Well, everyone's guessing. Isn't this exciting?! He he...that was really random...
The next day, Troy stayed in bed later than everyone else. He waited until everything was silent and everyone had left, before he finally dragged himself out of the guest bed and got changed. He turned on his cell-phones and a message bleeped straight away.
3 Voice Mails and 6 SMS. His dad had obviously been trying to get in touch. He took a deep breath and phoned his home number. Jack Bolton answered on the second ring.
"Troy! Troy, where are you?!" Jack asked hurriedly, knowing that it was his son because of the caller ID.
"Hey, dad," Troy murmured.
"Troy, you've been gone for three days! I was starting to get really worried!" Jack carried on. "I'm so sorry about the other day…although you weren't hurt too bad, were you?" Troy felt something click inside him.
"I had to go to the A&E, dad!" Troy cried into the phone. There was silence on the other end of the phone. Troy felt an awkward silence between both of them and then Troy felt himself choke up. "Dad, I'm…I'm not coming home until you get some help…" Troy wasn't sure what else to do, so he just clicked off and fell back into his bed, sighing loudly.
Jesse Arnold tossed back his shaggy, blonde hair away from his forehead, but it was plastered to his head with a mixture of sweat and sea-water. He jogged back to where their things were. Troy was now there, sitting beside Gabriella. Lisa Arnold, Jesse's twin sister, was pulling off her top and shorts to her bikini.
"I'm going out to the water--you coming back out, Jess?" Lisa asked as she roughly tied her hair back in a pony-tail and folded her arms over her flat, tanned stomach.
"Yeah, gimmie a minute," Jesse said, carefully placing his surf-board in the sand and picking up a towel and wiping his neck. He looked down at his friend, who seemed pretty content with his arm around Gabriella and her head resting on his chest, eyes closed. "Yo, Troy, I was beginning to think you weren't going to get out of the house." Troy grinned up at Jesse and shaded his eyes from the burning sun. "You gonna come out into the water?" Jesse asked.
"Uh…not right now," Troy answered. "I'm gonna stay up here with Gabi." Jesse grinned, realizing that they probably wanted to talk by themselves. Jesse picked up his surfboard and ran back to the beach, waving over his shoulder. Gabriella glanced up at Troy and moved her arm from his waist and sat up properly.
"What's up, Troy?" She aske,d but Troy shook his head.
"Nothing, Gab," he mumbled. Gabriella gave him a small smile before leaning over and climbing on top of him, straddling him. Troy grinned and put his hands on her bare waist.
"If Eva saw this, she'd kill me," Gabriella grinned.
"I thought Eva was pretty cool," Troy replied in confusion.
"She is, compared to most parents. But she's still ad adult, and she still has rules," she shook her head quickly. "Anyway, we're getting off the subject, you were telling me what was wrong," Gabriella replied pointedly.
"No, I wasn't," Troy joked. Gabriella shook her head.
"Something to do with the phone call you received this morning; I bet it was from your dad." Troy raised an eyebrow in confusion. "I came back from the beach to grab a towel when you got the call." Troy sighed and nodded.
"Yeah, it was my dad," Troy replied. "He just wants me to come home." Gabriella raised her eyebrows expectantly. "And I told him that I wouldn't come home until he promised to get help." Gabriella nodded approvingly, then leaned down kiss him.
"Yo! Get a room you two!" Came a loud voice. Gabriella looked up and saw Simon Lester. She rolled off Troy and blushed, not meeting Simon's eyes. Troy on the other hand, practically blew his top.
"Just bug off, Lester!" Troy snapped getting to his feet.
"Make me, Bolton!" Simon replied, advancing on Troy. Gabriella jumped up and held her hands up.
"Shut up, you two!" Troy blinked in surprise, since Gabriella didn't usually loose her cool. Simon seemed pretty stunned as well. "I don't want to be caught in the middle of World War III, 'kay?" She grasped Troy's arm and dragged him away, leaving Simon to scowl after them.
I'm trying to catch the tension between the two boys, hope I'm doing okay...
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