The doctor had recommended that Gabriella take two weeks off to rest after her stay in the hospital. Troy and Gabriella took Tori to Magic Mountain like they had promised her. They all had a lot of fun. But Troy was now back on the road with the team and Gabriella stayed behind with with Taylor. She needed someone with her, and even though Troy and Gabriella and agreed that they weren't going to be apart from each other, they knew that someone needed to stay with Taylor, especially since her doctor had put her on bed rest and Chad had to be on the road with Troy and the team. Gabriella was supposed to be resting herself.

Tori had chosen to stay home with her mama and Troy had thought that was a great idea. Even though Troy had been able to take care of her after Tori showed him how to use the EpiPen, Tori had still been the one who had been calm the whole time and Troy couldn't have been more proud of her. Gabriella had been calm herself, even though she had been the one who couldn't breathe and her mouth had been numb the whole time. He was so impressed with both of them. He didn't know how they dealt with that allergy. And it wasn't just peanuts. He didn't know what type of nut had been on that salad. It was any kind of nut and he didn't know how she'd gone her whole life dealing with it. He couldn't do it. He knew he couldn't. But he knew Tori and Gabriella were stronger than him.

Troy and Chad sat in the visitor's locker room, going over pregame strategies. But Troy was a little distracted. He was every day. Chad was used to it. They had the team huddled around them as Chad crouched in front of them, talking to them, indicating them the opening defensive play. He'd go over the offensive play afterward. Troy stood behind him, leaning against the lockers behind them. Even though his eyes were open, he was standing there dreaming of Gabriella. Nothing dirty. He was just wishing she was there with him. She should be, and if she or Taylor wasn't doctor ordered to take it easy, she would be there, they both would, right here with Chad at and Troy, but Taylor had to stay home and she needed someone there with her. And Gabriella needed to take it easy, so she was the one to stay home. Even though right now Troy just wanted Lily standing there beside him or at least sitting out on the sidelines with Tori waiting for the game to begin.

They were down in New Orleans playing the Hornets, but Troy was back in Santa Monica laying on the couch holding Lily in his arms, at least his heart and his head was. And that's where he wanted to be. He wanted that more than he wanted her there with him. Last time she was on the court with them, De Aquila had punched his lights out. Not that that bothered Troy. He could handle himself. Sure, the Latino was huge and towered over him, but if he was going to fight over Gabriella, Troy wasn't going to back down. Lily was his and he wasn't going to let someone, ex-boyfriend or not, swoop in and try to stake claim to her. He knew Lily didn't love De Aquila. He knew Lily's heart had always belonged to him and he had nothing to ever worry about even if he had that brief moment of panic when he first found out Lily was dating him. But since they had been back together, Lily was completely open and honest with him about everything... except for Tori, but she had tried to be, and he knew that now.

Chad dismissed the team and stood, turning to Troy, saying something to him, but because Troy was off in his own world, he hadn't even noticed Chad was talking. Chad whacked him in the head with the clipboard and Troy slid sideways on the lockers, grabbing his head.

"What the fuck!"

Chad tucked the clipboard under his arm, crossing both of his arms over his chest. "You tell me. You're not even here, man"

Troy groaned, rubbing at his head. "I'm not. Not really."

Chad shook his dreadlocked head, leaning closer to his best friend, talking a little lower, "Listen, buddy, I know how you're feeling. Taylor is at home on fucking bed rest, but even if she wasn't, do you think she 'd want to be here with me?"

That actually made Troy laugh. Taylor never liked sports, but she supported him anyway, always had. "No, she wouldn't," Troy agreed.

"Damn right! Taylor hates it. Especially when we're out on the road, but since Dr. Langley put her on bed rest, I can't eat, I can't sleep." He pointed toward his head. "I'm about ready to pull out my dreads, brother." Chad sighed, leaning against the lockers with his best friend and partner. "Listen, I understand. I understand how scared you must have been that night you had to take her to the hospital." Chad let go of a heavy sigh. "When Taylor woke up the other night with contractions, I was a mess." He turned his head toward Troy. "You know, there is a reason the women have the babies."

Troy took a deep breath, closing his eyes. "I told Lily I want another baby"

Chad's eyes widened, his mouth dropping as well. "Damn! You're serious?"

Troy opened his eyes, turning to look at the man standing next to him. Sure, they'd rarely spoken about children, especially with Troy bringing it up, it had only happned once before, so Chad was a little shocked for sure.

"Yes, I'm serious, Chad. I've wanted more children with her since we lost our daughter in high school. We're a family now. I only want to add to it."

Chad shook his head even though he was still shocked, he undersstood. He wasn't sure he wanted more, but he could see how great of a father Troy was and he knew how much he loved Tori. "So, are you going to ask Pepper to marry you?"

Troy had wanted to be married to her since they were in high school, he 'd been ready that long. That's why he could never commit to Sharpay. Not that he never loved Sharpay, but it wasn't anywhere near the type of love he had for Lily. If Sharpay had kept a child from him, he knew he never would have been able to forgive her. If he didn't love Lily, he would have never forgiven her. But he had known for a long time he wanted to marry her, he just wasn't going to tell his best friend before he told her. But she had already panicked when he had brought up having another baby... or did she?

She hadn't even brought it up since the night she had to go to the hospital, and with all the media attention it got, Troy had just let it go. He even let Lily convince him not to go back after that first nurse. The production crew had to push back filming per doctor' orders and Troy's insisting. So, with everything that had been going on, it had just fallen by the wayside, the conversation had as well. Then again, talking about getting married when they were in high school came out a whole lot more easily than her telling him she was pregnant.

Troy sighed heavily, shaking his head. "We've got a game to coach, Chad."

Chad shook his head again at his best friend. "You know, you are a pussy! How long have I been married to Taylor?"

Troy pushed himself off the lockers, holding his own clipboard up toward Chad. "Oh no! You don't want to go there, man! You are sooooo pussy whipped! Taylor's got you so tightly locked by the cojones, you're locked for life!"

Chad laughed, his whole body jerking with the laughter. "Oh yeah! And boy do I love it when she's got a hold of those huevos negros!"

Troy opened his mouth has though he was about to to throw up, laughing a bit. "Until she makes them blue!"

Chad slugged Troy's arm as they headed out toward the court. "You are a rude man, Troy Bolton!"

Troy nodded, sighing as he agreed. "Yeah, I am!"

Tori laid with her head asleep on her mama's stomach, Gabriella's fingers running lazily through Tori's hair as they laid in Taylor's bed watching daytime soaps. It wasn't as though she literally had to be in bed, but it was more comfortable. Taylor sat with a big bowl of chocolate-covered fruits that Gabriella had brought over. They were watching as a huge muscle bound mob hit man was comforting his ex-girlfriend, who every could tell he was still completely in love with, and she was completely in love with him.

Taylor looked over at Gabriella with Tori sleeping on her stomach. "He's such a sweet boy, G. He loves you so much."

Gabriella looked down at Tori asleep on her stomach. "She was so mad at me in the beginning, Tay. I was so sure she literally hated me."

Taylor shook her head.. "She didn't understand, but now she's had time to bond with you," she smiled brightly, "and I'm sure she and Troy have been talking about how wonderful you are." Gabriella turned her head toward the television, even though she wasn't really watching it. "G, you know I'm right! That boy would die for you, and you know it!"

Gabriella quickly turned her head back to Taylor, shaking her head. "I don't want that, Tay. I just want... I want to feel like I'm not going to fail him."

Taylor reached out, rubbing her back, sighing softly. "G, you will not fail him. You love him. He loves you. You both love Tori."

Gabriella shook her head, quickly cutting Taylor off. "Troy wants more children."

Taylor paused for a moment, thinking about it, nodding slowly. "And you're scared. You're afraid that you're not going ot be a good mother." She leaned closer to Gabriella, making her look at her. "You listen to me, ok? You are an excellent mother! Look at her," Taylor said, motionaing with her eyes to Tori. "You're stroking her hair as she peacefully sleeps on you. I'm staying up half the night worrying I'm not going to have that mother's touch, because all Chad has to do is put his hand on my stomach and the baby is instantly calmed now while she's in my stomach. But you have that touch. You have no reason to be scared. I know your parents were jerks. They still are. Even now that they know you have a daughter, they haven't tried to contact you or anything. But you can't let that rule your entire life. Embrace life." She smiled, hugging her. "Embrace a new life with Troy. You both deserve a new little one. What does Tori think about it? Have you two asked her?"

Gabriella looked down at Tori, smiling at her perfect daughter. "I think she'd like it, but we haven't talked about it much since that night. Troy had just brought it up when I had my reaction to the nuts." Gabriella smiled softly. "I think she'd rather have a sister than a brother though."

Taylorlaughed, placing her hand on her stomach as it tightened and the baby kicked against it. "Yeah, he probably would!"

Gabriella rubbed Tori's back softly, loving just laying here with him like this.

Taylor closed her eyes, taking a deep breath. "G..."

Gabriella looked over at Taylor, noticing the look on her face and how her hands were placed on her stomach. "I'll get the car." She looked down to Tori, shaking her slightly to wake him. "Tori... Mija, vamanos. Titi Taylor is having her baby."

Tori sat up, still half asleep, looking over at Taylor. "Now?"

Taylor nodded, breathing deeply. "Sí. Now, Tori."

Gabriella slid up off the bed and headed out of the room to get her and Taylor's purses before heading out the back door to get Taylor's car and bring it around front. Gabriella didn't have driver's license and she had never owned a car, but calling an ambulance was never an option for her. It called way to much public attention. She could drive. She had done it before and she'd do it again. If she got pulled over, she'd simply tell the officer who she was and what she was doing. The evidence would be right there in front of him. Besides, she did have identification.

While Gabriella was getting the car, Tori had pulled Taylor's suit case down the hall to the front door and was helping Taylor tie her shoes when Gabriella came back in.

"Ready?"

Taylor looked back over the couch from where Tori was helping her. "We're ready."

Gabriella picked up Taylor's overnight bag and Tori helped her TiTi Taylor stand up and they left for the hospital.

Troy was about to head down into the locker rooms with Chad when the coach from the other team, Monty Williams, came running up to them. "Hey, Bolton, I've got your girlfriend on the phone," he laughed. "I have to tell you, at first I thought this was a crank call, but when she told me that she's with Chad Danforth's wife and she's about to have his baby," Troy's eyes about popped out of his head as he turned to look at Chad who wasn't even paying attention, "I knew I had to come right over to you." Williams held out the house phone to Troy and he took it.

"Thank you, Monty." He shook his head as his oblivious co-coach and put the phone to his ear. "Lily?"

Through the phone he heard her soft release of a sigh. "T, thank god! Taylor is at the hospital. She's eight centimeters dilated." Troy had no idea what that meant, but he was sure it had something to do with getting the baby out. "Do you have your laptop on you? They said we could set it up so Chad doesn't have to miss this."

Troy looked over at Williams, and an idea sparking in his head as he slowly looked up at the instant replay screen. "No, but I have an idea, babe. Hold on a sec." He put his hand on William's shoulder, drawing him in a little closer. "Monty, do you think we could get the tech guys to tap into my girlfriend's skype on the instant replay screen so Coach Danforth can see his son being born?"

Williams looked at screen, down to Chade then back to Troy. "Yeah. Yeah. I think we can do that. I'll get on it." And with that, the forty-one-year-old man man walked off to find the man who would help hook up the screen to Gabriella's skype.

Troy put the phone back to his ear. "How are you holding up, babe? You ok?"

Gabriella laughed through the phone. "I'm not the one giving birth, T. Tay is."

Troy laughed a little nervously. He could only imagine how he would feel if he were in Chad's shoes right now. That's why he hadn't told him anything yet. "How is she doing?" he asked, knowing it best he keep his mind off of wishing it was her and that he was there with her.

He wanted his family now more than ever, him and Tori and Gabriella and another little baby, now that his best friend was about to be come a father. But when Lily had their next child, he was going to make it a priority to be there no matter what.

"The epidural is taking care of the pain pretty well, she just wants Chad here with her."

Troy looked over at Chad who was talking to their replacement Center. "We're going to get the instant replay screen hooked up to your laptop, Lily. Neither Chad or Taylor will ever forget this day, babe. I promise you." They wouldn't forget it anyway, but this way it would be recorded and they could save it forever.

"Are you sure about that? You know how Taylor is."

Troy laughed loudly. "She can kick my ass later. Just make sure the camera doesn't go too low. I'm sure we can't show that on public television." He wasn't sure he wanted to see that either. If it was Lily giving birth to their child then it would be different.

"You're amazing, T! I love you! Te quiero!"

Troy smiled brightly to himself, looking over at Chad. Not only was he scoring points with Lily, but he would be scoring best friend points as well. Add that to being twenty points ahead of last year's play-off champions, today was shaping up to being an amazing day. Williams came back to him with a guy holding a laptop and patted him on the back.

"Taykeyarrow, Lily –" he said, turning back toward Williams. "Hold on a sec, babe," he told her, putting the phone to his shoulder.

"This is Jimmie," Williams told Troy. "All he needs is your girlfriend's skype name and we're good to go."

Troy nodded, putting the phone back to his ear. "Baby, one more thing and we're up and running. I need to give them your Skype username."

He knew that he was one of only a few people who knew her screen name, and giving it out right now could lead to a mass release of it. But if that happened, Troy would take all necessary precautions, have the man fired, and Lily could easily get a new one.

"Go ahead, T," she slowly agreed, feeling somewhat the same way he did about it.

Troy turned to the computer kid. "Know this," and this time he would follow through, unlike he had with the nurse, "if this happens to get out, I will come after you, I promise you that!"

Jimmie looked up at Troy, nodding. "I understand, sir."

Troynodded, relaxing slightly. "Her screen name is LatinaLily."

The kid typed it in and looked up at the screen. The rest of them looked up as well and everyone could see Taylor on the bed with Gabriella on the phone, Tori sleeping on a chair beside her, and a doctor standing on the other side of the bed from her with a nurse.

"We see you, Ella," Troy spoke into the phone, using her stage name, and Gabriella turned around so she was facing her computer that was set up to face them.

The crowd cheered when they saw Ella Leigh on the screen even if they didn't know why they were seeing a hospital delivery scene.

Troy smiled up at Gabriella, loving how beautiful she looked up there. He spoke quietly into the phone. "You look beautiful up there, Lily."

Gabriella turned her head back toward Taylor. "Hush, T. Will you tell Chad that his wife is up here giving birth to his daughter?"

Troy narrowed his eyes on her, laughing shortly. "Son."

She laughed shortly as Troy slugged his best friend's shoulder. "Hey, would you look up at the jumbo screen?"

Chad looked over at Troy and then up at the television, his eyes and mouth dropping open. "Taylor?"

Jimmie walked over in front of Chad and Troy so Gabriella and Taylor could see them.

"The baby's coming?"

Taylor nodded. "Yes, baby, the baby is coming!"

Chad began to breathe heavily, looking over to Troy, gripping at his shoulder. "My baby is coming, buddy! My baby is coming!"

Troy smiled brightly over at him, patting his back. "Yes, he is, man! Yes, he is!"

Chad turned back to look at the instant replay television. "Are you ok, baby? Are you in any pain?"

Taylor shook her head. "The epidural is working. I'm ok."

Chad couldn't believe this was happening. This was like a dream. He'd never dreamed anything like this could have ever happened, but it was and he was loving it. "I wish I could be there with you, baby."

Taylor shook her head as her doctor sat between her legs to check her again. He was low enough that he didn't block Taylor and Taylor's view of each other.

"It's ok, Chad. We're together this way. We don't have to worry about about anything."

Chad nodded and held onto Troy's shoulder as the doctor said,"Ok, you're at ten centimeters. What I want you to do is the next time you feel the need to push, I want you to push. Can you do that for me, Taylor?"

Taylor nodded for her and Chad swallowed, taking a deep breath. This was huge. His wife was giving birth and he was 2100 miles away. Taylor nodded and she felt it coming on.

"Ok, now, Taylor. Push. Push now."

Troy heard Gabriella whimper slightly through the phone and he whispered softly, asking, "You ok, babe?"

She whispered back, biting her lip and speaking with her teeth over her lip, "She's just grabbing my hand tightly. I'm ok."

Troy smiled, whispering softly. "It's ok, babe. I'll make you feel better later."

Gabriella closed her eyes, swallowing softly, whispering back, "Not now, T."

Troy chuckled, looking down at the wood floor, loving that he could get her to blush at a time like this. He'd have to try it when she was giving birth to their own child. He looked back up at her, she was standing strong beside her friend, yet he was the only one who knew she was blushing. Her head was turned down and he could see the light tinge of pink on her face.

"It's ok, babe, just forget about til later. Tell her she's going a good job."

Gabriella lifted her head, looking over at Troy briefly, smiling and giving him a short nod before looking back at Taylor. "You're doing great, Tay. Keep going!"

Chad was also cheering on his wife, telling her she could do it as the doctor held her head up from between her legs. "Ok, Taylor, one more push and you'll have your baby." Taylor took a deep breath and held onto the nurse's and Gabriella's hands, pushing the baby from her.

The doctor pulled the baby from her and Taylor fell back onto the bed. Chad threw up his arms as if he had just scored and the crowd went wild, cheering for him and Taylor.

Gabriella leaned down and kissed her best friend's forehead, whispering softly, "¡Bueno, Tay! ¡Bueno!"

Revelers brought bubbling cider down onto the court and Gatorade and streamers fell down to the court, stuff used to celebrate the end of a huge game and started celebrating right there for the birth of Chad Danforth's child.

Chad looked up to the screen, screaming to Taylor. "I love you, baby! How are you feeling? How are you feeling, baby?"

Taylor was crying, but she was happy. "I'm ok. I'm ok!"

Chad took a deep breath. "Where's my baby? I want to see my baby?"

The doctor held the baby up to the screen, smiling brightly. "Here she is. You've got a beautiful, healthy baby girl, Mr. Wayne."

Chad stopped, looking at the jumbo screen and then down at the computer screen, moving closer to it. "Girl?" He looked back up at the jumbo instant replay screen and back down at Jimmie. "Can you replay that, please?" He looked at Troy, shaking his dreads. "Did he just say girl?"

Troy tried not to snicker. Both he and Troy had been wrong this entire time. "You were right, babe," Troy quietly told Gabriella into the phone.

Gabriella giggled softly. "Taylor felt like she was having a girl. It wasn't me."

Troy laughed, nodding his head. "Right," he nodded, chuckling slightly, looking at the clock. Halftime was over, but the crowd didn't seem to care. He knew they had to get the second half of the game going, but he didn't want to. He would much rather spend the rest of the night talking to Lily about the two of them adding to their family, but Chad needed to spend time with Taylor, so Troy needed to coach the game by himself.

"Listen, babe. I've gotta let you go and get this game going. I'll call you when it's over."

Gabriella smiled, waving at him. "Te quiero, T. Have fun."

He winked at her into the computer screen. "Taykeyarrow, Lily. Porsiempray."

Lily smiled and ended the phone call on her phone before turning to end the skype conversation on her computer. Troy turned back to Jimmie.

"I don't need to remind you about that screen name, right? In fact, I think it's best you just go in and delete it right now."

Jimmie quickly turned the computer around and looked down at the screen, disconnecting the feed and doing as Troy sternly recommended. "Yes, sir." He deleted the name and looked back up at Troy. "Done sir."

Troy placed his hand on the kid's shoulder, smiling. "Good job. You may have a future around here after all." It wasn't as though Troy could fire him, but he could make his life a living hell if he were to let Lily's screen name slip, and he most definitely would.