Chapter started: December 27, 2009.
Chapter finished: December 27, 2009.
Author's Note: Okay, okay, so I was asked in a review if I quite or abandoned this one and "HSM: Final Farewell" and the truth is no to both, I've just been a writer's block for both stories and then I got all caught up with the holidays, I know I'm horrible so, I hope you all will please forgive and hopefully you'll enjoy this one minus the small time jump.
Best 2010 Zanessa/Troyella Wishes!
R.I.P
Brittney Murphy
December 20, 2009
=HSM5: Happily Ever After=
-Chapter 12: Meetings, Plans, and Phone Calls-
(December 2009.)
"Baby, you ready to go yet?" Troy asked his fiancée as he knocked on the bathroom door dressed in a pair of Diesel jeans that were pulled down so you could just see the top of his boxers that read 'Calvin Kline', a pair of black VANS, and a brown and white plaid shirt that had the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.
"Yeah, I'm ready," Gabriella told him as she walked out of their in-suite bathroom dressed in a solid white Aero cami, a solid cherry red thermal Aero Henley over it followed by an Aero zip up hoodie that had light brown fur on the hood, a pair of medium wash Bayla jeans from Aero sat on the bottom half of her body followed by white socks on her feet that were snug and warm in her black UGG's, her make up was lightly and naturally done except for her eye make up which was smokey, she had on solid sterling silver hoop earrings from Tiffany and Co. in her ears, followed by her engagement ring, promise ring, friendship ring, her T necklace and a Chanel diamond encrusted white leather band watch on her left wrist; and topping off her outfit was her hair that was down in her natural Goddess-like brunette waves.
"Wow, Baby, you look…" Troy trailed off as he place his hands on her hips as she giggled.
"Why thank you, Wildcat," Gabriella told him before standing on her tiptoes to kiss him before pulling back and setting her forehead on his as she said, "And you look….also."
Troy smiled at her before reluctantly let her go so she could grab her red Louis Vuitton bag, her sunglasses, before kissing the dogs goodbye and leaving with him. He watched as she locked the door right before she was in a vice grip hug from her best friend who had squealed, "BRIE-ELLA!"
"Shar-Bear," Gabriella replied as she hugged her before she pulled back and commented on her best friend's outfit, "I absolutely love your outfit, it's so cute and so…Christmas-y."
"Aw, thanks Brie-Ella, I love yours too," Sharpay told her as they hugged again and Gabriella was right it was Christmas-y and cute and so not the typical Sharpay Anne Evans fashion. She was dressed in a solid white Aero cami that was under her green 1987 Aero logo hoodie, a pair of hailey medium wash Aero jeans sat on her hips and went down her legs before they were tucked into the her black UGG's while a solid white cable scarf sat around her neck for accessory, a pair of sterling silver hoop earrings sat in her ears, a black belt sat through the loop holes of her jeans, her make up was done in natural and light shades, and topping off her look was her blonde Goddess-like waves down in their natural bouncy style and a black LV tote sat on her shoulder with a pair of black Chanel sunglasses (that matched Gabriella's) sat on the top of her head.
"You know I still remember the night that it was just us and you told me why you don't wear flashy outfits anymore, I mean you still do when the time calls for it or when you need a boost, but other than that your…normal?" Gabriella told her as they looped arms and began to walk out of the building and towards where there cars were parked while Troy talked with Zeke about nothing other than basketball.
Sharpay smiled and recalled the memory very well…
"We've got Rocky Road, Double Choc-Fudge, Cookies 'n' Cream, and Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream," Gabriella, dressed in a pair of red and white plaid pajama pants, a white cami on under Troy's hoodie, and fuzzy red slippers, told Sharpay as she looked inside the freezer portion of the fridge while the blonde decked out in her pink plaid pajama pants, black woman's wife beater, and black slippers sat at the kitchen's stainless steal island.
Both girls looked at each other and then said with a knowing smile, "Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough Ice Cream."
"Um…Sharpay, not to be rude or too random, but I noticed that lately you haven't been wearing anything flashy, it's like you're a different person in your body," Gabriella told her once they were back in front of Gabriella's 109 inch plasma screen TV that hung over her white fireplace so, they could watch it perfectly from their spots on the white chaise lounge couches. "Is something wrong?"
"No, nothing's wrong," Sharpay told her before she softly sighed, grabbed the movie they were watching – The Notebook – before she turned towards Gabriella and said, "Brie-Ella, can I tell you something?"
"Of course, Shar-Bear, anything," Gabriella told her as she set her ice cream down and turned towards her newly found blonde best friend or more like sister as the semi-warm wind blew through the open balcony doors as the summer night wind of that fateful summer between Junior and Senior year, reminded them of the friendship that was found that strange summer.
"I don't wear flashy cloths or dress like I did back in school because…I know I'm recognized," Sharpay started before taking a deep breath and then continuing, "I mean, I know people recognized me in high school but only because I was the Ice Queen bitch and people were afraid of me. I mean I love sparkles and all that jazz, but…I don't know for some time now it's felt like nothing when you have no one to share it with, I mean sure I have Ryan, but I didn't have any girl friend's who didn't like me just because I got money…but when you told me off this summer Gabriella and called me on my shit, I was shocked…I'll give you that, but most of all I was honestly happy that someone was brave enough to tell what my consequence was telling me all along. Brie-Ella, I told you this because I want to thank you for rescuing me before it was too late so, thank you Brie-Ella and I love you. And I'll eternally and forever be in your dept."
"Oh, Shar-Bear," Gabriella said before she hugged the blonde girl as they sat their softly crying together, both knowing how lucky they were to have each other…
"DADDY!" Sharpay and Gabriella squealed as they jumped out of Troy's Audi and spotted their parents in front of Mark's Garden which was the home to the world renowned floral arranger, Mark Held, seeing as Sharpay's parents (along with Lucille who) were all up visiting all December and up until January 4th of the New Year.
Greg and Vance laughed before catching their daughter, who jumped up and wrapped their arms around their necks and their legs around their waists before placing kisses on their cheeks.
"Hiya, Daddy," Gabriella greeted her daddy before giggling as he spun her around a couple of times before letting her down on her feet, holding her until she wasn't dizzy anymore.
"Hiya, Baby Girl," Greg greeted his daughter before placing a kiss on her forehead before moving to hug Inez, Derby, and Lucille.
"Greg, Vance," Troy and Zeke greeted giving them man hugs before Troy was pulled into a vice grip hug from his mom, who he hugged while picking her off the ground a little.
"So, we ready to do this?" Inez asked everyone once the greetings were done.
"Yeah," Gabriella replied with a soft smile and lacing her fingers with Troy they began to walk into Mark's Garden while Zeke held the door open for everyone. "Thanks, Lake."
"Your very welcome, Ria," Zeke replied as he hugged her.
"Aren't Taylor and Chad supposed to be here?" Sharpay asked Gabriella while they were waiting for the lady at the desk to get Mark.
"They had classes and then they were going back to theirs to study," Gabriella told her as she leaned her head on Troy's shoulder, who smiled and kissed the top of her head.
"Hi, you guys must be my noon appointment," the guy that came back with the receptionist said before smiling at them and saying, "I'm Mark Held."
"Hi, Mr. Held, I'm Greg Montez and this is my wife Inez. Our friends, Lucille Bolton, Derby and Vance Evans; and this is Sharpay Evans, the maid of honor; and these two are Troy and Gabriella, the engaged couple," Greg told him as he pointed out each person who shook his hand.
"Well, if you didn't tell me that I probably would have guessed by the way they look at each other," Mark told them with a smile before he turned to Gabriella and said, "So, Ms. Montez, we talked on the phone and I have set up those floral arrangement along with those bouquets if you would like to take a look at them with your fiancé and family."
"Sure and please, Mr. Held, call me Gabriella," Gabriella told him softly.
"Only if you call me Mark, Mr. Held is my dad," Mark told her causing them all to laugh softly before Mark led them towards where the arrangements were set up.
After looking at all the arrangements, Troy and Gabriella told Mark which one's they wanted before they did all the paper work. Biding their goodbyes and Gabriella rechecking the dates, they left the building and headed towards the place that were going to custom make their wedding favors.
(Louise's)
"Gabriella, Troy, how are you?" The owner of the place where they were getting their favors, Louise, asked them as she hugged them happily.
"Hi, Louise, we're good," Troy replied with a smile as Gabriella nodded.
Gabriella smiled before making the introductions of the people behind her and Troy, "Louise, this is Troy's mom, Lucille Bolton; my parents, Greg and Inez Montez; one of the groomsmen, Zeke Baylor; and this is my Maid of Honor and best friend ever, Sharpay Evans."
"Hi, I'm Louise and I own this shop so, feel free to look around and consider whatever sweet you like a gift," the middle aged woman told them before she said, "Okay, you two, let's got get our meeting underway and if you all feel free and if these two don't mind you can sit with us and listen."
"Oh, I'm so coming Brie-Ella knows she can't get rid of me that easily," Sharpay told Louise with a smile as she looped her arm through Gabriella's who giggled while everyone else said they too would like to listen in on the meeting.
"Okay so, first things first, I've got to make sure that you wanted these things on them. Your first name and Bolton as the last name followed by the date and the phrase 'The Start of Something New' right?" Louise asked them as she checked over the papers from their last meeting.
"Yep," they both replied.
"Okay, good, then I won't have to change anything," Louise told them before she handed them all each a little silver tin, "Okay, these are the mint tins that have Happy New Year on them, followed by Mr. & Mrs. Bolton along with date of the wedding and the phrase we talked about. And inside you guys decided on those personalized M&Ms right?"
"Right," Troy replied after Gabriella nodded as she and Sharpay continued to look at the tin before they were handed something else by Louise.
What Louise handed them was a mini bottle of sparkling cider that had a gold foil wrapped top to it, over the cork, and around the bottle was a simple black and white label that read beside a picture of them:
Thank you for celebrating with us on our wedding day
Gabriella & Troy
December 31, 2009
"Now, you guys decided on apple cider right?" Louise asked them and seeing them she asked, "So, would you care if your family and friends took a sip of it?"
"Not at all," Gabriella replied and watched a Louise poured them all a glass of the sparkling apple cider.
"And you wanted 350 bottles of apple cider, right?" Louise asked after taking a sip of her cider and seeing them nod, she checked off her sheet so, that part of the order was done. Smiling, she grabbed the favor which was a personalized wine class that had gold writing on it and a red outline of one heart while the other heart was outlined in white:
Troy & Gabriella
December 31, 2009
The Start of Something New
"Oh, wow those are gorgeous," Lucille commented on beauty of the wine glass seeing as none of them had ever seen such beautiful glass
"It's that gorgeous?" Louise asked no one in particular before she asked them, "Did you know that that's actually sand?"
"No, I can't be," the adults said.
Louise just smiled and turned towards Gabriella and said, "Would you like to tell them or should I?"
"Can I please?" Gabriella asked and seeing the nod from Louise she told the parents, Zeke, and Sharpay what Louise had told her and Troy when they had stopped in to order everything, "That's seriously sand…well, sand that's been hit by lighting. You guys have all seen the movie Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsy, and John Lucas were in right, Sweet Home Alabama?" After seeing them nod, she said, "Well, it's just like that."
"So all the glass making and everything else that evolved around the glass was real?" Sharpay asked.
"Yep," Troy replied.
"Well, it's truly beautiful," Inez said they all nodded their heads in agreement.
"Yep," Gabriella agreed with them as she leaned her head on Troy's shoulder and softly smiled as he placed a soft kiss on the top of her head.
"And last but certainly not least, are the Christmas wedding ornaments you wanted," Louise told them.
They all gazed at the three ball ornaments in front of them. The first one was a white one that had red writing and a red imprinted design on it that read:
Gabriella & Troy
December 31, 2009
The Start of Something New
The second one was gold and it had white writing and a white design on it that read the same thing as did the red ball that had gold writing and a design on it. All the designs were the same, their complete design consisted of four little ones, the four little ones were a Wildcat logo from East High followed by a music note, a shooting star, and two hearts linked together.
"These are beautiful you guys," Sharpay honestly told them.
(Zeke and Sharpay's Apartment)
"So did they get everything they wanted?" Taylor asked Sharpay as she, Chad, Zeke, and Sharpay settled down in the living room.
"Yeah," Sharpay replied before adding, "You should see the favors. They're all so cute."
"What about the food?" Chad asked causing them all to roll their eyes.
"Brie-Ella said that the hotel, where the reception, wedding, and where we're staying at; are setting up a buffet of all different sorts of foods that our normally seen around this time of the year; there will be alcoholic drinks, but they will be asking for ID so, they have no underage drinkers, but they did say that they're will be hot chocolate which Gabriella's Grandma Santiago, that's her mom's mom, is faxing the recipe over for her famous Mexican hot chocolate, and there will also be non-alcoholic seasonal margaritas there too," Sharpay told them before taking a drink of her Pepsi and then continued on talking, "Gabriella said that she talked with Sylvia Weinstock last night and Sylvia said that she will be flying out with the cake the night before the wedding to make sure that it gets to Colorado undamaged and put together okay. All that Gabriella or Troy would tell me is that it's a delicious cake and beautiful with six tires for all three-hundred and fifty guests except for the top tier that is which will be saved and put away for their one year wedding anniversary. For desert, well that's they're little surprise for everyone, except that Zeke is going to be making cookies and crème brûlée which both will be served at the rehearsal dinner and reception, also at the rehearsal dinner Gabriella told me that she got Troy a groom's cake without him knowing so keep that on the down low, and that will be served at the rehearsal dinner. So, that's it, oh and the flowers are beautiful, but I'm not allowed saying anything but that. So any questions?"
"Yeah, when are they leaving for Colorado?" Chad asked Sharpay.
"Brie-Ella said that her parents, Troy and his parents, along with Zeke and my parents are flying out on the twenty-sixth so, that they can start getting things all sorted out in Colorado and then on the twenty-seventh Martha, Ryan, Kelsi, and Jason are flying out with their parents from Albuquerque which is where they all our spending Christmas, but of course Ryan will be spending it with Martha's parents seeing as our mom and dad are up here helping with everything, and then Gabriella said she didn't know when you guys were flying out because she knew that you guys were going home to New Mexico for Christmas so, that's still a blank that we'll need to fill. And then guests are due to arrive from the twenty-eighth to the night of the wedding, Ms. Darbus is flying out with Ryan, Martha, Kelsi and Jason," Sharpay told them.
"That's when we're flying out too," Taylor told her.
"Okay, I'll make sure to tell Brie-Ella that," Sharpay said and made herself a mental note of that and one on her hot pink notepad with her silver glitter pen. Smiling, she decided to finally get down to the matter at hand, "Okay, why I called you all here minus to tell you guys all that stuff is, that we need to plan a bachelorette party, and a bachelor party, but before we do that we have to three way call Ryan & Martha and Kelsi & Jason so, they can get in on this too. Oh, and also Christy & Brett."
So together they all each took a couple and called them while Zeke was in the kitchen getting them all cups of hot chocolate so, by the time he came back everyone was excitingly talking through phones and face to face.
"So, which to start on first," Martha wondered.
"Wait before that who's throwing my sister a bridal shower?" Brett asked.
"You're mom and Lucille," Sharpay replied before suggesting, "Let's at least make sure to plan these parties where Troy and Gabriella are able to meet up at some time because if not, well I think you all know what happens."
"Yeah, they get overly hormonal and moody. You just say one word to them and the next thing you know, you're changing your shirt because they poured water over your head and hair that took hours to do," Chad told them causing them all to laugh.
"Dude, you know not to mess with Troy when Gabriella's not with him," Zeke told him.
"No I didn't know, but I do know," Chad told him causing them all to laugh.
"Don't worry; it was the same way with my sister when she and our parents flew up here to visit after Black Friday. She was seriously moody and hormonal…I remember when our cousin, John, asked her if she was pregnant…"
"He didn't?!" The girls gasped except for Christy, who was most likely sitting beside Brett at Harvard as he told the story.
"He did, you remember don't you, Baby?" They heard Brett asked Christy, who they heard reply with a 'yes' before he continued the story, "Well when John said that my dad's eyes went so wide it wasn't funny and I swear I could see his death plan for Troy in his head not to mention fire coming from his nostrils, it took Gabriella, our mom, and Christy forever to reassure him that Gabriella wasn't pregnant. So, after getting him calmed down, they all laughed as Gabriella took two pumpkin pies, one in each hand, and smashed them on either side of his face before grabbing the can of whipped cream, spraying it on him before topping it off with sprinkles. It was so funny, everyone had tears in they're eyes, but yeah, the point is Gabriella's…she's…different without Troy so, let's just make sure that we get them to meet up at sometime during the parties, maybe at the last club that we hit on our club hopping."
"Most defiantly," Ryan agreed.
"Okay, so that's settled…last club make sure Superstar and Brie-Ella meet up, got it," Sharpay told them as she wrote it down before asking, "Okay so, do you all want to have one drink, our first of twenty holes at a bar together before heading to our other nineteen alone?"
"Yeah, that sounds good, but um, what's the parents got to say about this?" Jason asked.
"Well, obviously the dad's are going to be cool with you boys doing it, but they'll just tell you to make sure that you won't get caught or you don't get to plastered which brings up to the next subject, the date, Brie-Ella and Superstar have begged my wedding cohort, aka Chad, to not have it the night before the wedding because they don't want to be…intoxicated at their wedding and not remember anything and the same with others, plus they said when they ring in the New Year there will be enough drinking."
"Okay, so we obviously can't do it on the fourteenth because that's Gabriella's 19th surprise birthday bash that Troy's been planning with Sharpay's help for ages so, that leaves all the rest except, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day…oh and the day's that the rest of us will be in New Mexico," Taylor said.
"How about we do it on the 20th?" Christy suggested before adding, "Because that way, Brett and I will already be there because we're flying up for Gabriella's party on the thirteenth, but keep that on the down low because she doesn't know we're going to be there. We're one of her surprises from Troy along with Kelsi & Jason, Martha & Ryan, being the part of the people surprise also along with Gabriella's grandparents."
"Okay, got it, keep quite and the date sounds perfect, don't you all think?" Sharpay asked.
"Yeah," was chorused which caused Sharpay to write it down.
"Okay, next thing on the agenda in my head is to tell you guys that Brie-Ella and Superstar talked with Zeke and I today and they decided to have all the Wildcats with Brett and Christy and have one big Wedding Party party on the twenty-ninth, what do you guys say?" Sharpay said.
"Hell yes!" The guys chorused while the girls just cheered.
"Okay good, next thing is…we need to vote on who's going to tell Troy and Gabriella that they will be sleeping alone the night of the wedding after the rehearsal dinner that is…and that they won't be able to see each other till Brie-Ella see's Superstar at the end of the aisle and they say 'I do' and live happily ever after?"
Everyone was silent for a moment before suddenly everyone (minus the person that was picked) said, "CHAD!"
"Oh man, you guys really want me to die don't you?" Chad grumbled at them making them all burst out into laughter and giggles.
TBC…
Well, there it is…I hope you guys like this. I tried to add some humor in it while making sure they accomplished things so, I hope it worked out that way. I hope you guys enjoyed it, especially since I made it long for not updating since...FOREVER! I love you all. XOXO
BTW: Louise and Louise's in my creation...
Toodles.
Best 2010 Zanessa/Troyella Wishes!
I wanna see that Hawaiian wedding,
I wanna see that blissful 'Honeymoon' phase,
I wanna see her bearing their child,
I wanna see that sweet little angel with its father's eyes and mother's features,
I Want To See Them Have It All
But... I guess I will have to wait...
~Z&V~