A/N: Wow...Chapter SEVEN. I AM REALLY SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING FOR AGES! I was sosososooooo sad. I only got NINE reviews on chapter 5:( I have the chapter I've been dying to post for a month coming up WOOHOO! I Don't own anyone.
PS: I would've had this up sooner, but my computer is a dork.
Chapter Seven
Dreams and Reality
RECAP:"Let me be the one." He whispered.
Her eyes fluttered close as she rested against him. "Always."
And as the last few bars were sang on the radio, everyone began to go back inside. Gabriella kissed Troy and the lead him out of the pool. "C'mon... they're going to miss us."
As the pair walked back inside Troy's house, Gabriella clung to Troy. She didn't really mean to, but it was more out of a need for comfort. She was still shaken up for what had just happened to her, and no one really knew anything had happened except Troy...and well, Chad too, but not in depth.
Troy heard Taylor yell for a game of truth or dare and followed everyone over to where they sat in a circle. Nobody seemed to realize that James was no longer with them all. They began playing, and no one noticed Gabriella's lack of enthusiasm until she was called upon.
"Truth, or Dare?" Sharpay asked.
Gabi fidgeted. She wasn't really one to pick truth all of the time, but she didn't feel like doing anything stupid or embarrassing at the moment.
"Truth."
"Alright dolly dull dunes, tell us what happened a while ago that made you so- well...messed up now."
Gabriella's head whipped towards Troy, her eyes wide and fearful.
"C'mon," Sharpay pushed. "You're not going anywhere until you spill."
Gabi's eyes started to become red. In a small voice she said to Troy, "I can't do it Troy, I- I just can't. Can you tell them or something?"
He took her hand and held it tightly. "Yeah, okay."
He looked over at everyone. "James...almost...you know what...he BASICALLY raped Gabriella, so I really, really think she's allowed to be upset!" Troy was letting off some of his anger. He heard Gabriella make a choking noise as she stood up, her hand covering her mouth, tears falling down her eyes.
"Are you ALL happy NOW? Do you wish you didn't ask! Well TROY'S RIGHT everybody! GOODNIGHT!" She fled upstairs, sobbing.
"You guys reeeeally need to be careful what you ask about her sometimes!" Troy glared at them all and sprinted after Gabriella, a hand smacked to his head. Troy knew where she would be. Once he raced upstairs, he tiptoed over to the spare room. It was there that he heard the heart wrenching cries coming from Gabriella. He walked inside over to her and touched her shoulder, leaning down in the process.
In that instant, Gabi's hand came up to slap him across the face. "GO AWAY!"
He caught her hand by the wrist, right before her palm landed its blow. "Gabriella..." he whispered.
She instantly glanced up at him, her eyes wide in surprise. "Oh- Troy! I''m so sorry...I-" She began to cry again.
'Wow,' Troy thought. 'I've gotta be getting good at dealing with an emotional Gabriella, but shes going to get dehydrated if she keeps this up!' He gently picked her up in his arms and carried her to his room, setting her down on his bed. "Shh shh...Its alright Gabi...they're memories...he. Is. Gone. I promised remember?"
He walked into his bathroom, and came back with a glass of water. Troy then gathered Gabriella into his arms, lifting the glass up to her lips. As she drank it, her eyes connected with his, and he smiled, kissing her forehead. "I'll be right back okay? I'm just gonna tell everybody that we're going to bed now."
She nodded and he walked back downstairs.
"Hey guys...don't mind us, were just gonna turn in now okay?" He then laughed quietly. "Chad's in charge. Don't stay up too late people, you all know where to sleep right?"
There was a chorus of yeses and 'good-night's' as he walked back upstairs.
Gabriella watched the door knob turn and Troy step back inside, walking over to where she was sitting on the bed. "It's been an interesting day hasn't it?"
She looked down and began playing a stray thread on his sheets. "I guess you could say that."
"I'm sorry, that was tactless. I didn't mean it like that." Troy was mad at himself now. "C'mon Gab's, I can see that you're tired. Lets get some sleep okay?"
She nodded and gave a half of a smile. "Goodnight then."
He lay down next to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. The both of them let dreams overtake them.
Dreams can be awful things...
A few hours later, Troys body was restless. He was having a nightmare, one which was making his heart race and his muscles tense.
Troys eyes flashed open, making a silent gasp at the dream he had just broken out of.
In the dream, his mom had died and he had gone to see her. But when he had seen her pale face, it instantly turned into Gabriella's. His dad had told him to get over the girl already. Then Troy had begun reliving her murder, it was during it, he woke up.
All of the sudden a wave of nauseousness washed over him and he ran to his bathroom, shutting the door. He went to the toilet and vomited. 'Man... I've never had the dreams this bad before.' He thought to himself.
After he finished brushing the horrible taste from his mouth he stared at the floor. 'I need to sit down.' he muttered. So he sat down against the wall, pressing the palms of his hands to his eyes. Emotion overcame him as tears began to stream down his cheeks and his mind screamed, 'I CAN'T lose her...that felt so real...I don't know what I'd do if Gabriella died.'
His shoulders shook as he let all of the stress and anxiety of the past day out. He had been so scared when he saw what James had been doing to her. It had broken his heart, the look on her face. Troy wanted to take away all of her pain, but nothing he did, no matter how hard he tried, SOMETHING always seemed to happen to her.
He sighed, "I better get back to sleep. I don't want to be half dead tomorrow." With that he turned the bathroom light off and quietly got back under the covers next to Gabi.
It was Gabriella who woke up next.
She had heard moaning and felt movement on the bed. She peered at Troy's distressed figure that was thrashing about. When she moved closer she heard him mutter. "Never, you fucking bastard. You will never touch her again." Then, out of nowhere, his fist came up and collided with her cheek. She saw white for a second and then came the pain, as a bruise blossomed over her cheek.
"Oh ow..ow..ow..owwww..." Tears sprang up in her eyes.
Troy jolted awake again, but this time the first thing he heard was crying. "Oh God Gabriella! Are you alright?" 'What did I do to her!'
Thats when he saw the bruise.
His eyes grew large. "I-I did that?"
She nodded and said quietly. "But you didn't mean to. You were talking...to him. In your sleep, that is."
"Can you heal it?"
She shook her head, "No, but you can."
He looked at her inquisitively as she held out her hand to him. "It's getting harder to heal myself now. But when I'm in contact with another person it works better."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
He took her hand then, and lightly brushed their fingers over her cheek. He watched her eyes close and her lips part, as though she was enjoying the feeling. Then he realized that she most likely was. He remembered the bliss he felt whenever she mended his injuries.
Troy thought she looked so beautiful like that. Damn sexy at the least. So before she opened her eyes, he took the hand that was touching her face and leaned in to her. His fingers cupped her jaw as his lips brushed against hers. She gasped and he took that chance to let his tongue touch hers. The gasp turned into a shared moan as the two lay back down, kissing.
"You sure you're okay?"
"I'm fine Troy," Gabriella grabbed his shirt. "more kissing, less talking."
Troy laughed as she pulled him to her.
His fingers flicked the buttons on her shirt open as she stripped him of his own.
Troy ran his hands down Gabriella's waist and she shivered. He was about to go down lower when they both heard footsteps coming towards Troy's door.
"Crap" Troy whispered. "They're gonna see us...no wait- they wont see you...without an um shirt. Close your eyes."
Gabi closed her eyes and felt Troy gradually lay his weight onto her. Once he was covering most of her, he pulled the sheets over to their backs. "Now pretend you're asleep, okay Gabriella?"
She kept her eyes closed and murmured quietly. "Okay."
"Hey Tay, are you sure you heard something from in here?" Chad's voice slithered through the now open door that he had pushed.
Taylor sounded confused. "I thought I did- oh look at them...they're so cute, laying there together."
"So you were wrong?"
"I guess so.."
"Wow let me record that in a notebook...once in a lifetime- TAYLOR IS WRONG!"
"Shh you'll wake them up!"
"Oh-"
And with that the couple walked back downstairs where they were sleeping.
Gabriella giggled. "We look cute?"
Troy brushed his bangs back and looked at Gabi. "We YOU do for sure."
She rolled her eyes. "Bolton, we have the entire weekend for flirting...don't waste it all now."
"Honey...I never run out of FLIRT POWER...I'm Troy the basketball jock." He snorted.
"Yeah Yeah whatever."
The pair then turned and watched the first rays of red sunlight drift over the horizon.
A/N: FINALLY! Gosh there was just something wrong with this chapter! It was hard to finish UP!
Oh well I love you all! XOXO Egyptian-Fire
