(A/N: Hello people! Here's the sequel to my story 'As Time Slips Away'. I hope you enjoy it!)
Coming Back With Time
Summary: (Sequel to As Time Slips Away) After Troy and Chad had proposed to Gabriella and Taylor, of course, there needs to be a wedding. With the help of a few old friends, the weddings are a dream come true. [Troyella Chaylor Zekepay Jelsi RyanxOC
Gabriella Montez woke up as the sunlight filtered into her bedroom. She looked at the digital clock and it read 7:30 A.M. She turned to face her fiance, who was sleeping next to her on the bed. Troy Bolton woke up as well to find his true love smiling at him. "Good morning sleepy-head," Gabriella said softly. "Morning, Gabi," Troy said, yawning. Gabi got out of bed, and stretched, slipping her feet into her slippers. She was wearing a white satin nightgown and her slippers, while Troy was wearing a white shirt and sweat pants. They walked into the main room of their shared apartment and Troy started making the coffee. The apartment was medium-sized, with a sofa, a loveseat, and a recliner all on the edges of a cream-colored carpet, around a wood coffee table. The TV was across from the sofa, and had a window on either side of it. Gabi took her coffee mug from the cabinet, and Troy's as well. Troy poured coffee into both their cups, enjoying their Saturday morning together.
In the same apartment building, one floor above Troy and Gabi's apartment, Taylor McKessie woke up to the blaring sound of her alarm clock. "Turn that thing off," Chad Danforth muttered. Taylor sat up and smiled at her fiance, whose head was under the pillow. She turned off her alarm clock, which read 7:45 A.M. "Come on, Chad, wake up," she said, shaking him. Chad's head emerged from under the pillow and he muttered with his eyes closed, "Lemme go back to sleep." Taylor took her pillow and hit Chad in the head with it, causing him to sit up and say, "Tay, why can't you ever let me sleep in?" Taylor replied, still smiling, "Because if I don't, I know that you'll sleep half the morning away." Chad smiled back, "That's true."
He then gave her a kiss on the cheek and swung his feet over the edge of their apartment's bed, stretching. "You need new pajamas," Taylor teased. Chad was wearing flannel pants and a white shirt. "No I don't," he stated. Taylor stretched the sleep from her muscles and pulled down the sleeves of her red cotton pajamas. Taylor started the coffee, turned around, and saw Chad asleep again, his head in his hands, leaning on the kitchen table. Taylor pushed one of his arms out from under him, causing his head to come down and hit on the table. "Ouch!" he said. "I just had to do that," Taylor smiled.
One floor below Troy and Gabi's apartment, at around 8:00, Sharpay Evans, and her twin brother, Ryan, were already both awake, eating breakfast. "What are we doing with them today?" Ryan asked. Sharpay swallowed her cereal and said, "We're helping them get ready for their weddings, duh!" Ryan rolled his eyes and said, "What are we doing with the weddings?" Sharpay said, "Well, we're helping them decide who to invite, thinking of a date for their weddings, and buying the invitations, addressing them, and mailing them."
"And you expect to get that done... how?" Ryan asked. Sharpay looked at her watch and said, "They're supposed to meet us here at 8:30, and we'll start talking about stuff." Ryan sighed and said, "Whatever you say, then."
At 8:30, there was a knock on the Evans' apartment door, and when Ryan opened it, Troy, Gabi, Chad, and Taylor were all there. "Hey guys," Ryan said, letting them in. "Hey," Troy and Chad said. "Come on, guys! We've got lots to do and only one day to do it!" Sharpay exclaimed. Chad whispered to Ryan, "Was she always this... overenthusiastic?" Ryan laughed, "You have no idea." Sharpay had everyone sit down in the sitting area and then, Troy asked, "So... what are we doing today?" Sharpay replied, "We're gonna do a bunch of stuff with the invitations, but first, we need to think of the dates for the weddings." Gabi said, "OK!" Sharpay got out a small pink notebook and a pencil and said, "OK, what are some possible dates?" Troy looked at Gabi and remarked, "We were thinking of May 25th as our wedding date, you know, a spring wedding." Sharpay said, "OK, it's only gonna be a small wedding and reception, right?"
"Right," Gabi answered.
Since it was Thursday, February first, they only had about three months to prepare for the wedding, so Sharpay said that they'd need to mail the invitations that day. They got to talking, and after an hour and a half, the decisions were all made: Troy and Gabi's wedding would be on May 25th, at 3:00 PM, Chad and Taylor's wedding would be on June 28th, at 5:00 PM, and the weddings would be outdoors. Sharpay said, "OK! Now all we need to do is figure out who to invite." Once again, they got to talking and they concluded that they'd only invite close family and friends, no fifth cousins, or cousins once removed, or any of that confusing stuff.
Just their parents, their aunts and uncles, the cousins they know, and of course, the rest of the gang. Gabi asked, "I think we should find some of our old friends, too." Sharpay said, "That would be fine, I think." Gabi said, "Could you give me about ten minutes, I gotta get something from our apartment." They all nodded, and Gabi walked out the door. "I wonder what she needed to get," Chad remarked. About ten minutes later, Gabi was back in her spot, with a dark red suede covered address book.
She flipped a few pages, and asked, "Do you guys remember Jason Cross and Zeke Baylor?" Troy said, "Oh, yeah! Two other Wildcats." Gabi asked, "What about Kelsi Nielson? I remember her." Sharpay said, "Sorta kinda." Ryan told her, "OK, lemme jot your memory. You called her 'the sawed off Sondheim'." Sharpay smiled, "Oh, yeah, I remember her!" Chad asked, "Small person?" Troy thought, "Yeah, I think that's what you called her." Gabi said, "Well... what about the groomsmen and the bridesmaids?" Taylor said, "It's just gonna be us, and the three of them, isn't it obvious?"
Gabi said, "Well, Shar, would you mind if Taylor was maid of honor?" Sharpay shrugged, "Go ahead. Wait, I got an idea!" Taylor corrected her, "I have an idea." Sharpay rolled her eyes, "Who cares? OK, so my idea is that, since Troy and Chad were friends longer, they should be each others's Best Men, and their girlfriends would be the Maids Honor at the same weddings." Taylor asked, "So, Gabi would be my Maid of Honor, and Troy would be Chad's Best Man?" Sharpay nodded. "OK," they all said.
(A/N: My friend pointed something out to me, and if you're wondering, in 'As Time Slips Away', they were living in separate apartment buildings, but after they became friends again, they moved into one building... so, yeah. Review please! Review or I won't update!)