Author's note:

Sorry it took me so long to update. Got called into work and had to do a seven hour shift. Well here is this chapter, hopefully the rest up tonight, or tomorrow night when I get home from the Pirates movie!

Chapter Twelve

The next day Taylor met up with Gabriella in her house. She had talked to Chad and knew everything that was going on with Troy, mainly the point were he regretted the way he had treated Gabbi and wanted to get her back. Now Taylor didn't approve of the way the Troy chose to handle the situation but she knew how happy Gabbi was with him, and how miserable she must be without him so she figured for her friend she would help fix the problem.

Gabriella's mother let her in the house and Taylor headed right upstairs to Gabriella's room. She thought she would see Gabriella looking like a mess but instead she saw her doing her hair in the mirror.

"Um Gabbi, where are you going?"

'Getting ready to go out." Gabbi said.

"Go out with who? Did you and Troy make up yet?" Taylor said hoping, that would make her job much easier.

"No, Troy made it quite clear to me that he wanted nothing to do with me any more so I made plans to move on. I'm going out with Eric tonight."

"Gabbi you'll be sorry if you do that. Go talk to Troy again, he'll listen this time I promise." Taylor said pulling up a chair to sit beside Gabbi.

"Taylor he made it clear to me his wishes, and I'm gonna stick by them." Gabbi said. "Now if all you are going to talk about is Troy please go, I don't want to talk about him."

Taylor got up and left. When she started to walk down the street she pulled out her cell phone and called Chad.

"So how did it go?" Chad asked.

"Not good. She is going out with Eric tonight. She really doesn't want to talk anything about Troy. She says that he made his decision and that he must live with it now." Taylor explained.

"This is not good. Tomorrow at school is going to be an interesting day." Chad sighed.

NEXT DAY AT SCHOOL:

Troy tried many times to talk to Gabriella but every time she saw him coming she would dive into the girls room or she would grab Eric's hand and walk in the other direction with him.

Gabbi knew what she was doing to Troy was mean but at this point she didn't care. In her mind he deserved it. She regretted the kiss between her and Eric that night but she was so angry at him that she wanted to get back at him.

Things got worse that day during basketball practice. Troy decided to finally attend, he wasn't going to let Eric effect his life anymore. He walked into the gym laughing and joking with Chad. He knew his father was going to kill him for missing so many practices but it wasn't like he was letting him play anymore.

His father glared at him from across the room but was busy talking to Eric. Eric followed Coach Bolton's gaze and gave Troy a smug look.

"So man have you figured out what you are going to do yet?" Chad asked him when he caught the glance between Eric and Troy.

"I'm sure it will come to me when the time comes." Troy said.

"I'm sure it will." Chad said.

Troy's father came out and paired them up to practice their passing and in the end Coach Bolton paired up Troy and Eric.

It didn't take long for the time Troy was talking about came around. They were practicing their throws while Eric keep throwing Troy the same looks as he did when he was talking to his father.

"Is there something you want to talk to me about?" Troy asked angrily.

"No, but now that you brought it up I find it kind of funny how everyone in this school seems to like me better. Even the love of your life, everyone says that she couldn't take her eyes off of you until I showed up." Eric said gloating then added, "She is so hot and the way that she kis..."

However Eric didn't even have a chance to finish because Troy with all the built up frustration and anger that had been building in her finally came out in the form of Troy's fist in Eric's face.

Chad ran up to Troy and asked, "This is your form of taking care of things."

"I improvised." Troy said not being about to hold back his laugh.

However it stopped when Troy's father came up to them flipping. Troy not sticking around to hear it, took off running out of the gym.