3 hours later

Gabriella was just about to leave her room and walk around her new campus when she heard some girls giggling right in front of the rooms' door. The door opened and two girls stepped in room number 265. After they'd seen Gabriella the girls stopped their giggling.

"Hi! You must be Gabriella, right?" , the black-haired one said.

"Yes, and you are…?", Gabriella replied.

"I'm Liza Morrison and this is Amber Shappenfield."

"Hi" , Gabriella smiled.

"Hallo!"

Amber was a blond-haired girl from London. She was 19 years old and had blue eyes. Amber was really slim and a bit taller than Gabriella.

"Amber looks like the model from the,, Vogue" last week!", Gabriella thought.

And Liza the other girl was from Dublin. She was 20- just as old as Gabriella- and also as tall as her new roommate. Her skin was a bit darker and the reason for that was her grandmother.

She was a native American. Liza had a perfect figure, beautiful light brown eyes and her black curls rested peacefully on her shoulders.

"They seem to be very nice", Gabriella thought happily.

"Have you already seen your new campus, Gabriella?", Amber asked.

"Actually I was just about to go outside and look around when you two came. So, no."

"We have to change that! Come on! We're going to show you around.", Liza responded.

"That'd be very nice of you two!"

Liza and Amber took their new American roommate over the campus. They showed Gabriella the cafeteria, the campus' restaurant "Roxy's", the gym, the classrooms,

the library- the librarian was called Ms Havering-,the garden, the little café next to the library, the guests' house and the bus station- if you want to go downtown, you have to

wait on the bus which takes you to the city center-.

"Wow!", Gabriella was astonished.

"You like it?", Liza asked.

"If I like it?! I love it! It's amazing!... I think I'm gonna feel comfortable here!"

"That's great!", Liza and Amber said at the same time.

After a while the three girls were still wandering around the campus and the American girl was still very impressed of ,,Cambridge University".

Gabriella enjoyed looking at everything and smiled. All of a sudden she bumped into someone and fell to the ground.

"Oh my god! Gabriella!", Liza screamed out.

"Are you alright?", Amber worried.

"I am so sorry! Are you hurt?", the mystery man held out his hand, " Let me help you up!"

"Thank you!", Gabriella said while he was helping her up.

"You're okay?", the man asked once again.

"Yes, I'm fine."

"Thank God!...I'm Dave Baker by the way."

"I'm Gabriella Montez."

Liza and Amber ran to their new friend immediately and asked tons of questions.

"Gabriella, Gabriella! Are you hurt?"

"Are you bleeding?"

"Can you walk?"

"Shall we call a teacher?"

"Or a doctor?"

"No, I'm not hurt nor bleeding, yes, I can walk and no, you don't need to call a doctor or a teacher. Thanks for caring though! But I'm okay!", Gabriella responded.

"You know what? As an excuse I'll invite you for dinner.", he started while Gabriella was truly surprised," How about tomorrow around 7 p.m. at "Roxy's" ?

"I…I don't know. I mean…we just met. I can't. I'm sorry!"

"Come on! You have to say yes! Otherwise I'll feel guilty for the rest of my life! And I couldn't live with that! Please, Gabriella! I'm begging!"

Gabriella was clueless. She looked to her new friends who recognized her perplexed expression on her face that said "What should I do?".

Even if they weren't thrilled by Dave- after all he bumped into Gabriella- they motivate her and mouthed things like:

"Say yes!" " Go!" " Come on!"

"Well?", Dave asked hopefully.

"Okay!... I don't think I have a choice. So, yes?", Gabriella announced a bit uncertain.

"Cool! I'll pick you up at 6.30, okay?"

"Sounds good to me"

"All you have to do is telling me your room number."

"265. It's in the second house on the left. ...I'm already thrilled! See you tomorrow, Dave!", she smiled sweetly.

"See you tomorrow!"

After Dave had left Liza and Amber talked about him non-stop. They talked and talked and talked, but Gabriella wasn't listening to them. She was thinking.

"Should I have said no?...I don't know him that well. But he's so nice and sweet,…NO, Gabriella! Stop it! You can't think something like that about Dave. Your heart

doesn't belong to him. You can't do this to Troy!"

"Gabriella?! Hallo?" Amber said while her right hand waved right in front of Gabriella's face.

"What?"

"I'm talking to you! What are you thinking about?"

"I...umm...about the date with Dave."

"Oh! I understand!"

"No, you don't! I…I just broke up with my boyfriend back in Albuquerque. And now I'm already going on a date with someone else. I'm a horrible person!"

"No, you aren't! You've broken up with him and now you're able to date who you want and whenever you want without feeling guilty! You're young and very

beautiful, you would be crazy if you stayed alone for the rest of you life just because the relationship between you and your ex-boyfriend failed!", Liza said.

"Liza is right! Forget about him and concentrate about your future! We girls here at Cambridge are too intelligent to let a boy decide on our lives!"

The two girls tried to convince the young brunette that her ex belongs to her past and NOT to her future!

Gabriella already thought about what they'd said "Maybe they're right. Maybe I gotta move on and leave Troy behind me."

"Well, I'm thirsty now! What about you?", Amber questioned Gabriella.

"A little."

"Well, let's go to the café. They've got the best tea in the whole of England, Gabriella!", Liza smiled.