A/N: Thank you guys for reviewing! I know nothing really happened between Troy and Gabriella in the last chapter. But that chapter was very important. Now that Chad is friends with Gabriella, and now that Jens back, everything will change. How? Just keep reading and sooner or later you'll figure it out. Well maybe sooner then later...haha. OMG, DID YOU HEAR 'YOU ARE THE MUSIC IN ME'? WE'RE IN LOVE WITH THAT SONG..HAHA okay, we're SOO sorry for the super long wait! Our parents surpirsed us with a trip to Hawaii, the day we left, so we couldn't tell you guys whats up. So now we're back, and heres the next chapter!
Oh and I have to congrats future.mrs.zac.efron for getting 3 of the 5 questions right! Yay! But we're not saying which ones...
Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own...
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"You still didn't tell me what really happened yesterday." Troy stated when Chad opened his front door.
The day before, Chad and Gabriella got to know each other more, and became friends. Everyone's saying that they'd been gone for almost an hour, but nether Chad nor Gabriella believed that. Half an hour tops, but an hour? No. When the girls left, the guys stayed a bit just to hang out, then left about an hour later. Ever since then Troys been bugging Chad about what happened between him and Gabriella.
"Thats because nothing happened." Chad said, once again, while closing the door behind him.
"Then why were you guys gone for an hour?" Jason said walking up to Chad's room.
"We were not gone for an hour."
"Funny," Troy said, "You said that last night."
"Thats because if I told you, I'd die." Chad mumbled and closed his room door.
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"Whats your plans for today?" Jen asked walking into Gabriella's room.
"Sleep." Gabriella sighed and pulled her cover over her head.
Sighing, Jen walked over to Gabriella's side and pulled the covers down.
"What do you want from me?"
"I want you to get out of bed," Jen started, "I'm bored."
"And your point is?"
"Get up!" Jen laughed as she pushed Gabriella.
"Oh my god! You so annoying!" Gabriella yelled, and walked into the shower.
After quickly washing her hair and body, Gabriella changed into a white studded shorts, with a matching short sleeve hoodie. She pulled her hair into a high ponytail, and sank onto the living room couch and turned on the tv. Moments later she heard Jen coming down in a grey shorts, and a white tank.
"I think you got a text or something," Jen said tossing Gabriella her phone, "It won't shut up."
Sighing Gabriella took her phone and flipped it open, and it was a text from someone.
Sorry if I woke you up.
Call me when you get this text.
-B
"Whos 'B'?" Jen asked looking over her best friends shoulder.
"Brandon." Gabriella smiled.
'Brandon' Jen mouthed and made a face. She did not want her best friend going out with Brandon. No, she wanted her going out with Troy. Not Brandon. Troy!
"So, what are you waiting for?" Jen said placing a smile on her face, "Call him."
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"Tell me again why you guys are here so damn early?" Chad sighed pulling his pillow over his face.
"Because I want you to tell me what really happened," Troy said pointing to himself, "They came because they were bored."
Chad didn't respond, he only held the pillow tighter to his face. Holding it there until he couldn't breathe anymore, he slowly removed it and took a deep breath. He sat up to see all his friends looking at him, strange look on each of their faces. Not wanting to explain, he waved it off with his hands, and they all dropped it.
The guys spent half an hour just sitting around Chad's room, talking about guy things. Girls, basketball, girls, cars, girls.
"So, are you ready to tell?" Troy said looking up at Chad.
Sighing Chad threw the little stuffed ball at Jason, "I don't have anything to tell."
"We all know you do." Jason said throwing it to Zeke.
Chad waited until he had the ball back, then he threw it back at Jason. All eyes on him, waiting for him to say something. The ball went around five times, and they all guessed he wasn't going to say anything.
"She started crying." Chad whispered, but knew they heard him.
Jason, who had the ball, threw it to Zeke, who threw it to Troy, who threw it to Chad.
"She said something about not following what her gut told her," Chad said looking down at the ball, "Or something. Then she went on saying how she was so stupid for falling back." Chad shrugged as he threw it back to Jason. He watched as the ball made it's way from hand to hand, finally until it came back to him, "She said she should've waited, because her last relationship lasted five years, and they only broke up two months before. And saying that she regrets giving you a chance." Chad said saying the last part really low, knowing Troy could still here him.
He looked up and tossed the ball back to Jason. Troy looked at the small stuffed ball in his hands and looked up at Chad with sad eyes as he threw it at him.
"She doesn't blame you," Chad replied to Troy's eyes, but not looking at him, "The only person she blames is herself. Like I said, she blames herself for falling back, for even thinking you'd like a girl like her." Chad shook his head, "She doesn't even blame me for putting you up to the dare, she said she would've done the same things if it was her. Then she started to cry again."
Jason and Zeke silently looked at each other, thinking the same thing. They looked up at Chad and saw the same idea in his eyes. Chad slowly looked at his best friend and saw a blank look on his face, probably taking in all this information. They probably thought that Chad would've have told them this much, just bits and pieces.
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"You called him yet?" Jen said leaning over the couch, her best friend was still on.
"Yes," Gabriella answered looking at her, "Why do you seem so happy?"
"I'm not happy," Jen said sitting down, "This is my normal state of happy."
Nodding, Gabriella took the jello out of her right hand as Jen ate the one in her left. Gabriella had called Brandon after she got his text and they started talking. Gabriella found that they had somethings in common, before he came to East High, his family moved around a lot. They both were an only child, and only had one parent. They talked for a bit, until he got the courage to ask her out. And of course, she accepted, much to Jen's dismay.
"What time is he picking you up?" Jen asked pulling a spoon full of jello into her mouth.
"Around five thirty." Gabriella answered, looking at the clock, "I have to take a shower." She shoved one more spoon of jello into her mouth and headed upstairs.
Jen waited until she heard the bathroom door closed and the shower to start before she put her jello down. She quickly got her phone, and searched through her phonebook, until she found the right number, "She got a date with Brandon."
"Umm, okay?" The voice answered.
"Did you not hear me?" Jen hissed, "She got a date with Brandon."
"And this is bad, because..."
"Okay, Kim," Jen nodded, "Put Sam on the phone."
"Hello?" Sam greeted.
"Yes, hi," Jen started, "She got a date with Brandon."
"You're kidding right?" Sammy laughed, "She can't, she, she- Oh god. This-this this is bad."
Jen sighed, thankfully Sammy realized that this was bad. What was she thinking, telling Kim. She would've thought it was a good thing, "Yes it is, worse? Her dates in an hour."
"We'll be right over." Sammy said ending the conversation.
Jen sighed, and leaned back. She looked at the stairs and heard that Gabriella was still in the shower, "Forgive me Gabs, you don't belong with him." She whispered.
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Troy was in Chad's backyard, just wanting to clear his head. The rest of the guys were still in Chad's room, probably watching Troy, making sure he didn't run away or anything. Troy sat on the grass, just dazing off, thinking. Thinking about everything Chad just told him. How could Gabriella blame herself? She didn't do anything, all she did was followed her heart. She did follow her heart didn't she? Chad did say that she did a bad thing by not listening to her gut, but her gut and heart are too different things.
Running his hand through his hair, he knew that he lost something he really love. He leaned back to the point where he was laying down on the grass, hand linked over his eyes. Thinking back to when he first went up to talk to her, what he was feeling. It was funny, he was actually nervous. Truth was that he noticed her the first day she transferred to East High. He remembered his first thought of the new girl; beauty. Pure beauty. Troy didn't know what it was about her, but he didn't say hot, or sexy, but he thought beautiful. He didn't want to admit it to anyone, especially the guys. The girls, he knew they'd 'aw' him, and he hated when they did that.
Troy knew that the girls knew her, well Kim anyways. They're both in college prep together. Smart math people. Well, since she knew her, there was no way Troy would admit to having a little something for her. Now that she was gone, he didn't have to worry about that. He had bigger problems. Giving one of the biggest sigh of his life, as he sat back up and went back into Chad's house, and up to his room.
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Gabriella opened her door to find five girls around her room. Closing the door she noticed that two of the five were in her closet, one of them in her jewelry box, one in her make up, and the last plugging in her curling, and straightening iron. The girls noticed her and smiled, but went back to what they were doing.
Before she could say anything, she felt herself being pulled to her desk chair, and Taylor started to comb her hair. After her hair was combed, she could see that Taylor was holding the straightener, as she saw steam rise she leaned back and just let her friends work. Gabriella looked up, as she felt Taylor take some hair from the front, and started to tease it. After pinning it back, Gabriella could see her then taking the curling iron, and she curled a few strands here and there. After her hair was done, Kim came into the attack with a midnight blue eyeliner.
Gabriella watched Taylor, as she watched Kim put eyeliner on. She curled her lashes, and put a coat of mascara on. She could feel Kim put eyeshadow on, and guessed she was going for a smoky effect, since Gabriella's eyes were closed for a while. After putting on a pale blush, and a clear gloss, with a pale pink, for the pout effect Kim looked pleased.
Jen came and made Gabriella slip on a black strapless dress that ended right below her knees. The top had a black lace detail, with a beaded touch right under the bust. Sammy then slipped on silver embellished t-strap heels onto her feet. Finally Jamie tied a black choker onto her neck, and simple silver orchid drop earrings. Then she felt her arm being raised and Jen slipped on a butterfly ring onto her pointer finger. Jen carefully guided Gabriella to the full length mirror and Gabriella was shocked to see it was her looking back. Smiling she hugged her friends as the door bell rang. They all ran down and watched Brandon's face when she opened the door.
Just as the thought, he was speechless. Gabriella giggled as she noticed that he didn't say anything. That giggled snapped Brandon back into the real world and he smiled, "You look...Amazing" Brandon said trying to find the right word.
"Thanks," Gabriella smiled as she pushed her hair behind her ears, "You don't look too bad yourself."
"My lady," Brandon smirked as he stuck his arm out for her to take.
Before Gabriella took his arm, she turned around to receive her black clutch from Jen. All five girls placed fake smiles on their face and waved their friend goodbye. As soon as Jen closed the door, their smiles were gone, but a frown appeared.
"Not to be mean or anything, because she looks absolutely stunning, but" Jamie started, "Why did we just do that?"
"Because my friend," Jen said putting her arm around her shoulder, "We have to do everything we did, when she was with Troy. Which includes making her look as best as she can."
"Why-"
"To make it seem like we're happy for her." Sammy said cutting her off.
"Oh." Jamie said finally getting it, as the rest of the girls smiled and nodded.
"Okay, well, we all know the plan." Jen said walking away from the door, "He's taking her to that fancy place-"
"Wait," Taylor cut in, "Are we really doing this? I mean, not that I don't want to help or anything, but she'll be really pissed if she knew what we were doing."
"Just look at the long run Tay," Sammy smiled, "She'll owe us."
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Brandon pulled up to the restaurant, and stopped the engine. Gabriella smiled as she took his hand, and they walked in, arms linked. As they waited for their table, Gabriella looked around in discomfort, it wasn't that she didn't like the place, it was just that she wasn't the type of girl that ate at places like this. Well for a date anyways, she'd be more happy if they just walked around the park, or just had ice cream.
"This way," The host smiled, "You're waitress will be with you shortly."
"So Gabriella," Brandon said looking at her, "Did you ever come to this place?"
Gabriella smiled and looked around, "No, I can say I never did."
A few minutes later, they ordered their food, and were eating. They made small talk here and there, but mostly ate in silence.
"You know, I've never got a chance to ask you," Brandon said as they got their plates taken away, "What happened between you and Bolton?"
Gabriella put down her glass and sighed, "Well, lets just say, the feelings that I thought were there, never really was."
Brandon nodded as he saw Gabriella look around worried, "Are you okay?"
Gabriella give a small smiled, "Truth?" Brandon nodded, "I'm not really the type of girl who really enjoyed places like this," She said pointing, "Not that I didn't have a good time, it's just that I would have equally enjoyed you know, going to the park or something."
"I understand," Brandon said leaving a tip, "Then lets get out of this place."
Gabriella nodded and took his hand, they got into his car and drove down the road.
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Troy opened Chad's room and saw that they were in the same spots they were when he left. Taking his original spot he looked at the guys who looked back at him. He took the ball that was at his feet, and they continued their little throwing fest. Just as Chad threw the ball to Jason, his cell phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Is Troy there with you?"
"Yes, why. You want to talk to him?"
"No," Jen answered, "Look, I called to tell you that Gabi's on a date."
"She's what?" Chad whispered, "Like a real one?"
"What kind of other dates are there?" Jen asked.
"The practice kind."
"Only you guys would do that," Jen laughed, "Anyways, I just wanted to give you guys a heads up. Oh and it's with Brandon."
"What?!" Chad snapped, "Hello? Jen? Jen! She hung up on me."
He looked at the other guys and they had a mixture of confused and concerned look on their face, and once again he waved it off.
"So umm, did she tell you what happened to the necklace?" Troy asked looking intently on the carpet.
The guys all side glanced at each other. They all knew exactly what happened to it, and they all knew that the girls would kill them if they told.
"No," Chad answered first, "The only thing the girls told us was the Gabriella really didn't want it."
Troy nodded, but didn't look up. She really didn't want it. Well then.
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When they got half way to their destination, Brandon told Gabriella to close her eyes. Before Brandon arrived at Gabriella's house, Jen called him, with Sammy, and told him to take Gabriella to the restaurant and when she told him she didn't really feel comfortable, take her down the road to the park.
Gabriella could feel the car come to a slow stop and Brandon opening the door. Guiding her to a spot, she turned her around and stood behind her, "Open your eyes."
Gabriella did what she was told and opened her eyes. Right when she did she felt a sharp pain in her chest, right next to her heart. Turning around, she fought to hold the tears in. She smiled at Brandon and walked over to him.
"You said you were a park fan."
She smiled and nodded, ignoring her urge to get out of there as fast as she can.
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A/N: Again, we're SOO sorry about the long wait. We started at nine p.m. and finished at two a.m. long huh? Lol, well now a little trivia.
1) What are the girls planning?
2) What are the GUYS planning?
3) Where did Brandon bring Gabriella?
4) What really happened to Gabriella's necklace?!
5) Why did Chad tell the guys what happened, when Gabriella didn't?
6) WHY AM I ASKING YOU ALL THESE QUESTIONS? (We really don't know..haha)
Well to get all these answers you have to keep reading!!! Oh, and FYI, where the bold line is, is where I (Vanessa) was suppose to stop, but Becky said to make it longer since we left you guys too long without an update. So everything after the line is all her...so yeah..REVIEW!!