The end of camp

The end of camp

Coach Bolton stood at the door of the coach ticking off all the names as the students piled off the bus.

"Hope you had a good time Taylor. Good to see you on time Chad. Kelsi, Martha, good to see you're here. Did you have a good time Gabriella?" he asked finally.

"Yes sir I did" Gabriella said smiling before stepping onto the bus. Troy walked past his dad completely ignoring him and acting as though he wasn't there and the coach couldn't do anything about it as he had to mark the roll.

Troy sat down next to Gabriella and she immediately plonked her head on his shoulder. "Tired?" he asked stroking her arm with the back of his fingers quickly.

"Mhmm" she replied closing her eyes, "thanks for being my pillow" she said.

"Glad to be of service" Troy replied also closing his eyes slightly resting his chin softly on top of Gabriella's head. The whole trip was almost in silence as all the students were tired from staying up till 2am having little lolly fests and sneaking into each others rooms to god knows what times.

The buses were almost near East High and the kids were instinctively waking up. Gabriella woke up before Troy and looked up to see his resting backwards against the head rest. She smiled at how cute he looked and then a thought came to her mind. She pulled out her notebook from her day pack and flipped to a small blank bit of paper and wrote on it. She ripped it out and slid into Troy's day bag and rested her head back against the headrest looking out the window, watching all the familiar streets and traffic lights and buildings go past. Finally, East High was in sight and Gabriella spotted her car, parked right next to Troy's. Everyone had now woken up, everyone except for Troy. Gabriella nudged him and said his name softly and he just mumbled and Gabriella giggled. "Troy we're back" Gabriella said, she then saw him smirk a little bit. He was awake!! Gabriella smirked back, pretending she thought he was still asleep. "Hey Taylor!" Gabriella said.

"Yeah?" she replied. Gabriella pointed down to Troy miming 'he's awake' and put her finger to her mouth and Taylor put her hand over her mouth to stifle her giggles.

"Troy's asleep, so I just want to let you know I had a great time with Trevor last night, he is a good kisser isn't he?" Gabriella said looking down at Troy the whole time and immediately saw his eyes snap open as wide as possible. He looked up at Gabriella confused and Gabriella stared down at him. He believed her?

"I'm kidding silly! I just wanted you to get up" she said and Troy wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her back down.

"That was sooo not funny" he said. Gabriella just grinned and moved up to kiss him but he pouted and stuck out his bottom lip and moved his head away.

"Well then" Gabriella said. She kissed his cheek a couple of times and kissed his jaw and she could tell Troy was suffering and she just smiled, he would give in soon. She kissed his nose and kissed just above his upper lip. "There's no more I can do" she said and began to move away but Troy was too quick and firmly planted his lips on hers and Gabriella sank into the kiss.

"Okay guys come on off the bus" coach Bolton said. He knew his son was mad at him, but he did actually have to get them off the bus, it was his job. The broke apart and Gabriella pursed her lips and put her drink bottle in her bag and stood up, while Troy glared at his dad and rolled his eyes and began to pack up his stuff also as they all hopped off the bus. Gabriella picked up her big bag and pulled it away from the crowd and joined Troy who already had his.

"Let's bail gorgeous female" he said and Gabriella laughed. "You want me to carry that?" he asked.

"No it's okay, I can manage" she said.

"Alriiiighty then" he said, and just before they took their first step to head to their cars, Troy's dad put his hand on his son's shoulder. "What do you want dad?" Troy asked firmly.

"To talk to you, right now" he said.

"Forget it" Troy said and he began to walk away but Gabriella softly grabbed his arm and nudged her head towards his dad. He finally obliged and kissed Gabriella on the cheek and went to talk to his dad.

"Troy we never knew it would come to this, we were trying to protect you" he said.

"Protect me? From what? What is there to protect? Why do parents always say 'we wanted to protect you'??" he said imitating a parent's voice.

"From getting hurt!"

"If you hadn't kept this from me you would have hurt me a lot less!" he said.

"Troy I'm sorry. I truly am, we both are, your mother and I…and, I'm letting you know I'll be moving out. We both still have custody over you however, and I won't be too far and I'll still be coaching at East High. But, I will be leaving the house" he said and Troy just looked at him, he then turned his head and slung the strap of his huge bag over his shoulder and began to walk away. "Troy, don't walk away!" he said.

"You're teaching me how" Troy said, just loud enough for his dad to hear. He walked to his car to see Gabriella putting all her stuff in the boot of her car. She turned around and waited for Troy to come closer.

"How did it go?" she asked quietly.

"Well my dad is moving out but both my parents still have custody over me" he said, "I don't want to think about this right now, I just can't believe it. I just thought they were so happy" Troy said shoving his bag into the boot. "It's just disbelief" he said turning around and sitting on the edge of the boot and put his face in his hands. Gabriella saw a tear seep out of the side and walked over to him and stood in front of him and rubbed his arm up and down. She saw his shoulders shake and could tell he was crying. She immediately wrapped her arms around him and she felt him tightly wrap his arms around her too. She felt his tears in the crook of her neck but didn't care one bit.

"Your parents love you Troy" she said running her fingers through his hair and lifted his head up. "They do, they didn't want to hurt you, the really didn't" she said and Troy new she was right. He merely nodded and furiously wiped his tears away but Gabriella just grabbed his hands and stopped him and wiped the tears away herself. "You have two parents who love you Troy, I only have one who in fact hates me" she said sighing. "But I don't care about her either. Anyway, moving on, Chad has invited Taylor to go and play mini golf tonight, which lead to Zeke going and Sharpay and Kelsi, then me and I'm pretty sure you have to come. Hmm?" she said looking down in his eyes. "I think you need your friends right now" she said and Troy just nodded. We're meeting at the place at 6.30 so I'll see you then" Gabriella said getting into the car. She closed the door and wound down window and Troy leaned through and kissed her goodbye, still feeling a bit upset. Gabriella drove off and sympathized for Troy, but she then thought of the note she put in his bag and hoped it would cheer him up a bit, after all he is a guy.

Troy watched Gabriella drive off and then he finally got in his own car. He dumped his day bag on the passenger seat and started the engine. He then quickly reached over to pull out his drink bottle, being thirsty and all, but as he did a white folded piece of paper fell out and landed on the seat. He took a quick sip of his water and picked it up and unfolded it.

Hi Troy.

I didn't want to wake you because you look so cute and peaceful so I thought I might write you a small note. It's a bit sudden and a bit odd but all of a sudden I realized that…I'm ready. I hope you catch my drift? I certainly hope so otherwise I'll be a bit embarrassed.

Love,

Gabriella.

Troy's smile grew bigger as he read on. She was ready, and now Troy was going to make it absolutely perfect for her.

6:15pm

Troy was heading off to mini gold after having another heated argument with his parents, now he was glad he was going to see his friends and Gabriella especially.

He pulled up into a car space and saw Gabriella's car parked as he walked up to Chad who's hair he spotted a mile away. "Hey guys" Troy said. Gabriella walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder and gently kissed him on the lips which he gladly kissed back.

"Come on, time to play gold" Chad said moving everyone along.

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Overall, Troy came first and Gabriella came second which she was extremely happy about. "I came first!" Gabriella said.

"Eyyy wait on, I came first" Troy said.

"Well you're too good at golf and would obviously beat us all, so I consider second place to be first place" she said grinning.

"Sorry Montez" Troy said feeling very shamed of himself.

After a while of eating and drinking soft drink Gabriella nudged her head towards the bathroom at Troy. "Be right back, I'm just going to the toilet" she said and they all nodded.

"Uh, yeah me too, I'll be right back" Troy said, and before anyone could say anything he was already gone and they all just rolled their eyes. Troy was walking over to the bathrooms which Gabriella was already waiting outside of.

"Hi Troy, did you get my note by any chance?" Gabriella asked. Troy just smiled and nodded his head.

"Are you free next Saturday?" Troy asked.

Sorry about the shortness again.

Well, 20 reviews or more and I will post the chapter with the gazebo scene!!

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