Getting home took longer than any of them had planned. The clinic couldn't do anything for Chad on that island, so they had to airlift him to Oahu. Troy had a couple cracked ribs and was told to take it easy. The rest of them had a few minor cuts and bruising, but for the most part were all fine. Gabriella had hit her head and the doctor, having known about her head injury from a few months ago from the media, said she needed to follow up with her doctor on the mainland as soon as possible if she experienced any pain or more memory loss.
When they got home, following up with Dr. Hodgens fell by the wayside and after taking it easy for a few weeks, Gabriella was out working again. Not that she had wanted to, but because he had already signed on to play this role in this movie long before her accident and she couldn't back out of it. She had sworn to Troy as soon as it was over, she was taking an indefinite hiatus. She wasn't sure if she ever really wanted to go back to work, but it wasn't some kind of decision she wanted to make on the spur of the moment. She wanted to sit down and seriously discuss it with Troy. Sure, they could comfortably live on Troy's salary, and he was more than happy to provide for his family, but it still needed to be a decision that they made together.
When Gabriella had shown up to the set of her new film, she was shocked, and horrified, to find out that Sharpay had signed up to do the movie as well. Gabriella wanted to back out, but Taylor convinced her that everything would be alright. And even though she didn't need Sharpay's words of … encouragement, Gabriella begrudgingly agreed that they needed to learn to work together if they were going to be like family. Sharpay was being extra nice, even though Gabriella knew all she wanted was to sink her claws into Troy. Troy wouldn't have any of it though. He was playing doting father until they were able to have a DNA test next month. If the baby did in fact turn out to be his, then they would figure out a way to deal with that then.
But Gabriella never dreamed she'd find out that Sharpay was in fact lying about the whole thing. She didn't want to confront Sharpay directly. She was sure Troy should be the one to do it. One day while they were on a break from shooing on the set, she had seen Sharpay swimming in the set pool. Gabriella was sure Sharpay didn't know anyone was around. If she had, she wouldn't have been so careless. Sharpay had climbed out of the pool, wearing nothing but a skimpy bikini. After drying off, Gabriella watched as Sharpay slid on a fake baby bump before pulling on her pink robe. Thankfully, the Lakers were playing the Heat and Troy would be in town. Tori was spending Spring Break with Troy's parents, so it would just be the two of them.
Gabriella didn't know how she was supposed to tell him this. How was she supposed to tell the love of her life that his child was gone or that there was a possibility that the child could have never been there in the first place. After having kept Tori from him for so long and knowing how much he wanted children even if one was with Sharpay, Gabriella knew this was going to tear him apart.
She wanted to give Sharpay the benefit of the doubt that she had been pregnant and lost the child, but even so, she was still pretending to be pregnant when she wasn't really after all. Gabriella wanted to believe that Sharpay had been pregnant, but she wasn't sure. Gabriella didn't know what to believe. Sharpay had been her friend at one time, her best friend, but she had been lying to Troy this whole time and Gabriella didn't know what to believe any longer when it came to her. All she knew was she had to tell Troy. As horrible as it was, he deserved to know, even though it was going to tear his heart out. He needed to know, and Bri knew Sharpay wasn't going to be the one to tell him.
Troy's game would be over about an hour after she got to the hotel after filming. She knew he was going to be hurt. She was glad they were both in Florida at the same time so she could tell him in person. She wouldn't tell him over the phone. She wouldn't tell him over the computer. It would have just been wrong. She couldn't do that to him. She really didn't even want to do this at all, but he needed to know.
By the time Troy got to the hotel, he was exhausted and in need of the longest nap of his life. He had the bus drop him and Chad off on it's way to the hotel the others were staying at. Troy and Chad were staying with Gabriella and Taylor. They walked across the street to the Mexican place to get some food to take up to their girls before heading up to their rooms and telling each other tonight. The girls had left instructions with the front desk to give them keys when they arrived. Once inside the suite, Troy sat the bag of food on the counter and tugged off his hat. Tossing it aside and kicking off his shoes off, he called out or Gabriella.
"Lily?" He heard the shower shutting off and smiled, walking toward her bathroom. Pushing the door open, he caught her sliding her towel on. "Hello, beautiful," he greeted her, grabbing her by the wrist and tugging her into his arms. "I missed you, baby." he groaned, kissing the side of her neck. "I brought food if you're hungry. I'll let you finish getting ready in peace so I don't ravage you all over this bathroom." He winked, kissing her lips softly. "Te quiero."
Gabriella smiled as he pulled away from her, walking to the door. "Te quiero, T." He was about to leave and she spoke up again, stopping him. "Can we talk when I get out there?"
Troy gave her a quizzical, but nodded anyway. "Of course, baby." Walking out, he headed back to the main area of the suite, pulling their food out of the bag and onto the counter. He stopped when he saw her walk in the room, dressed.
"I liked the towel look better, but you look beautiful," Troy said, letting his arms around her waist and kissing the tip of her nose, letting his hands slide softly over the lilac-colored nightie she had put on. "So, what was so important?" he asked, smiling down at her.
Taking a soft breath, Gabriella turned ger head up to look at him, biting her lip softly. Her face worried him because she looked like she was about to drop something terrible.
"Troy, I found out something, and I know I need to tell you, but I know when I tell you, you're going to be very sad and mad. And I don't want to be the one to tell you this, but I know if I don't tell you, no one else will."
She ran her fingers through the hair at the back of his head. Troy shivered, not only from the feeling of her fingers through his hair, but the eerie feeling she was eliciting with her tone alone.
"I love you so much, and I never want you to forget that. We've gone through so much just to get to this point and you're going to feel like it's been pointless when I tell you this, but even that isn't going to be what's important at this point." Gabriella felt horrible right now and she just wanted to take all his pain away and she hadn't even told him yet. "Troy... Sharpay... She's not pregnant... Whether she was in the beginning or she lost it, I don't know, but... there's no baby. She's faking it."
Gabriella bit her lip, waiting for the hurt, the anger, waiting for all of it. Troy's eyes slid open wide, his mouth following suit. Gabriella knew she had taken him by surprised. He hadn't expected her to say this at all. Who would expect this? Who expects someone to tell them that their child isn't alive anymore? And this had been the second time Gabriella had to tell him this. The first time had been when she had told him Angel hadn't made it. Gabriella had hated that moment. She hadn't even wanted that baby at first, but when she had lost her, the baby they had first been pregnant with, she felt horrible, and telling him was the worst thing she ever told him. It had hurt him so badly. And now she was hurting him again. Taking yet another child away from him, another child he never had the opportunity to meet.
"No..." Troy spoke slowly, shaking his head. "There's no way. She's got the belly. I heard the baby's heartbeat. You heard it. I heard it. We both went to the appointment with her when we got home from Hawaii. There's no way she's faking it."
Troy knew Gabriella had no reason to be lying to him, but he couldn't believe what he was hearing. Yes, he knew Sharpay had been broken when he broke up with her, but he had loved her at one time and he wanted to believe she wouldn't betray him like this. He was doing his best to take responsibility for what he had done with Sharpay. He had conceived a child with her, and he already loved the child she was carrying, even if Gabriella wasn't the one who was pregnant.
"You're mistaken."
He started to scoop out some beans for her onto a plate from the cupboard. "She and I... we've been getting along great, there's no reason for her to lie... or fake..." He glanced back at Bri, tears burning at his eyes. "No, we saw it. The baby was healthy."
He looked back at the food in front of him, grabbing both plates and smashing them in the sink. He couldn't believe this. He didn't want to. His baby was fine. Sharpay wouldn't do this to him. She wouldn't. Right?
"No..." he said, slowly, shaking, his eyes lowering to the floor as tears ran down his cheeks. "No... the baby is fine."
He couldn't do this again. Not another dead child. Not again.. not when he really wanted this baby. But he did have another daughter. He loved Tori more than anything. She needed a little brother or sister. And even though it wasn't Gabriella giving birth to it, it was still his child and still Tori's sibling. Even Gabriella had accepted that. He knew how much it hurt her that she wasn't the one giving birth to her, and as upset as he was, he was trying to remind himself that she wouldn't tell him this to hurt him. As much as he didn't want to believe it, there had to be some truth here, he just didn't want it.
Gabriella slowly walked over to him as he lowered his head. She could see the tears as they slowly fell to the floor. Sliding in front of him, she placed her hands on his face, not lifting his head. If he wanted to cry, she'd let him do it, and she'd let him do it with his head down. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she pulled him closer, letting him rest his head on her shoulder. They had lost a child together. They knew what this felt like. They could handle this together. Gabriella wasn't going to go anywhere.
She cried with him. No words needed to be said. They had decided they were going to raise this child together anyway. What words would grieving parents say to each other. Last time he had blamed her for losing our baby, but it wasn't going to happen this time. This time they held each other. Gabriella ran her fingers through his hair, pulling his head down to rest on her breast. She was never going to leave him, not ever again. She was here for him and she was his forever. He was hers. They had promised that forever ago, and even though she had left twice now, fate led them back to each other and she would never be more grateful, and she was never leaving again.
Troy wanted to fight Gabriella's comfort, wanting to retreat intom himself, but he knew she wasn't going to lie to him. He had to believe it, and when his head started to clear, he knew Sharpay was lying, hurting him on purpose. I hated that he knew his child was gone that he or she did exist but now they were gone. He took in a shaky breath, trying to focus on her fingers in his hair and not the pain in his chest. He was so grateful for Gabriella. She always helped. She was the only thing that could save him from being swallowed alive by the pain. Even just thinking about her always saved him. He kissed the space above her heart before pulling back to look at her.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you," he whispered, kissing her forehead softly. "I didn't mean it." He closed his eyes, resting his head on top of hers. "I can't believe she'd be so cruel, to play games like this. I know I'm not always a good guy, but I try," he continued to whisper, pulling back completely and wiping his face. He just thanked God above that I knew Gabriella wasn't like her, not even a little bit. Yes, she had kept Tori from him, but he understood her reasons now. Sharpay had lost his child and not even bothered to tell him. She had no heart.
Turning back to face his Lily, kissing her deeply and whispering against her lip, "I am so incredibly lucky to have you. You're all I need in this world. Just you. I don't know what I did to deserve you, but I have you and that's all that matters. Thank you for being so good to me, even at my worst." He kissed her softly, letting his tongue tangle with hers. His hand slid up her neck, burying deep in her dark curls. "I love you," he murmured against her lips before kissing her again.
Gabriella moaned against his lips, wrapping her arms more around him. "I love you, Troy."
She didn't want to let him go, but she knew he wanted to end this with Sharpay. He could go to her room in the morning and that way at least he'd have a good night's rest and Gabriella could hold him in my arms tonight and he could relax at least before he had to go through that hell. She didn't necessarily want him to put it off, but she did think it would be best if he had some rest before he did.
Troy inhaled deeply as she got even closer, his breathing uneven especially since he could smell how amazing she smelled. Like the most delectable sweet ever invented. It had been weeks since they had been together. They ahd both wanted to stay home, but they both had responsibilities and life had to go on.
Gabriella's kiss deeplened, and Troy groaned, feeling her finger in his hair, backing her up so she was against the counter. Gabriella hadn't meant for this to happen, but it had been so long since they had been with each other. They needed each other and couldn't deny each other the pull the other was feeling. They never could deny it, but it was especially hard tonight. He barely pulled back his head to speak, breathing heavily, whispering heavily at the side of her neck.
"I'll stay here and go in the morning... to see her." His hands trailed up her arms. "Thank you. For telling me. Thank you for being perfect."
Leaning down, Troy captured her lips with his, lifting her slowly off her feet and letting her legs wrap around him. He headed toward the living room, his kisses growing with passion. He wanted to drown in her, to forget the pain. Laying her back on the couch, he pulled his shirt up and over my head, tossing it aside.
"I'm going to make the best love of your life to you," he whispered, kissing her deeply as his hand came to her pussy. He rubbed at it through her panties, groaning when it didn't take long at all for her to get wet. "I love you," he murmured against her lips, pushing the flimsy purple material aside, starting to rub her through her bare clit. "That's it, babe," he whispered when her moans grew.
Letting his lips trail down her neck, he nibbled gently, pushing her panties aside and starting to rub gently at her bare clit. He moaned, nipping more at her breast. She really wanted him. As bad as he wanted her, but he was taking his time. He was going to make her feel damn good and then have her ride him. He grunted harder, licking at the spot he had been nibbling before coming back up to her lips and kissing her long and hard.
Troy alwayas knew just how to get her going. She wasn't even thinking about anything but his hand anymore, just how good his hand was feeling and other things would feel... "T, Te... O, te quiero!"
She let her hands slide down between them, coming to his belt and undoing it before pulling at it and undoing it before undoing the button on his pants. "I've missed you, T. So much." She looked up into his stormy sea blue eyes, lifting her hips against his as she pushed his pants down, using her toes to help push them down and off of him. "Te quiero!"
Troy tugged her nightgown over her head and tossed it aside, capturing her breast in his mouth. Biting lightly at the nipple causing her to whimper slightly and eliciting a low groan from his throat. "Lily," he whispered, pulling her panties slowly off her.
He tossed those aside, returning his finger to her clit, rubbing at it lightly, moaning as he licked more at her nipple. Nobody turned him on like she did, not ever and he was sure they never would. Yes, Sharpay and Troy had sex but it was nothing like this. This was the best. He pulled back, pressing a soft kiss to her stomach, he wished she was pregnant, but they would continue to try. He knew they'd be making love for years to come, and if she didn't get pregnant this time, there were thousands of times to come.
"I love you," he murmured against her thigh.
Leaning in more, he let his tongue slide over her clit, only for a second before moving down and licking her entire slit. He slid a finger inside of her coming back up to her clit, rolling his tongue over it softly. He loved the way she felt on his tongue. It was her, the smell, the taste, the feel, all of it, Troy loved it more than anything in the world, and the more he pleased her, the more he got turned on. If it wasn't enough that Gabriella's body was humming, her mind was driving her crazy and that was enough to send her body into hyperdrive. She braced herself on his shoulders, breathing deeply. He felt so good and they were only warming up.
God, she loved this man, more than he would ever know. "Oh, T! Oh, my!" She pushed her head back into the couch. "T! Mmmmm!"
She turned her head back to him, looking down at his head between her legs, gripping at his hair, lifting her hips more to his head. As much as she enjoyed this, it had been almost two weeks since they had made love, and she wanted more than just oral from him. She wanted everything from him.
"Te quiero, T." She slid her hands down over his head to his shoulders, pulling him up to her and wrapping her arms around him. "I need you, T."
She pushed him back up, sitting with him on the couch and wrapping her legs around his waist, kissing his lips hard. Yes, they'd made love several times since getting back together, and even since he'd come to Hawaii to get her, but she knew it was one moment more than she didn't have before and she wasn't going to waste as single moment.
"I love you, T. Now and forever."
"I love you," Troy murmured against the soft skin of her neck.
Tugging his boxers down, he shifted her slightly, letting the head of his cock rub over her clit. "I missed you," he mumbled, kissing her lips gently his cock slid toward her hole, teasing it ever so slightly before sliding deep inside of her. At first, his pace was slow and steady, but by the time he really felt how wet she was, he couldn't hold back and so his pace picked up.
"Damn it, Lily."
He grunted, moving his hand in between them and rubbing at her clit. She was so wet that she literally soaked his fingers.
"I love you. You're so wet."
Moaning, he captured her lips in a long, drawn out kiss. Curling his free hand into her hip, he helped her move up and down. He let his lips move down her neck, coming to the tip of her breast and kissing it lightly. Leaning even further, he took her nipple in his teeth, biting lightly at it.
"Mmmm!"
Troy moaned, rubbing at her clit faster. He really loved this woman, more than anything in this world. Nobody gave me sex as well as she did and nobody ever would. There wasn't a day that went by that he wasn't completely thankful that they find their way back to one another. He was especially happy that he got to make love to her, because he honestly never believed they'd be here like this again. Pulling his hand back, he gripped at her hips with both hands, moving the pace faster and grunting at how good that was.
"God, I love you!"
"O, T," I moaned against his lips, hugging him tightly. "You feel so good inside me."
She leaned her forehead against his, pushing her hips more with his, moving faster and faster with him. She could feel her orgasm coming up and she wanted him to cum with her. Moving her mouth to his ear, she started to nibble at his earlobe, moaning softly. She let her nails dig slightly into his back. There wasn't anyone in this world she loved more than this man, and it wasn't even about the sex, but the way he felt inside of her, and the way he made her feel with his arms around me, their naked bodies wrapped around each other, was like nothing else in the world.
"Cum with me," she moaned, feeling her climax start to hit her as she gripped on to his shoulders, whimpering into his ear. "T..." she whimpered, moaning as she pushed her hips more against him, moving back and forth, drawing his climax out. "Oh, T! Te quiero!"
Troy closed his eyes, biting lightly at her shoulder. His balls were starting to tighten and his mouth fell open, letting out a low groan that he was sure the whole hotel heard. And that's when it hit both of them hard. Growling out, he let his cum spill deep inside of her.
"I love you." He was so spent, he was sure he'd sleep right here. Laying back on the couch, he slid out of her when he felt himself growing softer inside of her. He pulled her blanket off the back of the couch, wrapping it around them. "I love you, beautiful." He didn't want to think about tomorrow, or all the shit he'd have to deal with, he knew it was coming. "I love you, Lily. Thank you for being here for me. I want you to know that. Just because you need to know how thankful I am for you. I'd be a mess without you, just as I was when you left."
Sighing, he pulled back to look at her. "I'm sorry for bringing that up. I'm just so glad you're back. So very glad." He kissed her lips deeply. "Thank you for coming back to me. I don't deserve you. But thank you. Even after everything with Sharpay, you're still here."
She smiled up at him, the kind of smile that captured his heart all over again and held on tight. But all Gabriella felt like doing was crying. She hated crying, but it seems like that's all she'd been doing. Not only since Hawaii, being so grateful to be back with him, but missing him in Hawaii. She remembered how much she had cried when she found out Sharpay was pregnant. She remembered that night. She dreamed about it. Quite often, and she could remember almost everything. Everything until she came face to face with the gun. That was when she always woke up.
But Troy didn't know that he had that backwards. She was the one who didn't deserve him. She smiled, kissing his lips softly, resting her head back against his chest, ignoring his thanking her. She didn't deserve him thanking her or him telling her he didn't deserve her.
"I'm really sorry about Sharpay, T. She's not pregnant. I don't know why she lied. I don't know how long she's been lying. I don't know anything. I just saw her in the pool, in nothing but a really skimpy bikini, and then pulling on a baby bump that we use for movies. That's all I know." She felt bad for telling him this. Kissing his bare chest, she closed her eyes softly. She just wanted to forget about all of this and move forward with their life together."I'm so sorry, T," she whispered.
Troy took her face in his hands, turning her head toward me and kissing her gently. "Don't be sorry. It's not your fault." He kissed her forehead before slowly standing up. "Stay here."
He gave her a kiss on the cheek and headed to the kitchen. Gabriella watched him walk into the kitchen, pulling her knees up against her naked body. After getting the food, leaving it in the boxes and grabbing two forks and some drinks out of the fridge, he brought it back into the living room. Placing it all down on the coffee table, he sat back down next to Gabriella, pulling the blanket back over the two of them. Gabriella laid her head against Troy's shoulder.
"I'll feed you beautiful."
Giving her a quick kiss, he grabbed a fork and a box of the food. He scooped up some of the beans, holding it up to her mouth, smiling as she chewed. Troy took a bite for himself and flipped the TV on.
"What would you like to watch?" he asked, deciding it was best just to forget the entire drama that was Sharpay. He was only hurting himself thinking about it, and this was his time with Gabriella. He wasn't soiling it with thinking about Sharpay, not when he just wanted to focus on him and Gabriella.
He flipped through the channels, settling on a movie of hers. "This one looks good," he smirked, setting the remote down and feeding her another bite and taking one himself. Even though he hadn't liked torturing himself, he had always watched her movies, and when she'd been on telvision shows. No one ever knew, but if he couldn't see her in real life, he'd sneak a peek secretly.
Gabriella herself hated watching her own movies. She had always attended the premiers, but when everyone went into the theater, she would duck out the back. But since she had gotten back together with Troy, they'd watched a few of them together, even watching some with Tori and Temperance. It was different to watch them with someone else. She never would have watched them with Julian and Taylor had already seen them during filming, plus she had always taken Chad to see them, which Gabriella was fine with.
But she couldn't focus on it, not too easily. She didn't know how Shar was going to pass it off when the "baby" was born. She felt so bad for Troy and she didn't know what to do for him. But she was sure Troy didn't want to talk about this anymore tonight, so she tried to figure something else to talk about. Maybe the movie.
Swallowing the food in her mouth, she curled up a little more with him. "You know, when I met Megan Fox before this movie, we were at the airport, on the same flight to Texas to film." Gabriella nodded, smiling up at him. "She's kinda nice. Some people were whispering about her after I was talking to her, saying things like 'Oh, she's so snooty.' 'Oh, I can't believe she talked to her!'" She giggled some, shaking her head slightly. "Do you think she wouldn't talk to me? Maybe I wouldn't talk to her." She shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe people think I'm the one with the attitude. I don't know. Probably, considering I never have talked about my personal life until we got back together and Tori came to live with us, and I don't have friends and before you I've never had a boyfriend that they really knew about or anything like that. It was probably me they were talking about. Because she really was very nice."
Troy shook his head, swallowing the food in his mouth. "You aren't snooty! Not even close. You're amazing with your fans. Trust me." He gave her a kiss, feeding her some of the taco. "Everyone loves you. Just as much as I do." He kissed her nose and went back to his food. "However, I have read that a lot of people think Megan Fox is a bitch, so, I can almost bet they weren't talking about you. But if Megan was nice to you, maybe the magazines were wrong about her?"
Troy shrugged, reaching for his soda, opening it up and taking a sip. "And if they were talking about you, who cares if the media thinks you're a bitch, I know differently, your friends and family know differently. Your fans know differently. Who gives a shit what the press says. They actually said I was an ass, which is sorta true, but I have never been that way, ever, with fans. I'm only that way with the media, especially lately. When you were in the hospital, they kept hounding me and Taylor and Chad for information. Temperance decided she couldn't come down anymore while you were still asleep because she couldn't handle their harping. I told them to fuck off and to stop bugging my family. I don't care if they think I'm an ass, they're less likely to ask stupid questions that way." Troy laughed. "You know me, I like things private, as private as they can be, and with the drama and well, all this crap, it hasn't private, but it's getting better."
He shrugged, taking a sip of his drink, setting the can back down on the table and looking back at the TV. He don't know how anyone could think Gabriella was mean, she doesn't have a mean bone in her body, not since he had known her. Sure she had her spitfire, but she was never downright mean to anyone, especially her fans. All he'd ever heard was Ella Leigh was so sweet to her fans. It's all he read and saw, and he knew for a fact it was true.
"I know. I like our privacy. I like my own privacy too when it comes to the media. That's why I've never had interviews before we did Entertainment Tonight. I've never wanted people to find out things about me that are sacred to me..." She smiled up at him. "Like my past with you." She knew he knew now that she hadn't wanted the truth of Tori to surface, so she didn't need to bring that up. "But, si, I know exactly what you mean by keeping things private."
Troy nodded, understanding completely. He had never talked about Gabriella for fear someone might overhear and the world would know about her, and they'd all ask him about her, like they did now. Since that Tori came into our life. He was glad they had their daughter now, but he missed their privacy. The media would continue to pry, but they were in the public eye, no matter how much either of them hated it. But no matter what they got on them, they couldn't make something as perfect as the two of them ugly, no matter how hard they tried. No matter what kind of mud they tossed. She was his. He was hers. And De Aquila and Sharpay were bumps in the road.
No one had even heard from De Aquila since the tsunami hit the little island in Hawaii. He was now on administrative leave from the team and was on the missing persons list. There hadn't been more than two hundred people on the island at the time the wave crashed down, and he was one of thirty-three who were missing. Four were dead. Troy and Gabriella were so relieved that Tori hadn't come with them and that their friends and her sister had all gotten off the island in one piece. Chad's arm was still in a cast and Troy's ribs were still healing, but they were all safe and sound, and that's all that matters.
"I've always felt overwhelmed with the paparazzi," Gabriella continued, "but now having you in my life, it's not so bad. I know I've had Nicky to protect me, but he's not the same. He's my friend and my head of personal bodyguard, but he's not like you. Nobody could ever be like you."
Gabriella sat up beside him, pulling the blanket up over her didn't mind much, but he'd much rather she didn't cover herself up, but he'd live.
"Troy, you don't know how much having you back in my life means to me."
He smiled at her, setting the food down on the coffee table, having had more than enough.
"I do know, Lily. It means just as much to me."
Leaning closer to her, he kissed her shoulder, letting his lips linger there before kissing her neck and pulling back to look at the TV. But Gabriella wasn't done talking. She was feeling bad, still, about Sharpay, about not being pregnant yet, about so much. She just had to talk.
"T."
He turned his eyes away from the TV again, looking at her. "Yeah?"
"If I would have stayed pregnant back then... how do you picture our lives now?"
Troy grabbed her face, making her look at him. She had her eyes closed, so he kissed each lid gently. She opened her eyes, and he smiled softly.
"We'd be as happy as we are now, except we'd have two beautiful little girls running around... and we wouldn't be naked in the living room."
He chuckled and she tucked her hair behind my ears, blushing slightly. No, they wouldn't be sitting around in the living room naked. That was a given. But she loved how he laughed about that. She laughed softly with him, snuggling more into him as he continued talking about how their life would be. She had thought about it many times, and she knew the way he pictured it was the same way she thought about it. She just wanted to hear him say it. They always thought alike when it came to the way they pictured their family, but she loved to hear him talk about it too.
"And we'd be married."
Those words right there. That's what Gabriella wanted to hear. She let her thumb brush across the band of the ring she wore on her finger once more. He's the only man in this world she could ever be married to. Even though she had accepted Jules' proposal, she never could have gone through with it. Troy was her soul mate. He was her forever. She had promised him when they were teenagers. He had asked me back then, and they were really engaged now, planning their wedding, and she knew she could never say yes to anyone else and ever actually marry them.
"We'd probably have a little boy as well with a baby on the way because I want as many children as I can with you." He smiled more, kissing her lips softly. "Does that answer your question? Oh! And we'd have a dog, a boxer. He'd love our kids as much as we do. But thinking about all this is crazy, because it's not how things are and living in the past just haunts you. We're making new memories, real ones that will be just as great as the fake ideas we have. I love you. And you're all I need. The future that never happened doesn't matter."
He smiled at her, kissing her lips gently. He knew why she was asking, but he had no issue answering, because before she came back to him, it's all he thought about, their life had our little first child lived. He thought about it all the time before, but now that she was back, now that they had a beautiful little girl and they were planning on getting married, he was happy. He didn't need to think about anything because he had her and she was all he needed. Yes, more children would be nice, but if all he ever had forever was Lily, he would be okay with that.
She looked over at him, blinking when his lips came against hers. They had been trying for months before the accident and everything that happened with Julian, and they had been back together for two weeks now, and even though she hadn't been back to the doctor, she was beginning to wonder when she was going to get pregnant again, if she'd ever get pregnant again.
"Does that answer your question?"
She smiled, hugging him more to her, accepting his kiss and kissing him back just as softly.
"We are already making a future just as great as the future we never had, T."
He kissed her nose and she blushed slightly as he caressed her face softly. He pushed her hair back from her face and she smiled up at him softly. She loved him so much and she was never going to give him up for anything. He pulled her back so she could look at him, kissing her again, this time more softly, gently, and she wanted to melt against him. He had made love to her here and then he had fed her. And now here they were just laying in each others arms. Nothing could be more perfect than a night like this.
"You're perfect, I want you to know that. Perfect. Completely. Fully. You always have been."
He kissed her forehead and she rested her head against his chest, thankful she could here here like this with him. She felt horrible. She wished Sharpay wasn't lying to Troy. She wished Sharpay hadn't ever been pregnant at all. She wished Troy hadn't fucked her that day, but she didn't blame him, any more than she blamed herself for keeping Tori from him.
Keeping heshe eyes shut, I wrapped her arm around his stomach more. "I know we can't change the past, no matter what we do. All we can do is make a better future for all of us."
Troy smiled as she hugged him. Nodding, he pressed a soft kiss to her lips. He wanted her to know how much she meant to him, he really did. he didn't want her to forget it either, especially when she reminded me of things like this.
"You're right." He stretched out, shifting so she was in front of him on the couch, laying down and he was behind her on the couch. He yawned, hugging her back. "I just want to enjoy right now. No past. No future. Just this moment." He buried his face in her hair, speaking into it. "And right now I love you and that's all that matters right now and all that will matter in the future."
He yawned again, stretching out as he wrapped his arm more around her. He was exhausted. The day had been never-ending. And now that he was so content, her in my arms, the weight of the day was weighing heavily on me, he was ready to sleep.
"I love you," he whispered against her hair, yawning again when his eyes slid shut. Keeping them open was not happening. he was trying, he really was, especially since he didn't want to miss anymore time with her. The team was heading for Charlotte tomorrow and they wouldn't see each other again for weeks, so he tried to fight falling asleep, but it was hopeless and he was out like a light, fast asleep with Gabriella in my arms where she belonged. And he was holding her, just where belonged. They were both where they were meant to be. Forever.