"NO!" Gabriella screamed, as Troy's truck spluttered, and stammered, and eventually came to a staggering halt.

Gabriella hopped out of the driver's seat, and opened the hood.

"Uh, Tay?" Gabriella bit her bottom lip. "Do you know anything about cars?"

Taylor climbed out of the passenger side, and raised her eyebrows as she stared down to where Gabriella was frowning at.

"Nope." She shrugged. "I don't think smoke should be coming out of there." She pointed at something, that Gabriella decided looked very icky, and, not wanting to get her party dress dirty, decided not to touch it.

"Where are we, anyway?" She sighed, pulling her cell phone out. Taylor shrugged, looking around for a road sign.

"Hey! Troy…" Gabriella sighed in relief down the phone. "Your lousy truck broke down. No, I don't know. There's some lights in the distance but it's pretty bare around here. Yeah, we shouldn't be far out. Thank you. Bye sweetie."

Taylor looked up from where she was hiding her face in her hands.

"He's gonna get someone to come find us. He thinks he knows where we are."

"How?"

"No clue." Gabriella shook her head. She looked at her watch. "Looks like we'll be seeing the new year in from here."

Taylor copied her, looking at her own watch and sighed.

"Chad was so excited about us spending tonight together." She sighed. "He's gonna be crushed."

"Well, you could try walking?" Gabriella grinned.

"No chance. How stupid we were, agreeing to that decathlon on new year's eve? Out of town? Why did we think we could.."

"Taylor! Calm down. I know it sucks."

Gabriella looked yet again at her watch. 11.50.

"We've got ten minutes." Gabriella said, climbing back inside the truck. "Let's party!"

She pushed a cassette into Troy's old truck stereo, pressing play.

"This music's old!" Taylor laughed, as New Kids On The Block blared out of the truck.

"Everything about that truck is old."

Taylor laughed, and the two danced on the slightly grassy side of the highway. And actually, it was pretty fun, and the two girls ignored the few cars that drove past.

Gabriella caught a glance of her watch, and noticed there was less than a minute until midnight.

"Hey, hey, Tay." Gabriella said, pointing at her watch.

The two girls counted down the last 30 seconds of the year. When Gabriella's watch struck twelve, Taylor whooped, Gabriella jumped up and down, and they both hugged.

"Happy new year!"

"Happy new year!"

Gabriella sighed, ran over to the truck, and turned down the music.

"Goodbye to a great year." Gabriella grinned, and held her hands in Taylor's. "Thanks for being a great friend."

"You too! Here's to years more of friendship."

The two hugged again, as a pick-up truck slowed as he approached the truck.

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Merry Christmas everybody! Sorry I've not updated this in a while, I've been kinda stuck, I wrote all the easy ones first! LOL. I thought I should get a move on since new year is actually fast approaching. Thanks for reading and happy holidays!!!