Hello East High Wildcats.

What we have here, as you suppose, isn't suppose to happen. But the truth is there's more to what the scene shows you. You'll just have to dig the inner strength of it.

You know you love me,
Gossip Girl

Chapter 21

"Troy, what do you need to tell me?" Gabriella asked. Her voice sounded really worried and she hasn't slept last night because how excited she was. Or supposed to be.

"Gabs, I just want you to know that I'm going to be totally honest with you, and so the next sentence might kind of throw you off." Gabriella pushed him on the shoulder.

"Just tell me the god damn thing." Troy took a deep breathe.

"I slept with Pauline last night." Gabriella raised her eyebrows.

"You… what?"

"It was an accident. I drank too much when I was hanging out with her." Troy's eyes widened and turned his head away from her eyes. "Shit," he mumbled.

"You told me you were planning something."

"I was, but I finished early. And then I went to look for you in the lobby, but I found Pauline instead."

"So you didn't bother to call me and ask me where I was?"

"I did, but Pauline forced me to hang out with her."

"All it took was a 'no' and you could have gotten out of there."

"It's kind of hard to say 'no' to a girl."

"Well, it shouldn't be hard to say 'I have a girlfriend'."

"I tried."

"But what? Girl got your tongue?" Troy rubbed the back of his neck, a symptom that he was beginning to feel nervous.

"I didn't mean it, Gabi. I'm serious and I'm sorry."

"Actions speak louder than words." Gabriella touched his chest with her hand. "So I suggest you work for it." Gabriella turned around and began to walk away.

"What about today?" Troy called out. Gabriella turned around, but she didn't walk back to him.

"I'll figure something. Happy Valentine's Day." She turned away from Troy's face so he wouldn't see her crying, but he already knew she was just by her eyes.

Being lonely is boring and sad. Luckily, Gabriella isn't alone.

"Can I sit here?" Gabriella looked up to see a tan body.

"Sure." Logan sat down in the seat next to her. She swirled her drink with the blue straw and took a sip.

"You okay? Today's Valentine's Day."

"I know, but my plans are ruined."

"How come?"

"There's nobody to spend it with." Logan crossed his arms across his chest.

"Today's my day off since my boss thinks I have a girlfriend." Gabriella giggled. "What?"

"It's hard to believe you don't have a girlfriend."

"Well, it's also hard to believe you don't have a boyfriend."

"I did, actually. But things came up."

"I'm not gonna be nosy about it if you don't want to talk about it." Gabriella smiled; she wished Troy would be like that. Gabriella leaned toward the table.

"How about this? Why don't you spend Lovers Day with me so I don't feel like Mr. Lonely?"

"Sure, if Akon's with us." Gabriella laughed at Logan's joke of Akon's song 'Mr. Lonely'.

"Well, he's not. But are you up for it?" Logan smiled, showing off his white celebrity teeth.

"When you finish that," he pointed at Gabriella's drink, "we'll start." Gabriella nodded excitedly and finished her drink. She left a twenty dollar bill on the table and she and Logan left the Lounge.

After his conversation slash argument with Gabriella, Troy went back upstairs to find Chad getting ready in the bathroom. He was shaving his chin in his jeans and shirtless.

"Why you back so early?" Chad asked. He walked out of the bathroom to pull his turquoise shirt on that said 'U + ME YES!'

"Something." Chad sat on the bed next to Troy.

"I know what happened."

"News travel that fast?"

"No, I meant I know why you and Gabs are spending Lovers Day today."

"Why is that?" Troy got up and looked Chad in the eye.

"Me and Shar saw you do… it with that new girl."

"I thought you were shopping with the others."

"We were. But me and Shar needed to go to the bathroom and we saw you and that girl taking the elevator. You even said 'Hey. What's up?' to me." Troy scratched his scalp.

"I don't remember that."

"That's because you were drunk. But then we followed you into the room and that girl was seducing you the whole time."

"I know. I found myself naked in the blankets next to her. I should know that she was flirting with me."

"And now you and Gabs are history?" Troy shook his head.

"Not just yet. I don't waste my 'I love you's just for no one."

"Gabs is that special, huh?"

"Too special. The only person besides you that understands me the best." Chad stood up from Troy's bed and walked to the front door.

"You want to spend V day with us?" Troy shook his head again.

"Nah, I'll just listen to music on Demand." Chad nodded and left the room.

Kelsi giggled when Jason accidentally tripped on the metal step at the hotel lobby's sliding doors. She linked her fingers with Jason's as she smiled again.

"You are funny. You know that right?" Jason nodded and kissed her cheek.

"You are beautiful. You know that right?" Kelsi rolled her eyes.

"Not time to be corny."

"Well it is V day and V day is made for guys to use their pick up lines and be corny." Kelsi giggled again; she's been giggling the whole day.

"Thank you then." She looked at Jason's eyes, but she noticed someone behind him. "Is that Gabi?" Jason turned around looking at Gabriella laughing with a guy. And it wasn't Troy.

"What happened to Troy and Gabi?" Jason asked. Kelsi's jaw dropped when she saw the guy kissed Gabriella's cheek.

"Where's Troy when you need him?" Jason and Kelsi turned around to see Sharpay and Zeke walking toward them hand in hand. Sharpay looked like she went shopping the whole day since she had two bags on her left arm and her purse on her right while Zeke had three bags on each of his arm.

"We don't know." Zeke noticed the guy interlining his hand with Gabriella's and leading her toward the elevator.

"Is there something they need to tell us?" Taylor and Chad asked from behind. Everyone was there except, of course, Troy and Gabriella. Chad bit his lip at the sighting of mystery guy and Gabriella.

"This is just like last night," Sharpay mumbled. Chad releases his hand from Taylor's and covered Sharpay's mouth. Zeke tried to pull Chad off of Sharpay but she got Chad off of her by biting Chad's palm. Chad pulled back and winced in pain.

"What is going on?" Taylor asked sternly. Everyone looked at Chad and Sharpay since they looked like they knew something.

"I don't know anything except that Troy slept with another girl last night," Chad announced. Sharpay slapped the back of his head.

"You blew our cover," Sharpay hissed.

"Wait, so Troy slept with another girl last night and then Gabi is getting revenge by sleeping with another guy tonight?" Sharpay and Chad nodded.

"Gabi must be really devastated," Kelsi said.

"Not really," Zeke said, pointing at Gabriella and the mystery guy. The gang turned around to see Gabriella push her lips onto the mystery guy and pushing him in the elevator. They ran to the elevator, but their last sighting was Gabriella dropping her bag and rubbing her hand in the guy's shirt.

"That wasn't supposed to happen," Sharpay said.

"Maybe it was God's fault. I mean he controls our every move." Everyone glared at Jason. "What?"

"Don't blame God for this. Blame.." Just the right time, Sharpay's cell phone rang the tune of 'We Are Family' obviously knowing it's-

"Ryan," Sharpay mumbled. She flipped her phone open. "What?"

"Shar, you gotta get to Albuquerque tomorrow! Ms. Darbus shortened our trip."

"What?"

"She shortened the trip, so we're getting to school tomorrow instead of Friday."

"But today's only Tuesday."

"Exactly, hurry! Or Mr. Matsui is giving out monthly detentions to East High Fabulous."

"Where did you get that?"

"Gossip Girl." Sharpay rolled her eyes. The gang raised their eyebrows watching Sharpay making face expressions while talking on the phone. They had no idea what the conversation was about.

"Okay, we'll be home tomorrow." Sharpay snapped her phone shut.

"What's wrong?" Jason asked.

"We're going home tomorrow."

"But we didn't even get to see the magician's show," Chad whined. Taylor pinched his ear with her newly pedicure hand.

"No choice. Matsui is giving out monthly detentions to people who aren't there tomorrow. We gotta go pack."

"What about Troy and Gabs?"

"We'll explain to them on the way." Sharpay ran off to the elevator.

Found the inner thought of the event? Worry not; the next event is more of a mystery than you think.

xoxo,
Gossip Girl

A/N: I know this is a short chapter, but this chapter is only part one even though it's a full chapter. The next chapter is Part 2 and Chapter 22. You should know.