A.N. Thank you so much for all of the reviews! Really, thank you, thank you, and thank you! Wow! Almost 170 reviews in only six chapters! Wow! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Again, thank you! I really, really appreciate them.

I'm sorry I haven't been updating so fast. I've been completely busy with every thing at school. Finals are killing me!

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Chapter Seven

It has been a week since me and Troy's "get to know each other" talk. To be honest, it helped us come closer to becoming friends, but not fully. We don't really have to hold back from each other, but I'm still keeping my guard up. I don't want to get hurt. I'm still really hesitant about him. There are so many things keeping us from being friends. Every night I think about the pros and cons about having an actual friendship with him. If anybody who knew us found out we were friends, they think we are lying. Truthfully, I'm still in shock about everything that has happened with him. Him wanting to start over and be friends with me? Unbelievable.

The weird thing is that Troy knows more about me than I know about him. I do know a lot of things about him, but he notices the little things about me. He knows what I do before I do it and he knows what I'm about to do without me noticing, like how I bite my lip when I'm nervous or that my nose scrunches when I get confused. I have noticed a couple of tiny habits of his, like he flips his every ten seconds or that his eyes change shades of blue and gray depending on his mood, but he just sees everything. I never took him for the observant type. He's a really good suck up too. Not be mean or anything, but he sure does know how to be a suck up (ass kisser, as some prefer cough Jen cough). It was only a week and a couple of days ago sine I agreed to be that thingamajig between friends and acquaintances but he does everything that he can to show that he wants to start over. I'm truly impressed. He has opened almost every single door that I go through, carries all my bags when I go shopping, watches all the sappy girly movies I pick out, and lets me rant about whatever is bothering me.

Currently, the Bolton family and I are in the backyard relaxing and chilling around the built in fireplace by the pool. Every week the Bolton family takes one day off of work and worries and just hangs out with the people they love; my favorite day of the week. Today's the day. We were strictly told not to use any cell phones, iPods, and other technology stuff. It was very difficult but I managed to survive. Jen couldn't though, she was caught talking and texting Austin multiple times until Jack had to take away her phone for the rest of the day.

I stabbed a marshmallow on my stick thing and put over the fire. Jen is sitting on my left side while Troy on my right. The next thing I know is that I feel something soft hit against my face. I turn to Jen, glaring at her marshmallow filled hand. She smiles innocently at me. I stick out my stick thing and held like a sword. She does the same. We got into a marshmallow stick thing sword fight with everyone looking at us amused. I flew her heated marshmallow in the air by pushing it out with my stick. We all turned to see where it went.

Splat.

"AHHHH! OW! HOT MARSHMALLOW!" Matt screams trying to get the marshmallow off his forehead. Amanda was trying to get him to sit down so she could take it off but he kept jumping around. Everyone started cracking up.

Edward claps his hands excitedly. "Daddy!"

Matt sat down and pulls Eddie in his lap. "Hey buddy, do you mind getting this hot marshmallow of my forehead and make daddy happy?" he asks quickly.

Eddie nods innocently. Jen and I look at each other and awed. Eddie grabs two graham crackers with a piece of chocolate on one and pulls the marshmallow off his dad's forehead using the two halves of the crackers. He takes a bite of his newly made smore, grinning at us proudly. I was the first one to start bursting out in laughter before everyone else.

"Dude, that was smart." Troy praises pounding fist with the little boy. Matt rubs his sons head affectionately while Amanda helps him wipe off the marshmallow smudges left behind. When she was down, Matt immediately wraps his arms around her and pulls her into his lap, rubbing her large tummy slowly.

"You guys are like the perfect couple!" I exclaim pointing at them with my stick. They are!

"For real! Gosh, you guys are still sickly cute after all these years." Jen agrees, heating up another marshmallow.

"You two remind me of your mother and me when we were your age." Jack comments, kissing his wife's cheek. Aw! Is it just me or am I the only one that is single?

"Gabriella, honey, why don't you have a boyfriend to care for you? You definitely deserve someone special." Laura asks curiously, snuggling into her husband's embrace.

"Told you so!" Jen and Amanda yell at me at the same time before I could even respond to Laura's question. Did I mention Jen and Amanda are trying to find me a boyfriend? They've been bothering me forever about it. Please make them stop!

I roll my eyes, sticking my tongue out at them. "You guys stink." I pout. Everyone laughs at me and I couldn't help but join in.

"Why don't you have a boyfriend Brie?" Troy asks after taking a sip of soda. That nickname is starting to grow on me, no matter how much I don't want it to.

I shrug carelessly. "I don't know. I'm just tired of the guys in this town. I know every single one of them and they think of me as a sister."

He nods, seeming content with my answer. "I see."

"That is bullshit." Jen retorts, looking at me with her eyebrows scrunched.

"Language." Jack scolds his daughter. I hold in my giggle as I point at her accusingly.

"Sorry daddy." Jen apologizes. "Anyway, it's true. Gabi, you know more than half of those guys are like in love with you."

I blush and smack her in the arm. "Are not."

"Oh yeah? What about John? You give him a tiny smile or touch him; he'll give us our smoothies for free!"

"John? The smoothie guy at the mall?" Troy asks to make sure, looking at us curiously.

"No, the cheese burger guy." Jen replies sarcastically. I laugh loudly.

"Is that why you wouldn't let me pay for you or even why you didn't take your wallet out?" He asks me, looking incredulous.

"Yeah, he's really sweet but really, really creepy." I say popping a piece of chocolate in my mouth.

"Why?" Troy asks, stealing my marshmallow off my stick.

"Hey!" I exclaim poking him with my stick. "Booty."

He shrugs, looking at us expectantly. "Why is he creepy?"

"I'll tell this one!" Jen volunteers before I even open my mouth. She looks at me asking if she can. I nod slowly. "Okay! John goes to West High. He's a senior and totally obsessed with Gabi. The first time we saw him, he wouldn't take his eyes off her! He just kept staring. It was seriously scaring us while we were eating." Breathe Jen! Breathe! "He started stalking her, getting her these gifts, and everything." She takes a deep breath. Good job. She sure knows how to ramble. "Of course, Gabs didn't take them because she didn't want to lead him on, then Zeke and Austin finally set him straight, telling him to leave her alone. Now, all he can do for Gabi is give her free smoothies!"

"Wow." That was the first thing that came out of Troy's mouth.

"Yeah. Now I get free smoothies." I state obviously because I don't know what else to say.

"Does anyone want to watch a movie?" Matt asks picking Edward up, walking toward the house. Jack, Laura, Amanda are already in the house picking out what to watch. They went in during our smoothie guy conversation.

"Yeah!" We all yell in unison running after him.

Troy opens the door for me. No surprise there. "Thanks." I say walking in. The next thing I hear is the door being shut and knocking. I turn around and see Jen knocking on the backdoor furiously trying to get in.

"What happened?" I ask as Troy opened the door for his sister.

"Right after this butt face went; he shut the door in my face!" Jen exclaims, infuriated. I look at Troy, who is cracking up, and swat his arm.

"Sorry." He mumbles reluctantly when I give him a look. For a twenty year old, he can be so immature.

When we get to the living room, we are informed that we are watching Titanic. One of my favorite movies of all time! Matt, Amanda, and Edward are all cuddled on the large couch, Jack is on his favorite chair, and Laura is lying on his lap. I plop myself on the small couch, waiting for the movie to start. Troy sits next me and Jen lies down on the round chair. I always cry during the movie no matter how many times I've watched it. I guess I'll have to see if I cry again.

Hmmm… I fell asleep, but I don't care. I snuggle in to the warmth more, taking a deep breath. I feel strong muscular arms wrap around me, making me jump. Did something happen last night? Was I drunk? My eyes fly open and my mouth drops when I realize where I am. Cuddled into Troy Bolton's side! On his bed? How did we even get up here? OMG! I was drunk! I think.

I start to squirm but I can feel arms wrap around me tighter. Great, I'm stuck. I sigh before resting my head on his chest, defeated. He smells good. Wow, that was weird, but he does. I look at his face and take in his appearances. His perfect brown golden hair over his covered blue eyes, and his slight smile on his face. Seriously, who smiles in their sleep? Apparently he can. I rest my head back on his chest. I guess I can try to go back to sleep.

"Gabriella." My eyes widen as I look back up at him. He still looks like he's sleeping. Is he sleep talking?! He said my name! OMG! OMG! OMG! His arms tighten around my body and he sighs deeply. I can't breathe. I think I'm hyperventilating. I wiggle around to try and slip out of his hold but I can't. Help! I poke his nose softly, hoping that it would at least let me go.

He just scrunches it up and sighs! "Brie." Wake up Troy!

Before I could even do anything else, I hear something crash downstairs causing Troy to groan and loosen his hold on me. I immediately wiggle out and run downstairs to see what happened. When I get downstairs I run into the kitchen and see Edward crying softly and a broken jar in front of him. I instantly pick him up and carry him to the couch. He cries into my hair and I whisper comforting words to him. I wait a couple minutes until his tears have stopped before asking him what happened.

"I got hungry." He explains, "But nobody was awake, I checked. Not mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa, Auntie Jen, you, or Uncle Twoy." I smile when he says Troy's name. He always has a hard time pronouncing it. "I ran downstairs and started looking for food, and then I saw the cookie jar." He points at the kitchen. "I tried to grab it but it went crash and made a loud noise. Do you know what the worst part is though?" He is so smart for his age, but it's so cute because he still has a hard time pronouncing the words.

"What?" I ask, looking at him curiously.

"The jar was empty! It didn't have any cookies at all." I start laughing. I couldn't help it. He is so taking after Matt. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

"Are you hurt?" I ask inspecting his body for any harm incase he accidentally stepped somewhere he wasn't.

He shakes his head. "Nope. I'm hungry."

I giggle. "Okay, let me clean that up and I'll make us some pancakes. How does that sound?"

"Great!"

I let him watch T.V. while I cleaned up the mess. It took me about ten minutes to make sure I didn't miss anything. When I was done, I started to look for the ingredients. As I start taking a bowl out, I feel arms wrap around my waist and I get thrown over a shoulder.

"What the-?!" I exclaim. "Matt! You booty! Let me down!"

"Whatcha' doing Gabs?" He asks, placing me down next to Edward on the couch, who's watching Spongebob.

"Well, I was trying to make breakfast, but someone had to just throw me over their shoulder!" I reply hotly. "Where's everybody?"

"Jen and Mandy are still sleeping, Parents are gone, and Troy is-."

"Here." I looked up at Troy and I just have to say that he is a very good looking guy. It's so weird that I'm thinking that. No offence.

"Hi." I greet before running into the kitchen.

"Make me chocolate chip pancakes!" Matt calls from the living room.

"Okay!" I call back, continuing what I was doing before he interrupted me.

"I'm sorry." Troy whispers to me, standing right behind me. I jump because I didn't hear him come in.

"For what?" I ask even though I think I know why he's sorry.

"You know, for sleeping in the bed with you." He looks so embarrassed. "I carried you upstairs last night, and I guess I kind of passed out of physical drainage."

"It's fine. Nothing to worry about." I assure him.

"Great." He sighs and rubs his palms together.

"You talk in your sleep." I add trying to sound nonchalantly.

"I do not!" He retorts, looking horrified.

"Yes you do!"

"No I don't!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"I don't talk in my sleep!" Troy exclaims in frustration.

"Yes you do!" We hear Matt yell. I start cracking up as Troy's face paled.

"What did I say?" He asks looking worried. I would be too.

"You said-." I pause. I don't think I should tell him that he said my name. "You said something basketball and food."

"Really?"

I nod quickly. "Yup!"

"Okay then." He turns and starts to walk away quickly to the living room. "Funny, I wasn't dreaming about either of those." I hear him mutter. OMG! He was dreaming about me! It was probably a nightmare.

"Gabi! Gabi! Gabi! Gabi! Gabi!" I look at Jen, who you can immediately tell that she just woke up, running toward me, shaking my shoulders.

"What? What? What?" I reply, mocking her.

"I just found something out!"

"What?"

"It's about you."

"What is it?!"

"Joey Gates has a thing for you!"

"WHAT!"

A.N. OMG! Who's Joey Gates?! Wait until the next chapter to find out! Please review!