A month passed. It was April, and Gabriella was just over five months pregnant.

The fight had been long enough...

They finally could walk through public without having to hide anything.

They were together, she was pregnant.

Nothing could stop them.

Not even...

Troy's mom.

She sat across from them with Jack, about six feet apart from eachother.

It was like a prison sentence.

"Do you know why I brought you here?" She crossed her fingers.

They both looked at eachother.

"There are some major issues we all need to discuss." She looked deeply at both Gabriella and Troy, with a slight glare coming from her eyes. It scared Gabriella a little, but Troy squeezed her hand tighter.

"I want to first talk about Gabriella and about what's going on with her mom and dad."

Suddenly, Gabriella shut off.

"I don't want to hear it!" She stood up. "If that's what we came here to talk about, then I'll leave!"

"No, Brie." Troy pulled her back into her chair. "I think they just want to know a little about what's happening."

"My mom and dad are drug addicts, okay? Happy?"

"Sweetheart, I just want to know why you felt forced to leave home!" Kay grabbed her hand. "I feel as if you're hiding something from us that isn't worth holding in for the rest of your life!"

Gabriella looked at Troy for a minute. "They get so high, Kay... " Gabriella then looked over at Kay. "I don't know if I'm going to walk in from school one day and find them on the floor, dead... " Gabriella automatically started crying. "I love them so much, but I don't want to see them like that!"

"Is there any other problems that you want to get off your chest?" Jack leaned in a little. "We're here for you. We understand what's going on."

She looked at her and Troy's hands. "When my dad found out I was having sex with Troy, he beat me... " Gabriella pulled her shirt down a little over her left shoulder and showed them a large cut across the top of her shoulder, which still was trying to heal. It was surrounded by black and blue large bruises. "I didn't want him to know I was pregnant, because he would have did the same thing."

"Oh, Gabriella... " Kay put her hand over her mouth. "Has this been happening for a long time?"

She shook her head. "It just happened once... "

Kay grimaced and looked at Jack. "That's horrible, Gabriella... "

She pulled her shirt back over the cut. "I don't feel safe there anymore... "

Jack sat back in his chair. "How did you get here?"

"I called Troy because I needed a ride to my friend's house, but he decided to bring me here. That's how."

Kay sat up a little. "Alright, well, next subject... " She looked over at Troy. "You said you broke up with Ally, right?"

He nodded.

"And you're with Gabriella now?"

He nodded again.

"So, what are you two planning on doing with this baby?"

Gabriella raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"Are you planning on keeping it?"

"Of course. I've got enough heartbreak, and I'm not going to break my heart again trying to hand this baby off to some stranger."

"Are you going to find somewhere else to live, are you staying here, or are you going to move to Lousiana with Troy?"

"I was planning on staying here... " She looked up at them. "If you don't mind- "

"No, we don't mind at all. It's not that." Jack looked Gabriella directly in the eyes. "Now, I know you're due in July. Are you going to be here when she has the baby, Troy?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Well, you'll be in Lousiana."

"I'll fly back up here."

"Then how are you planning on seeing this baby? Are you going to come back up here every day or what?"

"I haven't figured that out." Troy squeezed Gabriella's hand once. "But I'll figure it out."

"You better. You have four months, and althought that seems like a lot of time, it really isn't." Jack stood up. "I'm going to get some coffee. Anyone want something?"

"Coffee." Kay looked up at him.

Troy looked at Gabriella. "Want something?"

She shook her head.

"Alright, bring me a float." Troy leaned back in his chair and yawned.

Kay listened as Jack struggled to make a pot of coffee. "I'll be back." She ran into the kitchen.

Troy ran his fingers through his hair and looked over at Gabriella. "I'm getting my own apartment in Lousiana, Brie." He stroked her arm a little. "You can come with me. You can transfer down there."

"But you can't be my legal guardian!" She sighed. "I have to have a legal guardian at all times. You have to be 21, unless you have a baby before then."

He bit his lip. "I'll figure it out."

A couple minutes later, Kay set Troy's root beer float in front of him and then sat across from him with her coffee. Jack did the same.

"Okay... " Kay looked at Jack. "We were talking, and I came up with a solution to this problem... What if you transfered colleges?" She looked at Troy. "You'll still get free tuition. It'll just be here in Ohio.

Troy raised an eyebrow. "Do you really think I'm about to switch from the best playing football college to some shitty college here in Ohio? No. I offered for Gabriella to move in with me. Case closed."

"Are you?" Kay glanced at Gabriella.

She stood up. "I don't know! Are the questions over?" She sighed. "I don't want to be bombarded with questions I don't know the answers to!"

Kay looked helpless. "No, no sweetheart! We're not trying to override you with questions! We are just trying to find answers!"

"If you want answers, then ask me sometime later. I don't feel like playing 20 questions."

"I'm sorry is we made you upset... " Kay sighed.

Gabriella glanced at Troy. "I just don't feel like being bothered today... "

"That's fine." Kay stood up. "When you want to talk to us, you can always, always come to us. Okay?"

Gabriella nodded.

Troy stood up.

"Freeze." Kay looked at Troy. "I'm not done with you."

Troy slowly sat back down.

Gabriella freely went upstairs.

Kay and Jack both sat down.

Jack glared at Troy. "How the hell did you convince her to have sex with you?"

Troy stood up. "I'm not talking about this- "

"Sit back down!" Kay raised an eyebrow.

Silently, he sat back down.

"How did you do it? You took that sweet, innocent little girl and turned her into some machine that just wants someone to love!"

"I didn't turn her into anything! She wanted love, I gave it to her! Plain and simple!"

"You got her pregnant!" Jack shook his head with a disgusted look on his face. "She's fourteen years old, and now, she's going to give birth in four months."

"She'll be fifteen by then- "

"That's not the point!" Kay said. "She had the best outlook right now, because all she thinks she needs is you and this baby, Troy. She needs more than just you and a baby. She needs someone to look up to, a good role model. Right now, the people she is around are molding who this girl will become. I don't want her to turn into a little prostitute that shows her body for money! I care about this girl, whether you think so or not! She is the mother of my first grandchild! I don't want her to end up like half the slutty girls in this neighborhood!"

Troy growled. "SHE ISN'T GOING TO TURN INTO A SLUT!"

"She's headed that way!" Jack glared heavily at Troy. "Look at her, Troy! What happens when one day, you leave? How is she going to make money? She can't get a job, she doesn't have a car, and she doesn't have a house to raise her child in! She has to make money somehow!"

"I'm not leaving her! Jesus christ mom and dad, I love her! I'm not going to pick up and leave when we have a baby together!"

"Troy, you're not going to settle for anything less than a skinny, slutty, popular girl! You know it just as well as we do!" Kay sighed. "Just admit it! That's all you want! You want the jock life, and that life includes lots of girls, popularity, and money. You're not going to settle for a very smart young lady who is innocent."

"I'll settle for Gabriella anyday!" Troy felt a couple hot tears running down his cheeks. "What the hell is wrong with you? I love her! I can't fucking even walk around this house without being told that I'm just putting on an act. Yeah, I used her for fucking sex at first, but don't you see that I really do love her?" He stood up. "DAMN IT!"

"Sit!" Jack pointed to his seat.

"No! You aren't my fucking boss! I'm eighteen, and I can do whatever the fuck I please!"

"You are in MY house under MY rules, so SIT!"

Troy growled and slunk back into his seat.

"You're eighteen and you act like you're two." Kay shook her head. "You need to really grow up. You'll have a baby in four months that you won't know a damn thing about taking care of it."

"You'll see... " Troy crossed his arms. "I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself, Gabriella, and my kid."

A moment of silence came across all of them.

"Can I go?"

"Go." Jack sighed.

Troy got up and started up the stairs.

"I can't believe we raised such an ass of a kid." Jack sipped his coffee.

"KIDS ARE WHAT THEIR PARENTS ARE!" Troy yelled from upstairs.

"THEN LOOKS LIKE YOUR KID IS GOING TO BE AN ASS TOO!" Jack yelled back.

After that long talk, things suddenly became tense in the family.

And things became worse for Gabriella...