Time Changes Everything

Winning For the First Time

"Great work! Keep blowing bubbles!" Gabriella yells as the ten kids in the pool continue to kick while grabbing the side of the pool and blowing bubbles. She smiles as they look so adorable. Part of her job was also to teach swimming lessons to the younger members at Lava Springs. She stands in the water and looks up to see that Sharpay and the other girls hadn't moved from the spot they were in when she talked to them earlier. She sighs and then turns her attention back to the kids. "Alright stop."

They listen to her command and turn around. "Miss. Gabriella!" One of the small blonde haired girls says. The class was for four to six year olds and Gabriella thought they were adorable. "Did you see how good I did?!"

Gabriella giggles and nods. "Yes, Hannah, I did! Everyone looks great!" She exclaims.

She swims over to where some of the other kids were now treading water and looks up. Fulton was standing there with a clipboard and a smile on his face. She suddenly becomes nervous. What if she was being evaluated? What if she didn't do a good job and he fired her because she couldn't teach kids to swim? But he looks down at her and then gives her a thumbs up. She smiles and then turns back to the kids to continue with what they were doing.

After another twenty minutes, the parents come and pick up the kids for lunch. Gabriella knew that basically the only reason why the parents signed their kids up for these things was so that they got some free time by themselves. Gabriella then follows the kids out of the pool and suddenly sees a five year old girl run up to her. She had light brown eyes and black hair with tan skin. Gabriella looks at her for a moment, and then shakes her head. She swore for a moment that this girl was a younger version of herself, she looked that much like her.

"Miss. Gabriella?" The girl asks as Gabriella kneels down so she's eye level with the girl. "I just wanted to say that I think you're a really really good teacher."

Gabriella smiles at the girl. "Thank you! What's you're name?" She asks since it was the first day of these swim lessons and she didn't know everyone yet. Give her a break. It was only the second day of work.

"Daniela." She says and Gabriella smiles.

"Well it was nice to meet you Daniela." She says and the little girl runs off. Gabriella smiles to herself again and then looks up to see that the other lifeguard had moved to her spot on the chair. It was officially her lunch break so she begins to walk toward the building. She enters through the dinning room and then makes her way to where the kitchen was.

She opens the door and was surprised to see that everyone was calm. She looks at the clock to read 2:30 and reliezes that the lunch hour was going to end at 3 today so it was starting to slow down. She smiles as she sees Cassie and Taylor both sitting on a table eating their own lunch. Gabriella walks over to them and they look at her. "Hey guys."

"Hey Brie." They both say at the same time and laugh. "How were swim lessons?" Taylor asks and Gabriella shrugs.

"Alright I guess. The kids are adorable." She responds and pulls up a chair.

"Zeke!" Cassie yells and Zeke turns around. "Make Gabriella a sandwich!"

"I'm on it!" He responds since he wasn't doing anything before. Gabriella giggles and turns her attention back to the two girls.

"So I heard Fulton talking the other day." Cassie explains as she takes a bite of her own sandwich. "He said he was really impressed with you."

Gabriella smiles. "Really?"

Taylor nods and smiles. "I heard him too. Maybe he'll give you a raise." She suggests and Gabriella rolls her eyes.

"Umm... it's been the second day." She responds and they both shrug.