When they got back to the house. Chloe ran upstairs into her bedroom. Troy and Gabriella went into her bedroom. Adam was gone, and his mother was out of town for a few weeks. she held his hands, "I'm sorry about-" he cupped her cheeks, and kissing her passionately. "It's not your fault baby, I.. I'm the one who wanted to show you." he held her hand, bringing it to his chest, "It just..I don't wanna lose you like I lost my mom..I.. I couldn't live with myself.." Gabriella smiled sadly, cupping his cheek, "You won't ever lose me Troy, things happen, God makes things happen for a reason. he needed your mom up in heaven with him, like she wanted my grandma in heaven.. you would of loved her, she would of loved you." he kissed her lips, "I love you." he whispered. she smiled, "I love you too."

Troy lets free a small smile, "yeah...I...I just don't want to-" Gabriella grabbed his face with one hand, pinching his lips together (Like Leslie Mann did to Matthew Perry near the end of 17again). "Troy...you aren't going to lose me, never ever ever never, I am yours. Forever."

He looks at her, her hand is still pinching his lips together. "Okay..." she smiles, he looks at her lips, then at her eyes. "You can let go of my face now." she smiled, "Hm, I don't think-" "Brie, you're leaving a bruise." "I'll kiss it better." Troy attempted to smirk, but instead it looked like a grimace, "Funny, now let go of my face." Gabriella giggled, shaking her head, "no, I like you like this." "With a pinched face?" "staring at me, I love your eyes."

Troy smiled about to kiss her lips, but Gabriella put her hand over her mouth so that his lips were pressed against her hand. he looked at her, raising a brow. she giggled, "I don't want to have a baby just yet...after we graduate." he smiled softly, "alright." she giggled, kissing his lips, "I love you." she said softly. he smiled wrapping his arms around her waist, pulling her close, "I love you too..so much.. you and chloe." she pecked his lips, "Are you staying here tonight, or going home?" she asked.

Troy sighed, "I should probably get home...I have murphy at home." "Murphy?" Troy chuckled, "He's my alaskan shepard." Gabriella nodded, "oh...I get it now, you should bring him over...Chloe loves dogs." Troy smiled, "Yeah...maybe I will, but I seriously think I should be home with him, I'm scared to think what he did to my house.." she giggled, "Well if you find him with a girl, don't be too hard on him."

Troy smiled pecking her lips, "I love you..goodnight, I'll see you tomorrow at school." she smiled, "I Love you too..goodnight." he pecked her lips walking out her door. Gabriella watched him leave out the door, and she sighed. she loved him so much. she smiled, she had the perfect idea on how to show him how much she loved him. she called Adam to come home to watch Chloe for a little bit. and when Adam showed up to watch Chloe, Gabriella grabbed her phone, car keys, and jacket and headed out the door.

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The next day at School, Gabriella, Taylor, and Sharpay were all looking at Gabriella's tattoo. it was at the bottom of her stomach were her jeans were folded down at. "See, It says Troy." Sharpay gasped, "Gabs! Troy is going to flip!" Gabriella rolled her eyes, "No he won't..I think he'll love it." Taylor bit her lip, "Gabs, when I got a tattoo on my ankle, Chad flipped out on me and we didn't kiss or have sex or anything for a week." Gabriella sighed, "Guys, Troy is different you'll see." "See what." A voice came up behind them.

Gabriella turned to find Troy. "Hey baby." she kissed his lips. Sharpay and Taylor looked at each other, "Oh well look at the time.. time to go.. see you Gabriella." Troy watched them leave, "What's up with them-" she smiled, "I have to show you something..I got something to show you how much I love you." he smiled, "Baby, I know you love me, and you know I love you-" she smiled, "Please..I have to show you." he sighed, "Okay fine, let's see." he crossed his arms smiling at her. she giggled turning to her hip, and folding down the top of her jeans, and lifting up her shirt a little. what revealed was his name in black cursive letters attached to her skin.

"Brie...what is...when did you-" "Do you like it?"Troy looked at her then at the tattoo, his lips moving but nothing coming out but sputterings. "Uh...I..uh..well I...it's...it's...it sure is thoughtful." Gabriella looked at him, pulling down her shirt and placing her hands on his shoulders, "I got it for you...that way when your not with me, you are. Always. Forever."

Troy smiled, half the shock of the tattoo leaving, "now that is a great reason to hear." she giggled, grabbing his hand. "We should get to class." Troy bites his lip, "I'll meet you there, I need to use the men's room." "Okay," I love you.." "Always love you." he pecked her lips sweetly, watching her fine ass walk off to class, he got out his phone and went into the men's bathroom. It rang once, "Okay...dad, hi..uh...I know I don't normally ask for much but...do you know any tattoo parlors? Good ones?"

His dad was silent for a short moment, "Tattoo parlor? what's this about?" Troy sighed, "I'll..I'll explain later.. but..I need to know where a good one is, and how much it would be." Jack was puzzled at first, but sighed and spoke, "You know your Uncle Robert? he has a tattoo parlor on Davidson street, he might do it for free, but if not, since your family he'll do it for a good fifteen dollars."

Troy nodded, even though his father couldn't see him. "Thanks...I'll head there now-" "Wait what about school-" "you haven't cared if I went to school or not for a good 17 years? And your starting to now?" he hung up, walking swiftly through the doors without being seen and heading to his truck. He drove down main street, turning left on Davidson and parking in front of a ratty looking building that said 'Radical Rob's Tattoo Parlor' above the door. It smelled of beer and animal urine just out side. Goody.

"Hey! What can I do you for?" Troy swallowed, pushing himself out of the crushing hug, "uh...a tattoo." his uncle laughed, "well you came to the right place, what kind?" "Uh...to show my girlfriend I love her." His uncle nods, "oh okay...well, there's a selection on the wall there. Go check it out, then let me know, I'll be in the back." he walks in the back room, Troy nods to nothing and looks at the selection of tatttoos. "AHHH! FUCKING HELL!" a voice screamed from the back, causing Troy to jump. Soon, he heard his uncle yell, "PUT SOME ICE ON IT WHEN I'M DONE! NOW STAY PUT!"

Gulping, Troy looks back at the chart of tattoo selections. None of them seemed to fit Gabriella. Suddenly Troy got an idea, he had drawn it a long time ago. He was in history class and very bored. It was 'Brie', the B was all curly Q with a heart sprouting from the top left corner, then the R was a block with headphones on top and music notes surrounding, the I was a sword crossed top and bottom with two roses, and the E was intertwining roses that were different colours; the top rose was blue, the middle was red and the bottom was purple. He smiled, this would be his tattoo to Gabriella. Standing up, he went to the front counter, ringing the bell that sat there. "AHHHH! FUCK!" another yell, his uncle screams, "OH SHUT UP YOU PUSSY!"

Troy gulped, "Uncle Robert." his uncle turned to him smiling, "So you pick out a tattoo Troy?" Troy nodded, "Yeah." he pulled out the paper and handed it to his uncle, "This.. I want this tattoo." his uncle nodded, "Nice..well come to the chair over here." Troy gulped nervously, and sat in the tall chair. he smiled, "Well who is this girl?" he said applying some alcohol on his chest. Troy bit his lip, "Her name is Gabriella..I love her." His uncle smiled, "Gabriella Montez?" Troy raised a brow, "Yeah?" he smiled, "She was here last night getting her tatoo.. she screamed..a lot.. but don't worry, I think it was just cause she was a girl." he chuckled.

Troy looked at him, "Wait, screaming? It's going to hurt?" his uncle laughed, "only if you're not strong enough. You're strong enough right?" Troy gulped, muttering a 'God I hope so', his uncle heard that and was like "Great!" he leaned the chair down flat and applied the needle to his skin. Troy wanted to jump but instead he clenched his fists, "News flash kiddo...if you're tense it'll only hurt worse. Just relax."

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Troy pulled up to Adam's House. Gabriella was sitting on the swing while chloe was playing in the pool. her eyes moved to Troy who was walking up, he smiled. Gabriella smiled getting up from the swing, and going to him to wrap his arms around him, kissing him. "hey you never came back to school.. where did you go?" he sighed, lifting up his shirt, to reveal the tattoo he got for her. she gasped covering her mouth. "T-Troy...you..you..you got a tattoo!" she smiled. he smiled lifting her up and spinning her around, "I got it for you.. now you know I love you." she smiled tears running down her cheeks, she sniffled, "God..I love you so much.." she traced his tattoo. "It..it looks great on you.." she looked up at him.

His face was a mix of a smile and a grimace, "what's wrong?" "Nothing just...my uncle didn't use enough alcohol to numb my skin." she giggled, "well I screamed when I got mine." "I know." "You know?" "he told me."

Gabriella looked at him, "So we got our tatoo's at the same place." he nodded, "by the same person." she giggled, "It's destiny." he chuckled, wrapping his arm around her, "yeah it is." she smiled. what they did not know was their was someone who was watching their every move from the bushes. Gabriella smiled kissing Troy's lips. the person in the bushes was no other then drew. his stomach twisted with the green monster. Jealousy was driving him insane, so insane to stalk.

Gabriella giggled, "Hey, I'm going to have to run up to the mall real quick, Wanna come with?" he nodded kissing her lips, "yes.. let's head out." Gabriella giggled as her and Troy got into his car to go to the mall while Adam watched Chloe.

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At the mall, Troy went to the guy's section of clothes, while Gabriella was in the Woman section. she lifted up a shirt and she put it up to her in the mirror to see how it looked. her phone vibrated and picked it up. the number was unfamiliar and it said "I see you." Gabriella gasped, dropping the shirt, and turning around scared to death. then she got another text, "That shirt definetly. You look so good in black." she gasped dropping the shirt in the basket and running to find Troy.

Troy was looking at some jeans until he heard a frantic Gabriella calling his name. "Troy!" he turned to find her running to him with tears in her eyes, along with fear in them. "Brie..what happened?" she sniffled, "I.. someone is stalking me Troy.. stalking me." she gave her his phone, "Look..Look at the messages.. I..someone's following me.."

Troy looked at the messages, and back at her biting his lower lip, "Brie-" she sniffled hugging him tightly, and laying her head on his chest. "I...I'm scared Troy." he sighed kissing her forehead, "It's alright..everything will be alright." she sniffled, "I..I just wanna go home and sleep."

"It'll be okay Brie...it will, I promise." he held her close, looking over her shoulder around the store and even daring to look through the windows of the women's store. Nothing. He kissed her cheek and temple while rubbing her back, "come on...let's go home."

Gabriella nodded, "I..I wanna go home.. and crawl into bed.. I'm tired." He nodded, "I know..I know.. I'll take you home." she sniffled as he wrapped his arm around her and walked them out to the car.

Troy carried Gabriella to her bedroom cause she had fallen asleep in the car. he carried her into the bedroom and layed her on the bed, covering her up, and kissing her forehead, nose, cheeks, and then lips gently, and walked out of the room. Adam looked at him, "Is she okay?" Troy sighed, "yeah she is, I just.. I wish she didn't have to go through all this shit." Adam sighed, "I know.. it kills me to see that drew did this to her.." Troy sighed, then chloe ran to him, "Daddy Troy! Can we go visit Grandpa?"

Troy bit his lip, "Angel.. not right now, alright.. what if we watch some TV?" Chloe nodded smiling as Troy lifted her up in his lap and she held the remote in her hand. she turned on the TV and the movie 'The Lucky One' was playing. Gabriella watched it the night before. Troy chuckled as they were in the middle of a scene when Logan Thibault played by Zac Efron was walking with his dog. Chloe looked at Troy and asked, "Are you going to marry my mommy?"

Troy looks at her, his eyes half wide. Chloe was...smart beyond her years. "Uh...I-" "She loves you." Chloe says, watching the screen, now it was Logan showing Beth's picture around Hamden County. Chloe points at the screen then at Troy, "Daddy Logan...Daddy Troy."

Troy chuckled, pulling chloe close to him and kissing her forehead, "I love you." she giggled sweetly, "I love you too daddy Troy." he smiled and they continued watching the movie.

Gabriella woke up later that night around 8. she scratched the top of her head and looked at her phone. she received a text from Adam, "Gabs, don't panic, me and Troy had a late practice tonight, and chloe is with sharpay spending the night." Gabriella sighed, slipping her phone in her pocket and sitting up. Thunder and Lightning struck, and she jumped.

She began walking slowly down the stairs then the electricity went off. "oh no.." she whimpered. then she heard a noise come through the living room window. "Who's there?" she whimpered. no answer. she gulped grabbing the nearest baseball bat holding it infront of her tightly, taking small baby steps towards the living room.

As she made her way into the living room. lightning brightened up the living room and a man stood there. Gabriella screamed, taking the bat and hit him in the nuts. "WHO ARE YOU! WHAT DO YOU WANT! I GOT PEPPER SPRAY!" she yelled.

The man went down instantly, his hands looking like they covered his balls. "Ah...oh, sweet baby - Fu...mmm." he groaned in pain, Gabriella held the bat tight in her hand, she swallowed and moved closer a bit. "D-don't move...I have pepperspray and a bat-" "Br.." the man choked out in pain. She shook her head, "I will scream! I know kung fu!" "Bri-" "I have a giant dog in the kitchen-" "Brie! Please just shut up for a moment...I think you killed them!"

Troy grimaced in pain, "ah!" Gabriella gasped, letting the bat on the floor, and sitting down beside him, "Troy! oh my god! I'm so so so so so sorry!" he groaned, "It-It's okay.." he bit his lip. "here..I'll..I'll help you to the kitchen to put some ice on that."

She helped him up and helped him into the kitchen to sit on the chair. Gabriella grabbed a bag of ice from the freezer, "here..try this." he grabbed it from her, "Thanks." and he placed it on his balls. "Ohhh that feels so good." she sighed, "I am so so so so sorry Troy..I thought you were an intruder, or..or Drew..why did you come through the window anyways? I thought you were at practice with adam?"

Troy held the bag of ice to his crotch, breathing slowly, in and out. "Oh...this...feels nice." Gabriella bit her lip, "Troy," "What?" he asked, looking at her. "why did you come in through the window? Not the door..?" "Forgot my key, Adam is being a bitch on two legs-" "he's not gay..." "then why did he stay behind to talk to Ryan?"

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Adam wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, he needed to talk to Ryan about...the stunt he pulled at his house a few weeks ago. And, he's been thinking a lot about it. "What'd you wanna talk about?" Adam turned, seeing a freshly freshened up Ryan standing before him. Things had...gotten awkward. "Uh...about, what happened...the football game?" Ryan blushed, looking down, becoming uncomfortable. "Don't worry about it-" "Yeah, that's not working for me...but that's what I wanna talk about." "I"m sorry okay, it won't happen again." "Will you let me finish? Or at least let me tell you-" "Sharpay's waiting for me to pick her up at the mall, we're going to go see Katy Perry's new movie."

Adam sighs, Ryan turns to the door. That does it, he really doesn't want to ...but, desperate times call for desperate messures. Sucking in a breath and stomaching the bile of discomfort that rose to his throat, he chased after Ryan, now they were outside the gym, in front of the principal's office. Hopefully the secretary that always stays late decided to turn in early. Adam grabs Ryan's elbow and tugs him into his chest. "Adam-oof!" Ryan didn't much out when Adam crashed his lips on his.

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Gabriella and Troy sat on the floor of the living room, His arm around her holding her close to him. Gabriella giggled, "So seriously, Chad is scared of the midgets on Wizard of Oz?" Troy chuckled, "Yeah, ever since we were younger, his been afraid." Gabriella giggled, "Wow. Wizard Of Oz is like my all time favorite movie." she smiled. he chuckled, "Just don't mention the midgets infront of chad." Gabriella gigged, "Alrighty then." she smiled sitting up taking their drinks, "want some more orange soda?" she asked.

Troy nodded, holding out his glass, "that'd be sweet." Gabriella smiled, pouring some orange liquid in his glass but then a stroke of thunder boomed loudly, causing Gabriella to jump and drop the bottle of soda, spilling it over her, Troy and the floor.

"You okay?" Troy asked, Gabriella bit her lip, nodding. "Yeah just...thunder." "You don't like-" she shakes her head, "I'm terrified of it." "want me to hold you?" Gabriella looked at him, "Please?" Troy smiled, scooting closer to her and wrapping her tight in his arms, "Allouette Gentille allouette, allouette je te plumerai." he sang in her in ear, she pulls away, "what's-" "my grandma would sing it me when i got scared...thought you'd like it."

Gabriella smiled up at him, "I love it." she pecked his lips, "like I love you." he smiled holding her close, "Just to let you know.. I will always love you and Chloe..and I will always be there to protect you both." he kissed her forehead, "I know that..I love you too."