As Gabriella walked towards the food court, she started thinking about Troy. She wondered if he had Chad come over to help him pick out something to wear, but then giggled at the mere thought. Well, maybe he at least called Chad to freak out about having nothing to wear. She was about to answer the question to herself when she saw Troy sitting a table in the food court. Her heart suddenly skipped a beat when she saw him sitting there looking cute but definitely very sexy. She started to approach him when he looked up. Oh god thank you! Troy thought to himself as he saw Gabi approaching him. Damn. She's really pretty. I wonder how long it took her to get dressed. Probably only a couple of minutes since she's naturally beautiful. Before he could think anymore Gabriella said "Hey Troy! Where's the rest of the gang?"
"Well, Chad went to go get something from his car and he said to come here to meet the rest of the gang." Troy responded.
"Yeah Taylor said the same, and she'll be here soon. She just had to get her cell phone from the car."
"Oh cool." Troy said as he looked at his watch. It was now 1:05. "Well, they should be here soon, but anyway, why don't you sit down." Gabriella sat down and looked everywhere but at Troy. "So you look nice today." Troy calmly said. He had been practicing on how to say that all morning without blushing too much. And it was true! She looked fabulous to him and he couldn't help but stare. Gabriella couldn't help but glance over at Troy and that's when she noticed he was staring. She started blushing and Troy started laughing. Gabriella was worried that she had something on her face and decided to question Troy's laughing.
"What's so funny wildcat?"
"You look so cute when you're blushing." Troy answered but then froze. He couldn't believe he had just said that. It was then Gabriella's turn to laugh.
"You don't look half bad yourself while blushing either." She commented while still laughing. Troy started laughing again and pretty soon they were making remarks about what they looked like while blushing.
"Well you look like a lost chipmunk from Alvin and the Chipmunks. A cute chipmunk too." Troy said while laughing and not really noticing that he had said she was cute again.
"Oh yeah?" Gabriella said, also laughing, "Well if we drew some lines on your face I bet you everyone would think you looked like a basketball."
"Thanks Gabi. That was really mature." Troy tried to say in a hurt voice but started laughing at the face that Gabi had made. "Oh man! You should have seen the look on your face! I can't believe that you believed me!" Troy barely said since he was laughing so hard.
"One, I didn't believe you and two, that wasn't funny!" Gabriella said while playfully hitting Troy on the arm.
"Don't worry. I'll just keep that Gabriella Montez thinks that Troy Bolton is the greatest and handsomest actor of all time between us." Troy replied grinning widely.
It was now Gabriella's turn to trick Troy. She got up and started walking away towards Express for Women. The minute she got in, she started picking out clothes. Meanwhile, Troy was wondering why Gabriella had taken off and thought it was because he was too sarcastic for her liking. He decided to follow her when he saw that she had gone into Express for Women and groaned. He spotted her looking through XL clothes. She couldn't be an XL…She has to be a small or maybe a medium…Troy thought to himself while he walked up behind her and thought of something to say.
"Uh…hey Gabriella." Barely turning around, Gabriella grabbed Troy's hand and led him towards the fitting room. Someone opened a fitting room door for her and then she pushed Troy into the tiny space. She handed the clothes to him and closed the door. By that time, Troy had finally understood what he was supposed to do and asked Gabriella through the door, "Are you serious?" Gabriella noticed the shock in his voice and giggled.
"One hundred percent serious!" she replied, still giggling.
Troy shot back, "You can't make me! That's like…against the law or something!"
"Aww…does little Troy need help in there? I promise I'll buy you an ice cream cone if you at least try on the pink blouse and the white skirt."
"Make it an ice cream sundae with 4 scoops of strawberry ice cream, chocolate fudge, sprinkles, coconut, gummy worms, and Reeses pieces, and you've got yourself a deal."
Gabriella made a disgusted face and said, "Whatever Mr. Weirdo." Troy came out about 5 minutes later with the pink blouse covering only about half of his stomach, the white skirt backwards, and had his boxers sticking out of the skirt making him whisper in Gabriella's ear, "I have a fucking wedgie." Gabriella started laughing hysterically and had her cell phone ready for that Kodak moment. She took a picture of Troy with a fun frame that said 'Born to Shop' and another picture without a fun frame. "Montez, by the time I'm out of these clothes, you better have those two pictures erased." and went back into his tiny fitting room space to change. Gabriella immediately sent the pictures to her computer and put her phone back in her purse.
"Gimmie the phone Montez." Troy said the second he got out of the room.
"You never said that I couldn't take pictures!" Gabriella said laughing. She then started to run out of the store with Troy chasing her. She tried to lose him by going into the store right next door and hiding behind a shelf of clothes. She hid there laughing which attracted people's attention and caused them to stare. Since the shelf was the first thing you saw when you entered the store, Gabriella could peek around the side of the shelf and look at the entrance to see if anyone was coming. She didn't see Troy looking around outside the store so she turned around and was met by a pair of sneakers that scared her half to death.
"Phone please Ms. Montez."
Gabriella looked up with a surprised face. "But. How? I didn't even…see you?"
"I've got my ways. Now, may I have your phone?"
Gabriella looked around and saw that the fitting rooms weren't in a totally different section of the store but were like little rooms sticking out of the wall. (A/N Sorry, I'm not good at explaining things.) She saw that one of the doors were open, so she grabbed two shirts from the shelf she was hiding behind, threw one at Troy's face, then ran to the vacant room. She closed the door shut but unfortunately these doors didn't have locks. Troy had been surprised at the shirt that had come flying towards his face, so he didn't have anytime to catch Gabriella before she ran into the fitting room. Once Troy got to the door that Gabi was behind, he knocked and in a tough, manly voice, he said, "Open up Ms. Montez or I will be forced to come in there and get you."
"Never!" Gabriella half shouted half giggled.
"Don't say you weren't warned!" Troy said in his tough, manly voice again. He started to crawl into the space where you could see if the room was vacant or not by seeing part of someone's legs or not, but at that point, all you saw was Troy's body. (UGH! Just imagine a regular fitting room door and ignore how I messed up the description of it.) Gabriella had noticed Troy's arms coming in and then started to see the top of his head, then finally his face.
"You know," Gabriella said, "I could always yell help and someone would drag you away and you'd be in sooooo much trouble!"
"You wouldn't dare. And anyway, you still owe me that sundae!" he said, half of his body now seeable.
"I will do it! You know I will!" Gabriella said in a serious voice.
"Not unless I do this first!" And with that, Troy quickly had jumped from the ground and was right in front of Gabriella. He slowly moved closer to her as she slowly started to move back. Once she was cornered, Troy put his hands on the surrounding walls and slowly started moving his face towards hers. The hairs on Gabriella's neck started to rise when suddenly Troy's head turned towards one of her ears. He gently whispered, "If you won't give me the phone, I won't force you too. But I will ask you one thing. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?" and slowly retreated his head while smiling. Gabriella's first instinct would be to kiss Troy but she couldn't. They were just friends. Nothing more, nothing less.
"Tons." She whispered and then couldn't hold back any longer. She brought her lips to his and they collided which sent a jolt through her body. Surprisingly, Troy kissed back which made her think that maybe he wanted to kiss her too. They stopped kissing after about 15 seconds and separated with their eyes closed. Gabriella suddenly opened her eyes and quickly said, "I have to go." and walked out leaving Troy to wonder if he thought what had happened, really happened.
A/N-Yup. They kissed. I just had to get it over with even though it's only the third chapter. So yeah..I won't be updating for a while because I'm going to Italy today..or tomorrow..whatever..I'm going Sunday..which is officially today but fanfiction is weird and ok whatever i'll stop. Oh yeah and sorry I couldn't really explain the whole fitting room thing. I just couldn't get myself to explain it right. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter, reviews appreciated!
