To Help a Friend

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews! I'm sad this is now over. Some people have asked about a sequel and I don't plan on doing one but I may consider eventually doing a one or two shot sequel so it won't go on too long. Hope you enjoy the epilogue. Please read and review! Thanks! x

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2 years later

Today it was Gabriella's 30th birthday. A lot had changed in Gabriella's life over the past two years, all for the better. For a start, she was now a mom to a very energetic twenty month old daughter, Grace Adele Bolton and six months ago had gone from being Miss Gabriella Montez to Mrs Gabriella Bolton, aka Troy's wife.

"Shh." Gabriella heard Troy whisper to Grace who was giggling. Gabriella was still lying in bed, supposedly asleep still in Troy and Grace's view. Grace was the spitting image of both her parents with having Gabriella dark brown locks, Troy's eyes and smile, and Gabriella's nose and ears.

"Momma!" Gabriella could hear Troy trying to keep her voice down.

"Shh remember daddy told you mommy is sleeping." Gabriella rolled her eyes. Troy definitely couldn't do quiet no matter how hard he tried. "Ready?" Gabriella closed her eyes not wanting to ruin whatever Troy and Grace had planned.

"Momma! Wappy Bwirfday!" Gabriella rolled over and saw Troy holding Grace by the arms as she stood on the bed grinning happily at her mom. Gabriella held her arms out as Grace walked over to her and plopped down on the bed in front of Gabriella's awaiting arms. Gabriella laughed and grabbed a hold of her daughter and brought her into her lap. Grace leaned up and gave her mom a big wet kiss on her cheek.

"Thank you. Good morning princess." Grace giggled as she looked at Troy. "I take it, daddy, that Miss Grace here has the giggles this morning?" Troy sat down next to his wife, dropping a short loving kiss to her lips. Grace giggled watching her parents.

"Yep. She couldn't wait to see her mommy." Gabriella rolled her eyes. "Happy Birthday, Brie."

"Thank you." Troy leaned to the end of the bed and grabbed a bag before pulling out a present for her.

"This is from me. Grace decided that she didn't want to bring mommy's present up here, she wants mommy to open it downstairs." Troy explained as Grace nodded. Gabriella proceeded to opening the big and slightly heavy present from Troy, with the help of Grace in getting the paper off. Gasping, Gabriella looked at Troy in surprise.

"These are amazing. Thank you so much." Inside the small box were several black and white professional portraits of the three of them as a family and several of Grace alone. Gabriella remembered she had told Troy when Grace was older she would love to get some pictures done professionally of the three of them but had never got the time. "These are from..." Gabriella trailed off as Troy nodded.

"Yeah. I kind of lied when I told you that we were doing a photo shoot for a magazine article. I knew you wouldn't think anything of it then and it was the only way of getting you in the pictures as well. I know it's not much right now but you know how much I suck at buying things." Gabriella leaned forward and kissed Troy again.

"I love them. They mean more to me than anything just because they're from you." Troy smiled at his wife.

"Baby." Grace suddenly spoke up as Troy and Gabriella looked at her.

"You want to talk to the baby?" Gabriella asked as Grace nodded. Gabriella leaned back while Troy pulled Grace to him and lifted Gabriella's shirt to show her new bump. Gabriella and Troy were shocked when Gabriella had found out she was pregnant again. It wasn't planned but both were thrilled none the less. Gabriella was around four months gone now. Gabriella remembered the day she found out she was pregnant as it was the same day as the photo shoot.

Flashback

Gabriella had just finished getting herself and Grace dressed ready for a photo shoot they were doing for a magazine that Troy was doing an interview for; their first since they had gotten married. Grace was happily situated in her mother's arms while playing with the lose curls in Gabriella's hair. Gabriella sat on the edge of the bed feeling dizzy. A few days ago, Troy had insisted she go to the doctors after passing out the one day while the three of them had been outside. Gabriella was expecting a phone call any day from the doctors to let her know if anything was seriously wrong or if it was just some kind of virus that had been making her feel run down.

"Dada." Gabriella was pulled from her thoughts as she looked down at her daughter.

"You want daddy?" Grace nodded as Gabriella carefully stood up and walked downstairs to see Troy talking to the photographer.

"Good morning Mrs Bolton." The photographer politely greeted her.

"Good morning." Gabriella gave him a smile before turning to Troy. "She wanted her daddy." Troy took Grace from Gabriella's arms just as the phone rang.

"I'll get it." Gabriella said as she left Grace with Troy and the photographer. "Hello?"

"Good morning, this is Julie from the doctors, is that Mrs Bolton?"

"Yes it is. Can I help you?"

"Mrs Bolton, I have the results back from the tests that were taken the other day. Would you like to know over the phone or would you like to come in?" Gabriella knew she wanted to get it over with so she could assure Troy nothing was wrong.

"Over the phone will be fine."

"Ok, well Mrs Bolton I believe congratulations are in order, you're pregnant. All tests came back positive." Gabriella stood there in shock. How could she be pregnant again? They hadn't even been trying for another baby just yet. How would Troy react?

"Thank you. Can I call you back tomorrow to make an appointment?" Gabriella knew they would be asking that soon.

"Certainly. Once again congratulations Mrs Bolton. Goodbye." Gabriella heard the dial tone and hung up before placing the phone back on charge. How could she tell Troy that she was pregnant? Would he want another child? Did she want another child? Gabriella shook her head at that last question knowing there was no doubt in her mind that she wanted another child.

"Brie?" Gabriella turned and saw Troy and Grace coming towards her. "They will be ready for us in ten minutes." Gabriella nodded. "You ok?"

"Troy, the doctors called."

"Are you ok?" Troy asked before she could continue.

"Yeah. Troy I'm pregnant." Troy's eyes widened in shock.

"Pregnant?" Troy asked wondering if he heard wrong.

"Pregnant." Gabriella confirmed. Looking away, suddenly Gabriella felt a pair of lips on her own as Troy wrapped his one arm around her waist while Grace remained in the middle of the two giggling. Gabriella and Troy laughed as they broke apart and saw Grace showing off her toothy smile. "You happy?"

"Never been this happy since Grace was born and I married you."

"Me neither."

"I love you so, so much." Troy whispered keeping his wife close to him.

"I love you too, Troy." Grace poked Gabriella on the cheek. "Mommy loves you too Gracie." Grace then turned to Troy as Gabriella rolled her eyes.

"Daddy loves little Gracie too." She clapped her hands at her parents before they were called to start the photo shoot.

End Flashback

"Baby, momma bwirfday." Grace said. "Me kiss momma for you." Troy watched as Grace tried to stand up and helped her carefully so she didn't fall again or hurt the baby. Grace then placed another kiss on Gabriella's cheek and wrapped her little arms around her mother's neck.

"You excited about the baby?" Troy asked his daughter who let out a small yawn and nodded. "Hey don't fall asleep yet little miss, mommy still needs to open your present." Troy reminded her as she looked up.

"Momma open now?" Gabriella nodded as Troy picked Grace up and Gabriella slid out of bed and followed the two downstairs.

"Where shall mommy sit?" Grace wiggled for Troy to set her free before she took her mom's hand and led her to the sofa before going back to pull her dad to sit by her mom.

"Daddy, stay." Gabriella raised her eyebrows as she turned in his direction hearing her daughter's being bossy. "Daddy?" Troy looked at Grace who looked at him tearfully. "I no reach." Troy's heart melted as she held her arms out for him to pick her up.

"Want daddy to get it?" She nodded as she leaned against his chest. "Is Gracie tired?" She nodded as Troy kissed the top of her head. "Daddy let you sit down and watch film with mommy and daddy in a minute, yeah?" Grace nodded as Troy grabbed the present that was on the side and handed it to his daughter.

"You ok?"Gabriella asked as Troy walked back with her. The two nodded as Troy sat down with Grace placed in the middle of the two of them.

"Momma." Gabriella took the present that Grace was holding out to her and slowly removed the paper but already guessed it was jewellery. Opening the box, Gabriella felt tears rush to her eyes seeing the gold heart necklace with 'mom' written in diamonds.

"Tell mommy to flip it over." Troy whispered to Grace.

"Momma flip." Gabriella did so and smiled as she touched the engraving that read, 'To Momma love Grace and Baby x'.

"Thank you so much baby." Gabriella hugged her daughter.

"Grace have nuva present." She slid off the chair and walked over to her dolls house. Troy looked confused not knowing what it was.

"I didn't get this for you, from her, whatever it is." Troy whispered as Gabriella looked at him confused.

"Chad help Grace." Grace told her parents as she handed Gabriella an envelope. Troy helped Grace get back on the chair as Gabriella slid a card out. It was had made obviously by Chad and Grace had tried to write and colour on it. Opening it, Gabriella saw a small packet that still held some photos. Pulling them out she smiled. On the photos, it showed Grace and Chad as they were doing the card and Gabriella couldn't help grin seeing how happy her daughter looked on the pictures as she smiled that same Bolton smile as her father. Reading the scruffy writing, it read, 'To momma happy birthday love Grace xxx PS Tay thought you would like the photos'. Gabriella recognised all the writing to be Chad's.

"When did Chad and Taylor babysit?" Gabriella asked turned to Troy.

"I think my dad said something about taking her when we went away for the weekend to give him and mom a break." Gabriella nodded.

"Thank you baby. Mommy loves it." Grace snuggled up to her mom before dropping off into a light sleep.

"You know I kept my promise sort of." Gabriella looked at Troy confused again as he smirked.

"What promise?"

"Remember when we were trying for Grace?" Gabriella nodded. "I promised if we weren't married by the time we got to thirty, I would marry you. Technically we didn't marry anyone else so I kept my promise." Gabriella shook her head at her husband.

"That must be one of the few you have kept." Troy shook his head.

"I kept my promise to you in helping make you a mom." Troy pointed out.

"Ok fair enough. You win." Troy looked at her triumphantly. "Looking back, your idea definitely proved not to be such a bad one after all because look what it's brought us; each other, a beautiful little girl, happiness and most importantly, love." Troy moved so he was sat on the opposite side of Gabriella to where Grace was sleeping before leaning in and kissing her.

"I love you Mrs Bolton."

"I love you too, Mr Bolton." And with that, the two settled down enjoying the fact that life couldn't get any better for them knowing that they could get through anything together and not only were they lovers, they were still best friends and the main thing that counts is that they will always remain there for the other, no matter what life throws at the happy couple who have gone from being best friends for twenty eight interesting years to being a happy family in the past two and knew that there would be many more happy years to come with their children, family and friends by their sides.

A/N: Aww it's over :[ I'm going to miss this story since I have enjoyed writing the last few chapters especially. Thank you to each and everyone of you that took the time to read and even more so review! I am so happy that you have all enjoyed this story because I wasn't sure how it would go when I first started it. Anyway thanks to all these people who reviewed (sorry if I have missed anyone out):

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