Twelve year old Gabriella Montez glanced at the clock on her wall. Midnight. Where is he? She thought.
She heard someone out on her balcony. "Ouch." That person whispered.
"You ever gonna get used to that, Troy?" Gabriella asked walking out to her balcony.
"Probably not." He chuckled. "You ready?"
She nodded and they began to climb back down to the ground.
"Who's all going?"
"Us, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay and Ryan. And if Shar pouts she'll convince Zeke to come."
"Yeah, what's going on with them?"
"Who knows." Troy shrugged. "He should just ask her out. She'd say yes."
They ran across the street and walked through the neighbor's yard.
"I'm surprised you'd do something like this, Montez." Troy nudged her.
"Do what?"
"Go down into the woods at midnight. Kinda hot."
Gabriella rolled her eyes. Troy always flirted like this with her.
The two made it to their spot in the woods.
"So, you expect me to believe you built this?" Gabriella asked looking up at a tree house.
"Well yeah. Accompanied by Chad, Zeke, and Ryan kinda. Give me some credit, Gabby."
She giggled. "Well, where's everyone else?"
"They're on their way. Chill." Troy looked at her and smiled.
"What?"
"Nothing." He continued looking at her grinning.
"Okay, you know I get paranoid when people stare at me. Stop it." She playfully shoved him but he lost his balance and fell out of the tree house.
"Oh my god!" Gabriella said jumping down. "Are you okay?" She bent down and looked at him.
A grin played on Troy's lips and he started laughing. "You should have seen your face."
"Shut up! I thought you got hurt." She pouted and sat down beside Troy.
"What if I was?" Troy asked sitting up.
"I guess I would just have to kiss you wherever you were hurt."
"Really?" He grinned.
"No." Gabriella scoffed.
"Oh."
"You're so easy." She giggled.
"Maybe just around you."
"Hello you two!" Sharpay announced her presence. "What's going on here?" She said looking at the two laying on the ground.
"Nothing." They answered quickly.
"Hey guys." Chad said walking towards them with Taylor behind him.
"Where's Zeke and Ryan?" Gabriella asked.
"Ryan refused to come and Zeke's coming. I think." Sharpay informed everyone.
"I'm here." Zeke called coming from the other end of the woods.
"What was the point of this?" Taylor spoke up.
"Just to hang out." Troy answered.
"Well, this is gross. There's like toads and crickets and little bugs everywhere." Sharpay whined.
"Well go home if you don't like it." Chad rolled his eyes.
"Whatever." She turned to leave but Zeke stopped her.
"No. Uh. Stay." He smiled at her.
"Well since you're begging..." She pulled a nail file out of her pocket and began to file her finger nails.
Everyone, minus Zeke, looked at her and shook their heads. Zeke just looked at her grinning.
"Typical." Gabriellia said.
"Well this is gross. I'm outtie." Sharpay said walking out of the woods.
"Wait up! I'll walk you home." Zeke ran up to her and they left.
About twenty minutes later Taylor complained she was bored and her and Chad left.
"And then there were two." Gabriella whispered.
"Yeah." Troy looked at her.
Gabriella looked over at him and smiled. "What?"
"I never noticed how pretty your eyes were."
"Seriously, Troy. Give up already." She laughed.
He stared into her eyes and began to lean in. Gabriella did the same.
Their noses rubbed against each other and they let out a breath they didn't know they were holding.
The two of them closed their eyes and leaned in farther. Gabriella pulled back.
Troy looked upset and looked down at his feet.
"Well now we didn't ruin our friendship." Gabriella said trying to not make this situation any more awkward.
"Yup." Troy said without looking up.
"Now we can be friends. Forever."
Troy nodded and looked at her. "I still wanna kiss you." He whispered.
"I'll let you. One day." She giggled and jumped down and started running home.
"Hey!" Troy shouted running after her.
"Better be quiet, Bolton. Don't wanna wake everyone up." She yelled over her shoulder.
He caught up with her and tackled her to the ground. He was laying on top of her with his arms propping him up.
"When can I kiss you?"
"Tomorrow night. Here. At midnight."
"I'll be there."
Troy stood up and helped Gabriella up. They began walking out of the woods.
When they came to Gabriella's house they said goodbye.
"Can't wait till tomorrow" Troy said as he watched her climb back up her balcony.
"Yeah, yeah. Me either, Troy." She said and walked back into her room locking the door behind her.
When she was inside Troy went back to his house. Grinning like someone in love.
Not my best but I had the urge to write something cute. Haha. Review please.