It was a grueling day, and even though the ship was the biggest Gabriella had ever been on, she still had a tough time to avoid Troy. She mainly, with many protests from Sharpay, hauled herself in her room reading. This is ridiculous, she thought to herself. This is my vacation, and damn it I'm going to enjoy it. With that she changed into her lavender bikini, and strutted out the door. "Good to finally see you come out," Ryan said with a smile as he reeled his fishing rod and turned back to the water. She flushed as she saw Troy with him, and he merely turned and smirked at her as he turned his back on her.
Gabriella wanted to cry, but she held it back as she said as calmly as she could, "Where's Sharpay?" Ryan nodded to the cabin. "She's swimming." Gabriella dashed off to her. "Finally," the blonde said with her hands on her hips. "How could you do this Sharpay? Troy's out there as happy as can be, and back to his old asshole self." "No, he's not Gab, he's only putting up a block cause you hurt him. Give it time and the two of you will be back together again."
"Who said I wanted to get back together?" "Cause I know you better than that." Gabriella sighed as she raced to the pool's edge, diving in as fast as she could. Hoping the water could hide her now tearing face. It helped pushing against the water, making her feel near to inevitable. She wanted this to be over, why did Troy have to be on this damn boat as well? Why couldn't she escape from her troubles at least for a week? She came up with the most obvious conclusion, life isn't supposed to be that easy. Sharpay was waiting patiently on the edge of the pool as Gabriella resurfaced. "When we get to shore we're supposed to have a luau. You know straw skirts and coconut bras?" Gabriella laughed, "I'm not sure." "Come on. We can dance our hearts out." Gabriella nodded, heaving herself out of the water. "I'll think about it. I'm going to my room to change real quick." Sharpay nodded, letting her leave silently.
Gabriella tiptoed down the hallway, dripping wet as she heard Troy call out to her. She froze, not sure what to do, part of her wanted to ignore him, the other to hold him close. So she stood there frozen, a deer in headlights. He spun her around his eyes drilling into her, at that moment Gabriella felt totally self conscious by what she was wearing. So trying to subside it she started to play with her hair instead. "Yeah?" Troy stuffed his hands in his pockets. "There's a party when we get to shore." "I know." "So I thought if you apologized to me I might take you." Gabriella took a step back her mouth agape in shock and disgust. It took her a few seconds to recover, then she said in a snarling voice, "Don't do me any favor Troy Bolton." And with that she stalked off to leave him there in shock.