Sorry it's a bit later than planned, but anyway; here's chapter nine, enjoy!

A Weekend Full Of Surprises

"So, you'll drop him off at mine about five then Chad?"

"Yeah about that time, between then and half past anyway, do you think you'll be done shopping by then?"

"I dunno, maybe, maybe not, if we're not then he'll just have to wait on the front porch for us to get back. We won't be much later than five though, there's only so much shopping a two year old can take."

"Fair enough, Tay I'll get to yours after I've dropped Troy off, so a little later than normal, okay Bolton hand 'em over, we've got practise to get to."

"Alright, alright, go say goodbye to Taylor or something." Chad stuck his tongue out at Troy, as he made his way over to Taylor who was now leaning against her car after saying goodbye to Gabriella.

"Here, take 'em but please be careful with her." Troy said, as he handed Gabriella the keys for his truck and then wrapped his arms round her waist to pull her into a hug.

"I have driven your truck before Troy, don't worry I'll be fine."

It was a Friday, the day before Troy's eighteenth birthday and two days before Troy and Gabriella's one month anniversary, something which meant a lot to them both.

Troy and Gabriella hadn't tried to hide their relationship when they'd gone back to school on the following Monday, their friends knew it was bound to happen at some point anyway and everyone else was just going to have to deal with it.

During the past couple of weeks the boys had found out about Troy's ability to play basketball and had twisted his arm into joining the team, claiming someone like him was just what they needed.

Troy had agreed after Gabriella had told him she'd pick Jasmine up after nursery and take her back to hers, leaving Troy to just pick her up on his way home. She'd walk from the school to the nursery and then they'd walk home to hers. The walk wasn't a long one, but it wasn't exactly a short one either, so it usually meant Jasmine fell asleep pretty quickly upon arriving at Gabriella's, leaving Gabriella the perfect opportunity to do her homework, but it also meant that Gabriella was then free to play with Jasmine once she woke up from her nap.

Today was no different except for the fact that Gabriella was borrowing Troy's truck so that she and Jasmine could go shopping once she'd been picked up and buy him some presents and some more supplies for tomorrow's surprise party. Although Gabriella was a completely safe driver and had driven Troy's truck before, he knew how much of a death trap it could be and still wasn't happy with her and Jasmine being in it alone.

"Yeah I know you'll be okay, you always are, I'm more worried about what you two are going to buy me. Having you as my girlfriend and Jazzy as my daughter is better than any present."

"Yeah so you keep saying, but we are still going to buy you some presents and because you won't tell us what you want, well you could end up with anything." Gabriella responded, as she lifted her arms and wound them round Troy's neck.

"It's a good job I love you two." Troy said, as he leaned down to give Gabriella a good bye kiss.

"And I love you too," Gabriella responded, as they pulled back from the kiss. "But if you don't let me go your daughter won't love you for making me late to pick her up, so let me go Bolton!"

Troy sighed in defeat, before giving Gabriella another quick peck, letting her go to get in the truck and then standing back on the pavement to wave her off.

"Dude," Chad said pulling Troy's attention away from his girl. "You are so unbelievably whipped."

TGTGTGTG

Gabriella walked into Butterfly nursery fifteen minutes later than planned, but it was all Troy's fault and she was more than willing to tell Julie and Jasmine just that.

Because she'd arrived later than planned she'd expected the nursery to be quiet, knowing the other children would've already been picked up, but she wasn't expecting it to be this quiet. Jasmine was a quiet child, she knew that, but she at least expected there to be a bit of noise, she knew Julie had a soft spot for Jasmine and would play with her at any opportunity she got.

The sight that met her as she turned into the main area explained why it was so quiet. Jasmine was sat on Julie's lap in the soft play area as Julie read her a story and asked her questions about it, but Jasmine didn't seem to be responding.

She watched as Julie looked up and realised she was there, before turning her attention back to Jasmine and letting her know. Jasmine's head popped up as she learnt this news and she immediately shot up from where she was sitting, running straight over to Gabriella her arms held out. Gabriella caught Jasmine and swung her round, before pulling her close and settling her on her right hip.

"Hey cutie, sorry I'm late, Daddy didn't want me to leave him." Jasmine didn't respond, just buried her face into the crook of Gabriella's neck.

Julie appeared in front of the two, after heading into the back of the nursery once Jasmine had gone to greet Gabriella. She shot Gabriella a sympathetic smile and rubbed her hand up and down Jasmine's back, letting her know she was there.

"Jasmine had a bad afternoon, didn't you sweetie?"Julie spoke directly to Gabriella, but still made sure that Jasmine was involved as well, even if she didn't respond.

"Really? What happened?" Gabriella asked, as she jiggled Jasmine up and down a bit, trying to stop the silent tears she could feel falling on her neck.

"She had a good morning, played outside for a bit, painted Troy a picture and played with the doll's house, but things went downhill at lunch time. She sat with some of the others today and we put Rosie on the table, leaning against her lunch box. We kept an eye on her all the time, she was quite happy to be there, as long as she didn't have to interact with the others very much. Basically, one of the others took an interest in Rosie, only she decided that Rosie would look good covered in milk."

"Oh," was all Gabriella could say, as she swapped Rosie from her right hip to her left, the feeling in her right arm slowly going.

"Jasmine obviously wasn't very happy, which is understandable and we immediately moved her away once we realised. I took Jasmine into the kitchen and we tried to wash the most of the milk off, but the best way is going to be for Rosie to have a wash in the washing machine with some detergent, something to take the smell away and make her all fresh again, Jasmine was obviously very upset for the rest of the day."

"Rosie smelly now." Jasmine murmured, as she lifted her head from against Gabriella's neck and rubbed her eyes.

"I know sweetie, but when we get back to mine we'll put her straight in the washing machine and then she'll be all clean and fresh for when you go home, okay?"

Jasmine nodded and settled herself back against Gabriella, as Julie held up a plastic bag.

"We put Rosie in here because she's all wet and smelly still, so that's for you," Julie said, as she handed the bag to Gabriella. "And this is the picture Jasmine painted this morning; I'll leave it to her to tell you what it is."

"Thanks Julie," Gabriella said, as she took the picture from Julie. "Have a nice weekend."

"And you, doing anything nice?"

"It's Troy's birthday tomorrow so we're gonna have a party, aren't we Jazzy?"

Jazzy nodded, as she once again lifted her head from against Gabriella. "Supwise." She said quietly, as a small smile made its way onto her face.

"Yeah it is a surprise, but it's gonna be a pretty boring party if we don't go and buy his presents, so what do ya say? Shall we go shopping?"

Jasmine nodded and snuggled herself back against Gabriella, as she and Julie said their goodbyes, before Gabriella carried her out to Troy's truck.

TGTGTGTG

Troy walked into the Montez residence that afternoon expecting to see his girlfriend and daughter playing together like usual, today this wasn't what he was met with.

Today, he was met with an empty living room and voices coming from the kitchen, so after dropping his bag near the front door, he headed in that direction.

Upon entering the kitchen he found it empty but could hear the voices coming from what he knew to be Maria's utility room. Walking towards the utility room he found Jasmine sat on the floor in front of the washing machine which was obviously on, and Maria standing behind her folding some laundry.

"What's going on in here?" Troy asked making his presence known as he leant against the door frame.

"Daddy!" Jasmine didn't get up from her spot on the floor, but held her arms up for Troy, silently asking him to come to her.

"I've got to come to you have I? Charming!" Troy said, as he knelt down next to Jasmine and gave her a hug. "What you doing down here cutie?"

"Rosie." Jasmine simply stated, as she pointed to the washing machine.

"Rosie?" Troy asked confused, as he turned to Maria for an explanation.

"Long story short, someone decided it'd be a good idea to give Rosie a shower with milk today. Obviously Jasmine was very upset about it so, Julie took her to try and wash some of it but it didn't work and Jasmine couldn't have Rosie for the rest of the day so she was a bit down. Gabi told her Rosie could go in the washing machine when they got back here and so here we are."

"Fair enough," Troy said, as he stood up to talk to Maria at his normal height. "Where is Gabi?"

"In bed, she went really dizzy and light headed on me so I made her lay on the sofa for a bit, but she fell asleep so I woke her up and made her lay down up there, that was almost an hour ago, I was going to go and check on her in a bit, but seeing as you're here now you go and I'll stay on washing machine watch with Jasmine."

"She didn't mention anything about feeling bad at school, did they still go shopping?"

"Yeah, they went shopping, I think maybe the heat of the shops was a bit much for her and Jasmine said there were a lot of people, so I don't know."

"Okay, well I'll go check on her, see you in a bit Jazzy." Jasmine turned and waved to her father before quickly turning back to the washing machine, while Troy and Maria shared a smile as he left to go and check on Gabriella.

TGTGTGTG

Troy hadn't known Gabriella very long, but in the short time he had he knew that she was rarely ill, and even when she was, she hardly ever went to bad, she claimed there was no point she couldn't sleep during the day.

Today went completely against that point. Gabriella was curled up in bed, breathing evenly, indicating she was asleep and there was a blue bucket placed beside her bed, Maria hadn't mentioned anything about Gabriella saying she felt sick, maybe she hadn't told her, Gabriella was good at not telling people things, especially important things.

Troy made his way over to her bed and kicked off his shoes before lying down next to Gabriella, to his surprise she rolled over and looked at him with her big brown eyes, big brown eyes that were glossed over with tears.

"Hey, you okay?" Troy's voice was soft as he rolled onto his side to face Gabriella, his right arm draping over her waist and his left hand going up to push her hair away from her face.

Gabriella nodded and tried to smile reassuringly at Troy, but the tears that escaped from her eyes told him differently.

"Yeah you're fine, 'cause the tears are really convincing, come here beautiful." Troy wrapped both his arms round Gabriella, allowing her to lay her head on his chest, as she let the tears silently begin to fall.

"Maria said you went all light headed and dizzy and then you fell asleep so she sent you up here to rest. I come up here slightly shocked that you're actually in bed in the first place to find a bucket next to your bed and you buried under the covers, what's going on? You never said anything at school about feeling bad, if you had I would've bought you home, you know that."

Gabriella sniffed and lifted her head to reach under her pillow to find a tissue to blow her nose on. "I don't know," Gabriella answered as she finished blowing her nose and rested her head back on Troy's chest. "I haven't been one hundred percent all week, but I just brushed it off, figuring it was a girl thing, hormones or something, this morning I woke up with a horrible headache, but I took painkillers and it went away so I didn't think much of it. When Jazzy and I were driving home after shopping it came back, I took some more painkillers and again it went away. I put Rosie in the washing machine and cuddled up of the couch with Jazzy. When Mum came home we got up and went in the kitchen with her, that's when I went all dizzy, I don't remember it all too much after that, everything was really fuzzy. Basically, for some unknown reason right now, I feel like crap."

"Why didn't you tell me before? You've been looking after Jazzy practically all the time this week 'cause Jenny is ill, that will of taken its toll on you, if you'd of said something I could've asked Maria to look after her sometimes, you know she would've."

"Yeah I know, but you know me I don't rest when I'm ill, I just get on with things and hope it'll go away, if I'd of said something you and Mum would've only fussed over me anyway, I didn't want any fuss, I didn't think there was anything seriously wrong, I just thought I was a little sleep deprived that's all."

"Yeah well obviously there is, so now I am gonna fuss over you, because you feel like crap and obviously feel sick, but what's with the tears? I get that you feel sick, but you aren't the kind of person of cries because they don't feel great."

"This is a big weekend for us...for you and I'm sick. The one time I don't need to be sick, I'm sick, I'm never sick, now look at me, I should've seen it coming, I guess."

"Why would you've seen it coming babe? When we get sick it just happens, it sucks, but that's just how it is."

Gabriella sighed. "I've also been feeling nauseous all week, I didn't know why and I didn't want to sounds stupid by asking Mum so I just ignored it, I should've known it'd come eventually."

"What'd you mean you should've known it would come eventually, have you actually been sick?"

Gabriella nodded and nuzzled her face against Troy's chest as more tears began to fall.

"Hey now, come on you're okay, you're gonna be fine sweet lady, shhh." Troy wrapped his arms more tightly around Gabriella and pulled the covers up further over her body as she began to shake.

"C-can you h-help me get changed? I just w-wanna go to sleep." Gabriella asked, as she wiped away her tears, annoyed at herself for crying again.

"Of course I will sweetie, what do you wanna change into?"

"There's some grey sweats, a pyjama top and your wildcat hoodie on my chair, can you grab them?"

Troy kissed Gabriella's head before sliding out of bed and grabbing the items of clothing.

Slowly over the next ten minutes Troy helped Gabriella to change without getting out of bed, and apart from the one bucket grabbing moment in the middle of it all, they'd done it pretty well.

"I'm gonna go and see if Maria's got any painkillers she thinks will be okay for you to take," Troy said, as he helped Gabriella lay back down and pulled the covers back over her weak body. "You, pretty lady, get some rest; we'll worry about tomorrow when it comes to it, for now we need to get you better, okay?"

Gabriella nodded sleepily, as sleep finally began to take its hold on her, for what felt like the first time in a long time.

TGTGTGTG

They'd had a great day so far, just father and daughter together and having fun. Jasmine didn't really know what today was, she knew it was Troy's birthday, but let's face it, she is only two. But she knew that Troy would get presents and that they were going to celebrate with the Maria and Gabriella later on.

This was the first birthday since Jasmine had been born that Troy was going to spend with people other than his daughter. He loved Jasmine, of course he did, but it meant he would be able to have an adult conversation and receive some presents from people for the first time in a long time.

"Daddy let me out! Let me out!"

"Alright hand on a minute, Maria's still there look."

Jasmine looked to the doorway of the Montez household to find that Maria was indeed still in the same place she had been since they pulled into the driveway a couple of minutes ago.

As Jasmine got caught up in waving to Maria, Troy was able to get out and walk round to her side of the truck to get her out of her seat and then out of the truck.

"There you go trouble, now you can go and see Maria."

"Thank you Daddy." Jasmine gave Troy a sloppy kiss on the lips as he put her down so she could go and greet Maria, giving him the chance to grab her bag from the passenger foot well of the truck.

"Happy birthday Troy!" Maria greeted him as he made his way over. "How does it feel to be eighteen?"

Troy laughed. "Not much different actually." Troy replied, as he gave Maria a hug.

"Jasmine sweetie, Gabi wants to see you upstairs, you know where her room is right?" Jasmine nodded, "Okay honey, just be careful with the stairs, use the banister, alright?" Jasmine once again nodded and made her way into the house and up to Gabriella's bedroom.

"How's she doing?" Troy asked, as he followed Maria inside and through to the kitchen.

"She's not too bad today, she was sick again last night and then had a cry because she was ill and this weekend was important to you both, she got herself really worked up. But I gave her something to settle her stomach and then I laid with her for a bit with the telly on in the background, she quickly fell asleep again. She had a good night's sleep as far as I know and she's had some plain toast this morning which she's kept down and is very happy about, she doesn't wanna spend all day in bed."

"I'm surprised she hasn't left it already, do you think it's okay for me to go up and see what they're doing?

"Yeah I'd say so, just knock before you go in."

"Will do, thanks Maria."

"No problem sweetie, now go! Your girls await you!" Troy laughed at Maria, as he made his way out of the kitchen and up the stairs to find his girls.

TGTGTGTG

Any other Saturday she'd of stayed tucked up in bed and probably wouldn't of emerged until late in the afternoon, but today wasn't any other Saturday, today was Troy's birthday and she was determined to get out of bed and enjoy today as much as she could.

Maria had woken her up a little after ten o'clock and had given her some breakfast which she'd happily kept down. She then gingerly made her way into her bathroom to have a shower and get herself ready for the day. Maria then came back with wrapping paper and together they wrapped her and Jasmine's presents for Troy, the only thing left to do was get Jasmine to sign her card for Troy.

"Gabwi?" Jasmine questioned, as she stuck her head round the door to see what Gabriella was doing.

"Hey sweetie, you can come in, I've got something you need to do." Jasmine slipped through the gap in the slightly open door and went over to the bed were Gabriella was sat, grasping onto the covers to help her get up onto the bed.

"Gabwi better?" Jasmine asked, as she moved to sit in between Gabriella's legs.

"Almost sweetie, here I you need to sign this. " Gabriella said, as she handed Jasmine her card for Troy which had a badge saying best Dad in the world attached to the front. Gabriella had already written in the card for Jasmine, knowing Jasmine couldn't yet write, but that she would want to add her own special signature to the bottom.

Jasmine settled the card in front of her on the bed and then selected a felt tip from the packet Gabriella had gotten out for her and began signing the card.

"Done Gabwi."

"Okay sweetie, well done, lets pop it in the envelope and then you can give it to Daddy when you give him his present, okay?" Jasmine nodded and allowed Gabriella to put the card in the envelope and then watched when she put the card with the presents she'd placed by the side of the bed.

Gabriella was about to send Jasmine to go and get Troy when there was a knock at the door followed by Troy's voice.

"It's me, can I come in?"

"Yeah, 'course you can." Gabriella answered, as Troy pushed the door open and made his way inside.

"Happy birthday babe!" Gabriella exclaimed, as Troy leant down to give her kiss.

"Thanks, how you feeling today? Maria said you slept pretty well, as far as she knows, and you've kept your breakfast down so it must be a bit better, right?" Troy's concern was obvious, as he kicked off his shoes and climbed onto the bed next to his girls, pulling Jasmine onto his lap and wrapping an arm round Gabriella.

"Yeah, I feel a bit better, I'm not one hundred percent yet, nowhere near but I feel better than yesterday, and yes I did have good night's sleep, I'm not hiding anything."

"I didn't think you would be, Jazzy will you sit still, you're hurting me."

"Don't wanna, pwesents Gabwi?" The young girl asked, as she turned to look at the still pale brunette.

"Yeah I think so, you wanna do yours first?" Jasmine nodded and climbed off of Troy's lap and then the bed to get her present off of the floor.

"Here Daddy," Jasmine said, as she walked round to Troy's side of the bed and handed him her present, before pulling herself back up onto the bed. "Open the card first!"

"Okay," Jasmine watched as Troy unwrapped his arm from round Gabriella, opened the card and his face lit up with a smile at her card. It was superman, but the card said super Dad and he was saving the world, hence the badge saying best Dad in the world.

"I love it Jazzy thank you," Troy said, as he took the badge off of the card and attached it to his top.

"Pwesent now!" Jasmine exclaimed, pushing her present closer to Troy.

Troy started to rip the neatly wrapped paper until he came to a medium sized white box. "A box? Thanks Jazzy, I've always wanted one of those!"

"Open Daddy." Jasmine said, as she poked Troy for winding her up.

Troy opened the box to find a brightly coloured mug with a figure of another superman, this one also saying super Dad. Next to the figure was some writing, 'To the best Dad in the world, love you always, Jazzy x.'

"Jazzy its lovely thank you." Troy said, as he pulled Jasmine in for a hug.

Jasmine smiled and wrapped her small arms around Troy, giving him a special birthday present hug. "Tell him Gabwi."

Gabriella smiled, knowing exactly what Jasmine was talking about. "She wants me to tell you it comes from a special shop in the mall, where you pick which mug you want and then you can have a message put on it, we decided on the message together, didn't we Jazzy?"

Jasmine nodded, as she kept her hold on Troy. "Coffee?"

"Yeah Jazzy, Daddy will definitely use it for his coffee, thank you so much sweetie." Troy gave Jasmine a big kiss on her cheek, before picking up his discarded wrapping paper and placing it on her head.

"Jazzy, why don't you go and see what my Mum's up to? I'm sure she'll find you something to eat if you're hungry."

"Okay Gabwi." Jasmine gave them both a big sloppy kiss, before sliding off of the bed and carefully making her way down stairs to find Maria, her new hat balanced perfectly on her head.

"Now that she's gone, come here beautiful," Troy said, as he wrapped his arms back round Gabriella and buried his head in her hair, inhaling her lovely scent.

"You smell nice," Troy murmured, as he moved his face from Gabriella's hair to give her multiple kisses on her forehead.

"Thanks, its vanilla. So wildcat, how's your birthday been so far?" Gabriella asked, as she nuzzled Troy's chest a few times before settling her head down on his shoulder.

"Good thanks, all though I think I'm missing a present."

"Oh yeah, Mum's gonna give you hers later."

"Now my birthday isn't so good, are you telling me you forgot to get me a present Montez?"

"Oh, my present, that's down here," Gabriella answered simply as if she had no idea what he was talking about all along and rolled over enough so that she could pick up her present and card for Troy.

"If you don't like it I can change it, I really don't mind, but I like it and Jazzy likes it so..." She stopped when she was cut off by Troy.

"Brie, if you'd stop rambling for just a minute, then I can open it and tell you if I like I or not, can't I?" Gabriella nodded shyly and handed Troy his present before settling back amongst the pillows.

"What is it with you two getting me boxes today?" Troy asked, as pulled the wrapping paper off to find yet another white box, this one smaller than Jasmine's.

"We just know how much you like them, now come on, open the flipping box will ya!"

Troy chuckled at Gabriella's eagerness before opening the box to find a watch, and an expensive looking one at that.

"Gabs, it's amazing," Troy was pretty much speechless as he took the watch out of the box and placed it on his wrist.

The watch itself had a black strap and a white face with black hands and numbers. The back was silver and Gabriella had gotten a message in graved on the back, 'Happy 18th birthday babe, love you, G x'

"You like it?"

"Like it? Babe I love it, it's absolutely fantastic, thank you so, so much," Troy answered and leant over to Gabriella to give her the most breath taking kiss she'd ever experienced.

"Brie I can't believe you got this for me," Troy said, examining the watch on his left wrist. "It must have cost you loads."

Gabriella shrugged. "So what if it did? It's my birthday present to you, so I can spend as much as I want and you can't do anything about it."

"You're definitely feeling better aren't you?" Troy asked, as he opened his card and read over it, before leaning over to give Gabriella a kiss on the forehead as she thought.

"No, not really, but by teasing you I forget how bad I really do feel, although I am kinda hungry, can we go and see what Mum and Jazzy are up to?"

"Yeah, 'course we can, I love you Brie." Troy said; as he gave Gabriella one last kiss before going downstairs.

"I love you too babe." Gabriella replied, as she pulled out of the kiss and took Troy's offered hand to lead her downstairs.

TGTGTGTG

"Don't tell me they're in the utility room again," Troy said, as he and Gabriella arrived downstairs to an empty kitchen.

"I very much doubt it; unless they've spilt something else on Rosie that is, come on, let's check outside." Gabriella took hold of Troy's hand and pulled him through the back door into the back garden.

"SURPRISE!" Troy stopped dead in his tracks, all of his friends from school were in Gabriella's back garden, and at the centre of it all were the gang.

"Did you know about this?" Troy asked, as he turned to Gabriella, still in complete shock.

"Yeah, you ready for a party?"

"Yeah, I think so, are you?" Troy asked, knowing Gabriella should probably still be in bed.

"I'll be fine Troy, you go say hi to everyone I'll go sit with Jazzy, alright?"

"Thank you," Troy gave Gabriella a quick kiss before going to greet his guests, while she wandered down to her old swing set where Jasmine was playing, trying to keep away from all the very tall people.

"Hey Jazzy, what ya doin'?" Gabriella asked, as she approached the small girl.

"Pwaying, where's Daddy?"

"He's just saying hi to everyone, he didn't know they were coming so he's gonna spend some time with them, and I've come to play with you, okay?"

Jasmine nodded and went back to playing by herself, so Gabriella took a seat on one of the swings and gently started swinging herself back and forth with her feet.

"Gabwi?" Jasmine asked, a few minutes later.

"Yeah sweetie?"

"Me have a go?"

"You wanna go on a swing?"

"Yes pwease."

Gabriella smiled and got up from her swing to pick Jasmine up and place her on the swing next to hers.

"Hold on tight okay? I don't want you falling off, you'll hurt yourself, so if you think you're gonna slip you need to tell me, alright?

"Okay Gabwi."

Gabriella gently started pushing the swing until she felt like Jasmine was at a reasonable height and then she just gave the occasional push, letting Jasmine enjoy the feeling of being on the swing.

"Me fwying."

"Yeah you are, do you like it?"

"Uh huh, look Daddy's coming." Troy was indeed approaching his girls so Gabriella slowed the swing down so that Jasmine could give Troy a hug and so that she could sit back down.

"There's food on the deck, why don't you go and get some, the gang will help you."

"Daddy come?"

"Yeah I'm gonna come in a minute sweetie, I just wanna talk to Gabi about something, okay?"

"Okay Daddy, bye Gabwi," Gabriella smiled slightly at Jasmine, as Troy put her down and she ran back to the house.

Troy watched her until she'd safely made it to the deck and was currently being held upside by Chad, before turning his attention to Gabriella.

He walked over to the swing set and held his hands out to her, pulling her up from her seat and wrapping his arms around her, holding her close.

"Brie listen, you and me both know that if today weren't my birthday you'd be in bed right now, am I right?" Gabriella nodded from her spot against Troy's chest. "I'm not gonna make you go back to bed 'cause I know you wanna be involved, so I've got something set up inside for you, you okay with that?" Gabriella once again nodded and allowed Troy to pick her up and cradle her in his arms.

Burying her face in the crook of Troy's neck Gabriella stayed in his arms until she felt him trying to put her down. Detaching herself from Troy she found herself on the couch in the living room with Taylor, Sharpay and Kelsi, some party food, a blanket and some painkillers.

"The girls have offered to stay in here with you and chat or watch a movie, whatever, I just want you to rest, take some painkillers and try to eat a little more, okay?"

"Yeah I guess, you okay with it though? I thought we were supposed to spend today together with Jazzy?"

"We were, but you're not well and that's more important than spending time together, we can do that anytime, besides you and me have tomorrow."

"How come? Where's Jazzy gonna be?" Gabriella asked, as she pulled the blanket over herself.

"Here with your Mum, while we're at mine, so rest Montez!" Troy finished, as he gave Gabriella kiss to the forehead and headed back outside to check Chad hadn't completely messed with his daughter's head.

Gabriella looked round at her friends smiling faces as Troy left the room.

"What?" She asked, knowing they clearly knew something she didn't.

"Gabi just wait 'til you see what he's gonna do for you tomorrow, that boy has got a real romantic side."

"Thanks for that Shar, now I'm gonna keep guessing 'til I find out," Gabriella said, as a pout formed on her lips.

Sharpay just stuck her tongue out at her friend and turned the telly on, hoping to distract Gabriella from what she knew would be an amazing day tomorrow.

TGTGTGTG

Sharpay was right when she said Troy had a romantic side, a really big, lovable romantic side, one Gabriella hadn't quite gotten used to.

Maria had taken her to Troy's at eleven and they'd found Troy and Jasmine already waiting for them outside. After strapping Jasmine's car seat into Maria's car the pair were on their way and Troy and Gabriella were able to start their anniversary celebrations.

As Troy had led her into the apartment she'd found fairy lights hung up all around the place, with the curtains closed and the main lights off, creating a real romantic atmosphere.

They'd exchanged gifts, the usual chocolates, perfumes and after shaves, it was only their one month anniversary after all. Troy had then excused himself to the kitchen leaving Gabriella curled up comfortably on the couch, considering she still wasn't feeling to great she'd done well to get out of bed this morning.

Troy had then moved her from the couch to the rarely used dining table where they ate his incredibly tasty chicken stir fry with noodles. Gabriella had offered to help with the washing up, but Troy had declined her offer and simply taken her back to the couch and told her to rest, promising her it wouldn't be long before he joined her.

It wasn't. Twenty minutes later Troy had joined her on the couch and the pair were now a mass of limbs, Troy lying on his back with Gabriella lying on top of him listening to his steady heart beat, a blanket tightly wrapped round them both.

"Thank you, today has been...amazing, I really couldn't have asked for more, so thank you."

"You're more than welcome honey, what you did for me yesterday was completely amazing, most of all the watch, I never expected that, so this is my way of thanking you."

"Well I love it, when'd you do it all? You left mine pretty late last night."

"Last night and this morning, I tidied up last night after I'd put Jazzy to bed and then we decorated everything this morning. We almost forgot about packing Jazzy's overnight bag because we got so wrapped up in the decorating, but we made it."

"Does it feel weird not having her here? You've never spent the night apart before, right?"

"No we haven't, but I'm not feeling too bad about it, knowing she's with Maria helps a lot because I know how much she adores her, plus I get to spend some quality time with you, something we don't get to do enough of between school , basketball practises, me working and us both looking after Jazzy, we only really see each other alone at school, and that's only a few brief minutes here and there, kinda sucks really."

"Mmm, I guess, but let's just make the most of now, especially because we don't get enough of it."

Troy nuzzled his face in Gabriella's hair and just enjoyed the loving embrace they were sharing.

"I love you Troy." Gabriella broke the silence, as she leant up to place a kiss on Troy's jaw line.

"I love you too Gabriella, I love you too."

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There it is people, at one fifteen in the morning, there it is! I hope you like it! It's the longest one yet, so hopefully it's just as good :)

I wanna say a big thank you to zanessastories1225788, we've had some great chats recently and she's kept me smiling recently, so thank you! If you get a chance check out her stories, she's a great writer :)

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