Chapter 25

December 3rd Tuesday

"Don't you think it's strange your Mum had already signed that consent form?" Troy asked suddenly as they were sitting on the roof during lunch.

"What brought that up?" Gabriella looked up at him puzzled. Their plans were set weren't they, what made Troy bring that up again.

"I'm really glad that she did" Troy back-pedalled as he saw Gabriella's worried look "I'm just wondering why. It seems an odd thing to do."

"Now you mention it, it does seem odd. But does it matter why she did it?" Gabriella asked wondering where Troy was going with this.

"I don't know but I think it might be important. It's too unlike her" Troy said thoughtfully.

"What do you mean?" Gabriella questioned.

"A couple of things are odd about it. One, she signed it 6 weeks before she had to, which if she wasn't happy about the marriage makes no sense. Two, it's like a contract and she signed it without filling it in, something a successful business woman would never do. And three, it's not the right form. Why did she even have it?"

"What do you mean it's the wrong form" Did the registry office contact you? Please tell me what's wrong. We can still get married can't we?" Gabriella asked in alarm.

"Gabriella chill, it's the right form we need for us to get married. I didn't mean to make you panic like that I'm sorry" Troy hugged her tightly

Gabriella calmed down "Okay then what did you mean about being the wrong form, it can't be the wrong form and the right form at the same time Troy now you're not making sense." Gabriella grumbled to him.

Troy smiled at her "That's just it. It's the right form for you to get married in New Mexico."

"So..."

"I thought that you were going to marry Eduardo in Illinois not here in Albuquerque? Because the form she signed is only valid here in New Mexico" Troy explained slowly.

"Actually I was to get married in Cuba at the church where my parents and grandparents were married. Are you sure it's the wrong form?" Gabriella asked suspiciously.

"Yes I went to the registry office today and asked for another one," he said taking a folded form out of his pocket. "This is the same as the form we had isn't it?" he asked, sure that it was.

He handed over the form and pointed out the small print that declared that the form was only valid in the State of New Mexico.

Gabriella took the form and examined it "It looks the same" she agreed handing it back to Troy. "Why did you get another one anyway?" she asked curiously.

"Well I was going to get you to hide it and the contract back in your Mum's jewellery case so if she checks they will be there. Then unless she looks at the form carefully she won't notice that we took it." Troy hoped that Gabriella accepted the half truth. True replacing the form was a good idea, but his real motivation had been to check Reverend Anderson's assumption that the consent form Maria signed wouldn't be valid in Detroit or Cuba.

"That's a good idea I'll do it next time Mum's out, but do you think it's necessary?" Gabriella questioned.

Troy shrugged. "I don't know but better to be safe than sorry, maybe you should try to make it look like she signed it too" he suggested.

"You mean forge my mother's signature?" Gabriella asked scandalised.

"Well.. Yeah. It's not like we're trying to use the forged signature to get married, just to make it less noticeable that this isn't the original form." Troy explained his reasoning hoping Gabriella would be okay with it.

"Okay I'll try." Gabriella said getting out her pen and a spare sheet of paper to practice copying her mother's name and handwriting.

"Back to my original question, do you have any idea why your mum had an half filled out yet signed consent form for you to get married in New Mexico?" Troy asked.

"No it makes no sense at all" Gabriella said baffled.

"Do you think that she wanted us to find it?" he said hopefully.

Gabriella frowned in thought. "It was pretty hard to find and locked up, it's not like she left it lying around" she objected.

"Yeah but she still had it. And we don't know why she did. Also if she wanted to make it impossible for you to find wouldn't she have kept it at work? Or at least kept the jeweller case key at work so we couldn't get into it?" Troy argued.

The subject was dropped as the warning bell for afternoon classes rang and Troy and Gabriella ran down to their lockers, but Gabriella like Troy couldn't stop thinking about what it might mean.

Kelsi had been keeping an eye on Troy and Gabriella, hoping to see signs that Troy had been telling the truth when he told her that their problems were sorting themselves out. So far she was satisfied with the way things were going. Troy and Gabriella both looked a lot happier than they had a week or two earlier, though they still hadn't confided in the group what was going on. They were both absent more often than usual sometimes she knew they were on the rooftop taking private time as a couple but they'd also left the school at least once and Troy seemed to be planning something big. Kelsi felt a little guilty keeping her conversation with Troy to herself but after careful thought she decided that she still didn't actually know anything that she needed to share with the rest of their friends. All she had were suspicions that things between Troy and Gabriella had got better and that they were planning something that they wouldn't tell her about, and the other's had also noticed that their favourite couple were happier and if not exactly more relaxed at least more positive in their reactions.

Maria had reluctantly caught a late night flight to New York on Monday for a full day's worth of meetings to complete the preparation for her trip to Mexico before flying home late Tuesday evening. She would normally have stayed two or three nights rather than schedule fourteen hours of back to back meetings between two late night flights, but was worried about leaving her daughter alone when she was still so upset and vulnerable. In truth Maria was a little taken aback by just how upset Gabriella had been over being forced to break up with Troy, even after Ginevra had come up with the offer to take her into hiding. Gabriella had seemed to be starting to cope better these past few days which she thought could be because of Ginevra's offer to go into hiding with her but she wasn't sure that it wasn't just a front to hide her real feelings.

Because Maria would be arriving home during the night Troy would not be able to stay over on Tuesday night. Therefore he came over straight from basketball training that afternoon. His truck hadn't started that morning so rather than wait for a ride from his father he skipped his shower after training and ran directly to Gabriella's and borrowed her shower.

When Gabriella looked up as Troy walked back into the bedroom to get his clothes after his shower it was all she could do not to start drooling. She had seen Troy shirtless many times over the summer (and enjoyed the view) but it had never affected her in such a primal way before now. There was a huge difference between Troy in swim trunks at Lava springs surrounded by other people and Troy naked except for a towel precariously wrapped around his waist alone with her in her bedroom.

Troy stared back at her and smiled knowingly. He watched her face as a drop of water cascaded down his chest and her eyes followed it eagerly until it was absorbed into the towel still tied at his waist. He let her eyes roam over his body hungrily. He'd never been vain and mostly took his looks for granted, but for the first time in his life he was glad of the side effects of the demanding basketball training and work-out routine that was responsible for how he looked. Gabriella finally noticed she had been staring for several minutes and finally lifted her eyes to connect with Troy's amused ones. He leaned down and kissed her cheek, which made her snap out of it.

"Are you finished checking me out?" he asked lightly.

Gabriella blushed at having been caught, and then decided to punish him for laughing at her "No" she declared feigning confidence "I haven't." Gathering all her courage she reached for the towel and pulled it loose letting it fall to the floor.

Troy felt excitement and apprehension in almost equal amounts. He had never felt so exposed. He desperately hoped Gabriella liked what she was about to see, and that she wouldn't be frightened by this new step in their relationship.

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"Oh" she whispered, staring at his rapidly growing erection.

She was seated on the edge of the bed in front of him and his erection sprang out a mere foot from her face. He could see her face flush as she stared at it and her breasts bouncing slightly as she breathed. It excited him enormously that Gabriella got so worked up by examining his naked body.

She unconsciously reached toward him, as if to touch his penis, and then suddenly pulled her hand back. "Sorry," she whispered, blushing.

Troy's heart pounded as he considered what to say. He found her hesitation endearing and he certainly didn't want to push her into anything, but his body wanted her to touch him very, very badly. "You can touch it if you want" he whispered.

Gabriella nodded nervously, her eyes never leaving his penis, and tentatively reached her hand toward him. She touched his engorged head, and Troy sighed in delight. Then she wrapped her hand around his entire shaft, squeezing it gently and exploring its contours with her fingers.

"Oh Baby, that feels good" he encouraged. She saw her shoulders relax as she became more confident at his reaction.

"It's so soft and warm," she whispered, hesitantly exploring the skin of his crown with her fingers. He wanted to watch her reactions and the expressions on her face but he could barely keep his eyes open as she touched him. She slowly slid her hand down his cock, gripping it in a circle with her fingers, and Troy moaned at the friction. She looked up at him curiously, a little surprised at the look of raw need on his face.

When she reached the base, she ran her fingers unhurriedly through his pubic hair, then gently cupped his testicles. She gave them a cautious squeeze, and he shivered. She was just satisfying her curiosity, he knew, but it felt as if she were teasing him.

She returned her hand to his cock and lifted it up to explore its underside, her finger lazily tracing the thick veins that ran its length. She let it drop, and then giggled when it bounced.

Troy could take no more of this exquisite torture. "Please, Gabi... You're killing me."

"Am I hurting you? I'm sorry" she whispered horrified letting him go to bring both hands up to cover her face.

"No please don't stop" Troy groaned taking her hands in his.

"What do you want me to do?" she breathed softly, her nostrils flaring in a way that he found incredibly erotic.

"Just…stroke me. Like this."

He wrapped her small fingers around the head of his cock with his hand on top of hers, then slid them slowly down to the middle of his shaft setting a slow rhythm before taking his hand away. Troy breathed out sharply as she continued tugging gently on him, her eyes now riveted on his face.

"Like this?"

"Yes." He breathed out softly with each stroke, and glanced down to see her watching him intently. Every nerve in his body seemed to have relocated to his cock. After just a few moments of this he felt he could barely stand. He reached forward and put a hand on her shoulder for balance.

She stopped stroking for a moment, and he looked down at her questioningly. She was leaning forward slightly, and his erection was only inches from her face. She stared up at him with a look he couldn't name, some mixture of vulnerability, embarrassment, and lust.

"Do you want me to kiss it?" she asked softly, and Troy could feel her breath on his penis.

"God, yes Gabi" he groaned.

She licked her lips and leaned forward hesitantly. She kissed the tip tenderly for a moment, emitting a soft smooching sound, then softly caressed the underside of his crown with her tongue.

"Oh Fuck," Troy moaned, and gripped her shoulder tightly.

She leaned forward until she took the rest of his crown in her mouth, wrapping her lips tightly around it. Troy could feel her suction it gently; the feeling of her soft, warm tongue as his cock rested on it was almost more than he could bear.

She pulled back slowly, ever so slowly, and kissed the tip when she was finished. She began stroking his shaft lightly again and looked up at him questioningly.

"How was that?"

"Fucking perfect," Troy breathed heavily. "I'm going to cum soon. It will make a mess." He warned her, hoping she wouldn't be turned off by it.

"Okay, how do we... I mean what should I do?"

"Just keep going Gabi... please don't stop. Go a little quicker"

Gabriella looked down at his t-shirt that she was wearing and back up at him. "Will it wash out if you come on me."

He nodded jerkily. Her grip had tightened perceptibly, and she began tugging on him more firmly as his breathing became more rapid.

"Oh, god, Baby almost there," he gasped.

A moment later he moaned loudly and his penis spurted sticky white fluid onto her covered breasts. "Oh Baby... Oh god... Gabi..." He ejaculated all over Gabriella luckily missing her face as she watched in amazement.

He opened his eyes and smiled at her dazedly as his breathing slowly returned to normal.

"Wow," she whispered.

"Yeah Wow." Troy agreed pulling her up and kissing her deeply. "Thank you"

Troy pulled her up and held her close smearing the mess over both of them kissing her sleepily. "Now we need another shower" he grinned.

"What together, Troy..." Gabriella looked panicked.

Troy put his hands on her shoulders and held her so he could look in her eyes and smiled "Shh Gabi it's okay" Troy soothed her "Remember that you're the one in control here. Do you want to me to go shower downstairs?" he asked hoping she would refuse his offer but not surprised when she didn't.

Gabriella watched as he grabbed his towel and headed down the stairs relieved that he didn't seem too upset with her.

A/N: Thankyou to Kiara, Pumpkinking5, Wildcats2016 and iminlove for your support.