Hey guys! I know I haven't updated in three weeks and I honestly don't have an excuse other than I have been getting ready to move back into school. I am moved back in so hopefully I won't miss again next week. I know this one isn't that long but I am going to try to put up another one in the next couple of days to make it up to you! I am so sorry!

Gabriella laid in bed looking up at the ceiling thinking about that little girl when she heard Troy snore slightly. She smiled and rolled on her side, looking at him. I can't believe how handsome he is. He is so cute when he snores. She continued to stare at him with a smile on her face.

"Stop staring at me, I'm trying to sleep."

Gabriella jumped a little not excepting him to be awake. "You're awake? I thought you were sleeping."

Troy just smiled, "I was but I don't sleep well with people staring at me." He rolled away from her keeping his eyes closed.

Gabriella smiled big, "How many times have you been stared at while you were sleeping?" she leaned in kissed the middle of his bare back.

Troy smiled, "actually I woke up in the break room and had some nurse sitting on the bed next to me."

Gabriella laughed, "You're joking!"

Troy rolled over and opened his eyes, "I'm serious! I was freaked out." He laughed a little while shifting to get comfortable.

Gabriella smiled and placed her hand on his chest, "What did you do?"

Troy pushed some hair behind her eyes, "I sat up and said, 'is there anything I can help you with?' and she shook her head no, got up and left."

Gabriella couldn't contain her laughter; she rolled forward and placed her head against his chest. "That's so creepy! What happened to her?" she tilted her head back to look at him.

Troy looked down at her and kissed her on the lips quickly, "I don't know. I haven't seen her since."

Gabriella ran her hands up and down his abs and leaned up and kissed him harder than he kissed her. "That's weird."

Troy kissed her again rolling on top of her, "yeah it is."

Gabriella pushed him with all of her strength and rolled on top of him, "shut up." She kissed him again licking his lower lip.

"Mmm," he kissed her back before pulling back, "Wait, I have a feeling where this is going…"

Gabriella kissed him again, "you might have the right feeling," she leaned in to kiss him again but he pulled back.

"I thought that you wanted to wait remember?"

Gabriella sat up, straddling his lap, smiling, "I know what I said but we have been dating for a month and you just told me you love me. I know I haven't said it back, but I can tell you that I am falling for you. And technically I never said I was going to wait till I loved you to sleep with you," she add with a teasing smile.

"I know you didn't say that, but I want to make sure you want to do this. Like I said before I will wait, I have no problem with waiting for you."

Gabriella smiled and leaned down to give him a kiss, "I'm sure."

Troy looked at her face for a second before saying, "are you sure you're not doing this to so you don't have to think about the little girl, Hannah?"

Gabriella sat back up and thought for a moment, "Would it be wrong if I said I need something to take my mind off her?"

Troy smiled and sat up, keeping her in his lap but leaning against the headboard, "No. But we don't have to sleep together to do it. We can do anything you want, we can go for a walk, or we can go shopping. Anything you want to do, we'll do."

Gabriella sat there looking at him. She didn't know what to say. She knew he was right; they shouldn't sleep together just because she couldn't get Hannah off her mind. She knew she wanted them to have sex but she knew it wasn't the right time.

Troy just sat there looking at her with a smile on his face. "Do you want to just make-out?" he asked with a grin on his face.

Gabriella laughed, "I would love to, but your offer of going shopping sounds fun. We haven't really gone out together."

"What are you talking about we have date night every week," Troy asked confused.

"I know but we have never gone out just to hang outside one of our houses. I want to go shopping." Gabriella got up and went into the bathroom to get ready leaving a smiling Troy on her bed not really knowing what to do.

"I guess shopping it is."

They got ready and were now on their way to the mall, "What mall do you want to go to?" Troy asked has he took a right turn.

"Um, let's go to Liberty Tree." Gabriella answered while looking at her phone.

"All the up route one? Why can't we go to Burlington?" Troy asked. "I hate route one, no one knows how to drive on route one."

Gabriella looked over at him and smiled, "Fine if you're driving, we can go to Burlington. But you have to take me the Cheesecake Factory for lunch then."

Troy looked over at her quickly and smiled before looking back at the road, "Fine."

Gabriella turned on the radio and they sat in quiet listening to the radio until they made it to the Mall.

Troy groaned, "Why is every person in the world always at the mall?"

Gabriella giggled and put her hand on the back of his head, "I don't know."

"There is going to be no parking."

"That's fine we will just keep driving around until you find a space."

They only had to drive around for another five minutes before Troy found someone about to pull out of their spot. "Hurry up. We don't have all day!"

"What is taking them so long?"

"I don't know," has soon as Troy said that the other person started to back up, "Thank God."

They parked their car and got out. "I want to go to forever 21 so I can buy Cammie something for her birthday."

Troy grabbed Gabriella's hand in his, "I thought her birthday is in June?"

"It is I just want to buy something now to get it out of the way."

Troy laughed, "What if you forget?"

"Then I buy her something else and when I find the original gift, I have a new shirt," she said with a smile.

"So I am going to guess this has happened before."

"Once or twice."

Troy just shook his head has they continued walking.

They had been shopping for over three hours and Troy had only started to begin to complain, "Gabby my stomach is about to eat itself."

Gabriella stopped looking through the rack of clothes to look at him, "Fine let me finish this and then we can go to the food court."

"Food court? I thought you wanted Cheesecake. And you said that an hour ago."

"Yes but an hour ago your stomach wasn't ready to eat itself. And I figured the food court was closer."

"Alright fine the food court but you can't complain later if you regret not going to Cheesecake."

Gabriella just smiled and continued to look through the clothes.

"Gabriella?"

Gabriella stopped and looked in the direction of the voice that called her name only to see, Trisha. "Trisha!"

"Oh my God, I can't believe I am seeing you after all this time." Trisha said with a huge fake smile on her face.

Gabriella held a small tight smile on her face, "I know what are the odds?"

Before either of them could say anything Troy walked over, "Baby, please can we go get food?"

Gabriella saw Trisha's jaw drop and then a flirty smile cross her face, "Who is this Gabriella?"

Gabriella then turned and looked at Troy who looked confused and irritated at the fact that they were not leaving to go get food. "This is my boyfriend Troy."

"Well hello Troy." Trisha said in a grossingly flirtatious voice that would make anyone want to punch her.

"Yeah, hi," Troy said quickly before turning back to Gabriella, "Babe I am going to pass out if I don't get food in me anytime soon."

"Okay, we'll go." She turned to Trisha and put on the biggest fakest smile she could, "It was good seeing you Trish, we'll have to catch up soon. But you know how guys are when they're hungry." With that she grabbed Troy's arm and dragged him to the food court leaving the pile of clothes that she had picked out to buy behind.

"Babe you could have paid for the clothes, I just wanted to remind you that I was dying."

Gabriella just rolled her eyes, "I didn't want to stay in there any longer with her in there."

"Yeah who was that," Troy asked pointing his finger back to the store that they were in. "She was making me feel uncomfortable with the way she was staring at me."

Gabriella stopped walking while giggling, "That was Trisha Krug, the bitch from high school. She was the cheerleader, who fucked every male athlete. Everyone hated her but she didn't comprehend that. I guess now she's a cheerleader for the Patriots. Me and her use to get into a fight every day. She would always become 'interested' with every guy I dated, and because her legs spread easier than melted butter, every guy chose her."

Troy just laughed, "Man I hate those girls."

Gabriella looked at him to see if he was mocking her, "I'm serious."

Troy just wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her has close has he could with the bags that they had, "I know you are. And so am I. They were the girls that use to follow me around all the time. 'Hey Troy want to come to my house tonight, my parents won't be home' or or umm 'Hey Troy, I forgot to wear underwear today'"

"They did not say that!" Gabriella said laughing at Troy's impression of the girls he was mocking.

"Yes they did. The things I heard or saw, man, they would make porn stars blush."

Gabriella's face changed to one of disgust, "Gross."

Troy laughed at her face and then kissed her lips lightly, knowing she wasn't a fan of PDA. "Let's go get food and then we can go back and you can get all those clothes back."

Gabriella smiled up at him, "Okay."

They walked to the food court and got in line for some Chinese food. They were waiting for about five minutes when the lovely voice of Trisha made itself known, "Oh my god guys! I didn't know I would find you here."

Gabriella turned and looked at her, "Yeah cause we didn't say that we were going to get food or anything."

Trisha laughed a loud obnoxious laugh, "Oh my God, Gabby, you are so funny." She turned to look at Troy who was still looking up at the menu trying to figure out what he wanted, "So Troy," he looked at her with no real interest, "what do you do for a job?"

"Oh I'm a doctor." He said before turning back to the menu.

"Oh what kind of field are you in?"

Gabriella smiled at the fact that Trisha was trying to keep Troy's attention and was failing, "He's a surgeon. He focuses on pediatric surgery."

Trisha just smiled at her, "Really," she turned back to Troy, "Do you love it?"

He just threw a glance, "Yeah," he looked back at the menu, "Babe I think I'm just going to get whatever chicken they have and noodles. What do you want?" he asked looking at Gabriella and smiling once he saw the smile she was trying to keep on her face with Trisha still there.

"Whatever you're having is fine. I am going to go to the bathroom really quick though," actually smiling now at the look on Troy's face once she said that, meaning that he was going to be left alone with Trisha. "I'll only be five minutes," she said before leaning up to give him a big kiss.

As soon as Gabriella walked away Trisha was right next to him, "So Troy how long have you and Gabriella been dating?"

"Three years," Troy lied.

Trisha's eyebrows rose, "Oh really? How did you meet?"

"I was helping one of her professors at med school with a lecture and I filled in for her partner."

"Oh, didn't her and Sean break up three years ago?"

Shit, "Yeah they did, we meet shortly after that."

"So you're like a rebound?"

This bitch, "Look Trisha," Troy said while turning to face her, "I know girls like you."

"Girls like me?"

"Yeah, girls like you. You're beautiful, anyone can tell, but what you're lacking is a genuine personality. The only thing about you that isn't fake, are your looks. Guys only want to sleep with you, not be in a relationship with you. So when you see someone like Gabriella who is gorgeous, and she doesn't even have to try, you hate her. She has everything, the looks, personality, everything. Guys can see themselves settling down with a girl like Gabriella, having kids, getting married, having that one dog and white picket fence. With you, they can't. And it's not their fault. It's yours. You allow them to see you like that, until you start respecting yourself, no one else is going to."

Trisha just stood there with her mouth open, not knowing what to say. "Wow. I have never had a guy say that to me."

"And I have never had a girl, so blatantly try to flirt with me in front of my girlfriend. I love Gabriella and she loves me. It was a nice try but I'm not like the other guys she use to date, I know what I have with her and I am never letting go."

He just turned and ordered their food before grabbing and finding a seat, leaving Trisha standing there by herself.

I cannot believe that I just did that! I have never spoken to a woman like that before. Gabriella is not going to believe me.