The Next Morning (Gabriella's POV)
I slowly woke up and turned to where Troy was. I was still wrapped in his arms and laying on his chest. He was already up and just smiling and looking at me adoringly.
"Good Morning Sleeping Beauty," he said while kissing my forehead.
"And she awoke with one kiss from her Prince Charming," I said narrating the story. He looked at me with a huge smile on his face.
I closed my eyes again. He knew I was doing this to get another kiss from him!
He gently kissed my lips and I opened my eyes. He chuckled.
"Now I know what to do to wake you up," he said.
I sat up in bed and looked at him with a serious look on my face.
He sat up also and looked at me with a concerned face, "What's wrong babe?" he asked me.
"Nothing. Troy I just want you to know that I love that you respect me and the decisions I make. You know not to pressure me. I want to be that person for you too. Last night I kinda was into the moment and I didn't mean to push you into something that you weren't ready for. To tell you the truth I'm kinda relieved that you stopped us. I lost all control when you began kissing my neck. I guess that's my spot and I never knew it. You found it Troy, and I think that with everything that was going on I just felt so comfortable with you and I felt as though I was ready. I hope that you don't think that-" he cut me off,
"Gabriella, I love you. I know that you respect me and that I respect you. When we are BOTH ready, it will happen. We will share that experience for the first time together, and it won't be random, it will be with the person we love. At least that is how it will be for me. I know that many people won't understand the way we feel for one another because we have only known each other for about a month, but I have never felt like this for anyone. Around you I can just be myself and not worry what you will think. I want you to know that you can do that with me too. I will not judge you, I accept you for who you are and that is who I love," he said looking into my eyes, meaning every word.
My eyes began to fill with tears, but not the sad tears, tears of joy. I can't believe that I was lucky enough to find someone who cared so much about me.
He leaned in and kissed me gently and I returned the kiss. I was definitely in love.
We got ready and went downstairs for breakfast.
"What do you have planned for today?" I asked him.
"Well I had planned on spending the day with this amazing girl. I want to do anything she wants to do," he said with a smile.
"Well, do I know this girl, because if you are already cheating on me, we have a major problem Troy Bolton," I said jokingly.
"How can I be cheating on you, when I am with you like 24/7?" he asked thinking that I was serious.
"Troy, relax, just joking over here!" I said.
"Gabriella Montez you will pay for that," he said getting up from the table and slowly walking over to me.
I didn't know what he was going to do, but I knew that it wasn't going to be a kiss! I started to run around the house to get away from him. He caught me and carried me over to the couch and threw me down. He got on top of me and began to tickle me.
"Troy stop," I laughed.
"Not until you say 'Troy Bolton is the sexiest, best kissing, best dancing boyfriend in the world and I love him with all my heart' he said still tickling me.
"Never," I said trying to get up.
"Oh no you don't, I am not getting off of you until you say it," he said leaning down on top of me as if he was going to kiss me, but instead he started tickling my sides.
As he leaned further down I began to kiss his neck, hoping that that would help him stop.
It did because he buried his head in my shoulder allowing me to continue. Instead of continuing, I got up from under him and ran into the kitchen yelling
"Troy Bolton is the sexiest, best kissing, best dancing boyfriend in the world and I love him with all my heart!"
He ran in and stopped, "Damn I was hoping I would be able to see your face when you said that," he said sitting down next to me.
I got up and walked over to him, sat on his lap and wrapped my arms around his neck. I kissed him gently and between each kiss I said, 'Troy (kiss) Bolton (kiss) is (kiss) the (kiss) sexiest (kiss) best (kiss) kissing (kiss) best (kiss) dancing (kiss) boyfriend (kiss) in (kiss) the (kiss) world (kiss) and (kiss) I (kiss) love (kiss) him (kiss) with (kiss) all (kiss) my (kiss) heart (kiss)."
He wrapped his arms around my waist and picked me up bridal style and twirled me around.
That entire day we just hung out at my house watching movies kissing here and there and just adoring the time that we were spending with each other.
The Next Day at School (Troy's POV)
Gabby and I walked into school hand in hand, showing everyone that we were now officially together. I was looking around for Dan. I knew that he would try something, knowing that we were together. I mean he tried to make his move at the dance right in front of me, who knows what he will try when I'm not with her. Just the thought of that made me try to clench my fists. I forget that I was holding Gabby's hand and squeezed it really tight.
"Ow," she cried in pain. She took her hand from me and started rubbing it.
"What was that for?" she asked looking at me with an angry look.
"Baby, I'm sorry I was thinking of something that made me mad and when I went to clench my fists I forgot that I was holding your hand," I tried to explain. I took her hand in mine and kissed the top of it.
"It's ok, but what made you so mad?" she asked me with a concerned face.
I looked down and mumbled, "Dan trying something with you."
She took my face into her hands and lifted it so I was looking at her.
"Troy I love you, there is no way that anything will happen with me and Dennis, I mean Dan. If he tries anything I can handle myself," she said leaning in to kiss my cheek.
I took her hands into mine and looked her straight in the eye,
"I love you, too. And I do trust you, it's him that I don't trust, I mean come on Gabby he made a move on you in front of me, who knows what he is capable of doing behind my back," I said.
She giggled, "Well then I just might have to have a body guard with me 24/7."
"Are you taking applications?" I asked laughing while taking her hand and walking her to her locker.
"As a matter of fact I am," she laughed as we walked through the halls.
I was looking around and saw all the girls giving Gabby mean looks and others who had tears forming up in their eyes.
I looked over at Gabby and saw that she put her head down.
"Hey! Look at me," I said, "Don't pay any attention to them. We know that we love each other and they are just going to have to accept that," I said giving her a comforting smile.
I stopped her in the middle of the hall and wrapped my arms around her waist. I lifted her head so that she was looking at me.
"Can you do me a favor?" I asked her.
"Of course, anything Troy," she said concerned.
"My lips really hurt. Do you know of any medicine that can heal them?" I asked with a smile.
"Well I can think of something that always helps me," she said wrapping her arms around my neck.
I leaned in, as did she and kissed her in front of everyone. I did this on purpose to let all the guys know to stay away from her because she was mine, and nothing was going to change that. I also wanted to do that so that the girls knew to stay away from me.
I heard all types of things while we were having our moment.
One girls screamed and ran to the bathroom, another said 'why her, she's a geek.' And there were others who just awed at our moment.
I heard some guys talking too. There was one that said 'lucky bastard, she fucking gorgeous' and another who said 'Man is Dan going to be pissed when he hears' but the one that stuck out the most was a familiar voice who screamed,
"GABRIELLA?!"
She pulled away and looked at the person who screamed out her name.
"What's wrong Dennis?" she asked
I laughed when she said that and gave him a look that said stay the fuck away from her.
"It's Dan and I thought that we were going on a date and I was going to ask you to be my girlfriend," he exclaimed looking at me with an I don't care if you are together look.
"What? I never agreed to go any where with you." She exclaimed clinging onto me. It was like she wanted me to help her out so I did,
"Dude, we're together, so I guess that whole date thing, even if you thought she agreed is off. Just back of and leave us be," I said in the most clam voice I could manage although what I really wanted to do was rip his fucking head off.
I hugged her back and went to turn around when he placed his hand on my shoulder to stop us.
I turned around ready to punch him but he stepped back and whispered only so I could hear,
"This is so not over! She will be mine." He walked off and I watched him until he turned the corner.
Gabby came in front of me and placed her hands around my neck and pulled me into a hug.
"That's why you are my Prince Charming," she whispered in my ear. I think that she heard what he had said to me because the next words out of that beautiful mouth of hers were,
"He will never have me because I am all yours."
That brought a smile to my face and as I leaned in the bell rang for first period.
"Oh no," she cried running to her first class.
"Hey wait for your body guard," I said running after her.
At Lunch (Gabriella's POV)
I walked into the cafeteria with the girls looking for the boys.
"Where could they be?" I asked getting a little upset that Troy had promised me he would have lunch with me today rather than playing basketball with the boys.
"Yea! Chad promised we would have lunch together," said Taylor tapping her foot and looking at her watch.
"So did Zeke," said Sharpay, scanning the room.
"Yea and Jason and Ryan too," said Martha and Kelsi in unison.
"I guess they forgot, because Troy said the same thing to me," I said walking in the direction of the gym.
"Gabs, where are you going?" they asked all together.
"To the gym to see if they really did forget or if they are just running late," I said turning around and bumping into Dan.
"Hey baby," he said grabbing me and forcing me to hug him.
"Um…hi. I'm not your baby and let go of me," I said trying to push him away. He had to hard of grip on my waist that I cried out, "Ow," in pain.
The girls ran over to me to try and help me out of the grip. The football team grabbed them and held them back so that they couldn't help me.
"Let go of me," I screamed.
"Not until you agree to let me take you out on a date," he said pulling me harder and closer to him.
"I'm with Troy, I love him, I would never do that to him, and he would never force me to do anything I didn't want to like you are right now!" I exclaimed.
The football team and Dan pulled us into the hall out of the cafeteria so that no one could hear the rest of our conversation.
With Troy
"Dude, hurry up. We are already late to meet the girls. They are probably so mad us. Oh God I can't even imagine how mad Gabby is at me!" I said running into the cafeteria with the guys trailing behind me.
We burst into the cafeteria with everyone looking at us and then began to whisper.
"What's with everyone?" asked Jason. For once that wasn't a stupid question. What was everyone looking at?
I paid close attention to their expression and then looked around for the girls.
"Wait? Where's Gabby and the girls?" I asked.
"I don't see them. Maybe they got pissed and left," said Zeke scanning the cafeteria.
"I don't think so. Look at the way everyone is looking at us then looking at the door on the other side," I said walking to the other side of the cafeteria.
The guys were following me catching onto what I thought was going on.
I feel like something bad is happening right now but I can't put my finger on it. All I know is that Gabby would wait for me and then yell and scream at me and tell me what a jerk I was for standing her up. Something was wrong, but what?
As we got closer to the door I heard Gabby's voice cry out, 'I Love Troy'
I knew that something was wrong and started running. The guys followed me as we burst through the door and saw Dan hugging and kissing Gabby's neck with tears coming down her face. The football team had all the girls in a circle trying to get a kiss from them. They too had tears in their eyes but they were scared more for Gabby then themselves because they had each other to fight them off, Gabby was alone with that fucking scum bag.
"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER DAN!" I screamed pulling him off of her and punching him.
He fell to the ground and yelled, "Guys back up now,"
The football team ran over to him forgetting about the girls. They ran over and held me down as Dan got up to punch me.
The girls ran over to Gabby as she fell to the floor in shock.
The guys came over and before I knew it we were in one big fight.
Before Dan could get one punch in, Chad ran up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. As Dan turned around Chad punched the shit out of him. We began fighting the football team off as the bell rang.
Everyone came out from the cafeteria and gathered around us in a circle chanting, "Fight, fight, fight."
The teachers obviously heard the commotion and came to break us up.
When we were finally pulled apart, I had a bloody lip and a bruised cheek, but Dan had blood all over. We broke his nose and gave him a black eye. The rest of the football team had a matching black eye and busted lip. The wildcats just had busted lips and bloody knuckles from punching the shit out of the football team.
The principle came over and asked what the commotion was all about. We looked at the girls who were surrounding Gabby.
I walked over to make sure that she was ok, but she was still in shock and was in a daze. I went to hug her but she backed away, "No please don't hurt me, I love Troy."
"Gabby it's me, it's Troy, your ok. Baby come here it's ok, I'm here," I said trying to hug her so she would feel safe in my arms, but she kept backing up repeating her self until she was backed up into a corner and fainted.
I ran to her and lifted her into my arms, "Gabby? Gabs? GABRIELLA?" I said trying to wake her up.
I ran with her in my arms to the nurse's office and laid her on the bed that was in there.
The principle followed me knowing that the wildcats fought in self-defense for the girls.
The nurse looked at all of us and wanted to take care of our wounds but we all said no.
"No, no, no, we're ok, look at her make sure that she is ok before any of us," I said caressing Gabby's head and pulling the stray pieces of hair away from her face.
"Okay," said the nurse walking over to Gabby and checking her.
"She's fine just in shock," she said.
"Principal Johnson, I think that she should stay in here the rest of the day. She is in too much shock to concentrate on school work right now," she explained.
"Ok, but I want Mr. Bolton to stay with her. I think that when she wakes up she will want to see him," he said looking at me with a concerned face.
The nurse looked at all the wildcats and cleaned up our wounds.
"Troy, I'll bring you your books so that you can stay busy with work in here while you wait for her to wake up," said Martha leaving with Ryan's arm around her.
All the couples paired off. The guys wrapped their arms around the girl holding them tight and the girls not wanting to let go.
"You know what? I think that all of you should stay in here and wait for Ms. Montez to wake up. I will talk to all of you about what happened tomorrow morning, but I know that the girls are still a little shaken up and won't be able to concentrate. And by the looks of it, I don't think they want to be left alone right now," said Principal Johnson.
"Thank you so much for understanding," I said shaking his hand. He turned around and walked out.
"Troy we're going to go get our books so that we can all work together while we all wait for Gabby," said Taylor as they all left.
I sat next to her and held her hand.
"Baby, I'm here its ok. You can sleep and rest all you want, I'm not leaving your side."
I kissed her forehead and stared at her.
She was sleeping and started to sleep talk,
"I love Troy, he would never force me to do anything I don't want to like you are right now. Please let me go, let me go, I love Troy," she mumbled as she tossed back and forth.
"I love Troy" she screamed as she shot up in bed.
"Baby I'm right here. It's ok." I said standing above her rubbing her head.
She stretched her arms out and wrapped them around me pulling me next to her. She rested her head on my chest and silently let tears fall down her cheek. I rubbed her head and just sat there with her in my arms.
"I love you Troy, please don't let me go," she said quietly.
I hugged her tighter and said softly in a calm and warming voice, "That will never happen. Without you by my side doesn't make any sense. I love you too baby, more than you can ever know."
I rubbed her back and pushed hair away from her face.
Gabby held onto me until the end of the day when the last bell rang. The gang stayed in the room with us until the end of the day. When the last bell rang the guys all walked their girls home. Gabby didn't let go of me. When we got up she grabbed my hand and held onto it for dear life. I walked her home and walked her to her room. Her mom greeted us at the door and noticed something was wrong.
I walked Gabby to her room and told her to take a nice hot bath and that I would wait for her. She agreed and got her clothes ready as I set up the bath tub for her. It wasn't my house but I felt as though it was especially when I was taking care of Gabs.
She hugged me and I rubbed her head,
"Baby, go ahead, lock the door and just try to relax. I will be right out here watching T.V waiting for you. I'm not going any where until you fall asleep," I said rubbing her back and walking her into the bathroom.
"Ok, you promise?" she asked still al little shaken up.
"Of course I do," I said kissing her gently on the forehead and closing the door.
Her mom came up to her room and saw that she was in the bathroom.
"So do you want to explain to me what happened?" she asked concerned for her daughter.
"Well…" I explained everything and watched her expressions on her face.
She looked as though she was frightened for her daughter.
She hugged me as tears came down her eyes,
"Thank you for protecting her Troy. I don't think that she will talk to anyone else but you about this, so I'm calling your mother to tell her to bring you some clothes because I want you to stay with her tonight. She is frightened and I want her feel protected tonight, especially because I will be at the office all night. I trust you with her and I don't worry about her when she is with you, so please stay the night with her and just keep an eye on her?" she pleaded.
"Of course Ms. Montez, I would do anything for Gabby," I said giving her a comforting smile.
She walked off and called my mom. About 20 minutes later my mom dropped off my clothes.
After about an hour Gabby came out of a very steamy bathroom.
She looked drop dead gorgeous, but I wasn't even going to try to kiss her after the day she had today.
She was in her pajamas as was I. She looked at me and asked,
"Where did you get those pajamas?"
"My mom dropped them off because I am staying with you tonight. Your mom came up and I told her what happened. She left not to long ago because she was called into the office tonight and didn't want you to be alone, so she asked me to stay with you tonight and I agreed," I said patting the space on the bed beside me.
She walked over to me and cuddled up to me. I rubbed her back and took in her scent. She smelled so good just like always. I was glad that her mom trusted me to stay with her and to protect her.
Within a half hour Gabby had fallen asleep in my arms resting her head on my chest. I kissed her forehead and said good night to her. Soon after I placed a blanket over us and fell asleep.
I didn't like seeing Gabby like this. Believe me that Bustard Dan is going to pay for what he did to her. If he thought that what he got was bad, wait until me and the guys catch him outside of school. All I know is that he better watch his back. He scared and hurt the one person I love the most in the world and that is definitely not ok with me.