December Makes me feel this way

Chapter 17

December 23 Chapter 17 Troy's POV

"I'm staying. With you. I gave basketball up and I'm retiring early. I'm going back to college to get a degree in medical. I can working at a hospital." I said to her.

Wait BEFORE YOU STOP HERE LOL YOU HAVE TO READ ON BECAUSE THERES A SURPRISE, BUT I AM NOT GOING TO SAY IT:)

"Troy, are you serious? You're giving up your dreams."

"Gabriella, I always had wanted to become a doctor. I thought it was interesting. I like basketball, I really do, but if it means I can't be with you and this kid then…I don't want it." I said taking her hand in mine.

"Thanks." She said smiling…

"Tomorrow's Christmas eve." I said laughing.

"Troy, I've gone the whole day trying not to get hyper! Now you just got me!" she said sitting up and hitting a pillow at me. Soon we started hitting each other, but I made sure to hit her stomach only lightly. She collapsed on the bed giggling hard and I fell over her but stopped before I hit her. My face to hers, her face to mine.

"You know, if I wasn't pregnant I would totally kick your ass." She said smiling at me. I let out a small laugh. I felt her hand going to my stomach all of a sudden she poked me in my sides.

"Haha, I knew it! You're still ticklish there!" she said giggling as my head was buried in her stomach. I looked at it.

"You know if you're like her…then little child we are going to have a big, big, big major over double hyper child!" I said to it.

"Troy, stop It." she said.

"You know I'm thinking of growing a beard, since I'm going to be a doctor I need to look like one." I said to her.

"Eww." She said scrunching her face up. The door opened and we looked to see who it was. What do you expect the whole young 'adult' gang. They all came in and closed the door.

"You woke me up!" Taylor said sitting on the bed.

"Same here." Kelsi added. We all sat on Gabriella's bed and started talking. It was silent, but then sharpay started to giggle. Her giggles started to turn into laughs.

"What's so funny?" Ryan whispered to Gabriella.

"Umm…poop?" Gabriella said. That made Sharpay laugh louder.

"Shar, shh, you'll wake the parents!" Zeke said.

"Sorry, but did you all know it's…two in the morning! Also Christmas is tomorrow! Happy Christmas EVE!" she said throwing her arms in the air.

"Oh my…tomorrow's Christmas…!" Gabriella started jumping on the bed and so did Sharpay.

"Girls!" I said to them. They automatically sat down.

"I can't wait…I want hot chocolate." Sharpay said rolling off the bed and heading downstairs we all went downstairs and got some hot chocolate. Going into the living room we turned on the T.V., but it on low so the parents wouldn't wake up.

The Christmas tree was lit and it was snowing heavily outside.

"Gabriella, isn't that snowball?" Chad said pointing to a white puffy ear laying on a box.

"Oh yeah, I figured out that she likes to sleep under there at night." She said looking at Chad.

"Too bad, looks like Matt is lonely." Taylor said pointing to the lonely dog by the fire.

"Matt, come here boy!" Gabriella said clapping her hands. Matt looked up from here he was laying and ran over to us and lay at our feet. Gabriella was petting him with her foot while watching the movie. I looked at her and the T.V. screen reflected on her eyes.

"What?" she asked turning to me.

"Nothing." I said to her.

"Are you sure?" she asked taking a sip of her hot chocolate.

"Positive." I said smiling. She smiled at me and turned back to the screen.

I was falling in love with Gabriella Montez…when I say falling in love I was literally falling.

Gabriella's head fell onto my chest and I looked down, she was sleeping. I looked around everyone was cuddling up to each other and asleep. I decided to sleep, too so I did.

Gabriella's POV

I woke up and it wasn't a pleasant one. I felt something coming up my throat, groaning I unwrapped myself from Troy's arm and got up. I stepped over everyone and ran to the bathroom. After throwing up I leaned against the tiled wall. A smile lingered on my lips. First off, Troy and I were going to live together second it was Christmas Eve. I got up and ran out of the bathroom and into the living room.

"Wake up! Wake up! It's Christmas Eve." I yelled. I was so excited.

"Don't say it again!" Zeke said shooting straight up and looking at me.

"Don't say what again?" Taylor asked sitting up, rubbing her eyes.

"Christmas Eve!" I said squealing! I was so excited…wait I all ready told you that.

"AHHHHH! PEOPLE CHRISTMAS EVE!" Sharpay said yelling and getting up, we started dancing together.

"What is all the commotion?" Mrs. Bolton asked us coming down along with all the other parents.

"Mrs. Bolton its Christmas eve!" Sharpay said jumping over to everyone.

"Yes, we know that." Mr. Evans said.

"AHH, oh my gosh! I can't wait till twelve!" I said jumping up ad down. I then felt Troy's arms wrap around my stomach and kiss my shoulder.

"What happens at noon?" he asked into my shoulder.

"Well, you see two people have to hide the bell and then make a map of where to find it." Ryan said stretching.

"And who are these two people that hide the bell?" he asked. Taylor pointed to me and Sharpay.

"Yeah, we should go get dressed and hide It." she said looking at me, I was about to go, but Troy grabbed my arm lightly.

"Not until you missy had breakfast." He said I groaned, but headed into the kitchen. After eating breakfast Sharpay and I went outside and started to make a map as we went along to hide it.

We were walking right by the lake that I had fallen in, and I stopped Sharpay.

"Let's put it on that tree." I said pointing to the tree by the lake. We put it on a branch and made sure the way we came was the right way to get to the tree. We walked back and walked inside the Cabin.

"You guys are done already?" Chad asked as we walked in the door, taking off our jackets.

"Yup, here's the map." Sharpay said handing him the map. Everyone gathered around it and looked at it. I grabbed Troy and brought him into the empty kitchen.

"Ok, so I was thinking, you can't give your dreams up-." I said saying, but he cut me off.

"And you don't want to quit where your working at." He said to me.

"Yes, but I was thinking you could open a sports shop up or…or my school, they need a coach for basketball/ P.E. teacher. And also you can fill in for heath class when you're not doing P.E./basketball coach, because the P.E. teacher always did health too." I was rambling on and on but I didn't care.

"Gabi, look I don't even know the first thing about health."

"And you don't need too. You can learn while you're teaching them. The old one did that. Troy, you can do it."

"I'll go to your principle and talk to him, in the mean time I am going hunting." He said giving me a kiss and wlaking out of the kitchen. I brought a hand up to my lips…he kissed me. I looked at him and he turned around.

"That wasn't suppose to happen sorry." He said smiling and running out. His lips were…so warm and soft and melting and…oh my. I heard the front door open and then close and Sharpay came skipping into the kitchen.

"So what should we do? Ooh we can bake!" Sharpay said to me. I wasn't paying attention I was just realizing I was really in LOVE and when I say really in love I mean REALLY, REALLY, REALLY in LOVE!

"Gabi," Sharpay said waving a hand in front of my face.

"Oh, yeah let's bake." I said smiling.

"Ok, so what are we baking?" she asked me.

"Uh…cookies?"

"Of, brownies and Christmas cookies!" we said together. We started on our task. Putting the cookies on top and brownies on the bottom we started making ginger beard men.

"Do we have pink?" Sharpay asked me for the pink icing. I handed her the icing bowl.

"What's with pink?" I asked her.

"I don't know. What's with the green?" she asked mocking.

"I don't know." I said smiling.

"Ok, so what do we do now?" she asked finishing up her ginger beard men.

"Yh, lets go see if the brownies and cookies are down." I said going over to the oven. I opened and they looked done. I got my mites yay! And got them out then Sharpay slid in the ginger beard men. I put the two trays on top of the stove to cool down.

"Ugh, what time is it?" Sharpay asked sitting on the counter licking the spoon.

"Five." I said.

"How the hell does it take that long to find the bell?"

"Maybe…I don't know…what do we do now?"

"Uh…how about we go cook dinner." Sharpay said.

"Or…or we could…yeah let's cook." I said jumping off the counter and we got to work…again.

Around seven we heard the front door open. We had everything cooking on the stove and I was making pie as Sharpay was putting the brownies, cookies and ginger beard men on plates for later on. The table was set and the kitchen was a mess…

"We found it!" Chad yelled shaking the bell and walking into the kitchen.

"About time." Sharpay said getting the plates and putting them aside.

"Yeah, really did you all get lost or something?" I asked putting the pie in the oven and checking on the food.

"Well it's not our fault. We got lost here because of the men!" Mrs. Neilson said sitting down.

"Hey, we did not!" Zeke said.

"Yeah…we took some wrong turns." Mr. Baylor said.

"Whatever. Well while you were gone we were baking and cooking." Sharpay said proudly.

"Yup we even made ginger beard men that looked like us!" She said.

"What's with the small ginger beard men?" Ryan asked.

"Uh hello Gabi's baby." Sharpay said in a weird tone.

"Are you going to have that cookie?" Troy said walking over to me and bending down.

"Because if your not I would like it. When you get older I'll let you have all the cookies you want, but now you just can't." Troy kept going on and on and set the knife on the counter and stood there. I couldn't move, first because his hands were on my stomach and second it was cute.

"Well, Gabi, you're going to have fun with that." Kelsi said.

"Yeah." Taylor said.

"I remember when Jack did that with Troy." Mrs. Bolton said.

"Hey, it was our first child, leave me alone." He said pouting.

"Troy, please stop I think the baby is getting mad at you." I said looking down at him.

"Ok, I'll talk to you tonight." He said patting it and then standing up. So we all sat down and ate our dinner. When dinner was over at nine we went to watch the movie with our deserts. The movie was over and everyone had gone to bed, but Troy and I stayed in the living room. The radio was playing softly and we were cuddling on the couch. It was 11:50 PM. Ten minutes' till Christmas. I looked out of the window from my spot. It had stopped snowing earlier.

"So, when are we telling everyone that your moving in with me tomorrow right?" I asked.

"Yeah." He said rubbing his hands against my arms which sent shivers up my spine, but they were good ones!

We sat in silence for three minutes', but then Troy got up from behind me and sat on the floor facing me.

"So we had a rough month this month. I need to know how you feel…about us that is." He said to me while holding both my hands.

"Troy…I…it isn't that easy. I mean we've had fights after fights and-." I was saying, but he cut me off.

"Gabriella, it's a simple…well not so simple question, but it's a yes I love you or I like you." He said. Should I tell him? I shouldn't… I can't. Or I can, but then that would mean I gave in…or shut the hell up just tell him!

"yes." I said in a whisper.

"Yes, in what?" Troy asked.

"Yes, as in I love you." I said looking into his eyes. He smiled and so did. He leaned in for a kiss and I moved forward. We kissed as in love kissed!

Taylor's POV

We were all at the top of the balcony banister looking over, but trying not to make a sound.

"There kissing!" I whispered excitedly.

Troy's POV

"I love you too." I said pulling away and whispering into her mouth. She giggled. I looked at the clock. 11:56. I smiled and looked back at her. I stood up, pulling her up with me. "December makes me feel this way" by Dave Koz started playing. (sorry I couldn't find the lyrics.)

I brought her over to the window.

"What?" she asked me.

"Nothing just…just wondering the tree looks different." I said looking at the lighted tree.

"It does?" she asked looking at it, "What wrong with it?" she asked.

"Something's added to it." I said wrapping my arms around her and rest my shin on her head.

"I don't see it." she said looking.

"Right there." I said pointing to this one ornament.

"It's a ribbon." She said looking at me and turning in my arms. I smiled and took the ribbon off the tree and took her hand. I put the ribbon in her hand and closed it.

"Is it just a ribbon?" I asked her. She opened her hand and looked at it.

"It's…it's a ring." She said tracing the ring with her fingers. (the picture is in my profile)

"I know, it's sudden, but Gabriella, I love you with all my heart. I love you and those three words have my life in them. What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. I learned something with you. I learned that when you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. Gabriella, you brought out all my wishes and you brought out of the Christmas in me. I would fly you to the moon and back if you'll be . . . if you'll be my wife. Marry me?" I asked her while getting on one knee. Tears were in her eyes and she was biting on her bottom lip.

I was starting to get nervous.

"Say yes already!" we heard someone yell. There stood every one on the banister balcony waiting for her answer. I heard her give a small laugh.

"Mrs. Gabriella Troy Bolton…I like that." She said. I turned around and saw the ring on her finger. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. I closed my eyes and smiled. I got up and kissed her and as it did the clock striked midnight. Christmas…

I broke the kiss and picked her up. I twirled her around in my arms and then sat her down on the floor.

"I love you with all my heart. I promise and I mean promise not to hurt you, ever." I said as I leaned my forehead against hers.

"I love you too." She said.

"And it took us 25 days to get it." I said laughing.

"Lets go to bed." She said to me. We went upstairs and while we did we saw everyone gone and to bed. We went to her bed and no we didn't have sex. We laid in each others arms talking.

A/N WOOHOO! Ok I really, really wish it was Christmas eve! Damn it! lol ok thank you all who reviewed the last chapter! Now the next chapter is the last one. I just wanted to know if you all wanted a sequel. If you want one then just tell me in the review. Okw ell I'm going to go and sleep lol. Bye!