A/N: okayyy I just want to say sorry (again) for the really, really long wait and that even though I take ages to update another chapter its not because I'm bored of this story and I might stop half way, it's because I get really busy doing other stuff like getting banned off the computer, ;P oh and I went on holiday and I defiantly couldn't write it out there because I cant really put the computer on the plane lol :P. So please don't give up waiting because I haven't updated in ages I'm just doing other stuff. : )
He glanced over at the clock next to them. "Why are you so tired, babe? Its only seven" she shrugged. She chuckled and wrapped both of his arms around her. "You haven't even had dinner yet" once again, she shrugs. "So I take it your not hungry?" she shook her head no, "you are hungry?" she shook her head no again. He raised his right eyebrow and looked down at her. "So you're not hungry?" her asked one more time. Gabriella sighed and sat up. "No. I'm not hungry," she told him as she rubbed her eyes. He chuckled, "okay. Lay down, I'll go and tell my mom that you don't want any dinner" he started getting up, but Gabriella pulled him back. "Can you wait until I'm asleep, then go? It'll be cold without you here" he chuckled again then nodded, "Okay," he pulled the comforter back and climbed in then held his arms open for Gabby to climb in a snuggle into him.
"Goodnight" mumbled Gabriella. "Night, love you" Troy replied quietly. Gabby smiled and whispered back "Love you too"
Chapter 27 suspicious
Now: "students!" Screamed Ms Darbus from the front of the classroom on Monday morning. "Be quiet while I'm checking the attendance!"
The class quietly chuckled as they heard the teacher yell, and then slowly settled down to hear her say the names of everyone in homeroom.
"Sorry I'm late Ms Darbus. I had to go to the bathroom" Gabby looked over at Taylor who giggled from beside her. She turned back to Chad who had just run into the room.
"And why didn't you go to the bathroom earlier?" Ms Darbus asked slowly with a stern voice while lowering her glasses further down her long, thin and wrinkly nose.
Chad shrugged and watched as the teacher sighed before she pointed toward his seat in the middle of the room "Sit! And don't let it happen again." he sighed in relief and quickly scurried over to his seat.
Troy inwardly rolled his eyes as he watched his best friend walk over to the seat behind him. He waited for the teacher to turn around to write something on the board before he went through his school bag, which was resting beside him, for a piece of paper and a pen.
What's the real reason you were late?
He quickly turned around and threw the small piece of paper onto Chad's desk.
Chad looked up puzzled then looked down at the note on his desk. He grabbed it quickly then looked up to see if Ms Darbus was looking.
Chad raised an eyebrow once he read the note then looked away to the window for a second before looking back at the paper on his desk. He slowly picked up his pen that was lying near the edge of the desk
What the hell are you on about! I was bursting to pee! I nearly pissed myself while running to the bathroom.
He scrunched the note up into a tiny ball in his hand then roughly pushed Troy on the back before chucking the note over his right shoulder and onto the ground. He heard Troy groan quietly before quickly reaching down to swoop up the little note from the ground incase Ms. Darbus turned around.
Troy chuckled softly after reading the note. That little liar, he ain't telling me something and I am gonna' find out what it is sooner or later.
He screwed the note up in his hand while also reaching down to grab his bag from the floor before he stuffed it inside. He shook his head and dropped his bag on the floor followed by his head on the desk. He inwardly groaned again.
"Mr. Bolton…" he sat up quickly and looked towards the teacher. "Yes, ms darbus?" he replied while gritting his white teeth. "Young man, you sit up! And I do not want to see that attitude from you either, unless you want a detention after school!" Troy looked away for a second to roll his eyes before looking back to the angry teacher in front of him. Drama queen… literally.
Just then the bell rang, he watched a ms darbus glared at him from behind her glasses before she turned back to the board. "You are dismissed!"
The class quickly stood up, making the metal legs of there chairs scrape on the floor, which made a ear piercing noise spread through out the room. Some of the teenagers quietly groaned from the noise before they scurried one by one out of the classroom door.
"Dude! Why are you so grumpy today?" Chad asked at he watched Troy walk out of the classroom.
"I'm not moody or grumpy" he replied, "why wont you tell me what you keep running off to do?" he stopped out side of homeroom, to wait for Gabriella. Chad scoffed, "I have NO Idea what the heck you on about. I already told you I needed to pee, seriously. I was running to the bathroom" he explained.
Troy raised his eyebrow, "are you sure your were running to the bathroom to pee of to do something else?" he asked suspiciously. Chad grimaced at him. "What! What you think I went there to… WHAT that's gross dude. At school? As if!" troy looked at him weirdly before looking at the classroom door where he saw Gabriella slowly gliding out, struggling with her bag. "Whatever dude. I know your lying"
Chad looked down, and then up again, he shrugged before he just stalked off without saying anything.
Troy sighed as he looked back to where Chad was standing to see him walking away.
Whatever.
"Hey" Troy looked over to where the voice came from. He smiled and waved to Gabriella, who was walking towards him.
Gabby lifted her arm as he put his out; she slowly slid her hand up his arm from his fingers to his shoulder then around the back of his neck.
"Hello" he replied quietly while softly kissing her on the cheek. She smiled back at him and to her hand away from his neck then grabbed his hand. "What's wrong?" she asked gently as they started walking through the hallway. She watched as Troy subtly looked at out of the corner of his right cerulean eye to see her facial expression.
He saw her looking at him. "What do you mean?" She giggles lightly. "Well, in class you seemed a bit, annoyed then when Ms. Darbus shouted at you looked like you wanted to bite her head off, and when I walked out it looked like you were arguing with Chad" she glanced at him so see him looking down at the floor as they walked down the hall way. If she wasn't there he probably would have walked in to wall.
"Don't you think it's a bit weird that Chad keeps running off, then he like, arrived late to homeroom saying he 'went to the bathroom'?" gabby shrugged. "Maybe he did go to the bathroom," she suggested.
Troy sighed. No he was lying "maybe." He glanced over at Gabriella who looked down. She knew he didn't agree with her. "If he was lying he will tell you sooner or later, and even if he doesn't, you will find out. You're weird like that," she giggled which made him chuckle slightly.
"Of course I will" he replied. She smiled up at him before she stopped walking. "Well, this is my first class".
He looked up at the class door, "have fun in chemistry" he mumbled as he pressed his lips to hers. She pulled back and smiled. "I will" she winked and walked into the class.
Troy smiled to him self as he watched her sit down in her seat near the back of the room. Unhurried, he turned around and started walking down the now deserted hallway. 'Gonna' be late' he shrugged and carried on strolling down the walkway as if he had ages.
During lunch Gabriella sat and waited for troy. She sat beside Taylor, while Chad sat on the other side of her. Chad was chatting away with some of his other friends who also sat at the table.
"Hey gabs, aren't you gonna' eat anything?" Gabby looked to her left to see Taylor looking at her with her dark, thin eyebrows raised.
She shrugged her skinny shoulders and looked down at her sandwich that was lying on the table, "I'm not very hungry at the moment. I'll probably eat when I get home" she smiled at Taylor, but soon realized that she wasn't going to get a smile back.
"You should eat" once again Gabby just shrugged ant looked down at her sandwich. After one bite, Gabriella knew she defiantly didn't want to eat.
"Hey Taylor," Taylor looked up from her own food, "yeah?"
Gabby sighed and looked towards Chad, "do you think Chad's been acting, like, I dunno… weird?"
She watched as Taylor raised right eyebrow. "Why would you say that?"
Gabby shrugged, "Troy's the one who said it, he thinks it's weird that Chad keeps like, running away. Well, I haven't noticed him do that, but Troy said he's done it a lot. Then when he arrived late to homeroom today, I think that just kind of set him off, its obvious he's annoyed with Chad right now. I bet Chad wasn't even lying." Taylor nodded, staring back a Gabriella, watching as she secretly chuckled to herself.
"He probably was telling the truth. Troy's just stupid. Sorry gabs, but he is. I never really liked him, but then again, I guess I never really knew him. He seems all right. He's still weird though. Is he really as stupid as he seems?"
Gabriella shook her head and smiled at Taylor. "Surprisingly, No. He's not really that stupid, quite smart actually. I have to admit, Chad is way stupider." She laughed and looked over at Chad. He was stuffing a couple of grapes into his mouth, probably about five or six. She heard Taylor giggle from the other side of her. "You have got to admit. He is a bit of an idiot"
Taylor shrugged at looked back down at her food. "Maybe he's just really, really hungry" Gabby raised both of her eyebrows and looked at Taylor with a stunned expression. "I thought you hated him?" she shrugged again. "Well… not hate. Why would I hate him?" she could see the confusion written across Gabriella's face. It might as well of been written on her forehead in capital letters, 'I AM CONFUSED'.
Gabby's eyebrows creased as she mumbled, "Well I'm pretty sure the last time we spoke about him you hated him."
They sat in silence, listening to the other teenagers talk to each other from across the table. Some were talking about there lunch, and some were talking about things that had absolutely nothing to do with the lunch, like how they got up late this morning, or how awesome the party was that happened last Friday night.
Tailors voice steadily broke the silence between the two your girls by changing the subject completely, "Where is Troy?" Gabby looked in the direction of the entrance to the cafeteria; only a few seniors were walking in, laughing to each other, but no Troy. "I don't know," replied Gabby, "He's probably talking to someone, or maybe he got tracked down by Ms. Darbus and she made him stay with her for the beginning of lunch"
"Maybe"
"What do you mean maybe?" Taylor glanced at her. "What do you mean, what do I mean? I just said maybe. There could be loads of reason he's not here" Gabby raised her eyebrow. "Well duh, I just said two," she giggled lightly while shaking her head, making her hair sway from side to side.
"He could be with like a girl, OR he could just be running late" Taylor suggested.
This caught Gabriella's attention. "Why would you say that? Would he really do that?" the nervousness showed in her voice. "I just said, maybe he's with a girl. I didn't say he was cheating on you. Maybe he's with Sharpay"
"Oh, and that makes me feel so much better. Thanks" Taylor rolled her eyes and looked at her friend. "You know I didn't mean it like that. He'll probably be here in a minute" she watched as Gabby sighed and nodded. "Why are you so irritable today?"
Gabriella just shrugged and looked down, "I dunno'" she glanced over at Taylor when she heard her giggle.
"Is it that time of the month?" She stared at Taylor who was laughing with her hand on Gabriella's shoulder with a teasing look on her face. "Shut up!"
Suddenly she felt two hands grab her shoulders, one on each side. "Hey!" she jumped out of her seat with a loud shriek. Quickly she turned around, nearly knocking her chair over. "Where am I gonna sit?" She smiled and looked up to see his face before her eyes wondered around the cafeteria. "Go get that chair, they can move over a bit" Troy smiled and walked over to the chair she had just pointed at. At a snail's pace, she turned around and sat back down in her seat. "Are you better now?" asked Taylor in a low voice so only Gabriella could hear it. In response she merely nodded.
"Hey what are you eating?" Troy looked over at Gabriella then to the table in front of her to see a sandwich with one bite taken out of it. "I'm not hungry. I'll eat when I get home" he raised his eyebrow. "But that's about three hours away. You'll be hungry by then"
"That is why I will eat later. What are you going to eat?" she was obviously trying to change the subject, but Troy just let it slide. "I was just gonna go get some food" he stood up and looked towards the lunch line then sat back down again. "Never mind. The line is massive, I'd rather just eat later"
"If you want you can have my sandwich, if you want. I'm not going to eat it" she held it up to him "take it."
"Are you sure you don't want to eat?" he asked one more time, she nodded and put the sandwich in his hand which was resting on top of the table in front of him.
He smiled and picked up the sandwich, but not before leaning over to Gabriella and sweetly kissing her on the cheek, "thank you" he mumbled against her cheek.
She smiled back and nodded. "So… where have you been?" she asked slowly, curiously. He looked over at her and smiled again. "No where. I just needed the bathroom. Then I ran into Sharpay" he stopped talking and turned back to his sandwich.
Gabby glanced over at Taylor to see if she was listening. Fortunately she wasn't. "Oh." She looked back to Troy who was happily munching on the sandwich. She giggled as she noticed some of the chicken from inside of the sandwich drop from it and onto Troy's lap. He looked over at her smiled, she laughed and again and looked down at his leg which made him look down. She watched as he picked up the chicken from his lap and then stuffs it into his mouth.
She laughed once more before turning back to the table, "The way you eat is so funny"
Troy chuckled quietly with his mouth closed. He moved his seat a little to the left so he could wrap his left arm around Gabriella's slim shoulders; he then brought his right arm up and held the sandwich up to her. "Take a bite" she shook her head and then smiled up at him. "No you eat it."
He still didn't drop his arm, "just one bite" she rolled her eyes and leaned forward to take a small bite. She chewed and looked up at him to see him grinning down at her. "Happy now?" she asked in a sarcastic tone.
He mumbled a simple "yup" before he took his next gigantic bite.
Chad's booming voice quickly broke the couple out of their daydreams. "Okay someone get me a bucket, I think I'm gonna puke". They both looked at him and saw he was laughing with some to the same people he was talking to earlier. "Shut up Chad! Just because you don't have a girlfriend"
Chad hastily glanced around the table, "that's what you think" he replied cockily. Troy raised his eyebrows at Chad, studying him for a couple of seconds, and then looking away to see the other people's expression. They were just laughing, going back to talking about what they were talking about before Chad's outburst.
Gabby looked over at Troy, who was staring at Chad. He leaned closer to her and bent his neck until his mouth was level with her ear. "So... you still think it's just me who thinks he's got summin' going on?".
He smirked as she slowly shook her head. "Nope"
