A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! I want to thank kind and carring for her idea in this opening chapter. I hope you all enjoy this chapter just please don't kill me for the cliff hanger ending. On with the story:

A week went by and Gabriella had healed nicely. She was still a bit shaky on her feet but she was a lot more mobile than she was before. Lucille had stayed the whole week to help nurse her back to health and Lucille and Gabriella had bonded through that week. Gabriella felt closer to Lucille than she did before. She felt as if Lucille was her second mother. She trusted her with her life. Troy came by to visit whenever he wasn't in school.

One afternoon Gabriella was up and just walked around, she needed to get used to walking around because she had been bed ridden for too long.

Lucille came into the living room to check on her.

"How are you doing?" she asked.

"Better, but I can still feel my legs shaking under me. I keep thinking I'm going to fall but I never do."

"It will go away. You need to get used to walking again, that's all."

"Yeah, but I've barely walked a mile and my legs hurt."

"You're sore, your back may have healed but too much strain on the lower body isn't good. Come sit on the couch I'll give you a foot massage."

Gabriella sat down on the couch. Lucille sat down on the coffee table and held her foot in her hands. She gently started to massage her feet. Gabriella moaned in pleasure.

"Feel better?" Lucille asked.

"Much better. Troy normally tickles my feet when he gives me a foot massage."

Lucille laughed. "That he gets from his father. I never get just a plan foot massage, Jack always ends it with a tickle attack."

"Yeah, but I like it."

"Why?"

Gabriella shrugged." I don't know I just do."

Lucille switched to her other foot. "Well, if he ever starts to annoy you with his tickle attacks just tickle him back."

"He told me he was barely ticklish."

Lucille laughed again. "That's what he tells everyone. Troy is actually very ticklish, especially on his feet."

Gabriella smirked "Good to know."

"You didn't hear it from me." Lucille smiled.

"Hear what?"

Lucille smiled. "Perfect."

"I'll just tell him a little birdie named Lucille told me." Gabriella teased.

"All right, little missy that's it."

Lucille tightened her grip on Gabriella's ankle and tickled her feet. Gabriella screamed and burst into giggles trying to get away

"Let me go!" Gabriella squealed in giggles.

"Not a chance." Lucille smiled.

Gabriella took her free foot and tried to push Lucille away. Lucille just smirked and grabbed her other ankle and tickled both feet at the same time. Gabriella screamed in laughter squirming trying to get away. Her manicured nails making the tickling worse.

"Stop!" she soundlessly choked out between laughter. Finally finding a voice she screamed "STOP!"

Lucille laughed and stopped. Gabriella panted. She glared at Lucille.

"You're the one who said you liked it." Lucille smiled.

"Troy doesn't have nails that make the tickling worse."

Lucille chuckled. "You asked for it."

"I was just kidding. Troy won't hear anything from me."

"I know, I was just teasing you too."

"Lucille, can I ask you a personal question?" Gabriella asked.

"Of course." Lucille answered. She took Gabriella's foot back and continued to massage it.

"If…If Jack ever died, would you…would you ever fall in love again?"

"I honestly don't know Gabriella. I love Jack with my whole being, if he died I don't think I'd ever be able to love again, but I know it's what he would have wanted for me, to move on and be happy. I'm not saying it would happen right away but maybe after a few years."

"If Troy didn't like this man would you stay with him?"

"No, I wouldn't allow myself to be with anyone Troy didn't approve of."

"So, why is my mom not acting like that?"

Lucille sighed. "I can't answer that for you Gabriella. Only your mother can answer it. If I had to guess, maybe she's scared of being alone. She knows you're going off to college in a few years and she doesn't want to be alone."

"But, I was fine with Peter. I really liked him, but since Hunter came into the picture everything has changed. Hunter physically hurts me and they let him off the hook."

"It's harder when there is another child in the picture, because now there is another child that needs to adjust to the new life."

"Us moving in was his idea. He wanted to get back at Troy so he figured the best way to do that was to have his girlfriend move in with him."

"Really?"

Gabriella nodded. "He told me so himself."

"I didn't know that." Lucille sighed and switched to her other foot. "I'm sorry. I know Hunter is a badly behaved child and I wish there was more I can do for you."

"How do you know what Hunter is like?"

"Same way I knew so much about your back injury."

Gabriella looked confused. "A few years ago, before you and Troy met Hunter body slammed Troy and almost broke his back, like he did to you. Troy was off the team for the rest of the season."

"Troy must have hated that." Gabriella sighed.

"He did, Jack did too, That's actually when I became a stay at home mom. I quit my job to stay home and take care of Troy."

"That was brave."

"I'd do anything for Troy. He is more important to me than anything else in this whole world."

Gabriella smiled softly.

"We tried to get Hunter kicked off the team or expelled or something but he got away with it, his was actually worse than yours because Troy was temporarily paralyzed until his back healed."

Gabriella gasped. "Troy, never told me that."

"He doesn't talk about it. He was so scared he would be paralyzed for life, we all were but Troy actually lost sleep over it. He'd have nightmares and everything. For at least three months he had no feeling in either of his legs."

"That's terrible."

Lucille nodded. "We sued, hoping we could get them to pay half of the medical bills but of course we lost. I know firsthand what Hunter is like, and I'm sorry you have deal with him."

"Can you tell my mom that story?" Gabriella asked.

"I have, Peter turned around and gave him the sob story and she believed him over me. I'm sorry."

Gabriella nodded and her eyes filled with tears. "I don't feel safe here and my mom doesn't even care."

"Oh Brie."

"I don't want you to leave because then I won't feel safe anymore."

Lucille stopped rubbing her feet and pulled her into a hug. Gabriella cried into her. "I just want my mom back Lucille. I just want my mom."

"You have a mom sweetie. You have one and she's right here. Whenever you need me, no matter what time or day it is, you call and I'll come help you."

"Thank you."

Lucille kissed her head and rubbed her back. "You're welcome."

They pulled away and Lucille wiped her tears. "Do you want to try walking again?"

Gabriella nodded. Lucille took her hands and helped her to her feet. Her legs wobbled and she whimpered, scared of falling.

"Shhh, I've got you baby girl. Mommy's right here."

Lucille held Gabriella up tightly until the shaking in her legs stopped.

Once she was stable she slowly started to walk again. Lucille just smiled as she watched and followed closely behind. She had always wanted a daughter and now she had one.

Once Gabriella was fully healed Lucille moved out which Gabriella hated. Troy was back under strict orders when he could and couldn't come over. Gabriella hated that too. Luckily she got to see him at school and not Hunter.

It was Gabriella's first night "alone" in her house. So far everything was fine. She closed her door and removed her shirt and bra, preparing for bed. She removed her jeans and walked over to her dresser. She grabbed her night shirt and bent down to grab a part of sweat pants.

Suddenly the door opened and someone wolf whistled. "Nice view, can you turn to the front?"

Gabriella gasped and held her shirt over her chest. She stayed facing her dresser. "Get out." She said. "I'm changing get out!"

"I don't mind, just turn around so I can get a better view."

"You sick pervert get out of my room."

"You're supposed to have eye contact when you talk to people. If you really want me to listen you're going to have to turn and face me."

Sighing Gabriella lifted her shirt to put it over her head but Hunter grabbed the shirt and ripped it from her hands.

"Hey!" She cried.

"Turn around and face me. Otherwise I'm not going anywhere."

Gabriella wrapped her arms around her chest, covering what she could of her body.

"GET OUT!" Gabriella screamed.

"Turn around." Hunter said simply.

"I SAID GET OUT!"

"I SAID TURN AROUND!"

"NO! NOW GET AWAY FROM ME!"

"NOT UNTIL YOU TURN AROUND!"

"What is going on in here? I hear screaming all the way downstairs." Peter said as he walked into the bedroom.

"GET OUT! BOTH OF YOU!" Gabriella screeched.

"I heard Gabriella scream so I came in. I thought maybe she hurt her back again so I came inside but she just started to scream at me."

"I'M GETTING DRESSED GET OUT!"

Maria came running in. "What is going on? Ok…we need to go wait outside. Gabriella when you're dressed come and out and we will talk about what just happen." Maria said.

Hunter threw her shirt on the bed and walked out. Once everyone was gone Gabriella ran to the door and slammed it closed. She put her clothes on and sighed. This was only the beginning to her horrible life.

She walked downstairs and into the kitchen.

"I want him punished." She said to Peter and Maria.

"Come sit down and we will discuss this." Peter said.

"NO, I'm done discussing. Punish him or I'm leaving."

"Honey, sit down, please." Maria said softly.

"He violated me, Mom, how could you defend him."

"Honey, he isn't used to have women living in the house with him. It was an honest mistake."

"He didn't leave though. I asked him to leave and he didn't! He refused to leave until he saw me naked."

"That's not true!" Hunter lied.

"Quiet. Gabriella sit down." Peter said.

Sighing Gabriella sat down.

"Now look, Maria is right, Hunter and I aren't used to having women live with us. We both need to adjust to it and remember to knock before entering any room."

"I locked my door! He wasn't supposed to be able to come in." Gabriella argued.

"That lock is broken. We've been meaning to get that fixed."

"So, you aren't going to punish Hunter. He's going to get off free again and all you're going to do it fix the broken lock on me door?" Gabriella asked.

"What else should I do?" Peter asked.

"GROUND HIM! TAKE AWAY HIS BASKETBALL! FORBID HIM TO PLAY IN THE NEXT BIG GAME! ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED PUNISHMENT!" Gabriella screeched. "HE NEARLY BROKE MY BACK AND NOW HE'S TALKING SEXUAL TOWARDS ME. I WANT HIM PUNISHED!"

"All right, all right, fine, Hunter….you aren't allowed to come home for lunch anymore. You have to stay and eat lunch at school…for a week." Peter said.

"Fine." Hunter shrugged.

"Happy?" Peter asked looking to Gabriella.

"Not even close." Gabriella growled.

She got up and went upstairs. She slammed her door shut and moved her dresser in front of it. Until she got a new lock that would have to do. She crawled into bed and silently cried herself to sleep.

The next morning Gabriella woke up feeling terrible. She had dark circles under her eyes and they were red and swollen. She showered and got dressed making sure to cover the dark circles on her eyes and went downstairs. Hunter was sitting at the table eating breakfast.

"Where is my mom and Peter?" Gabriella asked.

"They left for work already. My dad is always up and out early. Better get used to it." Hunter looked up from his food. "Oh my gosh, you look so ugly, what happen to you?" he asked.

"You happened to me."

Gabriella grabbed her stuff and left the house.

She finally made it to school. She went to her locker and put her books in only keeping out a notebook and pen. She opened her pad an wrote a small note. Then she went into homeroom and took the note and put it on Troy's desk before sitting in her seat. She buried her face in her arms as she forced herself to stay away.

She may have cried herself to sleep but she felt like she didn't get an hour of sleep. She was physically and mentally exhausted.

Troy walked in and sat down at his desk and saw the note. He read it and frowned.

Meet me at our secret spot after class. I really need you.

XOXOX Gabriela

He turned around to see Gabriella with her face buried her in arms and his heart broke. This had Hunter written all over it and Troy was one step closer to killing him.

After class Gabriella went up to the roof top garden and sat down on the bench. She had expected Troy to be close behind but it was another five minutes before he came up. He sat down next to her and pulled her into his arms. She clung to him tightly and buried her face into his chest. He rubbed her back.

"Sorry, I had to tell my dad I wouldn't be at practice. Now, talk to me Brie, what's going on with you? Why are you upset?"

"Hunter fell through the ice but at the same time he still skating only the ice is thicker."

Troy sighed. "Baby, I'm sorry. What did he do?"

"He walked in on me while I was getting changed. He refused to leave until I showed him my body."

"Gabriella, look at me."

Gabriella looked up at him.

"What did he do to you?"

"Nothing, he just screamed at me. Then Peter came."

"Peter saw you naked too?"

"He didn't see much. My mom rushed in and made them all leave."

"So then what? Hunter wasn't punished at all?"

"Peter said he wasn't allowed to come home for lunch anymore. He had to stay at school and eat there."

"That's it? That's his punishment? Are you kidding me?"

Gabriella shook her head. Troy sighed. "I can't believe this. Are they blind?"

"Oh, and they're going to fix the broken lock on my bedroom door."

"It's the least they could do." Troy growled.

Gabriella nodded. "I'm sorry. I made you angry." She buried her face into his chest.

"No, no, Gabriella I'm not angry. I'm not angry with you. I'm angry with Hunter, and with Peter but never at you. I love you and I just hate that you're going through all this."

"Can you come home after school with me please?"

"Of course."

Thank you."

Troy kissed her head and let her cuddled into him. He just held her close and rubbed her back. She quickly and easily fell back to sleep. Troy let her sleep for the next hour, both missing their classes. Troy knew his dad would cover for him.

When the lunch bell rang he gently stroked her hair. "Brie, hey Princess, wake up."

She stirred and opened her eyes looked at him.

"Hey, baby girl, sorry to wake you. It's lunch time would you like to eat?" he asked softly.

"I can't make it down the steps."

Troy chuckled. "I can carry you."

Gabriella nodded. "I skipped breakfast."

"Ok, sleepy girl. Let's go eat. It might bring your energy back up."

He lifted her up and carried her back downstairs.

He set down at the table with their friends. He kissed Gabriella on the head. "I'll be back."

He left to grab them some lunch.

"How are you feeling Gabriella?" Taylor asked.

She shrugged. "Exhausted."

"Hunter wearing you out?" Chad asked.

She nodded.

"Well, try and look on the bright side. You living with Hunter could be good for the wildcats."

"How?"

"You could find out his plans for the game and tell us so we know how to counter them." Chad answered.

"Yeah, then when Hunter finds out he can kill me. Plus I'm not going to do that. It's not right."

"Come on! We could really could use your help. It would take pressure off Troy."

"No Chad! I'm not going to do that!"

"But Gabriella…"

"Hey!" Troy said as he walked over with two trays of food. "She said no. Back off and leave her alone. She doesn't have to find out their plans. We can win without that." Troy answered.

He set the trays down and sat next to Gabriella.

"But, Troy think about what an advantage this is?"

"I don't care! We are not using Gabriella like that! We are not asking her to do something like that. Now drop it."

Everyone sighed and said nothing. Everyone ate lunch in silence. Without even trying to Hunter was breaking up the Wildcats as well as trying to break up Troy and Gabriella.

Later, after school Gabriella and Troy were sitting at home, in Gabriella's room doing homework…while Gabriella was doing homework. Troy was trying to distract her.

"'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'…ok Troy, who said that?" she asked

"You did." He muttered placing soft kisses to her neck.

She giggled "Troy, we've got homework to finish."

"Let's take a break." He muttered again. "We've been working for hours."

"We've been working for a half hour." She giggled again.

"Like I said, time for a break." He hit her ticklish spot and she giggled.

"Troy, stop it that tickles."

He chuckled but continued. "You need to take a break. You're too stressed." He moved her shirt and softly started to kiss her shoulder.

"Troy, please…" she muttered trying to stay focused. "Um…the…the quote was…was spoken by..by…"

Troy continued to kiss her shoulders and neck. She tried her best to fight him off but she couldn't take much more.

"Troy, Troy please…"

"Please what?"

"S-stop." She stuttered.

He chuckled. "I'll stop but you have to say it clearly this time."

Knowing it wouldn't be possible Gabriella turned in his arms and they kissed passionately, quickly starting to make out. They had made it to the make out point before but life had been so stressful before Gabriella hadn't been in the mood until now. Troy's hand went under her shirt and gently ran his fingers up and down her sides.

Gabriella broke apart from the kiss and giggled "That tickles Troy. Stop it."

He chuckled and gently trialed his fingers up and down in a different way that was less…ticklish. They continued to kiss their tongues battling each other.

Suddenly her door opened and Hunter's voice rang out.

"Look who is having some fun in here. Mind if I join in?"

They pulled away and Troy looked to Hunter with such a harsh glare Gabriella was surprised Hunter was still standing.

"Leave now or you're going to regret it." He growled dangerously low.

"Nope. I'm staying." He walked over to the bed and sat down next to Gabriella. She whimpered softly and moved closer to Troy.

"You're asking for trouble Anderson, leave now!"

"Can I take the front?" Hunter asked. He reached up to touch Gabriella but Troy grabbed his wrist and pulled Gabriella closer to him. Gabriella's hands flew up to cover her chest. Troy growled.

"Ok, ok, I won't touch, just look. Just make sure I get a good view of those sexy breasts." He ripped free from Troy's grasp and put it on Gabriella's inner thigh. Gabriella screamed and pulled back from him.

Troy growled and launched forward slamming Hunter into the wall. "As if nearly breaking her back wasn't enough now you're sexually harassing her? I've warned you Hunter but you didn't listen."

"I'm not scared of you Bolton!" Hunter punched Troy in the face. He growled and punched back.

"TROY!" Gabriella screamed.

Hunter punched him again this time sending him to the floor. Troy jumped up Hunter could get another hit in and grabbed him the collar of his shirt lifting him off the ground and pinned him the wall.

"I SAID GET OUT!"

"WHAT'S GOING ON IN HERE!" Peter said as he rushed inside.

He saw Troy with Hunter pinned against the wall with a bloody nose and a busted lip.

"No!" Gabriella cried. She knew what this was going to look like.

Troy let Hunter go. "Your son is a disgusting pervert who is sexually harassing my girlfriend." He growled.

"That's not true! I heard Gabriella screaming so I came in to see what was going on and Troy was trying to rape her!" Hunter lied.

"THAT'S ISN'T TRUE!" Gabriella cried as tears slipped down her cheeks.

"He threatened her, she wouldn't tell the truth. She's too scared."

"NO! You're the liar! Troy would never touch me like that!"

"Both of you stop it!" Peter said. He looked to Troy. "Get out of my house, I gave you a chance for Gabriella's sake but this has gone too far."

"You think this is still about our school being enemies? Are you really that blind? Your son has been making sexual comments and actions toward Gabriella since before she moved in. He's physically injured her and violated her privacy and gotten away with it! I'm done! I'm doing something about it."

"He lies! I'm been trying to protect Gabriella! Ever since she moved in he's been more obsessive of her and he's been trying to make her sleep with him. When I walked in his hand was up her shirt and she was screaming and crying!" Hunter said. "I saved her life. Lucky I got here when I did otherwise Troy would have really hurt her."

"That isn't true!" Gabriella cried. "HUNTER IS THE ONE WHO TRIED TO GRAB MY CHEST!"

"I've heard enough! Troy you need to leave. I need to handle this."

Gabriella looked to Troy. She shook her head. "Please don't go."

He took her hand and kissed it softly. He smiled and pulled her into his arms. "I'm not leaving until I know Gabriella is safe. Where is Maria?"

"She's working late." Peter said.

"Fine, when Maria returns I'll leave."

"No, this is my house and I get to say who is allowed in it. You Mr. Bolton are not allowed here anymore."

"NO!" Gabriella screamed and cried harder.

"If I leave, I'm taking Gabriella with me." Troy said

"I will call the police."

"Go ahead, who do you think they will believe two guys who are known enemies or the victim?"

"True, but that would involve Gabriella speaking to the police. From what I remember, Gabriella doesn't like talking to the police.. Not since she had to talk to them about her father." Peter reminded.

Gabriella sighed. Peter was right about that. She didn't want to get the cops involved which is what Peter was going to do if she didn't stop it. She looked to Troy.

"You can go home. I'll be all right. Hunter won't hurt me with his father standing here." Gabriella said softly.

"Brie, I don't want to leave you."

"Please Troy, I don't want to cops to be called and if you don't leave that's what will happen."

Troy sighed and nodded. "But call me if you need anything, I'll have my phone at me at all times."

"I will. I love you Troy."

"I love you too."

They shared a soft kiss on the lips before Troy left. "I'm going to start dinner, you two start your homework." Peter said and went downstairs.

Gabriella glared at Hunter. "Just wait till my mom gets home. She loves Troy too, she will know you're a liar."

"We will see about that."

Hunter smirked and walked down the stairs. Gabriella sighed and closed her door. She moved her dresser in front of the door again. They still hadn't gotten her lock fixed.

Around dinner time Maria came home. No one had said anything to Maria till dinner. Everyone was sitting around the dinner table when Peter spoke.

"Maria, I'd like to speak with you about Gabriella's boyfriend. Troy."

"What about him?" Maria asked

She was looking at her food and continued to eat not really caring about what he was going to say.

"He tried to rape Gabriella today."

Maria dropped her fork and looked up. "What?"

"NO! HE DIDN'T! TROY WOULDN'T DO THAT TO ME!"

"She's in denial but I heard it myself." Hunter said. "She was screaming and begging him to stop."

"Are you sure? Back when Troy and Gabriella had first met she and Troy had gotten into a tickle fight and Gabriella was screaming at Troy to stop so my husband ran up to the room with a shot gun ready to kill Troy. Then he noticed it was just some harmless tickling. Gabriella does scream when she's tickled." Maria said.

"I know what I saw. His hand was up her shirt and she was begging him, pleading with him to stop." Hunter said.

"Have you called the police?"

"Troy left as soon as he as he was caught."

"You're lying." Gabriella said.

"Gabriella is in denial and refuses to believe he actually happen." Peter said. "I've tried to comfort her but she won't let me."

"Oh my sweetheart, I'm so sorry Troy hurt you like that."

"He didn't hurt me!" Gabriella growled.

Maria ignored her.

"What should we do about it?" Maria asked.

"I think she should break up with Troy, and we can forbid her from ever seeing him again." Hunter said.

"I can agree to that." Peter said.

"No!" Gabriella screamed.

"I think it's for the best." Maria nodded.

"What about her school?" Hunter asked.

"What about it?"

"She'll see Troy at school, what if he shoves her into a closet and hurts her?" Hunter asked.

Maria gasped. "She's not safe at East High anymore!"

"Well what do we do?" Peter asked.

"Enroll her in West High, I'll be able to keep an eye on her so she'll be safe from harm."

"NO!" Gabriella screamed.

"I think that is a good idea." Peter nodded.

"No, Mommy please." Gabriella begged. "I love East High, it's my home. I'm very safe, there Please!"

Maria was quiet and it felt like hours had passed before Maria sighed and answered. "I agree with Hunter. Sending you to West High is the best choice. I'll have you enrolled and you can start tomorrow."

Gabriella went stiff as stone and turned deathly white, as her eyes went wide…

A/N Please don't hate me I promise I'll update as soon as I can. What do you think is going to happen now? What will her first day at West High be like? Will Troy be able to save her from all this? Leave me your thoughts in a review.