Trust and Love
Chapter 7: Bolton Residence
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Coming!" Gabriella said as she ran to the door to open it. "Come in, Troy. You can sit at the couch."
"Yeah. Thanks." Troy said as he went in and sat on the couch.
"Thanks again, Troy. Not only you made Alex happy today with hanging out with him but you've also helped me."
"Why are you thanking me so early? I haven't even taken him yet." Troy chuckled.
"Let's say he just did something earlier that made me very happy. And he actually did that thanks to you." Gabriella gave Troy the genuine smile which made Troy daze off.
"I'm ready to go!" Alex shouted as he got down with a bag pack and was all ready to have fun.
Alex woke Troy up and with that Troy smiled and stood up and took Alex's bag. "We'll best be going now, Gabriella. So that we can start the fun! Right, Alex?"
"Right!"
"Ok, ok. You behave there, ok? And please restrain from doing anything stupid, Alex. You might break something there and we'd have to pay the damages, got it?"
"It's ok, Gabriella. Let the kid have the night of his life! Ok wait, that came out wrong. What I meant was have fun at my place but you know, it'll be night and—"
Alex interrupted Troy. "Dude, I get it." He chuckled.
"I'll pick you up by midnight, ok?"
"Yes, Mom."
"And—"
Now, Gabriella was the one that was interrupted by Alex. "Don't worry, Mom. You've let others babysit me already. I know the drill. It's not like Troy's a creepy and scary person. He's cool. So, you should just trust him and then we'll go. Ok?" Alex said.
"Yes Sir." Answered Gabriella as she crouched down a bit to Alex's height. Troy did the same thing but he was facing Gabriella and he was behind Alex.
"See? Even the kid said to TRUST me." Troy smirked and raised both of his eyebrows two times.
"Oh, shut up, Troy." Gabriella said as she stood straight and Troy did as well.
"Ok, bye Mom." Alex said and kissed Gabriella on the cheek and ran outside to Troy's car.
"Bye Gabriella." Troy was gonna kiss Gabriella on the cheek when she grabbed his face and squished it.
"Don't you ever try, Bolton." With that, Gabriella released her gripped on Troy's face.
"Wow. I never remember you being that brutal and strong." Troy said as he touched his face.
"Living ad raising Alex alone made me even tougher and stronger." Gabriella replied and sat down on the couch.
"TROY! HURRY UP!" Alex shouted from the car.
"And there goes my car horn." Troy said sarcastically.
"Hey! If something happens to him—"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm meat." Troy said as he rolled his eyes. "Bye Gabi." He said as he walked over to Gabriella.
"I said—" Gabriella wasn't able to continue what she was about to say because Troy suddenly kissed her on the cheek.
"I'll make sure he's safe. See you later, Montez." Troy went through the door, closed it and drove out of the compound.
Gabriella was now speechless and staring on a blank space. She touched where he kissed her and then blinked. Her brows furrowed as she blushed and rubbed her cheek. What's with this? Snap out of it Gabriella! You were fine before, you'll be fine now. Period. She stood up and walked to her room.
She laid down and closed her eyes…and then she started dreaming.
Dream
"Oh gosh! Help!" Gabriella screamed as another contraction hit her. "Troy!"
"Mrs. Bolton, hold on. Mr. Bolton isn't here yet. He's still at work." Said a maid.
"I can't. I can't hold on…any …longer." Gabriella screamed as she got another contraction.
"Mrs. Bolton can't wait anymore! Go call a ambulance!" One maid hurried to the phone to call the Hospital.
"Call all my friends, too. Please."
"You heard Mrs. Bolton!" Then another maid rushed to another phone to call Gabriella and Troy's friends.
"OH MY GOD! TROY!" Gabriella screamed.
The ambulance arrived and took Gabriella to the hospital. As they got there, Gabriella started screaming as more contractions came. After a few minutes, Troy and their friends got to the hospital just in time to see Gabriella being brought to the delivery room. They all quickly followed Gabriella. As they got to the door of the delivery room, Troy looked at his friends and they all smiled and nodded. With that, Troy went inside the delivery room and saw Gabriella screaming and holding the hand of a nurse.
Troy walked over to the nurse and nodded. The nurse took his hand from Gabriella's grip and Troy sat beside Gabriella and held her hand tightly through the time.
"Gabriella, I love you so much. I wanna be with you for the rest of my life. I'm not gonna leave you. I'm here for you." Troy kissed Gabriella passionately.
"Troy." With that, Gabriella pushed with all her might then she laid back down and closed her eyes a bit then she heard a cry of a baby.
"Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Bolton. It's a boy." Both parents smiled at each other as Baby boy Bolton was given to Troy.
"Look, Gabi. He's eyes are blue. A true Bolton." Troy said as a few tears streamed down his face.
Gabriella giggled. "A junior Troy Bolton, a precious baby Bolton."
Their friends went in the delivery room and took a few photos of them with the precious joy that God gave the Boltons.
"What will the name Mr. and Mrs. Bolton?" asked the Doctor.
"Alexander Alan Bolton." Gabriella ad Troy said in unison.
End of Dream
"OH MY GOD!" Gabriella woke up and looked at the clock. It read 6 o'clock and Gabriella's duty will start on 7 o'clock. "Damn, I got in a deep sleep with that dream. Why that kind of dream? Gosh. I better get up and take a shower. Nevermind that dream. It'll just bother me in my work. Maybe a quick shower will take it out of my mind."
Gabriella got inside the shower and turned it on. The warm water touched her skin and it felt so good that she dazed off and closed her eyes. Alexander Alan Bolton. "What was that?" Gabriella asked herself. She didn't notice that it was her that was actually thinking of that name. "Ughh. I really gotta go to work." She hurried and finished taking a shower and dressed up for work. She went down and took the house and car keys, and took off.
As she was doing charts, filling up those that were ok and not and putting some little information and reviewing the charts, she saw that she forgot to put on her pin. "I forgot again." Gabriella reached in her bag and took her pin with her name on it. But as she got it, she was only shocked to see the name on the pin.
Dr. Gabriella Bolton
"What is this? Bolton? What?" Gabriella blinked a few times and slapped herself a bit and looked at her pin again.
Dr. Gabriella Montez
"Oh god. What's happening to me?" Gabriella shook her head and continued her work.
**trust and love**
Both Troy and Alex were now laying down on the court floor. Both were panting and out of breath as they played basketball from 5 in the afternoon until 6 o'clock in the evening.
"You really are a good basketball player, Alex." Troy said.
"Well, Mom said that I got it from my dad. She said that he was also a good basketball player. Mom also said that she has a thing for basketball players when she was still in high school but not much in college." Alex explained.
"Oh really?" Troy acted as if he didn't know. He would know because he was one of the basketball players Gabriella dated.
"Yeah, so don't worry man. You have a chance with Mom! Right?" Alex laughed.
Troy laughed with Alex. "Yeah, yeah you goof ball."
"Hey, Troy, did you meet my mom before?" Alex asked in a quite serious tone.
"Uhmm. Why?" Troy asked. Could it be that he found out already? Were we that obvious that we knew each other before?
"Because you and mom went to the same high school, East High." Alex looked at Troy. "So, did you meet her then?"
"Uhmm… I don't think so."
"You didn't know her? How come? A beauty like my mom would've been noticed by you, man."
"I don't know."
Alex's brows furrowed but then he shrugged. "Well, do you have any yearbooks when you were in high school?"
Oh god! The East high yearbook is plastered with my face and also Gabi's. I can't show that to him. "Yeah, I do but it's not here. I think it's back home in Albuquerque. Why?"
"I wanted to show mom to you because maybe you'll recognize her. She was beautiful and still is now. She showed me pictures of her and her friends before. There was a picture of her and Uncle Chad. They looked cute." Alex laughed. "I always wonder if Uncle Chad and mom dated in high school because they actually looked cute together. Do you know?"
"Know what?" Troy asked.
"If mom and Uncle Chad dated before. Did they?" Alex asked curiously.
"As Chad told me before, he always saw your Mom as his sister. So, I bet they never dated." Troy explained.
"Wait, so you did know mom before."
"Huh?" Troy was now confused.
"Uncle Chad hangs out with her and talks about her with you. So, you've seen her, right?" Alex was now speculating which made Troy nervous.
"Nope. Uhmm..,Chad doesn't hang out with her with me and I just simply hear things about her from Chad as he talks about his everyday life during class. You know how boring it is in class and stuff like that so he yaps and yaps although we're in the front row seat of the class. How about you? Where do you sit in the class?" Troy was now so nervous in so many levels. If he spills the beans then he's dead.
"I sit at the center with my team and unlike you Troy, I listen to the teacher and take down notes instead of chit chatting with my team mates or getting girls." Alex snickered.
"Hey! I would've listened if that Uncle Chad of yours would stop yapping." Troy said in defense.
"Well, my purpose for listening is actually for me not to die when mom gets my grades because if my grades are low, she will take all my gadgets and I'll get kicked out of the basketball team." Alex explained.
"Yeah, same here. I tried to juggle basketball, class, your yapping Uncle Chad," Alex laughed. "and the one I loved, which I will not name!" Troy exclaimed.
"Oh yeah. HER. Do you still love her Troy?" Alex asked.
"Well, I still do. I searched for her but she was so hard to find. I really do still love her." Troy smiled slightly as he remembered everything they had before.
"How about mom?" Alex asked surprisingly.
"WHAT?" This shocked Troy but he took it in a wrong way.
"I mean, how will you be with my mom if you're still in love with HER who is not named?" Troy chuckled in his question.
"You really do want me to be with your mom, don't you?"
"OF COURSE I DO! To have a cool dad like you would be…COOL! And just look at my mom, isn't just drop dead gorgeous?" Troy chuckled at this and just nodded. "See?" Alex smiled and paused for a while. "And to have a dad that I really like is a dream of mine."
Troy felt pity for Alex not having a dad. What is it that Gabriella is just hiding Alex's dad's identity from him? "Hey get up, kiddo!"
"Huh?"
"You want me to be with your mom, right?" Alex nodded. "Then let's plan a love plan that would make her fall for Bolton Boy."
"Alright, Troy!" Alex smiled and got up. Both of them went outside the court and inside Troy's house.
"Now, go upstairs and take a bath. I bet you brought extra clothes to wear, right? So go and take a shower before we begin our dinner and our plan." Troy said to Alex.
"Aye aye, Captain Bolton!" Alex ran upstairs after he saluted to Troy which made him chuckle.
"Hey, Ann?" Troy called out to one of the maids.
"Yes Mr. Bolton?" replied the maid.
"Please prepare the table for dinner and tell Chef Andre not to put too much pepper because a kid will be eating with me." Troy explained.
"Yes Mr. Bolton." The maid walked away ad headed to the kitchen.
Troy went up to his room and took a warm shower. Why do I feel a sudden attachment to Alex? Troy got out and dressed up. I see so much of myself in him but only somewhat better. There were so many things in Troy's mind about Gabriella and Alex. Everything so puzzled about them that he wants to figure it out all. Who could Alex's father be? He must be one hell of a person for Gabriella to have a baby with him. Am I jealous of it? Is it this feeling? Jealousy? Am I so jealous of Alex's father and Gabriella's previous husband that I want to know who he is? Troy shook his thoughts away and headed down to the dining area to see Alex looking at the food with delight as he waited for Troy.
"Why haven't you started eating yet?" Troy smiled and asked Alex.
"Oh, hey Troy. Well, I was waiting for you. Mom said that it's not good not wait for other people who you'll eat with. Everybody should eat together." Alex said and smiled. "So, let's eat because you're here already."
"Sure." Troy sat down on his chair. "Let's eat!"
The two men ate like hungry bears and after dinner, the two were so full that they couldn't even move. They both flopped down the couch and closed their eyes.
"So, what's the plan now?" Troy asked.
"We plan the 'How-to-get-Alex's-Mom' plan!" Alex did an air fist pump.
"Doesn't it sound so obvious?"
"You're right. Hmm. What else could it be?" Alex asked himself and Troy.
"How about 'the Golden Boy' plan?" asked Troy.
"It's too obvious that you're involved in it. Hmm." Alex went back to thinking.
"How about 'the basketball' plan?" Troy suggested.
"THAT'S A GREAT IDEA, TROY! I never knew you were a genius." Alex joked at the last sentence and laughed.
"Very funny, squirt." Troy attacked him and the two wrestled.
"Hey! I'm no squirt! I'm tall!" Alex defended as he got hold of Troy.
"Hmm. I know now…Dwib." Troy replied as he took down Alex.
"Still can't be. I'm not a geek. I'm a jock!" Alex stood up as he got release from Troy. He pump his fist up in the air and to the two men, there seem to be a spotlight on Alex that made him shine when he said 'I'm a jock'.
"We're jocks!" Troy said and joined Alex in the spotlight which came from nowhere. They laughed and flopped back to the couch.
"Troy, prepare." Alex said as he looked at Troy.
"For what?" asked Troy.
"Tonight, we will begin the basketball plan!"
"What?"
**trust and love**
What could be the plan of Troy and Alex?
Xoxo,
IamYNZ