Temptation

Saturday morning, and Gabriella was shattered, not only had she been up so late at Taylor's the night before and now she had been left babysitting her baby cousin Evie. "Sssh, it's okay Evie, I'm here." She cooed, rocking the baby in her arms trying to juggle her and her script. She was trying to learn her lines, but without Troy she was losing motivation. She jumped when the doorbell rang, since she was home alone she hitched Evie higher up on her hip and rushed to the door. She opened it and Troy turned around, his blue eyes shining and a smile across his face, his gaze immediately fell to the baby.
"Um, I know we don't know each other that well, but not mentioning your child is a bit-

"Haha, Troy." Gabriella rolled her eyes, "this is my cousin, Evie." She indicated the dark haired baby in her arms. "I'm babysitting." She smiled.

Troy blushed, it was 10 in the morning and she still looked beautiful, his eyes went down to what she wearing, a tight top and blue shorts that looked like boxers, obviously pajamas, he could feel his cheeks burning up.

"Do you want to come in?" Gabriella smirked as she watched his eyes travel over her body, she was keeping things light but it unnerved her to see him looking at her like that, she wished she could read his mind and see what he thought when he looked at her.

"Oh, yeah." Troy said dragging his gaze away from her body. He stepped into the house and looked around, the whole house had an exotic kind of feel to it, it felt exotic but not foreign, it was a welcoming place. He followed her into the living room.

"It's good you're here actually, I have some things of yours." Gabriella said, she looked at Evie, and began to pass her over to him, "do you mind?"

Troy shook his head taking the young baby into his arms, "Of course not." He saw Gabriella about to go upstairs to fetch his things, when she turned back and gave him a worried look, "Don't worry, I won't drop her." He assured her.

"Comforting, Bolton. I wasn't even worrying about that, until now." She winked at him and ran up the stairs, he watched her go the whole way. Until Evie's screams brought him back to reality, he turned to her and she was pouting at him.

"Hey, if you were my age, and a guy, you'd be looking at her too!" Troy defended himself guiltily, to the baby in his arms. He rocked her slowly and noticed the Twinkle town script on the coffee table, he sighed, remembering what he'd given up. Gabriella came bounding downstairs, Troy was sad to see she'd put on proper clothes, jeans and a black shirt, in her hands she held his Wildcat sweatshirt and shorts, the ones she'd worn the night she slept over. She put them into his hand.

"Thanks, sorry they're late, don't worry I washed them so they don't smell like me." She smiled as she took Evie into her arms, Troy silently thought he wouldn't have given a care in the world if they had smelt like her, "Was Troy nasty to you Evie?" She added in a baby voice.

"No, actually she already loves me." Troy laughed.

"In that short a time?" Gabriella laughed. "You must be easy to fall for." Gabriella blushed realising what she'd said, yes he was easy to fall for, much too easy. Troy looked at the floor at her comment; he couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope, had she fallen for him?
"So, practising lines?" He gestured to the script, desperate for a change of subject.

"Yeah," Gabriella replied awkwardly as she walked into the next room to put Evie into her crib, "I need to learn them by next week, so I can start learning everything with Ryan." She smiled at Troy, who felt guilty; they would so much work to do now he was gone.
"Do you need help, reading lines?" Troy offered, anything he could do to make things better he would.

"Yeah!" Gabriella's face lit up, "that would be so helpful Troy." She passed him the script.
He shrugged, "anything to help you." He smiled, remembering the party.

"Yeah," she replied softly, her dark eyes meeting his, "I do."

He tore his gaze away and flicked through the script in front of him, "which scene?"

"Whichever you choose." Gabriella replied as she stood up ready to act out the scene.

"Okay." Troy replied as he walked away from her, "I've got one." He pretended to walk through an imaginary door and Gabriella smiled as he made a big deal out of opening it, stepping through it and then closing it, "that was a door by the way." He grinned.

"Yes, I got that Troy." Gabriella giggled, "now get on with the scene!"

Troy cleared his throat, "Minnie, I'm so sorry for barging in like this, I just had to see you."

Gabriella looked at Troy sadly, "Arnold, I'm sorry for how I acted when you-

"When I told you I loved you…." Troy read from the script, and looked at Gabriella, she bit her lip as she tried to remember her line, it was little things like that she did that just made Troy have to fight so hard not to kiss her, he knew one day temptation would get the better of him…

"Yes, when you said all those beautiful things Arnold, I just…" Gabriella met Troy's eyes, she knew she would never have this chemistry with Ryan, with Troy the words made so much sense. "I didn't know how to react…"

Troy moved closer to her and said urgently, "But how do you feel now, Gab…Minnie? Because if you don't love me please tell me now." Troy looked at the script, it felt as if he was reading a story of his and Gabriella's relationship, his eyes widened when he read what was coming next.

"I'm not sure how I feel…" Gabriella faltered, her character may not know, but she knew exactly how she felt about the guy in front of her.

"Well, maybe I can make you sure." Troy replied huskily, he dropped the script, took Gabriella's face in his hands and kissed her. Gabriella was taken completely off guard, she was sure her legs would give way, sensing this, Troy moved his hands to his waist to steady her as he pulled her body closer. Gabriella laced her arms around his neck, deepening the kiss. At first the kiss had been gentle, his soft lips touching hers and sending bolts of electricity through their bodies, but now temptation was taking over, the urge to be close becoming stronger, weeks of pent up emotions finally having a chance to be free, Troy ran his hands over her waist and her back and she felt his tongue touch her lips, she opened her mouth and their tongues collided, she felt sure she could see fireworks going off in her mind. She was breathlessly running her hands through his hair, on his face, his arms, anywhere she could touch him, they fell onto the sofa, him on top of her, his weight making her feel safe not crushed, his hands moved down to her thighs as her hands held his shoulders, he could feel her nails digging in through his shirt, but he didn't care.

Finally they broke away the need for air becoming too strong, they were panting hard, his forehead resting on hers as he regained the strength to pull himself off her. He sat up on the sofa and lay back against it. Gabriella touched her lips, they were still tingling, she wondered if hers looked as pink and swollen as his did. She sat up next to him, neither knowing what to say, he looked at her and she bit her swollen lips. She felt flushed and

"I'm sorry." He finally said, huskily, he didn't mean it but he suddenly felt awkward, she hadn't said a word.

She moved closer to him on the sofa she cupped his face and stroked his lips with her thumb, "Don't be. I'm not…" Troy locked eyes with her at her words, and took the hand that was touching his face, ready to pull her close to him once more…

"Ahem," a voice was heard and the front door closed, Gabriella's mother walked into the living room and looked questioningly at their position, Gabriella was sat so close to Troy she might as well be on his lap. Troy dropped her hand and jumped off the couch. He looked at Gabriella, who was subtlety trying to pull her shirt down and fix her hair.

"Oh, right. Mother, this is Troy, Troy this is my Mother, Carla." Gabriella smiled awkwardly as she introduced the two.

Troy walked over to Carla and shook her hand. "Nice to meet you. You have a lovely home." Carla looked Troy up and down, he flashed her one of his dazzling smiles and she was won over.

"It's nice to meet you Troy. I assume you're a friend of Gabriella's from school?"

"Er, yeah." Troy replied, "I was just, I came over to…" Troy trailed off as Gabriella went into thought, why did he come? She realised she hadn't asked him of the reason for the unexpected visit.

Gabriella stepped forwards, "He was just helping me learn my lines for the musical." Troy looked at her and she gave him a smile, he nodded in thanks and they turned to Carla. Carla looked at her watch.

"Evie's sleeping, I assume?" Gabriella nodded. "Then it's time you got off to work, you don't want to be late." Carla reminded her daughter.

"Oh, yeah! I completely forgot." Gabriella blushed, the morning had been quite eventful and work was the last thing on her mind at the moment. She turned to Troy, "I've got to get to work, but we'll talk later?" She offered, she was still curious as to why he dropped by, she had a feeling that he wouldn't have dropped by early on a Saturday morning if it wasn't important.

"Yeah, that's okay. I'll talk to you soon." Troy nodded. At least it would give him time to tell her how he felt and what he'd meant by that kiss, sure it was in the script, but the feelings were all real. He turned back to Carla, "It was nice to meet you, I'm sorry I just dropped by like this…"

Carla waved his comment off, "No problem, Troy. I hope to see you again soon." She smiled at the blue eyed boy, she was getting a good feeling about Troy. She smiled at her daughter, she needs a guy like this, Lord knows she's had enough boy drama for one year, Carla thought sadly. Gabriella walked Troy to the door as Carla went into the next room to check on Evie. Gabriella smiled at him awkwardly as he walked out the door, she still couldn't believe he had kissed her, what did it mean? Was he just really good at acting, had it been Arnold and Minnie or Troy and Gabriella who had kissed? If it had been all Troy, had he just got caught up in the moment? She didn't know the answers to any of these questions, but she knew she needed answers.

Oooh, what's Gabriella's boy drama?? And finally they kissed :D Please R and R, I'd love to hear what you all thought!