First, Only, Always, Last, Forever.
First
"Twoy!!!" Five-year-old Gabriella yelled to her best friend.
"What Gabi?" Troy asked.
"Jewwy said no one likes me because I'm always ahead in math cwass." Gabriella said.
"Well, Jewwy is wong." Troy said.
"But Twoy, it's twue, no one likes me." Gabriella argued hopping onto a swing, only feet away.
"Nuh uh, I will always wove you." Troy said giving her a big bear hug and then giving her a push before getting onto the one next to her.
"I will always wove you too." Gabriella told him and they both smiled.
Only
"Troy Bolton!" Seventeen-year-old beauty, Gabriella Montez, yelled to her boyfriend.
"What?" He asked.
"Why do I keep hearing rumors that you are cheating on my with Amy Hudson the head cheerleader?" She asked.
"What? I hate Amy!" Troy said.
"Well you're in big trouble if you did cheat." Gabriella threatened.
"But Gabs you have to believe me, you're the only one for me and I would never cheat on you. I don't need anyone else." Troy said dropping to his knees.
"Troy just leave." She said trying to hide a smile.
"Gabs?" He asked, but then he could tell she was hiding a smile.
"I didn't know you cared that much to get on your knees and beg me to believe you." Gabriella smirked.
"That wasn't funny, I thought I lost you." Troy said.
"I wanted to know how you would react to that." Gabriella told him.
"Well now you know I'm crazy about you and I would never cheat now come on or we'll be late for the movie." Troy said.
"What movie?" Gabriella asked.
"The movie we are going to." Troy smiled and dragged Gabriella to his car only to speed off to the Movie Theater.
Always"… to cherish and to hold, now and always." A pastor was reading.
"I do." They said at the same time.
"I now present to you, Mr. and Mrs. Troy Alexander Bolton… You may kiss the bride." The pastor told the two before they kiss and walked out down the aisle. Walking past the people throwing rice and after throwing Gabriella's bouquet they got in the limo waiting for them.
"Now and Always." Troy said.
"Now and Always." Gabriella repeated looking into his eyes and kissing him.
"It's always love." Troy said.
"Yea." Gabriella giggle kissing him again.
Last
"Gabriella, promise me you will always love me?" Eighty-eight year old Troy Bolton said to his wife of sixty-six years.
"Troy, my love for you is endless. No matter what separates us, life or death, I will never cease to love you." Gabriella smiled softly as she knew someday that this day might come. She grabbed his old hand to hers and held it tightly.
"Gabs, to you I was always faithful, only to you. You are my first and last love. My first and last kiss. I love you more than anything, even when I'm gone." He said with his eyes shut, but still a firm grip on her hand.
"Troy, I… We will miss you. You're whole family will miss you and love you for eternity. You made me strong enough to be able let you go." Gabriella said.
"I'll tell your parents you said hi." Troy joked.
"No one will ever mean as much to me as you and our family, know that." Gabriella said.
"Thank you Gabi. Forever you are my one and only…" He said sighing.
Gabriella smiled at him and held his hand for a little over an hour before she felt it go limp, and the warmth drained from it. Even then, she smiled. He was everything she every needed, and now she would let him rest in peace having him know that she was ok, and that someday she would be with him again.
She slowly let go of the lifeless hand and stood stiffly up. Slowly she made it to the door, and looked back at Troy for a minute, letting a single tear slide, before walking out shutting off the light as she went.
Forever
Ninety-three-year-old Gabriella Bolton sat on her bed thinking about all the wonderful times she had with her late husband. She looked all around her room at the pictures hanging on the walls. Some were of her and Troy, but most were of her children and grandchildren. She slowly sat up and lifted up her pillow. She took out a small picture of her and Troy sitting on the stairs in front of the church they were wed at. It was one of those simple pictures that explain so much in such little space. Troy was sitting against the stone railing and Gabriella had her head in her lap with her hair spread all over his legs. They looked peaceful together, as if they would always be like that forever.
Gabriella flipped the picture over to the writing on the back.
"My sweet Gabriella, You are my night and day. You are everything I look forward to and you will always be my one and only love forever. You will forever be with me as I will be with you. –Yours truly, Forever and always, Troy.
Gabriella read this every night before going to bed. She always felt Troy was still with her, and she knew he would always be. She slowly walked over to the light switch and turned it off, she walked back to her bed and lay down carefully. She thought for a minute and then closed her eyes and faded away from the world to find her love again that would be First, Only, Always, and Last love.