A few of you may remember this story from a few years ago. I took it down but lately have been thinking about redoing this one and wanted to give it another chance. I may change it some or I might just keep it the same. I haven't really decided what i'm doing yet. The first chapter however is mostly the same though I added just a little to it but not much.
Hope you enjoy!
Vanished Love
Chapter One
Tears would not stop streaming down Gabriella Montez's face as she sat down on the bench that was in her boyfriend Troy Bolton's secret spot.
The tears were coming down like crazy. She had been crying so much this past year.
For it had been exactly one year ago from today since she last saw Troy Bolton, the love of her life.
It had been one year ago since she had seen her soulmate safe and sound.
It had been one year ago since he had disappeared from her life.
It had been one year ago since she knew weather or not Troy was alive or dead.
It had been one year ago since she knew if he was living or breathing.
In her heart, she knew that Troy was not dead. She believed his heart was still beating and it hadn't stopped at all. They had that strong of a connection, and she would be able to feel it if he were actually dead or not. And she had yet to feel that he was actually dead. The very thought of it was unbearable to her. She refused to believe that he was. She believed that he was still out there somewhere in the world. He just had to be.
Yet for the past year she had no idea where he was or what exactly had happened to him. And it killed her. It was killing her like crazy that she still didn't know. It was obvious that something bad had to have happened to him. Otherwise, if something hadn't, there was no doubt in her mind he would be here right now. But he wasn't.
There was no way possible that Troy would ever run away. He would never leave willingly. His loved ones all refused to believe that because Troy had been so unbelievably happy and content right before his disappearance. And it was obvious to everyone that knew them that Troy and Gabriella had been hopelessly in love with each other, and no one could believe that Troy would just leave Gabriella like that. That was just all way to unlike Troy. Everyone knew that Troy would never ever leave Gabriella's side. Not in a million years would he.
Had he gotten into a really bad accident? Was he hurt and in pain somewhere? Had someone taken her Troy? Her sweet, wonderful Troy that she loved so incredibly much?
She shook her head in frustration. Someone taking Troy had been constantly speculated by everyone, the trouble was that no one could come up with anyone who would want to harm Troy in that way. He was loved by everyone and had no enemies. It just didn't make any sense that someone would take him. So many other bad thoughts ran through her head constantly, and she just hated the thought of so many of them happening to Troy. The thought of him hurt and in pain somewhere and her not being able to find him was absolutely killing her. It was the worst feeling in the world not being able to find him and not knowing if he was safe or not. She hated it all so much.
She just wished more than anything that he had never disappeared and that he was with her right now. That he was right besides her. She wished that more than anything in the world. God she just wanted to be with him and it pained her so much that she couldn't be. It broke her heart into a million pieces that he wasn't with her.
"Have to say that I'm not really surprised to find you here," she heard a very familiar voice say to her, "Actually, I thought you might be."
She glanced up to see Troy's best friend, Chad Danforth walking towards her. He had a rather sad look on his face as he gazed at her. As she looked up at him she knew exactly what he was sad about.
She continued to look at him and somehow managed to smile at him, though it was hard. It was so hard to smile these days. How could she smile when the love of her life was nowhere to be found?
"I just felt like this was where I needed to be right now," she answered, "I feel close to him up here." She brushed a way a couple of the tears that had been rolling down her cheeks. It felt like it didn't matter though how many she brushed away, they just kept coming down. She sighed deeply as she felt yet another tear come down. Her body shook a little.
Chad nodded his head a little. He then took a breath, and moved a little closer to her. He slowly sat on the bench next to her. He looked around and then gazed over at her, "You know, I haven't been able to bring myself up here since before he... it feels really odd being up here. Especially since we used to come up here a lot because of him," he looked around a little more, he then let out a breath, "It kinda feels the same but then completely different."
Gabriella didn't really say anything after that, instead she just stared at the ground below her. Chad remind silent for a few moments as well.
"I just can't believe we haven't seen him in an entire year now, and we still don't have a clue what happened to him. I still can't believe this whole thing is even real," Chad went quietly, a couple of tears now started streaming down his face, "I miss him so much. I miss my brother. I miss my best friend."
Gabriella suddenly gazed sadly at Chad, "I just wish we could find out what happened to him. I just wish that we could find him, finally." Tears were coming down again, "It's just the hardest thing, not knowing, and I really hate it. I hate it so much."
"Yeah," Chad softly whispered, "The not knowing thing is very hard. I just pray we find him out there alive someday. We have to. I don't believe he's dead, but it's so difficult as his disappearance just keeps getting longer."
"He's not dead," Gabriella shook her head, refusing to believe it, "He's not. I'd know. I'd just know if he were, and my heart doesn't believe he is yet. I strongly believe he's out there somewhere... trying to fnd a way to get back to us. I just wish I knew where on this earth he was. I wish more than anything I knew where."
Chad gazed at her for a long time, then finally spoke up, "I believe he's out there somewhere also. There's just no way he can be dead. I just wish we could find him."
"We will," Gabriella swallowed hard, "We just have to find him... someday."
"Someday," Chad repeated the word softly.
He then reached over to hug Gabriella and held onto her for awhile as she continued to cry into his shoulder. They stayed like that for a moment, just the two of them.
The bell suddenly rang however, giving the two a warning. Chad slowly broke apart from Gabriella, but slowly reached over to brush a tear away from her eye.
"I think that our free period is over, and we really need to head back down to face the music," Chad sighed rather heavily, he continued to gaze at Gabriella, "What do you say we head back down together?"
As little as Gabriella wanted to go back down there, she shook her head and nodded in agreement, "Okay. Let's go back down together."
Chad slowly got up, and held out his hand for Gabriella. She sighed a little as she really didn't want to face it, but soon got up as well. She grabbed onto Chad's hand, and together the two of them headed back down to face another long day without Troy.
Gabriella felt tears running down uncontrollably, she found them to be unstoppable, as she leaned against a tree with a heavy sigh. She had gotten so upset shortly after she and Chad had wandered back downstairs together, that she had fled from the building, not caring at all that it was in the middle of the day. All she knew was she just had to get away from there. She couldn't be there a second longer.
She had run till she couldn't anymore. She felt like she was out of breath from running so much.
She closed her eyes and let the tears continue to fall.
Suddenly, she started to pray. She started to pray with all she had.
God... Please don't let him be dead. He just can't be. Please just give me a sign. Please just let him still be out there, alive and breathing somewhere. Please God, just let him come back to me someday.
He had to come back to her. He just had to. The only thing she wanted in this entire world was for her to come back to her.
She could hear the sound of footsteps behind her all of a sudden, and she sighed heavily. She opened her eyes and was already suspicious of whom it was before she turned around, "Chad, you seriously did not have to come all the way out here just for-"
She spun around extremely fast, but what she saw made her freeze immediately.
She found herself looking into the blue eyes of someone who she hadn't seen in over a year. She found herself looking into the blue eyes of someone who she was so afraid she'd never see again. Those beautiful, wonderful blue eyes that she loved so incredibly much. Those beautiful blue eyes she missed so damn much.
Yet he was here. Finally. He was right in front of her.
He was alive.
Oh God, he was alive.
Tears were starting to fall down her face wildly. She gasped as she felt overwhelmed with shock and disbelief. She couldn't believe her eyes.
Tears were still falling down as she continued to look into those beautiful blue eyes. Somehow, she managed to find her voice, "Oh my God, Troy!"