Gabriella nor Troy knew how, why, or what caused them to act like this after what Gabriella just told Troy, but all Troy knew was that he wanted to show Gabriella that he wasn't going to leave her, and that he would always care for her. Sure, they had spent countless nights together, but this one was different, as they both seemed to let the passion explode and let all their barriers down.

Gabriella's back connected with their motel rooms door as the cool night time breeze made Troy and Gabriella shiver against each other even though they both were far from being cold. Troy's tongue pressed against Gabriella's neck as his mouth enclosed on her and he pulled back to stare into her eyes. Both of them were already breathing heavily as their eyes locked on each other.

Troy's hands were running softly up and down Gabriella's arms giving her goose bumps as Gabriella's hands were tracing light patterns on his chest underneath his t-shirt. Their lips came together making fireworks go off in both of their bodies as Gabriella pulled Troy closer. There was nothing separating them, Troy knew everything and they were going to be okay.

They were both silent as the wind picked up and made Gabriella's curls underneath Troy's hat blow in the breeze. Gabriella kneeled down as her one hand that was stationed on the gravestone patted the seat besides her, telling Troy to come and sit by her.

Troy followed Gabriella's soft request and looked at the sight. Gabriella softly smiled as her eyes didn't look off of the stone in the ground. "Hey dad." Gabriella said in a small voice as Troy saw that she was fighting off tears. "It's me…Gabriella., um…it's been a long 11 years." Gabriella let out a small laugh at how ridiculous Troy must thought she looked, talking to a gravestone.

Troy put his hand on Gabriella's back and rubbed soothingly as Gabriella sighed. Troy looked at Gabriella's quivering lip and this picture right here made him thankful that his parents were still alive. They might be noisy at sometimes, and they might yell at him for doing something stupid, but at least they both were there for him, unlike Gabriella who in his opinion didn't have a strong parent figure in her life.

Troy saw that she wasn't going to talk, so he decided he was going to take over. "Hey there Mr. Montez." Troy said casually as Gabriella looked at him with confusion. "I know you're probably narrowing your eyes at the sight of me, and getting ready to come after me for even coming near your daughter."

Gabriella let out a small laugh at how cheesy Troy could sound at sometimes. "But I just want to let you know that she's in good hands. I promise." Troy said sincerely as there was a silence.

"I have so much that I want to tell you." Gabriella said in one of the softest voice Troy had heard Gabriella use and he didn't quite know if Gabriella was talking to him or to her dad, but either way Troy was listening as he wrapped his arms around her. "I'm so sorry, you're probably so disappointed right now." Gabriella said and Troy now knew that she was talking to her dad even though Gabriella meant for Troy to hear too.

Gabriella's back hit the bed that made a creaking noise, but that didn't matter to Troy or Gabriella. Gabriella's hands ran across Troy's bare back as his shirt was shed right away once they managed to open the door. Troy kissed down Gabriella's neck to her collar bone, sucking on the soft flesh making it turn a light shade of red briefly as her shirt was in some corner where Troy threw it.

Troy kissed around Gabriella's bra, teasing her as his hands massaged her flat stomach. One of Gabriella's hands was stationed in Troy's hair making a tight fist as his tongue dipped into her navel. Gabriella's hands trailed down Troy's chest as she scraped her fingernails against his toned chest and six pack. Her fingers danced around his belt buckle as Troy groaned against Gabriella's collar bone where he was harshly sucking, leaving his mark on her body.

"God Troy…" Gabriella moaned as Troy kissed back up her neck. Her hands found the clasp to his belt as she slowly unclipped it. Troy connected their lips again as Gabriella's hands roamed over the bulge in his pants before taking them off leaving him in his blue and white boxers.

The pleasure Gabriella was feeling at the moment as Troy's hand slid to her back and unhooked her black bra was starting to become overwhelming as she felt him against her thigh and they both backed up on the bed so that Gabriella's head was resting on one of the two pillows that somewhere along the line used to be white.

Troy played with Gabriella's bra strap between his thumb and index finger before letting it float down to the ground as his eyes connected with Gabriella's. It seemed everything was going in slow motion as he looked down at the wondrous beauty before him. Her hair was sprawled out onto the pillow making him want to run his fingers through it even more, her breathing was heavy matching his own, as her lips were just begging for him.

"I'm not going to leave you, I promise." Troy said in his husky voice.

Gabriella nodded. "I believe you."

Troy leaned down and captured her lips again in another passionate kiss as his hands moved to her two breasts Troy had come to know and love. Gabriella moaned into Troy's mouth causing Troy to get even more turned on by the noises he could emit from her.

"So you probably want to know what's new in my life and what has happened so far, well…you left and I guess…" Gabriella looked down at the ground as one of her hands played with the green grass around them. "I guess I never did get on the right road after that, that is until a couple of years ago, and let me tell you…it wasn't easy." Gabriella closed her eyes as she let memories flood back into her mind.

"Let's start from the beginning…I started modeling after you died and mother moved us to New York." Gabriella said and Troy could sense the bitterness in her voice. "I never did say goodbye, but I guess you didn't say goodbye to me either, so we're even." Gabriella sniffled. "I met Tay, she's was my best friend then and still is now. She's actually getting married soon, so I'm happy for her."

Troy felt Gabriella snuggle closer into him as he felt their bodies melt together. There was a silence and Troy knew, this was the moment she was going to begin her story that he only had a hunch about.

"I guess I took the low road in life daddy and I hate it." Gabriella said lowly. "I hate how much I screwed up, I endangered not only myself, but other people too and if anything ever happened to Taylor I would've blamed myself for it. And as much as I am thankful for Tay being there for me, I needed you." Gabriella said as a tear escaped and Troy wiped it away with his thumb.

"It all started when I turned 15 and Tay and I started traveling around the country doing various photo shoots. Mother was rarely around and I guess it was just easier to let loose. I went to so many underage parties, I manipulated people to get what I wanted, I even paid people to keep their mouths shut so they wouldn't tell the police that there was a 15 year old buying alcohol." Gabriella kept her eyes down on the ground as Troy looked down at her.

Gabriella took a shaky breath. "When I turned 16...God that was one of my most regrettable years of my life." Gabriella picked a strand of grass and dropped it to the ground absentmindedly.

Gabriella was straddling Troy now as her mouth was kissing Troy all over his exposed chest. She kissed around his two pecs making sure to tug on them every once in while causing Troy to moan in pleasure. Troy's hands were running all over Gabriella as they started to remove her pants with Gabriella's help.

Words didn't need to be exchanged between the two as the two showd just how much they cared for each other. "Brie…" Troy breathed out as Gabriella kissed lower and around the light brown hair that trailed down from under his navel to the bulge that was starting to become painful.

The room was beginning to get hot as sweat was starting to form on both of their foreheads and Gabriella kissed a trail up to Troy's jaw bone. Gabriella nibbled on Troy's ear lobe as he shut his eyes in pure bliss. He flipped them over quickly as Gabriella tried to quickly comprehend what just happened.

Gabriella smiled up at Troy as he smirked down at her. "Eager aren't we?"

Troy just shrugged. "I'm always eager." Gabriella felt the trail of fire as Troy's hand started massaging her most intimate spot through her black lacy panties that were wet. "Especially when it comes to you." Gabriella couldn't say anything back as Troy silenced her as he caught her in another passionate kiss. Gabriella arched her back so her chest pushed up into Troy as she felt Troy add more pressure to his rubbing and she decided two could play it that way.

Gabriella's hands trotted across Troy's chest and down to the hem of his boxers that were ready to rip with the tent in them. Gabriella put two fingers in each side of them and slowly started to lower them as Troy's member sprung to life even more against her own thigh.

"Less than 10 hours into being 16 I met Matt…" Troy tensed up at another guy's name and he instantly hated this Matt. "Three weeks into our relationship he held a party and Tay and I went to it. I was such a mess that I wasn't thinking clearly as I…as I…shot up." Gabriella closed her eyes making sure that she avoided Troy's gaze.

Gabriella knew that her teenage years were horrible. She regretted almost every single day of it, but yet she didn't regret the people that she met. They still meant something to her and even though Matt introduced her to the drugs, it was still her choice to take them and so she blamed herself.

Gabriella breathed out as she bit her bottom lip trying to remember everything that she could tell Troy without freaking him out too much. "It started out as an innocent thing where I would only do it at the parties with Matt, but then…something just clicked in my head. Something must have snapped and went wrong because I found myself doing it every other day, and Tay dragging me out of the parties before anything else happened."

Gabriella felt a tear go down her cheek again as Troy kissed the top her head. Gabriella just wished that she could form another sentence to tell Troy just how much that one little kiss meant to her. It seemed to give her more confidence as she spoke up again.

"It started happening daily and I would shoot up, snort, anything and Matt and I got closer." Gabriella stopped talking as she remembered Matt's rough hands that used to encircle her body and pull her closer to him. His hands didn't send any pleasure through her body compared to Troy.

Troy had no idea what he was feeling. She was only at age 16, that left 8 years unknown to him still and who knows what Gabriella's wild side did in that time. But even though Troy felt uneasy listening to Gabriella talking about her old loves, he would do it a thousand times if it meant spending time with her, it was just weird since they never really did talk about their old girlfriends and boyfriends before.

"Taylor and I grew accustomed to Florida, so we stayed stationed there. Mother was off doing only God knows what, and Taylor's mom would stop in every once in a while and check on us when she traveled for her business. But pretty much we were on our own with Matt." Gabriella leaned her head into Troy's chest. "I'm so sorry Troy."

Troy looked down at her and realized now that she was no longer talking to her dad, but to him directly. Troy gave her a soft smile knowing this is what he wanted, he wanted her to open up to him, and now it was happening. There was no way that he could freak out on her even though this was a huge secret she was keeping.

Troy didn't know how Gabriella did it. He didn't know how she all of a sudden picked up her music career and pushed past everything in her life, but he admired her for that. And what Troy couldn't understand even more is how Gabriella could muster up enough strength to catch him off guard and switch their body positions so that she was straddling him with her hands on his hips.

Gabriella brought her mouth down on Troy's body as she kissed around his erect member. Gabriella gently brushed her mouth over the tip making Troy buck his hips in response as Gabriella smiled against his leg.

"Brie…" Troy groaned again as the throbbing pain was becoming even more unbearable.

Troy gasped a little as shockwaves of pleasure coursed through his body as Gabriella wrapped her mouth around his erection and started bobbing her head. She stayed at a steady pace and then started to pick up speed. Troy had his eyes shut as he was breathing irregular still and his hand wrapped itself into Gabriella's hair. Only Gabriella could make him feel like this and she knew that too.

"Matt died a couple of weeks before I turned 17 and that left me at a cross road. I was just offered a modeling spot in this one huge show along with Taylor and the pay was incredible even though I wouldn't be able to get the full pay check until I turned 18, but…it was just easier to work than grieve."

Gabriella had tears in her eyes, she never really did cry about Matt. Matt was the first guy she said she loved, and in all he was a nice guy, he just had problems to cross. Gabriella bit her lip to keep from crying out even more as Troy saw the hurt in her eyes.

"Tay and I took the job and a month after his death I met Justin." Gabriella narrowed her eyes as she picked at the grass and saw that the sun was starting to fade away in the sky. "That year was one of my worst and toughest yet. I went through three interventions…two hospitals, and when I turned 17 and a half Tay found me nearly dead in our apartment. If she didn't take classes on what to do behind my back than I would've died." Gabriella said sadly.

"Wh--" Troy found that his voice was caught in his throat. Just the thought of Gabriella dead made his insides turn. "What happened?"

Gabriella sighed as she put her face in the crook of Troy's neck to shield herself from his piercing eyes. "She found me passed out on the couch with no color and my heart rate barely traceable. She rushed me to the bathroom and shoved me into the cold water of the shower. I woke up twenty minutes after that and I knew I couldn't keep doing this to her, so I started getting help…Justin kept doing drugs. I tried to separate myself from him, but…he was in a band and he asked me to sing with them. They were really good and if I wanted to be a singer for college, then I would have to sing with him. We had a hit single, and…it went even further down hill after that." Gabriella said. Gabriella drew in another shaky breath as Troy kissed the top of her head again.

"Look, if that's all you want to say then that's okay." Troy soothed into her ear.

"No, I have to say this…I want to say this." Gabriella said a little more confidently. "Um…the band got an offer to go on a tour for a year opening for various groups and things like that, and Justin asked me to go." Gabriella concluded. "At the time I was an even bigger mess than before the drugs. I was trying to hard to stay clean, but being with him was hard because he still used. Taylor warned me about him, and for once I listened. I told him to go, it broke my heart, but I told him to leave. We had a huge fight, but we made up before he left and I never saw him again until now." Gabriella said sadly.

"So…what happens now?" Troy asked.

Gabriella sighed, "I managed to stay clean the day after he left until now, hopefully he will leave soon again because I really don't want to deal with him again. I have no idea if he is still using or not, and I really don't want to find out the hard way either. And…" Gabriella looked into Troy's eyes. "I thought I loved him and Matt for that matter, but…now I know I don't."

"How is that?" Troy asked in a whisper as the wind picked up.

"Because…I don't feel anything like I did with them…when I'm with you." Gabriella said boldly as Troy and Gabriella locked eyes. There was another silence as Gabriella reached up and traced Troy's jaw line gently. "That's my story. By the time I was 18 I was clean for two months, I went off to college, met Matt a couple of years after and produced my first album." Gabriella lowered her head, but once her eyes connected with the ground she felt Troy lift her head up so she was level with him again.

"I love you Gabriella Montez. Whether your past is coming back or not, I love you." Troy said as his lips brushed hers.

Gabriella looked at him with watery eyes. "I love you too."

"God, I love you so much." Troy said into Gabriella's neck as the bed rocked with each thrust Troy was doing.

Gabriella was breathing heavily as she felt the pleasure spread throughout her body. "I love you too." Gabriella panted into Troy's ear making Troy even more aroused at the sound of Gabriella's voice.

Troy thrust even harder and deeper into Gabriella as Gabriella wrapped her legs around him, helping him go in deeper. Gabriella's fingernails were digging into the back of Troy as he was using his hands to prop himself up so he was hovering over her without crushing her with his body weight. Troy pressed kisses to her collar bone as he once again started to suck harshly on the flesh to leave his mark.

"God Troy…I'm gonna cum." Gabriella exclaimed as the bed itself thrust into the wall as Troy picked up speed once again.

Troy leant down to Gabriella's ear and tugged on her ear lobe, "Then come with me." Troy huskily said as he picked up his speed once again going deeper than he has before. He felt Gabriella's walls tighten around him and he knew that he wouldn't be able to hold on much longer.

They both locked eyes before they went over the edge and Troy collapsed lightly on top of Gabriella with both of them breathing faster than they ever have. Their sweaty bodies mingling together as Troy pulled out of her and discarded the used condom in the garbage can right by the bed. Troy let Gabriella cuddle up into his chest as he put the covers over them and kissed her on top of her head.

"You're gonna go so far in life Brie, just don't forget that." Troy whispered as their breathing went normal once more after a couple of minutes and their bodies cooled down.

Gabriella smiled as she kissed Troy right above his right nipple. "You always say that."

Troy put a strand of hair behind her ear. "That's because it's true."

Gabriella sighed once she heard Troy's breathing steady and his heard beat regulate as she looked up and saw that his eyes were closed. Gabriella muttered so only she heard, "I wish that were true."