A Forced Reunion
A/N: Hey thanks for all the reviews! I'm glad you all liked the last chapter! This chapter I don't really like but I promise I will try and make the next one better! Please R&R!
Chapter 11 – Leaving?
The next morning Gabriella and Ryan were waiting in the airport for their flight with Sharpay, Zeke, Mr & Mrs Evans and Troy. Ryan, Sharpay and Zeke noticed that Troy and Gabriella were hardly talking and avoiding being together. At the minute, Zeke and Troy were wondering around while Mr & Mrs Evans went to get a drink and Sharpay and Ryan were sat next to Gabriella. All the kids were with Chad and Taylor and Jason and Kelsi.
"Ok spill what happened between you two? You and Troy have barely said two words to each other." Ryan asked as Gabriella sighed knowing it must have been obvious to Ryan something was up.
"We both decided since both of us have things we need to be doing and the distance, we needed to break up." Gabriella explained. Ryan looked down sadly knowing how much she hated knowing she had to leave Troy.
"I'm sorry that you have to go through all this for me." Ryan told her.
"Don't worry about it. I'll be fine when we get back home. Come on we have to start boarding now." Gabriella helped Ryan up as they walked towards the others after hearing them call for their plane.
"We have to go now. Bye mom dad. I promise I'll get Gabriella to call as soon as things start getting worse." Ryan assured them as Gabriella hugged Sharpay and Zeke.
"Look after him Gabs because I'm trusting you with him." Sharpay told him as Gabriella nodded.
"I promise I will. Bye guys." Gabriella moved to Troy who she had avoided so far most of the morning not wanting to make this any harder. Troy pulled her into a hug as she wrapped her arms around him tightly.
"Call me when you get back." Gabriella nodded against his chest as she gave him one last kiss before joining Ryan.
"Go ahead I just need to talk to Troy." Ryan explained.
"Be quick and I'll just wait here." Ryan nodded as he and Troy walked away from the others.
"What's up Ryan?" Troy asked turning his attention to him.
"I want to say thank you for what you did for Gabriella the past few days because I haven't seen her so happy in a long time. I need to ask you to do something for me now because I don't know if I will see you again before you know." Troy nodded. "I want you to when I'm gone to look after Gabi for me because I need to know that there is someone here who will look out for her when it happens because she tends to bottle things up like you know. Please Troy." Ryan pleaded knowing he had to do this for him to be content with leaving.
"Ryan you don't even have to ask because I would never let anything happen to Gabi. I love her too much to ever let her feel alone and hurt. I promise I will look out for her as much as I can man." Ryan and Troy exchanged a hug before Ryan walked back over to Gabriella and the two walked off to board their plane.
"They'll be ok Troy." Sharpay told him as he smiled.
"I know but I just wish they didn't have to go back." The 5 of them left after they watched Gabriella and Ryan disappear from sight.
Arriving back in New York, Gabriella and Ryan got back to their apartment and just collapsed on the couch together.
"Back home again." Ryan stated.
"It feels so empty here doesn't it?" Gabriella commented as they looked around their apartment.
"Like we've left everything that makes us who we are behind?" Ryan added as he looked at the view from the window to the side of them.
"I'm sure we will get used to things again and how we felt before we went back." Ryan shook his head.
"We'll never feel the same. Our life is no longer here. Look why don't you call Troy and tell him your back fine I just need to do something." Gabriella nodded as she watched Ryan disappear to his room. Pulling her cell out she dialled Troy's number and heard it ring a few times before someone eventually picked up.
"Hello?" Gabriella laughed hearing how out of breath he sounded.
"Hey." Gabriella replied smiling.
"Gabi are you ok?" Troy asked worriedly.
"Yeah we're fine, we just got back home and Ryan disappeared to his room so I thought I'd call."
"I'm glad you're both ok. We all miss you because we are so used to having you around again."
"We miss you all too. Me especially you." Gabriella admitted.
"I miss you too Gabs. Whoa hold Sharpay is trying to nick my cell." Gabriella laughed as she heard Sharpay demand Troy give her his cell so she could talk.
"Gabi is Ryan ok? Where is he?"
"He's fine Shar. He's in his room right now." Gabriella explained as Ryan walked back in on his cell to someone while carrying his laptop.
"Good. Say hi to Ryan. We have to go. We're all going to Chad and Taylor's for Micah's birthday party. We'll talk to you soon!" Before Gabriella could say anything else Sharpay had hung up.
"What was that about?" Ryan asked while covering the mouth piece on his cell.
"Sharpay said hi but they had to go because it was Micah's birthday party. Who are you talking to?" Ryan held his finger up indicating he would tell her in one minute while he went back to his phone conversation.
"Yes please. Uh huh ok thanks. Got it. Bye." Gabriella watched Ryan scribble something down before turning to her. "Go start packing again. Pack as much as you can because you and I are going back to Albuquerque. Don't worry I called your boss and they have agreed to transfer you temporarily to Albuquerque to be with me. Gabi don't argue because we both know neither of us can be happy here. I want to be with the others until it happens and I want you to be with Troy. So come on go pack." Gabriella smiled as she ran up to Ryan and hugged him.
"Thank you." Gabriella pecked his cheek before running into her room.
"We have to leave again in 2 hours!" Ryan called smiling before going to pack for himself.
"I'm so nervous." Gabriella admitted as they were in a taxi back towards Troy's and Sharpay's at 1am. Gabriella was half asleep on Ryan's shoulder.
"Why? You only saw him this morning, well yesterday morning now. I doubt he will hate you for waking him up either." Ryan comforted her as she nodded and fell asleep on his shoulder. Ryan noticed a few minutes later that they were at Troy's and decided even though he was weak he wasn't going to wake her and while the driver got their bags out, Ryan managed to pick her up and slide out the car and knock Troy's door. Waiting a few minutes for Troy to answer Ryan placed Gabriella in his arms before he had chance to realize who was there. The driver placed Gabriella's bags by the door.
"Ryan?" Troy asked baffled as he held Gabriella tightly in his arms and tried to wake up more.
"Present for you. She'll explain more in the morning." Ryan walked off and paid the driver while picking up his bags and walking over to Sharpay's. Troy walked in and placed her down on the couch before fetching her bags.
"Troy?" Troy heard Gabriella mumble looking around slightly confused.
"Shh go back to sleep and we can talk in the morning." Troy bent down in front of her and kissed her forehead as she fell back asleep. Picking her up Troy carried her upstairs and into his room, taking her shoes off and tucking her in bed before sliding in next to her and just held her as he drifted back off to sleep a bit confused but happy his girl was back in his arms so soon.
A/N: Ok I hated this chapter because not a lot happened apart from them leaving and then coming back. This was more like just a filler because otherwise the rest of the story wouldn't work the way I have planned it. Please Review! Thanks!