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Troy woke up the next morning, with tired eyes. The sun was shining in from his windows. He noticed that he was in his living room and not his bedroom. He thought about getting up, but he was too tired. Everything around his body, hugged him tightly. They formed to fit him. He was lying on his side. He looked down and noticed Gabriella resting her head on his chest. She looked so comfortable. He didn't want to move or else he would wake her up and she would move. He realized how beautiful she looked. Troy remembered that they were watching television really late last night and they must have fallen asleep. She started to stretch and squirm. She looked up at him and smiled, warmly.

"Morning." Troy said, hoarse since he just woke up.

"Morning." Gabriella muttered. She sat up, stretching and yawning. She moaned. "Looks like we fell asleep out here."

"Yeah. It does." He laughed.

"I'm sorry for waking you up last night. I didn't know you were out here." Gabriella said.

"It's okay. It was... nice, spending time with you." He smiled.

"Yeah." She giggled and looked down. "Well, I'm going to go to the bathroom and stuff." She got up.

"Okay. I'll make some coffee or something." Troy got up and went over to the kitchen.

"Sounds good." She walked into her room to get her stuff then walked into the bathroom.

Troy couldn't help but smile. It felt so right, waking up with her by his side. Wait, that sounded kind of wrong. They were just friends, after all. He poured the coffee into two cups and sat down at the table. Gabriella walked in. She had on blue sweat pants and sweatshirt. Her hair was in a messy bun since she didn't have a curling iron or straitener. She sat down, across from him and took a sip from her cup.

"How is it?" Troy asked her about the coffee.

"Good. Thank you so much for letting me stay here last night. I know it was probably absurd." Gabriella said.

'Not at all!' Troy thought. "It was okay."

"Okay, good. I didn't want to barge in or anything." She smiled.

"You didn't."

"So, I'll just go get my stuff and if it's all right with you, could you drive me home?" She asked.

"Yeah, sure. Sounds good." He said.

"Thanks so much."

"No problem."

"So..." She smiled, putting her cup in the dishwasher.

"So... uh... when are you going to back to school?" He asked.

"Well, it's break because it's the end of the semester, so the teachers are grading and everything."

"Oh. So, your room mate is gone?"

"Yeah. She visited her family, so I'm stuck here all by myself. I'll be fine tonight, though. I won't watch anymore scary movies!" They both laughed.

"That's a good idea. So you thought that I was the killer, knocking at your door?" Troy couldn't help but laugh.

"It's not funny!" She even laughed. "It seriously could have been him. He's in my neighborhood and I'm a young woman, so..."

"Well, it was totally okay to stay here. I'm sorry; you could've have slept in the guest bed. It's really comfy." He got up and put his coffee cup in the dishwasher and leaned on the counter beside her.

"That's okay. I was really comfortable where I slept last night..." She looked in his eyes and he looked in his hers. They both leaned in, knowing what was going to happen next. Their lips were about a half an inch away, when suddenly; Gabriella's cell phone rang. She broke away from him.

"Uh, I have to get this." She took her cell phone from the counter and answered it.

"Hello?" She said. "Oh, hi. Hang on just a minute." She covered the mouthpiece and motioned that she would be one minute to Troy. She walked into the guest room and shut the door. Troy smiled to himself. Darn the maker of phones. He was so close to kissing her. It looked like she wanted to too because she leaned in with him. He turned on the dishwasher and waited for Gabriella to come out. After about 5 minutes, she came out with a worried look on her face.

"What's up?" He asked, coming towards her.

"That was my landlord. He said that the guy on the loose, broke into my neighbors house, late last night. He wasn't caught so my landlord suggests I stay somewhere else." She put her hands on her cheeks and looked mad.

"I'm sorry." Troy said.

"I know it would be a lot of trouble, but could you drive me to a the Hilton or something?" She asked, looking through her purse for the number.

"I could, but you could stay here again... you know, if you want to again. I'm much cheaper than a hotel and I'm like one. You said so yourself." Troy offered, trying to make his offer sound better than any hotel. He really liked her over. It was nice having someone at his house for a change, besides Chad coming over and taking all his food.

"Uh, okay." She sounded a little skeptical but in her head, she wanted to stay over more than any hotel in the world. "Yeah, I would love to. That would be great! Thanks Troy!" She gave him a big, deep hug and both of them knew this was the real moment. They leaned in and knew that nothing was going to interrupt... KNOCK KNOCK.

"Uuugggghhh!" Troy groaned.

"It's okay." She smiled, embarrassed and looked down.

He opened the door. Chad walked strait in.

"Hey, man. So I really got to tell you something. I really told Tiffany off. I stood up to her like you told me to and she got really pissed, like I pictured." He said, getting some food out of Troy's fridge. "And so anyway, I was like we are so over! Oh, hey Gabriella." Chad kept walking. "It just feels so good to final- Gabriella!" Chad finally noticed.

"Hey, Chad." Gabriella laughed and looked at Troy.

"Chad, this is Gabriella." Troy introduced her to him like it was there first time meeting.

"Hi. How've you been?" He pulled her into a hug.

"Great. I hear you just had a break up." She giggled.

"Yeah! You finally did it man! Way to go!" Troy high fived him.

"Yeah. She was just getting on my nerves." Chad opened a soda and sat on Troy's couch.

" 'bout time you noticed." Troy sat on the couch too.

"C'mon, Gabi. Take a seat!" Chad looked at her.

Gabriella felt awkward, standing there, in a room with two guys. One, who she was in kind of an awkward position with in terms of relationship wise and the other, she hasn't seen for a few years. "Okay." She sat on the chair next to the couch.

"So, are you two dating?" Chad nudged Troy and smiled widely.

Both, Troy and Gabriella looked down, obviously embarrassed at the question. Then they both looked at each other for an answer as to what the other was going to say.

Chad looked back and forth at both of them, exchanging glances. "Is that a yes?"

"No, we're just friends." Troy blurted out. He wanted to be so much more with her, but he hasn't even got a chance to kiss her yet!

"Yeah, we're just friends." Gabriella agreed. They looked at each other and smiled.

"Okay... sure. Well, then why are you here so early?" Chad asked.

"I... uh... well... um..." She trailed off. She didn't know if Troy wanted Chad to know if she slept over.

"She slept over." Troy blurted again. Okay, maybe he did want Chad to know.

"Really?" Chad winked at Troy. "What did you guys do?"

"Dude, nothing. We're just friends. There is a crazy convict in her neighborhood so she's staying here for a while, okay?" Troy said. Chad looked over at Gabriella. She nodded too.

"Okay, fine." Chad settled. The three of them went out for lunch and talked for a while. Chad and Gabriella caught up with each other's lives.

When Chad left, Troy and Gabriella went to a movie and then went to sleep... in their own beds.

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