Author's Note: HELLO READERS! I find that it's getting easier and easier to write this story, and I hope you are all enjoying it! I have big plans for these two in the future. Haha :D If only what I write actually came true...

Enjoy!

Vanessa looked over at Zac smiling. He gave her a grin.

"Seriously?" she asked giddily grabbing his arm. He nodded. She looked back at the window and opened it. She stuck her head out and smiled the biggest smile. Vanessa felt the Utah wind fly by her smiling face. After a minute of getting familiar again with Utah and its beautiful landmarks, Vanessa pulled her head back inside the car and gave out a happy sigh. She bit her lip and looked over at Zac who was focusing on the road. She hesitated but leaned over to give him a soft kiss on the cheek. Zac's blue eyes perked up and he smiled.

"What was that for?" he asked happily. Vanessa smiled.

"For this" she answered simply. She intertwined her fingers through his and felt like she was 16 years old again. The first time she met Zac. The first time she went to Utah. The first time she ever fell so deep in love. She smiled at the thought.

They kept on driving for a few more hours. It was late in the afternoon when the two reached Salt Lake City. Vanessa, though very tired from the nearly 12 hour trip they just drove, smiled widely. She could feel the memories of the wondrous city fill her head as they drive through the roads. Vanessa looked out the window to see recognizable restaurants and bowling alleys that they use to spent hours in while filming High School Musical. Her eyes however lingered at the sign that lit up: Dotties, an outside miniature golf course. She smiled as she saw two teenagers who looked like they were on a date play on one of the courses. The guy wrapped his arm around her and helped her get a hole in one.

"Zac, where are we going?" Vanessa complained to the taller boy with shaggy brown hair walking besides her. They were filming a Disney movie in Utah and they hit it off the second they met in auditions. Since they started filming a month ago, they've developed feelings for one another and ever since he had asked her out for the first time yesterday, he has been hinting a surprise he had in mind. But he wouldn't reveal anything about it. He would simply smile.

"Ness, we're almost there. I promise" he said taking her hand. They've been walking the sidewalks of Salt Lake City for about 15 minutes. Zac finally lead her to a small entrance. Dotties the brightly lit multicolored neon sign read. Vanessa's eyebrows rose as she looked at Zac. She then saw an outdoor miniature golf course at the back and looked her head at Zac again.

"Mini golf?" she asked. He gave her a smile again and it made her smile.

"You said you've never been" he shrugged. She grinned as she remembered that she mentioned to have never gone mini golfing during the first few days of filming as they were trying to bond.

They walked over to the counter and paid for a game and grabbed two putts and the ball as they walked inside the course. They were right behind an elderly couple.

"So sorry kids" the elderly man apologized as they were taking a long time on the course. They smiled at them.

"No worries" Zac said. Soon it was their turn. Zac was surprised that Vanessa was so good at it, getting a hole in one three times in a row. "You sure you've never played this before?" he asked suspiciously. She smiled and nodded.

"Positive"

They finally got to their last course and Zac looked over at Vanessa who was looking over the course intently as if she were trying to analyze the perfect strategy to score a hole in one. Zac motioned his hand forward.

"Ladies first" he said charmingly. She smiled and blushed. She took her position and hit the ball with her red putt. Zac and Vanessa watched the hit the curb and roll through the artificial grass and go through a tunnel only to end up on the other side of the thick bushes and land on the hole. Vanessa jumped and screamed with glee. Zac looked impressed and felt arms being wrapped around his neck. Vanessa hugged Zac tightly until she realized she has been doing it a little too long. She unwrapped herself from him and smiled shyly at him before looking down. Zac noticed her flushed face and brought her face up to look at him. He stroked her cheek before both of them leaned in for their very first kiss.

"Ness" Zac said shaking Vanessa out of the memory. She looked over at him. He pointed to the building they parked in front of. The Grand America Hotel. She turned her head to the building and gasped in surprise. This was the hotel they stayed at while filming the last High School Musical. She turned her direction back to Zac. "How are we gonna get a room?" she asked curiously. Zac stayed quiet for a moment trying to figure out a plan not to be seen since it will most likely be tweeted the second they're spotted together in Utah, trying to get a room in the hotel. He could see TMZ and E! headlines now: Zac & Vanessa back together? The two lovebirds were seen in a romantic getaway in Salt Lake City.

As Zac continued to think, Vanessa got impatient and bent down to her purse and pulled something out that made Zac look at her oddly. She put her hair in a bun and put on the blonde wig she got to keep after filming Spring Breakers, and then she put on her sunglasses, grabbed her purse and got out of the car. "Watch and learn, Efron" she said flirty and winked at him. Zac's mouth gaped at her and he could almost feel a hard on coming on as he watched her walk away with her hips swaying from side to side. He rested back on the driver seat trying to calm down his little friend.

Vanessa walked into the hotel, trying to blend in with the crowd of people in the lobby. She went towards the hotel counter and a redheaded young lady greeted her.

"Welcome to the Grand American Hotel. How can I help you?" she perked. She doesn't seem to recognize Vanessa just yet.

"Hi, do you have a room for two available for a week?" she asked in an unusually falsetto voice trying hard to remain incognito. The redheaded woman typed a few words on the keyboard and look at the computer screen in front of her. She nodded and looked back at Vanessa smiling.

"We actually do have one, lucky you it's the last available one!" she grinned. "Total for 7 nights would be 1793 dollars" Vanessa nodded as she pulled out a few hundred bills from her wallet not wanting to use her card to remain in disguised. "Would that be cash or credit?" the receptionist asked.

"Cash" Vanessa handed her 10 hundred dollar bills and a 50 dollar bill and three 20 dollar bills. In return, the redheaded woman handed her two room cards.

"Have a wonderful stay here at the Grand American Hotel!" she said. Vanessa gave her a small smile and walked back outside to the parked Alero. She saw Zac with his head leaning back at the headrest with his eyes closed breathing rather shallowly. Her eyes travelled down to the crotch of his pants and widened. She looked around the parking lot and saw no one paying attention to her. She looked back to Zac who was looking back at her with his blue eyes widened. Had she just caught him masturbating? Vanessa walked towards the car and opened the door trying very hard to hide what she had just witnessed.

"We got a room for the week" she explained slowly looking ahead trying not make eye contact as she was still trying to reel in the images of Zac and his dick from her head. He was still looking at her and then looked down when she looked at him. He gulped.

"Did you…uhh" he stammered. "You uhh…saw?"

"Saw what?" Vanessa asked trying to be discreet.

"Ness"

"We should probably get up to our room" she interrupted him. He sighed and nodded. He put his hood up and sunglasses on his face to stay hidden. They got out of the car and pulled their bags out of the trunk. They walked inside the lobby and entered the nearest elevator. It was empty, so Zac took this time to talk to her.

"Ness, you saw" he stated. She rolled her eyes. He was still stuck in this?

"So?"

"Why didn't you just say so?"

"It's not that big of a deal" she mumbled. It was his turn to roll his eyes.

"If it wasn't a big deal you wouldn't have lied" he grumbled against his breath.

"Look, I don't know why it was such a big deal! You were relieving yourself, its normal" she said putting her hands up for dramatic effect. "If you haven't noticed Zac, I've seen your 'friend' before and this is why we're in this situation" she said as she pointed to her stomach.

He looked at her and opened his mouth to say something, but was stopped when two more passengers got into the elevator. Vanessa smiled in triumph. Zac leaned in closer to her and whispered in her ear, "We're not done talking about this". She took a deep breath and let out a sigh.

They reached the 14th floor and got out of the elevator. They walked down the empty hotel hallway and found their room at the near end: 1449. Zac put the card into the key slot and they entered the room. As he entered the room they found the bathroom to their left and as they got more into the room, there was a flat screen TV hung up against the wall right in front of the king size bed. Zac and Vanessa looked at each other with knowing faces.

"Uhh…I'll just take the couch then" Zac said walking towards the cream colored sofa rested against the window. It looked comfortable enough, but not for sleeping. Especially not for a whole week. Vanessa shook her head in disagreement.

"No" she said grabbing his arm. They looked at each other. "Just sleep with me". Zac raised his eyebrows at her. "I—I mean next to me!" she stammered as she realized what words came out of her mouth. Zac smiled slightly.

"You sure?" he asked cautiously. She nodded. They smiled and walked towards the bed and put their bags on top of it. Zac sat down at the edge and turned on the TV in front of him while Vanessa walked into the bathroom. Zac turned on to the weather channel and saw that there was a thunderstorm coming on to the area for the next few days. He groaned. Vanessa got out of the bathroom as she heard him.

"What's wrong?" she asked sitting down next to him at the edge of the bed.

"There's a storm coming this week" he said rubbing his hands on his face from frustration. "Stupid, stupid, stupid" he muttered. Vanessa smiled.

"It's fine!" she said. "Learn how to dance in the rain, Efron" she said teasingly and stood up and grabbed her hoodie from her duffel bag. "C'mon let's go out before it gets dark outside" she said jerking her head towards the door as she pulled the hood up to her head. Zac stood up and together they walk out to explore Utah once again.

They were walking along the sidewalk when Vanessa spotted Mister Softee truck. Her brown eyes lit up and she took hold of Zac's hands and dragged him to the white truck. There was a small line consisting of mostly little kids. A tall bald headed man stuck out his head of the window and greeted them.

"Hello" he said cheerily. "What would you like today?" Vanessa opened her mouth to respond but was cut off by Zac.

"A chocolate dip on a cone for the lady and a root beer float please" Zac said as he pulled out wallet from his back pocket and counted the bills he had. Vanessa looked at him subtlety biting her lip smiling.

"That's 7.50" the ice cream man said handing Vanessa her cone and Zac his root beer. Zac gave him a 5 dollar bill and 3 singles. He smiled at the ice cream man.

"Keep the change man" he said as they started to walk away from the truck. The bald headed man smiled at them but narrowed his eyes in confusion.

"Do I know you guys from somewhere?" he asked curiously looking at a blonde haired Vanessa wearing sunglasses and a hoodie covered Zac also wearing sunglasses. They gave him a cheshire smile and waved at him goodbye.

They continued to walk the streets of Salt Lake City. As Vanessa was eating her ice cream she looked at Zac who was trying to mix his root beer float with his straw.

"You still remember what ice cream I like" she stated giving him a soft smile. He stopped twirling his straw and looked at her and gave her a smirk.

"How could I not?"

She shrugged. Zac looked at her as if he was analyzing her and she looked back at him with a questioning look.

"What?"

"Ness, we do need to talk about the…uhh…baby…" he said softly not wanting people to hear. She sighed and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah" she said softly looking down slowly licking at her cone. "Everything happened so fast today, yesterday I was at Walgreens buying pregnancy tests and now I'm in Utah…" she said letting out a soft laugh on her situation. "I guess I forgot…"

"Hey" he said softly nudging her shoulder, she looked at him. "I forgot too. It's easy to get caught up looking back at memories…especially in this place" he said looking around his surroundings. They smiled.

"Would it be crazy if I said I would want to be move here when the baby's born?" Vanessa asked softly looking at the mountains in the horizon. Zac looked at her and shook his head.

"If you're crazy, then I'm crazy with you" he said smiling. "This place is incredible" Vanessa nodded in agreement.

"No paparazzi, no tabloids, no nothing" she said happily.

"Maybe we could get a house here someday" he started to say. Vanessa looked at him in shock. "It'd be nice for summer vacation…or winter…" he trailed on. Vanessa thought about his idea for a moment until grinning at the suggestion.

"Yeah" she said smiling. "It'd be nice for him" she said putting her left hand on her stomach. "What about in LA though?" bringing him into the reality that they are having a baby together.

Zac sighed. He knew his house wasn't fit for a baby. "Well…my house is out of the question" he said. "Those concrete floors were not made for babies to be crawling on, let alone learning how to walk on" he said shaking his head. Vanessa nodded.

"So my house then…" Vanessa started to say.

"Yeah…"

"Well you could visit every day and stay the night most of the time" she suggested trying to give him suggestions since they wouldn't be living together. "You live 7 minutes away, it won't be that hard and I have 5 extra rooms in the house anyway, 'bout time they're put into use!" she said jokingly. He let out a small laugh but Vanessa could swear he saw a hint of disappointment in his eyes.

"Yeah, well living arrangements is settled then."

"Yup" she said popping out the 'p' sound. They walked a few more minutes in silence until Vanessa brought up a sore topic. "How about filming?" she asked unsurely. Zac winced. The main reason they broke up is because they both got tired of not seeing enough of each other because they were in different places for filming. Zac let out a deep breath and took a gulp out of his root beer float.

"Well…you're definitely not going to be working when you're pregnant" he said sternly. "I forbid you" Vanessa rolled her eyes knowing he was slightly joking.

"I'll be fine" she said making a motion with her hand as if to shush him up. "Pregnant women do it all the time" she said taking a bite out of her half eaten cone.

"Most pregnant women don't work 17 hours straight" he retorted.

"Well I'm going to need to do press stuff for Gimme Shelter soon" she said alluding to her movie about a pregnant teenager who looks for a home after her father kicks her out after discovering she had gotten pregnant.

"I'll make sure Brit doesn't make you travel too much" Zac said talking about her publicist. "Traveling puts stress on the baby" he said as if her were an expert on pregnancy. Vanessa laughed.

"Oh, okay Mr. Expert" she said teasing him. They laughed. "I think I'll take a break from movies for a while" she started to say seriously. Zac looked at her in surprise. "You know just for a few months or a year…to take care of the baby" she said biting her lip. She loved making movies, but she knows the baby needs caring and love and working right away just didn't sleep like a good idea. Zac took her arm to stop her from walking any further.

"Hey" he said. "We're in this together, you don't have to do anything alone" he comforted her. "I'll take care of the baby whenever you want to film" Vanessa sighed.

"That's not fair to you, Zac" she started to say. But he shook his head at her.

"What's not fair is making you put your career on hold because of something we both did" he said sternly. Vanessa tried to hold in her tears, but a few teardrops came out down her face. Zac wiped away the salty water on her face and pulled her into a tight hug. "You're not alone, Ness. I'm not going anywhere."

"I don't want to hold you back" she mumbled against his shoulder. A thought dawned on Zac and he pulled away from their hug and held her face in his hands.

"Is…Is this why you broke up with me?" he asked quietly. Vanessa looked down to her shoes. "Vanessa" he said more firmly. Vanessa looked up at him to see his eyes staring right at her. "Is this why you broke up with me?" he asked once again more firmly.

"Zac" she said crying. Zac knew what she was going to say next and rolled his head with disappointment. Vanessa grabbed his hands and Zac looked back at her. "You were going somewhere" referring to his progressing career in Hollywood.

"And you weren't?" his voice yelled out with a mix of anger and sadness.

"I was just beginning" she cried out. "You had all these great opportunities laid out in front of you already; I didn't want to hold you back because of me!"

"I wanted to share it all with you!" he exclaimed. By now they caught a few people's attention also walking by. Vanessa noticed this and didn't want to bring any more attention to themselves, she took his hand and walked him over to a nearby bench. They sat down in silence for a few moments until Zac spoke up again.

"Vanessa "he started to say as he looked down the dirt on the ground, his voice starting to break. They were both crying, sitting side by side to each other trying hard to keep it together. "I—I thought that whatever we go through, that we would be there for each other" Vanessa looked at him with sadness. "Forever" Vanessa sobbed quietly trying to disguise her pain.

"Zac" she cracked. "We were so young… I-" Zac snapped his head at her.

"That never stopped us" he said loudly as tears drip down his face. "5 years, gone just like that. For months, I kept on thinking that you didn't love me anymore" Vanessa shook her head defiantly.

"I will always love you" Vanessa said firmly wiping the tears off her cheeks. "You should never doubt that"

"What the hell was I suppose to think when I went down to Hawaii for Thanksgiving thinking I was going to spend the holiday with my girlfriend and she told me we needed a break from each other?" he exclaimed in frustration and despair.

"That's exactly it!" it was not Vanessa's turn to raise her voice. "Zac, you skipped Thanksgiving with your family!" Zac's eyes are filled with confusion as Vanessa started to explain. "You skipped cutting the turkey with your dad, and eating with your grandparents who haven't seen you in months, you even missed Dylan coming back home since he went to college to be with me." She spat out the latter part in a disgusted way.

"Ness—"Zac began to say but he was interrupted by Vanessa's tirade.

"How could I ask you to give up being with your family and spend it with me in a stupid hotel room, where we didn't even have a Thanksgiving Dinner?" she asked.

"You shouldn't have to" he said quietly in a raspy sounding voice. "You should've known that I would always choose you" he said looking straight at her. Hearing those words, Vanessa's tears began falling down her face uncontrollably. Everything was coming out. All the emotions that have been held for over a year and a half came running down in this moment. "Then a few months after, I saw you making out with another guy and it hurt" Zac gulped. "A lot" he said clenching his right hand into a fist. Vanessa could see the nerves of his wrist come out and took her own hand and opened up his closed fist. Zac breathed heavily trying to control his temper and held Vanessa's hand tightly as if he was never going to let go.

"I'm sorry" she apologized not knowing what else to say. It was all her fault. Zac shook his head.

"We agreed to see each other people" he said. "You just got the head start" letting out a small laugh.

"I should've thought about you" she said in a child-like voice. He let out a small snicker.

"I don't think that's how it works when people break up, Ness" he smiled softly. She smiled back.

"We're not normal people" she said teasingly. Zac laughed a bit. They would always make fun of the gossip sites and magazines that would refer to them as "stars" or "celebrities" and act surprise when they spot them doing something domestic like shopping at Target or Best Buy. Vanessa looked at Zac who was looking down at his jeans. She let out a deep breath. "I stopped listening to Taylor Swift music because I thought you two were together" she confessed hoping to make him laugh. Zac looked at her with a big smile on his face laughing. They laughed together. Zac pulled her into a comforting embrace.

"You ok?" he asked against her hair. He felt her nod. They pulled apart and looked at each other still holding each other's hands.

"What are we going to do now?" she asked. He thought about it for a moment and then shrugged.

"We can only go from here"

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