The Bolton family we're sitting in the family room playing some board games. There was knock at the door. Gabriella smiles, "I'll get it." Gabriella walks swiftly to the door, and opens it. then screams. Troy stands up, "Brie-" "Daddy!" Gabriella hugged her father gently, "Dad, what are you doing here?!" she asked smiling.
Her father smiled wearing his army uniform. "I had just came home.. and I wanted to owe my daughter a visit." Gabriella smiled, "I missed you so much." Gabriella hugged him.
Troy stood there, What he remembered, her father used to look at him like his own son, but now. "Daddy, you remember Troy-" "Yeah, I remember."
His father looked at him. Troy smiles sadly, "Nice to see you again Sir-" "I wish I could say the same thing."
"Uh..." Gabriella bites her lip, knotting her fingers together. "I'm going to...get Rider and Andy.." she leaves the awkward scene, going upstairs. "So..." Troy says, stuffing his hands in his pockets. Phillip Montez glares at him, "shut your stinking mouth."
"Sir-" "No. don't." he hissed, "My daughter means everything to me.." he got a little closer, "I used to like you son, I did, and then you treated my daughter like a dog, and cheated on her."
Troy gulped, "Sir, I know that I did wrong, and I can't believe I did it, but I'm so-" "No. Gabriella don't deserve you. she doesn't deserve what you did to her. She's a one of a kind. that any guy would be lucky to have."
Troy swallows, "Sir..." he scratches the back of his neck. "I'm sorry...for the way I treated her..and Rider and Andy..."
Phillip scoffs, "she gave you plenty of chances...you destroyed them yourself. Why she hasn't left you already-"
Troy sees red, his hands fisting "I made Gabriella promise me that she'll leave me ...if I start acting like that again.." phillip scoffs, "why should I believe you?"
"Because I love your daughter and your grandsons more than life it's self... I'm not allowing myself to hurt them again." Phillip looks at him, then Gabriella comes in with the boys. "Look who's here. It's Grandpa." "Papaw!"
Both boys run to their Grandpa. Phillip smiles, getting on his knees, "My Grandbabies, Their growing up so much.. looking more and more like their mother everyday."
He's not saying anything. No, Troy will not start a fight with Phillip in front of Andy and Rider, especially in front of Gabriella. No. Instead he fists his hands and bites his lip, "hey...Andy, Rider...why don't we go make some sandwiches huh?"
Andy jumps and grabs Troy's hand. Always attached to his father, Rider doesn't jump, but he grabs Troy's long middle finger and the two pull him to the kitchen.
Gabriella giggles at the sight, Phillip only watches with a blank face until the three disappear into the kitchen. "What?" He looks at Gabriella, "why are still with him Bella?" Gabriella sighs, smiling at the nickname that he gave her when she was very young.
"Dad, I love him-" "Just because you love him, doesn't give him the right for the way he has treated you." Gabriella bites her lip, "He's changed daddy. And changed for the best." she looks back into the kitchen to see the two boys laughing with Troy.
She smiled, looking back at her father, "I can't do that to the boys-" "What are you talking about?" "What I had to go through.. I don't want them to go through that.. I don't want them to see me and their father fight, I don't want them to see me and their daddy divorce. they need a father.. every boy does.. and so does every girl."
"That's not fair..." Phillip says, looking at his daughter. "You know why I had to leave-" "No I don't..." Gabriella says, "at least not really. Daddy...I was a little girl when you left...you didn't leave a note and momma only said you left to go on...a long vacation."
Phillip sighs, running his hand through his hair. "Bella..." he holds her close, "I didn't want to hurt you. Or your mom. I was in a dark place...I wanted to something about it-" "For years at a time?" Phillip sighs, "I had a lot to deal with. Demons. I'm sorry."
Gabriella shakes her head, "it's in the past now, all right? Daddy...point is, I'm not hurting my son's like that..."
They walk into the kitchen and Phillip takes a seat by his grandsons. "how is school going for you two?" he smiled. Andy smiles, "It's going awesome Grandpa!" Phillip chuckles, and looks at Rider, "What about you Rider?"
Rider smiles, "It's fun!" He smiles and leans back, "I bet you two are into a lot of sports, football? baseball?-" "I play basketball!" Andy smiles.
Gabriella smiled, wrapping her arms around Troy's waist. He looks at her and smiles. Andy looks at his Grandpa, "I practice really hard. I wanna be just like my daddy!"
Phillip looks at Troy while talking to Andy, "Really?" Troy knows what he means..he means that Andy just said 'I want to be just like my daddy' and in Phillip's eyes that means 'I want to be woman-abusing asshole just like my daddy'.
Troy shakes his head, staring back at Phillip in a challenge, daring him to say something. Anything. That can set him off. But Phillip only turns his attention to the two little boys on either side of him.
Andy nods, "I wanna be a basketball player just like him. I'm going to be an LA Laker!" Gabriella giggled, "You'll have to be a Wildcat first." She looks at Troy and smiles at him. Troy smiles back, "He'll be the captain too."
Phillip sighed, "It was nice seeing you all again, but I have to get back to the hotel." he said standing up, and hugging the two boys. "I love you both. and I will see you for thanksgiving."
Phillip walked over to Gabriella hugging her, "I love you." he kisses her forehead, "Be safe." He says walking behind her and glaring at Troy and leaving.
The boys continue eating and Gabriella looks at Troy, and sighs, "I..I'm sorry about him Troy.. I really am.." she looked down at the floor.
"It's fine Brie." Really...who the hell could blame him? It's karma. That's all it is. For once he's glad he can't remember what he did...nor does he want to. He doesn't want to remember Ashley. He looks at Gabriella, "you remember the promise right?"
Gabriella looks at him, nodding sadly, "good." he takes her hands in his, looking into her eyes. "Don't break it. I don't want to hurt you or our son's any more...and if I..if I go back to who I was before the accident...then I want you to take the boys and leave." "Troy-" "You promised Gabriella."
Gabriella sighed, "I know.. I know I promised.." Troy looks at her, "And you have to keep that promise Gabriella. no matter what."
Gabriella had tears rolling down her cheeks. "Troy..If..If you go back to the way you were..you..you might not let me leave..."
"Gabriella," Troy says, cupping her face gently, "I'm begging you to keep your promise." She sighs, kissing his lips, "I promise. Solemnly swear..." she chokes on a sob as her words are cut off.
Troy sighs, holding her close and rubbing her shoulders warmly. "I do love you Brie." "I love..I love you.." she cries against him, burying her face in his chest.
Troy sighs, stroking the back of her hair. He looks over at the two boys, Rider bites his lip, "Why is mommy crying?" Troy sighs, "Mommy's a little upset, go on upstairs." both boths go upstairs.
Troy looks at her, wiping away her tears with his thumb, "Brie, don't cry.." Gabriella sniffles, "I don't want..to...to..leave..you.." Troy holds her close, "Come here, come here, it's fine.. it's fine."
Gabriella looks at him, "Troy..I love you..I love you too much to leave you.. don't you understand that I'm inlove with..you.."
Troy sighed, "Gabriella, I'm inlove with you. I have been since we we're in High School.. and I feel so sick to my stomach about all the shit I had to put you through...I just want you to be happy no matter what."
Gabriella looks at him, "I'm happy with you. Andy and Rider are happy with you. yeah, you made a few mistakes, but that's everyone, We're not perfect. Relationships have their ups and downs, but when two people really care about each other, nothing should stand in their way, or tear them apart...right?"
Troy leans his forehead on hers, kissing her nose lightly. "Brie...I believe that, you know I do...I just don't want to hurt you again."
Gabriella sighs, "Troy...you are the only person who can hurt me, and yet so far...since your accident, the only thing that hurts me is you asking me to make that promise." "Brie-" "I love you Troy Bolton...but that's a promise I can't keep. I love you. I'm staying."
Troy looks at her, "Gabriella-" "Shut up Troy." she smiles at him and walks into the kitchen. Troy sighed, just leaving it alone, and walked into the kitchen behind her. "So.. when do we usually see our parents?"
Gabriella looks at him, "Well, I see my mom on the weekends.. we see your parents maybe at least once a month." Troy raises a brow, "Why's that?" "Because we're we don't live in aleberquerque anymore.. they don't really visit much."
Troy looks at her, wrapping his arms around her, "You miss alberquerque, don't you?" Gabriella nods, "Yeah..I do.. It's we're we met Troy.. Our School, Our Home., Our friends, Our families, Our memories, Our places," she giggled, "Our first time."
Troy smiles, hugging her close and breathing her scent- always of hot chocolate, but on her it's more delectable. He kisses her temple, "maybe we'll go back there.."
Gabriella smiles, "show our boys where we grew up?" Troy leans his forehead on hers, kissing her lips softly and with a passion that only builds to something deeper and hotter; he relishes in the taste of her.
Gabriella is lifted up by his hands, and she wraps her legs around his waist. He carries her into the next room about to go upstairs into their bedroom. Gabriella stops him as he looks at her confused, "Troy we can't do it here-"
"I know, that's why we're going upstairs." she giggled shaking her head, "The boys are still awake and can interupt us at any moment."
Troy sets her on her feet when he reaches the bedroom, "stay here..." he leaves the room, walking down the hall to the boy's playroom. "Hey...boys." They look up, smiling, "can we go play, daddy?"
Rider asks, Troy smiles, "well...me and mommy ...we're going to play for a little bit." "Okay." Rider says, sadness dripping into his voice. Troy hugs him, "I'll take you and your brother to the park when me and mommy are done.." "Yay!" Rider cheers, Troy smiles, "Okay..now remember, don't go into the room..no matter...what you hear."
The boys nod, Rider asks, "what game are you playing with mommy?" Troy's eyes widen, "Well...we're-" "They are wrestling!" Andy yells, "I heard them the last time they played. It sounds like it hurts."
Crap. Rider looks at Troy and then goes to the toy box, pulling out his small tricycle helmet and handing it to him. Troy laughs, "what's this for?" Rider looks at him, "I don't you and mommy hurting yourself while you wrestle."
Troy smiles, "Well thanks." he rubs his head and walks downstairs to see Gabriella sitting on the couch. Troy smiles, Gabriella looks at him, and then looks at the tricycle helmet in his hands.
She raises a brow, "what's that for?" "Rider has an idea of what we do and doesn't want us to hurt ourselves." Gabriella stands up, "I don't think we'll be needing that Mr Bolton." Troy sits the helmet on the couch, picking her up bridal style and bringing her into the bedroom.
He plops her down on the bed, and locks the door. Gabriella leans back on her elbows, "Your crazy wildcat."
Troy smirks, crawling ontop of her. "I'm crazy for you." Gabriella giggles, tugging off his shirt, "You have no idea how bad I want you inside me." she whispered.
He tosses his shirt to the floor, slowly crawling on the bed and positioning himself so her legs are between his, "I can guess how much..." he whispers, kissing her as she wraps her arms around his neck; tangling her fingers in his hair.
He uses his fingers to swiftly undo the tiny complicated buttons and lifts it so he can feel her skin- hot and warm and soft like melted butter under his touch. "Mm, I love you, you know that?" Gabriella laughed, "I love you too Troy..so much."
