Troy sat on his bed, his phone in hand he took a deep breath before pressing number 3 on speed dial. He listened to the ringing tone, and after five rings the cheery voice of his girlfriend answered; "Hey, Wildcat."

"Hey Gabby," Troy smiled. He had thought that hearing her voice might have shaken something inside him, but he was pleased that he didn't feel anything, well except guilt. "How are you?"

"I'm great, It's really good over here. I can't believe how much I missed my family..." Troy listened to her ramble on about the brilliance of California, when in his mind he was thinking of Ryan, he wondered what he was doing right now.

"That sounds great," Troy tried to make himself sound enthusiastic but he failed miserably. "I need to tell you something, and I wish I didn't have to do this over the phone..."

"What is it Troy?" Gabriella asked sweetly.

"I can't be with you any more." Troy said quickly. "I'm sorry."

"What?" Gabriella screeched broken hearted down the phone. "Who is she?"

"It's Ryan." Troy sighed. "I can explain."

"You better."

"The first day you weren't here, Ryan came in with a black eye and I was worried about him. I wanted to know what was wrong so I sat with him in maths, and we just spoke, then I was helping him with his maths work and I'm sorry Gabby, but we just connected. At first I thought it was because I missed you and I was using anyone as a distraction..."

"But that's what it is Troy, you can't be with him!" She snapped.

"I already am. We were going to wait so I could talk to you first. But everyone found out he was gay at school, and he couldn't handle it. So I came out with him."

"But you're not... you can't be gay!" She was crying now, Troy could tell.

"I'm sorry." The phoned went dead. Troy sighed and stared at the screen. "That went well," he mumbled to himself. Troy dialled Ryan's number and waited for him to answer which was immediately.

"How did it go?" Ryan asked straight away.

"She took it as expected, she hung up on me." Troy sighed, he hadn't felt anything when talking to her. But now he just felt guilty, but he knew he had done the right thing.

"I'm sorry," Ryan said quietly.

"Not your fault. Can I come over?"

"Sure." Ryan beamed down the phone.

It took Troy half an hour to get to Ryan's, mainly because his mum wanted to know everything that happened with Gabriella. Troy had told her the story, and she smiled when he said he was going over to see Ryan, she grinned telling him not to be too late and causing him to blush she added 'be safe'.

Troy rang the doorbell to the Evans estate and a few moments later a maid opened the door, she smiled at Troy and showed him into the house. Ryan walked down the stairs with a smile, when he saw Troy he walked faster and wrapped his arms around him. "Are you okay?" He asked as he pulled away a little flushed.

"Yeah, sorry about the wait my mum had twenty questions." Troy smiled, he pulled Ryan closer into another bone crushing hug.

"It's okay." Ryan took Troy's hand in his and they walked to the stairs. Troy followed Ryan upstairs to his bedroom and his jaw dropped when he saw the size of it. Ryan grinned and with his index finger pushed Troy's chin up, causing him to laugh.

"Is Gabriella okay?" Ryan asked as he sat on the bed, he crossed his legs and put his hands in his lap. Troy sat next to him.

"She sounded really upset." He said sadly.

"Did you feel anything?" Ryan asked nervously.

"Just guilt." Troy mumbled. He looked at Ryan's face and swore, "Not about us." He said quickly once he saw the hurt expression on the blonds face. "About telling her on the phone." He said. "I was thinking about you whilst she was talking. I missed you."

"You saw me two hours ago," Ryan smiled. Troy just shrugged. "So It's official," Troy smiled as he pulled Ryan into a backwards hug. Ryan's back was pressed tightly against Troy's chest as he was sat between Troy's legs. "Be my boyfriend?"

"Hmm.. I'll have to think about it." Ryan smiled, he placed his finger and thumb on his chin and went 'hmm' again. "Yeah, I'll be your boyfriend." He said as Troy stared at him. Troy grinned and poked his boyfriend in the chest laughing.

"Evil you know that," Troy laughed.

"I'm an Evans, being evil runs in the genes." Ryan smiled he turned around and placed a soft kiss on Troy's lips.

"So, how about we go on that date?" Troy asked.

"Now?" Ryan laughed.

"You want?" Troy asked.

"How about we have our first date on Friday." Ryan smiled. "And right now we just stay like this?"

"Sounds nice." Troy smiled as he settled the blond tighter against him. "Was today okay, for you?" Troy asked. Troy knew that the morning had been really hard on his boyfriend but he hadn't seen much of him after lunch as they were in different classes.

"Doesn't matter, it's good now though." Ryan sighed.

"Was it that bad?" Troy asked. It hadn't been to bad for him, mainly because everyone knew that his dad was the coach and if anyone said anything to him he'd have the basketball team backing him up, not to mention one of his friends were in all of his classes and if someone went to say anything to him he knew they would have his back, but he wasn't sure if Ryan had any friends in any of his classes as know one ever saw him with anyone but his sister.

"It... was hard." Ryan admitted. "It's always fun having people quoting your breakup."

"Ignore it." Troy smiled.

"I did. I just kept thinking about you and it made the day go quicker." Ryan turned around and kissed Troy on his cheek and smiled.

"Have you had anything to eat?" Troy asked.

"Way to ruin the mood," Ryan mumbled.

"Have you?" Troy asked bluntly. Ryan shook his head. "Want me to make you something?"

"I've got a cook to do that." Ryan laughed. "I'm just not hungry."

"Please eat..."

"I will. I will. But later, now I just want to kiss you some more." Ryan grinned.