Chances in this Lifetime

Chapter 8

Chapter eight Gabriella's POV

It was two in the morning when I left my house. Troy Bolton was dating someone and didn't tell me! I trusted him more then any other person! I stood on the empty beach walking towards the ocean. I know I shouldn't be doing this, especially with no one around. I walked in the sand and took off my flip-flops that I had on and took one step into the water. It was warm and I could feel the soft salty air fill my lungs each time I inhaled and exhaled.

"If I were you I wouldn't go in the water." I heard a voice say behind me. I took a glance over my shoulder. I looked back into the gray/blue sky.

"Go home." I said folding my arms under my chest.

"But here's the thing I can't. Look Gabriella I am so sorry, I didn't mean too." He said walking over to me and placing a hand on my shoulder.

"Don't touch me." I said walking away from him and to my left side.

"Look, I'm sor-." He tried saying while stepping closer to me.

"Don't even say it! You started this whole little game! You started the whole…thing!" I said shouting at him. I had turned around in the water and looked at him. I opened my mouth to say something, but turned around instead and looked down at the water at my feet. My feet were sinking into the sand. And I saw shells stuck into the wet sand, just sitting there.

"Gabi…." I heard Troy say, but trailing off. The salty air came across my face lifting bit of my hair along with it. I took a small step into the ocean once more. The water was just above my ankles. I could feel different emotions running through me. I could feel anger at Troy, but then scared because I'm in the water and so many others I couldn't identify.

"I just can't believe you didn't tell me. All you had to say was, I'm taken." I said turning around to face him. He hand his hands in the pockets of his shirts. The wind was pressing his white t-shirt against his body. He worked out was my guess.

"Ga-."

"No, just go."

"I'm not leaving you here, especially when you're alone and near the water."

"I'm not some child that needs to be watched!" I yelled looking at him.

"Well, your always falling water. You can't swim! You're just a stubborn child who doesn't want to learn how to swim because her parents drowned YEARS AGO! Gabriella YEARS AGO." he yelled back at me. I could see a vein in his forehead sticking out making its appearance to me.

"Asshole." I said to him. I walked along the beach forgetting all about my flip-flops. I looked back after a few minutes of walking. I could see Troy. He was still standing there, but this time he was facing me and my guess watching me as I walked. I stopped walking and step back into the water and letting its warmth gain my feet. I took baby steps in the water, but I stopped once it came to my knees.

The tips of my finger touched the water. I looked out wanting to just dive in, but I didn't know how to swim. I looked back at Troy and closed my eyes.

"You can't swim!"

I opened my eyes and took another step further letting my shorts get wet. The sand going down and the water getting higher till it was below my chest. With each step my breathing was getting harder, but I took in even breaths trying to stay calm about. My arms floating to the top. I could feel a tingly in my foot and no it wasn't a crab. It was a tingly that shot up into my body and made me giggle.

I felt something brush against my leg and I looked down. A fish had passed me and just brushed against my skin.

"GABRIELLA!" I heard yelling it was Troy. I didn't even bother looking at him. Before I knew it I was looking at the under world. I didn't realize I went under water. Then an automatic fear rose over the joy I had felt. I turned my body and moved my arms and legs, but nothing seemed to happen. Then I felt arms wrapped around me. I tried to fight them off knowing whose arms they were, Troy's.

He wrapped his arms around my waist and swam up to the shore.

"Let me go!" I yelled pushing him off me once the water came to my knees.

"What were you trying to do kill yourself?" he asked yelling.

"Stay out of my life!" I yelled at him stomping out of the water, but finding it hard. I walked back to my house slamming the door open and closed. Stomping up the stairs my Aunt's bedroom door opened.

"Gabriella, what are you doing up? And where are you coming home from?" she asked. She looked mad.

"This is all your stupid company's fault! I want to move!" I yelled from my bedroom door and slamming it closed. I locked the door and opened the door behind it. I switched on the switch letting everything become peaceful. I just fell onto a bean bag.

"Why is life so hard?" I asked the quiet room. I sat up and noticed I was still wet. I rolled my eyes and grabbed my laptop from the place I left it form the other night in the room. Setting it on the ground I signed on to my AOL.

I heard the 'you've got mail' voice and looked at it. Sixty five e-mails. I clicked on it and saw that they were all from Troy. I closed my mail box and pulled my journal entries. I opened a new one and started typing.

You know people say guys are jerk?? Well I always said, that's not true, but now I know there jerks. You know the Bolton guy I talked oh so much about? Yeah well turns out he's dating Sharpay Evans, the richest girl here. I heard she was a snot. I wonder if I can just erase her…you know like a math problem you want to erase because its too hard, but you have to do it….wait that sounds just like mine! I want to erase because she's my problem…great I just wrote to myself telling myself that I have to deal with the problem…me and my stupid head.

So I went to the beach this morning to try and swim, to learn by myself. Guess who showed up…and no not the Mickey Mouse, though I wish it was Mickey Mouse. Troy Bolton shows up and tried to explain. I didn't let him though…do you think it was mean?...you know you could answer me anytime here….oh well. So I walked away, he stayed where he was and I kept walking into the water and soon I was in, in the water. I didn't' know how to swim…so here comes Troy saving me. I yelled at him and ran and now…here I am. Oh I did yell at my Aunt though…

I know I shouldn't have said that, but still it is her fault with her stupid company!...your making me sound like the villain here! I'm not the villain! I wish this was a dream…a bad one like the ones you see in movies…well lets get off this stupid conversation! Oh I finished a book today. I took time out of my crying to read it. It's called "Just Listen" by Sarah Dessem. I love her so much and her books, but sadly the book is over and there no more pages to read and no more Owen…I told my Aunt about him earlier today when she came home from work. I always told her about books. She told me my father was the same way, just like Owen. I smiled thinking my father is just like Owen. Owen who-…wait I think I might let you read it first:)

Ok, I'm going to go to bed its five AM…wait I don't have anything to do anymore! Why should I sleep, because I'm told to? Well they can get over it…I mean I can get over it…

Thank you for your pages journal:)

I shut my laptop down and closed it and then set it aside. Leaning back in the bean sac my hand went up to my hair, shit and short. They were damp, but not serious. What was I suppose to do today? And do I delete those sixty-five e-mails??...I don't know.

A/N ok so I'm going to stop there because I don't know what to write. If any of you have any ideas, they will be greatly appreciated! Thank you all who reviewed the last chapter and this chapter!!!!