"But Mr. Eagen, I can't-"

"I'm sorry, Gabriella… Miss Linford is sick, I just need you to do it for this one weekend, please."

Gabriella put her hand to her forehead and tried to breathe evenly and calm herself down.

"They just need someone to watch them while they are here, the other teachers will watch them during the day most of the time, they just need you guys there for extra help and to stay with them overnight."

"Wait!? Who's 'you guys'?" Gabriella stopped him and looked at his face. Watching him carefully as he tried to persuade her.

"Umm… well I need you and Troy." He fidgeted with his hands and spoke slowly.

"What about me?" Troy came down the hallway of the small building that they were in now and walked up to them both.

"Well, I need you and miss Montez to help watch over the eleven and twelve year olds this weekend, since Miss Linford and a few other counselor members are sick."

"What? Over the weekend? What do you mean?" Troy was just as frustrated and confused as Gabriella was by now. He didn't want his whole weekend taken up, that was the only days he had off. He didn't want to waste them with a bunch of hormonal teenagers.

"I know, I am so sorry for the inconvenience, I just need you to watch over them for some parts of the day with about two other counselors and then stay with them overnight… please?" Mr. Eagen begged, he was desperate, Troy and Gabriella both could tell.

Gabriella spoke as steady as she could. "Wait? Sleep where? Where would we sleep?" She used her fingers and pointed to her and Troy.

"There is a cabin right next door to the other ones that Miss Linford and Mr. Robinson used. Please? I'll pay you guys extra for this. Please?"

Gabriella looked at Troy. They stared at each other as if they were communicating through each others thoughts and they both eventually turned back to Mr. Eagen.

Troy spoke, quietly. "Okay… when do we start, exactly?"

Mr. Eagen, smiled. "Thank you so very much, guys. It is so helpful to me that your doing this. And I will give you two about an hour to go home and get your things, cause I need you to sleep over, tonight. Again Thank you." He smiled and started off in the other direction down the hallway.

Gabriella turned to Troy. "Come on, we better go…"

--

Troy waited patiently in the car while he waited for Gabriella to gather all of her things inside her own house. Gabriella's car was still getting fixed so Troy volunteered to pick her up and drop her off until her car was fixed. He didn't mind. He loved being with Gabriella and the more time spent together, the more he realized that he we was definitely crushing on her. Crushing wasn't even the word to describe the way he felt. He was falling in love with her…

"I'm Back." Gabriella put her suitcase in the backseat and closed the door, walking up to the front and making her way in, next to Troy. She put her seatbelt on. "Okay, lets go, ho." Gabriella laughed.

"Excuse me?" Troy said through his smile.

"Yeah, you heard me! Lets go… ho." She chuckled again.

"Okay, that was so uncalled for." Troy said backing out of the driveway and driving down the road.

"Oh you know you don't mind." Gabriella said giving him a 'Duh' Kind of look.

"Just wait until I find a mean nickname for you. It will be way worse then 'ho'." He smiled and turned the corner.

"Okay… I'll wait." Gabriella threw her head back and laughed again. Troy eventually joined in too as he made his way through the dark city.

--

"This place smells like dead people!" Gabriella plugged her nose and set her suitcase down. "Eww!"

"well that's one way to put it." Troy agreed and walked towards the window and opened it, letting the cool air come in. "That's a little better." He dusted off his hands. "Do you have an air freshener or something?"

Gabriella scoffed "Yes, Troy, I carry on with me every time I go out." Gabriella made a 'duh' look again and walked towards the bunk beds.

"I call the bottom bunk!" Gabriella rushed to the bed and laid down on it.

"Ugh… Great…" Troy wiped his forehead and got his clothes out from his bag. "I'll go change in the bathroom, you change in here."

"Okay…"

Troy walked out, shutting the door behind him. Gabriella got up quickly and got her clothes, changing quickly into some light blue and green plaid pajama pants. And then threw on a tight fitting yellow tank top. She sighed and played with her long curly hair as she waited on the bed. She grabbed her blanket and pillow and laid it on the bed carefully.

The door clicked open and Troy came in. He was wearing red and white basketball sweats and an old white t-shirt that said "Got Game?" written on the front. He yawned.

He turned to see Gabriella sitting there. He nearly fainted when he saw what she was wearing. The tank top fit her body perfectly and she looked so peaceful just sitting there twirling her hair with her fingers. Gabriella was definitely beautiful in Troy's eyes.

"You ready to go to bed?" He asked.

Gabriella turned to him a little startled. She didn't hear him come in. She was to busy in her own little world… "Oh, yeah… I'm really tired." She smiled and got under the covers and laying her head on the pillow.

Troy shut off the lights and threw his blanket and pillow up on the top bunk and eventually climbed up there. He situated himself and took a deep breath and stared at the ceiling.

"Troy?"

He turned to his right side. "Yeah, Gabriella?"

"I swear to god if you break this bed and fall on me in the middle of the night, I will kill you."

Tory laughed and put his hands on his face. "Goodnight, Gabi."

She smiled. "Goodnight, Troy." She wiggled closer to her pillow and closed her eyes.

--

"Gabriella? Do you remember me? I'm sure you do." Gabriella turned her head to the left. She looked around and saw that she was on a dark city sidewalk. She turned more and saw him. She gasped.

"No…"

"Oh yes, I told you we would always be together. Don't you remember?" the man walked closer and Gabriella walked back.

"No… your not real… your in jail." Gabriella put her hands over her face.

"Gabriella, don't believe that… you know I'm always with you… I will always be. Forever.

"No!" Gabriella yelled she walked back faster. "Get away from me!"

The man ran forward so fast that Gabriella didn't even have time to turn around and run.

He grabbed her by the chin and turned her towards him. "NO! Please!" she screamed. The man grabbed her face and kissed her. Hard on the lips. She pushed him back as hard as she could. "Stop!" She cried.

"Gabriella, don't you remember? I'm never gonna stop, not until I have you…" He pushed her against a tree and kissed down her neck.

Gabriella couldn't breath, she couldn't speak to tell him no. she was to scared by what was happening. She cried her eyes out. "Please... No!" She finally screamed.

"I'm always with you Gabriella… now and forever." The man chuckled evilly and continued to kiss Gabriella roughly.

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"AHH!" Gabriella jerked up in her bed and looked around. She was in the cabin. It was a dream… "Oh my god…" Gabriella looked down at her shaking hands. "No…" She said and burst into tears.

"Gabriella?!" Troy jumped down from the top bed and looked at her. "Gabriella! What's wrong?" He crawled onto her bed and Gabriella looked up. It was Troy. Gabriella took her hands away from her face and did he only thing she could do. She reached forward with her arms opened wide… She threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tight. She buried her head in his neck and sobbed.

"T-Troy…" She sobbed, she couldn't even speak she was so scared, she needed someone to protect her. Someone to help her through this. This wasn't going to ruin her life anymore. She wouldn't let it.

Troy rubbed her back, gently. "Gabriella… what's wrong? What happened?" Troy embraced her tightly as he felt her shaking uncontrollably… there was something seriously wrong… there was something she was hiding from him that was eating her alive. He felt so bad about it so he just hugged her tighter, rocking her back and forth.

"Gabriella…" He pulled back from the hug and looked at her.

She cried more. "No!" She sobbed and jumped back in Troy's arms, hugging him again. "Please… don't…" She sobbed more and just held on tighter. She held onto him for her life. She was so afraid that if she let go that he would disappear.

"Gabriella… please tell me what happened." He buried his nose in her neck and waited for her to calm down. Eventually after a little while, she did. She pulled back a little bit so she could see him but still keep a hold of him.

"I-I can't exactly… t-tell you w-what… but it was a b-bad d-dream… w-when I'm r-ready to… I-I will." She looked at him and hugged him again.

"Okay, okay… Its okay, you don't have to tell me right now, when your ready? Okay?" He pulled away and stroked her cheek.

She nodded, sniffling and still shaking.

"You need some sleep, remember we need to work tomorrow, remember?" Troy told her.

She winced a little but nodded her head.

Troy reached forward and kissed her forehead for a few seconds. Just kissing her head and doing nothing else… he eventually pulled away and touched the side of her face. It was so hard for Troy to not just kiss her right then and tell her how much he loved her. But he wouldn't. Not when she's like this, its to much for her.

He scooted off the bed slowly.

"No!" She grabbed his hand, still shaking and sniffing. "S-stay with m-me… p-please." She cried, tears streaming down her face.

How could Troy say no? He wanted to be with her as much as she did. He took her hand and laid on her bed, pulling her down with him. She scooted as close as possible to him, hugging her big comforter blanket around them both. She wrapped her arm under his and cried into his chest.

"t-thank y-you." She sobbed.

"Shh…' he stroked her hair and held her tighter. "Its okay… go to sleep, I'm right here…"

She nodded her head against his chest and tried to shut her eyes. When she did she tried to think of happy thoughts, and it was much easier to do with Troy beside her. He was her happy thought.

Her and Troy were together… that was her happy thought.

I will probably have the next one out today! Cause I am just so eager to write this! So stay online! Thank you! Please review!