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Troy had been dragged away fishing with her grandfather and her uncles and father and some of the younger children. So Gabriella took this time to do some homework while there was some peace and quiet around the house. Her mother was talking to her aunt and grandmother while drinking coffee.
"You let her stay at his apartment alone!" Her aunt sounded surprised at this and upset, even though her daughter was mush worse then Gabriella. And had probably carried both one and two STD maybe a hundred! Yet she complains that Gabriella spends the nights at Troy's fully dressed and he dressed as well. Al they did was kissing and some minor make out. Something he did not push further then she wanted to go.
Yes he was to perfect to believe. And what was even harder to believe was that he was hers. Something she was shocked over everyday when she received a message or a phone call from him she looked at her phone making sure it was hers.
"Yes I do, I trust Gabriella to make smart choices. And if she wants to have sex with him there probably aren't no way I can stop her." Her mother says gently but yet firm to her sister. Gabriella felt gratitude towards her mother for standing up for her and Troy's relationship. Even if she could choose to pick out sex parts she would feel more comfortable. But her mother deciding she should be on the pill in the store was far worse! "And its not exactly like your daughter is an angel her self…" Her mother stated.
This made her aunt to stare at her big sister not quite sure what to say about this. She knew she had a point but would like to believe that her daughter the pure and innocent daughter that Gabriella is. But it was quite obvious that her daughter did more then just held hands with the boys she brought home.
"At least my daughter is staying under my roof." She says as a lame attempt to save some of her dignity. Gabriella smiles softly her self trying to focus on the homework in front of her. But it was hard when her mother and aunt were arguing like two teenagers over a boy.
"Yes but I trust my daughter enough to let her stay at Troy's place." Her mother says the tension building up between the two sisters.
"Please can you be quiet I need to do my homework!" Gabriella says sweetly. Her family looked at her forgetting that she was sitting there hearing every single word they had said. Her aunt left the kitchen to avoid further argumentation. Her mother said something about packing the last things, and she was alone with her homework. But soon enough she heard footsteps into the kitchen, something she didn't think further into because everyone ate all the time!
She looked over her shoulder and saw her younger cousin looking at her like she was some who had stolen something from her. Gabriella looks back to her math books but find it hard to ignore her cousin's burning stare. The younger Montez sat down next to Gabriella making it impossible to ignore her.
"Is there something wrong?" Gabriella says harsher then necessary. But truth was that she had always been jealous of her younger cousin who had more defined curves and bigger chest then she had. Her curls seemed tamer then her own and she had the full lips that would make Angelina Jolie jealous. And her eyes, dark brown close to black and her eyelashes that was black with out a hint of mascara. She was every guy wet dream! So yes Gabriella was jealous.
"No…" Tina, her cousin begins, but opens her mouth to speak again. "Is just something I want to talk to you about, Its Troy, I want to talk to you about." Gabriella drops her pen and look at her. What the hell had she to say about Troy?
"What about him?" She asks her trying to keep the calm and collected face. But her cousin was probably out after Troy and she would probably be dumped the second he got a real good look at the exotic Latina beauty that her cousin was.
"How did a girl like you…" She looked degrading down on Gabriella's grey sweatpants and white tank top. "Get a hunk like Troy?" She finish her sentence, she felt pleased when she saw Gabriella looking down on her outfit worriedly. It was exactly what she wanted her to feel about her self so Tina her self might have a shoot at the Greek god that was know as Troy Bolton.
"Was that supposed to mean?" Gabriella let all insecurities rise to the surface making Tina's self-esteem grow more and more, something that had been working for many years.
"No I just mean its no secret that guys have preferred me over you… So it's a shock that you get someone like him… I mean you are quite boring." She continues breaking Gabriella more and more for each second. And Gabriella felt the tears burn inside her eyelids. "And I mean its not like you put out for him… Poor guy. How can he like being in a relationship like you?" Not wanting to be more humiliated she gets up from the bar stool leaving the books forgotten.
She runs to the room she and Troy had been sleeping in during their visit here. She closed the door and let the tears fall down her cheeks. She searched her pockets for her phone and dialed the number to her best friend.
"Hello?" Her friend sounded bored when she picked up the phone.
"Shar?" Gabriella tried to control her voice from shaking when she spoke to her. She slid down on the floor next to a bookshelf filled with books and pictures.
"Gabi? What's wrong? Why are you crying? What did Troy do!" Sharpay asked forgetting everything she had been doing before. "Sweetie are you there?" Sharpay asks when she only receive silence from her best friend.
"Am I boring and uptight?" She gets out when she calms her self down a bit only to cry out again when she gets the words out.
"Do I ever hang out with boring and uptight people?" Sharpay sais into the phone already making a plan to kill Troy, of course she would need help from Chad because she didn't want to ruin her nails. What she just got them done!
"I am serious Shar!" She cries out trying to be quiet as possible not wanting to draw attention to her.
"No, you're not boring and uptight. Sure you prefer to stay at home instead of go to a party. It's a part of who you are and if Troy can't see that he is not worth you time." Sharpay said being the good best friend she was. She should get an award for this.
"Troy hasn't said anything… Its my cousin Tina… She said I was boring and practically said he would leave because I wasn't putting out.." She explains calming down a bit. But she still felt the aching in her heart.
"And I'll repeat, if he can't respect that he is not worth your time and you'll get something so mush better. A guy who love you and respect you, because you are only worth the best sweetie…" Sharpay says softly still hearing Gabriella crying on the other side of the phone. She hated not to be able to hug her best friend in a state like this. "Gab don't cry… You are stronger then this. You never bother before!" Sharpay says.
"I know but… But what if she is right Shar? What if I am not good enough for him? What if he dumps me because I don't want to have sex with him yet?" She asks her best friend. Sharpay felt sorry for her friend knowing that sex was something Gabriella valued high and wouldn't jump in bed with the first guy that came her way. But something also told Sharpay that she had this fairytale ideal of how her first time was going to be.
"Gabi… Hunny you are good enough for him and even if I have never met the guy I am sure he respects you enough to understand that you want to wait." Sharpay says. "Gab I gotta go but talk to Troy about this alright? I love you sweetie."
"Bye Shar…" The friends hung up and Gabriella didn't leave her seat on the floor trying to calm down.
The door opened and quickly she dried her tears and got up from the floor trying to look as normal as possible but she doubted she was even close to looking good after crying. She takes a deep breath before facing the person that had come in. When she met the blue eyes she looked away again.
"What's wrong?" The concern in his voice could not be mistaken and she tried to get past him but the fact that he was both bigger and stronger then she made it impossible for her to get around him.
"Nothings its nothing…" She mumbles trying to get pass him again only to fail when his arm grab her upper arm. "Just let me go…" She whispers.
"No… Just tell me what's wrong." He says again. He keeps his grip around her arm but doesn't turn her around. "Gab?" His plea sound quietly. Scared that he might have done something. Even though he couldn't recall something strange from this morning before going fishing with the male Montez even though he was mostly watching the little kids that got bored with fishing. And it was mostly because they didn't get any fish the second the started that they got bored.
"Its just…" She begins. How was she supposed to explain this to him? "I don't know… Tina and I were talking and then she said something about me being boring and uptight and not good enough for you and then… I don't know…" She finishes quietly.
She turns around and hugs him tightly his arms fallow hers and hugs her back giving her the comfort she obviously needed, forgetting for a second why he was here in the first place. "Gab… I need to get home…" He says and creates a distance between them.
"We will be going in a few hours…" She says not understanding, and the earlier argument or what ever it was seemed forgotten.
"I need to go now… Nate was in a car accident and I need to get there as soon as possible. So I'll go now." He explains to her trying his hardest to remain strong. Gabriella comprehending what he was saying. "I need to go…" He repeats confused over all of this. Not knowing what to do. Should he cry or what? He just knew he needed to be with his brother as soon as possible.
"Go.. Just call me when you get there…" She says to him. He place a kiss on her forehead.
"We talk about this later alright? I promise." He mumbles against her forehead. She smiles weakly to him and nods. He grabs his bag and is out from the room in matter of seconds.
They arrive home later that evening her father mumbling the entire way home how rude Troy had been, leaving with out saying good bye it was basic manners. Gabriella tried to explain to him why he had to leave even though her mother was the only one listening to her who wondered if she heard anything from Troy about his brother yet but she hadn't and she was worried both for Nate and how Troy was doing under this pressure.
"How are you feeling sweetie?" Her mother tender voice asked her daughter.
"Tiered?" She asks knowing its not the answer she wanted to hear. But she was on the other hand not feeling to talk to her mother about this in this right moment. Or like ever. Her mother looked at her with that look that said 'you-can-do-better-then-that'. "Mom I don't want to talk about it alright?" Gabriella says and gets up from the couch.
"Maybe you should go to the hospital and be with him. I think he needs someone by his side right now…" Her mother says softly. Then she left her daughter to make a decision alone.
He had been sitting the plastic chair far to long but he wanted to be here when they brought Nate out from the surgery. Where he had been for the last ten hours and he had been waiting for four hours. His parents got along almost to well it scared him to not see them bickering and arguing over the stupidest things. But then again their youngest son was in surgery and that was something that was a bond between them forever. Him and Nate that's the only reason they remembered each others name.
That and 15 years of marriage he guessed.
He glanced at them and saw their hand clasped together tightly his mothers head rested against his fathers shoulder both was exhausted of just sitting there, waiting for the answers they never got. What if his brother didn't survive this? Sure his brother and he wasn't on the best terms al the time and yes they usually argued but Nate was still his brother and wanted him in his life. He needed him!
He ran his hands through his hair for the millionth, maybe billionth, time that day. He felt his stomach grumble for food. His mouth was dry as well. He should probably get something to eat or drink but then he might miss something about his brother. He couldn't risk that.
He felt his cell phone vibrate and saw Gabriella's name and cursed under his breath. He had forgotten to call her when he got here. He sighs. He presses the answer button and puts the phone against his ear mumbling: "Hello…"
"Hey…" She says quietly on the other side. "How are you feeling? Is Nate okay?" He smiles. She didn't blame him for forgetting to call her when he arrived here.
"I don't know… I'm exhausted. I don't know how Nate is… He's been in surgery for over ten hours…" He mumbles. God he wishes he could be in a bed with Gabriella right now. "I wish you were here…" It slips out of his mouth something he hadn't planned on saying, something that he didn't wanna say because he wanted to be the strong one. The one who offered help not asked for it.
"Do you want me to come down? I will if you want me to…" She says kindly. Could she be anymore perfect then she already is? What had he done to deserve her in his life, better yet his girlfriend?
"No… You have school tomorrow and… Yeah…" It was al he really could say with out making a more of a fool out of him self.
"Its to late for that… I'm already here… So where are you?" She asks and he let a breath out of a relief.
"I'm in emergency room outside the nurse station…" He explains. He lets his hand fall down from his ear and look in front of him. He looked up every once in while to get a glimpse of Gabriella, but she didn't show yet. He let a tear escape his eyes.
What if Nate didn't make it?
He shouldn't think that way but there was a possibility that he wouldn't make it. Pictures from their youth flashed in front his inner eye. Everything from stealing cookies when they thought their mother wasn't looking to blaming each other when something was broken or had went missing. In one way Nate was his best friend but the other way he was his worst enemy. These last years they had just argued because Nate behaved the exact same way Troy him self did during his collage years. But in spring he would graduate and hopefully he would rise to the to the task, and become part owner of Bolton Hotels.
He heard the running feet squeak over the linoleum floor. But no one stopped in front of him or even near him. He wanted to feel her comforting arms around him then maybe he could get his mind of the fact his brother was in surgery even if just for a moment.
"Hi…" Her soft voice sounded in front of him. Cranking his head up in a uncomfortable position he saw her there, looking beautiful as ever in sweats and her hair in a messy bun.
He gets up and hugs her close to him not caring who might see the two of them together. He wanted her out of the spotlight. He could handle the paparazzi fallowing his every step but she wasn't going too pulled into it because of him, she wasn't going to be some headline in some stupid tabloid! He could spare her that mush.
He hid his head in her neck feeling the sweet scent that was Gabriella Montez. His savior this moment. "Thank you…" He whispers. Her tiny arms hug him closer to her. He feels her kiss him gently were the neck met the shoulder.
"You would do the same for me…" She says back in the same hushed tone incase anyone heard them talking. Troy broke away from her when they heard someone clear their throat and he was met by his dad.
"Seems like you and Gabriella have taken things further…" His father said. Gabriella looked between them and smiles to his father sweetly. She tried to read him but found it impossible.
"Uhm I'll go get some coffee…" She says and leave Troy's side. He nods to her and smiles.
"Yeah dad I know I should date someone my own age! You don't have to say it…" He says when Gabriella is gone from his view and hearing zone. His father just looked at him as he was planning on what to say to his son about this behavior about dating a minor.
"Does she makes you happy Troy?" His father asks looking at his son. "Because of she does… don't make the same mistake I did ten years ago and take her for granted and let her slip through your fingers…" His father explains to him. "Yes she may be younger then you Troy, but age is nothing but a number. And if you really care about her you will fight for her the entire way…" Troy is shocked over his father talking about his emotions this mush and especially for his son.
"Thanks… I means mush to me…" Troy mumbles. "And believe me I wish I could tell you this under better circumstances…" He ads to his dad.
"Yeah… But she is a good girl if she is here for you… Seems worth holding on to…" Then he disappeared behind him, Troy smiles for a second. Then he is brought back to the real world.
His brother was still in surgery.
Nate had been wheeled out of surgery and he would be fine the promise had sounded. Yet Troy was wide awake in his bed. His eyes was looking at the sleeping body next to him. He was still worried. So many 'What if' was running around in his mind. And the worst was constantly that he wouldn't survive this. Then his brother would be gone for good.
He sighs and gets up from the bed not being able to lie here anymore. He goes to the kitchen to get a bottle of water, something he hoped would calm him down enough so he could sleep. It didn't really matter anyway he had decided to call in sick all week anyway. And hopefully avoid reporters as good as possible.
He finish the water and goes back to the bedroom. He stops in the door just looking at his girlfriend. She was adorable when she was asleep. Smiling he walk over to her and lays down next to her kissing her shoulder gently. Reflecting over what his father had said about her..
"Because of she does… don't make the same mistake I did ten years ago and take her for granted and let her slip through your fingers…"