Another week of school...another chapter I don't know when I am going to get out...another chapter that WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!
Okay will I am not that sure abut the knock and socks but I am pretty sure that it is going to be a chapter. Hey, guess what?! I'm getting reading glasses! Oh YIPPE!
Hopefully you can see my tint of sarcasm there. I am not so excited about it nor completely frenzy. Anyway, don't want to linger any longer.
Disclaimer: I do not own High School Musical... I will put that on my resume and put my head own in shame,
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Gabriella thought of all the times she had caught Troy doing weird things , as a 6th grader would put it. For an 11th grader this kind of acting was...let's put it this way...normal. It was just a lip lock with a girl at the back of the school building, or the supply closet , or under the bleachers. What hit Gabriella the most was that every time there was a different girl every single dang time. Gabriella remembered the first time she had discovered him with girl.
At age 16 , Gabriella walked down the halls of East High as happy has ever. It was her first day as a legal driver with a red convertible ,gifted from the FBI, to prove it. She skipped slightly trying to contain her excitement. It was the middle of seventh period, the last of period the day, and her Spanish teacher had sent her out to find more white paper in the supply closet. She finally found the door that had "Supplies" in red metal letters on it. She twisted the knob expecting to see shelves of supplies but instead, their was 16 year old Troy Bolton and 16 years old Melinda Crow in a heated tongue twist.
Disgust erupted through Gabriella when she found Troy smirking at her when the two pulled back.
Gabriella shivered as she pulled back from the memory. Melinda's horror struck
face spread a smile across Gabriella's face. Melinda was the girl of girls , probably ten times more than Sharpay. Disgust is something that corrupted Gabriella every time she saw her but she couldn't help but feel a tinge bit of jealousy which gave her all the reason more to hate Troy. Troy's attention always seemed to go strait to Gabriella. To annoy her, to weaken her, to hate her it was all for her. Giving Melinda attention like that made Gabi's blood boil in an odd way.
Gabriella turned her body to turn towards Troy form. He was casually looking out of the airplane window trying to see glimpses of the coming USA .
"Troy can I ask you something?" she confronted. He turned his head towards her softly smiled at her.
"Hit me." he dared her and listening for her question.
"Why did you " she paused searching for words. " Remember ,the I forget how many times, that I caught you with some random girl?" Troy looked at her sternly and nodded. " Why?". Troy straitened out and looked at television in front in him.
"I guess it's only thing that I don't like about the FBI." Gabriella raised her eyebrows unintentionally but her curiosity was publicized fully. Troy continued. "I always have to lie about who I really am" he stopped again ,now looking at Gabriella. " It's so hard. Doing all those things is the only way I can keep people out of my life outside of school...I think. "
Gabriella smiled in relief. She was amused at Troy's real reason as to why he was so different at headquarters than at school.
"Troy, you don't need to fake it." she reached out of the warmth in her blanket to cup his cheek. Another show of her the girl inside Gabriella. She smiled at him when he held her hand there not wanting for her to remove it. "I mean" she continued. " What you see here , is the really me. I am not just tomboy for school" Troy smiled at her connection. Gabriella was getting somewhere. Or Troy just had to catch up to her. She giggled.
"Just don't fake it, you have to know how good it feels to be you" Gabriella joked.
Troy and Gabriella were now facing each other in the plane to Chicago. Everyone around them disappeared. Troy moved himself closer to Gabriella.
"Understand?" she began caressing his cheek with her thumb. Troy nodded slowly. Silence followed. Each of them had emotions flowing through them crazily. Gabriella was immersed in his cobalt eyes while Troy found himself craving for chocolate once again. He licked his lips.
Never ,for Troy, have anyone's eyes been so attracting, not until Gabriella. Hell, no one has been so attracting and magnetic like Gabriella. He stared at her. Taking in every single detail of Gabriella's face. It wasn't he hadn't memorized it before. Troy took her hand and laced Gabriella's fingers with his. He placed their locked hands under the blanket to share more warmth. Gabriella looked up at him with a new hidden emotion as he looked at her with the same. What it was isn't yet cleared up to neither of them but whatever it was they knew it was a strong one. Whether hate, guilt, hurt, lust, admiration or love all they knew was that it was strong.
Troy wiped away strands of hair that were covering the full view of her eyes. He reached down and connected his right hand with her left, too. God, she was beautiful. Her was gorgeous and exoticness blew Troy right out of his senses.
"Can I kiss you?"
Gabriella nodded easily. Not even in seconds worth did she wait for Troy to lunge forward and press them both into a romantic kiss.
The plane landed an hour later. Neither had talked about it much, thinking it was for both of them a spur of moment thing once again. And both accepted that the fact to be the truth.
Gabriella jolted off of her seat of the plane and grabbed her bag.
"Troooy" she cooed to the sleeping figure of him. His eyes fluttered open. "Good morning sunshine!" Troy smiled. The next few hours could not be predicted and could include many deaths, injuries and who knows what, but what ever it was Gabriella seemed to have wiped the worry away. He stood up, after releasing himself from the ties of the seat belt, and stretched his hands up. Gabriella bent down and grabbed the back pack they shared.
Gabriella's phone vibrated. She opened to a new text message.
You have until 6:45 to get out of the airport...
Gabriella winced. "What time is it?" she asked. Troy flipped his hand over and checked his watch.
"5:55" Gabriella stuffed her bag into Troy's hands and pulled a change of cloths for herself and him.
"I think we have enough time so we've gotta get changed" she said looking at his watch again. "In Five minutes." She rushed in the direction of bathroom trying to get past all the people in line.
4 minutes to 6
Troy stripped himself in the bathroom and began changing himself
2 minutes to 6
Gabriella zipped her mini shorts up and buttoned up the last one on her red polo shirt. She slipped on the black tie and hustled outside of the plane's bathroom. Once out she saw a glimpse of Troy in his fresh cloths of a blue shirt and bright lime green shorts along with his FBI tie. Gabriella smiled, this is the Troy that she liked.
He approached her grinning.
"Like my choice of cloths?" Gabriella nodded with a similar grin
"But Troy seriously , we are supposed to be hidden". She reasoned. He shrugged.
"We'll manage" He grabbed the backpack from Gabriella. He checked the time once again.
45 minutes to deadline.
"We have to go" He seized Gabriella's hand and they sprinted out of the empty plane. They flew passed the connecting tunnel and into the Chicago airport. The daylight of the American sun shone through the windows as they scurried down the escalator. They finally came to immigration and stopped dead in front of a very long line.
40 minutes to deadline
They waited patience wearing down briskly.
35 minutes to deadline.
Still waiting...
25 minutes
Gabriella and Troy dash out of the security booths and gallop to baggage claim. God Dang It the Chicago Airport is so damn huge!
1 minute to dead line
Gabriella and Troy burst out of the front doors of the Chicago Airport. A familiar dark blue pilot zoomed past with ,once again, a smirking Jack in the driver seat. Anger flared through the two adolescent seventeen year olds. Troy hailed the next cab ushering it to park in front of them.
"Follow the damn pilot. Be FAST" Gabriella adjured. The back seat door came in with a slam and the car sped off.
"You know your going to have to pay for any damage caused and extra charge for pressure," the cab driver reminded them. They ignored him or so the driver thought.
A right, strait, left, more rights, two lefts and a dead stop in front of Lincoln Park Zoo. Gabriella grabbed the driver's hand and scribbled a number on it.
"Call this number. They will pay for you if mention a Gabriella Montez" she said a followed Troy out the door. They ran following Jack and Carlos. Leah was not with them at the moment. Troy reached into his pocket and pulled out a bundle of cash. He hammered it onto the desk. Gabriella was too stunned as well as the person behind the desk giving out tickets. She slid her fingers into Troy's releasing his angry fist into a calming clutch. Troy looked down at her. She nodded slightly at him and he looked down.
"For two please, and quick" she said to the lady. She smiled and printed out the tickets.
"Here's a Map of the zoo. Enjoy your selves!" the lady wished them and went back to her long gaze at her computer. Gabriella opened the map expecting to see a bunch map like structures that will help her come up with somewhere to go. Instead the answer popped out right in front of her.
Our first stop is here!
Intimate handwriting was sprawled out near the penguins. Gabriella began running to the penguins and puffins with Troy sprinting behind her. She stopped near the penguins ,catching a glimpse of the birds before Troy came up breathing heavily behind her.
"There they are!" Troy pointed and started to follow them once again. They went past the Birds of Prey and turned the corner. Jack and Carlos were seen by Troy and Gabriella going towards the Regenstien African Journey.
As soon as Troy and Gabriella were content with their pace at running a man in a Hawaiian t-shirt and tan shorts came speeding toward them. There was only one man ...no problem. They headed on their path strait ahead determined that this weak man would not put off their track. Troy and Gabriella put aside a moment to turn their heads and look at each other. Troy's fierce cobalt orbs matched the expression in Gabriella's chocolate ones. They had a plan A and back up written out for each of them in their eyes. A nod was all needed. The two looked back at their target. Surprise overwhelmed them. That is not good. Before them was an army of 6 men practically cyclones of the first one. There was only one choice left.
Troy and Gabriella split , Troy to the left and Gabriella to the right. They crossed each other on their way to their designated direction. The group of men split three and three.
Troy ran. What choice did he have? Where he was going was not distinct. He focused his attention on what was in front of him. At the clearing of the narrow path was a face not exactly new to him but Troy was still uncertain. The body stood their blocking his breakout. Troy grew closer and closer to him. The strange man became clear. It was Jack.
Now, Troy had seen Jack before but only the back of him or a quick glance through a car window. That didn't count. Troy's eyes widened at his face. The dang face wasn't new, it was there somewhere in the back of his mind. Troy dug within the depths of his bottomless mind. No can do. It just didn't click.
When Troy was a couple of feet away from Jack , he dashed away daring Troy to follow him. Troy took the evil man's dare and ran faster trying to catch up with Jack. All of sudden Troy became aware of his body. He was loosing breath , growing weak. He had past his comfort rate and reached ultimate zone a long time ago. Looking around him , he searched for Gabriella. She wasn't anywhere in sight. Jack was entering the Kovler Lion House right now with Troy struggling to catch him to him. Come on Troy. This is not your limit. Troy pushed himself to maximum ,when he felt like he was flying.
Troy looked behind him checking to see where the men in Hawaiian attire were. Like Gabriella, they were no where in sight. Fear donned upon him. What if the all six of the men were now after Gabriella. Troy scanned everywhere for any signal of Gabi except in front of him. Before fear could conquer him. Troy had been smashed to the tree. A wet substance instantly came oozing out of Troy's head. He touched his hand to his forehead. No pain was detected by Troy's conscious but the blood progressed intensely. This couldn't stop Troy. He jumped onto his feet and ran the remaining way to the lion house ignoring the dizzy feeling that disturbed his concentration. He entered the building. Tourists were watching the big cats while Troy zoomed through. In the corner of his eye he found a familiar girl's face. A face that should be familiar to all of America. Leah. A crying , helpless Leah was tied at the mouth and hands. Troy changed his direction and ran towards Leah but she seemed to be going farther and farther away from him. Before Troy knew it , she was gone and her figure was replaced with Carlos'. So now Troy had a new target. He began following the man past the tigers, pumas, and servals .
Finally, Troy came into another part of the building which signs identified it as the Home of the Cougars. A loving face came to meet with him. It was Gabriella.
"Did you find them or just anything" Gabriella breathlessly asked. Troy stopped in front of her still eying Carlos as he ran off. A piece of paper flew out of his back pocket. Troy nodded and linked hands with Gabriella. They sprinted together to the piece of very thick paper. Once they approached Troy picked it up.
The piece of paper was the emblem of Washington State University. A cougar.
3 hours later , Gabriella sat on the seat of a private jet that was carrying her and Troy to Pullman , Washington. Home of the Washington State University. She fiddled with the paper that had once been in the hands of Carlos. She inspected it closely tracing the lines of the cougar head. Suddenly apart of the paper literally chipped off. She looked at it clearly confused. Her eyes widened at what she was seeing.
The Hong Kong flag.
Gabriella stood up. "We have gotta get to Hong Kong! Redirect the flight!" she bellowed.
No words to say...
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