"Jewels? I like it Jewels!" Joshua said. Nathan laughed along.

"Um…here Troy…" Gabi said handing Troy a chocolate ice cream with nuts and syrup on top.

"My favorite!" Troy said smiling.

"Thank you for the ice cream mommy!" Julie said as everyone was on their way home.

"Me too!" Joshua said.

"Me three!" Nathan added.

"You're welcome you guys!" Gabi said smiling.

"Troy, can you play with us tomorrow again?" Julie asked hopefully.

The day had been wonderful for Troy. They had played Frisbee with Jet and Troy taught Joshua and Nathan some basketball moves.

"Well, um…if it's ok with your mom." Troy said looking at Gabriella.

"Can he mommy, please??" the triplets begged.

"I'll think about it…" Gabriella said as they reached the Montez's house.

"See you tomorrow Troy?" Julie said brightly.

"Yea, sure Jewels!" Troy said smiling.

"Bye Bye Troy!" Nathan yelled as he ran into the house, Joshua following.

Troy felt happy as he lifted Julie's wheel chair into the house.

"Thank you!" Julie said giggling, wheeling herself into the house to get ready for bed.

Troy looked over at Gabi who was herding Jet back into the house.

"Um…see you tomorrow Gabi?" Troy asked hopefully.

"Is it starting to rain?" Gabriella asked, sticking her palm out.

Troy looked up. It had started drizzling. "Yea, it is…"

"Where's your car?" Gabriella asked, looking around Troy.

"Um… at the hotel, I left to there. I walked." Troy said lamely.

"How are you gonna get home?" Gabriella asked curiously, as it slowly started to pour.

"Walk?" Troy said.

Gabriella rolled her eyes. "You can stay till it stops raining…" Gabriella said softly opening the door.

"Thanks Gabi…" Troy said walking into the house with Gabi.

"MOMMY! Can you please tuck us in?"

"Um, I'll be right back…" Gabriella said, running up the stairs to the triplet's bedroom.

Troy smiled as he scanned the house. He had chosen to make a stupid mistake and miss out a lot. He sighed as he looked at the triplet's baby picture on the wall. How had Gabriella managed then when she was young herself? He stood up straighter as he saw Gabriella walk down the stairs, obviously worn out from today's events.

"Aren't you gonna get any sleep?" Troy asked the brunette who tiredly slumped onto the sofa.

Gabi didn't answer. He could feel the tension in the room from the silence.

"Why didn't you leave?" Gabriella asked abruptly, her voice filled with anger.

Troy's smiled turned upside down at her abrupt response. "I-I'm sorry Gabs…" Troy said softly.

"Sorry is not gonna solve anything Troy." Gabriella said angrily, standing up.

"What more do you want?" Troy said loudly, frustrated.

"I-I don't know! But you're too late Troy! Too late!" Gabriella yelled.

"So what do you want me to do?" Troy said trying to keep his temper down.

"I said I don't know!" Gabriella shouted.

"Then what is gonna solve this?!" Troy exploded.

"You need to prove that your sorry, you hurt me too much!" Gabriella finished, tears streaming down her face.

"Prove it? Alright I will!" Troy yelled, grabbing squirming Gabi, crushing his lips onto hers.

He ignored her protests and pushed her against the wall. Troy pulled away a few moments later.

"Did I prove it well enough?" Troy asked his nose against hers. Gabriella didn't answer.

"Gabi…" Troy said softly.

"I still need some time." Gabriella said sighing.

"I'll wait." Troy murmured.

Gabi smiled softly and rested her head tiredly on Troy's shoulder. Troy chuckled as he gently wrapped his arms around Gabi's waist.

"Do you want some sleep?" Troy asked.

Gabriella nodded sleepily, yawning. Troy gently scooped up Gabi's legs with one arms, the other around her waist. He carried her up the stairs and into her bedroom.

"Um…I can sleep in the living room…" Troy offered, looking at the pouring rain.

"No, it's cold down there, you can crash on the bed with me." Gabi said a moment later, snuggling into the covers.

Troy's heart was smiling as he joined Gabi in her medium sized bed. He wrapped his arms around Gabi, pulling her close.

"Goodnight Gabs…" Troy murmured at the sleeping brunette in his arms.

Around the corner sat Joshua and Nathan, eyes widened at the famous basketball star sleeping with their mother.

"Is Troy really Gabi's friend?" Joshua whispered.

"I dunno, but it's cold anyway! No wonder they're in the same bed!" Nathan yawned sleepily.

"Don't you wanna know if Troy likes mommy?" Joshua said urgently.

Nathan shook his head. "I don't know, but I wish that I can hop in the big bed with them!" Nathan whispered.

Joshua unsuccessfully tried to roll his eyes.

"I heard them yelling down stairs, they had a fight! But all friends make up!" the boys had gone to Julie's room and were now discussing things.

"True! I bet Troy and Mommy were best friends before!" Nathan said excitedly.

"Yea! I wonder what Troy and mommy looked like when they were young." Joshua wondered

The three looked at each other until Julie spoke up. "Pictures! Mommy's old scrapbook!"

"YEA!" Joshua yelled.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Julie hissed.

"Where is it?" Nathan whispered.

"Um…I think the high shelf above the TV…" Julie answered.

Joshua's mouth dropped open. "But I can barely even touch it! Besides, I don't think we can stand on the TV!" Joshua explained.

"You're right, but aren't you curious? I remember mommy say that it had pictures of her going to school!" Julie said crossing her chubby arms.

"Fine!" Nathan said. "Joshua and I will go down and get it!"

"Oh boy!" Joshua said excitedly.

"Remember, be quiet!!" Julie hissed after them.

The two boys, crawled slowly down the hall way.

"Don't breath!" Joshua whispered as the two neared their mother's room.

Nathan held his breath for a few seconds then let it out. "It's TOO hard!" he whispered loudly.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Be quiet!" Joshua hissed.

"You be quiet!" Nathan argued as they tippy toed to the stairs.

The stairs creaked as Joshua put his weight on the first step.

"Josh!" Nathan said quickly.

"Oh yea! Let's go down on our butts…" Joshua whispered, sitting down on the steps.

The two boys slowly slipped down to each step until they reached the bottom.

"We still have to find a way to reach the shelf…" Nathan complained.

"We can get the kitchen chair?" Joshua whispered.

"But it makes too much noise!" Nathan said.

"Oh well, then I guess we need to hop onto the TV…" Joshua said sighing.

"You meant that YOU will hop on the TV." Nathan reasoned.

"Then put a bunch of pillows in front so that I won't break anything!" Joshua said as they stared at the shelf way above the TV.

"No wonder mom leaves it up there!" Nathan said as he dumped a bunch of pillows from the couch in front of the TV.

Joshua looked up nervously. "See you later Nate?"

Nathan laughed quietly. "Yea, see you later Josh!"

Joshua carefully climbed onto the TV. "Oh boy…" Joshua said, his knees shaking from worry. He had always been afraid of heights.

"Which one?" Joshua whispered as his hands touched the bottom of the shelf.

"Um…I remember that it was big and blue!" Nathan thought.

"Got it!" Joshua said triumphantly, grabbing a faded blue scrapbook from the shelf.

He dropped it on the pillows and hesitantly jumped after it.

"Good job Josh!" Nathan said happily as he dumped the pillows back to their original places.

"Jewels is gonna be so happy!" Joshua yipped happily as the two sleepy boys tip toed back up the stairs.

"Good job guys!" Julie said pleased as she took the scrapbook from Joshua.

"Now what?" Nathan asked, sitting beside Julie, Joshua following.

"I just wanna see what they look like!" Julie said giggling.

Joshua groaned and Nathan fell back on the bed.

"All that work for nothing!"

Julie rolled her eyes and opened the scrapbook with eager hands.

"Look! There's mommy! She looks so young!" Julie exclaimed, pointing to a picture of 15 year old Gabi next to a tree.

"Cool! And there's Grandma!" Joshua said.

"Where's Troy? Isn't he in here?" Nathan asked, flipping to the next page.

"UM…look here he is! He's on the court!" Julie said as the triplets stared at the picture of Troy in a basketball game.

"Guys look!" Julie exclaimed, pointing to the next picture.

It was a picture of Gabi in a red dress and Toy in a basketball jersey, about to kiss. (Look familiar?)

"So they were REALLY good friends!" Joshua said.

"Now what? Do we put it back?" Nathan asked.

"Nah, we can hide in under my bed!" Julie said shoving is between her legs under the bed.

"Don't tell anyone!" Joshua warned the other two.

"Yea! Let's be like spies and watch and see if Troy still likes mommy!" Julie said excitedly.

Troy yawned tiredly as stretched. He soon realized that he wasn't in the hotel room. He looked down in his arms to see Gabi, fast asleep. He smiled and gently kissed her on the forehead, his lips lingering on her for a moment. She started to stir.

"Good morning Gabs!" Troy said softly.

Gabi smiled and snuggled closer into Troy's chest. "I'm sorry about last night…" she mumbled.

Troy smiled. "No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left you. I missed out on so much!"

Gabriella giggled has Troy poked her side. "Where do you wanna go after we drop off the kids at daycare?" Gabriella asked.

"Um…how about the mall?" Troy asked.

"The mall? You hate it there!" Gabriella said laughing.

Troy shrugged. "Anything for you."

Gabi and Troy walked through the doors of the mall. Troy had sunglasses on to disguise himself.

"So…what do you want?" Troy asked Gabriella.

Before Gabi could answer, a blonde was running towards them.

"One of your fans?" Gabriella asked giggling. But Troy didn't answer, squinting his eyes at the blonde.

"Troy! It's me!" A blonde yelled, running towards Troy and Gabriella.

She threw her arms around Troy's neck, kissing his cheek.

"Did you miss me?" she squealed.

"Leah, what are you doing here?" Troy exclaimed pushing her off.

"You didn't miss me?" the blonde said smiling seductively. "I thought I'd come to check on ya since you didn't come back on yesterday's flight. I missed you baby!"

"Who are you?" Gabriella cut in.

"You wanna know who I am?" the blonde said rudely, "I'm his girlfriend!"

Gabriella stared at Troy, her eyes like daggers. Before Troy could say anything, Gabriella out the doors of the mall.

"Gabi! Wait!" Troy yelled, but the brunette was already out of sight.

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"Troy, I think that you should go back…" Gabriella said.

"Why Gabi? I love you!" Troy yelled desperately.

"It's clear that you've moved on! I did the same!" Gabriella shot back.

"I never moved on Gabi!" Troy shouted.

"Then why didn't you even try to call me? Try to contact me?!" Gabriella yelled.

Troy became silent.

"From now on, go back to your own life and leave me and my kids alone!" Gabriella yelled painfully.

"They're my kids to Gabi!" Troy exploded.

"You are?"