Author's Note: Ok... a couple people have said that they are sick of Troy's way of sleeping with everyone. That's how his charater is supposed to be though. And I understand that people get impatient, but as some of you know, I like to take my stories slow. So please just hang in there! But try and notice the changes that Troy makes in the next chapters when he's with the girls. Thanks so much for reading and reviewing! It means a lot!


"Gabriella!" She hears someone yell her name and she turns around from skimming the pool and watches as Sharpay walks toward her. She smiles as she puts down the skimmer and sees the blond stop in front of her. Sharpay was wearing white flip flops, with a white bikini with a suit over that and a huge pink sun hat to top everything off. Her sunglasses were white and Gabriella felt a little out of place as she seemed to sparkle. It was just like Sharpay to look perfect even though she was going to go swimming and she'd mess up her perfect look. "I have great news."

Gabriella watches as she sees Ryan come out of the building and walk toward the two girls again. "Hey Brie." He greets her in his white polo and orange and blue swim trunks. "How's it going?"

"Great. How are you?" She responds as Ryan smiles and waves at a bunch of high school girls that belonged to the club. They all raise their eyebrows and turn away. His face falls and Gabriella feels sympathy for him. He was such a great guy with a great personality. The only problem was he wasn't exactly a Troy or a Bradin. He couldn't flirt with girls well and Gabriella knew it bothered him. She felt so bad for him because when ever they would go to parties, Troy and Bradin could get the girls in a second and Ryan wasn't even looked twice at.

"Alright." He says while shrugging and Sharpay turns angrily at him.

"Ry, we love you… but I have news for Brie." She exclaims and Gabriella laughs a little as Ryan shakes his head.

"I get it… you guys go talk about your periods or whatever." He says while laughing and walks away toward a group of guys that Gabriella knew were members of Lava Springs. Gabriella smiles and then turns back to Sharpay who sits her down on a lawn chair and then sits her self down on one next to it.

"Ok… you are going to love me." She says and Gabriella laughs.

"Shar, I already do." She says and Sharpay shakes her head.

"No… you'll love me even more. I talked to Bradin this morning…" She says and Gabriella tries to keep from rolling her eyes. Sharpay was probably Bradin and Gabriella's biggest fan. Even though there wasn't a Bradin and Gabriella. "And he wants to know if you'll go on a picnic with him later today!"

Gabriella smiles at the thought. She wanted to go on a picnic with him, but she didn't want to give him the wrong impression. She thinks for a moment, if this was something she could do, then nods. "Tell him I'll meet him in the lobby at four."

Sharpay squeals and pulls her into a hug. "Yes! God, finally. This working together thing will work out perfect with you guys! It will only bring the two of you together faster. God, you're so perfect for each other!" She exclaims and Gabriella shakes her head. She needed Sharpay to understand, but she never would. Sharpay would never understand until Gabriella met someone who was more perfect for her than Bradin.

"Sharpay, it's not a date, I…" She starts to protest but hears a yell come from behind the blonde. Gabriella looks over Sharpay's shoulder to see three of the four country club girls walking toward them.

"PAY!" One of them yells and Sharpay waves to them but then turns back around to look at Gabriella.

"I swear they get on my last nerves sometimes." She mumbles and Gabriella holds in a giggle while Sharpay plasters on a fake smile and turns to look at the girls. "Morning ladies."

"We have great news." Gabriella swears her name is Victoria says while she ignores Gabriella. "The spa is opened early." She says and squeals and Sharpay laughs through her teeth.

"That's great girls." She says and glances back at Gabriella.

"Hey Gabriella." Hailey says as Gabriella waves. Of the four girls, Gabriella liked her the best. Even if she did catch her and Troy in a make-out session the other day.

"Come on, I want to get my nails done!" Tiffany exclaims and grabs Sharpay up by the hand and she gives Gabriella an apologetic look.

"Alright. But where's London?" She asks and Victoria rolls her eyes.

"The she said she had business to take care of with one of the waiters. I swear if she's with Troy… uhh… she keeps him all to herself!" She exclaims with jealousy.

Gabriella's mind suddenly starts to wander. It was three days ago that she and Troy had the awkward conversation in the kitchen that night. Ever since then, he would actually say hi to her when ever he saw her and bye to her at night. It wasn't much, but she knew it was a lot better than him acting like an ass to her. They sure as hell weren't friends, but she was starting to think that maybe, he wasn't as bad as she made him. Sure, he wasn't a great guy, but she was starting to move from hate to strong dislike. Maybe he could to something good for once.

"Brie! Hello! Earth to Gabriella!" She suddenly blinks and sees a hand in front of her face. Sharpay was staring down at her and shakes her head. "I'll see you later. And you better give me details about this afternoon!" She yells as she starts to walk away with the other three girls. Gabriella waves and stands up to walk back up to get back to her work. She suddenly remembers how she was allowed to get breakfast, and sees John already making his way to the chair. She walks inside the country club to make her way to the kitchen.


Troy moans as London unbuckles his belt on his kaki work pants and drops it on the ground. She pushes him harder up against the wall and then breaks the kiss that they were just sharing. Troy opens his eyes for a moment to see the blue color of the fucking room's walls and then closes them again. Her lips kiss his jaw line as she then unbuttons his pants and pulls them down, revealing his green boxers. A moan escapes from his mouth again as her hands begin to tease him by touching him through his boxers.

"You like that?" She asks trying to be seductive, but it comes out too harsh. Troy doesn't say anything as she drops down to her knees and pulls off his boxers to reveal his erection. They had decided to come in here to mess around about ten minutes ago. He had no idea that this was what she had in mind though.

A door suddenly slams outside and Troy pushes her head away from him. He quickly pulls up his boxers and pants and turns around. He closes his eyes to try and get himself to calm down but London wraps her arms around his waist. "I should probably get back to work." He says while looking at the clock and London laughs.

"Come on Troy…" She says while trailing her fingers up his chest. "You know you want to…"

"Yea I want to." He says and sighs. "But I also want to keep my job." He could hear someone moving around outside the door and he didn't want to take a risk with this. But as he starts to pull away, London places herself against the wall and grabs Troy's waist so he pins her up against the wall. She slips her hand on his and places his hand on her right breast.

"It will take ten minutes." She says into his ear and places a kiss onto his neck. Troy looks up at the clock quickly to see it was 9:45 AM. It was Thursday, so that meant he had to watch the little kids as they attempted basketball. She kisses his neck again and he feels himself grow hard again.

"Ten minutes." He repeats and trails kisses down her neck. His hand moves away from her chest but then goes back up, only this time, under her shirt. She moans in his mouth as he massages her it for a moment, and almost as if in slow motion, the sound of a keys hits the door and it suddenly swings open.

"Mr. Bolton!" Troy removes his hand and backs away from London with both hands up. Standing in the door way was a smirking Mr. Fulton, who begins to pull out his black notebook. "This is not bonding with the members properly."

"Mr. Fulton…Sir… I wasn't…" He starts but Fulton shakes his head while be begins to write something down in his black notebook.

"No excuses. That's two infractions." He says and smirks at Troy again. "Don't get a third… GET OUT!" He orders both London and Troy who both run outside and out of the fucking/yoga room. He slows to a walk and London giggles and pushes him up against the side of the building and leans up.

"Where were we?" She asks even though Troy looks over her head to see that there were members at the pool looking at them. His eyes look up to the lifeguard chair and sees that John was on duty and Gabriella must be elsewhere.

"Umm... even though I'm loving this." Troy lies. "I really don't want to get fired." He says coldly and pushes her off of him. London stands there for a moment, in shock. Troy was getting extremely annoyed with her. Ever since he started working here, she had seemed to develop the idea that they could date. Wrong. He didn't want someone like that as his girlfriend. He just wanted her to fool around with.

After changing into a bright blue t-shirt with the Lava Springs logo on and black basketball shorts with the same logo, he walks out into the courtyard and sees five kids jumping up and down on the blacktop with a set of basketballs next to it. He sighs and runs a hand through his chestnut brown hair. It wasn't that he didn't like kids. But five of them? He also looks up to see a parent standing on the side of the court with a boy that must have been five years-old holding her hand. Troy walks over to them first while the other kids continue to run around the blacktop. "Hello." The woman, who must have been about thirty, greets him. "You must be the employee who runs this?"

Troy nods. "Err… yea… I'm Troy… Troy Bolton." He says as the boy looks down at the ground.

She smiles. "This is Danny. This is our first day at the club and he wanted to try basketball. He's shy. When does this activity end?"

Troy tries not to groan as he thinks that he has an hour with these insane kids. "Um… eleven."

The woman bends down and gives her son a kiss on the forehead. "You be good for mommy, ok? And listen to this nice young man." She says and the kid nods. Troy watches as the woman stands up and looks at Troy and nods. She walks away and Troy bends down toward the kid. Danny had blonde hair, green eyes and tan skin.

"Hey buddy." He says and the kid looks away from him. The other five and six year-olds don't even seem to notice that Troy had arrived. "I'm Troy. Do you like basketball?"

Danny gives him a small shy smile. "Uh huh."

Troy smiles and stands back up. "Good. Alright guys!" Troy yells to the kids who don't stop running around. "Guys!" They continue not to stop and Troy wishes desperately that he had a whistle. "HEY!" He screams and everyone suddenly stops and looks at him. "This is Danny. Can everyone say hi to Danny?"

After about twenty minutes, Troy finally gets the hang of watching the kids. They were all taking turns trying to shoot a ball into the basket. "Nice job Danny!" He says as the little boy runs to the back of the line. One of the more aggressive boys, grabs the ball next and shoots. He makes it in and the girl behind him misses.

Troy groans as the boy chuck a basketball that was lying down at the girl. "OW!" She yells and then sits on the ground, sobbing. She rubs her arm as Troy rushes over and everyone stops moving, since they knew someone was "in trouble." Troy bends down and looks at her arm which was just red. "Tyler threw a ball at me! On purpose!"

Troy looks at the kid she was pointing to. He had dark brown hair, tan skin, and bright green eyes. Troy squints a little as he looks at the kid, and finds him strangely familiar. "DID NOT!" He yells back and Troy looks at the kid like he's stupid.

"Tyler I just saw you throw a ball at uhh…" Troy says and looks back at the girl. She had light brown eyes that tears were streaming from and black hair.

"I didn't throw at ball at Ella!" He yells and Troy's eyes grow wide.

"Your name is Gabriella?" He asks the sobbing girl. That was weird. No, that was creepy if that was her name.

"My name's…Daniella." She says through sobs and Troy lets out a breath. That would have been extremely weird. He turns to Tyler, who was grinning slightly.

"Say you're sorry." He says as Daniella stands up, with tears still streaming down her cheeks, but at least she wasn't screaming anymore.

"Sorry." Tyler mumbles while staring at the ground.

Daniella pouts and Troy swears he's seen it before. "He didn't mean it!" She complains while pointing at Tyler. Troy groans.

"Yes he did." He says in an annoyed tone. The girl was cute, but these kids were starting to drive him insane! "Why don't you guys shoot some more? And if I see any of you chucking balls at each other, I'm telling your parents." He says and thinks of how stupid that sounded. But it seemed to have worked since they all started shooting again like nothing had just happened. Troy sighs and turns around and walks over to the grass. He didn't think he could do this all summer, even if it was only once a week. He suddenly sees a figure walking out of the doors of the country club. He stares at it for a moment, and a smile grows on his face. It was a girl he hadn't seen here before. Her figure looked hot, even if he couldn't see anything else about her. But as she walks closer, he makes out the infamous long, almost black hair and suddenly a realization dawns on him. It wasn't a new girl. It was Gabriella.

He couldn't even explain what made him turn his attitude around toward her. Maybe what Chad had said to him finally sank in. Maybe he was just getting tired of trying to piss her off. Maybe since he was working with her now, it was better to try and be civil to her than to push her away. Whatever it was though, it made Troy actually be nice to her three nights ago and ever since then. The sun was glinting in her long hair and her shorts showed off so much of her legs. She was wearing sunglasses also. To sum it up, she looked hot.

She starts to walk past he basketball court and Troy suddenly doesn't know where his voice came from. She turns around and looks at him curiously. It's what she had been doing ever since he had actually been nice to her, looking at him curiously as if he was going to go back to normal in a blink of an eye. But Troy wasn't sure if he wanted things to go back to fighting all the time. He kind of liked where they were now.

After stopping for a moment, she continues to walk away from him. He watches her back as she walks into the other building and out of site. They sure as hell weren't friends, but they weren't fighting, so that had to be a step up.

"Is that your girlfriend?" One of the six year-olds asks breaking Troy out of his trance.

"No, that's not my girlfriend." He responds and looks back to the kids.

"It's Miss. Gabriella!" One of the other girls exclaims. "She teaches me swimming."

"Girls have coodies." Tyler says and shoots the ball into the basket. Troy rolls his eyes and shakes his head.

"One day, you won't think so." He says under his breath and Daniella smiles.

"Well I think it's romantic." She says and Troy cocks an eyebrow. She knew the word romantic? She was only five! "Kind of like Cinderelly!" Troy rolls his eyes at the stupid comment. Who the hell calls Cinderella, "Cinderelly"?

"Hey! Cinderella and Gabriella rhyme!" The other girl says and Daniella giggles.

"So does Daniella!" She says and Tyler crosses his arms.

"Who cares about a stupid princess?" He says and Troy silently thanks him for taking the words right out of his mouth. This kid was an ass, but he kind of liked him. Plus, he reminded Troy of someone, but he couldn't think of whom. Just like Daniella reminded him of someone too. He just couldn't put his finger on who it was.

"Ok, guys, let's just get back to basketball… ok?" Troy says trying to get the topic off of stupid Disney princesses.

They continue to shoot for a while; most of the kids couldn't make it in, except Tyler. Troy looks down at his watch to find that it was finally 11, and a bunch of moms come out of the building together. They take their kids and leave, and Troy watches as two mothers laugh about something than get Tyler and Daniella, who were both glaring at each other. Troy laughs at this.

Once all of the kids were gone, Troy walks back into the locker-room and changes back to his blue button up shirt and kaki pants. He walks into the kitchen to see that everyone was getting ready to do the lunch shift. Troy strolls over to where Chad was standing talking to Zeke. "Hey man, how's life as a babysitter?"

Troy glares at him. "They chucked balls at each other and talked about Cinderella." He says and Chad and Zeke both burst out laughing.

"Wow Troy…" Zeke states when he finally calms down and Troy glares at him even more. "Ok…" He says. "I'm gonna go cook now." He walks away as Troy looks to his best friend and groans.

"Oh, and I'm on strike two." He says and grabs a pen that was lying on the counter.

Chad's eyebrows rise. "What'd you do this time?"

Troy shrugs. "Fulton caught me feeling up London in the fucking room." He says as they start to make their way out of the kitchen.

"Dude… you do know that if you fuck up again, he's gonna fire you. You'd better stop with the sex shit."

Troy sighs and opens the door to the dinning room where a few people already started filling in for lunch. "I just won't get caught next time."