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Chapter 2

Over the next week, Gabriella hardly left the house. She was trying to keep a low profile. Gabriella was in the living room, still in her black shorts and white tank top she slept in, when the doorbell rang. She sighed as she got herself up and went to open the door.

"Ok I've been waiting all week for you to go out and you haven't." Troy said walking past her. She narrowed her eyes at him as she closed her door and went back to the living room where Troy had already gone.

"Why are you just walking into my house?" Gabriella asked as Troy looked at her amused.

"You haven't left this house all week and I know because I come past here every day and you are always in so if you have you don't go out for long. Why are you still in your pyjamas?" Troy asked as Gabriella blushed.

"Sorry." Gabriella looked away before turning back to him. "Actually I can stay like this if I want because this is my house." Gabriella told him as he shook his head at her attitude.

"Go change because you and I are going out." Gabriella looked at him confused. The other day things were awkward between them and now she didn't know.

"Where are we going? And who said I wanted to go out? If you haven't noticed I'm trying to keep a low profile." Troy shook his head.

"You are coming with me even if it's just for a walk because you can't stay hiding away in here forever. If you really want I will drag you out in what you are wearing right now." Gabriella sighed in defeat as she changed. She came back ten minutes later wearing a pair of plain jeans and a baby blue low cut top.

"Happy?" Gabriella asked Troy who smiled.

"Ecstatic now let's go." Troy grabbed her hand as the two stopped, feeling sparks running through their hands. The two stopped and looked at their connected hands.

"Yeah." Gabriella said breaking contact and the awkward silence that filled the room. They smiled at each other before walking out.

Troy lead her somewhere familiar to the couple. It was an old run down building up in the hills at the back of some old trees which were fully grown which meant you couldn't see the old building that belonged to Troy's grandparents, before they died. It was private property still so Troy knew that no one would be around.

"You remember this place?" Troy asked Gabriella who smiled as they walked in. Troy parents had told Troy the house was his since they didn't really want it but Troy wanted to keep it so he decorated it up simply for just him and Gabriella. In the rooms were one couch, a bed (which the couple had brought in when they were younger for when they wanted to be alone for a while) and a table with some other little things Gabriella and Troy had added to make it like their own private little place. There were two other rooms. One was a kitchen and one was a bathroom. Gabriella could tell he was obviously in the middle of doing it up again from all the newspaper around and the paint cans up the corner. They moved to the room that they had set up a few years ago as a bedroom

"Of course I remember. This is where you and I first confessed our feelings to each other, where we had our first kiss, where we hung out without the gang. I remember everything Troy." Gabriella said as Troy moved behind her; Gabriella looked at him and their eyes locked. Troy lifted his hand slowly and caressed Gabriella's cheek as she closed her eyes, enjoying the feeling of his hand on her face. Before she knew it his lips were on hers as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He picked her up and the two fell back on the bed that was in that room that they had used so many times for not quite so innocent things. The look in both Troy and Gabriella's eyes not only was filled with lust but also love that still burned within them for the other as the passion took over them.

After certain 'activities', they lay tangled together, breaths slowing down. Troy softly moved his hand up and down Gabriella's arm, making her shiver as he held her in his arms.

"Troy?" Gabriella started breaking the silence between the two.

"Hmm?" that was all Gabriella got out as a response.

"Do you hate me for leaving?" Gabriella asked bringing up the question she needed to know the answer to.

"What? I don't hate you Gabs, I love you. Yeah I wish you had of been around the past few years but even since you have been gone my feelings have never changed. In fact they've got stronger."Troy admitted as she held herself close to him.

"I still love you too. I missed this while I was away." Gabriella told him as he smiled.

"Well I missed this too. Come on we should go." Troy said as he handed her back her clothes as the two got dressed.

"So do you want to do something tonight?" Gabriella asked as Troy looked at her sadly.

"I'm sorry Gabs, I can't. I have to be home because we're all going out tonight. It's a weekly thing where we can all just get together and casually hang out. We promised our parents that once a week we would get together with them for a meal so they weren't missing us too much." Troy told her regretfully.

"Oh that's cool. It doesn't matter anyway because I have stuff I need to do." Gabriella put on a fake smile as Troy kissed her.

"I promise we can do something tomorrow." Gabriella nodded as the two made their way back.

After saying goodbye, Gabriella decided she wasn't going to hide out anymore and was going to do whatever she felt like doing. She quickly got changed and ran downstairs, grabbing her small purse and walked out, slipping her sunglasses on. Gabriella knew she would be attracting attention but right now she didn't care. She walked towards the park, which would lead her to the busier side of Albuquerque to where she knew the mall was open. If she couldn't have fun by going out with friends, and Albuquerque didn't exactly have much of a club atmosphere, she would spend as much as she wanted on a huge shopping spree. Gabriella was stopped a few times by fans asking for autographs and for pictures before she got to the mall. Once she got there, she was about to go in when she saw a familiar group of people standing across the street at the cinema. She looked over and watched with sadness them all joking around. Troy caught her eye and gave her a slight smile, which she returned before seeing some of the others look at her and give her evil glares. She turned and walked into the mall, as she tried to hide the tears in her eyes. Walking quickly she felt someone run up behind her and wrap their arms around her.

"Hey are you ok?" Troy asked her as she turned and nodded. "Sorry about all of them out there."

"It's ok. It's not your fault. I deserve it after the way I treated all of you. You can go back to them, I'll be fine. You don't have to worry about me Troy." Gabriella told him pulling out of his grip and slowly walked off, receiving looks from people around.

"Hey! Who said I wanted to go back to them? Come on if I have to go you do too because if they want me to hang out with them then they are going to have to get used to you being my girlfriend again." Gabriella smiled.

"You sure you still want me as your girlfriend?" Gabriella asked as Troy linked their hands together.

"Nah I'm not sure." Gabriella looked up at him confused and a bit hurt. "I know I need you as my girlfriend. Now come on before Chad starts getting confused and lost." Gabriella laughed as they made their way to the others who glared at Gabriella when they got closer.

"What are you doing with her?" Chad asked Troy harshly. Troy tightened his grip on Gabriella's hand as he felt her tense up.

"Her name is Gabriella if you don't remember and she is my girlfriend so if you don't like it, that's fine because it's not your problem and if I remember correctly we never officially broke up so don't say I'm mad." Troy warned as Gabriella finally looked up at her parents who were looking at her while standing with the other parents. Troy was about to say something when someone pulled on Gabriella's arm from behind. She turned around to see a little girl, about six, standing behind her, obviously recognising her. The little girl flashed her toothy grin at Gabriella.

"Hi. What's your name?" Gabriella asked softly letting go of Troy's hand and bending down to the little girl.

"Lizzie." The little girl whispered as Gabriella smiled.

"That's a very pretty name isn't it? How old are you Lizzie?" Gabriella asked as the little girl nodded. Troy and the others looked on with a smile on their faces at how cute this little girl was. Well Sharpay was looking on enviously wishing that it was her that people were recognising and wanting to talk to.

"I'm six. Do you know that my mommy says I'm a baby but I'm not a baby because babies are small and I'm not small? I'm a big girl like you." Gabriella smiled at Lizzie as she talked as an older lady walked over.

"I'm so sorry if she's bothering you." The lady apologized as Gabriella stood up.

"It's fine. She wasn't bothering me at all." Gabriella politely told her.

"She's such a big fan if yours." The lady told Gabriella as Lizzie nodded her head. "Well we have to go. A little girl needs to get to bed." Lizzie shook her head.

"Bye Lizzie." Gabriella bent down and the little girl hugged her.

"Bye bye." Lizzie waved as walked off with her mom.

"Wow. You were amazing." Troy told her as she shrugged.

"It's nothing. You get used to it." Gabriella told him as their attention turned back to the group.

"What are you doing here?" Taylor asked as Gabriella looked at Troy who put an arm around her urging her to continue.

"I needed to come home to where I knew I belonged." Gabriella told them as they raised their eyebrows at her in confusion. "I hate how my life has turned out. I hate not having people I love and care about around. I hate not being able to just call someone up and talk about whatever and not feeling like I have to be somewhere else or thinking of what others think. I hate me." Troy rubbed her arm as she let a tear fall.

"Why did you leave?" Sharpay asked as Gabriella sighed.

"I thought it was the right decision at the time but now I know that it was the worst decision I ever made." Gabriella answered. No one spoke for a few minutes. "I'm just gonna go Troy." Gabriella gave him a quick peck on the cheek and walked off.

"Can't you say anything?" Troy asked the group as Gabriella walked off.

"GABRIELLA! ARE YOU AND MARK (her ex) GETTING BACK TOGETHER? ... IS IT TRUE YOU LEFT BECAUSE YOU'RE PREGNANT? ... ARE YOU SEEING SOMEONE ELSE? " they all looked over at people with cameras following Gabriella as she quickly walked ahead.

"Will someone say something?!" Troy asked again getting more and more frustrated.

"Why did you forgive her so easy?" Jack spoke up.

"Because I love her and I know she really didn't mean to hurt us and she is truly sorry." Troy answered proudly.

"How do you know she's not on the rebound?" Jason challenged as Troy went to reply but stopped when he thought about it. "See your not so sure now are you."

"Troy I want to talk to her." Ms Montez spoke up as Troy nodded.

"Tonight?" She nodded as Troy told her to follow him and they walked away from the others.

Gabriella got back to her house, quickly locking all the doors after managing to lose the photographers following her. She walked up to her room and just cried; cried because she was alone, cried because her friends and family hated her, cried because there was no one there for her no matter what. Just as she went to climb into bed after changing, her doorbell rang. She didn't care about her puffy red eyes or her messy hair; she just went to answer the door.

"Are you ok?" Gabriella heard Troy ask as soon as she opened the door. He wrapped his strong arms around her as he moved them further in and heard someone else close the door. Gabriella pulled back from the hug to see her mom standing there.

"Hi Gabriella." Gabriella looked at Troy who shrugged.

"Let's go in the living room." Gabriella told her mom, leading the way with Troy following.

"So you live here again now?" Ms Montez asked trying to break the awkwardness in the room.

"Yeah I moved back a week ago. Mom why are you here?" Gabriella asked bluntly not sure of what the answer would be.

"I'm here because you are my daughter and no matter what happened, I still love you and I'm so proud of you." Gabriella smiled at her mom before standing up and hugging her.

"I'm sorry I left." Gabriella whispered as tears fell down her face.

"It's ok. I know why you did it and I'm sorry I tried to stop you." Troy just sat back and watched as Gabriella and her mom made up, both had tears falling down their faces.

"Stop watching me!" Gabriella exclaimed as she and her mom looked at Troy, who just smirked.

"And why should I stop looking at something so beautiful." Ms Montez, Maria, looked between the two, smiling as she saw the happiness in both of their eyes.

"Because you're freaking me out and I'm worried by the way you look at me in front of my mom." Maria laughed as Gabriella grinned at Troy's frown.

"Troy, don't worry you can have her all to yourself because I need to get home." Maria told him as Gabriella hugged her mom once more.

"I'm glad we made up." Gabriella whispered in her ear.

"Me too and I'll come and see you tomorrow. I promise." Gabriella nodded as she walked her mom to the door. Troy wrapped his arms around her waist as Maria disappeared.

"See what I told you, things would be ok." Gabriella turned and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"I guess I should have listened to you. I will in the future I promise." Troy pulled her into a kiss as they made their way upstairs.

A/N: Please review and let me know what you think. This story will only have four chapters so there is now only two chapters left. Please review! Thanks! X