Chapter Started: April 29, 2011.
Chapter Finished: April 30, 2011.
Author's Note: Well, here's a new one, and this might be a short one but I hope you all enjoy it. Please don't forget to review it, thanks.
=ANFF2: America's Sweetheart's Engagement=
-Chapter 20-
(February 2010 – Los Angeles, California: 8PM)
Sitting comfortably in her Air Force One seat, Gabriella fiddled with the T necklace around her neck as the plane started to get closer to LAX and as her right hand kept busy, she moved her left wrist up so she could check the time on her white leather banded Chanel watch with diamonds encrusted into it.
"Seven-thirty," she whispered with a soft smile.
"Just thirty more minutes and you'll be back safe, sound, and loved in your beloved's arms," Brett, sitting beside her, told her and watched as her soft smile turned into a bright one.
"And she can't wait," Roxy said as she walked towards the seated two and took the other seat beside Gabriella, who happily moved her beloved LV tote from the seat to on the floor seeing as Shadow was sleeping comfortably on her lap.
Gabriella just smiled at them as she gently removed her legs from their curled up position from her seat so as not to wake up Shadow as she slipped her French pedicure nailed feet into her UCLA blue, 'Spring Break', rubber, flip flops from A&F.
"Will, you guys just leave her alone," Josh suggested to the two as he approached them.
"Thanks Josh," Gabriella thanked him while the other two just glared at him before they started to laugh at the childish like moment.
"Ms. Montez, you might want to do what you have to before we get ready to land," one of the Air Force One exclusive stewardesses said.
"Alright thank you," Gabriella replied as she gently picked Shadow off and handed him off to Brett, who happily took the sleeping dog and put the black fluff-ball on his lap, not caring about getting dog hair on his black slacks.
America's Sweetheart made her way to the big bathroom in the room that was designated as her bedroom, surprisingly the biggest, on the plane to get ready. Quickly, she went to the bathroom and then straightened out her yellow 'UCLA Boyfriend' sweat pants that had 'PINK 19' on the right pant leg and then on the left pant leg was, of course, the white wording of 'UCLA'. After the pants, she straightened out the white and blue stripe t-shirt from PINK by VS before she quickly just threw up her hair in a messy bun with not a care in the world on what people would think of it. Not even bothering putting makeup on, she put her deodorant on followed by her Love Spell body spray , chapstick, and then finally slipped her black acrylic horsebit sunglasses from Gucci over her tired eyes.
"You ready to go, Gabi?" Brett asked her as she sat down and buckled her seatbelt as the plane began to descend onto a private strip at Los Angeles International Airport.
"Yeah, I just wanna go home and go to bed," the beautiful Filipina replied with a soft smile as she set her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes.
"And seeing Troy hasn't nothing to do with the hidden excitement?" Roxy asked with a smile.
"Of course not," Gabriella joked with her bodyguard causing them all to laugh as the wheels hit the pavement of the runway.
Zanessa*Will*Find*Their*Way*Have*Faith
Where is she, where is she, Troy kept repeating in his head as he stood at the baggage claim in LAX looking for beautiful fiancé, who was America's Sweetheart, but his Heart Capturer.
Dressed in a pair of navy 'Cellar Mountain' athletic shorts from A&F and a white 'Basin Mountain' t-shirt from A&F and a pair of black and white 'Asissage' adidas slides on his feet while a grey 'Gill Brook' A&F hoodie sat over his white t-shirt and his silver metal 'outdoorsman' deerskin trim aviator sunglasses sat on the top of his head.
Finally, he found her with the help of a people gathering and or pointing in the direction of her and the Secret Service Agents, who he saw first before he saw her. Once she spotted him, he smiled bright at her as she handed her dog and handbag to Brett before she took off across the floor and leaped into his arms, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.
"Troy," he heard her breathe as he hugged held her tightly to him.
"Brie," he breathed back as he closed his eyes and buried his nose in her neck, smelling her delicious perfume.
"I've missed you so much," she whispered into his ear, giving him chills up and down his body.
"Not as much as I've missed you," he replied in her ear, giving her the same affect she gave him.
Pulling her head back softly from each other, they rested their foreheads on each other's as they locked eyes before both went into a soft, passionate kiss, not really caring at the point if the paparazzi or people were taking pictures of them after they had been away from each other for two, almost three, weeks.
Once the kiss and a few more words, hugs, and even kisses were shared the couple quickly gathered up Vanessa's beloved pouch and guards as they made their way out of the airport and towards Troy's Audi, but before they existed the basketball player spotted his fiancée shiver so he unzipped his hoodie and helped her put it on before he put the hood up and zipped it up for her.
Taking her hand, he gently told her what he always told her, "stay behind me and don't let go of my hand", as they began to make their way through the pool of photographers and their cameras and questions with the help of the Secret Service Agents.
(Troyella's House)
Finally, the black Audi pulled into the Montez/Bolton household's garage so, the couple truly was away from everything and everyone, but themselves and Gabriella's trusted Agents and dog. Exiting the Audi after shutting it off, Troy quickly walked around and opened the door for his sleepy fiancé and helped her out of the vehicle. Before going inside, Troy made sure Shadow was out of the car and behind them before locking the car and going into the house.
"Ah home at last," Gabriella said with a happy sigh before she gasped as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"I hope you're hungry, which you should be since I called your mom ahead of time and told her not to worry about feeding you because I am," he whispered into her ear before unzipping the hoodie and letting it fall to the floor before he lead her towards the dining room table where he had lasagna and sparkling white apple cider was waiting for them with three roses, a white one, a red one, and a pink one sat in the middle of the table.
After the dinner was ate, the couple laid cuddled up on the couch watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince while finishing up the white chocolate covered strawberries, Gabriella's favorite desert.
"So did you have a lot of Veelas over here while I was gone?" Gabriella asked him, using the Harry Potter word for females: Veela.
"Oh yeah, definitely had a lot of semi-human, semi-magical creatures over here," Troy told her with a roll of his eyes, "every night of every minute, in fact."
Gabriella just laughed as she cuddled up closer into Troy's side, if possible, as they continued to watch the movie.
"What about you?"
"What Veelas? Of course not!" She exclaimed.
"No; Half-Bloods, Pure-bloods, or Muggles, did you have any?" the professional athlete clarified after a roll of his electric blue irises.
"Oh yeah, every night and everywhere I went," Gabriella replied and then as their eyes locked, Gabriella told him with a cheeky smile, "Especially in the White House, it's a real perk for the Half-bloods, Pure-bloods, and Muggles; I had a new one every night in my room you know."
Troy's draw dropped and Gabriella knowing the look in his eye shrieked as she quickly got up off the couch and took off out of the living room and up the stairs with Troy hot on her heels, while downstairs the agents all laughed at the two and cleaned up after them the giggling and shrieking duel.
To Be Continued….
I hope you all liked that one, I'm not sure if I liked it yet or not; I guess it all depends on you guys. Please don't forget to review.
Always grateful,
J*L*A
"The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their originators' prejudice. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle. Therefore Harry would be considered only 'half' wizard, because of his mother's parents. If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood...the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda."
~ J.K. Rowling, the Author of the Harry Potter books on consciously drawing such parallels.