Chapter 39 – Date night

"Let's go Lakers!" the chant ranted through the stadium as everybody was bouncing as they were on there way to another win at Laker stadium yet they were behide and were still trying to pass the front runner Clippers in the hometown battle.

Liam cheered in my lap or at least I think he was cheering because he kept clapping and turning to smile at me. I kissed the top of his head as I clapped my hands to the audience to cheer on the team.

Taylor sat on one side of me as she watched Chad bouncing the ball up and down the court. "So how is everything?" I finally asked, "A lot better. A lot." She said with a smile, "Good, I am happy for you Taylor."

"Sharpay came over yesterday with Bentley," I smiled, "I saw her yesterday too. She must have been making the rounds."

"She claimed she was bored out of her mind and could never sit in that house a minute longer." I snorted and nodded, "I understand that feeling. I think we should take the kids to the zoo or something. Liam would love it and Troy."

"We should go to the San Diego Zoo!" Taylor exclaimed, "I have always wanted to go there!" my eyes glanced at Liam and then my eyes found Troy. "The boys do have a two day break. We could go down tomorrow go to the zoo and then come home the next morning."

"That would be so much fun! I think we should ask Sharpay if she wants to go!"

"I doubt it, with a two and half week baby I don't know how much she will enjoy it." Taylor nodded, "I could understand that, I think we should still tell her."

"Totally, I think Troy will be excited. They just have to get the okay from the Coach to go. I mean that would be missing practice right?"

"Chad said they didn't have practice tomorrow but they had one on Tuesday in the afternoon."

"It would still work then! We might just have to leave earlier in the morning," the whistles blew as the final minute began to play out in front of the crowd. Most of the audience was up on there feet cheering but I kept seated so Liam didn't think it was time to play and have fun. I kissed the top of his head as I prepared him to leave. Buckling him back into his car seat I glanced at my watch to notice it was about time for him to go to bed.

"Want to bug out early?"

"Sure, I will just text Chad. Is Liam ready for bed?" I looked down at Liam who yawned before pulling on his blanket that was sitting in his lap. "Yes, he is getting there. He is defiantly tired."

Taylor began to gather up her things and reached for her big drink before we both got up from our chairs. We quietly made our exit as the final buzzer went off. Balancing Liam's carrier on my arm I sent Troy a swift text as we exited through the locker rooms and out towards our car.

Popping Liam's car seat into the car I opened up my door. "So do you want to talk about it separately or do we want to talk about it with each other."

"We can do it separate. I don't want to leave Liam hanging from his crib." I laughed at her term, "He appreciates it."

Taylor turned up the radio as we jammed out to Young, Wild, and Free as it played over the station. We both ended in giggles as I rolled my head over to the side. Driving my car swiftly up her driveway I gave her a smile, "God, I loved hanging out with you tonight." Taylor said reaching over to give me a hug.

"I loved it too."

"I hope Troy and Chad both jump on the band wagon. I will call you at ten to tell you what Chad said and then we can plot what time and everything later."

"Good! I will talk to you in a little bit!" she nodded as I backed out of the drive way. I chewed on my lip as I kept glancing back into the rearview mirror to look at Liam who was in between sleep and the real world. My phone buzzed in the cup holder as I answered it.

"Hey," I said answering the phone, "Hi, why did you bug out before saying hi to me?" I could see Troy pouting, "Because your son was falling asleep and I thought I should get him home. Maybe slip on some comfy clothes or none at all…"

"Don't play that game with me," Troy husked into my ear. I giggled as I settled into the seat driving. "I am on my way out."

"Good. I have something to tell you anyways so hurry home."

"What do you want to talk about?"

"Taylor and I were plotting but we can talk about it when you get home."

"Okay, I will talk to you later."

I hung up the phone as I dropped it into the cup holder. I was about ten minutes from home when Liam began to cry. He had said mom, dad, and no in the past week from saying his first words.

The word no had caught Troy and I both off guard, majorly. We had asked him to stop throwing his blocks, which who knew a nine month old could do such a thing, and he told us no. Troy and I laughed at first before we picked him up.

I opened up the garage door as I pulled the car in cutting the engine. Liam's cry held that he was very tired and ready to go to bed. His nap was cut short due to leaving for Taylor's house for an early dinner and then the Laker's stadium.

I reached in to pick him up as I didn't want to take his car seat all the way inside. He cried harder as I rubbed his back gently, "I know baby, you are tired,"

"mma…" I blew softly into his ear as he cried some more. My heels clamped against the stairs as I scurried up to his room so he could get settled. Once slipping into his room I laid him down onto the changing table. I slipped off my black heels and then grabbed his basketball PJ's and kissed his forehead.

I changed his diaper and put him into his PJ's as I sat down in the rocker. I sat him on my lap as he leaned back against me. We rocked back and forth as I turned off all the lights with only his little basketball lamp in the corner. I closed my eyes as I leaned back and yawned.

Liam was still awake but was quiet as he was slowly falling asleep. Rocking back and forth I whispered too him, singing him little songs. Once he was groggy enough I stood up from the chair and slipped him into his crib. He pulled his arms towards him before he stretched out.

I pulled his blanket over his body as I yawned. I bent over to kiss his forehead, "Good night buddy,"

Walking out of the room I picked up my heels and went into our bedroom. I slipped of my skinny jeans before replacing them with a pair of baggy sweatpants followed by a long t-shirt. I hopped down the stairs as I reached into the fridge and pulled out a beer. I heard the garage door open and Troy's car pull through as Oreo got up to bark, or as Liam kept trying to call her. Mia, which I did not understand, so Troy kept calling her Mia, poor Oreo was confused.

"Mia! Calm down," Troy said coming in the house, his gym bag slung over his shoulder. I took a strong pull of my beer as I reached for a catalog flipping through the pages when Troy's arms reached around my waist. His fingers playing with the skin around my waist.

"Hey baby girl," he whispered into my ear, I smiled as I picked up my beer offering some to Troy. "Yum," Troy took a drink before he slid onto the counter. I moved to stand in-between his legs. He pushed his two fingers under my chin as he kissed me. "So what is this thing you wanted to talk about that you and Taylor were plotting."

"Oh," I smirked as I messed with the hem of his jeans. "Taylor and I were wondering if we could all go down to San Diego and go to the zoo."

Troy's eyes glowed as the word zoo was mentioned, "I have no objections but we have practice on Tuesday."

"We can leave early Tuesday morning, please Troy!" I begged pulling on his arm, "Liam said he really wanted to go!"

"Did Liam really say that?" Troy asked, I giggled, "No, he did not really say that but please," I begged harder, "I said I have no objections. I love the zoo and I have never been to the San Diego zoo. We could probably bunk with Liam unless you wanted to get a hotel."

"No, Mason is fine." I hugged Troy, "What time should we leave tomorrow morning?" I asked, "By eight," he mentioned, "That would be a reasonable time so we can get there by ten."

I brought Troy into a long kiss. He set down the beer onto the counter as he wrapped his arms around my shoulders, our lips moved in sync as I felt my hips caving in towards the counter. "How long has it been?" Troy breathed as he pulled back to catch his breath. "Seventy two hours or less," I murmured as I tried to go back to his lips.

"Long enough," he slipped down off the counter as he pressed me up against the fridge. My back arched as I pulled him closer to me, his hands supported my butt as he kissed me.

I pulled on his t-shirt as I flung it over his head and it softly landed on the floor. He grinned as he slowly began to remove my shirt only to have some difficulty, "Do you know what time it is?" I asked him, "Eight fifty two, why?" he breath as he pulled on my shirt. "We have one hour so we better make this quick."

"Quick, that is a good two rounds," Troy said smirking, I slapped his shoulder playfully as I sat up from the kitchen floor. "I think we should move this to the couch or to some where more comfortable than the floor." I mentioned Troy smiled lazily as he fumbled with the bottom of my shirt.

"I think we should keep it in the kitchen," my nose crunched up as I shook my head, "Where people may eat?"

Troy leaned down to breath in my ear, "Sure," I giggled and Troy finally pulled my shirt off. His hands rubbed my breasts gently as his kissed both of them. I moaned as his lips were so warm and gently against my body. My arms wrapped around him tightly as I kissed his neck, gently sucking on his skin.

Troy groaned quietly as he ran his fingers through my hair, pulling at it gently. I slipped my fingers under his waist band of his shorts as I rubbed his hip that poked out. His breathing had picked up as he didn't stop trailing kisses down my body. I finally pulled down his shorts to reveal the long Nike underwear he wore playing basketball.

"You know I enjoy the tight black boxers," I murmured, "I had no idea you had such activities planned." My lips and body burned with fire as he pressed his lips against mine. "Are you on birth control?" he said as he tugged at my sweatpants.

"Yea, but I would rather you use a condom." I whispered to him, Troy groaned as he shifted from me. "Then we are taking this party upstairs where I have such a thing." He picked me up as I squealed; he hurried to our room as he dropped me onto the bed, his lips quickly finding mine.

"Can you please take these God damn sweat pants off, I am dying," I begged to him, Troy slipped his fingers underneath as he slowly pulled them down. He pressed his lips between my thighs as he trailed kisses up my bare stomach. His fingers traced patterns on my stomach as he unclipped my bra in a swift move.

"We are both at fair game, who is going to lose the underwear first?" Troy joked, "You," I said as I slipped my fingers around his butt. Troy laughed as he leaned against his elbows bowing down to kiss my lips. His fingers traced my hips before he pulled down my Victoria Secret underwear that said sexy across the butt.

"Those are some bad ass hot underwear," Troy said laughing, "Well; I find this a very unfair game,"

Then came off the boxers.

"mamaaa," Liam grumbled from the back, "I wonder if he knows what that means," I told Troy with a smile, after our playing last night Taylor had called and we talked for about thirty minutes before we carried on for another hour or two.

"I wonder myself." Troy said his hand was laced with mine over the middle of the car console. He kept tracing his finger over my ring as he paid close attention to the road. "So what are you doing tonight?"

"What do you mean what am I doing tonight? I am probably going to snuggle up with my baby boy while watching Elf." I told him with a smile. "How about not, I am taking you out on a date tonight at seven thirty. Just you and I."

"Really and who is going to watch our lovely son?" I asked, "Mason, Chad, and Taylor are all going to be around. We havent had a complete night to ourselves since our honeymoon." Troy said, "What about last night?" I asked him raising my eyebrow. "That does not count. Having sex does not count, I want to take you out to dinner, go do something together and then top it off with sex."

"You are going to have sex in your uncle's house?"

"Wouldn't be the first time," Troy said winking at me; I rolled my eyes as I squeezed his hand. "So where are you going to take me."

"It's a date; do you not remember anything about our dates?"

"That you never told me where in the hell we were going." I said, "Exactly. Why would I change my tactic now?" I laughed and nodded, "Fair enough. What is my style?" I asked, "Comfortable but hot," Troy said giving me a wild look. "Hmm…okay." My eyes connected to see Chad and Taylor's car following ours.

We had left the house at eight thirty five and arrived at Taylors thirty minutes later. We had about an hour and fifteen minutes left before we arrived at the zoo. I had crawled into the back to feed Liam breakfast before coming back up front to talk with Troy.

"So what did Mason say when you called him telling him we were coming down?"

"He is excited; he said he will see us when we get back from the zoo. He has to work most of the day."

"That's good, somebody is working in your family, seems to be that none of you Bolton's work." I teased him, "Do you keep forgetting that you are a Bolton?" he smirked towards me. "I know I am a Bolton who is going back to college in January."

"Oh, did I tell you that I will be home on Liam's birthday?" Troy said giving me a grin, "Good. We were going to be with each other either or not you were here or there."

"I figured you were not going to let me slide with this one." Troy said his fingers smoothed over mine. His rough callused fingers felt soft almost as I so used to them. "So I think last night was some of the most fun we have had in a long time."

"It doesn't feel so…I don't know, forced anymore. Not that any of the other times felt that way but we were finally carefree."

"Maybe because Liam is older, we know he is mostly going to sleep through the night." Troy said as if he knew exactly how it went. "Oh really?" I giggled, "Exactly."

Troy chuckled as the walkie talkie buzzing at the cup holder, it was Chad and Troy's little adventure. They wanted walkie talkies and the whole nine yards. They even talked about camping out tonight as they did when they were younger but Troy seemed to cancel that with our date tonight.

"Hoops, I lost you."

"Chad, you know the way."

"What? I do not!" Chad exclaimed, the walkie talkie buzzed in return as Troy pulled it away. Liam cringed in the back as Troy shook his head. He then proceeded to pick up his cell phone and dialed Chad's number.

"Walkie Talkies were killed for a reason," Troy answered quickly; Chad complained before they carried on conversations about highways and something else that I stopped listening too. I turned to look at Liam as I reached for his head. Liam was now in a rear facing convertible car seat as he had exceeded the twenty pounds in his other one.

"Yes, we can stop for gas, Chad." Troy rolled his eyes as he flickered his blinker on as he merged into the left lane. He quickly took the next exit that showed a gas station. "Yes, we will meet you there."

Troy dropped the phone as Liam whined, "He is probably getting bored. I am going to hang with him for the last leg of the trip." I told Troy. Troy's eyes scanned the rearview mirror as a smile flickered on his lips. "Good, you are too distracting up here."

Pushing him sideways he laughed, "Do not abuse the driver!"

Troy pulled into the gas station as Chad flew in behide him. I popped open my door as Troy went around to Liam's. He bent over to unbuckle his seat belt. I stretched my arms over my head as I let out a long yawn, "I can't not believe we drove to Seattle while I was pregnant. This sucks." I murmured, "You drove a lot of places when you were pregnant."

"I am flying next time up until my third trimester." I grumbled, "Advice," I said shooting Taylor a look, "No joke. I remember those that always sucked."

"And when I hit my third trimester about the only place I went was New Mexico and maybe Seattle fell in there but I am thinking not."

Chad ran inside as he took a fast left only to assume it was the bathroom. "Bahh…" Liam giggled as Troy came over, his Ray bans shaping over his face as I picked up Liam. I bent over as let him dangle from my arms. He giggled again as I brought him back up to kiss his cheek.

"Ask Auntie Taylor if she wants to ride with us? We are going to play in the back arent we?" I said to Liam, Liam stuck his fingers into his mouth as Troy bent over to kiss my temple. "Does he need a diaper change or anything while we are standing here?"

"Probably. I will take him inside and just change his diaper. Tay, you want to come?"

"Sure and if that offer still stands, I would love to come hang with you for the last forty five minutes. Chad is driving me crazy; he wants to play the music louder than I can stand."

"Sorry, I thought I heard you guys jamming out." I teased; Taylor rolled her eyes before we stepped into the cool gas station. Chad had emerged from the bathroom. "Taylor do you want anything to drink?" Chad rounded his arms around her hips driving her closer.

"If you could buy me water but I think I am going to finish the ride out with Gabi and Liam." Taylor murmured, "And leave me all by myself?" Chad's eyes drowned as I pushed open the bathroom door.

Going into the last stall I dropped down the changing table as Liam squirmed in my arms. I laid him gently down as I unbutton his jeans as I then unbuttoned his onsie.

Pulling back the tabs on his diaper, I grinned as he kept his eyes busy as if to avoid my eye contact. Noticing a small rash forming, I wiped it carefully and then added a little cream.

Placing a clean diaper on and rezipped up his clothes I then realized I needed to go to the bathroom. The door opened and shut as I heard the tap of Taylor's flats.

"Tay, can you hold Liam for a moment while I use the restroom?" I asked as I opened the door. "Sure thing." Handing Liam off Taylor gave him a long smile as I shut the door.

Once done, I picked up my bags and then went to wash my hands as Taylor gave Liam back to me. "You are becoming a handful without a car seat to carry around everywhere." I kissed on his cheek as Taylor laughed. The door opened again as another lady stepped through.

"Very cute baby," she said with a smile, "Thank you." I murmured. She gave me another smile before disappearing into the stall. Taylor reappeared after a few minutes, washed her hands and we were both heading out to rejoin Troy and Chad.

I handed Liam back off to Troy who went to snap Liam back into his car seat. "I can not believe you are joining the baby car,"

"How come we are the baby car?" I asked Chad, "Because you have a baby and you can't say certain things."

"Like?" Troy asked raising his eyebrow, "I don't know, I am just going to go back to my car and pump up the music." Taylor snorted before kissing his cheek. "You do that Chad; you go right on ahead and do that."

Chad hugged her waist as I pulled myself right behide the passenger seat. So I could see Troy and be with Liam. I leaned over and tickled his stomach while he giggled. Taylor entered the car as we both buckled up our seat belts.

I tightened Liam's seat belt as I reached for one of his toys. Draping it over his stomach he picked it up and began to suck on it. "So has Troy ever been to the San Diego Zoo?" Taylor asked as he pulled out of the parking lot of the gas station. Leaning forward I grabbed the water Troy had picked up for me along with a bag of chips.

"Nope. I have only been to San Diego twice in my whole life. Once to go visit Mason and another just for a basketball tournament." Troy settled back into his chair as he relaxed into the drive. His hand dropped to pick up his bottle of Gatorade.

"Something new for everybody," Taylor said with a grin, "I am excited! I have heard it is one of the best zoos in the world."

"I don't know Brie, the one is Aussie was really cool."

"Yea, it was cool but I don't plan on visiting Australia any time soon." I said with a smile, "So we might as well find a really good one at home."

"Who knows, we might be going again sooner than your predict." I shot Troy a long look, "No, I loved it there but not until Liam is older and then when Liam is older there will be another baby that I will be probably taking care of."

"She so predicts that there will be another baby very soon," Troy mentioned with an evil look, "I just know that when I mean Liam is older, five or six and between now and then there probably will be another baby. You can not deny that."

"No…I can not." Troy said with a smirk, I rolled my eyes as Taylor laughed at both of us. She rubbed Liam's stomach and then picked up another one of his toys.

"See, this is so much more entertaining then Chad and the dumb ass walkie talkie." Troy snorted, "We both thought that it was a good idea."

"They went out of existence for a reason," I told the both of them; Liam grabbed my finger as he brought it up to his mouth. "Mama" Liam grumbled as he stuck his hand in his mouth again.

"Would you like some food?" His eyes light up and I laughed, I reached over for the bag as I grabbed his favorite yogurt bites as dropped a few into my hands as I carefully fed him.

"Don't you think you should let him sleep so he will be awake at the zoo?" Troy asked, "He wants to eat." I murmured towards the front. Troy flickered his eyes towards the rearview mirror and then back to the road. "Right,"

"He really does!" I protested Liam's eyes squinted as if he was trying to keep up with the conversation. Taylor laughed and then she reached for a yogurt bite from my hand. "What are you two doing?"

"Playing," she said looking up at me with her bright smile. She then turned her attention back to Liam; Troy's eyes caught mine as I smiled before looking back towards Liam myself.

"Liam, check." I finished off the long list of things we made sure we had before I looked up smiling at the other three. "We are completely read to enter the zoo." Troy hopped from one foot to the other, "Finally! I am have been waiting!"

"You act like such a child," I said as I pushed Liam's stroller forward. He had ended up falling asleep in the last thirty minutes leaving Taylor, Troy and I to talk about many different things. Chad had blared at to music as he said he would and when he finally showed up, Liam had woken all on his own.

He sat up in his stroller playing with one of his toys as I found my cheap Target sunglasses placing them over my eyes. "I act like a child because well I do not know why I act like a child." Troy said as he tried to worm his way out of that one.

"You act like one because you are a male," I mentioned, Chad and Troy both looked at me as Taylor laughed. "I think we should just leave them with the baboons. Don't you think they would make a great housekeeper?" Taylor asked winking at me. I giggled as Troy and Chad shook there heads.

"Whose idea was it to bring them?" Troy asked Chad shook his head farther. "I have no idea. I think we should take them home and we can have a manly day with Liam."

"What would those manly activities insist upon?" Troy fished out his wallet from his pocket as Chad did too. "I don't know, drinking beer? Watching a football game?"

"On a Monday?" I asked squinting my eyes; Troy smacked Chad's head, "Nice move bonehead." Chad rolled his eyes as Troy stepped up to the window. "I need two adult tickets and then we have a nine month old,"

"He is free but you the total will be," the lady rang off a price as I watched Chad take the next booth. Taylor came up to me and she leaned against Liam's stroller. "Those two should have been brothers."

"We are brothers," Troy corrected as he handed me my own ticket. I smiled as he bumped my hip lightly before he took over Liam's stroller. He was sucking on a pacifier while trying to pull off his tiny Laker's hat.

"Troy, hang on," I said as we were approaching the ticket takers. "Liam is trying to pull his hat off; did you secure it tight enough?" I asked, "I didn't want to stop blood flow to the head,"

Bending over I adjusted his little hat as he cried, "Hang on buddy, lets get into the zoo and then we can get out?" his eyes found mine as I smiled kissing the top of his head.

Moving forward again I got through the gate as Troy had to go down to the end to get the stroller through. We waited patiently for Troy as I reached for the bottom of the stroller. "Does anybody want water?" I asked reaching in to pick up Pure Life water. "I'm good," Chad and Taylor said together.

"Okay so where do we want to start?"

"Rawr," Troy said as he pointed to a lion. Liam has been in somebody's arms most of the day as they pointed out animals and different things. I was mostly behide the scenes taking the pictures. His face would get so animated and excited looking as if he understood the animal.

"Rarr," Liam tried to repeat but got hung up on the words, "Alright," Troy said trying to give him a high-five but he only fussed. "I think it's about another nap time," Troy said as he set him back down in his stroller. "What we have only seen half of the zoo!" Chad complained, "That just means maybe we can get some lunch."

I put the breaks on the stroller as I went over to the front. Liam did look groggy, tired, and I reached forward to kiss his forehead. He pulled at my hair as I leaned his stroller thing back making sure he was still tightly in his seatbelt. "Troy can you grab me that blanket."

"Brie, does he really need a blanket? It's only sixty five degrees out." Troy said as his blue eyes connected with mine. "It is a cold sixty five degrees." Troy finally nodded as he reached down to grab the blanket.

Pushing back Liam's seat and then placing the blanket over his lower half. I pulled his little umbrella over his head as I stood to look at Troy. "I wish I could fall asleep anywhere." Chad said with a sigh.

Taylor snorted, "You can." Chad shot Taylor a look as I stifled a smile. "Do you guys want to grab chicken strips or something over in the fancy restaurant?"

"I am thinking chicken strips." I said to him, "Only you would say that my love," I shrugged my shoulders, "Always." Troy hugged my shoulders as we walked to the outside eating area full of people. "I think I agree on Gabi with the Chicken Strips," Chad said eyeing a pair of little kids walking by with some.

High fiving with Chad we both raced to be in line. Troy caught up with us as he slipped his hand into mine. "I love you," Troy whispered into my ear. "We are going fancy tonight, that is why I wanted chicken strips, and those were my favorite."

"I know those are your favorite." Troy smirked as he gently pushed Liam's stroller back and forth trying to keep him sound asleep for at least thirty minutes to keep him from getting to grumpy.

Troy walked up to the counter as he ordered two fries, a cheeseburger, and then a basket of chicken strips. Chad basically ordered the same thing as I backed up to find a table. A bird swooped down picking up a stray French fry as I sat down at a nearby table.

Pulling my feet over the edge of the table, I yawned, I glanced in to see Liam sleeping peacefully. His pacifier breathing in and out as he breathed. Troy came back sliding my food right in front of me. "Thank you," I said picking up a French fry pushing it into my mouth.

Troy smirked as he stuffed one into his mouth also. Chad and Taylor joined us as the wind began to pick up, "Troy can you reach my jacket?" I asked, "Sure thing baby girl,"

"Dude, what happens when you really have a baby girl? What will Gabi's nickname then become?" Troy chewed on his fry for a moment and then picked up his cheeseburger. "She will always be baby girl," Troy said winking at me. "I thought it was Brie,"

Troy sent Chad a long glare that was a much forbidden name to be said within Troy's hearing. He had classified it as his name very early. Nobody was to every say the name, ever.

"So I mean that B name,"

"That is also her nickname," Troy said taking a bite out of the burger. Chad rolled his eyes, "So you better think of a great nickname for the first girl and then the next."

"Princess,"

"I thought that was Gabi too…" Chad said pointing it out to him, I glared at him and then Troy laughed. "No, no she is sometimes my princess but I love her too much to call her my princess."

We ate and talked for about another thirty minutes until I glanced in to see Liam was awake rubbing his eyes. A big smile spread of my face as I opened up the little umbrella. His face brightened as I sat him up. Troy smiled and laughed as he sat down his last fry. "Big guy,"

"Rarrr…" he said as he slammed his hand down. Troy threw his head back laughing, I giggled as Chad laughed. "That was cute,"

I picked him up and set him down in my lap. Picking off a small bite of the fry, I gave it too him. He mushed it up in his mouth and I kissed his cheek. "Come on let me see him," Troy said as the breeze picked up again.

Liam squirmed as I handed him to Troy. He gave him a small bite of another fry and he shook his head spitting it out. Taylor laughed, "I love how he took Gabi's but not yours."

Troy sent her a glare as he stood up. I began to throw our trash away and then rubbed my hands together. "You guys ready to hit the rest of the zoo?" I asked, "Let's do it."

Standing up from our spots I began to push the stroller again. Troy and Chad hung back as they pointed different things out to Liam who only lay on Troy's chest.

"Hey, put this over him." Troy rolled his eyes; "Mom's" he scuffed kicking some of the dust in front of him. He readjusted his hands around Liam as the blanket was drifted over him. "I don't know how much longer he is going to last." Troy said as he rubbed Liam's back.

"We can just travel around looking at animals for our own fun." Taylor said, "That's fine by me as long as Liam doesn't get to fussy,"

"I can carry him, he seems very content just relaxing against me."

"Mmm, I think I know two people who like to do that." I stopped in the middle of the road and pushed my foot out to trip Chad. He stopped just in time and laughed. "You are full of wise jokes aren't you?" I asked him, a smirk played at his lips.

"Maybe a little but you guys keep setting them up left and right." I rolled my eyes as I pushed forward. Taylor laughed as Troy was smiling in the back of the group. "I love you all," Troy finally said.

"Troy, go play with the kangaroo." Troy's blue eyes bounced as he went walking over to the wall. The kangaroo was bouncing across the land as he showed Liam who sat up in his arms. Liam held his pacifier against his mouth as he watched it. He pointed his finger at it and Troy nodded tickling his stomach.

"Is that your husband and son?" I turned to see a mid aged lady next to me, "Yea," she smiled and nodded, "That's always a good sign to see. They are really cute together."

"Thank you," I said, she nodded as she walked away with her two children of her own. I watched as no dad was in sight, "Gabi are you ready to move on?"

My head snapped up as I gave Troy a big smile, "Yea, let's go."

"How do I look?" Taylor who was reading a magazine whistled, "Troy is going to tear you apart," she said with a laugh, "Thank you," I giggled myself as I glanced in the mirror. I became very creative with tonight's outfit.

I grabbed a pair of black skinny jeans that I brought on a whim, and then I grabbed one of Troy's long sleeve shirts. It was red plaid shirt that was collard on the top. I rolled the sleeves up past my elbows as the shirt went mid thighs. I had pulled a belt around my waist to make it grow tighter.

I slipped on a plain necklace to grow down with my neckline. The top four buttons were undone to show off my white tank top underneath. "I wish I could look that hot in Chad's clothes."

"Is it that noticeable that it is Troy's shirt?" I asked I bit down on my lip nervously. "I only know because I have seen it on him multiply times but it looks fantastic on you." Still biting my lip I smiled. "Thanks,"

I reached for my purse as I slipped it over my shoulder. Slipping my feet into my Toms I went over to pick up a bracelet. Taylor stood up and waited for me me as I ran by his little schedule. "Gabs, I know his schedule. I promise." Taylor said as we escaped the room. I sighed, "It's just another night I am leaving my baby."

"You two are like peas in a pod right now, just waiting until he is sixteen." I rolled my eyes, "He won't even talk to me then probably."

"Nope, probably not." I shot her a look as my Toms clapped against the floor. Troy was sitting on the couch with Liam on his lap. He was in a pair of dark wash jeans that showed a little distress. He had on a grey American Eagle shirt on, with cursive red lettering on the front.

His feet were covered with a simple pair of Nike tennis shoes. "You ready?" I asked him, his eyes snapped up towards mine as his eyes took in every inch of my body. Troy's mouth dropped a little before he stood up. Walking over to me he handed Liam over to Taylor.

"Wow." I smirked as I twirled around for him, "Do you like my new creation?"

"Very much so? Hey, is that my shirt?" I giggled and nodded, "It is very much so your shirt." Troy let a lazy grin cross his face, "I would have never known."

"Good. Are you ready to get out of here though?"

"After I say goodbye to my baby boy," turning to look for Taylor she was already playing with Liam. I went over and kissed the back of his head. "Call me if something goes wrong," Troy agreed, "Yes, call. Do not be afraid to call!" Taylor rolled her eyes, "Whatever."

Troy enlaced our hands together as he picked up his car keys, "We will be back a little later."

"Yes, we will not disturb you." Chad joked, Troy swatted him with his hand but Chad ducked underneath and laughed. Troy let go of my hand and tackled him as if he was twelve again. They wrestled on the ground for a moment as they both came up laughing.

"We have not done that in a long time."

"Remember that one time in the hotel room?" Troy let out a long laugh before he smiled, "I better get going. We have reservations,"

"We will tell Mason you said hi," Chad said waving, Troy ran his fingers through his hair while his eyes scanned over mine. "So do you really want to know where we are going?"

"You won't tell me even if I said yes," I said leaning into his arm. "You are right about that, I am not telling you what we are doing after our dinner but I will give you a hint about where we are going."

"Really?" Troy smirked and nodded, "Oh yea, I would but that would be no fun." I pushed him sideways as he opened the car door for me. "You didn't think it would be that easy right?"

"Right…" Troy smirked as he bent over in the car and pressed his lips lightly against mine. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Troy smirked before raising his head up like a teenager again, "Just you wait…" he mumbled, his lips forming a perfect smile. He shut my door with a tight lock before he walked around to the other side.

We drove in the car for about twenty minutes when he pulled up to a little pizza shack. "Pizza?" Troy shrugged his shoulders, "We came here as a team one time after a long day of basketball. It was really good if I remember right."

"And you had reservations?"

Troy bellowed a laugh as he shook his head, "No, I did not have reservations. That was just more to throw you off." He said as we met at the front of the car. Troy grabbed my hand as we walked inside. It looked like a little kid fun house.

Picnic tables were set up all around as cloth was set over the top. I could see a room off to the back that held video games with more picnic tables. Up to the left was a bunch of booths and then a salad bar just below. "Hi! Welcome to O'Fun Pizza! Booth or Picnic?"

"Booth," Troy said, I leaned up against him as we walked towards the table. The booth area was much nicer than the whole picnic. More adults were sitting up here while all the little kids were running around. A football team was celebrating something in the back, a high school football team.

My gaze drifted to them as Troy kicked my leg as I looked back at him. "Hm?" he laughed, "Am I already old news for you?" I shook my head, "Nope, I really enjoy my basketball boys."

Troy grabbed my hand from across the table, "I think we should get whatever they bring us." Troy mentioned, "I think I want a Barbeque Chicken Pizza,"

"Yum sounds really good. Do you want salad?" I peered over towards the salad bar and shook my head, "Nah."

"That's my Brie," he cocked his head to the side as I reached across to kiss him. He met me half way as I rested my elbows on the table. Troy kissed me again and he kept doing it over and over again.

I giggled as our waitress came over, Troy pulled back ordering himself a beer and then he looked at me. "Yea, a beer sounds fantastic."

"Then we want this pizza," Troy said pointing to the one on the menu we had both chosen. She nodded as she walked away going to grab our two beers.

"Do you think that is really him?" I turned my head a little to see two guys who appeared to be one date with two girls who were talking in the corner. "I don't know, he lives all the way up in LA plus doesn't he have son?"

"That doesn't mean it isn't him, doesn't that look like his wife?"

"He got married?" one of the girls screeched, Troy bit down on his lip as he must be hearing this too. I tried not to laugh myself as they kept talking about us. Finally one of the guys got up, walked by, looked at Troy and then walked into the bathroom. Troy started to laugh as he put his head down.

"Troy," I said quietly, he laughed again as the waiter set down our two beers. "Thank you," Troy said looking up at her, she smiled before walking back. Once the guy came over back to his table he stopped, "Are you Troy Bolton?"

Troy laughed and nodded, "Yea, I am Troy Bolton." The whole table behide us blushed a deep red. "Well it was uh, nice to uh, meet you."

Troy stifled another laugh as he reached over for a pen and a napkin; he scribbled his name down before handing him the napkin. "Dude, you are cracking me up. Just take this and be good to your dates."

The kids face broke out into a large grin as he went sliding back into his booth showing off the little piece of paper. "That was so sweet of you."

"He was seriously making me laugh."

I peeled at my beer bottle label as I looked up at him. He tipped his beer back as he tilted his head backwards. "God, that is a little too refreshing."

"It's been what? Twenty four hours with out a beer?"

"Ha ha funny," I grinned and he nodded, a slick smile appearing over his lips. Twenty minutes later they slide the pizza across from us as Troy quickly dived into the pizza as he took a quick bite.

"Mm…it still is really good." I slide a piece off as the waitress came over and gave us each other beer.

I cut a piece off with my teeth as I chewed it slowly. Troy was right, this was really good. "So do you know what Liam did the other day?"

"What?" Troy asked, "He stood up in his crib and tried to climb,"

"That means we need to lower his crib," Troy said, "I know," I sighed and then I shook my head, "This is crazy, I can not believe how big he is getting."

"I feel like you just had him and we were scared to death."

"Now I am scared to death of losing him or hurting him," I mumbled, Troy reached across grabbing my hand. "You are the best mother Gabs, you have to understand that. You are never going to lose him or hurt him on purpose."

"I would never do anything on purpose Troy, it's just always that little fact that what if something happened to him?"

"You are a very worried person lately," Troy said giving me his grin, "It's the mother coming out of me."

"I know that part of you too well now a day but it's getting close to eight thirty and we still have the second part of our date to go." Troy said laying down a fifty on the table. He slid out as he grabbed my hand. We walked out hand in hand as he unlocked the car door.

"Not even a clue?"

"Nope."

"Hole in one for Troy Bolton, Hole in five for Gabriella Bolton," Troy said as he wrote down the thing on the score card. "Ha, no, just because you hit the little hole and mine came bouncing back," I said flipping my hand back towards him.

Troy had brought me Mini Golfing and we hadn't gone mini golfing in years together. "What? Don't blame that on me!" Troy said laughing; I rolled my eyes as I walked to the next hole. I set down my bright pink golf ball as I lined up my shot. Troy stood close behide as I could feel his body heat.

"Would you like to take like five giant steps backwards," I breathed, Troy laughed, "Is this bugging you?"

"Maybe a little," I itched to move as he was making me crack under pressure. "Troy," I whined, he laughed again before he backed up. I studied the ball for another moment before I struck it with my club. It sailed up and over the little hill and smoothed right over the hole only to pass it.

Troy let out a long sigh, "Awh man, so close." I poked him with my golf club as I walked down towards my ball. Troy set up his ball while I stood patiently on the wall waiting for him to finish.

He stroked the ball with such force it flew over the rock. I busted out into laughter as he jumped down, chasing down the ball that had escaped his grasp. I finished off my putt as I waited for Troy. He came tumbling back of the bushes as he fell to the ground. My eyes widened as I began to laugh. He groaned as he rolled on the course. People turned around as mostly teenagers were out.

I gripped the stairwell next to me as I began to laugh harder. Troy began to sit up when he wiped blood off of his shin. "Dumb palm tree," I laughed some more as I bent over. "It was not that funny."

"That was funnier than you think," I said, Troy blushed as he skipped over the hole. "That is a five."

"No it isn't!"

"You just quit the hole!" Troy shook his head while I gripped my hand into his, "Yea, it is."

"You do remember you are bleeding right?" Troy shrugged his shoulders, "It's only a little blood from the dumbass palm tree." I giggled as I rested my head on his chest. "Come on, the next hole has a windmill!"

Troy pulled me along the path as I laughed, "You are so excited for a pin wheel!"

"Do you know the last time I actually played mini golf with a pinwheel?"

"I don't think I ever have," I told Troy, "Exactly, nobody has so it's so cool to actually do it." I shook my head laughing, "Whatever you say Mr. Bolton,"

"It's Bolton to you," he said, I laughed again, "Alrighty then." Troy grinned as he let me go on the next hole. I slid it straight into the hole this time, not letting it bounce around. Troy groaned, "I need five hole in ones to catch up to you."

"No you don't,"

"Then how many do I need?" I grabbed the score card from him as I scanned over the numbers. I then frowned, "You are beating me by two strokes."

Troy laughed out loud, "Awh. I love you Brie," I rolled my eyes, "Sure, whatever." Troy wrapped me up in a hug as he teed off. "I think we should both go golfing one day."

"Like big people golf?" I asked, "That always looks so boring," I said scrunching up my nose. "It really isn't. It is very relaxing."

"Sure…"

"Maybe it should stick to a father/son thing."

"Good idea." Troy and I moved along swiftly through the rest of the course, bantering every now and then. Once we finished hole eighteen and the ball disappeared down into the hole, I smiled slipping my fingers through Troy's. He then pulled out a ten from his pocket pointing at an ice cream shop just across the street. I grinned as we both took off running across the street.

We laughed as we hit the curb; Troy slipped his arms around my waist as we walked up to the menu. "What do you want?" he asked as we both scanned the menu. The ice cream stand was all outside, nobody could go inside.

"I just want some vanilla ice cream with Oreos mixed in." Troy nodded as he released my hand, "Go find somewhere to sit."

Nodding I slipped my hair behide my ear as it was almost passed eleven. Twisting my hair around my finger, I sat down on the edge of the curb surrounding the parking lot. I yawned as I ruffled my hand through my hair. Troy came back five minutes later with a cup of ice cream and a cone.

"Thanks," I said retrieving it from his hand, "You are welcome," Troy sat down beside me, an oof coming from his mouth as he planted his butt firmly against the ground. I leaned against his shoulder as I dipped the spoon into the ice cream. "This has been a wonderful night."

"Carefree."

"I can not wait for Liam to be able to enjoy little things like this." Troy licked his ice cream as he nodded, "Yet, I enjoy this little time away to just be with you." Troy's eyes glanced into mine as I smiled taking another bite. "We can always still do this Troy; we will always be able to do this."

"I know it's just the more time I spend away from Liam, the worse I feel about being a bad dad."

"You will never be a bad dad."

"October basically through May,"

"He will always be in school during those months."

"And playing sports."

"Troy, would you please relax. It's not like you will never be here. Eighty two games a season, it's not that big of a deal for you to miss something. I am pretty sure Liam will understand as long as you come to some of his games."

"Trust me; I will never miss them for the world." We were both quiet as we ate our ice cream; I watched the lights in ice cream flicker before it finally went out. Troy and I were left in complete dark. "Well that is fantastic." I smiled as I yawned. "I should probably be getting us home if we want to continue our lovely activities."

"Do you want too?" I asked him as he helped me stand. I still held my ice cream firmly in my hand. Troy bit into his cone, "Only if you want to."

"We will see."

"Suspense," Troy commented smirking, I laughed as I wrapped one of my hands around his bicep. My head leaning into his shoulder, "I have to say, this has been one of my favorite dates."

"It has been a lot of fun."

Troy kissed the top of my head as we made it back to our car safely. Troy opened the passenger side door as he bent over to kiss my lips. He eased me into the backseat as our kiss deepened. I carefully placed my ice cream in the cup holder as the kiss went further.

"I think we should continue this,"

"I think maybe,"

"Really?" Troy groaned I nodded as I wrapped my arms around his neck. "Really, why ruin a perfect date with sex?"

"Does sex ruin things?"

"No…but why ruin the memories that we have made tonight. They will only be clouded with sex."

"True, I think simply lying together will be good enough for me."

"I agree."

Feeling the simple hum of the engine I stretched and opened my eyes blinking back the sun filtering in my eyes. "How long have we been in the car?"

"About thirty minutes, you never flinched when I moved you from the bed to the car. You were passed out." Troy said giving me a sideways glance. "God," I stretched my arms out as I winced, "We will be stopping to grab some food in a little bit. Liam kept making noises and crying out but I think he fell asleep again."

Sitting up a little straighter in my seat, I turned back to see sure enough Liam was fast asleep. My head began to pound as I rubbed my forehead with my fingers. "You okay?"

"I just have a pounding headache." I whispered trying to massage it out of my head. Troy reached over to grab my hand as I grabbed my sunglasses. I slipped them over my face blocking out the bright sun. "I can not believe I did not wake up when you put me into the car."

"I thought you would too but you were out. Chad wasn't being quiet and Taylor kept wondering if you were dead." I giggled as I winced from the pounding headache. "I think there is some Advil in my bag," Troy mentioned letting his head wonder to the backpack sitting next to Liam.

"Yea, I think it may be needed."

Troy texted somebody before he pulled off the highway. He swung the car into the parking lot of a McDonalds. "Do you think this will be fine?"

"Perfect."

Troy pushed open his car door as I found my flip-flops sitting by my feet. I heard Troy unbuckling Liam as I pushed off my blanket. I rubbed my eyes as I opened my own car door to see Chad and Taylor pulling up next to us. I smiled as Taylor grinned, "I thought you were dead!"

"More like dead to the world!"

Taylor and Chad laughed as I was a little unstable on my legs. I then heard Liam's cry, Troy tried to sooth him as I walked around. Liam was laying his head on Troy's shoulder while Troy rubbed his back. "Hey baby boy," he cried again as I held my arms out for him. Troy handed him over as Liam held onto his shirt.

"Go see mommy," Troy said prying his fingers off. I kissed his temple as he finally let go of Troy. Once he settled into me, Troy grabbed the backpack before we all walked into the McDonalds. "Last time we were on the road at a McDonalds, I threw up from morning sickness."

"Ew." Chad said shaking his head, Taylor looped her arm threw Chad as she was wearing my Pink sweatpants I had loan her once. I was still in the tshirt and shorts I wore last night to bed.

Taylor and I found a table as I pulled up one of those little high chairs placing Liam in. I buckled him in as I found his food to feed him. Once I began to feed him he became a very happy baby.

Troy and Chad came back with the food, giving me my sausage burrito I ordered with an orange drink. I punched my straw through the top as I took a nice long sip. "Yum." Troy gave me a few things of Advil as I swallowed them easily.

"Thank you,"

He nodded as he began to much down on his egg McMuffin. We all ate almost in silence, gulping down food until Liam made a noise indicating he would like some more food. Troy wiped his face and hands off with a napkin before picking him back up. He sat him down into his lap placing little things of bread into his mouth.

Liam chewed on them as he made a face before he giggled. Troy laughed as did Chad, "He is so cute."

"He looks a lot like Troy," Taylor said glancing at the two of him. "Except he has Gabi's skin tone and her color of hair."

"I am just glad it styles like Troy's."

Troy and Liam were both a grinning fool as we shook our heads. "So how was your guys date last night?" Troy and I locked eyes as we both let a grin slip onto our faces.

"I am going to take that as a very good sign." Troy nodded as he grabbed my burrito taking a bite out of it. "Yea, you should."

What a fun chapter to write, no joke! This has been one of my favorites to write! Okay, so I know this story is going a little fast now compared to earlier but you have to know, I am so excited for the next story, I just want it to be done! Also…I want you to know I did NOT reread this to catch all of my mistakes. I know I make mistakes and I am DEEPLY sorry for that. Since some of you are freaks who catch everything, I on the other hand do not.

Also, I hope you all have a good weekend! Go see The Lucky One! I have seen it twice already!

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