Chapter 14

Recap

"No Troy! It was all your fault. Mom died because of you! She got sick because she was missing you badly. Every attention is on you Troy! Since we were small, mom and dad liked you already. You're the reason I turned into a devil. Mom took me with her instead of you because I always fight with you and she doesn't want you to get hurt!!" Alex explained, anger spilling in every word. Troy couldn't say anything to argue with this. He knew that Alex was right.

"I wished you weren't my little brother Troy!!!!" Alex yelled, punching Troy right on the cheek.

End of Recap

Troy fell right on the ground, rubbing the blood that was rolling down his chin.
"TROY!" Gabriella yelled in horror. She quickly kneeled down in front of Troy and examined his cheek worriedly.

"See! Even the girl that I like also likes you Troy. Nothing is left for me. You took mom and dad away from me!" Alex yelled, the pain that he was holding for all those years finally came out.

"And you took the only brother I have!!!" Troy yelled catching Alex completely off guard.

"What?" Alex asked softly. He really didn't expect that to come out of Troy's mouth.

"Alex don't you get it? You're the only brother I have. Dad was always busy when you and mom left. I had no one until Gabi came. Do you know why I turned into a devil? Because when I was little I used to copy you all the time! I wanted to be just like the great big brother of mine." Troy said, standing up.

"You took mom and my brother away from me Alex. Please don't take Gabi from me too. She's the only one I have." Troy said, grabbing Gabriella's hand and walking off.

"What just happened?" Alex thought, not moving an inch from where he was standing.

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Gabriella was just staring at Troy the whole time. They were now sitting on the bench in their 'secret spot'. Troy was so lost in thought that Gabriella didn't want to interrupt him.

"Alexander is Troy's brother? Why didn't I realise that? I knew that I've seen those familiar blue eyes before." Gabriella thought.

"I never saw that side of Troy that he just showed in front of Alex. They were probably close before but eventually, Alex got jealous." Gabriella said to herself.

"Troy are you ok?" She finally spoke.

"Oh yeah I'm fine.. I'm just confused." Troy admitted as Gabriella wrapped her arms around him.

"I'm pretty surprised that you didn't bash him up. I was thinking that you're gonna murder him for punching you." Gabriella said, half serious and half joking (don't know if that's possible. Lol)

"To tell you the truth. I respect Alex. I don't really hate him." He chuckled, lessening the serious conversation.

"That was a very nice line you told Alex. Could've fooled me." Gabriella giggled.

"Which one are you talking about?" Troy asked, a little confused.

"Please don't take Gabi from me too." Gabriella imitated Troy.

"Hey! I was standing up for you and that's how you repay me?" Troy asked and before he could say another word, Gabriella's soft lips were already pressed on his.

"That's how I repay you!" Gabriella said, after they pulled away.

"I should work on my pick up lines then!" Troy said triumphantly.

"We should get you to the school clinic and get some eyes for your busted cheek." Gabriella said as they head down the stairs.

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Troy and Gabriella went to their homeroom and sat on their normal seats.

"Hey guys! Where were you this morning?" Sharpay asked, as the students all waited for Mrs Darbus who was surprisingly late.

"I just had a meeting with Gabriella's stalker." Troy said, chuckling a little bit.

"Who was it then?" The whole gang asked in unison.

"Do you really refer your big brother as Gabriella's stalker." Alexander's voice rang in the room.

"Alex??!!!" The gang practically yelled, absolutely shocked.

"Miss me?" Alex said walking over to the gang and sitting on Gabriella's desk. No one replied making Alex roll his eyes.

"Ok, maybe you didn't miss me but oh well. Another devil replaced me anyway." Alex shrugged referring to Troy directly.

"I am not as big of a devil as you Alex. Now would you get off of Gabriella's desk before I push you off?" Troy said, annoyed.

"Ohhh touchy." Alex smirked, standing up and sitting on Troy's desk instead.

"Anyway, so are you really stalking Gabriella?" Chad asked curiously as the gang stared at Alexander curiously.

"Of course I wasn't! Would I really sink that low?" Alex said but no one spoke.

"You will." Troy mumbled and immediately received a smack on the head.

"What was that for?" Troy asked annoyed.

"For being an idiot." Alex said, smacking Troy again.

"Get off my desk." Troy said, pushing Alexander off.

"Sorry Gabriella if you think I'm a stalker. I just saw you walking and I was like 'wow, that's one hot chick'!" Alex exclaimed making Gabriella blush and Troy, angry.

"Don't talk like that about Gabi." Troy said, a little too loud.

"Kidding Troy! Just playin' with you man." Alex said, punching Troy slightly on the arm.

"Yeah you better be kidding." Troy said seriously.

"Anyway, I'm gonna go now! Adios!" Alex said, kicking Troy's shin bone and walking towards the door.

"Don't come back again!" Troy joked, rubbing his aching shin.

"Hold on a second. Gabi mentioned to me about a love letter. Mind explaining what its about?" Troy said, eyeing his big brother who stopped and was leaning on the door frame.

"What? I could be charming sometimes." Alex reasoned.

"Like I'm gonna believe that." Troy said.

"Shut up!" Alex said, grabbing some random guy's book and throwing it at Troy who caught it quickly.

"Hey that was my book!" The guy exclaimed.

"So?! You got a problem with that?!" Alex exclaimed making the guy sink in his seat.

"No." The guy replied, scared.

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That afternoon, Troy and Gabriella was in a very good mood.

"So when you were little, you and Alex always do bad stuff to make your dad angry?" Gabriella laughed.

"Yeah! We even chuck a shoe on his head." Troy laughed, remembering all the memories he had with Alex.

As they went inside the house, they were met by Carla.

"Gabi, Troy do you mind going in the supermarket and buying the groceries? We kinda ran out of stuff here and I have a meeting to go to. Can you do it for me?" Carla asked and Troy immediately said yes.

"Here's the list." Carla said handing them the list.

The two of them entered the supermarket and started looking through the list.

"What do we buy first?" Troy asked, grabbing a trolley and following Gabriella.

"Milk, since it's the closest." Gabriella said, walking over to the milk section. After a couple of minutes, they finished buying all the things in the list.

"I'm hungry!" Troy whined grabbing any junk food he could find and putting it in the trolley.

"Troy, what are you doing? Do we have enough money?" Gabriella asked.

"Dad gave me his credit card. Of course we have enough." Troy said rolling his eyes.

When they turned a corner, they surprisingly saw Alexander.

"Is that Alex?" Gabriella asked while Troy nodded with an evil smile. Alex was too busy looking at something that he didn't notice Troy coming from behind him and was holding a milk.

"This will not end good!" Gabriella thought, trying to catch Troy who was now opening the milk.

"Hi Alex!" Troy said and as soon as Alex turned around, milk was splashed right on his face.

"TROY!!!" Alex yelled angrily as Troy ran for his precious life.

"We got to go!" Troy said picking up Gabriella and putting her in the trolley.

"Troy what are you doing?!!" Gabriella exclaimed, scared of what Troy will do.

"Trust me!" Troy said, running and pushing Gabriella who was stuck in the trolley and couldn't get up.

"Come back here you brat!" Alex yelled as he grab a box of eggs and started opening it.

"You're dead Troy!" Alex roared and started chucking eggs at Troy who was trying to dodge them but was failing miserable.

They ended up in the fruit section and Troy accidentally let go off Gabriella's trolley making it stop right in the middle of him and Alex.

"This is war!" Alex said as he threw a mango at Troy who quickly dodged them.

"Bad aiming!" Troy teased and chucked an orange to Alex. Gabriella on the other hand was right in the middle of the flying fruits.

"Stop guys!" Gabriella yelled but the two brothers didn't noticed.

"STOP!!" Another deeper and more scarier voice roared. Troy and Alex immediately stopped and turned to a big security guard who was looking very angry. Very angry indeed.

"Who's gonna pay for all this mess?!" He asked and Troy quickly pointed to Alex but only to find him pointing to him too. The security guard glared at them as if he was gonna murder them.

"RUN!!" Alex yelled and the two boys ran to the exit leaving Gabriella who was still stuck in the trolley. The security guard walked over to her and helped her off the trolley.

"Miss, someone's gonna pay for this." The security guard told the fuming Gabriella.

"They're dead!" Gabriella mumbled as she took out her credit card and pay for all the mess.

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Troy and Alex started laughing when they got into a safe place which was far away from the supermarket.

"We are so dead!" Alex exclaimed.

"I know. I can't believe we did that!" Troy said, finally calming down.

"Why do I have a feeling that we forgot something." Alex said as he thought deeply. Troy's face immediately became pale and all of his colour was practically drained out.

"Gabriella!" They both said in unison.

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"I'm gonna kill them!" Gabriella exclaimed as she tried to carry all of the groceries out of the market. As she was walking, she spotted Troy heading her way with a really scared and nervous face.

"Hey Gabi!" Troy said nervously.

"Don't hey Gabi me Troy!! I can't believe you just left me out there!" Gabriella said as she dropped all the bags that she was holding and heading out to get a cab.

"What? You're just gonna leave me here?" Troy asked.

"That's what you did to me!" Gabriella snapped and enter the cab who stopped just a few seconds ago.

"Crap!" Troy thought and started carrying all the bags to his car.

Troy finally arrived home only to find the whole gang watching TV.

"Who let you in?" Troy asked them curiously.

"Mr Bolton did but he went already." Chad shrugged, not taking his eyes off the TV.

"Gosh what happened to you? You're a mess!" Taylor exclaimed, looking at Troy who was covered in egg shells.

"You stink too." Jason said, wrinkling his nose.

"Anyway, what did you do to Gabi? She looked angry!" Sharpay said as Troy sighed and was about to get run upstairs when he saw Gabriella sitting in the couch, completely ignoring him.

"Gabi?" Troy said, trying to make her talk to him.

"Hey guys! How about we have a pool party in my place?" Sharpay suddenly announced.

"No!" Troy and Gabriella replied exactly the same time and a little bit too quickly.

"Why not?" Ryan asked, confused.

"Umm.." Gabriella looked over at Troy who was also trying to think of an excuse.

"I can't let them see my tattoo." Gabriella thought worriedly.

"I don't want to take off my green contacts!" Troy said in his mind.
"Well?" Taylor said, wanting them to continue.

"I'm… allergic to chlorine!" Gabriella sighed, thinking that she got away with it.

"Me too!" Troy proclaimed making Gabriella groan.

"You're so stupid Troy!" She thought as the gang just stared at them.

"You guys are coming and that's final!" Sharpay said.

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The gang were all in Sharpay's gigantic house and getting dressed.

"Troy why don't you want to go swimming before?" Chad asked curiously.

"Because I don't want to." Troy replied simply.

"Come on! We know your hiding something. You never go swimming us. I mean NEVER!" Jason exclaimed while Troy just rolled his eyes.

"Ok fine! I don't go swimming because of this!" Troy took out his green contacts, revealing his brilliant blue eyes.

"Whoa! You have blue eyes!" Chad exclaimed.

"When did you figure that out Chad!" Troy said.

"You know, I always used to wonder why Alex have blue eyes and you don't." Zeke said and spotted the girls.

"Oh look! The girls are there!" Zeke said, pointing at the girls who were laughing.

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"So you didn't want to show us your tattoo that's why you don't want to go swimming with us?" Sharpay laughed while Gabriella just giggled.

"You better not blackmail me!" Gabriella joked. She spotted Troy and her smile was suddenly wiped off.

"You still haven't forgiven him?" Taylor asked.

"He was such an idiot. He put me in the trolley and set me right in the middle of their fruit fight!" Gabriella said, moving apart from the girls since the boys were coming.

Gabriella walked over to the pool and sat right on the edge.
"Gabi I'm sorry." Troy said, sitting next to her but she didn't say anything.

"You still not talking to me?" Troy tried again.

"Did you know I'm the one who got in trouble for---" Gabriella suddenly stopped when she saw Troy's blue eyes.

"Gosh! His eyes are so hypnotizing!" Gabriella thought, trying not to cave in.

"Ok fine." Troy suddenly jumped in the water and faced her.

"I'm gonna stay under water until you forgive." Troy said, determined.

"Yeah right." Gabriella mumbled and Troy suddenly bobbed down the water.

"What is he doing?" Gabriella thought as she watched Troy stay under water.

"Troy you can come out now you know! Stop joking around!" Gabriella said but Troy didn't move an inch.
"Troy! Get up! You're gonna kill yourself!" She was now getting worried. A few seconds have past and Troy was still not getting up.

"Oh my gosh!" She jumped in the water and tried to pull him up. He suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her up instead.

"Troy what were you doing? Are you trying to kill yourself?" Gabriella scolded.

"If that's what it takes to get you to talk to me again." Troy said with a sweet smile that Gabriella could never resist.

"You really worked on your pick up lines!" Gabriella giggled, completely forgetting why she got angry with him in the first place.

"So do you forgive me now?" He said, wrapping his arms around Gabriella's waist.

"How could I resist those blue eyes of yours." She smiled and kissed him lightly on the lips.

"Don't worry! I like your tattoo too!" Troy chuckled as they pulled away.

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I hope you like this chapter because I enjoyed writing it! Whoa, most of you were shocked that Troy and Alex were brothers. Don't worry, there's more to come! Please review.