A/N: Sorry I haven't updated for a long time i've had loads of coursework to do. God I hate GCSE's!!!

I do not own high school musical or any of the characters apart from the ones I have created.

Chapter 10

(Savannah's POV)

"Gabby stop pacing! You're wearing a path into my floor!" I snapped at her, frustrated.

She smiled slightly then continued her pacing.

I sighed and shook my head at her before continuing my reading. She had been like this since she has turned up on my doorstep a hour ago, crying hysterically about how she had met Troy and that they knew who she was so she'd have to leave. I managed to calm her down but now she was just walking around in a trance, biting her bottom lip and muttering to herself about how he had kissed her.

Suddenly she stopped pacing and I heard her turn round to look at me

"Oh my god Sav!" She screeched "I hit him!"

That got my attention. I looked up from the case file and stared at her in shock.

"You did what?!"

"I hit him Sav! I totally forgot! I was so angry at him for kissing me and making me fall in love with him again that I snapped and I hit him!Twice!"

"Hang on a minute! Let's go back a bit. Did you just say that you still love him?"

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Ever since I met Gabby all those years ago she had moaned about how he had destroyed her life and made it impossible for her to ever trust another man again and now she was saying she loved him!

Her face turned red and she looked down at the floor, shuffling her feet.

"I said that I still love him."

She looked so lost, so confused and seeing her like this made my heart break. After a couple of seconds she looked up and stared at me intensely, waiting for my answer. It was only when I saw the look in her eyes that I knew she meant it. She hadn't gone crazy, or had a break down she was genuinely in love with this man.

"Gabs if you still love him, go for it. It sounds like he still loves you and if someone is willing to wait ten years for you than it obvious that he's your soul mate and that you should be together" I told her simply.

Oops! I must have said the wrong thing because suddenly that look of love in her eyes was replaced with one of hatred; the easy smile she was wearing a minute ago, replaced with a look of anger.

"Maybe you're right Savannah. Maybe I should just go up to the guy who broke my heart and tell him that I love him. In a perfect world that would be the best plan ever, but this isn't a perfect world and I DO NOT LOVE TROY BOLTON anymore. In fact I never want to see him again!"

With that she flung herself at the sofa, grabbed the remote and started flicking through the channels.

I wanted to talk to her; find out why she was so set against telling him that she still loved him but there was no point in talking to her while she was like this and it was obvious from the way she had made herself comfortable on my sofa that she wouldn't be leaving anytime soon so I just left her to it. Gabby wasn't really the sort of person who talked about her feelings right away and I wasn't going to make her retreat into her shell any more so I threw myself back into my work hoping that when the time was right she would open up to me.

I sighed again and went back to the case file I was reading. This case was one of the hardest I had ever worked on. Not because we didn't have any proof, we had tonnes of it, but the witnesses kept on dropping like flies due to witness intimidation. The man we were prosecuting was a big time gangster called Danny Juno who had kidnapped a teenage girl 6 months ago as collateral for a loan the girl's father couldn't pay. The police found him but were too late to save the girl. She had tried to escape and he had shot her through the head, killing her instantly. There were plenty of witnesses who had seen him shoot the girl in broad daylight on the fire escape of his flat but they were all withdrawing their statements because Danny had threatened to do the same to their families if the testified.

When we first filed the case there was 14 witnesses willing to go to court. Now there was only 3 and two of them were the police officers who had arrested him. We should have been able to get him for that alone but of course he had some big shot lawyer who claimed we had no evidence and that we were harassing her client. He was claiming that it wasn't him at all and that he was an innocent man who was being targeted by the police force so that they could get some good publicity. God that man REALLY made my blood boil. I really wanted to put this guy away even if it meant I would lose my job, it would be well worth it.

That's why I called Gabby. She had a way of making a person feel safe and that was exactly what I needed; it was just a plus that she had graduated top of our class and was one of the best lawyers I had ever seen. She was more than a match for the woman Mr Juno had hired as his attorney (A/N: sorry if I'm getting this wrong I don't have a clue about this type of stuff) and I couldn't wait to see the look on that man's face when he realised that he'd be lucky if he just has to spend the rest of his life in a maximum security jail.

I grinned slightly to myself at the thought of that man spending the rest of his life in jail as I glanced over the final witness list. Two of them, Detective James Daniels who had arrested Danny and a woman called Julie Spencer who had seen him shoot the girl had come in the the DA office this evening to go over their statements. James had tried to pull out at the last minute but Gabby won him around. The second arresting officer was coming in tomorrow so that we could go over his statement and make sure it was water tight.

I looked at the last name on the list and couldn't believe my eyes. I checked again but it was still the same name, burning into my brain.

Detective Troy Alexander Bolton.

"Errm... Gabs"

She turned away from the telly and looked at me as I handed her the piece of paper.

"You know how you were saying that you didn't want to see Troy again..."