Gabriella took the phone from Lizzie and walked into the other room to avoid the embarrassment that might follow.
"H-Hello?"
"Gabriella. What just happened?" Steven sounded concerned.
"Well, You see... I-I don't really know. I'm really sorry, I just..." Gabriella couldn't pull her thoughts together. If she wanted her car she really needed this job. She had tried to get a job at several different stores but they picked other people for the job instead of her.
"Gabriella, I don't want you around the kids if you're going to be cursing and getting into fights. Who was that anyway?" Gabriella was now crying. She didn't want to lose her job; not this way.
"I understand that, but she just barged into the house, I swear."
"How do I know that this doesn't happen all the time?" Steven asked obviously annoyed.
"Dad? It's Troy." Troy picked up the other receiver that was in the living room. He had been listening to the conversation and heard Gabriella crying.
"Troy what do you want? I'm in the middle of something right now."
"Well, I Uh... I invited Sharpay over. I knew that her and Gabriella were fighting but I invited her over anyway to annoy Gabriella. It wasn't Gabriella's fault. It was mine." Troy spoke trying to fit as many syllable into one breath as he could.
"Gabriella is this true?" Steven asked, not fully trusting Troy's words.
"What? So you don't believe me?" Troy was now irritated. His dad had no reason not to believe him.
"Troy..." Steven sighed.
"Don't Troy me! You're the one who doesn't believe son!"
"Would you stop it?" Steven asked as politely as he could. When Troy didn't say anything he continued to talk. "Gabriella is what Troy just said the truth?"
"Y-yeah. I had nothing to do with Sharpay coming over." Gabriella hated to lie, especially about something that might get Troy into trouble.
"Troy, Why did you invite Sharpay over?" Steven didn't believe the two teens that were on the other line. He had been in this situation when he was a teenager way too many times.
"Because Gabriella... threw up on me and I felt the need to get revenge."
"That was an accident." Gabriella spoke up.
"Oh would you just shut up." Troy didn't understand why she was arguing with him considering that he was taking the blame from her.
"Well, don't let it happen again Gabriella."
"Ok. Sorry Mr. Bolton."
"Call me Steve." Steve hung up after having nothing else to say.
"Ok... bye to you too." Troy said sarcastically into the speaker.
Gabriella ran out of the kitchen and practically tackled Troy to the ground.
"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
Troy relaxed into the hug after a while and put his arms around her waist. As she spoke the last 'thank you', she made the mistake of looking into this eyes. For a while they just stood there just staring and holding each other. Gabriella's heart almost jumped out of her chest as she saw his eyes move back and forth between her eyes and her lips. Slowly but surely, he leaned down and she leaned forward and their lips connected in the most passion filled kiss either had ever experienced.
"Are we going to the park now?" Lizzie asked as her presence became aware by the two teens. Troy and Gabriella separated but didn't dare look away from one another.
"Yeah, Yeah. Sure." Troy said uninterested in his younger half-sister. All he did was lean down again to reunite their lips.