The hustle and bustle of everyone getting ready for the wedding was a little chaotic but wasn't hard to handle for the Montez women and their boys. Gabriella set the drama in her family aside to run back and forth making sure everything was in the right place for her mother's special day. She stopped by the bar in the reception hall and ordered a shot of liquor, as she put the cup down she heard a chuckle and turned around to see her husband laughing at her.

"Are you okay," he asked as she walked over to him.

"Yeah, I just really needed that," She said leaning her head on his chest, "Have you seen David yet?"
"No, I saw him for a brief moment then he like ran away. I think he's avoiding me," Troy answered rubbing his lovely wife back.

"Yeah he's kind of mad that I didn't tell him about Lissy, even though I could say the same for him."
"What do you mean the same for him," he asked.

"He has a blonde girlfriend and a baby girl, Abigail," she explained leaning back to standing position.

"No way," he said.

"Yeah, and he's going to be really mad when he finds out that Lissy's having twins."
"She's what!," Troy said shocked, Gabriella hadn't gotten around to telling Troy about the twins.

"Yeah today the doctor found another baby, he or she was hiding behind it's brother so they couldn't tell it was there until they got this new machine," Gabriella explained, "I was going to tell you but this is the first time I've really talked to you since we found out."
"Wow," he said.

"I know, that's one of the reasons for the shot."

She checked her cell phone for the time and saw that I was time to get back to making sure everything was going the way they were supposed to, she gave Troy a quick kiss then ran off to her mom's dressing room.

The eldest Montez woman was sitting on the chair that she moved to the middle of the room, just staring at her dress that was hanging on the wall. Gabriella opened the door and walked in; standing just a few feet away from the closed door Gabriella watched her mom staring at the beautiful white dress on the wall. Gabriella stood there for a little while before she said, "Whatcha doin'?"

Her mother jumped a little and turned to see he only daughter standing almost right behind her, "Oh nothing I was just sitting here for a second."

"Uh huh," Gabriella said sitting down on the arm of her mothers chair, "Don't worry I did the same thing on my wedding, you don't really feel that it's all real and you think that once you put it on then you think that it'll all set in and you will want to back out."
Maria nodded and looked down at her hands. Gabriella put her hand on her mothers shoulder, "Mom just put the dress on, it'll be fine I promise."
Gabriella helped her mother in the dress and they both couldn't help but start to feel tears stream out of their eyes.

"It is better," Maria said wiping away a few happy tears.

"See I told you," Gabriella said lightly rubbing her moms back. They're sweet mother daughter moment was interrupted when Lissy, Camryn and Kenadie walked into the room with their junior bride maid dresses and flower girl dress on. Gabriella was the only one who was still standing there in her sweat pants. Camryn and Kenadie stayed in Maria's room to help her get herself ready and Lissy followed her mother to another room.

Lissy was zipping up her mother's bride maid's dress when she said, "Mommy what am I going to do with two babies."

Gabriella turned around and put her hands on her daughter's shoulders, "Melissa Grace you need to stop worrying and everything will be fine. It's going to be hard maybe a little harder then it was before but we all are here for you."

"What about Uncle David," she asked.

"Who cares what he thinks, if he can't handle this then his opinion doesn't matter. He went through the same thing so I don't understand why he's acting the way he is. The people who really care for you will stand by your side no matter what, me, daddy, Camryn, Nana, Kenadie and the boys will always be here for you whatever happens in your life, good or the misfortunate," Gabriella said. Lissy gave her mother a small smile then went back to helping her get ready; but the Montez/Bolton girls didn't know that the man that shares DNA with Lissy was standing right outside the door.

The next 2 hours before the ceremony started seemed to go by so quickly and the nerves were really starting to kick in with Maria and Walter.

As Gabriella stood in her designated spot she couldn't help by cry as she watched her mother walk down the isle in her white gown staring lovingly at her soon to be husband. The ceremony went off without a hitch it only took 3 minutes for Maria Montez to become Mrs. Walter Matthews.

They all were sitting at their tables in the reception hall enjoying their meals when Troy stood up for the toast. He tapped his fork against his wine glass before he said, "Hey everyone I'm Maria's favorite son-in-law," they all chuckled knowing he was her only one, "And I just wanted to say that I've been in this family for about 14 and ½ years and my experience has been wonderful. I gained a daughter," he said pointed to Lissy, "and had a few more children but most of all I gained a wonderful second mother. Maria was a great addition to my family and I hope that she would say the same for me. I would have to say that the best thing about her is that she is the creator of the "Montez Women"," he said using air quotes, "she introduced the stubbornness, the inevitable craziness but most of all the irresistible urge to give them what they want. Most of us have witnessed it but only few have experienced it and Walter get ready to experience it. And welcome to our wild crazy drama filled family."

They listened to a few more speeches then it was time to start dancing. Troy took Kenadie out first so Gabriella was sitting at her table with her teenaged girls when David walked over and asked Gabriella to dance. She accepted and they walked to an open spot on the dance floor and began waltzing.

"What your girlfriend wont be mad if you dance with me first," Gabriella said sarcastically.

"It was her idea," he said coldly.

Gabriella nodded and said, "Of course it was."

They danced in silence for a few moments before Gabriella asked, "What's you problem."
"What's my problem, you guys are the ones who didn't tell me that Lissy is pregnant until now," he said.

"That's my fault, I told her that I would tell you but I totally forgot. I didn't mean to wait until she's 5 months pregnant to tell you. You can blame that all on me but you don't have to treat her like she's so horrible because she's pregnant, cause I remember that we were pregnant with her when we were 14."

"Still you don't want to see her have to go through it," he pointed out.

"Yeah I know it's hard but I'm not going to treat her like she's murder someone, and when those babies come I'm going to be right at her side holding her hand telling her everything is going to be okay, and what she really wants is for you to be there for her no matter what happens but it looks like that's not going to happen."

He rolled his eyes, "I am there for her but you have to give me some time to get used to this, it's hard for me. And I don't appreciate you telling my daughter that my opinion doesn't matter."

Gabriella was shocked, "For one that's not what I really said and two don't listen in on my conversation with MY daughter. And for one she's legally not your daughter so we don't have to tell you anything going on in her life. Lissy decided that she wanted to know you because at that point in her life she was going through changes and she wanted to know more about me and she was mad that I let you give her away but after she got over that point in her life she realized that Troy was her father and that he loved her no matter what unlike you who criticize unfortunate events in her life. And now that she's pregnant she's conflicted about how to feel with all of this, she trying to make everyone happy and she's gets really worried when everyone gets upset and confused and it makes her upset and confused so I really just wanted to show her that her opinion of the whole thing is hers and hers only."

David just looked away knowing that Gabriella was right about the whole thing. Before Gabriella was going to speak again David walked away towards the exit.

She looked over at Troy who was now dancing with Lissy and watched him mouth, 'sorry', Gabriella slightly smiled and shrugged her shoulders.

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