Chapter 11

As my lips settled on hers it took a mere few seconds for her to respond. It was slow and soft and after a moment she pulled back looking.

We both stayed silent for a moment, looking at each other, she was confused and I was searching for something in her expression, before I sighed and stood up. I think I had just made the worst move ever.

I put my hand out for Gabriella to grasp. "Come on, it's getting late. We should head back now."

She stared at my hand for a moment before grasping it and I pulled her off the swing. As soon as she stood balanced her hand fell out of mine and we began walking back.

"Gabriella?" I asked as she remained silent. She stayed looking at the ground as we walked. "Are you okay?"

She nodded and looked in the other direction of where I was as I waited for her to do or say something.

"Please say something," I begged after awhile, not being able to take the silence any longer.

"What's there to say?" Her voice sounded so meek and I still couldn't see he face.

I sighed as the minutes flew with not one noise as the rest of the world was sleeping . Only the sound of our breathing and the soft noise our shoes made as they hit the ground. There was so much tension and awkwardness that I almost jumped for joy as I saw the hotel up ahead.

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That night I lay in bed as Gabriella slept beside me. Thankfully it was a big one so we had quite enough room between us. I glanced at the clock for the millionth time. Two o'clock. I needed to get some sleep but with Gabriella avoiding me like a peg I didn't know what to do.

Why had I kissed her? Why was I so stupid? She probably didn't even like me anymore and that was a for sure now seeing as she had pulled away. The second we arrived here she had entered our room and, as I handed her sunglasses and hat back to her, she grabbed some clothes and headed straight for the bathroom to change.

When it was my turn to use the bathroom I remained in for quite sometime, thinking things over and by the time I finally decided it was okay to come out she was already fast asleep in the bed, probably trying to avoid talking to me.

I sighed again and got out of bed, hoping not to disturb her rest and grabbed my phone, my hotel room card and slipping on a hoddie before heading out the door. I walked down the hall and entered the elevator before I dialled Chad's number. Five rings issued and just as I was about to hang up in defeat he picked up the phone.

"Hello?" came Chad's tired and groggy voice.

"Hey Chad."

"What are you doing calling me two in the morning?" he complained and I could faintly hear Taylor groan in the background.

"I think I just messed up with Gabriella."

"What did you do?" he asked tiredly though trying to wake himself up.

"I kind of kissed her." I held my breath wondering at how his response was going to be.

"What?!" Chad yelled and Taylor told him to shut up. "You kissed her?"

"Yah. And it royally screwed everything up," I told him angrily.

"Now it can't be that bad," he tried assuring me but I shook my head, even though he couldn't see me.

"She can't even look at me." I felt my mood fall even further.

"Troy, look, just try talking to her."

"I've tried!" I exclaimed to him.

"Look, I think you need to just calm down right now and we'll think of something tomorrow, okay?"

I sighed. "Yah, okay. Bye." I hung up just as the elevator doors opened to the lobby. I made my way through the well lit room and out the front doors. I glanced around noticing it was raining but I didn't care. It was a small drizzle so I stepped out without a second thought, dreading going back to the room.

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It was a little after three when I came back into the room, soaked, but once again I didn't care. I had walked around aimlessly for quite some time before deciding to sneak back into the room unnoticed. That didn't happen.

The second I closed the door, quietly as possible I came face to face with an extremely worried and anger looking Gabriella.

"Where have you been?" she asked the second she saw me and stood up from the bed.

"Out," I told her simply as I pealed off my hoodie and shook my wet hair.

"Where? I woke up and you weren't here."

"Well I'm here now so don't worry, okay?" I smiled slightly, trying to calm her down noticing how worried she was.

She came up to me and hit my arm. "Never do that to me again."

"Gabi!" I rubbed my arm. "That hurt!"

She pouted. "Well serves you right."

I walked over to the dresser looking for some dry clothes to wear when she spoke up.

"I think we need to talk about before."

My head shot up hitting the top of the dresser. "What?" I asked, rubbing my head.

She sighed. "Look, about the kiss, I realize it was just a spire of the moment thing or something like that. I don't know but it doesn't matter because it didn't mean anything, right?"

I looked at her trying to hide my sadness and searched her expression to see if something was there that would prove she felt something with the kiss. I found nothing.

"Um, yah, nothing. Uh, I have to go change, you know," I trailed off as I hurried to the bathroom trying to get away as quickly as possible.

Why was I so stupid to kiss her in the first place? This was all way to hopeless. Maybe I should just give up while I'm behind. It would make things easier.

A/N: Okay actually this was not how I wanted to write this chapter but it kept going into this direction instead of the one I wanted so yah. I won't be able to update for awhile since I'm going on a road trip tomorrow and won't be back for a week. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Next will be more entertaining, if this wasn't so good, and will be out after a week. And please don't kill me, it doesn't end here.