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A/N: And here is the next chapter! Oh yeah, thanks to whoever told me about my grammatical errors, I know about it I just always forget. You're not the only that's picked up on it; you have no idea how mad my English teacher gets at me when I do that. Especially when she has to dock marks off my assessment stories and she doesn't want to! She's told me often enough!
Chemicals React
CHAPTER 7
CHEMICALS REACT
Gabriella sighed in relief as the bell signaling the end of the day sounded. She couldn't wait to get out of there, he was the reason. First she'd danced with him and than she'd had a civil conversation with him and that argument. 'By the way, opposites do attract', what had he meant by that? Was he referring to them? If he was, why was referring to them? There was nothing between them. She had been so sure that there was nothing between them, she had been absolutely positive that she hated him with a passion, she had been sure that nothing could change her mind. Until………he had said that. Now she was shaken, because maybe, just maybe, he was right, maybe opposites did attract. Maybe she didn't hate him quite as much as she thought she did, maybe there was something between them, and maybe he was going to change her mind even if she didn't want to admit it.
"Hey," Taylor walked up to Gabriella and grinned at the look on her face.
"What?" she snapped at her friend whose grin grew even wider.
"You know, I think that Troy's having the strangest effect on you. You can't seem to stop thinking about him," Taylor teased Gabriella and her friend spun to face her, an annoyed look on her face.
"Troy is have no effect on me whatsoever, I don't know what you're talking about," Gabriella said her face paling slightly at Taylor's words.
"Yes he is, you're now thinking that you don't hate him as much as you thought you did, you now think that there might be something between you and you know that he's going to change your mind," Taylor said reading her mind and laughing at her.
"No I'm not," Gabriella replied stubbornly shaking her head, her brown curls flying.
"Yes you are and you know that the word 'might' in your thoughts shouldn't be there. Because trust me Gabs, when it comes to you and Troy there is something there," Taylor told her still smiling.
"What do you mean by that?" Gabriella asked as they walked out the door.
"I have never seen you so unhinged by a guy and I've seen you with guys before," Taylor explained and Gabriella stared at her in horror.
"Whoa, I am never unhinged around Troy. Wait, what do you mean unhinged?" Gabriella said stopping and looking at Taylor, the horror in her chest mounting rapidly as she recognized the look on her friends face.
"Please, Gabriella, you get so riled up by that guy its funny to watch. That's what I mean by unhinged, all he has to do is say something and you're instantly at his throat. You don't even bother to hear him out and then he reacts and you're at each others throats." Taylor elaborated.
"Oh right, you just avoided the answer to my other question," Gabriella pointed out and Taylor shrugged.
"Hmmm, I did, didn't I? You haven't noticed? Jeez Gabriella, are you blind or deaf or seriously out of tune with your feelings?" Taylor asked waving her arms around as Gabriella stared at her.
"No," she replied confused.
"Gabriella, you and Troy have chemistry, big time chemistry. Watching you and Troy is like watching chemicals react. There's no other way to put it. You should seriously see the physical attraction when you two are together. It starts as soon as you guys sit down together, to when you leave each other and lets not forget the arguments that always seem to progress from you two sitting as far away from each other as possible to Troy holding your hand and you two coming so close to kissing its beginning to get annoying," Taylor cried out and Gabriella raised her eyebrows.
"We do not end up almost kissing!" she told Taylor and Taylor snorted.
"Gabriella, you're faces have come so close like a thousands times and if you'd turned your head slightly at some of the times you would have ended up kissing him," Taylor informed her.
Gabriella continued to stare at her, her mind running over everything that Taylor had told her. Chemistry, unhinged, chemicals react. What did that mean?
"Chemicals react?" she asked in a daze.
"Yeah, not my words, Chad's, he was watching you guys yesterday and he said that watching you guys was like watching chemicals react," Taylor nodded her head at her words as they continued walking.
"Chemicals react," Gabriella repeated and Taylor nodded, obviously enjoying remembering what Chad had said and other things by the look on her face.
"Yes, throw two chemicals together and watch them react. That's what's happening with you and Troy, your chemicals are reacting and there reacting in a big way," Taylor said as Gabriella's phone went off.
She pulled it out and looked at the number, not recognizing it. She looked at Taylor who mouthed 'Who is it?' at her and shrugged. Taylor motioned for her to answer it, knowing who it was and wanting to see her reaction when she answered it. Gabriella hit answer and raised it to her ear.
"Hello?" she said curiously.
"Hey, Gabriella?" Troy's voice floated through the phone and Gabriella's eyes widened, her mouth formed a perfect 'O' and she nearly dropped the phone.
"Uh, um, uh, I mean, yes Troy?" Gabriella replied as Taylor collapsed in hysterics.
"Look, I know this is weird and all," 'Tell me about it' Gabriella thought and than tried to find the hate that she'd felt a week before "But, we're going to have to meet after school or on the weekend or something because our English lessons that we've been given to work on, well today was our last one and we've got to get it done," Troy said and Gabriella turned away from Taylor who wouldn't stop laughing.
"Right, um……" she trailed off and they were both silent.
"Okay, look, do you want to meet me at my house on Saturday morning?" Gabriella asked, furious at herself for not being able to find the hate that had been there a week ago.
"Sure, uh, just the morning though. I've got a game during in the afternoon," he replied and Gabriella swallowed hard.
"Yes, that's alright," she agreed nodding her head.
"Cool, okay, I'll see you later," he said and hung up.
Gabriella hung up slowly, wondering where the hate had gone. She turned back to Taylor who was watching her with a mischievous grin on her face.
"What?" she asked and Taylor just shook her head.
"That's the second civil conversation you two have had today and you were blushing the entire time," she said giggling and Gabriella rolled her eyes.
"So?" she questioned and Taylor just shrugged.
"You don't hate him, you like him" she replied and walked off leaving Gabriella gaping after her.
Gabriella tried to shake it off, but it didn't work. Now that she thought about it, maybe Taylor was right, maybe she didn't hate him. 'Chemicals react' she thought and shrugged, maybe it made sense, maybe they were chemicals reacting.
A/N: Not exactly fluff, but Gabriella's contemplating some things. Taylor put some things in perspective for her which is cool. Anyway, that's the chapter. Not much of a wait, my sport was cancelled today which gave me time to write this! I hope you liked this!
