Author's Note: Thanks everyone for all of the reviews! I love writing this story and I'm so glad that everyone is enjoying it so far. Well please keep enjoying it and please keep reviewing, they really make me happy. Here's chapter 4!

A week after the hair smelling incident I tried avoiding Mark whenever he was around, but somehow I would always end up near him because of my mom. He would still give me his smile and I would just shutter. Well, one day Troy and I were at my house to study for this big exam coming up. We were having fun as always and my mood suddenly changed when my mom and Mark showed up.

"Hey mom… and Mark." I said.

"Hey Gabriella, Troy." Ms. Montez said.

"Oh, so you're Troy. I've heard so much about you. I'm Mark by the way." He greeted extending his had out to shake and Troy returned it doing the polite thing.

"Ok, enough of this chit-chat. Troy we have to study." I said pulling him up from the table.

"Gabriella! Why are you being so rude?" My mom asked shocked at what I just did.

"Mom, Troy and I have this big important exam coming up. We have to study." I said before me and Troy went up to my room.

"Why were you acting like that?" Troy asked sitting on my bed.

"Acting like what?" I asked playing dumb.

"You know what I'm talking about." Troy said.

I just sighed. I didn't want to tell him. "Troy can we please just study?"

"Sure, whatever."

Another month passed and Mark was getting way too comfortable at our house. He would kick his shoes everywhere, put his feet up on the coffee table and would hog the TV. This made me not like him even more. I was just so annoyed of him being around all of the time. Mom seemed to enjoy his company, I mean has she forgotten about me.

I had asked my mom for another girls night and she was all for it. I rented movies, and brought tons of snacks, you know the whole nine yards. I was so excited about that night. I was finally going to spend sometime with my mom without Mark around. We were half way into the second movie when there was a knock at the door. My mom and I looked at each other confused and she went to answer the door. She then came back with Mark. I wanted to scream.

"Surprise, surprise." I said to myself.

"I hope you don't mind that Mark joins us." My mom said.

"Yes I do mind! Yes I do mind!" my head screamed but I just kept my feelings inside, "Sure no problem."

My mom sat at one far end of the couch while he sat next to her. I scooted as far away from him as possible with my blanket wrapped around me. We sat and watched in silence. I was too pissed to even concentrate on the movie. My mom had fallen asleep and I was too getting sleepy and drifted off. I was sleeping lightly for about ten minutes when I felt hands caressing my hair. At first I thought it was Troy but then I remembered that Troy wasn't there. I jumped out of my sleep and looked at Mark. He was giving me his smile. I looked at him like he was crazy and then ran up to my room. I locked the door knowing that he was going to spend the night; I didn't want to take any chances. I know I should have really told my mom but yet again I just couldn't.

Little did I know, my world would suddenly change drastically…that if I mentioned what was going on then I would have to pay a price…

So what did you think? I hope you liked it! Well, I just want to say again thank you for all the wonderful reviews. I now know where I'm going with this. I have the whole chapter five planned out. I'm so excited I can't wait to post it! Oh yeah, there will be more Troy once he starts to finally figure out what's going on. Now click that little purple button and review.