Gabriella loved this time of the year. It was the best kick off for the holidays in her shop. She loved making apple cider cup cakes and the pumpkin pies in the shop. Thanksgiving was a holiday that she would fall in love with over and over. She was also very festive during these holidays. She couldn't deny it, but she loved decorating. At work she was working on adding some more decorations up to her shop. She was just about to stop by Pats work to say hi and feed his battalion. When she got off early, she bundled herself in her heather gray button up coat, and grabbed a box of cupcakes.
Gabriella caught a taxi to take her to New Orleans street in Stanton Park. She brought a bunch of cupcakes to Pat's work when she saw a blonde draped in his arms kissing on his neck. He smirked unzipping her jacket as he whispered something in her ear. She sucked all her air in feeling anger rise in her little body. She went back to her taxi.
Somehow she ended up walking in Grant park, tear stains rolling down her face and the fifth cupcake lodged in her mouth. She sighed feeling the cold air around her body. She held the box tightly to her chest as she chewed on the last of her cupcake. Why couldn't things be easy? She sighed kicking some leaves on the ground seeing how beautiful Chicago was in November. She walked past a mom and a little girl in a stroller. Gabriella smiled softly at the little girl extending her hand out to grab her. Gabriella waved at her, smiling as she strolled through the park. She wiped her tear stains trying to look as presentable as she could. She began walking to the fountain wondering how it looked at this time of the year. Granted it's drained, but she wanted to see it.
He was running fast when he started to slow down when he saw the brunette monster. She was smiling a soft warming smile around that kid she walked past. She seemed to warm up to children and he started to notice that. So he decided to be Mr. bad Troy today and to talk to her. He loved talking to her. He ran up next to her smiling. The smile fell of her face quickly. Uh-oh.
"Hey." He said smirking. She rolled her eyes looking away trying to put her walls back up, but she found it hard as he ran a little closer. "So I have to help Renée go baby shower shopping tonight and I need help." He asked walking now, trying to talk to her. She looked at him.
"With?" She asked playing with her fingers.
"I'll swing by later and show you the list." He lied looking at her stay calm, keeping on her walk. "I like kids." He said pushing his talk.
"I don't." She said scrunching her nose. Bingo Troy thought.
"Oh really? See I can't wait to be a dad one day." He said pushing her further. She felt her heart clench.
"I can. I'm so terrified of kids. They're like little needy boyfriends. They want everything... And sometimes you can't provide for them..." She said shrugging. She lied, she loves kids. She just doesn't want to have everyone in her business on why she can't have any kids. She would die to have a baby, but she can't. She didn't want Troy to know especially. "Are you planning on marrying Renée?" She asked. Now there was a curve ball he wasn't expecting.
"Uhhh... Not that I know of." He said looking at her. "I mean it's been a couple of months, but I'm not ready yet." She nodded looking down. "You going to marry Patrick?" He asked her. She frowned and bit her lip.
"I'm breaking up with him tonight." She confessed. Troy looked over to the brunette monster.
"Why?" He asked her. He wanted to know if he was still hurting her. She looked at him, hurt in her eyes. He slowly started softening up to her. She looked away.
"I can't be with a man like him. A man that's too good for anyone." She said looking at the leaves . "I mean, I drink beer, I swear, I'm not perfect, far from an angel, and I'm just not what he's looking for. We fight more than anything these days." She said honestly as they walked out of Millennium park where they both ended up, and onto the streets of Chicago. He nodded.
"So tonight?" He asked looking at her. "I thought you were coming over for the Hawks game?" He asked. It was their thing they had established awhile ago. He loved when she came over for hockey. But he knew the two had hit a wall and it hurt him. The angry mean Gabriella was starting to show again.
"I will later... I just have things to do." She said walking a little quicker.
Troy walked in the front door looking at a couple of extra bags in the house. He frowned seeing Gabriella's luggage and her things. He immediately looked at Chad rubbing his temples. Chad sighed looking down at his phone trying to figure out what to do next.
"What's wrong?" He asked Chad looking around.
"Patrick took everything from her apartment." Chad said looking through his mail next. "I guess someone told him that she was about to break up with him. So he took everything except her personal belongings and clothes and left nothing for her." Chad said annoyed. "Jack ass." He noted too. Troy looked at the only shut door in the house. He walked over seeing her little body wrapped in sheets, as her tiny frame was rising and falling quickly. He sighed getting in the bed with her hearing her sobs get louder. He wrapped his arms around her protectively as she snuggled into his chest crying louder. He just rubbed her sides as she cried.
"What happened?" He asked her trying to figure out what happened. She looked at him sniffling making his heart-break seeing her broken face. She snuggled into him closer.
"He was cheating on me." She spoke softly. "I was going to break up with him when I walked in our shared apartment seeing all my things gone." She said beginning to cry again. He held her closer. "I knew her." She sobbed as Troy got angry. He knew that this jack ass would do something.
"Why didn't you tell chad?" He asked. She sniffled wiping her nose with her baggy hoodie.
"I didn't want him to get irrational." She said frowning. Troy sat up, grabbing her hand. She kinda resisted but stood up when he pulled her up.
"We have 30 until the hawks are on." He said kissing her forehead. She looked at him confused. "Follow me."
They were walking down the street, a tub of ice cream in her hands and a pack of bottled beers in his. She had a spoon eating chocolate chip cookie dough. He smiled sipping on his beer. He was snuggled into his hoodie as she was snuggled in one of his, walking down the street.
"Feeling better?" He asked her. She nodded smiling taking a scoop from the tub.
"Thanks for everything." She said licking her spoon. He smirked.
"Anything for you." He said to her. "I just didn't wanna see you cry anymore." He said sipping his beer after pausing. "It's heartbreaking." She smiled at him.
"Thanks." She said looking down as he just observed her.
"You're going to be alright." He told her. "It stings at first, but then you'll be alright when you realize you didn't need that." All she did was look up at him and give him a smile. He threw his arm around her shoulder as they walked back.
"Troy?" She asked looking up at him.
"Hmm?" He asked her.
"Those bruises were from a fight I got into with him..." She trailed off feeling him go mad.
"I knew it..." He said pulling his arm off her feeling raged.
"But it was a fight I caused." She said looking down. He stopped her pulling her into his arms. She looked up and frowned into his eyes.
"Brie, you didn't ask for it." He said swallowing the lump in his throat.
"I promised him we could try to have kids." She said letting go of him walking away. "I'm infertile and we discussed how we wanted to skip marriage and just have kids. I promised him because I knew I couldn't get pregnant and he kept trying and trying and I was at the point where I couldn't bear to look at another pregnancy test." She looked up at him. Troy seemed to have softened up, looking straight ahead as he sipped his beer.
"You guys were that serious?" He asked putting the pieces together of why she told him she didn't like kids. It was just a bluff she was using.
"Yeah. I mean I thought I loved him enough to give him a child. But...I don-" Sharpay came running up to them on the sidewalk dressed in a tight black dress.
"WE'RE GOING CLUBBING!" The straight haired blonde said with a huge smile. She held a dress up with a bag of cosmetics and hair products over the hanger. Gabriella looked over at Troy as he offered her a smile.
"Go." He assured taking her tub of icecream. Gabriella gave him a soft smile as Sharpay squealed grabbing her and throwing them in her taxi.
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