Summer Romance
Chapter-The Announcement
It was 12:30 on Sunday afternoon and Gabriella was in her room packing the rest of clothes while her mum was downstairs talking with the Bolton's. She was just choosing what bikinis to take when there was a knock on her bedroom door.
"Come in" slightly yelled she thought it would be her mum so she didn't bother looking back she carried on looking through her bikinis.
"I think I prefer the pink one" a masculine came from behind her
She turned around to see troy standing in her doorway with his arms crossed firmly over his chest which made the muscles in his arms pop out more than usual, he had his left leg slightly over his right leg he was wearing a plain bleu polo with light blue jeans showing the top of his boxers and fitted him perfectly.
"You would like anyone I chose to wear" she replied looking at him
Troy smirked and walked so he was standing next to her "now that I would" he told her
She smiled and rolled her eyes at him "now what did you come up here for?" Gabriella asked him
"Well Dave turned up and your mum asked me to come and get you summing about she wanted to tell you something" he told her and watched her as she rolled her eyes and sighed
"What could she possibly want to tell me that she needs him here to able to do so?" she asked troy
"I don't know but if you take your cute little ass downstairs then maybe you'll find out" he said
Gabriella rolled her eyes again and hit him on the shoulder, as she left the room with troy following behind her.
As Gabriella and troy entered the kitchen all the adults turned to look at them with smiles Dave and Maria where behind the counter and Dave had his arms around Maria and Lucille and jack were sitting on the stools at the opposite side on the counter.
Gabriella looked from her mum to Dave and back again she could see there was something they wanted to tell her and she wasn't sure if she was going to like it.
"What am I wanted for?" Gabriella asked with allot of curiosity in her voice
"Well" Maria started "we asked you here today because we have an announcement to make"
Maria and Dave looked at each other and smiled before saying "were getting married"
Lucille's face burst out into a grin Troy was looking at Gabriella to try and see a reaction and jack snapped his head back to look at Gabriella who has a still and emotional face.
Maria followed jacks head to look at her daughter to see her emotionless face she new Gabriella didn't like Dave and new she wouldn't take this well she expected her to thrown a fit, she didn't expect her to be like this Maria had only seen Gabriella like this once before when her father died and it frightened her.
By now everyone's eyes were on Gabriella just standing there until Maria piped up "Gabriella hunny say something please"
Gabriella still didn't say anything she just grabbed her bag on the table and stormed out of the house leaving the front door with a loud "BANG"
Maria went to go after her but Jack stopped her "Just give her some time" He told her
Maria nodded she Knew that Jack was like a father to Gabriella and she knew that she confided in him allot she took his advice and decided to let her cool off.
Gabriella didn't know where she was going she hadn't even drove her car she was just walking, she looked up and the sky and saw that the clouds were greying, which basically meant there was a heavy down pour to come tonight. Everything was going through Gabriella's head right now. How could her mum do this she knew she didn't like Dave infect she most properly hated him, she knew for a fact that no one would ever be able to replace her dad it was the fact that Dave tried to and wanted to replace him that made her angry, she even remembered they day he tried to get her to call him dad.
(Flashback)
16 year old Gabriella was sitting in the living room watching a movie on the telly when Dave came in and sat down next to her she knew he was there yet she didn't remove her eyes away from the television. Dave took the remote and turned it off he then turned around in his seat so he was facing her causing Gabriella to look at him.
"look Gabriella I know me and you dint really see eye to eye but me and your mum are together and in love, and nothing you are going to do is going to change that so I was thinking, I think it's about time you started calling me dad" he told her
Sock came across Gabriella's face did he really expect her to call him dad she had her dad and it wasn't Dave, "no thanks" Gabriella replied "I have my dad"
"Yes I know that" Dave told her "but you dad isn't here anymore so I'm your new and improved dad"
Anger flashed threw Gabriella's eyes she was furious "who are you say that my dad is twice the man you'll ever be he is amazing and he is the only person I will ever call me dad I will never call you that you are not my dad and you never will be" she screamed at him and stormed upstairs to her bedroom.
(End of flashback)
By now it was 7:30pm and Gabriella still hadn't come home the Bolton's where still over at the Montez household waiting for Gabriella to come back seen as they were all going on holiday tomorrow, it was pouring with rain outside as well and thundering and lightening.
Everyone was worried about Gabriella you could see it on their faces Troy was looking at everyone to try and see how they were feeling, looked at Maria she had a worried face on but was trying to cover it up with fake laughs and smiles while they were all talking, His mum and dad were doing the same ting but his dad seemed more worried than everyone even Maria , troy new both of his parents saw Gabriella as one of their own but he also knew that Gabriella saw his dad as a father figure and they had a close relationship like a father and daughter would. While troy was looking at everyone else he found that he too was worried about Gabriella, he didn't know why but he knew that he had now her for a very long time but he had never seen her leave like this for hours at once.
Troy felt helpless anything could have happened to her and no one was doing anything about it he couldn't take it anymore just sitting there doing nothing so he stood up and grabbed his car keys off the coffee table "I'm going to look for her" he told all three parents
"Troy" Maria said "It's storming out there it would be too dangerous to go out in this weather" Maria reasoned with him.
"Gabriella's out there on her own in this weather isn't that dangerous?" he asked her
"Yes Troy Bu-"Maria tried to finished but troy interrupted her
"No buts I'm going to look for her and that's that" he told them and with that he was out the front door before anyone could say anything else.
Gabriella was soaking wet she had been walking around in the storm for about 45 minutes now, she was drenched from head to toe she was shaking and freezing but she didn't are she wanted to just keep walking, the she stopped she came across what she had been walking to for the last 20 minutes
Carlos Montez
Beloved father, husband son & friend
He will be missed dearly
R.I.P
Gabriella just stared at the tomb stone, she hated coming here he hated standing here looking at the dirt knowing her father was under it all, she has tears streaming down her face and her clothes where clinging to her like glue.
"I thought I would find you here" the voice from behind her told her
Gabriella jumped she didn't know anyone else was here she turned around to see troy standing there, his clothes also clinging to him. His brownie blonde hair was sticking to his forehead and hanging over his still bright blue eyes that seemed to light up even more in the moonlight.
"What are you doing here troy?" Gabriella asked him
Troy looked at the girl in front of him she was drenched from head to toe and was shivering, she had tears streaming down her face and hey eyes were puffy. Her long dark hair was dripping went and frizzing a little, her make-up had also run down her face, but she still looked gorgeous.
"I came here to find you" He replied to her
"Well you found me you know I'm fine and know you can go" she told him sternly
But troy wasn't buying it he knew she didn't really want to be alone she hated storms and he didn't want anything happening to her "I'm not leaving unless you come with me" he said to her
"I'm not going Troy, look you're soaked and cold just go home I will see you at the airport in the morning" he told him
"Come here" he said moving closer with his arms out to hug her
"please Troy don't "she whimpered moving away, she knew if she let him hold her she would break down and she didn't want to do that
Troy reached out and grabbed her and gently and pulled her into his chest he wrapped his arms around her body, as she tried to struggle out of his grasp, but he just tightened his grip on her waist, after a couple of seconds she stopped struggling and started sobbing, she wrapped her arms around Troy's waist and sobbed into his chest, he pulled her even closer if that was even possible rubbing his hands up and down her back whispering comforting word into her ear.
After about 5 minutes Gabriella has stopped crying and her breathing had regulated she pulled her head of Troy's chest and looked up into his bright blue eyes still wrapped in each other's arms
"Why did you come after me Troy?" she asked him making no attempted to remove her arms from around him
"I don't know to be honest" he told her "I just knew you were out here somewhere in the storm on your own and I guess i just got kind of worried so I came to look for you" he answered her truthfully
Gabriella stared into his eyes to see if he was lying but she couldn't see anything apart from truthfulness and honesty she smiled and said "Who are you and what have you done with Troy"
Troy rolled his eyes at her "Nothing he's still here but you've just seen a different side to him now come on and let's get you home" he told her he pulled away from her and started to walk away, when he realised that she wasn't following him
He turned around to see Gabriella still standing there not moving "What you waiting for?" he yelled over the sounds of the rain
"Troy I told you I'm not going home" she replied to him still not moving from where she was standing
"I know that he told her that's your coming to stay at mine tonight "he told her walking over to her and standing in front of her
Gabriella raised her eyebrows at him and gave him a weird look "stay at yours" she questioned him
Troy rolled his eyes at her for a second time that night "Don't worry I want try anything" he told her "unless you want me to" he added while wiggling his eyebrows at her
It was now Gabriella's turn to roll her eyes "In your dreams Bolton" she told him
"I'll hold you to that" he added with a smirk then he grabbed her hand "now come on and let's go" he dragged her back to his car
On the way home they didn't really talk much but it was a comfortable silence Troy called his mum and told him what was going on and they agreed to I she also told him that she would get Gabriella's things for tonight and tomorrow morning.
As they got to troy's they went straight up to his bedroom to get changed out of there wet clothes Gabriella went into Troy's attached bathroom to get changed as Troy in his bedroom
After about 10 minutes Gabriella came out of the bathroom wearing pink shorts with a white tank top with knee high white socks on, she looked at troy who was lying on his bed he had pyjama bottoms on with no shirt
When Gabriella saw him she just stared his eyes were closed so she hoped hadn't know she was staring but he had the greatest body ever his toned six-pack and his tanned skin he was really gorgeous.
"It's not nice to stare you know Brie" Troy said with a smirk on his face and his eyes still closed
Gabriella snapped out of it "I wasn't" she defended while he ran over and jumped on his bed
This caused Troy to open his eyes and look at her "What are you doing" he asked surprising she was on him
"Troy can I ask you something?" she questioned him
Troy turned on his side to look at her "Yeah what is it?" he asked
"When was the last time you changed your bed sheets?" she asked with amusement in her voice
Troy looked at her as if she was crazy "My mum changed them this morning what kind of question is that" he told her
She left out a sarcastic sigh "Good" she said "No one knows how many girls you had properly shagged on them if your mum hadn't" she told trying to stop herself from laughing
Troy looked at her mocked hurt and placed a hand over his heart "that was harsh brie" he said trying to be upset
"You'll get over it Bolton don't worry about it" Gabriella told him as she got in the covers of his bed and turned her back to him, troy did the same thing except he was facing her back
After a couple of minutes of silence troy noticed Gabriella shiver a little bit so he moved closer to her and wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into him, Gabriella turned in troy's arms and faced him there faces being centimetres apart, she moved herself closer to him and rested her head on his chest and snuggling into him they both relaxed into each other and fell into a deep slumber.