Chapter 29: Are you happy?
The sun shine through the french windows of the bungalow on the beach. It was a beautiful day at the Turks and Caicos Islands. More than beautiful. Gabriella slowly opened her eyes. She saw the beauiful sun already reflecting in the turquoise ocean. The Spanish mother smiled. She was happy. With a smile on her face Gabriella turned around to see the second beautiful thing in the world. "You're awake." she said noticing, still smiling.
He leaned down and kissed her softly.
"Why didn't you wake me?" she asked him as she placed her head on his chest.
"Well I like to watch you sleep. You talk when you sleep." he said and grinned, "You talked back then and you're still talking in your sleep now."
"Really?" she asked him surprised, "No one's ever said that to me."
"Guess you only talk in your sleep when you share one bed with me then." he said and kissed her again.
"What did I say?"
He shrugged, "You babbled the whole night."
"Oh I'm sorry. You must've not had such a pleasant night."
He shook his head, "You babbled me to sleep. So don't worry about me not getting any sleep."
Gabriella smiled at him, "Nice to know that we complement each other."
"At least you don't snore anymore." Troy said, mocking her.
"I never used to snore!" she said hitting him lightly.
He nodded, "Oh yes you did."
She looked at him confused, "I did not." she insisted. "When?"
"For two weeks. You were about 8 weeks pregnant then. You snored a lot and horribly loud. And I had to leave the bed in order to get any sleep."
"But I never..."
"You never noticed, because at the time you had to get up, I walked back."
Gabriella smiled, "Aw, you didn't want me to notice." she noticed touched.
"And you would have never known if I didn't tell you that just now." he said and got up.
"Hey!" Gabriella protested. "Who told you to get out of this cozy bed?" she asked him before she pulled him back.
She kissed him and brushed through his sandy brown hair. She let herself completely let go. Soon the shared kisses weren't sweet anymore, soon they were filled with more passion than the bungalow could handle.
Gabriella felt Troy's warm hand on body, sliding down to her hips. They continued playing with their tongues for minutes, forgetting the time which passed.
She let go of his lips and stared into his eyes. "I love you." she whispered to him.
"I love you, too." he whispred back and kissed her softly.
Gabriella continued staring into his eyes. Worrying if they had a future together. Or if this was all they were meant to be. Just a relationship based on sex. A relationship with no future. But sometimes bad beginnings make a happy ending.
"Are you happy, Troy?" she asked him.
"Why wouldn't I?" he asked her, "Are you?"
Gabriella smiled, "For now I am."
Gabriella walked through the sand on the white beach. The Spanish brunette wore a white floppy hat and a black bathing suite. The sun was shining down on her and it was beyond hot. Despite the hot temperature everything was fine. Gabriella was happy. Happy for the moment anyway. She didn't know how long this happiness would remain, but she decided to enjoy the moment. To take one step at a time. To enjoy every moment she's given with him.
Troy Bolton smiled as he watched the love of his life walking to the bar. She was perfect. More than perfect. Troy still couldn't believe that he had found her again. That he was with her again. He couldn't believe his luck. That he was with the love of his life again. That he was with the mother of his children.
Troy Bolton grinned as he watched Gabriella giving the bartender orders and only seconds later the woman was surrounded by a man. She didn't lose any charme. She was still seducing him without even doing anything. But for now, the heart of this woman was his.
"Two Pina Colada without alcohol." Gabriella ordered.
The tanned bartender nodded, "Coming right up."
Gabriella smiled and watched the bartender mixing his drink. This place was better than paradise. Suddenly the brunette's mind wandered over to her children. She wondered what they'd be doing at this moment. If they are happy right now... If they are missing her the same way she was missing them. If-
"Hi." she heard a male voice greeting her.
The brunette turned around, "Hi." she said with a smile on her lips.
"It's beautiful here, isn't it?" the dark brown eyed man asked her.
The brunette nodded, "It feels like paradise."
"How long have you been here?" he asked her and eyeballed here.
"Not long as you can see. I don't really have a tan yet." she answered, feeling a little uncomfortable. "What about you?" she asked him politely.
"One week. Are you here alone?" the dark blonde man asked her.
"Your drinks." the bartender said.
Gabriella took a sip of her drink and grabbed them both, "No, I am not alone here." she said, nodding towards the direction where Troy was sitting and looking at them.
"Well, seems like your boyfriend is having fun with someone else." the man said as they both saw a blonde woman walking to Troy, who was laying in a palopa. She was tall, blonde, had green eyes and an amazing body. Gabriella wished she had that body. In fact, she used to have this body - only seven and a half years ago. She used to be that hot. She used to turn every guys head as soon as they spoted her. She used to be that woman. Only seven and a half years ago.
Gabriella was jealous. Jealous of that body. But other than the jealousy of that body, she felt nothing.
"I'm Adam by the way." the man introduced himself.
Gabriella nodded and smiled before she said, "I'm Gabriella."
"Gabriella Montez?" another guy said, behind Gabriella.
The woman turned around.
"Oh my Gosh! Dude, that's Gabriella Montez!" the dark haired man answered and hit Adam's shoulder lightly. "She's the top of the top!"
Adam looked at him confused.
The man rolled his eyes, "She's the producer and song writer! Name your favorite song and she wrote it. Bang! She's that good. She wrote only number one singles." the guy said and faced Gabriella again, "I'm Greg. Nice to meet you." he said and stroke out his hand.
Gabriella, confused, shook her head, "Nice to meet you, too."
"I'm such a big fan! Wait, can I take a picture? No one's going to believe me that I met Gabriella Montez!" Greg answered and stroke out a camera.
"Uhm, sure." Gabriella said, a little more confused. She looked over at Troy, who was now surrounded by three woman. One red-haired and one brunette joined the blonde one. Oh yeah, some things never change... He was still a magnet to women.
Gabriella smiled akwardly as she felt Greg's sweaty arm around her petite body. A flash appeared and the picture was taken. "Thank you so much!" Greg said smiling. His smile dropped as he saw Troy Bolton surrounded by three women. "Dude, is that TroyBolton? He's like the best!"
"Look, whatever you say, I'm sure there is some kind of truth in it..." Adam said, rolling his eyes.
"I have to take a picture with him as well!"
"What are you, five?" Adam said confused.
Greg looked at Gabriella, "Were the rumors true?"
"What rumors?" Gabriella asked him confused. Were there already rumors about their on again relationship?
"Well, there were those rumors about you two dating... Like ten years ago or so... Or more. I always wanted to know. I mean, this kinda would be major. Troy Bolton in a relationship with his assistant. Or ex-assistant."
Gabriella shook her head, "No, the rumors are false. There's never been a relationship between him and I. Well other than professional."
"Well, it was nice meeting you, guys. But I have to go." Gabriella said with a soft smile on her lips.
"I'm gonna see if I can catch more celebrities on this island!" Greg said and walked away.
"Sure, get the hotties off of your boyfriend, right?" Adam asked her.
Gabriella shrugged, knowing that this was exactly what she had to do.
So, the brunette kept her head up, held the drinks in her hands and made sure she looked as confident as possible as she walked to the crowd which surrounded her boyfriend. She would deal with them. Show them who he belonged to. Show them what was her's and never their's.
The blonde and the brunette giggled as Gabriella reached them. The red haired woman was just staring at him, amazed by his looks. Yeah, Gabriella had been down that road. The road of feeling in a complete different world once you look at Troy Bolton...
Gabriella came from the left, while the other three women were standing to the right side of Troy. She didn't know if he liked talking to them or not. All she knew was that it was bothering her. Not that he talked to them, but that they flirted with him. That bothered her. A lot.
"Hey." Gabriella greeted the group and all heads turned to her. "Your drink." Gabriella said and handed her boyfriend his Pina Colada.
"Gabriella, this is Jasmine, Regina and Claire." Troy introduced the three women.
"Nice to meet you all. I'm-"
"Gabriella Montez. We totally know!" the red haired, Claire said.
"Oh my Gosh! You're here. Together. As in together." Regina answered. Damnhehasagirlfriend!
"Right. We should better go. It was nice meeting you..." Jasmine said her eyes on Troy and a flirty smile on her lips, "both." she added as she looked at Gabriella.
Gabriella didn't bother to give her the 'this-is-my-boyfriend-get-yourself-another-one-and-yeah-I-know-he's-hot' look. No, she absolutely didn't mind. She didn't even mind it that much, that she gave the same look to Claire and Regina. Then she winked, "Bye!" she said with a fake smile on her lips.
Then she sat down on the palopa and felt Troy's arms around her waist seconds later, "Woah, if I didn't knew better than I'd say you are jealous. Incredibly jealous." he said as he massaged her shoulders. "That was sexy." he whispered into her ear.
"Really?" Gabriella asked him and turned her head so she faced him, "I felt like back in High School where I had to defend my boyfriend because he was such a playboy that he loved flirting with every girl on campus. Natrually I had to fall for him. It's always me who has this bad luck." she said and took a sip of her drink, before she placed it on a table.
"Did you just call me bad luck?" he asked her confused and placed his drink on the table as well.
Gabriella turned around and sat on his lap. "No. I did not. I just called myself bad luck. Huge difference. But what I didn't like was this whole defencing thing."
He smiled and brushed through her hair, "I didn't like you talking to the guys at the bar as well. You are still a man magnet, believe it or not. You weren't even a minute at the bar and the first man was already talking to you. And he would've loved to get in a room with you."
"Oh please! I don't have the body I had seven years ago. I am not all top model sized like the three women who I just had to scare away from you, because otherwise those women would have eaten you alive."
Troy smiled as he listen to his girlfriends problems. Problems she didn't even have to worry about. Not her. "No, you don't have that body anymore." Troy said into her eyes, "You don't have that body anymore because you had two children. Our children. Instead you have an even hotter body now. No one from the resort could tell that you had any children, let alone two. Your body is perfectly shaped. You have curves, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I'm not saying curves, because you're fat, which you're not, I am saying curves because you really have curves. Those women were walking lynches. Did you realize how thin they were? All three of them have an eating disorder. I saw that within a second. The blonde does not eat enough meat, because her nails were all broken and splintery. The red haired did not eat enough calcium because of her pigmented skin, which she tried to hide under an uncountable amount of make-up. And that brunette, well she really needed to go to a hair-salon and start trying to eat some more fruits. She could use the vitamins. Now don't you worry about the wrong proportion, because I think they are perfect just the way they are."
Gabriella smiled softly as she listened to his soft pep-talk.
"And don't worry about me flirting with some other women. I may flirt, but I won't betray you. I won't stab this knif in your back. I've learned my lesson and I've changed since the last time we tried to have a normal relationship, although it wasn't quite normal because... " he shook his head, "Anyways, what I am trying to say is that you have absolutely no reason to be jealous of that three women. No reason, because I am head over heels in love with you - for more than eight years now. And yes, I know the exact date but I won't mention it now because that would make everything a little more akward for me, but don't you worry, I know that date."
Gabriella smiled and kissed him passionatly. "Nice pep-talk you gave me there. And you thought you weren't ready to be a Dad..." she said into his eyes.
"Well thank you. No one has ever said that to me." he joked.
She hit him lightly, causing him to chuckle. "Maybe we shouldn't stay here for a week."
"What's that brain of your's thinking of again?"
"My brain is not... You see, we have to be in New York in one week."
"One week from yesterday on, yes."
"Maybe we should be in New York a little sooner."
"Why are you suggesting?"
"I am saying that we should stay here for another four days. Then we should fly to the Hamptons."
"The Hamptons?" he asked her confused.
"Matt. Matt lives there."
"Right. You want to thank Matt and Sharpay for babysitting for four days."
"Wrong."
"So wrong. Why wrong?" he asked her again.
"We are going to get to the Hamptons. We will thank Sharp and Matt. We as their parents. Both parents."
"You... You want me to meet them?"
"Yes."
"In four days."
"Yes."
"But... But that's in a four days!"
"If you start panicing now then I swear I'm going to-"
"I am not panicing right now. I am alright. Excited. I mean, I've never met my children before. That sounded weird. What father can say that about himself?"
"Sadly, a lot." she said and took a sip of her drink. "So, what do you think about my plan?"
He nodded, "Best plan ever." he said before he kissed her softly.
I hope you enjoyed reading this short chapter :)
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Xoxo Nic
