Ok, I'm back, singing Oliver songs, because my musical obsession has returned at full force. Although I still can't believe that Grease got the number one spot in the 100 best musicals. Compared to the likes of The Sound Of Music, Annie and Oliver, Grease is terrible, how could it get number one when there are other musicals that are so much better. Don't get me wrong, I think Grease is ok, but it's not the best.

Ok, I'm going to leave my musical rant for now, or it would be never ending, and you would get bored with all musicals, I really do go on about them that much.


As promised, the list of likes (compiled by me and my younger sister), shorter than it would be because It's in categories

1. TV shows - Ghost Whisperer (There's ghosts in it), Greys Anatomy(Watch it, it's scientific), Charmed (Cool magical powers and hot guys), Gilmore Girls (Funny fast talking), Criminal Minds (Crimes and Blood), Without a Trace (Missing people, unpredictable endings), Cold Case (Old crimes and blood), CSI(more crimes and blood), Eastenders(People with lives so bad it makes everyone else's look good), Emmerdale(There's sheep in it), Coronation Street(See Eastenders) , Neighbours(We all wish our neighbours were this exciting, Doctor Who (ALIENS), Primeval(ANOMOLIES AND FREAKISH CREATURES), Hannah Montana, The Suite Life, iCarly, H2O(KIDS SHOWS)

2. Musicals - The Hsm's (obviously) , RENT, Mamma Mia!, South Pacific, Annie, Oliver, The Sound Of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bugsy Malone, Mary Poppins.

3. Music - Soundtracks of Musicals, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Busted, Mcfly, Stephanie McIntosh, Taylor Swift, Steps, Jesse McCartney, Rogue Traders, S Club, Avril Lavinge, Jennifer Love Hewitt, loads more

4. Movies - Walk the Line (is the line straight?), Just Like Heaven not quite heaven though), Sweet Home Alabama(awwww), Seeing Double (S Club, duh), War Of The Worlds (ALIENS), The Craft (WITCHES), Mean Girls (Something that rhymes with witches), Confessions of a teenage drama queen(I'm a drama queen), The Homeward Bound series(Cute animals, childhood favourite), Thunderbirds (cos I'm sad), Paulie (cos I'm sadder), To live for(Cos it's a true story) , Our mother's murder(OMG HORROR), The Narnia's (Magical Kingsom), The Harry Potter's(OMG, MAGIC SCHOOL), Music and Lyrics(Because it's awesome), Hide and Seek(MORE HORROR), Daddy Day care(funniness), Daddy Day Camp (MORE FUNNINESS), Cheaper by the dozen(both, cos they're random), Your's mine and ours(YOU PAINTED THE PIG)

5. Animal loves - Cats (I HAVE TWO), Dogs (GO BARK), Horses(EAT GRASS), Sheep(GO BAA AND GIVE US WOOL)

6. Words the make me laugh - Cheese (it's like the moon), Sheep(WOOL), Cupboard( it's the way Laura says it), Mushrooms(because of Cymonn's story)

That wasn't even a page long, it was about nine pages before I edited it! I'm glad I got it over with, it was booorrrrrinnggg.


All of last chapters reviewers were awesome, anyways I have decided, that I need to have more fics to read, so I have decided that I will read a story of everyone that reviews this chapter.

Ok, because of the last chapter's awesome reviewers, here's the next chapter…


Gabriella sighed as she walked into the kitchen at Lava Springs, swinging her now healed wrist my her side as she instinctively checked it, wondering whether going back to work so soon was a good idea, especially without her mother's agreement. It had been hard, not talking to her for just over a week, the pair had never gone without speaking for that long before, sure they'd had their fights, but never had they slept on it, each of them had made an effort to avoid that, but now they had, and she felt a little guilty, her mom didn't deserve to be treated the way she was, and Gabriella knew that her mother was a good parent, a hell of a lot better than her dad, yet she couldn't help but wonder why, out of all the people in her life, she had ended up running to him, she'd ruled out his circumstantial appearance at her house the day she left, the day she last spoke to her mom, she hadn't felt at all threatened by the older woman, her mother would never intentionally hurt her, but she'd acted like her safety was threatened and clung to her dad. She didn't understand her behaviour herself, and, for the most of it, felt ashamed, but that didn't mean she knew how to stop.

"You're back?" Chad questioned, running over to her, "So soon?"

"Would I be here if I wasn't back?" Gabriella snapped, "don't be so stupid, Chad,"

"What's up with you?" He asked curiously, unperturbed by her manner, "You seem, weird,"

"You always seem weird," She stated, "No one ever asks you about it,"

"Ok," He sighed, "What's happened? Who upset you?"

Gabriella glared at him before pushing past, throwing unnecessary final words over her shoulder, "Some of us actually have jobs to do,"

She stalked outside, immediately taking up her position by the pool, avoiding everyone that tried to speak to her, smiling as she saw her dad, with Tara and Alex in two, heading towards the area.

In truth, Tara annoyed Gabriella, being friends with her step-mother wasn't high on her priority list, but Tara was acting like a friendly relationship between the pair was critical for everyone. The teen couldn't grasp how someone in their early thirties could still be as self-centred, especially when said person had a four year old relying on her.

"ELLA," Tara squeaked out excitedly as she saw her, oblivious as Gabriella rolled her eyes before turning towards her and forcing a smile.

"Hey," she shouted back, mocking happiness, "What are you guy's doing here?"

Slowly she made her way down the rocks around the pool, meeting her dad's family at the bottom.

"Am I not allowed to see how my daughter's doing?" Her dad spoke up when she reached them, "Now that she's back at work, just because I disapprove, you don't need to work, I'm paying for college, it's been decided,"

"Dad," Gabriella complained, "I want to work, to take my mind off of things, you know,"

"I know," he admitted, "Doesn't mean I have to like it,"

"I have to work," She pointed out, "I can't really talk,"

"Lunch?" He questioned, "They are giving you a lunch break, right?"

"Yes dad," She assured, "They are giving me a lunch break,"

"She won't want to spend it with us, Aaron," Tara smiled, "She'll be with her friends over her lunch break, won't you?"

"I don't know," Gabriella answered, "I guess I could meet you for lunch, you should meet some of my friends anyway,"

"I have," Aaron pointed out, "They don't like me,"

"You haven't formally met them," She explained, "And now I'm technically living with you, you really need to get to know them,"

"You mean, get to know the boyfriend," He corrected, "The one I have to interrogate, you have to bring him,"

"Only if you promise not to ask him questions," She shot back, "Otherwise he doesn't come, you'll scare him off,"

"That's pretty much the aim," Aaron contemplated, Tara hitting him on the arm.

"Don't tease her, that's not nice," Tara commented before turning to Gabriella, "I'll make sure he says nothing, we can talk about him later anyway, can't we?"

Gabriella nodded, forcing a smile again, wondering if this woman really did believe that she was going to reveal every aspect of her personal life to her, there was no way she was going to talk about Troy with her step-mother, it was weird.

"Will Uncle Max be there tonight?" Gabriella asked, referring to the newfound uncle that had been at the hotel with them on a regular basis.

"He's coming for dinner," Aaron relinquished, "Like always, he can't cook you see,"

Gabriella nodded, "I should really get back to work,"

She quickly turned round, returning to her position overlooking the water, double checking everyone was safe as she considered the distraction her family had caused.

Screaming children were splashing around as their parents lounged by the poolside, paying no attention to them at all, clearly deciding that the safety of their own kids wasn't their problem while their was a lifeguard on duty, not that Gabriella was surprised by this, most of the parents at the place were experts at off-loading responsibility.

GABRIELLA sighed in relief as her watch alarm sounded, alerting her to the start of her lunch break. She made her way down to her family, who were still sitting at the edge of the pool.

Alex bounded over to her as she approached, gripping her hand as he pulled her towards their dad and his mom.

"LUNCH," he announced to them when they were standing as a group, "MOMMY, I WANT ICKEN,"

"I'll just go and get changed," Gabriella informed them, leaving as she sped inside.

She gasped in shock as a pair of arms wrapped around her waist from behind as she entered the building, relaxing when she heard the voice, "I heard you were back,"

She walked out of his grip, motioning for him to follow her without looking at him, "I wasn't going to stay away forever,"

"I missed you," he told her, "where have you been all week?"

"Dad's," she admitted, "I'm kind of living there now, can I explain this later, I'm meant to be meeting dad, Tara and Alex for lunch,"

"I knew you were living with him, but honestly, I don't see you for a week," he sighed, "and you're spending your lunch break with your dad, who you've seen every day for that week,"

"You can come," she smiled, "if you insist,"

"Well, if it's the only way, to spend time with you," He smirked, wrapping his arms around her again, "we need more you and me time, though,"

"You have to get to know my dad," she pointed out, "if you really want to, we could skip out early,"

"Sound's perfect," he relented, "You'll explain the whole living with him thing later?"

"Promise," she agreed, "I'll give you a tell all exclusive,"

"What about why you were a bitch to Chad earlier?" he questioned, "am I going to get a reason for that, or are we going to act like it didn't happen for a few weeks?"

"I wasn't," she defended, "Do you honestly believe that I would be?"

"I don't know," he replied before admitting, "I spoke to your mom, from the way she said you'd been acting, and from what she told me you'd done, I don't know what to believe about you, what happened, you would never have said that stuff to your mom before, what changed? Was it the thing with Sharpay? Your uncle? Tell me what's going on, I can't help you if you don't,"

"Nothing's wrong, Troy," she grumbled, "I'm fine, you're imagining things,"

He waited outside as she changed, following her again after mere minutes as she came out.

"What, you're not gonna talk to me now?" he asked, "real mature,"

"I have nothing to say," she decided, "you clearly don't trust me,"

"I never said I didn't trust you," he argued, "don't put words in my mouth, I do trust you, I just want to know what's up,"

"Nothing's up," she insisted, calming down a bit, "You really need to stop worrying so much,"

"As long as you stop jumping to conclusions," he bargained, "Do we have a deal?"

She rolled her eyes before nodding and grasping his hand, "Did I mention that Dad's paying?"

"We get free lunch," he pointed out, "he doesn't have to,"

"He doesn't know that," she smirked, "and he does owe me after all these years,"

"He'd probably take you out for dinner every night if he knew you got lunch for free," Troy pondered, "It's better he doesn't know, gives me a chance of stealing you away from him in the evenings, say tonight, after work,"

"I might be able to fit you in," she teased, "depends what you're planning,"

"If I'm remembering correctly," he began, "we have a one on one game that we never got round to finishing, so I'm going to have to insist that we finish it soon,"

"That started in April," she stated, "isn't it a little too late to finish it,"

"Scared you'll lose," he taunted as her family came in sight, "you could always forfeit,"

"No chance," she retorted, " I'll be there,"

"Loser buy's dinner," he decided, "Can't let you go hungry can I?"

"Are you suggesting that you're going to lose?" she asked, "accepting what we know is going to happen?"

"No, no, no," he denied, "I'm going to win, I'm just going to be there to make sure you eat the dinner that you're paying for,"

"No chance," she replied as they reached the three others, "Hi,"

"GABELLA," Alex shouted, turning to his mom, "FOOD NOW,"

Troy stifled a laugh at the four year olds excitement over the prospect of food as he wrapped his arm around his girlfriend's waist after she let go of his hand.

"Dad, Troy's coming too," Gabriella told him, stating rather than asking, knowing that her father wouldn't refuse because of the guilt he still felt, "Are you sure it's ok, food here can be expensive,"

"It's fine," Aaron smiled, "It's only the five of us, and I can afford it, you know that,"

"Yeah," she replied, quickly glancing up at Tara before turning back to her dad, "I won't be at dinner tonight, we're going out,"

He nodded, "You need any money?"

"No," she decided, looking up at her boyfriend, "We have a sort of competition going on, loser's buying dinner, but we all know that I'm not going to lose,"

"You sure about that?" Troy answered, smirking at her, "you think you can beat me,"

"I know I can," she insisted, "blindfolded,"

"You two are just too cute," Tara commented, "Aren't they cute Aaron?"

"Cute," Aaron agreed in order to humour his wife, it couldn't have been more clear that he didn't agree as he eyed his daughter's boyfriend, taking in the semi-scruffy appearance.

"So," Gabriella started, "Are we going or not?"

"We're going," The man confirmed, picking up his young son as he began leading the way into the dining room, Tara following close behind.

"You don't have to come if you don't want to," Gabriella reminded Troy, "and we can always leave if dad get's too much,"

"I'm looking forward to it," he smirked, following the others.


Without the authors notes, this chapter is around five pages, which is good for me I guess, but still not good enough, especially if you compare it to the last impossible perfection chapter.

Anyways, I have to watch Greys Anatomy, for the reason in the list and the fact that it's totally awesome, so, review, around six for the next chapter.