Chapter 4: Coming Back Home
Every Christmas, the Bolton family (Socorro, Jack, Gabriella, Troy and 4-year-old Jack-jack) spend the holiday in a beach resort. Christmas for them was very important, so matter what, they would make it. Together with the trip is their Filipina maid, Melagros. The flight to Albequerque from New York took them overnight since they took off at 9pm.
December 19, 2007 (Bolton Residence)
"Ma'am, I got a note from Sir Jack, he says that he is coming home tomorrow morning with Troy," Melagros said.
"Really? With Troy? We must cook food! We must be ready!" Socorro replied.
Then, a knock from the door interrupted their conversation. It was Gabriella, tired from work, carrying lots of papers and bags. Looks like she is going to finish her work at home.
"Gabriella, I have good news for you," her mom said to her as she lets her tired daughter sit in the couch.
"Mom, let me breathe first before we talk, I'm so tired, I have to finish 7 articles, my editorial and some..." Gabriella exclaimed but then her mom cuts her.
"You're not coming to work tomorrow!"
"Huh?" She asked.
"Your dad is coming with your brother tomorrow,"
"So? The hell who cares," she explained.
"Look, you haven't spoken to your brother since you were 16, it's about time to talk to him in our Christmas trip!" her mom explained, "for the meantime, help me in the kitchen with Mela and tell Jack-jack that his father is coming home."
"OK," Gabriella replied with a disappointed look. As soon as she reached Jack-jack's room, she felt an unexplaneable feeling. It is as if she is excited but in a different way, so she decided to stop and went to her room and decided to finish her write-ups. She was very crititical-minded and serious about her works. So she kept on erasing and scratching out pieces of paper just to get the right stuff. After several minutes, a phone call from her boss disturbed her from making the editorial.
"Hello, Mrs. Mayers,"
"Gabriella, I want you to change the topic of the editorial,"
"What?" She complained, "I've worked so hard and now you tell me?" she added.
"It seems the Christmas season is coming, so we must base on what's what," the boss explained.
"OK, OK, so what's the topic? Santa Claus?"
"No! It's "Love in Christmas","
"Love...Mrs. Mayers, is it really compulsary if we jive in with the season?"
"No but the other news papers are like that, I want it tomorrow on my table!"
"Sorry, I'm on vacation, maybe I'll just give it on Monday,"
"What do you think, this is a weekly paper? Hell no! Daily means daily!"
"So sorry but it's a family thing,"
"So you want me to make the editorial?"
"If that's OK with you..."
"Sure! I'll do it until Sunday! How about those write-ups coming along?"
"Fine, good night!" Gabriella turned off the phone before Mrs. Mayers could say anything. Maybe going on vacation was a good idea since she was always stressed and restless.
December 20, 2007, Airplane, around 2:30 am...
"Dad..." Troy whispered to his dad.
"Hmmm?" he replied as he slowly opens his eyes. "What?"
"What...what time will we land?" he asked.
"by morning...why?"
"I'm just..."
"Excited?"
"Kinda..."
3 hours later, the stewardess officiall anounced that by 10 minutes, the plane will land in Albequerque Airport. So Troy tried to wake up his father. When Jack woke up, he suddenly felt something wrong with him. He liked to go to the comfort room but since the passengers were adviced to put on their seatbelts, he was prohibited to do such action. Finally the plane safely landed. While Troy was about to get his bag from the compartment, he bumped a woman so he quickly apologized, but after seeing the face of that woman, he started to keep quiet. He felt love in the moment.
"I...I'm Troy,"
"Hi, I'm Sharpay," Then, Sharpay's dad interrupts, "Sharpay, why are you blocking the way?" he stopped as soon as he saw Jack. "Jackson Bolton?" he said. Jack came up from his seat.
"Vance Evans?" he answered back.
"Wait, you two know each other?" Troy asked.
"Son, this is Vance, he was my class mate in high school," Jack introduced Vance. The both of them, Troy and Sharpay laughed at their fathers while they were exchanging memories when they were heading home in Vance's limousine. Vance was a well-known businessman in New York and decided to take a visit of some old pals in Albequerque. When they arrived at their house, Jack insisted Vance to stay for brunch. So, since it was years, Vance took the offer. Just from the door, Socorro ran towards them.
"Oh, hi! You brought visitors? Good, because I made some cake and a lot of delicacies!" Socorro said.
"Let's come in," Jack said.
Upon coming in, Vance started to admire the wonderful house of the Boltons. Of course, who wouldn't notice the Italian influence, the vintage furnitures, the shining chandeliers and the aroma of the sumptous foods Socorro and Melagros prepared. Socorro didn't actually expected that visitors would come, fortunately, she had made tons of delicious food. When Gabriella heard the gigantic main door shut, she was woken up from a beautiful dream and decided to come down and see. Since, she was not glad to see her brother again, she came down with an upside down smile and her eyebrows that looked like it was meeting together.
"Hi, this is my daughter, Gabriella, his step daughter," Socorro said as she introduced Gabriella.
"So nice to meet you," Gabriella said. She had a bad feeling about Sharpay because she was looking at her, head to foot. So she raised one eyebrow. "Who's this? Your wife?" she asked Vance.
"No, she's my daughter, Sharpay," Vance corrected Gabriella.
"Oh, I didn't know!" Even though she knows it, she was just insulting Sharpay.
After Brunch...
"Mom, I'm just gonna take a shower and after that, I can help you with the cleaning," Gabriella said.
"OK," her mother answered.
She proceeded to the bath room but forgot to lock the door. Meanwhile, Jack and Troy were talking to Vance and Sharpay. Troy suddenly noticed that he needs to take a shower so he excused himself. He ran towards the bath room carrying a towel and noticed that the door was slightly opened. Gabriella was showering so she didn't noticed that Troy came in.
So, Troy without any hesitation, took off his shirt and then he took off his belt. Then, he slides down his pants and took off his boxers slowly. Then, he grabbed the towel and wrapped it around him.
"Ooh, almost forgot, the door," then he closed the door. Gabriella heard the door closed so she thought that there was someone there but later, she ignored it. Troy came closer to the curtains of the bath tub and notices that the shower was on. So he thought that someone has left it open. Slowly, he opened the curtain seeing his step sister, naked! Gabriella turned around and covered her body.
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Author's Note: This is kinda awkward and very subliminal. I'm sorry if you were offended or disturbed in the chapter's last part. What could they say to each other? What are the reactions they would show?
