Hi guys, I'm sorry I've been slacking with the stories but I am half way through a chapter for July Fourth but needed some inspiration and this idea came into my head and I feel like, if I start getting into the follow of writing this then I can have another go at finishing that chapter. Hope you like it. It is pretty similar to the other story but I did that to try and finish my chapter.
Gabriella Montez, as good as she seemed, seemed to attract the bad boys, the troubled boys and the manipulative boys. Little did most of these guys know was that, she wasn't a push over and if you messed with her, you would see the fiery side of her personality. Gabriella loved a bad boy as she had a thing of trying to tame them, however if she failed to do so, she wouldn't be completely disheartened as she liked the adventure and excitement in her life. Unfortunately over the years, Gabriella had discovered that a bad boy didn't only mean the leather jackets, the motorcycle, the dark clothes, it came with drugs, excessive drinking and a lifetime of cheating. She didn't like this side to it so if, or when, she discovered that a guy she was dating did any of these things while she was dating them, she would kick them to the curb without a second thought after a boyfriend of 9 months manage to hide it all from her. This was a year ago.
This is exactly what Gabriella was currently doing, she was leant back against a wall at a house party of one of her friends at college with the guy she was currently dating caging her in.
"It was just one time," The average height twenty-one year old murmured.
Gabriella sighed, tilting her head back, "How many times have I heard that," She groaned, rhetorically.
The short, dirty-blonde haired man shook his head, moving his finger tips to tilt her head so their eyes connected, "I'm serious, Gabi."
Gabriella scoffed, pushing his hand away from her, "Is that why you have it all over your fingers?" She growled, referring to the ivory coloured powder scattered on his fingers.
Said man, Jake, licked his lips, "I'll stop," He sniffed
Gabriella narrowed her dark eyes, "You are so out of it," She exclaimed.
"Sh, baby, not so loud," Jake hushed, "Plus, I'm not addicted or anything."
Gabriella shrugged, "I don't care but I don't date druggies."
"I'm not a druggie," Jake said lowly, moving closer to press his body against hers, "You know you have fun with me," He whispered, moving his head down to try and connect their lips.
"We're done," Gabriella huffed, pushing his shoulder, "Bye Jake," And with that she sauntered off with Jake turning around as she walked past him, he shook his head and took a deep breath before going back to his group of friends, one of which being his dealer and he went straight up to him to whisper some things in his ear and Gabriella watched over her shoulder as the skinny male passed the guy she was dating less than an hour ago, a small packet of powder.
Gabriella shook her head but it didn't matter because Jake nor of his group were watching or were even bothered about Gabriella now. Jake liked the look of Gabriella, like pretty much any male, so when she showed an interest in him, he jumped at his opportunity.
"Hey Gabs," An energetic blonde exclaimed, opening up her free arm to signal she wanted a hug.
"Hi Shar," Gabriella greeted, hugging her best friend.
"Where's Jake?" Sharpay Evans asked, letting go and taking a sip of her drink.
Gabriella noticed that Sharpay had a little group surrounding her and she pursed her lips, "With his dealer," She hinted.
Sharpay's eyes went wide, "No way! I was for sure certain that he wasn't like that."
Gabriella shrugged, "Me too. There's obviously something about me which turns people to hardcore shit."
Sharpay jutted her bottom lip out and offered Gabriella her drink which she eagerly took a sip out of.
Gabriella winced at the amount of alcohol Sharpay had mixed with some fizzy liquid, "Whoa Shar," She coughed lightly.
Sharpay giggled, "How did you find out?"
Gabriella licked her white upper teeth, "I found out a couple of weeks ago but I caught him again tonight and he was touching my face with the stuff on his fingers."
Sharpay's eyebrows shot up, "That's nasty."
Gabriella nodded in agreement before her eyes wandering over to the group next to her and then she coked her head back at Sharpay as if to asked, who are these people?
"Oh!" Sharpay exclaimed, "These are some friends who I was in classes with last year, before you transferred here. They did a year abroad and they're back for their last year."
"Oh cool," Gabriella smiled, "So we're all going into our final year together?"
Sharpay nodded for them, "Yeah except Troy and Zeke are actually a year older, they're already twenty-two," She informed, motioning over to the group, "This is Allie, Troy, Chad, Zeke and Luke."
"Hi," Gabriella smiled, greeting them which they all returned, "I'm going to grab myself a drink and find Brody because he's probably throwing himself at about five girls at once," She and Sharpay laughed as they knew how true this was, "I'll catch you later, babe," She smiled and turned around to go in search of her friend.
As Gabriella moved through the crowd of the longue area, Troy, Chad, Zeke and Lucas all gazed after her. Their eyes either trailing down her from her head to her legs or from her legs to shoulders.
"Guys!" Sharpay and Allie exclaimed.
"Stop checking out my best friend, me and Brody already have to flick guys off of her constantly. We don't need to be doing that to four more," Sharpay teased but there was an undertone of seriousness within her voice.
"She's hot," Lucas shrugged, "And we're four straight guys appreciating the view."
"So hot," Troy husked quietly.
"No girlfriend back in Amsterdam or Italy then Troy?" Sharpay smirked.
Troy smirked back, "Nope, no girl."
"Anything else in Amsterdam?" Sharpay said but this time with a concerned look on her face.
Troy gave her a hard look, "No," He said shortly, sending Sharpay the message that he didn't want to speak about that situation.
"Ever so friendly as always," Sharpay teased.
"But seriously, tell us more about Gabriella…" Lucas grinned innocently at Sharpay.
"Let's just say she attracts a lot of guys but she doesn't necessarily pick out the good ones," Sharpay informed.
"So she likes the bad guys?" Chad questioned.
Sharpay nodded, "Kind of."
"So there's a dealer here?" Troy asked, tilting his head slightly.
Chad's head snapped around and looked at his best friend and everyone else stared wide eyed at Troy as his dull blue eyes stayed on Sharpay, effectively demanding an answer out of her.
"Yes," Sharpay nodded.
"Ok," Troy said before nodding slowly, "They're in the same group as that kid Gabriella was dating?"
Sharpay nodded silently again.
Troy swallowed thickly, his eyes now scanning the lounge area.
"Troy," Allie said, her small hand placing itself onto Troy's broad shoulder.
Troy shrugged her off, "I'm fine."
Sharpay looked worriedly at Troy, "I swear I didn't know that, that stuff would be here or else I wouldn't have begged you all to come."
Troy's eyes snapped back to Sharpay, "Shar, it's fine. I'm fine. It's everywhere, no one can escape it. It's fine," He reassured, "I just going to get some air," He coughed and picked up his beer before heading towards the back of the house and out into the backyard where, due to the weather, was considerably quieter however, there were a couple of people making out further down the yard and a couple of smokers.
"Hi," A feminine voice said from behind him.
Troy turned his head around and saw Gabriella leaning against the door frame and he nodded, once, "Hey," He replied in his deep voice.
"Came out for a cigarette?" Gabriella asked, standing up straight and standing on the step behind Troy so they were at a similar height.
Troy shrugged, "Is that why you're here?"
Gabriella shrugged, "No. I saw you walking out here and was going to try to persuade you that smoking isn't good for you and you should stop."
Troy's eyebrows shot up and a smirk graced his face, "I don't smoke, not anymore."
Gabriella nodded, "Right. You're one of them who comes out to smell it because you miss it?"
Troy shook his head, "Not really. One of the best things I've ever done was give it up."
"Oh," Gabriella said, surprised.
Troy nodded slowly, "Yeah," He mumbled, "So did you find your friend?" He asked, changing the conversation.
Gabriella nodded with a giggle, "Attached to the face of some lanky blonde."
Troy chuckled, "Doesn't sound too bad."
"That's your type too, huh?" Gabriella questioned with a smirk.
Troy shrugged, "I'm not fussy."
Gabriella nodded, "Right. You like all of them as long as they have a vagina that's available? Actually scrap that, it doesn't stop anyone these days if they are available or not." She added the last sentence on as more of a murmur to herself.
Troy's eyebrows shot up in shock of her statement, "Call me old fashioned but I don't go after a girl if she's taken in anyway, even if she's still in love with her ex. Literally in anyway. I don't cheat and I'm not going to be the kind of guy who gets caught by his fuck buddy's boyfriend."
"You are a rare one."
Troy shrugged, "I don't think so. I just think you're opinion of men is tainted."
Gabriella nodded slowly, "Maybe," She said quietly before coughing lightly, not comfortable with this conversation, "Shar said you've been away for a year?" She questioned.
"Yeah, I went to a couple of places in Europe: Amsterdam and Italy. To study," Troy explained and Gabriella was happy that Troy seemed to go along with the shift in the conversation without any question.
Gabriella crossed her arms and stepped down one more to stand next to Troy. As she stared out, straight in front of her, he turned his head to look at her, "That's cool. I know a couple of people who'd give all their money to go Amsterdam," She said with a pang of disgust.
"It's beautiful," Troy murmured.
Gabriella scoffed, "Yeah. These people would be too out of it to even bother about its history and architecture."
"Ex-boyfriends?" Troy questioned, looking out straight out in front of him again.
Gabriella took a large gulp of the liquid in a classic red cup, "Something like that."
Troy nodded a little, "We kind of overheard your conversation with Shar, obviously we were standing right there and some of us asked a few questions about you and she said that you attract a lot a guys."
Gabriella laughed slightly, "Hm, I don't know about that," She smiled, turning her head to look at him.
Troy didn't return her smile, "I can see why you do."
Gabriella's smile fell and she swallowed, "Well it doesn't matter. I don't attract the right guys."
Troy licked his lips, "Again Shar said you just gravitate towards the ones that aren't too good for you."
Gabriella clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth, "Sharpay needs to keep her mouth shut," She smirked, "But yeah you could say that or that I turn these guys a little crazy," She shrugged.
Troy shrugged also, "But I'm guessing that pretty much any straight guy probably checks you out even the dumb, jackass ones."
"Did you?" Gabriella asked boldly.
Troy chuckled deeply, "I don't think it's appropriate to answer that."
Gabriella bit down on her bottom lip, "We're young so why not be bold and out there?" She asked.
Troy turned his head to look at her for a moment before biting down on his lower lip to hide a grin and turning around to walk back inside, "You have a scar on the back of your thigh," He said as he walked past her.
Gabriella grinned at his answer, "Troy!" She shouted. He turned around to face her with a neutral expression on his face, "You're jeans are Hollister."
Troy smirked and chuckled, "Naughty," He responded with a shake of his head with a grin on his face and continued his walk back inside.
Gabriella stayed outside for a minute longer before shivering and heading back inside to find Sharpay and scold her for informing them about her severe lack of skills of picking the right guy to date, "Sharpay Evans!" Gabriella called as she walked to the longue and where the group had gathered minus Troy and Allie.
"Gabriella Montez," Sharpay slurred back with a small, cheeky smile.
"Evans, do you think it's appropriate to tell people about my incapability's of dating a nice, genuine guy?" Gabriella asked with her eyebrows raised.
"Gabbbbbs, I'm sorry. I didn't think you were hiding it. It's not you, it's them anyways," Sharpay answered.
Gabriella burst out laughing at the cliché line which Sharpay truly believed in this situation, "Ok but please can you not spread anything else about my personal life?"
"Of course!" Sharpay exclaimed, blowing her a kiss as she cuddled into Zeke.
Gabriella giggled at her friend before moving around to sit on the spare couch, "So do any of you guys have any girlfriends… or boyfriends?" She asked Zeke, Chad and Lucas.
"All straight," Sharpay informed.
"I had a girlfriend since freshman year of college but we broke up before I did that year abroad," Chad told her, "But we've been in contact since I've been back so…" He trailed off.
"You're hoping for a bit of a reunion?" Gabriella filled in, questioningly.
Chad smiled, "Yeah, I hope."
"They were such a cute couple," Sharpay cooed.
Gabriella smirked at the blonde's drunken comments, "What about you Zeke?"
Zeke shrugged, "Not single but not exactly taken."
Gabriella smirked some more, looking from Zeke to Sharpay and back to Zeke, "Oh really."
Zeke nodded a little, "Yeah but like Chad, I've just been away for a year so everything's kinda up in the air."
Gabriella nodded in understanding, "Lucas?"
Lucas shrugged, "100% single, baby," He said jokingly with a wink.
Gabriella let out a short laugh, "Oh," She said with a shake of her head and a gulp of her alcoholic drink, "What about Troy?"
Chad chuckled, "They're always curious about Troy's relationship status," He said more to himself than Gabriella.
One of Gabriella's dark brown eyebrows raised, "I was curious about all of your relationship status' so people don't group me with the girls who drool over him, as it's pretty obvious they do because he's good looking," She said quickly, "Thank you very much," She said with a click of her tongue.
Chad's brows raised also, "True. I like you already Montez, you take no shit."
Gabriella smiled, "Thanks," She said, more sincerely this time.
A tall, handsome man and a smaller, but taller than Gabriella, woman with light brown hair entered the living room both laughing. The group looked up with curiosity before realising it was Troy and Allie. As the two were too busy chatting and laughing, Gabriella got to check out what Troy really looked like. He was around 6 foot, 2, maybe 3 but more likely 2, he had mid-brown coloured hair which was style casually and messily, he had dull blue eyes, large hands, broad shoulders and obvious muscles and a strong jaw topped off with a little bit of facial hair. Covering this casually gorgeous man was a pair of mid-wash jeans and a black t-shirt with a pair of well-worn converse.
"Hey lovebirds," Chad teased.
Troy shot him a glare, "Not funny."
Gabriella frowned a little but quickly wiped it from her face to replace it with a neutral expression, "So you're the only one with a girlfriend?"
Troy turned around to see that Gabriella was sitting on the couch behind him. Noticing that she was on her own and therefore went to sit next to her, "No, I'm single."
"Oh," Gabriella responded looking over at Allie who had to sit on her own armchair.
"Gabriella was wondering about your relationship status earlier Troy," Zeke informed.
Gabriella scoffed, "You guys are the worst when it comes to gossip but I was actually asking everyone."
Troy nodded twice and smirked, "Oh, so tell me about these guys."
"Chad wants to get back with his ex and Zeke and Shar are close and Lucas is 100% single, baby," Gabriella grinned, looking over at Lucas who let out a loud laugh.
"I feel like we're missing something," Allie said, looking between Lucas who was laughing and shaking his head and Gabriella who was grinning.
"It's nothing," Lucas laughed once more, "I agree with Chad, I like you already."
"Are you interested in getting to know me?" Allie asked.
Gabriella's head snapped over to look at Allie, "Sure," She shrugged, "Are you dating anybody?" She asked with a small smile.
"No, I don't really date, what about you?" Allie asked.
"I was dating this guy for a couple of months but we weren't official or anything and I ended that tonight," Gabriella told her, "Which sucks but it had to be done."
"Why does it suck? It obviously wasn't that good if you two weren't official after a couple of months," Allie said with a fake smile.
Gabriella frowned a little, feeling a little defensive, "Because I had been fucking the guy for three months so obviously I liked him and then I found out he had been doing drugs. That's why we never became official."
Allie's eyes widened momentarily, "Were you having sex with him before you started dating?"
"Allie!" Troy exclaimed.
Gabriella licked her lips harshly, "No, it's fine. I have no issue about talking about sex. I'm twenty-one years old, not a little sixteen year old kid," She said before turning back to Allie, "Yeah, the first night I met him, we slept together. And what? We're adults, we can do what we want."
"And how many guys exactly have you done that with?" Allie asked, leaning forward to lean on her hand while her elbow rested on her thigh.
"Gabriella," Chad said, "Ignore her, you don't have to answer."
"It's fine. Ever since I was, maybe, 17. And to answer you're next question, I've been with around fifteen guys and I don't care. If you want to jump into bed with Troy, you really need to step up your game. It's so obvious you want him and you hated the fact that I asked if he was dating anyone. He's hot so you best step it up fast," Gabriella told her darkly before standing up and walking out of the room.
"Bitch," Allie murmured.
"What the fuck was that about?" Chad shouted.
Allie gave him a look, "She's a whore, the only reason you guys like her is because she has a big ass."
Troy shrugged, "I don't think she's a whore. I've been with more girls than she's been with guys. Hers average's out at 4 guys a year. That's nothing. I could used to average 4 girls in less two months."
Allie scoffed, "Whatever. The girls you used to hook up with weren't much better than her."
"Really?" Troy tested, eyeing her down.
"That wasn't cool Allie," Sharpay commented after a moment of tension.
"You saw what she was wearing!" Allie exclaimed, taking her eyes off Troy, "She loves the male attention!"
"Yeah and she looked good. So what if she likes the attention, everybody does to some extent," Troy stated, "If I was at a party or anywhere, I wouldn't want to be ignored."
"You guys were practically drooling over her!" Allie shouted.
"What's your problem with her anyway?" Chad asked, frowning.
"Nothing," She scoffed, "Just don't come crying to me if she breaks any of your hearts," She said and stormed out of the room.
"What the fuck was that about?" Zeke said with a shocked expression.
Sharpay shrugged, "Maybe because she's still hung up on Troy and he's not giving her the time of day anymore. And Gabs asked about Troy's relationship status which made Allie think Gabriella was interested in Troy therefore, Allie thinks of her as a threat," Sharpay analysed.
"I don't like Allie as anything more than a friend," Troy said exasperatedly as he felt as if he had said those exact words a thousand times.
"Why does she think she has a chance?" Lucas asked.
Troy pressed his lips together, "Because we slept together last summer but it was just drunk sex, it didn't mean anything."
Chad raised his eyebrows, "I should probably stop making fun of that situation shouldn't I," He asked which received multiple nods.
Sharpay felt a vibration from her cell phone in her back pocket. She wiggled out of Zeke's hold to retrieve it. She opened up the text message as she saw it was from Gabriella. Sharpay started to read out Gabriella's text: "Gabriella has asked me to tell Allie this: Hi Shar, don't wait up. See you in the morning. Tell Allie it's the second time I've met him, she will be proud haha. Joking it's the first. Why break a satisfying tradition? Love ya x."
"She feels ok going to a stranger's house to sleep in the presence of a stranger?" Allie asked with a tone of disbelief as she stood at the door, obviously she had not gone far.
"I don't think she'll do much sleeping," Sharpay mumbled.
Troy looked over at the blonde and smirked before laughing, "She'll be having a good night then," Troy whispered back as he was at the end of the couch, closest to the other end of the other couch where Sharpay was sitting.
Sharpay nodded at Troy then they both gave out a brief laugh.
"She reminds of Troy in high school so much," The afro haired man commented.
Troy raised an eyebrow, "How?"
"Very blunt and confident and out there and she takes no shit," Chad explained.
Sharpay nodded, "She's one of the strongest, toughest girls I've met," She agreed.
"Aw," Zeke teased, "Aren't you the sweetest," He cooed.
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"Shar?!" Gabriella shouted as she walked into their apartment.
"Gabriella Montez!" Sharpay shouted back.
Gabriella's eyebrows shot up at the tone of her voice, "What have I done?"
"It's 2pm!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah?" Gabriella questioned as she ticked off her shoes and made her way straight to her room.
"Montez, here!" Sharpay squealed.
"Will you chill out? I need to change, I'll be out in two minutes," Gabriella huffed, walking into her room to tug off her dress from the night before and pull on some sweat pants and a loose t-shirt because as it was summer, it was still very warm. Gabriella trudged out of her room to see Sharpay, Troy, Allie and Chad sitting in the longue area.
"Hi," Gabriella said tightly.
"So nice of you to text me to inform me that's you're still alive. Not like I thought you were dead or anything," Sharpay said, sarcastically.
Gabriella rolled her eyes playfully and sat on the arm of her couch to rub the top of her head, "I was busy."
Sharpay slapped her hand away "Stop it," She said quickly.
Gabriella laughed and hugged her head, "Sorry Shar," She said cutely.
"Next time, call, text, something, ok?"
"Yep," Gabriella agreed, popping the 'p'.
"Were you just at that guy's house?" The blonde questioned her best friend.
Gabriella hopped off and grabbed a piece of candy from the bowl she was holding before walking into the kitchen, "Yep."
"All day?" Sharpay questioned, frowning.
"Yeah," She repeated.
"Really?" Sharpay asked, not believing her as it was unusual for Gabriella to come back from a guy's house so far into the day.
Gabriella appeared again in the door way of the lounge, "Yes Shar."
"Was he nice?"
"Yeah, he was really sweet. He got me coffee in bed this morning and we hung out at his place until he had to go to work," Gabriella shrugged, licking her lips.
"You look really tired, you have huge dark bags under your eyes," Allie commented with a fake smile and a shrug, "Not to be mean or anything."
Gabriella's eyes shot over to Allie and decided to dive straight into a topic she knew that she loved to hit Gabriella with, "Because I went out last night until half 1 in the morning and stayed up most of the night having sex which you obviously knew."
"You kinda look like shit, though. Just saying," Allie shrugged.
Gabriella bit down on her lower lip, "If you're going to be a bitch to me for no reason, get out."
Allie narrowed her green eyes, "I just think you seem like a little bit of a slut."
"Shar, I love you but how are you friends with this girl," Gabriella sighed, walking through the lounge and on to the large balcony where two lounge chairs were and picking up a book which was placed beneath the chair. She heard the heavy door open and shut behind her but didn't look around to acknowledge the person.
"Hey," The male voice sounded.
Gabriella looked up to see Troy who was dressed in a pair of light wash shorts and a loose light coloured t-shirt, "Hi," Gabriella replied, quietly.
"I'm sorry about Allie," Troy said, taking a seat on the other chair, facing Gabriella.
Gabriella lay her book face down on her lap, "You shouldn't be apologising for her. She's not your responsibility and she's a grown woman, she can say it herself if she wanted."
Troy pressed his lips together, "I don't know what's gotten into her."
Gabriella shrugged, looking out at the view, "She doesn't seem to like me very much. I've haven't had anyone speak to me like that in such a long time."
"No one should speak to you like that, ever. Regardless of how long it's been," Troy told her, leaning forward on his elbows, "Are you ok though? You seemed a little defeated in there."
She closed her brown eyes and lay her head against the back of the chair, "I'm tired, I'm slightly hung-over, the guy last night was a jerk and then on top of that, Allie just says untrue things about me and judges me. I just can't deal with it today," She muttered.
Troy looked at Gabriella as she spoke softly, "He was a jerk but you stayed his place for over twelve hours?" He questioned, his eyebrow raised.
A small smile brightened Gabriella's face at the fact Troy didn't pick out the Allie situation as it was obvious she didn't want to deal with her now, "Yeah. We stayed up late so I didn't actually wake up until twelve-ish and the guy wasn't there, no note or anything so I waited around for half an hour but no show so I just left and grabbed a coffee then came home."
"Why did you lie to Shar?"
"She worries about me but she doesn't need too."
Troy gave her a small smile, "I can tell she cares about you."
"She's like a big sister, borderline mom," Gabriella joked.
Troy chuckled, "Well it looks like them two are staying here for a while since Shar has called Zeke and everyone and asked them to come round to try and ease the tension."
Gabriella opened her eyes, "Why is she in my house?" She groaned.
Troy gave her half a smile, "Everyone seems to think I'm the reason she has some sort of vendetta against you."
"Oh I've noticed," Gabriella grumbled, rolling her head to the side to look at him, "But why?" She wondered.
Troy licked his pink lips, "Because we slept together last year and apparently it can't just be sex."
Gabriella's eyes flickered from Troy's lips to his eyes, "And what do you think?"
"I think that it can just be sex especially when drunk. What about you?"
"Is that a real, legitimate question?" Gabriella asked, "I'm pretty sure you already know the answer."
"Was he good?" He asked, referring to Gabriella's night.
Gabriella shrugged, "Ok, not the best, not the worst."
Troy nodded and stayed quiet for a moment, "You wanna go back inside? I'll sit right beside you," He teased, nudging her hand.
Gabriella giggled and tilted her head away from him, "Ok."
Troy grinned and stood up, holding his large hand out to help her up. Gabriella took his hand, moving the book from her lap and standing up.
"You can be whoever you want, be how ever you desire, have as much or as little sex as you want, wear the largest clothes or the tightest clothes. Don't let Allie influence how you are because I think you're pretty cool just how you are," Troy told her in a husky voice.
Gabriella swallowed as her eyes glazed over slightly while Troy stroked the back of her hand, "Are you a good guy or a bad guy in disguise?" She asked quietly.
Troy raised his hand to her elbow and let his hand glide down her forearm as he spoke, "What about a bad guy turned good?" He questioned before leading the way out from the balcony and back into the lounge.
Gabriella followed a minute later after trying to understand what he was hinting. She instantly walked over to Shar and sat on her with a big smile, "Hi fav," She said, cheekily, 'fav' being short for favourite.
Sharpay laughed, "Hi, you've cheered up."
Gabriella nodded quickly, "Yep," She looked over at Troy who gave her a wink.
"So there's a BBQ tonight at Cole's beach house for a last weekend bash before college starts up again," Chad mentioned, "Anyone fancy grilled food and beer?"
"I'm in," Gabriella instantly said, "Cole is a cutie so it should be fun."
Sharpay smirked up at Gabriella, "Is he fun?"
Gabriella shook her head in disbelief of her friend but laughed, "Yeah," She mumbled back with a grin.
Troy overheard this little exchange between the two best friends and smirked, shaking his head at Gabriella. She wasn't afraid of anything sexual and he loved that, it wasn't often now that girls would be so open about sex and not be a horrible person.
"So we're all in?" Chad asked, breaking Troy from his thoughts. Chad's question got lots of nods and smiles.
"What time?" Zeke asked.
Chad shrugged, "He said people are going over from about four-ish."
"Well it's like half two now and in traffic it's going to take at least twenty minutes to drive there so Gabs, let's go get ready," Sharpay squealed the last part as she jumped up and attempted to drag Gabriella along with her.
"Shar, wait!" Zeke exclaimed. He took off after Sharpay as Gabriella stayed in the lounge, letting the two have a moment.
"So I guess we need to head off," Lucas suggested.
"Yeah," Allie agreed and walked past Gabriella to stand in the door way, right behind her.
"Bye Gabs," Chad said, walking over to give her a hug as did Lucas.
Troy also walked over and opened his arms after Chad and Luke had stepped to the side, "I'll see you later," He murmured into her hair.
Gabriella nodded and pulled back from the hug not too slowly but not quickly, "Get me a drink ready for when I get there?" She asked, cheekily with a half-smile.
Troy licked his lips as a smile rested on them, "Absolutely. Don't be too late," He grinned, leaning down and kissed her cheek quickly before heading out of the door with the rest of his friends.
"Bye Gabi!" Zeke shouted as he jogged out of Sharpay's bedroom and towards the door, catching up with everyone.
"Bye!" She laughed.
"Gabriella, lets get ready!" Sharpay shouted from her bedroom.
Meanwhile as the two girls started to choose their outfits and began to chat. The group of five were all huddled into Troy's truck as he drove them all back to their retrospective apartments.
"You and Gabriella seem very… hand-sy," Chad commented as he sat in the passenger seat.
Troy sucked on his tongue and shook his head, "We get along well."
"We can see that," Zeke chipped in.
Troy rolled his eyes, "It's going to be interesting tonight because I'm pretty sure that Gabriella has some sort of history with Cole."
"So she's slept with him basically?" Allie said, rolling her eyes.
"You really need to lay off of her," Troy said, deeply.
"Why Troy? Just because you want to have sex with her and dump her?" Allie said.
Troy narrowed his eyes at her in the rear-view mirror for a moment, "I didn't fucking dump you. We had sex once, it didn't mean anything, we were pissed and I have only ever liked you as a friend. How many times do I have to tell you this for you not to hold a grudge against me?" He asked, exasperatedly.
Allie sighed frustratedly, "You didn't even give us a try."
"Because I only like you as a friend," Troy said, deadpan, "Plus, you're not exactly coming off as the nicest person since we've got back."
Allie scoffed, "Because you guys have gone ga-ga over some slut."
"You need to stop, Al," Chad said, looking back at her and she simply looked out of the window and ignored the boys.
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