Hmm yeahh, here's chapter 24. There's only a few more chapters left i think.. soo reviews would be nice(
"Wow." Sharpay finally said breaking the silence and turning quickly.

"Huh?" Martin asked.

"Umm, your.." Keslie said with her head turned in a different direction.

"Yeah." Taylor said with her head turned the opposite way.

"Oh c'mon guys, be mature" Gabriella said, grabbing an extra dry towel and wrapping it around a nude Martin.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot..." He told them. "I usually put my shirt on first." He blushed.

"It's okay, I used to take care of my cousin when I lived close to them." Gabriella said, trying to take her mind off of what she really saw from her angle. "C'mon you," She picked up his shirt that she dropped and scooted him towards the bathroom, following closely to make sure he had all of his other clothes he needed.

"wow, weird. I've never really taken care of kids before" Sharpay confessed after Gabriella and Martin left to go to the bathroom.

"Yeah" Taylor and Kelsie said in unison.

"I mean I've babysat before, but never really had to give them baths or anything like that" Taylor said.

"Yeah, same here." Keslie said.

The girls got ready and washed up in the guest and downstairs bathrooms while Gabriella and Martin were in Gabriella's bathroom. She handed him his clothes and let him change in the other part of her bathroom; it was separated so that the his and her sinks were there when you entered followed by the toilet and shower were behind the connecting door. She waited for him to finish and washed her face. By the time he got out, Gabriella was preparing to brush her teeth. She set Martin on the counter since he couldn't reach, and handed Martin his own toothbrush and the tube of toothpaste. She finished first, so she handed him a small paper cup with water so he could rinse. Gabriella leaned against the counter as she waited for him to finish, once they did, they were silent for a few seconds.

"Martin.." She sighed looking at him. The vent was still on, which was pretty loud, since he recently got out of the shower so no one could hear what they were saying or talking about.


After they finished talking, they walked back into Gabriella's room and decided to play a game with everyone else since it was still 5 minutes to 9. Gabriella didn't really have many kid games around, so she pulled out a deck of cards and they played go-fish.

"Hey Gabby, got any twos?" He asked.

"Nope. Go-fish." she said as he pouted. "Hey, whens your bedtime anyway?" She said glancing at her clock.

"8 on school days. And sometimes all the way to 10 if I don't fall asleep on the days I don't have school the next day" He told them, putting the card he picked up into his hand of cards.

"Hey Taylor got any kings? So, do you have school tomorrow?" Keslie asked. Taylor handed her a king.

"Nope, but there's another park day again. Are you and Chad gonna play with us again Taylor?" He turned to her

"Uhm, sure I'll go again, I'm not sure about Chad though, he might have other plans."

"Oh."

"We'll go!" Kelsie said excitedly, and Gabriella and Sharpay nodded. "If you want us to of course, and if it's okay..."

"Yeah!" Martin exclaimed.

"Yeah, I think it'll be fine. Mrs. Siggs is pretty nice." Taylor said.

"Mrs. Siggs? Oh! She used to be my teacher! Troy and Chad were in my class, but that's when we never really considered each other's existence. Or well, they never knew I existed." Kelsie sighed.

"Well, now they do." Sharpay smiled. "Man, I sometimes wish me and Ryan moved here back then."

"Ryan and I" Kelsie corrected her as always.

"How many times does she have to correct you when you forget to say "I" instead of "me"?" Gabriella laughed.

"Whatever." Sharpay said. "Anyways, I win." She laid out her cards of pairs.

"No fair!" Martin jumped.

"Yes, fair. Now, it's time for you to sleep... Or else we won't go to the park day thing with you." Taylor threatened.

"Okay." He gave in easily and got up towards the "bed" Gabriella made for him out of a sleeping bag and a few blankets on top of it to make a mattress, and a blanket and pillow on top.

"Uhm, I'll be right back." Gabriella got up and walked towards the guest room taking out her cell phone. She remembered that she and Troy already had plans to hang out on Monday, which happened to be tomorrow. She got into the guest room, turned on the light, closed the door behind her, sat on the black futon that was still folded into a couch, and hit Troy's number on speed dial. He had his phone off so she left a message.

"Hey Troy, its Gabby... Uhm, I know we had plans to hang out tomorrow, but something came up. I hope it was nothing special or anything, I mean it's not like we said it was a date or anything..." She paused at what she just said, she really wanted it to be a date,"but yeah, this is kinda important. It's a long story. I'll explain it to you later. I'm really sorry, soo uhm, just call me back when you get this alright? Okay, bye." She sighed and hung up her phone and walked back into her room.

"Hey Martin, what time does your park day thingy start?" Gabriella asked when she walked in, but only found him asleep already.

"Hah, I guessed we had too much fun 'fishing'" Kelsie joked, silently laughing to herself.

"Kels, you're soo we're sometimes." Taylor said.

"Yeah, but we still love you." Sharpay added.

"Ha ha you guys, very funny. Can't I have a little humor sometimes? Geez. Kill my fun." Keslie said pulling a blanket over her.

"It's okay, Kels, I personally love your humor." Gabriella laughed a little as she got into bed.

"Anyways, I think Martin said sometime about it starting early tomorrow, around 10 I think." Taylor said as she settled herself.

"Alright, then I guess we should all get some shut eye. Night girls." Gabriella greeted them as she reached to turn off the lamp. Right when she did Martin spoke up.

"Hey Gabby," He whispered. "Can you keep the light on?" He asked. Gabriella smiled.

"Uhm, hold on a sec, I've got just the thing." She said turning on the lamp again and opened her nightstand drawer. She pulled out a night light and plugged it in the output he was by.

"There. I used to be afraid of the dark when I was younger too." She admitted. "Now go to sleep." She said brushing his hair out of his face. Ever since she and Martin had a talk in the bathroom, she became fond of him.

"Night." He mumbled as Gabriella got up, and settled herself underneath her blanker.

"Night."


There you go.Hmm i should be able to get the next chapter up by today if my sister doesn't bug me to go on but yeahh, leave reviews. Tell me what you think.