Chapter 6

Recap:

Gabriella sat on the swing and started swinging softly.

"Gabriella?" A familiar voice came from behind Gabriella. She quickly turned around and saw Troy standing there smiling in astonishment.

"Oh my gosh Troy.." She quickly stood up backing away from the swing because he might thing that she was so childish to be playing with the swing.

"I love swings you know." He smiled because he seemed to understand what she was feeling judging by her expression.

"Really?" She asked dumbfounded at what he just said.

"Totally!" He answered and sat on the other swing. Gabriella smiled and realised that Troy was a really sweet guy deep inside and he was just trying to cover it because he was jock.

"Sit down Gabriella." Troy smiled, offering her the other swing. Gabriella grinned and sat on the swing.

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"What brings you here?" Troy asked still smiling.

"I'm bored." Gabriella laughed a little.

"Your laugh is so adorable." Troy said it out loud making Gabriella freeze. He was only suppose to say that in his mind but he accidentally burst it out. When he finally realised what he said, he really quickly copped both his hands on his face causing him to fall from the swing. He forgot that he was still swinging and was very occupied with the situation that's why he fell.

"Troy are you ok?" Gabriella asked, half concern and half of her was giggling.

"Yeah I'm fine." He stood up and straightened his shirt, revealing his red cheeks.

"Sorry about that." He whispered and Gabriella tried her best not to laugh. Gabriella was pleased with her self that she actually managed to laugh after the horrible event.

"Its ok." They sat back down on the swing and just let the breeze hit their face softly and the peaceful silence formed around them.

"You know when I first met you, I thought you were such a jerk." Gabriella randomly said and started laughing.

"But?" He said with a smug little smile on his face.

"But I was wrong. You're a really sweet and understanding guy." She continued. Troy was taken by her words and was speechless for a moment.

"I don't know what to say. But I really think you're beautiful and kind and sweet and caring…" Troy could continue the list but he saw her staring at him.

"I'm sorry." He quickly added and Gabriella gave out a grin.

"Hey, its all cool!" She lightly punched him on the arm and was surprised that she actually did that. She never joked around with anyone except Josh.

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A week have past and Troy was still not allowed to play basketball. He stayed with Gabriella for the whole week and he considered it one of the best week he'd ever had. Hanging out with Gabriella was really fun, somehow.

"Hey Gabriella!" Troy ran to her locker as soon as he spotted her at free period.

"Oh hi Troy." Gabriella smiled and close her locker after she gathered all her books for her last subjects.

"I wanna show you something." Troy unknowingly and unexpectedly grabbed Gabriella's hand. Both of them didn't noticed that until they reached a door. Troy looked down and saw his hand interlocked with hers. Gabriella saw him looking at something so she watch where his eyes where pointing.

"I'm sorry!" Troy quickly pulled away blushing.

"Its ok." Gabriella said softly and also blushed.

"Well.. Umm.. Did you want to show me the door or something inside?" Gabriella giggled nervously and Troy smiled getting over with what just happened.

"The door actually. Don't you thinks it amusing?" Troy laughed and opened the door for her. Gabriella giggled and went up the stairs.

"WOW!" She exclaimed looking around the place in the rooftop.

"Its amazing right? I always go here every time I want to be alone. This is like my secret spot." He chuckled and led her to the bench. All she could do was stare at the surrounding in amazement.

"If this is your secret spot, then why did you tell me about it?" Gabriella asked with one eyebrow up. Troy paused for a moment.

"Why did I bring her here?" He asked his self. He really had no idea why. He never told any of his friends, not even her dad. So why did he showed her?

"I guess because umm.. I don't know." He admitted and gave out a sigh. Gabriella didn't know what do exactly.

"Maybe because you needed someone to share it with." Gabriella tried to make his reason better but it sounded worse. There was an awkward silence before Troy broke it.

"So, do you like this place?" Troy asked.

"I love it. Thanks for showing me. I promise I won't tell anyone." Gabriella put one hand up in the air as if she was proclaiming an oath or something.

"She looks so cute!" Troy smiled then suddenly snapped out of it.

"Troy stop thinking those kinda of stuff. She's Josh's girlfriend so you can't take her. Wait, Josh is not here. Oh crap, what am I gonna do." Troy started panicking inside but managed to do a small smile in front of Gabriella.

"I trust you." They sat there in comfortable silence and just admired the beautiful view in front of them.

Troy's eyes, somehow, landed on Gabriella. The afternoon sun hits her face and made it glow like clouds in heaven. Troy haven't been able to get his eyes of her no matter how he tried.

"She's so beautiful!" He smiled.

"Snap out of it Troy. She's your friend. Don't think like that." He scolded his self. Then suddenly the bell rang causing them to jump. They groaned hearing the annoying noise.

"I'll see you later Troy. Thanks for showing me your secret spot." She smiled as they both ran down the stairs.

"No problem." He grinned and they headed in two different directions.

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Troy reached home and lied on his bed. He just stared at the ceiling doing absolutely nothing.

"Man, Gabriella is one perfect girl. Josh had a great choice." Troy smiled picturing Gabriella in his head.

"Her laugh is so cute that I can't help but smile and laugh with her." He continued whispering to his self.

"And boy, that girl is so damn smart. I wouldn't expect a girl with her beauty to have a brain like hers. She's wonderful." Troy closed her eyes imaging every detail about Gabriella. He couldn't stop thinking about her for some reason.

"Wait! Am I in love with her?" Troy sat up. His eyes were wide opened in shock and amazement.

"Crap, I think I am!" He exclaimed then in his surprise, he started jumping softly on his bed.

"I never knew being in love felt this good!" Troy exclaimed smiling. He didn't noticed that his friend, Chad was in the room staring at him like he was a crazy person.

"DUDE!" Chad yelled and Troy snapped back to reality.

"Oh hey Chad. I didn't see you come in." Troy quickly calmed down and sat on the bed.

"Yeah because you were too busy jumping around like a kangaroo. Didn't your dad told you that you can't make your self tired?" Chad walked up to Troy scolding him. Troy just shrugged ignoring what Chad just said.

"Well, what's up anyway?" Chad asked curiously.

"Nothing." Troy lied but had this really small smile forming in his hips.

"Yeah right." Chad chuckled.

"Its no big deal Chad." Troy assured.

"Yeah right Troy. Love is totally a big deal!" Troy said in his mind.

"Whatever." That was all Chad said.

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Gabriella was doing her homework in her room. Well, not exactly doing her homework because she was only scribbling on a piece of paper. She'd done her homework hours ago because it was really easy for her.

"Ok, maybe Troy is not that bad." She thought, still scribbling. Her hands seemed to just keep on writing and writing anything.

"He is a very sweet guy I reckon." She smiled to her self.

"Wait. Am I in love? Again?" Gabriella froze and dropped her pen on the table.

"Maybe I like him because he has Josh's heart. But they're totally different people. How could I like the opposite of Josh? But they have the same eyes and the same way they look at me." Gabriella sighed when she heard her mum called her. She went downstairs and saw that dinner was serve. It was a delicious smelling pasta.

"Wow mum. This looks delicious." Gabriella excitedly sat on her chair forgetting all her thoughts from before.

"I just had the mood of cooking it." Ms Montez laughed and sat down. They started eating and talking. Gabriella's mom was so glad to see her daughter laugh and smile again.

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