The Journey

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT THE PLOT FOR THIS STORY

Hey everyone, so this is my first Troyella story so I hope that you like it, I got the idea when I found the title I liked and I typed it into Youtube to see if there was anywhere I could et my inspiration from e.g. songs and I found a really cute commercial (I'm pretty sure its from the UK) for like a bank or something, I guess if you live there you'll know what I mean lol. So here is my very first UK commercial inspired Troyella story.

As the sun began to rise of Bernalillo NM, 17-year-old Gabriella Montez couldn't wait to get up and begin her day.

She was used to being moved around from place to place all the time due to her mothers job but this time would be the very last move that she had to make. It would be her chance to meet people and make friends before going away to college. It was late summer and while there was a slight morning chill in the air the New Mexico heat remained evident.

"Gabriella, are you up sweetie? Were going to miss the train," Myra Montez shouted up the stairs to her daughter.

Dr. Myra Montez, a world-renowned cardiotherasic (heart, lung and chest) surgeon, hated that she had to move Gabriella from town to town so often but doing the work that she did meant that moving to different hospitals across the country was inevitable. Her work also took her all around the world and she often had to leave Gabriella alone for weeks at a time while she travelled abroad for meetings, conferences and emergency surgery cases that would frequently be on the other side of the world.

"I'm ready Mamí, when are we going?" Gabriella came rushing down the stairs with her suitcase bumping down the stairs behind her.

"Mija! Be careful of your case you'll break it. We can leave now, let's go" Myra pulled the house keys from they key ring and placed them on the table that sat by the door. Gabriella took one look at the house that she had lived in for all of 5 months and sighed, it had definitely not rated highly on her favourite house list, in fact neither the house nor the tiny town of Bernalillo had rated very highly in Gabriella's mind, they couldn't believe how far away from everything they were here and couldn't wait to get on the train to a new city nearer civilization.

Myra and Gabriella had left the bustle of New York City, which Gabriella had loved, for the quiet and lonely countryside town of Bernalillo when Myra was needed in a small health centre just outside of the town, but now they were going to be moving to Albuquerque, where Myra would work at the Heart Hospital of New Mexico (it's a real place by the way) and Gabriella would attend East High School where she would be until she graduated in 2 years time.

"I'm so excited Mamí, it's going to be so amazing in Albuquerque" Gabriella excitedly jumped up and down in seat of the car as her mother drove them towards the train station downtown. Gabriella already knew that she was going to love Albuquerque, she had been to go shopping and to have days out with her mom many times and just couldn't wait to live there forever.

--

Troy Bolton was sat bored out of his mind in a car being driven to the train station by his slightly strange countryside cousins, he had been sent by his parents to stay with his Aunty May and Uncle Billy-Bob and their children Alfred, Gertrude and April, they lived on a working ranch in the almost deserted town of Bernalillo NM, he considered April to be the only normal one of his cousins, she had long blonde hair, bright blue eyes and she was a cheerleader. Both Troy and April were sure that she was adopted, she was nothing like her brother and sister who possessed redish-brown hair, green eyes and both wore glasses.

"Here we are Troy boy" Billy Bob's booming voice sounded through the car as he put the car into park and opened the door. He cringed when Billy-Bob called him Troy Boy; he hated that nickname with a passion.

"Thanks Guys, I guess I'll be seeing you at Thanksgiving" Troy took his case off Billy-Bob and turned to his favourite cousin April.

"Thanks for making this week bearable A, I really appreciate you being normal" April laughed at Troy's comment as she nodded her head in agreement.

"Don't be a stranger Troy, I don't think I'll be able to survive here alone" This time Troy chuckled at April's joke about her slightly strange family.

They were all approaching the steps the lead to the platform, it was time for everyone to leave Troy to board the already waiting train to return home, in Troy's mind this very moment had been a long time coming.

Once he had finally escaped and arrived onto the platform, he decided that it was time to get onto the awaiting train, he didn't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere for very much longer.

He pulled out his ticket for the New Mexico Rail Runner to check which his seat he would be spending the next hour and a half, seat 33a…not too bad. Troy was quite happy sitting in that seat, he would be by the window and even though he didn't enjoy participating in countryside activities he still thought that watching it pass by through the window of the train was an unforgettable sight, especially between Bernalillo and Albuquerque with all of the fields of sunflowers, picturesque lakes and beautiful mountains. When he finally found his seat he lifted his bag up to the overhead storage racks and sat down in his seat, this was a journey that Troy was very familiar with because whenever his parents decided that he should spend a week with his cousins, he had no choice but to take the train and go.

While he was looking around him at the people at the station and the people who were sat around him on the train he noticed a girl. She had long dark hair and big deep brown eyes. She was sat in his seat with her knees brought up to her chest and was completely taken in by the book that she was reading, Troy smiled at the sight before him, 'she's beautiful' he thought to himself as he continues to stare at her.

"Mija will ever stop reading that book?" Myra asked Gabriella who was reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha' for what seemed like the 100th time. She sighed in annoyance as she put the book down on the table with her fingers still inside the pages keeping her place.

"It's a beautiful story mom, if you read it you would understand" Gabriella finished making her short speech in defence of her favourite book and went back to reading.

Myra had always wanted Gabriella to follow in her footsteps and become a doctor from Duke just like she had but Gabriella's dream was to study Journalism at Harvard and become a reviewer for all of the latest books and while Myra was fine with Gabriella perusing her dreams, sometimes she just felt like all of Gabriella's talents would not be put to the best use.

Troy watched on as Gabriella went back to reading her book, he was completely taken in by the girl that sat in the row opposite him, something inside of him was saying that he needed to go and talk to her, find out what she was all about and why she was so into the book that she was reading but something else was telling him that it would be stupid to approach a complete stranger and start asking questions about their life.

"Gabi, I'm just going to grab some food from the food carriage and go to the bathroom, I wont be long ok" Gabriella didn't look up from her book and only made a 'Hmm' noise to signal to her mother that she had heard and understood what she had said. Myra smiled and shook her head still not quite believing that nothing was able to take Gabriella away from her book.

Troy saw Myra leave and took this as his chance to talk to Gabriella, he had suppressed the thoughts that getting to know her was a bad idea and allowed the ones that told him that approaching her was an awesome idea flow right to the front of his mind. He almost felt like he was being a bit stalker-ish by waiting for Myra to leave and Gabriella to be alone before he approached her. He slipped into the seat opposite her and rested his arms on the table, he chuckled when she didn't even flinch or look away from her book to find out who had sat down in front of her.

"I noticed your pretty into that book, I've seen the movie, how do they compare" Gabriella averted her eyes from the page of the book and looked up at Troy, she was amazed, when their eyes connected together, how amazingly blue they were and how well they complimented his skin tone.

"So much better, you should read it sometime" Gabriella smiled, amazed that he hadn't approached her to call her hot or pull some tacky and over used pick up line.

"Maybe I will, Troy Bolton by the way" Troy stretched his hand over the table so that Gabriella could shake it; she smiled at him again and took his hand gently.

"Gabriella Montez" Troy was relieved that she hadn't looked up and told him to get lost because he was becoming increasingly curious to find out what she was all about.

"That's a beautiful name, you're not related to Myra Montez are you? My mom had read all of her books about healthy living" Gabriella giggles, this often happened before she had introduced herself but she was glad that Troy wanted to get to know her before he realized that she was very much related to Myra Montez.

"Actually yeah, she's my mom. Didn't you just see her, normally people only approach me like you did because they want to speak with her" Gabriella blushed slightly, realizing that what she had said made her sound like a bit of a freak and like she didn't have that many friends.

"Not this guy, I want to know all about you, not your mom" Gabriella smiled wider this time, she hoped desperately that he was the same age as her and that he lived in Albuquerque because aside from the fact that she thought he was very attractive he was also genuinely sweet.

"Well in 17 years old, I've moved around to just about every state with my mom while she does her crazy surgeon stuff, right now were moving again to Albuquerque from Bernalillo, which by the way I desperately dislike, she wants me to be a doctor but I want to go to Harvard to do journalism. I love to read and spend time with people that I'm close to. I don't drink and don't really want to go out to clubs like most other girls, I'd much prefer to stay at home cuddled up on the couch and watch a movie. What about you Troy Bolton, what are you all about?" She didn't really know why she had added the part about cuddles and movies, it had just kind of slipped out almost like some subconscious realization that he was unbelievably attractive and that she would definitely consider him as a future boyfriend if that ever arose, which she knew that it wouldn't.

"Well I'm Troy Bolton, captain of the basketball team at my school, I'm not your average jock, I'm a good academic achiever and hope to study medicine at Harvard, I have just spent the most painful week of my life with my strange cousins on their ranch in Bernalillo, which by the way I also dislike, my dad is my basketball coach and my mom works occasionally as a secretary at Heart of New Mexico Hospital but most of the time she is an interior designer, she's amazing at it" Gabriella was glad that she had met someone that was so happy to open up to her, it made her even more excited about being able to make friends in Albuquerque and not have to leave them after a few months.

"That's where my mom is going to work, maybe they could be friends" Gabriella giggled, she had long put down her book and completely lost her page but she didn't care, talking to Troy Bolton was much more interesting that reading the book that she had read so many times.

Myra walked along the isle of the train towards where she and Gabriella were sitting, she stopped and smiled when she saw Gabriella giggling with a boy that she had seen sitting opposite them. She stopped and laughed to herself, she decided to give Gabriella some space to get to know someone so she sat down in a spare seat a few rows back from where Gabriella and Troy were sat.

The train pulled into the station at Los Ranchos where it would remain for 15 minutes so that the driver could grab some food and go to the bathroom before carrying on the rest of the journey to Albuquerque and then south again towards Belen.

"I'm gonna go grab some food I'll be back soon ok?" Troy told Gabriella as he grabbed a 10 bill from his pocket, she smiled up at him and nodded glad that he intended to come back and sit with her for the remainder of the journey.

She picked up her book again, knowing that reading would quickly pass the time while Troy got what he wanted from the station store.

"Mija who is that boy?" Myra asked, making her presence known to Gabriella as she approached their seats again.

" He's called Troy Bolton, he's really nice mom, he wants to study medicine at Harvard" Myra smiled down at her daughter, glad that she had made a friend.

"Well I will go and sit back there and let you kids chat ok?" Gabriella smiled up at her mom, thankful that she had been so understanding and was letting her talk alone with a boy that she had just met.

"For you" the voice of Troy Bolton sounded in front of Gabriella once again, she looked up confused by what he said and gasped at what she was before her. He had gotten off the train and brought her a bunch of bright yellow sunflowers that were grown by ranch owners between Bernalillo and Albuquerque so they could sell them at Los Ranchos Station to make some extra money.

"They're beautiful Troy, you really didn't have to" Gabriella blushed, this was completely new to her, no one had ever brought her flowers before.

"Well I just wanted to let you know, I think you're an awesome girl and once you settled in Albuquerque we could totally hang out" Troy was slightly nervous of what Gabriella was thinking about him in her head but he had no reason to worry because the more she was talking to him and getting to know him the more she liked him. 'He's really cute, I can't believe how blue his eyes are' she thought to herself before snapping herself out of her daydream.

"We'll definitely hang out, here's my number. Call me" Gabriella scribbled down her cell number and handed it to Troy who was smiling as he gratefully accepted it. He was definitely glad that he had listen to the 'go for it' voices rather than the 'don't do it' voices.

It wasn't long before the train pulled into the build up but beautiful city of Albuquerque, Myra had joined Troy and Gabriella making sure that both made it safely off the train.

"Call me" Gabriella smiled as she placed a gentle kiss on Troy's cheek. He placed his hand on his cheek where she had placed her smooth lips against his skin and watched as she walked away with her mother only turning around once to flash him her gorgeous smile.

"Gabriella" he whispered to himself, he couldn't believe that in the last few minutes of the week from hell, He Troy Bolton, had fallen in love.

WHAT DO WE THINK? CARRY ON YES OR NO? LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK AND IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOUR DESPERATE TO READ ABOUT IN THIS STORY LET ME KNOW, I HAVE THE BASIC PLOT BUT I AM VERY MUCH OPEN TO IDEAS )

PLEASE R&R, IT ONLY TAKE A FEW MINUTES BUT IT WILL CERTAINLY MAKE MY DAY HEHE