You Could Be Happy

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(A/N I just want to apologise to everyone for how long it took to update. I had written this next chapter but I then lost it and I have no idea how! I then had writers block for a little while and then I had exams all last week and this week! To make it up this chapter is longer than any before! Also some people were inquiring what happened to my other story and I am sorry to say that something went wrong and would not allow me to upload it once it had deleted it. I am sorry to all those who enjoyed the story. I probably won't start a new story for a while because I need to focus on this one. Also updates might take longer, hopefully not as long as it took to update this time. Oh and a big thank you to all the reviewers! You guys blow me away.)

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Gabriella woke up the next day in the bed that was in the guest room and for some reason she wasn't as comfortable when she woke up as she was the day before. She looked at the ring that was on her left hand ring finger. She still couldn't believe that she was going to get married everything was still a big blur.

Gabriella rubbed her eyes and swung her legs over the side of the bed before getting up and going to the ensuite to have a shower. Gabriella turned the shower on and relaxed as the water hit her tanned Filipino skin. Gabriella walked out of the bathroom and back into her room and picked out the clothes she was going to wear. It was only when she looked at the clock that she remembered her family was coming to talk about the wedding. It was 11 and her family were coming at 12:30pm. Gabriella raced out of her room to the room which she knew belonged to Troy Bolton.

As she flew open the door she stopped in her tracks and stood very still. There in front of her was Troy Bolton only wearing a plain white towel around his waist. Gabriella couldn't take her eyes away from his well toned body. She hadn't really though about whether or not he was well built under his shirt or if he had a six pack but seeing his bare top half she thought that maybe she was in heaven and was staring at her perfect man. Troy's hair was wet and spiking up and looked messy, not a bad messy but a good messy, a sort of natural look that most people couldn't pull off.

"I suggest you learn to knock before entering someone else's room," Troy said with a hint of amusement in his voice as he noticed Gabriella staring at him. Gabriella just about registered what Troy said but still managed to stumble upon her words.

"Oh… umm.. God… I'm s-ss so s-sssorry, I'll just leave," Gabriella said turning around.

"No don't what's the point, you might as well say what you wanted to say," Troy said as he searched his wardrobe for a good t-shirt.

"I was just wondering if you know maybe… I mean I can understand if you don't want to… but you probably don't… you might I don't know" Gabriella said rambling.

"Spit it out Montez," Troy said in a harsh tone but on the inside he found her so cute at the way she was scared to ask him something. It was then that he noticed she was wearing the ring he had gotten her. It looked perfect on her hand. He let out a small smile that went unnoticed by Gabriella.

"I called my mum yesterday and I told her to come here today with the rest of the family like you asked me to ask her and the thing is they're going to be in here in an hour and fifteen minutes but I can't pick them up because I haven't got a car," Gabriella said shyly looking at her feet unable to look at Troy.

"So you were wondering if you could borrow my car," Troy finished.

"Yeah," Gabriella said quietly, "only if you don't mind,"

"It's alright, I'll take you. I have to pick up my parents at 12:40 anyway."

"Thank you Troy," Gabriella replied softly but genuinely.

"It's okay, oh how many people are coming from your family?" Troy asked.

"Umm, four I think. Why? Is that a problem?" Gabriella said with worry in her voice. Troy that it was cute how she would get worried about anything that he asked as though she was scared he was going o yell at her.

"No, it's just so I know how many seats will be needed in my car and since there will be eight of us I should take my people carrier (jeep)," Troy replied.

"Oh okay, well I guess I'll leave you to get changed," Gabriella said slightly blushing as she left Troy's room. Troy let out a little chuckle and took her advice and finished getting changed.


Half an hour later Troy and Gabriella walked into Troy's garage and entered his vehicle.

"Wow you have loads of cars," Gabriella said, "all of which I really like. Oh especially that one pointing to an Audi convertible as they drove out onto the driveway. Troy looked at the car that Gabriella was pointing at; it was indeed also one of his favourites.

"You can have it," Troy said.

"What?" Gabriella said a little shocked.

"I said you can have it."

"No, I can't possibly accept this. You've already paid for my family's flight here and for what I can only this beautiful engagement ring that must have cost a hell of a lot. I just can't accept an amazing car as well," Gabriella said sincerely. Troy smiled; at least she wasn't a gold digger.

"Gabriella it wouldn't be practical if you didn't have a car since I won't always be around to take you to places and I expect that you will be starting work soon and you will need some form of transport to get there preferably a car. What would be the point in buying another car just for you when I have tons?" Gabriella smiled at the way her name rolled of Troy's tongue, she liked it.

"I guess, I just feel a little uncomfortable with using your money that you worked really hard for already when were not even married yet, not that I would spend all your money once we are married," Gabriella said her eyes growing at the mistake she had made. Troy let out a small chuckle at Gabriella's behaviour.

"It's no problem, seriously I have way too much money that I don't spend," Troy said genuinely before leaning forward to turn the radio on.

Before long they both arrived at the airport and were waiting for Gabriella's family. Troy was watching Gabriella's every movement. She sat on the edge of the seat and kept shaking her feet. She was staring at spot and seemed to be lost in thought. The plane had landed and people were piling out with their luggage.

All of a sudden Gabriella jumped up and went running up to a woman that had dark brown hair who looked slightly like Gabriella but much older. Troy predicted this was her mother. Gabriella then hugged a man that Troy figured was her father. Next she moved onto a guy who looked a few years older than Gabriella and then another guy that was a bit younger than Gabriella.

It seemed as though it was then that it hit Gabriella remembered Troy was there. She turned her head to look a Troy. He looked as though he was off in his own world as he was staring at one spot on the floor. She half expected the floor to spontaneously combust by how hard his gaze was. She dragged her family off to see Troy. Hopefully things would turn out alright.

"Troy," Gabriella called out getting Troy's attention, "This is my mum, my dad, my brother Dean and my other brother Sam." Gabriella pointed to each other as she introduced them to Troy.

"Hey, I'm Troy. It's great to see you Mr and Mrs Montez and you too Sam and Dean," Troy said shaking each of their hands. Gabriella was thrilled that he was being nice to them but she couldn't ignore the slight twinge of sadness that she was feeling. He had been nicer to her parents and brothers than he had been to her when they first met.

"Oh please call me James and my wife Anna," James said politely. Troy smiled.

"Sure," he replied simply, "I hope you don't mind but we have to wait about another ten minutes before my parents arrive.

"Sure no problem," Gabriella's mum finally spoke up. Troy turned his attention to Dean who was staring at Troy as though waiting for Troy to slip up so that he could make Troy out to be the worst guy ever. He was definitely one of those overprotective brothers. It was then that Sam spoke up.

"Hey I know this is a really stupid and all since your gonna be my brother-in-law soon but do you think I could have your autograph?" Sam asked. Troy laughed.

"Yeah definitely," Troy said. As he signed the paper that Sam had given him, Sam spoke again.

"The fake at the championship game last year was awesome." Troy smiled.

"Thanks, glad to know you're a basketball fan," Troy answered.

"Yeah we all are in the family; I must say congratulations are in order for the record number of baskets you made against the New York Knicks the last season. Even if we're meant to be Knicks fans." Dean said. Troy could tell he had been debating whether or not to comment.

"Really? I didn't think Gabriella knew anything about basketball," Troy commented.

"Oh everyone in the family but Gabriella knows a lot about basketball. Gabriella knows zilch," James said. Gabriella scowled and blushed slightly. Troy looked past Gabriella to see his parents had arrived. Troy walked past Gabriella and called out to his parents.

"Mum, Dad!" Troy had successfully gotten their attention. They walked over to Troy. Troy hugged his mum and dad.

"How's Camilla?" Troy asked his mum.

"Oh she's fine but she has homework to do so we left her with your grandma and grandpa," Lucille answered.

"This is Anna and James, Sam and Dean," Troy said mimicking exactly what Gabriella had done ten minutes ago.

"It's great to meet you," Lucille greeted them with a smile.

"I haven't introduced you to Gabriella before have I?" Jack asked his wife.

"No you haven't," Lucille replied her tone changing slightly.

"Oh well then this is Gabriella," Troy said pointing to his side where Gabriella was currently situated. Lucille smiled although Troy seemed to be the only one who noticed that it was fake. He made a mental note that he needed to talk to her about it.

"It's nice to meet you Gabriella," Lucille said in quite a strict voice that Dean frowned slightly at before dismissing it.

"Hey, it's nice to meet you too," Gabriella said quite cheerfully.

"Okay well then let's leave now rather than hanging around at the airport," Troy said. Everybody agreed and piled out of the airport and loaded their luggage into the people carrier.


Troy opened the door to his mansion and walked in. Everybody else followed suit.

"Wow your house is huge!" Sam exclaimed.

"Yeah it's really big for just one… I mean two people," Troy said looking over at Gabriella who didn't seem to have noticed his slip up. However Dean noticed his mistake and arched his eyebrows.

"Why don't you all make yourselves comfortable in the living room which is just around the corner," Gabriella suggested.

Everybody entered the living room and sat down on the sofas. There were a few minutes of silence where no one knew what to say.

"Why don't we talk about the wedding date?" Jack suggested.

"Sure! Well now it's the end of September. So maybe a summer wedding would be the best, so around August how does that sound?" Anna suggested.

"Oh that's much too early I say we should wait at least a year and a half!" James replied.

"I agree with James," Lucille chimed in. Gabriella was looking at Troy and saw that his eyes had gotten larger when her father had suggested waiting a year and a bit. She also noticed that he had been making eye contact with his father as though he was sending a message to him through his eyes without saying a word. She just dismissed his behaviour and decided to join in the conversation.

"Actually I was hoping to get married during the winter," Gabriella commented.

"You mean next year's winter?" Anna asked.

"No I mean this winter mum (mom, for some people)," Gabriella said holding eye contact with her mum.

"But Gabriella that's like in three months."

"I know but my dream wedding was for it to take place in the winter. Plus it's sort of like the end of part of my life and the beginning of the next part and what better time than just before a new year?" Gabriella was surprised to hear who spoke next.

"I agree with Gabriella," Troy stated. Everybody looked at Troy amazed at how both he and Gabriella wanted the wedding earlier. They had all presumed that they would like a while to see if they felt anything for each other before getting married.

"Well then that's settled the wedding will be in December what date though?" Jack enquired.

"December 28th," Troy announced.

"Why then?" Gabriella asked genuinely intrigued why he chose that date.

"Well I wanted it after Christmas since that area is hectic enough and we needed some time to plan the wedding and it's just before New Years Day which like you wanted will be technically be like the start of our marriage," Troy stated.

"Well then it's perfect, December 28th it is." The parents carried on talking about preparations for the wedding whilst Gabriella was half-listening and half looking at Troy. He seemed to have spaced out and stopped commenting at all. All of a sudden she noticed him sneakily take out his mobile phone and start texting someone. Gabriella leaned over subtly to see what Troy had written without him noticing that she was looking. The text message read:

Sharpay! Save me! Come 2 my house with an excuse ASAP!

Gabriella was confused. What did he need an excuse for? Gabriella was then brought out of her thoughts when Lucille asked her a question.

"Umm… sure," Gabriella answered. Lucille stared at her weirdly.

"Gabriella I asked you which colour you preferred to base your wedding around orange or grey." Gabriella could hear Troy snickering at her mistake and so she turned her head and glared at him. He stopped immediately but when she turned her head back to Lucille she could hear him laughing again.

"Uh sorry… wasn't paying attention there. don't like either colours I was hoping to have red as the theme."

"Well then why didn't you say earlier when we were talking about having red as the colour for the wedding?" Lucille exclaimed. Gabriella just blushed lightly and looked away. Just as Lucille was about to snap at Gabriella again, somebody came into the room.

"Hey guys and whoever you are," Sharpay said acknowledging Gabriella's family. "And whoever you are," Sharpay said this time referring to Gabriella. "Uh… Troy's needed by the basketball coach something about extra practice since the championships are starting soon. He told Zeke and Zeke asked me to tell Troy."

"Sure Sharpay," Lucille said kindly. Gabriella wondered why Lucille was much nicer to this blonde girl and not to her. Was it because she was blonde? Should she become blonde? Gabriella couldn't though it just wouldn't go with her skin. Troy got up to leave with a grin on his face. He put his arm around Sharpay's shoulder and left the room. Gabriella felt a pang of hurt run through her body. He was touching this girl but he wouldn't touch her (not in that way you sick people! lol). Damn it, he hardly even spoke to her.

Once Troy had left, the people left behind continued with their conversation.

"I think we should the ceremony at the local church," James said.

"No I think the beach, it's more romantic!" Anna replied.

"No just have it in the garden!" Lucille added.

"No have in France, that's the most romantic place." Jack said.

"No, local church!"

"Beach!"

"Garden,"

"France!"

"Beach!"

"Garden!"

"Local Church!"

"France!"

"Enough! I am going to plan this wedding by myself and I do no want to here another word escape from any of you. Now get out of this room and go somewhere so that I can be left in peace to plan this wedding!" Gabriella shouted. It was only when everybody had left that Gabriella had realised that she had just shouted at Troy's parents… her in-laws. Great, just great her first impression to her in-laws would be that she was a whiny, moany cruel bitch. Just perfect this was a cherry on the top of a fantastic day.

When Troy's and Gabriella's family had come home a few hours later they saw Gabriella asleep on the sofa in the living room. Dean picked her up and led her up the stairs and into the first room that he saw. He placed her on the bed and hoped that this was her bedroom and not somebody else's. He then left to find a guest bedroom where he could stay.

Troy got back from Sharpay's and Zeke's at one in the morning. He crept up to his bedroom hoping not to wake anybody up. Once he was in his room he noticed that somebody was sleeping in his bed. As he got closer he noticed that it was Gabriella. Since he couldn't be bothered to move he just stripped down to his boxers and got into the bed with Gabriella. He then turned the opposite direction that Gabriella was sleeping in and drifted off into peaceful slumber.


I've made Lucille mean! I wanted to try something new but I promise you she will become nicer! They way we love her. Also this is definitely A Troyella story and not Troypay like it might have seemed in the middle somewhere anyway Sharpay is married to Zeke remember! The chapter is named You Could Be Happy, a song by Snow Patrol. Anyway reviews are always welcome!

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