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The Truth Comes Out

"How about this one?" Gabriella asked her best friend as she held up a puke green dress. Taylor looked at it with a disgust written all over her face.

For the past two hours, Gabby had thrown a random dress at Taylor, and then shoved her unceremoniously into the changing room. Taylor felt as if she had put on almost every dress in the whole store, maybe even every dress in the mall.

"You couldn't even pay me to wear that dress Gabby." Taylor said as she shook her head.

"Well I found my dress yesterday Taylor." Gabriella reminded her. Taylor sighed. Gabby had found a beautiful dress. It was hot pink with beaded flowers scattered around the dress. It had spaghetti straps, and barley touched the ground.

"I know you did, I picked it out." Taylor reminded.

The duo had gone shopping yesterday, and Taylor had no luck with finding a dress. Taylor started to feel as if she would never find the dress. She needed a dress that would make her look beautiful, and make Chad's jaw drop to the floor. And so far she had no such luck in finding the beautiful-jaw-dropping-dress.

Taylor continued to look through the racks of dresses. She gasped when she found one that she liked. She showed it to Gabriella and then walked into the changing room to try it on. As she was slipping the silky dress on, she heard Gabriella pacing in front of the door, anxious to see the dress on her best friend.

When Taylor got out of the dressing room, Gabriella gasped. Taylor looked beautiful in the dress. The dress wasn't a dark purple, but it wasn't a light purple either, it was a medium purple with beadwork all over the dress. It dragged slightly on the ground, but accented Taylor's figure and it showed her true personality.

"This is the one Gabby!" Taylor squealed.

"It is beautiful Taylor, you look stunning in it. You have to get it!" Gabby said as she walked around Taylor in a circle, examining the dress carefully.

"Do you think that Chad will like it?" Taylor asked. She was scared that Chad wouldn't like it.

"Like it? He will love it Taylor! You will knock his socks off!" Gabriella said as she gave Taylor a reassuring smile.

"I'll get out of this masterpiece, and we will go pay for it." Taylor said as she started to walk back to the dressing room. Gabriella nodded her head. She loved the dress that Taylor had chosen; it was perfect for her best friend. What she had told Taylor was true, Gabriella truly believe that Taylor would knock Chad's socks off.

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At Chad's House

"So what are your girlfriends up to today?" Jason asked.

"Dress shopping." Chad and Troy said together. All of the boys shuddered.

"I feel bad for you Chad." Zeke said suddenly as he looked at Chad with sympathetic eyes.

"Why do you feel bad for me?" Chad asked, completely confused at his friends statement.

"Well every guy in school knows not to mess with Gabriella because there would be hell to pay. Right Troy?" Jason asked.

"Yeah." Troy said simply.

"And everyone knows not to mess with Sharpay and Kelsi" Zeke explained.

"The only reason people don't mess with Sharpay is because she is the Ice Queen, or maybe even a Mountain Lion." Chad said with a laugh.

"That is not funny Chad. She has changed!" Zeke explained.

"Whatever, so go back to what you were saying." Chad said as he motioned for them to continue.

"As I was saying, people don't mess with Sharpay, Gabriella and Kelsi, everyone knows that we are dating them and that they are off limits." Zeke continued.

"So, your point is?" Chad asked.

"Everybody knows that your dating Taylor, but most guys don't care, they hit on her anyway. You never really made her off limits." Jason began.

"THEY WHAT?" Chad yelled as he stood up from his seat on the couch.

"You didn't know about that?" Jason asked, his eyes wide in surprise.

"If I knew, don't you think that I would be taking this information better then I am right now?" Chad shot back at them.

"No." They all answered.

"How long has this been going on?" Chad asked. His eyes burning with anger.

"Two years." Troy said.

"Two years, and Taylor never told me?" Chad asked himself as he sat back down.

"Maybe she didn't want you to get mad." Zeke tried to explain.

"Yeah, guys are bound to hit on Taylor." Jason added.

"They can't hit on her, she is mine!" Chad yelled.

"If Taylor was here now, I believe she would be yelling at you because you are treating her like an object, not a girlfriend." Zeke said cautiously.

"How did you guys know about this, and I didn't?" Chad asked.

"We see it in the hallways, like on Friday, a guy came up to Taylor and asked her to the Prom but she said no." Jason said as he recalled the most recent event.

"I thought that every person in school knew that Taylor was mine, and mine alone." Chad wondered aloud.

"Like I said before, she is not an object." Zeke reminded.

"Shut up Zeke!" Jason and Troy yelled.

"So guys just come up to her an ask her out?" Chad asked.

Three nods gave him his first answer.

"My girlfriend is hit on for almost two years, and not one of you had the decency to even tell me?" Chad yelled. He thanked Taylor silently; she had yelled at him, using a large word 'decency' to be exact, he had no idea what it had meant, so she had to give him the definition. Now he was happy that he knew a large word that he could fit into this important of a conversation.

"Chad, calm down, we thought you knew." Troy said as he tried to calm down his best friend. Chad shook his head.

"I just can't believe that Taylor would keep this from me. We tell each other everything." Chad mused aloud.

"Like I said before, I bet she was scared that you would overreact." Zeke reminded him once more.

"I just can't believe that she didn't tell me." Chad said again.

"You trust Taylor, don't you Chad?" Troy asked.

"I trust Taylor with my life." Chad answered automatically.

"Then don't worry, guys are bound to hit on her, she is a woman so guys will like her and flirt with her. Just remember that she loves you not some random guy. You trust her to turn them all down. So don't jump overboard here." Troy said.

"A relationship is based on trust, if you can't trust her, you can't be in a relationship with her." Zeke calmly explained.

"That sounded like something Gabriella would say." Chad said, his eyes still burning with anger.

"What can I say? I'm in touch with my feminine side." Zeke said as he looked at the three guys that were laughing at him.

"In touch with your feminine side?" Chad asked as he started to laugh harder.

"Stop laughing at me, besides we are getting off topic here. Do you understand Chad?" Zeke asked as he ignored the snickers that came from his friends.

"Yea, I do." Chad said grudgingly, he was still extremely mad about guys hitting on his girlfriend. "It was just a surprise is all. I still need to talk to her, you know, about not telling me about it in the first place." Chad said as he sighed.