Disclaimer….As always don't own the characters you recognize, the ones you DON'T recognize are mine or real people in life.
Rating…T, to be safe.
Pairings…Troyella/Chaylor/Zekepay/Jelsi/RyMar(Ryan and Martha).
Timeline….Second Year in college for the Wildcats.
Setting… Albuquerque, New Mexico in different places.
Author's Notes….
they are all rich.
Sharpay and Gabriella have the closets relationship in the gang.
everyone in the gang is adoptive sisters/brothers (except for their boyfriend/girlfriend).
SOME of the places, cars, directions, driving hours and minutes, cloths, shops, people.. are REAL.
The Wildcats all go to UCLA, but are home for the summer. They are all 20, but Gabriella is still nineteen until December.
Gabriella plays basketball and loves it just as much as Troy and Chad because she grew up around it all her life because her dad is the Lakers Coach (her parents are divorced even though they still love each other) and her godfathers are Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and Michael Jordan, she also likes to play volleyball.
Feedback…Yes, pretty please with whip cream, sprinkles, and a cherry on top.
On with the story. Please R&R!! Thanks, I love you all.
SHOUTOUT!!
TO- Girly411.
I love you girl! You rock! Your awesome! I thank you from the bottom of my heart for telling and helping me with my stories. I think we both need to really get out of our writers block so we can finish writing another chapter for Bratz. Don't you think? Your awesome. Hope you had a good Fourth of July and a Fourth of July weekend. I really hope you read this and like it. I'm trying to make this a sad one. I hope it works. Your opinions and support mean the world to me! I love you!! Miss talking to you!
Lots of love,
Xoxo,
Jessica
-Fear of Losing My Soulmate-
Chapter 1: Prologue
"Shoot the ball man!" Twenty year old, Chad Nicolas Danforth told his best friend and adoptive brother (since pre-k) twenty year old, Troy Alexander Bolton who had a basketball in his hand and was standing at the half court to make a shot because Chad told him he couldn't do it which Troy wanted to prove him wrong.
"I will and I'll make it." Troy told Chad smiling before he bent his knees, got on the balls of his feet, and then unbent his knees sending the ball flying through the air, going around the rim of the basketball hoop once before falling out, not going in through the net at all.
"I told you man. You really need Gabriella to teach you how to make those shots." Chad told Troy referring to Troy's Filipina/Latina girlfriend of four-years who had a toned and tanned body with dark brown wavy hair and chocolate brown eyes, Gabriella Marie Montez who also like Troy and Chad had a major passion and love for basketball. So far Gabriella had been the only one (girl) at college (and before in high school) level basketball to make a swish from half-court.
"I know." Troy told Chad smiling at the though of Gabriella.
"I want her to teach me too." Chad told Troy as they both sat down by one of the sun loungers by the Boltons' massive swimming pool, taking a drink of their Gatorade.
"Me too." Came a new voice causing Troy and Chad to turn their heads to the Boltons' back door to see Zeke Lake Baylor, Jason Allen Cross, Ryan Joshua Evans and Troy's dad, Jack Andrew Bolton who was the high school basketball coach at Chad's, Troy's, Jason's and Zeke's old high school, East High. Jack was also the athletic director, physical education teacher and health teacher at East High. They all came over to Chad and Troy with their own bottle of Gatorade and took one of the empty sun loungers and sat on it.
"I think you guys are getting better at it and this is the coach side talking, not the dad side." Jack told the boys with a smile.
"Thanks dad. But Brie's got that shot mastered and I want her to teach me." Troy told his dad with a smile.
"Well, Troy you know why Gabriella has that shot mastered." Jack told Troy.
Oh, Troy knew why she did along with everyone else who had a head, ears and watched basketball, because Gabriella Marie Montez was Los Angeles Lakers Coach Gregory Anthony Montez's daughter along with the Lakers triple threat's (Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan) goddaughter. So that meant that Gabriella grew up around the NBA all her life and she had a ball in her hand from the day she was born and could shot since the day she could walk and always had her eyes set upon being in the WNBA and playing to the Los Angeles Lady Sparks. But since Gabriella's mom and dad got divorced (because he was always with the Lakers traveling for the games and never home), Gabriella only got to spend a month of summer vacation with her dad and godfathers in L.A. out of the whole year unless they arranged otherwise.
"I still can't believe after almost 4-years that Gabster's dad is THE Coach Montez's daughter and the Lakers triple threats' goddaughter," Chad told them all shaking his head.
/Thank you for this moment
I've gotta say how beautiful you are
Of all the hopes and dreams I could have prayed for Here you are
If I could have one dance forever
I would take you by the hand
Tonight it's you and I together
I'm so glad I'm your man
And if I lived a thousand years You know I never could explain
The way I lost my heart to you that day
but if destiny decided I should look the other way
then the world would never know the greatest story ever told
and did I tell you that I love you
tonight/
"Uh oh! Girlfriend alert!" Chad said as they all heard Troy's black iPhone go off with his and Gabriella's ringtone for each other that was their song, Greatest Story Ever Told by Oliver James. Troy just shoke his head at his friend's silly comment before picking up his iPhone with a wide smile on his face.
(Troy…regular writing / Gabriella…bold)
"Hey Brie."
"Hey Wildcat! You'll never believe what just happened!"
"What happened babe?"
"You know how UCLA wouldn't let the girls basketball team go to Florida for the Nike basketball camp for girls?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, I told my dad that I wouldn't be going to it because the UCLA won't let us and so I could practice with the Lakers instead. But my dad being the guy he is wouldn't have any of it so he, Kobs, Big S, and MJ all put in money for our camp, room and board, and food for the Nike basketball camp!"
"I'm so happy for you babe!"
"Troy's there's a down side to it though."
"What is it?"
"I have to leave on Tuesday so I only have today and Monday before I leave at 4AM Tuesday morning to fly to Florida for camp."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah, I'm serious. I'm going to miss you while I'm gone."
"How long are you going to be gone for?"
"Three weeks."
"Gabriella, we can do this we've done it before when we both where in different states, cities or towns for games for a long period of time before, remember?"
"Of course I do."
"Good."
"Troy?"
"Yeah, Gabriella?"
"Will you come over and spend the night since my mom's not here and then tomorrow night possibly?"
"Of course, I wouldn't miss it for the world. Plus I'll get up and go with you and your mom to the airport Tuesday morning as will the rest of the gang, even if I have to drag them by their hair in the morning to the airport."
"Thanks, I love you Troy. So fucking much."
"I love you too Gabriella. So fucking much."
"I got to go do the laundry. Come over around five tonight."
"I'll be there. And I'll see you soon baby, bye."
"Bye."
"So what was that all about man?" Chad asked Troy with a curious look that the rest of the guys and his dad had on their faces. Troy sighed before telling them what Gabriella just told him before he confessed to them about missing Gabriella while she was gone, only to get a speech from his father back and a surprisingly serious and confiding speech from Chad before he ran into his house, up to his master suite bedroom with connection lounge room and getting into a cold shower before going to meet Gabriella at her house.
"Troy, its 4:58, you have two minutes to be over at Gabi's on the dot." Troy's mom, Lucille Marie Bolton, told him as she came into his bedroom to collect his dirty clothes as he was finishing brushing his teeth. He smiled at his mom, nodding his head before he gave her a kiss on the cheek, telling her he was staying at Gabriella's before he ran down the stairs after grabbing his house keys (but not his iPhone in fear of Chad calling and interrupting his time with Gabriella) before he ran next door to Gabriella's and walking in the front door since he got permission during Senior year from Gabriella's mom, Inez Anne Montez, that he could.
He walked outside after grabbing a glass of ice water to find Gabriella putting the lounge chairs around the fireplace that was outside and around the ten person hot tub out back of her house. Smiling he quietly sat his glass of ice water on the glass lawn table before sneaking up behind Gabriella and tickling her sides causing her to squeal before she turned around and smiled at Troy before jumping into his arms, her arms around his neck and her legs around his strong muscular torso and kissing him on the lips passionately before pulling back when air became an issue.
"Well, hello to you too." Troy told Gabriella kissing the tip of her nose.
"Hello, wildcat." Gabriella told him giggling.
"Miss me?" Troy asked before he finished their ritual when he said that, "Of course you did."
"You know it. You look hot by the way." Gabriella told him once she was out of his arms. And she was right he did he was in a navy men's sleeveless tee that had a basketball in the center and UCLA above it and Basketball under it, all in orange, on the back of it, it had Bolton with a crown on sitting on the O and the number 14 on the back of it also in orange; a pair of navy denim dark wash jeans, and a pair of black Vans slip ons.
"Thanks you don't look bad yourself." And Troy was right she didn't. Gabriella was wearing her natural hip long dark brown hair in a high pony tail; a pair of black Chanel sunglasses sat on top of her black leather headband that was in her hair; a chocolate brown basic fitted tank top with UCLA LADIES BASKETBALL in neon yellow and an orange basketball on the front of it, on the back of it in neon yellow writing it had MONTEZ 14 with an orange heart behind the Montez and fourteen; a pair of pink short shorts that had left side leg part of the shorts in the corner MONTEZ 14 in neon pink and team style lettering and then on the back of the shorts it had BASKETBALL GODDESS in neon pink writing and team style lettering; a pair of white rubber flip flops; and a black UCLA zip up hoodie over her tank top.
"Why thank you."
"So what are you doing with the sun loungers and fireplace?" Troy asked her with a smile.
"Well, I thought tonight we could get the gang together to say over the night and then tomorrow it will just be me and you before I leave. Sound good to you?"
"Sounds perfect."
At five thirty exactly the rest of the wildcat group started showing up. Chad and his girlfriend of almost four-years and Gabriella's best friend/adoptive big sister, Taylor Annabelle McKessie showed up with a smile. After Chad and Taylor showed up Zeke and his blonde headed, pink drama queen, girlfriend of almost four-years, Sharpay Anne Evans, Gabriella's bestest friend and closes adoptive big sister show up. Jason and his girlfriend of four-years and Gabriella's best friend/adoptive big sister and composer, Kelsi Monique Nielson showed up after Sharpay and Zeke. And lastly to arrive at Gabriella's was Ryan and his girlfriend and Gabriella's adoptive big sister/best friend and hip hop dancer, Martha Lynn Cox.
Right now all of them were sitting in Gabriella's hot tub with a blanket of a black sky filled with glittering white stars. Each girl sat between their boyfriends' legs, their back against the boys' chests and their heads in the crooks of their necks, as they all were talking about what they should do when Gabriella got back from basketball camp in Florida. After hanging out, talking and messing around in the hot tub they all got rapped up in towels and each couple sat on a sun lounger talking around the fireplace before they went inside to get changed. After they got done changing they all took their stuff up to Gabriella's master suite bedroom with connecting bathroom and Princess Dairies 2: Royal Engagement closet with the remote controlled drawers.
Gabriella smiled as she grabbed her pink digital camera and took pictures of each couple that were scattered across her massive room. She first took a picture of Zeke and Sharpay who were cuddled up together on one of the two white chaise lounge couches that had a chocolate brown pillow facing the white bricked fireplace that had a 102-inch plasma screen TV sitting above it with John Tucker Must Die on it. She then took a picture of Chad and Taylor who were cuddled up on the other white chaise lounge couches facing the 102-inch plasma screen TV before she took a picture of Jason and Kelsi who were laying on the right side of the bed on the floor and then of Martha and Ryan who were on the left side of the bed on the floor curled up together. Lastly she took a picture of her and Troy before putting her camera on her cherry wood night stand and shutting off her lamp before she cuddled up to Troy watching John Tucker Must Die.
"Personally I don't like the way it ended. I think she should have ended up with John." Sharpay stated as she watched Gabriella get up, remove John Tucker Must Die from the DVD player and placed in the DVD player Finding Neverland starring Johnny Depp , Kate Winslet, Julie Christie and Dustin Hoffman. Everyone nodded their heads in agreement with Sharpay's statement. Gabriella pushed play before running back to her bed and cuddling up to Troy who held her tight and protectively in his strong muscular arms as he and Gabriella slowly started drifting off to sleep and the rest of the gang following right behind them, all with a sad smile on their faces not liking the idea of not seeing Gabriella for three weeks.
The next day, Monday, Zeke had woke up and cooked them all breakfast with Inez's help before all the wildcats and Inez left leaving Troy and Gabriella to their day of just the two of them.
Troy and Gabriella spent the whole day together, joking around, hanging out, laughing and talking about anything and everything. They played basketball, went out to eat lunch at McDonald's, went for a walk in the park, came back to Gabriella's and went swimming in her massive pool before they ended their day with a night out at a fancy restaurant before going back to Gabriella's changing into night clothes and cuddling up on her bed watching Love and Basketball before they feel asleep, neither wanting tomorrow to come, but both knowing it would.
"Brie are all your bags out in my car?" Troy asked his girlfriend walking into her room to find her putting on a pair of black rubber flip flops from HCO to matcher her black UCLA sweat pants that were rolled up to her knees to show off her muscular tanned and shaved legs, a light pink cami from HCO and her black UCLA zip up hoodie and her black leather headband sitting on top of her hair that was pulled up into a messy bun, along with her black Chanel sunglasses.
"Yep." She told him before grabbing her HCO navy tote, shutting off her light after making sure she didn't forget anything, she laced hers and Troy's fingers together before walking down the stairs and getting into Troy's black Audi S4 convertible where Inez was already in the back seat of the car waiting of them with a smile.
The rode to the airport in a comfortable silence occasionally talking about whatever came to their minds. Thirty minutes later, Troy pulled up his car to the airport entrance and watched as a guy put Gabriella's five suitcases on a trolley before walking with her to bag and passenger check in. At three thirty Gabriella was in a big group hug from all her friends, who managed to wake them up because surprisingly Chad woke them up to get them to the airport so they didn't miss Gabriella's departure, so they arrived an hour early, and her mom.
The girls all had teary goodbyes with Gabriella and so did Chad who started getting emotional causing the guys to laugh and the girls to giggle which caused Chad to glare at them before pulling Gabriella in his arms telling her to promise to call him if she needs or wants anyone to talk to or to come and get her and he would be either on the phone (if she needed to talk to someone) or on the first plane down to Florida (if she wanted to come home). He also made her promise to call once a day and to call him before Troy when she was coming home, he also made her promise no matter what time in the day or night to call him if something was wrong even if it was just to talk or to tell him to go over to Troy's and kick his but for her which caused Taylor to tell Gabriella to take Chad up on his offer because even she couldn't call him anytime during the night. Gabriella just giggled and agreed to whatever any one of them said. Gabriella and Sharpay had the hardest time saying goodbye, which caused Troy and Zeke to pull the two girls apart when they didn't want to say goodbye. The boys (minus Troy) all said goodbye to their adoptive little sister and best friend before they went to join their girlfriends. Gabriella and her mom cried a little bit before her mom kissed her cheek and went to join the teens (minus Troy) in the group to wait for Gabriella to go through the tunnel and out to her plane.
"I love you so fucking much Gabriella Marie Montez. Don't forget that and meet some other guy because I love you so fucking much. You mean the world to me. I don't want to lose you." Troy told her pulling her closer (if it was even humanly possible) to his chest as he shed a few tears and kissed the top of her head.
"I love you so fucking much too, Troy Alexander Bolton. I will NEVER EVER forget you or fall for some other guy. I'm YOUR girl and I want to keep it that way. I LOVE saying I'm TROY ALEXANDER BOLTON'S GIRL AND NO ONE ELSE'S GIRL! I will call you every day maybe try to send a postcard even! I love you baby! I will miss you so much! I'll always be with you! I love you!" Gabriella told him before they kissed passionately before she got out of his arms (unwillingly) and walked through the tunnel.
"Brie!" She heard before she turned around and got another passionate kiss from Troy before she left to get on her plane to head to Florida for Nike basketball camp for girls for three weeks.
As they watched Gabriella's plane take off into the air, they all knew it was going to be a lonely, miserable and long three weeks without Gabriella. Especially for Troy who they had no doubt would not come out of his room for missing her to much and he would probably just talk abut her while she was gone and not do nothing, but think, dream, talk and miss her, his Baby Brie, his Gabriella Marie Montez.
Well, there's the prologue. I hopped you liked it and understood it. Well, I'm off to write the next chapter(s)! Wish me luck! PLEASE R&R!
LOVE,
JESSICA (xoxo)