Can't Help But Wait
Chapter 9
Gabriella couldn't believe her ears. Did he just ask her to stay away from Troy? Was he insinuating that she just drop her best friend? Gabriella shook her head violently. "I can't do that."
Bryan looked at her with anger evident on his face. "What do you mean you can't do it? It's simple: stay away from Troy."
"I'm not gonna do it," Gabriella refused. "You're asking me to stop being friends with my best friend and it's not gonna happen." She turned away from him, fuming.
Bryan's hand grabbed at hers a few seconds later and turned her back around so she was staring into the fire in his eyes. "You do what I tell you to, you got it?"
"No I don't got," Gabriella said, pulling her arm back angrily. "Because I won't do it, end of story. Now I think you should go."
Bryan stood for a few minutes shocked at the way Gabriella was speaking to him. She never tried let alone thought about speaking to him that way. He nodded before slowly backing out of the kitchen. "I'll see you in school tomorrow babe. But like I said, I don't want you around Troy and you know the consequences if you don't listen to me," he said, exiting the house with a slam of the front door.
Gabriella stood in the kitchen for a few minutes after rolling her eyes. Was that supposed to scare her into listening to him? She sighed putting away the junk food and heading up to her room. She knew this was the one thing she couldn't do. Hitting her and beating her was one thing, but bringing her best friend into things touched a nerve. She knew she couldn't stay away from Troy, she loved Troy. She loved Troy more than she thought she did.
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The next day, Gabriella walked into school, more worried than usual, wearing jeans, converses, a twilight t-shirt, a bite me Edward shoulder bag and sporting a pin that said 'I kissed a vampire and I liked it'. Her note notebook, which had numerous doodles in it including various twilight ones, was situated in her bag. (all of this in link in profile) She snuck up behind they brown haired boy standing at his locker and hugging him by the waist from behind, making him jump.
"Whoa, Brie, Jesus you scared me," Troy said, watching Gabriella laugh at his reaction. "You think that was funny?"
"Very," she giggled, before Troy gave her a light noogie(sp?). She gasped, poking his side. "Jerk."
He laughed and closed his locker then turned and noticed her outfit. "Uhh, very decked out in twilight today huh?"
"Hey, don't hate," Gabriella defended. "It's the best saga ever!"
Troy chuckled. "You honestly think I'd be jealous of a book and its fictional characters?"
Gabriella rolled her eyes. "You're just mad because Edward is the sexiest thing alive...or just about (nd ladies I think u kno hoo im tlkin about *cough *zac efron *cough* lol).
Troy opened his mouth wide with shock. "Are you saying I'm not sexy?"
"Edward is sexier," She answered.
"Edward is sexier, oh so funny. Why lie?"
Gabriella shook her head. "Who said I was lying? Ask Tay."
Taylor, who happened to be standing a few feet away, heard Gabi's statement. "Ask me what?"
Gabriella turned to her. "Isn't Edward just about the sexiest thing alive…I mean if he were alive?"
"Duh," Taylor replied rolling her eyes and making her way to homeroom.
Gabriella smirked at Troy as he rolled his eyes, pushing her forward into the classroom. "You win this round, Ms. Montez, but just you wait."
Gabriella grinned wide at him before taking her seat just as the bell rang.
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Bryan watched from a distance as Bolton hugged all up on his girlfriend. The blood was boiling in his veins as he watched them eat lunch together with the rest of their friends. She never sat with him at lunch, always with Bolton and the basketball guys. It made him so angry and sick to his stomach. Why the hell was he so close to Gabriella? It was as if he could snatch her from his hands at any minute he wanted to. If killed him to see Gabriella act as if Troy was her boyfriend and not him. It was evident that he had feelings for her and she felt had feelings toward him too even if she didn't realize it. This was gonna go on no longer. Bryan wasn't gonna let Bolton take his girl from him right under his nose. IF he did, all the secrets and lies that he knew would come out and Gabriella would know the truth and he wasn't gonna let that happen, no matter what. No matter what it took.
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Gabriella's POV
After school, after getting a ride home from Troy, I walked to Bryan house to hopefully talk to him about the conversation we had the previous day. I knocked on the door and a few seconds later Bryan answered with a smile on his face like he was expecting me.
"Baby," He said, leaning down and planting a passionate kiss on my lips that almost made me faint. I really did love this boy(or she thinks she does smh).
"Hey," I replied, feeling a huge grin spread across my face.
"What are you doing here?" Bryan asked as my smile faltered a little. He didn't want me here? "No babe," he said as if he'd read my mind, but he really read my face. "it's not that I don't want you here, it's just I wasn't expecting you. I mean I have the football team in the other room."
Realization dawned on me. "Oh well I could leave, I mean it's…"
"No of course I don't want you to leave," he said, pulling me into the living room.
As we entered, I noticed that not only was half the football team situated in Bryan's living room but there were a few of the slutty cheerleader perched on the couch and on players laps. When I saw this I was glad I stayed because I suddenly became possessive. I wondered how many of these sluts actually tried to hit on Bryan when I wasn't there. And how many did traps did Bryan actually fall into?
Bryan quickly found an empty spot on the couch, pulling me to sit on him. A few of the players mumbled hellos to me but then went right back to playing the video game they were so engrossed in. I noticed a few of the cheerleaders glaring at me, which led me to believe they were obviously pissed because their attempts to flirt with Bryan were dead since his girlfriend showed up but I really didn't care.
As the gathering continued on, I got to talking to some of the cheerleaders after they got over the whole not being able to flirt with Bryan thing. I wasn't friends with any of them and I doubted I would be, they were just keeping me company, people to talk to instead of having to listen to Bryan and the boys ramble on and on about sports. Somehow in between talking about our nail beds and gossiping about people(me just listening and nodding every once in a while), we ended up on the topic of the guys on the basketball team. One of the hottest guys being named the captain Troy Bolton.
I had no idea how we got on the topic of Troy, but I didn't exactly try to change the subject. Every girl in the room knew that I was friends with Troy and they continued on and on about how hot and how fantastic and how amazingly cute he was, seeing no threat from me because I was with Bryan.
As they named everything single thing that fit Troy and his personality, I thought back to all the times w had together. The harmless flirting, the sweet, loving, kind guy he was, the fantastic best friend to me, and the incredibly hot, popular basketball star and captain. It was then thinking back on all the memories of him and listening to these girls gush about him that I realized I loved Troy Bolton much more than I should. He was my best friend and I loved him, but the love I started to feel was leaning more toward an attraction. Like the attraction I had with Bryan when we first starting dating.
Sitting on Bryan's couch, my eyes widen when everything finally sunk in. I was attracted to Troy Bolton in more than a friendly way. No wait, scratch that…I was in love with Troy Bolton.