"What do you mean it isn't there?" Gabriella asked, propping herself up on her elbows.

"Exactly that, it's not here" Troy replied.

"M-maybe it fell out" Gabriella said, very worried.

"Great. You dropped it, it's lost which means we are lost" Troy said, kicking a rock into the water angrily.

"Give me a break Troy, I was holding on for dear life, trying to keep everything safe in my bag was the last thing on my mind!" Gabriella said, unsteadily standing up.

"Whatever" Troy said as he peeled off his shirt revealing his steel abs and smooth skin.

"What are you doing?" Gabriella asked.

"Going for a swim, relaxes me" he said. Since the only shorts he packet were boardies, he dived gracefully in the water, "well are you coming in then?" Troy asked. In fact it wasn't really a question, more of a demand.

"Well I'm kind of traumatised by water suddenly…" Gabriella said, making Troy chuckle.

"Montez I'm not going to let you drown okay?" Troy said, ducking his head down and doing a flip under water, "come on!" he said as he resurfaced. Gabriella looked down at her body, she wore a bikini when she went to the beach, but there was something a bit different about going in the water in lingerie. "You think I haven't seen a female body before?" Troy mocked. Gabriella sighed and just did what she was told, maybe going for a dip might get their thoughts straight, even though she just had a life threatening experience, what else would they do? Gabriella pulled off her shoes and socks and self-consciously unbuttoned her shirt. Troy was watching her the whole time, he didn't know why, but his heartbeat sped up and he suddenly became nervous. Troy's eyes followed her hands as she slid her cute shorts down her legs. Suddenly Troy stopped moving and forgot to breath, the only thing to snap him out of his trance was the realisation that he was slowly going under water. Shit! He thought and quickly resurfaced, this time not facing Gabriella.

It's okay, you'll be underwater and Troy won't even see you. At least he's not looking now Gabriella thought. She nervously stepped down a few rocks and waded into the water, since she was already freezing it was actually quite nice. She began to tread water but couldn't see Troy anywhere. "Troy?"

"Yeah?" he said as he immediately bobbed up in front of her. Gabriella squealed and put her hand to her chest.

"Did you not notice that I am a bit on edge at the moment? You're lucky I didn't just have a heart attack! I'm already scared out of my wits" Gabriella snapped, "you're lucky I even came in"

"Oh I'm not lucky, I couldn't really care less" Troy said back. Rage bubbled up inside Gabriella like boiling water on a hot plate. She finally let it out and lunged at Troy, dunking his head under water.

"Maybe you will drown after all!!" She shouted loudly. Troy managed to resurface for a second but Gabriella just slapped him on the head and pushed him back under. Suddenly, she felt his hands on her waist and she got dragged down. She stared at him through the murky water and noticed he was smiling. She narrowed her eyes and kicked him in the chest with her foot. They both resurfaced and Troy watched the way Gabriella's body moved elegantly as she swam away from him.

"No you don't" he said and grabbed onto her ankle.

"Troy let go! This is sexual harassment. Touching my ankle, touching my waist…get off me!" she yelled, splashing at the water with her other leg, but he just kept pulling her towards him.

"Sexual harassment?" he said laughing out loud. "Attempting to kiss you and removing all your clothes without your consent would be sexual harassment" he said still laughing, but he abruptly stopped laughing and wondered what it would be like kissing her and removing all the remaining clothing she was wearing. He suddenly splashed Gabriella with water and went under, swimming over to a small cascading waterfall. "Well come on!!" he shouted out to her. Gabriella just rolled her eyes and swam over to him.

"Ayyy check it out!" Troy said as he went straight behind the falling water, "come on Montez"

"Troy, come back!" Gabriella said "I'm s-scared" she whimpered. Out of the blue, she felt Troy tangle his fingers with hers and pull her slowly under the water and behind the waterfall, not letting go of her hand. "Wow, it's almost like a little house under here, you wonder if someone lives here" she said, mesmerised by what she had seen. She looked down at her hand and still noticed Troy was holding on to it.

"Yep, I could do this place up a bit and build a lovely summer home here" he said chuckling. He looked at Gabriella and expected her to laugh a bit but she was just looking directly at him. Not blinking, not moving, like she was a statue. "What's wrong with you?"

"You're still holding on to my hand" she said. Troy looked down at their linked hands and didn't let go for a bit. He wanted to keep holding it, but he managed to immediately snatch his hand away, pretending like none of it happened. Troy walked away and went to sit on a rock. "So what are we going to do then?" he asked Gabriella, "we have the map, but have no compass" Troy said.

"I don't know, why are you asking me? All because I am the highest in our year and you are probably the dumbest doesn't mean I know everything" she snapped back. Troy just sighed and so did Gabriella, "I think there is some random written tutorial on the back of the map that teaches you how to work out where north is with the sun" she said hopefully.

"I think we both know you'll be doing that" Troy said, drumming his fingers on his knees.

"No shit" Gabriella mumbled. "Hey look at that" she said pointing behind Troy.

"What?" he asked, turning around to look where she was pointing. He turned back around again and felt Gabriella's bare thigh brush the side of his arm. She had already made her way to the carvings behind him. But right now, Troy didn't give a shit about the carvings, he had touched Gabriella so many times today that he was almost beginning to feel turned on.

"Come and have a look at th-…Troy?" Gabriella asked, wondering where the hell he was. She couldn't see him anywhere. "Troy??" she said again, hearing her voice echo in the area she was in. She began to panic and realised she would have to pass the waterfall by herself, without Troy holding her hand. She paddled into the water and took a deep breath and sunk beneath the surface, swimming as far as she could before she ran out of breath. She emerged from the water and brushed the hair out of her face, "Troy!" she called out to Troy who was swimming as fast as possible back to the rock where all there crap was. She began to swim over to the rock very confused.

"Are you okay Troy? Why did you swim away?" Gabriella asked in a worried tone.

"Time to go, we're just wasting time" he said fixing up both their bags, which had only dried the tiniest bit in the sun. Troy left his shirt off and just chucked it in the bag.

"Um, okay then" Gabriella said as she pulled on her soggy shorts. Ewww she said in her mind. Troy turned around and saw Gabriella slipping her shirt back on and fixing her bra straps, his heart beat sped up even more he thought he was about to have a stroke. He turned away and rubbed his eyes.

"Fuck…" he mumbled. Gabriella knew something was up.

"Troy what's wrong?" she said, touching his shoulder.

"Don't touch me" he snapped. If she touched him one more time he would probably slam his lips onto hers, sending them both back into the water and take all her clothes off.

"Don't touch you? The least you could do is let me tap you on the shoulder so you can turn around and talk to me!" Gabriella said, feeling upset at his rejection. "Now tell me what's wrong"

"I feel extremely sick" Troy said convincingly.

"Oh, well do you want to sit down a bit longer? I mean trying to find a way out of here is going to be tough to think of" Gabriella said smiling.

"We can go up those rocks and I can see a path which we can take, we can work it out from there" he said quickly. Troy so badly wanted to feel Gabriella against his body, against his mouth and wanted to feel her hands tangled in his hair and wanted to run his hands all over her body. So badly that he wanted to get the hell away from her so he had quickly thought up that plan.

"Oh ok then, well do you want to sit down or go now?"

"Go now" he said without hesitation.

"Okay captain" Gabriella snapped and angrily put her backpack on and made her way to where Troy said to go. She climbed up the small rocky hill by herself. Troy was shocked, he thought he would have had to go up first and then help her. He would've if she wasn't pissed off though. He watched Gabriella pull her hair out of its elastic and he chuckled to himself.

"I'm fucking going mad" he said bashing his head.

AND HOUR AND A HALF LATER

"Ahhhhh" Gabriella groaned as she plopped down inside the tent. Troy dared not go into a small sheltered area with her, god knows what he would do to her. "One and a half hours of walking uphill. Kill me" she said which Troy heard and smiled at. Before she knew it, Gabriella had drifted off into sleep. Troy was feeling mighty tired himself and he wanted to lie down too, but Gabriella was in there!

"Argh fuck it" he said. He vowed not even to look at Gabriella but as soon as he ducked into the tent, the first thing he laid his eyes upon was Gabriella, curled up into a ball, sleeping soundly. He cleared his throat and lay down on the sleeping bag next to her. Out of habit, he rolled onto his side but came face to face with Gabriella. "No. no, no, no, no" he said and quickly rolled to the other side, facing his back to her. Now he felt much better.

2 HOURS LATER

Troy turned in his sleep and finally ended up waking up. He looked at Gabriella to see if she was awake but she was still sound asleep. She had obviously been moving because her shirt had been lifted half way up her stomach. Is she setting me up? Is she trying to trick me? Does she want to lure me in so she can kill me? Troy thought so himself. He sat up and stretched out, taking his mind off Gabriella and focusing on the food he was about the cram down his mouth. He was starving! Just as he was about to get up, he felt Gabriella roll to her side, unknowingly close to Troy. Her stomach was resting against Troy's leg. He got up and ran out of the tent, knocking of pots and pans and tripping on a rock and landing on his back. Gabriella stuck her head out of the tent squinting her eyes.

"What happened to you?" Gabriella asked, noticing that the sun was going down.

"I just tripped, that's all" he replied, "we have to get dinner going" Troy said.

"Umm Troy, I'm actually not that hungry, I'm still really tired. But I don't have to go back in the tent I can help you" she happily said. Even though she was tired, she enjoyed helping people whether she hated them or not.

"No go back in the tent" Troy said just as Gabriella was picking up the cans and knocked over pots.

"Uh…are you sure you don't want help? No offence Troy, but…you suck at this" Gabriella said.

"Just go back in, you're tired and I'm starving. I can do it" he said, not looking at her.

"Alright, just wake me if you need help" Gabriella said kindly and Troy nodded. God how can she be so kind? Troy thought to himself. Man he needed to get his thoughts straight!

Just as Gabriella was slipping into Troy's sleeping bag, she saw him out of the crack in the tent's door flap. His gray hoodie was covering half his head and he was trying to start a fire. He looked very cute and Gabriella wondered if there was more to him and why the fuck she was attracted to him every time she saw his body and every time he touched her. Suddenly, Troy's eyes found hers and Gabriella gasped and fell down onto the pillow. Oh shit he caught me staring! Troy just grinned to himself.

Why the hell am I smiling? I hate her, I hate her, I hate her. She's a massive nerd with no friends, I gotta start being mean to her again, she's driving me crazy! No she's not…

"Man I am in serious denial" he whispered to himself.

20 minutes had gone by and Troy was very proud of himself for doing everything without the help of his partner. He crawled back into the tent and noticed Gabriella had left room for him to fit in the sleeping bag. No way was he getting in there! He just tried to smooth out the unbearably uncomfortable ground he was about to fall asleep on. He rested his head on a pile of clothes he had made for a pillow. This sucks.

ONE HOUR LATER

The sound of mumbling and shivering waked Gabriella up, obviously coming from Troy. "Troy?" Gabriella whispered croakily.

"H-huh?" Troy replied. Gabriella could see him shaking slightly and even heard his teeth chattering.

"What the hell are you doing? Aren't you cold?" She asked.

"No. I'm fine"

"Get in" she ordered.

"No. I'm fi-"

"GET IN!" she said again and Troy did as he was told, he was freezing his arse off anyway. He slipped into his sleeping bag and immediately felt Gabriella's body heat. "See you're not freezing anymore and you can get a good night's sleep"

Not likely Troy thought. Gabriella rolled over and Troy could smell the pretty scent of her hair again. He breathed in deeply and heard Gabriella roll over to face him. She had her eyes closed and had no idea Troy was staring at her. His face was inches away from hers and the jar of butterflies were in his stomach again. He could hear her steady breathing again and noticed she had fallen back to sleep. God she must've been exhausted! Troy's mouth started to get dry, he needed water. He reached out his arm to grab his drink bottle, but realised it was on Gabriella's side. "Why does the world hate me?" he whispered. Slowly, very slowly, trying not to wake Gabriella up again, he sat up and began to lean across her to grab his drink bottle. He placed one hand on the ground over Gabriella, so he was practically on top of her now. As soon as he managed to get it, he felt Gabriella stir beneath him. He stayed as still as possible until she was quiet again, but that didn't work.

"Troy? What on earth are you doing?" she asked shocked.

"G-getting my drink bottle" he replied

"Your drink bottle?"

"Yeah, I was thirsty, is that a problem?" he asked her.

"No, but you could've just asked me to get it for you"

"I don't need you to do everything for me Montez" Troy said angrily, he needed to go back to hating her!

"Get off me" she said.

"What if I don't want to?" Troy replied, trying to tick her off, but it wasn't really working. Gabriella was actually quite warm beneath him.

"Get off Troy" she said again.

"Make me" he said.

"Make you? Okay, I will make you" she said. And for a moment, nothing was happening. Until Troy felt the touch of her fingers graze across Troy's skin, just above his trackies. He jumped slightly but still didn't move. Gabriella figured since Troy hated her, touching him would get him to back right away. He's just being strong she thought. So this time she ran all her fingers up and down his chest under his wife beater. She ran her hands down his strong arms and traced circles just above his pants. Okay, he seems to be handling this well…shit. So Gabriella gently lifted her knee so it pressed softly in between Troy's legs and he immediately rolled off and faced his back to her without a word. Gabriella grinned at her success, but also felt quite hurt at the same time. Why do I feel hurt? I should have hated doing that!

Troy's body was shaking and his heart was just about at exploding point. He couldn't think straight. He wanted that to go further so badly that it made him feel sick to the stomach. He couldn't like Gabriella Montez…he honestly couldn't. It's just being away from civilisation and my friends and stranded in this god-forsaken place…it's making me crazy. Yep. That's it. He thought to himself and it actually made him feel a lot better. But then he thought of her wondering the corridors of school with her books pressed tightly to her chest with her head down…he still didn't seem to hate that image. He liked her very much, he just didn't realise it yet, but what he did realise was that he was attracted to her like a moth to a flame. Fuck.