Happy Birthday Mr. Efron. I love you! ;)
Chapter 19- Bolton Boot camp
My head would lie still on his chest as he ran his fingers through my hair. I played with the hem of his shirt. He kissed my forehead as I looked at the TV screen. Nothing was on the TV screen yet there could have been some captivity program on but I was content just lying around with Troy. . There was little commotion going on in the kitchen. It was Sunday Morning and it was quiet, very quiet. Most of the kids were still sleeping; some of the adults were outside messing around or in the kitchen eating breakfast. It was perfect.
"I have to start planning a wedding." I murmured quietly, I did not want to break the peace in the air but it needed to be said "Why don't we just elope, it would be so much easier and faster." He said running his fingers down my back. I sat my head up a little to look him in the eyes.
"Not going to lie, I thought about it." I said giggling, "But I want a traditional wedding," Troy smiled; I do not think he had stopped smiling since he had proposed to me on the beach. "I do too; do you have any good date in mind?" He asked
"I would say June but we are almost in June and I can not wait a whole year for it to come back around," I paused as the silence creped in around us. "So my next pick would be September." I found Troy's hand as I let my fingers fall into place with his. "I have always dreamed about my wedding date Troy," I said letting my eyes close for several minutes.
"I just never knew who that guy would be watching me down the aisle." I said holding him tightly. He kissed my forehead, "So September. I don't know if I could wait any long anyways."
Troy was quiet for minutes it felt like, "Three months? Do you think you can get a wedding ready in three months?" his eyes flickered towards the doorway of the house before coming back to my hand.
"Lamar and Khloe got there's ready in nine days." I joked, "No shit, please don't do that to me." He said with a smile. "I promise I still have Taylors wedding to worry about plus I don't have nine days. In nine days I will be in New Mexico." I played with the collar on Troy's shirt.
"I almost proposed there. I thought and thought about if I should or not but I just didn't know what to do." His thumb rubbed over my small hands. "I was going to do the same thing I did here except the sailboat. That's what got me to do it here and on the beach."
"Well, I loved every minute of it. Taylor and Sharpay cannot wait until we get to New Mexico to celebrate. So one of the nights I think we are going to take a night off."
"Maybe we can leave Liam with my mom and we all go out to celebrate properly."
"I am pretty sure we did," I teased with a small smile, "Well no, with all of our friends." He said, "Like how most people do."
"Alright, sounds like a good choice to me." I thought in silence for a minute before I knew we should discuss this, "Do you think we could move Australia to September for our honeymoon? Liam will not be as young and it will be a little easier to leave him. Also I would feel like I was getting two honeymoons."
"I can see what I can do." He whispered, "But we need to figure out a date first so I know when to move our flight tickets." I licked my lips as I reached down for my iPhone. "Please, let's wait." Troy said quietly, "I want to relax. Let us let the engagement sink in first. I know that you want September but I think if Lamar and Khloe can do it in nine we can do it in a few months" His lips moved across my ear and onto my cheek. "Fine," I said dropping my iPhone onto the ground next to me.
"Good morning you guys," I looked over my shoulder to see Jenni walking down the stairs with a pair of sweats on and a tank top. "Good morning," Troy said, I nodded along with him. Jenni let a yawn escape her throat "Hey Jenni, I should have asked this forever ago but where is Kyle?" I felt like such a bad sister
"He moved back in with your mom. Didn't you know that?" I gave her a curious look, "Uhm no I didn't know that." I said sitting up off Troy's lap. Kyle has not called me for almost a month. I kept trying to call him but he would never answer. I never knew he moved in with my mom again.
"Yea, I guess they meet up for lunch one day and he was like she was a whole new person. We don't talk as much anymore well because we broke up." I felt shock waves run through me. Why the hell hasn't Kyle talked to me? "Yea, he has been getting insane idea to blow off college for a couple of years and travel the world. He wanted me to come with him and I told him I couldn't, I guess he has been saving money forever." I felt blank as she told me this. My brother and I havent talked in the past few years but I still felt close but he has not talked to me about any of this.
"Really? Did you break up before or after he moved in?" I asked her, "Before. Maybe about two weeks before, we were fine off as friends. It just wasn't clicking for us but he said he called you and talked to you about one night." She gave off a look of concern. Troy frowned for the first time in a couple of days. "Well, I guess I should call him," I said frowning some more.
"Babe, did he call you?" Troy asked I looked up towards the ceiling. "Hell if he called me after one of Liam's whole crying thing he could have." I said letting my head fall into my hands. "I'll call and talk to him in a little while but for now I say we-" I stopped in midsentence to see Jillian come running through the house. She was up before most of us since Issy liked to get up early in the morning.
"Oh my! Haley!" I turned to the door to see Koli standing there. I gave him a brief smile before getting up off the couch. I walked into the kitchen to see Haley with a piece of toast hanging out of her mouth. Jillian was whispering in her ear as he mom gave her a long look. Almost as saying stop being rude.
"Holy shit!" she muttered, she spit out her toast before darting off towards the living room. "Do you have any idea what that is all about?" I chewed on the tip of my finger as I heard Liam's cry ring through the house. "Duties call!" I cheered before walking away. "Young adults," Logan muttered, I saw Troy heading up the stairs towards the room but I raced him towards it. It was almost as if we both wanted to be there.
I pushed him gently into the wall and he started laughing, "What the hell?" he asked as I passed by him. I flung open the door as I saw Liam's feet kicking in the air. I bent over to pick him up and cradled him against my chest. "Hey buddy," I said as I kissed his forehead. He looked around before starting to cry some more, "Oh yes, I know." I whispered against his ear. He was truly upset or truly hungry.
"He must know you abuse me." I turned to look back at Troy as I brought my hand up to push his shoulder, "Liam tell your daddy he is crazy." I said giggling, Liam's eyes wondered to mine before he gave a smile. I felt a rush of pride run through my body, he would give smiles ever now and then but you knew it was never a real smile but this smile looked like he knew what we were talking about, the smile that I lived to see everyday.
"Did he just smiled or was I?" I turned to look at Troy, "He totally just epicly smiled!" I brought Liam's head towards my lips as I let my lips touch his forehead. "Oh mommy loves you." I said hugging him, I just wish he would talk but soon, very soon and I did not want to rush it. "Can you believe he will be three months in just a few weeks?" Troy said putting his chin on my shoulder playing with Liam's hand. Liam cried some more but Troy just shook his head.
"I know he is getting big." I paused as I turned towards Troy, "Come on lets go feed this little munchkin before he eats one of us." I said rubbing the top of his head. He let out a small cry as he gripped onto Troy's hand. Troy let out a small smirk as Liam wanted to go to him. "Why would you want to go to some loser Liam?" I asked him, Troy pinched my side lightly. I jumped as I shook my head, "You men are going to drive me crazy."
"Oh whatever," Troy said to me as I handed him over, "You get the diaper changes for the rest of the day," I said skipping off, Troy's jaw dropped as I flew off the stairs. "Hey Koli," I said waving at him as Logan and Megan were drilling them both. I walked into the kitchen to see Shawn and Jillian sitting at the table with 11-month-old Issy.
"I can not she will be one in just a few days," Jillian pouted giving Isabella a kiss on her temple. She cried wanting down from her moms lap. "So do you know what today Gabi is?" Shawn asked looking at me; I looked around at the two other adults in front of me. Jillian paled a little, "Please don't tell me today is Bolton boot camp day," Shawn got a quick twinkle in his eyes. The way the twinkle look, it made me believe that today was going to be hell.
"Oh yes, we are getting ready to wake all of the kids up in an unhappy manner." I turned to see Troy coming into the room, "Oh please don't tell me its Bolton Boot camp day, and I have not missed that the last few years."
I looked between all of them, "What the hell is Bolton Boot camp day?" I asked them with a hurried tone, "You aren't a Bolton, you don't have to participate." Troy quickly said to me, I raised an eyebrow, "She is engaged to a Bolton, so yes she does." Troy groaned as he held Liam, "She has a newborn to take care of."
"You have to have two kids to get out of this, or pregnant." Troy gave me a look and I laughed, "No, I am not pregnant." I laughed again as if I made it sound the craziest idea ever, "Don't let me say I didn't try getting you out of this."
"Please will you tell me what it is" Troy sighed as he grabbed a bottle out of the fridge. "Bolton boot camp is pretty brutal some years, well the last time I was here it was. You can drop out whenever you want but the earlier you drop out the worst your chores will be for the rest of the reunion." Troy started to explain, "And the one who wins, stays in the longest doesn't have to do anything for the rest of the trip except prepare there one meal they were already signed up to make."
I blinked back a little, "You put these little kids through this?" Troy shook his head, "Nah, you start at 13 and to drop out you have to be a women with two kids or pregnant or an injury." He started to burp Liam. "For guys it's when they hit 33." I giggled as Troy was going to be in this forever.
"So what's the worst you've had to do?" I asked him as I stood in front of him, he licked his lips while letting a cute laugh escape in-between his lips. "Well from 14-17 we were the running champion," A smirk grew over his face as I looked for backup. It almost would not surprise me but then again.
"He was, and then it's varied between all of the boys of who the winner is. A girl hasn't won in years." Shawn said as he picked at the eggs on his plate.
I laughed, "Well all of that is going to change today," I turned at my heels and went marching up the stairs. "Oh no Bolton, your have a fiery one on your hands." I turned to see Troy have the glint of happiness in his eyes. "Oh I know. That's why I'm going to marry her." He said to his uncle.
"Good Pick," he said smiling, I felt a grin slip over my face. I was proud to be engaged to Troy Bolton.
After slipping on my jogging shorts, a soft UCLA t-shirt that was grey with blue lettering, I then slipped on my blue Nike tennis shoes. I pulled back my hair into a tight ponytail with a thick black headband. It is what I would wear to workout in everyday but honestly, I was concerned about the sand.
"Gabi," Jack hollered, "I'm coming," I walked down the stairs to see all of the children in the same type of clothes I was but they feared their lives. I liked working out so I did not sit it as going that bad.
"Gabi, you really should run for your life." Anthony said pulling on his basketball shorts, "You are all scared I am going to whip you're…" I paused to look at all of the younger kids. "Never mind." I said giggling. I should really start to watch my mouth but it was going to be tougher.
The adults all laughed as I took a seat on Troy's lap. Liam was laying on his belly in the playpen while Lucille kept a watchful eye over him. "Now, here is the draw for the two parents to play." Jack pushed a hat towards my face, "Here you go Gabi," I raised an eyebrow.
"Really?"
"You are picking a bedroom number. Our bedrooms are numbered and if you get Mason's room he gets to pick any other adult." I nodded my head as I dug through the hat until I picked up a number. "Room number 3" I said giving them all looks, Logan and Megan both let out a long groan. "You know, we can keep Logan in but I want to play this year." Mason said taking a drink of his coffee. "Let Megan help with all the little ones."
Megan let out a sigh of relief, "Thank you Mason!" she cheered, I laughed as I Troy hugged on my waist. "All right, let's get this day started," Jack, said holding a clipboard, "This is a very planned out event." Troy whispered into my ear, I nodded my head.
"Wait, does everybody have a swimsuit on?" Jack asked, "Whoa, we are going in the ocean?"
"You didn't talk about the,"
"Oh man, I am getting old." Jack said, "Alright," he started, "If you are the first to drop out you have to get up every morning at seven and help with the breakfast going on in the kitchen,"
"If you drop out second or third you have to clean the swimming pool every other day." Jack looked down at the clipboard, "Fourth you have dishes,"
"Fifth and sixth you have to clean the bathrooms, seven and eight you wash the rental cars the day before we leave." I looked at Troy, "So if you drop out at these times this is all you get?"
"Yea, they are pretty bad because you have to do it perfect or do it all over again." Troy whispered, "nine, you have to watch Troy and Gabi to make sure they don't do any PDA," Troy and I snapped our attention back to Jack, "What?" he both yelled together
Jack laughed along with all of the other adults, "Just kidding, trying to make sure you were all paying attention." He said winking at us; I rolled my eyes, "Fantastic,"
"No, nine and ten you have vacuuming the whole house. Eleven and twelve you have to go grocery shopping, if you cant drive then an adult will drive you to the store. Thirteen and fourteen you have laundry for the rest of the trip." Kids groaned, "That's the time most of the teens drop out."
"Fifteen and sixteen you have folding and putting laundry in the right room. If you have to ask go ahead and ask," I blushed, as I knew my underwear was not going in the dirty laundry. "Seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen you guys have going around making everybody's bed and twenty well you don't have to do a thing."
Troy massaged my lower back, "One of these last three will also have to give the winner a message." I giggled, "Oh," I started, "If I win I make Troy Bolton my slave." Jack nodded laughing. "Alright I will right that one down on my list but let's go if you have your swimsuit on." He added, "Well I will be right back," most of the girls said running up the stairs but I had put one on as my bra and underwear.
"You already put one on?" Troy asked raising an eyebrow, "mhm,"
"And I missed it?" He asked licking his lips; I nodded my head, "Totally." "I think that job having somebody watch them would have been a fantastic idea." Chris said to the group.
"Whatever," Troy said leaning back towards them, he leaned forward pressing his lips against mine. "At this rate Gabi won't be participating next year due to second child." I started laughing in a sarcastic way, "Whatever!" I said shaking my head. "All ready," I turned to see plenty of kid's behide me.
"Alright, let's go over the rules for our new two ones this year." Jack said as he led us outside. "You are allowed to quit whenever you want. You just have to do your jobs for a week here." He paused to make sure everybody was listening, "Now we are going to start with a warm up jog that half of you can't make it out of." He mumbled, I giggled
"Alright, three miles you guys know the route, Troy show Gabi and Greg."
"I have Greg," Jenni said grabbing her younger cousin hands, "Yea, I got my baby," Troy said leaning forward to press his lips against mine but I pulled back. "Oh no," I said grinning, "You are not getting anything until I win." I said I looked at the ring on my finger. "Jack, when we swim." I said looking at him, "I am giving you this ring and I think Troy will ring your neck if you lose it." I say pointing to my finger.
"Alright," he said with a smile, "Yes dad, please don't lose it." Troy said, as he was ready to go, he nodded his head. "Alright, ready…set…go."
I picked up my feet and ran along with the heard. Troy grabbed my wrist as we took a left turn while the others kept going straight, "where are we going?"
"There are two routes but only some of us know about the second. It leads us all to the same place and I told my dad we would be going this way." We were both still in a light jog, "We should do this more often, I like running with you. You keep right at my pace," he said with a cute grin.
"Bolton, you are not getting inside of my head." I told him as I took a nice little lead in front of him. "Just bark instructions and I will follow." I yelled over my shoulder. Troy just laughed and shook his head.
We kept quiet for the thirty minutes that we ran. Then we came to the small beach and we were the first ones there besides Jack and all of the adults. "Look who made it here first!" Jack said as he got up in the sand, Troy and I were both barely sweating in the warm heat.
"Are the others almost here?"
"Well Emma, Emily, and Mike all dropped out already. The rest are all within ten minutes of getting here." Troy and I nodded heads as we sat down in the sand to take a drink of water. "Losers,"
"Just because we arent all in athletic shape," Emily said coming up behide us, they had already showered changed and were ready to look perfect for any boys passing by. I could smell the coconut coming off there bodies.
"Damn they beat us here!" Logan said to Mason as they came across, "Damn, I am getting old." Jack and Chris laughed from the sand as if teasing the boys. Slowly the rest of them came rolling in. Along the way, they had lost Abby and Dalton.
"Did you guys make it here first?" Greg asked putting his hands on top of his head. Troy and I shared a look, "Yea," we said together, the both grunted before falling onto the soft sand.
"Alright next," Jack said standing up, "Do you see the white," he did not need to finish before everybody knew it was a far swim. "I'm out." Aiden said throwing his hands up, Troy and I shrugged our shoulders before getting up. I stripped off our clothes and I carefully slide the ring off my finger. I handed it to Jack, "Alright lets go people."
The rest of them stripped off there clothes and we were all waiting at the entrance of the ocean. "You look amazing," Troy, said, "Amazing for having a baby three months ago." He added as I looked at the little flab I had left but Troy I knew did not mind. "Go!" we heard the end but we took off into the water.
"Come on fifty more pushups!" Jack yelled there were only four of us left. Troy, Anthony, Jenni, and myself. We had swum, ran, skipped, crunches, balance, biked and we were now doing pushups.
"You are going down," Troy said as he was positioned in front of me. "Oh you wish," I said as I popped up after doing 150 pushups. The whole family was watching on the beach from many lounge chairs. Troy and Anthony were quick up after me and then slowly Jenni followed.
"God, why I still doing this?" she asked rubbing her sore muscles. I giggled and Jack looked at us, "Relays." Troy and I eyed each other, while Anthony and Jenni did. "How does this work?" Troy asked putting his hands on his hips, I pulled my UCLA shirt off my body that it was soaked in sweat.
"This is going to bring us to the final two." Jack started, "And it will lead us to the Championship game." He said, "You are going to run around the block, then come back to your partner who will run around the block before coming back to do the wheelbarrow through the sand and come back with the crab. Next one of you will ride on one of your back for a length down the beach and then the other one will carry them the rest of the way." Troy quickly looked at his dad, "Whoa, dad you can't do that. These girls can't hold our weight." Troy said giving my concerned look, "You will figure it out or drop out." Jack said looking at the guys.
"Alright," Troy said with a smile, "Lets do this."
The jogging around the block was easy. I went first and Troy followed me. Troy beat Anthony back and we quickly started down the road of sand towards the orange cones.
"Go Troy!" the guys yelled from the deck, Troy grinned as I dug in the sand trying to keep the grip but when I fell Troy and I burst out into laughter.
"I just got a mouth full of sand." I said laughing trying to stand up faster. Troy held onto my legs as we went running through the sand it felt like. Troy was still laughing as I kept trying to spit the sand out that was in my mouth. Once we got to the orange cones, we both dropped to start doing the crab. Anthony and Jenni were on our asses but we passed them with the crab walking.
"Shit this is hard," Troy grunted, "Say hi daddy," Troy and I both looked up to see Liam awake and sucking on a bottle. I wanted to stop and run up to him but I wanted to win so I did not have to do anything. Troy gave a quick look towards me, "That was really mean,"
"Oh hell yes it was," I said as we both kept digging through the sand. "You know, next year I think we should make your dad do this."
"The only reason they still do this is because there dad made them do it." I giggled, "Well maybe it's all worth it," I huffed as we came closer to where Jack was standing. This one meant that I could possibly get on Troy's back.
"Do you want me to carry you first or do you want to try me?" Troy asked, I licked my lips, "I will go first so once I start dying you can take over." Troy nodded as we both collapsed on the sand as we came to Jacks feet. We saw that Jenni and Anthony were closing in.
It was probably smart that they were going to have Anthony carry her first so we are going to see how this is going to work. "Alright are you ready?" Troy asked as his hands gripped my shoulder, "Yup,"
"You are going to the cones right there," Jack said pointing towards the ones about ten feet closer than the last. "Alright, let's go." I said, Troy jumped onto my back and I had to get my feet under me. "Dude, I think you need to lose weight." I said starting to move forward.
"Hey, that's really mean." Troy said holding onto my neck. I giggled softly as I started to pick up my speed towards the cones. "Keep going babe," he whispered into my ear, I felt like my legs were going to fall from underneath me and I was going to just collapse but Troy kept saying small things into my ear that made me tingle and move towards the cones with speed.
"Fuck," I grumbled which set Troy off in a light of laughter, "My feet are almost touching the ground!" he stated laughing, I shook my head as I tried to readjust but as soon as I did it was time for Troy to get off. Troy fell off my back as I sank to the ground my legs buckling underneath me.
"Whoa, come here baby girl. My turn to carry you." He said quickly as he turned his head. I guess they were close because he swiftly picked me up and threw me onto his back. I wrapped my legs around his waist and I laid my head on his shoulder. "You are so light, I feel so lucky." He said, I yawned, "Good."
"Somebody is starting to get tired,"
"Yea, I really am." Troy turned from the cone and started the long road back to Jack. He was actually running at this moment but I just held onto his neck. Once I saw Jack, I knew we had it but I looked over to see Jenni and Anthony right next to us.
"Faster!" I barked into Troy's ear, "They are on our butts!" I screamed Troy was a bit taken back but we started moving faster yet so did they. Anthony looked towards me, I flipped him off, Jenni, and he started to roll in laughter. We ran towards the finish line that we all dove over. I held onto Troys back as we went slide across. Sand flew up in the air and I closed my mouth and eyes.
"And the winner is…" Jack started to say, "Troy and Gabi!"
"Yes!" we both yelled giving each other a high five from the sand. Cheers came from the deck as Troy helped me up. I was still a little unstable on my legs. Troy held my hand as we looked at Jack. "We are going to give you a quick thirty minute break before we move on to the last activity."
I rubbed my eyes as I leaned against Troy. "Thirty minutes before I have to go head to head to my fiancée," he murmured into my ear. "Can I just go hold my son while sitting on the couch?" he shook his head, "We have no idea what this activity may be so I think you need to eat." He smoothed back a strand of hair that came loose of my ponytail.
"You haven't eaten at all today, so I think you should." I gave him a look in the eyes, "I don't want to barf it all up, so I will be a no one that one."
He kissed my forehead but I backed off, "Oh no, remember no kissing until I win." I winked at him as I stuttered up the stairs. Lucille greeted me with my little Bolton. "Hey baby boy!" I said holding him into the air. He cooed at my voice and I kissed his forehead. "Here let me see my little guy," Troy said taking him from my arms.
"Oh Troy!" I said trying to get him back but he shook his head. I pouted and I sat down on the patio furniture but I felt my legs begin to cramp. I could not stop or I would not make it through the end.
After about fifteen minutes of holding Liam, talking, and getting rehydrated Jack called us down to the basketball court. Troy and I looked at each other as I felt an unfair game coming on. Jack sighed quietly, "Alright this may be the biggest game yet because this has been a major year." Jack looked in-between us.
"Basketball. We have never gotten this far in the games but this time Troy brought a warrior." Jack laughed at me as I blushed a deep red. "This is so unfair!" Anthony called from the top, Troy grinned as he felt he already had this in the bag.
"Whatever, I can take him. Do you know who he practices with?" I said winking up at the deck. Troy gave me a surprised look; I brushed up against him as I stripped off my shirt. I had changed into a Nike purple sports bra after swimming. Troy eyed my breasts before stripping off his shirt.
"Gotta make this a fair game," he said asking his dad for the ball. I gave him a smirk, "First to twenty six," I said as he handed me the ball, "Fair enough, let's start." I said as I dribbled the ball around him.
"Oh and the shots up!" Jenni yelled it was 20-21 as Troy got off a three point shot keeping his one point in front of me for the longest time.
We had been playing for what felt like forever. The sun was beginning to set over the house setting a glow around us. We had been doing this since about ten this morning. I had the ball again and I dribbled around Troy. I took a quick shot making me go up 22-21. "Lucky shot Mrs. Soon to be Bolton." Troy said smirking as he took it out of the key.
"Funny, I thought you were the one with lucky shots." I said giving him a wink, he laughed, "uh huh sure," I shook my head, "Just remember if I don't win you don't get that kiss you have been wanting all day." Troy then looked a little blindsided, I swiped the ball from underneath his hands. He looked shocked as I knocked off my own three point shot.
25-21 and I was leading the great Troy Bolton. Troy got the ball back from me and he had the look in his eyes that said he knew. I blocked off his next shot for me to take it down. I quickly set up the shot and I felt everybody holding there breaths. The whole family, besides the young ones, had beer or wine in there hands sitting around watching.
The ball circled the rim round and round and finally fell in. "Ah!" I screamed as I was mobbed with a group of girls, "You have to be fucking kidding me!" Logan said, "I fucking lost to a girl!" he said pointing towards me! My body started to feel weak and I seriously did not want to stand any longer. I fell onto the sand as happy tears took over my eyes.
"Alright let me get that kiss that I have been waiting for all day, the reason I let this girl win." Everybody cleared as Troy collapsed down next to me. He rolled over on top of me as he pressed his lips against mine. "Finally," I said as I wiped at my eyes, "I think you need a beer."
"I think I need a few shots." I said laughing, Troy grinned at my sense of humor. "Come on silly girl, you have won and I am basically your slave for the seven days."
"More like the next sixty years." I said poking his stomach, "Yea, the next sixty years." I let my ring slide against his cheek as he held my waist. "I love you," he whispered picking me up. Troy and I walked up to the door hand in hand. "Wow, that was pretty damn amazing," Aiden, said looking at me with a grin.
"Well you know he is pretty good."
"Alright guys Gabi and I are going to relax for a little while until dinner is done. Will you please come and get us?" Troy asked grabbing Liam from the playpen. "Alright will do cousin," Troy and I made it up the stairs as I collapsed on the bed. "I need to shower,"
"Don't," Troy said, "we are hanging around the fire tonight with shots and beer after all of the kids goes to bed." I shook my head; "We can not all do that because somebody has to get up with Liam in the middle of the night." He shook his head, "Oh no as the winner you have to!"
I groaned, "Does that mean you will get up with Liam all night?" Troy nodded his head, "Yes baby," Troy rubbed my forehead with his thumb. "I will only have a couple of beers, nothing to make me an irresponsible parent." He said with a long look.
I rested my head into the pillow as Troy laid Liam in-between the two of us. I flipped onto my side as I looked over; I grabbed Liam's hand as I leaned over to kiss his forehead. "He needs to eat," I whispered, "Then he needs to go to bed."
Troy glanced over at the clock to read it was almost after seven. "I will go grab a bottle." He said getting off the bed groaning, I giggled as I put Liam onto my chest. He gripped onto my hair as he made noises from his mouth.
"You are so cute, what would I do without you?" I asked playing with his fingers. "You know when you wake up one morning you will be a great big boy and I will have no idea what happened to you." I kissed his small fingers again as Troy opened the door.
"You two are really cute together," Troy said shaking up a bottle. I sat up as I propped up against the back of the bed board. I reached my hand over for the bottle as Troy gave it to me. I propped Liam onto my arm as I put the bottle near his mouth. "Can you grab me a clean shirt?" I murmured as my eyes began to clothes but I had to focus on Liam.
"Do you prefer?"
"How about a sweatshirt," I said to him; he nodded as he opened a drawer in front of the TV. He then tossed my plain grey hoodie towards me. He the crawled into the bed next to me, putting his head onto my shoulder. "Mmm…" Troy said letting his eyes fall closed.
"I know I am so tired." I said to him, Troy nodded "How about once everybody starts heading off to there own room we take a shower together?" he said opening on eye, "I am thinking showers will have to wait until tomorrow," I whispered as I let my eyes being to close as I took Liam's bottle from his mouth. I placed his head onto my shoulder so I could burp him.
"I think we should totally just skip this dinner tonight." Troy gave me a glance before shaking his head. "It's the best night, I promise. You will be alive by the end of the night." He rolled over, "This is my first time actually getting to drink myself." He said, Liam burped and I pulled him back. "I love you," I said pressing my lips against his forehead. I threw my legs over my bed and Troy got up off the bed.
I laid Liam down in his crib before I picked up the sweatshirt on the bed. I pushed my fingers through my hair as I put it back up into a ponytail. Troy slipped his arms around my neck before kissing my temple. "Let's go eat some dinner."
I sat in Troy's lap as the adults started passing shot glasses around to the ones doing them. Troy, Haley, and Jillian all were no participating and a few here and there so people would be up in the morning for the younger kids.
Troy was taking another drink of his beer as I grabbed a shot glass from the tray Logan was carrying around. "Alright, Gabi you start!" he yelled, I looked at the drink in front of me. A strong scent floated off it. "Come on," Troy said poking my sides. I tipped my head back and I let the burning sensation slide down my throat.
"Oh God," I said groaning, "That was horrible." I shook my head, as it was probably one of the worst shots ever. "Who made that?" all fingers pointed towards Logan and I just shook my head. "Well you need to work on your shot skills because this sucks." I said trying not to cough. All of the other people started to dump the drink out on the ground.
Troy laughed, "Thank God, I am drinking beer." Troy said clicking glasses with Jillian who was sitting near by. "Yea, how did I become the taste tester?" I asked picking up my beer sitting on the ground. "All comes with winning,"
"Only if you didn't want that kiss so bad." I teased him, "Troy Boy is whipped," Anthony coughed, "Yea yea, she blindsided me." Troy said looking towards the edge.
"Alright, come on try this one please?" Logan said handing another shot glass to me. I eyed it with a curious look, "Fine but I swear if I'm drunk after this one," I said giving a long look towards him, "They don't have that much in them," he said, I shook my head as I picked up the drink and quickly washed it down.
"Alright, not as bad." I said trying to suspense the cough that was building in my throat, "Don't lie." Jack said trying hard not to laugh; I nodded my head, "Okay horrible." I said looking up at him. "I think you should give up that career and let somebody else take over." I said taking another drink of my beer.
"I know we usually have him start. Have the weak ones pass out before we give the good stuff out." The group laughed as Logan plopped down in the chair. I watched over him as the whole group was circled around the fire.
"So do you guys have a date for the wedding yet? Troy and I both shared a laugh, "Really mom? We have been engaged for like two days." Lucille gave a small pout before grabbing the wine sitting next to her. "Alright," we looked to see Chris walk in. "Here are the good real shots."
"Cheers!" I said picking it up before finishing it off before, I could even think. The burning sensation lasted a few moments before I put the drink down. "Damn, the was a hell of a lot better." Everybody laughed as Logan just shook his head.
"Whatever, go ahead and make fun of me." He held his hand up as I tried hard not to laugh. I wrapped my arms around Troy's neck. "You look tired babe," I yawned, "That's because I am."
"Well we still have a few hours left." I nodded my head, "And I will make it."
I felt the groan escape my lips as the pounding of my headache came. I pulled the blankets up and over my eyes so I did not have to see the sun peaking out through the curtains. What I found funny is when I did open my eyes I did not see a sun shining through it was still dark outside.
I pulled the blankets off to see that Liam and Troy were both gone from the bedroom. I rubbed my temple as I heard the door creak open. "Shh," Troy said and I pretended to close my eyes as to not let them know I am awake.
"Mommy is sleeping," Troy soothed, I felt a gush of happiness rule through my body as it was true. I should be sleeping, I heard Troy slip Liam back into his crib before sliding into bed. It could not have been ten minutes before Troy was snoring lightly.
I felt my headache grow worse I knew I needed Advil. I got up out of the bed as I creped out of the door and down the stairs. "God damn it where the fuck is the Advil?" I heard somebody grumbling, I felt shocked that somebody else was up also. "Haley?" I whispered as I found her standing in the kitchen searching for the Advil.
"God! Gabi don't ever scare me like that!" she whispered yelled, I rubbed my temples; "I think Logan's shots are getting to me. Is there anything in there?" I asked her, she let a giggle escape her mouth. "Uhm…oh thank god here is the Advil!" she said before handing us both three.
"Good idea," I told her as I popped them all in and swallowed them. "So what was Koli doing here yesterday?" I asked her, "He just stopped in for a visit. His parents actually live out here,"
"Are you guys getting serious?" I asked, she nodded her head, "Yea, he is pretty amazing." I gave her a smile as I sat down in one of the kitchen tables. "That's good; I am so excited about getting married Troy." I said letting my head fall but I let a grin sweep over my face.
"I am excited for you to become my cousin in law!" I giggled as I tried to keep it quiet, my head still hurt like hell. "Diddo, your whole family is amazing."
"You just fit right it, that's what's amazing. Usually I have boyfriends who do not even take an interest in our family and if you do not you usually arent around much longer. Family comes first in this family at all times."
"That's what I love about your guy's family. You are always there for each other no matter what's going on in everybody's life." I rubbed my arm. "You guys are all spread out over the country and you can all still keep it together."
She sighed before sitting down in a chair herself. "I just hope Koli wasn't scared off by my parents yesterday. They act as if I am a baby. I have a baby and I am 26. I think I can defend for myself but they worry about me every since Raul and Anna's dad."
"Well at least your mom cares"
"From what I have heard from Jenni your mom seems pretty nice."
"Well we have a little bit of a rocky past due to a baby before marriage but I think she is slowly getting over it. I think she might so happen to want to be in Liam's life. At first, she did not even want to hear about him. She sent me some pretty messed up text messages and threatens me a few times but as I look at it, I might have been a little over dramatic about the whole thing."
"If she threatens you…"
"She did but I was always in tears it felt like my entire pregnancy. I felt like when I was not crying then something is wrong or they would stop looking at me. My mom probably did not like that and I knew I annoyed Troy a lot. Therefore, I think I added to her not being happy about it. I am hoping when we go to New Mexico we can push it all behide us."
"Good, I think everybody needs there mom in there life. It is hard when I have moved out. I can not imagine not having her to run to." I nodded my head, "But I think in the end it will all be okay."
Haley gave me one of her smiles that I knew it was all going to be okay. "So do you wanna know what month we picked?" I asked drifting away from the subject neither of us really wanted to talk about anymore.
"Please tell me!" she begged
"September…this September!" I giggled, "Where? You goes should go somewhere. I mean half of us are going to have to fly somewhere anyways. Why not make it somewhere amazing?" she said, I looked at her for a moment, "That would be a good idea. The only people that would have to fly are our friends and probably the basketball team and we could fly our friends while the basketball can pay for them."
"And if they don't want to go, then don't." I looked at Haley, "You should become my wedding planner."
"I have always thought about becoming a wedding planner. I love weddings; I can not wait for my own."
"We may just have to work together on it but first I have to get through Taylors, then we can do whatever." She nodded her head, "Sounds like a deal." We shook our hands and I let a yawn escape my lips. "You should start the coffee," I told her as the sun began to pick of the ocean. "While we watch the sunrise."
She looked out the window and nodded, "Let's do it."
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZAC! Oh, my I can not believe you are 24! I felt like you were just 17 on my TV! Man, do those years fly by. I have loved you ever since that first high school musical came out and I don't think I will ever stop! I hope you are having a fantastic birthday! I love you! xoxo Jo
Apart from my small note to Zac, I am hoping you all read my profile page. If you have not I suggest you do because I think you will all like it. Well, it will be mixed. I have some people already asking if there will be another story after this and ….yes. There will be. 3 I hope you all are having fun celebrating Zacs birthday but don't get too crazy! ;) Thanks for all the reviews last chapter, made me very happy!
Well, I have to now go shower, eat, and do homework. Bleh! Well, wish me luck! Love you all! Jo!
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…Happy Birthday Zac ;)