Note: Okay! I'm updating! This chapter, if I dare say, is really…interesting. I only own Heather in here! Enjoy! On with the story!

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Gabriella woke up the next morning and sighed. 2 months… She thought.

The truth was, it had been 2 months since Troy had broken up with her.

She looked over at the picture of him that was by her bedside. She still cared for him. She still loved him. She sighed and closed her eyes

but opened them when Taylor came in.

"Gabriella?" Taylor asked quietly and sat down next to her.

"Yeah?" Gabriella asked as she sat up.

Taylor hesitated at first, "Do you want to go to dinner with me tonight?" She finally asked after a slight awkward silence.

"Who is going?" Gabriella asked.

"Everyone….except Troy." Taylor lied. She prayed and prayed that Gabriella couldn't hear the little lie.

Truth was that Troy was going, but it was more of a surprise.

"There is this nice little restaurant with a karaoke booth." Taylor smiled.

Gabriella kind of smiled. "Its been months since I've sang anything…..I'll go as long Troy isn't there." She smiled more.

Taylor smiled even more, "Great! We got to go shopping, we're leaving in 15!" She exclaimed and ran out.

Gabriella smiled and dragged herself out of bed. Today…isn't going to be so bad after all. She thought to herself.

Troy groaned as Chad banged on the door, "TROY!" He screamed.

"What?" Troy groaned and sat up.

"Good! Your awake!" Chad said and flopped down next to him.

Jason came in a little while later.

"Why can't you just wake me up normally?" Troy asked, irritated.

Jason laughed, "Want to go to dinner tonight?"

Troy blinked. This has got to be the most awkward question a guy can ask anotherguy….especially in the morning……He

thought to himself.

"So? Do you?" Chad asked.

"Who else is going?" Troy asked. He prayed that it wasn't just him, Chad, and Jason.

"Everyone." Jason said.

"Even Gabriella?" Troy asked.

"Not sure, Taylor was going to talk to her and lie about you coming-" Chad was saying until his cell phone interrupted his sentence,

"Hang on!" He said and answered, "Hello?" he paused, "Uh-huh…" Chad said. He screwed up his face in concentration.

Truth was that Chad couldn't concentrate on much, unless it was making out with Taylor.

"Uh-huh…" He said again, "Alright! Great! See you guys then!" Chad said, but was quick to pull the cell phone away.

Taylor absolutely hated when Chad said anything with "guys" in it.

"Sorry! I'll see you girls later!" Chad had emphasized the "girls"

Troy laughed with Jason.

"Yeah, Gabriella is coming." Chad nodded.

"Great! Time to put my plan in action!" Troy jumped up, "I just hope Gabriella doesn't kill me….." Troy sighed.

100 stores later Taylor and Gabriella flopped down at the food court.

"So tell me what's wrong…" Taylor said.

"Nothing." Gabriella said simply.

"Liar." Taylor said.

"Am not!" Gabriella exclaimed.

"Are to!" Taylor said.

"Am not!" Gabriella screamed.

"Are to! And you know it! That's why your denying it!" Taylor said.

Gabriella opened her mouth to protest, but closed it instead, "Your right…" She looked down.

"So what is it? You know how bad it is to keep things bottled up.." Taylor said.

"Truth is…I just want to be free." Gabriella said softly.

Taylor looked at her.

"For one moment I just want to forget all of my problems and be happy. I want to forget that me and Troy are over forever, I want to

forget that I have to go to college, I want to forget that my mom used to smoke and has a lung problem, I want to forget that one day I

just might up and move again, I want to forget that I still love Troy….." Gabriella's voice trailed off.

"Wow…..that's…..wow…" Taylor was at a loss of words.

"I mean I see everyone so happy. Ryan and Heather are happy, Jason and Kelsey, you and Chad are happily engaged, Sharpay and

Zeke are even happy!" Gabriella paused before going on, "It hurts knowing that me and Troy will never be happy again…." Gabriella

looked down.

Taylor felt absolutely horrible for lying to her best friend like this, but it just had to be done.

A few hours later they went home and changed and waited for the guys to pick them up.

All the guys and girls came over. Everybody except Troy. What Gabriella didn't know,was that this night was going to change her life,

forever.

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Note: Okay! I know this entire chapter is more or a less a cliff hanger! I'll update later, I hope you guys enjoyed it!