Only in My Sleep

Okay guys this is my first ever story!!

I am really excited about this one as it involves a lot of my life at the moment. Parts of it will be very personal to me and my life and I hope that you can respect that.

NO I will never reveal what is the truth and what is made up in these stories as that is a bit too personal invasion for me.

This story is going to bit quite graphic and emotional as everything will stem from the truth.

This tells the tale of Gabriella Montez and her secrets that nobody is ever to know... or are they?

Each of my chapters will have music to follow so if you see bold letters then this normally means a song you should listen to at this point, music will be able to find on Youtube. I will try and tell you how long.

Playlist for this chapter:

I need some sleep by Eels

You'll be in my heart by Teddy Geiger

I'm feeling you by Michelle Branch

I need some sleep by Eels.

Troy rolled over to check his alarm clock another sleepless night had cascaded over his body as the thoughts of the up and coming game danced in his brain.

"Guys!! You have to get the rebounds that's points you are throwing away."

"For fucks sake get your heads in the game this isn't any old game we are playing for!!"

"Come on we can do this!!"

"Practise those free throws like your life depends on it!!"

"WHAT TEAM?"

"Troy your brain should be on the court not somewhere else!!"

He had been like this for the last week and it was starting to show, his bright blue eyes held a glaze over them, clouding the sharpness and making him feel dead. Even his best friends had told him to sleep and for them to notice on subtle emotions it had to be bad. His dad was not helping with all of this pressure and all Troy wanted was a party to enjoy himself with the law of three:

Get drunk, smoke a fag and shag the nearest girl.

His parents had come to their wit's end and left him to his own devices the only time his dad would dare to stand up to him was in basketball the one thing he hadn't let slip from his life, nothing else mattered.

Yes Troy's life had changed.

Two years ago he and his sister were in a car accident his sister had been killed. A drunk driver had ran a red light and killed her in the drivers seat and left him in the passengers seat, paralysing him for 3 months, he missed her like crazy and nobody had been able to take her place.

He missed her curly red hair and her singing in the shower when she took an hour to wash her hair as the herbal essences smell filled the house and the songs she would sing drove them all crazy.

The morning of the accident she had been singing the Tarzan songs as she had baby sat with her boyfriend the night before. The monkey obsessed child under her watchful eye had insisted on watching the Jungle book and then Tarzan, soon after hearing his favourite songs the little boy had gone to sleep leaving his sister with a head full of Disney songs. Drifting into his memories he succumbed to a restless sleep.

You'll be in my heart - Teddy Geiger

She woke up in the morning singing all of the songs waking the house at 6:30 before she went out for her morning run.

She returned an hour later as the house filled with the smell of bacon. She had ran to her little brothers room and tickled him awake as his piercing blue eyes opened, one by one, he was greeted with a warm smile and a pair of green blue eyes that he always thought looked a different colour depending on her mood. Today they were leaf green with shocking blue rims, her after run eyes.

"Come on get up Troy Boy! It's a new day and you are wasting it in your dreams."

She kissed his forehead and left him dozing as the smell of bacon slowly dragged his aching body out of bed as he soon began to hurry knowing the communal bathroom was about to be occupied by the little mermaid singing Tarzan.

He was too late, her sing song voice had begun as the water came crashing out of the shower and tumbled down her body. The regular shriek came as the water went from cold to hot again. He knew his dad had just turned the shower on in their parent's en-suite just at that moment for his shower to annoy his sister.

Troy wandered down stairs, chuckling to himself at his crazy little family, to find his mum cooking her famous breakfasts. Her medium height and rounded face was the older version of his sister's, her body showed the love of food and the fact she ran her own bakery added to her wholesomeness. She smiled at her son as he shuffled round the breakfast bar to hug her.

"Good Morning!" his Mom sang to him, this was their daily little routine and it never got old.

"Goood Morning!" he chorused back

"To you!" they both sang together as his dad walked downstairs towelling his hair dry with a roll from his eyes he grabbed his paper and walked to the breakfast bar where Troy had found himself sitting.

"Here we go" his dad chipped into the conversation.

"Coz you'll be in my heart,

Yes you'll be in my heart,

From this day on

Now and forever more

Don't listen to them

Coz what do they know

We need each other to have and to hold

They'll see in time

I know…

When destiny calls you,

You must be strong

I may not be with you

But you've got to hold on

They'll see in time…

I know

We'll show them together

'Coz you'll be in my heart

Believe me; you'll be in my heart

I'll be there from this day on

Now and forever more

Oh, you'll be in my heart

Believe me; you'll be in my heart

I'll be there from this day on

Now and forever more

I'll be there for you always

Always

I'll be with you

I will be there

Always and ever

Always and always

Just look over your shoulder

I'll be there."

I'm feeling you - Michelle Branch

"Thank you thank you very much" his sister shouted down the stairs as she bounded down taking a bow looking up to see her family grinning at her.

Moving across to her Dad

"Morning Papa Smurf!"

"Hey where did that one come from?" her father asked quizzingly.

"Well wouldn't you like to know" she replied with a wink and the whole room erupted with laughter. Giving him a cheeky grin and then kissing him on the cheek, she walked past Troy not saying a word both knowing he was always the last one she said good morning too.

Her mom hugged her and kissed her daughter on both cheeks whispering loving words in Italian to her daughter both smiling at each other.

His mom was half Italian half Irish yet had only seemed to inherit the Irish genes.

With striking white clear skin that tanned beautifully to everyone's surprise (the only Italian in them as his mother joked.) Fiery ginger hair the green eyes it was hard not to look at the two women, names that matched their personalities his mother Lucy and sister Ally-Catrianna or more commonly know as Ally cat, were both incredibly beautiful.

Once untangling herself from her mother Ally jumped on to Troy's lap they hugged each other and rubbed noses. If you didn't know that they were brother and sister their closeness could be mistaken as boyfriend and girlfriend. They connected on so many levels and got on incredibly well no matter what happened they had each others back.

He loved her and she loved him, and it was obvious they were like two peas in a pod. Nobody not even their parents could come between the two of them and this was the way they liked it.

That Friday they had announced to their parents that they were to have that Saturday as brother and sister day.

"Troy Boy, you ready to go?"

"Sure am"

"Good so why are we sat here?"

"I don't know"

Giving each other a knowing look they ran to the car

"Ha! To late Bolton I am driving!" his sister squealed with delight

"Hey Bolton! I believe you have the keys any way" Troy returned

"True as this is my car and I am going to drive" Ally smugly replied

Muttering curses under his breath Troy carried on loading the car.

They had planned to go sailing another of their passions that they shared. After persuading friends and parents not to tag along they set off. Boats attached to the roof of her car and they were off, driving down the streets music on full blast and singing along to there favourite songs.

They reached the lake in time for lunch and got changed quickly. Ally came out wearing her favourite boardies and a polka dot tankini and Troy in his boardies and t-shirt. After much picking on, Troy whipped his t-shirt off to shut his sister up revealing his growing six-pack. After the random discussion of six packs looking like a bowl of moulded jelly they set off racing against each other. Rounding the buoys with ease and enjoying the wind rushing against their faces and the cool water lapping at the sides off the boats and spraying them, neither caring in the slightest how cold they were. Their skin tanned itself leaving them both with lines from their buoyancy aids and shorts annoying Ally intensely.

Ally was also known at school as zebra from all the different clothes she wore for sailing she had multiple tan lines creating stripy patterns across her body. She always had a bruise on her body from something to do with a boat most famous was Bert. The huge bruise had formed on her arm after smacking it on the boom (the boom is a long metal bar and it really hurts if it hits you.) Bert had also appeared on her brother's body as he did something similar however not as bad gaining the title of Baby Bert.

Once they had called it a day mainly because the sun was going down and they were too cold they decided to return home the two of them ran back to the car put the boats on the roof and drove home stopping at the red lights both debating on which was better.

Red Dress by Motion City Soundtrack or I Don't Wanna by Good Charlotte