ONCE IN A LIFETIME…
Summary
Gabriella has been through a lot of rough changes in her life, wetter it's in her spiritual relationship or just her family and friends, she can't trust anyone. Not anymore. That's when she meets Troy but she has to fight the past before letting him in her life, anxious and scared about him ruining her life more than it is already.
THIS STORY WAS POSTED HERE BEFORE BUT DELETED BY ME AND NOW I'm REPOSTING AND TWO FIRST CHAPTERS ARE THE SAMETHEN CHAPTER 3IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT THING PLEASE WAIT UNTIL I UPDATE TO THIS CHAPTER IF YOU"VE READ IT ALREADY YOU WON"T HAVE TO WAIT LONG I PROMISE.
IDON"T OWN HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL OR ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH DISNEY.
CHAPTER 1
A certain brunette, living in Malibu, woke up at the smell of fresh home made pancakes and bacon tickling her nostrils. She slowly opened her eyes, adjusting them to the bright light of the sun penetrating through the lids of her windows.
She reluctantly got out of bed and headed to her bathroom.
Looking at her reflection in the big mirror, she fixed her bed hair into a high messy ponytail and pinned up the few curls that were getting into her face.
After brushing her teeth and washing her face, getting down the stairs, she walked into the kitchen/ dining room, where she found her eleven year old little sister setting the table along with her dad currently putting four cups in the right place on the table and her mom placing the plates of pancakes and bacon.
As she passed by she grabbed one of the pancakes which had her mom exclaim:
''Hey! Hands off!'' with a smile and the young teenager placed a kiss on her cheek then passed by her to do the same task to her dad.
"Good morning Ana-bee! How did my cutie sleep tonight?'' she asked as she walked by the little girl and ruffled her soft amount of short curly hair.
"Good!'' she replied with a big smile, showing her white small aligned teeth. "How did you?''
"Not bad" Grabbing the fresh pressed orange juice out of the fridge and putting it on the table, she sat next to the sink and pulled the kid into a hug.
"You still want to go to the beach later?'' Gabriella asked her younger sibling, pulling out of the hug to see her face.
''I wouldn't miss it for the world!'' exclaimed Ana.
After a moment though she asked:
"Are we going surfing?" the desire of that request was palpable both on her face, eyes and tone.
Gabriella torn her eyes away from the younger girl and looked over at her mom for help, not knowing exactly what to say in that very situation since the circumstances.
And as she wished, her mom answered the question for her, getting her out of an awkward moment.
"Honey, I don't think that…''
"You are ready for this.'' Finished Ana for her mother, already knowing the answer of her question by the tone in her mom's voice. 'How can she know what's the best for me?' she whispered to her self but loud enough for Gabriella to hear and quickly turned her face towards her, to hide the tears that threatened to fall, away from her mom and let out a loud sob as her dad entered the room, who left it before their conversation had started to grab the paper outside, pick up the mail and put the garbage out.
As her Annette was going to answer to her younger child, her husband said:
"I hear sobbing…'' he sat at the table facing all three girls and watching his daughters sharing an embrace. He cleared his throat, already understanding what was going on without having to ask anything but by the look that his wife gave him.
'' Hey Ana! I have great news for you…''
The crying little girl let her sister sweep the tears out of her face, before turning around and facing her dad.
"But before that, I'm starving! So let's eat and we'll talk while having breakfast. We better eat now anyway before my sweet bacon get cold'' he smile a little at his last sentence and putting a hand on his now grumbling tummy, before putting it back on the table and took his wife's hand in his, the girls did the same and bowed down for the morning prayer.
"Lord, we come before you this morning Father, to thank you for this food that you give us. Thank you for taking care of us. May you bless the people that prepared this food and I also pray for the people that can't or don't have things to eat, like we do, today.
May they be confident and may they trust you, for you to provide to them everything that they would need. Lord, may you bless this day, as we are about to head to church to worship and glorify you as you are to be. Lord I ask you also to cure Ana's disease as you know her problems, her fears and everything else better than I do.
May your healing hands rest upon her and her sick friends who shared the same difficult moments along with her. We thank you for everything Lord. Amen."
"Amen" they said in unison
As they served them selves the things that were set on the table, Ana asked
"So what was it you had to tell me dad?''
Daniel chewed down the aliments he had in his mouth at the moment before answering
"Madison's dad called me yesterday morning about some kind of dance class for the Christmas holidays coming up, would you be interested?'' he asked with a half-smile as he saw the sudden change in her daughter's body and expressions.
"Are you kidding?!! '' she exclaimed "Dancing is like my passion! I always had it in my blood! I live for dancing!''
"Seriously dad, you should have known this. She took dance classes and had some shows before she…''Gabriella stopped at what she was going to say, not choosing her words properly.
"Yeah true, before all this happened.'' Ana said, smiling to her sister she added "Its okay Gabi, it's been over two months now.''
"Daniel, are you sure this is the right choice? I mean, I wouldn't mind Ana dancing again but the thing is, will she be ready for it?"
Daniel placed his right hand over his wife's and said:
"Honey, I wouldn't have offered this if I didn't know it was safe for little Ana. And the dance course is in winter which gives her time to recuperate more strength and to prepare her. Besides, the course was first suggested by her doctor and it was deeply discussed between her, Madison's dad and me. She also said that it would be a great opportunity for Ana to make a few new friends besides the ones from the hospital and so on.''
After all those convincing affirmations, Annette couldn't disagree.
"Well, it does look like a good idea to me to. Maybe we could do this.'' She looked at the eleven year old girl facing her "What do you think?"
Still extremely chocked and also relieved that her protective mother had accepted the offer, she smiled and added enthusiastically "I wouldn't miss THAT for the world!''
"Is Maddie going to go there?''
"Actually yes, her and Sarah" responded Daniel, feeling that the question was addressed to him
"Where the dance course is being held is actually a therapist center, they have all kind of sports and activities you can do. It's like a summer camp; the only difference is that it's in winter."
"But they didn't have any more space so we will be sleeping at a sky lodge and if it's possible maybe we will go skiing."
He looked over at his wife, who was currently looking at him like he was crazy, and quickly added "or not".
"So we will go abroad?" asked an anxious Gabriella.
"Yes. Plane and everything, but I won't tell you where it is. That's a surprise.''
"When are we leaving?" the girls asked in unison, their excitement barely hidden.
"Girls, slow down, your dad probably hasn't done the reservations yet as he discussed it only yesterday as he said" Annette urged
"No no. Everything is already sorted out. The tickets have been bought and we are all living on the 7th of December…''
"Oh! Awesome! I'll be spending my birthday over there.'' Ana said, smiling even wider if that was even possible. This news brought so much happiness to her little heart that she totally forgot about the incident of this morning. The though of going on vacation and being able to dance again filling her mind and stimulating her senses.
"HEY! But wait a minute! I don't think I'll be finishing school that early! And I have tests.'' Exclaimed Gabriella, the matter coming to her at that very moment. "I can't miss school!"
"Don't worry Gabi, I already talked to your principal and he said it would be fine. You would just have to take your tests earlier. He also said that the fact that you are such an excellent student, it wouldn't affect you much at all. So how's that?''
''Okay. I feel better now."
"Is Gabi going to dance with me to?''
"Actually, yes but that's if she wants. They also have teenager classes: like hip-hop, ballet, singing, drawing and more. I don't really remember.''
The family continued talking while having breakfast, well that is for the parents as the children were to excite to eat.
They then prepared themselves for church and that's how the morning of their Sunday passed by, being the end of the weekend but also the beginning of last week of October, which would bring them closer to the day they would be leaving the country.
Little did they know that in two months or so, that so called vacation would bring them more sadness than happiness.
But would also be the beginning of a new life.