OMG everyone, guess what, I found out that the humanities paper today only needed to be a rough draft, errrr. Whatever, all that means is imma not do it right now, and just put it off and stress about it later. Anyways, here's the next chapter, and btw, I don't own anything here except the plot.

Some Communication Problems

San Diego

Gabriella and her dad got home from Disneyland around 2 in the morning, she had an amazing time, of course. Being as exhausted as she was, she quickly got ready for bed and was asleep within minutes. Her dad however, was disturbed by the surprising ringing of his cell phone.

"Hello?" he asked, wondering who would be calling at this time.

"HI DAD!" screamed Vanessa from the other line.

"Vanessa, do you have any idea what time it is?" Greg asked tiredly, "Your sister and I just got home from Disneyland."

"Oh sorry about that, but it's great that you guys went to Disney." Vanessa said with a smirk, "Listen, dad, I think you need to make sure that you and Gabi spend AS MUCH time as you possibly can with her."

"Of course I will, why wouldn't I spend time with the daughter who I've hardly known?" Greg stated curiously, "But, why are YOU so interested in me spending time with your sister?"

"No reason, just making sure she isn't bored and stays, well, busy." Vanessa said with a yawn, "Well I'm tired, I'll talk to you later, love you dad."

"I love you too, Ness." With that, her father dosed off to sleep.

Albuquerque

Vanessa smiled to herself, as her plan was starting to come together. How could Gabriella reach her friends in Albuquerque if she was always busy with her dad. Vanessa was now feeling less guilty about what she was doing, and was now just trying as hard as she possibly could to get away with it.

Vanessa woke up and realized that what she had done would not be enough to keep Gabriella from finding out. As she was thinking of what to do, Gabriella's cell phone rang, the caller ID read, Taylor.

She opened the phone and said, "Hello."

"Hey Gabi, guess what, Chad wants me to let you know that the whole gang is gonna be at his house tonight." Taylor said.

"Cool, well at least I know what I'm doing later, I'm probably not doing anything 'til then." Vanessa said, hoping Taylor would get the hint.

"I get it, I get it, shopping?" Taylor asked with a laugh.

"Awesome, I'll be ready in a few." Vanessa said quickly.

"And I'll pick you up in a few." Taylor said.

Vanessa quickly got ready and headed downstairs.

"Hey Vanessa dear." Anna said warmly.

"Hey mom, look I can't really talk now, I'm going out with Taylor, I'll see you later."

"But I was hoping we could-" Anna began to say, but Vanessa was already out the door, "spend the day together." Anna finished with a sigh.

With that, the girls were off to the mall, to waste the day away, until it was time to get to Chad's. Vanessa decided that she was going to use the time at the mall with Taylor to try and learn a little more about her sister.

After a few hours of shopping around from store to store, (sorry if its not as in depth as some of you would like, but I'm a guy, and the whole shopping thing is like, eh, for me. So you can use your imagination to decide how the shopping went, haha.) the girls sat down and decided to grab some ice cream.

"Well that was fun, but I'm sooo tired." Taylor said as she sat down.

"Me too, but not too tired for Chad's." Vanessa said.

"Yeah, we should probably head over soon." Taylor said.

"Yeah, but after the ice cream" Vanessa said as the pair let out a laugh, "Hey Tay."

"Yeah?"

"Do you remember how we met, and like, how I met, everyone?" Vanessa asked, hoping she wasn't being obvious.

"You don't remember?" Taylor said with a questioning look on her face.

"Not really, now it just seems like I've known you guys for forever." Vanessa said with a smile.

"Well, we pretty much became best friends when I asked you to be on the Academic Decathlon Team, I think." Taylor said. "And I guess you just met everyone else through me, and well, Troy of course."

"Right, and how did I meet Troy again?" Vanessa asked again, not trying to blow her cover.

"I don't know, you always just said that he just showed you around on your first day." Taylor said, growing more and more confused.

Gabriella and Troy never really told anyone that they really met on New Year's Eve at some Ski Resort in Colorado, that was their own special secret.

"Oh, right." Vanessa exclaimed happily, "Why don't we get going to Chad's, people will probably start arriving over there pretty soon."

Taylor nodded, and the two girls got into the car and drove over to Chad's to meet their friends.

"Hey Gabi, and hello baby." Chad said as the two girls walked into the house to find all their friends sitting in the living room.

"Hello to you to." Taylor said as she gave Chad a quick kiss.

"Yeah we're all here too thanks." said Zeke as the rest of the group let out a small laugh.

"Hey Gabi." Troy said with a smile, as he got up to give Vanessa a kiss.

She gave in, "Hey."

"Okay, okay come on, now that everyone is here, let's play." squealed an excited looking Sharpay.

"What are we playing?" Taylor asked.

"Well, before you guys got here, we pretty much decided that a little game of Truth or Dare would be pretty fun." Troy replied. (lame, I know, lol.)

The group sat around and played for a while, with all the usual occurrences that accompany a game of Truth or Dare, the nasty, disgusting, and just plain weird dares, and all the really lame and cliché truth questions. However, it came to Vanessa, (Gabriella) and she had a great idea.

"Troy, Truth or Dare?" Vanessa asked.

"Dare." He replied simply.

"I dare you, to let me hold on to your cell phone for one week." Vanessa said with a smile.

Troy looked at her with a confused look, "Uhhh, sure, but why?"

"Cause I don't think you can last a week without your phone." Vanessa replied as she stuck out her tongue to Troy.

"She's right you know." Chad said, butting in.

"Shut up." Troy said as he threw a pillow at Chad.

"But it's true." Sharpay said.

"Like you could go a week without your cell." Troy said.

This was going great, Vanessa thought to herself.

"Okay, but seriously, none of us could go a week without our cells." Sharpay said as the group let out a small laugh.

"I have an idea" Vanessa said, "How about I hold on to all of you cell phones for a week?"

"Wait, wait, wait" Chad said, "How come you get to hold on to the phones?"

"Because, I'm the most trustworthy." Vanessa said giving the group a puppy dog face.

"Fine, fine." Chad said as he turned off and handed her his phone, "I'm in."

The rest of the group did the same. Just as Troy handed Vanessa the phone, it began to ring. Vanessa looked quickly at the caller ID, and recognized it as her house number, as in her house in San Diego. She grabbed the phone, and opened, and closed it quickly.

"Starting now, no one uses their phones for a week." She said with a smile.

The rest of the night was spent talking, and just having a good time as the nine friends enjoyed each other's company.

San Diego

"Why isn't he answering his phone?" Gabriella thought to herself, "Wait, he did answer, and then he hung up?"

Gabriella tried calling all of her friend's cell phones, but it seemed like everyone had their phones turned off. She thought about calling their house phones, but quickly realized that she couldn't remember, most of the times she would call, she would just find their names on her list. She decided on trying on yet, another day. With that, she went to sleep with still no one knowing that the real Gabriella wasn't in Albuquerque, but in San Diego.

Well, pretty good? I think it was, haha, but my opinion doesn't matter, but your's does! Read and Review.