Kay my finals are over and I got all A's except for one of them but it was an 89, and that's one point away which makes me kinda mad but oh well! Here's the next chapter, Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

"Let's all get ready for the Christmas lunch that they have here at the hotel," Jack said breaking the awkward silence.

"Come on Cody, your clothes are in our room," Lucy said. The four of them walked out, including my mom.

"Don't you have to get dressed Troy?" He stood there grinning at me. "What do you want now?"

"Do I really sound hot?" He asked. I groaned and pushed him out the door, with difficulty. "Answer me! Do I really sound hot?" I slammed the door and went to get my clothes.

I walked out of my room in a black halter dress. It came down to my knees with a red ribbon on the waist where it flowed out and down. Everyone was outside the door ready. Cody wearing a mini suit and Troy in a real suit.

"You look amazing!" Lucy gushed. I blushed and thanked her.

Troy POV

When Ella walked out I couldn't say anything. I could hear my mom saying that she looked amazing and I agreed but I couldn't say anything. She looked more than amazing, she looked… I can't even think straight now!

"Troy, don't you think she looks nice," My dad asked me. I just stood there and stared. "I guess that's a yes."

"Come on, we have reservations," Maria said. They all started walking towards the end of the hall towards the elevators. I followed in a zombie like trance.

"Troy?"

"Huh," I said.

"You okay," Ella asked. I shook my head and nodded at her. "You sure?" I nodded and again and smiled. "Let's go. I hear it's all you can eat," She said. My face must have lit up because she laughed.

"What are we waiting for," I asked and pulled her along to join our parents who were laughing at us.

"Welcome do you have reservations," He asked.

"Yes, under Bolton." He looked at the list and led us through tables towards one big one.

"Thank you," Ella said as he pulled out her chair for her. She looked up at him and giggled. I took the time to look at him, brown hair, green eyes, wearing the uniform. But overall it looks like Ella could fall for him. But that's not going to happen, I hope.

"You're waiter will be right over," He said and walked away. He smiled at Ella one last time making her giggle again.

"Gabi, he's cute," her mom said. She blushed and looked down. The three adults were on one side of the table and we were on the other. I was in the middle.

"Mom," she groaned out. All three of them laughed.

"Well, I'm going to get food. Come on Cody, let's go get some food for you," my mom said. "Jack you coming?" My dad quickly got up.

"Me too," Maria said and walked off.

"Food time?" I asked Ella. She laughed and nodded. We both got up and grabbed a plate. Before I knew it my plate was filled with food and hers was barely filled with anything.

"How are you going to eat that much?"

"I'm not," I said. "Cody is going to eat all of his food and then he's going to teak all of mine. But you are going to have to go back up there over and over again," I said.

"I am just pacing myself," She said smiling.

"Sure…" We walked back over to the table. No one was back yet so we just started eating.

"I'll be right back," Ella said. She walked through the big double doors and into the hotel. I saw that guy who took us to our table walk out after her. I got up from the table and followed her.

Gabi POV

I walked out the doors and towards the restroom. "Hey!" I turned around and found the guy that showed us to our table. "We never actually met, I'm Nick," He said and stuck out his hand.

"Gabriella," I said. "Nice to meet you," I said smiling.

"So are you here with your family?" He asked.

"My mom," I said.

"And that guy with you wasn't your…um…boyfriend?" He asked. I shook my head.

"Troy's just an old friend. Our parents met again and so did we." He is so cute!

"Good." I blushed. "So, what are you doing in three days for dinner," Nick asked.

"Nothing so far. And if I am I can probably get out of it, why?" I asked. He smiled.

"I'll pick you up at seven. What's your room number?" I quickly wrote it on his hand.

"We probably won't be able to go anywhere to far. My mom will go crazy if I tell her that I'm going on a date with a guy that I just met. She'll probably make it have to be here. Is that okay?" I asked really fast. He chuckled and nodded.

"I'll see you later," He said. "I have to get back to work." He ran off looking back at me a couple of times. I smiled and walked into the restroom to wash my hands.

Troy POV

I can't believe she just said yes! I mean why would she want to go out with him! I walked back over to the table. "Where were you son," My dad asked

"I was just in the bathroom. Where'd my food go?" I asked looking at my now empty plate. I looked at Cody who was flashing that grin at me. The one that I couldn't get mad at. "I'm gonna go get food," I said.

"Hey Troy!" Ella said from behind me. I jumped and almost threw the food on my plate over my head.

"Don't do that," I snapped.

"Sorry, you okay?" I nodded and kept on going down the row. She left and walked back to the table. I know I shouldn't have done that but I'm mad at her.

"I've got my own food Troy," Cody said pointing to his newly filled plate. I nodded. We spent another thirty minutes eating and then walked out. Ella smiled at 'Nick' on the way out.

"Lets go and change out of these clothes and then we can meet up and decide what to do next," Maria said. We all nodded and went to our rooms. Ella hadn't mentioned anything about the date yet which made me mad. Why wouldn't she tell me?

"Now what," Cody asked. We weren't supposed to meet until our parents called because the women needed time to change and shower I think.

"I don't know. It's pretty early so there's only going to be playhouse Disney on," I said looking at my watch.

"Can we go and play with Ella?" He asked. I nodded. We walked into her room and found her watching the weather.

"Why are you watching the weather on Christmas," I asked.

"Nothing else is on. What were you two doing," She asked.

"We didn't have anything to do so we came here," Cody said. "Can we play with you?" She nodded and picked him up.

"You wanna talk to my friends," she asked.

"Yeah," He said nodding his head. She dialed the number and put it on speaker phone. Ella covered his ears for a minute for reasons unknown.

"Who the hell is waking my up at this time? I swear I will kill you," Sharpay said sleepily. I get it.

"Well, it's me and Cody is with us," She said. "I can't believe you actually went back to bed."

"Gabi I'm gonna kill you. You know that none of us are up now," She mumbled. Ella took her hands off Cody's ears and rolled her eyes.

"Why aren't you up," He asked.

"Because… um… we stayed up waiting for Santa," she said.

"Okay." My phone rang in my pocket.

"Hey my mom finally got texting down," I said holding my phone up. "They want us down there now."

"Go back to bed Shar and tell everyone Merry Christmas," Ella said hanging up the phone. "Let's go," she said.

"We are going to go swimming in the indoor pool so go and get changed." Maria said.

"You couldn't have called us and told us that," Ella asked. Her mother rolled her eyes and pushed her daughter towards the elevator.

"Cody, we brought your swimsuit down," my dad said. He ran over and was picked up by my mom. "Hurry up Troy!" I shook my head and walked really slow. Ella got annoyed and came and dragged me to the elevator.

We changed as fast as we could and raced down to the lobby. She made it to the elevator fast so I had to climb down eighteen floors of stairs. When I got down I was sweating so hard and she was sitting on a couch smiling

"Nice run?" I glared at her and walked towards the pool. She came up beside me.

"You smell already," She said taking a step to the side.

"Yeah well you're going to smell too in a second," I said looking at her. She looked at me confused before I picked her up. She screamed all the way down the hall attracting a lot of attention.

"Let me down!" She yelled. I transferred her so I was carrying her bridal style and without saying anything or flinching when she hit me, I jumped into the pool. "TROY!" She yelled when we came up for air.

"Yes Ella?" She didn't say anything but started hitting me over and over again. "You don't want me to drown do you?" I asked her but she started hitting harder.

"That's the plan!" I swam away towards the shallow end where my feet touched the ground. "I cannot believe you dumped me in the pool!"

We spent the rest of the day in the pool getting all pruney. The next day we were supposed to meet up, guys and girls but Ella followed us towards the gym.

"What are you doing," I asked.

"I'm going to the gym," She said.

"But this is a guys and girls day," Cody said. "You're not a guy. Are you?" She laughed and shook her head.

"But today I'm gonna hang out with the guys. Is that okay?" She asked. We all nodded surprised. No girl has ever really wanted to go to the gym and get all sweaty with us.

"What are we doing then," my dad asked.

"I'll give you one guess," Ella said twirling a basketball on her finger. We smiling and nodded at her idea. All of the courts were open so we chose the bigger one.

"So what are we playing," I asked.

"I don't know but I'm stretching," Ella said leaning over and touching her toes. "I've pulled so many muscles because I didn't stretch." I thought about it and started stretching too.

"Why don't we play two on two? Ella and Cody and Troy and I," my dad said. They nodded but I didn't.

"Why aren't I with Cody, that way the teams will be fair," I said. Ella looked at me and smirked.

"You saying I'm not as good as you?" She asked. I shook my head. "You sure?" I nodded. "Then the teams shouldn't be a problem," She said dribbling the ball.

"Fine, let's play," I said.

We started playing and she was good. Better than any other person I've met beside my dad and I. After twenty minutes my dad and I were losing my two points. Ella had been passing to Cody who passed it right back to her. There were a couple times when he went right under our legs. Ella just laughed at our shocked faces and shot.

"You are good," I said blocking her.

"Thanks play with my friends. They're on the team and you know Sharpay?" She asked. I nodded. "Her dad works with U of A and we've played with the team a couple times." I must have been shocked because she went right past me and shot again.

"Seriously?" she nodded and stole the ball from my dad. Cody grabbed it from her and started dribbling. He threw it as hard as he could at the basket and watched in amazement as it went in.

"Great job Cody! You made a basket. Come on; let's go beat your brother and dad?" She asked. He nodded and smiled which made me smile.

"You sure you don't want to quit now?" I asked.

"Think again. Who's winning?" I sighed.

"You," I mumbled.

"And me!" Cody yelled taking the ball from Ella and going under my dad's legs. He passed to Ella and watched as she shot.

"I think I'm done," my dad said. "You're really good Gabi."

"Thanks. Most of my guy friends are on the team so I play with them. It's so fun," She said. "Geez I'm sweaty." She wiped her forehead and drank her water until it was gone.

Yeah I know it was a really weird place to end and it was mostly a filler at the end but I promise the next chapter will be up soon, I have a four day weekend.

Amanda!