A.N.- I made up the Twinkle Town Part.
Do You Really Mean It?
Chapter 6- Activities are Fun... and Hard
As the alarm clock went off, they all started to get up.
It was 8 o'clock, and Gabriella, she was usually an early riser.
She got up out of her bed, gathered her things and headed for the showers.
At the same moment, Troy got up, excited for the day. He too got his things and took a shower.
When Gabriella was done with her shower, she walked out of the shower, and got changed. When she opened the door of the shower to the regular bathroom, she saw Kelsi and Taylor brushing their teeth. She heard the other shower on, so it had to be Sharpay.
Gabriella walked up to the mirror next to Taylor and Kelsi to brush her hair.
A half an hour later, they were all done getting things ready, so they decided to hang out with the guys in the guy's bunk.
Since it was almost 9 o'clock, the girls knew that all of the guys should be ready by now.
Since Gabriella was the first one to enter, she was talking to Kelsi and she couldn't see where she was going.
She walked right into Troy, knocking him over and bringing herself down with him.
"Ow." Gabriella said, after landing on the ground.
"Yah same here." Troy replied, as Gabriella tried to get off of him.
Gabriella's POV
Great... I just knocked my best friend down.
Oh what am I kidding, he will never like me, I am a klutz.
I better apologize.
End of POV
"Sorry." Gabriella apologized.
"No seriously, its fine, I should have watched where I was going."
"Yah me too, I was talking to Kelsi."
"Are you okay, Brie?"
"I'm fine."
"Can you two get over here please?" Jason called over to them.
The two friends walked up to the group.
"Ok guys, its about 9:30, and breakfast has already started. I say we eat, and then come back to just hang out." Ryan suggested."
"Yah that sounds good." Troy answered.
So the gang headed to the cafeteria.
The breakfast for today was a buffet of toast, eggs and bacon.
"Yes! They have bacon today!" Chad said excitedly.
"You and your stomach. When are you not hungry?" Taylor replied.
"All guys are always hungry, look at them." Gabriella said, pointing to their 5 guy friends.
Taylor, Sharpay and Kelsi's heads all turned to see the guys putting at least 2 servings of food on their plates.
"Guys will be guys." Sharpay said.
The girls went up to the buffet and served themselves some food.
When they were all done servind themselves, they all sat at the table that they had sat before.
While sitting, Troy saw the kid Austin passing their table, looking at Gabriella. He put his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. When he looked back at Austin, the kid turned away, and went back to his table.
"Why did you do that?" Gabriella asked Troy.
"What are you talking about- Oh that, why, I can't put my arm around my best friend?" Troy teased.
"Well I never said that." Gabriella replied.
"Sure." Troy joked.
Sharpay saw that her two friends were being all lovey-dovey again, so she just rolled her eyes.
After eating, they went back to the bunks.
"Guys, our activities start in... 20 minutes and we have art first, so we should all listen to the rules carefully. I know all of you want to win the prize." Taylor said.
"Duh!" Gabriella replied sarcasticly.
The gang hung out and talked about winning the prize, until it was time to start the day.
They walked about maybe 5, 10 minutes away from their bunk, to an outdoor craft area.
"Hi everyone, my name is Counciler Rick, and welcome to art." The counciler greeted.
Although there were 15 different teams, they all had their activities at different times, and their were more than 5 activities. The activities that were chosen for your group are activities that your team was good at already.
"Today the activity will be easy, you have to build a macaroni sculpture, but you must build an animal. You will choose a partner, you can have a group of 2 or a group of 3." Counciler Rick exclaimed.
So the friends all got into groups.
Gabriella and Troy worked together, Taylor and Chad, Kelsi and Jason, and Sharpay, Ryan and Zeke.
"Your project must be completed in 45 minutes, start."
The friends immedietly started.
"What animal should we choose?" Gabriella questioned, looking at Troy.
"Umm... what about a wildcat?" Troy replied.
"That's perfect!" Gabriella said excitedly.
So the two got working, on their macaroni wildcat.
Although there were different types of macaroni to choose from, they chose the spiral and elbow macaroni.
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After all of the macaroni projects were completed, the counciler looked over each of the projects.
Troy and Gabriella's wildcat looked like the East High's symbol. Taylor and Chad made a starfish. Kelsi and Jason made a lizard, and Sharpay, Ryan and Zeke made a dog.
"Very good. Now I will give you guys 9 points out of 10. The different activities have more or less points you can earn each day. There is a building next to the main lodge and you trade your points for stuff. The system is like an arcade, the more tickets you have, the more prizes you can get. But your whole team share's the points." Counciler Rick explained.
The counciler dropped 9 little wooden nickels into Gabriella's hand.
"Make sure you keep these safe, there are good things in there." The counciler stated, "Off to your next activity, good luck."
"Goodbye," the team mumbled.
So they left the art area and headed off to the lake for their next activity, swimming.
They passed their bunks, since they were heading over to the lake and changed into swimwear.
All of the girls wore striped or polka dotted, one piece bathing suits. And all of the guys wore rashguards and their swim trunks. It was the dress code for the lake for activity days.
When they got to the lake, there were lines set up in the lake.
"Welcome to lake side. I am Counciler Jessica. The rules are to act nice to eachother, not to fake drown and not to go out to far. The first activity is to earn your swimming bracelets. You must tread water for 15 minutes in the 8 ft. deep zone of the lake. If you are able to do that,you earn a bracelet that allows you to swim in the deeper part of the lake. Your team will earn 5 points for everyone that earns their bracelet. Good luck, you may start now."
All of the 9 friends toward the lake.
Once they got to the 8 feet mark, they all started their 15 minute tread.
All of the friends treaded the water in a circle talking to eachother.
"Im not sure how hard this is going to be." Kelsi said, "Only 4 minutes have past and I am starting to get tired."
"Yah, I know." Taylor replied.
"Well, I thought that the activities would be easy since its the first day, but I guess we were wrong." Gabriella said, floating closer to Troy.
"C'mon guys we can work this out. We have 3 more hours until we are done. I don't know about you, but I want to earn a lot of points. I think after out activities are done we should go check out the shop." Troy encouraged.
"Yah." The friends replied.
The next 10 minutes passed by and they all got out of the water.
"Oh my goodness, I con barely feel my legs," Sharpay said.
"Yah neither can we." Jason replied.
"Great job! All of you passed the challenge, and you all get your swim bracelet." The counciler said happily.
She held out a box full of blue, red and orange livestrongs. The all said 'Strong Swimmer' on it.
The team all decided too take he red ones, to support their wildcat spirit.
"Also, you guys have earned 45 points." The counciler said, handing Gabriella 45 wooden nickels.
"Wow, we earned 54 nickels so far!" Gabriella said excitedly.
"Nice!" The gang replied.
Gabriella dropped the 54 nickels into a soft fabric bag that they found in the drawer in the drawer of their night tables.
"Time to leave, hope you guys had fun." Counciler Jessica waved them goodbye.
The friends walked over to the cafeteria. Today's food was pizza. They ate at their usual table and after that hour, walked over to their next activity, drama.
"Ok guys we are walking to drama. It will be easy for us, since some of us were in Twinkle Towne." Ryan said.
They came to an outdoor ampitheater.
"Oh my goodness, its really beautiful!" Gabriella, Sharpay, and Kelsi said, staring at the stage.
"What?" Taylor said, coming up to them.
Kelsi heard Taylor and just pointed to the theater in front of them.
"Yah, it is really cool." Taylor said.
"Lets go start the activity," Chad said, walking towad the stage.
"Welcome to ampitheater!" A tall, cheery blonde, said, walking over to them. "Your activity today is to recite and act out a play that you know, you can earn 20 points for this activity."
"Ok," they all replied.
They all got together and started to discuss.
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"Ok guys, times up." The counciler said, "Oh yah, and my name is Casey. Show me what you got."
Troy smiled, they were going to act out Twinke Towne; well the ending anyway.
Kelsi was playing the piano, she wouldn't be on stage.
Troy and Chad entered the stage.
"Dude, tell her now, before its too late!" Chad said, acting angry.
"I want to, but I don't know how she would react." Troy replied.
"Arnold listen to me! You have to tell her before school is over. You may never see her again!" Zeke said, coming towards them.
"Yah dude, just tell her now!"Chad said.
"What are you guys talking about?" Taylor replied, walking towards center stage.
"Oh nothing, Arnold just won't tell Minnie he loves her!" Sharpay screamed, appearing from behind Zeke.
"Guys! I can't!" Troy said, acting annoyed.
"Can't what?" Gabriella walked over to the group with a questioning face.
"Oh you will see," Sharpay replied, with a smirk on her face.
"Hit it Kels!" Taylor screamed.
Kelsi started to play the music of Breaking Free.
"I know this song, Kelsi wrote it, and she was teaching me it!" Gabriella said.
"She was teaching me too!" Troy replied.
"Good then sing!" Sharpay screamed, pushing them to the front of the stage.
The two started to sing, just like back in Twinkle Towne. They acted shy at the beginning, but had a blast as it got to the chorus.
Were breaking free!
Soarin,
Flyin,
There's not a star in heaven that we can't reach.
If were tryin, then were breakin free!
As Gabriella and Troy were singing, the rest of their friends were dancing along.
When the song was over, the two stood there, breathless from all the singing.
"I love you Minnie."
"I love you Arnold."
They leaned into a kiss, while the curtains drew infront of them, so they really didn't have to kiss, but since they were acting, it made it seem real.
The two came out from behind the curtain, and took a bow with the rest of their friends, includin Kelsi.
"Very good!" The counciler said happily, clapping. "You guys made it seem so real, I give you the full 20 points."
The counciler took out 20 nickels and dropped them into Gabriella's hand.
"Oh and just to tell you guys, the recreation and trivia areas are still being set up, so you can't go there until tomorrow." The counciler added.
"Sweet, that means no more activities for the rest of the day." Zeke said excitedly.
"Lets go back to our bunks." Ryan suggested.
"Yah." They replied.
The friends started to walk back to their bunks.
"Did you enjoy singing?" Troy asked Gabriella.
"Yep." Gabriella replied, skipping.
"Remember that time when we were rehearsing for the play and Darbus freaked out, because Chad came in and knocked down the banner with his basketball?" Troy said.
Gabriella looked into his eyes and they both started to laugh.
"Yah, I remember."
"Hey you two, stop flirting, and get over here!" Sharpay snapped.
The realised that they were walking slower than their friends and hurried to catch up to them, their faces flushing.
