I park my car in my garage and head inside the house. I check the phone and listen to see if there were any voice mail. There was only one from my brother inviting me to dinner over at his house. I check the time, it was only 4:30, so I still have two hours to spare. I go upstairs, turn my alarm on for 5 o' clock and lay on the bed and the tiredness take over me. '. It was all it took for me to wake up. I take everything off, grab one of my bathrobes and head to the bathroom. Right now I'm feeling like crap, it was a long day at school, so I decide to take a relaxing bath. I light up the scented candles, fill the tub and added my strawberry bubble soap. Nothing's more relaxing than warm bath.
I put on a strapless floral print cocktail dress. It is yellow, gray, and black with a 2 in. belt right under my breast. I put on my black high heels and double check my make up and my hair. My make up was light and my hair was down in flirty waves. I grab my black clutch and head out the door to my brother's house.
I ring the doorbell. Cinthia opens the door. She is like 2 to 3 inches taller than me. She is long auburn hair and green-blueish eyes.
"Hi Gabi. It's so good to see you again. I haven't seen you in like a week." She says as she kisses my cheek and hugs me.
"It's good to see you too. And yeah i was so busy getting getting ready to teach the kids. They are absolutely fabulous. It's such a joy teaching them."
"I'm glad you like your job and come in, don't wanna leave you hanging the whole day on the door"she says laughing.
"yeah, thanks" I say as I walk in the house.
"So, how you getting along with the teachers, are they nice, boring, old." she says. She has such a way with words.
"I haven't met all of them just yet. But, I met a few and they were surprisingly young, not as young as me but in their late 20's you know and early 30's. They treated me so nice and friendly, but Troy warned me that there were a few who were grumpy."
"Oh, and may I ask who is this Troy we're talking about" says someone else.
"Oh, well Hi Andy,"I tell him. He is a head taller than me, built, brown eyes, and black hair. He was wearing a gray Abercrombie shirt. " nisiquiera saluda manito." I tell him in Spanish. (At least say hi.)
"Ay dios, como se me pudo olvidar algo tan grande como eso. Me podra usted perdonar hermana tan linda." he says dramatically bending on his knees.(Oh, god, how could I forget something as big as that. Could you ever forgive me beautiful sister).
"Well, when you put it that way, of course I can" I tell him laughing.
"No, but for real who's this Troy we're talking about" he says curiously.
"Where is Cyndy guys, I haven't seen my favorite niece" I tell them.
"First, she's the only one you got, second she's in the playroom, and third stop evading the question." says Andy.
"look Andy, I'll tell you guys later, right now I want to go see my niece so we can have dinner"
"Alright, alright. No need to yell at me. If you don't want me to know you could just say so."
"Ugh, whatever Andy, I'm going to see my niece." I tell him while going to the playroom and they went back to the kitchen to finish dinner and set the table.
"Well, hello Cindy. Como esta mi sobrina mas linda." I tell has green eyes, a bit tall for her age with shoulder length brown hair with cute bangs.(How's my favorite niece doing)
"Yo toy bien tia. Como tu ta." she tell me in Spanish. Andy is teaching her because he wants her to be bilingual like both of us. (I'm good aunt. How are you)"Yo estoy muy bien' I tell her kissing her forehead and picking her up." Now come on, they're almost serving supper." I carry her to the dining room.
"Is the food ready yet, we're dying here" I tell them smiling at them.
"Yeah, we were about to call you guys." says Cinthia putting the food on the table." Alright guys wash you hands so we can start eating."
"So Gabi, how was your first day of school" says Andy while watching TV in the family room.
"It was good. The kids are adorable and the staff is really nice. At least the ones I've met."
"Oh, nice. I'm glad you like it, but may I ask why your teaching at East Elementary instead of West Elementary?"
"I was the closest to home I could find."
"Oh, and who was the Troy guy you and Cinthia were talking about" he says looking at me and Cinthia.
"Yeah, I was going to ask you the same question"says Cinthia.
"He's a teacher at school. he also teaches Special Ed. you know him Andy. It's Troy Bolton"
"Wait, The Troy Bolton is a Special Ed. teacher. You've got to be kidding me, I thought he would've made it to the NBA. I mean the guy was great at basketball. Is he nice to you though because we weren't very fond of each other back in High School"
"Yeah, he told me you guys got in two fight in High School"
"Yeah, I always had it in for him"
"Why?"
"He was my worst rival. It angered me whenever we lost to East High, so I fought him"
"Wow, well he has nothing against you anymore. He was really nice to me. He was so surprised when I told him you were married and had a daughter"
"Really?"
"Yeah, he said you've done more than he has since you guys graduated"
"Wow, hard to believe Bolton hasn't gotten married 'cuz he had such a way with women back then. How does he look like now. Is he bald?"He says laughing at the last one.
"No" I say defensive "He has shaggy dark brown hair. His bangs get in his eyes all the time though. He's a head taller than me, like about you height or a bit taller Andy and he's built, you can see it through his shirt. He has strong arms, like wow." I tell them picturing Troy in my head.
"Were you checking Bolton out while you were suppose to be teaching." says Andy giving me a stern look.
"Andy don't start we're just friends" who happen to be flirting I say in my head "You don't have to start you overprotective bullshit with me."
"Well sorry I don't want my little sister to be heartbroken"
"Andy can't stop me from dating just because you don't want to see me heart broken, haven't we gone over this before" I tell him already getting heated.
"Look, you don't have to get like that, I just want to protect you..."
"..but I do. Look it's getting late and I have to work tomorrow, see you guys later. Tell Cindy I said bye" I say grabbing my clutch and kissing them both on the cheek before heading out the door.
Just I drive off my Andy's drive-way, my phone starts ringing. I turn on the Blue-tooth and put it on.
"Hello?" I say not recognizing the phone number.
"hey, Brie. It's me Troy, you weren't sleeping were you?"
"No, I'm just driving to my apartment right now and It's nine how could I be sleeping." I tell him.
"Oh, really. Where were you." you could say he was curious by the sound of his voice.
"I was having dinner at Andy's house."
"Oh, cool. How's he doing?"
"He's good. Surprised that you weren't playing in the NBA." I tell hi laughing.
"I'm seriously not surprised to hear that." He says laughing.
"Yeah..., so why you called me" I asked him curiously.
"I was bored. Wanted to see what you were doing, I don't know." he says with a laugh at the end.
"Oh,... where are you?"
"The park. I had nothing to do so I came to walk around for a bit"
"Mind if I join you" I ask him.
"No, not at all, but I don't want to make you drive back"
"Oh, don't worry I'm live near the park. I'm going to drive home, park the car then I'll walk back."
"Alright, I'll wait for you by kids playground"
"Alright see you then" I say hanging up and smiling.
"Hey there stranger" I say approaching him.
"Hey. You got here fast." He says. He had a black T-shirt and blue jeans and white vans.
" I told you I lived near the park and when we hung up I was near my house."
"Oh,"
"Yeah. You know for a Monday there's quite a few people on the park."
"More like teenager trying to get away from home." He says laughing." You look nice by the way. I like your dress." I remember I still had my dress on.
"why, thank you. I bought it not so long ago. Oh, and you don't look so bad yourself."
"Thanks" he says as we link arms and start walking.
"Don't those high heels bother you."
"No. I'm use to them by now."
"So, what do you think of you first day at East Elem."
"It was good. Better than I thought actually."
He laughs"So you ready for yet another day teaching."
"Yes, those kids are adorable and it's good to help them learn, you know. It brings me such a joy." I tell him truthfully.
"Why did you become a Special Ed. teacher." He says as we sit down in one of the benches in the middle of the park next to fountain.
"I don't know. Ever since I was a younger I always liked children, teaching and playing with them. It made me feel bad that people always made fun of these kids so I decided that I wanted to teach them because I knew I could help them. So that's it." I tell him." Why did you?"
"Well, I had this one friend a back in High School his name was Tom and he had down syndrome and it angered me that the other kids looked down at him like he was some type of alien so I decided that I wanted to help kids like him." He told me looking deep in me eyes.
"You know you have the bluest eyes I've ever seen." I say looking into his eyes. I felt like I could swim forever in his eyes. They were as blue and crystal as the sea.
"Thanks" he says still looking down at me."I like you eyes better though. They so brown and they have this spark in them that I've never seen before."
We keep looking into each others eyes and slowly we start leaning in. Our lips getting closer with each move made. I close my eyes as our lips came into contact. I felt like fireworks were exploding in my stomach. He grabs the back of my head and the small of my back as I hold him at the hips, each of us trying to get closer to each other. Right now I felt like nothing could go wrong.
OMG you guys sorry this time it took me longer, but school is tough right now that I barely have any time to write. I wish you guys comment more me what you guys want to see on the next one because I'm writing this as I go along,so yeah. Thanks to those who commented and added my story to their fave you have no idea how good that make me feel. hank you all so much and until the next one.
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