A/N: Portland 9 Journey 16
Rylan 7 Katie 20
Jet 5 Olivia 14
Brooklynn 3
Jackson 3
Bliss 1
10 Months Later
"Mama," the little girl answered.
"No, I'm not mama. Bliss say Dada," he said to his youngest daughter.
"Mama," she repeated.
Troy groaned then felt his wife pat his shoulder, "Give it up Troy, she's not going to say it," she said.
"But I want her to, everyone else said Dada first."
"Well welcome to my world, I spent so long forcing everyone to say Mama, one day I gave up and then in the next few days they said it," she said trying to instill some sort of hope in her husband.
"But I wanna hear it now," he playfully whined.
"Oh grow up," she said then gave him a quick kiss before taking the baby girl from his lap.
"Go get ready her party is in an hour and I certainly don't want to explain to Bliss' mommy and me friend's parents who is the stinky sweat guy sitting on the couch," she yelled from the kitchen.
He playfully groaned loud enough for Gabriella to hear and trudge up the stairs to go take a shower.
After Gabriella was done checking on the food for the party she walked up the stairs and to the room that was no longer the storage room and won't be for a long time. She knocked on the door and immediately heard, "Come in," from the voice she was still trying to get to know. Gabriella opened the door and saw the girl that reminds her of herself was slipping on her shoes, "Happy Birthday Olivia," Gabriella said as she stepped into the room still holding Bliss in her arms.
"Thanks, and Happy Birthday to you too Bliss," she replied back.
"Hey did your dad say her was coming," Gabriella asked.
The 14 year old looked down at her lap, "He said he can't, he's too far away. He's still looking for her."
*FLASHBACK*
The whole Bolton family was eating peacefully at the dinner table talking about their day. They had been back from LA only about two weeks when a turn of events in the face of a knock rung in their ears.
Gabriella handed Bliss over to Troy and walked to the door. Her face cried with surprise when she saw the 13 year old girl she shared DNA with crying. A man stood behind Olivia and Gabriella assumed that he was her baby sister's father, whom Gabriella never met. No words Gabriella could think of to respond to this, but soon she didn't have to as Olivia's father said, "Maria left."
Gabriella then invited them in to heat the rest of the story. Troy came and brought Olivia into the dining room and gave her some of their meal as Gabriella talked to Charlie about what was going on.
"I'm going to try to find her and convince her to come back," He spoke after Gabriella asked what was going on, "And I was hoping that you guys would keep Olivia for me while I'm gone, I need her to stay with someone who will help her. The only reason I'm going to go look for her is because of my daughter, she stays awake all night crying and thinking that Maria didn't want to be her mother any more, that she's mad at her for some reason. I need her to be with someone who will try to show her that's it's not her fault. I'll pay you. Please."
Gabriella's hear filled with sadness as she listened to his sad tellings of his daughter's heart breaking, "Of course she can stay here for as long as you want."
He pulled her into a hug, "Thank you so much. We have her stuff in the car."
Troy helped him take her many suitcases out of the back of the car. Before Charlie left he said to Gabriella, "I really wished that I could have known all of you guys more than I do right now."
"Me too."
*END FLASHBACK*
"Is it bad that I don't want him to find her," Olivia asked.
Gabriella shook her head as she sat down next to her sister on her bed, "No. Some part of you will always wish that it didn't happen that she just needed to take a vacation and she'll be back in a little while but then other times you think that you're better off just living your life without her. You are lucky to have a dad that loves you, and that you don't have little siblings who count on you to keep them alive."
"Yeah," she said nodding her head.
"Come on, no sad faces it's your guys' birthday," Gabriella said with a big smile on her face, trying not to show the tears that would have ran down her face if they continued to talk, "I promise I wont let Troy embarrass you too much."
Olivia laughed, "Thanks."
An hour and a half later, Mrs. Bolton had brought the Bolton kids back to the house and all of Bliss' friends and Olivia's new friends from East High were there and all of the Montez children and their children were there enjoying their time. Gabriella was in the kitchen laying out snacks when Katie and Caleb, her boyfriend walked in hand in hand.
Katie met Caleb at the grocery store the day they got back from LA and ever since they have been inseparable, almost like Troy and Gabriella. And Katie moved in with him 3 months ago.
"Hey my wonderful, favorite older sister," Katie said smiling.
"Hannah will shoot you if she heard you say that," Gabriella joked.
"Yeah well she'll get over it when I show her this," she said holding up her left hand and showed the ring sitting on her ring finger.
Gabriella's eyes went wide, "Seriously," she asked, when Katie nodded her head she dropped her spoon against the counter making a loud sound echo through the kitchen and she squealed excitedly and ran over to her sister and pulled her into a hug and she couldn't help but have a few tears pour out of her eyes. Hannah had heard her sister's squeal and came running into the kitchen, "What, what happened?"
Gabriella pulled her little sister's hand out to show Hannah the ring, and like Gabriella Hannah did the same thing.
Caleb stood leaning against the counter just watching the love of his life being attacked by his soon to be sisters.
Later on that day Olivia sat at the table with her soccer ball cake in front of her sitting next to Bliss who was sitting in her high chair with her butterfly cake in front of her.
"Happy birthday to you," They all sung. And multiple cameras flashed while Olivia blew out her candles and Gabriella helped Bliss blow out hers.
WHAT DID YOU THINK? TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO HAPPEN AT KATIE'S WEDING.
HANNAH