Hey Guys x

Sorry it has taken me so long to update. I'm in the middle of my exams, so things are kinda hectic. I only have one exam left :) thank god lol x

I had no time to write, it was also my birthday 2 weeks ago...and then i had another birthday w.e just there, Thursday 2 Monday..I'm still recovering lol x

Anyway....

Thanks to those who read & reviewed the last chapter, it means alot to me.

Bolton

She's crazy, totally fucking crazy, thought the dark haired male as his eyes scanned his now demolished room.

"What the hell have you done?", he questioned, the anger evident in his voice.

"We have to find you something to wear!", she replied, as if it were the most obvious thing on earth.

"Pinky, I'm not disabled in any way, I have been dressing myself for quite some time now", he stated.

"Yeah well you're not doing to good a job of it are you?", she shot back.

"You know what I really don't get, why all these women fawn over you, when you can't even dress. Yeah you may have the looks and the body Bolton, but you definitely don't have the fashion sense."

"Thanks Shapay", he said, laughing at her.

"Oh God dude, she's doing it to you too", Chad stated entering the room.

"She was in my house for two hours this afternoon, looking for something for me to wear".

"Yes, and I clearly see you don't have it on Danforth", snarled Sharpay.

"You got me an electric pink shirt. Not just pink, electric pink.", he replied in disgust.

"Dude why do you even have an electric pink shirt", Troy questioned.

"Gran", was all Chad replied.

"Oh", Troy laughed.

"You're Grandmother clearly had better taste than you", said Sharpay.

"She's 96, smells of piss and doesn't even know what day it is, Chad said, "and you want me to trust her fashion sense, says alot for you Shar", Chad stated.

"Oh you little bastard", shouted Sharpay as she chased Chad around the room, jumping on his back and tackling him to the floor, punching his chest.

"Don't. Ever. Insult. My. Fashion. Sense.", she shouted between punches.

Troy laughed at the pair and their unbelievable immaturity.

"That's it we're going shopping", she announced suddenly

"What", said Chad, confused.

"You don't wanna wear that then fine, we'll find you something you can wear and I will prove to you Danforth that I have amazing fashion sense", she replied, clearly seething.

"We're going", she announced, walking out the door.

"What about all this", shouted Troy, looking around at all the clothing

"Oh yeah, be a dear Troy and clean this up", She replied smiling.

Chad laughed at the look on Troy's face," What are you laughing at", asked Troy, "You're taking her shopping"

Chad left clearly disgruntled, but too scared to argue with an already fuming Sharpay.

"You've sure know how to pick 'em Bolton", Troy thought to himself

"Uncle Troy", exclaimed a little girl as she ran towards the young man.

"Hey Princess, wotcha doing here?" Troy asked, picking up the little girl.

"Mommy and Daddy's going to York", she said simply.

"Don't you mean New York", Troy laughed.

"Why what happened to the old one?", the little girl questioned.

Troy chuckled at his niece's wit as he placed her on the island, in the centre of the large kitchen.

"You want some cereal?", Troy asked the little girl.

"Yup, choco ones", she replied.

Gracie Bolton was an extremely beautiful child. She was exceptionally petite for her age and had beautiful blond hair(which she had inherited from her mother), a cute little button nose, and a smile that matched her uncles. She was also blessed with gorgeous ocean eyes, the second member of the Bolton family to inherit them, the first being her uncle.

"There you go princess", said Troy as he laid down her cereal.

"Thanks", she said smiling up at him.

"Where's Uncle Chad?" The little girl questioned when she had finished her food.

"Shopping with auntie Pay", he replied, shaking his head as he thought of the pair.

"Ohhh, she said she's gonna get you a perfect outfit because you dress like a homo", Grace stated.

"A hobo, hobo, not a homo", replied Troy, fighting to contain his laughter.

Gracie shrugged her shoulders, clearly not understanding the difference.

"Okay I'm gonna go upstairs and get dressed then we will come down and watch a movie okay", Troy said to his niece.

"Okay", she smiled.

The little girl on Troy's right was now breathing gently having falling asleep. Troy was always in complete awe at how beautiful the little girl was, he never knew something or someone could be so perfect.

Gracie, however, was not the only beautiful girl on Troy's mind, he had been thinking about Gabriella all day.

He had been captivated by the sheer beauty of the young women. She was special there was no doubting that. With her ebony curls & golden skin, she truly was radiant. Yet there was something, mysterious about the girl. Hidden behind her coffee iris' was pain, always evident even when she was smiling. Troy knew he was clearly attracted to Gabriella, however he hadn't expected that in such a short time he would be so interested to know about her life.

"Troy, we're leaving dude", announced Chad, entering the living room.

"Yeah, I'll be right there", Troy replied, snapping out of his trance.

Chad nodded and left the room, grabbing Sharpay by the arm on his way, as she stood admiring herself in the mirror. Troy turned his attention to the tiny girl curled into his side, shaking her gently to rouse her from her sleep.

"Hey pretty girl, Uncle Troy's gotta go now", he told her, as she pouted and hugged him closer.

Troy chuckled,"I'll bring you back some of those cookies you like".

"With the sprinkles", bargained, giving Troy a questioning look.

"With pink sprinkles", he replied.

"Deal", said, giggling happily.

Scooping the little girl up into his arms, he carried her through to the study.

"Go get Grampa, angel. Tell him you want supper", Troy told his niece.

"Okay", she replied happily, "Bye Troysie, have fun".

He chuckled at the young girl, "Will do princess, bye bye".

Troy watched her knock the door of his fathers study, and enter when she was told to. He turned to walk away when he heard the little voice call him back.

"Uncle Troysie".

"Yeah princess", he questioned.

"Don't you go kissing the girls", she giggled.

Troy laughed, "Nah, i don't kiss the girls", he joked.

"Huhh, do you kiss the boys, Ewwww", she replied slightly disgusted.

"Oh you little monster", Troy laughed, picking her up and spinning her around, as she squealed and giggled. He set her down, giving her one last kiss before leaving the house.

1 hour later, the end of summer party was in full swing.

The pier was completely lit and there where fairground rides that where there especially for tonight. The soon-to-be Seniors, however would only stay there for a limited time. It had become tradition that everyone would meet further down the beach for a bonfire and have their own party.

Troy stood alone at the edge of the pier watching the waves. Everyone else had gone off in their couples, most of whom where either dancing or on rides.

Turning around, Troy caught sight of Jason desperately trying to knock over milk bottles to win a bear for Kelsi. He was failing rather miserably. Troy had grown to hate these carnival stalls, there had also been a beginning of the summer party and a basketball stall had been set up. Of course every female within 1 miles radius of him wanted him to win them a bear, and so he had done for practically the whole night. He was convinced that the stall owner was avoiding him, every-time he past it now it was closed.

Troy never did enjoy this part of the party, the only people who ever seemed to be here were couples and kids.

I should have brought Gracie, he thought.

"Hey stranger", came a voice behind Troy.

Turning around he came face to face with the exotic beauty who had been on his mind all day.

"Hey you, how you doing?", Troy asked, smiling like an idiot.

"Yeah I'm good thanks, and you?" the beautiful women asked.

Troy stood smiling at her completely captured by her beauty. She was wearing a white summer dress, that reached around mid thigh and showed just enough cleavage to keep Troy distracted. On her feet she wore golden gladiator sandals and her hair was in a loose bun, held by a clip, some of her curls falling out around her face.

Speak you idiot, he thought to himself.

"Ehmm yeah", he replied nodding his head stupidly, having missed her initial question.

"What", she laughed clearly confused.

Troy scratched the back of his neck, "Ugh sorry i completely missed your question, you look great by the way".

Gabi smiled at him, "Thank you, you look great to", she replied, "Oh and I asked how you were"

"Oh, yeah I'm great", he laughed, "better now your here, I was getting lonely", he said with his hand on his heart faking pain.

"Awww", came a voice behind Gabi, "he's so cute".

Troy hadn't yet noticed that Gabriella wasn't alone, stood behind her was another young women dressed in a yellow sundress.

"Oh I'm sorry", Gabi said to him, "This is Leah, my best friend. Leah this is Troy", she announced smiling between the two.

"Nice to meet you Troy", Leah said, smirking at him.

"Yeah you too Leah", Troy replied.

"So what's going on here", Leah asked looking up at Troy.

"Oh, it's the end of summer party. School starts back on Monday", he replied.

"Oh yeah, is it just me or is everything red", Leah asked, more to herself than to anyone else.

"Yeah its the school colours, East High Wildcats", Troy said looking around at the sea of red.

"Wait, how have i heard of them before?," Leah questioned.

"Probably because you start there on Monday, you idiot", replied Gabi in an obvious tone.

"Yeah, that's not what I mean", Leah said, thinking to herself.

"So will you guys be coming to the after party?", Troy question, "Or well, more like the real party, we sorta have to come here first".

"Ehm, yeah sure", replied Gabi," Where is it".

"Just further down the beach, Sharpays family own a beach house down there", said Troy.

"Oh right, yeah that should be cool right Le..."

"Kacey!!!", Leah suddenly announced, "Kacey White".

"Yeah what about her?", Troy asked.

"She's a wildcat, head of your cheer team right", she asked Troy and he nodded.

"How do you know her", Gabriella questioned.

"You don't remember her", Leah asked, " Florida 08, she passed out during her routine, out of it on drugs.

"Oh, I think I do remember", said Gabi, thinking about it. "Was she a wildcat then", she asked.

"No, she was just there for cheer camp, they weren't competing. I just remember she was a loud mouth slag. I laughed when she passed out", announced Leah.

Gabriella and Troy laughed at this. "You're always so lovely Leah", said Gabi.

"Hey I would have laughed to", announced Troy chuckling.

2 hours later Troy was sitting on the sand near the bonfire. He had spend the last few hours in the company of Gabriella and Leah, and he had enjoyed himself. He had noticed, however that even though Gabriella appeared to have more fun when Leah was around, whenever Leah started talking about anything that had happened in the past, about where she came from or their last school, Gabi would but in or change the subject. She seemed like she didn't want Troy to know something and felt like Leah might let it slip.

"Dude, who's the new chick?", asked James coming to sit beside Troy.

"Huhh...oh right that's Leah, Gabi's Friend from Canada", Troy replied.

"Oh, she just here to help them settle in?" He questioned.

"Nah, I think she's moving down here too", said Troy.

"You think you could introduce me", smirked James.

"Sure thing man", he replied.

Troy looked over to the table where Gabi and Leah where standing speaking to Taylor and Kelsi. "Yo, Ella", he shouted.

She turned around and he motioned his head for her to come over.

"Hey, what's up", she questioned.

"James here wants me to introduce him to Leah", he grinned.

"Oh", she laughed, "She'll be more impressed if you introduce yourself", Gabi stated.

"You think",he asked, Gabi nodded as he got up and made his way across to the table.

"Do you do this alot", Gabi question.

"Huhh, do what", Troy asked, confused.

"Just go away and sit by yourself, you know if you weren't so good looking people might think you're a loner", she replied.

Troy smiled at this. She thought he was good looking.

"Yeah well I'm normally surrounded by an entire basketball and cheer team, its nice to have a little time to yourself".

Gabriella nodded in agreement

"Yeah, I know what you mean", she said, " so how do you feel about spending alone time, together?", she questioned laughing.

"Sounds great", he laughed," you wanna take a walk?"

"Yeah sure, why not", Gabi agreed.

Troy was in complete awe as he watched the beautiful women in-front of him dancing in the waves. Never had he seen such a radiant sight, she looked perfect. The bottom of her dress was wet and clinging to her legs, her hair had now came free of the clips and lay perfectly upon her shoulders, slightly damp from the splashes of the ocean.

"You should come join me", she said, squealing slightly when she was hit from behind by a slightly bigger wave.

"I have jeans on", he stated chuckling at her cuteness.

"Take them off", she laughed, "Or just come in with them on, its more fun"

Troy looked out at her, smiling at how beautiful and carefree she seemed.

"Live a little", she shouted to him.

Persuaded, he took his shoes off and set them down beside her sandals, walking into the waves fully clothed.

"Its freezing", he yelled as the wave hit him.

"What! Are you crazy", Gabi asked, "Try going skinny dipping in Canada, then tell me this is freezing. Its California"

"You went skinny dipping in Canada", questioned Troy, amused and slightly turned on by the thought.

"I did alot of things in Canada", she mumbled, "But its time for a new me, a new start"

"Sounds great", he smiled.

"Wait, does that mean no skinny dipping", he joked.

Gabriella shot him a glare before giggling and splashing him with water.

"You know you seem more at ease now than I've ever seen you", Troy stated, bringing a close to their playful splashing.

"Yeah I guess things are just easier now, it's kinda like the ocean washes your problems away, like they go out with the tide". Gabi said looking down.

She shook her head, "Sorry, that sounds really stupid".

"No it doesn't, it really doesn't", he said smiling down at her, she looked up and must have noticed the sincerity in his eyes because she smiled back, a real smile...it almost reached her eyes.

I'm sooo sorry about how long this took.

I had my exams..last ones on Thursday!

I also had my birthday and everything else..so sorry once again.

Btw...Gracie is my new favourite character :L she amuses me :) x

Please read and review :)

Lauren x