Thank you SO much for your reviews! I'm really glad you enjoyed it guys  Here's the next chapter, read and review! I don't own any of the characters or the shops or films mentioned in this chapter btw I watched 'my sister's keeper' and it is an amazing film hence why I picked it, also i mention a few things that happened in the movie so sorry if I ruined it for you LOOL.

I had just jumped out of the shower and was getting ready for my date with Troy later on tonight. We were going as just friends so I wasn't going to dress up or anything. Troy and I were still technically just friends so I had to treat him like one. I grabbed a pair of black skinny jeans, and matched it with a light blue tank top. I grabbed a few bracelets and some long beaded necklaces with a pair of white pearl vintage earrings from the Kate Moss collection in 'Topshop' one of my favourite stores. I pulled out a pair of spotted white and blue flats and applied some mascara and lip balm, I left my hair straight and smiled to myself when I was comfortable at how I looked.

"Dad I'm going to a movie with my friend!" I shouted into the study where he was

"Okay! Keep your phone on and don't be late baby" He said as he popped his head through the side of the door.

"Okay Dad" I said smiling, as I walked out of the front door to meet Troy pulling up. I ran up and jumped in smiling at him.

"You look nice" he complimented smiling at me

"Could say the same about you" I replied "So what are we going to watch?" I asked

"Because I'm the gentleman I am, I'll let you decide" He winked as we sped down the road

"Well you are going to regret this but I've wanted to watch 'my sister's keeper' for a while now" I said as he groaned

"Oh come on Tay! That looks so depressing!"

"I know, but you did say I could choose so I have! Next time you can choose" I shrugged

"So there's going to be a next time" he said smirking as I shook my head

"Concentrate on driving Troy" I said rolling my eyes. We made small talk the whole way to the cinema and quickly buying out tickets so we didn't miss the 7.30 screening. Troy went to get the snacks during the commercials once we'd got our seats.

The film started and within the first five minutes I'd started tearing up and sniffing when I heard Troy grunt and put his arm around me pulling me close. By the end of the film I was all out crying, sounds and all but so was most of the cinema. I could have sworn when I looked up at Troy once his eyes glistened as though he had tears in his eyes. The film was so beautiful; it reminded of my Mum when she had cancer. Troy's shirt was soaking wet by the time I was done and its originally white state now had smudges of my mascara on its sleeve and chest.

"Sorry about your shirt" I said as I wiped my eyes one more time "But mascara doesn't stain" I smiled as he shook his head

"It's okay Tay, the film was really sad... I understand" He nodded as we went back to his car

"I know... aww she got to go to Prom! I can't believe he died and so did she and aww" I sniffed as I started tearing up again

"Girls are so weird" He muttered to himself as he shook his head

"You wanna go home or chill out some more Tay?" He asked before starting the car

"Hang out; let's get ice cream and go the swings!" I said laughing at his facial expression

"Ice cream? Tay it's nearly 10, no ice cream parlours are open at this time" He laughed

"Yeah but the store is! Come on it'll be fun... I promise" I pouted as he smiled and shook his head

"I have a feeling I'll never say no to that face" He muttered as we drove to the store and got a small tub chocolate ice cream and drove to a nearby park. We sat at table and started on the ice cream.

"Tay... do you mind if I tell you you're beautiful?" He asked as he dipped his spoon into the tub

"Nope tell me" I replied smiling as a ate another spoon full of ice cream

"You're beautiful Taylor Mckessie!"

"Now say it again!"

"You're beautiful Taylor!" he laughed

"Okay again!" I shouted as I got up and threw my hands up laughing

"You're beautiful" He said shouting and trying to pull me back down by my waist, I struggled free giggling and turned to run

"Bet you can't find me Troy Bolton" I shouted as I run into the dark towards the swings and the slide as I heard him get up to chase me.

I run faster the closer I heard him get before deciding to climb up the climbing frame and waiting for him to figure out where I'd hidden. I saw his eyes sparkle as they met mine from below, I smiled watching him climb up and meet me.

"I thought you were an athlete Troy? Can't keep up with little old me" I teased as I backed away from his advances

"I let you get away just so I could catch up Tay, even you know that" He said coming closer as I got to the edge of the climbing frame, climbed over to the other side of the rail and jumped down laughing at his shocked expression

"Catch me!" I screamed when he'd jumped down and followed me, he chased me until we both collapsed on the grass side by side laughing

"You're crazy" He laughed as he looked at me pushing hair out of my face

"Why do you sound so surprised?" I questioned laughing as he pulled me closer into his chest, rubbing my bare arms up and down.

"I don't know" He whispered into my ear before our eyes met, I looked away before we got caught up and I did something I know I'd regret. I buried my head into his chest as we lay there for a while. I listened to the stead beat of his heart and smiled to myself before pulling myself closer to him.

"Okay, Tay tell me again what he said when he told you, I can't believe it you guys are going out without out going out... If that makes sense" Gabby said from her side of the bed, it was Sunday night and I'd slept over at hers after church. Sharpay was on a weekend spa break and wouldn't be back until tomorrow night or something like that.

"Gabby I've said it three times now I can't keep repeating the story like a broken record, anyway we got school tomorrow and it's after 1 o'clock we need to get to sleep G" I replied rolling my eyes as I snuggled deeper into the cover of her bed.

"But Tay it's so romantic, I can't believe he's going to wait, you should have seen the way he was looking at you at church this morning when we were singing! Awww Tay!" She squealed as proceeded to hug me

"G will you stop it! You're making me shy!" I said pushing her away "Anyway let's talk about you and Danforth, so you're official eh?" I said turning the topic back to her; I wasn't really in the mood to talk about me and Troy right now.

"As official as official gets" she replied yawning "I really like him Tay and I can't seem to help it, he just makes me smile." She continued smiling

"I know Gabby and I am seriously happy for you, who would have thought this would happen in our senior year! This wasn't part of our plan remember! but seriously can we get to sleep you know we have to be up earlier seeing as neither of us are getting rides to school tomorrow" Gabby lived slightly closer than I did to school and so we'd decided to walk instead of getting rides. We hadn't spent much time together recently and wanted to get as much time together as we could before school.

"Okay okay Goodnight Taylor Anne Mckessie-Montez... Bolton" She teased as she rolled over on her other side facing away from me.

"Goodnight Gabriella dumbass Montez-Mckessie" I said as I heard her giggle, I closed my eyes and lost myself in my dreams, truth was I was nervous about tomorrow. I wasn't sure how I should act with Troy. We weren't official because we couldn't be and we weren't un-official. I just don't know.

The ten minute walk to school from Gabby's house that morning was so refreshing, we talked and laughed the whole way there like we used to before Chad and Troy. Recently I hadn't spent more than thirty minutes at a go without her before being dragged away by Chad or me by Troy. It was neither one of our faults, I just wasn't ready to share my best friend with anyone yet I guess especially not Chad and this morning had reminded me why. However all was cool with me because she was happy and so was I and it meant the little time we did spend together was never taken for granted.

I had just split from Gabby at her locker with was a three lockers away from mine and we'd found an eager Chad waiting for her, ready to announce to the whole world that the beautiful Gabriella Montez belonged to him. He was so cute, I'd left them looking into each other's eyes with cheesy grins plastered on their faces.

I was taking out some books I needed before homeroom when I heard an all too familiar voice speak to me.

"Good morning Mckessie" He whispered as he leant up against the locker next to mine and I turned to face him smiling.

"Hey" I replied shyly before looking away. He tucked some of my hair behind my ear and smiled at me before we begun walking side by side.

"Here let me help you with your bag" He said tugging at the handle of my book bag, I nodded as I released it and let him hold it, our hands brushed against each other and we both looked at each other before smiling as we entered homeroom. He took his seat next to me and nothing else was said between us as we waited for Mr. Smith to walk in and tell us the final topic.

The final week of the project which was next week was to be used to put it all together. This week's project was the future which included dreams, future plans and where we saw ourselves in ten years. Well I knew exactly where I was going to be in ten years time and it was nowhere near Albuquerque. I would either be working for the president or working towards getting a job in the white house, or I would be fighting for justice in the UN. Like I said nowhere near Albuquerque, I was a small town girl with huge dreams and I wasn't afraid to fight for them. I wonder where Troy was thinking of being in ten years time, would he still be here in Albuquerque, would he be married, would he have children, would we still be friends, would I even know him, furthermore would we be together? All these questions messed with me all day especially the last one.

"Tay you've been distant all day today are you okay?" Troy said from opposite me, we had study hall and we were working on our project in the library. He was sticking a few pictures of us from last week on an A3 piece of paper while I was currently day dreaming.

"Yeah I'm good... I was just thinking about the future like for the project" I replied smiling at his concerned blue eyes.

"Oh right... so what do you have planned for the future Tay?" He asked as he put down the glue stick that was in his hand.

"Oh you know I'm just another girl who wants to change the world, so not much really" I smiled as he laughed at me shaking his head.

"Well you've certainly changed my world Tay" he whispered as he eyes sparkled at me.

"Still the smooth talker, aren't we Bolton, can't have changed it that much" I teased

"Oh trust me; you've changed it more than I'd like to admit. You're bad for my reputation you know that?"

"Yeah I know that's why I plan on hanging around for a while" I replied

"Only a while?" He asked smirking

"Only a little while Bolton" I laughed

"We'll see about that Tay, a while might just turn into forever" He winked as I laughed

"Is that so?"

"It is."

"We'll see... what do you have planned Troy?"

"Nothing, I just want to see where life takes me. I don't see the point on planning my future, life will lead me exactly where it wants me to go. Right now I plan on finishing high school and going to college on a Basketball scholarship to study Medicine hopefully and anything after that I really don't know or really care for" he said shrugging his shoulders

"Medicine... Wow I didn't expect that!"

"Yeah hopefully... right now I just wanna concentrate on finishing school... and asking you out on May 20th are as far as my plans get." He said smiling as I blushed at his last few words

"But no further plans?"

"Nope"

"But don't you have dreams and ambitions and things you have to achieve before you die?"

"Everyone does but I just don't base my whole life on them. I want to see the whole world but that's it."

"Oh okay" Who doesn't have plans; everyone has plans without plans how do you know where you're going, without goals how do know you've achieved anything! I guess that was the point, you don't know where you're going. You travel the road that's put in front of you until you land on a new road and that was Troy; nothing but a free spirit whose soul followed the wind and nothing else. Is that why I liked him because he was everything I couldn't be, he felt everything I wouldn't allow myself to feel? He lived his life whilst I scheduled mine.

It was now Friday and the boys had a game that we'd promised to go and watch, honestly basketball was never my strong point and Troy had been trying to explain the game to me all week with no avail. All I knew was something about assistants and something about a three point shot and defence and offence and even now I didn't know what half the words I just said mean. I said I'd scream whenever our team scored and scream double loud when he scored. Sharpay, Gabby and I had just got seated and the wildcats were now making their way out of the locker rooms and we'd all stood up to scream and clap. I could see Troy's eyes searching the room for us quickly before he spotted us in the middle of the crowd and smiled at me satisfied.

"Girl check out number nine on the other team he is fine!" Said Sharpay making both me and Gabby stare, she was right number nine was fine. He was all caramel skin and grey eyes, a bit like a younger version of Michael Ealy. I think he was the captain of the West High which is who they were playing.

"Oh yeah he is!" I exclaimed smiling before realising I was smiling at him he was already smiling back at me.

"Hmm Hmm he is but Chad is so much cuter" Gabby said causing me and Shar to roll our eyes, she was so smitten with him right now and their new public relationship had been the talk of the whole school not that anyone was surprised but people just wanted to talk so they talked. It was sad but some people were even making bets on when Chad would cheat on her for a cheerleader which wasn't going to happen, he'd even given her his ring that stated she was his. Troy said he'd never given any girl that before so he pretty much felt the same way Gabby did and anyone with a good pair of eyes could see that.

"Tay I think he just smiled at you" Shar said winking at me and I rolled my eyes at her antics. We continued watching the game, by watching we mean checking out players on the other team and ranking them in order of cutest.

The Wildcats won of course although only by three points I wasn't sure if this was a good win or not but it was a win all the same, we run down the stands to meet the boys but Troy was currently being hugged by his Dad who was also the coach and I didn't want to intrude, especially as I hadn't been officially introduced to him. I stood back watching the interaction before I felt some tap my shoulder.

"Excuse me" He said as I turned around

"Erm... hey" I replied smiling back and wondering why number nine was now talking to me

"Hey, I don't usually do this" He said smiling

"Do what?" I asked

"You know talk to the enemy" He said as we both laughed

"Deshaune" He said holding out his hand for me to shake and of course I accepted it

"Taylor" I replied

"Yo D quit hitting on the poor girl, lets bounce man!" A boy from his team shouted as he signalled to the boy in front of me to leave

"Looks like you have to go" I said smiling before realising we were both still holding hands

"Yeah I do; how about you give me your number and we talk some more later" He said as I let go of his hand

"I'm sorry I can't" I smiled apologetically

"That's okay ma, I should have known a beautiful girl like you would have a man" he said "See you round Taylor" He smiled as he turned to walk away

"Nice meeting you Deshaune" I smiled as I turned around just to bump straight into Troy who wasn't looking very pleased with Gabby, Shar, Chad and Zeke standing behind him. I caught Gabby's eye and she looked about as nervous as I felt, but I didn't have anything to feel nervous about. I hadn't done anything except from be polite to a very good looking boy. Sharpay was just waiting for the drama to kick off so she could jump in. I could see the glint in her eye and I wanted to laugh but thought better of it.

"Hey Troy! Nice game!" I said smiling up at him, his eyes were now shinning a very unhappy dark blue and I knew then something was going to go down.

"Nice of you to finally realise who you're here to see Tay" He spat out causing me to flinch

I rolled my eyes at him annoyed at his stupid behaviour "I was coming to see you but you were talking to your dad so I waited back and he started talking to me" I said explaining myself "You know what! Why am I even explaining myself I haven't done anything wrong!" I replied

"So why are you being so defensive!" He questioned, I couldn't believe it,

"Because you're being a Jerk! Troy why are you acting so possessive I'm not even your girlfriend!" I said annoyed before putting my hand over my mouth as I saw the hurt look on his face realising what I'd just said.

"I didn't mean it like that Tr..."I started to say reaching out to grab his hand which he quickly snatched away from me.

"No Tay I heard you loud and clear" he said putting his hands up "I heard you loud and clear" he repeated as he walked away leaving me facing the shocked looks on our friends faces.

Yep I left it there guys R&R  LOL don't wri I'm just about to post the second half