Hey everyone! Sorry for the long wait again! I swear…being extremely busy sucks. My sincere apologies to any of you who are as busy as I am! This chapter is kinda short, too...but it's better than nothing!

Anyways, this chapter starts the Monday after Troy and Gabriella's date. So…enjoy…and leave me a review please!

Disclaimer: I don't own HSM.

Gabriella woke up very nervous this morning. Today was the day that she was going to 'break up' with Ryan. She went over everything in her mind about what she was going to say to him, as she got ready to go to work.

The taxicab ride to the set seemed especially long today. She dreaded having to get out of the cab. Gabriella was always the person who got dumped. She'd never had experience actually dumping someone. Gabriella didn't want to hurt Ryan. Ryan made her smile, and laugh. She honestly did like him a lot… just not as much as Troy.

It was time. The cab rolled to a stop, and Gabriella got out. She slowly walked to the entrance of the building, and opened the door. Gabriella felt like she was walking to her death sentence. She walked inside the studio, and started searching for Ryan. She saw his blonde hair across the room, going towards the costume trailer.

"Ryan!" Gabriella called after him. Ryan instantly smiled when he heard Gabriella's voice. He stopped, and turned around to greet her.

"Hey, Gabriella! How was your weekend?" He asked sincerely.

"Fine…can I talk to you?" Gabriella asked in a whisper. Ryan looked around the room a little bit.

"You are talking to me…" He answered back in a whisper.

"I mean in private." She whispered again.

"Oh…ok!" Ryan said in his normal voice. Gabriella took his hand, and pulled him to a room off the side of the costume trailer. The room was packed full of all the other costumes and props that weren't being used for the movie. Ryan and Gabriella were standing less than a foot away from each other.

"Ok…now I can talk to you." Gabriella said.

"It must be really important if you need to talk to me in private." Ryan said. He raised his left hand, and ran his fingers through Gabriella's hair. He then softly caressed the crook of her neck.

"It is…" Gabriella's mind completely went blank as soon as Ryan touched her. She closed her eyes and breathed in Ryan's alluring cologne. She placed her hand on his outstretched forearm. Her hand slowly made it's way up Ryan's arm, then down his toned chest. Ryan slowly leaned in towards Gabriella, and she stood on her toes to meet him in the middle.

"Dinner!" Gabriella abruptly said before the kiss. Ryan pulled his head away from Gabriella's, but kept his hand on her shoulder.

"Dinner?"

"Yes, you see-" Gabriella was interrupted by her vibrating cell phone. "Uh…hold that thought." Gabriella dug her cell phone out of her pocket, and turned around so her back was facing Ryan.

"Hello?" Gabriella said with a slight annoyed tone. "Yeah….hi, Taylor." Ryan started massaging Gabriella's neck and shoulders. "Yup…you caught me in a busy time. Nope… I don't remem-" By now, Ryan's hands were by Gabriella's waist, and he lowered his head, and started softly kissing her neck. "I don't- uh…" Gabriella completely lost her train of thought…again.

After a few moments of silence, Taylor got annoyed at Gabriella's inability to form sentences. "Gabriella…Gabriella…" she said a bit louder. "Gabriella!!"

"Huh? Oh!" Gabriella quickly raised her phone back to her ear.

"Gabriella, if that was Ryan making your mind go all fuzzy on me…well shame on you. I thought you were going to break things off with him." Taylor said in a slight hushed tone.

"Well I was, but you interrupted me."

"I'm sure that's not the only thing I interrupted…"

"Taylor…don't worry about it. I have to go, okay?"

"Alright…bye." Gabriella closed her phone, and slipped it neck into her pocket. Gabriella turned back around to face Ryan.

"Ok…back to what I was saying before."

"Yes…you said something about dinner." Ryan said. His hold around Gabriella's waist tightened a bit.

"I want to ask you out to dinner for tonight."

"Well, it's kind of short notice…"

"Short notice?" Gabriella said in a slightly disappointed tone.

"Yeah, Troy's assistant, Angie already asked me out to dinner."

"Angie asked you out to dinner?" Gabriella asked. There was a pause between them, and Gabriella gave Ryan a questioning look.

"I was kidding! Quit looking at me like that!" Ryan said after he couldn't take Gabriella's death stare anymore.

"Good. I thought so. Pick me up at my hotel room at around 7:00."

"Wait…why can't we go right after we finish shooting today?"

"Because I need time to look pretty…and plus the reservation isn't until 7:45. Ok, I have to go and get ready…and you do too!"

"That's right. It's hair and make-up time…oh joy." Ryan said enthusiastically…not.

"Don't sound too excited." Gabriella said. She reached up, gave Ryan a peck on the cheek, and left the room.

Thanks for reading!

I have a feeling that this is going to be one of the last chapters, so make your reviews good!! Lol