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Troy's pov

In the next few days the police had started a case on the two guys and it was easy finding them. They had probably thought that they wouldn't be recognized.

I could feel that Gabriella was more comfortable when we went out as the two guys were now held in jail by the police until Gabriella had to the court.

Gabriella was starting to feel better over the days and the kiss.. well we both ignored that it had happened.

I couldn't stand it though, I was falling in love with her.. hard.

I was daydreaming. Gabriella and I were together an-

"Troy..?" I heard someone call me. I opened my eyes and saw Gabriella in front of the couch in her wheelchair.

"Yes?" I asked her sitting up. "My parents asked if they could come over today, since it's Sunday and they are free.." she asked me hesitant.

"Of course they can come over Gabriella, it'll be nice seeing them again." I told her reassuring. She smiled: "OK, I'll tell them." And she wheeled herself into our room.

She's been spending a lot of time in there actually. Ever since we kissed she has kind of been avoiding me.

I decided to go after her and see if she would like to spend some time together with me. "Gabriella," I asked as I opened the door into our room.

"Yes?" she asked looking up from her phone as she was probably texting her parents.

"What time are they coming over?" I asked her as I sat down on my own bed and looked at her. Gosh she was so beautiful. Everything about her was beautiful. The way her hair fell on her shoulders. How her eyes twinkled when she smiled. Every single thing.

"Troy?" I heard someone ask again and I snapped out of my little daydream about Gabriella. "Uhh, yes?" I asked as I looked up at Gabriella to see her frowning at me.

"Is everything OK? You zoned out there for a bit.." she asked me concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine," I told her smiling, "when are they coming over?"

"Well if you would have listened," she started as she smiled at me brightly, "you would have heard that I said they are coming over around 3."

I smiled at her: "OK great. Do you want to go out for lunch right now since it's only 12.."

"What about Peter?" she asked me. "He's at his sisters', they are visiting their parents together today," I said. I hoped she wanted to come with me, because I wanted to talk about us.. I mean she's been avoiding me and I just can't stand being in a house with her without being able to at least kiss her.

"OK," she said, "that sounds nice." She smiled as she started wheeling herself out of the room again. I stood up and quickly put some shoes on as I walked out after her.

"Where are you planning on going?" she asked me. "Well.. there's this cute restaurant not far from here, we could walk there..?" I implied. That would be the perfect place to talk.

She nodded and I took hold of her wheelchair and started wheeling her out of my apartment.

On our way over there we talked a bit about how her cuts were healing and how I wanted her to start walking again even though it was earlier than expected.

"Well here we are," I said as I stopped walking. We were stood in front of a really small, cute restaurant. There weren't that many people in there so we would have enough privacy to talk.

"Troy..," she started, "this restaurant is beautiful." I smiled and started wheeling her into the restaurant with the help from someone that opened the door for us.

"You like it?" I asked her as we were sat at a table in front of a window so we could see the people passing by.

"I love this Troy!" she exclaimed as she looked around with a smile on her face. The restaurant really was beautiful.

I smiled, seeing her smile. It feels as if her smile just lights up my whole world. "I thought you would like it," I said as I looked around the restaurant myself.

"Well.. what do you want to order?" I asked her after a few minutes, breaking the silence. She looked back at me and blushed.

"I'm sorry," she said, "I just got caught up in how beautiful this restaurant is.." I chuckled as I saw her blush. It didn't bother me anymore that she's only 17 and that I could be put in jail for this. She is turning 18 in a few months though so that shouldn't stop us.

"That's OK," I told her. "Well I trust you to pick something good, so I'll have whatever you're having," she said smiling up at me. I got us both the restaurant's best sandwich and as we were waiting I was preparing myself to talk to Gabriella.

When the food arrived, which didn't take long we thanked the waitress and dug in. Halfway through my meal and motivated I looked up. "Gabriella?" I asked her.

She looked up from her meal herself with a questioning look on her face. "I uhh, I wanted to talk to you about something.." I told her.

She stopped eating and nodded for me to continue: "Well.. the thing is Gabriella that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.. our kiss and about us. Gabriella I think I'm falling in love with you."

She looked down for a bit and then up again. "I've been avoiding you – I guess you have noticed, because.. I feel the same way."

A big grin appeared on my face immediately. "Really?" I asked her excited.

"Yeah.. but Troy if and I say if we gave this a go you could be put in jail!" she told me. I sighed, I knew she would bring this up. "But Gabriella, you turn 18 in a few months and who is going to find out?"

"Troy, you're a doctor and it's not like you're 19. You're 25! That's an age gap of 8 years!" she exclaimed.

"I know that, but we could keep it a secret until you turn 18. It's only a few months, we can do that." I reassured her and I saw a smile appear on her face.

"We have to be careful though.." she said. "So are you willing to give us a go?" I asked her happy. She smiled back at me and I saw that little twinkle in her eyes: "I'm in love with you too Troy and I'm willing to give us a go."

The grin on my face got even bigger and I couldn't stop smiling. I leaned over the table to give her a kiss until she stopped me. "What's wrong?" I asked her unsure of why she stopped me.

"Well.. I don't think we're official yet," she said with a cheeky smile.

I laughed and sat back down on my chair grabbing both her hands over the table. "Gabriella Montez, will you do me the honor of being my girlfriend?" I asked her smiling.

She smiled back at me and squeezed my hands: "I will."

"Can I kiss you now?" I asked her still with the biggest smile on my face.

She giggled which was the cutest thing ever and nodded. I leaned over the table and captured her lips in our passionate first kiss.