Gabriella left Phil there with Ashley and her brothers and she went home with Troy. "Are you sure you're okay?"

Troy nodded, "Yeah I'll be fine." He said. He got into the car and began driving down the street, "I don't think I've been punched by the same person twice." He laughed softly.

Gabriella sighed, "I'm so sorry about that…" She said to him.

He shrugged, "its okay."

She looked out the window most of the way home.

"So is your brother for real? Like he'll tell your dad?" Troy asked her.

Gabriella shrugged, "Maybe, if he wants to piss me off or something then he'll do it." She really didn't want to go back to boarding school, but her dad did inform her to stay away from Troy.

Troy pulled up in her block but didn't pull up to her house, "Well hopefully you don't have to go…" he said.

Gabriella nodded, "We'll see." She opened the door and began to get out but Troy pulled her back and kissed her. Gabriella kissed him back and smiled. She got out of the car and waved to him then walked into her house. When she got in, she saw her dad sitting by the fire, "Hi daddy." She said to him.

Her dad looked at her, "back so soon? What? Was he not nice or something?"

Gabriella shook her head, "No he's nice, I was just tired that's all." She said, "I'm gonna go to bed." She said then kissed her dad's cheek and walked up to her room. Gabriella changed her clothes and lay in her bed. She had a long day and wanted it to be over; the person she really wanted to avoid was her brother Matt. She heard the front door open so she turned off her light and pretended to sleep.

Matt walked into the living room to see his dad sitting on the sofa, "hey pops." He said.

"Hey Matt, Texas called…they're interested in you."

"REALLY?! THAT'S INCREDIBLE!" Matt said as he hugged his dad, "Hey is Gabs home?"

"Yeah I think she's in bed…why?" He closed his newspaper and sat up straight.

Matt sat across from him and sighed, "I have bad news and you're not going to like it…I don't want to do this but this is my little sister and I'm watching out for her."

His dad raised his eyebrow in interest with a little concern in it, "what's going on?" he asked.

Matt sighed, "The thing is…" he began to say. He looked up the stairs and saw the lights in Gabriella's room off, "Gabriella is secretly seeing Troy."

There was a pause for a few seconds then David's face began to slowly turn red, "WHAT?!"

Matt sighed, "I saw them dad together and kissing…even the game is done and over with, but I still saw them together…"

He shook his head, "I don't believe this, and Gabriella wouldn't do such thing…"

"I thought so too dad, but I saw it with my very own eyes…even my girlfriend saw it."

He stood up and threw his newspaper on the ground and marched upstairs to Gabriella's room. When he got in, he flicked the lights on and went over to Gabriella. "GABRIELLA GET UP! AND GET YOUR BUTT DOWNSTAIRS RIGHT NOW!" he said and went downstairs.

Gabriella rolled over and sat up, "Oh shit…" She said and got out of bed. When she walked down the stairs she passed Matt and shook her head at him, "never talk to me ever again…"She said and walked into the living room. She sat down at the chair near her father.

"WHAT IS THIS I HEAR ABOUT YOU AND TROY BOLTON?" he screamed.

Gabriella was terrified because her dad has never yelled at her like this before. "Dad…please don't yell at me…"

"You fell in love with him didn't you? What are you thinking getting involved with a boy especially him?"

"Dad you got me involved and somehow it ended up like this okay?!" Gabriella exclaimed.

He shook his head and sat down, "you can't go to that school with him anymore."

"WHAT!" Tears began welling up in her eyes as she was arguing with her dad.

"You heard me; I'm sending you back to boarding school." He said and stood up.

"DADDY I LOVE HIM!"

"NO! I'M SENDING YOU BACK TO BOARDING SCHOOL!" He roared.

She shook her head, "NO!"

"STAY AWAY FROM BOLTON YOU HEAR ME?"

She let her tears fall as she ran up to her room, "There is no way he's going to stop me from seeing Troy." She gathered her stuff together and tears began rolling down her eyes as she did so. She knew that her dad was taking this overboard; but she really felt something for Troy. She didn't know if it was love quite yet; but she actually changed this friendship into something more…she actually got to know the real Troy and this is how it has to end and she wasn't going to let that happen. She knew running away was extreme, but she couldn't be in this house with a controlling father and a snitch of a brother. Her mom wouldn't be much help either because she'd always support what her husband wanted. She picked up her phone and dialed Troy's number.

"Troy, can you come get me…please?" Gabriella hung up the phone and climbed down her balcony. She saw Troy's car around the corner and ran towards it. She got in and cried softly.

"What happened?" He asked her softly as he tried comforting her.

Gabriella shook her head, "My dad and I got into an argument and I couldn't handle it anymore so I'm here now…please take me to your house…"

"Gabriella, you know I can't take you to my house…my dad hates you." He said as he stroked her hair.

Gabriella nodded slowly, "Right…" she said to him, "I don't know what to do, I can't go back in there with him angry at me…"

"Well you're going to make him angrier when he finds out you're missing. He's going to flip…you Montez's have anger management."

Gabriella shot him a look, but she was too tired and sad to do anything back to him.

"I'm kidding, well most of you guys do, everyone except you." He told her.

Gabriella sighed, "I guess I can go back in…" she said softly.

"Are you sure…? We can drive around for a bit." He told her.

Gabriella shrugged, "Aren't your parents going to wonder where you were?" She asked him softly.

Troy nodded, "Yeah, but so what?" he said and drove off into the streets. He drove across the beach street and the car ride was pretty much silent. "So uh, do you think your parents will notice-…" he looked over at her and saw she was asleep. He smiled and parked into a vacant parking area and let her sleep. Soon enough, Troy fell asleep as well and they didn't wake up till the next morning.

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Matt woke up the next morning and felt really bad about what happened last night. He knew he shouldn't have told on her. He got up early and went to her room. He knocked on the door softly, "Gabs…Gabs…" He opened the door and saw the bed empty. Matt looked at his watch and saw it was 5 in the morning and usually Gabriella wasn't awake this early. "No way…" he said and looked around the house. When he didn't see Gabriella, he called her cell phone and there was no answer. "Gabriella is totally screwed especially if they find out she's with Troy." He shook his head and walked passed his dad's office to see his dad awake, "dad you're awake?"

He nodded his head, "What are you doing up?"

Matt shrugged, "Uh, I was thirsty." He made up some excuse.

"Yeah, I felt bad for last night…I shouldn't have yelled at Gabriella like that…" he said, "I should apologize…" He stood up.

"WAIT NO!" Matt said quickly. "She's probably deep asleep and will be madder if you went up there and woke her up."

David sat back down and looked at his son weirdly until he heard his point. He nodded, "You're right, since you're up how about we go take a run down by the beach?"

Matt shrugged, "Sounds good, let me go change and I'll meet you down here in a few." He ran up the stairs and closed Gabriella's bedroom door then went to go change into some running clothes. He came back downstairs and then the two of them left off jogging.

After a half a mile, they arrived at the beach street and began jogging down it.

"You know, Troy is so lucky that Gabriella is going back to boarding school because if I ever found any other business then I'm sure going to do something to that kid."

Matt looked over at his dad, "You're not going to do anything to hurt him are you? I mean I need some real competition on the courts."

He laughed, "Look on the brighter side; you'll be the biggest star in basketball."

Matt shrugged and continued jogging. The sunrise was appearing and more cars began driving up and down the road. Around them, there were other people out and running themselves, and some people Matt recognized because they either played basketball or were on a sports team. His eyes trailed off to a vacant parking lot and saw only one car parked there and it looked familiar to him. Whose car is that…? He asked himself in his head. He continued to think as he was jogging along side with his father. "That looks really familiar…" he said.

His dad looked over at the car and shrugged, "Pretty nice car… I don't see why they'd drive it out and leave it there."

Matt laughed softly and continued looking at that car. Soon it clicked to him, he knew who that car belonged to, "oh my god Bolton." He said aloud on accident.

"What? Where?" he said quickly and looked around them. "Don't tell me he's with his dad too, I do not want to see that bast-"

"Dad I'll be right back." He said and ran towards the car. He knew no one would be in it but he wanted to make sure that it was Bolton's car. Matt knew because there was a Wildcat Basketball in the interior of the car. When he ran over there, he looked through the window and saw Troy which made him jump back a little then when he looked over to the passenger seat he saw Gabriella and his jaw dropped. "Oh my god." He said. He kind of did have a feeling she would be with him, but it was so risky because his dad could've dropped by…maybe he spoke to soon.

"Hey, you like this ride…?" he said and looked through the window and saw Troy in the passenger seat which caused him to jump back, "what the hell is Troy doing here? And with some bimbo girl?" He said and looked at the girl. It took him a while to notice that it was Gabriella. When he did, he freaked. "GABRIELLA?!" He said and then he had a clearer look and yes it was her. His face turned red again and he pounded on the window.

Troy heard a pound and jumped in his seat and looked around. He looked over to see Gabriella still asleep, well was asleep. "What the hell?" he said.

Gabriella looked at Troy and saw Matt and her dad on the outside, "Oh shit…" She said in a terrified tone. "It's…my dad."

Troy turned his head slowly to see Mr. Montez. "Fu…" He rolled down the window slowly.

"GABRIELLA MONTEZ GET OUT OF THAT CAR RIGHT NOW!"

The two of them both got out of the car and stood far from Mr. Montez.

"Daddy…" Gabriella began to say.

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"Just stay away from me okay Gabriella?" Troy spoke.

Gabriella stood there and she was shocked at his words, "…What?"

"Your dad is right, I'm no good and you should go back to boarding school."

"I don't want to; I want to be with you." She said as she tried reaching out to him.

"You just can't."