Chances in this lifetime

Chapter nine

A/N I know it's been a while, but I hope you all like it.

Gabriella's POV

It's been three days. Three days since I saw Troy. I would see him walking across the beach holding HER hand! They would kiss and…I can't even tell you. I sighed and walked back into my room. I sat on my unmade bed and looked at the ceiling. My aunt was mad at me and I haven't spoken to Taylor in days. I grabbed a pillow and screamed in it for the tenth time that day. I looked around my room and got up. I got up and moved my dresser away from the white wall. I looked at it and bit on the inside of my lip. I walked over to my closet and took out a can of paint and a paint brush. I opened it and looked at the blue-green paint.

I dipped the paint brush in it and started letting the brush do its work. I didn't know what I was doing, but I was doing something. I closed my eyes and just painted the whole day. I looked at the wall and smiled. An ocean. I had gotten out a paint set and started to paint the sun, but that was going to take awhile. I closed the paint can and got on my bathing suit and sneakers. Running outside into the warm air I walked towards the beach. I was going to swim with out HIS help.

It was dangerous, but yeah, I don't care. I took off my sneakers and placed them on the sand and walked over to the ocean. The tide washed over my feet and I felt myself sinking into the sand. I took a step in and sat down in the water. My shorts got soaked, but it's the water, what's the harm? I let the warm water wash over my legs. I looked to my left and saw a seashell. I smiled and too it in my hands. I put it in the water to let it wash the sand off of it.

My fingers traced the shell. The pointy parts and all. We all just pick one up and if it looks pretty we put it in our bucket, we don't wander where it came from or how it was formed. We just take it and leave it for granted, just like how I gave in with him. I looked at the sky ahead of me. Its moon giving us who need it light, just like a night light would.

"Well looks like I'm all alone, again." I said to the shell. I got up and placed the shell next to my shoes and went back into the water, but this time taking a couple of more steps in. I felt something moving next to my foot and I looked in the water…and what do you know a fish. I took it in my hands and looked around. I saw a bucket just sitting there. I got up and placed the fish in and got some water. It was swimming around in the blue bucket. I smiled at it, just standing there watching it.

"Hey." I looked over my shoulder and saw Troy standing there. His hands in his pockets and a guilty smile on his face.

"I haven't seen you around for a while." He said.

"Uh-huh." I said getting my shell and placing it in the bucket. The fish immediately looks at it and swam around it.

"What do you have there?"

"None of your business. Go home." I said to him. I didn't want him around; I was planning on going for swim!

"Well it kind of is my business if your going to go in that water." He said. I looked up at him and he was biting on his lip. I rolled my eyes.

"It's a fish."

"Oh."

I stared at the fish in my bucket and smiled. I would have to get food for it first thing in the morning.

"I broke up with her."

"What? Why?" I asked. Part of me is glad, but I mean how can I trust him? Again.

"Um, I broke up with Sharpay. I just don't feel that connection with her."

"Well don't think that, I'm going to open my arms and go, 'I trust you Troy!'" I said walking over and getting my sneakers.

"Well can you give me another chance?"

"I gave you a chance Troy! There aren't that many chances in the lifetime! Trust me if there were my parents would be here." I said grabbing my sneakers and walking off with my fish. My feet walked across the warm sand. I looked back and saw him staring at the sky. Déjà vu huh?

I walked into the house and up to my room making sure I didn't wake my aunt. I placed my sneakers in the corner of my room and looked around. I walked over to my shelf which held a fish bowel. It wasn't big and wasn't small just medium. I took that and went and filed it up with water. I got the fish out and placed it in its new home. I placed the shell in too since it swam around it so much.

"Well let's think of a name." I said picking the bowel and going into the ocean room. I turned on my laptop and opened my e-mails. Over one hundred e-mails form Troy Bolton. I looked at my fish.

"What do you think, Rj?" I asked the fish. It looked at me for a moment and then at the shell.

"That's a yes." I said clicking on the first e-mail.

Gabriella,

I'm sorry, just…look I was planning on breaking up with her the day she came back! I swear, just…don't be mad. I want to teach you how to swim. Look you trusted me when we went to that maze and water fountain, right? Why can't you trust me now? I know I lied, but it wasn't a lie and I wasn't two timing her! I kind of was, but Gabriella…please? There are a lot of chances in this lifetime. There all in different forms and I hope you find it in the right form to forgive me…

Troy

I finished reading it out loud and went into the next. The more I went on the more he wrote and the more he wrote the more he stumbled over words. The more e-mails I read I couldn't help, but feel if he knew how I felt…it sounded like he knew what he was talking about and it confused me. I finished the last e-mail and I fell back into the bean bag and looked at the fish that was playing on the ceiling. I closed my eyes to the seagulls and ocean once again.

The next Day at five PM

I stood outside his door. I had spent the whole day getting things for Rj. He was doing great and loved his knew things, but right now this isn't about Rj. It's about Troy and me. I knocked on the door and waited for while. The door opened and I turned around to see a shirtless Troy. He looked so tired.

"Hey." I said giving a small smile. He walked into the house and I followed in closing the door behind me. He went upstairs and I looked around at the picture. Not many picture of him. I picked up one. He was so little and was with two people standing behind him.

"My parents." he said from behind me. I studied it and then a present picture that hung on the wall.

"But they don't look like the ones today."

"My parents died in a car crash, a week after that picture." He said pointing to the one I'm holding.

"They look so familiar." I said tracing them in the picture.

"Yeah…so what did you come here for?"

"I read the e-mails last night." I said placing it back down.

"All of them?" he asked sitting down in the couch.

"Yeah, all of them…I guess I know why you kept saying I know how you feel in them too." I said taking a seat next to him.

"Well, no one knows about them. I was young and I barely remember them." He said shrugging.

"So you just forget them?" I asked.

"Pretty much."

"Troy, you can't forget your parents. They brought life to you."

"I know, but thinking of them is just painful." I looked at him and down at my hands.

"I sing…when I'm down. When I think about them. My aunt says my mom loved to swim and that's how she met my dad. They were both big lovers of the sea. That's why they bought a boat. They said when I was seven I could go on it, but since I was a hyper five years old they were afraid to bring me out that day when they died…you can't just forget them Troy."

"It's easier. It's shy I don't get nervous when I drive."

"But, it takes a toll on you." I said to him. I looked at him and in his eyes as he looked at me. I don't know how it happened, but the next thing I knew was his hand on my cheek and my lips on his and…and we were kissing…we were kissing on his couch and in his home. I couldn't but feel safe as we kissed…

A/N ok and yeah, short chapter I know, but I keep putting these stories off, I don't know why. I'm going to try and update all my old stories, but I realized I update dhtis last month and I don't remember lol. Well I hope you all like it and I want to thank you all who reviewed the last chapter.