Chapter Started: July 21, 2011
Chapter Started: July 29, 2011.
Author's Note: Well, here it is. Chapter twenty-six and the drama is gonna start happening now, or is it? Hmm…
=ANFF2: America's Sweetheart's Engagement=
-Chapter 27-
(April 2010. – Los Angeles, California)
"Well, I thank you girls for a lovely breakfast this morning," David thanked the brunette and blonde as they walked out of the Beverly Wilshire where David was staying and towards the lobby.
"It was our pleasure," Sharpay replied with a smile. The blonde haired female dressed in a pair of dark wash short 'Midi' shorts with a white braided belt through the belt loops, a black spaghetti strap 'Shelf' cami underneath an off-the-shoulder pale pink 'Dolman' soft-ribbed and flat-knit cotton sweater that had a subtly oversized fit, boat neck with v-inset, three-quarter dolman sleeves, rolled-up cuffs with button tabs, and a ribbed neck and hem. Topping off her outfit was a pair of bright pink peep toe wedges, a silver drop down padlock heart pendant, clear crystal drop earrings, a silver heart ring, a white wraparound watch, smokey eye makeup, curly hair cascading over her shoulders, and her LV tote over her shoulder.
"Thanks for having breakfast with us," Gabriella, dressed in a white and blue stripped sweetheart neckline strapless dress with a white jeweled belt around the waist showing off her perfect hour glass figure, paired with the dress was a white 'Brooks Beach' long sleeve tie in the front sweater, and a pair of navy 'Clue' patent-leather five-inch slingback high heels. Her hair was curled in her natural wavy locks and her makeup was smokey.
"How could I turn down a beautiful breakfast date with two beautiful young ladies?" David asked them with a charming smile.
"Well, ya can't!" Sharpay replied causing them all to laugh as they approached their fiancé's.
"Especially since the word of our engagement and it being so close to the wedding," Gabriella added as she gazed down at her engagement ring and then gazing into her fiance's eyes.
"Ah, yes, yours and Mr. Bolton's wedding," David replied , "I've been meaning to tell you that Ms. Darbus' invite was received and she's checked off as RSVP'ed therefore closer to the wedding I'll send all of the stuff she'll need."
"Alright, thanks," Gabriella replied as she and Sharpay caught each other's eyes and smiled at the thought of their favorite teacher, who would always hold a spot near and dear in their hearts, especially because of their recent trip to see her and ask for her guidance.
"So what are you four up too before we meet again for our appointment at CUT with Wolfgang Puck?" David asked the group.
"We're going grocery shopping and then to other various stores because we need a few things," Sharpay replied.
"I never took you for grocery shopping," David told Troy because he knew Zeke loved to cook therefore he loved to go grocery shopping, especially with Sharpay and Gabriella.
"Oh, I kinda don't but seeing as two people who were remain nameless," Troy said shooting the two guilty parties a quick glare, "seem to get into trouble and scare everyone half to death by flying back home without warning or protection, with no word for a week, then you have to keep an eye on them which is why…"
"We're on fiancé probation…" the two girls mumbled with their arms crossed over their chests and pouts on their faces.
"Don't forget daddy probation too," Zeke told them with a smile.
"Shut up," they both told him before the stomped out of the lobby together.
"Are you sure you wanna marry them?" David joked with them.
"It could be worse," Zeke replied with as they laughed.
"We could be marrying somebody exactly like Chad," Troy said and when David saw the two's faces he burst out into laughter as they then shuddered and promised to never think of marrying Chad again.
(Wal-mart)
"Wally world!" Gabriella and Sharpay squealed together before they laughed right along with their men. Once their totes were in the carts, on the seat, Gabriella started pushing the cart only with Troy putting both hands on the outsider of her hands on the cart, and walking behind her, helping her push the cart.
"You know I can do this on my own, right?" She asked him, looking up at him as they headed for the produce isle.
"Of course I do," he told her with a cheeky smile before laughing as she ducked under his arms and went to grab stuff for fresh salad.
"Zeke?" Troy heard his beautiful girl call out to one of his best friends.
"Yes, Rie?" Zeke said pushing his and Sharpay's shopping cart towards where the Filipina stood.
"What's the rule about onions again?" The brunette asked him as she gazed at the onions with a big one and small one in her hands.
"When buying onions, choose the ones that are heavy for their size with dry, papery skins, and that show no signs of spotting or moistness. Avoid onions that are soft or sprouting. They should have absolutely no smell once so ever."
"And the young ones are the sweeter ones right?" She asked him.
"Yes, and the old ones?" He asked her, seeing if she remembered.
But it wasn't Gabriella that answered, but the blonde, "the older ones are more..spicy in taste."
"Very good," he told the two girls, who high fived each other while Troy approached them chuckling a little bit.
Gabriella winked at Zeke as she put a bag of small, young ones and bag of large, old ones into her and Troy's shopping cart before heading to get more stuff for her salad.
"You sure have them trained don't you?" Troy said as he and Zeke eyed the two girls where they were inspecting head of lettuce, cucumbers, and green peppers.
"Nah, they're just know when to pick up a few things, from an expert," he told the NBA player with a smirk.
"An expert huh?" Troy asked him, returning the smirk.
"Yep," Zeke replied as the girls returned with their chosen produce.
"Do you need anything Zekey?"
"Yeah, but I'll get it," Zeke told her, letting her take the cart as he walked off to get some other stuff as did Gabriella.
"Sharpay?" Troy asked the blonde.
"Troy?"
"Hi."
"Hola."
"Sup?"
"Nothing. You?"
"Ditto," he replied causing them both to laugh and their significant others to look at them weird as they lead the two laughing hyenas to the fruit section.
"Babe?" Gabriella called out to her fiancé.
"Yeah?"
"Can you get a bag of grapefruit while Sharpay and I circle back over to the veggies real quick to get some corn-on-the-cob?"
"Sure, but Gabriella Marie Montez…" Troy started pointing a finger at her, warningly.
"I know, I know," Gabriella replied with a small pout as she and Sharpay strutted off in their designer heels to get what they wanted.
"Those two," Zeke said with a shake of his head as he also grabbed a bag of California Grapefruits.
"I know," Troy replied as he put into the cart a carton on strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, apricots and apples. He then picked up a nice pineapple, and a little bit of watermelon. "Gotta love California and the weather it brings because if not I'd have one grumpy girl in the morning for not having her favorite berries with just about everything she eats in the morning.
Zeke laughed at Troy's comment as he put a mixed bag of lemons and limes into his cart, as did Troy, before he grabbed some apricots, a thing of green grapes, a nice watermelon, and some cantaloupe into the shopping cart.
"That's one thing Brie will not eat," Troy told his friend, pointing at the rounded fruit and then seeing Zeke pick up another, yet different, rounded fruit and putting it into the cart he added, "Or that."
"She doesn't like melons or cantaloupe?" He asked him as they heard their girls approaching thanks to their giggling.
"Nope," the pro-basketball player replied before smiling at his girl and kissing the top of her head as she bent over to put the bag of corn-in-the-cob in the cart.
"What's next?" Sharpay asked.
"Meat," the brunette and baker/chef replied causing the blonde and the chestnut haired two to raise an eyebrow at their at the moment, mind reading skills.
Troy and Sharpay watched as the two quickly went straight for the meat each needed – Gabriella with T-bone steaks, sirloin tips, chicken breasts, chicken legs, chicken patties, pork chops, ribs, beef used for beef stew, pork tenderloin, and fish sticks; Zeke with various kinds of steaks, sirloin tips, chicken breasts, pork chops, ribs, hamburger, hot dogs, shrimp, and various kinds of fish.
"Did ya get enough?" Sharpay asked her fiancé as they went towards the dairy section.
"I think," Zeke replied with a smile before kissing her cheek.
"I'll go get the milk, butter, and eggs," Sharpay replied before turning to her best friend, "Need anything, Brie-Ella?"
"I'll go with ya," the brunette replied as she headed with Sharpay over to what the needed only to come back moments later with Philadelphia cream cheese, whole milk, brown and white eggs, and Country Crock butter.
"We need pop while we're over here," Gabriella told her fiancé and together they headed to get a case of Mt. Dew, Pepsi, Sprite, and then some Gatorade, and a case of bottled Aquafina water.
"Anything else?" Troy asked her.
"Nope," Gabriella said after going through the mental shopping list in her in head.
"Alright then, let's go to our next destination," he told her and together they headed towards the more of the food isles, all the while trying to locate the two they had lost.
"You still coming to ours tonight to have dinner with us?" Zeke asked the group as they both pulled into Sheetz for gas.
"As far as I know we are," Troy replied as he leaned against his car, letting it fill up with gas.
"Yeah , we are," Gabriella replied through her rolled down window as she continued to text on her phone.
"Brie-Ella!" Sharpay's giggle came from inside Zeke's car.
"Let me guess, you two are texting each other?" Troy asked his fiancé, even though it was obvious.
"Why don't you two lazy bums get out of the car and talk while we're doing this?" Zeke told the two girls.
"Or better yet, you pump the gas and we'll sit in the cars," Troy added.
"Ha-ha…" Gabriella started.
"Hardy, ha-ha," Sharpay finished.
"You're so funny," they summed up together, even though they wouldn't have a problem about pumping gas, it was just they were in brand new outfits that they had bought in New Mexico when they went shopping at the mall with Ms. Darbus.
"We weren't trying to be," Zeke told them as Troy rolled his eyes causing them both to try to not laugh while the girls just went back to texting.
"Huh?" They asked them.
"Nothing," the two males replied with a shake of their head.
"So, I'll see you at our house at say seven-ish?"Zeke asked him as the gas pump started to stop.
"Yesss, unless this one makes us late," Troy said pointing to Gabriella with his thumb as he got back into the driver's seat only to have her punch his arm, "Ow!"
"I heard that," she told him with a glare.
"Well obviously," he mumbled as he put the car in drive and started to pull out of Sheetz with Zeke's car right behind him.
"Do you wanna sleep on the couch tonight?" The brunette asked him.
"You wouldn't."
"Oh but I would," she replied truthfully.
(Beverly Wilshire Hotel – CUT)
"How'd shopping go?" David asked the four as they sat down at the table for Troy's and Gabriella's appointment with Wolfgang Puck hoping that he would be okay to be flown out to Hawaii and be their chef for the rehearsal and reception dinners.
"Perfect, we got everything we needed," Gabriella replied after pecking David on the cheek.
"And then some," Sharpay replied taking the other seat opposite David while Zeke took the other seat on the other side of her, and Troy took the one on the other side of Gabriella, so it went Gabriella, David, Sharpay, Zeke, and Troy.
"Well, that's good," David told them before he spotted the superstar chef. Standing up he greeted the chef and then introduced everyone, "Chef Wolfgang Puck this is Sharpay Evans, her fiancé Zeke Baylor, and this is the happy couple wanting your exception skills for their wedding, Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez."
"It's a real pleasure to meet you all, especially you two," Wolfgang replied, shaking all of their hands and placing kisses on Gabriella's and Sharpay's cheeks before he sat down at the empty seat at the table. "David, has been kind enough to fill me in on the wedding and the details, and the look your going for so today I've prepared different a two course meals, as asked, and they can be switched around so if you like one and not the other you can replace it. Alright?"
"Mhm," Gabriella replied and then looking at Troy who nodded, she asked, "Mr. Puck I do have a question, actually it's more of a request?"
"Please Ms. Montez, call me Wolfgang," the chef replied with a smile, "What can I do for you?"
"Then if I get the pleasure of calling you Wolfgang, you can call me Gabriella and Troy, Troy," Gabriella replied with a smile, "We were wondering if for the rehearsal and up until the wedding if Zeke could help you in the kitchen."
"Yeah, Zeke over here is simply amazing in the kitchen with both baking and cooking," Troy backed his fiancé up.
"I don't see why not," Wolfgang replied after thinking about it. Turning to Zeke he said with a smile, "Welcome to my kitchen staff, Mr. Baylor."
"Whoa," was all Zeke could say before turning to two of his best friends and saying, "Guys, are you sure. I mean this is your wedding day, I don't wanna mess anything up."
"Zeke, Dude, we trust you," Troy told him.
"Yeah, plus I was kinda hoping possibly that I could get some of your crème Brule during the rehearsal and before the wedding," Gabriella replied with a cheeky smile, "So to me technically this isn't a total selfless act."
"I'll make the crème Brule if Wolfgang allows it and then I'll give you one during the rehearsal but before the wedding I don't think so," Zeke told her.
"Why not?" Gabriella asked with a pout.
"Does that mean I get it?" Sharpay asked with a hopeful smile and a gleam in her eye while her best friend just glared at her.
"No," Zeke told his fiancé who then in return pouted as he told Gabriella, "Because we do not need you on a sugar high or whatever during the ceremony or before, especially since knowing you, you'll have your Starbucks and then a milkshake or something sweet like that."
"Zekee," both girls whined and seeing his look they sighed and said, "Fineeeee."
"Good girls," Zeke told them while the other three at the table just laughed at the display.
"So the first meal has a Caser salad as an appetizer and for the main course is Hawaiian ham which is just ham cooked in brown sugar with chucks of pineapple with a sprinkle of a brown sugar and regular sugar mixture. Served with the main course is your choice of four sides: glazed carrots, a baked potato, corn, or broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots covered in Velveeta cheese."
"Now, the guests can chose to get two sides or just one or even all of them correct?" David asked Wolfgang as they tried the food.
"Correct," the chef replied and smiled at all the sounds the group was making, telling him that the food was a success. After getting their opinions on the first set of dishes, he moved onto the second set, "This second on has a pineapple sauce where you can dip your ham rolled in bread into for an appetizer. For the main course, it's pork tenderloin with a slight taste of coconut added to it and for the sides you have a choice of: a baked potato, broccoli, cauliflower, pineapple sauce, or mashed potatoes."
"I love, love the pineapple sauce," Gabriella told the chef and her fiancé and Sharpay agreed with her.
"I love the not only the sauce but the pork tenderloin," Zeke replied.
"I love the appetizer," David added as their plates were cleared.
"The third meal I have has a grilled cheese with ham stuck in the middle with melted cheese over it, and for the main course I have a coconut glazed chicken breast with the side choices of: the pineapple sauce, mashed potatoes, corn, and peas."
"Oh my lanta, it's official I love the chicken!" Sharpay told the chef and the rest had to agree.
"Now, I don't know which one I love more the chicken or the ham?" Gabriella said with a slight pout.
"I like 'em both," Troy replied.
"Remember, you're picking two different meals because you wanted variety," David reminded them, telling them that they could have both the chicken and the ham.
Soon later after the fifth option was presented, the pro-athlete and his fiancé had to choose the two meals that the guests could choose from at their wedding reception to eat.
"Thank you so much for doing this Wolfgang," Troy thanked the chef as they ended their meeting.
"It's truly an honor to be catering to America's own Royal Couple," he said with a smile and a wink as he hugged Gabriella. Turning to Zeke, he asked, "Would you like to stay for a few minutes Mr. Baylor, I would like to discuss a few things with you?"
"Is it okay if Sharpay stays?" The African American asked.
"Of course," the chef replied before bidding the other engaged couple and the wedding planner goodbye.
(Troyella's L.A. Home)
"How was dinner at Zeke's and Sharpay's?" The President of the Unite States asked his daughter as they talked and saw each other through Skype.
"Fantastic, Zeke always makes the most delicious meals that please all of our food preferences," America's Sweetheart replied as she lay in bed with her lap top on her lap while Troy was in the shower.
At the country's capital, the President of the United States and the First Lady, sitting up on their bed all dressed and ready for bed, smiled as their daughter went about telling them stuff as if she was right in their room on their, dressed in her Sleeping Beauty pajamas telling them how her day at primary school was.
To Be Continued…
Well, there you all go. I hope you all enjoyed it…I'm not sure yet if I do or not. Hm…
Love Always,
Jess(: