A/N: Woot, chapter 10! DOUBLE DIGITS!!

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Recap

Turns out the paper was saying bad things! And V felt betrayed. Another ironic song/story moment, 'When there was me and you' is right now playing on my mp3 player.

Chapter 10- A Well Kept Secret

"I never knew you would betray me Ash…I just didn't know" Van said to herself sadly.

An hour and ½ later, the girls are driving to Nessa's house.

"Okay, we are here" Ash said, turning into Nessa's driveway.

"Hey Nessa do you have your key?" Miley asked. Nessa had seemed spacey the whole ride home. Well she had a good reason; she was very upset. She had been mulling things over in her head. Was Zac actually cheating on her? Was her best friend actually betraying her? Why did he want to talk to Ashley in the mall? Perhaps they were planning on getting together after the got home from the mall… maybe he was going to break up with her any day now, just to go be with Ashley…So many possibilities. Nessa hoped none of these things were true. But Miley's words broke her from her thoughts.

"What? Oh my key…err here" Vanessa said. Vanessa took her key out of her purse, and unlocked her front door. As she got into her home, she ran up the floor flights of stairs to her own room. Once she was in there, she leapt on her bed and cried her heart out.

"Why would Ash betray me?" Vanessa wondered out loud.

"Nessa…?" Zac questioned. Why was his girlfriend sprawled across her bed, crying? At his words, Vanessa stopped crying and turned around to face him.

"Zac…why are you here?" Vanessa asked.

"Yes, it is me! Now I have something or should I say some things to show and give to you!" Zac said.

"Oh Zac, but what for?" Vanessa questioned.

"Oh a bunch of things… for being the best girlfriend ever, for what happened today and because I love you." Zac said.

"Aww, I love you too!" Vanessa exclaimed, throwing her arms around Zac. She pulled back and looked deep into his eyes. (Ha-ha more irony, 'When you look me in the eyes' just started to play! Oh my god, that is so hilarious!) Getting lost in them, she leaned in and kissed him passionately. Of course, he kissed back. After a while, the finally pulled back.

"Wow, I gotta remember to buy you presents more often!" Zac said with a grin. Vanessa giggled at this.

"But anyway, first I got you this" Zac said, and pulled out his gift. It was a piece of paper, with words wrote on it. In short, a letter.

"A letter?" Vanessa asked, looking at it. She began to read it and she smiled.

Dear Miss Hudgens,

We are terribly sorry for what was printed in our newspaper, The Daily Mail, today. We apologize for any bad press and any upset caused between you and Mr. Efron. We will retake our statement made today tomorrow with positive press and a formal apology to you. We are also going to give you and Mr. Efron a holiday to Hawaii for free, first class private jet. I hope no further upset is caused.

Sincerely yours,

The Daily Mail Team

"What do you think?" Zac asked, reading the letter over her shoulder while she read it. Vanessa looks at him, grabs him by his shirt and kisses him again.

"That's what I think" Vanessa said with a smile.

"Wow… now for present #2" Zac said, grinning. He stands behind her, and carefully slips a necklace around her neck, fastening the clasp. It is a beautiful necklace; it was a heart locket, on one side with the words 'Zac and Nessa love each other forever' and a picture of them together on the other side.

"Zac…this is beautiful"

"I'm really glad you think that, but there is more to come!" Zac said. Zac reaches into his back pocket, pulls out a small envelope and than hands it to Van.

"Another letter?" Vanessa asked, glancing down at the item in her hand.

"No…just open it" Zac said. Vanessa opens the small envelope and pulls out a photograph.

"Oh…is this for…" Vanessa was cut off.

"Yes, it is the missing photo to the picture frame I gave you all those weeks ago. I finally found the perfect image for the picture frame, sitting in the perfect house belonging to the perfect girl." Zac said and flashed V a smile.

"Aww Zac, it's lovely, but not as lovely as you!" Vanessa said, and couldn't stop herself from putting her arms around his neck and kissing him passionately.

"Alright, here is the next one" Zac said after he pulled back. He than handed her a big bouquet of beautiful red roses.

"Oh Zac, they are my favorite!" Vanessa exclaimed.

"I know…and of course they are!" Zac said. Vanessa giggled at her boyfriend's comment.

"Now Miss Hudgens, your final gift" Zac said, with adding extra drama. He thought it was his turn, so he pulled her in and kissed her passionately. But they heard giggles come from outside.

"Zac…?" Vanessa said cautiously.

"Yes…?" Zac said, imitating her tone.

"What was that?" Vanessa asked.

"What?" Zac said back.

"I heard giggling" Vanessa whispered. Zac suddenly got a brilliant (A/N: I know what your thinking…OH MY GOD, Zac THINKS?! That's dangerous! He shouldn't do that LOL) idea.

"Another kiss Miss Hudgens?" Zac asked, while nodding toward the door. Zac winked as the crept closer to the door.

"Why yes Mr. Efron!" Vanessa said, while they still crept towards the door. They reached the door and opened it to find…

"Oh hey…" Stella said.

"Hey err….we were just exploring." Lily Efron said. (A/N: Yes this is the last main character I am going to add. For those of you who don't know, Stella Hudgens is Vanessa's sister. She is like eleven I guess. Lily Efron is Zac's cousin yes totally true, I know this for a fact She is eight years old.)

"Exploring what? My door…?" Vanessa factiously asked. She started to laugh with them.

"Yes…it's very…erm…" Lily couldn't think of what to say.

"INTERESTING!" Stella busted out and started giggling harder.

"Are you sure you weren't spying Stella?" Vanessa asked.

"Lily you were spying…again?" Zac asked.

"Erm yes…we may have been while we were looking at your door" Lily tried.

"Do you what that means?" Zac asked while smirking (Oh god)

"AHHHHH!" Lily screamed and giggled at the same time. "Quick Stella we have to get out of here they are going to tickle us!"

"C'mon quick let's go to my room, I have one at Nessa but we will have to make it down one flight of stairs" Stella said quickly.

After loads of tickling, chasing and laughter Zac is talking to someone on the phone, and Stella, Lily and Zac are staying the night at Nessa's. Vanessa started to go to Zac's room to talk to him, but stopped outside the door, leaning against the wall.

"Yes of course I will come stay with you!" She hears Zac say. Who the hell is Zac talking to? She thought to herself.

"Yes, I do love you!" She heard Zac say. (GASP!) (Also more irony, 'Be Good to Me' just started playing on my mp3 player)

"Yes I love you more than anybody in the world! You are very special to me, in a very special way!" She heard Zac's voice say those words, and she slowly felt her heart break in two. He WAS cheating on her.

"Yes I will sleep in your room tonight and I will bring candy and presents! I just can't wait to see you!" He paused while the other person talked.

"Look I got to go, Love you lots baby girl, kisses!" Zac made a kissing noise into his phone and than hung it up. There was a thump, and Nessa ran away crying.

Look, now I'm not gonna bother writing the A/N for my author's notes, so I will just put them in bold. And italicized will either be a thought or a song, depending on the situation. So Zac IS cheating!? What the hell Zac, I thought you loved Nessa! URGH, stupid boys… Most importantly, who was Zac talking to? Was it Ash? I swear, I might need to do some serious butt kicking and doing some serious ninja on Zac soon

Becca XOXOXOXOXO