Gabriella sat transfixed and mesmerized as she stared out the thick covered windows from the limo that had somehow located itself to her house ( courtesy of Troy). One look and she discovered it's spacious and has a front porch and freshly cut grass growing from the ground from the front yard which was covered with sprinklers.
It's got a swing set and a red door and if you looked closely out back, you could see a huge inviting swimming pool just beckoning that she test it out and she couldn't help but watch around with awe, except this time, it wasn't of her surroundings, it wasn't just the beauty of the habitat. It's everything.
Everything is changing. Gone are the priveleges of being comfortable with her surroundings since she's been in the same place since she surprised her own mother and cut her own umbilical cord in the womb and popping out two weeks before her due date ( it was a running joke what with her intelligence) . Gone is the stability and the normalcy and the safeness of being around an environment that consisted of being swarmed by family and friends. Gone was her past.
There was no running to mommy or daddy whenever a problem arised, no moaning and groaning to Nat about her previous job which involved her and frying a few burgers to make a living, no familiarity. Its like that epiphany, that realization finally decided to make a presence in her life and reality was beginning to sink in. Here she was, 787 miles away from home, no relatives, no friends, just a sea of strangers that she'd eventually encounter, an unfamiliar house, an unfamiliar blonde that probably made up her own religion that only consisted in worshiping the color pink, an unfamiliar job that involved babysitting a four year old and unfamiliar man that managed to elicit such unfamiliar feelings from within her just by standing a few feet away from her presence.
She gulped, feeling the dryness of her throat, a strong wave of nausea flooding through her. What if she couldn't handle it? What if she couldn't make it? She was a lawyer, not a nanny, it was destined, written in the stars, practically inscripted on her forehead. Could she really stop herself from jumping Troy Bolton?
She wasn't stupid and she wasn't born yesterday. It may have been a while since she has been remotely interested in any man so much that she yearned just to have one last peek at him but yesterday differently slapped her with a wave of attraction. She was attracted to Troy Bolton, with his floppy sandy hair that fell a bit to his eyes and his piercing blue eyes and everything else that came along with it and she'd want nothing more than to arch her back and feel her lips on each and every part of her skin.
But it was wrong. He's forbidden. He's her boss and she's the employer, they don't mix, they can't mix and so she'd try not to let her body control her mind and act out on her attraction.
"Miss?" The slim dark haired limo driver said, pulling her out of her thoughts. She blinked in momentary surprise. "You alright? "
Gabriella flushed slightly as Carl, the limo driver voiced she's been staring at the house dumbfounded for the last thirty minutes. "Fine, thank you. " She responded as she stepped out of the limo, fishing in her bag. " How much do I owe you, Carl?"
"Mr. Bolton's got it covered." He grinned, shutting the car door. "Knock em dead, Miss Montez."
"It's Gabriella!" She shouted, even though the black shiny limo had already sped off the street and out of view.
Here goes nothing. She thought, inhaling some air before carrying her luggages and walking towards the front stops, boldly knocking on the front door.
There was shouting, some giggling before the door finally broke open revealing a petite little girl with sandy blonde hair braided into awful and messy French braided pig tails, a basketball jersey and bright blue eyes peering up at her with curiosity.
She was absolutely beautiful.
Exact image of her father.
She fell in love with her immediately.
"Who're you?" The child, Katrina inquired.
"Gabriella Montez and who might you be, all dressed up and pretty?"
"Katrina Lucille Bolton, and thank you, I'm not so pretty anymore, though. My daddy did my hair." She remarked. " He can't braid."
"That's not really nice." Gabriella reprimanded softly, stifling laughter.
"It's true." Katrina insisted. "Uncle Chad says its 'cause he's a man and weal men don't sit 'round to braid hair like five year old girls. Aunt Sharpay punched him in the face and he went uncons-ious for a long, long time."
"Unconcious, huh?" She mildly corrected, mentally making a mental note to herself to steer clear of landing Sharpay Evans angry. "Well tell you what? How about I give a go at doing your hair so that daddy doesn't make you look awful so Uncle Chad won't have to make sexist comments and Aunt Sharpay won't have to punch him in the face."
"I like you." Katrina stated with a smile, brightening instantly " We could be twins ! we're both pretty and then you could make your hair lighter like mine and put those thingie mabobbers adults put in their eyes to change colors like they show on tv and then we'll both have blue eyes. I like the color blue, what's your favo-rite color. Hey, what's sexist?"
"Something you don't need to know about, missy." Troy smoothly said, though there was a hint of sterness as he approached his daughter. "What'd I tell you about opening the door to people you don't know?"
"Not to do it." She automatically answered.
"And what did you do?"
"Do it."Katrina answered. "But she's not people I don't know daddy. She's my pretty twin with the black hair!"
Gabriella laughed, Troy's gaze floating to hers, on impulse his lips curling upwards. " She decided that out of the blue. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I couldn't pass of as her twin considering I'm 22 and she's four."
"Excuses, excuses." She mumbled and Gabriella raised her eyebrows in shock at the girl.
"Out of all the parents in the world, I'm the one that gets stuck with the freaky four year old that hates every other child show and is smitten with Soap opera's."
"Not the only one. Natalie made me babysit a cousin of hers who was completely infatuated with soap opera's and he's a boy. His mom was a big fan, left it on all day, poor boy didn't have a choice. Although, lucky for him, a few trips from me sprung him back into an average little boy again."
"Maybe you could work some of your magic on Katie. It's getting harder and harder to lure her away from the television these days." He retorted, making Gabriella laugh. " Gabriella, this is Katrina Lucille. Katie- cat, this is Gabriella Montez, your new nanny."
Katie screeched in delight, flinging her arms over Gabriella's waist making Gabriella laugh at the girl's actions.
She may be leaving her past behind and floating away from the security of her friends and her family and everything that she has known up to this point. She may be experiencing new things and encountering different people. She may also be taking care of a foreign child she had been assigned to care for before she had even met and taking care of household chores for a man that often appeared on tv and had half the female population ogling him. She may have to face the rush of La and avoid being punched in the face by a thin legged woman that was amorous with the color pink but she figured...
Either way, things were looking up and she realized, just as she was met with the intensifying stare of warm blue, that maybe, everything changing wasn't necessarily all a bad thing.
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An- I know this is a short chapter but this is just the commencing, I just wanted everyone properly introduced. Chapters will become longer, I hope. Things will look up, I just wanted you to see Gabriella's views on things before I continued on. Natalie and her relation to Gabriella will be explained later on, I still haven't forgotten about Alicia either so don't worry, all revealing will be revealed on their own time. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I also wanted to thank all of you for the wonderful amount of reviews I got for the prologue, that was splendid and amazing and it made me happy that you all are actually so interested. If you still are, and would like me to update faster considering I'm more available this week, just review, review and ill get right on to posting.
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Aundrea:)
