J O U R N E Y
Chapter 4: Move In and Get Out
Written by: BeneathTheSurface
Summary: Sequel to E X T R A H E L P. Twenty nine year old Gabriella Montez and her girlfriend twenty two year old Sharpay Evans are making a new chapter in their lives. Gabpay; femslash; GabriellaxSharpay
"Just place that over there," Sharpay instructed the movers who were bringing in hers and Gabriella's furniture into the new penthouse. They went back to Boston to decide what they were bringing from each apartment; that way they'll have a little piece of themselves in the new place.
Sharpay was there supervising while Gabriella was out, running around even though they didn't need anything, but she felt that that she was being lazy so she just wanted to do something. Sharpay took full control of the whole move; not wanting Gabriella to really do anything, which drove the Hispanic woman crazy.
As the movers continued to move their things into the place, her phone began to ring. She retrieved it from her pocket and flipped it open "Hey baby," she answered.
"Hey do we need anything from Home Depot?" Gabriella asked into her phone, already in the store.
"No, Gabriella we don't needed anything until everything is officially placed into the apartment," Sharpay replied laughing slightly.
"I know, but I feel like I should do something," Gabriella whined on the other end, making Sharpay giggle.
She sighed. "Okay I'll tell you what, why don't you make three spare keys for the place and then come back. If I think of anything we need, I'll send you out, all right?"
"Okay I'll see you when I get there, love you," Gabriella said.
"Love you too," and hung up, just as someone knocked on the door pane. Sharpay turned around to see Martin making her smile. She walked towards him, pulling him into a soft embrace pulling him into the place.
"Wow I didn't know you bought this, I mean I knew, but I didn't think it was this beautiful," he commented, scaling the place with his brown eyes.
"Well do you expect anything less?" she asked sarcastically, folding her arms across her chest.
"Never," she heard from the door to see her brother, Ryan and Chad standing by the door.
"Oh my God," she said with a wide smile running up to him jumping into his arms. "I missed you Ry," she whispered, finally getting out of his arms.
"I missed you too," he told her with a smile. She averted her eyes to Chad who had a smile on his face. It was sort of awkward between them, even after four years, but really they haven't tried much to fix things. Sharpay wanted to try since her brother has been with him for four years and it has seemed like he's changed and maybe that's what it took. She believed she's changed because of Gabriella, so maybe he changed because of her brother.
"Hey Chad," she said quietly, hugging him which she could tell surprised him, but when he placed his arms around her, she knew that they'd be able to work things out.
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"Thank you," Gabriella said to the doorman, as she walked into the building of hers and Sharpay's place.
Mine and Sharpay's place, sounds so great to hear, she thought as she walked towards the elevator.
She pressed the button as the doors opened, she walked in and pressed the button for floor 10, then the doors began to close.
"Wait, hold the doors!" someone yelled causing her to hold her arm out to stop them as a woman about her age, blonde, came running up to the elevator.
"Thank you so much," she breathed out after walking into the elevator.
"Oh no problem, what floor?" Gabriella asked, getting ready to press the floor number.
"Oh you already pressed it 10," she gestured to the button. Gabriella nodded, folding her arms across her chest, waiting for the doors to open.
"So you just move in here?" the woman asked her; she nodded.
"Yeah we're still moving things in, just went out to pick up some spare keys," Gabriella replied, holding the bag from Home Depot.
"Oh that's cool, yeah my boyfriend and I just moved in like a month ago and we're very happy with it. You and your husband or boyfriend will enjoy it too," she told her with a smile.
Gabriella was pretty sure she shouldn't mention that she doesn't have a boyfriend, but a girlfriend. This woman seemed to be narrow minded from what she could tell, so she'll keep that detail out of their small conversation.
"I'm pretty sure we will too," Gabriella agreed as the doors opened. They walked out going in opposite directions. Gabriella walked towards the door to see Sharpay outside in the hall, just hanging up her phone when she saw her girlfriend come towards her.
"Got your keys," she told her kissing her lightly on the lips, not realizing that it was a bad thing…
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Gabriella walked into the penthouse to see the three men there socializing on the couch and loveseat. "Um excuse me this is my place who said you could be here?" she joked causing Ryan and Chad to look up at her.
Ryan got up first to walk towards the woman, pulling her into a hug "Okay I still can't get over you being my sister's girlfriend being that you were my teacher first," he commented looking at her, making her laugh slightly.
"You will and hopefully I'll be more soon," she whispered to him, making his eyes widen.
"Wait are you gonna propose?" he asked her curiously.
She sighed. "If your sister doesn't do it first. Ryan I'm almost thirty, time is catching up with me and I want to be able to have a family and be married by the time I'm thirty-five at least," she told him.
He smiled, grabbing a hold of her hands, grasping them tightly "I have a feeling you'll get that, no doubt. My sister has never felt so strongly for someone before you and the thought of not spending the rest of her life with you would be unthinkable. You have nothing to worry about Gabriella," he told her in a sincere way.
"Thanks Ryan," she told him, hugging him tightly. "And how can I forget Mr. Basketball Star?" she said after pulling away from the blonde man to see darker man standing near them.
"Hey Gabriella," he said, pulling her into him as she hugged him tightly. "Can I actually talk to you for a few minutes?" he asked in a serious tone. She hoped nothing terrible was wrong between him and Ryan because they were amazing together, so hopefully that wasn't it.
They walked into the spare room and shut the door behind them, sitting on the other couch in there that was in Gabriella's apartment back in Boston. "What's up?" she asked him in a concerned tone.
"I just want to know if Sharpay hates me in anyway. I know I disrespected her a great deal back in high school, but I just want to know if she forgave me for what I did. The things I said, the things I did; that's not me anymore," he explained to her.
"Chad, I really think she has. She knows that people can change and though you didn't apologize to her face it doesn't mean she doesn't forgive you. I think she's happy that you are able to make her brother happy for these last four years. You're right that that's not you anymore and I'm glad," she told him as he nodded slowly at each word she said.
"I think I'm gonna talk to her about it. I want to make it less awkward every time I see her. I think we both need the closure," he told her, making her smile.
"Good, so how's basketball going?" she asked him, causing him to let out a deep sigh, then smile up at her.
"It's going really well," he told her, even though she somehow knew he was lying, but she let it go anyway, when a knock was heard at the door and Sharpay opened the door.
"Hey, oh did I interrupt anything?" she asked; they shook their heads. "Okay well um…Gabriella, the movers are done, would you like to go grab some food with me for these three wonderful looking gay men?" she asked, making them both laugh slightly.
"Absolutely, but Chad would like to speak with you before we go," Gabriella replied, patting Chad's leg, then got up and kissed Sharpay lightly before walking out of the room, shutting the door behind her.
"So what's up?" Sharpay asked. Chad got up and walked towards her, standing in front of her.
"Sharpay, I'm so sorry for everything I did to you. It was uncalled for and I just am sorry that I disrespected you like that," Chad apologized, making her nod with a small smile.
"I accept your apology. I already forgave you Chad. It was high school; people do stupid things in high school, but just seeing you with my brother made me forgive you right away. You make him so happy and I'm proud to call you my future brother in law," she told him, making him smile wide.
"Yeah me too, even though we did have a lot of sex," he told her, making her roll her eyes.
"Yeah let's not relive those memories," she said laughing slightly, making him laugh and agree. They pulled each other into a friendly hug, staying like that for a few minutes before pulling away and looking at each other with smiles.
"Shar?" he asked. "You never told her about—,"
She shook her head quickly. "No absolutely not. You didn't tell Ryan—,"
"No," he whispered, looking down at the floor, taking a deep breath and letting it out.
"It'll be okay. It was junior year, we won't have to worry," she told him as he agreed that, that secret will stay a secret; it was high school; it's dead and buried…
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Sharpay and Gabriella walked back into the lobby of their home, with three bags full of Burger King. They pressed the button to get into the elevator as the doors opened someone walked behind them, getting in as well; it was the same woman from earlier that Gabriella met.
"What floor?" Sharpay asked politely to the woman, who just replied.
"Same…" Gabriella wasn't really sure what changed from earlier that day, but whatever it was pissed her off. "Unfortunately," she heard the woman whisper.
"Pardon?" Gabriella asked her, knowing she was getting pissed off by the woman. The woman looked at her with a stern glare.
"I said it's unfortunate that I have the same floor as you two," she replied, confusing Sharpay, but she was pretty sure Gabriella understood. Gabriella handed the bag she was holding to her girlfriend who just watched on at the scene.
"Why?" Gabriella asked giving her just as an intense glare.
"Because I don't want to share a floor with fags like you," she told her, causing Gabriella to lunge at her as the doors opened. Sharpay placed the food down and grabbed Gabriella from around the waist to pull her off of her.
"What the fuck did you call me!?" she shouted with her face a deep red.
"Control your fag, Blondie," the woman said. Gabriella struggled against Sharpay's grasp as the woman began walking to her apartment.
"Let go Sharpay!" she shouted to her girlfriend.
"She's not worth it," she whispered into her ear, continuously until Gabriella calmed. When she heard Gabriella's breathing was at a regular speed, she let go of her as Gabriella stormed down to their place, leaving Sharpay to grab the food and walk after her.
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Gabriella pushed the door open, storming in, slamming her keys down on the table then stormed into hers and Sharpay's room, slamming the door behind her. Sharpay soon followed into their place as the three men looked at her with curious eyes.
"Here's, your food guys," she said placing the food on the table "I'll be back," she added before walking over to hers and Gabriella's bedroom.
She opened the door to see Gabriella laying on their mattress, curled up facing away from the bathroom. Sharpay walked further into the room, closing it behind her gently. She made her way next to Gabriella, laying down on the bed, pulling Gabriella into her until she heard a sob slip out from the Hispanic woman.
She turned around to face the blonde with tears, running down her face as Sharpay held her close. Sharpay pulled her into her embrace even more, so she could have Gabriella hold her as well. She tangled her legs with the blonde's, crying into her shirt. She just didn't understand why some people could be so cruel. She did nothing, but love another woman, what's so wrong about that?
"I just don't understand," she whispered into her girlfriend's chest.
"I know, but people can be disrespectful like that. They don't care who they hurt in the process, just as long as they're right," Sharpay responded, as she rubbed circles on the brunette's back.
"But it still doesn't make it okay, we haven't done anything wrong, I mean we never had this problem before," Gabriella said.
"Maybe not to our faces, but people get it much worse. We're the lucky ones to have parents and friends who are accepting; we're lucky. Let people like her be as narrow minded as they want it doesn't change how I feel about you, understand?" Sharpay told her looking deep into Gabriella's brown, glassy eyes; she nodded, then pulled herself back into Sharpay's chest, enjoying the comfort.
Sharpay just prayed that there weren't as many narrow minded people in the world that her career could fall apart, her family, and worst her relationship with the most amazing person in the world.
Yeah I updated :) but first off there is nothing I hate more their narrow minded people, so I just wanted to show that their relationship isn't perfect and that people like that woman are everywhere and where you least expect it. I think Gabriella reacted exactly the way I would have...
Anyway, what secret do you think Sharpay and Chad were talking about? Find out later.lol So um...thank you for the reviews previously and I hope you continue to read and please review on this chapter and let me know what you think; Thanks.
