-1After a while, Gabriella fell asleep on Troy's shoulder. Troy looked down at the peaceful girl, she looked the same as she did when he fell in love with her when they turned 16. He picked her up and put her in the backseat so she could sleep soundly. Troy sat beside her and stroked her hair as she slept, all the time thinking about the day he asked Gabriella to be his girlfriend.

Troy and Gabriella had been friends for 4 months now, and Troy felt it was time to tell her how he really felt about her. Little did he know she was feeling the exact same way.

"Hey Gabriella." he felt his palms sweat as he talked to his friend on the phone.

"Hey Troy, what's up?" She answered.

" I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out, you know got to the park or something?"

"yeah, that should be fun…I'll walk to your house and meet you in about 20 minutes?"

"perfect, bye Gabriella."

"bye Troy." she hung up and went to her bedroom to get changed, she wanted to look irresistible for Troy. Three blocks away Troy was doing the exact same thing.

10 minutes passed and Troy was waiting eagerly in the living room, waiting for her knock.

"wow, someone looks handsome, meeting someone special?" his mum gushed.

"sort of, Gabriella and I are going to the park." He smiled.

"about time, you got together, the amount of times you talk about her, it gives me a throbbing headache." His mum grinned and walked into the kitchen with the groceries.

Troy's eyes scanned the clocks hands, 9 minutes to go..7 minutes to go…3 minutes to go. As soon as 20 minutes had passed, Troy jumped up to the knock at the door. Right on time.

He sorted his hair out and opened the door.

"hey Troy." she breathed. She kissed his cheek. "ready to go?" she asked.

"ready as I'll ever be." Troy laughed.

She returned the smile and he walked onto the porch, they began to walk the small distance to the park. All the time talking about the silliest of things, that was all they had ever seemed to talk about, but neither cared, they just loved each others company. The large gate opening the park, stood in front of both of them, Troy opened the large iron gate and offered Gabriella his arm which she gladly took.

"Troy this is such a beautiful park…how come I've never seen it, before?"

"I guess, because you haven't lived here as long as I have, you didn't notice it."

"well I'm going to notice it more often." she giggled and ran to the park bench overlooking the large water fountain. "it's such a romantic place. don't you think?"

"yeah, it is." he looked at her and opened his mouth to speak. " Gabriella, there's something I really need to tell you." he took a deep breath and tried to speak, but no words seemed to come out. Nerves had finally hit him, he sighed with frustration and walked to the water fountain, to ashamed to look at her any longer.

"Troy I have something to tell you too." She walked up to him and turned him round so they were facing each other.

"I have like you since you first came here, Gabriella." Troy blurted out. He blushed, but he didn't regret what he said.

Gabriella smiled broadly. "I like you too." And with that she gently touched his lips with hers, holding onto both hands while doing so. Troy dropped her hands and brought his to her face, and deepened the kiss, the kiss soon began to be filled with more passion, everyone in the park stopped what they were doing to see the young lovers.

After 10 minutes, Troy pulled away. "you don't know how long, I've been waiting to do that." he said breathlessly.

"No, but I can imagine." She leaned once again so Troy would kiss her, he obeyed, but lost his footing and fell into the fountain taking a surprise Gabriella with him.

They soon came up for air and looked at one another, they laughed uncontrollably at one another.

"Well you would of thought your love would send me right into a fountain."

Troy looked embarrassed, but swam towards Gabriella and with his wet hands he clasped her face. "This time, we wont fall, anywhere." He kissed her long and hard. This is what he had been waiting for, for what seemed like a lifetime. And he wasn't going to waste another second , another second which could be holding Gabriella.

After that day, the pair were inseparable, they held hands in the school halls, stared longingly at each other in class, and at lunch snuck into the science labs to have a quick make out session. The whole school new that this wasn't just another high school romance, they were actually in love. It didn't take long for the whole school to get into the spirit of love. Three months later, Chad and Taylor started to date, followed by Kelsi and Jason. Everyone was happy and content except one person, Sharpay. She never liked Gabriella and hated her more for taking Troy, her meant to -be -boyfriend-if-only-he-knew-that. But as time passed and Troy and Gabriella showed no sign of breaking up soon, Sharpay decided to give up and moved onto someone else. Zeke Baylor. She fell madly in love with him and to this day stayed with him throughout college. She even made amends with Gabriella one year after college started.

When Troy and Gabriella were dating for one year, they gave each other promise rings, each inscribed 'I promise to love Troy/Gabriella for the rest of my life, with all my heart depending on it.' Who knew that the year after that, that promise will be terribly broken.

Troy looked down at the sleeping Gabriella, he took the promise ring that he had chained to his neck and looked at it. He never parted with it, he never wanted to part with it. Troy was overwhelmed with emotion, this was the end. Troy and Gabriella were over for good. Even though Troy had been married for four years he always told himself one day he would find Gabriella again. And when he did he'd never let her go. But it seemed another promise was about to be broken.

Gabriella opened one eye and looked at a crying Troy looking at his ring. She sat up, unnoticed by Troy, and stared at him the whole time.

"I love you so Much Gabriella, you cant leave me, but you're going to anyway." He closed his eyes and sobbed. Gabriella felt tears welling in her eyes. She really loved Troy, but things were different now. Despite that, Gabriella touched his tear stained face, causing Troy to open his eyes abruptly. He sniffed and wiped his eyes quickly. "Gabriella, please don't let me allow you to see me like this I can-" He was interrupted by Gabriella's lips making contact to his. He tensed but soon got into it. After all he waited 5 years to kiss these soft lips again.