December Makes me feel this Way

Chapter 6

Taylor's POV

I walked up the stairs and knocked on Gabriella's door.

"Gabi, it's me Taylor. Breakfast is ready. Come on you must be hungry! I mean you and troy came back pretty late." I said smiling through the door.

"Wait is Troy in there? Because he isn't in his room…well actually his room is locked too…anyway come down in five minutes." I yelled walking down the stairs. I walked into the kitchen where everyone else was.

"There not answering." I said going to the counter cutting up an apple.

"Well I heard some crying." Zeke said.

"Crying of joy?" Kelsi asked popping a piece of apple into her mouth.

"Beats me, but there were sniffles after it." He said.

"Hey, could be sniffles of joy." Ryan said at the stove.

"Sniffles of joy… now how is that possible?" Sharpay asked laughing.

"Ok, let's talk about…a movie tonight!" Kelsi said.

"Titanic!" Chad said. Everyone looked at him.

"Taylor, you're husband…weird." Zeke said to me.

"I know." I said. I went over to him and kissed him. "But I love him."

"Well I love titanic." Kelsi said.

"Yeah, but it isn't a Christmas movie and Gabriella will go nuts if it isn't a Christmas movie." Ryan said.

"It doesn't have to be a Christmas movie. Christmas is just another holiday." We heard some one say. We all turned around and saw Gabriella walk over to the coffee maker. Her eyes were red and her face was puffy.

"I say we watch Titanic." She said leaving the room with a cup of coffee.

"I'll go find the DVD." Zeke and Ryan said leaving the room.

"Did we miss something?" Sharpay asked looking around.

"I think so. I mean every year with Gabi, it has to be Christmas." I said.

"Well, maybe she was crying from Troy asking her out?" Chad said giving a suggestion.

"Chad, just finish your breakfast." Kelsi said throwing a towel at him.

We were cleaning the kitchen while Zeke and Ryan were trying to find the DVD. Gabriella was in her room and Troy we hadn't seen all day.

Troy's POV

Twelve PM… I got up showered and went across the hall to Gabriella's room. I looked at the door and put my ear to it. I could hear crying.

Gabriella's POV

I was sitting on my floor leaning against my bed.

I was on the phone talking to my grandma. She was about 99. She had so much energy.

"Hey, may." I said into the phone.

"Deary, how is your Christmas going?" she asked in her caring voice.

"It's going great may, how's yours?"

"Well, you know these people. They have to keep a watchful eye on me like I'm going to die any second here." I laughed at her as she said it.

"May, your ninety-nine. They have to keep a close watch on you."

"Well it would be better if they didn't."

"Well, may I just want to check up on you. I'll talk to you later, ok?"

"I will deary…did you find a man yet?"

"NO may I didn't."

"Well, you better young lady. I will talk to you soon, bye." I hung up the phone and leaned against my bed.

"Why is life so complicated?" I asked my empty dark room. My window had flown open and I looked at it. I smiled at all the memories I had in this room. I remember that window would always open up and I would think of it as Santa Claus, but invisible. Sometimes it would be the snow angels I made or the snowmen. Or just random people coming in to talk to me. I got up from my spot and went over to the window.

I looked out the window. It was still snowing. I wonder what time it was. I looked at my clock. Five PM. I knew the movie would begin soon. I closed my window, but then I felt a rush, like someone running by me. I looked out the window. Felt like someone trying to get our before I closed the window. I smiled thinking of my imagination.

FlashBack

"I hope to see you again, Santa!" I yelled in my six year old body while closing the window.

End Of Flashback.

That was December 19th. Six days later my father died. I looked at my door and started walking to it.

Troy's POV

I left after she had said good-bye to this may person. I was in my room throwing a ball up in the air then catching it. Matt was somewhere around in the house.

I wondered if she would ever forgive me. I didn't mean to blow up like that.

"Hey, dude the movie is starting." Chad said knocking on my door. I got up form my bed and went downstairs into the living room. I didn't know what movie it was, but I was betting it was a Christmas one. I sat on the couch next to Sharpay, Kelsi and Taylor. Gabriella was on the floor staring at the screen for the movie to come on. Finally it did and I settled in to watch it.

"It's an unsinkable ship…" The T.V. said.

That's right it wasn't a Christmas movie. It was titanic. I wonder who picked this out. Chad. I always knew he had a thing for these movies.

Jack: Don't do it.
Rose: Stay back! Don't come any closer!
Jack: Come on, just give me your hand. I'll pull you back over.
Rose: No, stay where you are! I mean it! I'll let go!
Jack: He approaches slowly, gesturing to his cigarette to show that he is approaching merely to throw it over the side into the ocean No, you won't.
Rose: What do you mean, "No, I won't"? Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do, you don't know me!
Jack: Well, you woulda done it already.
Rose: You're distracting me! Go away!
Jack: I can't. I'm involved now. You let go, and I'm, I'm 'onna have to jump in there after you.
Rose: Don't be absurd. You'd be killed!
Jack: I'm a good swimmer.
Rose: The fall alone would kill you.
Jack: It would hurt. I'm not saying it wouldn't. Tell you the truth, I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold.
pause. She looks down at the water. Jack is slowly removing his boots
Rose: How cold?
Jack: Freezing. Maybe a couple degrees over. You ever, uh, you ever been to Wisconsin?
Rose: What?
Jack: Well, they have some of the coldest winters around. I grew up there, near Chippewa Falls. I remember when I was a kid, me and my father, we went ice fishing out on Lake Wissota. Ice fishing is, you know, where you...
Rose: I know what ice fishing is!
Jack: Sorry. You just seem like, you know, kind of an indoor girl. Anyway, I, uh, I fell through some thin ice; and I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there...
He gestures with his chin down toward the Atlantic Ocean
Jack: ... it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. At least, not about anything but the pain. Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you.
They exchange glances
Jack: Like I said, I don't have a choice. I guess I'm kinda hoping you'll come back over the railing, an' get me off the hook here.
Rose: You're crazy.
Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C'mon, give me your hand. You don't want to do this.
She reaches her hand back, he reaches his forward, and he helps her back onto the deck
Jack: Whew! I'm Jack Dawson.
Rose: Rose De Witt Bukater.
Jack: I'm gonna have to get you to write that one down.

To a fact I loved this movie. The only one that makes me cry. Even to this day.

I watched the screen as Jack and Rose were running through the boiler room and laughing. Jack had taught her to be care free and break out form what she always wanted. He was teaching her something more than life itself.

Gabriella's POV

Watching as Rose just sat in the boat as it was going down and then her jumping off of it made me get a little teary. I took a small glace and looked at Troy, then back to the scene.

The boat was now sinking and they were going down. She went up to the surface and looked for Jack. He had found her and they swam over to a car door. Rose laid on it while jack stayed in the water.

Rose: I love you, Jack.
Jack: Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes.
Rose: I'm so cold.
Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, but not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
Rose: I can't feel my body.
Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose: I promise.
Jack: Never let go.
Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack.

I watched the scene and started to cry. Without noticing tears were slipping down my cheeks. Jack had died and a boat was coming around to see if anyone was alive. Rose called Jacks' name over and over, but he never opened his frosted eyes. She let go of his hand and he disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean. She was rescued.

Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.

The movie had ended with her throwing the Diamond hearted necklace into the ocean then with her going back to bed. I watched her dream as she and Jack kissed and The end.

I looked around and saw the girls crying. I looked at Troy and saw tears in his eyes then at Zeke and Ryan they were sitting there with tears in there eyes, but didn't seem to care, but what really got me laughing was Chad. He was balling. He was worse then the girls and I.

"I love that movie sooo much!" Chad said sniffling and wiping his tears. We all laughed at him.

"Ok, so what are we cooking tonight?" Taylor asked the groups while she was wiping her eyes.

"I saw Chicken." Ryan said. I had my head resting on my knees listening to the music it was playing.

"Ok, so chicken it is." Taylor said standing up. The girls and guys went into the kitchen. I looked behind me and saw Troy there. He was staring off into space. I got up and looked at him. What made him hate Christmas so much? I turned to leave when I heard him call my name. I looked at him. He was now standing up.

"I'm sorry." He said.

"NO, don't even say it." I said to him walking a way.

"Could you at least, let me tell you why I did it?" he asked taking my arm and pulling me back.

"No. let me go." I said trying to get out of his grip.

"No." he said looking around. He dragged me outside and closed the front door.

"Troy, it's freezing out here!" I yelled at him.

"Just listen to me. I'm sorry I snapped at you. It's just I can't stand this holiday." He said to me.

"Why?" I asked him. I wanted to know.

"I…I can't tell you." He said looking at me.

"I'm sorry." He said to me.

"Well I'm sorry, too, but if you don't mind my feet are getting cold." I said to him.

"Gabriella please are we ok?" He asked me.

Troy's POV

I looked into her eyes.

"Why don't you ask the stupid Holiday!" she said to me.

"Gabriella, please-." I was saying, but she cut me off.

"Let go of me now Troy." She said sternly. The door opened and Ryan was standing there.

"Oh, sorry." He said.

"No, Ryan its ok with me." Gabriella said. She got her arm out of my hand.

"Uh, ok, well dinner is about ready." Ryan said walking back into the house. Gabriella went into the house and to the kitchen. I walked inside and closed the door. I walked into the kitchen where they were just setting out the food. I sat next to Gabriella and we started eating.

"I think we should stay here the whole month." Gabriella said.

"The whole month, but our parents are coming down to your house." Taylor said.

"Well they can come here. When they do Troy can move into my room and his parents can have his room. Then all the others can fill the others. I mean we'll have enough room." She said.

"Wait, you and Troy sleeping in a room…together?" Sharpay asked.

"Sharpay, we're adults. I'm sure I can set up an air bed and he can take it." She said. Wait sharing a room together…as in the same room?! How was I suppose to control…you know the jr thing when she's going t be sleeping in….I don't know, but if it's a tank top and shorts then… I don't know.

"Ok, so it's settled then. The parents will come up here?" she asked the group.

"Yeah, so the guys and I will go down tomorrow and pick up everyone else's stuff." Ryan said.

"Wait a girl needs to come because Gabriella's stuff is in her drawers and-." Zeke was saying, but Sharpay cut him off.

"Puh-lease we all saw each other in those kind of things and if not we saw them in each others drawers." Sharpay said.

"True…" Zeke said leading off.

I kept stealing glances at Gabriella during dinner. After it we had cleaned up and all went into the living room with beer wine and that stuff.

Gabriella's POV

"Nuh-uh that was totally not cool." Sharpay said. I sat there drinking in my sorrows while everyone told stories.

"Oh and then when Gabriella and that guy Max dated!" Chad was saying. Once he said Max I saw Taylor nudge him in the ribs.

"It's ok Taylor, go ahead, Chad." Is aid to Chad finishing my beer and then getting another bottle. Sixth one.

"Ok, so when we were sixteen Gabriella was dating this prick Max right. He would always buy her things, but she ended up dumping him, but guess who she dumped him for!" Chad said to us.

"He dumped her for Cal. We get it Chad." Ryan said.

"But still man, Cal was such a prick too." He said laughing.

And they had one thing in common…wanting sex. They got it when I was drunk. You see when I was at school or my home I was a smart kid, but when they took me out to parties they got what they wanted. No one knew and no one will ever find out.

"No, wait Gabriella you have to sing with the song!" Sharpay said stumbling over to the radio and turning it up. There I heard joy for the world.

"No." I said and took my last drop of beer. I got another bottle and drank it. It was three in the morning and I had twelve beers and then five glasses of wine. I was pretty drunk.

"Nah…" I said standing up, but then falling onto the ground we all laughed. Of coarse we did. We were all drunk.

"Posy." I said standing up.

"Ok, I'm going to go to bed." I said looking at them and then sighing.

"Am I moving?" I asked the room.

"She's drunker then us." Kelsi giggled to Ryan.

"Ok, I'll sees yous alls laters ons." I said, but then I collapsed.

Troy's

POV

"She always this drunk?" I asked not really caring that she fell into the ground.

"No not really." Chad said.

"Take her up, Troy. You're the only one that had only one beer." Sharpay said point to my hand.

I sighed and went over to where the drunken collapsed Gabriella was. I carried her upstairs and into her room. I placed her on her bed. I wanted to go back in time. Change it.

"I'm sorry, Gabs." I said pushing the strand of hair out of her face.

"Don't call me that." She mumbled in her sleep.

"I…I love you." I said.

"G'night, I love you too." She giggled on her sleep.

I left the room and looked around. The house was empty. I looked over the railing and saw that Sharpay and Zeke were passed out on the couch. I could hear noises upstairs…but I wasn't even going to bother. I saw Chad and Taylor having a pillow fight on the living room floor.

Just it just realized I said I love you to Gabriella montez…I just met the damn girl! I ran to my room and looked around. Crap, crap…was I in a dream? The only way to find out is to…I walked back into Gabriella's room and looked at her sleeping form. I walked over and kissed her gently on the lips…

"Leave me alone!" Gabriella mumbled in her sleep. I looked at her…it wasn't a dream and now I just realized what I had done…I have fallen for this girl…less than three days…

A/N lol ok nien pages right ehre! I am not writing no more. Now to tell you the truth I have no idea what day it is in this stor so I'm just going to say DECEMBER 5th! Ok! Ok! Lol. Thank yo all who reviewed the last chapters New york we are getting a blizzard!!! Wooohooo!! Lol