Gabriella felt her face pale as she sighed. Chad touched her arm and she looked up to see sympathy in his eyes.

"Does he really like her?" she choked out. Chad just looked at her and she grimaced, her question answered. "What is he…do you…"

"I persuaded him to leave her be. Troy doesn't care about her nearly as much as he does you. He just doesn't know it right now." He added.

"I know that. Is he happy around her?" she asked. He sighed.

"He seems to be." Chad admitted.

"Well then let him be with her. I just want him to be happy." She decided, forcing herself to say it.

"Gabi…" Chad started, shocked, but Gabriella shook her head and put her face in her hands.

"I just want him to be happy." She repeated, her own words feeling like knives thrust into her heart. Chad said something to her but she was to distracted to hear it. 'Another girl?' her thoughts screamed. She got up and journeyed down a random hall, anything to get away from Troy. 'He'll be happier with her than me.' She told herself sternly. 'I'm just a bother to him.' But as hard as she tried to make herself believe it, she couldn't accept that he had moved on. 'God, I love him so much, and he doesn't even remember me. What am I going to do? I can't just forget- ' her thoughts were interrupted by a tap on the arm. She glanced over to see her mother walking beside her. "Hi mom." She mumbled.

"Hi Gabi. Is it true what Chad said?" she asked, sadly.

"Yeah." Gabriella sighed. "I wish it wasn't. I love him so much." Her mom put a hand on Gabriella's shoulder and stopped her in her tracks.

"He loves you too and you know it. He just doesn't understand why right now. He's worried about you. He doesn't understand why you got upset and ran off on him."

"Did you explain why?"

"No. I told him that you would later on."

"Okay. I will, it's just going to be hard."

"You can do it Bella." Her mom said with a smile. Their conversation was interrupted by a baby's screaming. Looking into a room Gabriella saw a desperate, tired mother rocking an upset child, surrounded by a crowd of curious children. She realized that this must be the rec room that Troy have been talking about. Gabriella entered cautiously with her mother and smiled as the children ran up to her, begging for her to play with them.

For a half an hour she played countless games of marco polo and hide-and-seek until the woman rocking the infant told them to leave her alone. Gabriella smiled as her mother took over her position as "child entertainer" and her mother smiled back. Gabriella walked over to the woman with the wailing child. The woman turned and smiled sadly at her

"I've tried everything, he won't stop." She mumbled. Gabriella bit her lip and thought for a moment of what she could do to help the desperate woman.

"Why don't you sing for the baby Gabi? You have an amazing voice." He mother suggested. Gabriella hesitated and then sighed.

"Oh please?" the woman begged. Gabriella nodded and then took a deep breath.

Livin in my own world, didn't understand

That anything can happen, when you take a chance

I never believed in, what I couldn't see

I never opened my heart, to all the possibilities

I know that something has changed, never felt this way, and right here tonight

This could be the start of something new, it feels so right

To be here with you oh and now looking in you eyes

I feel in my heart, the start of something new.

Gabriella finished quietly and smiled as the baby stopped crying and looked at her with wide eyes.

"Hey." Gabriella crooned. "You're so cute." The baby smiled at her and babbled, grabbing ahold of her finger. Gabriella giggled and then smiled at the astonished woman.

"Wow you have a great voice." She said.

"Thank you." Gabriella replied quietly.

A half an hour later she was sitting in the waiting room with her mom, eating supper when Chad came hurrying through the swinging door.

"Gabster, come quick." He gasped. Gabriella stopped chewing and stared at him, her face paling.

"What happened?" she squeaked. Chad ignored her comment and spun around, charging back through the door. Gabriella followed him quickly and then rushed into Troy's room with him directly in front of her. "W-what happened, why is everyone freaking out?" she stammered. Troy was pacing in front of her and when she burst in he stopped and stared at her.

"Brie!" he screamed and a second later he was hugging her so tight she couldn't breathe. She hugged him back in shock and when he let her go she stared at him.

"Wha?"

"Oh my god, I am so sorry!" he cried.

"A-about what?" she asked, still stunned. Chad, who was beside them, now smiled and slipped away.

"I'll leave you two." He murmured. She spun around and looked at him alarmed, but he just smiled at her and closed the door. She turned back to Troy and was engulfed in another hug.

"I hurt you, and I'm so sorry Gabi, do you forgive me?" She sighed and scratched her head.

"I'm sorry Troy, but I'm completely confused and I don't understand what you're talking about." Troy smacked his head and led her over to the bed.

"Of course you don't, I'm sorry, Chad didn't explain did he?" Gabriella shook her head, sitting beside him.

"Chad told you that I liked her didn't he? That I liked Nicole?" Gabriella thought for a moment and realized that Nicole must have been the nurse that he had a crush on. She nodded and kept her face blank.

"Well I don't, I didn't know who you were, or that we ever had a realationship, otherwise I never would have said anything." A thought shot through her head and she gasped.

"Relationship…you remember?" He nodded and she gasped again, hugging him.

"How?"

"I heard you singing in the rec rom. I was coming to ask you why you had run off and I heard you singing to the little baby." He explained, lacing their fingers together. Gabriella smiled and blinked to keep the tears back.

"You really remember?"

"Everything." He replied and brushed her hair from her face. "I'm so sorry I jurt you Gabs, can I make it up to you?" he pleaded. She smiled.

"Forget about it Troy, just don't ever scare me like that again. I thought I lost you." She mumbled and then she crawled onto his lap, her tears overflowing. He stroked her hair and soothed her, as her body racked with sobs of happiness.

"I love you sweetie." He whispered when she had gotten control of her tears.

"I love you too." She replied, wiping her leftover tears from her cheeks. He smiled down at her and then captured her lips in a passionate, loving kiss. For the rest of the afternoon they lay on the bed together, swopping memories as their friends came in and out, happy for them.

Later that night after bidding Troy goodnight she went back out into the waiting room and joined her mom on the chairs. Her mom smiled at her daughter and Gabriella smiled back, her eyes twinkling.

"He's back mom." She whispered. "He's back."