The next morning Troy awoke to the warm bright sunshine shining through the car window onto his face.

He was lying slightly sideways, with his shoes off and up on the seat.

Gabriella was laying contently against him. Her arms were holding tightly to him still, but there was a small hint of a smile on her face.

Once Troy's eyes had adjusted to the light he looked down at her, and couldn't help but smile. She looked so right in his arms.

Troy was snapped out of his daydream when Gabriella suddenly started to wake up. She sat up and yawned.

She opened her eyes and looked around her. When she turned to Troy, she smiled.

"Good morning sleepyhead." He said teasing her.

"Good morning." She said in a half awake voice.

She grabbed the blanket and wrapped up in it. They sat in silence for a minute or two. Then Troy broke the silence.

"Well, should we try to get rescued now?" he asked.

She sighed. "I think we better."

She handed him her cell phone and he dialed his apartment to get Robby out of bed.

"Hello?" said a groggy voice.

"Hey Robby, it's Troy." He said quickly. Robby was immediately wide awake.

"Troy, man, where are you? I freakin' worried about you when you didn't come back last night."

"We had car problems, and no one answered when we tried to call for some help. So we just slept in the car."

"Wait, hold everything, who is we?" he said suspiciously.

"Me and…….." he lowered his voice, "….Gabriella."

"Are you serious dude?" he said laughing.

"Yes, now will you please come and get us?" Troy said in an annoyed voice.

"Yeah, yeah, just tell me where you are."

Troy told him their location and hung up. He sighed, and stretched as much as he could. Then he turned to Gabriella.

"Well, he's on his way, but it will be about another hour." He told her.

"Oh, ok." She said. She looked out the window and stared at the sunrise.

"Troy figured this was as good as anytime to apologize.

"Gabriella, look, I'm so sorry this happened. I never wanted it to happen." he said deeply meaning it.

Gabriella looked at him closely. Then she reached over and put a hand on his knee.

"Troy, it wasn't your fault. I would never think that. And besides, I had a nice time." She smiled at him, which warmed him from head to toes. Then as if he had totally lost all his defenses, he pulled her to him, and leaned into her.

When he was just centimeters from her lips, he whispered.

"Aren't you going to cry for help?"

She looked into his eyes, then replied, "Help."

Then he leaned in and closed all the space between them. He kissed her gently and lovingly. He didn't wasn't to scare her off on their second date.

To his surprise, she responded to his kiss and wrapped her arms around him.

The he pulled back and looked at her closely, his arms still around her.

"What brought that on?" she asked.

"I don't know, I couldn't help myself." He said smiling boyishly.

Suddenly they heard a car honk. They both jumped and Troy looked out the window. Robby was behind them, in his car, smiling widely.

"Oh, my friend is here. Come on, Gabriella."

He helped her out and they both got into Robby's car.

"Well, it took you long enough Robby, geez." Troy said, trying to get his and Gabriella's minds off what had just happened.

"Sorry, man, I had to have breakfast." He said jokingly.

He started the car, and they drove off.

"So, Troy, are you going to introduce me to this lovely lady of yours?" Robby said hopefully.

"Oh, yeah, sorry. Umm, Robby, this is Gabriella, Gabriella, this is Robby, my roommate."

"It's nice to meet you Robby." Gabriella said sweetly.

"Oh, the pleasure is all mine Gabriella." He said, Gabriella giggled.

For the rest of the drive they were silent, until Gabriella started directing Robby to her house. When they got there, Troy helped Gabriella out, then walked her to the door.

"Well Troy, thank you. I had a great time." Gabriella said, stopping at the door.

"Yeah, me too." He said quietly.

Gabriella looked down at her feet.

"Well, I'll see you soon Troy.: then she quickly leaned yup and kissed his cheek.

Then she opened the door and was gone before he could do anything.

(a/n: ok, there's that one. Sorry it took me so long. I had a busy weekend. Tell me how you've liked it so far. Please read and review…thanks.)