Set a couple days after last chapter.

"So how was your date thingy with Justin?" Lola asked. She had forgotten to ask her sister a few days ago.

"Boring. He and I suck together." Gabriella said laying down on the couch.

Lola sat down next to Gabriella and sighed, "Are you ever gonna talk to Troy again?"

Gabriella shrugged, "He keeps calling and texting me."

"He's making an effort to talk to you." Lola said. She wanted Gabriella and Troy to get back together.

"I don't wanna walk to him." Gabriella snapped. "And I don't wanna talk about him or think about him."

Cristina and Greg walked down the stairs and sat down next to their girls, "Where's your brother?"

"Who cares." Gabriella said. She was ignoring Angelo for the most part.

Greg cleared his throat, "Well we're going to dinner…with the Boltons."

I'd rather put on a 32A training bra Gabriella thought, "Gross. Can I skip?

"No." Cristina said. "Now hurry up and go get changed. You HAVE to go."

"Ugh. Ok." Gabriella told her parents.

Gabriella and Lola walk upstairs and go get changed.

~During Dinner~

"Gabriella I haven't seen you in forever." Lucille said, hugging her.

"Its nice to see you too Lucille." Gabriella said politely. She had said hello to everyone except Troy. Everyone knew this was gonna be a long night.

"Sis what are you ordering?" Lola asked.

Gabriella looked at her menu, "Uh I will get the teriyaki chicken and California rolls." Right after she said California rolls, Gabriella had a flashback to one of her and Troy's dates. They had came here and Troy had mistaken a bowl of wasabi for mint ice cream. His face got red and he started sweating and gasping for air.

Lola nudged Gabriella, "What was that? You having a premonition?" She asked jokingly.

"No, I just spaced out for a minute." Gabriella replied.

"Sweetie why don't you go dance?" Greg asked his daughter.

Lucille smiled, "Great idea Greg. Troy dance with her."

Troy made a disgusted face, "I'd rather boil my face."

"Do it or your grounded." Cristina bluffed.

"Ground me." Gabriella said. She got up, "I'll be right back." Gabriella leaves the table.

Troy turns to his parents, "Can I take a cab home?"

"No." Jack answered.

"You all know your plan is stupid and has backfired so why torture us more?" Troy asked. "I'll see you at home." He grabs his stuff and leaves.

Cristina gets out of her seat, too. "I'll be right back." She walks to the bathroom to find her daughter. "Hey are you alright?"

Gabriella shook her head and wiped her eyes, "Can we go home please?"

"Troy left." Cristina told her daughter.

"I don't care. Can we please go home? Or I can just go home. I can walk." Gabriella pleaded.

"I don't think so." Cristina said.

Gabriella looked up at her mom, "I cant stay here and pretend to be happy when I'm not."

Cristina said, "As soon as you walk out of the restaurant, I'm calling you."

Gabriella hugged her mom, "See you when you get home." Gabriella walked out of the bathroom and out of the restaurant. Cristina came back and sat down at the table.

"Did Gabriella just leave?" Lucille asked.

Cristina nodded, "Yes."

Marcus lifted his glass of Dr. Pepper, "I think Lola and I are now your favorite children. And dad I'm ordering desert with your credit card."

~In A Cab~

"Bolton, what are you doing in my cab?" Gabriella screeched.

"Um, Montez I got in the cab way before you did." Troy told her.

"Get out." Gabriella ordered.

"No. I was in here first." Troy argued back.

"Driver person, I'm not getting out." Gabriella told the cab driver.

"I don't care, as long as I'm getting paid." The cab driver told both of them.

"Ok then, 518 Charleston Avenue." Troy told him. The cab driver took off.

After a silent 5 minutes and 19 seconds, Troy spoke up, "So how was your date with Justin?"

Gabriella looked up, "How'd you know about that?"

"So it was horrible." Troy said with a smirk.

"It wasn't horrible." Gabriella told him.

"When are you gonna realize that no matter how much you and I hate each other-and trust me, 99.9999% of the time I hate you-we are meant to be together?" Troy asked.

"There's nothing to realize, Troy. What we had obviously wasn't meant to be. You and I weren't supposed to be together. That dare was the only reason you asked me out." Gabriella said. She wasn't in the mood to go down memory lane.

Troy looked at her with sincerity in his eyes, "I'm actually serious."

Gabriella looked away and closed her eyes before she started crying, "Why cant you just leave me alone?"

"Look me in the eye and tell me that you don't have feelings for me." Troy challenged.

Gabriella took a deep breath and looked Troy dead in the eyes, "I don't have feelings for you." She lied.

Troy tried not to have a hurt look on his face as the cab pulled up in front of his house. "Ok. I'll see you at school." He gets out of the car.

"Where to, miss?" The cab driver asks.

"749 Westchester Drive." Gabriella said softly.

~Later That Night~

Lola walked in her sister's room after getting home from dinner. It was only 8:16 and Gabriella was in bed. "Hey." Lola said softly.

"Hi." Gabriella mumbled.

"Why are you in bed and not on Facebook or MySpace?" Lola asked.

"I'm not in the mood to update my status to single and depressed." Gabriella told her.

Lola sat down on her sister's bed, "What happened?"

Gabriella sat up and rubbed her red and puffy eyes, "Troy and I shared a cab on the way home."

"Uh-oh." Lola said. "I smell trouble."

"I don't wanna talk about it. I stopped crying three minutes ago." Gabriella said, laying down and burying herself under her covers.

"It must have been bad. I've only seen you cry like four times in my 18 years of life." Lola said honestly. Gabriella wasn't a cry. And she NEVER cried over ex-boyfriends. "Are you sure you don't wanna talk to me?"

"I'm positive." Gabriella said. "I'm gonna go to bed."

"Okaaay. See you in the a.m." Lola said shutting the light back off as she left her room.

~The Bolton Household~

"Sweetie what's the matter?" Lucille asked her son. He was just sitting in the living room staring at the TV…which wasn't even on.

"Yeah." Troy replied blankly.

Lucille sat down on the couch, "Lets talk. Even though you kinda hate this family."

"Don't play the guilt game with me, ma. I don't hate you guys. You people just irritate me." Troy said.

"Why are you so upset? You've never been so upset over a break up."

"Because I don't like half the girls I date." Troy told her honestly. "I actually like Gabriella, but she is so irritating. But I messed it up."

"What did you do." Lucille questioned.

"I only asked her out because Chad dared me to." Troy said.

"Why?"

"Because I took the dare. You cant not take a dare." Troy said as if his mom knew the rules to truth or dare.

"Troy I know the rules. Truth or dare isn't that new." Lucille said, rolling her eyes.

"Well Gabriella found out and now I feel like an ass." Troy exclaimed. "She wants nothing to do with me."

"Give her some space." Lucille suggested.

"If I give her too much, she will move on." Troy argued.

"Well if its meant to be, you two will be together." Lucille replied. "Goodnight." She walks upstairs to her bedroom. Marcus walks into the living room and handed Troy his phone.

"What's this?" Troy asked.

"Andy's on the phone." Marcus told him.

Troy picked the phone up, "Hey Andy." Troy greeted his four year old cousin, Andrea.

"Hi Troy. What are you doing?" Andy asked..

"I'm in the living room." Troy replied.

"My mommy said you had a girlfriend." Andy told him.

"Not any more Andrea." Troy said.

"Is she pretty?" Andy questioned.

Troy smiled, "She is very pretty." He said.

"Well get her back, Troy." Andy said in a duh tone.

"I'm working on that, A." Troy told her.