Okay guys, I apologize for the people who didn't want me to continue on with the whole horse concept but I'm just going to go with majority on this one, and honestly I couldn't really be bothered to re-write the other chapter. So I'm every sorry to the people who hated it! A lot of you are asking why Gabi is scared and all so hopefully this chapter will make things a little clearer for you.
Oh, and I know absolutely nothing about horse riding, so again, sorry for the people who are fabulous at riding and are reading this and laughing their butts off. Just pretend like I sound pro!
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Flashback
Gabriella was sitting perfectly on Kingsley with the reins in her hands as she was ready for the flag to go. "You're going to do to great buddy" Gabriella said leaning down and patting her horse on the neck. Kingsley whinnied and Gabriella giggled. She composed herself quickly and waited and waited in position for the flag to go…and…she saw it wave and she was off. She clicked her tongue and slightly flexed her calf muscles against Kingsley and he began at a walking pace, then to a trot and onto a canter as they approached the first jump.
Gabriella's mum was watching in anticipation as her daughter came up to the first jump. She watched and gradually stood up on her tippy toes as they got closer and closer to the jump.
Gabriella clicked her tongue again and she leant forward as they both perfectly glided over the first jump. Gabriella's mum looked over at the judges who all looked at each other and nodded enthusiastically and her mum clapped.
The same happened for the rest of the jumps, but as Gabriella was approaching another jump, she felt her helmet come loose. What the heck? She thought to herself. She felt it slipping and noticed that the strap had broken. How could it break!! She said to herself, this was not good. If she did the next jump it would fall off. But to make matters worse, Gabriella lowered her brow when she noticed the next jump was two sizes too high. "Kingsley that is too high" she said quietly to her horse. She managed to look over at her mum who had an extreme worried expression plastered on her face. Gabriella looked back ahead and heard Kingsley whinny and found that they were very close to the jump. She pulled back on the reins and her horse suddenly stopped unsteadily and Gabriella lost her helmet as well as her footing and went flying off the black polished saddle straight into a hard wooden pole keeping the jump upright, and all was dark………
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"What's happened?? What's happened to my baby!!" Ms Montez yelled to the doctor who was approaching her.
"Ms Montez please calm down" the doctor, Dr Miller said patting her on the back.
"What has happened??" she asked again.
"Well Gabriella has fractured a certain part of her skull and resulted in the damage of her eardrum" he said.
"What damage, please give this to me in English doctor!!" Ms Montez yelled loudly not understanding a word he was saying.
"The way that her skull was fractured damages the material in her eardrum-"
"What does this all mean??" Ms Montez asked impatiently.
"Gabriella has lost her hearing" Dr Miller said. Ms Montez felt as if she had stopped breathing, her daughter was deaf. She felt as if she was about to faint, there was too much disbelief and confusion racing through her mind.
"Forever?" she asked, the only word she could think of.
"As far as we know, yes" he said and Ms Montez broke down in tears. Her child was deaf, what good is that? Ms Montez loved her daughter, when and if she was winning. Now, that was impossible
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Gabriella squeezed her eyes shut with as much effort as possible, realizing that she couldn't wriggle her way out of this jump. She bent down to Kingsley's neck and held onto his mane like she was holding on for dear life. She felt her hair fluttering at the back of her neck from her long pony tail and the wind on her face. She opened one eye, but immediately closed it as the jump was right in front of her.
Gabriella felt as if her life had stopped to slow motion and was soaring through the air. She opened her eye and saw a wooden pole which was holding the jump up, glide right past her and she was safely away from it. She opened her eyes and leant back up when she had realized Kingsley had slowed down to a trot. "You recognize me don't you boy" Gabriella said as she patted the horses neck.
The whole activity group had lined up against a fence that restricted them from the field watching Gabriella sit on the horse and Bet cantering down to meet her.
Gabriella looked up and saw Bet sitting on her brown white polka dot horse cantering down to her. "Gabriella! Gabriella my dear are you alright??" she asked very nervous.
"Yes I'm fine Bet" Gabriella replied holding onto the reins.
"Have you-have you done some riding in the past? Or are you a rider currently?" she asked. Gabriella looked down at Kingsley and looked at his beautiful black mane, that she remembers typing into small plaits.
"I'm done some riding in the past." She said smiling. "Uh…Bet where did you get this horse?" Gabriella asked.
"A man called Martin sold it to me" she said. Gabriella immediately remembered the name Martin. He was one of the stable hands' father. A guy who was the deputy runner of the stables.
"Why is that?" Gabriella asked.
"Well, apparently Kingsley had an accident with a small girl. She hit her head and lost her hearing and after that, no one wanted to ride Kingsley at those stables" she said leaning over and stroking the horse. "Well Gabriella are you right to go back up there on Kingsley?" she asked. "Just a walk please" she said smiling.
"One last thing, do you remember the little girls name?" Gabriella asked and Bet raised an eyebrow.
"Uh…I'm not exactly sure, but I do know it started with a G" she said and Gabriella simply smiled and nodded. Bet watched her and Kingsley walk back up to the stables and she all of a sudden remembered the little girls name. It was Gabriella. And that little girl was the one who was riding Kingsley at this very moment and trotting up to the stables. "My word" Bet said to herself and followed Gabriella back up the hill.
As Gabriella approached everyone, Taylor came running up to her. "Gabriella! Gabriella! How did you do that?!" Taylor asked waving her hand.
"Do what?" Gabriella asked.
"Jump that jump without falling off!!" Taylor yelled again.
"Uh, beginners luck I guess" she said.
Beginners luck? Troy thought to himself. Doing something that perfectly could not be beginners luck. Gabriella looked over at Troy and smiled, he smiled back but wanted to talk to her about what just happened.
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It was the last few peoples turns on the horses and Gabriella and Troy were talking somewhere quiet. "Are we still up for the sponge pit tonight?" Troy asked and Gabriella whipped her head up.
"Of course I am!" she said. "That was too much fun last time" she said smiling. At least she was still up for that.
4:30pm – in the cabins showering etc.
5:30pm – free time
6:30pm – dinner in the hall
7:30pm – dinner ends, back to the cabins to do whatever you want.
9:00pm – people chatting in their beds
11:00 – people dozing off
11:50 – Gabriella and Troy quietly making their way to the sponge pit
Gabriella pushed open the big door of the large gym? We'll just call it a gym. Anyway, she walked in and saw a few lights on which were enough to just light up the large room. She looked over to the sponge pit and saw Troy leaning against a large pole. "You're late Montez" Troy said tapping his watch which was 12:02
"Gabriella Montez is never late or early for that matter Troy Bolton, she arrives precisely when she means to" she said grinning.
"Oh yeah?" he replied.
"Yeah!" she said and ran over to him giggling. Troy had to take a step back as Gabriella ran over to him and threw her arms around him, making them fall backwards into the sponges. They both laughed as Gabriella landed on top of Troy. Troy looked Gabriella in her soft brown eyes, as did she in his crystal blue ones and joined their lips in a charming kiss. Gabriella felt Troy's tongue ever so slightly graze over a bit of her bottom lip, she opened her mouth letting Troy's tongue in. He knew she wasn't as eager as every other girl was he had had so he took it easy on her. He didn't attack inside her mouth but smoothly glided his tongue over hers which she seemed to enjoy as he felt her smile into the kiss. After a while, Gabriella was the first to move, which Troy expected but didn't mind one bit. Troy leaned up and gently rubbed his hand over her flat stomach under her shirt.
"Gabriella, I think it might be time to tell me why you seemed so edgy around those horses. And then all of a sudden ride perfectly and seem to predict everything about the horse Kingsley" he said looking her in the eye. Gabriella knew he didn't mean to bug her, he didn't want to, she just felt the worry evident in his eyes. And soon enough, she felt a few tears form in her eyes. "Sorry Gabriella I didn't mean to upset y-"
"No no, you didn't. But I think it's time to tell you how I became deaf" she said looking him in the eyes and Troy slowly nodded. Gabriella rolled them over so she was on top of him. She lay her head down on his chest and Troy wrapped his strong arms around her. "Kingsley was my horse" she said and she felt Troy's arm suddenly stop stroking her back. "I know. He was my horse when I was 14 years old. We were riding in a jumping competition. I was all dressed up in my equestrian outfit…" and Gabriella smiled as she said this, remembering the photo that was taken and is in her cupboard in a frame. Troy too smiled, thinking how smashing Gabriella would have looked in one of those outfits. "…we were cantering around the ring going perfectly over all the jumps. Then I felt my helmet become loose and I don't know how, but it broke and I knew it was going to fall off sooner or later, probably at the next jump." She continued, but Troy felt her breath unsteadily against his chest so he lifted up his head and kissed her head. "And the next jump was actually too high for Kingsley and I. I pulled on the reins and…well…just imagine you are going 150 kilometers in a car without a seatbelt and all of a sudden the brakes had to be slammed on" she said. "My helmet came off at the sudden jolt and I flew off Kingsley and hit my head against the wooden pole of the jump. I fractured my skull" she finished.
"And that's h-"
"Yeah, that's how I became deaf. The way I fractured my skull damaged my ear drum somehow" she said and let out a long sigh. Gabriella rested her chin on Troy's chest and looked up at him. He looked down at her and kissed her sweetly on the lips.
"Thank you for telling me Brie, and I'm sorry if I bugged you about it too much" he said rubbing up and down her arm.
"You didn't bug me at all, I just hated the memory, but when I was riding Kingsley again, I realized how much I missed it" she said smiling to herself.
For the next 5 minutes or so, the two lay there in silence. "Troy?"
"Hmm?" Troy replied.
"You know how I said I was ready to…you know" she said and she felt Troy nod.
"Yeah I do" he replied.
"Well, yeah just moving past that, when or if I'm ever ready to have s-sex" she said and she felt herself blushing which Troy found incredibly adorable. "I-I want it to be…like, special and…kind of…we-"
"I would make it perfect for you Gabriella. And you know I'm not pressuring you on anything. You know that don't you?" he said raising his head.
"Of course I do. One of the many reasons I love you" she said and Troy just smiled. "And Troy, thank you for understanding"
"You're welcome Gabriella. You're welcome" he said and their minds both wondered back to the time Troy always signed, 'you're welcome' to Gabriella.
"Are you thinking of the time you always signed that at me?" she asked laughing.
"You know, we may not have realized it at the time, but looking back…we flirted with each other like crazy" he said and Gabriella giggled.
"We did didn't we" she said.
"Who would've thought we would turn up like this"
"It's a good thought" Gabriella said.
"It sure is" Troy replied. Troy rubbed her stomach and noticed Gabriella wasn't wearing her belly button ring. "No belly button ring today?" he asked.
"Well I took it out before. Doing activities like this, it could be dangerous" she said.
"Point taken" he replied. "Good thinking Montez"
"Thank you Bolton" she said smiling as she played with Troy's shirt, her mind flickering back to the memory of their first date. "Remember our first date Troy? In the gazebo?"
"How could I forget? One of the best nights of my life"
"Really?" Gabriella asked showing a dazzling smile.
"Of course. It was our first kiss" he said.
"That was a perfect night. Thank you Troy" she said laying her head back down and continuing fiddling with Troy's shirt. She wondered what the gazebo would be like to…you know, do 'it' in. Candles, doonas, blankets, pillows…that would be awesome. But Gabriella always knew that her first time wouldn't be exactly what she wanted it to be, but she knew Troy would do his best, and that was amazing as it was to her.
Meanwhile, Troy was playing with the smooth hair on Gabriella's head and was thinking on what the gazebo would be like for Gabriella's first time. Troy already had it all planned out, he was definitely going to set it up for her in there. Candles, soft blankets, pillows, the works. He said he would make it perfect for Gabriella, and that's exactly what he intended to do. Make it perfect.
Troy slowly flipped them over so he was now on top of Gabriella. In increments, Troy slowly kissed her mouth and her face and her neck. He pulled back smiling at her, a soft smiling which left Gabriella no choice but to naturally smile back, he undid the bottom two buttons of her shirt and slowly ran his hand up her stomach brining the shirt with him, his hand lightly brushed her breast and Gabriella closed her eyes, but immediately snapped them open when they heard the gym doors loudly creak open.
20 more reviews ladies and gentlemen (probably no gentlemen) and I will post the next chapter!
Once again, sorry for the people who wanted me to scrap the previous chapter and the whole horse concept. At least they got to go to the gym at midnight! But you are all disappointed about the whole 'not enough raunchiness' stuff. But I hate writing that kind of stuff! Argh I don't know why…but I will write it, don't worry. But does anyone wanna give me a few lines or ideas for it?? I feel so yucky writing it!
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