Okay guys, here's the next chapter. I'm on a real low right now so, if this is rubbish I apologies now. Anyway, enjoy!

Birthday

Troy had never been nervous about speaking to his Dad, about anything, but today the feeling of butterflies was definitely there.

When they had woken up this morning Troy and Gabriella had talked about why Jack was the way he was towards Troy. They decided that they needed to sit down and talk, father and son, and talk about how they wee both feeling, before Alex and Katie's birthday party tomorrow.

So, after giving the boys the afternoon off from practise, he had finished up his paper work, got into his car and driven to his childhood home, to have a conversation that he wasn't sure where it would lead.

Troy took a deep breath before putting his key into the look, and making his way inside.

"Mum? Dad? You home?" Troy knew his parents were here, the windows were open, and he could smell dinner being cooked, he also knew that Alex and Katie weren't here because they gone for ice cream with Bella, so if they needed to shout, now was the time to do it.

Troy walked through the house into the kitchen to find his parents in the back garden.

"There you are, I thought you'd mysteriously disappeared or something." Troy said, as he stepped out onto the back porch.

"No, we haven't gone that mad quiet yet, we were just talking, about you actually Troy. You two need to talk, I'm going inside, please try and be sensible." Lucille warned, as she gave Jack a quick kiss before passing Troy on the way into the house.

"Troy I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said what I did yesterday, I was having a really bad day, and you took the brunt of my bad mood. Your Mum is right we do need to talk because this isn't about you coaching, it's about me not coaching anymore."

"I don't understand Dad."

"That's why we need to talk, so I can explain, why don't we sit down." Jack said, as he gestured towards the set of garden furniture they had on the back porch.

"Why not?" Troy said, as he started to make his way back onto the porch, and took a seat on one of the chairs, Jack sat beside him.

"I'm jealous Troy, that's as simple as it gets, I'm jealous."

Troy sat silently for a moment before speaking. "I don't get it Dad, what are you jealous of?"

"I'm jealous of the fact that you are still teaching and playing basketball, I'm just jealous of you. Not your family, not what you have there, because your family is also my family, and I love that. I'm just jealous that because of my knee injury I can't play anymore, and now that you're coaching the boys they seem to be doing even better than they ever did with me around."

"Dad, they're only as good as they are because of how you've coached them for so long, you got your injury when you were a player, you still coached after that. Every time the seniors leave they tell the rest of the team how great you and that you're one of the team, not just the coach. They all love you Dad; they're constantly asking me how you are, and if you're popping in anytime soon. Please Dad; don't be jealous of what I have, because you're the one that got me there."

Jack was silent, Troy had really grown up, and had a level head on his shoulders, he knew what he wanted to say and he said it, Jack was really proud of how Troy had turned out.

"I'm proud of you son, I'm proud that you came here to speak to me, I'm your Dad, I should have spoken to you in the first place, that shouted and upset you. I'm proud that you came here to talk to me, because you're right, I shouldn't be jealous of what you have, I should be proud of what you have, really proud, and you know what Troy, I am, so, so proud."

"So, we're good then? No more being jealous of what I have, because you had it once as well, you just passed it on through the family."

"Yeah, we're good, no more being jealous, I'm so proud of you Troy. How you teach the boys, how you look after Alex and Katie, and Bella for that matter, how much of an amazing father you are, and how you're an amazing husband to Gabriella, I'm so glad she came into our lives, I couldn't imagine things without her."

"Me either Dad. I'm glad we had this talk, I love you Dad."

"I love you too son."

They both got up to share a father, son hug.

"Dad, do you realise how cheesy we just sounded?" Troy asked, as they pulled back from their hug.

"Yeah, but there's no one around, so why not?"

TGTGTGTG

"I'll get it!" Anna shouted through her Grandparents house, as the door bell rang, yet again that night.

Jumping up, she managed to catch the look, unlocking the door, and opening it as she landed.

"Anna, how are you?" Cam asked, as she stepped back to let him in. "Should you be opening the door without an adult?"

Anna shrugged. "I'm fine, they're all in the garden, come on!"

Today was Alex and Katie's seventeenth birthday, and they were having a party at Jack and Lucille's, so Troy and Gabriella could take the children home to bed at the end of the night.

"Anna there you are, have you been answering the door again?" Gabriella asked her eldest, as she appeared at the back door with Cam in tow.

"Sorry Mrs B, I did ask her if she was allowed, but she didn't answer."

"It's okay Cam, it's not your fault, she just needs to learn to listen to me when I tell her not to do something, right Anna?"

Anna nodded, and ran off to play with her Grandpa.

"Sorry about that Cam, they are both about here somewhere, all I know is that most of the people here are basketball players and their other halves, Katie said they could all be her friends as well, she has no one else to invite apparently."

"Don't worry about it Mrs B. Alex told me Katie hadn't invited anyone, so I am unofficially her guest." Cam stated.

"You like my baby sister, don't you?" Gabriella asked, as she picked up Ebonnie, who had just plonked herself down on her Mum's foot.

Cam shrugged, and turned a deep red.

"It's okay, Alex told me you liked her, and Bella also told me she likes you, but just be careful Cam, after what happened with Hayden she's still really jumpy, and grounded, so please be careful, Troy and Alex are about."

"Are you giving me permission to spend a lot of time with your sister, Mrs B?"

"Yeah I am, just be careful, like I said, the boys are around, and you are Alex's best friend, he knows you like her, but it's still weird, she's still his sister."

Cam saluted Gabriella, as he made his way down the back steps, and out to join the party fun.

TGTGTGTG

"Da!" Oscar said, as he pulled on Troy's hair to get his attention.

"Ow, Oscar don't do that, what do you want?"

"Ma!" Oscar said, pointing in the direction of Gabriella, who was making her way over to them with Ebonnie.

"Yep buddy, that's your Mum, looking very sexy in her new jeans, can I add."

"You could add that on, but our students are around so I wouldn't put an action to the compliment dear husband." Gabriella said, as she and Ebonnie sat down on the garden bench next to Troy and Oscar.

Troy just laughed at what Gabriella had said. "Hi, I haven't seen you in a while, where'd you go?"

"Well, Ebonnie here, got a bit upset over something, I'm actually not sure what, so I took her onto the back porch for a bit to have a cuddle, then Anna answered the door to Cam, and I had an interesting conversation with him." Gabriella explained, as she put a fidgeting Ebonnie down on a blanket, so she could play with her toys.

"Really, what was this interesting conversation?" Troy asked his wife; as he put Oscar down to join his sister.

"He does like Katie, don't look so surprised Troy, you were there the other day when Alex told us he liked her, and when Bella said Katie liked him."

"I was?"

"Yes you were, so go along with me, please?"

"Okay, but can I at least put my arm around you, I don't care what they all see, they are our students but you aren't teaching at the moment, please?"

"Fine." Gabriella shifted her position so that she was sitting sideways on the bench and Troy did the same, so that Gabriella's back was pressed up against his front, and his arms were wrapped around her waist, connected with each other and resting on her stomach.

"So anyway, I told Cam how Katie had said that the boys could all be her guests as well because she said she didn't have any friends of her own, to invite. He said that Alex had told him this, and therefore he made himself Katie's unofficial guest, basically I told him he could hang out with her tonight, but he had to be careful, especially after what happened with Hayden, and because she's still grounded, and because you and Alex and both around, being way too over protective of her."

"Yeah well it's their birthday, and she has been pretty good with helping us out, especially when you were ill, I think Mum's gonna make the rules of her grounding a little easier on her because of it, you are feeling better now, right?"

Gabriella leaned back further into Troy's embrace, she didn't care that the boys and their other halves were around, she trusted these boys not to spread stupid rumours, and well, she was quite enjoying being in Troy's arms.

"Yeah I'm feeling better, I still have a few dizzy moments every now and then, but other than that I'm good, why?"

"Just checking that you weren't secretly suffering, it doesn't seem that you are, but if the dizziness gets worse, please tell me." Troy said, as he leant down and kissed the side of Gabriella's neck.

"I will, don't worry. I'm glad you and Dad talked, I think he feels better in himself, now you know how he's feeling, I think you made him feel better when you said he had passed it on, it looks like you'll have someone to pass it onto as well."

"What do you mean, to Alex?"

"Yeah he's next in line, but I was actually talking about our soon, look."

Troy looked to where Gabriella was pointing to find that the twins must have crawled their way over to the basketball court, where Jack, Lucille and Anna were playing, and Oscar was in Jack's arms, throwing his soft basketball through the proper net.

Troy laughed. "What can I say, apparently, it runs in the family."

TGTGTGTG

Later that night, when Troy and Gabriella were changing the children into their pyjamas, so they could put them straight to bed when they got home, Alex, Bella, Katie and Cam were the only ones left, and they were lazily spread out around the living room.

"Will you two please just stop staring at each other with gooey eyes, and ask one another on a date please?" Gabriella broke the silence in the room, as she came down the stairs with the twins in her arms, and placed them in their car seats by the door.

"What are you talking about Gabs?" Katie asked, turning her head to look at her big sister.

"She's talking about the fact, that all you and Cam have done since he got here tonight was stare at each other with puppy eyes." Troy said, as he came down the stars with a sleeping Anna in his arms.

Cam turned his head from his spot on the floor against the couch, to look at Katie, who was lying on the couch. "Katie, would you like to go on a date with me next Saturday?"

"Yes Cam, why not, I'd love to go on a date with you. You guys happy now?"

"Very." Alex answered from his spot on the other side of the couch, where he was sat with Bella's head in his lap, his hand soothingly running through her blond hair.

"Same here." Gabriella answered, agreeing with her brother. "Now, we're off home, you want a lift Cam?"

"No thanks Mrs B; I only live across the road, I think even I can make that without too much trouble." Cam answered, as he pushed himself up off of the floor, and walked towards the door to put his shoes on.

"Are you guys off?" Jack asked, as he and Lucille appeared from the kitchen.

"Yep, the little ones are all asleep, and I think I will be as soon as my head hits the pillow." Gabriella answered, as she took Anna off of Troy, so he could start loading the twins and their things into the car.

"Yeah I'm off too, thanks for having me guys. "

"Thanks for coming dude." Alex said, as he gently lifted Bella's head off of his lap, so he could get up and see his friend out. "If you hadn't of been here, Katie would've only moped about all night and annoyed Gabi, so thank you." Alex said, as he and Cam gave each other a man hug.

"It wasn't a problem I really enjoyed myself, I'll see you guys on Monday, bye." Cam walked out of the door, as Troy walked back in after strapping the twins' car seats in.

"You ready to go babe?"

"Yeah, can you take Anna, she's getting heavy." Gabriela said, as Troy gently took Anna from her arms and kissed Lucille on the cheek before going back out to his car.

"You guys coming to us tomorrow Lucille?" Gabriella asked, as she hugged her siblings goodbye.

"Yeah, we'll be over between half twelve and one, give these guys a chance to wake up." Lucille said, as she gave Gabriella a hug, after she'd finished hugging Jack.

"Bella, you should ring your Dad in the morning and invite him over, he doesn't deserve to be by himself, and he might as well join us, the more the merrier."

"Okay, I'll give him a ring when I wake up." Bella said, as she slowly sat up from her position on the couch, and made her way over to Alex.

"I think you should take her to bed before she falls asleep down here." Jack told Alex, who had since wrapped ah arm around Bella's waist to steady her.

"Yeah, come on babe, I think Jack's got a good idea there, Katie, you coming, I have two arms, I'm going now if you want help."

Katie stood up from the couch and made her way over to Alex and Katie, as they said goodnight to Jack and Lucille, before slowly making their way upstairs.

"Right, I'm going now, bye guys." Gabriella called up the stairs.

"Gabs?" Katie called stopping her sister before she made it out of the door.

"Yeah sweetie"

"Can we go and see Mum tomorrow?"

"'Course we will sweetheart, now go to bed."

"Night."

"Brie, you coming?" Troy said, as he re-appeared in the open door way.

"Yeah I'm coming babe, see you guys tomorrow."

Troy wrapped his arm around Gabriella's waist as he led her to the car.

"We gonna go and see your Mum tomorrow?"

Gabriella nodded, as Troy kissed her head, before helping her into the car, and getting in himself, to get his family home to bed, ready for a day, he knew would always be emotional.

TGTGTGTG

There it is guys, chapter four, hope you liked it!

I once again apologies if this is rubbish :(

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