Chapter started: July 5, 2009.

Chapter finished: July 8, 2009.

Trivia Answer: None!

Trivia Winner(s): You're all winners if you did as I asked!

CHAPTER DEDICATION: To girlpower8900, Maria, girl you rock! You're my second best online friend and despite the age difference I still love you and I'm glad we're besties. We both has SO much in common and that truly rocks! You like Cloe are an awesome asset to have as a friend and as a person to run my story ideas by, and for that I'm truly thankful to you. I want you to know that since we met it's been you and I, a tear for a tear, eye for an eye, and you know my heart is gonna cry if you leave me lonely cuz your not just my friend, you're my bestie. I LOVE YOU MARIA!

Author's Note: Well, here's a new chapter.

Toodles.


=HSM4: Summer of Friendship, Love & Loyalty=

-Chapter 8: Trouble's A Brewin' Part 1-

(July 2009.-10AM)

"Oh my lanta! I love you bikini!" Gabriella and Sharpay exclaimed at the same time as Gabriella walked out of hers and Troy's bathroom in their hotel suite.

Gabriella and Sharpay giggled at what they said before they walked over to the mirror to find their bikini colors went good with each other. Sharpay in her bright pink ROXY Beatnik bandeau swimsuit top with her matching bright pink scooter swimsuit bottoms; and Gabriella in her zebra stripe Hurly Eco Skin Reversible Halter Top with the matching bottoms; and both had their hair up in high ponytails with black Chanel sunglasses.

"We look so cute!" They exclaimed together after they took a picture with each other.

"So how do you think Zeke bared without you last night?" Gabriella asked Sharpay as they went to sit out on the balcony to eat their breakfast that consisted of hot chocolate with mini marshmallows and a bowel of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries with whip cream on top of them.

"How do you think Troy did without you last night?" Sharpay shot back.

"I'm sure they got through it together," Gabriella told Sharpay referring to how they spent the night in Troy and Gabriella's suite while Troy and Zeke stayed in Sharpay and Zeke's suite next door.

"I wonder how they cooped with one bed," Sharpay asked with a giggle that was somewhat evil.

"Oh my lanta! I know!" Gabriella replied before she popped a strawberry with whip cram in her mouth.

"But I think you're right they probably got through it together," Sharpay replied before she popped a blackberry in her mouth.

"True," Gabriella said before she took a sip of her hot chocolate.

Together, they laughed and talked as they finished their breakfast before they looped arms and skipped back inside to finish getting ready to head to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay with everyone else.

"Cute!" Sharpay and Gabriella exclaimed together for the third time that morning as they turned to look at each other's outfit which also went perfectly with each other's.

Sharpay in her bright pink Lucy Love Natalie pink dress that fell mid thigh and a pair of black wedge flip flops; and Gabriella in the same dress, but in white with the same flip flops.

"Wow, you two really dress alike," Troy said as he walked into the suite.

"Wildcat, what are you doing in here?" Gabriella asked him sternly as she stood with her hands on her hips.

"Um, I'm pretty sure this is still my room too unless there's a new arrangement I don't know about so I came to bring my over night bag back," Troy replied as he threw it to the side of his still full luggage bags.

"Oh," Gabriella replied before she said, "Wildcat, did you forget something?"

"Um, no," Troy replied before kissing her lips.

But unfortunately for him and her, he didn't get to make contact wit her lips because she jumped out of his arms and said with arms crossed across her bust, "So you didn't forget to give me and tell me something last night?"

"Um, no," Troy replied confused.

"Wrong answer," Gabriella replied before she grabbed her white beach tote and stormed out of the suite.

"Owe," Sharpay and Zeke said with a smirk.

Troy glared at them and then as soon as it appeared on his face it disappeared because of Sharpay's Ice Bitch glare returning. Troy sighed and asked her, "What did I forget last night Anne?"

"YOU HONESTLY DON'T KNOW!?" Sharpay shierked.

"No, I honestly don't know," Troy told her with a sigh.

"I'll give ya a hint," Sharpay told him before she grabbed her tote and turned to Zeke, gave him a kiss and then said before walking out the door, "I love you."

"Oh shit!" Troy exclaimed now knowing what Sharpay hinted him towards. He forgot to say he loved Gabriella and he forgot to kiss her last night! Great, just great, he thought before he ran after Sharpay and Gabriella with Zeke following, shaking his head at his girlfriend, little sister, and friend.


(Busch Gardens Tampa Bay)

"Brie, come on. I said I was sorry," Troy told he jogged to try to catch up with his fiancee who the whole ride to Busch Gardens and now was giving him the silent treatment and not evening looking at him or letting any signs of letting up on her punishment for him anytime soon.

"What'd you do now, Troy Alexander Bolton?" Lucille asked her son with a slight glare.

"I'll tell you what he forgot to do Lucy! He forgot to give me a kiss last night and he forgot to tell me he loved me before he went to spend the night with Zeke!" Gabriella told Lucille before she walked off after sending a glare that would send Troy six feet and more under.

"Son, you should know by now that's a very bad move to make," Jack told his son with a smirk.

"Oh shut it old man," Troy told his dad half seriously and half jokingly.

"Old man?! Old. Man." Jack said before he took Troy under his arm and gave him a noggie while people that passed them laughed and or smiled at them while the others took a picture.

Gabriella giggled at them before she walked back to them and then tricking Troy into thinking she was coming to him, she turned towards her dad and hopped onto his back for a piggy back ride which Greg happily agreed too.

"DADDY!" Gabriella squealed as her dad spun them around once she was securely on his back.

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"Bretty, come take a picture with me?" Gabriella asked her brother as they entered Clydesdale Hamlet, home to Clydesdale horses.

"Sure," Brett told her and turning to Cristy he said, "I'll be back baby."

"Okay." Cristy told him with a smile and smiled brighter as she watched her boyfriend interact with his little sister by picking her up and carrying her over to the horse as he tickled her sides causing her to shriek.

"Daddy, can you take this picture please?" Gabriella asked her dad who smiled and nodded while his wife got their camera out and Cristy got Brett's and then her camera to take pictures of the big brother and little sister who smiled happily as they wrapped their arms around each other with bright smiles.

"So how we doing this?" Brett asked his dad as they all stood in line for their first ride of the day, the Skyride.

"It's going to be couples and their families," Greg answered his son.

"So, it's going to be us, Cristy, and the Boltons?" Brett asked making sure he was correct.

"Correct," Greg told his son.

"Cool," Brett replied before he tried to listen to what Cristy, his mom, and Gabriella were talking about, only to find them send cold hard glares his way and then at the dads and Troy who were also trying to listen in on their conversation.

"Do you mind…" Lucille started, hands on her hips, glare on her face.

"we're trying to have…." Inez added, hands on hips and a glare on her face.

"a little…" Cristy added as she stood in the same stance.

"Girl talk," Gabriella finished, standing in the same stance as the other three.

"Sorry," Brett, Troy, Greg, and Jack mumbled causing the rest of their group to laugh at them.

"Anyways," Gabriella said before the four picked up their conversation again.

The four continued their conversation as they moved into one of the cars of the ride and sitting down together while the four guys sat on the other side, them now having their own conversation about, you guessed it, basketball.

"Hey Chadster, Tay-tay?" Gabriella said to them as they stood in line for Gwazi.

"Yeah?" They both replied.

"Do you mind if I steal Chad to ride with me?" Gabriella asked them.

"Nah, I don't mind if she doesn't," Chad told her.

"I don't mind. You go and have fun with Gabriella. And take care of her," Taylor told him.

"I will. I love you," Chad told her, pecking her on the lips before letting Gabriella grab him and lead him to the other set of tracks on the dueling rollercoaster so, while the others stayed on the Lion, they along with Zeke, Troy, Sharpay, and Jasmine headed over to the blue set of tracks known as the Tiger.

"OH MY LANTA!" Gabriella yelled as Chad yelled the same thing except with God at the end instead of lanta as they got to the top of the ninety foot drop and then began dropping causing Gabriella and Chad to through their arms in the air in excitement.

And two minutes and thirty seconds later, the ride was done, both trains at the same time, and they all got off and headed for another ride in another themed area of the park.

As they entered Stanleyville and as Gabriella spotted ride she defiantly wanted to ride said stopped the group and said, "Do you know what it means to be brave? Brave enough to stare down a skilled predator, eye to cherry-red eye? Brave enough to be carried 200 feet up towards its lair, only to be dangled precariously over the side for endless seconds, before…"

"What are you talking about?" Chad asked her.

"And before what?" Jason asked scared.

"It's not a dream-or a nightmare. It's SheiKra: A fierce, floorless, blazing-fest thriller in the heart of Busch Gardens!" Gabriella said before she opened her arms wide and showed them the rollercoaster.

"Oh," they all said together, their mouths forming big 'O's because they finally got what she was talking about.

After SheiKra, they headed to the next ride which was a water ride, Stanley Falls, and were ready to cool off on the log flume ride.

"May I have this honor baby girl?" Greg asked his daughter who was still giving Troy the silent treatment.

"Of course you may," Gabriella told her dad as she smiled brightly and looped her arm with her dad's as they skipped off towards the line ahead of the rest of their group.

"NICE BODY!" Some guys in line screamed at Gabriella as she removed her dress and put it in the cubby hole with her dad's shirt and their flip flops.

Gabriella just looked at them, flashed a fake smile at them and then jumped in front of the two person "log".

"Have fun you too!" Inez told her husband an her daughter as she took a picture of them with their family camera and Gabriella's camera before their log left to go up the incline.

"Here we go baby girl," Greg told his daughter as they reached the very tip top of the hill before the "log" zoomed down the forty-foot drop, plunging into the base of the racing falls, getting them drenched from head to toe.

"That was so much fun!" Gabriella told her dad as they took their towels and dried off, took pictures of them, and put their cloths and flip flops back on as they waited for the rest of the group.

Gabriella again as they headed to the next ride, decided to be the announcer of the ride and said, "It is said that you can hear the roar of a lion in the distance, you have crossed into his territory. And you have been warned. The natives call his roar the Kumba. And you'll feel his breath on the back of your neck from the moment you step aboard the mighty coaster that earned his name."

"Princess, you're such a crazy person," Brett told his little sister with a chuckle.

"Why thank you!" Gabriella told him with a giggle as she skipped with Sharpay to go stand in line for the ride.

After Kumba, they headed to the next ride that was defiantly sure to soak them, the Congo River Rapids because no ride at a theme park was complete with out a river rapids ride.

And as they stood in line, Gabriella started being the spokesperson for the ride again, "The waters of the mighty Congo River are legendary among the world's greatest explorers. Even today, those who dare to ride them never quite know what these powerful waters have in store."

"There you go, being all crazy again," Brett told her as he kissed her forehead causing their parents to smile at the bound they had.

"I know, but you love me anyways," Gabriella told her big brother.

"I know I do," Brett told her before adding, "That's defiantly true."

"Good to hear it," Gabriella told him as she hopped into the raft with him, Cristy, and the rest of the wildcats while Taylor's sister, Quincy, and the parents hopped into the next one after they all took off their cover-ups, flip-flops, and put their bags in cubby holes.

"We are going to get so wet!" Gabriella exclaimed before their raft went underneath the first waterfall which only hit Sharpay, Zeke, Chad and Taylor who were sitting to the left of her, Gabriella herself staying dried in between Troy and Sharpay, lucky enough that the waterfall only hit from Sharpay over missing her and the right side of the raft.

And she was right, they were gonna get so wet because as soon as they came off the raft they were drenched like rats. They took pictures before they all got dried off gathered their stuff and waited for the next raft full of their crew to come in, them all drenched also.

And after the Ubanga Banga Bumper Cars, they headed to get something to eat at Subway in the food court located in the middle of the Congo section, the section they were in right now.

As Gabriella and Sharpay stood in line with Zeke in front of them and Chad in the back of them, they heard a voice they never thought they were going to hear again….

TBC…


Well, there you go. And the reason this is dedicated to Maria is because she's helped me get out of a short writer's block for this story especially with starting the drama that I want to get done and over with so I can spend the rest of the summer writing pure fluff. I hope you all enjoyed this. I love you Cloe, Maria! XOXO.

Toodles.

Trivia:Who will be the voice they never thought they would hear again?

A. Reed Cortez (Troy's enemy from HSM3)

B. Meredith Ward (along with Avery and Helga)

C. A new person and one of the upper mentioned people.

D. Don't know

E. Don't care

"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom."