December makes me feel this way
Chapter 12
Chapter 12 December 14th Gabriella's POV
My head hurt. I turned over in my bed and groaned. How much did I drink last night? Agh crap now how am I suppose to function today? Wait…I feel heat and it isn't heat from the heaters. It's heat from a body. Afraid of what I would find next to me I turned over quietly as I could. Oh my…in bed next to me was none other then Troy Icky pervert Bolton! I grabbed a sheet off my bed and wrapped it around me. I got out of bed and started to panic…did I make the first move or did he? Wait he didn't have as much alcohol then me!
He was three glasses away from me! Look at him he's sleeping there without a problem. I looked at the clock. It was six. I walked my away around standing next to Troy's naked body on the bed. I smacked him on the head and that's when he groaned and turned over. I stood there angrily as he rubbed his eyes.
"What happened?" he asked him self sitting up in the bed. Oh great we had sex…in my bed I have to changed these sheets now.
"Get dressed." I said coldly and threw his cloths at him. I walked into my bathroom grabbing some cloths on the way and took a shower. I got dressed and brushed my hair which I was going to let dry naturally. I walked out of it fully dressed and expecting Troy to be gone, but no he was sitting on the trunk I had at the end of my bed. He was dressed and his head in his hands.
"What are you still doing here?" I asked him.
"Gabriella, listen I can explain about last night." He said standing up.
"Oh really, Troy I don't need any of this. All I want to do is wash these sheets and quilts." I said walking over to my bed and started stripping it.
"I want you to know I didn't make the first move." He said looking at me. I stopped my task and looked at him.
"So I made the first move, well you should've stopped me Troy. You barely had as much as alcohol as me! You took advantage of me. You could've stopped me any time you wanted to, but no you decided let's get Montez in bed and bang her! For all I know I could be pregnant right now Bolton!" I said angrily to him. I went back to my task taking off the pillow case covers.
"I'm sorry, Gabriella, please let's just start over." He said coming next to me holding his hand out.
"Bolton, I will never start over with you." I said looking into his now gray dull eyes. I gathered up the sheet and quilt's and opened my door and headed down stairs to wash them. Snowball crashing into something came running to me. I looked down at my feet and noticed she had something in her mouth. Setting the sheets in the washer and the quilts on the floor I turned on the washer machine and bent down.
"Hey, girlie, what do you have here?" I asked her. I took out seemed like my blue bra. I looked at her and then at my bra. She had her tongue hanging out of her mouth and wagging her tail.
"It was you who took my bra." I said sitting on the floor. She barked happily.
"Snowball, that means, I threw books and a hairdryer at him for no good reason." I said to her.
"Don't forget he took advantage of you last night." I heard a voice in the back of my mind saying.
I looked at the dog and got up. I poured out her breakfast and started to cook breakfast for everyone. I turned on the radio and Winter Wonderland had come on. I smiled and got some eggs, milk etc out from the fridge. Singing along to the music I flipped the pancakes over. And waited for them. I went over to where I was making the hash browns, sausage, and bacon. Checking on them I started to set the table.
Getting a picture of orange juice and milk out I set them in the middle. Walking over to the stairs I called up and told everyone to get down. It was only eight, but I had a big thing planned. I wasn't going to break down on this because it was my own little secret. When I was little I would sneak out on Christmas Eve exactly nine every night. I would go to this place where I would light a candle and make a wish and blow it out.
I had gotten my wish one year, but lost it six months later. I wished for my mother to become pregnant and she did, but then six months later she had fallen down the stairs at work, no cross that a man had pushed her down the stairs causing her to lose the baby, but enough about that. I putting everything onto plates as everyone started piling down in here and sitting down at the table. It was amazing how we fit everyone at it. Soon everyone down and Matt came up to me sitting. I smiled and set down a bowl of food for him of course it was dog food.
I leaned against the counter eating my food. I didn't want to sit next to pervert Troy. Everyone was done and now just having coffee. I was washing the dishes and putting them away.
"So, Gabriella, what are we doing today?" Taylor's mom asked me.
"Well, what I have planned is what I did every Christmas Eve when I was little." I said drying the last pot and putting it away.
"That wish thing?" Troy asked me. I forgot that I told Troy everything when I was little.
"What wish thing?" Kelsi asked Troy.
"Mention it Bolton and there will be a pot at your head." I warned him. I could see him shutting up.
"You'll see when we get there. Now go get dressed because we have a long way to go." I said smiling at them. Everyone got up and went to get dressed. I went to the front of the house and slid on my boots without the heels on. Putting on my coat everyone was heading down. We all got our coats on and I yelled for snowball. Hooking the leash onto her collar I waited for Troy to get Matt leashed. Finally we went out the door. It stopped snowing sometime last night, but it was still cloudy and cold at that. An hour had passed and we were still walking. Snowball trying to run ahead I had to keep up with her so I started running along with her.
It was hard since the snow was up to my knees, but I managed. In a plastic bag I had brought with me were 20 candles and a lighter.
"Snowball, slow down." I said laughing and she slowed down. Under the snow making a tunnel I looked for her. I finally found her and picked her up. Turning around I waited for the whole gang.
"What's wrong Montez? Are you going to cry and run home again?" MR Bolton said to me. I looked at him shocked and so did everyone else.
"Jack, don't say that." Mrs. Bolton said smacking her husbands arm. I looked at Troy who was avoiding me.
"Um, no I was just going to say that we only have a little bit more to go." I said looking at him. Now I was pissed. I turned and started walking with snowball in my arms.
"Wait, Gabi." I heard Sharpay running towards me. We linked arms and started talking.
"You ok?" she asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I asked her.
"Well, what Mr. Bolton said was harsh."
"Doesn't matter, he always hated me. I remember when I was little he would always ask his mom what was that girl doing here? I got use to it, guess I never expected him to insult me in front of everyone.
"Well, if it makes you happy none of the parents are talking to him." She said smiling at me.
"Well, all I want for Christmas is for him to be gone." I said.
"Hey, so where are we going?" she asked wiggling her eyes.
"I am not telling." I said unlinking our arms and setting Snowball down and then linking our arms again.
"Ok, well how much longer?"
"Eh five minutes." I said.
"What movie tonight?"
"Polar express" I said automatically.
"You love that movie."
"Duh, it teaches a boy that Santa is real. I don't know, but every time I watch it gives me a joy feeling." I said smiling.
"Me too."
"Look, we're here." I said unlinking our arms and walking over where a bunch of trees were. I went through some of the branches. The last time I remember being in it was a long time ago. I was kind of inside the tree, but then I wasn't. I was only begins the leaves and things. Pushing some of the branches away and waved for everyone to come in.
I told everyone to sit on a branch since they were thick. I handed everyone a candle.
"So when I was little I would sneak away from home at nine PM every time on Christmas Eve, before the accident. I would light a candle and make a wish, but before I would blow it out I would talk to the wind. Weird yes, but hey my wished came true. It was like there was a Santa listening to my every word." I said getting out the lighter.
"OH please, little girl we all know Santa Claus is a story. He's fake." MR Bolton said standing up.
"This is stupid." He then added.
"Ok, that is the third time he called one of us kid or little." Sharpay said standing up form her branch. I saw Chad trying to stop her, but not succeeding.
"You little rat; you never ever will call one of us little or kid! We are adults! And there is a such thing as Santa!" Sharpay yelled. Mr. Bolton taken by surprise sat back down. Sharpay happy with herself clapped her hands and sat on her branch.
"Go on." She said smiling. I laughed.
"Ok, so what I had planned was lighting our candles and telling each other Christmas stories. I thought it would be fun and then we could make our wish and blow the candles out." I said lighting everyone's candle. Once I was done I lighted my own candle and sat next to Zeke on the branch.
"So who wants to start?" I asked.
Mrs. Neilson raised her hand and started to tell a story of when Kelsi was little. The stories went on and we had been out for five hours now. Thinking it was enough I told everyone to make a wish and blow their candle out. Me with my candle still lit and everyone else's blown out I closed my eyes wishing a merry Christmas and blowing it out. Everyone put there candle in the plastic bag and I stood at a cliff with everyone. Letting the bag go I walked away with everyone else.
"That was so much fun." Ryan said.
"Told you." I said smiling. The parents were behind us and all the 'adults' as sharpay called us walked ahead.
"So polar express will be on at eight and we'll have everyone be in the room by 7:50." Kelsi said.
"Yea that will be and then we can have dinner started by five? We can have desert and coffee out in the living room during the movie." I said.
"Yeah, but Troy if your father doesn't want to watch a kid movie with us then tell him he can go to bed for all we care." Zeke said. I looked at Troy. First time I did all day since this morning. What were we going to do? Well I knew one thing I was going to stay mad. I mean how many times was my heart broken in this month alone? It took us another hour to get back to the hour.
Once we got home it was around 4:30 so the girls and I went straight to cooking the parents and guys were to sit in the living room. Finally we were done and set the dinner out. I sat next to Troy, but didn't talk to him.
"No, I think its next month when that happens." I said to Taylor.
"Wait, what are we doing for new years?" Chad asked eating some of his corn.
"Uh, I don't know about you guys, but we want to start baby making." Ryan answered.
"Ryan, do not say that." His mother complained.
"What its true." He said. She shook her head and we all laughed.
"Congrats Kelsi." I said looking at her.
"Thank you."
I could see Troy doing something under the table, but I wasn't going to bother. Soon my phone started beeping. I wiped my mouth with my napkin and got up and went over to the counter. Looking at my phone I opened the text message I got. Reading it I looked at Troy. I put my phone and went upstairs saying excuse me, then with Troy following we went into my room.
"What do you want?" I asked him as he closed my door.
"Listen I just wanted to let you know I'm sorry for what my father said earlier." He said to me.
"Well, Troy it's what people say. Like father, like son." I said letting the words rolling off my tongue.
"Don't ever compare me to my father." He said angrily.
"Why will bad Troy come out, because I would like to see him. Maybe he'll be better then you." I said taking a step forward.
"Shut up. I mean it Gabriella do not compare me to him."
"What? You are alike. You like basketball and he likes basketball. Also you're a prick and so is he." I said.
Before I knew it Troy's hand was wrapped around my neck, but he wasn't squeezing it.
"Oh, and you both have tempers." I said smiling. I wasn't afraid of him…ok maybe I was, but he wouldn't hurt a fly. I took his hand off of m y neck and turned around starching his neck.
"Look, all I wanted to do was say sorry. Also I just wanted to know if we could have another chance in us." He asked turning around.
"Bolton, I said before…no." I said walking out the door.
"Ok, who's ready to watch polar express!" I yelled running down the stairs.
"I am!" Taylor and Sharpay said yelling standing up.
"Me too!" Chad said. We all gathered up into the living room and watched the movie. Feeling the tingling run through me as the little boy shook the bell of Santa's slay. Not hearing the ringing he looked at it. Jack Bolton wasn't here because he didn't feel like watching the stupid movie. Troy had sat in the couch as I sat on the floor watching the movie.
The credits were now on and I looked at everyone. They were all asleep. I laughed. How come we all spent more time sleeping down here instead of our beds? I got up and turned off the T.V. getting blankets and putting them on everyone I lit a fire. Automatically Snowball climbed out from under the tree and went to the fire and fell asleep next to it.
I went to my bed and fell asleep trying to think of an idea for tomorrow.
A/N Ok so I hope some people are still reading this! Now in the next chapter I'm thinking of skipping a week or maybe six days, but I would be explaining it in the beginning what they did. So if I do it'll be the 20th. Thank you all who reviewed the last chapter that was re-done!