Troy's POV
I climbed up to her balcony and reached for the handle…surprisingly it was unlocked. I stepped into the room "Gabi?" "Oh hey Troy… I'm in here" I heard her call from the bathroom. I leaned on the open doorway and looked at Gabi, she was sitting on the bathroom counter reading a book. "And you are reading in here because…?" "Oh… I left it in here and I just…" I laughed; she could do the weirdest things sometimes. I stood right in front of her. "So…?" "I don't know…" she said in a tiny innocent voice. "Well… we could do this" I said slipping my hands around her waist and kissing her lightly on the lips. I guess she opened her eyes because she said, "Oh my god Troy what did you do!" "It's nothing…" "Troy its not nothing! That could get infected… if you don't get it stitched up you could end up with a nasty scar!" "Gabi… just shh" I said kissing her again. She pulled back. "Troy… I hate to say this but, you need to take a shower" "That kind of slipped my mind this morning with the whole cut thing." "Yeah… well you really need to take one…" "Well I'm only going to take one here if you join me" I said in that playful tone I was using that time at the library. "Okay fine. That will be fun. "Are you serious?" I asked. "Well you tell me," she said unbuttoning her shorts. "Gabi I was kidding…" "I'm not" she slid the shorts down her legs and reached for my shirt. "Gabi… you're not serious are you?" "Well Troy why do you think I just took off my shorts? Cause its hot? I don't think so" "But you just took one…" "Not with you…I mean come on Troy… don't you want to take a steaming hot shower with me" she whispered into my ear… that turned me on but still I was freaking out… I mean yeah I'd love to see Gabi naked but this is so… not what I expected… she hasn't been acting herself lately. She's unbuttoning my long sleeve shirt… now she's taking off hers. I can't believe this… has she been drinking? I mean really… I never thought she would do this. She turned on the water. This is kind of weird. I just can't strip down naked in front of her it feels weird. I mean she still has her bra and underwear on still but it just feels… I don't know. I leaned in to kiss her… maybe if I distract myself…she managed to take off her bra and then the rest of our clothes. We stepped into the water I had my hands on her hips as I stood behind her kissing her neck. I could feel the hot water pounding on my back… God this felt so good.
Gabriella's POV
What am I getting myself into? I would have never done this a month ago… but now it kind of feels right… This is defiantly the best moment of my life… being in his arms, hot water running down my body… oh yeah no doubt in my mind I will forget this. A little while later the water started to cool down… I guess we used all of the hot water. "Troy…" "Yeah…" "We used all of the hot water." "Cool" I laughed and turned off the water, I stepped out of the shower and threw him his clothes. I pulled my underwear on and Troy's shirt came flying at my head. "Here's another to add to your collection" "I can't take this one! It's your favorite…" "So? It's the same shirt I was wearing the night we met, you know at the party…you deserve to have it." "Okay fine" I pulled the shirt on and buttoned it up. "You know ever since we met I've been a little short on shirts" I joked. "Hey I only have… three wait no, now it would be four" "Guys don't keep as many clothes as girls do remember?" "Oh… you want them back? Its okay if you take them, I just sleep in them sometimes" "No its okay they are officially yours… but do tell me which ones you have so I can figure out which ones Chad borrowed." "I have a red one that says 'East High Basketball team' on it… I was going to give that one back because only the basketball team has them, duh, and I figured that you might need it" "No its okay I have a ton of those" "Oh I have… um here why don't I look"
Troy's POV
I followed Gabi into her closet. She kneeled in front of a drawer and opened it. I saw one of my white (I honestly don't know what those tank tops that guys wear are called… Tank tops? Uh no sounds too girly but w/e) "I have this one…" she said pulling out the shirt. "Yeah… there's one more right?" "Yeah… I wore it last night it was a plain blue shirt" "Oh okay thanks" Man did she look hot right now… wearing nothing but a button down long sleeved shirt. I don't know why girls wear make up… they look beautiful without it…a lot of times it just makes them look worse, but that's how Gabriella looks when she wears it. I grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the closet. "You know… I've never really seen you with your hair like… that" My hair was wet, it wasn't exactly my favorite look. Ha ha. "Yeah the other night…when we went swimming. "Troy you know I had no idea what I was doing that night. "True." She ran her fingers through my hair. "There that's a little better" I noticed she was still wearing the necklace I gave her.
She stood on her toes and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek then asked "Troy, what happened?" "I want to tell you…but I can't" "Oh come on Troy it can't be that bad…its not like your dad hit you." I winced. "Unless he did…" she said noticing my reaction. She brought her hand to my head and accidentally brushed her fingers across my bruise. I winced again, "Oww" She pushed back my hair trying to find the bruise, she knew it was there. "Oh my god…" I took that as a 'yes I found the bruise' "Gabi it's nothing." "Don't tell me its nothing Troy!" she said taking a few steps back. "Gabi…it's not as bad as it looks" "Yeah… I barely accidentally brush my fingers across it and you wince! Troy that isn't nothing… you have to tell someone!" "Gabi I can't…" "Its my fault isn't it… he doesn't want you around me, that's what it is isn't it!" She said crying. "No Gabi its not that… its okay" She wrapped her arms around my stomach and buried her head in my chest. "I just don't want you to get hurt!" She cried. "Shh Shh it's okay… Don't worry I'll be okay…" I whispered into her ear. "Troy… I just can't let you get hurt because of me! I won't let that happen…" "Gabi listen to me… its not you…just stop crying it's okay" "TROY! Stop lying! I KNOW ITS ME! He didn't like me from the start!" "Gabi its because I was late for curfew that's all… its okay" "You have a curfew?" She said looking up at me. "Yes…" "Why didn't you tell me…?" She said getting mad. "Because I wanted to spend time with you" "…What time is it at?" "Midnight" "OH MY GOD TROY! You've been home every night at two for the past couple of days! Troy I'll understand if you have to be home, I just don't want you to get hurt!" "Gabi I want to stay out…"
"Well… well um…then I won't let you stay here later than 11:45!" "Come on Gabi don't be like that" "I'm not going to be responsible for you getting hurt!" "GABI DON'T YOU GET IT! HE'S JUST GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY" I said turning away, if I cried I couldn't let her see me. "Troy…look at me" she said softly. "Please" A single tear fell down my cheek…I turned around. Gabi hugged me. "Just don't think about it… come on lets just do something" "Like what?" I said getting over what just happened. "Well there's no sense of swimming since we are already wet…" "How about we go get ice cream" "That would involve me changing" "Oh right… that could take ages" "You could go get ice cream?" "But its so much more fun with you there to order…" "Ha! Is Troy Bolton afraid to order ice cream?" "No… Its just not the same without you" I joked. "Whatever, but then what are we going to do?" "Lets watch a movie… Scary or Comedy?" "Romance" she said. "Fine… but I get to pick…" "What do you pick then?" "Just like Heaven… you know the one with Rease Witherspoon?" "Yeah I have that…it's downstairs though…I'll be right back"