Chapter 44 – Work and Play

"Have a great weekend everybody, for those of you starting at the nursing program next week, please come up to talk to me." My professor, Dr. Keller, was standing at the front. I yawned as I let my fingers run through my hair, the craziness of it flowing over the sides.

It was mid-January, Friday the 20th. Liam was almost eleven months old, walking like crazy, talking what words he knew and was eating a lot more people food with some bottles.

I glanced at my watch as it was Friday and Liam was at a daycare down the street from my school. Troy and I had found the perfect one for him since most of the adults were above thirty and were all very caring to children. He could make new friends around his age.

Of course Liam would only go if Troy wasn't home, which he would be coming back home tonight after there game in Washington. "Awh, yes, my favorite three students," I turned to see Ali and Miranda were both standing with me. Ali was a year younger than I was and Miranda was my age.

I felt a blush creep onto my cheek as Dr. Keller was looking at me before looking at the other two. "So next week, you will only have classes two days a week, then the other two days you will be at UCLA hospital. You will shadow and help with whatever is needed."

I licked my lips as my phone vibrated loosely in my pocket. I creped my hand down as I saw it was Liam's daycare. The first time I dropped him off he screamed and cried, not wanting to go but I held him for a moment before I showed him some toys to play with then quietly snuck out.

"Dr. Keller, my son's daycare is calling me. Can I take a fast break to answer this call?" he nodded as I backed away to answer it. "Hello?"

"Gabi, this is Tami," I let out a long sigh, "Yes, Tami,"

"Liam is becoming cranky and upset, we know you are done with class but he keeps rubbing his eyes. I didn't know if you just wanted us to wait to put him down for a nap or try to keep him up."

"You can go ahead and put him down for one. I have to do something before I leave UCLA, so if you could just put him down and if he is asleep, it will be fine."

I rolled my eyes as any normal person would have just put him down for a nap. They liked to call about a lot the first few weeks so I had the calls directed to Troy unless he had a game and I glanced down at my watch to see he did indeed was playing in about an hour and half.

"Thank you," she said before hanging up. I dropped my phone into my bag as I walked back over to see the other two girls leaving. I smiled and waved as we had talked twice before since we had to do a project together. "Gabi," I looked at up him as his brown eyes flickered over to the door then back to me.

"Yea, sorry about that, they just needed to know something." I said crossing my arms over my chest lightly, "That's fine. How old is your son?"

"Eleven months old or close to eleven months old," I said as I rolled my head around, "And your husband is Troy Bolton?" I nodded my head, "Yes…"

"Well that's cool; I didn't know you were married until I saw the ring on your finger." I raised my eyebrows as I clear my throat, "is there anything that you need to tell me about next week?"

"You are working from 5am to 5pm." I felt my head spin as that was very early, I guess Liam was trying to train me in the right direction. "That is just next week of course but your hours will probably change once or twice and as you need them." I nodded as I then thought about when Troy wasn't here, how would Liam get to daycare?

"Well the only thing is when my husband is on the road, I have to get Liam to daycare and it doesn't open until six thirty."

"Well when that moment comes I guess you can work that out." I tried my hardest not the clench my jaw but I only nodded walking away. "Thank you, I will see you Monday."

Starting Monday I had four different classes on Monday and three on Tuesday. That was going to be a lot and the spread out schedule was already becoming a tough one to handle.

I leaned forward as I grabbed my keys out of my backpack. I walked out of the campus for Dani to stop me. "Hey, Gabi," I turned and I gave her a smile. "Hey Danielle,"

"Hi, so I have to ask you a quick question on the homework from yesterday," I opened my car door as I tossed my backpack over to the other seat before my phone light up again, this time Troy was calling me. What was he doing calling me?

"Dani, one second." I said bending in to grab my phone. "Hey,"

"The daycare called me again; I was doing a shoot around and didn't get the call. Did they get ahold of you?"

"Yup. It was dumb; I am getting ready to go pick him up anyways."

"Oh, well I gotta go."

"Bye, love ya,"

"Love you."

The call ended faster than I could take five deep breaths. That was our life the past three weeks. He had been home a lot more but our talking had been more of a can you distract Liam long enough for me to get this homework done? The other favorite was can you watch Liam so I can take a nap.

I see now why they say to have a kid after college. Dropping my phone into the car I helped Dani with the problem she was stuck on, "How do you do this with a child and a husband? My boyfriend is complaining because he hasn't gotten laid in three weeks."

I smiled as she put the rest of her stuff away. "It's a lot tougher when Troy isn't home. Like I have no idea how I am going to do all of this homework, watch my son, and sleep in-between all of that."

Dani smiled as she then back off, "You are two years older than me and so much smarter," she hung her blonde hair as I gave her a small laugh. "My husband makes fun of it."

"Well…he is really cute so you probably don't mind…" I thought about it as I didn't care. I love when Troy teases me, "True." I answered for her. She waved bye as I ducked my head into the car. I started my car as I backed out swiftly as I pulled it around and drove the three and half miles to Liam's daycare.

I had seen a lot less of Liam in the past few days but he was still my little guy who would walk all over me. I pulled into his daycare as I picked up my purse. Walking up to the door, my fingers grasped the handle as I pulled it open. Walking into the heated daycare as it was a chilly fifty degrees today.

Being greeted by a staff worker made me smile as I walked over to Liam's area for Felicity to look at me, "Oh, Gabi! Liam just went down for a nap."

"I know I am here to take him home." I said as I fixed my hair, she nodded as she led me back to a different room where about five different cribs lay. "I will go grab the rest of his stuff."

I yawned at the dark room as he was in the primetime for his naptime. He would probably sleep the whole way home and then maybe another thirty minutes.

Bending over to pick him up, he began to fuss as I smoothed my hand over his head. He cried quietly as I kissed the side of his head gently. "It's just me." I promised him gently.

His fingers wrapped around my shirt as I kissed his temple once more. I held on to him gently as I met Felicity half way out of the room. "Here is his diaper bag. He didn't eat much this morning so he is probably hungry. Last diaper change was before his nap and that is about it."

"Thank you," I said as she put a sheet into the diaper bag. She nodded as I signed him out before walking out to the car. I put his diaper bag down as I slide him into his car seat. He let out a cranky cry before I found his pacifier that he only used for naptime anymore and placed it into his mouth.

He sucked on it for a moment as I buckled him kissing his forehead. "Mommy is going to stop for some dinner,"

Not getting out of class until four thirty sometimes sucked since I started at nine, with two different classes. I started the engine as I yawned before speeding onto the highway. Blinking a few times I watched the exit for any food ideas that would spark my interest.

I then decided that I would go to Zekes. Shuffling lanes until I came to the exit, I would just slide Liam into his stroller for him to sleep. Clicking my blinker on I turned into Zekes packed parking lot. It was rarely ever empty. People had raved about this place. Lakers showed up all the time, celebs had been seen here, it's just been a great business.

Parking in the back area, I stopped the car as I got Liam out of his car seat to transfer him into the stroller. This time he didn't stir once as I let my purse fall onto the top of it and then pushed it inside. "Gabi, nice to see you here again with all of us." The doorman said, "Thank you," I smiled.

I moved towards the hostess desk to see Sharpay and Taylor were both sitting at a booth down the row. "Gabi!" Taylor spotted me as I waved, Amber, the hostess just smiled as I moved down to go sit with them. "Little guy sleeping?" Sharpay asked as I pushed his stroller up to the other side of the table.

"Mhm." I said as I slide into the booth next to them as Bentley was up and moving around. "It's his two month old birthday today!" Sharpay said as she propped him up on her lap. "God, has it already been two months?" I asked her with a surprised look. "Yup, I can not believe Liam will be eleven months in a week."

"Don't remind me. He is getting so big."

"How were classes?" Taylor asked, I groaned as I peeked in on Liam. "Long, tiring, and they still give out a shit load of homework."

Taylor laughed as she took a careful drink of water. "Hey, look who joined the party!" Zeke said coming over, he peered over at Bentley as Sharpay gave Bentley to Zeke. "Hey, thanks."

Zeke held Bentley as I watched Liam fuss around in his stroller before he began to cry. Tears actually formed in his eyes as I tried to unfasten his seatbelt. "Somebody isn't happy," Zeke pointed out. "Thanks," I said looking at him. Once I got Liam out I rested him on my chest as he began to cry more.

"Zeke, can you put an express order of Mac and Cheese for me please?"

"Sure thing," I searched the diaper bag before I found some crackers for Liam to snack on. He rubbed his eyes as the tears stopped as I handed him an animal cracker. "He is going to be a toddler." Taylor spoke leaning across the table. "I know Troy can not believe it either."

Zeke came over with Bentley still in his arms as he gave me a small cup of the Mac and Cheese. "I assumed it was for Liam," I nodded my head, "Did you guys already eat?"

"No, we are still waiting on the very slow kitchen." Sharpay said glancing at Zeke. Zeke shook his head as he gave Bentley back to her. "We are busy and I assume you wanted the usual, Gabs, so I put it in while I was back there."

"Yup. Thanks," Zeke walked away to go talk to another couple of people. I smiled as Sharpay watched him. "I think we decided to get married this summer, like June 30th."

"That's fantastic! I am so happy for you guys,"

"Since you have a little one, I am going to have Kelsi be my maid of honor, that way we can all be one."

"Is Ryan ever going to get down on one knee and propose to her?"

"I have no idea, they like where they are at. Plus Ryan got some big Broadway thing for this summer so maybe not until after that, we have kind of lost each other since the end of high school. We are still close but he just has his life in New York."

"Yea, Kyle and I lost a relationship with each other but its still there. Just not a strong as when we were kids, then he moved in with his dad for a while so I never saw him until last year.

"Yea, that was strange."

Taylor agreed I nodded as I took a drink of the water in front of me. "No beer?" I asked Taylor, "Nope. Trying to get pregnant remember?"

I nodded as I took a deep breath; Liam ate at some of the mac and cheese as he was feeding himself. I pressed my lips to the top of my head, "I am pretty sure I drank while getting pregeant."

Taylor snorted as she nodded her head. "Yea, I think I did last time too."

A server came out as he laid down all of our meals, refilling all of the waters. "Thank you."

I closed the book firmly as Liam played with his blanket in my lap. I rocked him back and forth as I stood up, he cried as I put him down into his crib. He whined as I pulled the blanket over him. "Go to bed," I whispered to him. He then turned his head. I kissed his head before I left.

Walking down to the living room, I turned off some lights before I grabbed my back pack and went down over to the office. Flickering on the lights, I pulled out my homework as I took a drink of the ice water. Sitting down into the chair, I scratched at my eyes as I knew that my contacts needed to come out.

Finally getting up, I moved towards the bathroom on the floor as I took them out putting them back into the case, then I slipped my glasses on. Troy had played, they had lost there fourth one in a row as they were getting ready to fly home. It was only going to be an hour or so flight.

Going back down to the floor, I sighed as I saw the IOU kitty note. We hadn't had a chance to even do that yet which was bugging me. I wanted to get them but then Jack called Troy saying they were having a student/faculty game at East High on Troy's off weekend in February.

Jack had also mentioned that it would be close to Liam's birthday so they could just celebrate that while we were down. I agreed but Troy had been deciding that he wanted to drive down, which I did not think was the bravest idea in the world. We had talked about it back and forth and decided that if we left after my last shift at the hospital on Thursday, then we can leave after Liam eats dinner.

Troy said he could sleep most of the day Thursday and drive all night. I thought it was probably the best plan since Liam probably wouldn't be as fussy or crabby. They had a four day break, going back that following Monday. The trip back would probably be worst than the trip there since we will leave Sunday morning.

Beginning on the mountain of homework, I flipped through the pages as I began to chew on my lip. I was good at school. It came easy to me and I could make a lot of mental notes in my head without writing them down but half of my brain was busy with Liam now.

Glancing over the notes I did take, I began to fill out the homework as I went on a roll. Not stopping was always perfect for me as I wanted to spend my weekend with Liam and only Liam, okay, maybe Troy since he would be home but little guy and I had some serious catching up to do.

Glancing at the time, I saw it was almost past midnight. My eyes looked at the baby monitor as Liam was sleeping peacefully in his crib. I smiled before returning to my homework.

Then I hit a snag as I felt stumped. Typing out the words in front of me, I rubbed my eyes as I pushed my glasses up some more as I turned on Pandora to let some music drift through the house. Reading over the questions to answer, I read over my notes before I finally pulled up Google.

Groaning as everything was more complex; I leaned back in my chair as I let out a long sigh. "What are you still doing up?" I jumped almost out of the chair as I felt my heart race. "Jesus," I murmured as I took deep breath. "Do not scare me like that."

Troy smiled as he held a bag over his shoulder as he began to undo his tie. Troy will never strike me as a tie guy; he seemed so simple with his tshirt and shorts. "I am trying to finish all of this homework, I am almost done but with this one thing."

"Well it's almost two in the morning and we have a little guy upstairs, who I assume," He reached forward to show the picture of Liam sleeping. "Is sleeping will want to get up tomorrow morning."

"Probably." Troy smirked as he sat at the edge of my knees. He reached forward to bring me into a kiss. "You are in a happy mood for a loss."

"Yea, it was more than a loss. We dropped down into the third ranked team in our division."

"Troy it is January. The world isn't dying yet; we still have a long way to go."

"Our team isn't falling apart but it's just not the same."

"Why?"

"Coach left us,"

"He didn't leave you." I reminded him. "Fine, whatever you want to call it, but it's just different."

"You and Chad were tearing up the court tonight." Troy smirked as he leaned in to kiss me, "Were we?" I smiled as I kissed him again. Our tattoos had been spotted as they made ESPN since it was Troy's first and he laughed about saying they thought he was going to be the white boy with no tattoos for all of NBA.

I laughed again as I thought about it. "So I guess people were calling the house asking about the tattoos?"

"Did you answer?" Troy asked me, "Nope. Well, one, but after that I stopped. I didn't know they one had our phone number and two they cared about one tattoo."

"You proclaimed you love to me." Troy joked as he pressed his lips to my ear. I sighed as I then looked at the homework. "Come on hot stuff, let's go to bed." Troy said pulling me up, "Yea, yea,"

Troy smiled as we walked up the stairs, "I love you," he said pressing me against his body. "I love you too."

"Liam," I said laughing; he crawled over my back and sat down on all of papers I was working on. I had him lying on the floor as I did my homework. Of course he was more active than just laying there but he was every where, leaving me to get nothing done. I smiled as he looked at me. "He says no more mommy," Troy said sitting down on the couch.

"I see that." I smirked as I leaned forward to start giving him kisses, he began to laugh as I rolled over onto my back, picking him up to put him on my stomach.

He grinned as I sat up, "What are you cooking?" I asked Troy as I smelled food from the kitchen. "Tacos, I thought I could make something for dinner since you are busy doing more homework."

"Thanks," I said, I cuddled Liam to my chest as he leaned down to kiss my cheek. "Awh," I said, he blushed as he turned to look at Troy. Troy laughed as he held out his hands, Liam scrambled up as he went right into Troy's arms.

I had finished my homework on Saturday but after a day full of classes on Monday, I was doing more again. I had four classes worth of homework to be doing. Liam stood on Troy's lap as Troy looked over at me. "So I need to tell my dad if I will play with them on that weekend."

"Yea, its fine, go ahead and do it. Driving down is fine if you insist."

"Well we have been flying a lot lately and I don't know I want to take a road trip for a family vacation. Just you, me, and Liam. Nobody else."

"To where?"

"To some place we have never been. I kind of kept thinking about South or North Dakota but we can work that out later this year. Let's get past this one weekend."

"You do know that is a long ass drive with a one year old?"

"Well then lets see how twelve hours go, it will be our test." I sighed before nodding, "I don't care, do whatever you want Troy." His eyes rose as I focused my eyes on the homework below me. Troy cleared his throat before he got up with Liam. "Dinner is done by the way."

I sighed before getting up; I went to wash my hands before grabbing a plate. Troy got Liam into his high chair and brought him a plate of food to eat while I began to make my own tacos.

Troy then came over sliding his arms around my waist, "I miss you." His lips pressed softly against my neck as I sighed, "I know."

Troy had an afternoon game today at Laker stadium, being almost seven, I was exhausted and so was he. "I think we should put Liam down a little early tonight." Troy's fingers gazed my hip as his warm breath hit my neck. "I need to finish this homework, give Liam a bath so I can spend some time with him, and then do some more homework followed by sleeping."

"Brie, you can really take a small break. You were not this intense during college. Hell, I got a lot more sex out of you then than I can now." I glared at Troy, "That wasn't supposed to sound like that."

"Troy, we have a son now. I barely got to see him today since he fell asleep when we got home. I want to spend some time with him, I am his mom and you got to spend all day yesterday with him."

Troy pursed his lips together as he finally shook his head, "Okay," we ate dinner together talking about all kinds of things and then he walked over to the fridge pulling out a beer before his eyes landed on Liam. "What do you want to do for his first birthday? My mom is planning a big party for him down there but what do you want to do?"

"Be with him."

Troy nodded his head, "I understand that but what else?"

"I don't know, where can we take him that he actually do something."

I shrugged my shoulders, "I don't know how about we come to it when we come to it. I just want to go to bed but I have so much more to do." I said to him as I went to put my stuff in the dish washer. Troy sat at the table nursing the beer as he began to pick at the label.

"Brie, you I love you but you have a week to do all of this homework."

"The sooner it gets done, the better." I told him after I let a yawn go. "I am not going to let you keep doing this, why don't you just push this rest of this homework until tomorrow and spend the rest of the night playing with Liam. Take him to daycare on Wednesday and get some homework done if you have too."

Troy looked at me as I sighed, "That's a great idea but,"

"No buts Brie," Troy stood up as he walked over to me, his eyes leveling with mine. "Liam enjoys daycare. He is playing with other people and having fun."

I chewed on my lip, "Many kids go to daycare while there parents work. You are going to school, I am working. You have the right to take him to daycare for you to finish homework." Troy put his finger under my chin as his eyes connected with mine. "As your husband, I can see you are burning yourself out."

"Fine." I whispered, Troy grinned as he leaned forward to kiss me. "How about you bathe Liam early and then we can all watch a movie together down here." I let a smile play on my lips as I nodded, "Fine. He took a late nap anyways. He wanted to watch dada play," I teased Troy.

Troy leaned across the counter as he pressed his lips against mine. His lips were firm and soft, "What do you want to watch us tonight?"

"What would Liam love?"

"I think we should introduce him to Toy Story." Troy said with a small smile, "Oh! What about UP? It has balloons and bright colors." Troy nodded, "That sounds fine. I think we should have a movie night every few weeks."

"Sounds like a fantastic idea, I am going to bathe Liam while you clean up dinner."

Troy nodded his head as I went over to pick up Liam who was finishing what he was eating. He grumbled as he picked up another piece of meat and put it into his mouth.

Going up the stairs, I started bath water as I found some of his favorite toys to play with and his soap. I began to undress him as he stood up with the help of the toilet. Taking off his clean diaper, I stuck him into the barley half way full tub. I sat on the floor as I reached forward to blow small bubbles on him.

He smiled as he splashed around with his rubber ducky. "You are too cute,"

Liam babbled as he showed me his duck. "Duk," he said with a smile, I clapped my hands together, "Duck!" I said to him, "Duk!" he repeated back to me. I got up onto my knees as he pressed his fingers onto my face as I smiled. "And that will be a fantastic picture," Troy said as he put his phone away.

I turned to smile as I grabbed Liam's stuff for his bath. "I am serious, that was a great picture." Troy pulled it up on his phone as I glanced at it. My hair was falling out of place as I leaned against the tub; Liam's tiny fingers were touching my face gently as he was looking in my eyes.

"Send that to me…please."

"I will," Liam and I finished his bath as I put him into his towel, taking him to his nursery. I changed him into a white PJ's with baseballs up and down the side. I combed his hair as he grinned looking at me.

Placing him on my hip, I carried him downstairs as Troy had set two glasses of wine down, some M&Ms with popcorn. "A real movie night." Troy held up yogurt bites as he smiled, "Yogurt bites for Liam." I grinned as I sat down on the couch. Troy smiled as he sat down opening his legs for me to sit in-between his legs.

I rested my head on his chest as we drifted a blanket over Liam and mine as Troy crossed his ankles over mine. He played up as I smiled, "Remember when we saw this together?"

"I have never heard you laugh and cry so much in a movie."

"It was sad but it cracked me up."

Troy let his fingers trace over my neck, "Thank you for relaxing."

"School is just…harder than I remember."

Troy left it at that as the movie started, Liam watched carefully until he started to become tired. "Oh, this is my favorite part, or one of them." I whispered as I took a small bite of popcorn.

"Mr. Frederickson, do you dig the hole before or after?" I repeated quietly, "None of my concern!"

There was a short pause before I cracked a smile, "It's before!" I began to crack up as Troy did himself. His fingers trailed through my hair as I couldn't help but smile.

"Point!"

I giggled before Troy and I finished the movie. Liam had fallen asleep long ago as I pressed my lips onto the top of his head, "I am going to put him down."

Troy kissed my temple as he let me go unwrapping our bodies. I stood up as I reached for my phone; I turned it on as I brought up the photo. I brought up Twitter as I attached it. 'Great family night. Little Liam watched Up with Troy and I after his bath. #lovemyfamily.'

I smiled as I tweeted it to my followers. I then rested Liam down into bed as I brushed my fingers over his forehead. "Good night baby boy."

I stepped out of his room as Troy greeted me in the hallway. He turned on Liam's monitor before he gently pressed me up against a wall. His lips moved over mine gently as he let his fingers held my jaw in his hand. "I have wanted to do that all night."

Biting down on my lip, I looked into his eyes. "Maybe a little sex will take the complete edge off." Troy's blue eyes held a smile as I laced my hands with his. "I don't want to do anything you don't want."

Letting my hand drift up Troy's shirt, my fingers glazing over his hard rock abs. "Troy, I always want to have sex with you." Troy smiled as he kissed me again. "Your wish is my command."

Liam cried as I sat him down in the daycare center. He began to cry as he grabbed on to my shirt. "Shh…" I whispered to him as I enclosed him to my chest. I kissed the top of his head, "I will only be a few hours baby." I kissed his head once more as he began to hiccup.

"Do you want to go play with the blocks?" I asked gripping his hand to take him over to the toy blocks. The daycare people watched me carefully as I rubbed his back as he began to play. I slowly back off as I pressed my lips on to the top of his head.

He began to play but still kept me in his eyes on me. Standing up I backed away carefully as another kid came up to play with him. He looked at him before I completely escaped the room.

I let out a long sigh as I moved away. I went to sign him in leaving a diaper bag behide. "Parents sometimes just leave them screaming for us to take care of."

"I know Liam probably wouldn't stop. All you have to do is make him comfortable. He hasn't ever really liked other people too much, just my husband and I."

"Well he is usual great. Only gave us a problems a few times."

"Thanks, I should be back in a few hours. I am going to go to a coffee place to do some homework, since I got a lot more yesterday but I will see you guys later."

"Yup. We will call if anything goes wrong." I nodded as I pulled my keys out pushing out the door. I yawned as Troy and I had many hours of sex the past two nights. Troy was my savor, I am so glad I trusted him that one night. Many people had retweeted the photo of Liam.

Since Troy got a Twitter around the same time, he had given me a shoat out and his twelve thousand followers quickly followed me so I was just a few hundred short of Troy. Troy had gained more as many other people had gathered on to Troy's and mine was slow to climb up.

Pulling into the local Starbucks, I pulled open the door as I found a corner to drop my backpack in, near a plug in. I then walked up to the counter to order the largest coffee of my favorite drink.

Once it was in my hands, I walked over to my new corner, opened my Mac laptop before I plugged in a pair of headphones, pushing them into my ears, and slowly began to work on my homework.

"I think…you are beautiful," Troy whispered as he pressed his lips up to my neck. I smiled as I shut my eyes, wrapping my arms around his neck; I brought him closer as we kissed. He pulled back as we had been at this since Liam had gone to bed.

Which was about two and half hours ago, "I have to be at the hospital tomorrow morning," I whispered as I kissed him again, "I know, really early at that," Troy pressed his bare body into mine as I couldn't handle it much longer. "I think we can do it once more."

I laughed, "I was just thinking the same exact thing."

Troy grinned as I pushed him over as I began to suck on the piece of skin around his neck. He moaned softly as I grinned, I then released the area of skin before placing soft kisses around his collar bone, my fingers glided down his side as he wrapped two arms around me.

"You make me crave things, I should never crave." Troy said with a soft look, I let my fingers run through his hair as Troy rolled us both over, his fingers caving with mine. His lips pressed tightly against mine, his hand holding the small of my back as I arched my body into his.

His fingers traced around my breast as he placed small kisses on top of them before he stopped to look me in the eyes. "God, you are beautiful."

I bit down on my lip as they were swollen, bruised, as was the spot on my neck that Troy had claimed as his. Troy kissed me again his soft lips moving on top of mine.

"You have no idea how much I love you."

"I love you too, so much Troy."

Rolling over in the bed, I looked at Troy at his hair was beginning to grow out to drift to the tip of his forehead. I yawned as it was four fifteen in the morning. I rolled over to brush Troy's hair out of the way; I pressed my lips against his forehead as we had only been asleep for a few hours.

I began to get out of bed when I felt Troy's hand onto mine. "Hey," Troy said opening his eyes for a moment before closing them again. I yawned as I stood up unfolding my hand from his.

"I'll let you know before I leave," Troy nodded as he pulled the blankets over his shoulder. I yawned quietly to myself as I found my new pair of scrubs and my Nikes. Getting ready only took me a few minutes as I tied my shoes together. I threw my hair into a messy bun while putting in a headband before I walked down the stairs.

I grabbed my water bottle which was filled, my purse, followed by a lunch I had packed. I grabbed a muffin from the top as I hurried back upstairs to press my lips against Troy's once more. "You leaving?" he whispered quietly. "Mhm and you should know the longest thing that took me to get ready was to hide the hickey you put in plain sight."

Troy let a smirk grown on his lips as I put the baby monitor on his side of the bed. I kissed him once more before I left, climbing into my car, I followed the stray car on the street. I had completed all of my homework later on Wednesday after picking Liam up but before dinner.

It gave me a great feeling to know I was completely done with homework. If it was one thing I wasn't, it was a procrastinator. I did not enjoy having that rushing around feeling, I hated that feeling.

Yawning, I stopped by Starbucks to grab another coffee as I drove the last fifteen minutes to the hospital to see Ali pulling up next to me. "Hey stranger," I smiled as I picked up all my bags for the next twelve hours.

"I don't think we will any longer be strangers," I told her with a smile, "No joke, this five am shit is crazy." She yawned as I followed her, "No yawning," I warned taking a drink of the coffee placed in my hand. "Well I think this day should be highly entertaining. I mean two nurses who are still in school."

"Yea but you didn't have to take a test telling you administrators to tell them you still knew everything."

Ali laughed as we walked into the hospital, "We have to go through here," she said, her eyes scrunching as she read a paper. We both went through as we got cards, parking passes, and a few other things and to report to our admin, Rachel.

Walking up a few flights of stairs, I opened the door as I entered the floor. I looked at my watch as I smiled softly, "So why are you working?" Ali asked me as we waited at the nursing station for Rachel to show up. I laughed as I let my fingers ring around the coffee cup.

"I just don't want to be that stay at home mom. Being home with Liam for ten whole months has been amazing but it's been different, showing me another way of life. We were bored a lot and I was searching for something to do, he needs to go to daycare and finishing school is just something that needs to be done."

"I saw that picture on Twitter. I meant to ask you about it on Tuesday but it was so sweet. It captured such a sweet moment." I smiled, "Thank you."

Tall, middle aged women came walking around the corner as the nurse behide the desk pointed over to us. "And here goes nothing," I whispered quietly.

"This should be a lot of fun."

Rachel looked at us and then she smiled, "Hello, you must be my new two." I smiled as I looked at her, "Gabi," I reached out to shake her hand gently.

"Yes, I know, you married Troy Bolton." I gritted my teeth together, "Yup." Ali looked at me with a wide eyed expression as she smiled, "Ali,"

"Great, now that we are past introductions, I want to tell you a few rules."

"This sucks." I repeated as I sat down in the café. Ali and I had been together all morning until Rachel had dismissed us to lunch. She was a hardass, giving me a few looks through out the day. Maybe a visit from Troy would relax this hospital a little bit.

"Just a little bit, Rachel does not like you." I snorted, "Defiantly."

I unwrapped my lunch as I picked up the turkey sandwich. "I have met plenty of people like that. They just, they want Troy so they get mad at me for loving him. It's crazy."

"I am not like that, I will admit that he is totally hot but he is all yours. I can tell that he loves you."

"How?" I asked taking a small bite out of the sandwich. "By the way he talks about you in interviews and then the things he tweets about you and Liam. God, I have to meet that little kid one day."

"If you want to come over one day after school and do homework together, you will surely get to meet Troy and Liam both but I havent asked, do you have a boyfriend?"

"Nah, I am totally lacking in my love life. Went to a party to have some sex but I just, I really want to meet my future husband one day."

"You will you are amazing." Ali was a dirty blonde with green eyes; her face was clear with a slight hint of a California tan. I grinned as she looked at me and sighed, tearing apart a piece of her meal. "I just want what you have, I was a fan of Troy when he played basketball at UCLA, then when I found out you were his girlfriend, I was jealous. Then I saw how he acted with you, then the tattoos."

I looked the tattoo on my wrist as I looked at my wrist for a few moments. "He was a great guy in high school."

"Stanford, I can not believe you turned down Stanford."

"I went, it was just tough. Being away from Troy was tough for us."

"Now how is that working?"

"I still see him at least once a week."

"True,"

"But in school it was maybe once every two months."

"That is crazy. I would understand but how did you move?"

"Because he was playing basketball there as a freshman and he was doing really well, it was going to be easier for me than him. At that time I was aiming for a doctor, and then everything happened changing me to a nurse, followed by a teacher."

"That is crazy, and then you had Liam."

"And here I am my life is just one crazy mess."

"I think you are living a really great life if I might add, new, exciting, nothing will ever be the same."

I giggled as I ate the apple in my lunch, "Yea that would be true."

"So are you from California?" I asked her, "Yea, I am from up north, near San Fran,"

"That's fun, I would have loved to grow up in Cali, I love it here but I love home too where Troy's parents are and my mom."

"You don't have to answer," Ali started, "But what about your dad?"

"He died when I was seventeen."

"Wow, oh God, I am sorry." She said looking up at me with her wide green eyes. "Its fine, I will never become easy. It will always be the roughest thing in my life, I am just glad Troy was there."

It grew quiet between us as I took a small bite of my food; I then reached for my phone to see Troy had sent me a picture of Liam. He was bouncing in his exer-saucer smiling towards Troy.

I grinned as I turned it over to Ali. "Awh! How old is he?"

"Eleven months, today." I told her with a small smile, "His birthday is next month!"

"I know it's very hard to believe that he will be one next month. I felt like I just gave birth to him."

"Time flies when you're having fun."

"That is not a joke."

Ali cracked a smile and she took another bite of her food. "What are you eating?" I asked her, "Oh my, have you tried this place The Baylor Place?"

I cracked a big smile, "A few times,"

"Oh my God! Have you had the chocolate chip cookies? Those are to die for!" I laughed again and nodded, "I knew the owner in high school, and his fiancée is one of my best friends. I have known them for years and I LOVE his chocolate chip cookies." We both laughed as Rachel showed up.

"You only have an hour lunch!" we both snapped up as I gathered my trash. I shared a look with Ali as she laughed; I then began to laugh myself. I love working here already.

Unlocking my car, I waved goodbye to Ali as I collapsed down into car. I let a deep yawn go as blinked my eyes several times. Work wasn't that bad, we didn't do much, just a lot of watching. Ali and I laughed at Rachel as she had a stick up her ass.

She didn't let us have any fun letting us try anything. She had told us that tomorrow we would report at six in the morning and we would be with Cassandra. She was formal with every name and when the patient told her about a nick name, she ignored it and called them by there full name.

"Gabriella," I mocked with a light tone. I rolled my eyes as I sometimes hated to be called by Gabriella, people were talking about all of the new nurses flocking through the building as I gripped the steering wheel backing out of the parking lot.

I called Troy as I let the phone ring in my ear, "You on your way home?" Troy said as he answered, "Mhm, I am pulling out into traffic right now."

"How was it?"

"Fun if we didn't have Rachel miss proper everything! I had Ali with me the entire time so it wasn't that bad but it was crazy, she wouldn't let us talk nor do anything. She showed us everything and my feet are tired."

"Are you able to drive home?" Troy joked with a laugh. "Yes, I am able to drive home. I am just tired; do you want me to pick up anything for dinner?"

"Uhm, is there something you want?" Troy asked as I leaned back against my seat. "Not really, just to lay around with my son and maybe some good ol Troy mac and cheese." Troy laughed, "I can get on that,"

"Good, make sure my little guy is in PJ's after I take a shower, so we can snuggle on the couch."

"Sounds good to me, see you in a little bit."

"Mhm," hanging up the phone, I let it slip into the cup holder. I drove home with country music playing on my radio, the beat pounding out in my car.

Once pulling into the driveway, I creped up the stairs to see Troy and Liam sitting in the kitchen. Troy spotted me as I smiled, "Liam, whose home?" Liam turned his head as he saw me. "Mamm!" I grinned as I walked over to him as I picked him up, kissing his temple as I pulled him up to my hip.

"Hey you," Troy said leaning forward to kiss my lips gently. "Hey," I said with a small grin, our life had been crazy at the moment but it had been a lot of fun.

"I was going to wait to start your dinner until you got home." I nodded as I gave Liam back to Troy. "I am going to take a shower. I will be back down in about twenty minutes or so."

"Go and relax, you deserve a little relaxation." I smiled as I kissed Troy once more. "That is why I love you." Troy nodded before I walked up the stairs. I stripped off my scrub top before turning on the shower. Unclipping my bra, I shook off my scrub pants as I got into the shower releasing my crazy curls.

Taking my time, relaxing my fingers into my head as I rubbed in the shampoo, I chewed on my lip as I got out of the shower. My body feeling fresher, cleaner, amazing, I redressed into a pair of shorts with a tshirt. Letting my curls hang loose, I walked down stairs as Troy was with Liam in the kitchen.

"Mam!" Liam cried out, I winked at him as I picked him up from his high chair. Troy turned around as he gave me a look, his smile bouncing back at me. "Do you want to eat in here with me?"

"Well of course I want to eat with you since Liam needs to eat." Troy nodded, "Yea, I can not believe today is his eleven month birthday."

"I know one more until he is one." Troy shook his head as he slide a bowl of mac and cheese over to me. I closed my eyes as I took a bite of the fantastic bite of the meal. "You have no idea how much I love this."

"You always used to request my mac and cheese," Troy said as he put a small amount in front of Liam as he began to take one from the bowl and put it into his mouth. "Well, I then had Liam and it's just been, crazy. Sandwiches have been my entire life."

Troy grinned as he grabbed a bowl for him self as we both sat down. "So how was your day with Liam?"

"We had fun and I had an idea for what we could do with Liam for his birthday."

I looked at Troy, "Where?"

"Well since that is our like week break, we play Thursday and don't play again until Wednesday, I thought we could take a trip down to San Diego and go to Sea World."

I raised my eyebrows as I nodded my head, "That would be a lot of fun since I have never been there and Liam loves animals."

"That is a great idea," Troy nodded as he took another bite out of his food. Liam pushed a few pieces of his food into his mouth as he let them hang out before sucking them in. I giggled as Troy smiled; Liam looked at us both as Troy grabbed my hand. "I think we did well with this little guy."

"We still have a long way to go."

Troy's POV

Flipping off a light switch in the office, I took a drink of my ice water as I moved upstairs. Gabi and Liam were playing with each other when I headed downstairs to do some stuff.

Coming back up, I looked over into the living room as I saw the TV was still on but nobody was down here. I turned off the TV as I refilled my water and took another drink before dumping it out into the sink. Oreo came skidding around the corner as I shook my head with laughter. I unlatched the backdoor before letting her out.

Rummaging through the pantry, I thought of how hard Gabi was pushing herself lately and was happy she slowed down. She actually listened to me for once which was very weird. She was not one to listen unless she wanted to.

Oreo scratched at the back door before I popped a tiny heath bar into my mouth. I opened the backdoor to see Oreo shaking her coat as it was raining lightly right now. I peered outside as I saw the thunderheads in the sky. "We are in for some thunderstorms tonight Oreo,"

I shut off the rest of the lights, letting a light yawn escape from my mouth as I walked upstairs to peer into Liam's room. That is when a smile crossed my face with a light laugh. Gabi was sitting in the rocking chair, Liam cuddled into his lap as they were both sleeping.

I took a picture as I walked in to pick up Liam as he began to fuss being separated from Gabi. I shushed him gently as I set him down in his crib. He fussed as Gabi turned her head before letting a soft moan escape her mouth. My eyes watched her as she took a heavy breath before opening her eyes.

She was beautiful. I was so happy that she was the mother to my child; there would be nobody else that I would have wanted. "Hey, come on lets go to our room and sleep." Gabi's eyes looked at me as I gently helped her up. I pulled her close to my body as I kissed the top of her head.

"Mmm…I love you." She whispered I nodded as I hugged her taking her to the room. I settled her down into the bed as I pulled the covers over her body. She patted the other side of the bed as i stripped off my shirt climbing in next to her. "Do you think I would just let you lay here alone?"

Gabi grumbled something as I pulled her into my chest. I crossed my feet with hers as I pushed back a piece of hair that had been left out of the simple ponytail she had brought her hair into. I leaned forward to press my lips against her forehead as I settled down into the pillow as I yawned.

"I love you baby girl," She grinned as she moved her head around on my chest. Work and play that is what our life had become.

Two chapters left, one day of school left, ahhh…life is going great! Thanks to all that reviewed my last chapter, my reviews are slowing down so I hope you will all review this chapter since you loveee me! :D Also sorry for any mistakes! Please forgive! My brain is melted from all of the school and tests!

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