Spending the night

"Oh, I'm sorry." Gabriella blushed, jumping a metre in the air, she hadn't expected to walk into a half naked Troy, and she averted her eyes from his perfect body and stared at the ceiling. Troy smirked; she was so adorable when she was embarrassed. He threw on a shirt.

"It's okay," he smiled, "you can look now." His smile faded when he saw her leg, she noticed the direction of his gaze.

"Troy, it's fine," she said in a warning tone, "I just wanna forget about it." She added as she stifled a yawn.

"Okay, then. Let's sleep." Troy nodded. They walked over to his bed and started taking off the covers. "That sweatshirt looks cute on you." He commented, smiling at how many times she had rolled up the sleeves.

"Thanks, you'll have a hard time getting this back, that's for sure." She giggled. When the bed was ready they both just stood and looked at it neither wanting to get in. "on 5?" She offered.

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5" Troy counted, they both lay in the bed, she turned to face him as he switched the light off and pulled the covers up over both of them.

"I just wanna say again, Troy." Gabriella whispered, "that I will never forget what you've done for me tonight. I'm…you've really surprised me. You're not who I thought you were and I'm so glad I was wrong about you."

"Ditto, Montez." She felt him poke her.

"Good night."

"Night, Gabi." She smiled at the abbreviation, and the smile stayed on her face until sleep took over.

When they had drifted off to sleep that night Troy and Gabriella had been lying on completely opposite sides of the bed, now 9 hours later that couldn't be less true. Troy's arms were wrapped around her and she had an arm draped across his chest, she was practically on top of him, her head moving with the rising and falling of his chest. They were so peaceful, little did they know their peace was about to be destroyed. Coach Bolton bounded into the room as always on a Saturday morning, ready for some basketball practice with his son. Usually Troy was up and ready to go so Jack Bolton was shocked at the sight he saw when he walked into his son's room this morning. His son asleep in bed, and a girl, a very beautiful girl, wrapped up in his arms. At first he had thought it a sweet sight, but then he remembered his son's age. He cleared his throat loudly "Morning, Troy." His voice served as Troy and Gabriella's wake up call. Their eyes shot open, they noticed their position and jumped apart.

"Uh, hi Dad." Troy mumbled, scratching the back of his head and sitting up.

"Good morning, sweetie." Troy's mum waltzed into the room and stopped when she saw a girl in his bed. "Oh, my God!"

"Hey Troy!" His two cousins bounded into the room and the two boys halted at the sight of a gorgeous girl where they were expecting to see Troy.

"Um, everyone this is Gabriella Montez." Troy broke the ice. Gabriella waved sheepishly at the Boltons. Troy could see his mother eyeing them both up, obviously making sure they were both wearing many layers of clothing. "Mum, Dad, I can explain…"

"Yeah," Gabriella added nervously, "he was just doing me-

"Doing you??" Troy's mother shrieked, about to faint.

"A favour." Gabriella finished, she heard Troy throw his head in his hands behind her.

Troy's mother didn't know what to say to the girl, she looked absolutely adorable dressed in her son's clothes, Mrs Bolton wondered why she hadn't seen this girl before. "How about some breakfast, kids? Then maybe you can explain things to us…" Troy and Gabriella sheepishly followed Mrs Bolton out of the room, when Troy's older cousin Jake elbowed Troy in the stomach.

"Nice one." Jake grinned appreciatively.

"Stop it Jake!" Troy hissed, unable to suppress the grin on his face as he hurried to catch up with his parents and Gabriella.

"Well we have, cereal, toast, eggs. What would you like sweetheart?" Mrs Bolton smiled at her son's…what was she? A Girlfriend? A Friend?

"Um, no thanks Mrs Bolton. I really should call Taylor, my friend, she was ill last night." Gabriella smiled and excused herself out of the room, Mrs Bolton immediately rounded on her son.

"Troy Bolton, I hope you know if you get her pregnant you WILL marry her! No son of mine will be the father of a love child, I-

Troy held up his hands in defence and looked at his parents. "Look, nothing happened with me and Gabriella. Last night at Chad's party she got into trouble, I helped her out. Her Mum's away and she's been staying with Taylor, but Taylor got ill and had to go home. Gabriella had nowhere to stay so I let her come back her, I lent her some clothes and we slept. End of." Troy finished his story and breathed out heavily. He didn't like being interrogated so early on a Saturday morning.

"And that's all?"

"Yeah, that's all Dad." Troy replied with patience.

"Well," Troy's mum said, her tone slowly regaining its usual brightness, "if that's all. Why don't you tell us about her? How come we've never met her before?" Troy smiled at the question, it was a crime really, Troy thought, that he and Gabriella had been sworn enemies for so long, years they've wasted when they could have been friends, he looked out of the window and saw her stood outside on the phone to Taylor. Even with no make up on and boy's clothing she was still the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, he had just been so blind.

"Well, Gabriella and I haven't always got on…" Troy began, he poured out the whole story to his parents, about their fighting, and the volleyball match and Sharpay's ankle and how they got paired together for the musical, he just left out the part about Nick. "And now here we are."

"Aww, Troy. I'm so happy for you." His Mum beamed.

"Why?" Troy enquired.

"Because you're in love!" She explained.

"I am?"

"He is?" Jack Bolton added on.

"You men are so blind about what's in front of you. Sometimes you just need to open your eyes. You love her because while you were telling us that story, that goofy smile of yours didn't once leave your face." Mrs Bolton smiled at the wisdom she had just imparted. Gabriella came back into the kitchen, hanging up the phone.

"Taylor's better." She said with relief. "Must have just been food poisoning, Chad said as soon as she had…" she grimaced, "got the chicken out of her system, she was better."

Troy stood up from the kitchen table, "That's great." He sighed.

"Yeah," she replied, her eyes locking with his, "it is." Mrs Bolton nudged her husband knowingly as they watched the exchange between the love struck teenagers.

"Anyway," Gabriella sighed, "I should probably get going, my mum gets back today and I should be there to meet her." She looked at her clothes, "would it be okay if…"

"Yeah, sure." Troy replied knowing what she meant, "you can just bring them to school on Monday, don't forget your dress. Wait, I'll get it for you." He rushed upstairs to find it.

Gabriella filled the silence and turned to Troy's parents, "Thanks so much for letting me stay. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. Troy, was really a lifesaver last night, he helped me…well he helped me out of a situation that could really have been dangerous. You have a wonderful son." She blushed at what she said, but knew that truer words, she had never said about anyone.

"Found it." Troy grinned, running downstairs the turquoise dress folded neatly in his arms. He passed it to her.

"Thanks."

"Oh, wow. That's a lovely dress." Mrs Bolton sighed as she stroked the material, "I bet you looked just beautiful in it."

"She did." Troy smiled, Gabriella's face lit up at his comment, no one had ever made her feel like this. She was just so glad she had opened her eyes, if she hadn't he would still be the arrogant jock she was determined to hate. Now he had become the wonderful guy she knew she was destined to love.

Hope you liked it! Please review. :D It seems to good to be true doesn't it? But sadly things won't stay this happy for long. What kind of love story would it be if things were easy? It's more fun with drama. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed already, I love reading them and thanks for taking the time to read this story, it means a lot.

Next chapter: Troy makes a decision, and we see a return of Ryan!