Save the Last Dance

Chapter 10: Déjà vu

Gabriella went down and took her bag from the front desk and left the building and walked home.

Troy and Jessie were in Jessie's car and were talking about the incident, "There must be someone who's joking on her."

"But Troy, it doesn't happen often. Getting locked on the roof deck. Why did you go up there anyway?" Jessie asked Troy.

Troy looked at her, but didn't say anything.

"Do you know that she's up there?" Jessie asked him.

"Even if it's not Gabriella up there. I will help them as well." Troy replied quietly.

Jessie suddenly kept quiet as Troy began to speak again, "Don't think of something else…"

"I'm sorry. Just drive me back home okay?" Jessie cut in. "I don't have an appetite to eat dinner anymore and I feel tired too." Jessie looked out the window and tried to hide her jealousy.

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Troy just got back home. He saw her mom waiting for him at the door. He smiled and greeted, "Good evening mom."

"Good evening Troy." Lucille greeted back, "How was your day?"

"I'm good." Troy replied. "Why are you still up? Shouldn't you be resting by now?"

"Nothing. I'm just happy." Lucille replied back.

"Why are you happy?" Troy asked his mom.

"Well, you're back, there's no more problems and you are recognized in the company." Lucille smiled at her son. "Aside from the I've got a very nice future daughter in law, Jessie."

Troy just smiled and Lucille continued, "Jessica, Jessie's mom called earlier and she wants to meet up."

Troy nodded and said, "You can arrange that right mom?"

"Yes. You don't have to worry about the engagement party and all, I'll be the one who arrange it with Jessica and Jessie." Lucille replied. "I'll take care of it. Now you go get some rest. I know you had a long day.

Troy smiled and nooded as his mom left her, "Goodnight mom."

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After taking a bath, Jessie sat in her dresser brushing her hair, while doing that she kept on thinking the interrupted conversation between Troy and Gabriella.

"We haven't finished talking last night." Troy said.

"Huh?" Gabriella looked at him quizzically.

"Last night when I drove you home, you were about to say something but we were interrupted by a phone call." Troy told her.

"Oh." Gabriella looked down.

"Are you going to say it?" Troy asked Gabriella.

Gabriella kept silent.

Troy looked at her and started to speak again, "Why don't you tell me."

"About that…" Gabriella started.

Suddenly a phone rang they looked at the door and saw Jessie standing there. Gabriella immediately stood up.

She slammed her brush on the table and then all of a sudden she heard a knock from the door.

"Come in." Jessie shouted.

"Jess." Jessica said.

"Mom." Jessie smiled, "What's up."

"You went to see Troy?" Jessica asked.

"Yeah." Jessie replied.

"Did you talk to him about it?" Jessica asked.

"About?" Jessie asked.

"You didn't talk about the engagement?" Jessica asked.

Jessie just pouted. Jessica sighed, "Because he doesn't know and I have to bring the topic up to Lucille."

Jessie's mood lightened up and smiled, "Mom! You're the best!"

"Look at you.." Jessica looked at her daughter.

"Mom, just help me okay?" Jessie smiled at her mom and took her hand. "Please?"

"Why do you want to get engaged with that boy?" Jessica asked, "why him?"

"I love him, mom. I love Troy." Jessie replied.

Jessica sighed. "I can't believe it. My daughter is all grown up now. But still I don't like that guy for you."

"Mom." Jessie said.

Jessica sighed again, "Alright. Alright, I'll help you."

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Brenda and Lindsay just timed in for work. "Last night was so cold. I wonder how Gabriella is." Brenda told Lindsay.

"Why do you care?" Lindsay asked. "I believe that she froze to death. Oh I'm so happy."

Brenda just looked at her, "You're mean!"

"Yeah I am and I'm proud of it!" Lindsay replied.

"Good morning guys!" Gabriella greeted them while mopping the floor.

Brenda and Lindsay were shocked to see Gabriella happily greeting them. They looked at each other and saw both of their faces go pale as if they'd seen a ghost. They didn't greet her and both girls immediately proceeded to the restroom.

Gabriella saw them leave and glared at them but laughed at them seeing them shocked and pale. She continued mopping the floor happily.

Brenda and Lindsay just entered the restroom and Lindsay was furious. "Did you come back and opened the door for her?"

"No!" Brenda replied, "How can you doubt me? We were at the bar last night!"

"Damn! Who opened the door for her?" Lindsay was furious. "Give me a cigarette, I want to smoke."

Brenda gave her a piece and both went in a cubicle and lightened the cigarette.

Gabriella quietly entered the restroom holding a pail of water on one hand. She silently took the garbage can and put out the trash and used the can as a stool. She then throw the bucket full of water on top of the cubicle where Brenda and Lindsay were smoking and immediately ran out of the restroom. Gabriella smiled and said to herself, "No one messes with Gabriella Montez."

Brenda and Lindsay shrieked, as they were drenched with cold water. Both of them went out the cubicle but didn't find anyone to blame for it.

"That Gabriella bitch!" Lindsay shouted.

A few minutes later both Brenda and Lindsay soaked with water went out of the bathroom.

"That Gabriella will pay for this." Lindsay told Brenda.

"She will pay?" Brenda told her. "You were the one who locked her up there. No wonder she'd get revenge. And I got into this mess!"

"Shut up Brenda." Lindsay shouted.

Brenda just shrugged.

Both of them saw Jessie walked in the building and both of them greeted her. Lindsay remembered that Jessie is Troy's girlfriend. She then called her, "Ms. Patterson?"

Jessie looked back, "Yes?"

"Can I have a word with you?" Lindsay asked.

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Jessie was sitting at the lounge area of Troy's company. She was trying to compose herself as she was recalling what Lindsay told her.

"Gabriella was trying to hit on Mr. Bolton, ma'am. You know during our stay at Lava Springs, I saw her got out at Mr. Bolton's suite." Lindsay informed her. "She's a man whore Ms. Patterson."

Jessie stood up and left the lounge and decided to look for Gabriella.

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Gabriella was changing the photo presentations. She greeted her colleagues as they passed by. She was about to finish placing the new photo presentations she saw Jessie.

"Good morning, ma'am." Gabriella greeted her.

"Good morning. You came to work today?" Jessie asked her.

Gabriella nodded, "Yes, ma'am."

"Nothing's wrong right?" Jessie asked her.

"I'm fine ma'am." Gabriella replied and smiled. "About last night…"

"Troy told me everything." Jessie replied and took a seat on one of the chairs. "So you don't have to worry about it."

"Really?" Gabriella replied as she sat down in front of her.

"Troy is not very helpful to others. But deep inside he cares what's around him." Jessie informed her.

Gabriella gave her a weak smile and looked down.

"Just like in the past ten years." Jessie told her meaningly.

Gabriella looked up and said, "Ten years?"

"Yeah, ten years." Jessie smiled. "I met him when I was fifteen. Isn't it interesting?"

Gabriella didn't say anything but smiled.

Jessie continued, "Gabriella did you know that Troy died once?"

"Yes." Gabriella answered.

"People told me to forget and move on. But I didn't." Jessie told her, "Because I believe he will not leave me alone."

Gabriella looked down.

"I believe that we are fated together." Jessie told her, "and no one can break my beliefs. Nothing can break us apart."

Gabriella looked at her and smiled, "Both of you looked good together. You guys are a perfect match."

"Really?" Jessie smiled. "Thanks."

Gabriella looked down again. While Jessie looked at her watch, "Oh I need to go and meet someone. I'm sorry if I talk a lot, I hope I didn't bother you."

Jessie stood up and left. Gabriella sighed heavily and stood up and finished the rest of her tasks.

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"But you know this would happen Gabs." Kelsi told her.

Gabriella didn't reply. She just told Kelsi the confrontation Jessie did to her earlier.

"He's rich, son of a business tycoon. You know he will be in a fixed marriage thing." Kelsi told her friend. "But Gabs, don't ever give up. You must hold on."

"He has such a rich family and a really kind fiancée." Gabriella replied. "We're in two different worlds. Sometimes I doubt if he's the Alex I know."

"But last time you said it was him." Kelsi answered.

"The guy I want to see is not the Company's president's son." Gabriella said while tears already falling in her eyes. "I want to see the one who washed clothes with me back at the inn, and that's Alex. Can I find him back?"

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David was sitting on his office when a phone call interrupted him.

"David speaking." David said as he answered the phone.

"What do you want me to do now boss?" The other line asked.

"Just stand by." David replied, "I'll call you if we get the right chance to do it."

"Okay boss." The man said.

Both of them hung up and David continued to do his work.

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A Few Months Later…

"I'm back!" Tanya shouted.

"Tanya, keep your voice down!" Lucille scolded her daughter. "You know your dad hates it when it's noisy!"

"Sorry mom." Tanya replied.

"Tanya?" Troy looked at her.

"Troy!" Tanya ran to her younger brother and hugged her. "How are you?"

"I'm fine." Troy said as he tried to get away from her sister's hug. "What about you?"

"I'm good." Tanya replied and smiled.

"What brings you here?" Troy asked her. "I thought you're going to Europe."

"Well, plans changed." Tanya answered. "I've decided to open up my boutique here in Albuquerque."

"That's great sis." Troy replied.

"Can I borrow some of your staff during my opening party?" Tanya asked.

"Sure just go at the office and choose there." Troy replied.

"Great!" Tanya replied. "Thanks bro."

"You're welcome." Troy replied.

"So how are you and that girl?" Tanya asked.

"Jess? We're good. Why do you always say that girl?" Troy asked. "She's my best friend."

"I don't like her for you." Tanya shrugged. "She's fake. It's like she's trying to be nice outside but inside she's like a devil that wants to be released."

"You're so mean to her." Troy said. "She didn't do anything to you and besides, we've known her for ten years."

"Yeah and I heard that mom and her mom is planning on the engagement party thing." Tanya told him. "And you're getting married."

"Yeah, so what?" Troy asked.

"Are you sure it's her?" Tanya asked her brother. "She's the one for you?"

"I made a promise to her and she's like a family now." Troy replied.

"Promises are made to be broken, are Troy." Tanya informed him. "That's a fact."

Troy just shrugged. "Fine. Whatever. Just get some rest. You need it."

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The next day Tanya went to Troy's office and looked around and saw Ms. Yoon.

"Ms. Yoon!" Tanya shouted and waved at her.

"Tanya?" Ms. Yoon asked. "It's been a while. How are you?"

"I'm good." Tanya replied. "What about you?"

"I'm fine. Thanks for asking." Ms. Yoon replied. "So what brings you here?"

"Oh about that. I'm finally going to open up my boutique, so I need two girls who can help me at my opening party." Tanya replied.

"That's good." Ms. Yoon said. "Well you can pick anyone at my staff."

"Great." Tanya smiled. She then saw a brunette walking carrying loads of stuff in her hands. "I want her. She seems really hard working."

"Ms. Gabriella Montez." Ms. Yoon smiled, "Nice choice. She's one of the best staff I have."

"And that one." Tanya pointed out.

"Ms. Lindsay Wellington." Ms. Yoon. "Only two?"

"Yeah. That's enough." Tanya replied.

"Fine. Ms. Montez? Ms. Wellington? Please come over here." Ms. Yoon called them. Both Gabriella and Lindsay walked over.

"This is Ms. Tanya Bolton. And she's here to tell you something." Ms. Yoon informed them. "I'll leave you to them Tanya. I need to do some paperwork."

"Thanks." Tanya replied and Ms. Yoon left. Tanya looked back at the girls and smiled, "Hi. You can call me Tanya. Anyway, I need both of you to assist me during the opening party of my boutique. Here's the card together with the address. I want you to be at my boutique tomorrow."

"Yes ma'am." Both Gabriella and Lindsay replied.

"Don't worry. I already asked Troy's permission. So see you girls tomorrow at eight in the morning sharp." Tanya smiled and left.

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"So how's work." Tanya asked Troy.

"The usual." Troy replied. "I miss those days."

"Yeah. Me too. Life was simple back then." Tanya replied.

"I heard you went to the office today. You picked your assistants already?" Troy asked.

"Yeah. I did." Tanya replied. "Thanks."

"No problem." Troy smiled and stared at the sky.

"You want to say something don't you?" Tanya asked.

"How did you know?" Troy asked.

"I'm your sister. And I know when you wanted to ask something. You stare up at the sky."

"Whatever." Troy answered.

"So what do you want to ask?" Tanya asked Troy.

"You know what happened to me last year right?' Troy asked.

Tanya nodded, "Thank goodness I wasn't there to bury you. Since it's not you and you're still alive and everything, but I felt bad that time I wasn't there since it's my crucial moment in my studies."

"That's okay." Troy replied.

"So back to the topic." Tanya answered. "What's up?"

"Have you ever felt like you knew someone in the past but you couldn't remember that time?" Troy asked his sister, "I knew I couldn't remember what happened to me that one year but you had this feeling you knew it happened?"

"Like déjà vu?" Tanya asked. "I get that all the time."

"Something like that, maybe I'm just overreacting." Troy replied. "Thanks sis."

"Anytime." Tanya replied. "Oh here."

"What's this?" Troy asked as he opened the envelope.

"Give this to your fiancée." Tanya told him. "Mom will kill me if I didn't invite her."

"Her name's Jessie." Troy told her.

"Whatever. I still don't like her." Tanya replied. "Anyway I'm off to bed. I still have a long day tomorrow. Be sure you're there!"

"I will don't worry." Troy assured her sister. "Good luck tomorrow."

"Thanks bro." Tanya replied.

Tanya left and went off to bed while Troy continued to look up the sky.

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The next day Gabriella and Lindsay just got at he boutique at the same time. Lindsay scowled at her and Gabriella just rolled her eyes. Gabriella and Lindsay entered the shop, Tanya greeted them, "Good morning girls, are you ready?"

Gabriella and Lindsay nodded. Tanya smiled, "Great! Just go in the dressing room, you can get any of the white polo, blazer, slacks and shoes you wanted to wear. They would be you uniform. And after that you can have them too. Is that okay? Great! Let's start!"

Both of them went in the dressing area, Lindsay was awed with the hundreds of dresses and coats while Gabriella, did what was instructed. She took the blazer, white polo and slacks and went in to get dressed.

A minute later Lindsay went in to get dressed as well and both of them went out the same time. Lindsay and Gabriella went to the shoe rack and were picking out shoes. Lindsay took a shoe and saw that one of its heels is loose and was about to break. She saw Gabriella took a similar pair and she immediately told said, "Hey I want that one. Give that to me."

"It's just the same Lindsay." Gabriella told her.

"Just give it to me!" Lindsay said.

"Fine." Gabriella shrugged and gave the shoes to her.

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"I can't believe that your sister invited me to her opening." Jessie told Troy.

"Well, mom will kill her if she didn't." Troy replied.

"Yeah, she doesn't like me." Jessie replied.

"No she likes you." Troy answered back.

Both of them arrived at the party and it was crowded. Gabriella was serving some canapés when she almost fell down. Troy was looking around the shop when he saw it. His mood changed, he left Jessie and went to her. Jessie saw it and decided to follow Troy.

"What are you doing here?" Troy asked her.

"Working, sir." Gabriella answered.

"Why are you working here?" Troy asked.

"Your sister came yesterday and told us to go here and help her today." Gabriella replied.

"I see." Troy replied.

"Troy, I see Lana and Patty, let's go over, okay?" Jessie asked as she pulled Troy away from Gabriella. Gabriella walked away from them and continued serving.

"Lana! Patty!" Jessie shouted.

"Hey girl!" Lana said.

"How are you?" Patty asked.

"I'm good." Jessie replied. "It's good to see you guys again!"

"Yeah same here." Lana replied. "So when are you and Troy getting married?"

Troy then shrugged and left Jessie with her friends.

"What's wrong with him?" Patty asked Jessie.

"He's just tired." Jessie replied and looked at Troy walking away.

Gabriella felt her feet aching but decided to brush it off and continued to serve. She saw both Troy and Jessie again. Troy saw her but she went back the other way, away from Troy's gaze.

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Gabriella just finished serving canapés and drinks so she decided to go to the dressing are to get some rest. Her feet was acing badly. She removed her shoes. Unknowingly, Troy followed her. Troy saw her remove the shoes and he took it away from her.

"Hey!" Gabriella said as her shoe was snatched away from her.

"What's wrong with your shoe?" Troy asked as he examined it.

"Nothing." Gabriella meekly replied.

"Your shoe is broken why bother wearing it?" Troy asked her. Troy slammed the heel to the wall. He examined the shoe again before giving it back to Gabriella.

"Thank you, Mr. Bolton." Gabriella said as she took back her shoe.

"The party's almost over, you can go home now." Troy told Gabriella. "Don't worry I'll talk to the owner."

"I'm one of the staffs here today, Mr. Bolton. I just can't go home like that." Gabriella replied. "If you'll excuse me I still need to serve food and drinks to the guests."

Gabriella left Troy. Unknown to them, Patty and Lana heard their conversation, both looked at each other, and they immediately went to Jessie as Gabriella just started to walk away from Troy.

On the other hand, Troy watched Gabriella leave. He sighed heavily and closed his eyes.

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Patty and Lana went back to Jessie, without any hesitation, Lana started to speak, "Now I know why he just left abruptly when I asked about the date of your wedding. I can't believe he's such a man."

"What do you mean?" Jessie asked Lana.

"Wait and see." Lana replied. "Hey you! Server girl."

"What do you want to do?" Jessie asked Lana.

"You'll see." Patty replied. "That girl needs mean girls in her life."

"Stop it okay?" Jessie pleaded.

"Hey you! Server girl." Lana shouted again.

"Don't worry Jess. We'll take care of it." Patty said as she put her foot out and purposely trip Gabriella over.

Gabriella was holding a tray of wine when she accidentally tripped and poured the glasses of wine all over Lana.

"Oh my gosh!" Lana shouted.

"I'm sorry ma'am!" Gabriella said immediately as she tried to remove the stains using a napkin on Lana's dress."

"Why don't you watch where you're going?" Lana shrieked.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to trip over." Gabriella apologized again.

Troy saw the whole thing and was shocked to see what was happening.

"What are you going to do with it?" Patty asked Gabriella.

"I will compensate for it." Gabriella replied. "I'm really sorry I didn't mean to trip over."

"Compensate? That's easy for you to say." Lana said she placed her finger on Gabriella's head and used it to push her. "Don't you realize how much this dress cost?"

Troy was about to go over and stop the scene but Jessie stopped him, "Troy, no."

"Troy, I don't feel well. Can we go home now?" Jessie asked as she tried to block Troy from going to the scene. Troy tried to break free and was so furious. Jessie, on the other hand, continued to speak, "Please Troy, I'm serious. I don't feel well. Let's go."

Troy finally calmed down a little bit but still stood there.

"I'm really sorry I didn't mean to do it. Here please take this." Gabriella said as she took some money out from her pocket.

"What are you doing now?" Lana shouted and pushed her away.

Gabriella couldn't take it anymore and said, "I've already said sorry!"

"Is that an attitude of a person being sorry?" Lana asked, "If you really mean it, you must be honest." Lana pushed Gabriella hard that she fell down and hit the table where the Ice sculpture was standing.

Troy saw the Ice sculpture was about to fall down. He pushed Jessie aside and immediately rushed to Gabriella as fast as he could.

Gabriella saw the sculpture falling on her, "Oh, no." She told herself she just closed her eyes and covered her face waiting for the thing to fall down on her.

Troy arrived just in time to cover Gabriella from the falling sculpture. Jessie was shocked to see what was happening, she placed her hand on her mouth. Gabriella slowly opened her eyes as she didn't feel anything fall over her instead she felt warmth. She was surprised to see Troy wrapped around her. Both of them just looked at each other for a while.

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