CONQUEST

Chapter 10: Ikeep

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I woke up the next morning with a smile on my face, he was mine now, and I wanted everybody to know. I had finally tamed the untameable, I had never been more thrilled. I turned around to find him smiling back at me. It was a friendly smile, it was one that belonged between us, nobody could take this away from us.

"Mornin'" he smiled at me kissing my cheek

He kissed down my jaw, finally reaching to my lips, smile gone from his eyes, hunger now filling them. He kissed them gently, his tongue running over my bottom lip,made me groan into his mouth, our tongues battled for what seemed like an age, his hands pulling on the edge of my shirt, until finally I allowed him access. Slowly he pulled the shirt over my head and began kissing across my chest, giving a slight but quick grin as he heard the moan escaping from my lips.

He knew what effect his touch had on me and he knew that I would just give in to it. I couldn't do anything anymore, he was the most powerful person I had ever met. Just as he was fondling my ass when he stopped suddenly, causing confusion on my part.

"What" I asked, as he pulled away from me

"We're gonna be late" he said, not really concerned

"Fuck it" I sighed, trying to get him back in the mood

"We have ten minutes Gabi" he said, almost shouting

I looked up into his eyes, and I could see that he was serious. I didn't want to get up, but I did. Pulling the covers over me, I headed over to the chest of drawers and picked out my best skinny jeans and a Juicy Couture tank top, it was pink, so unlike me, but today was a good day.

Throwing the clothes on me I turned around to look at Troy who sat on the bed, a chain in his hand

"I wanna give you something Gabi" he said, coming up to me

He reached up behind me , his breath tickling my ear, and gently placed something around my neck. I fingered it gently while looking in the mirror, it was a T with a small pink gem in the bottom right hand corner.

"Its just a symbol" he sighed "I want you to have me always" he smiled, giving a look I'd never seen, defeat.

I nodded as he kissed me once more and headed out to school, my parents had already left. He never let go of my hand on our way to school. His face in a hard line, he never once asked me what was up, he didn't talk.

Finally we arrived and he looked me in the eyes, "Gabi" he sighed

I gulped, I didn't like that look on his face "Yeah?"

"Nobody must know" he said, though he looked ashamed

"Are y-you ash-"

"No" he sighed, as I pulled the necklace from me and put it in my bag, he watched, confused

"Then wh-"

"I just said that nobody can know, do you really want Pay at my throat"

I shook my head, the man had a point.

"Ok" I sighed, as he got out of the car

We walked to the school in silence, going to our groups. Chad, his friend gave me a look as I passed them. I shook my head and headed over toward where Pay was standing with Ryan.

"Hey" I smiled

Pay was even more overdressed than usual, her platinum locks, pulled back into a high pony, her body clad in a tight pink top and jeans, she looked like a clone of me, though she was about a half a foor taller and two sizes smaller than me. She smiled at my outfit, but it didn't reach her eyes.

"Whats wrong" I asked, confused

"You and Troy" she spat

"What" I said gulping, afraid she might be suspicious

"Why were you two together"

I sighed "Dance" was all I said

"You two are doing more than that"

I gulped and shook my head.

"Lier" she answered "Just tell me"

"Troy and I are not together" I shouted, she made me so angry at times when she thought that she was right

"Load of crap" Kelsi piped in, giving me a shock

I stood there, not sure what to do, feeling so betrayed by friends that they didn't believe me, even though what they thought was true, I couldn't help but feel this way. I had always been truthful with them, why could they not just trust me, why couldn't they allow me to be with him. He had become different. Kelsi looked me up and down. Like she was trying to see through me, like that Russian girl who claimed she could see through people. I laughed. Her expression was so serious.

"Guys" I laughed "I'm not in any way affiliated with Troy Bolton"

She shot me a look, I acted as though I wasn't interested. "C'mon" I sighed to Ryan, who was hiding in the corner

"We'll be late for class"

That left Kelsi standing there, motionless as I dragged her boyfriend in the opposite direction. He was very subtly dressed today. More like what Kelsi was wearing. I could feel her eyes on me and it made me nervous. But I kept walking. I had a feeling that this would be a long class.

Ryan stayed silent for the duration of the class, I think he knew that it wasn't wise to do what his sister had done. Lunch came.

Finally I thought to myself as I queued up for my latest slop, a break away from the stresses of High School. I hadn't seen Pay or Kelsi since the fight we had had earlier this morning, and to be honest I had no desire to, they were accusing me of doing stuff with Troy, and although it was true, he didn't want me admitting it, and I couldn't argue. We hadn't spoken since we arrived to school, but it hadn't seemed to work, Pay and Kelsi thought I was his bitch. Well they could think again.

I looked down at my tray, the corners of my mouth pulling down into a frown. I wasn't sure that this was even food. I looked around the cafeteria, I better not sit with Troy, so that left me with Ryan. Great. I thought to myself, the perfect way to eat lunch, in silence. I took my seat next to Ryan. We were eating quietly to ourselves.

Pay took a seat beside me, she was at the opposite end, looking at me with firey eyes. I never thought that she could be like this. But I wasn't going to tell her, no matter what. She was not going to squeeze it from me.

"What" I finally snapped, making her jump

"I'm trying to figure out what you did with Troy"

"I did nothing" I sighed, tired of the lie

"Oh you did" she sighed, giving me a look up and down "You're not a virgin"

I shook my head, offended "I am too"

She was so good at getting people, I wanted to know how she did it, she could literally tell all of that from just seeing me. But I didn't purposly give anything away.

"Yeah and Im queen"

I laughed at her face. She really would have liked to be queen. Her face was in a glare and she was staring. She was intent on finding out the truth. But I couldn't let my guard down not now. She was determined to find a loop hole in my answers, yet I wasn't going to give her any. I didn't know why he wanted me to keep this a secret, but he did.

Suddenly I felt a pair of eyes on me. I knew who's they were, and the fact that they were coming over here. They were ruining my lie. My cover up, our cover-up. I closed my eyes and slowly repeated for him not to come over here, but it didn't seem to work.

"Gabriella" the voice came, thick with lust "Practice"

I rolled my eyes for effect. "Fine"

I was glad to be away from her, but I knew that this just gave her something more to go on, the fact that she was so intent on finding out whether I was with me shiver. Why was it a problem, I knew she had slept with him many months ago, but that was in the past, it wasn't like she really cared for me anyway, she was just intent on getting every body away from him because they were young, and sure his rep was something to go by, but maybe this time he had changed, so why couldn't she just trust me and let it go. It wasn't her bees wax, and if this were my old town I would have told her to fuck off.

But this wasn't Cali, this was New Mexico. And things seemed to be different here. But one thing remained the same-the bitching. Though it wasn't to the same extent where I lived, it still existed.

We walked calmly out of the cafeteria, not knowing what people were saying, and not really caring, we just needed each other, needed to be close. We made it into the derelect library, where, beside the old dusty books in the back we sat and talked, just wanting to be with each other.

I leaned my head to the side and placed my hands on his waist. He looked up at me and put his head to mine.

"I love you" he whispered "Don't forget that"

I nodded, leaning towards him, placing a kiss on his lips, he pulled me in towards him so that he could kiss me with more passion than what was possible. He pulled me into his body,his hands twined in mine.

"Liar" a small voice came from behind