** I am not the owner of the song "Unsaid Things" the song was created by the British band McFLY and I am not trying to take any credit in the writing and making of this song.**

**I am also not the owner of any of the characters of the High School Musical franchise, and am not trying to claim any credit over any of them.**

Tonight was the night. The night that Troy would once again be reunited with Gabriella, the woman who has possessed his heart for the past seven years and hadn't even known it.

Troy found it nearly impossible to concentrate on the road as he drove towards his old high school, seeing as he was constantly aware of the velvet ring box in the pocket of his black dress pants. Troy managed to get to the school in one piece though, and after he had parked his car, Troy made his way to the front doors of East High. He quickly dashed through the parking, seeing as the startings of an Autumn rain had begun to fall. As he walked across the threshold of his old school Troy was instantly hit by a massive wave of nostalgia, as well as the all too familiar smell of crisp grilled cheese sandwiches filling the school from the cafeteria. Troy was brought back down to earth as someone bumped into him as they tried to rush by. A slim twenty-something woman turned her head and muttered a quick sorry before turning back to her friend beside her, who was laughing at something that was previously said. Troy recognized the two from his class, but he didn't know their names, just their faces. He watched as the two girls walked up with a small table that was set up opposite the door, with a red Nylon tablecloth draped over it. The brunette sitting behind the table, who looked to be about seventeen, looked up at the girls with a smile, asked their names, and then handed them each a red and white 'Hello, my name is…' nametag. Troy chuckled to himself as he caught sight of the flimsy stickers, remembering back to how he, Chad, and even sometimes, Gabriella would write out outrageous names and then wear them to various occasions like the freshmen orientation or the Job Fair.

Once the girls had slapped on their stickers and had walked passed the small table continuing to giggle at their quiet mutters to each other Troy took a step forward and started over to the girl sitting behind the table.

"Name?" she asked, the perky smile plastered across her face widened as she glanced up at Troy, not even taking into consideration that he was seven years older then her.

"Bolton, Troy." Troy responded, sending her a brief smile before averting his eyes from her's and looking over that the clipboard in front of her, scanning the paper for his name himself. The girl's sudden gaze didn't last long, though, and she quickly looked over the paper, placed a check mark beside Troy's name, and handed him a nametag. Troy took the sticker from her hand, placed it over the breast pocket of his light blue dress shirt, thanked her, and then started towards the school gymnasium. Troy had only gotten a mere ten steps away from the table when he suddenly remembered something.

"Hang on a second." Troy said as he turned around and walked back over towards the girl, who couldn't help but to smile as he re-approached her.

"Yes?" the student asked as she flipped her hair over her shoulder.

"Has a Miss Gabriella Montez checked in yet?" Troy asked as he stood in front of the table again. As the girl's smile deflated she glanced back down at the clipboard in front of her.

"Yeah. She checked in a while ago… old friend of yours?"

"Something like that." Troy smiled, more to himself then the seventeen year old in front of him, "Thank you… Margie" Troy said, glancing down at her own nametag.

He then proceeded to walk towards the gym, more eager then ever to be reunited with Gabriella.

As he walked through the doors to his old gym, Troy was instantly hit with pang of emotion, but he mostly he was just amazed at how the gym hadn't changed at all, it made him feel like he had never left East High, that Gabriella had never left him, and that everything was still the same. Still incredibly perfect.

"Well, I'll be damned." A familiar voice broke Troy's wishful thinking, "Troy Bolton is in the building!" Troy turned his head only to come face-to-face with one of his oldest and closest friends, Chad Danforth.

"Hey, Chad," Troy smiled as Chad walked up to him and pulled him into a very manly hug. "How're you doing, man?"

"Good! Still playing ball. You know the usual… it's been pretty crazy with the Away games. Taylor's actually getting pretty pissed off about me just having to up and leave next week for a game against the Lakers in LA. Enough about me though, what about you, Hoops?"

"Oh, oh, um, I'm doing good. You know just sticking close to home for the short break I have off the court, ya know?" Troy shrugged, trying to resist the urge to scan the room.

"What I would do to be you, Hoops," Chad laughed as he smacked Troy's shoulder playfully, only to have someone catch his eye from across the room, "Oh, hey, I gotta get going, man, Taylor's calling. Catch ya later." Chad smiled before walking off towards his girlfriend. Troy let out a soft chuckle that quickly morphed into a defeated sigh before he walked deeper into the crowd of alumni in search of Gabriella, running his fingers over the ring box in his pocket all the while.

After several encounters with old teachers and friends Troy glanced at his watch coming to the conclusion that he should probably just head home, it was getting late and he just wasn't having a good time. But then he heard it. The most lovely laugh in the entire world.

Gabriella's laugh.

Troy quickly turned around, whipping his head in the direction of that all too familiar laughter that had filled his head for seven years. After several seconds of blind searching, his eyes fell upon her.

Gabriella was surround by a group of woman whose backs were facing Troy. So, he was only able to see her face, but that was fine. Troy felt like crying as he watched Gabriella laugh, her eyes twinkling, and her nose wrinkling just as they had seven years ago. As Troy started to take a step in her direction two of the women who had been standing right in front of Gabriella excused themselves, walking away to re-join their husbands on the other side of the room. The sudden gap in the human wall of people separating Troy from Gabriella revealed something that Troy which he had never seen.

What it revealed was that underneath the navy blue sun-dress that Gabriella was wearing, was the slightest baby bump, and to make matters worse some man, who Troy had never seen before had stepped forwards out of the crowd, handed Gabriella a small plate of food, and then wrapped his arm around her waist like some slimy snaking wrapping itself along a tree-branch. Troy felt like charging at the man and punching him in the face repeatedly, but as he started to take a step towards the couple he suddenly remembered, with a sinking heart, that Gabriella was no longer his. He no longer was the only one who was able to touch her. She was out of his life.

You idiot! Troy thought to himself as he clenched the ring box in his pocket How could have possibly thought that she would ever come back to you?! Troy let out a sigh, releasing his death grip on the box and pulled his hand out of his pocket revealing an indent in his palm from the box. He then glanced back over at Gabriella, turned around, and started back over towards the doors that led back towards the main corridor. As he passed by the table on where the refreshments had been laid out on, Troy quickly pulled the ring out of his pocket and placed the velvet square down upon the bright red Nylon tablecloth. Troy then just continued for the doors, suddenly feeling like he couldn't breath. What he didn't know was that a certain dark-haired girl had seen him place the ring box down on the table.

"Excuse me for just moment." Gabriella Montez said, sweetly to the women standing around her before giving the man beside her a quick peck on the cheek, and hurrying over to the small box that Troy had disposed of. Once, the item was in her possession, Gabriella glanced around catching a glance from the man, who had been holding her earlier. She quickly mouthed to him that she was going to the bathroom and then started out of the gym to the main corridor.

As she slipped out the door Gabriella almost ran into a woman with short strawberry blonde hair.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Gabriella quickly apologized before continuing down the hallway stopping once she heard the clicks of the woman's high heels fade away. Now it was just Gabriella, Margie, and the quick hum of the florescent lights from above. Gabriella leaned up against the wall as she glanced at the small box in her hands, suddenly feeling weak and in need of some structural support. She simply stared at the box for nearly three minutes before finally realizing that she had to go back into the gymnasium soon, or else people would start to wonder where she had gone off to. Gabriella took in a shaky deep breath before opening the box.

"Oh my God." She whispered to herself as soon as the ring presented itself to her, the way that the two small diamonds seemed to sparkle in the light of the hallway made her feel as if she was going to start bawling right there in the middle of a high school hallway. But what actually did make her start to tear up was the small note that had been slipped into the lid,

Dearest Gabi,

I know I haven't been the most understanding of people in the world, and I know you probably don't want to give me a second chance, but…

I just wanted to know, will you have me?

Yours Always,

TroyBoy

Gabriella lifted her hand to her whip away a stray tear that had fallen down her cheek. She quickly snapped the box closed and glanced down at her left ring finger, cursing the ring that was currently placed upon it. She was engaged, but to the wrong man. She felt like screaming, she felt like crying, she felt like shit. Gabriella carefully pushed herself off of the wall brushed off the invisible dust from her dress. She was just about to turn around and walk back towards the gym, but something caught her eye on the other side of the glass entrance doors of East High. A lone rain-soaked figure, dressed in a light blue dress shirt, slacks, and a mop of damp brown hair.

Troy.

Gabriella's heart immediately sank as she witnessed his state of depression and loneliness, and she instantly declared that everyone in the gym could wait right now Troy needed her, and she needed Troy.

Gabriella heaved open the front door and walked down the front walkway of the high school over to Troy. AS soon as she was standing behind him she placed her hand lightly atop his shoulder.

"Troy?" Gabriella asked, softly, unsure of what to say, "Troy are you alright?"

"Who is he, Gabi." Troy stated, through gritted teeth. Gabriella was taken aback, but she didn't remove her hand from his shoulder.

"Who's who, Troy?" She asked, her soft voice containing an undertone of confusion. Troy spun around, the frustration and jealousy that he had been feeling when he had seen Gabriella with that man suddenly boiled over, only to be accompanied by a sudden pulse of anger surging through him.

"Don't treat me like I'm fucking five years old, Gabriella! Who was that guy with his arm around your waist!" Troy snapped. Gabriella took a step back, frightened as to what Troy might do to her in his sudden state of anger. "Well?!" Troy yelled, as took a step forwards.

"His name's Rick Parker… he's my Fiancé." Gabriella whispered as she glanced down at the ground, regretting every single word as they poured from her lips. She sniffed, her nose suddenly becoming stuffed as her eyes started to tear up again.

"so, that's his…" Troy started, his voice softening, along with his expression as Gabriella looked back up at him.

"His child?" Gabi inquired glancing back down at her stomach before looking back into Troy's eyes, "Yes." Troy let out a nervous laugh as he turned around, scratching the back of his neck, as he muttered to himself,

"I can't believe this. I just I can't believe this." This time, it was Gabriella who felt anger surge through her.

"You can't believe what, Troy? That I'd leave and actually find somebody else? Instead of pining for you my entire life? Troy, I told you I loved you! I told you-"

"You told me you loved me! Exactly, Gabi1 All that means is that you used to love me!" Troy shouted over her.

"Well, you can't just show up seven years later, Troy, and ask me to have you!" Gabriella shot back, throwing her arms up in the air, smacking them back down against her heavy rain-soaked dress.

"Have you, wait, Gabriella, where did you hear that?" Troy asked, his voice shaking with a nervous tone. Gabriella sniffed again, trying to compose herself.

"A letter… in here." She said, softly, as she handed him back the ring box. Troy took it from her, his eyes never leaving her face. "Troy, why are you doing this? Why did you have to show up again?" Gabriella managed to choke out. Instead of answering her Troy stepped towards her, leaned in until their lips were centimeters apart, and said against her lips,

"Because I love you." Before Gabriella could even think about what she was going to do next, Troy closed the gap between them and kissed her. At first Gabriella, just stood there, unsure of what to do, but after about ten seconds she began to kiss him back, reviling in the way his lips caressed hers in such a perfect way, and how his arms wrapped around her making her feel like she was home again, but then, suddenly… she pulled away.

"I can't. Troy, I-I just can't." Troy leaned his head back, taking in and letting out a shaky deep breath before looking back at Gabriella.

"I understand. You have Rick and baby on the way. I just- I'm just going to have to learn to accept that." Troy said, before turning to make his way back over to his truck, but before he could start towards the parking lot he felt something grab a hold of his arm and tug him backwards. Troy glanced behind him, only to see Gabriella's chocolate brown orbs staring back at him.

"I love you, too Troy, but-" Gabriella started, only to have Troy cut her off with a soft peck on the lips.

"I know, Gabi. I know." He whispered as he pulled away and then started over to his car leaving Gabriella alone in the rain feeling heartbroken and unsure of what to do.

"Miss? Miss, you should really come inside. You'll catch a cold out here." Margie's soft voice sounded from the doorway, pulling Gabriella out of the raging sea of her thoughts.

"Oh, yes. Thank you." Gabriella said, absentmindedly as she watched Troy's blue truck pull out onto the main road, before starting back into the high school.

Later that night, once the reunion had ended, Gabriella lay in bed beside Rick, wide awake her mind was keep her awake, keeping her awake with thoughts of a certain blue eyed Wildcat. Little did she know, he, too, was wide-awake with thoughts of her and what maybe could have been.