Chapter started: February 27, 2010.
Chapter finished: March 6, 2010.
Author's Note: Well, I don't know if this is gonna turn out the way I want it guys, but I'm gonna try it and if I think it's even close to being unworthy I'll rewrite it and then see which one I like better – even though I do this already with most of my work, believe me guys I rewrite the same thing over and over again, just in the different scenarios that I have running through my head and see which one I like better. Is it working so far for you guys – even though I only know you guys get the finished copy, but still, is it working for you guys you think? Well, I'm gonna try my hand at this one a few times and see what I can wrap my mind and heart around. Love you guys!! XOXO
Until next time,
.Jaybaybay. *For Ebaybee's use only*
WARNING: There are a lot of flashbacks that are in first person here okay so, I'm sorry if it's kind of confusing to read.
=You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home=
-Chapter 3: Miss You-
It's been too long and I'm lost without you
What am I gonna do
Said I been needin' you
I'm wantin' you
Wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you
Is your heart still mine
I want to cry sometimes
I miss you
-- Aaliyah, "Miss You"
//That it's the start
Of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new
Start of something new//
"Troy," the male karaoke partner said as he held out his hand towards his unknown female partner as their eyes stayed locked; bright, electric blue on rich, chocolate brown.
"Gabriella," the girl said with a gentle smile as her delicate hand took his strong, masculine one.
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"…but seriously you have an amazing voice. You're a singer, right?" the boy asked as they walked outside on the deck of the ski lodge, in Colorado with steaming cups of hot chocolate in their hands.
"Just church choir is all. I tried a solo and nearly fainted," the brunette haired girl replied.
"Really?!" Troy asked shocked before he asked, "Why's that?"
"Well, I took one look at all the people staring at me, and the next thing I knew, I was staring at the ceiling, end of solo career," Gabriella replied with a gentle smile.
"Well, with the way you sang tonight, that's pretty hard to believe," the boy honestly told the girl with a smile.
"Well, that was the first time I've done something like that. I mean it was so cool!"
"I know, completely!"
"Well, you sound like you've done a lot of singing, too."
"Yeah, sure, my showerhead is very impressed with me," the boy said causing the girl to giggle as noise started to go off in the background.
"10…" they listened as the people back inside of the ski lodge started to count down to the New Year. They both looked around awkwardly before they gazed up at the sky as it lit up with fireworks before they looked back at each other, gazing into each other's eyes and taking a quick glance of each other's lips.
"Well, I guess I'd better go find my mom and wish her a Happy New Year's," the girl said, breaking their gaze.
"Yeah, me too. I mean not your mom, my mom…and dad," the boy replied and the girl nodded as she looked down at her feet, before he said, "I'll call you, I'll call you tomorrow!"
"Yeah," Gabriella said with a bright smile as she started to reach into her black dress pants pockets and pull out her cell phone.
"Here, put your number in," Troy told her as he pulled his cell phone out of his jeans before he said as he opened his phone and focused it on her so, he could take a picture, "Here."
"You too," Gabriella told him, handing him her phone as she put her number in his phone, while he took a picture of himself with her phone and typed his number into her phone also.
"There you go," Troy told her as he handed her her cell phone back, and she handed him his back and as he went to look at it, she walked away with a smile and didn't hear him as he said and asked, "Well, just so you know, singing with you has been the most fun I've had on this entire vacation. So, um where do you live?" He turned his head to find her gone, before he turned his head back and looked down at the picture of the beautiful teenager and quietly said to himself, "Gabriella."
"Troy, over here," the man heard his mother, Lucille Marie Bolton, say, snapping him out of his memory of when he first met his old high school flame.
"Hey, mom, dad," he greeted his parents as he hugged them both and gave them a smile before sitting down and asking, "Where's everyone else?"
"The Danforth's and everyone else should be here soon," his father, Jackson "Jack" Andrew Bolton, replied before he took a sip of his Lava Springs Sweet Iced Tea.
"Oh, okay," the young man replied before he too took a sip of his Iced Tea.
"Well, here they come now, all of them in fact," Lucille told the two men in her life as she stood up to give the females hugs once they reached them at the large table that was reserved for them and them only like every other Sunday afternoon for their annual get together brunch-in at the Lava Springs Country Club which was owned by Ryan's parents, Derby Anne and Vance Kyle Evans.
"Hi, guys," Troy greeted his friends as they all sat down with their parents filling in seats around them.
"Hey, Troy," the group greeted back with soft smiles directed towards the young man.
"Where's Inez at?" Lucille asked Derby, who was sitting down from her, with an empty chair in the middle of them.
"She had a phone call, she said she'll be right in," Derby replied before she said, "Ah, here she comes."
"Good Afternoon, everyone," a middle aged woman with long wavy dark brown hair and eyes with a tanned complexion greeted the group before hugging Lucille and then taking her seat between her and Derby.
"Get everything settled then, Inez?" Vance asked the Filipina woman, who smiled at him and nodded her head in reply.
"Was it…" Troy started to ask, but stopped himself as everyone turned their heads to look at Inez.
"I'm sorry, guys, it wasn't her," Inez told the twenty five year old East High Head Basketball Coach and the rest of the group.
"Oh…" the blue-eyed man said with disappointment before he sank lower in his chair as everyone's hopeful smiles turned into disappointed frowns.
"I'm sorry to get you're guys' hopes up," Inez told the group with a soft, sad smile.
"It's okay, Inez it's not your fault," Taylor gently told the woman before she was pulled into her own memory….
"The answer is yes!" I exclaimed as I walked up to the new girl with a paint bucket that had a paint brush in it, a big smile on my face, and the papers that I found in my locker, in my hand.
"Huh?" The new girl, Gabriella Montez, said in confusion.
"Our Scholastic Decathlon team has its first competition next week and there is certainly a spot for you!" I told her excitingly.
"Where did those come from?" Gabriella asked me as she spotted the papers in my hand.
"Didn't you put them in my locker?" I asked her, clearly confused as she was.
"Of course not…"
"Well, we'd love to have you on the team! We meet almost every day after school. Please?"
"I need to catch up on the curriculum here first before I think about joining any clubs."
"Taylor, Baby, you okay?" Chad asked his girlfriend snapping her out of her memory of the first time she talked to her high school best friend.
"Huh? Oh, yeah I'm fine, what's up?" Taylor asked her boyfriend with a soft smile.
"You were thinking about her too, huh?" Chad asked her, knowing the sad look in her brown eyes.
"Mhm," she replied before she asked as she gazed into his eyes before she put her head on his broad shoulder, "What were you thinking about?"
"The time after we told Troy and Gabriella what we did to each of them so, they wouldn't do the callbacks and how we came up with a plan to make sure the back then-evil Evans twins didn't get their way or in the way of Gabriella and Troy getting the roles in the winter musical," Chad replied before he got lost in the thought of the morning they found out what the schedule was going to be like for that day…
"Callback's the same day as the game?" My co-captain best friend said shocked.
"And the school decathlon," the girl I had grown to know was my little sister added in the same shocked tone.
"I smell a rat named Darbus…" I stated with my trusty basketball underneath my arm.
"Actually, its two rats and neither of them are named Darbus," Kelsi explained.
"Do you know something about this…small person?" I used 'small person' because I didn't know her name back them, but I sure do know, why wouldn't I she's like another little sister to me and she's another close friend to me.
"Small Person" sighed before she replied, "Ms. Darbus might think she's protecting the show, but Ryan and Sharpay are pretty much only concerned with protecting themselves."
"Do you know what I'm gonna to do to those two overgrown show dogs?" I said angry, as I handed my basketball to Troy.
"Nothing, we're not gonna do anything to them. Except sing…maybe. All right, now this is only going to happen; if we all work together…now whose in?" My co-captain said coming through with a plan like he always did even though I really wanted to hurt the two blonds back them…
"Yeah," Taylor replied back sadly as she looked at what was left of the use-to-be Wildcats, who all looked like they too were in deep thoughts of their own.
And she was right, they all were:
Kelsi with her thought of when she sang with Gabriella when they took summer jobs at Lava Springs the summer between Junior and Senior year…
//Na, na, na, na. Na, na, na, na.
Yeah, you are the music in me
You know the words
"Once upon a time"
Make you listen, there's a reason//
I sang "Troy and Gabriella's Song" while playing the piano and I smiled as Gabriella began to sing with me…
//When your dream
There's a chance you'll find
A little laughter
Or happy ever after//
Jason was thinking of the time that both he and Gabriella fell asleep on the theatre stage because of the late night drama practice rehearsals for the Senior Year musical…
"Yes, Mr. Danforth, you may now…" was all I heard before I zoned out and looked around the stage as I yawned and stretched my arms above my head, man was I dead tired.
Before I could ask Chad why he was in a clown suite, I felt something cuddle up to me and yawn before I felt something heavy against my shoulder. Looking down on my right shoulder, I smiled noticing that it was Troy's girlfriend and my beloved 'little sister' Gabriella, who was sound asleep on my shoulder and as another yawn escaped my mouth I decided to follow her lead and I laid back on my back and took her with me so she was cuddled up to me in a brother-sister kind of way and together we both slept until…whenever it was we slept till…
Zeke was thinking about the time when he was left alone in the gym after they first one the basketball championships their Junior Year and how Sharpay practically brushed him off, but then surprisingly came back and tackled him…
"These cookies are genius. The best things I've ever tasted. Will you make some more for me Zeke?" She said as she came running through the gym doors and runs up to me, kicking the white and red balloons that were on the gym floor every which direction.
With a bright smile I replied as she wrapped her toned and petite arms around me in a death grip and looked up at me, "I might even make you a crème brulee."
"Ooh," was all that she replied with along with a smile, and the rest they said was history…
Martha was thinking about the time that she and Gabriella went to take a dance class together at the community center for some fun…
"Oh my gosh, my legs feel like jell-o," Gabriella told me as we both sat down in the seats during our break of our first dance class.
"I know, mine too," I told her before we both took a drink of our water bottles and with a smile I told her, "I'm really glad we did this together, Gabriella. Thanks for coming and doing this with me."
"I am too and of course I would do this with you, thanks for asking me to come and do this with you, I've had so much fun today, even though I'm gonna be sore for like a month," she told me causing us both to giggle as we hugged each other and she was right, even after a month we were surprisingly still in pain...
And Ryan, was thinking about the time that he and Sharpay had did their call back and then smiled in victory seeing as Gabriella and Troy didn't appear when Ms. Darbus first called their names before he and Sharpay were pushed off to the side of the stage so the late coming Gabriella and Troy could perform for a surprisingly full audience while Kelsi also stood up to them…
"…and we have not got a pianist," Ms. Darbus said, explaining why Troy and Gabriella couldn't do their final callbacks.
"That's showbiz," I told them with a satisfying smirk.
"We'll sing without a piano," East High's Primo Boy told the teacher.
My sister and I watched as Kelsi ran back over to us and said to Troy before saying to Ms. Darbus, "Oh no you won't. Pianist here, Ms. Darbus."
"You really don't want to do that," my sister said trying to scare Kelsi.
"Oh yes, I really do," Kelsi said, standing up against my sister and saying as she ran to the piano, "Ready on stage!"
"Oh!" I heard my sister exclaim in shock and I'll admit I was shocked too.
"Now, that's showbiz," Ms. Darbus said and I have to admit I did laugh on the inside because if I laughed on the outside I would most likely be buried six feet under the ground…
(Monday – East High School)
As Ms. Darbus and the Wildcat Puzzle waited for the students involved in the musical to come in during study hall to run lines, they all listened to the sounds around them, but they all listened even more intently when they heard a group of students talking about two specific people that they all missed…
"Oh my God, did you check out the latest Victoria's Secret magazine?!"
"Yeah I did! And I totally loved Baby G's and Baby S's outfits, they were so cute."
"I know! I'm totally ordering them," the one girl told her best friend.
"Did you girls also know that we guys checked Maxim's Hot 100 list last night, and guess who made the spots for number two and one?" One of the senior football players told them.
"Baby S made number two and Baby G made number one," the girls and some guys replied with wide smiles.
"Of course, they would! Those girls are the hottest things to ever grace Hollywood!"
"Did you guys also hear that they're taking a little va-ca and then going to do some charity concerts some where's?" The one girl told the group.
"Yeah, I want to find out when and where so, I can get tickets and go see them live in person. It would be so much better than watching them on TV, but then again I ain't really complaining," the one boy replied with a wide smile as did the other guys in agreement.
"I'll tell you what I can't wait for, their new movies and CD's! They're gonna be fricking sick!" Another guy added into the mix.
"You know what would be really cool?" One of the girls asked the group.
"What?"
"If they would come and perform together for the Senior Prom!"
"That would be sweet," one of the guys replied causing the gang to wish the same thing so, they could actually maybe talk to them and fix things with them, but they all sighed and let an unknown tear slip from each of their eyes knowing that, that would be impossible so, quickly wiping at their eyes they all had one thought in their mind: I miss you, guys.
I want to cry sometimes
I miss you
TBC…
Well, there's another R&R's! I hope you guys all enjoyed this one, I might write another one or take a nap seeing as I don't feel good. I love you guys, love you lots SIS!
XOXO,
.Jaybaybay.
I wanna see that Hawaiian wedding,
I wanna see that blissful 'Honeymoon' phase,
I wanna see her bearing their child,
I wanna see that sweet little angel with its father's eyes and mother's features,
I Want To See Them Have It All.
But... I guess I will have to wait...
~Z&V~