Title: Breaking Walls

Rating: M

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot.

A/N: Well, hello there!! :)

Here is my second story; this one will be more focused in Troy and Gabriella's relationship, the other characters will appear too, but this time I am not going to work with 4 couples, so these other characters will be support cast.

This story will be darker than "Sometimes…" but I hope you'll enjoy just the same, if not more. If you like it, please, let me know pressing this cute purple button, and if you don't like it, press the button anyway, because I want to know what you do think for real, so I can correct whatever you think I am doing wrong. Remember that I am Spanish so if you have doubts about the plot or something because of the way I write, PM me and I'll answer right away trying to solve your questions the best way I can.

I can't tell you now how often I'll update this story; one chapter per week for sure, but I don't know if I will be able to have more chapters written each week, you know? And you know I don't like to promise something if I am not sure if I will be able to do it, so let's say I'll update that story at least one time per week. ;)

Also, please, this first chapter might be confusing, but don't worry because you'll understand everything in the fellow chapters. Remember this is only the story's presentation, so probably you'll end the chapter like "What?" but I assure you everything will become clear.

By the way, I'll follow the idea which I explained you, but I am going to modify some things.

That's it for now, so…well, ENJOY! :)

The petite brunette parked her car in her assigned spot, turning off the engine and trying to gain the enough courage she needed to step in her school, East High.

It was not as if she was afraid to enter there; the bullying ended five minutes later it began because Troy Bolton, the king of the school, stopped it, and though she was the biggest nerd, she was also his best friend, so that made her really untouchable. No; her fears were more because she knew that once she was inside, the man she loved, her best friend, wouldn't be with her the way she would have liked.

She knew she had to act around him as if nothing was happening between them, as if he was just another person living in this world who, casually, was her best friend, but how could you act like that with the person you loved more? How could she was supposed to act around him as if nothing when he had left her bed not even three hours ago? She understood his rules; she understood his reasons behind his behaviour, and she had accepted them, but it was more difficult each day by.

Sighing, she got out from the car, and when she was locking it, someone poking her from behind made her squeal. "Fuck Gabs," Chad Danforth exclaimed. "Do you really want to make me deaf, don't you? Jeez…"

"Sorry Chad," Gabriella answered giggling. "But you know what happens when you put up your little surprises; we've been rehearsing for years now…"

"Yeah, yeah…" Chad muttered. "I don't want to go to class; I swear Darbus hates me." He whined as if he was a little boy.

"Oh poor baby," Gabriella mocked while she slapped his abs. "Grow up Chad, if you sleep in her class and you don't let go for a moment your ball," Gabriella said as a matter-of-fact pointing to his basketball tucked under his arm, "what do you expect? A round of applause? A thank you?"

Rolling his eyes at her sarcasm, Chad placed a friendly arm around her shoulders and pulled her to the school. "Come on, you are beginning with the violence and so that tells me it's time for you to go to your sanctuary for a while."

"You got me." Gabriella said fastening her steps and stepping inside East High.

Chad tried to restrain her but Gabriella continued with her rush. "Jeez Gabs, I get you love school, but that is getting ridiculous. There is no need to hurry!"

Pointing with her head to the right, Gabriella whispered only for Chad to hear. "Yes Chad, there is."

Her hiss made him to turn to the right to see what she was seeing, and then he widened his eyes. "Shit, and what if we run?"

"Do you want a detention?" Sarcasm laced her voice and Chad winced. "Shut up and come on!"

When the pair was about to turn the corner, a scratching voice stopped them. "Chad!"

Stopping dead in their tracks, sighing and turning around, with Gabriella positioned by Chad closer to him, Chad spoke. "What do you want Sharpay?"

"Have you seen Troy?" The ice queen asked in a dreamy voice.

Of course. Where is Troy? The question Sharpay Evans and almost all the female population of the school directed to Chad, Troy's best male friend, each time they saw him. People didn't ask to Gabriella because they thought Troy protected her because he didn't like bullying, nothing more and nothing less, but they didn't know anything.

They didn't know Gabriella and Troy had been the best of friends all their life. They didn't know how deep their relationship was. They didn't know anything about them but what they saw, though all was a façade, a lie. They only saw a cold with everybody (even Gabriella) Troy. A statuesque Troy. A stone heart Troy. Maybe that was the reason so almost every girl wanted to fuck him; his mystery aura, his coldness towards everything, his iced blue eyes…he could be scary if you didn't know the real him, that is. But Gabriella knew better.

Chad tightened his arm around Gabriella. "I think I've seen him in the outside court practicing."

Though Gabriella knew that was a lie, she almost believed in Chad's words. Whenever he talked about Troy's whereabouts, though always a lie, his voice sounded so sincere you couldn't help but believe everything. As Chad pointed every time Gabriella and him talked about that, he had years of practice.

"Oh," the blonde said. "I am going to look for him then. Tootles!"

"That girl crisps my nerves," Chad muttered only for Gabriella. "Do you know where Troy is?"

"I suppose he is in his apartment," Gabriella answered softtly. "But I am not sure about that."

Chad stood there, silent for a moment. "Did you see him last night?" Chad whispered.

Gabriella nodded and Chad sighed. "Fuck…"

And yeah, fuck was the right word to say.

When Troy had arrived at his apartment almost three hours ago, he was mad. Though he wanted to protect Gabriella from him, he knew that was impossible being their relationship so deep. He wanted to be apart from her, he wanted to give her the chance to meet someone really worthy, but he needed her at the same time. She was the only one who knew everything about him, and still she was beside him every time he needed her. She was the only one who he allowed to see him in his weakest moments. She was the only one who had seen him cry. And that was because Gabriella Montez was the love of his life.

He knew that was wrong; one thing was for him to be miserable, but not Gabriella too. She was his life; she was the most important thing is his life, and so he needed to make her happy. He was fucked up, but Gabriella couldn't be affected by that, she had to be happy even if that cost his life.

Stepping in the shower, he sighed. Though he knew the "theory" he also knew he was incapable to be apart from her. Not when she was the remedy to erase all the nightmares which haunted him; not when she was the only one who could save him. He knew Gabriella was aware of all that, but still she was still there. And that was what amazed him; she had accepted him the fucked up way he was, and that was all that mattered to him. She was his rock; he knew without her he probably would have gone crazy because she was the one who kept him sane.

At the same time, however, he hated to be the one hurting her. He knew he hurt her by acting the way he acted towards her, and though his heart hurt with hers, his brain knew that was the only solution he had to save her from who he was.

Putting on a pair of jeans and a simple white shirt, Troy went to the kitchen of his small apartment to grab a granola bar and his lunch. When he was at the door, he put both items inside his bag and put on his Converse. He grabbed his keys and his bag and went to his car.

He arrived at East High in less than fifteen minutes, and when he turned off the engine of his car, he took a deep breathe still not moving. He knew he had to go inside, there was no question about that, but he didn't want to do that. He wanted to escape to his perfect world, where he and Gabriella were the perfect couple, where he could love her freely, where he could allow her to love him…where he was happy. But he knew that to not go to school would imply a visit from Susan, and that was the last thing he wanted.

Stepping inside the school, he spotted Chad and Gabriella talking quietly in a corner. He saw Chad had one of his arms around her shoulders, but that didn't bother him. He was glad that Gabriella had Chad in her life; he was glad she had him to comfort her, and he knew Chad was madly in love with Taylor McKessie.

Taylor was one of Gabriella's best friends. She was the captain of the Decathlon Team, and when Gabriella joined the team, she and Taylor clicked almost since the very beginning. Gabriella introduced Taylor to Chad and Troy, and though Troy appreciated the girl, he hardly showed any kind of emotion when he was around her. Well, he didn't show any kind of emotion to anyone but Gabriella, and sometimes Chad.

Though he supposed, at first, that Taylor would try to take Gabriella away from him because he was a jerk, the truth is that since she and Chad became a couple she learned to stay away from Troy. Chad and Gabriella had explained her how things worked, and she had accepted them. Troy was thankful for that, and he knew Chad was happier than ever with Taylor, so though he didn't show emotion around her, the way he acted towards her was cold yeah, but not as cold as the way he acted with the rest of East High's population. And when someone bullied her because she, like Gabriella, was a nerd, Chad and Troy drew a line so no one would hurt them that way.

Deciding against to go to his best friends, he went to his homeroom. People stared at him, but he couldn't care less. No one of them mattered to him. Troy knew people gossiped about him; Troy knew the craziest things about him ran along the corridors of East High, but that didn't bother him. He never showed any emotion; he only had made clear his will when Gabriella had been involved. He knew that fact surprised his classmates, but in his brain all of them could go to hell for all of his care.

Almost every girl threw herself at him. He never had fucked with anyone of them. He only had been inside one girl, he only had kissed one girl, he only wanted one girl, he only desired one girl: Gabriella Montez, and that would remain like that forever. The school's sluts were that, sluts who only wanted him because he was popular, because he was the basketball team's captain, because he had brought the championship four times in a row and because he was supposed to be the hottest of the school. But neither of them mattered. They weren't Gabriella.

If someone hurt Gabriella Troy would made this someone's life miserable, a living hell. A bruise that she couldn't explain, a tear she couldn't explain and then Troy's fury took everything. He had made sure everyone knew Gabriella was untouchable when it came to her being hurt. Their classmates didn't know about their relationship, and that would continue like that, but that also meant that some guys tried to make moves to fuck her. He couldn't claim her as his publicly so they didn't know Gabriella was his. Luckily for him, Gabriella always turned down every guy; one time he asked her why, and her answer melt his heart: because I love you, she had told him.

He had gotten mad after that, and he knew he had upset Gabriella, but he also knew she knew why he acted that way. He had exited from her house silently, calling Chad afterwards and telling him to go to Gabriella's. Chad had gone and the circle began again.

Chad was the only one who knew about their weird relationship; though he couldn't understand it, he supported them. He knew why Troy acted the way he acted; he knew what was what pushed Troy to act the way he acted, and he respected Troy for that.

Sitting in his desk, ignoring every stare pointed at him, he buried his head in his arms waiting for homeroom to begin.

"Hey man," Chad said after a while.

Troy lifted his head and locked his eyes with his. "Is she okay?"

Chad nodded. He could breathe again. "Thanks man."

"No problem bro," Chad said patting his back.

Suddenly, the sweetest of the giggles sounded in the classroom and he knew his angel was there, probably talking with Taylor about God-knows-what. Both girls went to their desks, which were situated behind his and Chad's. "Hey Troy," Taylor greeted him politely after she kissed Chad's lips.

Troy nodded his head and then he looked at his love with a look full of love, respect, care and gratefulness, trying to read her eyes. The only thing he saw was all his emotions but this time towards him. Her eyes were a mirror for his.

Neither of them said anything; there was no need. Both knew what the other was thinking, and that was enough at the moment.

"Troy!"

That pitched voice made him to close his eyes and groan quietly. He decided to not say anything waiting for the Ice Princess to come to him, because he knew that was what she would do. "I've been looking for you outside. Chad said you were there."

Troy smiled inwardly. Chad was a great friend for him, and he always had his back. Of course, Troy had Chad's back too. They were like brothers; Chad was the brother he had lost a few years ago, and so he had let him in all the way. At first he had been reluctant to let him in, to allow himself to be closer with him, but Chad fought against him about that, and he knew he had let him win because he was not Gabriella. His main fear was to hurt Gabriella, to make her suffer, to make her feel pain, and so he had built walls between them, walls that disappear when his nightmares attacked him, because in those times, he was with Gabriella and the pain was gone.

"What do you want?" His cold voice stopped her rambling.

Sharpay smirked in a way which was supposed to be sexy, though Troy only thought it was pathetic. "I wanted to tell you that my parents are going away for the weekend. Maybe you could come over and spend the weekend with me. We can use the pool, the hot tub…"

Gabriella widened her eyes and Troy saw her reaction. He knew Gabriella was not worried about him sleeping or fucking other girls; Gabriella knew him better than that, but that didn't mean she didn't suffer when girls threw themselves at him. She was always worried that some girl could take him away; no matter how many times he had assured her she was the one, no matter how many times Chad had talked to her too, she still doubted about her hold on him.

Cursing Sharpay inwardly when he realized Gabriella was hurting, his eyes became colder. "No." Troy answered in a harsh tone.

Girls were always like that, and he hated that. If he hadn't made a move with anyone for 4 years of high school, you would think the girls would know that, maybe, the reason behind his behaviour was that was not interested in them. But no; the girls were still trying to fuck him.

"Oh Troysie," Sharpay chimed caressing his arm with her fingertips. "You know you want to. Don't be shy, we can have a great time together…"

Gabriella stood up all of a sudden and Troy closed his eyes as if he was in pain. Luckily for him, Chad stood up too and went to stand behind Gabriella and embraced her petite body with his strong arms. Taylor didn't say nor do anything; she was used to that, and she knew Chad loved her and that Gabi was like his little sister. Troy turned to look at them and saw Chad whispering something into Gabriella's ear, and then he saw her head nod. He wanted nothing more than to hold her and never let go, but he knew he couldn't.

Suddenly, a manicured hand waved in front of his face and he narrowed his eyes. "What Sharpay?" He snapped colder than before.

"You haven't answered me Troysie…" Her pout was absurd; if she thought that was turning him on was clearly wrong.

"I don't want to fuck you. Now go away!" He said clenching his fists.

Sharpay smiled sweetly at him. "Oh well, another time then. Tootles!"

Rolling his eyes, he turned to look at Chad and Gabriella again. His cold heart broke when he saw her eyes were too bright because of the tears she was stopping with all her might. He knew no one but him, Chad and Taylor, would realize about that because no one knew her like them, and because Gabriella was one hell of an actress and her emotions were always bottled for everyone but her friends, but he knew her; he could read her like a book, and he knew Sharpay's words had stabbed her heart.

Gabriella locked her eyes with his, and he tried to apologize with his eyes. Her pain had subsided a little and he knew she understood him, but he still could read the agony she felt in her eyes. Clenching his fists and hissing lowly, he turned around when Mrs. Darbus entered in the classroom.

Concentrating on Taylor and Gabriella's conversation, he heard Taylor trying to console Gabriella. He knew the one who should be doing that was him but, then again, he couldn't because he couldn't fuck up Gabi's life.

When Chad sat beside him, Troy looked into his best friend's eyes, knowing he could see there how much damage Sharpay's words had created.

In Chad's eyes, he saw Gabriella was hurting bad.

In Chad's eyes, he saw Gabriella didn't was mad at him.

In Chad's eyes, he saw Gabriella still loved him.

And he had to close his eyes at that; she couldn't love him. But then again, he wasn't supposed to love her, either.

A/N2: I know it's confusing…but that's only the first chapter! Give the story a chance please, things will become clear when the story advances, I swear!!! :)