My Internet was down as I explained in the author note so here's the chapter, sorry about the wait!!
So I got some more reviews for the last chapter and everyone seemed to like it so I'm happy =) Also if you'd like to be in the story I'm looking for a few more people to be from Troy's past. I'm looking for someone to be a jealous ex (or girl who always liked Troy and could never get him) of Troy's, another friend from high school and a girlfriend for Ryan. So I'll need a few physical characteristics and some of your interests. But if any of those interests you please get back to me asap, either review or email me at hayley..com Anywhooo, hope you like this chapter!
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Facebook and Surprises
Gabriella woke up the next morning very disoriented. The minute she realized she wasn't in her room at home she shot up so quickly she fell off the couch and smashed onto the coffee table with a resounding crash. Troy came running out of his room with a manic look on his face, she then remembered she was in Albuquerque and instantly felt guilty for waking Troy.
"What the hell was that Gabriella? And why are you on the floor..?" he asked with a confused look on his face.
"I'm sorry Troy, I didn't know where I was and I shot up and fell off the couch and hit the table. I didn't mean to wake you." She replied guiltily.
"Oh my gosh, are you okay?! And don't worry about it, I was half awake anyways." He said trying to stop her from feeling guilty.
"I'm fine, thanks. So what are you doing today? I can just hang out here or wander around town by myself since you probably have something planned." She replied, thinking of what she could do today.
"What? No way are you hanging out by yourself Brie. My friends want to meet you! We're meeting up with them for lunch, so like in an hour." He replied smiling.
After Gabriella agreed to that, she declared she would have to rush to be ready in time. So she rushed to the bathroom to take a shower and then did her hair and makeup and such. After she got out of the shower, Troy jumped in and did all his stuff and they had a quick breakfast before jumping into Troy's pick up truck and made their way to his favorite restaurant, Baylors. It just happened to be owned by the parents of Zeke, one of his best friends. She was beginning to get nervous as Troy led her to a group of kids her age. They all leapt up and hugged Troy and he turned around and beckoned me forward.
"Guys, this is my best friend from California, Gabriella." He introduced me politely
"Hey Gabs, can I call you that? I'm Chad." This boy with a nice afro introduced himself.
"Of course you can call me that! Nice to meet you Chad" she replied with a nice smile, she'd heard of him lots seeing as he was basically Troy's brother.
After that I was introduced to everyone, there was Taylor who seemed super nice and was such a cutie pie. She also happened to be dating Chad so I expected to see her a lot. Then there was Erin, Ryan and Zeke. All six of them had been friends since the first grade and seemed like a really nice group of people. Erin and I really hit it off when we started talking about sports, we both played and loved soccer and basketball and we both loved watching hockey. We were both Colorado Avalanche fans, which helped as well. She was on a summer soccer team, which she said I should definitely join and according to her the boys played basketball basically everyday together and we were welcome to join. All in all it was a great group of people, I was starting to think that this summer would be even better than the one I had planned. We ate our lunch and then went back to Erin's place to hang out in her pool. I had to stop back at Troy's to grab a bikini and Troy had to grab his suit as well so we got there a little late. But we still had fun having chicken fights, which might I add that me and Troy won all of, and just laying in the sun while the boys played water basketball. After we had dried off more, the girls and I went inside to grab a drink. There was a computer in the kitchen so I asked Erin if I could check something quickly. I really wanted to see if Shar was online so I could tell where I'd gone. As I logged onto facebook something caught my eye that I really had no desire to see, soon the tears started welling up in my eyes and I got up abruptly and ran to the bathroom.
I'd been in there about 15 minutes when someone came and knocked on the bathroom door, I quickly wiped my tears to see Troy standing there with a very worried look on his face. He pulled me into a hug and I started crying again, he asked what had happened and I tried to explain through my tears but it wasn't working so stood up and cleaned my face up the best I could before grabbing his hand and bringing him to where the computer was still opened to my facebook and I pointed to what had set me off. He slammed his hand down on the desk the computer was on very hard as he read that Kieran Smith was now In a Relationship with Rachel Gladwin. Just reading it destroyed whatever I had left of my heart and Troy could see that. He explained to his friends that I wasn't feeling my greatest and that he'd call them later tonight. After that he drove me home and the first thing I did was walk to my suitcase and change into my basketball shorts and my favorite of troy's hoodies. I then curled up on my couch and stared at the blank tv screen. I stayed like that for a while, I turned the tv on at some point after I'd forced Troy to go hang out with his friends, just because my ex boyfriend was dick who had cheated on me with my best friend and broken my heart didn't mean he had to suffer too. So there I was watching some episode of gossip girl wishing Kieran had loved me enough to stay faithful and that I hadn't fallen so hard for him, but you really cannot help who you fall in love with.
With Troy
Gabriella had forced me out of the house so I was at an East High reunion bonfire at the beach. I was having lots of fun. Every now and again though I'd start thinking about Brie and anything I could do to help her, something that would make her happy again. Then it came to me, the thing that made her happy no matter what, the thing that could always brighten her day no matter what, the thing that would make her forget Kieran and Rachel and just enjoy life. He jumped up and went to his car to make a call, it had been too loud down at the bonfire so he dialed the number and talked and talked and talked and finally worked everything out. Hopefully this would make Gabriella forget about all the crap that had been happening to her lately. He was even excited for tomorrow night, just to see the look on Gabriella's face. She would most definitely mot be expecting this.
After about another hour at the bonfire Troy decided it was time to leave and get back to check on Gabi. He drove home to find her still up and watching an episode of Friends. She didn't look like she'd been crying which was good, but she still didn't look very happy. Hopefully tomorrow night would change that, he walked up and sat on the couch and put her feet in his lap.
"How was the bonfire?" she asked him tiredly.
"It was good, someone sounds tired. Why don't you get some sleep Brie?" he asked soothingly
"Well I wanted to talk to you. And thank you, it was pretty selfish of me to dump myself on you in the first place and then to take you away from your friends because I can't control my hormones. So I'm sorry if I ruined your day in any way, I'd understand if you were a little peeved." She got all of that out in a breath, Troy had trouble understanding her.
"Hey, hey you are not selfish. I wanted you to be here and I was excited you were coming albeit the situation. And you did not ruin my day, I had fun and my friends love you! Tomorrow's a new day, and we'll have fun someway I promise. Now get to sleep! You look completely exhausted, so goodnight!" he basically ordered, but jokingly of course.
"Okay okay, thanks for being an amazing best friend Troy. I don't know what I'd do without ya!" she replied with a smile as she turned off the tv and settled in to have a good sleep. Troy always knew how to make her feel better, no matter what the situation. It was one of the many things she loved about him.
Soon after Gabriella had gone to bed, Troy lay awake hoping that by the end of the summer Gabriella would be in a better place than now. He was hoping that his little surprise tomorrow would definitely push her in that direction.
With Gabriella
Surprisingly I had a really good sleep last night but I woke up and everything came rushing back to me and I wanted nothing more than too just curl up in a ball and stay here till night time but I knew I couldn't so forced myself out of bed and into my running clothes and ran up the stairs to leave a note for Troy. Then I went outside for a run, it was only 830 so Troy shouldn't be up for about a half hour to an hour anyways. Plus nothing cleared my mind better than a run. So I ran and I ran, just letting my feet carry me wherever they wanted and tried to clear my mind. It started to work but I kept going, running always gave me a good feeling. It made me feel free, like nothing could stop me.
With Troy
I woke up after having a good sleep, I'd had a weird dream though. It had involved Gabriella and I getting married under water. And my little brother Matt had been the priest. It was ridiculous, not only my brother being a priest but Brie and I getting married! Like that'd ever happen, it was then I'd realized she was on the other side of the wall. So I got up to check if she was awake and saw she wasn't even there. She must be up already I thought as I went upstairs to see if she was in the kitchen. I looked at the clock and saw it was 9:15. I also noticed a note on the table, it read…
Troy,
I've gone for a run to clear my head.
You can do whatever you want today,
But I'm just gonna stay home I think.
Hope you have a nice day
Gabs :) xx
As much as Troy hated leaving Gabriella all alone for the day he knew that was what she wanted. She would start an argument if she knew he'd even thought about staying at home. So he went to take a shower and called Chad to see if he wanted to play some basketball, Chad of course agreed and said he'd call the rest of the guys. He put on his basketball stuff and left his room, walking straight into Gabriella.
"Oh my gosh Gabs I'm sorry." He said
"It's fine Troy, so what are you gonna do today?" she giggled and then asked.
"I'm going to play basketball with the boys and then I have to go pick up something I left in California from the post office." He answered, only lying a little bit.
"Oh okay, well have fun and I'll see you later." She replied and walked towards the bathroom to take a shower.
So Troy grabbed a bottle of water and ran out the door, hopping in his car to drive to the park they usually played at. After about 10 minutes he was there and only Zeke was there. We were meeting up with the old wildcat team, well whomever Chad had managed to round up. After about five minutes of people arriving everyone was here, they had 8 people, Troy, Chad, Zeke, Jason, Matt, Parker, Seth and Liam, it was perfect for a game. Teams were Troy, Jason, Matt and Seth vs. Chad, Zeke, Parker and Liam. The game started and went on for an hour or so, Troy's team winning by two points. Once the game ended Troy said goodbye to his friends and raced home to change for Brie's surprise. Gabriella was asleep on the couch with an episode of friends playing on the TV when I ran downstairs. I quietly walked into the bathroom to take a shower, I was just shampooing my hair when I thought I heard the bathroom door open but I blew that thought off as me being paranoid. As I was washing myself though Gabriella leapt out from behind the wall with a baseball bat in her arms scaring me so that I jumped and slipped and fell the floor.
" Oh my god Troy! I'm sorry, oh I didn't know you were home and I thought you were someone else and oh my gosh you're naked and I should leave and I'm sorry and uhm yeah so sorry. I'll be leaving now. OH and are you okay?" she rambled on and on as a flush crept to her cheeks.
"I'm fine, just you scared me pretty bad. So yeah I'll uhm see you in a second.." he replied awkwardly.
She just sort of squeaked and ran out of the room, I saw no point in continuing my shower so I just washed off the body wash quickly and stepped out to find a towel. After I had it wrapped securely around my waist I walked out of the bathroom to find Gabriella watching tv.
With Gabriella
Oh my gosh, I just walked in on Troy. NAKED. Not that he didn't look good, oh shut up Gabriella. It's Troy, your friend. Your ridiculously attractive friend, no Gabriella stop thinking that! Imagine if Troy had walked in on you, how would you feel! I wonder if he'd think I looked good naked…No Gabriella why would that matter, he's your friend and only your friend. During her little inner battle she didn't realize Troy standing in the doorway of the bathroom, she only noticed when he cleared his throat. She turned and still caught up in all her thoughts swallowed hard when she saw Troy standing there shirtless. She didn't even realize herself staring until she caught the little smirk on Troy's face as she finally made her way up his body and to his face.
"What ya lookin' at Gabs..?" he asked with that same smirk.
"Nothing!" she replied quickly and then hid her face in the pillows giggling.
"You know you don't have to be embarrassed, I know I have a stellar body! You can check me out all you'd like now" he said with a wink.
"Conceited much!" I giggled and threw a pillow at him, "We all know I'm the one with the stellar body here!" she replied.
"Oh really! Well then I guess I'll just go cover mine up then." And he went into his room to change, she couldn't help feel a little upset that when he came out he'd most definitely have a shirt on.
Troy came out a few minutes later and winked at me as he passed to go pick up whatever it was he'd forgotten in California. I heard the door shut and I decided I was going to do something nice for Troy and make him dinner. So I went and got into my sweats and grabbed the keys Troy had said were his mom's and that I was free to use her car. I wasn't going to make anything big, just his favorite lasagna. I had to buy a few things so I made a list and headed out the door. As I was shopping I ran into Taylor, she was just picking up a few things for her mom.
"Hey Taylor, how's it going?" I asked nicely, trying to make up for running out on them the other day.
"It's good, are you feeling better? Wait, where's Troy?" she asked.
"Oh yeah I am feeling better, thanks. And he said he forgot something in Cali and was getting it sent to him so he's at the post office. I'm making him dinner to make up for being such a downer lately." She replied.
"Well then I'll let you get to it, my mom's waiting for me. So I'll see you soon eh?" she asked sincerely
"Yeah for sure, I'll talk to Troy and we'll figure something out!" she replied happily, giving Taylor a hug goodbye and continuing her shopping.
She made it home pretty quick and put all the ingredients out on the table before running down to change into her comfy sweat shorts and one of her tanks. Once she was done she came back upstairs and began to prepare the food. Once it was in the oven she went back downstairs to watch TV, she'd been watching for about 15 minutes when she heard the door open and close.
"Troy? I'm down here, did you get your stuff?" I asked up the stairs.
"He sure did, now get your ass upstairs missy!" someone yelled back, it was a voice I knew anywhere.
Who's the mystery guest? You'll have to wait and find out, next time on Summertime! Hope you liked the chapter and I'll upload the next one soon! Sorry again about the wait :) By the way, if I haven't mentioned it, all the outfits should be on my profile. The ones for Troy and Gabriella for sure though, maybe others if needed, so yeah remember to check that out :)
Love,
xx Hayley ;)