Chapter 6

Gabriella looked down at the ocean then looked across her at Troy. They were on the ferris wheel close to the top.

"Did you and your family use to come out here a lot?" Troy asked her.

"We used to come a few weeks during summer, and a few days during spring break.

Sometimes for Christmas if we didn't want to leave the country." she explained.

"Are you excited?"

"For what?"

"Our wedding."

"I'm so excited!" she smiled. "I can't believe it's so close! Oh my gosh!" she shrieked. "I have to get my dress picked up then I have to take the girls to get themselves sized for their dresses again!"

"Don't worry, you'll get it done."

"Or Amber can do it for me." Gabriella said shrugging.

"I think that's something you should do." Troy said.

"Fine, I'll go with them, but Amber and Nicole will come too." Gabriella smiled. "I just love having the around, they're such darlings!"

"I know you do, that's why you hired them." Troy said.

"That's true." Gabriella said and crawled into Troy's lap making the carriage of the ferris wheel they were in shake. Gabriella and Troy laughed.

"Do you know how to surf?" Troy asked her. Gabriella laughed and shook her head.

"I can barely swim, but everyone else in my family knows how to." she said.

"I can teach you." Troy said.

"You know how to surf?" she asked him gasping.

"Well, it was a hobby I took on while I was in junior high but yeah." he nodded.

"Then teach me how to surf!" she giggled. "And how to swim, but don't worry I catch on quick!"

"Of course you do." he said. "So while you were in collage-"

"I wasn't in collage." Gabriella laughed. "I just stayed in their dorm, you never knew that?"

"No. So you just stayed with them?"

"Well yeah." she nodded. "That was the closets any collages were to getting me there. I was valedictorian, so I could get anything I wanted from collages."

"Valedictorian." Troy laughed. "That's right."

"I had a 6.0 as my GBA." she said and smiled. "Or was it GPA?"

"It's GPA." he laughed at her. "Look." Troy pointed.

"At what."

"It looks like your sister." Troy pointed to a girl surfing on waves with people cheering her on.

"Yep, it's Juliet." Gabriella said smiling. "She and Stella alway had competetions to see who's better at surfing since they know, they're the best." she rolls her eyes. "And Stella always wins."

"How?" Troy asks.

"She's like the best or something." Gabriella shrugs. "I don't know, Marcos is always the judge so he chooses."

"I like it when you wear hats." Troy says smiling.

"Then I'll wear hats more often." she smiles.

"And I like it when you leave your hair down and in a curly mess like you just woke up." he says.

"You always tell me that." she says smiling. "And I always say it's a wavy mess not a curly one."

"Of course. Waves, curls, they're the same." he said and Gabriella gasps.

"They are two different things!" she exclaims. "Waves go up and down, curls twist."

"Whatever that means." Troy rolls his eyes and Gabriella giggles. "I like your hair wavy." he corrects.

"That's better, I'll wear it wavy a lot more often, just for you. You know since I love you and all." she smiles and kisses him. They get back to the bottom of the ferris wheel and they get off the ride.

"I've always wanted to get a tattoo." Gabriella said. "Come with me while I get one!"

"Gabriella, no-"

"B-But come on! It's just one, it's just gonna be a-a starfish." she smiles big. "What's your favorite animal."

"I like dogs." he said bluntly.

"Like your favorite exotic animal." she smiles at him.

"You." he said and pulls her too him and kisses her cheek

"Troy!" she giggles and hits him playfully. "I'm not an animal."

"Technically, Ms. Valedictorian future Mrs. Bolton. We're all mammals, so you can be my favorite animal."

"Whatever." she says. "Besides dogs, and me, what's your favorite animal?"

"I don't know, I used to have a pet turtle?"

"Hm, how about I get a anchor inside an infinty sign?"

"You don't have a boat and I highly doubt you know how to drive one."

"Okay, so that wouldn't work." she sighs. "How about a palm tree?"

"That's doesn't even seem like you?" Troy says.

"Okay, how about a feather that has birds flying away. You know like flying away being yourself?"

"Considering that you just disappeared from your family after your graduation day, I think that's something for you." Troy says and Gabriella laughs.

"Well, lets go!" she smiles and pulls him into the tattoo shop.

"Elle, do you really-"

"Hi can I help you too?" a man with a lot of tattoos on him asks.

"I'd like a tattoo."

"Just you, not him."

"He's my moral support!" Gabriella says smiling big.

"What would you like?" he asks. Gabriella explains to him as they walk to the back room.

"Okay, I can do that. Where would you like it?" he asks. Gabriella smiles bigger.

"The lower left side of my back." she says.

"Okay." he nodds.

"I can't believe your getting a tattoo." Troy says as Gabriella pulls her dress up.

"There's a first time for everything." she smiles at him.

"So do you have any piercings?" the tattoo artist asks.

"I got my belly button pierced when I was 14." Gabriella says smiling. Troy chuckles. Gabriella was the exact exaply of Good Bad Girl. At school and to everyone else she seemed like a picture perfect daughter: valedictorian, goody goody two shoes, never talked to guys, was always in school clubs, class president, never cussed. But outside of school she was the exact opposite, she loved defying her parents. It all started when she was 13, Juliet was 16, Marcos 15, and Stella was 4. Since Juliet and Marcos were just starting high school they got a ton of attention from her parents, Stella was 4 so of course she got a ton of attention since she was starting elementary school. Gabriella though, she got no attention or barely any attention. She snuck out every night, partied with collage kids, got drunk, had sex, she did that for a year until her parents found out. They tried to ground her and Gabriella snuck out only to come back with a belly button piercing and almost drunk. That continued on until she was a sophomore in high school and when her parents started caring about her since Juliet and Marcos were gone at collage.

"14. That's young."

"Yeah, I was a bit...I used to live on the edge." Gabriella said and smiled.

"Sounds like it." the man said and chuckled.

About two hours later Gabriella's tattoo was done. She smiled at it in the mirror it was exactly what she wanted and it said fly away. She dropped her dress and handed the man her credit card to pay for it.

"Gosh I love it so much!" Gabriellla smiled big at Troy. "Do you like it?"

"I love it." he smiles at her. "Just as much as I love you." he says.

The man hands her credit to her.

"Thank you!" she says. "What time is it?"

"We have to head back it's 5:30 and we're eating dinner at 6:30." Troy says.

"Okay!" Gabriella smiles. "You drive!" she says excitedly.

"What's Zeke cooking for dinner?"

"I don't know, but he said it's a sneak peak of our wedding dinner." Gabriella says to Troy.

...

Everyone was sitting at the table waiting for the dinner to be served.

"Did everyone have a good day!" Casey says excited smiling big. "I did!"

"Great." Stella smiles. "I'm still the best surfer in the family, once again!"

"Ugh, shut up! I'm a bit rusty!" Juliet exclaims.

"You've been, a bit rusty for years now Julie." Marcos says and everyone on the Montez side laughs.

"I saw Cat today!" Gabriella tells Sharpay. "She's a blonde now."

"Really! She's dyed her hair every color of the rainbow just about." Sharpay laughs.

"I thought you guys went to private school?" Taylor asked.

"We did." Juliet says. "Why?"

"So I thought you couldn't do things like that at private schools." Taylor says.

"We met Cat at NYU." Gabriella says.

"So you went to collage." Mrs. Bolton says. Gabriella stops talking then smiles.

"I was valedictorian so I had many scholarships." she smiles.

"You!" Taylor Mckessie yells. "Where not valedictorian."

"I had a 6.0 GPA." she smirks. "And I was class president, and I was prom queen." she smiles.

"I-I was valedictorian." Taylor says.

"What was your GPA?"

"5.99." Taylor says and all color leaves her face. Gabriella holds her laughter.

"If you were valedictorian, then why are you such an idiot?" James asks her. Troy shoots daggers at him then the doorbell rings before anyone could speak.

"Um, it might be Cat. I'll get it." Gabriella smiles and gets up. She walks to the front door and opens it seeing Bruce with dark blonde hair in a tuxedo.

"Hi beautiful."

"W-What the hell are you doing here?" she asks confused.

"Someone invited me." he says and hands her a rose.

"Well your uninvited." she says annoyed.

"You can't just-"

"Bye." she tries to close the door but he walks in behind her.

"I just came for dinner." he says. Gabriella rolls her eyes and glares at him.

"I'm engaged." she says angry.

"Well I want you back." he says. She rolls her eyes.

"Can you leave please, before I call the police." she says angry.

"I-I just want to stay for dinner." he says hopelessly.

"Fine, come on." she says and walks into the dining room. Stella chokes on her food and stands up.

"What the hell are you doing here!" she yells.

"You invited him." Gabriella says.

"N-No, Casey did!" Stella says and Gabriella shoots daggers at Casey.

"Guys, this is Bruce." Gabriella says.

"Can I sit by you." he asks.

"No." she says. "Sit by Casey." she fake smiles.