Hey guys sorry it's been such a long time since I've updated, but I decided to because it's a special occasion. I'm now a year older!!! But I hope you like the chapter!

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Troy POV

Please no Please no. I just found out that she actually likes me. If another guy is trying to get her I'll kill him.

"No guys for me," She said. As much as I wanted to believe that I knew it wasn't true so I gave her that look people always give other people when they know that the last thing they said wasn't true. "What?"

"You and I both know that guys are coming after you," I said.

"Fine, guys ask me out but I never like them and the guy I actually like doesn't even notice." She said leaving her head on my shoulder. Was she talking about me? Well it's true, I didn't know until I got the email from Taylor and Sharpay.

"How do you know he doesn't know," I asked putting my arm around her. She shrugged. "Well maybe he does like you."

"And Maybe not," She said.

"He probably does," I started. "How could he not? You're a great girl, smart talented and everything more." She looked at me and smiled. I smiled back and started leaning in slowly. She got what I was doing and started leaning in too.

"Ella!" Cody screamed running through the door. We jumped apart and looked at him. "You're here!" She smiled and ran over to hug him. I sat sadly on the stairs watching my brother and my best friend/crush hug while jumping in circles.

"Hey, how've you been," She asked.

"Great but I missed you!" He yelled again. "So did Troy even though he didn't say it. He was all mopey, and Sam said that he was crushing on a girl. Do you know who he's crushing on?" She laughed and looked over at me.

"Awe I missed both of you. I don't know who Troy's crushing on but I'm sure we'll find out soon," She said looking at me. I smiled at her, things were about to get very awkward.

"Cody, go and do what little homework you have," I said. "We can play a little game later." He nodded and bounced up the stairs.

"I missed him," She said. I nodded and walked over to her. We both just stood there not saying anything.

"Don't tell me you two aren't talking again. What'd you do this time Troy," my dad said walking in. I rolled my eyes as Ella giggled.

"I didn't do anything dad," I said.

"He didn't, we were just in an awkward silence," She said bluntly. My dad thought about it and nodded before going back into his office. "That was easy," She said. I started laughing as soon as she finished that sentence. "What are you laughing at?"

"You sounded like that little button from staples!" I imitated the button going 'that was easy' over and over again. She started laughing too putting a hand on my shoulder. As soon as we both stopped laughing we looked at each other.

"What were we talking about before Cody came in," She asked.

"We weren't talking," I said leaning down again.

"Oh," She mumbled before closing the space between us. I felt her arms wrap around my neck as we kissed.

"Gabi!" My mom said walking through the door. "Wow!" She said once she saw us. Ella wiped her mouth before smiling.

"What's wow," My dad asked sticking his head out of his office. "What's with the kids," He asked. "They're still friends right? I won't have to go through the whole awkward thing right?"

"Um…no, you won't have to go through the whole awkward thing. Um but they aren't friends anymore I don't think," She said looking at us. I looked down at Ella and smiled. She laughed quietly as she looked at my dad's face.

"What happened now?" He asked.

"Well I walked in and they weren't friends anymore." She said. I hoped that my dad would get it but he didn't. He actually said he didn't get it. "I walked in on them making out," My mom said.

"Wha—ohhhhh." My dad smiled at us and nodded. "I'll leave you three alone then."

"We're going to go upstairs," I said grabbing Ella's hand and walking up the stairs.

"No funny business!" My mom called up. "Nice seeing you again Gabi, glad you're here!"

"Thanks Lucy! I'm happy to be here," She yelled back. We walked into my room but I didn't let go of her hand. "What was that back down there," She asked.

"A kiss," I said. She laughed lightly and shook her head. "I don't know," I said. "I like you, a lot. And I kind of already know that you like me too."

"How do you know," She asked.

"Taylor and Sharpay may have stolen my email and emailed me that you told them that you like me. They told me not to hurt you and not to tell you that they told me because they're not supposed to have my email address," I said in a breath. But she seemed to understand that.

"That is just like them," She mumbled. "Now what?"

"No you're my girlfriend and we go and play with Cody because if we don't he'll whine for the rest of the night," I said standing up still holding her hand.

"I like the sound of that. But first I should get my stuff out of my car and put it in the guest room," She said. I nodded. We walked downstairs and towards her car. She had brought a duffel bag and a small suitcase.

"Mommy!!!!!" We heard Cody yell inside. We ran inside with the bags in our hands. My mom was already by Cody trying to understand what he was saying.

"Room and water and wet!" He yelled.

"I think he's trying to say that a room's flooded. A room's flooded!" Ella yelled. We all ran upstairs and checked each of our rooms.

"It must me the guest room," my mom said. We walked across the hall from my room. "The carpets wet." We all felt it beneath our feet. When my mom opened the door a bunch of water came all over our feet, a pipe was sticking out of the wall and water was pouring from it.

Gabi let go of my hand and ran downstairs. She came back with all the towels she could find and stuffed them into the pipe, putting the rest of them on the floor, trying to clean up the water.

"How did you know how to do that," my dad asked.

"Same thing happened to us a couple of years ago. I was home alone so I learned after a couple of tries. Comes in handy I guess," She said. My mom sighed and went down to call the plumber.

"Let's go downstairs," my dad said leading us all down. Five minutes later my mom came into the kitchen.

"He's coming but he said that the minimum time it will take to fix would be a week. I don't know where you're going to sleep now Gabi. I don't want to put you on the couch or the floor," She said.

"She can stay with me," I offered.

"I usually wouldn't have a problem with that but after what I walked in on earlier I'm not so sure."

"Just let them, where else will she sleep, they won't do anything right?" My dad asked us. We shook our heads as soon as he looked at us. "Come on Lucy, they're trustworthy."

"Okay, you two can stay in Troy's room. Hopefully nothing else bursts up there," She said looking at the ceiling.

"We'll go put Ella's stuff in my room then," I said. Ella followed me up to my room carrying her purse and duffel bag.

"Now what do you want to do, I mean after we finish playing with Cody," She said sitting on my bed.

"I have to study for my drama exam but you can do something else if you want." I said. Her face lit up but I don't think it was because she liked what I just said, I sure didn't.

"Do you think I could go to school with you tomorrow," She asked. "That would be so much fun. I could just say that I'm from your sister school and I wanted to see what the school was like." I groaned and fell back.

"You really don't want to do that," I said. "Guys will be all over you and the girls will want to kill you because of the guys. Plus then you'll have to meet my 'friends'. Yeah you really don't want to do that."

"Yes I do. Your dad works there so I'm going to go and ask him if I can. I'll be right back." She was out of the room before I could say anything else.

It wasn't that I didn't want her at my school it was just, my school is different. I don't want her to get hurt but then again she can stand up for herself. Maybe I just don't want her to find someone better then she would be coming up to see someone else, besides me. No, that couldn't happen because all the guys at my school are jerks. Okay, she can come.

"He was it was fine. What were you thinking about," She asked sitting on my lap.

"I was having an internal battle with myself about letting you come to school with me. The side that was for letting you come won," I said and started leaning in. She smiled.

"Troy!" Cody yelled. "I'm done with my homework!" We laughed and got up to go and play with Cody. I'm going to kill him if he messes us up again.

"What are we playing," Ella asked as we walked outside.

"Let's play tag," Cody said. "Can we play tag?" She nodded taking off her shoes and jacket.

"Do you have ants," She asked looking at me. I shook my head and took off my own shoes. "Who's it first? Wait a minute I have a better idea. Why don't we play hide and seek?" Cody thought about it and started nodding.

"I think Troy should be it," He said pointing at me.

"I think that is a very good idea. Troy you're it. Count to twenty and then come and find us," Ella instructed and spun me around a couple of times. I started counting with my eyes closed and heard them run off in different directions.

"19…20! I'm coming!" I yelled running to one side of the yard. I knew all of the good hiding places so I went to those first know that was where my brother would go. After five minutes of searching I found my brother down between two bushes. "Found ya!"

"How'd you find me," He asked.

"I don't know. I guess I just got lucky. Let's go and find Ella," I said offering my hand. He took it and we started walking around. We walked for thirty minutes until we sat down in the middle of the yard.

"Where is she? Ella!" Cody screamed. Nothing.

"I don't know. We've searched everywhere even in the house," I said sitting down.

"Not everywhere," I heard. We both turned around but nothing was there. "Still looking for me?" We kept on looking but she wasn't anywhere in sight. "Up here you two." We looked up and saw her sitting on the roof.

"Whoa!" Cody said.

"How'd you get up there," I asked covering my eyes so I could see her.

"Easy, there's a tree and then a pipe that's pretty easy to climb. I've been watching you guys look around the yard for a while now." She started climbing down the pipe against the wall and then transferred over to a tree.

"That's cool," Cody commented. "Now what?" He asked looking at us after Ella joined us back on the ground.

"I think your brother should go and study for his test tomorrow. It's going to be pretty hard," She said. He nodded and walked into the house, probably going to find my mom or dad.

"Do I have to study," I asked. She smiled at me and nodded. "Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure. The test is actually pretty hard. Let's go!" She pushed me back into the house and all the way up to my room where I went limp and fell on the bed. "Come on," She said laughing and trying to pull me up.

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Amanda!