where to be seen. She looked out the window into the back yard checking if they had jumped in the pool fully clothed as they often did but nope, still no sign. She then heard, from upstairs three people burst into laughter, two sounding exactly alike. She huffed before she made her way upstairs. As she got closer to Graces room the laughter and voices became louder.
"So Chad, Zeke, Jason and Ryan all stood in a line and introduce their 'show', dressed as ninja's mind you, and we were all sitting there confused, we had no idea what we had gotten our selves into, but then your father came out dressed as a sumo wrestler and my goodness it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Lucky Taylor recorded it and gave us girls a copy, when you come over to my house you have to watch it. You're welcome to Amy." Celina's mouth fell open did Gabriella just invite Grace to her house?
"Definitely." Grace answered whilst smiling.
Celina walked into Graces room in a fury, her arms crossed over her chest and her face the same shade as a raw beetroot.
"Gabriella, a word." She asked through clenched teeth. Gabriella got off of Graces bed before following Celina into Troy's study.
"Celina what is your problem?" Celina shot a glare in Gabriella's direction before taking one step closer.
"My problem? My problem? What's your problem? You come to my house to explain yourself but I don't hear much explaining going on. Oh I'm sorry you were explaining how fun your teenage years were. Well obviously they were fun." Gabriella took a deep breath before counting to ten.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Gabriella was taking deep breaths trying to control her temper.
"You know what it's supposed to mean." Celina mocked before taking another step towards Gabriella.
"I think it would be best if I left." Gabriella walked around Celina and out of the study and into Graces room picking up her bag and walking in the direction of the stairs.
"Wait! Wait! Where are you going?" Grace asked as she ran towards Gabriella.
"I'm going home your mother doesn't seem to think me being here is a good idea, so I'm leaving." She started to walk towards the stairs again but Grace grabbed her arm in an attempt to stop her.
"Then let me and Amy come." She pleaded. She didn't want Gabriella to leave jut yet she was having fun getting to know her mother.
"I'm not sure that's a smart move but you'll have to ask your mum first." Grace was getting annoyed at Celina why was she being so mean, Grace still loved her she just wanted to get to know her real mum. Was it to much to ask?
"Fine" Grace huffed before she stormed off in the direction of her father's study. She stepped into the room to find her mother sitting at Troy's desk with her hands in her head. Grace cleared her throat trying to make her presence known. Celina turned around a smiled at Grace who did not return the gesture.
"Hi Grace, what's wrong?" Grace moved further into the room until she was right in front of her mother.
"Why are you being so mean to Gabriella? She's only trying to make everything better." Celina shook her head.
"It's a lot more complicated than that, you don't understand you're too young."
"Mum I'm 13 I know what jealousy looks like and if it's alright with you Amy and I are going to spend the night at Gabriella's so I can get to know her." Grace moved for the door but Celina grabbed her arm.
"You young lady are not going anywhere with her." Grace screamed in frustration
"Then I'm not talking to you!" Grace stormed out of the study, past Gabriella and into her room slamming the door violently behind her startling Amy who was sitting on her bed flipping through a picture book.
"I hate her!" she screamed as she fell backwards onto the soft bed.
"Who Celina or Gabs?"
"Celina! She's gotten all jealous so I can't get to know my mother! Arghhhh!" She rolled on her side staring at the wall.
Troy sat at the bar beer in his left hand facing Chad. Troy had called Chad and told him they were going out Chad tried to ask where but Troy was to busy thinking about all the crap going on at home to give him an answer. After a couple of beers Chad got the problem out of him and was now trying to convince Troy to go home and take care of his problems.
"Dude you need to at least listen to Gabs' side of the story I mean who knows what she went through. You two weren't the ones we voted teenage parents that was Shar and Zeke. He couldn't keep it in his pants." Troy chuckled and nodded
"True he couldn't. I just can't believe she didn't tell me. I would've helped her; we could've done it together, been a family type thing." Troy sighed taking another swig of beer.
"But she didn't know that maybe she thought you would drop her, get mad maybe even find her repulsive?" Troy shook his head
"I could never find Gabriella Montez repulsive not then not know she is the most beautiful, sweet, caring and charming girl I have ever met." Chad looked over at Troy and sighed.
"Then why are you with Celina? Why are you here with me? Why aren't you there with her?" Troy threw a fist full of money on the table grabbed Chad's car keys and ran to the door. He opened the car door quickly, violently shoving the key into the ignition. He slammed his foot on the accelerator and made his way towards Gabriella's apartment.
Gabriella threw her keys on to the rounded table by her apartment door before making her way over to her black leather couch placed in front of her flat screen television. She was just about to put her feet up and relax when there was a knock on the door. She sighed getting up and pulled open the heavy door to reveal Troy standing there.
"What are you doing here Troy."
"Why didn't you tell me?" He puffed as he made his way inside her apartment.
"Okay before you get made Give Me a Chance to explain." He nodded his head.
That's exactly why he's here. To Give Her a Chance.
A/N- Hello all. I got so confused writing this chapter hehe because i had forgotten how old Grace was and i had forgotten how i did the dates for adoption and stuff i realised this whilst sitting on the beach trying to tan (which didn't work btw i burnt the 1st time then i just got white the 2nd time) Anyway Review you pretty people of the world! Now there was something in this chapter that i was supposed to say to Alex down here but i don't remember so sorry Alex,but now i do remember! And i shall Ask...Alex will you make me a orange basketball pillow in mat tech next year?! AND YOU OWE ME A FANFIC! every one here expects one alex don't disapoint us :) Toodles! Oh and don't forget review! :D You know no matter how many times i proof read this thing i ALWAYS spell a know N-O-W! It's really annoying!
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