Chances in this lifetime
Chapter 2
Chapter2 Gabriella's POV
I was laying bed listening to the people down on the beach. I got up and made my bed. I went through my boxes and got out my bathing suit which was a blue bikini. I got on an over sized t-shirt and Capri's. I was sitting in the Ocean room. I kind of named it. (One of my reviewers and I'm sorry I forgot ur penname called it the ocean room and I want to thank that person for the idea.) I laid out on the blue carpet listening to the noises that came out of the box thing.
I heard my bedroom door open and close then the door to this room open. Taylor came in and closed the door and lay down next to me.
"Let's go to the beach" she said looking at the ceiling. She was dressed in a white t-shirt and Capri's. I saw her purple bathing suit under it.
"I don't know…" I said trailing off.
"Oh come on Gabi! It's your first day here. We are going!" Taylor said getting up and taking my hand and pulling me up. She dragged me out of the ocean room flicking off the music and lights.
We went downstairs.
"Hi." Taylor said to my aunt.
"HI Taylor, hi Gabriella."
"Mia Taylor and I are going to the beach. I have my cell. Bye" I said being dragged out of the house. We walked out of my house and onto the sidewalk boards.
"Ok, let me go into my house and get towels and an umbrella." Taylor said to me going into her house. Five minutes later she came out with two towels and an umbrella for the beach. I took the umbrella while she took the towels. We walked onto the beach.
"Do you have any other friends?" I asked Taylor.
"Nope, you're my first one." She said to me.
We finally found a spot and laid down our towels and opened the umbrella and we laid it down on the sand. We sat behind the umbrella that covers our backs from the sun.
I heard laughing behind us. So I got up on my knees and looked over the umbrella. I saw a boy sitting on those things that life guards sit on. He was talking to a boy.
"Tay?" I said looking at her.
"Yeah." She said getting up next to me.
"Who are they?" I asked her pointing the two guys out to her.
"Oh, well the one is the chair is Troy Bolton. He's the lifeguard and then that kid there is Chad Danforth. There best friends. And they live right next to each other leaving Troy to live next to me, but we don't talk much." She to me.
"Oh."
We sat back down.
"Do you want to go swimming?" Taylor asked me.
"I…uh…I don't want too, sorry." I said to her looking down at my book.
"Oh come on Gabriella it'll be fun." She said.
"Tay…I just…." I trialed off wondering if I should tell her why I didn't want to go into the water.
"Tay, what I'm going to tell you, you cannot tell anyone else." I told her.
"Ok."
"My parents and I were in Hawaii to visit my Aunt Mia. I was five then. They went out to go for a swim, but there was a storm and they drowned." I told her. I had tears stinging my eyes, but I wouldn't let them fall.
"I'm so sorry, Gabriella." Taylor said hugging me. We pulled away.
"It's ok let's just do some talking." I said to her.
WE ended up talking all day. It was dinner time and we decided to go get something to eat. We gathered up our stuff and started walking off the beach.
"Oh look its geeky Taylor." A girl said. We turned around. I saw a girl that was blond. She walked up to us.
"Who's this?" she asked Taylor looking at me.
"She's Gabriella. She moved into the house next to mine." Taylor said. She looked me up and down and smiled.
"Your not bad, but why are you hanging around the geek around here?" she asked me.
"She's my friend." I said.
"Ugh great another double E." she said walking away.
"Who's that?" I asked Taylor as we kept walking.
"Her name is Sharpay Evans. She has a twin brother, Ryan. Their parents are really rich." Taylor said.
"Oh." I said to her.
Everyone was leaving the beach either going home or going to get food. We dropped off the towels and umbrella at her house then we went to a place called All day food.
We ordered our food and sat down a table.
"They have great food, you'll love it." Taylor said.
"Hey, can we go to my aunt's place. She works at this place called, 'Splash', something for the beach." I asked her.
"Oh I know that place. I love it there. Of course we'll go." She said. After we finished eating and paid we left for "Splash." We walked up theses stairs and opened the gate. We saw a pool there and we walked around it. We went inside and looked for my aunt. We finally found her.
"Hey Gabi how was your day?" she asked me.
"It was good." I said to her.
"Ok, well go outside and I'll meet you girls there." She said. We walked outside. There I saw Troy Bolton and Chad Danforth talking.
I was too busy looking at him that I didn't notice that I was walking right into the pool. Before I crashed I saw the sign that said nine feet deep. I screamed as I went in.
"Gabriella!" I heard Taylor scream as I went in.
I hit the bottom of the pool. I didn't know how to swim! I was suppose to learn that day when my parents died, but they didn't. I didn't want to go near water after what I heard. I ran out of air and started to breath in water.
Troy's POV
"Yeah, yeah." I said to my best friend Chad. I heard a splash of water and then someone screaming, 'Gabriella'. I turned around to see Taylor my next door neighbor kneeling down by the pool searching the water. Then I saw the new lady that was working here coming out looking around.
"Taylor what happened?" she asked her.
"Mia, mia she's down there! She just fell in the water!" Taylor said to her. I ran over to them.
"What happened?" I asked them.
"Troy! You have got to get in there! My friend Gabriella. She can't swim get her please!" Taylor said to me.
I jumped in once I heard can't swim. I looked around and saw a body on the pool floor. I swam down and felt my ears popping, but I didn't care. I got the girl in my arms and started swimming up. I finally reached the surface and swam with her in my arms. I handed her to her mom.
"Gabi, wake up please. Gabriella some on honey, some on." He mother started saying.
I got out of the pool and moved them back. In life guard school they taught us CPR so that's what I did. After five minutes the girl started coughing up water.
I looked into her eyes. They were brown. She looked scared and I saw tears coming out of her eyes.
I backed away and let her mom go near her. The girl was crying into her mom's shoulder.
"Thank you so much, Troy." Taylor said to me.
"Yeah, I think we should get that level down a little maybe to 7 feet and not nine feet." I said to her.
"Yeah."
"So she's what our age and doesn't know how to swim?" I asked her.
"Uh, her parents died drowning when she was five." Taylor said to me.
"But I thought that she was her mother." I said pointing to the women that was hugging Gabriella.
"No, that's her aunt mia. They moved here yesterday. Well thanks Troy bye." Taylor said walking over to Gabriella.
Chad came running to me as I stared at the girl.
"Dude, you totally saved that girls life!" he said.
"Yeah." I said to him. I walked over to the girl and bent down. She had a towel wrapped around her.
"Are you ok?" I asked her.
"Yeah, thank you for saving me there." She said in a quiet voice. She looked so small…
"You're welcome. I'm troy by the way." I said holding out my hand. She took my hand and shook it.
"Gabriella."
"Ok, Gabi come on let's get you home. I don't want anything happening to you." He aunt said to her. Gabriella got up and walked to the car with her Aunt.
"You like her?" Chad asked me.
"I think so…" I said to him.
"Great, just what I need. A goggle eye Troy." Chad said. I looked at him and started laughing.
"Come on." I said. We started walking home. When we got to my house I saw Taylor going in her door.
"Taylor!" I yelled her name. Chad and I ran up to her.
"You know this is the second time I'm talking to you? I might ruin your rep here." Taylor said to me.
"Funny, Tay." I said to her.
"Ok, what do you want?" she asked.
"What? I can't come here and say hi to my neighbor?" I asked her.
"No, now what do you want Troy?" she asked me.
"Well…" I started to say but I started to trail off.
"Ugh, Troy likes Gabriella and he wants to hang out with her." Chad said.
"So you like her." Taylor said smiling, "Ok tomorrow night at seven on the dot. Be there at Splash and we'll be there." Taylor said walking in her house.
"You see I got you a date." Chad said nudging me.
"Yeah, but what do I wear!" I said going into my house.
With Gabriella…Gabriella's POV
I sat on my bed with dry cloths on. I had my pajama's on. I was hugging my pillow.
"Honey, are you ok?" my aunt asked me.
"I don't know…I mean…being in the water felt fun, but at the same time it was scary." I said to her.
"You're like your mother. She loved the water so much, that's how she met your father. She "accidentally" fell in the water and he saved her. I guess she passed it on to you."
"But I'm scared that I might drown and everything. I mean the ocean is what took my parents away in the first place. How can I love it?" I asked her.
"Because you have her in you. Ok go to bed. I'll see you in the morning. Nite." She said kissing my forehead and walking out of my room.
I looked at the remaining boxes in my room. I got up and got a box and brought it into the ocean room. I looked around the empty room. I set the box down and opened it. I got out all my extra fluffy blankets and pillows. I set them around the closet. Then I remembered my bean bags. I got them and set them in the room.
I looked at the room now. It looked homier. I went back to bed and fell asleep…
A/N: I want to thank every one who reviewed the last chapter! I'm glad you all are liking this! Hopefully more people will learn to like it. Lol. Well have fun with this chapter. This is going to be A LOT different. Troy and Taylor are a little bit of friends. Ok so if you have any questions ask me in the review or u can PM me. Bye!