Chapter started: July 18, 2009.
Chapter finished: July 18, 2009.
Author's Note: Well, um…here's a new one. Mkay, I guess that's all to say, but I changed to the hotel they are staying at to Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge. Toodles.
=HSM4: Summer of Friendship, Love & Loyalty=
-Chapter 10: All's Fair in Love & Basketball-
(July 2009.)
PREVIOUSLY ON HSM4:
-It's been four days since the Troyella split.
-The gang (including Troy, excluding Gabriella) are plotting to get Gabriella to hear Troy out.
-Gabriella has a past that the Boltons don't know about.
……
And today it's going to be revealed!
After Brett told the Boltons everything that happened, they sat their shocked by the past of one Gabriella Marie Montez.
"Wow. So, it turned out he really was using her just until he could be on the Lakers, that why after the musical in Junior Year she was so scared of going out with me?" Troy asked Brett and Cristy.
"Yeah, she's just afraid that everyone that she comes in contact with will just use her to get to the Lakers," Cristy said.
"But that was until I met you Troy…and the gang. You don't know how relived I was to have met me, your family, and the gang," Gabriella said as she spoke up from her spot in the doorway where she had walked into her parents' suite to hear her brother and Cristy telling the Boltons about her past.
"Brie…" Troy breathed as he seen her.
"I'm sorry Troy. I'm so sorry," Gabriella told him as tears filled her eyes.
Troy just sadly smiled and opened his arms and smiled a relived smile as she ran into his arms and straddled him so her legs were on either side of him, her body facing him, and her head buried in the crook of his neck while her arms wrapped around his neck as he pulled her closer and tried to sooth her.
"Why didn't you ever tell me, baby?" Troy asked Gabriella as they walked along the jogging trail, hand in hand.
"I don't know. I guess because I was scared," Gabriella told him as she let go of his hand and walked over and sat down on a bench as they found a private spot.
"Of what?! Of me?! That I would do that?!" Troy asked her as he stood in front of her.
"I don't know…maybe…yes….I don't know," Gabriella told him as she fiddled with her hands.
"Damn it, Gabriella! Is this going to happen every time some girl I have no fucking clue who she is, is going to throw themselves at me. Are you going to not hear me out, call us over, then run, and the come back and think I'll be here waiting?!" Troy asked her his voice starting to raise as he started pacing back and forth.
"So what?! Are you saying you're not going to be here when I come back or when I get a little self-conscious?" Gabriella asked him as she stood up and stood in front of him, hands on her hips, fire in her eyes.
"That's exactly what I'm saying," Troy told her, the words cutting both of their hearts and knowing the next words he added would defiantly crush their hearts, "You know what…I don't even really know why we try at this relationship. All we do is fight and break up and then make up!"
"Well, then let's do something to first it," Gabriella told him, trying to reason with him.
"It's not that easy, Gabriella," Troy told her as he turned his back to her.
"So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard, Troy. But you know what? We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I don't care because I want to do that because I want you, Troy Alexander Bolton. I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's not with me, then fine! I'm willing to lose you as long as your happy. If I thought that's what you really wanted that is. But don't you take the easy way out, Troy. Don't run like I do. But you want to know what?"
"What?" Troy asked, the tears in the corner of his eyes glistening in the sunshine.
"I ran Troy because I never wanted to be caught, but you know what?" Gabriella asked him and then took his silence as a sign for her to continue and before she did she turned Troy around and locked their eyes as she spoke, "But that was until you Troy. Troy Alexander Bolton, I trust you and I love you so fucking much. And…I'll play you. One game. One on one."
"For what?!" Troy asked not knowing what basketball had to do with this.
"Your heart," Gabriella told him softly.
"You're out of your mind," Troy told her as he stepped back and chuckled a little.
"So what ya gonna bitch up?" Gabriella challenged him, the firry and fighting side of love coming out of her and shining brightly like a wildfire.
"What's that suppose to be some psychology?" Troy asked her.
"Look, I know why your doing this and I understand. I messed up, but who hasn't Troy. It's what makes us all normal…but, I should have stayed and listened like a normal and rational fiancée would do," Gabriella told him.
"What if I'm over you?" Troy bluffed.
"Prove it," Gabriella said calling his bluff.
"What'll this prove?" Troy asked her inwardly smirking at her for calling his bluff.
"You once said the reason why I beat you was because you wanted me too," Gabriella told him.
"So?" Troy asked not seeing what this had to do with it.
"So…If I win, it means deep down you know it's because your about to make the biggest mistake of our life. And deep down you want me to stop you."
"What happens if you lose?"
"If I lose, I'll leave you alone and try to move also," Gabriella told him.
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"First to ten," Gabriella said as they stood on a basketball court outside on the hotel grounds with their family and friends watching from the sidelines as they stood facing each other, the ball under her arm.
"Five," Troy corrected.
"Scared?" Gabriella asked with some cockiness in her voice.
"No, I got better things to do," Troy told her.
"Check," Gabriella told him as she bounced the ball to him and then caught it as he bounced it back.
She then faked shooting and went into the right for a lay-up, Troy not even trying to stop her as it went up and in, giving her the first point of the game, 1-0.
"Check," Gabriella told him as she tossed him the ball and then added, "And why don't you D up this time?"
Troy just looked at her and got ready to play defense, but got tricked as she acted like she was going for a straight drive to the hoop only to have her quickly pull back and shoot it, sending the ball in a perfect arch through the hoop with nothing, but net.
"Two-zip," Gabriella told him as she waited for him to retrieve the ball.
This time after checking the ball with her, Troy tried a little harder with the defense, but didn't see Gabriella cross over and head to the left side, making a left handed lay-up and then finishing it off with retrieving the ball and saying, "Three-zip. Where's the D? Sleepy? Come to play?"
This time after checking it, Troy tried harder and as Gabriella went up for a lay-up again, he stuffed her and brought it over to the other side of the net and made himself a lay up before taking the ball and going back up to the top of the key with Gabriella following behind him.
"So now you wanna play?" Gabriella asked him as they checked the ball and this time Gabriella fell for the trick she used on him with faking a straight drive and watched (and was too late) as Troy shot the ball and made a perfect shot.
"Two," Troy told her and then as he got the ball back, he dripped a couple feet around the key and then shot the ball making another perfect shot. And with that he said, "Three. Three up."
As Troy motioned for the ball, he watched as Gabriella because of the heat (or so he thought) took off her tank top so she was just wearing her black sports bra on the upper half of her body and then passed the ball to him after tossing her shirt to her brother who happily caught it after giving her a disapproving look as did her dad's and the rest of the males in the group because all the males outside stopped to look at her and were now gathering around while the moms and the girls just smirked at her knowing what she was doing.
They watched as the fight got physical with Gabriella pulling on his shirt while Troy backed her off with his elbow, but not to much to hurt her and watched as he broke free and went up for a shot and said to her, "Don't hear ya talking."
They watched again as it go physical with him grabbing her wrist to keep her from reaching the ball by holding it over his head. And as he made a move to drive to the net, he wasn't expecting Gabriella to think quick and knock the ball from his hands and then have her shot the ball.
"Point," Gabriella told him as they got back up in checking position and as Troy motioned for the ball, Gabriella threw the ball straight at his chest and watched it bounce off and back to her before she started to drive in for a shot only to miss it.
Troy then took it back up to the top of the key and dribbled there for a few minutes as their eyes connected before he started to move in on the net, and using his body to knock Gabriella out of the way so she stumbled back, she watched as he made the shot and held onto the rim for a little bit before he connected his eyes with her and told her, "All's fair in love and basketball right?"
Gabriella just looked at him sadly and turned around to face the parents and her friends to see the females with tears in their eyes as the males just looked on in disbelief.
"Hey?" Troy told her before she could completely walk away. And as she stopped, but didn't turn around he said, "Double or nothing."
Gabriella turned around in shock before with a bright smile walked towards him. The females then let happy tears fall from their eyes as they seen them kiss before they held in each other close, never wanting to let go again.
And anyone that would look at them could tell that they were lovers not fighters, but they would fight for what they love, each other.
TBC….
Well, there you all have it. I hope you like it, even though it like seriously sucked. So what'd you all think.
Trivia: How long have Zanessa been dating?
"When you love someone you don't let that slip away, you fight for it." --Me.
