Merry Christmas:

Christmas Eve Morning

Troy woke up to the sound of Christmas music playing in the background. Troy knew before but still felt the bed space next to him. The space was cold and empty like he knew it was gonna be. Troy tossed the covers back, heading down the steps. In the kitchen, there she was, busying herself around the kitchen making breakfast. Troy slowly crept up behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist.

Gabi jumped but relaxed knowing who it was. "What are you doing scaring me?"

"I didn't mean to. You looked so good, I just couldn't help myself. I had to touch you or I would die."

"Where are the kids?"

"Still sleeping." Troy said kissing the side of her neck.

Gabi tilted her head, before she heard a cry. "Not anymore. Can you finish up breakfast please?"

"Sure."

Gabi leaned up and kissed him before heading up the steps to her baby's room. 8-month-old Cecelia Bolton stared up at her mother. Gabi picked her up, changed her diaper and headed down the hall. Her, 2 year old son, Colt Bolton, was already up and quietly playing with his toys. Her son was half-dressed with his shoes untied and her pants unbuttoned. Gabi smiled and helped him get fixed up, they trio headed down stairs.

When they got to the kitchen Gabi said, "Hey daddy, guess who was getting himself ready?"

"Really? Wow." Troy picked up his son. "You want breakfast?"

"Yeah daddy." Colt said nodding his head.

"Okay, hope up in your chair." Troy said placing Colt back on the ground. Troy turned to Gabi "You okay?"

"I'm fine." She said nodding. She grabbed Cecelia's food and sat down. "You dish breakfast and I'll do baby duty."

"Okay."

As the family ate, the phone rang. Gabi got up and answered it. "Hello?"

"Merry Christmas Eve."

"Hello Shar." Gabi said chuckling to herself.

"How is my lovely best friend this morning?"

"Wonderful, yourself?"

"Great. How are my two godchildren?"

"Great. You will never guess what Colt did this morning."

"What?"

"He tried to get dressed by himself. It was so adorable."

"Oh my god I knew he got your brains."

Troy looked at his son. "They're gonna b on the phone for a while." Nick giggled at his father. "Yeah, Auntie Sharpay and Mommy are crazy. You'll learn that as you get older."

Gabi lightly tapped him on the arm. "Be quiet."

Troy playfully rubbed his arm and turned to his son. "See now she's hitting me."

Nick said "Daddy funny."

Gabi nodded. "Daddy is funny."

"Now you're both ganging up on me."

"Hey Shar, I'll see you later tonight okay?"

"Okay."

Both girls hung up and Troy said "What time are we leaving to head over there?"

"Around 3, we'll have dinner and then be back by 8 or 8:30 to get the kids in bed for tomorrow."

"What's for dinner?"

"Only you and Chad. You both think with your stomach."

"That's not all we think with."

"We have kids in the room."

"Sorry." Troy covered Nick's ears and said, "Wait till I get you alone tonight."

"I'll be waiting." Gabi said tossing a wink at Troy

Troy uncovered Nick's ears. "Come on buddy, let's go get dressed." Troy took Nick in his arms and went up stairs.

Gabi looked at Cecelia and said, "Come on baby. Hopefully you didn't you get your father brains." Gabi lifted her youngest into her arms. "But you did get his pretty blue eyes." Gabi changed Cecelia's diaper and carried her into Gabi and Troy's room. The 8 month old grabbed a fist full of Gabi's shirt as Gabi sat the baby in the playpen. "You sit there like a good little girl for mommy okay?" Cecelia giggled. "Good you understand." Gabi headed into the bathroom, leaving the door slightly ajar.

5 minutes later Gabi heard "Hey baby, I got Cecelia."

"Okay, thank you."

"What are you doing in there?"

"Getting changed."

"Need any help?"

"NO!…I mean. No cause normal that leads to things that we don't have time for."

"Alright…remember you promised me later."

20 minutes later the Bolton household was in fully swing. Nick and Cecelia watching cartoons and Gabi baking cookies with Troy's help. "Troy?"

"Yeah Baby."

"Could you please pass me the sugar cookie mix from the fridge?"
"Sure." Troy placed it in front of her.

"Thank you." Gabi kissed her husband on the cheek.

Troy watched his two kids on the couch, Nick talking a mile a minute to his sister. "Gabi?"

"Hmmm." Gabi said putting the cookies on the pan.

"You ever think about having another baby."

Gabi stopped what she was doing and turned to face him. "What?"

"I think a newborn around would be really good. Getting up in the wee hours of the morning. Watching you grow and watch the baby grow inside of you."

"Is that really what you want?"

"Yeah, what about you?"

"We could start working on it tonight?" Gabi said smiling.

Troy's face light up. He picked her up and twirled her around. "I love you."

"I love you too." At 2:30, Gabi and Troy split up, each taking a kid to go get ready. By three they were in the car and gone. Gabi turned to Nick and said "Nick, honey are you ready for Santa tonight?"

"Yeah." Nick said clapping his hands.

"Have you been a good boy?"

"Yup. Me been good, so has sissy."

"Yeah you think so?"

"I know so." Nick said

Gabi laughed at her son, before picking up her ringing cell phone. "Hello?"

"Where are you?"

"We're almost there Shar."

"Right, how are my god babies?"

"You asked that before."

"Shush, its might right."

"Sorry, they're the same as they were hours ago, fine."

"Good. Oh I see you."

Then the line went dead. Gabi looked at Troy. "You better watch out, here she comes." Gabi said jokingly.

Troy pulled up and out came the petite blonde-haired woman. Now 7 and ½ months pregnant women waddled to Gabi and embraced her. "Gabi it's so good to see you."

"Honey, we saw each other yesterday?"

"Right sorry." They pulled away and Sharpay looked around. "Where are the kids?"

"Right here." Troy said walking around the side of the car with Nick by hand and Cecelia in her carrier.

"Come here buddy." Gabi took Nick and lifted him into her arms. When they walked in, everyone was there. "Are we the last to arrive?"

"Yeah kinda." Sharpay said as Gabi sat Nick down. Sharpay leaned down to Nick and said, "Why don't you go play in the playroom."

"Okay." Nick started down the hall

"Stop running, and be nice." Gabi yelled after her son

"I WILL!" He yelled over his shoulder.

Gabi hugged the girls. "How have you girls been?"

Taylor hugged back "Wonderful. You?"

"Wonderful, I can't believe that it's Christmas already."

"I know."

"You should have seen Chase." Kelsi said, Chase was Kelsi and Jason's 3-year-old son.

Gabi said, "I can only wonder what tomorrow's gonna be like."

The four friends had a happy dinner, filled with laughter and stories. The children play, oblivious to the adult talking about the wonders tomorrow would bring. By the end of the night, Troy and Gabi went home with two sleeping children in the back seat. Gabi watched both her children from her mirror with a smile on her face. When the pulled up to their house, Nick was suddenly wide-awake, ready for Santa to come and give him presents.

Troy said, "I'll grab the baby, can you help him get everything?"

"Yeah." They headed into the house, "What kinda cookies do you want to leave for Santa baby?"

"Umm…Chocolate Chip and Sugar."

"Okay." They put it on a cute Santa plate. "Ok, go sit that on the coffee table and I'll get the milk."

"Okay." Nick said taking the plate, Gabi followed with the milk.
After Nick, fixed everything, Gabi said "Bed time." Nick nodded tiredly and Gabi took him to bed, tucking him in. "Good night baby. I'll see you in the morning."

"Good night mommy."

Gabi headed back down the steps to see Troy in the living room. "I'm gonna get changed really quickly into something comfortable."

"Alright." As she went to walk away he said, "Gabi." She turned and looked at him. "Are you alright?"

"Just a little tired. I think the party wore me out as much as it did the kids."

"Well go up stairs and rest. We're tying to make a baby. I need you in tip top shape."

"Okay." Gabi kissed Troy gently on the lips. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Gabi headed up stairs to get changed. For Troy and Gabi morning coming all too soon. Nick came in and jumped on the bed. "Mommy, mommy, wake up. Daddy its Christmas."

Troy grabbed him and said, "I know, I know. Go head down stairs." Nick starts to squirm. "Don't touch the presents."

"Yes daddy."

Troy let Nick down who ran out the door. "Don't running." Troy heard the footsteps slow.

Gabi looked at Troy and said, "I better go get Cecelia before our son loses all his patients."

"I'll go make sure that he doesn't. Coffee?"

"No, tea please?"

"Are you sure you're okay? For the past month I haven't seen you drink coffee."

"I drink coffee all the time, you just don't see me. I just want tea this morning."

"Okay, sorry." Troy headed down the steps

Gabi walked into Cecelia's room. "How's mommy's baby?" Cecelia giggled at her mother and Gabi said, "I bet you can't wait to see what Santa brought you." Gabi changed Cecelia and went down stairs. "Hey daddy, look who was wide awake in her crib."

"Hey baby." Troy said softly kissing his daughters head. Troy sat her by Nick, "Nick watch your sister." Troy handed her a cup and said "You ready?"

"Yup." Gabi looked over to see Nick eyeing the presents and rocking. "We might want to get him started before he loses all his control."

"Right." Troy pulled out a camera. "5...4...3...2...1...GO!"

Gabi walked over and sat with Cecelia in her lap. "Alright Nick, find one with your name on it and one for Cecelia too."

The morning was filled with laughter, the sounds of children and adults, paper being torn away, happy squeals from children. Wrapping paper filled one side of the room to the other. There was cooking and eating, changing and visiting grandparents. A huge dinner was cooked and friends visited, more gifts were opened and cheer was spread. Long after the dinner was done, dishes cleaned and put away, there was a smaller, more intimate sharing of gifts between to lovers. Troy went to the closet while Gabi went into the kitchen, rejoined on the couch.

"You hid them in the kitchen?"

"It was the one place that I knew you wouldn't look. You don't make anything that's more then one step without my help."

"That's my girl, always thinking."

Gabi handed him, his present and said, "Open it."

"No." He handed her, her gift. "I want you to open yours first."

"Why?" Gabi asked taking it in her hands.

"Because I just want you to open it."

Gabi opened the box to see a silver locket "Oh Troy it's beautiful."

"Open it up."

Gabi opened the locket "Is that…"

"It's all of our birthstones. So we're always close to your heart."

Gabi looked up into his eyes and said, "You'll always be in my heart. Can you put it on?"

"Of course." Troy took the tiny clasp and hooked the necklace.

Gabi stood up to see it in the mirror. "It's beautiful." Then she hears paper rips and turns to see Troy opening the box.

"This from Victoria Secret?"

Troy opened the box to see a black-see through teddy. Troy looked up throwing a cheeky grin at Gabi before lifted the fabric out of the box. There was a note on the dress, saying that he better get his use out of it quick. Troy looked up at Gabi with a confused look on his face, looking for clarification. Gabi just smiled and pointed to the box again. There were three other things in the box waiting to be taken out. One was a family photo with a return date for 10 months later. The next was a tiny black and white photo he couldn't make out. When he uncovered the third gift, everything became perfectly clear. In his hands was a tiny plastic stick with the word positive in the middle.

Troy jumped up. "You're pregnant? We're gonna have a baby."

"Yeah. I found out about two months ago."

"How far along?"

"Umm…about 2 months. The baby is strong and healthy and read to grow."

"I love you so much."

"I love you too."

Troy pulled her close and said "Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas."

That's it. I know I haven't updated in a while but I was thinking of something new and fresh to do. I hope you like my holiday story, I thought I was good but I want to hear from you. It doesn't have to be long, just something. Thanks.

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