Taylor grabbed Gabriella's hand and stared at the ring for a moment. "G, it's gorgeous!" She looked up at her, smiling brightly. "It's perfect for you." Her smile softened. "He knows you so well." Her eyes drifted down to the lilies hanging from her chain at her neck. "It matches your necklace."

Gabriella smiled, taking the golden embossed lilies that hung between her breasts in her hand, smiling brightly as she looked across the penthouse at Troy. He and Chad were in the living room with Tori and Reggie talking about who knows what, probably the wedding or basketball or the something completely else. Who knew. All Gabriella knew is he looked really good over there holding Reggie. She couldn't help but wish he was holding their baby in his arms even if it was yet another reminder of something she had stolen from him. But the way he smiled at her told her he still loved her and he wasn't holding it against her. He still loved her and he still wanted to be with her. He still wanted to marry her. He still wanted to have another baby with her. He wasn't pretending with her, not any more. This was all real. She felt it. She felt the love he had for her. It wasn't a show. She knew it. She felt it.

Taylor waved her hand in front of Gabriella's face and giggled. "You're so in love, it almost makes me want to throw up. Fortunately, I'm not pregnant anymore. I don't do that throwing up thing anymore."

Gabriella blushed, tucking her hair behind her ears, looking down at her shirt and smoothing it down over her skirt. "About that too..."

Taylor narrowed her eyes on her best friend, shaking her head. "G... Are you trying to tell me something?"

Gabriella looked up, shaking her head. "I went off my birth control pill and Maria said that I could get pregnant any time this month."

Gabriella slowly smiled and Taylor quickly jumped, wrapping her arms around Gabriella's neck, hugging her tightly. "G!"

Gabriella giggled, hugging Taylor back just as tightly. Pulling back, Taylor placed her hand on Gabriella's stomach, squealing silently.

"G, I'm so excited for you! This is so exciting! You're going to be THE MOST FANTASTIC MOTHER EVER!"

Gabriella still wasn't convinced, but T was and Taylor was Troy had convinced her that when they told Tori she was going to be as well. She had to believe them. They were her family. They were the only people that mattered. Well, Chad and Little Regina now were her family. And Troy's parents. She had a lot of people to call her family, and they all would believe in her ability to be a mother even if she didn't. But the only person she really needed was Troy's belief and she had that. She had his belief and his support and she knew she had that every step of the way. Looking over at him again with the baby, she smiled and he waved his hand softly over at her. She blushed again, raising her hand slightly back at him, blushing again. He smiled a little triumphantly and she turned her head down, biting her lip.

KNOCK KNOCK

Gabriella looked up and T and he handed Reggie back to Chad walking to the door. Gabriella slowly walked to the door as well. They weren't expecting anyone. Dominick had the night off and no one else should be coming up here tonight. It was just supposed to be Chad and Taylor tonight. The hired guard knew that. Whoever was at the door better have a damned good excuse and the hired guard better know that as well.

Opening the door, Troy's eyes connected with the guard's first before settling on the couple's standing beside the big black man Troy had hired from The Staples Center.

"These people say they're–"

Troy shook his head, pulling the door shut a little so Gabriella couldn't see who was standing on the other side of the door.

"I know who they are, André. They're not welcome here."

The older man took a step forward, his arm pushing the woman back slightly. "Excuse me. Who are you to say where I am and where I'm not welcome in my daughter's home?"

André took a step forward, making sure the man didn't get any closer to Troy.

"Troy, who is it?"

Troy looked back at Gabriella, shaking his head. "Let me handle this, baby."

He didn't want this touching her, not at all. Stepping out onto the porch, he pulled the door completely shut, placing a hand on André's shoulder.

"I've got this."

André nodded, but didn't take a step back. Troy turned to look at the man who may have contributed to creating the woman Troy was in love with and was planning to marry, but he was not her father. He didn't deserve to call himself her father.

"How dare you show your face here? After all this time!" Troy shook his head. He couldn't believe it. He was completely shocked. He had no words for the way he felt. "What is it? What? Do you want money? Is that it? Why didn't you show up five years ago? She's had it for a long time!" He shook his head. "No. Couldn't be that... Could it be that she has a daughter? You want to be grandparents?" He shook his head again. "No. You would have showed up after you saw Entertainment Tonight." He shook his head again. "What could it possibly be?"

He glared the older Latino down. He really could not for the life of him figure out what he and his wife could really be here for. "For how long did you abuse and neglect your daughter? Huh?" His voice lowered, looking over at the woman. "How long had you stood by while he hit the daughter you two claimed you love. You rarely fed her, so she went to her abuela's starving. She came to my house starving. Both for food and love. Tell me why we didn't call protective services on you? Tell me why? We should have! But that would have sullied her abuelito's name, the whole Montez name." Troy turned his attention back to the man, shaking his head. "You're a sad excuse for a man and you've sullied your father's name."

The door opened and they all turned to see Gabriella standing in the doorway. Troy wished that she wouldn't have come out. He didn't want her to know that they were there. He wanted them to leave before she knew they had come, but now she knew, she would have to talk to them.

"What...?" she slowly started, walking out onto the porch as André took a step toward her.

"Maybe you should stay inside, Miss Ella?" He suggested, placing his hand on her back.

She shook her head, her eyes locked on her parents standing in front of her. She hadn't seen or heard from them in... well over at least fifteen years, probably more. She didn't even want to be looking at them right now. She was happy. She had everything she wanted and she didn't need them coming into her life and messing things up.

"What are you doing here?"

Gabriella's mother took a step toward her and André made sure to stay between her and Gabriella. Troy nodded at André, thankful he was doing his job.

"We came to see you, Gabi," she spoke softly, her smile just as soft.

Gabriella shook her head, stepping closer to Troy, wrapping her arms around his waist. "We don't want you here. We'd like you to leave."

Gabriella's mother shook her head, taking a soft breath. "Please hear us out, Gabby. We know we've done wrong, but we are your parents."

Troy shook his head. "Just because you gave birth to her, doesn't make you her mother." He was trying to remain calm for Gabriella's sake, but being around them, knowing what they used to do to her, made him sick and it pissed him off. He didn't know whether to throw up or punch the man's lights out.

"Talk fast before I have André kick you out," Gabriella told them.

She was losing patience with them. She didn't like being around them. The longer she was around them, the more memories about her childhood were flooding back to her. She could remember her broken arm, her cracked rib – how bad it hurt to breathe because of that – she could remember how bad her hair felt being ripped out from her skull when her dad had picked her up out of her crib – it had been her first memory, and it wasn't her favorite – she could remember when her dad put her hand on the stove after her mom told her not to play with the pans on the stove – she still had a scar there – she could remember when her dad tripped her when mom told her to stop running in the house, and she had fallen and hit her chin on the stairs, splitting it open... She wanted to stop remembering.

Troy could feel her start tensing up and he knew she wanted them gone just as much as he did, if not more. "Andale," he told them, hurrying them up.

"Tu madre se está muriendo, Gabriella," the man said, his voice very solemn as he wraped his arm around his wife's shoulders.

"You are a low liar, Eduardo Montez!"

The woman looked up from where she had her tear-filled yes fixed on the lily-embroidered welcome mat. "It's true. I have stage four cancer. There's nothing that can be done."

Eduardo took a deep breath, pulling her closer when she started to sob silently, knowing what he was about to say next. "And I'm having assisted suicide when she's gone."

Gabriella looked up at the two of them. "I never have said anything bad about the two of you. I have always respected you in spite of everything, but you are a selfish bastard!"

Gabriella's mother turned her head to Gabriella quickly. "¡No entiendes!"

Troy pulled Gabriella closer to him, keeping his arm protectively around her. "No, you two don't understand! Gabriella," he used her given name, not the nick name he had given her for them to drag through the mud like they had everything else they had with her, "has become an amazing person and an amazing mother despite ever having you in her life. She hasn't needed you! So why don't you just turn around and crawl back under that rock you've been under since she left you years ago and never come back!"

Eduardo held Gabriella's mom as she sobbed, shaking as she stood staring at the rug beneath their feet. "I'll tell them, Maria." He looked at his daughter and the man he knew loved her. "You have a sister, Gabi. Her name is Temperance."

Gabriella's mouth dropped open slowly as Troy began to shake his head. They were liars and he couldn't believe they were doing this. He knew she couldn't believe them. Where did they keep her – a cellar? It was unbelievable. He couldn't believe them.

"Que? Lo que la hermana? Yo no tengo una hermana. ¡Que son unos mentirosos!" Gabriella was getting angry, and she was grateful that Troy was holding her. If he wasn't, she would have been throwing herself at them, at least at her papa, launching her fists at his chest, screaming at them. "Why didn't you tell me? Why?"

Troy pulled a sobbing, shaking Gabriella back into his arms. "I want you out of here!" He pointed toward the car on the curb, keeping his Lily against him with is other arm. "Never come back here!"

Gabriella stood straight, turning to look at them. "No!" She shook a deep breath. "No!" Wiping at her tears, she took another breath and wrapped her arms over her breasts. "Why would you kill yourself when you have another daughter?" She knew he never took care of her, but he could have at least cared for her sister.

"I can't live without your mother, Gabi."

Gabriella turned her head away from him. "You are selfish," she whispered, closing her eyes. When she felt Troy's hand at her back, softly rubbing, she was reminded just how grateful she was to have him.

"We need you, Gabi," Mari said softly, looking up at her again.

Both Gabriella and Troy shook their heads. "You never needed me!" Gabriella snapped at both of them, causing Troy to nod down at her with pride. "I sure as hell hope you've treated Temperance well, because the way you treated me, no child deserves to be like that!"

Eduardo inhaled deeply, deciding not to waste any more time and to just ask. "We want you to take care of your sister for us... Starting now. We don't want to wait until after we're gone."

Troy shook his head, looking toward the sky. "This is great! You abuse and neglect one daughter to the point that she has to run away, and you abandon this other daughter that we have yet to see proof of! You should never have been parents!" Even though he fully believed that, he never would have had his Lily.

Gabriella swallowed, taking a short breath. "Where is she?"

Maria smiled softly, knowing her daughter wouldn't turn her sister away. "She's home. We live in Covina now."

There was the answer as to why Gabriella didn't about her sister. She had wondered why Abuela hadn't told her. She never asked any how and she hadn't gone to see her abuela, so she couldn't have blamed her. She couldn't blame Titi Esme either. She wouldn't have known.

Gabriella wiped her tears away, stepping back by Troy. "When can we meet her?"

Her mother smiled more. "Tomnight. Tomorrow after school. When you're ready." She looked over at Troy. "Give the two of you time to talk things over."

Gabriella looked up at Troy, biting her lip as Troy wrapped his arms around her. Troy knew what she wanted and he had no problem with it. It wasn't her sister's fault she was born to horrible parents. He needed to protect her as much as he did Lily.

Looking back up at the older couple, he firmly told them, "Bring her tonight."

Gabriella looked back at them, nodding. "We don't need to discuss anything. Just bring her over."

Eduardo nodded his head, hugging Maria to his side. "I've already had the legal papers drawn up. They just need your signature and you can have your lawyer turn them in to the courts. I will bring them with us when we bring Temperance."

Gabriella nodded softly, pulling Troy's arms more around her. She understood that this was a huge responsibility, but she wasn't going to let her sister be left alone.

"We'll be back with her soon," Eduardo said, wrapping his arm around Maria's shoulders, walking with her down the porch steps, down the walkway, and to their car, leaving the three of them alone.

"Sorry about that, boss," André said, turning toward them.

Troy held up his hand, shaking his head. "It's ok, André. You did your job. You're ok."

André nodded as Troy turned with Gabriella, walking back into the penthouse. Tori came running over to them as Gabriella pulled the door shut behind them.

"What's going on? Mama, estás bien?"

She could tell her mama was upset and she had been crying. Troy rubbed Gabriella's arm, looking down at his daughter as he ran his fingers through her hair.

"We need to talk, Tori," Troy told her as he looked up at Chad and Taylor as they came over to them with Reggie.

"Everything ok?" Chad asked, his arm wrapped around Taylor's shoulders as she held Reggie.

"That was Eduardo and Maria Montez out there. She has stage IV cancer and he's opting to take his way out as well."

He was talking in code so Tori didn't get upset by the situation. She could still catch on by the last name and start asking questions, but Troy wanted to be able to sit down with her and Lily and really talk about what was going on after Chad and Taylor was gone.

"Why were they even here?" Chad asked, the situation annoying the hell out of him as it did the rest of him, but Chad choosing to be the one to speak first.

Gabriella took a slow breath as Troy held her closely. "They wanted to tell me I have a sister."

They all looked at her, eyes wide.

"¿Que?" Tori asked loudly, looking up at her mama.

"Es verdad, Tori," Gabriella whispered, looking down at her. It was as true as far as she knew it to be.

Taylor looked down at Tori and back up at Gabriella and Troy. "Sweetie, as much as I would love to stay here and hear everything, I really think that you and Troy need to sit down with Tori and discuss this as a family."

It was exactly what Troy and Gabriella were both thinking and Troy had been about to ask. Gabriella hadn't wanted to, but she knew Troy was going to.

"Thank you, G."

Troy smiled, nodding, looking to Chad as he quickly scrambled to get the diaper bag, "Yep, I've got it," knowing that she was going to tell him to get it anyway. He came back to them with the bag and Troy opened the door for them.

"I'll call you, man," he told Chad as he gave him a quick hug.

Chad nodded as he looked down at Tori, smoothing down his hair. "Good luck, Tori. Hey, come over. We'll play ball in the back yard this week."

Tori glared at him, walking away from him into the living room. Chad shook his head, looking up at Troy.

"Don't worry about her. She thinks we're hiding something from her," told him and Chad nodded.

"Ok. Good luck!"

Gabriella hugged Taylor and kissed the top of Reggie's head. "I'll call you. Come see you tomorrow. Love you."

Taylor smiled. "Love you, honey!"

Troy shut the door behind them and wrapped his arms around Gabriella, looking down at her. "Ready for this?" They both looked over at their daughter who was sitting on the couch flipping through the channels on the television angrily.

"No, but I have to be."

He leaned forward, kissing her forehead softly. "We can do this. She trusts us and loves us."

She smiled up at him, nodding softly. "I know. I love you, T. Thank you for always being so supportive. You don't know how much I appreciate it. I really do."

He pulled her closer to him, resting his head on top of hers. "Lily, you're the most important thing in my life. I've loved you from the moment you came into my life. I'm not about to let you go. I'm not about to forget about you. I'm not about to stop caring about you for anything. You're going to be my wife and nothing is going to stop that. Nothing. We're going to take care of your sister just like we're taking care of Tori and any other child we have. We'll be one great big happy family."

Gabriella laughed shortly, wiping a quick tear from her eye. "Oh, T!"

He smiled down at her. "And here you thought you could never be a mother. The way you stood up to your parents. Do you know how proud I was of you? How proud I am of you?" He leaned down, pressing his lips to hers, holding her tightly against him. "Te quiero, Lily. Te quiero por siempre!" he murmured against her lips, holding her against him as he kissed her fully. Pulling back, he tucked her hair back behind her ear, looking into her beautiful dark eyes, smiling down at her. "Did you want to go talk to our daughter now?"

She took a soft breath, nodding briefly. "Sí."

He wrapped his arm around her waist, turning with her and walked with her over into the living area.

"Hey, Angel," Troy said, sitting down beside his daughter, pulling Lily to sit down on his lap, not letting her sit anywhere else, even with her slight protest.

He wanted her just as close to Tori as he was and just as close to him. She playfully glared down at him briefly as he smiled briefly up at her before looking back at Tori, taking the remote from her and turning off the TV.

"I was watching that."

Troy tossed the remote on the love seat perpendicular to the couch, shaking his head. "No you weren't. The channel button was getting tired."

Tori tried not to laugh but failed, grunting up at her dad.

"We need to talk, Tori."

Tori turned to look at her parents, nodding. "I never knew I had an aunt and why haven't I met my grandparents? Same reason why I didn't meet you two until just barely?" She was trying not to sound angry toward them, but she was feeling like everyone was keeping things from her and she didn't like this feeling.

Troy shook his head, pulling both of them onto his lap. "No, it wasn't anything like that. This had nothing to do with that, baby. I promise you."

Gabriella couldn't even speak. She was too close to tears. All the emotions she had felt while she was pregnant with him, the emotions she had felt when she gave him over to Titi Esme, not seeing Troy for ten years, all the abuse her parents put her through while she was growing up, everything tumbling down on her, and now finding out she had a sister she never knew about added on to Tori's anger, she didn't know how she was supposed to handle all of it.

"Then why don't I know them? Why am I just finding out about them and the aunt I never knew?"

Troy sighed. "Because they're not nice people and we just found out about her as well. But there's something else."

Tori sat back against the couch, waiting for the ceiling to fall down on her. "What in the world, Daddy?" She didn't know how much more of this she could take. She just wanted to go into her room and play her DS for the rest of the night and not be bothered.

"She's going to come live with us," Troy told her. "Which means you're going to have to sleep with Mama and me until we figure out something else."

Tori's jaw dropped as she stood up off the couch, throwing her arms up in the air. "Why do I have to give up MY room? This was MY house first!"

Troy sighed, taking a deep breath. "I know, baby girl, but she's not going to be used to this yet. Her parents are dying. She's going to need us, but she's not going to know that yet. She's not going to be ready to accept us yet. So she's going to want to be alone. So we need to give her the space she needs. Mama and I will figure out things, I promise you, sweetie."

Tori shook her head. "I don't like this, Daddy!" Tori said, pouting.

"I know," Troy said, reaching up and taking his daughter's hand. "All we ask is that you accept it."

Tori nodded slowly, sighing heavily. "Sí, Daddy."

Troy gave Tori's hand a soft squeeze, nodding up at him. "So why don't you go upstairs and get the stuff out of your room you don't want anyone else to touch and take it into mine and your mama's room."

Tori's eyes widened and she ran quickly upstairs as Troy turned to Gabriella.

"You were quiet," he said, leaning back against the couch, pulling her into his arms. "You alright?"

She shook her head, laying her head against his shoulder. "This may just be too much for me."

Troy shook his head, pulling back and lifting her head back up so she was looking at him again. "No, no, no! Don't hide from me. You're done hiding, remember. You're a strong person and you're a strong mother. We're in this together and I'm not letting go. Remember?" Gabriella was starting to hyperventilate, but Troy wasn't going to allow it. "Breathe, baby. Just breathe."

She nodded, closing her eyes, focusing on her breathing. "I'm sorry, . I'm so sorry. He's so angry. What if Temperance is angry? What if –?"

Troy shook his head, pulling her tighter against him, kissing the side of her head. "No! Just stop right there. Ok? Just stop! Tori loves you! Ok? He loves you! The two of you have gotten so close since he's come here and you're going to continue to get close the longer he's here. And your sister and you are going to be the same way. We don't know how those lying assholes have treated your sister. We can only hope that she's somewhat ok. I can only imagine how you're feeling knowing they've kept her from you like this."

He could to some extent. Lily had kept his daughter from him, but this was different. He knew she had to be feeling some of the same emotions he was feeling when he found out about Tori. She nodded slowly and he let her lay her head back on his shoulder.

"Just relax, baby. We'll wait here until she gets here. You don't have to think or anything. Don't worry about a thing. I'll be right here."

He kissed the side of her head and kicked his feet up on the coffee table, getting comfortable while they waited for her sister to arrive.