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Lover Hurts

Chapter 7

I went out and grabbed some of Gabriella's favorite movies, I grabbed Titanic, Grease, and Legally Blonde. I was heading in a different aisle towards the action movies to find a movie for me. "Hmm, Terminator, Die Hard, blah, blah, boring," I said to myself. I guess I'm not an action movie kind of guy, maybe horror. I found Halloween, it looked like it was a good movie. I started moving towards the line. I really wonder why Gabriella doesn't want me to worry about her, I mean I have to, it's almost like my job.

"Sir, you're next in line," I heard someone say.

"Oh, yeah sorry," I said looking at the angry people behind me.

"So, Legally Blonde, Titanic," she said, "there some great chick flicks."

"Oh no, there for my room mate, Gabriella, she's been having a rough time so I thought they would cheer her up a bit," I explained, "Halloween is mine."

"Well that explains a lot," The lady said smiling a bit. "Well, any guy who would watch a chick flick with his room mate is a great guy."

"Thanks," I said blushing a bit.

"That would be 35 dollars," she said.

"Uhh hold on," I said nervously taking my wallet out of my pocket. "Here you go."

"Thank you, and five dollars is your change," she said politely, "have a great day."

"You too," I said with a smile.

I walked towards my car, next stop is the grocery store for the snacks. I got there smoothly, no traffic, the drive was about five minutes. I walked in and went straight towards the chips aisle. I grabbed Barbeque flavored, sour cream and onion, and original chips. Maybe Gabriella will see me in a new light tonight, not just a friend, but maybe a boyfriend, no, no, I'm just her friend, just the guy who picks her up when she's down. "Popcorn," I told myself as I saw the sodas, "but first sodas." I grabbed a liter of Sprite and a liter of Coke. Now it's popcorn time, I looked at my clock, if we want to watch all the movies together then I better hurry. I did a fast paced walk towards the popcorn. "Haha, extra buttered, my favorite," I said to no one, once again.

"Ice cream," I said now running toward the freezers in the back. "Chocolate," I said grabbing four cartons of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

I walked to the check out aisle, "Hello," I said to the man ringing up the items.

"Your total is $26.39," he said.

I quickly handed him my money and waited for my change. Once I recieved my change, I dashed out the door in a hurry, I wanted to get home to Gabriella, I wanted to spend my every minute I had with her, I just wish she could see that I gave her my heart the minute we met. I took my keys out of my pocket, unlocking the doors, the usual car stuff. I drove off towards the apartment.

Once I parked my car I ran towards my dorm room. "Gabs, I'm back," I yelled as I entered the dorm but recieved no answer. "Gabi," I said putting the ice cream in the freezer recieving silence. "Gabriella," I said with a firm voice as I walked toward her room. I knocked on her door, "Gabriella," still no answer. I started to freak, if Troy came here and touched her before practice, he's fucking dead. "Gabriella, I'm coming in," I said a bit worried as I opened the door.

I walked in and saw her tangled in her sheets, asleep, she looked peaceful. I walked to the side of her bed, "Gabi," I said calmly, "Gabi."

She stirred a bit and took a deep breath. "Hey Ryan," she said with a small smile, "I guess I dozed off."

"I guess you did too," I said with a smile, she looked radiant right now, I would do anything for just one simple kiss.

"What time is it?" she asked.

"It's almost four," I answered.

She got up in a frantic state, "Troy," she said, "he's going to be here soon." She untangled herself from her sheets as quick as she could, "if I don't look good he's going to kill me."

I grabbed her hand, "Gabriella, you said Troy has a late practice today, remember? Thats why we made a plan to have a movie marathon," I told her. She started to relax a bit, "and besides, you look great anyway."

She smiled and pulled me in for a hug, "Thanks Ryan, you always know the right things to say." I swear, once we were in that warm embrace, her muscles started to relax and she started to sound more calm.

"Do you think you're up to watching three movies?" I asked her as we pulled away from our hug, I excluded Halloween because I don't think she would be interested in that. "I think I picked out some pretty good ones."

"Really, I've got to see what you picked," she said. I watched her walk out of her room and she saw the movies on our table. "I thought you said you got three movies," I heard her say.

"Yeah I did," I answered back.

"Then why are there four?" she asked.

"Oh, I got myself a little something," I replied.

"Halloween, I heard that was a good movie, pretty freaky, you know, lets watch this one," she said holding it up, "I'm in the mood for a scarefest right now."

I grabbed the movie from her, "you sure?" I asked.

"Ryan, I'm sure I can handle it," she said, "you can set it up, and I'll get the chips and popcorn."

"Sounds like a plan," I told her. She smiled that cute little smile and she walked to the kitchen. I took the disc out of its box and stuck it in the DVD player. Gabriella was smart when she decided to make the popcorn, it takes forever to find the remote. "Gabriella, have you seen the remote?" I asked her.

"Are you seriously asking me that, why do you think I said I was going to make the popcorn," she laughed.

"Haha very funny," I said sarcastically. I then laughed at my own stupidity, the remote was on top of the television. "Nevermind Gabi, found it."

"Popcorns done," she said bringing the bowl out, "I'm gonna get the chips and soda." She walked back into the kitchen and brought out the bowl of chips, "Your favorite, sour cream and onion."

"You didn't have to you could have had the barbeque chips," I told her.

"No, you got the movies, you deserve to have your favorite chips," she said. She brought a 2 glasses of coke. "You ready to start this?"

"I'm ready when you're ready," I told her. We turned off the lights and sat down on the couch and the movie started. She jumped when he killed Annie, she moved closer to my body. Another kill had happened and she moved closer. I moved my arm and wrapped it around her body, she's so warm. She then grabbed my hand and nothing seemed to matter but me and her. I don't know what to do next, I keep thinking to make another move, a more noticable move, but I also keep telling myself to keep it the way it is, I just don't want her to hate me.

We finished the movie, my arm still wrapped around her. I looked down at her, she looked so beautiful. The movie was long over and she was still wrapped in my arm. "Gabriella, how did you like the movie?" I asked breaking the silence.

"It was scary," she said. She looked up at me and I looked down into her gorgeous chocolate diamond colored eyes. I started to close the gap between us and I saw her eyes close. "I think its tim for ice cream," she said.

"Yeah, you're right," I told her. I unwrapped my arm from her petite body and she let out a yawn. "I got chocolate," I said.

"Great," she answered back.

"Yeah," I replied. "No, not great," I said facing her. "We had a romantic moment Gabriella,"

"Ryan, we didn't trust me," she responded.

"Gabriella we were so close to kissing, my arm was wrapped around you," I said.

"Ryan, stop it," She said.

"No, don't you ever think about it, think about us, don't you ever wonder what's going on between us? I think about it every night," I said trying to stay calm.

"You don't think I think about what it would be like to be with you, well Ryan, you're wrong, I've thought about every night since we've moved in together," she said.

"Then why can't we just be together?" I yelled.

"Because I don't know what Troy would do to me if I left him," She said, her voice sounded shakey. I just stared at her, I forgot about Troy for a while. "What?" she asked.

"Gabriella, you're leading me on," I told her.

"No, I don't," she said back.

"I'm in your room, helping you, and you're naked, you flirt with me constantly, and that moment we had, that was your fault, you moved your body close to mine, you grabbed my hand, you looked into my eyes," I explained.

Well, stop helping me, I can take care of myself, I don't need other people worrying about me," she said in an angry tone. I don't know what came over me, but I grabbed her and crashed my lips onto hers. She didn't fight back, she wrapped her arms around my neck as I wrapped my arms around her waist. Her tongue was waiting to enter my mouth, I granted permission and our tongues collided.

She then pushed herself away from me. "I'm sorry," she said as she ran to her room. I watched her go, a small part of me felt horrible for kissing her, but the larger part of me felt great, I finally got to kiss the girl of my dreams. I do still wish we could go farther, but I don't want Troy to find out, because if he did, I wouldn't be able to fight him, he would kick my ass in a second, and I do know Gabriella won't be able to fight him, I just don't want her to get hurt anymore. Atleast Sharpay and Zeke come tomorrow, I think they will be able to bring some light into this situation, I'm not going to tell them, but I'm sure Sharpay can talk to Gabriella about Troy, she is nosey, and she knows when something is wrong with her best friend. I just hope we can show Gabriella the way and she chooses the right way.