A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! All right guys this is my newest story. Please tell me what you think and if I should continue with it or not.
"AHHHH STOP!"
"NOPE NEVER!"
"HAHAHAHAHA PLEASE STOP!"
Troy Bolton smiled at his girlfriend of three years underneath him. He had her arms pinned over her head and her body pinned under him. He blew another raspberry on her bare stomach making her scream in laughter again.
"Stop it Troy please!" Gabriella begged.
"Only when you say the magic words."
"But I can't lie to you."
"Fine then I guess I'll have to continue with my tickle torture then."
"No!"
Troy blew another raspberry making Gabriella scream in laughter. She laughed hysterically trying to escape from Troy's tickling grasp but it was no use one because he was stronger than her and two because he knew all her weak spots and was attacking them weakening her. Troy stopped letting her catch her breath.
"I'll give you one last chance Gabriella. Say the magic words or else I will be forced to tickle you in a place you will really hate in a way that will drive you insane."
Gabriella just smiled. She knew what would happen if she said no, and she didn't care. She secretly loved Troy tickling her. She just pretended to hate it because it made it more fun.
"Nope. I'll never say the words, you can't make me."
He smirked. "Are you sure about that?"
He stroked his finger down her arm. Her eyes went wide. Her underarms were her most ticklish spot and he knew just how to tickle to make sure it was playfully torturous on her.
"Are you sure you don't want to say the magic words. I'll give you one last and final chance."
"Ok, ok, I'll say it. Troy Bolton is the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich maker. Not even Zeke Baylor can come close."
Troy smiled and leaned down kissing her lips. She kissed back and pulled away. "Thank you for that compliment Brie." He teased.
Gabriella just giggled. "Anytime Wildcat."
Zeke Baylor was a friend of theirs and he was a great cook. Peanut Butter and Jelly was the only thing Troy could make without burning the house down.
Troy got up and let her sit up.
Gabriella grabbed her plate of her nightstand an bit into her PB&J. "This is really good Troy. You always make it perfect just the way I like it."
"I make it special just for you. I don't make them for anyone else but you."
"And yourself." She giggled.
"That's too."
She jut giggled again.
"Someone has the case of the giggles today." He noted.
He wasn't complaining. He loved hearing the sound of her laughter. It's part of the reason he tickled her so much.
"I'm just happy."
"And what, may I ask, are you so happy about?"
"I've got great friends, at a good school, my home life is good. Oh and I have a really smoking hot boyfriend who I love so much."
"Oh really, should I be jealous?" Troy teased.
"Oh yes, be very, very jealous."
"Oh really?" A playful glare appeared on Troy's face. "Does this smoking hot boyfriend have a name?"
Gabriella nodded. "Yep."
"Well, what is it?"
Gabriella giggled. She knew her next answer was going to get her punished but she didn't care.
"Zeke Baylor and he's such an amazing cook."
Troy playfully growled. "That's it missy you're in so much trouble."
He knocked her backwards onto the bed and climbed on top of her. He was about to start tickling her when his cell phone beeped. He sighed. "Someone just saved you." He said.
She giggled. "I guess that's where the expression 'saved by the bell' came from."
He sat up and grabbed his phone. She smiled and sat up. Troy groaned.
"What's wrong Wildcat?" Gabriella asked.
"My dad wants me home. He wants me to get in some practice for the game this weekend before it gets dark outside."
Gabriella pouted. "I wish you didn't have to leave."
"I know me too. I'll call you before I go to bed all right. I love you."
"I love you too."
Troy left the house and Gabriella smiled happily. Her life was great and nothing was going to happen to change that.
Later that evening Gabriella was having dinner with her mother. The phone rang but neither of them answered it. It was a rule that they never answered the phone during dinner. The machine picked up.
"Gabriella are you there? Gabriella it's Lucille please if you're there pick up. It's about Troy."
Gabriella looked pleadingly to her mother. Her mother nodded. Gabriella grabbed the phone.
"Mrs. Bolton is everything ok?"
"Gabriella I'm sorry."
"Wha-Sorry…why?"
"Honey Troy is dead."
"Dea-dead….how wha-what happen?" Gabriella asked.
"He was in a car crash on his way home from your house. We took him to the hospital but It was too late."
"No you're…you're lying. Troy…Troy isn't dead."
"I'm sorry sweetie. I'm so so sorry."
"NO! HE'S NOT DEAD!" Gabriella screamed. She threw the phone on the floor and ran from the kitchen. Maria went over and grabbed the phone.
"Hello, Lucille its Maria what's going on?"
"Oh Maria it's so awful, Troy was in a terrible car crash and he died." Lucille cried.
She had been brave for Gabriella but now she could let out her real feelings.
"I'm so sorry. Where are you?"
"At home."
"Stay there. Gabriella and I are on our way."
Maria hung up.
"Gabriella let's go."
Gabriella met her by the door. "She's lying and I'm going to prove it." Gabriella said confidently.
"Honey, a mother would never lie about the death of their child. I'm sorry but Troy really is dead."
"NO! NO! SHUT UP HE ISN'T DEAD!"
She ran out of the house and into the street. "TROY! TROY! TROY!" she screamed.
She was crying as she ran towards his house. He wasn't dead. He was hiding so he didn't have to play basketball. Those stupid doctors what did they know? They didn't know Troy like she did.
She finally made it to Troy's house. She ran into the back yard and up to the tree house. It all finally started to sink in when it was empty. Troy always hid out here. If he wasn't there then Lucille was right.
"TROY! TROY! TROY! DON'T LEAVE ME TROY! TROY! TROY!"
Gabriella sunk down to her knees and cried. Troy was gone and he was never going to come back.
A few days later it was time for the funeral. Gabriella stood by herself at the church. She didn't want to be comforted unless it was by Troy. She cried and cried. She slowly made her way up to the casket . When it was her turn to say goodbye she gasped. Troy didn't even look like him. He had no face. There were two black hole where his blue eyes were supposed to be. His whole nose was gone and the skin on his face had been remove, his face was pure bone, he looked like a skeleton…she looked down at the rest of his body and gasped. He was a skeleton. The love of her life was nothing more than a skeleton.
"AHHHHHHH TROY! NO!" she screamed on top of her lungs. She dropped down to her knees and just cried until she stopped breathing.
" Gabriella, Gabriella wake up!"
Maria Montez was beginning to worry. Gabriella had been sleeping when she started to scream and now she wouldn't wake up and was hyperventilating. "Gabriella, Gabriella woke up right now!" She was shaking her daughter but Gabriella continued to cry and scream in her sleep.
"TROY! TROY! COME BACK TROY PLEASE COME BACK TROY!"
Sighing Maria didn't see any other choice. She grabbed Gabriella's phone and called Troy.
"Brie, Baby what's the matter?" a tired voice answered
"Troy it's Maria Montez. I need you to come over. It's Gabriella."
"What's wrong is everything ok?"
Through the phone Troy heard Gabriella screaming.
"TROY! TROY! COME BACK TROY!"
"Did you hear that?" Maria asked. "She's having some kind of nightmare and I can't wake her up."
"Yeah I heard. I'm on my way."
Troy and Maria hung up.
"TROY! TROY! HELP ME TROY! PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME COME BACK!"
She was screaming, crying, and hyperventilating as she tossed and turned violently in her sleep.
"Hang on baby girl he's on his way." Maria soothed.
A little bit later Troy arrived. Maria let him in and he ran into Gabriella's bedroom. He gasped at the sight. Gabriella was still screaming, crying, and hyperventilating as she tossed and turned violently in her sleep. Troy ran to her and pulled her tightly into his arms.
"Shhh, shhh, shhh, I'm here. I'm here. Shhh." Troy soothed. "Wake up baby girl, wake up it's all right."
Suddenly Gabriella's eyes snapped open and she looked around.
"Hey, hey, hey look at me, right at me, right at me." Troy said taking her face making her look at him. When her big brown eyes met his blue eyes she seemed to stating calming down.
"There we go my princess. There was go, just calm down. You're all right. You're all right."
"Troy…" Gabriella whimpered in a weak scared voice.
"I'm right here sweetie. I'm here."
"Troy, please don't leave me."
"I'll be here all night Angel. Just try and calm down take deep breaths."
The sound of his voice, the feeling of him rubbing her back, made her realize that it had all been a bad dream and that Troy really was ok. She started to calm down to just sniffles.
"My poor Precious Angel. Did you have a scary dream?" he cooed gently as he wiped the last bit of her fallen tears.
She nodded. "Scary is an understatement. It was worse than scary and there is no way that could be a dream. It was too horrible." She muttered.
"So a nightmare?"
"Still too horrible."
"Baby, whatever it is, it wasn't real. It was all pretend."
"It was so real, very real, too real."
"What happen Angel? Talk to me."
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Ok then you don't have to. I'm going to stay here all night. Just try and go back to sleep all right."
"Can you sing to me?"
Troy smiled softly and kissed her head. "Of course my sweetie."
Gabriella laid back cuddling close to Troy and closed her eyes. Troy softly started to sing. Gabriella fell back to sleep. Troy stroked her hair as Maria walked in.
"Thank you. I'm sorry for calling you so late."
"I'm glad you did. I'm just happy I was able to help. I wish I would have known what her nightmare was about."
"Maybe she'd be willing to talk about it in the morning, until then I called your parents. They know you're here and that you're spending the night."
Troy nodded. "Thank you Ms. Montez."
"You're welcome Troy. Good night."
"Good night."
Maria left the room. Troy settled down in bed. He kissed Gabriella and let the darkness take over.
The next morning Gabriella stirred and opened her eyes. She smiled at Troy staring at her.
"Morning Wildcat." She muttered.
"Morning Brie. How are you feeling this morning?"
"Better, I don't ever want to feel like I felt last night again. It was awful."
"That must have been some nightmare. I think you were having a panic attack or something."
As Gabriella remembered the nightmare her eyes filled with tears and her breathing increased.
"Hey, hey, hey. I'm here, I'm right here shhh, shhh, everything is ok." Troy soothed quickly.
The sound of his voice brought her back reality. "It was so horrible. It felt so real." She choked out.
"But it wasn't. It's wasn't real. Everything was fake."
"I've never been more scared in my entire life."
"It's all over. It's all over my sweetie. It was just a bad dream and nothing can hurt you anymore. I'm right here and I'm never going to leave you?"
"Promise?"
"I promise you Gabriella Montez that I will never leave you."
Gabriella nodded and giggled when Troy kissed her eyes, kissing away her tears.
"What are you doing?"
"Kissing away your tears what does it look like?" he asked.
She giggled and pushed him away. "I'm sorry. I'm such a baby. I'm sixteen and I still wake up crying from nightmares."
"Hey, you are not a baby. Everyone has nightmares, even my mother has nightmares sometimes."
"Why do nightmares like this happen Troy? Why did I see that?"
"Well what was your nightmare about?"
Gabriella looked down at her hands sniffing back new tears.
"Oh baby," Troy rubbed her back. "Was it really that bad?"
Gabriella nodded. "It was the worst, most horrible, most petrifying, nightmare I've ever had in my entire life…and I can't get it out of my head."
"Tell me what happen Brie, talking about your dreams sometimes helps make them go away."
"No, no, I can't. I can't!"
"Please baby girl. It will help you. I love you and I want to help you. Please."
"I can't. I can't remember, please don't make me remember. Don't make me remember Troy please, please."
"Ok, ok, shhh, shhh." Troy soothed. He pulled her into his arms hugging her close. "Ok, you don't have to remember anything. Just relax, take some deep breathes."
"I want to tell you Troy, really I do but I'm scared of remembering it. I'm scared of not being able to come back from it."
"You're scared you'll be pulled back into the land of your nightmares?"
She nodded.
"I'm right here I won't let that happen. I promise."
Gabriella took a deep breath and nodded. "Ok but I need you to hold me, really tight, really, really tight."
Troy wrapped his arms tighter around her hugging her as close and as tight as he could without causing her pain. "Just take a deep breath and do the best you can."
Gabriella took a deep breath and let it out. "It started out good, we were just fooling around…having fun."
"What were we doing?"
Troy honestly didn't care, he just wanted Gabriella to remember the good parts of her dream more.
Gabriella giggled. "You were tickling me because I said that Zeke was a better cook than you."
"That sounds realistic." He teased tickling her sides making her giggle. "What else happen?"
"You had to go home. Your dad wanted you to get in some practice before dark so you left. I was having dinner with my mom and your mom called sh-she said….she said…." Gabriella's breathing increased.
"Shhh, shhh, you're ok. You're ok. I'm right here. I'm right here." He soothed. He rubbed her back.
His touch was enough to reminder her that he was still there. She continued. "She told me you were dead. You had gotten into a car crash on your way home and you died. I didn't believe it at first. My mom and I went to your house. I went up to your tree house and you weren't there. I started to cry because I knew it was true."
"No, it's not true. I'm alive, I'm right here."
Gabriella turned and cuddled into his chest. She inhaled his scent and let that calm her.
"Then I was at the funeral. I went to the casket to say goodbye but you were pure bones. You were a skeleton. There was nothing left of you, only bones. I got so scared I just broke down and screamed and cried. That's all I can remember before I woke up."
"Brie that's terrible, I'm so sorry you had to see that. But I want you to know that it's not true. I'm alive and I'm ok, I'm not injured or anything. I'm perfectly 100% ok."
Gabriella wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and sniffed. "Why would I dream up something like that though?"
"Well, most nightmares come from thing we worry about." Troy told her. "Are you worried about me leaving you?"
"No…"
Troy just looked at her. She sighed. "Yes."
"Why?"
"Sharpay told me you'd break up with me if I didn't have sex with you."
"You know that's not true. I'd never leave you."
Gabriella just shrugged. "No guy likes waiting Troy. If you don't get it from me, you'll get it somewhere else."
"Gabriella, I'm not like that. You know that. I don't care how long we have to wait, when and only when you're ready will we have sex."
Gabriella nodded.
"You know all this, why are you really worried about me leaving?"
Gabriella sighed. It was amazing how well he knew her. But she couldn't tell him the truth. He'd think she was crazy and overreacting.
"There is no other reason."
"Yes, there is, I can see it on your face."
She sighed again. Why did she even bother lying to him? He always saw right through her.
"It's his anniversary coming up. I just always get scared around this month, before I met you it was my mom I had nightmares about." She whispered.
Troy sighed finally understanding. Her father died in a car crash with her in back seat when she was 13 and it was coming up to the 3 year mark since his death within a few weeks.
"Baby, what happen to your father was horrible, and that you had to witness him dying, is even worse but that doesn't mean the same thing will happen to me or your mother."
Gabriella just sighed. Her father had died in her arms while they were waiting for the paramedics to show up and Gabriella never got over the trauma of it all. Her father had been bleeding from…well everywhere covering Gabriella in her father's blood, and he ended up bleeding out in her arms.
"That's why you saw me as a skeleton, in your dream." Troy said.
Gabriella nodded. The more she thought about it the more her dream made sense. Troy was right, her dream was a result of her fears.
"I just don't want to watch you bleed out in my arms…or even be reduced to nothing but bones. I love you so much and I can't live without you."
"Baby, I promise I'm not going to leave you. I will always fight my way back to you."
Gabriella nodded. She cuddled into his chest and let out a content sigh. She would make sure he never left her. She was going to make sure that if he ever died, she'd die with him. How was she going to do that? Well…she was never going to leave his side again.
A/N all right so that was longer than my normal first chapters but I just felt like this was a good spot to end it. What do you think? Should I continue? Please let me know.