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This chapter starts with Gabriella in her 5th day in New York. But the 7th day is NOT where it ends! There will be chapters after that.

Summary: Troy and Gabriella each went their separate ways after high school- Gabriella a Chemistry teacher, and Troy, a NBA star. When they both meet up again, on a dating website, romance blossoms again. Troyella.

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Gabriella awoke to unfamiliar surroundings. She was in a room with dark green walls and white carpeting. She pulled a white blanket off her and stood up. She slowly headed to the door and turned the knob. A hallway with at least 10 doors greeted her. At the end of the hallway, she recognized what must be a kitchen. She made her way down the hallway and saw Troy huddling into the refrigerator.

When he heard her come into the kitchen, he saw her and smiled. "Hey sleepy." Noting a confused look on her face, he added, "You're at my house, Sharpay brought us home and she didn't know what hotel you're staying at. And you couldn't tell her because we were both completely wasted."

"Oh." Gabriella walked over to Troy and pecked him on the lips. "Do you remember anything from last night?"

"No, but, if you drank as much as I did then you must have a hangover." He pulled a bottle of painkillers out of a cupboard and handed them to her.

Gabriella then noticed that she had a bad headache. "Yeah, I do." She took a pill out of the bottle as Troy poured her a glass of water.

"Here you go." Ha handed her the water. "Oh, and Sharpay's going to be here soon to take you shopping."

"Uhhh!!" Gabriella moaned.

"Oh come on, you girls love shopping." Troy said.

"Yeah but not when I have a hangover!" Gabriella complained.

Sharpay bursted through the door, "I'm Here Gabriella! I'm going to run you by your hotel to get some clean clothes and then were going shopping!"

"Oh yay." Troy rolled his eyes.

"Shut it Bolton." Sharpay snapped at him. "You two were SO drunk last night. Gabriella, you almost puked on me." Sharpay giggled, "I hope you didn't do anything that you'd regret."

"Nah, you know me better than that." Troy said.

"Anyway, come on Gabs, we've got to go shopping." Sharpay grabbed Gabriella's hand and pulled her out the door, Gabriella barely had any time to grab her shoes.

They both piled into Sharpay's convertible and pulled out of Troy's driveway. "Sow what happened at the party last night?"

"I don't really know. All I remember is Troy giving me those puppy-dog eyes to drink a beer, and then, apparently after that I couldn't stop." Gabriella said, trying to remember what happened after that.

"So you and Troy seemed to really hit it off when you came here." Sharpay mentioned.

"Well I guess that it all has to do with us knowing each other in High School." Gabriella shrugged.

"How did you guys break up again?" Sharpay asked. "I remember that it was shortly before we moved to New York."

"Yeah. It was senior year." Gabriella recalled what had happened.

Gabriella had looked around the house for Troy the whole night. It was hard to recognize anybody, because there were so many people. But Gabriella thought that she should be able to recognize her boyfriend. Gabriella had come to the party with Taylor (Who had ditched her and hour ago- and was currently making out in a corner with Chad) about two hours ago. Troy was supposed to get to the party early.

"Hey Gabs!" Sharpay ran up and hugged Gabriella. "I just got here. Anyway, happy last day of school for the rest of out lives!" Sharpay squealed with excitement.

"Yeah, its great." Gabriella was too busy looking for Troy to pay much attention to Sharpay.

"Hey, what's up?" Sharpay asked, concerned.

"Troy was supposed to meet me here 2 hours ago. He said that he had something really important to tell me." Gabriella said.

"Uh-oh." Sharpay frowned. She knew what Troy was going to do. Her, Chad, Taylor, and Ryan were all in on Troy's plan.

Gabriella didn't notice what Sharpay had said, "I've looked everywhere, except that room. I'm afraid that there will be something going on that I don't really want to walk in on."

"Oh please, even if you do, they'll probably be too drunk to notice that you did." Sharpay pushed the door open. The people were unnoticed by her walking in.

Gabriella gasped. "TROY?" Troy was laying on a bed, with the head cheerleader, Kaitlyn, on top of him and they were making out.

"What are you doing?" Sharpay screamed.

Gabriella walked up to him and smacked him right across the cheek. When he turned and looked at her, she could tell by his look that he was drunk. "You promised me that you wouldn't drink anymore," Gabriella chocked back tears, "or cheat on me." Gabriella ran out of the room, closely followed by Sharpay.

Troy who was drunk really didn't know what had gone on. Neither had Kaitlyn, who was equally drunk.

Taylor, who had looked up for a moment from her making out with Chad, noticed Gabriella who was crying. "Uh-oh." She stood up and rushed over to Gabriella. "What happened?"

"Troy was making out with Kaitlyn- drunk." Sharpay told her.

"I never want to see that jerk again. I don't ever want to talk to him again. It's over!" Gabriella sobbed.

"Oh no." Taylor had known about what Troy was going to say to Gabriella, and them breaking up had ended it all.

Chad had walked up to them and heard what Gabriella had said. "He must have had a drink while he was waiting for you. And when he drinks he can't stop."

Gabriella just cried.

"I'll take you home." Sharpay told her. "Taylor- can you tell Ryan that I'm not coming back- just tell Ryan that he can hitch a ride with someone else."

"I'll give him a ride home." Taylor offered.

"Okay." Sharpay agreed and her and Gabriella headed out the door.

"That's not good." Chad said.

"I know." Taylor agreed.

"So that's what happened." Gabriella had finished explaining the story. "I don't know why I'm getting together with him now, after what he did to me. And I didn't even know what he was going to say to me."

Sharpay cleared her throat. "Uhh, I know what he was going to say."

"Really? What?" Gabriella asked.

"You guys had been dating for two years," Sharpay continued. "He was going to ask you to marry him."

Gabriella choked. "What?"

"Yeah." Sharpay sighed.

"Oh my god." Gabriella shook her head. "You're joking."

"No, and truthfully, I was jealous. You know that I liked him then. But it eventually accepted that he didn't like me. It took me 8 years realize that."

"8 years? But that means…" Gabriella shook her head.

"Yeah, a couple days before you came, I tried to make a move on him, it was the stupidest move of my life and I shouldn't have done it. When he rejected me, I finally realized that he didn't like me as a girlfriend, and he didn't even like me as a friend until senior year." Sharpay continued, "But now I'm over it."

"Wow."

"Yeah, I can be deep." Both girls giggled. "So what would you have said if he hadn't gotten drunk and he asked you to marry him?" Sharpay asked.

"Are you kidding? I would have said yes! I loved Troy!" Gabriella exclaimed.

"Do you still love him?" Sharpay asked.

Gabriella hesitated. "Yes. I do."

"Like LOVE him LOVE him?" Sharpay asked.

"YES!" Gabriella yelled.

"Okay then. Geez you don't need to yell!" Sharpay laughed at her.

"Sorry." Gabriella apologized.

"Well were here anyway." Sharpay pulled into the mall parking lot and parked her car. "Let's get something to eat- I doubt you've had breakfast."

"Yeah, I'm starving." Gabriella said, climbing out of Sharpay's car. Sharpay stayed in the car and put the convertible top back up. Sharpay locked her car and shut the door. Her and Gabriella headed into the mall entrance near the food court.

"So what do you want to eat?" Sharpay asked.

"Nachos." Gabriella answered.

"That sounds good…" Sharpay said.

"Wow, nachos are something that High School Sharpay would never eat." Gabriella laughed.

"Yeah, I've grown up." Sharpay answered. They both ordered some nachos and some bottles of water and settled into a booth.

"So have you met someone in the last week that you got over Troy?" Gabriella asked.

"Yes actually. Were going out now." Sharpay smiled. "But there is one thing…"

"What?" Gabriella asked, very curious.

"He's a little older than me…" Sharpay avoided Gabriella's stare.

"How much?"

"He's 40." Sharpay looked down at her nachos.

"You better mean 40 minutes older than you." Gabriella said.

"Nope. He's 40 years old."

"SHARPAY EVANS! My MOM is 40!" Gabriella snapped. "WHAT are you thinking? You're only what, 22?"

"He's really nice!" Sharpay insisted, "I'm sure that you'll like him! In fact, I've arranged for him to come here so you can meet him."

"Great." Gabriella rolled her eyes and took a sip of water.

"Ohh look, there he is!" Sharpay pointed toward the doors. "Bradley."

Gabriella spat out her water and shot her head around. That was Bradley. THE Bradley. That was also dating her mom!

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