Chapter 24

Hormonal Features That Follow

"The beach!" Sammy exclaimed. He ripped off his shirt and started barreling towards the water. Before he could get anywhere though, Troy scooped him up in his arms. "Hold up, Sam. You already almost drowned once. You need someone to go out there with you."

"No I don't!" Sammy insisted. He started kicking his legs and Troy chuckled. "Troy is right, Sam," Rosie said. "You older kids go play, I have Sammy."

Troy handed Rosie Sammy before he and everyone else walked to a secluded part of the beach. Emil lifted his shirt off of his head and stared down at his torso. "Alright! I have a four-pack."

"More like a zero-pack," Troy said. He lifted his shirt over his head. "See, this is abs."

"Whatever. Hey, girlfriend, you feel like frolicking in the water and running out towards the sunset?" Emil asked Reva. Reva giggled and nodded. She kicked off her clothes revealing her black and white stripped halter bikini before latching their hands together and running towards the body of water.

"I am going to sleep," Leilani announced. She was about to lie down on her beach blanket when some boys playing volleyball caught her attention. She smirked and let her curly blonde hair out of its ponytail. "Actually, on second thought I'll be over there."

"Yeah, and I'll be watching," Troy said. He laid down on his beach chair and Gabriella settled between his legs.

"We're going over there with Lei," Selena said.

"We'll be right back," Maxine added before they ran to catch up with Leilani. Gabriella smiled and turned around. She sat up and straddled Troy's legs before kissing his slowly on the lips. "Your lips taste like strawberries," Troy chuckled, licking his lips. Gabriella rested her head on his chest and nodded. "Strawberry lip gloss. I use it like everyday."

"Well, don't stop," Troy demanded softly. Gabriella smiled and the two sat still for a while.

"What's going to happen when I leave?" Gabriella asked suddenly, her worry slicing through the silence.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean when I go back to LA…you know I have to, Troy." Gabriella sat back up and looked down at him, her face frowning with seriousness. "What will happen to us?"

"I don't know," Troy said. Gabriella sighed and stood. 'That's not what I want to hear. Look, I'm getting some ice cream. Want any?"

"Gabriella…"

"I'm not mad, Troy," Gabriella assured him. "Do you want any?"

"No."

"Okay. I'll be right back." Gabriella bent down and gave him a chaste kiss on the lips. "Love you," she whispered against his lips. Troy grinned. "Love you, too." Gabriella stood up straight and started a slow walk towards the beach shack that sold all kinds of stuff. She smiled and greeted a few people walking by who waved at her.

"Yo, Gabriella Montez!"

Gabriella turned. A boy with sandy blonde hair and cypress green eyes walked towards her, a few guys trailing behind him. "Yeah?"

"Can we have your autograph?" one asked, smirking.

Gabriella smiled and nodded. "Do you guys have a pen? I don't have one on me…"

"Yeah." The one with the blonde hair pulled a pen from his pocket and a crumbled piece of paper. "You can just sign your name and then put under it the Montez Trio sucks."

Gabriella stopped writing after she finished the second l in her name. She looked up at him and pushed the pen in paper in his arms. "There's your autograph," she said exasperatedly. She turned to leave. The blonde one moved in front of her though stopping her in her tracks. "Oh, come on, Montez. It was just a harmless joke. You don't have to be so rude. You didn't even finish signing it."

"Can you please move?" Gabriella asked.

"But the fun just started," he said. "Besides, you didn't even get to see my room yet." His voice held a suggested tone and Gabriella scoffed. She pushed past him. "Nor do I want to see it. Leave me alone."

"Not gonna give me what Bolton gives you?" he questioned. He slid back in front of her and grasped her arms, grinning down at her. "Or maybe even—" He stopped in mid-sentence as a punch was thrown at his nose. He fell to the ground, holding his bloody nose and trying to stop the blood from pouring. Gabriella whirled around and smiled softly. Troy stood there, shaking his hand. "She told you to leave her alone you son of a bitch." He glared at the other boys before grabbing Gabriella's arm and pulling her towards the shack. "You okay?" he asked her. Gabriela nodded. "Yeah. They're just a bunch of jerks. Told me to sign my name and put under it the Montez Trio sucks." She rolled her eyes and sighed. "They're morons. I hope his nose is broken."

"Stupid morons," Troy agreed.

"Yo, Bolton, is that you?" the blonde guy said as he walked slowly over to them. Troy stood up, his protective mode in action. "A Wildcat?"

"How do you…" Troy stopped talking. It was the captain of West High Knights, East High's rival school. "John?"

"You guys know each other?" Gabriella asked.

"He goes to West High, our rival school," Troy explained and Gabriella nodded in understanding. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Last time I checked you don't own this beach," John said.

Troy shook his head. "Come on, Gabriella." He grabbed her arm lightly and pulled her slowly back to their spot. Gabriella took off her cover up and shimmied out of her denim jeans, leaving her in her purple bikini with white polka dots. She sunk low into the sand and giggled. "Let's make a sand castle."

"What are you, five?" Troy asked. He crouched down next to her. "Can I bury you instead?"

"No! I don't know what's in this sand. For all we know a crab could come and pinch me."

"Don't be dramatic," Troy said. Gabriella rolled her eyes and laid down. Troy smirked and started throwing sand onto her. Gabriella squealed as seaweed touched her skin. Troy laughed. "It's just seaweed."

"It's all wet and sandy," she said. She noticed something crawling by her leg. "Troy…is that a crab?"

Troy looked at her leg and chuckled. A crab was crawling by her leg. It made its way on top of her and Gabriella screamed while Troy laughed. She thrashed her legs in the air causing the crab to flutter off and sail into the air.

"Troy, you're such an ass!" Gabriella exclaimed, hitting him. Troy continued to laugh and Gabriella joined in a moment later. "You should've seen your face," Troy said. "You looked like you just saw a ghost."

"Crabs are disgusting," Gabriella said. 'They have beady eyes and that's why I never eat them."

"They're more scared of you than you are of them. Imagine you being a crab and a human were walking by. Since there would be a very large size difference, you would be scared and try and defend yourself."

Gabriella shook her head and stood. She brushed and shook the sand off her body. "You should wear bikinis more often," Troy said.

Gabriella rolled her eyes and put her hair up in a messy bun. She pulled Troy up. "Let's go out into the water. I wanna swim."

"But my hair will get wet," Troy insisted. "It took me five whole minutes to comb it. Five! Can you believe it?"

Gabriella smiled and crossed her arms. "No, Troy, I can't believe it."

"So, therefore, I am not going into the water."

Gabriella rolled her eyes and dragged him with her anyway. "No!" Troy whined like a seven year old. "I don't wanna go in!" People started looking their way, casting confused glances. Gabriella turned and glared at Troy. "Troy shut up! People are looking."

"Good, then they will know how bad of a girlfriend you are. Now get off of me!" Troy started whining his protest again and Gabriella groaned. She let go of his hand and stalked back to their seat. "You're so annoying," Gabriella said.

Troy turned and followed her. "You mad?"

Gabriella kept her back to him, hiding a grin. "Yes. I hate drawing attention to me."

"Well, I'm sorry."

"Well, I'm not accepting your apology," Gabriella said. She sat down and kept the smile off of her face. After years of acting, it was really paying off.

"Oh, come on, Brie. I hate when you're mad at me."

Silence.

"Oh, so you're going to the silent treatment now? Well, guess what, I can do that too." Troy sat down by her and crossed his arms. Gabriella looked at him and quirked her eyebrow. Troy looked at her and sighed.

"Gabriella, you—are you smiling?"

"No," Gabriella said, trying to keep the smile off of her face. She failed and busted out laughing. "You should've seen your face."

"That's not funny," Troy said. He frowned and Gabriella crawled into his lap. Gabriella sat up so she was straddling her lap and rested her arms on his broad shoulders. "You know I was kidding. This is basically 'Kid All Day' day…or something like that." When Troy didn't say anything Gabriella tried another tactic. She pressed her lips to his. Troy resisted the urge to kiss her back though.

"Troy, I was playing," Gabriella whined against his lips. She pulled away from him and smiled. "You can't ignore me forever." She started gyrating her hips in a circular motion against him. She smirked as Troy's eyes began to dilate and the familiar look of lust flashed softly in the depths of them. Gabriella pressed herself against him. "Troy," she whined.

Gabriella pressed her lips to his again. Troy bit his tongue, refusing to kiss her back. After a moment she leaned away from him. She dropped her arms from his shoulders. She leaned back on her arms, putting her weight on them. "You know you wanna talk," Gabriella urged as she started moving her hips against his.

"I bet that the paps are near and are taking pictures," Troy said, his eyebrows rising softly. Gabriella's eyes went wide and she quickly scrambled off of his lap. Her face was burning and her eyes were quickly darting around her. When she saw no paps, she turned to face Troy. "You're so mean."

"At least I don't tease my boyfriend," Troy said. Gabriella's eyebrows rose. "Troy, you don't have a boyfriend."

"You know what I mean."

"No, I don't think I do. Maybe you should elaborate."

Troy rolled his eyes and laid back. He pulled on his sunglasses and peered up at the sun. Gabriella let out an incensed sigh and climbed on top of him. Troy lifted his sunglasses off of his eyes and stared up into Gabriella's angry brown eyes. "What are you doing?"

"I'm gonna sit on you until you stop being so damn difficult."

Troy grasped her waist and effortlessly and carefully sat her down next to him. He sat up and pulled his sunglasses back over his eyes. "Have fun with that."

"Well, fine. I'll be with my good sister Selena, and my two best friends. You know, because they aren't stubborn or difficult." Gabriella stood up and walked towards the volleyball game. Leilani spotted her and ran to her, squealing lightly. "The one with the blonde hair is Australian! My god, his accent is so hot! And the two with the cool tattoos and black hair are twins. And British! And then the fourth guy, he's American, but so, so hot!"

Gabriella smiled. "Well, seems like you're attracted to some people…"

"C'mon, you gotta play with us! Hey, where's Troy?"

"He's resting," Gabriella said, looking back at Troy. She could faintly see the grin tugging at his lips.

"Well good. Then the teams are even. Now let's go!" Leilani dragged her over to her to the boys. "Boys, this is Selena's sister and my best friend, Gabriella," Leilani said.

The blonde Australian smiled warmly. "I love your music," he said in a heavy Australian accent. He extended his hand. "I'm Jared. This here is Derrick and Darren." He pointed to each and they said hi. Gabriella politely said hi back before the game began.

"I suck at this," Gabriella complained ten minutes later when the ball once again sailed past her and landed into the sand behind her. Selena laughed and picked the ball up. She spiked it back to the boys. "Mami took us to play volleyball when we were in Miami that summer, remember?"

"Yes…and I sucked then too."

"You guys went to Miami before?" Maxine asked.

Gabriella nodded. "Yeah. It was two summers ago, I think."

"I've always wanted to go to Miami!" Leilani shrieked. "There are so many surf boys." Maxine nodded her agreement. She snuck a glanced at Jared. "Though the boys here are pretty hot…"

"How about we ask Rosie if we could all go to Miami next weekend or something? Next week we have off Thursday and Friday and then we have Saturday and Sunday," Selena suggested.

"That's a great idea," Gabriella said.

"But Rosie's hard to persuade," Maxine warned.

"Well, how about we start operation Convince Rosie?"

"Cool!" Selena exclaimed. "I've always wanted to do one of those mission thingies."

…

Rosie sighed when she felt something solid and warm beneath her foot. She lifted her foot. Loco looked up at her, his eyes big, round and innocent. "Loco," she muttered. "Reva!"

Rosie scraped her foot on the ground before unlocking the door and stepping in. The lights were off. She flicked the lights on and was surprised to see all the kids stood there. The living room was tidy and there was a cake settled in Reva's hands. Rosie's eyebrows rose. "Clean room, fattening, but yummy-looming cake. Okay, what do you guys want or what did you do?"

"Why do we always have to want something?" Reva said. "Can't we just do something for our favorite person in the world?" Rosie sat her groceries down and expected the room. Everything seems fine."

"Okay, fine, we want to go to Miami," Selena said.

"Miami? Guys, you all have school and I have crazy work hours."

"We have off Thursday and Friday," Gabriella said. "Plus we have Saturday and Sunday. And you've been going to work everyday. Have you even taken time off? Your job has to give you some days off."

Rosie sighed. "Well…okay. Fine." Rosie smiled when they all started cheering. Sammy jumped on the couch, a chocolate bar in his hand as he bounced. "Yay! We're going to Mami!"

"It's Miami, Sammy," Maxine said, laughing. She took Sammy off the couch. "Okay, yes, I know you're all happy," Rosie said. "But we still have two days before we leave. Plus, Julie and Steve need to agree on Maxine and Sammy going."

"It's already done," Maxine said. "I think they're getting tired of us already."

"We need mone—"

"Don't even finish that sentence," Selena interrupted.

"We have to go shopping!" Leilani gasped.

"Count me out," Emil said. "I don't know about Troy over there or the Sam Monster—"

"Hey, you know that actually has a nice ring to it," Sammy said.

"—but I'm not going," Emil finished.

"Count me out, too," Troy said.

"No, you guys have to come." Gabriella whined. "You have to tell us how we look."

"We are fine," Emil said. He plopped down on the couch next to Try and turned to The Young and the Restless. "Oh, dude, this show is the bomb!" They all looked at him. "What? It is! This is the episode when Victor learns that Nikki is missing and when Billy lashes out on Victor!"

"Dude, you are so gay," Troy said. Emil threw a pillow at him, but Troy caught it, smirking. "Remember? I'm on the basketball team."

"And the season is coming up," Gabriella said. "I wanna see you play."

"You will," Troy assured her. He pulled her into his lap and she snuggled into him, smiling. "Aw…you guys make me gag," Leilani said. She pulled Gabriella up. "And so that won't happen, we're leaving to the mall now."

"Have fun," Rosie called after them. "And be home before eight!"

"I thought curfew was at eleven."

"On school nights it's nine. But you guys need to also get home for dinner." Rosie grinned. "I'm making my famous chicken—"

"Yeah, we'll just eat at a McDonalds or something," Maxine said. The girls quickly moved out of the house and trotted towards Selena's and Gabriella's car. "We can pick up Taylor. The Twins went back to LA for a week and Kelsi's going over plans for the musical with Ryan."

"These damn heels are giving me blisters," Reva complained.

"Maybe because they're like six inches tall," Gabriella said.

"Actually, they're five and half inches tall," Reva said. She yanked the heels off and replaced them with some flip slops. "Much better."

"Where's Taylor's house?"

"I think she's at Chad's…"

"Chad? They made up?"

Leilani snorted. "More liked hooked up. There was a party last night and they went and hooked up. I don't know if Tay will trust him as much—I'm sure as hell not—but they are back together."

"I forgive him," Gabriella said.

"How could you? He nearly broke you and Troy up."

"True, but Reyna got into his mind. She's in Hunter's too…"

"Actually, Reyna's dad is letting him, his parents and his little sister stay with them," Maxine said. "That's why Hunter has to do what Reyna says or else they're off to the streets."

"That's horrible," Selena said. "How could you be that cruel?"

"That's Reyna for you."

"Turn here," Leilani said. "Chad's house is the last house."

Gabriella was about to turn down the street when Reva screamed. The car jerked to the left and the tired screamed at the road. The girls gripped their seats while Reva continued screaming. "What?" Gabriella yelled, stomping on the brake as the car rolled up onto the curb. "What the hell, Reva? We could have gotten into a car crash!"

"There's a huge, huge bug!" Reva screeched. Selena's eyes went wide and she let out a terrified squeal of her own. "Shit, that thing is huge…"

"Kill it!" Maxine squeaked.

Leilani let out an exasperated sigh and reached down. She grabbed the bug off the floor. "Aw, guys, it's just a hissing cockroach."

"Ew, seriously? Throw it out the window," Gabriella said.

Leilani smiled and gently let the bug crawl out of the car. Reva let out a breath and sat down in her seat. "How can you touch it?"

"Hissing cockroaches are so cute."

"You should get your eyes checked," Selena said.

Gabriella backed up from the curb and got back on the street. She left down the road and towards Chad's house. "You drive so slow, Gabriella," Selena groaned.

"I can't get into an accident. I'm supposed to be driving with an adult."

"No, don't turn on the Gabriella fast drive mode," Reva said.

"What's wrong with that Gabriella?" Gabriella asked.

"Ask the cat you almost ran over last week," Reva said.

Gabriella rolled her eyes and carefully parked in Chad's driveway. "Shut up." They all climbed out of the car and made their way towards the door. Leilani rung the doorbell and smiled softly as Charlene Danforth stepped out onto the porch. "Hi, Charlene."

"Hey. Chad's out back shooting hoops with his cousin. You guys want to come in and have a few snacks?"

"We actually came here to see Taylor. Is she here?"

"Yeah." Charlene opened the door wider and they stepped in. "Still mad at him?"

"It's complicated," Gabriella said.

"I'm so sorry. Sometimes Chad just acts so…not himself."

"It's okay." Charlene smiled. She walked towards the back door and slid it open. "Taylor!" Taylor looked up Charlene beckoned for her to come inside and Taylor stood up and made her way towards her. "Yeah?"

"Friends are here."

"Hey guys," Taylor said. "What's up?"

"We're going shopping. You in?"

"Definitely. Let me just say goodbye to Chad and grab my stuff." Taylor turned and walked out of the door. She came back a minute later with a smile and her bag. "Okay, I'm ready."

…

"This is major cute!" Leilani squealed. She held up a short army jacket with a matching short skirt. "I'm buying it."

"Why don't you buy out the whole store?" Reva groaned. She dropped the bags latched onto her arms. "Seriously, all of Forever 21 is in your bags."

"And yet she's still not done," Maxine sighed.

"Got that right," Leilani agreed. She draped the outfit over her arm and started searching for more. "We also need to visit Victoria Secrets. Hot trip means hot lingerie."

"Who are you wearing it for?"

"Not me. Gabriella and possibly Reva." Leilani shot Reva a look. Reva rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I told you. I'm waiting."

"And there's nothing wrong with that," Gabriella said. Reva nodded and sighed. When Leilani was done searching for clothes to buy they moved on to American Eagle. However, Reva couldn't keep her mind off of the topic of sex. There had been a few times when she and Emil had been in her room in a heated make-out session. She could tell by how excited Emil was and by eager he was that he was ready. But weren't all teenage boys like that? Hormonal and horny 24/7?

"Reva."

She had caught Emil with like five erections already. One of them had been when she had just walked into the room. Did she really have that big of an affect on him? She had no curves and popping body features and she was only fourteen.

"Reva…"

Was she even ready for this? A serious relationship that they've been in for a few months? Troy and Gabriella had said they loved each other two weeks after they met. Gabriella had said she knew because of how Troy would make her feel. Butterflies restlessly fluttering in your stomach, whenever Troy touched her he left a warm, tingly sensation on her skin and the sweet feeling as your heart swells up from him just walking into the room.

Oh God, she felt like she was in a sappy love movie.

"Reva!"

Maybe this was a sappy love movie…

"Reva!"

Reva jumped, nerves shaking her body al the way to her toes. She snapped her head around to see Gabriella standing there, a lock of worry and confusion itched on her face. "Huh? Sorry…I zoned out."

"About what? You looked…scared." When Reva turned her head away and didn't say anything Gabriella took another step forward. Usually Reva would deny that she was scared. But she couldn't because she was scared.

"Okay, so what's wrong?" Gabriella asked.

"It's…I'm…" Reva paused, not sure what to say. "I…it's nothing."

Gabriella grabbed Reva's arm and hauled her towards the dressing rooms. She sat them down on the bench and looked at her straight in the eyes, seeing Reva's scared brown eyes resemble how she looked when she was fourteen and almost got attacked by a crazed fan. If she was that scared, it had to be bad. "Don't tell me nothing's wrong, Rev. Seriously, what's wrong?"

"I told you, Gabriella. It's nothing." Reva moved to get up, but Gabriella pulled her back down, not yet done with this conversation. She looked at Reva, her eyes rigid with validity. "Tell me. No matter how bad it is I won't get mad."

Reva sighed and sat back down. "Okay…fine. I think…I…I might be in love with Emil." Gabriella sat there, shock riding her body restively. Reva directed her eyes to the floor, the nerves in her body becoming more and more irritating. It was only when she heard Gabriella giggle when she looked back up. "What's funny? I find nothing about this funny, Gabriella."

"No, no, Reva, it's not that it's just…you're in love?" Gabriella's laughter faded softly into the dense air after a second. "Really?"

"Yeah…I mean, I don't know. I think I am."

"Has Emil ever forced you into something or, you know, suggest something?"

"Are we talking about sex?" Gabriella nodded mutely and Reva sighed. "No. Well, he gets…erections."

"Typical teenage boy hormones. Are you sure this isn't just about sex? Sometimes infatuation makes you think you're in love."

"That's not fair, Gabriella," Reva said. "You and Troy hadn't even known each other for a month and you're already saying 'I love you'. This may not be just infatuation. It may be real."

"Reva, you're only fourteen."

"And you're only seventeen! You're young, too. What if what you're feeling is just "infatuation"?" Reva air quoted as the word infatuation came up. Gabriella winced and stood up along with Reva. "Rev, you know that isn't true."

"Well then how do you know that what Emil and I have isn't true?"

"Because you're only fourteen! You're not in love."

"Look Gabriella, you're not my mom. You're my sister, so stop trying to control me. I'm out of here."

"I'm trying to protect you," Gabriella insisted. Reva reached for the door handle, but Gabriella grabbed her wrist, pulling her back gently. "Reva, listen to me. You don't know what sick, twisted things are inside of boys minds. Sometimes their very excited and do stuff."

"Emil isn't like that and you know it," Reva hissed. "Now let go of me!" She jerked her wrist from Gabriella's hold.

"Reva, please," Gabriella said. "Don't do something you'll regret." Reva looked at her with firm eyes before turning and stalking out of the stall. Gabriella sighed and followed after her.

"Where were you guys?" Selena asked, coming up next to Gabriella. Gabriella sighed and shook her head. "Just having a small chat."

…

"Your brother better not take my sisters innocence," Gabriella said to Troy that night. Troy looked at her, his eyebrows raised in surprise. "Huh?"

Gabriella sighed. "Reva thinks their in love. But Troy, they're fourteen. They're not in love."

"You sound like a mom," Troy said, tilting his head to the side and flashing a brilliant smile. "Maybe they are in love."

"They're not," Gabriella argued. "They're teenagers."

Troy quirked an eyebrow, his smile slowly tugging into a smirk. "And we're not?"

"Troy, don't test me," Gabriella demanded. Troy shrugged innocently. He tightened his hold on her waist when Gabriella tried to stand up. "Nuh uh. I'm cold and you're warming me up."

"I wanna check on Reva. I kind of put a dent on our best sister's position," Gabriella said. Troy sighed and unlatched his arms from around her waist. Gabriella gave him a kiss on the cheek before making her way out of the room. She walked down the hall towards Reva's room and opened it.

To say she was surprised seeing Reva only in her bra and pants with Emil on top of her shirtless was a total understatement.

Reva gasped and yanked the covers up to cover her barely covered chest. Emil hastily reached for his shirt and yanked it on.

"Reva," Gabriella whispered. Rosie came up to the door. "Any of you guys want some hot choc—what is going on in here?"

Reva quickly grabbed for her shirt and pulled it on as well. "Rosie—we—I…"

"Reva, go down stairs. Emil go in your room—I'll get you later." The two followed the directions; each had big frowns on their faces.

"I'm gonna go," Gabriella said. Rosie nodded and Gabriella walked back to her room. Rosie spotted the condom packet that was unused settled in the disheveled sheets. She snatched it up before walking down stairs.

Reva sighed and leaned back in the couch. She knew this was stupid. She and Emil were sharing a house with five other people. Of course they were bound to get caught. And it just had to be Gabriella and Rosie.

Rosie sat down on the couch opposite of Reva and sighed. "Were you and Emil going to have sex?"

"Yes. But Rosie, we love each other," Reva said before Rosie could say anything.

"Reva, you're fourteen. You think I'm going to believe that?"

"You believed Troy and Gabriella."

"That's because they're older, Reva. You're practically still a kid. You're too young to have sex and you know that."

"That's not fair," Reva groaned. "You can be any age and fall in love!"

"You're too young," Rosie repeated again. "I don't want to catch you and Emil in the same bed again, do you understand?"

"You're not my mother," Reva said. "You don't own me and you sure as hell can't tell me what to do."

"But you are living under my roof so that means you're living under my rules."

Reva sat there, debating whether she should argue back or do as she was told. She took the latter and trudged up stairs, a frown etched on her face. "And I'm going to have a chat with your mother," Rosie called after her, feeling a firm pull on her stomach.

"Whatever," Reva called after her. Rosie winced when her door slammed stridently behind her. She sighed and leaned back on the couch. She absolutely hated this. She wasn't used to being the protective mother type, but she felt the need to do this. You're only fourteen once and you have to live that one chance to your fullest. That meant to take your time with falling in love. And what if something went wrong when they did it? What if she became pregnant? Her life would be thrown away…well the same would happen to Gabriella and Troy. They're all teens.

Rosie groaned and threw her head back. Having teenagers living with you is annoying. They're hormonal features follow.

I know what you're thinking. WHAT A STUPID CHAPTER! But seriously guys, I have MAJOR writers block. Now let me tell you something, John has a part in this story. Yep, I just decided that while writing this chapter. Anyway, this is also where violence enters the story.

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