Camp Counselors

Chapter 2

A Troyella Love Story

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I own no characters besides the ones I have created. All characters belong to their rightful owners.

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Gabriella shifted in her sleep once or twice before she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes looked to her right and she saw her mom sitting on a chair right by her bed. Gabriella was confused. She thought to herself. "Why is my mom here? What happened… oh my gosh… the bee! Troy! Where was he?" These were all questions that Gabriella needed to have answers to.

"Mom?"

Hey mother shifted in her seat. "Oh, Gabriella! Are you alright, sweetie?" Her mom asked and moved the hair out of Gabriella's eyes.

"Yes mom, I think so…" Gabriella saw a nurse coming forward and she stopped what she was saying.

"Aw, Miss Montez. How are we doing?" She grabbed Gabriella's wrist and checked for her pulse. "I think I'm okay… Miss? Where's Troy?" Gabriella sat up in her bed and looked around the room.

Gabriella's mom had a puzzled look on her face. "Who's Troy? I just got a cal that she got stung by a bee, nothing about a Troy?" She said again looking even more puzzled.

"Oh, don't worry Miss Montez, Troy Bolton is the one who saved your daughters life… they are gonna be camp counselors together, this summer. They were going through the woods supposedly, and she got stung."

Gabriella looked at the nurse again with a worried look.

The nurse nodded her head. "Yes, Gabriella.. Troy is just getting some food for the both of you… he knew you would be waking up soon and he thought you would be hungry." The nurse smiled and walked off.

Gabriella nodded her head and looked down a little confused….wow, she thought. Troy has done a lot for her. And they just met. She owes her life to him… then again if he wouldn't of taken her to the woods, she wouldn't had gotten stung! She laughed mentally and just shrugged it off.

Suddenly a door swinged open and Gabriella looked to her right. Troy was walking in with a tray of food and drinks. He set the food on the table and looked up.

"Hey, your awake." He said softly and smiled and walked over to her bed.

"Troy, this is my mom, Maria… mom… Troy" She greeted them both.

Miss Montez stood up and shook Troy's hand. "Thank you so much for helping my daughter, Troy." She smiled dropped his hands.

"Oh, don't worry about it Miss Montez…" He smiled and sat on Gabriella's bed. "Are you hungry? I got food for us." He smiled again. And Gabriella smiled back. About two more seconds passed before Gabriella grinned and jumped on Troy. She wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him tight.

"Thank you… thank you." she mumbled into his neck. Troy just chuckled and hugged her back. "Gabriella, if I knew you were gonna be thanking me every second after this… I would have just left you there." Gabriella pulled back and gave him a mean look.

"Hey!" She accused.

"Just kidding!" he said quickly and put his arms up, then he stood up. "I'll get the food." He walked off to the table.

"Darling, I have to leave to work now, are you gonna be alright?" Miss Montez asked her daughter.

"Yes mom, I'm fine… I'll be home soon." Gabriella smiled.

Miss Montez smiled back and bent down to kiss her on the forehead and walked away. "Goodbye, Troy.'

Troy looked up from the food and turned. "Bye Miss Montez." He smiled and grabbed two plates before Miss Montez left the room.

"What time is it?" Gabriella asked and looked at Troy.

He looked at the watch on his left wrist. "About 11:00... You slept for like… an hour!" He said and chuckled, brining the tray to the bed and sitting down.

"Oh, big whoop, an hour! How did you survive without me?" she asked dramatically, laughing and grabbed a sandwich.

"It was hard, let me tell you. I was really bored… but sometimes when your worried, it helps pass the time." he said and took a bite of his sandwich

"You were worried?" Gabriella asked and put down her sandwich.

"Well… yeah. I mean, I got you here in about two minutes and like, every second that went by the more and more your breathing got, and when I got here you passed out. It scared me." Troy looked down and also put his sandwich down.

Gabriella reached over and stroked his cheek. "Oh… Troy, I'm sorry… I didn't mean to scare you."

He looked up and smiled at Gabriella's touch. "Hey… don't worry about it, I'm fine now." Gabriella dropped her hand and picked up her sandwich.

"Thanks for the food." She smiled.

"Your Welcome."

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"Troy! They don't know how to tie a knot! Their five!"

Gabriella and Troy were in the cafeteria eating their food, while trying to figure out what to have the kids do for their next activity. This is their tenth day of counseling and they both love it. They have gotten closer and are good friends… but we both know that they secretly want to be more.

"Okay, well… what do you have In mind?" he asked and ate one of his French fries.

"Okay…" Gabriella thought. "Why don't we have them make a caterpillar out of egg cartons!" Gabriella grinned excitedly.

"Egg cartons? Caterpillars? Gabriella… I'm sorry but that's lame."

"Ugh! You know what? I give up!" She threw her fry on her tray and leaned back in her chair. "And I hate having to wear these stupid outfits!" she said pointing towards her outfit. She was wearing a tight fitting red shirt with a white jacket and a short jean skirt. "I'm sorry but this is so tacky, I want to puke on it!"

Troy chuckled. "Oh, come on you look cute." He looked down at his fry but looked up immediately when he realized what he said. Gabriella folded her arms across her chest and raised an eyebrow.

"I mean… uhh… you look nice." He said

"Nice save." She giggled and got up. "Come on, lets go round up the little boogers." She grabbed her tray and walked off.

Troy grabbed his tray and followed right behind her. He threw his food in the trash and set his tray down.

"You Ready?" He asked, bracing himself.

Gabriella linked arms with him. "Lets go, chunky!" She giggled and started walking.

"Chunky?" He laughed.

"Oh, shut up."

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" I… 2... 3... 4...5... Ready or not, here I come!" Gabriella called out. Her and Troy were playing hide and seek with the kids. Gabriella was 'it' and Troy was hiding with the kids. Gabriella looked under a table. "Gotcha!" Gabriella tickled the sides of a four year old girl, Jessica and pulled her out.

"Aw, man!" Jessica giggled and ran off. About ten more minutes past before Gabriella found everyone… except Troy.

"Be quite kids, just wait… we still have to find Troy." The kids silenced down and Gabriella continued to look everywhere. "Troy! Come out! I think were done!" She took a few more steps before she screamed.

"AHHH!!!" She fell back on her butt and crawled away. "TROY! YOU IDIOT!!!"

Troy crawled out from under the table and started laughing. "Oh my god! That was hilarious!!!" Troy had waited until he saw Gabriella's foot and at the right time he grabbed it and it had frightened her so bad that she fell.

"Ow! Thanks a lot, Troy! You owe my butt an apology!" Troy held out his hand and helped her up. All the kids started laughing.

He laughed again. "Sorry Gabriella's butt." He turned his head toward her backside as he said that and then he laughed again. "Yeah Right." Gabriella said and rubbed her back.

"You guys are excused, see you tomorrow!" She let them run out of the rooms and out to find their parents. She sighed and walked around the room and picking up toys and setting them where their supposed to go.

"Are you really mad at me?" Troy asked. She turned at Troy and smiled. "No, I'm just tired, that's all…" she sighed again and continued to pick up toys.

"Yeah me too…" Troy looked around the room and started to put the little chairs on top of the tables.

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"Oh come on!" Gabriella took the key out of the ignition and laid back in her seat. "This cannot be happening…" she closed her eyes and put her hands on her face. She snapped her head up though, when she heard a knock on her window. Troy was standing their. She rolled down her window.

"Hey…" was all she could say before putting her head in her hands again.

"Hey, are you having car troubles?" He guessed.

She looked up and nodded her head once.

"Come on, I'll give you a ride, its no problem." He smiled.

She smiled back and nodded her head again, then grabbed her purse and stepping out of the truck. She walked with troy in silence to his car. When they got there he held the door open for her and she got in.

Troy sat in the drivers seat. "Gabriella?"

She looked at him. "Yeah, Troy?"

"We may have only known each other for about a week and a half, but I know you enough to know that something is wrong… what is it?"

She sighed and looked down. That's the one thing that irritated her about Troy. He always knew what was up and she hated it. It was like he could read minds and hers was obviously easy to read.

"Its nothing really… Its just my mom…" She took in a shaky breath. "She's has a boyfriend…" Gabriella finally couldn't take it anymore and she broke out in tears. She had kept this bottled up ever since her third day at counseling. She hadn't told anyone. She refused to think about it… until now.

Troy slid over in his seat and got closer to her, wrapping his arm around her shoulder. "Shh… Its okay, don't cry." Gabriella turned in her position and buried her head in his chest. "I'm sorry…" She sniffed and looked away.

"Its just that… my father past away just a year ago." She wiped a tear away. "And she's already over it! God… its not right!" She sniffed again and looked at Troy.

"I'm sorry… I hate pouring all of this out on you… I'll just walk home…" Gabriella was about to open the door and walk out when Troy took her hand.

"Gabriella, no… your not walking, come here." He pulled her away from the door and held her in his arms. She continued to cry and she held on to Troy.

"Its okay, everything will be fine…" Troy rested his head on hers… but not before kissing the top of her head.