Author's Note: Hey you guys!!! This is a long chapter to make up for the short one. Hope you like it!R&R!


Who knew?

Chapter 7

No One's POV/ Gabriella's POV/Troy's POV

Gabriella sighed as she entered the cafeteria for lunch. It had been a rather stressful morning, not only had her brain melted under the strain of her confusions with Troy, one of her patients had gone into cardiac arrest and had almost died if Gabriella hadn't been quick of the mark. To top it all off, her pager was on the blink so every five minutes, she somehow got a page from a doctor in Tokyo.

And now, she was about to eat in a cafeteria notorious for having rather…iffy looking food. As she paid for her bowl of vegetable soup, one thought came to mind.

Hmm, well it looks like someone has already eaten my soup and it just didn't agree with them. Lovely.

Gabriella walked with her tray towards her usual table. Taylor was already seated, looking glumly into her stew and there was another doctor Taylor and Gabriella were friends with. Dr Penny Smith also looked rather depressed and was slowly stirring the spoon in her coffee. Gabriella pulled out a chair and sat down.

"…Men." Taylor uttered with a disgusted tone in her voice.

"Tell me about it." Penny sighed.

Wow, whoever thought such a cliché would be a conversation starter.

"I'm so sick of them" Taylor stabbed her spoon into the middle of her bowl.

"But I thought things were going well with you and Chad?" Gabriella asked.

"Wait, who's Chad?" Penny looked confused.

"Ex-boyfriend who's turned up unexpectedly." Taylor didn't look up.

"Also the love of her life." Gabriella contributed.

"Well he was. Anyway, things were going were going well." Taylor smiled. "In fact, he says he wants to start things up again"

"Really?"

"Yeah," Taylor's smile vanished "But after you yelled at him earlier on for confusing you, it hit me. Can I really trust him again after all these years?"

"Oh honey, me yelling at him should not be the reason for you falling out with him. I wasn't even that mad at him. I was just upset about Troy. I believe Chad was actually trying to do the right thing when he told me Troy loved me. You can totally trust him. Heck, at any rate he's turned out to be a better guy than my lunkhead of an ex-boyfriend."

Taylor smiled again. Maybe she should give Chad another chance…

"So what's happening between you and Troy?"

"Sorry if I seem slow but who's Troy?" Penny asked again.

"Ex-boyfriend who's turned up unexpectedly" Gabriella replied.

"Also the love of her life" Taylor smiled.

Gabriella started swirling the mushy soup around her bowl. "Well not only has he turned up, he is a patient of mine."

"Wow." Penny's eye's widened.

"Yep. And earlier on today, Chad told me Troy loved me and I didn't know how to deal with it. So when Troy started flirting with me…I flirted back." Gabriella groaned, infuriated with herself.

"But then his girlfriend appeared."

"Ouch" Penny winced.

"Uh huh." Gabriella sighed.

"What's she like?" Taylor asked.

"Well, she's pretty I guess. Seems like a confident person. But honestly, she was probably getting a manicure the day they gave brains out."

"Well then she's not a patch on you." Taylor smiled.

Gabriella looked up unconvinced "Really?"

"Yeah, Troy's standards have obviously lowered since he went out with you. You were the love of his life and he's obviously trying to get over you, trying to prove to himself that he doesn't need you by going out with lots of women. Bimbos by the sound of them because he doesn't believe that he's be able to get someone like you again."

"Really? You think that?"

"Absolutely."

"Thanks Taylor." Gabriella looked at Penny who had kept quiet. "So what's up with you?"

"Nothing much except…Brian broke up with me."

Taylor and Gabriella gasped. "No way!"

"Yes way. He said he thinks we should just be friends but I know he got bored of me. He was probably cheating on me."

"Oh don't worry about him Penny" Taylor said reassuringly.

"Yeah, he's a idiot who lost out on a fantastic woman." Gabriella said. "In fact..." A light bulb went off in Gabriella brain. "Do you want us to set you up with someone?"

"Oh no, you don't have to do that…"

"Oh but we want to. In fact, Taylor? Ryan's not seeing anyone, is he?"

Taylor's eyes widened as she caught on. "No, no he's not."

"Great, I'm sure you'll love him."

"Well what's he like?" Penny enquired.

Gabriella started fiddling with her hair, something she always did when she was on to something. "He's blond, about 5'11, very cute, very sweet, caring, funny..."

"Fantastic dancer." Taylor added.

"Wow, he sounds great." Penny laughed.

"He is. Now one question: Do you like Broadway?" Gabriella said seriously.

"Love it. Why?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!" Gabriella announced proudly.


What is it with hospital food? Why is it always so… gloopy?

Troy stared at the lunch tray a nurse had just given him. It was mashed potatoes, sausages and beans but it looked like mushy white stuff, soggy meat things and lumpy things drowned in red gloop. It did not look appetising. Chad was on one side of him sitting in a chair looking rather bemused at Troy's dinner and Sydney was on the other side not paying any attention whatsoever and was having a texting conversation on her cell phone with one of her friends. She kept smiling and giggling, which was rather distracting considering she had a very distinctive, annoying laugh.

Troy decided to take a spoonful of his lunch. He picked up his spoon, scooped up some mushy white thing, ignored Chad's smirking and ate it. It tasted rather off and he swallowed it wrong causing him to choke. He spluttered while reaching for his water.

"That good, huh?" Chad grinned.

"Shut up."

"Just saying. Hey guess what? Me and Taylor might be getting back together!"

"Really? That's great!"

"Well nothings final yet but she agreed to go on a date with me so that's good news. Well, that was until Gabriella came storming towards us, started yelling at me whacking me with her clipboard."

"Why was she yelling?" Troy said giving Chad a stern look that simply said "Say anything about me and Gabriella being in any way more than acquaintances in front of Sydney and you're dead!"

Chad understood.

"Uh, well she seemed stressed. And somehow, I had annoyed her in some way, I don't know."

"Oh" Troy looked a little confused but didn't ask.

Just then Gabriella entered the ward. Troy immediately sat up straight, almost knocking over his tray of "food". She didn't smile at Troy, the way she used to when she entered the ward, the smile that said "I'm over you and I'm happy." Instead she smiled at Sydney.

"I'm sorry Miss Stilton but cell phones are prohibited in the hospital. There's a pay phone in the corridor or you can go outside or just turn it off."

To everyone's surprise, Sydney grumbled, picked up her handbag, got up and left the ward without so much as uttering a goodbye.

My girlfriend, ladies and gentlemen.

Gabriella chose to ignore Sydney's departure and turns to Chad still smiling.

"Oh and Mr Danforth? I apologise for yelling at you earlier on today."

"Oh well, that's okay." Chad shrugged.

Then Gabriella turned to Troy, and kept smiling to Troy's surprise.

"So Mr Bolton, did you enjoy your bed bath?"

Oh she's punishing me. She's punishing me, she punishing me, she's punishing me.

"Um, well it was a little…different." Troy tried to blank out the uncomfortable memories of earlier on.

"Mmhhmm" Gabriella smiled looking rather satisfied.

Chad got up. "Uh, I gotta go. Need to go to practise. See ya later Troy."

"Yeah see ya." Troy looked gloomy as the last of his visitors left.

He and Gabriella locked eyes and Troy realised he saw the little sparkles in Gabriella's chocolate brown eyes that he hadn't seen in a long time. In fact, for the first time he realised that he'd missed them in all those years apart.


Gabriella looked into Troy's sky blue eyes. His eyes that long ago she always got so lost in. She felt like, as long as she always looked into those eyes, everything would be okay. Then a nagging feeling at the back of her mind became an alarm bell in her head.

This is the guy who broke up with you. This is the guy who you have never seen or heard from in many years. This guy has a girlfriend.

But for one more second, Gabriella looked into Troy's eyes. If she never saw him again after he got better, at least, now, she will remember his beautiful eyes.

"Uh, I was just coming in to…uh…check in on you." Gabriella spluttered.

"Uh yeah. I'm feeling better thanks."

"Good, good." Gabriella fiddled with her pen uncomfortably. "Well, I …uh better get going."

Gabriella hurried away into the hallway. She groaned and hit her forehead with her chart. Taylor was passing and saw Gabriella.

"Hey, how's it going?"

"Uh, I'm terrible. Taylor, I'm in trouble."

" What? How?"

"Oh, Taylor. I think I'm falling for Troy again."

To be continued…


A/N: hope you liked it!! I'll update soon! R&R