A/N: hey people. Ok this story begins at the staff baseball game. In the second movie, you know? So everything that happened up until then has happened, however I am going to change it from this point because otherwise it wouldn't be a new story would it. Told from Gabriella's Point of Veiw.

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"You don't think dancing takes some game?"

"You got game?"

"A little."

I laughed along with the others as Ryan stood up to Chad. Who would have guessed? I'm so glad I brought him, what a brainwave. Maybe this will be fun, and I can forget about Toy for a while… maybe. The boys did the thing with the bat, showing that Ryan had more then a little game, and he got to pitch first. The boys started walking to their two teams, but me, Taylor, Kelsi and Martha were still standing there.

"Get off the diamond." Chad yelled at me. Was he serious? They thought we weren't playing? How sexist!

"We're playing." I said, suddenly every guy was staring at me, shocked. But Chad smiled.

"Yeah, real cute Gab, Like you can play ball." The other guys laughed a bit, still unsure.

"Of course I can, we all can, and girls can do anything boys can do."

"Yeah, we want to play!" said Martha excitedly. Now the guys were looking very uncomfortable. Chad walked up to me.

"Yeah, yeah. We're all for feminism, but you can't play baseball with us, Montez."

He was looking serious now. I couldn't believe this. Of course we were playing, did he expect me to run off to the stands and be a cheerleader? What was the fun in that?

"You're just scared, Danforth." I said quietly. He smiled.

"Scared of what?"

His eyes were looking straight into mine. I could see the laughter in them. I hadn't seen that look in Troy's eyes for so long. I missed it.

"Scared that I'll look cuter then you in that baseball cap!"

I quickly reached up and whipped it off his head before jamming onto mine.

"Understandably of course, I am pretty adorable."

I grinned up at him. I could almost see some thought forming in his head and he looked shocked for a second before stepping closer to me.

"You think so do you?"

He put his hand to the side of my face and suddenly my heart was racing, I felt my breath catch in my throat. What did I expect to happen? But wait, he was just pushing a lock of hair behind my ear. I felt almost… disappointed. What the hell? Suddenly I heard a slight cough, my eyes jerked away from Chad's and his hand jumped back to his side. I realised that we were still standing in the middle of the group. Every eye was on us.

"You can be on my team Gabriella." Ryan said.

I nodded quickly. That was good, much better then being on Chad's team.

"What about the rest of us?" Taylor said, sounding slightly irritated. She looked at Chad pointedly. He took the hint.

"You're on my team, babe, of course. And umm… Martha."

"Okay then Kelsi, come over here." Ryan said.

At least they were going to play with us now. Even if it involved that strange look from Chad and that feeling… but oh well. This would be fun! Now I was anxious to start playing, I hated these thoughts of Troy that I couldn't stop and now these thoughts of Chad… what did it mean? It meant I was lonely. That's it, nothing more. What else would it be anyway? Chad was one of my best friends, who was there for me when I was feeling neglected. Getting closer to him was natural, wasn't it?

"So, how do we play?" I asked.

I thought it was a perfectly reasonable question. But it caused Chad's face to break into a grin again. He hit my shoulder in a friendly way, maybe an affectionate way? No, no thoughts like that. A friendly way! He draped an arm around my shoulders.

"I thought you said you could play? You lied, that's not very friendly is it. Tut tut tut, what will we do with you?"

He shook his head and pretended to be disappointed in me. I looked at him and saw that look in his eyes again. So brown and open, so unlike Troy's. If I had been thinking straight I would have known better then to answer, but my brain seemed to have gone on vacation. I felt myself involuntarily biting my lip and smiling.

"What would you like to do with me Chad?"

His smile widened at my answer. He opened his mouth to say something but then stopped. He took his arm off me and stepped away.

"Kelsi and Gabriella can go with Ryan and he'll explain baseball to them. I'll tell Taylor and Martha."

I avoided his eyes and walked quickly over to Ryan. What was wrong with me? Chancing a look over my shoulder, I saw Taylor glaring at me. I looked at her with an expression I hope said what's wrong? Everything is normal, she didn't look convinced. As I watched Chad came over and put his arm around her, leading her the other way with the rest of their team. I heard Taylor faintly as I turned back to Ryan.

"Noticed me have you?"

Wow that must be awkward. I'm glad I didn't have to explain that to Taylor. Wait, explain what? Why did I keep thinking like that? Tuning in I realised I had missed about half of the rules of baseball. It was so unlike me to not pay attention, I remember the first time it ever happened to me, after the New Years Eve party when I had met Troy. I missed him so much, I felt like I didn't even know him anymore. He was so sweet when I first met him, hiding behind mops. I giggled. Damn it, I was tuning out again. And sure enough now we were walking onto the field, I had no idea what to do.

"Gabriella, you stand over there." Ryan said.

I heard a bark of laughter and looked over to see Chad with the bat, our eyes connected for a second, but I quickly looked away.

I didn't have to do much in the first half of the game, the ball didn't come near me. Actually I was pretty bored. But then it was our turn to bat, much more fun. Kelsi and Jason were on bases and it was my turn. I stepped up and picked up the bat. It wasn't Chad pitching this time, he was letting Zeke have a turn while he guarded third base. Suddenly the ball was flying at me, I swung the bat, trying not to fall over. The ball went flying, far away from any of the fielders. Everyone was so surprised, actually so was I, but Ryan was yelling at me to run so I did. I took off around first base, saw Kelsi and Jason get home, and kept going. I could hear Ryan saying "stop at third." The fielders had picked up the ball now but obviously decided to just pass it back to Zeke.

I skidded to a halt as I came to the third base. I don't think I have ever run so fast in my life. Everyone's attention was back on Ryan, who was batting. But I couldn't stop fast enough, I crashed into Chad and pushed him off his feet. I felt more bruised then I had ever been, luckily I had finally stopped. I groaned slightly, noticing that I must have closed my eyes. I opened them and found Chad on top of me straing at me.

Oh My God! What do I do? Wait, this was stupid, I just let him get off then get up. But he wasn't getting off me. He was just lying there, I could feel his weight on me, but it wasn't uncomfortable. His breathe was coming slowing, but mine wasn't coming at all. I opened my mouth to breathe and to apologise I suppose, though I felt like I would never be able to talk again.

However I didn't have to worry about what to say because the second I opened my mouth Chad pushed his onto it. We were kissing, it was quick, but getting deeper. I felt his tongue slide into my mouth and I knew I wanted more. He pushed himself up on his elbows, somehow this made it feel like he was even closer to me, all off his weight seemed to be focused on kissing me. I wrapped my hands around his back pulling his body into me.

I had never kissed troy. We had come close, many times, but something always got in the way. Maybe fate was just against us. Actually maybe we weren't meant to be together. Surely it shouldn't take this long for us to have our first kiss? And now here I was kissing Chad. Chad! It felt so good, so right. He obviously thought so too, because he was murmuring my name (!) while still kissing me.

"mmm.. Gabriella.. Gabri- Gabriella!" Suddenly he pulled away, I groaned in displeasure. Why was it stopping? It shouldn't be stopping!

He pushed himself off me and stood up, looking around.

"Fuck!"

Now I realised why it was stopping, we were in the middle of a baseball game. With all of our friends around, including his girlfriend, who was my best friend. And I had a boyfriend, who was his best friend. I stood up too.

"shit." I said.

Looking around though, apparently no one noticed. Everyone was watching the guy who was batting, I didn't know his name. Ryan was on the second base. I glanced at Chad, he caught my eye, looking uncomfortable.

"Sorry. A-about that. It was a..."

"Mistake. Just a big mistake, forget it." I said quickly and decisively.

Then the guy hit the ball and I had to run, away from Chad, away from the awkward eye contact, away from the uncomfortable conversation, away from the lie I had just said, and most of all away from the heat, the longing that it would happen again….

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A/N: ok so I know I shouldn't have started another story but I couldn't help it. Anyways please review. xoxo