Chapter 7: Realizing the Truth

After the scholastic decathlon meeting, Gabriella went to find Troy. When she got there, she sees the guys going to the locker room. She follows them but suddenly found herself in the boys locker room with guys in nothing but a towel. She covers her eyes.

"Bolton, your girlfriend's here." She hears someone yelled over the other side of the room. She continues to cover her eyes. She feels someone pushing her out of the locker room. That touch shivered her spine and had a feeling it was Troy.

Gabriella noticed herself outside the locker room when she uncovered her eyes. She sat there with nothing to do, so she looked up at the ceiling.

Troy came out finding Gabriella looking at the ceiling. "Nice ceiling huh?" Gabriella turned her head. "I'm just bored."

Gabriella grabs his hand and pulled him out of the school area. She got home and sees her mom in the kitchen. "Hi Mami," Gabriella said, walking up to her mother and giving her a kiss on the cheek. "Hola. And hello Troy."

"Hi Ms. Montez," Troy said.

Gabriella turned to Troy. "Let's go upstairs to my room so we don't bother my mom." They both run upstairs and threw their backpacks on Gabriella's bed.

"I'll go get us some drinks before we start on our homework. What do you want?" Gabriella said.

"Water would be fine." Gabriella left with Troy staring at her pictures. He describes them as he looks at one picture to another.

"Gabriella as a baby… Gabriella as five years old… Gabri—Five years old?" He took the picture down and stares at it. The girl in the picture looks just like the girl he met at his friend's birthday ten years ago. He put the picture down and wander off to the bed to find more pictures. He sees the picture he thought he was the only one who had it. It was the picture from his friend's birthday party ten years ago. He wanted to know the truth from Gabriella, whether she was the girl he met ten years ago or not.

"What are you looking at, Troy?" Troy turns to find Gabriella with a water bottle and a juice box.

"I'm just looking at this picture. It interests me."

Gabriella laughs. "It's from my cousin's birthday ten years ago. Her name's Fiona."

What? "Fiona's your cousin?"

"Yea. You know her?"

"I heard the name before. Is there a story within this picture?"

"Yes there is. But it's a long story."

"Do tell." Gabriella giggled.

"Ten years ago, I flew down to Florida to celebrate my favorite cousin's five years old birthday. But she was so busy, we didn't have enough time to spend time together. On the day of the party, I was looking for my mom. I kept crying and crying until I bumped into a little boy. He asked me if I was okay and I said I was looking for my mommy. He helped look with me but couldn't find her anywhere. I ended up under the snack table eating chocolate chip cookies. He told me I had pretty hair. I giggled and told him he had very blue eyes."

She sees Troy zoning out and snaps in front of his face. "What?"

Gabriella raised her eyebrows. "You're not listening to the story."

I already know the story. "Fine. Continue."

"Anyways, he told me he had a charm to get girls to like him and he asked me if I liked him. I said I liked him a lot. Then my mom found me and told me we were going to take a good picture. He pulled him into a group picture, which is the picture you're holding there."

"So you really like him?"

"He was my first love. He made me feel like there's no one else in the world when I'm with him. I tried to look for him, but when I asked my cousin where he was, she said he moved away. I never saw him again after that birthday party. I just wish I could see him one last time."

"Gabriella, I have something to tell you."

"What?"

"I'm the…" A moment of silence occurred until Gabriella broke it.

"You're the what?"

Troy stood up. "Why don't you come to my house tonight? I want to show you something."

"Okay, but why can't you show me now?"

"Because it's in my room and we better start on our homework or you'll never get to go to my house."

Gabriella smiled. "Okay, let's get started."

Troy and Gabriella were working on their homework. At least Gabriella was. Troy was thinking about how to tell her it was him that they met ten years ago. I can't believe it's her. I can't believe my first love was her. No wonder I was falling for her. But I gotta think romantic if I want to tell her. That way I could ask her to be my girlfriend at the same time. Or maybe a little after I tell her it's me because I want to tell Chad too.

"Troy, what are you thinking about?"

"Nothing. I'm thinking about someone."

"Okay." Gabriella gave him a goofy look.

"What?"

"Nothing." Troy didn't believe her. He walked over to the other side of the bed and grabbed one of Gabriella's pillow. He whacked her on the head.

"What you do that for?"

"Nothing." Gabriella raised her eyebrows and got the other pillow and whacked him in the head.

They started having a pillow fight until they were tired. They looked at the clock. 5:43. Troy decided to go home and told Gabriella to meet him at his house. What Gabriella didn't know was Troy was going to set something up for Gabriella so he could tell her the good news.

A/N: Sorry I didn't get to update on Monday. My dad disconnected my Internet and I just got it back today. So I'll try to update more.

Btw, I am starting another story about Troyella. You'll find out what my new story is about. so keep in touch!