"Dude, DUde, DUDe, DUDE" a guy with dark skin and very curly hair whispered while hitting his hand on his friends arm to get his attention, but his friend was already staring, mouth wide open.
"Dude, Chad don't do that, I know, no need to grab my attention." Troy snapped. Troy and Gabriella locked eyes, but Gabriella looked away quickly.
"I don't think we met properly last night," Mark pointed out. "I'm Mark"
"I'm, I'm, Gabriella Montez," she told him locking eyes with Troy again, "I'm sorry."
Gabriella turned around and hurried out of the room. She went back to the room where she slept. Gabriella got back under the covers and pulled them over her head, not wanting to face what was right outside.
"Is it something I said?" Mark asked, trying to make humor of the awkward situation at hand. Amanda placed the spatula on the counter and turned the stove off. She went over to the bedroom and knocked on the door. Gabriella didn't answer, so she walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge of the bed placing a hand on Gabriella's shoulder.
"Gabbi?" Amanda asked. Gabbi poked her head out of the covers. Amanda noticed that she had tears in her eyes. "Gabbi, sweetheart, what's wrong?" Gabbi didn't answer. "What is it?" Gabriella sat up about to speak but there was another knock on the door, it was Troy. Gabriella gulped, she didn't want to do this, not on the first day of her so called vacation.
"Can we talk?" Troy asked simply, stepping into the room and closing the door behind him. Gabriella sighed.
"Better get this over with" Gabriella thought to herself. "It was gonna happen sooner or later and I knew I was gonna run into him. I just had a feeling"
"Yea, we can talk."
Amanda felt the tension in the room and left the two to talk. She had no idea what was going on but if two people needed to talk and one of them being her best friend she was going to leave them alone. Troy walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge.
"Gabriella, I'm sorry." He told her. "I know I left you a great deal of heartache."
"Troy, you left for college without ever saying good-bye and then came back two years later. We picked up where we left off and then you left me again, again with out saying goodbye. I loved you and had no idea what to do. You left me in dust, like you didn't even love me, ever. You didn't even leave a note. Troy, it seemed like you never cared enough to write. You didn't care to even write a e-mail or even a letter. You didn't care to stay in touch with the so-called-love-of-your-life. You just didn't care Troy, and it pained me so much." She was crying now, letting every once of hurt pour out of her.
"El, I'm so sorry. I did it well because I didn't know how to handle our relationship. You are the first person I have ever loved, honestly, well other than my parents. I didn't know what to do with my feelings, so I just walked away from them. I didn't know how to handle it and we were getting really serious and it was my first serious relationship with someone that I loved so much," He told her truthfully. She didn't say anything all she did was cry. Troy took hold of her and wrapped his arms around her in a tight embrace. Gabriella sniffed and looked at Troy. She hugged him tightly. Gabriella missed him so much.
"Yea, we were getting pretty serious, but I didn't run away from what I was feeling. All I wanted was to be with you, but then you went off without ever saying good-bye and that was one of the hardest things I had to endure. Not being able to say good-bye to the love of your life is really hard," she cried.
"I'm so sorry El, so sorry. Can you please forgive me? I promise this time I won't make the same mistake. Please?" Troy was now crying too. He buried his head into her hair and it was Gabriella's turn to hold him as he cried.
"I don't know Troy, I just don't know? Troy not only did I lose you as a boyfriend, but I also lost my best friend."
"Please, El, please." Troy begged. "I'm so sorry El."
"You honestly think I can just forgive you, just like that?" Gabriella wondered. "It's not that easy Troy, put yourself in my shoes Troy. What would you do?"
There was silence except for the tears and the sniffles coming from both Troy and Gabriella. Troy looked at her with tears falling from his eyes. He could tell she was heartbroken, but all he wanted was her to forgive him.
"It takes time, Troy. You don't just expect me to forgive you in one day do you? I need time Troy. Give me time." She told him.
"Ella, Ella, Ella" he repeated putting his head into his hands. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry" Gabriella held him as he cried. She knew he was truly sorry, but she couldn't forgive him just yet. She wanted to, really badly, but there was also something else that played in the back of her mind. Something that she couldn't tell him, not yet.