Hey you guys! I wanted to say I'm sorry. I know I said Sunday an update, but I got an e-mail on Saturday morning that if I wanted I still could go to the competition on sunday. I really wanted to go there. So I went, and didn't have the time to write chapter four. So I started to write this on Monday, and then? My internet was gone! GRRR!

Anyway… here it is! Hope you like it!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything!

After Sharpay left the house, Troy showed Gabriella the bathroom and her room. Gabriella was amazed by the house. It was beautiful, big, it felt like home. She lived in Albuquerque for 5 years. When she arrived in Albuquerque, she met Rachel. Rachel told her that they were friends now. Gabriella excepted that, 'cause she never had a real friend before. Those were the happiest five years of her life. So when she arrived in troy's house, she never expected to feel like it was home. She thought that it would be very awkward, and uncomfortable. But it wasn't. Troy told her to act like she was home. She didn't needed to ask him, if she wanted to get something. So, when she dumped her luggage on her bed, she took a long shower. After her long shower, she put her shorts and a t-shirt on.

'Gabriella? Are you done? I made dinner!' troy yelled at her from downstairs.

'yeah! Coming!'

She got downstairs right away, and looked around. Where was the kitchen again?

'Looking for something?' she jumped when she heard a voice whispering in her ear.

'jeez! Not funny troy!' she slapped him on his chest, he chuckled. ' but yeah, I was wondering where your kitchen was.'

Troy walked away, confused she followed him. Oh, there was that kitchen. Maybe it was time for a tour. Or a map, so that she remembered where everything was.

'you didn't make dinner, you just called for a pizza!' she pointed out.

'so? It's still dinner.' He walked to his fridge and grabbed a beer. 'Marcus called. He wanted to see you tomorrow, you need to sing a song , and if he likes it he'll offer you a contract.'

'And what if he doesn't like it? I came here for nothing?'

'No, you didn't. you can go to UCLA and have a normal life. Together with you mother. Find some new friends, get a bunch of other tattoo's.' he offered her a slice of pizza.

'a bunch of new tattoos? Are you insane? It sounded like I want my whole body covered in tattoo's and piercings. Jeez troy…' she took a bite of her pizza.

He smirked. He liked this side of Gabriella. She told him that she was shy in front of new people. She needed to get to know them first, before she could act like her self. And then, when she could be her self, she could have a 'big mouth'.

After they ate, they watched TV. Troy turned the TV of. He wanted to get to know Gabriella much more. 'So, tell me more about yourself.' He said.

'what do you want to know? Ask away'

'how about twenty questions?' he smiled softly at her.

' you can get ten, and maybe some other time you can get ten questions again!' she giggled.

'alright, so I know that you just got a tattoo, can I see it?'

'sure.' She turned her back to him and lifted her hair. He saw two little stars between her shoulder blades. 'Why do you have two stars there?' she let her hair down, and turned around again.

'Well I wanted to have a Chinese sign, but Rachel didn't. Rachel is a great artist, she is always drawing, and when she thinks of her and me together, she sees two little stars. Rachel designed them. If you look closely, you can see that they are a little different than normal stars.' Gabriella said to him.

'can I see the other tattoo?' she laughed a little at this.

' you know that you just wasted two questions on the same subject, right?' she stood up, and lowered her shorts a little. He saw a little Chinese sign, it just looked perfect there. He reached out, and touched the tattoo. Troy saw that she trembled a little. He looked up, too see that she had her eyes closed.

'Why do you have this tattoo?' he asked her quietly. She opened her eyes quickly, and put her shorts on normal height.

' I can't tell you yet. It's too soon. Goodnight troy.' She whispered and walked upstairs to her room. She fell on her bed and started crying quietly. All the memories coming back.

It was 8 AM when Gabriella woke up the next morning. She took a shower, put some clothes on, brushed and dries her hair. Gabriella put her glasses on, and walked downstairs. She hoped that it wouldn't be awkward after last night.

'Good morning Troy' she said softly as she walked into the kitchen.

'Hey, did you sleep well?'

'uhm, yeah… thanks.' She grabbed something to drink and sat down.

'Are you not hungry?' he asked her.

'no, not yet. It's too early for me.'

GABRIELLA walked down the stairs as she heard troy calling her.

'come on! We're gonna be late!' he yelled again.

'I'm here already. Please, calm down!' They were going to Marcus now. Gabriella was very excited, but nervous at the same time. Hopefully is Marcus nice, just like Troy. Troy accepted that she couldn't tell him about the tattoo yet. They talked about it this morning, and there was nothing awkward, or uncomfortable about it. Troy asked his 7 questions he had left, and they had a lot of fun this morning.

When they arrived, there were a lot of paparazzi standing there. Troy quickly put his sunglasses on. ' Gabs? Please don't listen to anything they say, and don't say anything to them alright?' he sends her a quick smile when she nods.

'Alright, lets go then.' He said to her, and opens the door, he walked over to her door, opened it quickly, and closed it as soon she was out the car. He took her hand, as they quickly walked to the building leaving all the rumours behind them.

'Hey Marcus, great to see you again.' Troy said to Marcus while giving him a man-hug. 'This is Gabriella, the girl from Albuquerque.' Marcus looked at Gabriella. As he looked at her, Marcus realised something. Troy was right, she was beautiful. He could see that Troy and Gabriella were close. They were too close for his liking.

'Hi, so nice to meet you, troy told me about you.' Marcus said to Gabriella friendly.

After some coffee, tea for Gabriella, Gabriella needed to sing for Marcus. Troy told her, that he would play the piano for her so that she could fully concentrate on the lyrics.

'you ready?' Troy asked her softly. She nodded, took a deep breath when she heard the piano playing. She closed her eyes, and started to sing:

Sometimes I feel like I'm a bird with broken wings
At times I dread my now and envy where I've been
But that's when quiet wisdom takes control
At least I've got a story no one's told

I finally learned to say
Whatever will be will be
I've learned to take
The good, the bad and breathe
'Cause although we like
To know what life's got planned
No one knows if shooting stars will land

These days it feels naive to put your faith in hope
To imitate a child, fall backwards on the snow
'Cause that's when fears will usually lead you blind
But now I try to under-analyse

Is the rope I walk wearing thin?
Is the life I love caving in?
Is the weight on your mind
A heavy black bird caged inside?

Say
Whatever will be will be
Take
The good, the bad
Just breathe

'Cause although we like
To know what life's got planned
No one knows if shooting stars will land

Whatever will be will be
I learned to take
The good, the bad and breathe
'Cause although we like
To know what life's got planned
Thing like that are never in your hands
No one knows if shooting stars will land

As the song finished, she quickly wiped her tears, and took a deep breath. She wrote this song herself. It explained her feelings, those feelings were put away a long time ago. She needed comfort now. Back then she'd gotten comfort from her mom, but her mom wasn't here now. So, she quickly walked over the piano, and sat down next to Troy. He understood that she needed comfort, so he put his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him. Rocking her gently he gave her a kiss on her hair. Marcus saw this, and walked away. He got his phone out, and dialled a number.

'hey, call me back, it's trouble. You know what I mean.' He hung up, and walked back to Troy and Gabriella. He saw that she was smiling again. 'Gabriella honey, you have a great voice. I listened to the lyrics, and you're a great songwriter. I want to offer you a contract for at least 3 albums. And you're gonna write your own songs. I'll send the contract to troy's house. Okay?' She got up, and shook his hand. ( I don't know anything about this, so I'm making this up!)

'Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I won't disappoint you.' she said, shaking his hand.

'thank troy, he discovered you. Bye' and with that he left.

'thank you Troy!' she threw her arms around his neck, and hugged him tightly. 'you're more than welcome Gabs.' He said, pulling back looking in her eyes. He slowly started to lean in, when her phone started to ring. 'shit' she whispered. 'its okay gabs, pick it up. I'll wait in the car' he whispered to her softly, kissing her forehead and walked away.

What he was about to do back there, was not right. It was a perfect moment, that's for sure, but he shouldn't have done it. There were many reasons why he shouldn't have. 1, he just knew her for 4 weeks. Which he hadn't seen her in 3 of them. 2, she was still very vulnerable back there. And the third reason, which was the most important reason, he had a girlfriend. He had a reputation as a player, he knew that. But in his entire life, he never cheated. Okay, maybe in high school on a test or something. But never on a girl. So why was he about to cheat on Heather back there? He knew why, but he didn't want to knew why. He didn't want that to happen. Luckily for him, he had practise tomorrow, so he didn't have time to think about that.

Back there with Gabriella.

What happened just here? Did he lean in? Was he about to kiss her? What if he had kissed her? What would she have done? Did she wanted to kiss him? All these questions were running trough her head. She wanted answers. But right now she needed to answer her phone.

'Hello?'

'hey G! give me details! Did you get a contract! Tell me everything!' she heard heather at the end of the line.

'hey Rach, yeah I got an contract for three albums, and I need to write my own songs.' She told her emotionless.

'what's wrong? And don't lie to me G' she knew that Rachel knew that something was wrong, she always did. Normally Gabriella told her everything. But right now, she wanted to find her answers, before she could tell Rachel what was wrong.

'I'll tell you some other time Rach, right now I'm gonna hang up 'cause troy is waiting for me.

´do you guys have a date or something?' Rachel asked her.

'No, I just sleep at his place, and I'm really hanging up now. Bye Rach, love ya.'

'Okay, call me later! Love ya too!' Gabriella shut her phone, and quickly left the building only to see that there were paparazzi everywhere. Do they ever have a break? She looks down very quickly, and walked to the car.

'GABRIELLA! Look here Honey!'

'How does it feel to be troy's new girl!'

She opened the back door of the car and got in very quickly. 'Hey, sorry you had to wait that long. Rachel couldn't shut up.' She smiled softly at him.

'it's okay.' He said softly.

It was really late when they arrived back at troy's place. Both were very tired, so they had a bit of dinner, cleaned everything up, and walked upstairs. When they were ready they both got on their own bed, and slept peacefully that night.

GABRIELLA woke up late that morning. When she looked at her alarm clock, she saw that it was past 10 AM. She got out of bed, and did her morning routine. It was almost 11 AM when she walked downstairs. She looked for troy, when she walked into the kitchen she saw a note on the table.

Good morning Gabriella!

Did you sleep well?

I didn't get to tell you yesterday, but I'm at practise for a whole day.

Sharpay would stop by.

Have fun today!

See you later!

Troy.

Alright, well she was going to be alone today. Until Sharpay would show up. So she made herself some breakfast, cleaned it up after she was done, and walked upstairs again. She grabbed her book, jumped on her bed and started to read. She loved reading, reading a romance with some sense of humor. If she was reading a book, it would take about 15 minutes, and she would be lost in the book. It would be it was her story. That she was in the book, that she would experience it. So, after an hour of reading Gabriella was completely in the story until she heard the doorbell ring. She got up and run to the door.

'Hey Gabriella!' Sharpay said hugging her. 'how are ya doing girl?'

'Hey! Yeah, I'm good. Come in!' she said opening the door more.

'No no no, get your shoes and a jacket, 'cause we are gonna shop! You're getting a complete make-over.' Sharpay told her excited.

' A m… make… make-over?' Gabriella stuttered.

'Yes, now hurry! Come on, I made reservations!' Sharpay pushed Gabriella inside again, up the stairs.

Gabriella knew that this was gonna change her life forever.

HEEEY guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Once again I'm sorry that this wasn't online on Sunday like I said it would. I won't update tomorrow, 'cause my mom her birthday is tomorrow, and she never celebrates it with the family, so we're gone for the whole day. I was thinking that maybe I should write some chapters first , 'cause I update this chapter but then I need to figure out the whole next chapter next.

And I want to hear ideas from you guys. I hope that your ideas prevent me from a writer-block (you never know!). Ideas for the story, please tell them! If I think that it fits with the story, than I will use it! I hope I get at least ten ideas!

Please review! And tell your ideas!

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