Chapter 55

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Monday December 16

Troy was distracted all day; Gabriella was wearing his favourite dress again. If only she knew what it did to him. Wait a minute she did know, she'd been teasing him about it that night that everything went to hell. Was the fact she was wearing it today after their discussion on Saturday an invitation then, he asked himself. And if it was would he get the opportunity to take her up on it.

He came out of the changing rooms after practice to find Gabriella waiting for him. "Hey Gabriella" he said "I didn't expect you to wait for me you know?"

"It's fine Troy I was in the library with the decathlon team. I'm hoping by meeting weekly now we will be better prepared for the next round and Taylor won't feel the need to train every single minute in the week leading up to the next round of competition."

Troy laughed "Trying to stop Taylor from stressing out about it again? Good luck with that."

He opened her door for her and helped her in to his truck. "Where to my lady?" he asked.

Wherever you want Troy. Mum's working through dinner tonight so we could go have dinner with your mum if you like."

"Or we could stay home and have dinner just the two of us" Troy said, hoping Gabriella would agree.

"Or we could stay home and I could help you practice your cooking skills" Gabriella said with a smile.

"And what would my lady like me to cook for her?" Troy teased.

"I'll leave that decision to you, what can you cook now?" She knew Troy had continued to spend time in the kitchen with her mother but had no idea how much he had learned.

"By myself, not much but I am learning, I should be able to cook for you one day soon."

Troy parked his truck and the two of them went to sit on the hammock in Gabriella's back yard. Troy wrapped his arms around Gabriella pulling her down on top of him and began kissing her ardently. He fully expected that Gabriella would soon call their make out session to a halt and either want to go inside somewhere more private or stop and cook dinner. He thought this was a good compromise, this way he'd know whether or not Gabriella wanted to fool around without her actually having to tell him.

He was surprised when Gabriella sat up straddling his hips as he lay in the hammock and moved his hands to her thighs.

"Are you sure you want to stay out here?" Troy asked nervously.

"I'm sure" Gabriella replied leaning forward to resume kissing him.

Troy kissed her back enthusiastically his hands rubbing up and down the top of her thighs, trying to decide what she wanted him to do. Did she want to stay out here in order to guarantee he didn't try to undress her or take things too far. He could feel his arousal growing, scorching through his veins but he forced himself to relax, this moment was about Gabriella's pleasure not his own.

Troy kept rubbing his hands up her thighs going a little further each time until he reached the edge of her knickers. He played nervously with the lace edging he pound there before sliding his fingers across to brush along her core the feel of her heat through the rapidly dampening lace driving him wild. Pure fire streaked through her body from every place his hands and his lips touched and she moaned arching against his fingers. "More" she whispered.

Troy hid his grin, kissing her neck careful not to leave a mark. He pushed the lace aside and gently circled her clit with his thumb while his finger teased her entrance gently touching her wet, swollen flesh—she cried out at the sensation, pushing herself into his hand in a mindless, desperate search for more. It was too little—and paradoxically, too much at the same time, too much sensation, too much pleasure, until she thought she might go mad.

Troy quickly got the message and added a second finger thrusting them cautiously at first then more quickly as Gabriella moaned her approval.

Troy looked up at Gabriella straddling his lap her dress hiding the actions of his hand. He searched her face carefully for signs of discomfort. Instead he watched with delight her expression of ecstasy as she orgasmed around his fingers. Troy felt the evidence of her orgasm flow over his hand, his name gasping from her lips as her eyes glazed over with emotions. She never looked more beautiful to him than she did now; her face flushed with release and contentment.

Gabriella opened her eyes and saw Troy looking at her with a mixture of awe and arousal. "Fuck Gabriella," he rasped, "you looked so…" he trailed off, the heated look he gave her more eloquent than the words he couldn't articulate.

A fresh wave of heat coursed through her just from the look in his eyes. Gabriella could feel Troy's erection as it strained against his jeans and she ground herself against it. Troy's hips jerked

Gabriella raised her head to look down at him, a smile which he could only describe as wickedly (delightfully) seductive curving her lips.

Troy wouldn't have thought it was possible but he hardened even more—he was so hard, it hurt—and it was because of her expression more than her touch.

Gabriella climbed off Troy and out of the hammock asking him to wait there for her. She returned a few minutes later and Troy jumped up to help her resume her position on his lap. His hands went to grasp the cheeks of her ass to prevent her falling as he moved back in to the middle of the hammock. He almost fell out in shock, instead of the expected lace Troy could feel only silky smooth skin under his palms. "Gabriella?" he asked.

"I'm ready Troy" Gabriella said in a shy but confident voice. "Make love to me." She said kissing him with abandon.

"We can't" Troy groaned "Gabi Stop! Please before I..."

"It's okay Troy I'm sure that I want this. I want you to lose control."

Troy lifted her off his lap and buried his face in his hands groaning in despair.

"What's wrong Troy? Don't you want to make love with me?" Gabriella asked letting her insecurities show.

"More than anything Gabi. I love you."

"Then why?"

I thought you wouldn't be ready for a while yet and I didn't want to be tempted so I left the condoms at home. I don't have any here."

"Oh! I hadn't even thought about a condom. Thanks for remembering." Gabriella was horrified that she'd forgotten something so important, sure she'd had the shot but she and Troy had agreed not to take any risks.

"I could go and get..." Troy trailed off as he looked at his erection. He couldn't go home or to the shops in the state he was in. "I guess I'd have to shower first" he admitted slightly embarrassed.

Gabriella pushed him backwards so he was lying across the hammock, her hands reached to unbutton his jeans and pushed them and his boxers down just far enough to be able to wrap one hand around his penis while she cupped his balls tenderly with the other. Troy let out a strangled groan as she started to fondle him and unintentionally jerked his hips up. Gabriella smirked at him as she watched his reaction to her touch and sped up her actions.

It took very little time before Troy was murmuring incoherently thrusting up in to her hand in a wordless plea to drive him over the edge. "Fuck Gabi" "Oh God Yes" "Please" "Gabiii"

When he'd finished Gabriella ignored the mess and lay back down kissing him languidly then seeing Troy smile sleepily at her she sat up and pulled him out of the hammock. "You can't fall asleep out here Troy" she said not wanting to risk that they wouldn't wake up in time to get cleaned up before her mother got home.

"You shower first" Troy offered, "If you put your clothes outside the door I'll put them in the washing machine before Maria gets home"

Gabriella nodded gratefully and entered the bathroom to undress, a moment later the door opened and a hand passed out her clothes to him. Troy sighed he had hoped that Gabriella would become more comfortable undressing around him but it didn't seem to be happening.

Troy carried her clothes down to the laundry and loaded them in to the wash, striping off his own clothes and adding them and the soap powder he set the machine going before walking naked up the stairs to wait for Gabriella to finish showering.

Gabriella was coming out of the bathroom wrapped firmly in a large towel as he reached the top of the stairs. Her eyes widened as she saw him walking naked around the house grinning at her "Troy! What on earth are you doing?"she asked horrified.

Troy had grinned at the sight of her standing there in her towel, "I just put the clothes on to wash like I said I would" he replied wondering why she sounded shocked.

"Troy you can't walk around the house like that! What if Mum had come home or one of the neighbours saw you."

Troy looked down and blushed "I'm sorry Gabi, I took my clothes off to load them into the washer with yours so I could set it going. I didn't think about it."

Gabriella laughed at the idea of Troy walking around the house without realizing he was naked. Just as well her mother hadn't arrived home early because she would have got an eyeful. "Are you sure you're not a closet nudist" she teased.

"Gabriella no I swear I'm not." He escaped into the shower with her soft laughter ringing in his ears.

Gabriella continued to laugh, she'd been joking Troy had sounded so mortified at the thought of being a nudist last time she mentioned it that she couldn't resist teasing him about it.

Troy finished showering and entered the bedroom to find Gabriella fully dressed sitting on the bed waiting for him fidgeting nervously. "Hey" he said "what's up?" He crossed the room and knelt in front of her to see her face taking her hands in his.

Gabriella looked at him and blushed before hanging her head.

"Are you having second thoughts about being ready to have sex?" he asked gently.

"Will you hate me if I say yes?" she asked in a small voice refusing to look at his face.

Troy jumped to his feet pulling her up into a hug "No Baby, I was kind of expecting you might change your mind once you had time to think calmly about it. That's one of the reasons I didn't pack the condoms when I moved, I wanted us to have time to stop and really think about what we were doing" he reassured her.

"You expected this? You wanted me to have second thoughts?" Gabriella asked startled.

"No, I didn't want you to decide you're not ready I just wanted you to have a chance to think it over and be sure you were. Making decisions when you're too turned on to think straight isn't really a good idea" Troy explained. "I wanted to be sure that if you were going to have second thoughts it would be before we made love."

Gabriella laughed in relief "I guess you're right. Thank you for being so understanding." She returned his hug noticing that at some stage his towel had fallen to the floor and Troy's attraction to her was again poking into her stomach.

"I'm not being understanding I just couldn't bear it if we you regretted making love with me. I never want you to be unhappy with me for loving you" Troy said sadly.

"Oh Baby I'm never going to be anything but delighted that you love me." Gabriella refuted.

"That's not what I meant Gabi." He replied needing to know she wouldn't regret their actions.

Gabriella ran her hands down Troy's back to rest on his firmly rounded ass and gently squeezed pulling him closer. "I don't regret anything we've done Troy" she assured him firmly.

"Yeah but I think I'll still leave the condom's at Mom and Dad's until you tell me that you want me to go and get them. That way we will always have time for second thoughts" Troy stated.

Gabriella didn't argue which told Troy he'd made the right decision; instead she reached between them and grasped his erection. Pulling gently she soon set a rhythm that brought him to the brink of an orgasm before letting his penis go and taking his hand pulled him into the bathroom trying to prevent having to wash another set of cum soaked clothing or bedding. She wrapped both arms around him from behind and ran her hands over his torso pinching his nipples while pressing light kisses to his back and shoulders.

Troy was facing the mirror and watching Gabriella's hands exploring his body was driving him wild "Gabriella please..." he begged. Gabriella ran both hands downwards bypassing his erection to fondle his balls, "Oh God please..."

Eventually she took pity on him and wrapped her hand around his engorged length. Troy bucked his hips and came throwing his head back to lie on her shoulder and shouting her name.

He grabbed the basin to help support his shaking legs and tried to turn to cuddle Gabriella to him "Oh no you don't Troy... You need another shower before you can do that I'm not explaining to mum why I have so many clothes in the wash."

She left him leaning on the vanity and turned the water on before pushing him in to the shower. "I'll bring you some clothes in so this doesn't happen again..."

Troy's face fell "I'm sorry" he said in a small voice, hurt by her comment.

"Oh Troy I didn't mean it like that." She turned off the shower and lifted his chin with her hand so he could see her face. "It's just there's no point getting cleaned up again if we haven't finished. If you really want to keep fooling around we can. Just clean up a bit so you don't get me all messy again."

"Hmm" Troy hummed noncommittally, just then his stomach rumbled.

"It sounds like at least part of you is wanting to go either way." Gabriella chuckled, "So do you want to get cleaned up and dressed for dinner or would you like me to..." she made a gesture with her hands "you know... again"

Troy blushed "I think we'd better get dressed and eat before your mum gets home" he answered reluctantly, turning to adjust the shower to cold.

"I'll call for pizza" Gabriella offered leaving the bathroom.

Troy grinned "Okay but I'm happy to eat Chinese if you'd rather"

"Pizza's fine Troy, the way your stomach's growling you'll need more than Chinese to satisfy your hunger" she called through the door

Troy laughed showering quickly and dressing before going downstairs.

Troy was pleasantly surprised that there was no awkwardness between them as they ate their pizza then curled up on the couch to watch a movie. He wasn't paying the movie much attention, instead enjoying the feel of having Gabriella snuggled in his arms. The sexual tension growing between them was still slightly present as always lately, but instead of becoming frustrated they had come to welcome the extra spark it added to simple hugs and kisses.

A/N: Thankyou to Wildcats2016, Kiara and Pumpkinking5