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Chapter 1
In thirty minutes Gabriella Montez will be on a plane to Hawaii and in thirty minutes Troy Bolton will be out of basketball practice. Troy, not expecting what is waiting for him at home or better said who isn't waiting for him at home. And Gabriella running to the one place she knows Troy won't be able to find her.
Sitting at the airport, Gabriella was full of missed emotions. She was tired all the time, scared about life without Troy, confused on just about everything going around her, but maybe it was just hormones. "Yes it is just hormones" Gabriella kept telling herself.
She wouldn't help to also think how Troy will react to the note that she left him:
To My Dearest Troy,
Know that I love you so very much, but this thing with us isn't working out. With the move to Los Angeles, my new job, and you playing basketball, all is just too much to take in for me right now. We just moved so fast, we fell in love during our High School years, then fell over heels in love with one another in College and now moving in together I realized we have never really been apart. I need my time now Troy. You don't know how hard this is for me. For the past seven years we have been together have been the best years of my life, but I have never thought that I was deserving of such an amazing guy. There was always a cheerleader that was hotter than me or someone who was smarter than me. So I need to let you go so you can be will someone who is deserving of you. I am so very sorry Troy and please know that I love you will all my heart! – Yours Forever and Always Gabby XOXO.
As tears rolled down her eyes Gabriella's plane was starting to board. Once her section was called Gabriella slowly dragged her feet to the front of the line and onto the plane. She found her seat only to have the feeling of becoming nauseous, quickly Gabriella ran to the nearest bathroom on the plane to vomit. Her morning sickness had only been getting worse as the week went on, but thank God Troy was so busy with 6 AM practice to realize anything was up.
A knock on the bathroom door broke Gabriella from her trance. The airplane steward was asking Gabby to please sit down so the plan could take off. Gabby put a breath mint in her mouth and exited the bathroom so she could buckle up into her seat. She sat back and rested her head preparing herself for the longest five hours of her life.
Mean while with Troy…
Troy was so pumped after getting out of practice. He had been getting along with the team so well, not to mention he was doing so well in practice that the coach told him that he had a great chance of starting in the opening game next month. Troy couldn't wait to get home and tell Gabby all about his day today! Rushing home to his and Gabby's apartment, Troy became shocked when he arrived to an empty house. Looking around the house Troy couldn't find any signs of Gabby, but a note on the kitchen table. Reading the note, thinking that she went to get groceries or something Troy couldn't believe what the note truly said.
Once he was awaken from the state of shock that he was in he rushed to their room and looked around for her stuff, but it was all gone. He tried her on her cell but only got her answering machine. Hearing her voice only made tears swell up into his eyes. Filled with emotion Troy couldn't bring himself to leave a message, instead he texted he: Gabs please call me. Please let me see you so we can talk about this I can't not have you in my life. Please Gabby I love you. She was gone, but Troy knew that he had to get her back.
Getting off the plane Gabby couldn't believe how beautiful it was in Hawaii. Once she found her luggage Gabriella pulled out her phone to see if she had time to get a bite to eat before the shuttle left for the hotel she was going to stay at for the night.
Turning on her phone Gabby was surprised to get such a flood of texts. Three from Troy telling her to come home, a few from her sister telling her that their mother was freaking out and wondering where the hell she was and one from her mom telling her to call her immediately.
Gabriella was so overwhelmed, while tears swelled up in her eyes she wondered what she had done. How did she think that she could do this, cut the people that she was closes too her family and friends and most of all Troy.
"But I made a decision and I am stinking to it!" Gabby thought to herself. "A first thing first is to cancel my phone once I get to the hotel". Gabriella arrived at the Hotel that Troy and she were planning on staying at during the off season the following year. It was beautiful and everything that she imagined, but it would have been better if Troy was with her.
Checking into a room under the name Gabriella Bolton, Gabby got settled very quickly. She finished unpacking and made a few phone calls cancelling her cell phone and calling her mother with an unidentified number so her mother wouldn't be able to find her. Gabby's mother was frantic! Wondering where she was, if she was okay, what was going on? Gabriella had no answers for her mother but that she was safe and would be fine.
"Come home Gabriella! I am sure we can work whatever is bothering you out!" Mrs. Montez begged her daughter. "Please Troy and I am very concerned!"
Just hearing Troy's name made Gabriella start to cry. "Please do not tell Troy that I talked to you. Please mom it will be too hard for him. He has a big scrimmage that he has to concentrate on, just tell him not to bother with me, to just go on with his life. It is better for both of us. I need to do this mom for him." Gabriella protested with her mother for an hour.
"Gabriella! What about you? I know this isn't what you want hunny. I can tell by the sound in your voice. Just call him I know that whatever is going on between you can be easily fixed."
"No mom that is where you are wrong this can't be fixed. I know that it is best if Troy didn't have to deal with such baggage like me." Gabriella tells her mother.
"Gabby what are you saying? It is not like you are pregnant, right?" Gabriella didn't respond, "Oh Gabs your pregnant aren't you!"
Quickly Gabriella responded to her mother, "No mammy of course not! Forget that I said anything okay! But really I should really get going I am so tired and I think I need to think about things."
"Okay but please call me okay, and remember I love you Gabs no matter what and so does Troy!"
"I love you too. Bye mom." As she hung up Gabriella explodes into tears as she threw herself onto the bed. How is she ever going to be able to do this by herself? "It's only you and me kid!" as she rubbed her tiny baby bump.
