Little Blue Eyes Ch.3
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Rating: T
" Austin! Can you believe it! We're finally taking the baby home!" Gabriella exclaimed happily from the back seat of Austin's BMW.
" Yeah, I really am!" Austin said as he briefly glanced at her from the driver's seat, flashed a smile, then his eyes returned to the road.
" Hi baby. I'm your mom!" Gabriella quietly talked to the baby girl.
" You know…we might want to actually name her…" Austin said as he again glanced at Gabriella.
Gabriella looked up from the baby and smiled at Austin.
"No, I think we should just call her baby girl her whole life…" Gabriella replied sarcastically.
" Seriously. Gabriella…we need to name her." He answered, in a serious tone.
Gabriella sighed, her jokes where never funny to him.
" Ok, fine, what did you have in mind?" Gabriella asked, getting frustrated.
"I don't know. What names do you like?" Austin replied, switching lanes.
" I have no idea…" Gabriella decided.
There was a brief awkward pause.
" Well…what do we have in common?" Austin asked, trying to start a conversation.
"Nothing" Gabriella thought to herself as she softly ran her hand across the sleeping infant's cheek.
" Gabriella?"
" What? Oh…um…I don't know. I like music." Gabriella said.
" I like corporate law."
" I like science."
" I like politics…"
Gabriella shook her head and laid it back on the seat.
" What if we named her after a president." Austin asked, now turning off the freeway.
Gabriella rolled her eyes, " What did you have in mind?"
" Well…I don't know. What about…Kennedy?"
Gabriella looked at the baby, " She doesn't look like a Kennedy."
" Well. She needs to have a prominent name. I mean, she's a Conrad! Her name should be dignified, and have a meaning!" Austin rambled.
Gabriella shrugged.
Another awkward pause filled the car.
" What was your Great Grandma's name again?" Gabriella asked.
" Anna, why?" Austin asked, but didn't look at her.
" I was just wondering."
Gabriella began stroking the baby's dark hair.
" I like Faith." Gabriella concluded.
" That's a cute name." Austin started.
" I think we should name her Faith." Gabriella said, but didn't explain why.
Now at a red light, Austin turned to look at his wife, " Are you sure?" He asked.
Gabriella nodded her head.
Austin turned back around as the light turned green.
" Now we just need to think of a middle name…" Austin said as they turned into their neighborhood.
" I was thinking we could combine our grandparents names."
" How so?"
" Like, I think her middle name should be Leighanna." Gabriella said surely as she glanced at the baby.
Austin was silent.
" I love it." He said simply as they pulled into the garage.
Austin got out of the car and opened Gabriella's door. Then he walked to the other side and picked up the baby's car seat.
The small family walked into the front door to the kitchen.
Austin put the car seat on the kitchen counter and headed upstairs to take a shower, leaving Gabriella in the kitchen.
Gabriella took the fragile infant out of her seat and brought her upstairs to the freshly painted nursery.
" Welcome home Faith."
Gabriella quietly whispered as she placed the baby in the dark wood crib. She covered her feet with a white blanket.
The blanket had an inscription sewed into it. Gabriella grazed her finger over the phrase.
" There's not a star in heaven that you can't reach."
Seeing it, Gabriella felt her throat tighten, but refused to dispose of the precious blanket.
Not wanting to cry in front of her daughter, she quietly tip toed out of the room and closed the door so only a small crack was left open.
Tiredly rubbing her eyes, Gabriella walked aimlessly into the home office. She sat down at the computer desk and briskly moved the mouse back and forth, the black screen turned to white and Gabriella clicked on the Internet icon.
She clicked on her mail, and began deleting junk mail. She was looking for something. After browsing two full pages of spam, she found it.
An email from Taylor, as promised since the day Gabriella moved, Taylor and Gabriella communicated through email.
" Hey!
Ok, so how's the baby! Is he/she cute? Of course if you're her/his mother…lol. So, um…I was thinking, and please don't shoot me! That, maybe you and the new baby and Austin could come to Albuquerque for a while. Just to see me, and Chad…ok, I'm more important! But, I know your mom misses you, and Washington's just so far away! Just think about it. Please?
Anyways, Chad's whining, and I'm starving! So I'll write to ya later!
Until I respond :)
Taylor.
Gabriella smiled at the email. Taylor was still the same old Taylor, and then of course Chad's never changed either.
" It would be fun to go see everyone…" Gabriella reminisced about high school.
Her grin slowly faded away and her gaze dropped to the keyboard.
There was one person she couldn't face. One person who left her humiliated. One person she hadn't spoken of, heard from, or seen in a little over a year.
One person whose images flooded her thoughts, on person whose laugh rang through her mind. One person who she could never seem to get out of her head, one person who still had her heart.
Troy Bolton.
Author's Note: Chapter 3, done. Um...i have nothing to say! Please review!
The next chapter will be a flashback, for some reason, that method is working well for this story.
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