Chapter Started: December 20, 2008
Chapter finished: December 21, 2008
Author's Note: Well, here's tomorrow's chapter. I hope you enjoy it!
=HSM3: Happy Holidays=
-Chapter 21-Hark! The Angles We Heard on High-
(December 21, 2008- 9AM)
Beep….beep…beep…beep…
Gabriella sighed and rolled over to turn off her chocolate brown fuzzy alarm clock before she rolled on her back. Looking up at the ceiling with a smile thinking of what today would hold for her, she was bombarded with kisses from her dogs. She squealed loudly as they started to nibble at her "looking for fleas'', their normal routine, done every morning.
After ten minutes of the dogs "looking for fleas'', Gabriella threw her blankets over her dogs with a giggle before she skipped into her walk in closet and starting to go through her Sunday cloths that were saved for church days, only.
Smiling she found a cute Christmas outfit and then skipped off to her bathroom.
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Thirty minutes later, Gabriella got out of the shower, wrapped a snowflake designed towel and wrapped a matching around her hair before she slipped her feet in her red and white candy cane slippers.
Walking over to the mirror, Gabriella finished washing her face with ProActiv before she put cream on her body, cleaned her ears, put deodorant on, before she put on a green strapless bra on and matching lace thong panties.
Gabriella then slipped on a pair of plaid gray combo dress pants, a green lace tube top, a pair of red with white polka dotted crop top, a pair of black strappy wood wedges, a layered pearl locket necklace, a pair of pearl hoop earrings, a set of pearly bracelets around her right wrist, and a white leather band watch around her left wrist.
Gabriella, then combed her hair and then left it in her natural waves that flowed down over her shoulders and back.
Smiling she went to move onto do her make up lightly and naturally, when she got ready to put her eye shadow on two arms came and wrapped themselves around her arms so they couldn't go up to her eyelid and let her apply it.
She shakingly breathed, as she felt butterflies in her stomach as she knew whose strong and protective arms around her. She smiled as she felt soft breathe whisper in her ear, "Don't you dare. You don't kneed any of that, you're beautiful without all that make up."
"Hey Wildcat and yeah right," Gabriella said as she got out of his arms and walked quickly down the stairs to see her mom. Smiling at Troy's parents and her parents, she then turned to her mom and asked her, "Hey mommy, can I borrow your eyeliner. I'm out."
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"GABRIELLA MARIE MONTEZ!" Troy yelled sternly as he came down the stairs and walking right up to her, he grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her around before he crashed his lips on hers. Smiling he pulled back and laid his forehead on hers before he said sternly and softly, "Don't. You don't need any of that make up stuff. Your so beautiful without it. Don't you know your beautiful?"
"Troy Alexander Bolton, stop it! I'm far from beautiful. When I wake up in the morning my hair's tangled, I'm not head cheerleader, I'm not perfect, I make mistakes, I trip up, and I spill stuff. I'm far from beautiful." Gabriella told him, truthfully.
"Gabriella Marie Montez, don't you know you're beautiful? JUST. THE. WAY. YOU. ARE!" Troy told Gabriella with a stern, yet soft and truthful voice, his bright electric blue eyes locked with her beautiful chocolate brown eyes.
The moms awed and the dad's smiled at the couple with love and admiration in their eyes.
"BRIE-ELLA!" Sharpay, who was dressed in her red choir robes, squealed as Troy walked Gabriella inside the choir room so she could get ready for choir.
"SHAR-BEAR!" Gabriella squealed back before her and Sharpay embraced. After she let go of Sharpay she turned and placed a kiss on Troy's lips before saying, "I'll see you out there. I'll be looking for you."
"I know. And just remember, it's just like kindergarten." Troy told her with a soft smile, knowing that after all the singing she HAS done she still gets scared out of her mind and the only way for her not to get scared is if their eyes locked when she sang and if he said those magic words.
"I love you." Gabriella told him as she hugged him tightly.
"I love you too. Now, go and get ready to knock them dead." Troy told her before he kissed her forehead and slipped out of the room.
"Your boyfriend is so sweet," One of the choir girls told Gabriella with a smile.
"Yeah, he is," Gabriella said softly and breathlessly.
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The wildcats and parents, sitting in the front two rows, smiled as they watched Gabriella, Sharpay and the choir walk up on stage and sit in the chairs in the choir box, before the pastor, Pastor William, began to start is sermon.
"Hello, how are you all doing today?" Pastor William asked everyone with a bright smile, as he stood up in front of the church.
"Good!" People in the church replied back with smiles on their faces.
"Well, that's wonderful to hear. So are we ready for some sermons to be read?" Paston William asked them with a smile.
"Yeah," The people replied again.
And with this Pastor William began to start his wonderful Sermon of what Christmas should mean to people this year.
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Thirty minutes later, Pastor William turned to the choir and looked at Gabriella and Sharpay who nodded and stood up with the choir, getting ready to sing.
Gabriella looked in the front row, and immediately her chocolate brown eyes locked with the bright electric blue eyes of her boyfriend before she began to sing with Sharpay, leading the choir and church in the song of Hark! The Angeles We Heard on High:
Hark! the herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!"
Joyful, all ye nations rise;
Join the triumph of the skies;
With angelic host proclaim
"Christ is born in Bethlehem!"
Hark! the herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
Christ, by highest heaven adored;
Christ the everlasting Lord;
Late in time behold Him come,
Offspring of the favored one.
Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see;
hail the incarnate Deity
Pleased as man with men to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! the herald angels sing,
"Glory to the newborn King"
Hail! the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail! the Son of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
risen with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
born that man no more may die;
Born to raise the sons of earth,
born to give them second birth
Hark! the herald angels sing,
"Glory to the newborn King"
"Thank you Gabriella, Sharpay, choir," Pastor William said to the girls and the choir before turning towards the people and saying with a soft smile, "You may be seated."
As people sat down the pastor took a drink of water as did the choir before the pastor began his sermon again.
At noon and many songs later, the wildcats and parents all walked out of the church, got in their cars and headed towards Lava Springs for their annual Sunday Brunch, but this Sunday Brunch was a special one because of it being the Sunday before Christmas.
At Lava Springs Country Club, owned by the Evans, they all were escorted into a private dining room, like usual, and sat in their normal seats at the gigantic 70 seater glass table that had a beautiful red satin table cloth, green crystal dinner wear, and white napkins that read in silver 'Merry Christmas from Lava Springs Country Club, Albuquerque, New Mexico'.
"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Evans, Wildcats, your food will be served sortley. While your waiting would you guys like a drink?" Their normal waitress, Katie, asked them all decked out in her green and red elf working outfit.
"Yes please Katie," Mrs. Evans said before everyone gave Katie their drink orders.
"So that'll be 9 black coffees and 23 Christmas hot chocolate specials?" Katie asked making sure she got the order right.
"Yes," Mrs. Darbus said with a smile before Katie went off to get their drinks, coffees for the dads and hot chocolates for the moms and wildcats.
Five minutes later, Katie returned with a tray full of drinks balanced in her right hand and pushing a trolley in her left hand that contained all of their food.
After Katie left, everyone toasted to the Sunday before Christmas before they began to eat their Caesar salads, snowman shaped roast beef with gravy, wreath shaped potato cakes, corn, green beans, and Christmas tree shaped biscuits.
Well, there you guys go. I hope you enjoyed it! I'll post this right away! I love you all! I love you (more) Cleo! XOXO.
Peace. Love. && Christmas Spirit.
--Jessica!!!