It's late, I know! I'm sorry! But next chapter will be up on Saturday! Review, please!
12:04 A.M
Bolton-Montez Residence
Los Angeles, California
March 25, 2016
"That is horrible," Sharpay laughed as Gabriella walked out of the dressing room, "Who designed this?" Gabriella rolled her eyes and looked down at the white gown. She liked it, she thought it fit her personality well and it was special.
"It would be Troy's grandmother's wedding dress," she brushed a brown hair out of her eyes and glanced at the long mirror, "She said that it would be an honor if I were to wear it. She said that I could do anything I wanted to with it, redesign it or whatever. She said if I completely hated it then I could just give it back to her. But, I have to make sure I get design plans first before we actually start," Gabriella looked at it and listened to her friend ramble.
"Listen, dude, it is your wedding. It isn't his grandmother's or anyone else's. It is your wedding. Don't let them control your wedding."
Gabriella sighed. It was true. She was at his family's church, his family ring, and now his grandmother's dress. She had told herself over and over again that this was due to him being an only child but, she wasn't going to let anyone walk all over her.
"No, we are getting that Vera Wang dress over there. I am going to call Vera Wang and they are going to help me design everything. Everything is going to be unique and I am not doing dress hand-me-downs because I don't even like that. The church is romantic along with the ring but I want my own dress," Sharpay shook her head quickly,
"Atta girl, let's go call Vera Wang and get you out of this disgusting dress," Gabriella laughed slowly and heard her cell phone ring, glancing over at Kelsi,
"Can you pick that up while I go change?" It was a text message, a photo message at that. There was a picture of Troy in a tux with a grin and words saying 'how's this hot bod?'
With an evil chuckle, Kelsi sent back 'that dress is disgusting and I refuse to wear it. I am tired of your family picking all of the wedding details and I want my own control.'
The minute she pushed send, Kelsi felt a tinge of guilt then forgot it, realizing that Troy had cheated on her with Gabriella and she had no need to be nice. She waited for a reply and it never came until she felt the phone ring in her hands. Troy was calling Gabriella.
"Uh, hello," Kelsi answered quickly, "Gabriella is changing so she can't talk." Troy was breathing deeply and sighed.
"Can I talk to her really quick?" Kelsi groaned and was stuck in a corner. She couldn't just admit that she sent the text message but spoke slowly,
"Yeah, let me pass it to her." Kelsi passed the phone over the dressing room door quickly and listened as Gabriella talked, curious.
"Babe, I didn't-" She heard Gabriella stop quickly and open the door, only in a slip, "-a text message? Oh, yeah, that. Sorry, I was just angry at Kelsi for doing something and took it out on you, the dress and your family. I'm really sorry."
Kelsi went red in the face, blushing. Gabriella had lied to cover her? Gabriella actually did something for her?
"I know, and I know that. The dress isn't disgusting but it isn't my taste. I love the church and the ring, baby. If I didn't really like them then I would have told you a long time ago. Like I said, I got stressed. You know, like that one time when you called my Aunt a demon and that she wasn't going to attend our wedding," Gabriella paused, staring Kelsi down- clearly showing that she was pissed.
"I am going to call your family right now and tell them how excited I am, ok? And no, it's not to make up for things. I want that ring and I want that church. I just want my own dress. I want a dress that our daughter or daughter-in-law could wear." She paused for a longer time, giggling then staring back up at Kelsi with red in her eyes.
"I love you too, fiancé. Now, I am going to pick out my dress that you will not see until I am walking down the aisle to marry you," She paused and grinned, "love you, bye."
With a click of the phone, she stared into Kelsi green eyes and spoke with spite,
"Never again will I take up for you," Kelsi backed up, almost fearing the bride-to-be, "and this better be the last time that you try to fuck up my wedding because I will not allow it."
Kelsi simply shook her head and spoke with the same tone,
"Coming from "the other woman" of a past couple," She laughed and headed toward the door, "What a great foundation to a marriage, a relationship based around unfaithfulness."
Gabriella shouted after her, pissed off at the girl's attitude,
"While you look back at the past, Kelsi, why don't you realize that Troy picked me? In reality, Troy picked me. Troy kissed me. Troy loves me, not you." Gabriella finished, "So, get over yourself and decide if you want to work with this wedding or get uninvited because you aren't fucking this up for me." Gabriella hadn't felt that she was acting like Bridezilla before until she said that comment. .
She didn't like cat fights, nor did she want to be involved in one. So, she felt extremely awkward standing up to this girl. She didn't want to be a Bridezilla or a bitch, she just wanted her wedding to be perfect and didn't want anyone to stand in her way.
But, oh, Kelsi was definitely going to work with this wedding. Like they always say: Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Kelsi grinned as she saw her boyfriend approaching her in the hallway. She had everything planned out. She would make up this big story about how Gabriella had been hateful to her and now Troy was the only person that she could trust because Sharpay and Chad had bailed on her. She was going to play the Snow White and Gabriella would be the Villain. It was perfect.
"Hey Troysie," Kelsi began, batting her eyelashes and rubbing against his forearms, "you'll never guess what happened. Gabriella-" Troy paused, hearing the girl's name. Gabriella, the girl that he treated like a girlfriend. The girl that he had cheated on his girlfriend with. He quickly cut Kelsi off,
"I don't want to talk about her, babe. I want to talk about you, us." Kelsi grinned pulling him into a long and publically-inappropriate kiss. Troy closed his eyes and didn't want to think about how much warmer and softer Gabriella's lips were. So, he focused on everything he loved about his girlfriend and everything he hated about Gabriella.
Gabriella bit her nails and he thought that was a disgusting habit. Kelsi didn't. Gabriella was way quieter than him and Kelsi was extremely outgoing. He stopped. He was comparing the two again. He didn't compare Kelsi and Sharpay.
Troy opened his eyes to find a blonde glaring at him with an all-knowing look in her autumn eyes. He sent her the same look, almost reading that if she said a word then he would kill her. So she turned and headed toward homeroom, in a search to find her boyfriend and new "best" friend.
Troy heard the bell ring and headed into homeroom sitting down quietly after prying Kelsi off of his arm. He glanced back at her and gave her a tired smile before staring ahead again. He hadn't gotten any sleep the previous night, tossing and turning in guilt. He had been thinking about a girl that wasn't his girlfriend and that was driving his conscious crazy.
"Ms. Montez?" A name was called to make Troy look to his side quickly. Gabriella wasn't there. He had just seen her on Friday and she wasn't sick at all, how could she be sick now? "Absent."
Troy continued to stare forward thinking about Gabriella. Sure, he thought she was nice and extremely attractive but so were a lot of girls. And so what that she liked all the same things as him and understood his thinking…a lot of people do that. Right? Running a hand through his hair, he realized that he was being called on.
"Mr. Bolton, please tell me what I just said." Troy opened his mouth to speak to his homeroom teacher but simply stated,
"I have no idea, Ms. Darbus. I apologize for not paying attention," the teacher glanced at the boy and saw that he was clearly having emotional troubles and ignored him to finish teaching about the subject that no one clearly cared about.
Troy desperately needed to talk to Gabriella. He had tried texting her, calling her and even considered driving to her house again. He needed to know that Gabriella wouldn't say anything to Kelsi. Kelsi was his girlfriend and he, well; he wasn't sure how he felt about her anymore. But he did know that if Kelsi were to find out about the kiss, he wanted to be the one to tell her.
He closed his eyes and tried to imagine which girl he saw himself with. However, each time he closed his eyes he saw Gabriella. He didn't want to. He wanted to see Kelsi. He wanted to be with Kelsi. He loved Kelsi.
Right?
No. Troy knew it was false. He didn't want to be with Kelsi and he didn't love Kelsi. He wanted to be with Gabriella. He stood up quickly as the bell rang, not talking to anyone on his way to his next class. That was, until his best friend stood next to him.
"You are lucky we are friends because if we weren't I would castrate you," Chad said softly with a frown on his face. Oh no, Troy thought, Chad knows.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Troy tried to lie but Chad elbowed his ribs quickly, showing that he was calling the boy's bluff, "What?"
"Gabster is currently lying in her bed, not getting up. Which, she has been since Friday night. Her parents can't get her up and nor could Shar. She told Sharpay what you did but won't neither girl will tell me. So, tell me what you did now before you risk losing your balls," Troy ran a slow hand through his hair, knowing that, if he didn't tell anyone, he would explode.
"Well," Troy started and finished in a hushed tone, "I, uh, kissed her…accidentally." Chad frowned. How could his friend toy with Gabriella's emotions like that? He let Troy tell the whole story, including the car ride and his randomly showing up at his house.
"Walk away, dude." Chad said quickly, fearing that this situation would escalate into something bigger than it has to be. He just simply sighed and headed toward his girlfriend, thinking of ways to get out of this crazy guilt.
He saw Kelsi flirting with the football captain and let his heart fall. Seriously, his love life sucked. However, when he felt a pair of green eyes "check out" his body, his frown turned upside down. The plus side to Kelsi was that she actually wanted to be with him. The plus side was that when he kissed Kelsi it didn't mean that he was cheating on anyone, he was only kissing his girlfriend.
"Troysie, what are you doing here? I thought you were heading down a different hallway." Kelsi was frantic, fearing that Troy would dump her for being unfaithful emotionally and- sometimes- physically. Kelsi had gotten drunk and kissed/hooked up with numerous guys.
What? She was a girl with needs! And it's not like Troy would ever find out.
"Just walking to class," Troy muttered, "Kelsi, listen, I have something to…" Kelsi stopped him quickly, fearing this conversation may lead to a breakup. So she spoke over him,
"Why don't I come to your house tonight for dinner?" Troy frowned. His parents hated Kelsi, they loathed her. Troy's mother [who loved everyone] said that Kelsi was rude and mean. And Troy's father [who simply adored Gabriella Montez] said that Kelsi was stuck up and thought she was better than them.
Kelsi hadn't even introduced her parents to them or to Troy. She simply wasn't nice to anyone.
"Great," Troy mumbled, "Wonderful."
12:14 P.M.
Montez Household
Albuquerque, New Mexico
September 8, 2008
"Gabby, you have to get out of bed someday," Gabriella's mother said to her as she continued laying on her bed with her face into the pillow, "you can't stay there forever."
"Want to bet? Mommy, I am the other woman. He just came to the door and kissed me," The woman sighed. That was all that Gabriella had said within the last few days. She had lay in bed and repeated that to anyone who came into the room.
She hadn't had food or gotten up in the entire time. She was simply a slug, lying there feeling sorry for herself. She deserved to but, Mrs. Montez felt that, she was being a drama queen. Gabriella normally didn't do things like this, she was levelheaded. Now, her mother just wanted to spank her or something to make her get up.
Well, not really, she wouldn't spank her daughter but she was getting really annoyed.
"Gabriella Elizabeth, get out of that bed right now before I make you." Gabriella glanced up from the pillow and frowned,
"Mommy, am I a slut?" The mother sighed,
"No, baby, get up and I'll make you some lunch." Gabriella stood up for the first time in two days and headed downstairs to continue on with her life. On her way down she noticed that she had a voicemail and a few text messages on her phone. She read the first text message and gained and angry red tint in her eyes. Gabriella, you can't tell. –Troy.
Then she read the second andsighed, do you want to go to the mall? XOXO- Shar. Sharpay had shown up at her house an hour after the text was sent with an afro clan boy following soon. She had told Sharpay what had happened and refused to tell Chad. She just felt so horrible.
Gabriella, it is Troy. Listen, I really need to talk to you. I know you probably hate me, because I hate myself. But seriously…call me back.
That's what the voicemail was. No apology just a plain old 'I'm fucked' message. Gabriella felt like a toy, someone who wasn't even worth anyone's time. She felt like an idiot.
"Gabriella- you have a guest," she heard her father call from outside of the door. She told whomever it was to come in and saw that it was Chad.
"Troy told me." Chad said quickly, watching as Gabriella's face fell. Chad finished quickly, "And I am skipping school right now so if I get suspended then it will be your fault." Gabriella laughed, knowing he was kidding.
It was the first time she had laughed since Friday. It was the first happy emotion she had felt since Sharpay had laid down in her bed with her and watched Titanic on Saturday.
"Chad, what do I do? I-" Chad gave her blunt advice,
"Forget Troy. He's a jerk, and if anyone would know it, it is me. Just go to school like a normal person and forget him. And most likely, Sharpay is murdering him at the moment so next time you see him, we'll be hiding his body." Gabriella gave him a small smile and spoke quietly.
"Yeah, but why did he kiss me? I'm like ordinary and like 'just friends' material." Chad laughed,
"Dude, if I didn't have a girlfriend, I would be all up on you." Gabriella grinned and headed out of her room feeling a lot better. Chad and Sharpay were really good friends to her, always making her feel better.
"Thanks, Chadster. I really needed that," Gabriella whispered and decided to move on with her life in that moment. She told her head that she would no longer pin after Troy Bolton.
But her heart was saying differently.
"Yeah, yeah, now I am going to my girlfriend's house because her parents are out and I have needs," The boy with the afro said, nudging his friend and making her giggle. She didn't need Troy. He was just a jerk, a stupid boy who was emotionally brainless.
"Alright," she teased, "Remember: no glove, no love."
Chad rolled his brown eyes and headed out the door, not without saying a few words to Gabriella's father about something quick about basketball and something he could learn.
Mr. Montez liked Chad, Sharpay and Troy. He figured that they were good friends to his daughter so they must be good people. However, within the last few days, he was starting to dislike Troy Bolton and all of his 'dreamy boy' appearance.
Sure, Mr. Montez didn't know the whole story but he did know that this boy had caused his daughter distress and he didn't like that. He didn't like that one bit. But he knew that Gabriella had feelings for this lame boy and he wasn't going to screw that up for her. [No matter how much he wanted to kick that guy in the face.]
6:56 P.M.
Bolton Household
Albuquerque, New Mexico
September 8, 2008
"Oh gosh, she's coming?" Mrs. Bolton said, stirring the soup on the stove, and listening to her worried son. Troy honestly hated when Kelsi came over for dinner, because he never asked…she simply invited herself. And his parents weren't extremely fond of her either.
"Mom, seriously, today is not the day." Mrs. Bolton rolled her eyes. Her son had gone all drama queen ever since the previous Friday and she just wanted to know why. It was annoying that he just went through this metamorphosis where he turned into a douche bag.
"Alright," She started to scoop out four bowls, almost wanting to spit in one, "Where has Gabriella-" Troy cut his mother off quickly and seriously felt his guilt coming up his throat like acid reflex,
"I don't want to talk about her, ok?" Mrs. Bolton raised an eyebrow and her son and spoke slowly,
"Go get your father and we are eating at 7 with or without your girlfriend." Troy shook his head and headed toward their garage to grab his father, only to hear the door bell ring. Kelsi was only 30 minutes late this time.
Kelsi had arrived to the door, kissing her boyfriend forcefully in front of his parents, causing everyone to feel uncomfortable.
"Hey baby, did you miss me?" She had an unattractive pout on her face, causing his parents to head into the kitchen, leaving the couple in the front hallway to talk.
"Sure," was all Troy could mutter before walking into their navy blue and white kitchen, sitting at the hard wood table, glancing at the tomato soup in front of him. He suddenly wasn't hungry. Tomatoes were red like hearts and hearts like love and love that made Troy seriously confused.
Troy was sitting at the table with his mother on one side and his girlfriend on the other and feeling that the atmosphere was awkward. No one was talking and no one had any icebreakers or conversation starters.
"So, how has your day been?" Jack Bolton started after pouring salt onto his soup and looking at the two teenagers. Troy quickly admitted to his parents and his girlfriend,
"I kissed Gabriella Montez on Friday night, and am seriously considering doing it again because I liked kissing her. Actually, to be completely honest, I like her romantically."
Troy was shocked at his own words, seriously regretting saying it out loud in such a forthright way.
But he was even more surprised to hear Kelsi's high pitch scream fill the room.
Ah ha ha, cliff hanger number 2. This chapter was kind of a filler. There are 3 more chapters left but they last one will be the entire wedding from the morning to the end of the wedding. I already have the song for their first dance in mind but I'm not going to tell you! I know exactly what is coming up next chapter.
So, I realized in the future parts of the story Kelsi hadn't caused much trouble, this one should get in a few jabs. And Gabriella was being too 'innocent' and she needed to have an attitude, so that explains the tone of that.
Tell me what you think and PLEASE review! I really need tips on what you want to read!
8:04 A.M.
East High School
Albuquerque, New Mexico
September 8, 2008
