He watched her walk off, his eyes involuntarily going to her ass that swayed seducingly from side to side. He mentally kicked himself, shaking his head, he put Christopher back in the stroller and pushed him back to his truck. Little did he know that Gabriella walked only far enough to hide behind the biggest oak tree, to walk to her car, and follow Troy. She needed answers, and she'll get them...whether he wants to give them or not.
Troy pulled up the the farm house where him and his son lived with his cousin and his cousin's wife and his nephew. he grabbed christopher from her carseat putting him on his hip. "Come on bubby, it's time for your nap." he went inside the house. Gabriella pulled up, opening up her car door, and walked to the front door. she fixed her dress, and her hair, and shook her head, "what am I doing?" she messed up her hair a little, and rang the doorbell.
A guy, a little older then Troy, but looked a little bit alike came to the door. he smiled, "Gabriella, what a pleasent suprise." she bit her lip, looking at him confused, "Umm is Troy here?"
He nodded, "His up the stairs, putting christopher to bed... you can go up there if you like." she nodded as he opened the door for her, and she walked up stairs; she looked to the corner door of the hallway where Troy was singing a lullaby to christopher. When troy finally put christopher to sleep. he kissed his forhead and turned the light off.,when he turned to come face to face with Gabriella, he jumped a little bit.
"what the hell are you doing here!" he said a little harshly. Se sighed, "I followed you, I wanted answers Troy, please.. you know something, and..and I wanna know how you know me, please.. I just..I need answers.. then I'll leave you alone.."
Troy sighed, running a hand down his face, looking at the sleeping Christopher hug his Captain American bear tight to him. He looked back at Gabriella, "porch...he's sleeping."
Gabriella fought the urge to smile triumphantly, instead she nodded small and turned around. Troy sighed, turning back to Christopher and tucked the blanket lightly around him. "I love you...I'll always be here." kissing the sleeping infants head again, he walked out of the door, taking the baby moniter with him just in case Christopher woke up. He saw Gabriella on the porch, he made sure to keep a painful distance between them.
"What do you wanna know?" Gabriella bit her lip, "how do you know me?"
Troy sighed sitting across from her, but from a very far distance. "Well, you were my..girlfriend.." he said. Gabriella looked at him, "Okay, how long for?" he bit his lip, "We've known each other since we were in 7th grade, but started a relationship freshman year."
Se nodded, "what about my parents? who are they? are they still alive?" Troy bit his lip, "Y-You really don't remember do you?"
She looked down at her hands, and took a deep breath, "what happened to my parents?" he sighed, "Your mom died when you were 3, your dad is still alive, but he.. he thinks very differently of us."
She sighed, "what do you mean?" Troy sighed, "n-nothing."
Gabriella sighed, and said, "Okay so, we dated." he nodded, "we were inlove?" he nodded again, "and I have weird hair."
Troy chuckled, "I wasen't going to say that.." she looked at him, "Were we together before I had my accident?" Troy just nodded solemnly.
She just looked at him for a awhile. eventually the puzzle came together, her eyes went wide, "how old is christopher?" Troy bit his lip, "5 months." Gabriella covered her mouth, "C-Christopher is my son?"
Troy nodded, "Yeah, he is.." Gabriella looked at the floor, and and sat on the chair burying her hands into her face, tears rolling down her cheeks, "and...and you hate me.."
"No..." Troy whispered, moving closer to her, "I don't hate- I just..."
"Hate me." she whispered, lifting her head; his heart broke seeing the tears running down her face. He shook his head, "I don't-I just...see it from my eyes, I thought you left...I didn't hear from you. At all." she sniffled, "But I was in an acc-"
"I didn't know about it...I was notified." she sniffled again, resting her chin on her knees, "I'm sorry for making you think that." Troy just looked at her, "you know...there was something that I wanted to ask you ...five months ago."
She looked at him, "what was it?" he smirked, looking forward, "um...it isn't a 'was' question."
"Huh?" he looked at her, opening his mouth to ask, but then the baby moniter went off and Christopher came through. He sighed, "A father's work is never done." he stood up, holding out his hand for her. She just looked at it, "uh..." he rolled his eyes, "come on..."
"but-"
"he's your son too you know."
Gabriella looked at him, "I..I can see him?" Troy nodded, "Your his mother Gabriella."
She smiled gracefully, and grabbed his hand. he led her to the baby's room. Troy went to Christopher's crib, "hey buddy.. hey, you awake." he cooed. She smiled, "He's the most precious baby I've ever seen." she looked at christopher.
"wanna hold him?" she looked at him, "r-really?" Troy nodded placing Christopher in her arms. she smiled at him, "he's beautiful.." she had tears rolling down her cheeks, "Brie..what's a matter?"
She sniffled, "I can't..I can't believe I missed out on his life...his 5 months of life." Troy bit his lip, "everything's going to be okay Brie.." she nodded, her phone started vibrating, and she gave christopher to Troy and and she picked it up.
"Hello... Rob I'm with someone right now..No...No.. I don't wanna talk about what happened...bye." she hung up her phone, she looked at Troy, "I have to go." he looked at her, "where are you going?"
She sighed, "Robert wants me at his apartment...I'm kind of in trouble with him from earlier, thanks for that by the way.." she looked at christopher, "bye baby...I love you." she kissed his forhead.
She handed Christopher back to Troy, who started fussing again; Troy smiled, "He wants his momma..." she smiled sadly, "I-I...I'll come by tomorrow?" it came out a question, "Brie, that would be nice..." she nodded, her phone vibrated again, she sighed answering it.
"Robert...I'm on my way-...-No! Look, it's just traffic...I'm stuck all right." she flipped her phone shut, Troy was smirking, "what?" he laughed, walking to the changing table. "You're not nor have you ever been a convincing liar."