Confusing? Yes, then we will start over from earlier this afternoon when Gabriella was in her room having a smaller panic attack. Because it was only four in the afternoon and she had already seen a clown and she knew the later it got the worse it would get. Maybe she could call Troy and say she was sick… No then he would stay home as well insisting on coming over and make sure she was okay because he just had to care when she was feeling bad.
Instead she looked over at the white dress she had bought for the nights event, she looked at it and realized she will never wear something like that again. It reached to her mid thigh, under it was a tighter dress in silk and over it pieces of thin fabric flowing gently around her legs, the halter neck made the v formed neckline go low and it was a wonder that her breast was covered. There was a small string that had been tied in a small bow and on her back there was a bejeweled belt in the height were her waist was. Cost her a fortune but Sharpay convinced her it was going to be worth every penny and maybe it was because it was beautiful. (And for those who don't understand my horrible description it's the dress Vanessa wore for the MTV movie awards this year^^)
And to finish the outfit she is wearing some wings she found in a children store and white ballet flats and leaving her hair as it is.
But she just wanted to hide under her covers and come out when this stupid holiday is over and she could go back to living her life normally. But her boyfriend was ecstatic about this whole ridiculous thing. She sometimes wondered how they could be together they were like day and night! Even their eating habits were different! She sighs as she looks over her makeup on the table. She rarely used this but tonight was a special occasion so why not?
He finished of his look with a pair of aviators, because his imaginary had stretched all the way to becoming a spy for the night. O yes he had tons of imagination. So he wore his work clothes all black and if he said so him self he looked pretty sexy. Though he only really cared if Gabriella liked it. And she probably would because she couldn't find anything wrong anybody, at least that he knew of.
He tighten the tie before leaving the apartment and out to the car. He thinks that this is the first time he is actually on time when he is going to pick her up. He is a time optimist, okay?
He also had to break to her that he would be going away for a month within three days. But she was aware that these things could happen with him being… Well him! He wished his brother would graduate sooner! Then he could send him to far away countries and he could stay at home with Gabriella. Witch he already did most of his time but still! And it sucked hard that they would be apart a better time over Christmas and New Year. Something he wasn't to cheery about but it had to be done other wise he could look for a new job that would make him sell his car and everything else. So he encouraged himself to stay positive and that it would calm down soon.
He looked once more at himself in the rearview mirror and nodded it would due for tonight. Getting out of the car and was soon at the porch ringing the doorbell. He waited and soon Gabriella opened the door and he was certain that if he didn't know it was Halloween he would have sworn she was an angel.
"Hey…" He whispers and leans in to kiss her. "You look perfect…" He compliments her when they broke apart. She blushed as usual when he gave her a compliment.
"And what are you supposed to be?" She asks him when she looks at him up and down.
"I am a spy thank you!" He says quickly causing her to giggle softly at his defensive manners. She smiles up to him and takes his hands in hers she beams up to him but her stomach was a complete mess and she was sure that she would throw up she didn't want to do this at all. "Ready to go?" He asks once their kissing was over. She nods and they head for the car.
They had been here about 15 minutes give or take a few minutes and she was walking around like someone held a gun to her head petrified of all the masked people and also what Troy's friends would think of her and her age. So she was amazed that Troy's hand was still on his arm, because she was clinging on to him like her life was hanging on it. She kept her head low, it was many people it was probably one of those parties you saw on TV it was people every where and Troy seemed to know them all! She stood by his side quietly but still smiling at his friends while he talked to them.
She felt his lips gently touch her temple and he slung his arm around her shoulder, making small circles with his thumb gently on her bare shoulder, she glance up to him and smiles shyly. "You okay?" He murmurs in her ear before placing an other kiss upon her temple. He pulled her closer to his body.
"Yeah…" The answer comes quietly even if she was far from fine she was looking around the dressed people petrified that behind her shoulder a clown would pop out, but so far no one had.
She put her arm around his waist to get closer to him, he didn't seem to mind it he just smiled to her and went back to talking. She watched when he was talking to his friend named Brett. Smiling every once in a while to show that she was still with them even if she lost the track of what they were talking about.
"I need to find Zeke but it was nice seeing you Brett." He says and the couple made their way past Brett and when they where from hearing range from Brett Troy says. "I have no idea who that was."
Gabriella giggles at this. "Well you fooled me at least." They make it through the crowded room and finally finds them sitting by a round bar table, Zeke who was as creative as his friend was a basketball player for the evening, Kelsi was a witch with a hat and a small black dress. Troy left her side and went to say hi to his friends and Gabriella fallowed and stood a few feet away from Troy smiling kindly to Kelsi and Zeke.
"Zeke this is Gabriella… Gab this is Zeke my best friend.." Troy introduces the two of them and Gabriella reach out her hand for him take and as she already knew he took it.
"Hi, I understand why Troy smiles so mush as he does when he talks about you…" Zeke chuckles and Gabriella just blushes as usual but at the same time she feels a bit proud knowing she was the reason he was smiling and was being generally happy. She felt Troy's hand on the small of her back relaxing slightly at his touch.
"You are just jealous Zeke…" Came a response from Kelsi that was happy that Troy had found someone that made him happy and he could talk to whenever he needed to lift a weight of his shoulder, he deserved that. He deserved to be happy after everything he had done for everybody he deserved true happiness. Troy smiled first at Kelsi then down at Gabriella before kissing her gently. Something they would be seeing the whole night she guessed.
"I am gonna get something to drink, you guys want anything?" He asks.
"I'll take a beer…" Zeke says.
"Water for me…" Kelsi answers.
"I'll take water to…" Gabriella smiles and Troy leaves the small group to get their order. Gabriella chewed lightly on her lower lip not really knowing what to say to his friends and she kept her distance in case they hated her or something in that direction. She watched when Zeke and Kelsi started talking and she stood there like an idiot just looking at them. It was times like these she wished she had Sharpay's boldness and social skills with new people. But she was not Sharpay she was Gabriella and Gabriella was really shy…
Carefully she walked over and sat down on a stool to scared, to actually say anything to his best friends. She smiles though like she wants to be here even if she is petrified that a clown would jump up in her face at any given moment and she would be paralyzed and probably faint. What a good way to make an impression on all his friends. Really great, she thought bitterly for a moment.
"So Gabriella what do you do on your free time apart from being with Troy" Zeke asks her.
"I run mostly…" She says quietly.
"You any good?" He continues his questioning.
"I guess…? I am going to compete in the nationals…" She ads shyly but a smile was playing on her lips. Her hands plays with the hem of her dress when she feels the heat creeping up on her neck and further south to finally hit her cheeks. Biting her lower lip gently as she rises her head again looking at Troy's two best friends. She spun her head around and saw Troy coming back. He puts down the beers and waters on the table, he sat down next to her his hand resting on the small of her back softly making small patterns with his thumb. They look at each other smiling softly. He was glad she was here. And she just wanted to make him happy.
The party was getting louder and louder by the second and Gabriella was getting more and more tiered by the second but Troy was having the time of his life. At least it looked like it, she kept smiling at him whenever he looked at her. She drinks her water while he talks to everyone and occasionally he kisses her and introduces her to his friends. But other then that she is rather quiet. But she doesn't say to Troy that she wants to go home. He needed to have fun as well.
"I'm telling you man! She was a Victoria Secret model! And I banged her!" A friend of Troy bragged and Gabriella just smiled at his excitement. Troy on the other hand laughed and took a sip of his beer. Gabriella's hand was on the small of Troy's back under his jacket softly dragging her fingers against the shirt.
"Whatever you say Brad…" Troy chuckles he turns around and kisses Gabriella softly and she notices that he is starting to get drunk, his kisses are getting more sloppy and he is goofier and more interested of having her close to him, a bit jealous maybe. Because every time a friend of Troy would say h,i they wanted to hug now because they were al pretty drunk and Troy did not like other guys touching his girl.
But Gabriella showed Troy that it was him that she wanted by kissing him or simply taking his hand in hers then he calmed down a bit but still he shoot others guys a look that said to them to back the hell of his girl!
"I am going to the bathroom…" Gabriella says to her boyfriend he nods and reluctantly lets go of her to let her go to the bathroom. He kept checking over his shoulder every second after that to make sure that no other guy was trying to hit on her, because he was well aware of the fact she was stunning and other guys would want her. And he was right that other guys would hit on her to bad for her it was her biggest fear.
A clown.
"Hey Angel…" Gabriella looks up at the guy with a big red wig and makeup all over his face there is only one thing she can think of.
Get out of there now!
And that is what she does, she pushes through the mass of people, feeling someone's drink trickle down her back. But she doesn't care she just want to get out of there. Her heart was racing under her chest her breath was caught in her throat and the panic was pumping in her veins and she just wanted to get out of there. And she got out. Trying to regain normal breathing again as she sat down on the cold ground. The tears started to run down her cheeks, she felt angry and embarrassed about what just happened in there. And she wasn't surprised when her phone sounded a few minutes later.
Where are you?
Wiping away her tears angry she replied.
Outside.
And all of the sudden he was there beside her. Holding her close to him comforting her. "Wanna tell me why you are out here crying?" He whispers softly against her head pressing a kiss there as well.
"I hate Halloween… I hate people behind mask and the thing I hate most is clowns they scare me to death and I saw one in there and I just panic. And I ran out.." She explains to him.
"Could have told me before hand maybe…" He smiles.
"Sorry… You just seemed so excited and I didn't wanna bring you down." She explains to him and wipes away an other tear in frustration. Troy pulls her closer again and warms her up by rubbing his hand on her bare arm. "I am gonna go home… Stay if you want." She gets up from the ground and wipes the last remains of the tears in her face.
"I'll take you home…" He simply said.
And that's how the two of them ended up in Gabriella's bathtub together. It had been her idea actually. And who was he to object to spend some quality time with his girlfriend in a bathtub. He hardly complained. So he let his lips touch her neck with gracious moves her loving giggles draw out one or two chuckles from his throat as well.
"Can you stay here tonight?" He hears her say.
"Sure… Somebody have to protect you from the evil clowns." He chuckles and kiss her shoulder softly. "You know we barely sleep alone anymore…" He says out of the blue.
"Is it a bad thing?" She rotated her head as mush as it was humanly possible for her. He press his lips to hers and mumbles a soft 'No' and then kiss her again and he ads a tiny bit more pressure this time. Their hands touch each others skin gently and very carefully. Her reason was that she had no fucking idea what she was doing and his was that he didn't want her to be uncomfortable.
"I have to tell you something…" He disturbs the comfortable silence.
"What?"
"I am going away for about a month…" He finally confesses.
"What? Why? And when are you leaving!" She shouts out looking at him with big eyes.
He bit his lower lip before answering. "On Monday… Monday morning actually." He confess.
"And you tell me now… Great just great Troy!" She gets up from the bath and wrap her naked body in a towel and leave the bathroom. Him still in the bathtub, not knowing if he should follow her or not. But he does. With both just dressed in towels they stood in Gabriella's room just looking at each other. Not knowing what to say.
"I'm really sorry but it was all decided this Tuesday." He says trying to save the situation.
"Why didn't you tell me then?" Was her reply. She walked over to her draw and took out clean underwear. Then headed in to the bathroom again. Not wanting to upset her even further he got dressed as well, then he sat down on the bed in his sweatpants she had taken from him a while back. The door opened and the smell of melted wax came in the room with her. He looked at her half naked body. Dressed in just a sports bra and hot pants. Nothing special but to him she might as well have worn sexy lingerie.
He got up from the bed and hugged her closely. His fingertips traced the edge of the spandex of her bra and his lips was pressed against her skin on the neck trying to win her back again. He murmurs apologies between the kisses. She ignored him though. Not wanting to be someone he could run over when ever he felt like it and then kiss his way to forgiveness. She was not that kind of girl.
"Gab. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner but it never came up and I don't know. It just never seemed as a good time to bring it up. I'm sorry." Came his apology while looking her deep in to her eyes. "Do you want me to go home?" When he didn't get a response from her.
"No… Stay. I won't be able to sleep the coming month so you are staying with me until you are going…" He smiles at her words. The get under the covers and fall fast asleep knowing that soon it would be Monday.