2 weeks Later (July 27):
Everyone now had gotten somewhat used to knowing about Camryn's hearing and they have already started taking their sign language classes. As for Lissy's adoptions papers, they were signed by everyone and turned into the courts and today was the day they will go to the court house to get the papers to be signed off by a judge. For some reason Gabriella was nervous and pacing in the living room while Troy got ready. Because Troy and Gabriella are minors they have to have a parent to be at the court to approve the situation, so Ms. Montez and Mrs. Bolton were sitting in the living room and playing with Lissy as Gabriella paced back and forth.
"Gabriella calm down there's nothing to worry about," Ms. Montez said.
"But what if David changes him
mind?"
"He wont Gabriella so calm down. Sit down and stop
pacing you're making me dizzy," her mom reassured her.
Instead of going to sit down she went to go check on Troy to make sure that he was ready. When she walked into the room Troy was struggling trying to put on his tie.
"Having a rough time," Gabriella asked making his jump.
"Yeah I hate these things," he said turning to face her. Gabriella walked up to him and helped him put on his tie and then he pulled her into a hug.
"So how does it feel, by the end of the day you'll have 2 daughters," Gabriella asked slightly muffled by his chest.
He kissed her head, "It feels good…..Gabriella I want David to see her a lot, though he's been an ass I still want him to be in Lissy's life because without him she wouldn't be here."
"Yeah me too….Who would have ever
guessed that we'd be getting ready to go to court to get Lissy
adopted by you," Gabriella said pulling away from the hug, "and
we would have a baby girl that was fighting to stay alive."
"Don't
worry Gabs we'll have Camryn with us soon and we're doing the
right thing by listening to who Lissy wants as a father," Troy said
wiping away a tear that was trailing down Gabriella's face.
"I know."
She gave him a quick kiss then grabbed his hand and pulled him out to the living room where Lissy was trying to put on her shoes.
10 minutes later they all loaded up in Ms. Montez's car and drove to the court house. It only took them 20 minutes to get there and when they walked up to the stone building David and his mom were standing by the front door. Lissy broke her hand away from Gabriella's and ran to David.
"Look I gots this new dress," Lissy said as David picked her up.
"It's very pretty," David
responded then turned to Troy, Gabriella and their moms finally
reaching him, "Hey guys, you ready to go in?"
"Yep, let's
go," Gabriella said grabbing onto Troy's hand.
They all walked in to the cold marble place, they walked up to the front desk and signed in, then walked to the room that the lady told them to go to.
"Mommy what ares we doing," Lissy asked as they sat down in the chairs in the judge's office.
"Remember when I told you that Uncle
Troy is going to be your daddy now," Lissy nodded, "Well we have
to come here so that the nice judge can sign papers so that he can
be."
"Do I still gets to see daddy, I means uncle David?"
"Yep
whenever you want but now he'll be your Uncle David," Gabriella
explained.
"Okays."
They waited in the office for a few more minutes until a judge with red hair walked in with a big smile on her face.
"Hey guys, good morning," she sat down in her big swivel chair and open a folder with a bunch of papers in it, "You must be Melissa," she said looking to Lissy who was now sitting on Troy's lap.
"Yeps but everyones call me
Lissy."
"You're a very smart 2 year old," the judge
smiled.
"In free days I'll be free."
"O
well aren't you a big girl," she smiled.
Lissy nodded her head and smiled.
"Okay well lets get down to business,
so Mr. David Matthews you are willingly surrendering your parental
rights of Melissa Montez-Mathews to a Mr. Troy Bolton."
"Yes,"
David answered, Gabriella smiled knowing that it was probably really
hard for him to do this but he was doing it for Lissy.
"And Mr. Bolton you understand that by signing these papers today you are agreeing to be the legal father of Melissa and you take full responsibility of being her father."
"Yes," Troy answered.
"And since you all are under the age
of 18, do you their guardians agree to this?"
"Yes," they
all answered.
The judge smiled and then sighed, "Well in all of my 13 years I've never come across something like this case but seeing as you all are doing this for the interest of the child I cant see any reason why I can't grant your request…So I just need you all to sign here, here and here and then I need Melissa to sign right here," she said showing them the papers.
They all signed the papers and
Gabriella helped Lissy to sign her name. After Gabriella finished
signing she went up to David and gave him a hug, "Thank you."
"No
problem," he said.
"Well I'm happy to announce that Lissy is now Melissa Grace Montez-Bolton," the judge said.
"Thank you," Gabriella said and shook the judge's hand.
"No problem….we'll send you her new birth certificate."
They all walked out of the office and went back out side to the parking lot.
"Thanks man," Troy said giving David a man hug.
"No problem man."
"David do you want to come with us to go get some lunch," Gabriella asked.
"Oh no thanks me and Jane have a date
but I'll totally be there for Lissy's party."
"Oh okay,"
Gabriella said giving him one last hug. Lissy gave him a hug and kiss
goodbye and the new family went out for lunch.
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HANNAH
