A/n: Hey guys well I'm back for another chapter. I don't know but I think this one's a little shorter but the next one will be longer. I was going to combine the two but it just seemed right to end this one where I did. Anyway thanks so much for all the reviews. Enjoy!

Hiding In Your Arms

Chapter 2: Addicted

He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that Ms. Rachel actually put her beside him. He couldn't believe he was so nervous he was shaking around her. But what he really couldn't believe was that she could actually get more beautiful, but then she smiled at him and he forgot his own name for a moment. He knew he should;ve been working on the questions for the assignment but everytime he would pick up a pencilhe would smell her strawberry hair and end up staring at her. he was lucky she was so focused on her work or else she would've thought he was some sort of stalker. He was her look up and quickly picked up a pencil and pretended to work. She looked at him before she put her pencil down. He heard this and looked up.

"Are you done?" Troy asked shocked. Gabriella smiled shyly at him.

"Umm...yea. Are you done yet?" Gabriella asked quietly. Troy's eyes widened out of shock. He cleared his throat.

"Uh...no not yet. I will be soon" Troy lied. Gabriella looked at him skeptically but shrugged.

"Okay. You need any help?" Gabriella asked kindly. Troy smiled at how sweet she was but realized if he asked for help she would realize he hadn't done any of the work.

"No, it's okay. Just give me a few minutes and I'll be done." Troy said trying to convince himself more than her. Gabriella smiled again at him. She couldn't remember smiling this much in such a long time.

"Okay, I'll wait" She said softly. troy grinned at her then frowned a little when he realized he had to do 30 questions in under 10 minutes.

"This should be fun" Troy thought to himself sarcastically.

10 minutes later Troy knew he was in trouble because he was only on question 4 and he had no idea how to do it. It also didn't help that his ultimate distraction was sitting right beside him. He started tapping his fingers in frustration on the desk. Gabriella hearing the tapping looked over at Troy to see him looking very concentrated and frustrated. She smiled a little and shyly looked over his shoulder. She smiled a little more and put her hand on his arm. Now what was only supposed to get his attention caused a lot of havoc on is body. He felt sparked running up and down his arm and a soft hand caressing his skin. He dropped his pencil and turned to looked at her and was greeted by her smiling face.

"The answers 4 Troy" Gabriella said softly. Troy looked at her a little confused but then remembered he was in school doing work that he wasn't finished yet.

"Oh...oh it is?" Troy asked her. Gabriella nodded looking down. Troy smiled at her then looked down at his page.

"So I guess when I got 256 the first time, I was a little off" Troy said jokingly. Gabriella giggled and Troy's heart soared hearing it.

"Maybe just a little" Gabriella agreed jokingly. Troy chuckled.

"So I'm guessing I got the rest wrong too. Well since you seem to be so good at this maybe I could copy off of you" Troy said jokingly. Gabriella giggled again even though giggling felt so different to her. She liked it a lot. Then she had an idea.

"Or I could tutor you?" Gabriella asked shyly while looking down. Troy's eyes brightened thinking about spending all that time alone with her.

"Really?" Troy asked a little too excited then calmed himself down while scolding himself for being a dork. Gabriella nodded still looking down afraid of his answer.

"Yeah" She said quietly. Troy grinned.

"Sure, I could all the help I could get" Troy said jokingly. Gabriella giggled again and looked up finally.

"I'm sure you're not that bad" Gabriella said kindly. Troy smiled.

"Yea sure" Troy agreed sarcastically. "So when do you want to meet up?" Troy asked her. Gabriella answered quickly.

"I'm free any day but Thursday" Gabriella said, thinking about her visits to her mom. Troy nodded.

"Okay, what about tomorrow?" Troy asked her. Gabriella nodded and smiled. Troy smiled back. Then the bell rang breaking them from their moment. Troy's smiled dropped realizing he had to leave her. Gabriella grabbed her bag and stood up.

"I'll see you later Troy" Gabriella said a little reluctantly, not wanting to leave him. Troy smiled a little.

"Yea see ya later" Troy said back while waving. Gabriella waved back and slipped out of the classroom. Troy stared after her.

"YES!" Troy screamed in his mind as he watched her leave. He couldn't believe she was going to tutor him. It wasn't a date but it was a start. He stood there still staring at the door thinking about her when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey Captain. You okay?" he asked, seeing Troy staring at the doorway. Troy snapped out of it and looked at Chad.

"Yeah...yeah I'm fine" Troy said convincingly. Chad nodded.

"Okay lets get to class" Chad said. Troy nodded in a daze.

"Yeah class..." Troy mumbled, unable to stop thinking about her. He grabbed his bag and followed Chad and the rest of the gang out of the classroom.

At lunch:

"Hey Troy" Chad said as he came up to Troy at his locker. Troy jumped a little but relaxed when he saw it was Chad. He blinked as he was coming down from his daydream.

"Hey Chad" Troy said. Chad looked at him.

"You okay? You looked like you were in another world" Chad asked. Troy nodded robotically thinking about a certain girl who he can't seem to get his mind off of no matter how hard he tried.

"Um yeah, I'm fine" Troy said. Chad nodded.

"Okay, well c'mon let's go to lunch" Chad said. Troy nodded.

"Yeah let's go" Troy said following Chad as they headed to the cafeteria. Once they got there they headed towards their table underneath the balcony. The say down and Troy looked around everywhere for a glimpse of Gabriella.

"So Troy you were getting pretty cozy with the new girl" Sharpay said suspiciously. Troy stopped his search and looked at her.

"I was not" Troy said defensively, then went back to his search. Sharpay rolled her eyes.

"Sure" Sharpay said sarcastically. Troy didn't respond because he was still looking around.

"You know Troy it almost seems like you like her" Sharpay said. This got Troy's attention. His head snapped towards the drama queen and he went wide eyed.

"Is it that obvious?" Troy asked himself. Troy looked at her again.

"I don't like her Sharpay, I barely even know her'' Troy lied unconvincingly then went back to his search. Sharpay scoffed.

"Uh-huh sure whatever you say" Sharpay said sarcastically" Sharpay said sarcastically, but Troy didn't hear her. Gabriella walked in and Troy was almost drooling. he craned his neck to get a better look at her. he saw her with Katie, a girl from his math class. Gabriella must;ve felt eyes looking at her because she looked towards Troy and smiled at him. Troy smiled in return and kept staring at her even as she turned away. Chad knocked troy out of his daydream.

"TROY!" Chad yelled at him. Troy jumped and looked at him.

"I have got to stop doing that" Troy thought to himself. Then he looked around and relized the whole table was staring at him. He gulped and then looked at Chad.

"Huh? What were you saying?" Troy asked. Chad shook his head.

"I said, of course he doesn't like her. He doesn't like anything that distracts him from basketball" Chad said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Troy looked over at Gabriella and smiled not hearing a word Chad said.

"Yeah, sure whatever you say" Troy said absent mindedly. As his friends continued to talk he didn't listen. He knew not matter what he told his friends he did like her and he knew he was addicted.

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