Set one week after last chapter. Gabriella had become best friends with everyone, especially Troy.

Gabriella was trying to finish unpacking her clothes when her phone buzzed. She instantly regretted making such a big mess because she couldn't find her phone. Once she found it, she answered her call. "Hello?"

"Hey what's up?" Gabriella heard Troy's voice on the other line.

"Trying to unpack. I have too many articles of clothing." Gabriella answered. "I have been trying to unpack only clothes for three days now."

"You want help?" Troy asked.

Gabriella snorted, "Um. My dad would kill me if a guy was in my room. Even though he likes you." She replied. Troy had came over the other day and met her parents and they instantly hit it off.

"Yeah you're right. Can you come over to my place?" Troy asked. "I need a junk food buddy."

Gabriella laughed, "Why can't Michelle come over?"

"She has carbophobia." Troy joked. "And she's like on some type of diet."

"I don't know." Gabriella teased.

"Please." Troy begged. "You can meet my parents too. They wanna meet my new best friend anyway."

Gabriella smiled, "Since you put it that way…I will be at your house in 6 minutes." She hangs up.

~At Troy's House~

"Hey glad you could make it." Troy greeted Gabriella as she walked into his house.

"Hey. I needed a break from my clothes anyway." Gabriella replied. They walked into the kitchen where Troy's parents were sitting.

"Mom, dad this is my friend Gabriella." Troy told his parents.

Gabriella smiled and extended her hand, "Nice to meet you."

"You too." Lucille replied.

"We are gonna be in the living room." Troy told them, dragging Gabriella out of the kitchen.

Gabriella looked around, "You have a great home."

"Thanks." Troy said. "Do you want anything to drink? We have everything."

"What about root beer floats?" Gabriella suggested.

"Ok." Troy ran into the kitchen and came out with two root beer floats a few minutes later. "There you go."

Gabriella grabbed the glass, "Thank you. We should go do something."

Troy looked at her, "Like?"

"I don't know." Gabriella said. "Take me on a tour of your house."

Troy stood up, "Ok. Lets start with the family room-which we are standing in right now. You see the television, couch, loveseat and rug."

Gabriella nodded, "Ooh." She laughed at her self, "Ok. Next room."

They soon walked downstairs, "This the basement. Equipped with television, DVD player, Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3." Troy told her.

"This is great. My mom has claimed the basement as her studio. But we get the guest house for parties and sleepovers."

"You wanna watch a movie?" Troy asked.

Gabriella nodded, "What do you have?"

Troy lifted up a huge case of DVDs. "What don't we have? What are you in the mood to watch?"

"How about a comedy. Do you have Knocked Up?" Gabriella asked. "Its my favorite movie."

Troy smiled, "Mine too. Michelle says it has too much quote unquote dirty language."

Gabriella couldn't help but realize how different Michelle and Troy were. She was an uptight bitch and he was chilled and laid back. To her, they only looked pleasing to the eye. "My vocabulary is like 90% dirty language. Me and Chelsea Handler could be related."

Troy laughed, "That bad, huh?"

Out of nowhere Michelle walked right into the basement. "Gabriella! What are you doing here?"

Gabriella tried really hard not to slap her grin off her face, "I could be asking you the same question."

Michelle sat down in between Troy and Gabriella, "Well cheer practice let out early and I decided to come here and hang with my boyfriend." Michelle was lying. She heard Gabriella was over at Troy's house and didn't want them alone together.

"Do you wanna stay?" Troy asked Michelle.

Gabriella groaned to herself, This day just got perfect.

"I would love to." Michelle agreed. "What are we watching?"

"Knocked Up." Gabriella replied.

Michelle winced and turned to Troy, "Can we watch something else please? You know how much I hate this movie."

Troy looked at Gabriella, "Can we?"

Gabriella stood up, "You know what? I'm just gonna go. You and little baby ears can watch Dora the Explorer. I'll go home and finish unpacking." She leaves.

Michelle rolled her eyes, "Someone has a temper."

~At Gabriella's House~

"Mom we should hire someone to do this." Angelo said, unpacking the stuff in the kitchen. He had already a few glasses.

Cristina huffed, "Maybe you should just get a better grip on things, Angelo."

Gabriella walked into the house and into the kitchen. "Hi."

Lola looked at her sister, "What pissed you off?"

Gabriella sat down, "Troy and I were supposed to be hanging out at his house. It was a break from his stupid girlfriend Michelle and she ends up coming over. And he invites her to stay and then changes the movie WE were watching because she didn't like it."

"Uh-oh." Angelo said. "But its girlfriend over new friend. Who would you choose?"

Gabriella avoided the question because she knew the answer, so she moved on, "I just hate her so much. The past 8 days living with in this town has been ridiculous. I can't talk to Troy without her there. Basketball practice, before school, after school, passing period, lunch. She's like a pimple that you can't pop."

Angelo shudders, "She scares me. But maybe you shouldn't be a home wrecker."

Gabriella pushes Angelo, "I'm not being a home wrecker. She's just being a jealous hoe." She felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. When she pulled it out of her pocket she opened her new text.

Troy: hey

Gabriella: wow michelle is actually letting u talk to me?

Troy: what?

Gabriella: she totally did that on purpose

Troy: she wouldn't do that

Gabriella: talk to me when u get ur balls back

Gabriella put her phone down on the counter. "I'm gonna go finish unpacking." She walks upstairs to her room.

~At Troy's House~

"Troy, stop trying to talk to her. She doesn't wanna talk to you." Michelle said, taking his phone and putting it in her purse.

Troy sat down, "I guess you're right."

"Lets do something to take you're mind off of her." Michelle suggested.

Troy stood up, "Yeah in just a minute." He went upstairs. While he was gone, Michelle got Troy's phone and sent Gabriella a text message.

Troy: maybe we shouldn't hang anymore. Michelle and I never c each other anymore. See ya around