The party is over for tonight.
But the drama continues.
That's all I gotta say.

-Gossip Girl

Chapter 14

The cool breeze flows in through the window in Gabriella's room. Gabriella snorts from her nose before becoming a little awake. She rubs her eyes and opens them a little, using her hand to block the sunlight that's hurting her eyes. She looks at herself, in the same party clothes that she had last night. She tries to get up, but notices Sharpay and Taylor lying on the floor. They looked like they had partied long into the night and passed out short after getting into Gabriella's room. Gabriella stood up, trying not to step on Sharpay's or Taylor's hairs and walked into the bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror. The mascara stains that she cried last night were fading. Her blush was absorbing into her skin and her lip gloss looked scaly from dryness.

Gabriella pulls down her dress onto the floor. She unclasp her bra and sends it down onto the floor with her dress. She steps into the shower and let the head fall free onto her scalp and body. She used the warm water to wash away the events from last night. How Ryan showed up and grabbed her heart from his sexiness. And how she found Troy kissing a girl she didn't really know after having a little trouble with Ryan. She wipes her face with her hand, not caring that her face feels really rough. After washing her hair twice with shampoo, adding conditioner and rinsing it off, and giving herself a rosewater bubble bath, she steps out of the shower. She uses her light blue bathrobe and covered herself, tying the rope around herself. She unlocks the door and steps out, finding Taylor and Sharpay not on the ground anymore. She goes to her walk-in closet and finds a cream Hollister 'Alison Creek' jacket, a dark grey Hollister 'Jack Creek' shirt, a medium Hollister 'Venice Low Rise Boot' jeans, and gray Converses. A/N: Outfit in profile. She goes back in the bathroom and change.

Gabriella trotted downstairs, seeing that Sharpay is watching TV. She plops down next to her. "What's up?" she asks. Sharpay continues to flip the channels. Gabriella waves her hand in front of Sharpay's face. Sharpay grabs her wrist and puts it down.

"Don't bother me. I'm watching A Shot at Love." Gabriella shrugged and walked over to Taylor, who was reading Seventeen on her living room table. She noticed that the place was spotted clean. She better tip Linda and the people who helped.

"What's up?" Gabriella said. Taylor looked up from her magazine.

"Nothing. Just reading this." Gabriella smiled.

"Do you want to do something?" She leaned over to see what page Taylor's on.

"Sure. Why don't we ask the guys to come over." She leaned back immediately. Her face changed. "What's wrong?" Gabriella bit her lip; inviting the guys meaning Troy would come. She put on a smile, begging Taylor to not notice anything.

"Okay. Why don't you call them?" Taylor grinned and took out her Black Slim. She speed-dialed Chad and told him to call the guys and ask them to come. Chad obeyed and they hung up. Gabriella, Sharpay, and Taylor called Kelsi and told her to come to.

A little after one o'clock, the doorbell rings. Sharpay gets up to get the door while Gabriella and Taylor talk about last night's events. The guys walked in one by one, sitting with the girls on the couch. Troy walked over to Gabriella and sat next to her, but she shifted her butt away from him. He raised his eyebrows, but shrugged it away. He put his arm around her waist, but she got up and went upstairs.

"Is she okay?" Troy asked, out in the open.

"I don't know. Her face dropped when I said I wanted to invite you guys. But then her face came on again," Taylor said. Troy nodded and decided to go upstairs to talk to her. He knocked on her door and looked down at Sharpay and Taylor. Sharpay shrugged and Taylor crossed her arms around her chest. Gabriella's door opened.

"What do you want?" Gabriella said nastily. Her eyes were red and she was wiping the wetness of her cheek.

"Why are you crying?"

"Nothing." She refused to look at him or she'll think of him last night.

"Nothing means something. What's wrong?"

"You should know."

"Why?"

"I don't know. Why don't you go ask Alison?"

"What does she have to do with this?"

"BECAUSE!" She yelled at his face which shocked him. Gabriella closed her eyes and pressed her lips together inside her mouth. "Just leave."

"I want to know why you're crying of me and Alison?"

"I don't believe that you don't know."

"But I seriously don't know."

"Think harder." Gabriella slammed the door in his face. Meanwhile with Troy, he rubbed his face and stepped downstairs.

"What did you do with Gabi this time?" Jason asked.

"Nothing. I don't even know what's wrong."

"Something that's got to do with Alison?"

"I don't know what."

"Do what Gabi told you to do. Think harder. What did you do with Alison that made Gabi mad?" Taylor said. Troy's eyes shot wide.

"I'm gonna go talk to her." He practically ran upstairs and rammed the door open and closed it behind him.

"I swear, he's gonna do something that leads to sex," Chad joked. Taylor stomped her foot onto his.

Troy closed the door behind him. He sees Gabriella lying on her stomach, face in pillow. He walked over to her and sat down on the bed.

"I think we need to talk." Gabriella mumbled something, but Troy didn't quite understand. "Come again?" Gabriella flipped over to her back.

"You think or you know?"

"I know."

"Then?"

"Well, I don't know how to talk to you with that attitude."

"You think I have an attitude?" Gabriella raised her eyebrows.

"No, I don't. I just… arghh… can you let me talk?" Troy said frustrated.

"You're talking now. I don't get why you're frustrating over yourself."

"God, Gabi. Okay fine. I see why you're mad at me. I got to the point."

"And your point?"

"You saw me kissing Alison huh?"

"No, I saw me kissing you," she said sarcastically. She turned around so Troy couldn't see her tears.

"Gabi, I'm sorry you had to see that. I didn't mean to kiss her."

"Oh, so you meant for her to just slip her tongue down your throat?"

"Gabi, you're overreacting."

"How am I not supposed to overreact?!"

"You're taking this way too seriously."

"Well, I'm sorry that I'm jealous of some crazy Troy Bolton fan."

"Yeah, you're… wait, you're jealous of her?!"

"No I'm not." She hid her face in her jacket, feeling the fur rubbing against her cheek.

"Yes you are." He moved in towards her and tickled her stomach. She poked her head out of her jacket and giggled loudly, trying to push his hands away from her. She didn't succeed as she lies back down on her bed with Troy collapsing on top of her.

"This is an awkward position."

"Not for me." She giggled sweetly as Troy kissed her forehead.

"So you don't like Alison right?"

"I never did. Never will." Gabriella sat up.

"Then who do you like?"

"I have a feeling you already know."

"I do, but I just want to make sure."

"You just want me to say it out loud, do you?"

"Sure. I'd love to hear that you, Troy Bolton, likes me."

"Fine, I surrender. I…" Gabriella waited for his answer, "love teasing you." Gabriella's jaw dropped and she pushed him off of her. Troy chuckled at her expression.

"It's not funny."

"Yes it is. Your face was priceless." Gabriella hit his arm hard, her eyebrows pressing together. She huffed and stood up. Troy pulled her back down and she landed on his left arm.

"Don't touch me." She pushed Troy's arm off of her, but didn't get up.

"Gabi, you know that I don't need to tell you that I like you."

"I just want to hear from you." She turned to lay on Troy's chest. "So I know it's true."

"It is true. Just believe it from the heart." Gabriella giggled. "What?"

"That sounded very cheesy."

"Just call me Mr. Cheesy Man." Gabriella climbed over onto Troy and looked him in the eye. Her wavy long hair fell onto the sides of his face. He smirked as Gabriella put on a confused face.

"What?" Suddenly, Troy pushed her to the side and flipped her over, Troy on top of Gabriella. He looked at her giggling and trying to get out of his grasp. But he held her close to him, his face inches apart from hers. He leaned down and kissed her forehead. She closed her eyes, feeling his tenderness of his lips. Then he kissed her nose. Her hands were sliding down the sides of her body closer to him. He kissed each of her closed eyes and each of her cheek. Her hands lands on his stomach and they slithered under his East High black jacket and his red American Eagle shirt to feel the smoothness of his six-packed chest. Finally, his lips pressed onto hers.

She longed to taste those lips again. She pulled her hands out of his shirt and wrapped her arms around her neck, pulling him in. His arms collapse on her sides and he fell on top of him.

"Ouch," he mumbled. Gabriella chuckled and pushed him next to her. She took her jacket off and threw it onto her desk and slipped her Converses off.

"That's better. It'll also be easier for you to take my clothes off." Troy chuckled and pushed her onto the bed and crashed his lips onto hers.

"How long does it take for them to say 'I'm sorry'?" Sharpay asked annoyed.

"I told you they're having sex," Chad announced.

"I doubt it. I'm going up," Taylor said. She stood up. Taylor stepped upstairs before Kelsi could pull her down to stop. Chad, Sharpay, Zeke, and Jason followed her up. She opened the door open without knocking and entered.

"OH MY GOD!" Taylor covered her eyes quickly. Chad came in after her and pointed at Troy and Gabriella.

"I told you they were doing together!" Gabriella covered her body with his bedspread.

"You guys! Get out!" Troy stepped out of the bed and picked up his boxers publicly.

"BOLTON! PULL YOUR PANTS UP!" Taylor yelled, still covering her eyes. Troy pulled on his boxers hurriedly.

"Can you at least get out and let us get dressed?" Troy said irritated. Taylor turned the other way and pulled Chad out.

"Can't anybody give us some privacy?" Troy pulled on his jeans.

"It's not like we did anything. We didn't even get to the lust." He leaned over to her and kissed her lips.

"We'll find some way. Promise." She smiled and grabbed her pink Victoria's Secret push-up bra and matching thong from her nightstand and put it on under the sheets. Then she grabbed her jeans from the floor.

"Have you noticed that every time we're getting to the sex part, there's always someone interrupting us?" Gabriella asked as she got her shirt from her bedpost.

"Yeah I did. First was me cause I didn't want to do it. Second, were Ryan and Martha. And now, it's Chad and Taylor. It's like God sent those people to stop us from doing the wrong thing."

"Sex is not wrong. Sex is art and you do not rush art." A/N: Credit to Gossip Girl!

"Yeah, uh huh." He pulled on his shirt and flipped the collar of his jacket. "Shall we go down?" Gabriella puts on her jacket and slipped on her Converses.

"Ready when you are." Troy grabbed her hand and walked her out of her room.

"Finally, the sex couple has come downstairs," Chad broadcasted.

"I see you guys made up," Sharpay said, trying hard not to giggle. Gabriella pulled Troy downstairs faster so she can sit on the couch.

"Yeah, they made up alright," Taylor smirked. She shivered at the sight of naked people.

"We didn't ask you to go upstairs," Gabriella sat down next to Taylor. She shivered in her jacket and Troy wrapped his arms around her.

"When are you guys getting official?" Jason leered.

"What do you mean by that, Jason?" Troy raised his eyebrow.

"Like when are you going out saying 'Gabi's my girlfriend!' or 'Troy's my boyfriend!'?

"When you sleep and never wake up again."

"I assume that's never."

"Why not?" Sharpay asked. "You guys look so cute together. And you guys already act like a couple, so why not just ask her to be your girlfriend?"

"Because I don't like to rush things," Troy said, kind of getting annoyed that his friends are asking these questions.

"Nuh uh, Troy Bolton is not the kind of guy to not rush things," Chad confirmed.

"Well, this Troy Bolton has changed," Troy snapped back. Gabriella put her hand on Troy's leg.

"And it's all because Gabriella Montez. Gabi, you're already a legend for changing the school's biggest player."

"Well, I'm thankful." Gabriella kissed Troy's cheek.

"I can imagine it now. Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton: the couple that never got together until they're sixty," Jason said. Kelsi elbowed him on the arm.

"I'm getting disturbed by these questions," Gabriella said. She stood up and released her hand from Troy's and walked into the kitchen.

"You see? Even Gab's getting annoyed," Troy said. Taylor stood up.

"You guys should respect Gabi's personal life. It's not your choice to put her and Troy together," Taylor snapped. She followed Gabriella into the kitchen. She sees Gabriella pouring herself a glass of water from the refrigerator.

"Honey, would you like to talk?" Taylor asked.

"Not really." Gabriella slid herself into a seat on the dining room table. Taylor sighed and slid to the chair next to her.

"I think we should. I'm sorry that the gang is kind of annoying you with the questions."

"I'm not annoyed. I'm just kind of weird hearing these questions."

"Why?" Gabriella took another sip and placed her cup on the table and turned to Taylor.

"I asked Troy if he could tell me, face-to-face, if he likes me. But he said that I don't need to hear him say that he likes me. He said that as long as I know, it's okay."

"Well, then he doesn't need to say it. He just admitted it to you."

"How?"

"By telling you that you don't need to hear him. Because he knows that you know, so it's nothing worth repeating."

"But I really want to hear him say it. Say that he actually likes me."

"Well, when he decides to make you official, you might not hear 'I like you' but instead 'I love you'."

"Woah, I never said I loved him. That's too fast."

"Maybe. Just think about it. Like you said, you don't want to rush things with Troy. So give him some time to think things through like how he's going to tell you he likes you." Gabriella nodded and smiled.

"Thanks Tay. I know I can talk to you the most." Taylor grinned and hugged Gabriella.

During that hug, Gabriella kept thinking. How come Troy isn't telling me he likes me? How can Taylor say that instead of him liking me, he'll tell me he loves me? I'm so confused. Gabriella pulled back, smiling at Taylor. It may not be a real smile, but it's good enough to show Taylor what she's not feeling inside.

Drama freaks a hold!

Looks like GM is getting a little confused with the 'Live. Laugh. Love.' quotation. Hope TB will get her mind winded up and maybe a little action afterwards.

What happened at GM's party stays in GM's party. Sorry you couldn't get the latest in scoop of it, but whatever you know now is the best scoop of all.

Later babes,
Gossip Girl

A/N: Sorry that I'm not really updating. I'm just getting addicted to reading other people's stories. So I've decided to give you a little sneak peak to the next chapter. It's totally gonna be awesome. The next chapter is about the gang skipping the class trip to Washington D.C. and instead, going to Las Vegas. They're going to be some drama including the crazy events of Valentine's Day that's during the trip. Let's see what Troy is going to do for Gabriella and that also includes the rest of the guys for their girlfriends or almost-to-be girlfriend (for Chad and Taylor; they're not a couple yet). Hope you like the idea! DON'T STEAL!