Author's Note: I just want to thank all of you guys who are reading this! This is my second story and definatly different then anything I've ever written before. So thanks so much for reading and reviewing it! A couple people have asked why Troy and Gabriella hate each other, and I'm not going to answer that. You won't find out for a while, but I'm planning on putting some flashbacks in to help explain a little about their history. So, thanks so much again and enjoy!

Her car stops about a block away from the destination. Gabriella gets out of the car and locks it. She begins to walk down the sidewalk with the full moon shining down as her light. Her head moves to the side as she sees trees starting to form right by the beach. This was for privacy. Gabriella makes it to the long driveway and walks down the hill leading to the house. It was probably as big as Gabriella's own house and the house was surrounded by trees on the side so no one could see it. Behind that though, Gabriella knew was the beach. She could hear the base from the speakers already echoing in her ears as she makes it around the house to see that a huge canopy was hanging over the pool and a platform that people were dancing on. Gabriella's eyes look around for someone familiar when she hears about four whistles directed at her.

"Hey baby! Come on over here!"

"Sexy… let's go get a room!"

Gabriella feels herself blush as she walks around the pool over to the dance floor and makes her way through. She suddenly sees a huge afro that she could point out in a million people and runs over and throws her arms around his neck from the back. The guy turns around and his eyes light up. "GABS!"

She feels her body get picked up and spun around. A giggle escapes from her mouth as Chad sets her down and gives her another hug. "Well it's good to see you too." Chad smiles down at her. Besides Taylor, Chad was defiantly her best friend. Sharpay was up there too, but she and Chad were best friends first. Well, that was a lie. Troy had been her best friend up until the summer of freshman year. The summer that changed her life.

"Come on." Chad says and grabs Taylor's hand, who Gabriella now realized was standing there. He then waves over what Gabriella could see as Sharpay, Zeke, Ryan and Bradin. They walk over to the side were the drinks were being served but out away from the dance floor.

"Why are you so late? Troy showed up here like fifteen minutes ago." Zeke says as he points his thumb in the direction behind him. Gabriella looks over his shoulder to see Troy's profile with his arms around a blonde who was wearing an extremely short skirt and a top that basically revealed everything. Gabriella tears her eyes away from him and shrugs.

"I had to get my car, and then I got stuck behind a train." She says and grabs a drink that was sitting on the table behind her. She takes a giant gulp and then sighs. It felt good to be with all of her friends. At school, it wasn't as fun because half of her closest friends were at East High. "Well, you guys really know how to throw a party." Gabriella says to the Evans twins as she looks around at the huge crowd on the dance floor and in the pool. There had to be at least a hundred and fifty people there.

"Thanks Brie." Ryan says and Sharpay smiles.

"I know, it's in our blood I guess." She says.

"LOOKING HOT MONTEZ!" Gabriella hears someone yell and she smiles at the comment. It wasn't uncommon for that to happen, and at first she was embarrassed but now, she could care less.

"So, are they treating you well over on the West side?" Chad says and drapes his arm around Taylor. Gabriella smiles. Chad was always looking out for her like an older brother would.

"Yes, Chad. Don't worry." Gabriella says and looks over to see Troy's body grinding up against the random blonde. It was disgusting. She knew Troy could do so much better then her, but he always chose the dumb Barbie dolls. She shakes her head and turns her attention back to Chad. "And I know if they weren't, you'd beat them up for me."

"You got that right." Chad says and Gabriella rolls her eyes at him.

"I take pretty good care of her." Bradin says and wraps an arm around Gabriella's shoulders. She laughs a little as Chad tries to put on a smile. One other reason she was so thankful of Chad was because he was one of the few people who didn't think that Gabriella belonged to Bradin. Sure, they were friends, but for some reason, Chad never wanted Bradin and Gabriella to go out. It had been that way ever since she met Bradin in seventh grade and he had a crush on her.

"Well I'm glad." Chad says somewhat sarcastically, but she knew that Chad really didn't mean to be like that. He looks over his shoulder and rolls his eyes. "That's girl number one. I say he goes through at least three."

Gabriella follows his eyes to see Troy and the blonde moving away from the dance floor. He was grabbing her by her hips and walking backwards with their lips connected. She could see him fumble with the door to the beach house a little, and then get it open. Gabriella knew the two were headed to one of the bedrooms in the house. Gabriella rolls her eyes. "He's such a pig! How can you guys even be friends with him?"

"Oh come on Brie." Sharpay says and wraps her arms around Zeke's waist. "He's not that bad."

"Not that bad? He's a bastard! And I swear he's going to end up at an addiction for sex center!" Gabriella says and throws her hands up to add the dramatic effect.

"He's not addicted to sex." Chad says and rolls his eyes. "I know you hate him, but he's my best friend. And used to be yours!" Chad points out and Gabriella glares at him knowing he's right. She looks from everyone's face and could tell that each one of them wanted to ask why she hated him so much, but were afraid. It wouldn't have mattered, because she wouldn't have told them anyways.

"I don't know, I wouldn't be surprised if he was an addict…" Ryan says softly and Gabriella laughs. Speaking of that, Gabriella gets a big waft of an extremely heavy substance. She turns around and sees about four guys standing in the sand with marijuana in their hands.

"Ok, let's move." Taylor says and grabs Chad's hand. All of them walk out to the dance floor once again they make their way into the middle of the crowd. Taylor and Chad and Sharpay and Zeke immediately begin to dance with each other like they never left. Gabriella could feel Bradin's eyes on her, but instead she walks over to Ryan who was by himself. Ryan was shy when it came to females, and he really didn't know how to charm girls like Troy or Bradin could. Gabriella remembers he had a couple girlfriends, but they didn't last long at all. She felt bad for him, since he was such a sweet guy.

"Dance with me." She says and Ryan smiles in thanks. She looks up to see Bradin roll his eyes. Oh well, it wasn't like she cared much anyways.

"Chad!" She hears a high pitched voice come from the crowd and Gabriella looks at the brunette with short hair walk up to Chad. "Where's Troy?"

Gabriella looks at Courtney and rolls her eyes. They both hated each other, but that was probably because all the guys wanted Gabriella and she didn't even have to give them heads to keep them. "Probably in a bedroom." He says and Courtney looks upset for a moment and then turns her head and smiles.

"Bradin!" Courtney says and Gabriella watches as Bradin wraps his arms around her waist and begins to grind on her. It was Gabriella's turn to roll her eyes. Bradin was just like Troy, he had the same playerness in him. Gabriella knew this; she just didn't care with Bradin.

She suddenly remembers what she had a discussion about with Cassie and turns around to face Ryan. Sharpay was standing right next to them so that helped a lot. "Hey, I heard your Country Club is hiring."

Ryan nods and smiles down at her. "Yea, my parents said they need a lot of people. Why?"

Gabriella smiles at him and Sharpay who had her eyes on Gabriella. "Because me and Tay need a job." She says and Sharpay smiles brightly.

"Oh my God you have to apply! You know Ry and I practically live there during the summer! You guys have to. I'll tell Fulton to interview you." Sharpay says talking out loud and Ryan nods.

"It would be great." He says and looks at everyone. "Any of you guys. Just let us know you're applying and we'll put in a good word."

"Thanks so much you guys." Gabriella says and hears Taylor squeal.

"Oh my God, I can't wait!" She says and Gabriella laughs. "Now we won't get beat out by college students! How'd you find out about it?"

Gabriella shrugs in Ryan's arms. "I talked to Cassie Freeman about it at the barbeque. You know, the dick's cousin?" Everyone gives her a look as if to say "knock it off" but she shrugs it off. "Anyways, she got hired there."

"When can you get a hold of the boss Shar?" Taylor asks excitedly and Sharpay grins.

"Expect a call tomorrow!" Sharpay says happily and then returns back to dancing with Zeke. Gabriella feels weight getting lifted off her shoulders as she moves to the beat with Ryan. She was getting a summer job, and everything would be perfect.

After about a half an hour, Gabriella found herself against another guy who went to East High. Bradin had left with some girl he was dancing with after he danced with Courtney and Gabriella figures he was probably in a bedroom with her right now. Zeke and Sharpay had left too, and Ryan went inside the beach house to make sure there wasn't anything too broken. Taylor and Gabriella make eye contact with each other. "You guys better not leave me now."

Taylor and Chad both laugh. "Nah, we wouldn't do that to you." Gabriella smiles and then breaks apart from the guy she was dancing with.

"Come on baby." He whispers in her ear and pulls her hips back to his groin, and she feels his hardness poking into her butt, but Gabriella pulls away again.

"I'm going to get something to drink." She says honestly and she leads the other two away from the dance floor once again to get something to drink. Gabriella takes a red glass and suddenly hears a voice from behind her that makes her cringe. "Chad! Taylor!"

Gabriella looks up to find Troy stop next to her. She looks at him disgusted and Taylor waves. "Hey Troy."

Chad cocks his eyebrow and looks at his best friend. "What are you doing down here?"

Troy looks at him confused for a second. "Um… standing here talking to you?"

If Gabriella didn't hate him, she probably would have laughed at his sarcasm. But she keeps her mouth shut. Chad rolls his eyes. "No shit. I mean… didn't you take a girl upstairs like… forty five minutes ago?"

Troy pulls out his cell phone and looks at his clock. "Uhhh yea."

"Where is she?" Taylor asks and Troy shrugs.

"Sleeping upstairs in the bedroom naked." He responds and Gabriella couldn't hold it any longer. She didn't care if the girl was a slut or not. Gabriella would feel awful if some guy just left her right after he had sex with her. She turns around and faces Troy.

"You had sex with her and then just left her up there?" Gabriella yells. Troy cocks his eyebrow as if he was surprised that she actually talked to him. He shakes his head and smirks at her.

"No." He says and Gabriella looks at him confused.

"You said she's in bed…" She starts and Troy nods his head.

"Yeah."

"…naked…" She continues, even more confused.

"Uhh yea."

"And alone after you were just in there with her…"

Troy pretends to think for a moment and then nods his head. "Yea…"

"Then how is she lying in a bed naked alone if you didn't have sex with her?" Gabriella asks exasperated and Troy shrugs.

"I don't have sex." He says simply and Gabriella crosses her arms.

"Yep, and I'm Paris Hilton." She says sarcastically and Troy shakes his head and smirks.

"I don't." She feels her eyebrow cock. "I really don't have sex. I fuck."

"What?"

Troy shrugs again. "I fuck."

Gabriella stares at him for a moment, not truly believing what just came out of his mouth. "That's the exact same thing!"

Troy shakes his head in disagreement which only gets Gabriella madder. What the hell was he on? "No it's not. Sex intimate. Sex is out of love. Sex is… not what I do." He finishes. "I fuck. Get in, get out, and get on. And I don't want to lead them to believe it was anything more than that, so I don't stay. I don't care about the girls I screw. I haven't stayed after fucking someone since like… God I don't even remember." Troy says in a matter of fact tone and Gabriella shakes her head in astonishment.

"You." She starts and pauses. "Are." Another pause and she watches as Troy cocks his eyebrow again. "A DICK!"

Troy shrugs. "I'll take that as a compliment coming from you." Gabriella could feel her blood starting to boil. She didn't even care if the girls gave a shit or not. What he did was wrong. At least Bradin somewhat cared about how the people he slept with felt.

"I bet it doesn't mean anything to you anymore!" Gabriella exclaims and Troy shrugs.

"It's fun. I'm having fun." He says bluntly and Gabriella could feel her anger shooting through her body.

"Gabriella, if he wants to be a dickhead, let him be a dickhead." Chad says putting a hand on her shoulder to calm her down. But Gabriella shrugs it off. She was furious. She couldn't understand how someone could be that insensitive to how people feel. Gabriella knew she was over-reacting, but that didn't stop her from being pissed off.

"Yea! Wait…" Troy says but realizes that Chad just insulted him. "What I do, is my business. You don't give a fuck about me so why should you care about the people I screw?"

"Because I would hate you forever if you did that to me!" She says and throws her arms up in the air for a dramatic effect.

"Well, one, you would never let me fuck you anyways, so it wouldn't matter. And two… the girls don't hate me because they always come back for more." Troy says cockily which drives Gabriella more insane. She groans angrily.

"Look, Brie, we all know it's wrong ok? But it's Troy's business so let's get back to the party." Taylor says and tries to lead them back to the dance floor but Gabriella stays in her spot glaring at Troy instead. She really couldn't tell you why she was so mad. Maybe it was because she was that caring that she thought about how everyone else felt.

"Yea, Gabi." He emphasizes her nickname and she feels the anger flow through her veins again.

"Don't call me that." She says in a low voice. Troy finally takes his cocky smirk off of his face and narrows his eyes.

"I'll do whatever the fuck I want." He says and Gabriella shakes her head.

"Yea? I don't care. Don't call me 'Gabi'." She snaps.

Troy takes a step forward to show how much bigger and stronger he was over her. But Gabriella stands her ground and doesn't move. "I've been calling you Gabi since we were ten!" He exclaims.

"Guys, come on!" Chad says trying to get into the middle of them, but neither one moves. Gabriella could feel her eyes narrow. She knew she was going to loose, she always lost. But she wasn't going to go down with out a fight. Not this time.

"What happened to you Troy?" She asks in a softer voice. Troy's eyes widen for a moment, surprised that she actually asked a question like that. He scratches the back of his neck, a habit Gabriella knew he had when he was nervous or in an awkward situation. They both knew the answer to that question, but she knew Troy didn't want to say it out loud. It would make him vulnerable. "You never used to act like this." She says and Troy shakes his head.

"You know exactly what happened." Troy says in a low voice and begins to turn away. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have other girls to fuck."

Gabriella glares at him as he begins to walk toward the dance floor. Taylor and Chad look at Gabriella in shock as she shakes her head. "Can we go now?" Chad says probably trying to break the awkward silence that erupted and Gabriella nods, but continues to glare at Troy's back.

"How can you even be friends with him?" Gabriella asks as Troy moves his body up to another Barbie girl and begins to grind. He looks over at her with his piercing eyes and Gabriella knew that the only reason he was doing this was to piss her off.

"You let him get to you." Chad says and they continue to walk forward. Gabriella watches as it took less then two minutes to get Troy's lips on this girl's and he grabs her hips in the same way that he did with the other girl and drags her back to the house. But this time, Gabriella watches as he fumbles with the door, he breaks their lips apart and smirks at Gabriella.

"Fuck you." She mouths and brings her hand up, and sticking up her middle finger in the process. The last she sees of Troy Bolton that night is a triumphant smirk on his face as the door to the beach house closes.