A/N: just a quick one as I've left one at the bottom make sure you read it guys, just to say that I know that the quote has NOTHING to do with the chapter but it seemed right to put it in there as 17 again comes out in the UK on friday and I myself am rushing out of work just so I can see it! Anyways I hope you like the chapter

"What are you eating?
I don't even know, all I know is that I'm hungry...
... *all* the time."

Mike O Donnell + Ned Freeman: 17 Again

"So did you think that was okay?" Gabriella asked, shrugging her thin shoulders as she turned the dial down and heard the click as the power cut out. She bit down on her plump bottom lip; the nerves were rising in her stomach. She looked down to the floor in anticipation of what was to leave her sisters mouth in the next few minutes.

Phoebe sighed deeply before looking at the four girls intently. "Well" She practically sang with a bright beam on her slightly pale face. "I took it back to the rest of the guys last night." Phoebe had referred to how she had taken Gabriella, Taylor Kelsi and Sharpay's demo of the song 'fling' to her company last night and told Gabriella that she would deliver the outcome, right about... "And they loved it." An ecstatic beam broke out onto Gabriella's face. "They loved it so much that we want to put you through to the second round of the competition." Phoebe's beam was so wide; it was threatening to stretch off of her rounded face.

Gabriella's jaw was dropped to the floor. She looked to Taylor and Kelsi who had the same ecstatic beam on their faces. And then she looked to Sharpay...

Never had she seen someone so broken, not even on the day she had gone with her for the abortion. It had been 3 days since her and Zeke had broken up and each day she had more or less deteriorated even more. If Gabriella was to see a person slowly dying, she thought this would be how it would happen. She had grown quieter, more distant. She was barely talking to anyone now it would be a few words here and there but that was the most you would get from her. And Gabriella was sure that she would be doing the same thing. If Troy and she were to break up she was definitely sure that her heart would be breaking slowly and then she would just be sure to die when it hurt too much to just breathe.

Zeke would pass them in the hallway and wouldn't say a word to Sharpay. Gabriella and Troy's relationship was feeling the strain of it also because they couldn't see each other inside of school like they usually would and he would have basketball practice after school almost every day so they weren't seeing each other as much. Currently Sharpay was sitting on the window ledge with her legs hugged tight to her body; her hair was completely scraped from her deadly white face. The only colour that was present on her skin was the slightly purple wrinkled skin around her eyes and the crimson veins in her eyes.

"Isn't this good Shar?" Taylor coaxed, trying to include her in the conversation. But Sharpay was just staring off into the distance out of the window helplessly. "Shar?"

Sharpay shook her head as if she was shaking herself from her trance like state. "What?"

Taylor sighed in annoyance. The air all of a sudden got thicker, like there was a storm brewing. Phoebe must have sensed the tension in the air because she turned her slim body to Gabriella. "Gabi, I'm gonna go. I'll see to you tonight right?"

Gabriella nodded slowly while not taking her eyes off of Taylor who had annoyance written all over her face. "Oh... um. I'm going to Troy's so I'll see you when I get home"

Phoebe's arched plucked eyebrows lifted upwards suggestively. She started to walk out of the room before leaning over to Gabriella's small figure and whispering in her ear. "Use protection."

Gabriella flashed red. Worse than red. Her chocolate brown eyes dived from her head and she was pretty sure they were rolling around on the floor somewhere. Besides the fact she and Troy didn't do that. She wanted to! But they didn't do that. And if they were doing that then she sure as hell wouldn't let her sisters know about it. "Get." Gabriella scolded and pointed towards the door. Phoebe grinned mischievously before walking out of the door. The change in the air was definitely not good.

"Shar, talk to us." Taylor spoke softly approaching the distraught blonde.

"There's nothing to say." Her voice wasn't harsh, it wasn't snappy. It was extremely hoarse and she just sounded exhausted. There was no other way to describe it. It was kind of heartbreaking. "I got my heart broken. I'll just have to put the pieces back together."

Gabriella felt a motherly need wash over the once happy cocky person, she felt like it was her fault. The guilt had been in the pit of her stomach since Zeke had approached her that day. What if she had said something? What if she had done something for Zeke to break up with her? "Has he called you or anything?"

Sharpay turned her irises to Gabriella's thin body. She shrugged her sickly thin shoulders upwards and then turned towards the window again. As if she found it easier to look outside into the distance than the three caring females who were wishing the best for her? "Not a word, I tried to call him but I got his voicemail and I called his house and his mom like paused after I asked for him and then tried palming the; oh he's in the shower honey shit." She mimicked as if she knew that Zeke's mother would be lying to her.

"Zeke's hurting too Shar." Kelsi's timid voice added, before she went and timidly sat down on the ledge and rested her hand on Sharpay's charcoal covered pants, the style was baggy, but it was so baggy on her thin legs it made her thighs look extremely thin.

"Don't you think I know that?" Sharpay exclaimed, as if it was obvious. "And it hurts me more knowing that I caused that pain."

Gabriella turned her chocolate eyes back to her depressed friend. Something that she was responsible for, no doubt. If only she would have told Zeke how much she loved him, how much she aborted her child for him. But she didn't did she? How fucking stupid was she? "Shar you've gotta figure out what you want"

Sharpay inhaled deeply. Her hazel eyes diverted back to Gabriella for a split second and then they rested on the floor. "I want him. I want all of him. I want to be the wallpaper on his cell phone. I want him to come up to me in the corridor and hug me and kiss me and tell me how much he loves me." Sharpay took a shaky breath to curb the tears from falling. She reached into her jacket pocket and lifted out her cell phone and held up the illuminated object with a picture of her and Zeke on the front. "Like that. We haven't spoken in weeks and I still can't fucking change it!" The tears were rapidly falling from Sharpay's exhausted eyes and she launched the baby pink cell phone across the room and her head fell rested on her knees that were hugged to her chest. In the distance Gabriella heard the crash of her phone falling to the ground, and the cracks of it breaking.

"Shar." Gabriella whispered, as if she was trying to calm down the mood of the room. She timidly walked over to Sharpay, and felt the weight ease from her feet as she knelt down and rested her hand on Sharpay's knee. "Look, sweetie. I don't wanna upset you and call me out of line, but if he doesn't come around then you have to move on. This" She pointed over to the phone that was rested on the floor somewhere. "This isn't good for you okay, you're gonna end up making yourself sick. And then we'll have to do something drastic. If Zeke doesn't come around then it shows how much of a dick he is doesn't it. But call it a gut feeling that he's gonna come back." Sharpay let out a sad laugh, and then pursed her pale lips together and smiling sadly at Gabriella's face, which had a few stray tears falling from her chocolate orbs.

"Thanks for always knowing what to say." Sharpay reached up to wipe the tears from her face.

Gabriella smiled back at her. "Let me see that smile."

Sharpay smiled with her lips pursed together. "No. No I wanna see the teeth Shar, the teeth."

A few sounds of sad laughter filled the room and Sharpay flexed her cheek muscles to pull her lips apart and all of her teeth were clenched together. In a scary kind of way, something you might see on Halloween. Gabriella laughed slightly. "That's better than nothing."

"I'm proud of you y'know that right." His husky voice whispered down to her. Gabriella smiled blissfully at him but her mind still couldn't help but to wander to earlier on that day with Sharpay's little breakdown, and how she was going to help her pull things together.

But she had to get over it right?

It wasn't really her problem and here she was sitting with the most gorgeous male that she would probably ever see in her mind, his arm was wrapped protectively around her shoulders as if he was telling everyone that she was his. But there was no one else there. And to say Troy was horny, yeah that was an understatement. The minute she had stepped through the door he couldn't take her arms off of her. He always seemed to be having some kind of contact with her.

But she could play with him, couldn't she?

"Oh yeah?" Gabriella whispered seductively and her hand wandered up his built chest, her index finger making small trails up his shirt.

He groaned slightly and Gabriella could imagine his eyes were closed at the impact of her fingers running up and down his clothed skin. "Yeah. I think you might need a reward."

And there it was.

Gabriella bit down on her lip anxiously. She couldn't do it. As much as she craved his fingers or better yet his tongue down there. She couldn't. "Um, we can't. I have my period."

Troy exhaled sharply but still placed his hand on the curve of her waistline and began to make invisible marks there. "It's okay. We can watch a movie or something." Gabriella knew that Troy was doing his best to suppress his horny side. But she loved the horny side of Troy more than anything.

"Nah-uh." She practically sung and her fingers trailed own to the material that was covering him. "We could um..." She pulled lightly on the waistband of his sweats and let the material snap against his skin. So she could see a peak of his golden skin.

She heard him take a sharp intake of breathe. "Y...you're sure?"

They had never done this. In all of the time they had been together she had seen all of Troy Bolton, but she had never felt him. She nodded confidently and turned around to face him, with the confident look in her chocolate brown eyes. She bit down on her pale lips and nodded slightly.

Her lips connected with his, but when his lips connected back there was a force to be reckoned with. It wasn't just a kiss; it was a hungry kiss, his arms clung onto her like he was clinging on for life. He hovered his built figure over hers and dangerously rubbed against hers, and she could already feel a pulse starting to form between her parted legs. She could already start to feel the excitement of him growing against her thigh.

"You're so fucking..." He started as her breath hitched and his lips connected with her neck where he started to suck and nibble at her skin. Gabriella's back arched to meet his teasing lips. "Beautiful"

Gabriella's hands worked at the bottom of his t shirt bringing it up over his body, their lips breaking apart for a split second for the shirt to be discarded on his bedroom floor. His parents had gone out for the evening and Gabriella now knew that it was a good job they had because she wasn't sure how long she'd be able to contain herself without some kind of sexual contact with him. She took a minute to look at his golden skin, her hands trailed up his shaped and defined six pack. Her tiny clammy hands rested on the curve of his shoulders to pull her back down towards him.

Their lips danced together in a fury, her lips were forced apart by his tongue that was battling with her own. She trailed her hands down to the sweat pants and began to pull at the material. "Hold on" He smiled into her skin. Oh no. He didn't want to do this anymore. And she was so fucking horny that she wouldn't have listened to him. His lips broke away from all contact with her writhing body and she whimpered at the lack of feelings that he should have been invoking on her. "You're wearing too many clothes."

He raised his eyebrows suggestively and ferociously gripped at her violet cami and pulled it over her head leaving her exposed in a black bra. He moved his lips down to the mounds of her chest and began nipping at her skin. Gabriella had never felt so turned on by him; she could feel herself becoming wetter as the seconds went on. And she was pretty sure that if she didn't place her hands on him soon she was going to explode. Soon he had unclasped he bra and she immediately felt self conscious infront of him. He thought they were too small. He had never seen them before and she just wanted to crawl into a hole and never come back out. But as soon as it happened his lips moved over her newly found bare breast and his lips fell upon her pegged nipple and he playfully nipped her breast.

Her hand moved down his sweats and she moved her calves up to rest on the top of his to aid her to pull the sweats down. How she did it she didn't know and the sweats were on the floor and there Troy was. The only thing that was separating her from him was the white boxer shorts that she desperately wanted to pull down. Her timid fingers fell to his hips where she gently pulled down the material.

She stared down at Troy's stiff erection. It was almost as beautiful as him. If that was even possible? She took a deep breath and trailed her hand up the shaft with the back of her fingers. "Holy shit." Troy moaned and his eyes closed erotically along with his head being shifted back onto the pillow.

Her hand then gripped onto his member and she began to move it up and down at a steady pace. His breath was becoming hitched and she could hear him inhaling as quick as he could as if his lungs were burning and he were being cut off from all oxygen. Her other hand reached up to steady herself on his abs that were sticky from the sweat but she didn't care. His eyes were shut blissfully and she knew what was about to come.

She quickened her pace and Troy's intake for breath became quicker, it was almost nonexistent. Like he had stopped breathing. His member twitched into her hands and then the chalky coloured liquid wet her hand. Her name echoed from the walls. His hands were gripped onto his bedspread and his chest was heaving up and down as he was trying to catch his breath.

Gabriella took the opportunity to go and wash her hands before the liquid were to dry and stick to them. She had done this with Luke plenty of times but she never actually washed her hands afterwards, it was like he intimidated her that much that she didn't dare move when he was around. But Troy was different.

So different.

She returned to the bedroom to see that Troy was gone from the bed and she immediately thought what if he was the same? What if he was like Luke and didn't want her to leave after she had just given him a hand job? What if he was offended that she washed the evidence from her hand? "Troy..." She whispered in a timid voice.

But her voice was cut off when the door slammed behind her. Gabriella's small frame jumped from her skin as she turned to see that Troy was standing behind the door, if she wouldn't have been so afraid she would have noticed that he placed some new boxers on. He had an amused smile on his face, which was until he saw hers. His smile dropped and he walked over to her and placed his hands on her upper arms and forced her to look up into his blue eyes. "Hey. Are you alright?" he asked forcefully.

But the look in his eye was different to any that Luke had ever given her. The love was swelling from his spheres as they penetrated into hers. She shook her head from all thoughts of her dick of an ex boyfriend and melted into Troy's embrace. "I'm fine." She informed him and she felt his arms wrap around her and pull her closer so she could feel the impact of his built torso pushed up against her own. "Was that okay?"

He pressed his lips to her black hair and rubbed her bare back soothingly. "That was more than okay." He grinned.

The sweat that was on Troy's body previously must have been drying because he was beginning to shiver in her grasp. But deep down her had hoped that it was from her being in his arms. "I love you." She whispered and kissed his right pectoral.

The sensuality in the room heightened when he brought her from his body and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "I love you too. More than you'll ever know. I'm never letting you go you know that right?"

Gabriella smiled slightly and looked up into his piercing eyes. "I don't ever want you to let me go."


A/N: I know it was kinda short but forgive me lol :). Anyways you know what to do! But I aso have a new story in the works. Which is going to be up in a few hours. So make sure I'm added to you're author alert list so you can give it a read and give it a chance. Thanks for all the kind reviews, thank you for reading also!