Chapter started: August 10, 2009.
Chapter finished: August 10, 2009.
Trivia Answer: We'll be Together - Ashley Tisdale
Trivia Winner(s):
Author's Note: Here's a new one. Enjoy and toodles.
DEDICATION: To girlpower8900. Maria, bestie, this is based on our song girl. I love you and thanks for being my bestie. Forever and for an eternity right? I love you!
=HSM4: Summer of Love, Friendship & Loyalty=
-Chapter 13: True Friends-
(August 2009.)
//We sign our cards and letters BFF
You've got a million ways to make me laugh
You're lookin' out for me, you've got my back
So good to have you around//
It had been a week since the wildcats had been back home in Albuquerque, New Mexico and to say they were spending every possible second together was an understatement because if you saw one you better not bet your life because you would defiantly see the other nine with that person, all attached to the hip and proud of it.
And so it wasn't a surprise that on a Friday night you could find them all at the bowling alley, playing glo-in-the-dark bowling while laughing and talking about anything and everything no matter how random and or strange.
"Here we go Brie-Ella. You got this, you got this," Sharpay told Gabriella who picked up her gold glow in the dark bowling ball and got ready to bowl.
Gabriella smiled and turned around and held the ball above her head and struck a cute pose before she turned around to toss the bowl down the alley. She watched on nervously as the ball kept spinning as it sailed straight down the middle and finally hit the glowing pins giving her a…STRIKE!
"Yay! Go Brie-Ella! Go!" Sharpay squealed as the rest of the females surrounded her and jumped up and down with her chanting 'go'.
"Hey, Gabster is that all luck or all skill?" Chad asked as he got up to bowl.
"Pure skill," Gabriella replied with a smirk as she sat back down between Sharpay and Taylor.
"Skill my ass. It's luck, especially after you get fourteen straight strikes," Zeke commented.
"Nah, she's skilled," Jason told them.
"Lucky…." Zeke told Jason.
"Skilled," Jason shot back.
"Amazing," Troy said, disagreeing with them both.
"Thanks for having my back, Wildcat, but…" Gabriella started.
"Was totally random," Sharpay finished.
Everyone looked at each other before bursting out into laughter…
//You're a true friend
You're here till the end
You pull me aside when something ain't right
'Til it's alright again
You're a true friend//
"Hey Marie, can I talk with you…in private?" Taylor asked Gabriella.
"Sure," Gabriella replied with a smile and got up with Taylor who lead her to the arcade where they could talk just the two of them. "What's up Tay-Tay?"
"Is everything okay…with us as in our friendship?" Taylor asked her getting straight to the point.
"Of course it is! Why do you ask?"
"I don't know. I was just wondering, plus you know me I always need reassurance," Taylor told her.
"I know and you can always count on me being here to reassure you. Okay?"
"Okay, thanks Marie. You're a true friend and I love you," Taylor told Gabriella.
"Aw, thanks Tay-Tay and so are you. And I love you too," Gabriella told Taylor as they shared a tight hug.
"You girls okay?" Chad asked them as he and Troy came to check on them.
"Yeah, we're fine," Taylor replied.
"Are you sure?" Troy asked Gabriella as he removed a lose wave from her face.
"Mmhm," Gabriella told him before she looped arms with Taylor and said before the skipped away, "Come on. Let's go kick some guy boo-tay."
//You don't get angry when I change the plans
Somehow you're never out of second chances
Won't say "I told you so" when I'm wrong again
I'm so lucky that I've found
A true friend
You're here till the end
You pull me aside when something ain't right
Talk with me now and into the night
'Til it's alright again//
"So are we all still planning to hang out on the 20th before we leave for college?" Kelsi asked everyone as they sat around the table at CeCe's eating different kinds of pizzas which was where they were always found after bowling.
"Yeah, most defiantly," everyone…well, almost everyone replied with big bright smiles on their faces.
"What about you two?" Kelsi asked the three quite ones.
"We can't," Taylor told Kelsi, using we to refer to her, Sharpay, and Gabriella.
"What?! Why?" was echoed around the table.
"We have to leave on the 20th so were in L.A. for conditioning on the 22nd, then orientation on the 23rd with our first day on the 25th," Sharpay explained.
"So, instead of leaving with Chad and Troy on the 21st we're catching an earlier flight out to L.A. on the 20th," Gabriella exclaimed.
"Oh," was sadly chorused around the table.
"You guys aren't made are you?" Taylor asked them.
"Nah, we're just going to have to hang out together on the 19th before you three leave," Ryan told them.
"So, we don't have to ask for a second chance at you guys being our friends again?" Gabriella asked afraid that they would get mad and not be friends with the three again.
"Nah," Zeke replied.
"We'll never run out of giving you guys second chances just like we know you guys won't run out of second chances with us," Martha told the three.
Sharpay and Taylor shared a smile knowing that they told Gabriella right when she told them about her fear of them having their friendship broken up because of this, but as the true friends they were they weren't going to say 'I told you so' when she was wrong again.
"You guys do realize we're all lucky to have true friends like each other, right?" Jason asked them.
"Yep," was chorused around the table.
"Group hug!" Chad exclaimed and they all laughed and shared smiles as they got into a massive group hug while their favorite waitress, Kelly, a junior now senior at East High took a picture of her role models and then knew this was going up on the wall behind the cash register with the rest of the pictures.
//True friends will got to the ends of the earth
Till they find the things you need
Friends hang on through the ups and the downs
Cause they've got someone to believe in//
"Found it!" Gabriella exclaimed as they all practically raped Chad's room just so they could find his lucky and favorite basketball, Bobby, that he wasn't seen in high school without.
"Oh my gosh! Thanks Gabster you rock! I love you, I love you, I love you," Chad said as he picked Gabriella up and spun her around.
"Why did we need to find that ball again?" Taylor asked the other seven she was standing with by the door of the bedroom looking at the two.
"Don't know, it was kinda random," Troy said with a shrug of his shoulders and at this everyone just laughed and laughed harder as Chad fell with Gabriella on top of him once he got too dizzy from spinning her in the air causing them both to burst out into laughter too.
//A true friend
You're here till the end
You pull me aside when something ain't right
Talk with me now and into the night
No need to pretend
You're a true friend//
"Do you guys ever think about where we'll be in five years?" Gabriella asked them as they all laid around in a circle in the Boltons' backyard while the parents, siblings, and Cristy were inside talking, leaving them in peace.
"Yeah, right here talking about where we see ourselves in ten years," Kelsi told her.
"Come on. I'm serious. Where do you guys see yourself in five years?" Gabriella told them as she propped her head up on her hand.
"Right here, all of us being closer and more grown up in our lives, relationships, and friendships," Troy told her.
"Because we're all true friends till the end right? This isn't just a high school friendship fling?" Gabriella asked them.
To answer Gabriella, the nine looked at each other before pig piling on her which defiantly told Gabriella that this was beyond a high school friendship fling.
//You're a true friend
You're here till the end
You pull me aside when something ain't right
'Til it's alright again
You're a true friend
You're a true friend
You're a true friend//
TBC…
Well, there you all go. I hope you liked it and most importantly Maria like it because this is for you. Well, please R&R like always! I love you all! XOXO
Toodles.
--Jessica
Next Chapter Title: Summer Nights
Trivia: In this story what is the song called and whose it sung by?
True Friends List--
*stick up for you when you're being put down
*will always have your back
*deserve all your trust and love
*lend you their shoulders when your sad
*can make you laugh whenever
*don't care if you're crazy or quiet
*make you feel safe
*will never judge you
*will never put you down
*don't care what others think about you
*will love you forever
*can never forget you
*are the most precious gift from God
ONLY ONE CHAPTER LEFT!!!!!
