Right Under My Nose

Prologue

August, 2008.

Gabi's P.O.V

"College- college is what's important Gabriella! In a month I'm going to be going to U of A".

"You don't think I already know that? I'm going to be going to Stanford, and if you ask me, that's going to be much more advanced than U of A!".

Troy groaned and buried his head in his hands.

Fight.

That's all Troy and I have been doing lately. And to be honest, I'm getting sick and tired of it.

Troy and I met at a New Years party almost 3 years ago. We've been dating pretty much ever since.

We used to never fight.

But that was before the talk of college.

When Troy and I first started dating, we were sort of like Romeo and Juliet. We were both in different 'cliques' but broke out of them to be together. Ever since we've been inseparable. Our friends even call us Troyella because they got tired of saying "Troy and Gabriella, Troy and Gabriella, Troy and Gabriella". But ever since we started thinking about college, specifically colleges far apart from each other (University of Albuquerque and Stanford University) we've been more like Noah and Allie from The Notebook. We're both in love with each other (even if we are young), but we're always fighting about little things. One minute we'll be hanging out, having a good time and then one of us will bring up college and all of a sudden we'll be having this big fight. It never gets physical or anything serious like that, but still. It's tiring. And we both know that all this fighting isn't good for our relationship, but neither of us seem to be able to stop the argument until one of us almost breaks down.

And by the looks of Troy right now, his hair all messy from running his hand through it continually and his face buried beneath his hands, I'm guessing he's the one who's broken down this time. I sigh heavily and go to sit down next to him on his porch. I have an urge to hold his hand, or rest my head on his shoulder, anything to attempt to comfort him, but I have a feeling I shouldn't. "Maybe I should just let him calm down first", I decide.