A/N: Hello! Thanks for all your reviews…you all rock! Anyways like I said about the last chapter, I wasn't sure about that one. It might have been too extreme for the story…haha…but anyways, hope you all like it. This one is going to be a lot sweeter…hope you all enjoy!

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Chapter 7

"Man, this place is so different from New York! First there's no Starbucks…and now, there's no valet, or hardly anywhere to park your car!" Gabriella exclaimed, infuriated, as she walked into the History classroom on Monday morning. All of the gang was huddled up talking about the past weekend, except for Troy, who seemed to be keeping to himself when Gabriella arrived.

"You thought we had valet parking in this town?" Chad asked, dumbfounded.

Gabriella laughed and shook her head, "Well I wasn't expecting it to. But you could at least have more spaces to park your cars! I almost had to park out in the street!"

Everyone laughed, except Troy, who seemed to be on another planet that morning. Taylor glanced at him curiously, and then she looked at Gabriella, who seemed to be examining the floors or the ceiling. She raised her eyebrows; it was obvious the two hadn't talked since Saturday night.

Gabriella took the empty seat next to Troy, and gasped a little when her fingers accidentally grazed his hand. Their heads both shot up to stare intently at each other and the whole gang was now completely interested with their connection. Gabriella bit her lip as she watched Troy speculating her face…and that's when the bell rang.

"Uh…class time…" Gabriella managed to gulp out, removing herself from her current seat, to the one in front of Troy's, and everyone else managed to run to their normal seats.

Troy sighed as he stared at the back of her head…this might be very hard to do.

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Gabriella arrived through the front door that evening, drawing out a long breath. She had mostly managed to avoid Troy, with the occasional, "Hey how's it going?" in between periods. They hadn't talked about their intense make out session the other night, and she didn't know if it would ever be discussed…or happen again.

"Honey, are you alright?" She heard her mother ask, and Gabriella popped open an eye to see Lisa Montez looking worried in front of her.

Gabriella groaned. "I'm fine mom. Just a very weird day…" She said in annoyance, as she removed her back from the door, and headed up the staircase.

"Well do you want to talk about it?" Lisa asked her daughter, hoping maybe she'd actually talk to her for once. "I mean, I know we don't talk often…but I thought maybe it'd be nice if we could go out to eat…"

"No mom" Gabriella cut her off, placing her hands on the railing. "No offense, but I really don't think I want to talk to you about it. It's not something I'd discuss with my mom" She added, with a roll of her eyes, but she couldn't help but feel a pain of regret as those words slid out of her mouth.

Lisa's small smile faltered and she lowered her head. "Oh okay…" She said in a quiet voice.

Just then the doorbell rang, and Gabriella hopped back down the stairs to answer it. When she swung the door open, she found herself coming face to face with Troy. She raised her eyebrows in shock, "Whoa. What are you doing here?"

"I uh…just wanted to…" Troy started, but they were interrupted by Lisa's head popping through the crack in the doorway. She smiled at him and held out her hand.

"Why…is this one of your friend's from school, Gabriella?" Lisa grinned over at her daughter, who silently cursed her mother for interrupting them, giving her a glare.

"Yes mom…this is Troy Bolton. Troy, this is my mother Lisa Montez" Gabriella introduced them, and Troy politely shook Ms. Montez's hand,

"It's a pleasure to meet you Ms. Montez!"

"You as well Troy…well Gabriella, I'm going to go start dinner" Lisa said quickly, finally getting the message from Gabriella that she wanted to be left alone, due to the looks she had been giving her. When her mother was finally gone, Gabriella looked over at Troy again.

"So you were saying…" She started, and Troy nodded his head.

"Anyways, I was just coming by to tell you that…well just meet me at my house tonight at 10…actually, if I'm not outside of my house by then…just wait behind the cars in the driveway" Troy explained quickly, looking up and down the roads.

"Okay…" Gabriella agreed, in a weird tone. She had no clue what was up with him, but she felt a sudden rush of excitement as he told her to meet him.

"Alright see you then!" He told her, waving a goodbye, and turned to walk back down the steps towards his car. Gabriella watched him go, and figured she would never be able to understand guys at all.

When Gabriella shut the door, she suddenly felt angry again, "Mother!"

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Just like she had promised Troy, Gabriella parked her car across from Troy's house at ten o'clock, seeing him standing in the driveway for her. She quickly and quietly got out of her car and shut the door, running across the road to his house, to meet him.

He smiled as she neared him, and he held out his hand. "Come on…follow me" Troy told her, as he held tight to her hand, and led her up his driveway, to his front door. He found himself quietly opening it to the dark house, and Gabriella wrinkled her brows in confusion, wondering where he was taking her.

Gabriella felt a sudden rush of excitement as they started walking up the stairs, where Troy turned around to her, and put a finger to his lips, signaling they had to be quiet. She nodded her head, biting her lip, as they crept up the stairs and down a hallway towards a room.

The door was slightly ajar, and Troy pushed it open further, and when Gabriella was in full sight of it, she automatically knew it must be his room. Troy let go of Gabriella's hand for a second to rummage around the room, grabbing a blanket, and then walking over to his window.

Gabriella walked towards him, as he opened the window and threw the blanket up towards the roof. "What are you doing?" She whispered to him, and he only put a finger to his lips, and held out his hand again.

Taking a step back, Gabriella was unsure of what they were about to do. Troy noticed her uneasiness, and looked her straight in the eye. "Just trust me" He said as quiet as he could be.

Gabriella gulped lightly, but finally stepped forward again, placing her hand in his. Troy grasped it tightly, as he started to climb out the window, keeping a firm grip on her hand in the process. Once he was outside, he turned back and crouched down, touching Gabriella by the waist.

She shivered lightly at his touch, but realized he was wrapping his arms around her, to help her get out onto the roof. Getting slightly scared, as she looked down towards the ground, Gabriella gripped a hold of Troy's jacket tightly, and he kept his arms around her.

"It's alright Brie…just follow me" He whispered in her ear, and Gabriella looked up at him mesmerized, realizing that for the first time he called her a nickname. Just smiling down at her, he released his grip and held her hand again, as he started to make his way further up on the roof.

Gabriella followed him silently as he reached the blanket he had thrown up again, and sat down right next to the attic window of his house. Pulling Gabriella down with him, she was still confused as to what they were doing.

Once they were seated, Troy pointed to the sky. "Just look up" He told her simply, and Gabriella gasped as she came in full vision of the stars. They were so beautiful to her; she had never known that a city like this could be so beautiful.

"Oh my…Troy…this is beautiful" She gasped, and Troy just grinned over at her. Gabriella removed her hand from his, and instead linked her arm around his, gently placing her head on his shoulder.

Troy sighed, as her wrapped his arm around her, pulling her slightly closer to him. "I come up here a lot to think about things…just basically about my family, my friends, and my entire life, I guess. I figured you needed a slight break, and just come up here to think."

Gabriella removed her head from his shoulder, and looked up at him, her eyes glossy. "Thank you…" She said for the first time in awhile, and really meaning it. "How did you know?"

Troy just shrugged. "You know, those calls that I've been getting from you late at night about your mother and everything…I haven't forgotten about them. I care a lot about you, and I think you just need a break from everything…just forget all the problems for one night" He smiled down at her.

Gabriella was amazed by his speech. She felt like she had known him for all her life…like he was part of her soul. Her heart seemed to be pounding hard against her chest, as she felt the wind send a breeze through her hair. "You amaze me Troy Bolton" She whispered in a low voice, as she shivered a bit from the cold.

Troy chuckled lightly, and grabbed the blanket next to him, throwing it around both of their shoulders. "And you amaze me too Gabriella Montez…to tell you the truth, I've never seen this side of you" He told her honestly, and she glanced at him.

"What do you mean?" She asked him patiently, not really quite getting what he was talking about.

Troy just shrugged and sighed, as he leaned his head down to hers and rested it lightly on her hair. "I don't know…it's just most of the time you seem to care a lot about only yourself. I know that you know it's not all about you…so why do you act like it?" He asked her curiously, really wanting an honest answer.

Gabriella bit her lip; she hadn't expected that answer, but she really had no excuse for the way she had been acting. That was mostly what had caused all of her problems with her mother, and she knew Troy had figured it out when she talked to him.

Looking up into his eyes again, she saw those blue ones staring down at her intensely. It was moments like this, that she just wanted to lean up and kiss him. But she knew it wasn't appropriate for the time, because she knew he wanted a truthful answer.

"I honestly don't know…" She started whispered, not taking her eyes off of Troy, "I guess…I've never lived a life like this before, where I didn't have to act like it."

She found that after she had finished whispering, Troy's nose was now touching hers, and Gabriella got the feeling that she had said the right thing. It was her honest answer, and she knew Troy wanted nothing more now than to kiss her.

Gabriella's eyes drifted to a close again, succumbing what she knew was that very special moment away. This is what she had been dreaming of since she was little…to kiss someone under the stars. And it happened.

Their lips met, and this kiss was slower than the one they shared at the club the other night. It was completely unhurried, and Gabriella felt herself melting into it, wrapping her arms around his neck, pulling her body closer to him.

Troy felt complete sparks as they kissed, and he grabbed the blanket that was loosely hanging around Gabriella's shoulder, and wrapped it all the way around them, so they seemed warm enough, tight into a ball.

Gabriella felt Troy's tongue slowly slip into her mouth a little while later, and shortly after that, they were in need of air. They both pulled apart, gazing at each other. Gabriella turned in his arms, so that she was resting her head against Troy's chest, looking up into the stars.

Troy's body felt so warm to her, and she sat there listening to his heart pounding in his chest. She was smiling widely, knowing that this was the most beautiful thing she had shared with anyone before.

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Aww…well I hope you guys liked this chapter! I kept 'awwing' myself when I was writing this, I just couldn't help but get all cheesy and mushy. Haha. And no-they still aren't together. Well not officially anyways, but they might as well be, huh? By the way, this was by far the longest chapter written yet…aha.

Anyways, I'll update the next chapter soon if you review, eh?

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