Hey, this is my seventh chapter. I'm amazed that I have written so many and the fact that people are enjoying them. So, thanks to everyone who has reviewed!!!
Disclaimer- I own absolutely nothing except for my pet rock Kevin.
Just to let you know Gabriella and Zeke's nicknames for each other – big bird and cookie monster I kind of copied from a story call 'All grown up' it's an awesome story Troyella of course its in my favorites list if you want to read it.
Okay so there's the tiniest bit of drama although it's resolved in like a paragraph or two.
One last thing I want your ideas on what you would like Troyella to give each other for Christmas I already have some ideas but let me know if there is anything in particular you would like.
Part of the Family
Troy woke up to find that he was still in the position he had fallen asleep in only a few hours ago although one noticeable difference was the fact that he was no longer in his pajamas. At around 2 in the morning temptation got the better of both Troy and Gabriella, deciding that everyone would be in a deep sleep, they expressed their love in the most romantic way possible (if you know what I mean ;)).
Looking over at the time which red 7:30am, Troy figured that most if not all of his family would still be asleep for a few more hours, so pulling the covers up again and tightening his grip on the one person he felt everything for, Troy feel into a deep slumber once again.
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About an hour later….
This time Gabriella was the one to wake up first. Looking underneath the covers the events of the early morning came rushing back to her making her smile a smile of satisfaction. Gabriella decided that she didn't want a repeat of the morning before, so she slowly and regretfully slipped out of the warm cuddle she was in. Stepping out of bed she went in search of her pajama's plus her hair tie.
Suddenly feeling the loss of warmth, Troy stirred awake to find his girlfriend, brushing her hair in front of his mirror while listening to her ipod. He slowly got up out of bed so she wouldn't notice, and made his way over to her. Slipping his arms around her very small waist, giving her a startle, Troy finally spoke.
"Good morning." Troy slowly started placing kisses on Gabriella's neck making her giggle.
"Good morning to you too. Some one's in a good mood." Gabriella turned around so she was facing him after taking out her headphones. Looping her arms around his neck Gabriella kissed him on the lips slowly and tenderly.
"Why wouldn't I be with good mornings like that?" Troy leaned in to capture her lips although this time the kiss was a lot more passionate.
After about 5 minutes of making out, Gabriella finally pulled away.
"We better head downstairs. I don't really want to be the last ones up."
Gabriella pulled the annoyed Troy by the hand downstairs. As they made their way downstairs they heard something, although you couldn't really say it was anything as it was dead silence. They walked in to find everyone minus Matt dead silent looking at Matt and Cassie. Matt looked like he was about to faint as he looked pale and seemed to be sweating and Cassie looked quite awkward standing next to her boyfriend who was yet to say anything. Gabriella and Troy made there way to the table.
"What's going on?" Troy whispered to Sam.
"Matt walked in about 5 minutes ago with Cassie I think is her name, and he hasn't said anything. No one wants to speak since after your outburst yesterday we don't want to say the wrong thing." Sam whispered back.
Gabriella had been listening in to what they had said and decided to help out.
"Umm Bolton's this is Cassie, Matt's girlfriend. Cassie this is Matt's mum and dad, aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins." Gabriella said gesturing to everyone.
"It's nice to finally meet you all." Cassie said breaking out into a smile.
"You as well." Jack said deciding to chime in.
Within about 10 minutes of hello's and introductions all tension was long gone. Now everyone was just sitting around having breakfast occasionally asking each other questions or saying completely random comments.
"Mummy can Meg, Jenny and me pwease watch TV?" Justin said averting his attention towards his mum, all the while using puppy dog eyes.
"I guess. Who taught you to use those eyes?" Christine said mock annoyed although smiling.
"Ella." Justin said before getting out of his seat and going into the living room with his cousins.
Christine looked Gabriella as did everyone else partly because they wondered how Christine would react.
"Gabriella care to explain?" Caitlyn said playfully mad. Gabriella quickly thought of how she could respond. She looked at Cassie who was currently seated next to her and smiled. Both Cassie and Gabriella looked towards Christine and put on the puppy dog eyes
"Chriswine can we pwease go watch TV?" Gabriella said in the same way that Justin just had.
"Fine." Caitlyn sighed answered.
Gabriella stood up and went and joined the 3 toddlers who were currently engrossed in Sponge Bob Square Pants.
"She has to teach me how to do that." Sam said laughing.
"Yer well it's cute at first then it starts getting aggravating." Troy chipped in, while picking up his and Gabriella's plates.
"I know Cassie has taken me on so many shopping trips because of that face." Matt added also grabbing his girlfriend's plates and wondering to the kitchen.
"Gotta love 'em for it though." Troy said smiling thinking about all the times Gabriella had used that face on him.
"Yes you do." Matt finished.
"You guys are so whipped." Brendan said laughing at his two of very much in love cousins.
"You're just jealous." Sam said defending Matt and Troy.
"Oh please what does my 18 year old and 28 year old cousin have that I don't?" Brendan said crossing his arms.
"A girlfriend!!" Gabriella and Cassie yelled from the lounge room.
Everyone burst out laughing at the now fake angry Brendan.
"Fine laugh it up. I'm going to go have a shower." Brendan said storming out of the room.
Matt and Troy decided to go and join their girlfriends as they knew they wouldn't be missing much if they stayed in with their family.
Walking in to the lounge room they found their girlfriends sitting either side of the couch with the 3 youngest Bolton's all in the middle, they were all currently engrossed in an episode of Hannah Montana as Spongebob had just finished.
Troy walked over to the furthest part of the couch where Gabriella was currently occupying. Scooping her up bridal style, which finally got her attention, he sat down with her on his lap. Re getting comfortable, Gabriella laid her head down on Troy's shoulder so she could still see the TV and interlaced their fingers. Troy gently stroked up and down Gabriella's arms.
Cassie and Matt looked at each other confused at how Troy could pick Gabriella up and place her back down on him getting in a comfortable position as if it was nothing. Although while been confusing it did bring a smile to Matt's face to see his little cousin so happy. I must talk to him…Matt thought.
2 Hours later… (Around 11)
All the boys were out the back playing basketball although there was more taunting then actually playing, generally directed at Matt and Troy. While the girls were all sitting in the lounge room/ kitchen drinking coco while watching the boys occasionally making comments at their stupidity.
With the girls…
"5 bucks says that the next taunt will be directed at Brendan." Sam said after about a 3 minute silence.
"Nope. I will take that bet and say Dylan." Gabriella said shaking Sam's hand.
With the boys…
"You know Dylan it's about time you had your first kiss, I mean come on Troy's getting action already and he's 3 years younger then you." Anthony told Dylan as he attempted to steal the ball from Brendan.
Girls…
"Pay up." Gabriella proudly stuck out her hand accepting the money being given by a muttering Sam.
"How much is that now?" Laura asked.
"Ummm…" Gabriella started counting the money stashed in her pocket. "50."
"That is so stupid. How on earth could you possibly know it was going to be Dylan I mean come on normally they should tease the person with the ball."
"I told you, you shouldn't make bets with her. She knows her stuff." Christine chimed in. "I swear dads lost like hundreds of dollars because of the little bets between him and Gabriella."
Boys…
"Oh shut up old man. I will have you know that I have had lots of girlfriends just none of them have lasted the 4 month period of getting the courage up to freeze in front of the family while introducing them." Dylan jumped up and stole the ball before shooting in a basket.
"Okay I will have you know introducing your family to someone you care a lot about is a lot more difficult then you think. Especially when your family has no idea they existed." Matt retaliated.
"You are so trying to score points with your girl." Jake teased.
"No I'm not. I'm just speaking the truth. Ask Troy he knows." Matt said, making everyone turn their attention to Troy.
"I guess Matt's right but I never really worried about what you thought of Gabbi. I mean come on she won over my dad I'm pretty sure the rest of you would come just as easily. Plus honestly even if you thought she was bad for me I wouldn't have listened genially coz I knew better."
"Exactly." Matt quickly added, making all the boys plus the girls make a whipping noise.
"Girls why don't you come out here and show us what you got." Jake yelled.
All the girls looked at each other and shrugged. They all made their way outside after grabbing some sneakers.
"Okay let's split in to teams. Now to make it fair the two new additions to the family will be captains." Mitchell said directing towards Gabriella and Cassie. "Girls choose your teams."
"You can go first Gabs."
"Jack."
"Okay I'm going to have to go with my boy Matt."
"Sam."
"Kelly."
"Ohh this is hard but I think I am going to have to go with Emily."
"I'll go with the spouse then Anthony."
"Okay I have to have my boy. Justin." Gabriella paused slightly before saying Justin.
"Troy."
"Daniel."
"Kyle."
"Lizzie."
"Julie."
"Okay think that's all we will need. The rest of us will play the winning team." Miranda stated before taking a seat on the grass.
"I'll ref." Alex volunteered.
The game started pretty evenly. Gabriella's team was behind by a few points and Alex had said that next point wins, so Gabriella decided on a trick she could play. She waited for Troy to get the ball before trying to take him on. Finally when he did have the ball she took Jack's original position of blocking him although she had earlier talked to Jack so he knew what she was doing.
"You know Troy I have a little Christmas surprise for you." Gabriella said in a soft, seductive whisper so that only Troy could hear. "It contains a red outfit that well is made out of the tiniest bit of lace and whipped cream."
As soon as Gabriella stopped speaking Troy went off into a daze giving Gabriella a chance to steal the ball. Grabbing the ball she threw it backwards over her head to the other side of the court where it was caught by Jack who immediately dunked it in.
Coming out of his daze Troy finally reliesed what had happened although he couldn't say anything to Gabriella as she had gone across court to do a victory dance with Jack.
"BACK!" Both Gabriella and Jack yelled once they finished doing a handshake that Gabriella had made whenever she won a game of any sport with any of the boys (boys being Jack, Chad and Zeke. Gabriella always made sure Troy was on the other team to use her 'tricks').
"Back?" Miranda questioned as she walked on too the court.
"Jack and Brie put together. They say it whenever they win a game of basketball together." Julie answered.
The second game of basketball was cut short as it started to rain so everyone just proceeded into the lounge room.
All the aunts and uncles ran into the living room just because they wanted to have the seats instead of the floor. It was quite a site to watch- 10 adults over the age of 40 all running into a room just to get a seat. All the younger adults took seats on the floor, Gabriella and Troy, Matt and Cassie and Caitlyn and Kyle all cuddled up to each other. Everyone was in silence, looking around the room at all the Christmas decorations, or just in their own little world.
The silence was soon broken by the sound of the Bolton's phone. Lizzie quickly got up to get it hoping that it would be one of her friends so she wouldn't have to sit through either mind numbing silence or ridiculous teasing. Her hopes were soon broken.
"Hello… hey Zeke…. I'm fine….. Yer sure I'll get her" Lizzie walked back into the living room with the phone held in front of her. "Gabs its Zeke."
Gabriella jumped up from the half lying half sitting position she was in with Troy and grabbed the phone off Lizzie although not before saying an 'excuse me' and 'thanks' to Lizzie.
"Hey big bird. What's up?" Gabriella's voice soon faded as she walked into the foyer.
"Wait. Isn't Zeke like one of your best friends?" Matt asked Troy.
"Yer." Troy answered slowly.
"Then wouldn't he want to speak to you not your girlfriend?" Matt continued.
"Oh well Zeke is like Gabriella's guy on the side. They get together every 11 days. Big bird and cookie monster are they're sex names" Troy said with no expression although he was trying hard not to laugh at everyone else's expressions.
"What?!" Sam yelled getting off the floor to what everyone assumed was to hurt Gabriella both physically and emotionally although mostly physically.
"Sam!" Troy quickly got up to stop the now very angry Smith (different last name remember!). "I was kidding. Zeke is like a big brother to Gabriella, they have nicknames for each other because once when everyone was away on holidays, Gabriella went around to Zeke's to baby-sit his little sister and somehow they ended up with those nicknames. Also he is dating Sharpay and generally whenever Sharpay is in a horrible mood Gabriella tells him what he can do to make her happy."
Still with the shock of what Troy had first said everyone was quiet, Sam was slowly starting to calm down however her hands were still in fists and her face was still in an angry expression, Troy was desperately trying to get her to go back to normal before Gabriella walked back in the room to find everyone staring at her. Once again that hope was also broken as Gabriella entered the room to find blank, sympathetic and angry stares although the angry stare was just from Sam.
Although Gabriella had been out of the room she had heard everything that had been said while she was supposedly on the phone. You see, Zeke was just ringing to ask Gabriella to pick up Sharpay's Christmas present so the conversation only lasted about a minute.
"Wow why I would love to stand here in this extremely awkward silence I have to duck out." Gabriella smiled genially at everyone before turning to Troy and Sam as well as he was still standing in front of her. "I have to go drop off Zeke's present for Sharpay. I will be back in about a half hour. Sam it may be an idea to breath." With that Gabriella kissed Troy on the cheek and headed out the door to her car.
Sam did take Gabriella's advice and let out a breath which surprisingly made her go back to her normal expression.
"I'm cool. I'm cool. You know me Troy. You can't joke about something like that." Sam said in an annoyed voice. "I would have kicked her ass if any of that were true and by the stories uncle Jack has told us I think I would have been the one who would have been the most hurt."
"Sorry but it was just too hard to resist. Pwease forgive me?" Troy asked giving the puppy dog eyes.
"Okay she is so teaching me to make those eyes." Sam joked before pulling Troy into a hug. "Of course I forgive you. I better go apologize to Gabriella before she thinks I hate her."
"Wait till she gets home and don't worry she'll shrug it off." Jack wondered by patting Sam on the shoulder. "If not well I guess you better be ready to put up a fight with a girl who has more independence then Australia."
"Not funny." Sam squeaked actually a little frightened.
"He's just messing with you. She only has the independence of Canada." Julie laughed.
"Okay jokes over. I get it. Don't mess with her or be prepared to be hurt." Sam sighed and went and sat back down.
"Exactly what we were getting at." Lizzie laughed.
"Moving on, what about you Lizzie, any guys in your life yet?" Anthony playfully asked. Lizzie turned bright red; she hated it whenever her family would ask her a question which always ended making her feel embarrassed.
"Not really." Lizzie answered slowly.
"Not really? Wait that means that there was or is a guy that you either like or liked. If there was a guy and now you don't like him which means… did he hurt you? I will get him if he did." Troy said quickly and quite protectively. A chorus of yers and I will total kick his ass if he hurt you were heard.
"There was a guy but he turned out to be a total jerk so I got over it." Lizzie quickly tried to reassure her brother.
"Wait, when did you go on a date and why didn't I know?" Christine asked slightly offended.
"It was ages ago, in the middle of May. It was a totally crap date he was an ass and I never saw him again." Lizzie was trying to end the topic although by the looks her families were giving her she knew she would have to explain the whole story.
"All story right now." Jack yelled slightly although still calmly.
"Arrghh fine. Okay it was May as I said I told you that I was going to see a movie with friends but I was actually going out to dinner with him and then seeing a movie. Anyway we went to dinner and I was a having a great time, then he started making me feel uncomfortable. I shrugged it off and we went to the movie all through the movie he started to like touch me on my leg and stuff so I got up and walked out telling him I was going to the bathroom when actually I was going to leave. I thought I was fine but then when I was halfway home I found out he had been running to catch up to me. I told him some lame excuse that I got a call and I needed to go home but he didn't believe me and tried to start kissing me I pushed him back but he kept persisting by pushing against a pole."
By now Troy, Jack and pretty much every male in the room was about to run out the door to hunt the guy down and what Lizzie could only guess was kill him.
"I haven't finished yet. He ended up getting a broken nose and chances are he won't be having children anymore." Lizzie finished everybody's faces went from pure shock to what seemed to be a look of being proud.
"You kicked him?" Troy queried.
"No, miss independence did." Lizzie smiled at her family's confused looks.
"When I first went to the restaurant I noticed it was the one that Ella worked at, she was actually our waitress. When the guy I was with went to go to the bathroom Ella asked me if anyone knew I was out on a date I said no and she said that she wanted me to call her once the date ended to let her know everything went alright and call her if I felt uncomfortable. I think she saw some of my uneasiness during dinner but she didn't persist on it as they were quite busy. Anyway, when I went out of the movie to leave I called her to ask if she could walk me home or just stay close just in case he did follow me. She did. She ended up walking on the other side of the street and when she saw the guy trying to kiss me she pulled him off, he said some um… things which then led her to punch him in the nose and in the area no guy wants to be kicked in. We then went and had ice-cream which led us to come home and say that we met up and decided to have ice-cream totally covering what had happened. He never attempted to look my way again because I'm pretty sure he was scared to know what would happen if he did. Don't worry, Gabriella scared him so much, I swear no body bothered me after word spread about what had happened."
"I still want to kick his ass." Troy angrily quenched his fist.
"Well don't that job has already been taken care of and believe it or not I don't want you getting in trouble." Lizzie crawled over to Troy and gave him a side hug making everyone 'Aaww'. Troy slung his arm around his sister's shoulders and leaned her head on his shoulder. Lizzie and him had always been really close since Christine left for college, and were always their for each other. You may be thinking that what Lizzie had told her family was a lot but the Bolton's always had a really great bond.
"Remind next time I have a bad date not to call Gabbi." Kelly joked.
"She only kicks a guy's ass if he really hurts someone or makes anyone feel uncomfortable." Troy defended his girlfriend also slightly joking. "She isn't Sharpay."
"Ohh she's a scary one in a bad mood." Jake and Dylan shuddered at thought of an angry Sharpay.
"Yes she is, yes she is." Jack agreed. Everyone went quiet again hearing the rain harden outside.
"Shouldn't Gabs have been back like 20 minutes ago?" Matt asked looking at the time. As if on cue the door opened and some inaudible mumbling was heard.
"There she is…" Jack said stopping when he saw a currently soaked Gabriella.
"Didn't know you could get so soaked from walking from the car to the front door." Mitchell chuckled.
"I'm going to ggggo have a sssshower." Gabriella shivered before turning to head upstairs.
"I'm going to go make sure she's alright." Troy got up and also headed upstairs.
"Gabbi?" Troy half yelled as he came into his room. Closing the door behind him he saw the bathroom door.
"Hhheey." Gabriella stuttered as she started to get rid of soaked clothes. Troy leaned over and started up the bath.
"Hey. What happened?" Troy asked while draining the water out of each bit of clothing Gabriella passed him.
"Road flooded. Had to leave car and walk home." Gabriella plainly said as she passed over the last of her soaked clothes before hoping into the now hot bath. Troy placed the rest of the clothes in the sink and went and sat on the side of the bath.
"You okay?" Troy asked concerned as he stoked his thumb over her cheek. Gabriella leaned into his touch feeling the warmth.
"I am now." Gabriella smiled up at Troy, going back to her normal voice. Troy leaned down to capture her lips in a loving gentle kiss to which she gladly accepted.
"Relax, okay. I'll be back in about 5 minutes." Gabriella nodded and closed her eyes. Troy kissed her forehead and wondered out of the bathroom but not before getting a look at his girlfriend.
"I love you Troy." Gabriella half whispered.
"I love you too Gabs…" Troy also whispered back... "More then you'll ever know."
Troy headed downstairs with the wet clothes and put them in the laundry ready to be washed although making sure she didn't have anything valuable in her pockets. Once her clothes were in the washing machine he headed into the kitchen to make some hot chocolate for her.
"Is Gabriella aright?" Lizzie asked as she also came in to the kitchen for some hot chocolate.
"Yer, one of the roads flooded so she had to walk the rest of the way here." Troy answered smiling at his sister.
"Good. I don't want her to be sick on the first Christmas as a Bolton." Lizzie smiled back at Troy whose smile was now replaced with a confused although still happy expression. "Oh don't give me that look. You know as well as everyone who has met you and Gabbi that you guys are in it for the long hull. And just so you know I couldn't think of anyone better to be sister in law."
Troy hugged his little sister who gladly returned the favor. "Thanks Liz. And by the way if you ever want to talk about jerk boyfriends or anything I am here."
Lizzie pulled away slightly and looked at Troy. "Yer I know and don't worry that little secret was the only one I have kept from you. I promise. Now you better take this hot chocolate up to Gabbi and also since we can no longer have a barbeque for lunch we are just going to get take out, so ask Gabbi what she wants. Everyone is having something different so yer."
"Okay Liz will do." Troy picked up the hot chocolate and headed upstairs again.
As he walked back into the bathroom he found Gabriella sound asleep. He was a little worried that she may slip under the water so he decided it would be best if he were to wake her up even if it did kill him to wake her out of her peaceful slumber which he thought was incredibly cute.
"Gabs, sweetie. Wake up." Troy softly shook her awake. Gabriella slowly started to open her eyes and figure out where she was.
"Ha what? Oh hey wildcat." Gabriella smiled tiredly at Troy as he crouched down next to the bath.
"Hey, you feeling okay?" Troy asked placing a hand to her forehead to make sure she wasn't burning up. He smiled when he found that she had no temperature. He moved his hand back down to her cheek and started caressing it like he had done before.
"Yer, just a little tired. Walking in the rain is harder then most people think." Gabriella joked while enjoying the feeling of Troy's skin on hers. "You wanna join me?" Gabriella opened her eyes and a seductive glint in her eyes.
"That's been my best offer all day." Troy kissed Gabriella passionately before locking the bathroom door although already knowing no one would come in as that would also mean going through the locked bedroom door. Troy quickly undressed himself and placed his clothes on a dry spot on the sink. Gabriella moved to the end of the bath so that Troy could get in. Troy hopped into the bath and got in a comfortable position before pulling Gabriella towards him. Gabriella laid back in-between his legs with her back leaning against his well toned chest and stomach while he wrapped his arms around her stomach protectively, holding her close. He slowly moved his arms that were resting on her stomach to lets just say a bit further up….
"So let's talk about this little red outfit of yours…"
There we go chapter 7 sorry again that it was up ate then what I planned. Not sure about that ending…
Well review please. Any constructive criticism is welcome.
Little Nikki
