"Thank you sir," Chad said. He got out of the bus.
"Follow me," the man, whose nametag read Lenny, said. They followed him into the resort and the elaborately decorated lobby.
"This place is so beautiful, the last time I was here I was eleven, the last family vacation," Daniella said.
"Hey Taylor and I are going to go check us in so wait here," Chad said before walking over to the check in counter.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom," Daniella said.
"I'll go with you," Sharpay said. They got up and walked across the lobby to the bathroom. Gabriella took advantage and sat down next to Troy.
"Hey Troy," she said.
"Hey," he said.
"So I was thinking that maybe tomorrow we could hang out, go down the slides together or ride the jet skis or something."
"Well I'm going to see what Daniella wants to do."
'This isn't working,' she thought. 'I know, if I pretend to be nice to Daniella then Troy will think that I do care about her and when Daniella tries to tell him that I am just doing it to get his attention he will get mad and will come running back to me. Perfect.'
"Yea, of course you have to ask Daniella what she wants to do, I mean she is your girlfriend, just let me know and we can all do it together, we should bond as sisters anyway."
"Yea, maybe you guys should."
"Thanks for getting Gabriella to sit with Ryan in the plane," Daniella said to Sharpay.
"No problem, I saw how she was bugging you, it was bugging me." They laughed. They left the bathroom just as Chad and Taylor were making their way back with the room keys.
"Ok so do we have everyone here?" Chad asked.
"Yup."
"Ok so we have three rooms and they are all right next to each other in the Royal Towers, in all the rooms we have one master bedroom and then another regular room which is optional so in one of them we didn't get it. In one room we have Taylor and me, and Jason and Kelsi. In another we have Troy and Daniella and Sharpay and Zeke and then there is Ryan and Gabriella in one."
"I wanted to be with my sister and Troy," Gabriella complained.
"The rooms are only to sleep, we are not going to be spending all our time there," Daniella said.
"What did I ever do to you Daniella? Why don't you want me in the room?" she asked as innocently as possible.
"Look Gabriella, we'll all hang out tomorrow, right now I'm really tired so we'll see you tomorrow, Chad our keys?" Troy asked. Gabriella's jaw dropped. This was going to be harder than she thought. She watched as Troy put his arm around Daniella and then walked down to the elevators with her, Sharpay and Zeke right behind them.
"Oh my gosh, this room is so sweet," Zeke said when they walked into the suite. It really was nice with a dining room, a living room a nice kitchen and the rooms were nice.
"Alright so who is taking the king sized bed?" Troy asked.
"Well I like to be close to Sharpay so we'll take the queen," Zeke said before kissing her.
"What a line," Troy said. He moved his and Daniella's bags into their room and laid down on the bed. "I am so tired," he said. She laid down next to him.
"I think I know how you feel." She closed her eyes.
"You know Gabriella wanted to hang out with us tomorrow, she said she wanted to bond with you, what do you think about that?" she didn't answer. "Daniella?" he looked at her and she was asleep. He smiled and kissed her head then fell asleep.
Gabriella walked into her room and had to admit that it was nice. She put her bags in the master bedroom and walked into the bathroom.
"Hey I guess our room is connected to Troy and Daniella's," Ryan said. Gabriella quickly walked out of the bathroom and looked at the connecting door. She waited for Ryan to walk out of the room before opening it. Unfortunately there was another door on the other side, which had to be opened from Troy's side. She closed the door and went to bed.
"Troy, Daniella, rise and shine," Sharpay said the following morning. "It's a beautiful day here in the Bahamas," she said. She pulled open the balcony curtains and opened the doors letting the sound of the ocean fill the room. Troy looked over at Daniella.
"Good morning," he said.
"Hi."
"Ok, so get up and put on your bathing suits, we have a whole bunch of slides calling our names down there," Zeke said. He and Sharpay were already in their swim gear. Daniella and Troy got out of bed and got ready.
"That 'Leap of Faith' slide is calling my name," Daniella said about the almost vertical sixty-foot slide. She walked into the bathroom and pushed the door forward so she could hear Troy talk as she changed into her bathing suit.
"Yea well Chad and I have been waiting to race down the challenger slides."
"I am not surprised."
"Zeke can you get that?" Sharpay said when there was a knock on their door.
"Yea." He opened the door and everybody walked in.
"Are you guys ready?" Chad asked.
"Troy and Daniella are changing, they'll be right out," Sharpay said.
"Are you done changing?" Daniella asked Troy before she walked out of the bathroom.
"Yea." She walked out in a bikini top and boy board shorts.
"I don't do the whole going down slides in a bikini bottom." He started laughing.
"Let me guess, somebody's bottom flew off."
"Not mine, Gabriella's." he started laughing even harder.
"Yea, I know." They walked out of the room hand in hand.
"Finally," Chad said. "Come on Troy, we're still on for the challenger slides."
"I know."
"OK let's go," Jason said. They spent the day in the resort on the slides and then did the banana boat in the beach. That night they took a walk around the resort after dinner then went to bed waking up early the next day for a snorkeling tour then went into town for some shopping. That night Troy and Daniella were in their room, hitting the sack early because they were riding jet skis and then swimming with the dolphins the next day.
"So can I look at your notebook now? Troy asked Daniella. She was in the bathroom brushing her teeth.
"No!" she yelled. She ran out of the room and snatched the book out of his hand. He was a littler surprised by the reaction. "Sorry, there are just a couple of things in here that I don't want you to see…yet."
"Ok." He turned the TV on and sat back. Daniella was about to lie down in the bed when there was a knock from the connecting door. She opened the door to Gabriella.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"Troy," she said completely ignoring Daniella's question. "Ryan is downstairs at this party and I don't want to be alone in the room, can I stay here with you until he comes back?" she asked. Troy looked at Daniella and then at Gabriella. He couldn't say no, it just wasn't Troy.
"Yea, I guess so." Daniella shook her head and Gabriella walked in. Daniella laid down in bed and Gabriella came over and got in the middle.
"Um, Gabriella?"
"Yea? Oh I don't like the edge."
"Oh ok," Daniella said getting up.
"Where are you going?" Troy asked.
"I'm going next door to Gabbi's room. She can stay here with you and I'll say over there and sleep with Ryan, goodnight," she said in a pissed off tone.
"Night," Gabbi said with a smile.
"No, Daniella," Troy said. Daniella ignored him and closed the door.
"So Troy, what are you watching?"
"Um, I think I am just going to go to sleep," he said turning the TV off.
"Ok." She laid down and smiled at him. Troy sat up.
"Sorry but this doesn't feel right, I'm going to sleep on the couch next to the balcony," Troy said.
"It's ok you can still sleep up here."
"No, don't worry I'll be fine here." He ended the discussion by lying down and saying goodnight. Gabriella was a little disappointed that he didn't sleep in the same bed with her but was satisfied that she got Daniella out of the room.
The following morning when Troy got up the connecting door was open. He sat up and looked into the bathroom. Gabriella was out of the room and Daniella was standing in the bathroom picking up her hair in a ponytail, wearing a red short sleeve wetsuit top with the word billabong in black and a black bathing suit bottom. She walked out of the bathroom and put on black Bermudas and slipped into black flip-flops. Troy stood up and closed the door.
"Daniella can we talk about last night?" he asked.
"What is there to talk about?"
"I'm sorry, I should have said no to Gabriella, it's just hard for me to say no to anybody."
"I'm sorry that you are such a pushover," Daniella said.
"Whoa, Danni come on, I'm sorry, can we just forget about it? I promise it won't happen again."
"Ok, fine. Now go change, you woke up late." He changed into his bathing suit and they were out the door. "Chad said to meet up by the jet skis," Daniella said. Once the entire group was out the rented the jet skis. Kelsi and Sharpay decided to ride along with Jason and Zeke because they didn't want to risk getting hurt even though having them drive was probably worse.
"Alright so are you sure you know how to drive one of these?" Troy asked Daniella.
Her response: she took off. They had a blast with the jet skis and headed to the dolphins afterwards.
"ok so what you are going to do is stand next to each other and look up, they are going jump right over you," and instructor said to Troy and Daniella.
"Ok." They did as they were told and looked up.
"Ah!" Daniella said as the dolphins jumped over them. "That was so awesome. They took turns being carried by the dolphins and then headed to lunch and back to their rooms.
"That definitely beat the banana boat," Jason said when they got to Ryan and Gabriella's room.
"So tomorrow why don't we take it easy and do the slides again and then do some activities in the resort?" Chad asked.
"Ok." They agreed and went to dinner.
The next day after spending about two hours by the pool they went to the 'Lagoon Bar and Grill' for lunch.
"I'm going to do a pottery class after this," Taylor said.
"We're going with you," Kelsi and Jason said.
"And how about 'Carmine's' for dinner tonight?" Chad asked.
"Chad we haven't even ordered our lunch yet," Taylor said.
"Well I like to plan ahead."
"I think we should concentrate on now and let later happen on its own," Daniella said.
"I agree with her," Taylor said.
"Yea Daniella that's a good idea," Gabriella suddenly said.
"I'm glad you agree with her Gabriella," Troy said with a smile.
"Why thank you Troy."
"I'm not that hungry so I'm going to go wander," Daniella said.
"She stood up.
"Wait, do you want me to go with you?" Troy asked.
"No, stay, its ok." She smiled and then left.
"Troy you idiot, you are supposed to go with her even though she says no," Chad said.
"But he didn't so leave him alone," Gabriella said. Chad looked at her and then rolled his eyes.
'Maybe I should have gone? What if something is wrong?' Troy thought. 'I'll talk to her about it later after dinner. ' He looked over at Gabriella and she smiled at him, he gave her a weak smile and then turned to the conversation Chad was having with Jason.
Daniella walked into the Coral Towers and down the Reef Wing and saw the library. She walked in and it was empty. She browsed through the isles of books and picked one up. As she made her way out of the isles she came across a beautiful view of a waterscape. She put the book down and walked out of the library.
The gang had already gotten their food and were eating and talking. Troy saw somebody pass by from the corner of his eye. He looked over and Daniella was walking fast in the direction of their room. He let her go and kept eating. Five minutes later she passed by again, this time with something in her hand.
"Ok guys I need to go, I'll see you later," Troy said. He got up and went the same way Daniella had gone. He walked down a hallway that looked like a cave and ran into the library. He opened the door and quietly stepped in. There were a few people sitting on the couches reading. He walked up to the librarian.
"Excuse me is there a pretty girl in here with dark hair?" he asked.
"If it's the same girl I think you are talking about she is sitting by the window behind those bookshelves."
"Thank you." He walked over to the window and saw Daniella. She was sitting in a big chair drawing. He walked over and sat down in the chair next to her.
"Finished eating already?" she asked.
"Yea."
"Ok."
"Is something wrong?"
"Nope."
It sure does sound like something is wrong."
"Everything is fine Troy."
"Daniella, come on, I know when something is up." She looked at him.
"Ok, haven't you noticed something weird going on with Gabriella?"
"What?"
"Like she is suddenly being nice to me, like she actually cares and isn't mad."
"Maybe she got over it." Daniella shook her head.
"No, she wouldn't have, I think she is doing it on purpose. There's something behind that fake smile."
"Are you saying that she is putting up an act?"
"Yea and I think it's all to win you over."
"No, I don't think Gabriella is capable of doing that."
"Troy you don't know what Gabriella is capable of."
"Come on Daniella, she is your sister."
"And I love her, but when she gets like this I don't want to have anything to do with her, you just don't understand Troy."
"No I think I do understand, and I don't think you should doubt your sister and maybe you should get over yourself because not everyone is out to get you, and to think that your sister is, is just wrong." Daniella stared at him with a blank expression. She slowly closed her notebook and got up. She started towards the door. Troy got up and ran after her. As she was walking out of the Coral Towers everyone was getting up from the table.
"Hey guys over here," Zeke said.
"Daniella, I'm sorry," Troy said. He put his hand on her shoulder but she pushed it off.
"That doesn't look good," Chad said.
"Daniella please, let's not do this." He grabbed her arm and turned her around.
"Let go of me Troy!" she said pushing him off.
"That is definitely not good," Sharpay said. She went after Daniella.
'You're right Sharpay, that's not good, that's perfect,' Gabriella thought with an evil smile. Chad walked out of the restaurant and over to Troy.
"Man, do I even want to know what idiotic gesture you pulled this time?" Chad asked Troy.
"I said some things I definitely shouldn't have said." Gabriella walked down and hugged Troy.
"Oh my gosh Troy, what did she do? Are you ok? Don't worry I'm here for you."
"Well you're kind of the reason this happened."
"Me?" she asked.
"Yea."
"How does Gabriella tie into this?"
"Well she said some things and I kind of defended you."
"Oh you did Troy? Thank you so much, I don't even want to know what she was saying about me." Chad rolled his eyes again.
"Troy you need to go and talk to her," Chad said.
"Shut up Chad, cant you see he is hurting?" Gabriella said, wrapping his arms around Troy. "Come on Troy, let's go for a walk to get your mind off of Daniella," she said dragging him off.
"Sometimes Troy amazes me as to how clueless he is," Chad said.
When Daniella got to her room she showered and put on boy jeans, a Ramones t-shirt and black Prison sneakers.
"Daniella what happened?" Sharpay asked.
"He defended Gabriella and told me to get over myself. He doesn't believe me when I tell him that this is all an act she is putting on just to win hi over."
"He told you to get over yourself?"
"Yea and he sounded really serious. What a great vacation this is turning out to be," she said sarcastically.
"No, everything is going to be alright, really."
"Yea I really don't think so."
"Yea I think so. Whatever Gabriella is trying to pull isn't going to work. She was so different when she first got here."
"Yea well I guess I bring out her competitive evil side." Sharpay walked over to the balcony and fixed her eyes on something below. "What are you looking at?" Daniella asked.
"Oh nothing."
"Right." She walked over to the balcony and looked to where Sharpay was looking. Troy and Gabriella were walking together. "Now that I am mad at him she is trying to take him, I am not going to let her do that." She turned around and ran out of the room.
"Troy you don't need to feel bad for her, she has only been causing trouble since she got here," Gabriella said. Troy kept quiet. "Come on; remember how much fun we used to have together?"
"Troy?" somebody said from behind. He and Gabriella turned around.
"Daniella we are trying to have a conversation here, do you mind?" Gabriella asked.
"Yes, actually, I do mind." Daniella said.
"Excuse me?"
"Gabriella I understand that you are upset that you and Troy broke up but that doesn't give you the right to try to get him to break up with me."
"Well I should do to you what you did to me."
"I didn't do anything to you."
"Yea right, Daniella you have liked Troy since the minute you got here."
"Yea, you're right, I have liked him but after here asked you to be his girlfriend I stopped talking to him completely."
"That's why I found a stack of your drawings in his locker."
"He didn't know those were from me until the day of the talent show. Gabbi you're my sister, yea I might take your make up and some of your clothes but I would never try to take your boyfriend away."
"Yea right, all you ever Troy to do is make me look bad, but you know what Daniella? I'm not the bad one, you're the one running of and sniffing cocaine and smoking pot."
"Ok I haven't done any of those things in a while. I can't believe you would even bring that up."
"Troy isn't interested in girls like that, like he said at the dance, he doesn't like anything about you." Daniella looked at Troy who was too shocked by what Gabriella had just said to say anything.
"I guess what she just said is true." Tears started falling from her eyes. She turned around and started running back to the room. Troy took off.
"Troy!" Gabriella yelled, running after him.
"Daniella, I am so sorry, I just didn't know what to say. Today after I said those things in the library I wanted to take them back but I couldn't and I guess that's why I didn't say anything, because I didn't know what to say. I know that it may be hard because Gabriella keeps trying to interfere but I just got you and I don't want to lose you, please Danni, I can't deny my feelings for you and I won't let go of you." Daniella walked up to him and put her forehead to his. He kissed it and put his arms around her. "I promise to never hurt you again."
"That's a tough promise to keep."
"For you I'll do anything." He kept his arms around her for a while longer then they walked back inside and up to the room to meet up with everyone else.
K, I know I said I was going to make spring break one whole chapter but it would have been way too long so I'm breaking it up into two…Oh and I want to know what would be better, if I finished the story after spring break or if I finished at the end of he school year…sequel? Yes or no?