Looking over at Mel who was wearing the same light green dress she was she looked away and over at Sharpay and Kelsi who were looking at each other's asses. They were at the fitting and things were running smoothly, everything but Gabriella thoughts that were traveling through the last 4 years in a spiraling nose dive.
"This is doing wonders for my ass." Sharpay said as she turned to look in the mirror. Placing her hands on her behind she shrugged her hair over her shoulders.
"And I have boobs." Kelsi said moving them together as she came in to look at herself in the mirror. The woman were in a dressing room with two tailors that were hemming and adjusting their dresses to Taylor and the girls liking.
Taylor let out a laugh as she came around to them and shook her head. "Well I didn't want to be a bitch, I want my girls to be attractive seeing as how I am now off the market anyway." She said with a smile.
"besides it not like any of us can hold a candle to you in that pearl Cinderella gown." Sharpay said as she looked away from her refection and towards Mel and Gabriella.
Mel stood still on a little stool as an older woman stood beside it pinning her dress up. Gabriella tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. She was also on a stool as a woman sat by her side also resizing her gown to her height.
"Is there a way to lift this a bit." Taylor asked holding the strap a bit higher as she looked at Gabriella gown. "It's so strange to see you in something so.. so.."
"Non-revealing." Sharpay offered as she lifted the bottom of the gown and walked over to look at Gabriella. "God I'd kill for that glowing skin of yours."
Mel smiled as she looked over in the mirror. "That's not the only thing making her glow this morning." Mel said sticking her tongue in her cheek.
Gabriella looked over at Mel with a worried grin. She couldn't possibly know about Troy and her. Times have changed but she didn't see Troy telling Mel about his sex life. In fact she remembered that Troy freaked out once when Mel walked in on him and Gabriella making out in his room.
"She quit smoking. I found patches in her bag." Mel said with a smile. Gabriella let out a breathe she hadn't known she'd been holding. Either she was holding out on everyone or really thought smoking was the key.
Sharpay looked at Mel then at Gabriella. "Well she always had that dangerously sexy vibe. It's so sad your brother traded down." She said looking away and back at the mirror. "I think my straps need to be pulls up bit as well." She said.
"I'm fine with my bust It looks great." Kelsi said adjusting her hair back into her ponytail.
Taylor smiled and nodded. "okay." Looking back at the lady who was dealing with Gabriella's straps she smiled and nodded in approval. "Where did he find that redhead anyway?" Taylor said looking over at Mel. "I feel awful about not including her in the wedding, but she is a bit.."
"Boring." Mel finished as she looked down at the lady hemming her dress. "She could cure insomnia I swear." She said holding up her hands. "the other day Troy had her over for dinner with mom and dad, mom said the only thing she could talk about were current events on the news or her opinions on politics and marketing."
"she is pretty." Kelsi said then pause to look up at Gabriella. "I mean she is kind of okay." She shrugged.
"It's fine I'm not jealous of her, I'm a big girl I know when to give credit where it's due." Gabriella said looking in the mirror at her reflection. "Megan is everything your brother wants. She may not be as exciting but let's face it Troy needs someone level headed and classy." She said looking in the reflection. Looking at herself she could barely see why he showed interest in her at all she was everything he wasn't she was everything wrong for him. She didn't even like what she saw in the mirror how could she expect Troy to leave beauty for the village wench.
"No offense your brother was on the boring side." Sharpay said showing the woman who got up from fixing Mel's dress her straps.
Mel who was staring at Gabriella in the mirror smiled again and Gabriella felt uneasy. "Not always." Mel said with a smile. "And you shouldn't sell yourself short Gabi, as far as I'm concerned my brother's biggest mistake was letting you get on a plane to New York." She said getting off the stool.
"It was my choice." Gabriella mumbled as she looked down and remembered the feel of Troy pressing his body against hers.
"I assume Megan is now aware that you're his ex?" Sharpay said looking at Gabriella.
"Yes and she has instructed him to stay away from me unless it has to do with the wedding." Gabriella said tilting her head to the right and then to the left. "No surprise, she hates me."
"I hated you when I thought you wanted Zeke." Sharpay said crossing her arms. "you're not exactly ugly betty you know."
The woman fixing the straps whispered something about needles and both women got up. "We'll be right back." One said as they both walked over to the door.
Mel took this opportunity to Lean over to Gabriella. "I seen his car in the drive way this morning and I know he didn't visit mom and dad." she whispered
"Well, he also knows about your tattoo." Gabriella whispered back and took a deep breath.
"Fuck." Mel said looking away.
"What?" Kelsi said looking at them both.
"Troy knows about my tattoo." Mel said with a sigh.
"How?" Sharpay asked.
"you got a tattoo?" Taylor asked.
"Did you tell him when he saw yours." Mel said looking at Gabriella.
"No."
"Wait Troy's seen your tattoo?" Kelsi said looking at her with a odd expression. "Ryan didn't see mine till we were in the shower; he said it was turn on." She smiled.
"Ew." Sharpay said holding up a finger to silence Kelsi. "Troy has seen you naked?" Sharpay said.
"Well that's not how he saw the tattoo." Gabriella said placing a hand on her forehead I was painting and I bent over in a pair of low rides." She said with a shrug.
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. But he has seen you naked with the tattoo?" Sharpay said catching the in between the lines.
"Oh fuck it to hell" Gabriella said tossing her hands up. "I slept with Troy last night." Gabriella said looking her eyes and looking at Mel who smiled.
"You did what?" Taylor said turning around and looking at Gabriella shocked. "I thought you said you were over him."
Sharpay let out a chuckle. "Oh I'm sure she was over him at one point." Sharpay crossed her arms and shook her head.
Kelsi let out a gasp as she looked at Sharpay a bit shocked. "What about Megan?"
"Yeah I know I fucked up." Gabriella said looking at the group and trying not to feel the guilty on her shoulders.
"You mean Troy fucked up," Mel said with a frown "It's not like you raped him." Mel said holding up hand.
"Did you?" Taylor said looking up at Gabriella.
"What?" Gabriella said with a shriek. "No. And I told him not to tell Megan." Gabriella said leaning on one foot.
"Why not?" Kelsi said walking closer the whole group came to stand in front of Gabriella.
"Because for all we know this could just be a fluke and we both need to think about this." Gabriella responded as she moved her hair out of her face again.
"Well if you ask me it's a little late to think about the consequences." Mel said with a shrug.
"And since when do you care about consequences?" Kelsi added.
Sharpay tossed her hand up and smiled. "Screw the consequences. How was it?"
"Oh my god." Taylor said slapping her thigh.
"Do I need to explain the birds and bees to you?" Gabriella said looking at them all with an odd expression. "I fucked him. Isn't that enough details?"
"No that's just the beginning." Mel said soothing out her dress and sitting on the stool.
"Yeah was it passionate? Wild? Did you jack rabbit? How did it start?" Sharpay asked sitting on the stool besides Mel.
"What happened to Megan's rule about staying away?" Taylor shook her head as she sat down on a spare chair.
Gabriella who was still standing on the stool looked around at all the faces looking at her questioningly. "Troy and I went to register your gifts yesterday and we spent the day together which in the theory is acceptable because it was about the wedding." Gabriella said holding up a finger to Taylor.
"Fair." She said nodding her head for her to continue.
"well after were done I left my iPod with the picture we took of the three of us at the Tattoo shop in his car." Gabriella said pointing towards Mel.
"Which by the way later to night after the party were getting the of you two inked?" Mel said pointing at Taylor and Sharpay.
"Excuse me?" Taylor said looking at Mel as if she were crazy.
"It's a symbol of our everlasting friendship." Kelsi smiled.
"Friendship?" Sharpay said looking at the four of them. "And you want me to get inked as well?"
"Yes your one of us." Taylor said. "I rejected my cousin Sarah for a Bridesmaid because I you've been right there with us you're one of my dearest friends."
"Thank you." Sharpay said not knowing what else to say.
"Okay then what happened." Kelsi said looking back at Gabriella.
"Well I have a playlist with a bunch of sappy love songs with his name on it." She said with a sigh. "He came back and asked me what it meant. I didn't know what to tell him and he just kind of told me he still loved me."
"Oh my god." Kelsi said placing a hand on her chest.
"Then he kissed me and I kissed back." Gabriella said playing with her fingers. "It was the best sex I've ever had I'll tell you that." She said with a smile.
"How so?" Sharpay asked.
"It was slow and passionate. We kind of just clicked together and just disappeared into this world where it was just me and him and our desires." Gabriella said with a small smiled as she stared off into the distance. "it was intense and I just can't explain it." She said pushing her hair back.
"Girl you did not just have sex." Mel said with a smile.
"You guys made love." Kelsi added with a smile and a sigh.