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Chapter 15 – Just When She Thought…

6 Months Later

Troy and Gabriella were lying in bed. They had both moved out of their apartments and into a larger house where Annabelle would have lots of space to play as she grew up. Troy had adopted her, so she now had his last name. Gabriella couldn't be happier.

Today, however, Gabriella was nervous. She hadn't told Troy, but she had a doctor's appointment today. She was waiting until he went to work so that she could go. She didn't want to worry him with anything, but she had been feeling weird lately and wanted to go get checked out.

Troy stirred next to Gabriella, opening his eyes and looking at her. He smiled and reached out to rub some hair out of her face. "Good morning, beautiful wife."

"Good morning."

Troy sighed. "I'll never get tired of waking up next to you every morning." Gabriella smiled. "So what are your plans for the day?"

Gabriella had quit her teaching job at the school so that she could take care of Annabelle full time. "Uh…well…I don't know." She wasn't ready to tell Troy about the doctor's appointment. She wanted to wait until she found out something before she mentioned to Troy that she hadn't been feeling well.

"Oh…ok. Well I've got to get ready for work, but tonight when I get home, would you want to get your mom to babysit for us so we could go out to dinner?"

"Yeah, that would be nice. I'll call her today and ask." This would be the perfect opportunity to tell Troy if there was anything wrong with her.

Troy kissed her then got up to go take a shower. Gabriella went downstairs to fix breakfast.

Troy came down a little while later dressed and ready for work. He sat down and ate his breakfast. As he ate, he sat there thinking and watching Gabriella, who was quietly eating her food, not even looking at Troy. Brie has been acting kinda weird lately. I wonder if she is ok. She's been hesitant towards me and really quiet. I hope I didn't do anything wrong.

Later that day, Gabriella left Annabelle with her mom and went to the doctor's office. She had told her mom what was going on, but her mom promised not to say anything to Troy just yet.

When Troy got off of work, he came home to find Gabriella singing in the living room as she vacuumed. Well that's a change from previous days. Troy walked up behind Gabriella and slipped his arms around her waist. She jumped slightly because she hadn't realized he was home. She shut the vacuum off. "Good day?"

"Only the best." Troy gave Gabriella a confused look.

"What did you do today to make it the best?"

"Not much really. I ran some errands today, dropped Annabelle off at my mom's. We're free for the night. I'll pick Annabelle up in the morning. My mom agreed to keep her all night so we could have some time to ourselves."

"Oh, really? Well that was awfully nice of her. So what time are we going out to dinner?

"Whenever you go get changed." Troy realized for the first time what Gabriella was wearing. She had already gotten ready for the evening.

Troy hurried upstairs to get ready and came back down fifteen minutes later looking more handsome than ever.

"Shall we?" Troy asked as he offered Gabriella his arm.

Gabriella grinned and took his arm. They left and went to a small Italian restaurant not too far from their house.

When they got back to their house, Gabriella grabbed Troy's hand and pulled him into the living room. "Come here, I have a present for you."

Troy looked confused. "Is today something that I should have remembered?"

Gabriella laughed at this. "No, I just wanted to give you something. Am I not allowed to do that?"

"No…I mean…yes, you can. I was just confused."

Gabriella handed Troy a rectangular shaped gift. "Open it." Troy looked up at Gabriella from the gift and saw that she was chewing on her bottom lip, something he knew she did when she was nervous. "I hope you like it."

Troy opened the gift and saw a picture inside of a picture frame. But not just any picture – a sonogram. "Aww…the first picture you had of Annabelle. That's so sweet. I love it. I'll put this on my desk at work." Troy leaned in to kiss Gabriella's lips, but got her forehead instead as she looked down.

Troy looked at her confused. "Why didn't I think of that before I gave it to you?"

"What are you talking about, Brie?"

Gabriella looked up at Troy. "That's not Annabelle."

Troy frowned. "Well then who is it?" Then it clicked. "Wait…you're pregnant?"

Gabriella nodded slightly, nervous once again about Troy's reaction. But Troy looked at her and smiled widely then scooped her up in his arms before kissing her with more passion than she had ever felt from him. When he pulled back, he rested his forehead against hers and looked her in the eyes. "You have made me the happiest man alive today."

Gabriella smiled. "I'm glad, because I wasn't exactly sure how you were going to take it."

"What do you mean? I'm going to be a father again! Of course I would be happy about that."

"Yeah, but it's just so soon after us getting married and Annabelle isn't even a year old yet. I was just nervous that you wouldn't want a baby yet."

"Honestly, you could have told me on our wedding day that you were pregnant and I would have been happy about it. Nothing makes me happier than to know that you are the mother of my children." Troy leaned in and kissed Gabriella again, slower this time, but with all the passion in the world. When they leaned back from the kiss, Troy grabbed Gabriella's hand and led her over to the couch and pulled her onto his lap.

"So how long have you known and why didn't you tell me sooner so I could go with you to the appointment?

"Well actually I just found out today. This morning when you asked me what I was doing, I knew that I was going to the doctor today, I just was nervous to tell you. So when I found out, I knew I needed to make it special when you found out."

"Well I seriously couldn't be happier right now. So how far along are you?"

"Six weeks."

"Wow, when are you due?"

"The doctor said I should be due in mid-October."

"Well I promise this time I will be there for the birth." Gabriella laughed. Troy and Gabriella stayed on the couch, Gabriella's head on Troy's shoulder with his arms around her, just sitting quietly together enjoying simply being with each other. Just when Gabriella thought things couldn't get better….they did.