WARNING!! This chapter is a little rated T for a little matured scene. Don't read this chapter if you don't want to. I have warned you now. Don't leave nasty comments if you don't like this chapter.
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The words keep on repeating on Troy's head. He doesn't know what to answer back at her. She totally caught him off guard by her question. Silence takes over the situation making it more awkward than before. Gabriella breaks the silence between them.
"You know. You don't have to answer my question. It's just a stupid question" Gabriella said standing up and going upstairs to her bedroom.
"I'll give you my answer tomorrow" Troy replied making Gabriella stop dead in her tracks. He stands up and turns around. "I'll answer your question even if it is stupid to you"
Gabriella just sighed and walks upstairs to her room. What am I thinking asking him that question? Gabriella said to herself. It only makes things worse than before.
Downstairs…
Troy sat back again on the couch, thinking on what will he say to Gabriella the next day. He can't tell her right away why he came back without further reason to make her believe him. He can't tell her that he came back for her after those long five unbelievable years he left her. He can't just tell her that he kept the promise he made even though he knew inside of him hurts just to know that she will never accept him again. Or at least he thinks.
After thinking on what he's going to say to Gabriella, Troy lied down on the couch and drifted to a deep slumber. It's impossible to sleep beside her like the other night. He just slept beside her because she asked him too. No big deal. Yeah, right. No big deal if you two don't have any awkward situations building up between you two again.
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Day 6
Gabriella wakes up and looks at the clock on her bedside table. It reads 6:45 am. She hopped out of bed and walks into her closet and grabs sweatpants, a t-shirt and her sneakers. She changed in the bathroom and made her way downstairs after changing.
She saw Troy lying on the couch sleeping. His arms crossed over his chest and he curled up into a ball to fight the freezing feeling of the cold morning breeze slipping through the curtains. Gabriella just shook her head and makes her way out of the house.
Every morning, Gabriella always walks around the block. She sometimes goes to the park to feel and smell the cold morning breeze. She had never done this for a long time. It suddenly feels so different to her being out early in the morning. Letting the sky's shining sun light upon her, feeling the cold air brush through her body did feel so good. Feeling like a new teenage girl enjoying a walk every morning.
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It's now 7:30 in the morning. Gabriella opened the door and sees a still sleeping Troy on the couch struggling to make him warm. She closes the door and headed to her room to get a blanket. She come downstairs with the blanket and puts it on Troy's body.
After putting the blanket over to Troy, she made her way to the kitchen and makes a breakfast. Whilst making a breakfast, the thoughts of last night rushes through her head. She really don't want to know what Troy's answer on her question which only makes it more stupid and maybe get her heart break again.
Gabriella is busy making a breakfast when Troy walked into the kitchen and laid his head on the counter, continuing to sleep. When Gabriella turned around, she got startled and drops the plate making it break and causes Troy to wake up. She bent down to pick up the broken pieces of the plate. Troy walked up to her and helps her.
"Let me help you" Troy said bending down to help Gabriella
"I can do it, Troy" Gabriella replied. Rushing to pick up all the broken plates, she accidentally gets a cut from the plate.
"Ow" Gabriella whispered and holds up her right index finger and sees that it is bleeding.
Troy grabs her finger and started to squeeze it to make the blood come out and stop the flow quickly. "Look, you got your finger have a cut mark"
"Don't worry about it. It's just a small cut and it will be gone after a few days" Gabriella said pulling her finger out of Troy's hands
"Don't worry about it? You seriously think that I can stop worrying about you?" Troy asked pulling her up and putting her hand under the running water from the faucet.
Gabriella winced from the sudden contact of the water to her finger. "OW! Can you just turn off the water? It hurts even more"
"It will hurt more if you didn't clean it up and if it gets infected. Do you want to die because of the infection you will get?"
"No…" Gabriella whispered
She didn't fight against him when he started to clean her wounded finger. She just stood there quietly with a small smile on her face as she look at him taking in all of his actions, his care, his kindness and… his love? She then suddenly ask him a question which she wants to answer him even when they have started dating.
"Why are you doing this, Troy?" Gabriella asked
Troy looks at her and replied, "Because I care for you, Gabriella. It is not just a care that people do. Mine is different" he said continuing his previous actions in cleaning her wounded finger.
"Why do you care for me that much?"
Troy sighed as he wipes her finger with a clean towel, "You really want to know?" Seeing her nodded her head he continued. "Because I love you so much and it hurts me to see you get hurt" he paused, letting go of her hand and looking into her brown eyes and starts again, "I care for you because you mean so much to me and you mean the whole world to me" he said whispering the last word and bowing his head
They just stood there quietly. Neither of them dares to neither say anything nor bother looking at each other. Troy sighed and made his way to the living room and folded the blanket that is located on the couch and puts it on the top of one of the pillow. He left Gabriella's house in silence. He didn't slam the door; hence, he slowly closes it and went home.
With Gabriella…
After the last 4 words Troy has said to her, she stood there and look at him, she saw hurt and sadness visible on his eyes. She looked at his back when he left. He had his head down and his right hand behind his neck. Gabriella regretted asking the question she had asked minutes ago. How could she ask some kind of a question if she knew that Troy will answer the obvious reason why he cares for her?
Gabriella sighed as she made her way out of the house. She walks through the sidewalk to go to Troy's house, not to hurt his feelings but to apologize. She doesn't know what to say or do to tell him that she's ashamed of the way she acted to him. For a minute, she will be nice to him and the second everything get quiet between them she will suddenly ask things that she never thought she could asked him.
She reached Troy's house after 3 minutes. Their houses are only a walking distance so it is not hard to go to each other houses. She stood in front of the door, pure nervousness runs through her body; her stomach begins to have butterflies. She knocks on the door and waited for a couple of seconds before it opens.
"Um… Hi" she said
"What are you doing here?" Troy asked without any emotion on his voice
Gabriella a pinch on her heart when he asked her in a no emotion voice, "I wanted to talk to you. Can I come in?"
Troy just opens the door wide and let her in without saying any other word to her. As he closed the door, he just looked at her. No emotion, no nothing comes out from him. Silence takes over again as they just looked into each other, studying their appearances.
Troy breaks the silence saying, "Look, if you're not going to say anything it will be better if you just leave" he said without any care but deep inside he care much when he said that.
Gabriella felt a pain deep inside her. Tears started to prick her eyes, her eyes widen when Troy said that. Her heart drops from the rooftop of the building to the ground below. Her body shakes with the sudden impact of words that flew out of his mouth. She just wanted to apologize to him and he wants her to leave? What's the thing she didn't understand? Why is he acting weird to her?
She can't stop the tears to flow from her eyes. She let them fall as she puts her hands to her face and cries. Falling slowly to the floor, she stated between her sobs, "I just want to say sorry"
Troy stood frozen on his spot when Gabriella stand up and headed out of the door, crying. Troy holds both of her arms and hugged her from behind leaving the door open as they both stand at the porch.
"Don't leave" he said as tears threatened to fall from his eyes
"Why? You just said that I should leave" she replied prying his arms out of her but didn't succeed
"I didn't meant what I said. I didn't mean to hurt you with those words"
"Too late, Troy. You already did" she said without any emotion like he did earlier to her
"Please, Gabby, don't leave" he pleaded tightening his grip to her
Troy loosens his grip and turns Gabriella around, crashing his lips to hers. Gabriella tried to push him off but she didn't succeed. Troy pulls away and throws her over his shoulder and shuts the door.
He carried her to his room and pushes her to his bed. Ripping his clothes, he started to attack Gabriella with his kisses. Gabriella wants to fight but can't. She returned what Troy's giving to her at the moment. Caught up in the moment, Troy didn't even heard his phone ring as he is busy giving Gabriella all of his love at the middle of the day!
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7 pm. Troy woke up a little tired from the previous "activity" that happened between him and Gabriella. He turns to his right side to see Gabriella sleeping. He props up his elbow and put his head on his hand for support. Looking at Gabriella, he put a loose curl behind her right ear and traces her face with his left index finger.
Stirring up awake, Gabriella slowly opens her eyes and smile. Nodding her head as Troy laid his left hand over her right cheek.
"Hey" Gabriella said in a low voice and smiles again
"Hey… Tired?" Troy asked
"A little" she replied letting out a yawn
"Aww. My baby is tired" he cooed as Gabriella lets out a yawn again. "Come here" pulling Gabriella closer to her and putting his right arm under her for support, he rubs her back soothingly.
"Troy?" Gabriella said looking up at Troy with his eyes closed
"Yeah?"
"Are you going to regret what we had done?"
Troy smile and opens his eyes to look at her, "Of course, not. Why? Are you going to regret about this?"
"No… I was just curious. I mean, I know that we just got back together but not officially together and doing things we shouldn't do" she stated looking at the foot of the bed
"And your point?" he asked lifting his head to look at him
"I want us to be together… again. Before we do something we will not regret forever" she answered in a calm voice
"Gabby, what's the point? We already did something we shouldn't do and I think it's a bad idea to ask you to be mine again if we already did 'it'. Besides, isn't it a proof to tell you that I want to be with you again?"
"I don't know. You tell me if it is enough proof to tell me that you want to be with me again so bad"
Troy sighed as he changes his position bringing Gabriella in a sitting position, "Will you, Gabriella Montez, take the honor to be my girlfriend again? Because I think the last one didn't work out"
Gabriella laughs sitting on Troy's lap facing him as he moaned on what she is doing. "Gabby"
"Why? I haven't given you my answer" Gabriella ask looking at him with a raise eyebrow
"It's not what your answer is. Try looking at our position" Troy said stressing the last word
"So? What's the matter with our position?" she replied mimicking his last two words
"Never mind. By the look in you face, you don't know what I was referring to" he said smiling deviously and raising his eyebrows up and down.
Getting what he was trying to comprehend to her, Gabriella gets up and say, "Oh no, Troy. I'm tired and I don't want to do it again" pulling the blanket to cover her body
"Oh c'mon! You're the one who started it"
"Me? Well, I'm not the one who has a green mind"
"Gabby…" Troy whined getting out of the bed. "Last one"
"No, Troy. I already told you. I'm tired and I smell!" Gabriella exclaimed
"So? I'm tired too and I do smell. Please, Gabby? Last one. Look below me" Troy motioned her to look at his 'middle' part.
"Troy, I don't care what I'm doing to you right now. I just want to take a bath and lay down"
"Or we can both take a bath and do 'it'" Troy grinned
"Troy!"
"Fine. If you don't want to then it is fine. But I'm warning you, there's only one bathroom open here in this house. I'll give you two choices, you can go to your house and take a bath there and come back here if you are finished or… you can stay here and take a bath with me and do what I want to do"
Gabriella has no choice. If she goes home, she will not be safe outside. If she stays, she will do whatever Troy wants. She decided to take the second choice he had given her.
"Fine, I'll go with second choice"
"Which is?" Troy hissed
"Take a bath with you and do what you want to do" Gabriella replied tiredly
"Good. Let's go then" he grabs Gabriella's hand and leads her to the bathroom attached to his bedroom.
Gabriella sighed as the tiredness she's feeling starts to overcome her body. She didn't think about what she's feeling right now, all she know is that she's feeling a wave of pleasure run through her body.
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A/N: What do you think of this chapter? Sorry if it is a late update. I'm busy and I'm kind of sick at the moment, but, it didn't stop me to write this story.. By the way, this chapter is the 3rd to the last of this story. 2 more chapters left and this story is done. I am thinking of renewing my other story entitled "My Secret Admirer is a Superstar" and I might start a new one. It is called, "A Zanessa Tale: One More Chance". I don't have the exact date when I am going to start a new story but stay for updates.