Wow, I swear this story just becomes harder and harder to write. Thanks to all of you who reviewed, and thanks to larabaybee for the help with writing this chapter. Don't own anything HSM related here except the plot.

Forgiveness

Gabriella walked in, seeing Troy and Vanessa hugging. This really wasn't what she needed right now. A million thoughts began running through her head, wondering what was going, or better yet, what had been going on before she got there.

"I can explain." Troy blurted out as he let go of Vanessa.

"Don't bother Troy, I don't wanna hear it." Gabriella said before running upstairs.

"Gabi, wait…" Troy started to say, but Gabriella had already ran into her room and slammed the door shut.

Troy stood there, not knowing what to do, or how he was going to fix things with the love of his life.

"Don't worry, Troy, I'll talk to her." Vanessa said as she smiled at Troy.

"Thanks." Troy managed to say, "And thanks for explaining everything to me, I still don't approve of your methods, but at least I know where you're coming from."

With that, Troy walked home, feeling miserable, alone, and confused. He could only hope that somehow Vanessa could fix the connection that she broke.

Vanessa thought to herself, what she was going to say to her sister. She figured she would just tell her what she told Troy, it seemed to work pretty well with him. She walked up to her door, and knocked lightly, "Gabi, can we talk?"

"I'd rather not actually." She responded coldly.

"Oh, well, maybe later then?" asked a hopeful Vanessa.

No answer.

"Ok, I'll see you later then." Vanessa responded, trying to sound as cheerful as possible.

Troy walked slowly down the sidewalk, unsure of what to do next. He figured he would just leave everything up to Vanessa, for now at least. He was concerned about Gabriella though, Vanessa mentioned that she overheard Gabi talking to her mom about something. Why had she come home so early? He was a little worried that something terrible had happened, and when she ran home to Troy, he was making out with her sister. Gabi had a good point, Troy should have been able to figure something out, at least, he should have if he really loved her, right? Did he not notice, or did he just really enjoy spending time with Vanessa? Troy shook these thoughts out of his head. He eventually got home, ran upstairs, and just locked himself away in his room.

Dinner at the Montez household was, uncomfortable, to say the least.

"So Vanessa, how was your day?" Anna asked her daughter.

"It was alright." she responded softly.

"I bet it was." Gabriella said under her breath, not loud enough for anyone else to hear.

"How about you Gabi?" Anna asked.

"I've had better." She responded, glancing at her sister. "Look, I'm really not too hungry, I'm going up to my room." Gabriella got up, and ran back upstairs.

"I take it that you two haven't had a chance to talk yet?" Anna asked.

Vanessa nodded.

The rest of the dinner was silent, and after a while Vanessa went upstairs to go and try and talk to Gabi, but this time, she was determined to get something out of her sister.

Vanessa knocked on her sister's locked door, "Gabi?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Gabriella replied from the other side of her door.

"We have to eventually, so why not now?" Vanessa pleaded.

Silence.

"Gabi, come on, please, at least hear me out and let me explain. I, I'm sorry." Vanessa let out.

At that moment, the door swung open, with an angry looking Gabriella on the other side.

"You're SORRY? After all everything that happened, that's ALL you can say?" Gabriella screamed out. She stood there, arms crossed, waiting for a response. She wasn't one to lose her temper, but she had never come across anything like this before.

"I was jealous." Vanessa answered quietly.

"Jealous that I have, Troy? Why don't you just join the club of all the other girls at school?" Gabriella retorted.

"Not jealous that you have Troy, jealous that you have, somebody." Vanessa replied as she hung her head.

"What do you mean?" asked a calmer, more curious Gabriella.

"Well, I dunno, what you have with Troy, I'd do anything to have that." Vanessa responded, as tears began to well up in her eyes. Vanessa slowly walked into Gabi's room and stood in front of the balcony door, with Gabi following slowly behind.

"I've never met anyone like that, someone that loved me more than anything else in the world, someone that I could always count on like that, someone that just loved me, for me." Vanessa stated.

"But he didn't love you for you, he loved you for ME." Gabriella pointed out.

"I know that, and I knew it then, but, the way he looked at me, it was just, amazing. I knew he didn't know who he was, but part of me just wanted to believe it was real." She said, as more tears began escape her eyes, and roll down her cheek.

Gabriella sat silent, not really knowing what to say.

Vanessa wiped the tears away, "You are so lucky Gabi, to have someone like that, who's always gonna be there for you when you need him, someone who's gonna be there to wipe your tears away." Vanessa tried to regain her composure, "Cause for me, that whole fairy tale, is just that, a fairy tale." Vanessa turned around, "Give him another chance, it was totally my fault." she said before walking out and into the guest room.

Gabi stood there, racking her mind for what to do. She looked around her room, she grabbed an album that was filled with pictures of herself and Troy. She sat down on her bed and opened it. Flipping through the pages of memories, Gabi could practically put herself into the exact moment. She remembered so vividly every moment she had spent with Troy. For her, it was like the feeling you have when you're little, and you wake up on your birthday. You run up to your mom and get your present, and nothing could bring you down. It was like that when she was with Troy, a feeling of absolute euphoria.

With tears beginning to swell in her eyes, Gabriella closed the album, and walked into out of her room. The door to Vanessa's room was slightly opened, she pushed it open slowly and walked in.

"Knock, knock." Gabriella said with a smile as Vanessa turned around.

"Hey." Vanessa said.

Gabi sat down next to her sister, "Hey."

"Are you still mad at me?" Vanessa asked. "Cause I would totally understand if you were."

Gabriella shook her head, "No, not really anymore, I guess."

"Oh, that's good then, I guess." Vanessa said, "Can we just forget this whole thing ever happened?"

Gabriella gave a small smile, "I don't believe in forgetting things happened. Good or bad, whatever happens over the course of your life, that's what make you who you are. We can move on, but I don't think we should forget."

"But, we're okay now?" Vanessa asked hopefully.

"Yeah, we're okay." Gabriella said, as her smile grew.

"Okay good!" Vanessa said. The girls laughed, and hugged.

"Now, I just have to deal with things with Troy." Gabriella said, putting her head down.

"Don't worry about it, he loves you, it will work out." Vanessa said, trying to sound re-assuring.

"You really think so?" Gabriella asked.

"I know so." Vanessa smiled.

Just then, an idea popped into Gabriella's mind, "I KNOW WHAT TO DO!" She said as she stood up and began to walk out of the room.

"Gabi, wait!" Vanessa screamed at her as she was about to leave.

Gabriella stopped and turned around.

"I never found out why you came back early?" Vanessa asked.

Gabriella's expression dropped, "I'll let you know tomorrow, I just want to let Troy know first."

"Okay." Vanessa said, "Goodluck."

"Thanks sis." Gabriella said before storming out.

Well, I managed to keep it away from you for one more chapter, haha. I'm sure you guys are putting the pieces together in your mind though, don't worry, next chapter I'll let you guys know FOR SURE. Thanks again to larabaybee for helping me out, especially with the whole thing with Gabriella and Vanessa, couldn't have done it without you. Next chapter could be up as soon as tomorrow, because I don't have school tomorrow. Read and Review.