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Chapter 10: Happy

Got my dreams, got my life, got my love

Got my friends, got the sunshine above

Why am I making this hard on myself

When there's so many beautiful reasons I have to be

Happy

The next two weeks flew by rather quickly for the Wildcats. Everyone continued with their normal activities of golf, track-and-field, music, baking, and the decathlon. All of them were as excited about going to Florida as Sharpay was excited about Paris.

There was one incident when Sharpay found out that Troy was going to Florida. Well, she didn't mind hearing that because as much as she wanted Troy for herself, she had been looking forward to this trip for years and years. She wasn't really that upset until she heard that he wasn't going alone, but he was also going with Gabriella and the rest of their group.

She desperately tried to make her parents see the light in why she had to go to Florida instead of Paris. They didn't relent to her pleading and told her that a nice shopping spree would be just the ticket to feeling better. When she heard the words "shopping spree" her fire had been renewed, and although she still wanted to go on to Florida, the thought of all the new outfits she was going to get overrode them.

The day before they left, everyone did some major packing. Taylor finished early and went to help Gabriella with her stuff.

"Oh, don't forget to bring that nice red dress that you wore during the championship game. My parents said that we were going to go to a fancy restaurant one night…and Troy will probably faint of shock when he sees you."

Gabriella laughed. "Taylor." She continued to talk to Taylor as she kept on packing. "How great is this, Tay? We get to go to one of the coolest places on the planet together."

"I know. I can't believe that our parents arranged for all of this to happen. Too bad my parents can't come. My dad has to work at the hospital, and my mom has to stay here and do a few more cases." Taylor's mom was a judge.

"It's all right, Tay. No one's parents are going except for Troy's and mine. It's not like we're going by ourselves."

"I know. Although I hope they won't be accompanying us while we're at the parks. That wouldn't be as much fun."

Gabriella's phone rang a familiar ring tone, and she answered it immediately. "Hey, Wildcat."

"Hey, are you almost done with your packing?"

"Yeah. Almost. Taylor's over here helping me."

"Did she tell you to bring that red dress that you wore the night of the championship game, because I really, really liked that one."

"Yes, she told me, Troy."

"Yes! Tell her thank you."

She laughed. "Tay, Troy says thank you for telling me to pack the red dress."

"You're welcome!" Taylor yelled for Troy to hear.

"Are you almost done packing, Troy? And don't forget to pack a tux for the fancy dinner that we're going to."

"Brie, don't worry; I packed it. And besides, I'm a guy. Guys don't need to pack as many things as girls do. It's just the way life is. Like how we don't take an hour to get ready for the day."

"Hey, I know that I don't dress as fashionably as Sharpay, but I take pride in my wardrobe and hair."

"Oh, I never said that I didn't like it. I love the way that you look. And just as a side note, if you dressed like Sharpay, I wouldn't be dating you."

"Oh, don't worry. I love performing, but not the way Sharpay loves it. Everything she wears has to make a fashion statement. Someone asked her if she had ever worn anything that wasn't designed by someone, but her response was 'That is an insult. Even my diapers were designed.'"

"I wouldn't be surprised. Well, I'll let you get back to your packing. Wouldn't want you late for our flight tomorrow. I can't believe that we have to wake up so early. I'd be surprised if Chad doesn't even show."

"Of course he'll show. It's all he's been talking about since Valentine's Day. Don't you dare miss that flight, Troy Bolton."

"And miss a whole week of hanging out with you? No way."

"All right, Wildcat. I'll see you tomorrow bright and early."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Gabriella and the rest of the Wildcats, despite the fact that it was five o 'clock in the morning, were excitedly making their way through the airport in Albuquerque with their parents close behind. Everyone but Gabriella seemed to be having an already great time, and they were only at the airport.

Taylor told everyone that she was bringing her laptop and a few text books so that they wouldn't get behind.

"Why do you have to take the fun out of vacation?" Chad complained to her.

Kelsi spoke up. "At least you can bring something that's important to you. I don't think the captain will let me bring my piano on the plane."

"You don't need any of those just to dance." Martha added.

"Hey, I brought some new pastries that I wanted everyone to test out." Zeke said.

"Oh, I'm down with that!" Jason replied whole-heartedly.

"Hey, Brie, I downloaded a bunch of new songs on my iPod that we can listen to on the trip."

"Thanks, Troy. I brought a few books as well."

They waited patiently for their plane to be called. Finally, the attendant made the call for everyone to board the plane. All of the Wildcats entered the plane excitedly. Jack, Lucille, and Maria smiled, obviously pleased with themselves that they had thought of this perfect present for the kids.

They all got aboard the plane and took their seats. The way the seating arrangements were made, they were almost uncanny. Troy and Gabriella were sitting next to Chad and Taylor; Jason and Kelsi were sitting with Zeke and Matha; and the adults were across the aisle from them.

The flight would take only a few hours. Chad and Taylor were arguing about how books ruined everything; Zeke was sharing a few cookie recipes with Martha; Kelsi was trying to explain to Jason what they would be doing in Florida; Jack was apparently preparing himself for the long week and was taking a nap; Lucille and Maria were talking amongst themselves about their children and their relationship; Troy and Gabriella were listening to Troy's iPod.

"I do not understand why they haven't killed each other yet." Troy said looking at a bickering Chad and Taylor. "If they get married, I'm not going to U of A."

"U of A?"

"University of Albuquerque. The Red Hawks. It's always been a dream of mine to play for them. They're my favorite college team. I really want to go there for college. Where do you want to go?"

"The college that I've been working towards is Stanford."

Troy was impressed. "Wow. That's a huge college."

"Yeah, it is. We've been talking about it for as long as I can remember. I guess that's partly why I'm so focused on my grades. Plus all of the moves."

"So how many miles is it away from Albuquerque?"

"Um…I haven't really thought about it, but I'm pretty sure that it's over a thousand miles."

"Interesting. Oh, I love this song. Listen."

She listened and smiled. It was the song that he sang for her on their first date.

When the song ended Troy asked her, "So who sings it better?"

"Well, Ben Harper is pretty good, but I really liked the way you sang it."

"Are you just saying that because I'm your boyfriend?"

"No, I love your voice, and I really love listening to your voice. I could listen to it forever." Her eyes widened when she realized what she had just told him. "I mean, I really like your voice. It's really good."

"It's okay, Brie. I could listen to your voice forever too. I love it."

She breathed a sigh of relief glad that the tension was gone. "Thank you." She yawned and leaned her head on Troy's shoulder while the music lulled her to sleep.

Troy noticed that she was asleep and took to heart what she had said about his voice. He looked over his shoulder and whispered to Kelsi careful not to shift Gabriella.

"Kels. Pst!" He waited for Kelsi to look at him.

"Hey." She replied rather loudly. She was shushed by Troy. "Sorry. Why are we whispering?"

"Do you know how to make a CD?"

"I have a few recording stuff at my house for when I get inspired. Why?"

Troy shared his plan with Kelsi. "You really want to do that?"

"Yeah. She said that she really likes it when I sing to her. We can do it over the summer. But I need you to find a song for me. If I give you the title can you find it? If you can't find it, can I sing it for you and can you figure out the chords and notes?"

"I'll do my best."

"All right. I'll talk to you more about it later. I think I'm going to follow Brie and my dad's examples. I'm beat."

"All right."

Troy settled into his seat and shifted his position so that he could better support Gabriella's head and be more comfortable. He smiled when he saw that he hadn't woken her up, before he drifted off to sleep.

The Wildcats walked into the resort at Walt Disney World and admired the lobby. It was beautiful. They waited excitedly as the adults got the room keys.

"All right. The girls will be in room 1214; the boys will be in 1215; Maria will be in room 1216; and Jack and I will be in room 1217." Lucille explained to everyone. She handed Troy and Gabriella the room keys, and they made their way up to their rooms.

The all hurried through the hallways looking like little kids. They all reached their rooms and the boys and girls went to their separate temporary homes.

"Guys, there is a kitchen and a fridge!" Chad exclaimed. "Yes! We can just get groceries and Zeke can cook for us!"

"Hey, what am I, your personal chef?"

"Yes, man. What else?"

Troy interrupted them. "Hey, guys. Let's get all settled and go to one of the parks."

"All right." Chad said reluctantly closing the refrigerator.

The Wildcats went to the lobby and tried to decide which park to go to first. The concierge recommended that they go to the smallest park first. They all agreed since the day was almost done anyways. They all took the tram to Hollywood Studios. The adults had told them to go ahead without them, so they went inside with their park hoppers.

"Hey, look, mine has Mickey Mouse on it." Jason said pointing to the picture on his park hopper clearly entertained.

"What the heck?!" Chad exclaimed. "Mine has Belle!"

They all laughed at Chad but soon stopped and marveled at the sight that awaited them.

Gabriella pointed to a cart. "Hey, guys, look at this! They have those Disney pins over here. Oh, here's Tinker Bell and The Chronicles of Narnia and oh, here's one, I've never seen it before, it says High School Mu—"

Chad cut her off. "Dude, check out the giant hat!" They all looked straight ahead of them and saw the giant hat.

They all walked to it and stared.

"Would you all like a picture?"

They turned around and saw one of the photographers of the park.

"Yes, please." Martha said.

"All right, ready, one…two…three!"

They all posed and the photographer handed them the ticket for their picture.

"So where do you guys want to go?" Troy asked them as he pulled out the map.

"Dude, we have to absolutely without a doubt have to go to the Tower of Terror." Chad said determinedly.

"Oh, we can also go to that Rock 'n' Roller Coaster. It's right next to it." Zeke said.

"Hold on, guys." Taylor told them. "We should get those fast passes. Those rides will take forever to wait for. Let's go get the fast passes and then come back and go to that movie ride over there." She pointed in the direction of a Chinese looking building.

"Well, all right. Let's go." Chad exclaimed.

"Oh, we should go to Fantasmic at eight-thirty." Gabriella said pointing to the map.

"Gabs, do we have to see a show?" Chad complained.

"Oh, come on. It looks pretty good."

All of them looked skeptical. "Oh, fine." She said defeated.

"I'll go with you, Brie." Troy offered.

"Really?" She asked.

"Yeah. It looks pretty cool."

Chad coughed something that sounded like the word "whipped."

Troy, Gabriella, and Taylor glared at him. Taylor whacked him on the back of the head. "You are so inconsiderate! I think that it's sweet that Troy will go with her when none of us will."

Chad looked taken aback. "When I said 'whipped' I meant sweet." He tried to convince her. "All right, we'll go, but can we go to the ten o' clock showing so that we can get more stuff done? The park closes at ten so that shouldn't interfere with any of rides." Taylor smirked.

"Who's whipped now?" Zeke teased.

"Shut up, Zeke!" Chad said.

Gabriella smiled and heartily agreed to Chad's idea. She thought it would be fun if they all saw it together, and she knew that Chad would like the show. They could get more stuff done. Besides, it wasn't like this wasn't the last time they would be coming to this park. They still had the rest of the week.

They all went over to the fast pass ticket booth and got their fast passes for later in the day.

"All right, let's go over to the Movie Ride."

They all weaved their way through the crowds and finally got to their first ride and waited patiently in line.

"Hey, guys look. It's a horse from 'Mary Poppins Merry-Go-Round."

"And here is Susan's clothes from 'The Chronicles of Narnia.'"

"I guess this ride is sort've old now." Troy mentioned.

"Why would you say that, Troy?"

"Well, look, we're already here." Sure enough, they all turned around and saw that they had reached the car for the ride.

They were able to get the first two rows and waited while the guide got into the car.

A man got up to the front of the car. "Hello, I am your tour guide Bob. Just Bob. You'd think that they'd give me a really fancy Hollywood name like Zac Efron or Corbin Bleu, but no, it's just…Bob." He hung his head before he laughed. "Just kidding. I love my name. It's so simple and easy to remember."

He pointed to Chad sitting right in front of him. "Hey, man. I like your hair. How did you get it like that? Did a chia pet die on your head or did you walk into the barber's shop and asked him to make it look like the bush outside the shop?" Chad glared, but the gang laughed knowing how much pride he took in his wild hair. "I'm just kidding. I seriously do like it though, but anyways…

"This is the part when I give a breath-taking speech, so bear with me. In a few moments we will enter into the land of make believe where movies come to life, where fiction becomes facts, where…oh look they gave the okay to go."

He started the car and off they went into the ride. They entered a room. It looked like a 1920's gangster movie. The window shops were broken and gangsters in pin-stripe suits were hiding behind dumpsters and were standing in doorways.

"Oh, hold on, Folks. We're going through a pretty rough neighborhood." He stopped the car.

Gun shots rang through the room. "Duck! We're in the middle of a gun fight!"

Another voice yelled, "They're about to overrun us, Boys! Split up! I'm going to take this car and meet you at headquarters." A mobster went up to Bob. "Get out."

"No, this is my tour."

He pointed a gun to him. "Get out." He said more forcefully.

"Um…all right, Folks. Nothing to worry about. I'll be back." He said in his best terminator voice and ran off.

"All now. How do you work this thing?"

Troy looked at Chad and was amused to see him clutching Taylor's arm for dear life.

The gangster started the car and went through to the next movie set. It was a western movie. They were in a old town, and somewhere, Indians could be heard.

The mobster pulled out his gun and started shooting the air. "Red Necks! Get down!"

They passed through to another room. This room looked like the inside of a pyramid. There was a statue of what seemed to be an Egyptian god. A large ruby was placed at the top of a flight of stairs.

"Hold on." The man stopped the car again and got out. "I'm going to get that big jewel. Nobody leaves the car or else."

He ran up the flight of steps and hesitated before pulling the jewel off. "Hm…I expected some sort of booby trap or something." As soon as he said it, the ground beneath him started smoking and he disappeared, a hooded figure taking his place at the top of the stairs.

The hooded person took off the cloak and thrust it to the side revealing Bob.

"Ah. Don't you love movie magic?" He asked. "All right everyone. Let's get a move on."

The next room they went into was the famous Wizard of Oz set.

"Wow, look at all of these munchkins! They must not be used to seeing hair that looks like the flying monkeys." He gestured at Chad again, and Chad laughed along with everyone else. "We'd better go before we run into the Wicked Witch of the—uh oh. Too late."

The Witch of the West came out. "Let's go before she sets fire to this guy's hair."

They passed through a "Mary Poppins" set and a "Dancing in the Rain" before they arrived in a dark room. "Ladies and Gentlemen, our tour is almost at a conclusion, but let's take a look at the screen and relive some movie magic."

Everyone turned their attention to the screen and watched as a collage of films. When it was done, they were back at the entrance.

"Well, that's it for the movie ride. We thank you for joining us and hope that you have a wonderful time at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Have a good day."

The gang went back outside and decided that they'd go to the Star Wars ride before they got their dinner and went to the roller coaster rides before they went to the show.

"That dude's jokes were terrible!" Chad said.

"On the contrary they were hilarious! You're only mad because they were all about you." Jason retorted.

"No, there were some really corny ones too."

"They're tour guides. We're going to have them all week. They're great!"

Chad came out of the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster not feeling too good. "That roller coaster was awesome!" He yelled.

"Glad that you enjoyed yourself." Taylor said.

"Hey, guys, let's go. We have to get to the Tower of Terror before eight thirty." Gabriella urged.

"But Gabs, the show isn't till ten." Chad complained in a five-year-old voice.

"So? We want to get good seats. Don't we?"

Everyone nodded and they made their way to the Tower of Terror.

Gabriella held Troy's hand as they made their way through the line.

"You okay, Brie?"

"Yeah. I'm good. It's just that I hate it when Rod Sterling does that voice. It really creeps me out." The other girls nodded in agreement.

"Okay…do you guys want the front?" Zeke asked.

"They don't have a choice Zeke." Chad said in an evil voice. "We're in the Twilight Zone. No one has a choice."

"Chad, do not do that!" Taylor smacked his arm.

"Ow! Just having a Rod Sterling moment."

"Well, it's creepy…and corny."

They all filed into the elevator. They were given the usual warning of keeping hands and feet inside the elevator at all times and with that, the ride commenced.

"That was the scariest…best ride ever!" Kelsi exclaimed.

Everyone agreed.

"Time to get seated." Troy told them. They made their way to the Fantasmic courtyard. They were the first ones there.

"Way to go, Gabs. No one's here."

"Shut up, Chad. You're going to thank me for this later." Gabriella retorted.

They waited for half an hour before an attendant let them get choose their seats.

They waited patiently as seats filled with people. At ten o'clock the lights dimmed and the music started.

They watched as the "Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Little Mermaid", "Snow White", and a whole assortment of Disney Villains were put into a Medley.

At the end of the show Chad went up to Gabriella. "Gabs, I owe you a huge apology. That was the…best, most amazing show in the world! It was so cool when Mickey fought that dragon and when the princesses came out and danced with their princes."

Everyone stared at him. "I-I mean when all of those animals came out and danced."

"Apology accepted, Chad." She laughed and threw Troy a knowing look. So far, this vacation was turning out to be the best one ever. This really was the happiest place on earth.

A/N: All right. They're on vacation now. I really enjoyed this episode. It was fun to write. I know that I didn't really dwell on the weeks before this, but I wanted to get to this chapter. Sorry I haven't updated in a little while. I had to do some last minute work for my Honor's English Class. Anyways, school starts nexst week for me, so I will try my best to update. Thanks. Please Review. :)