I knew I was wrong for that but he was being stupid, Chad quickly said something to Gabby before leaving to go after his friend. Zeke was torn between his cousin and his best friend and I knew he felt uncomfortable.

"Zeke it's okay go after Troy, I'll be fine" I said smiling at him, he looked at Shar and nodded before turning to leave.

"Tay... Are you okay?" Gabby said taking my hand

"You know I'm completely on your side on this one, he was being a jerk" Sharpay added in "He was probably just jealous because the boy was fine as hell and like you said you guys aren't official anyway" He shrugged her shoulders as we went back to sit down on the benches in the hall.

"Yeah but you know the deal with us... I was wrong for what I said" I replied shaking my head

"That doesn't change the fact he was being over possessive, you're not a possession Tay and he needs to stop acting like you are, boys will talk to you Tay you're beautiful of course they will. He needs to trust you enough to know that when they do you won't give them the time of day because you are with him... kind of" Gabby said while Sharpay nodded her head furiously

"I guess your right, so what now?" I asked

"Well I've got my car and so has Zeke so either of us can give you a ride home and I'm sure Chad's waiting on Gabby" Shar said getting up and hugging me before Gabby did too and we walked out to try and find the boys. So Troy and I had had our first argument and I wasn't completely sure how to feel about it. Chad had waited on Gabby and given her a ride, I was sitting in Sharpay's car thinking about what Troy was doing whilst Sharpay was singing along Beyonce single ladies as loud as she could. I needed Gabby right now to help me realise everything was fine, I hated the fact I'd hurt Troy especially as we'd had such a great week.

He'd given me a ride to school every morning, and waited for me in between classes. He'd sit in the library with me during study even when he didn't have work to do or when we weren't working on our project and I was just doing extra work. On Wednesday he'd even had a cup of coffee waiting for me in his car when he picked me up for school because he knew I'd been up late the night before working on a chemistry project and talking to him on the phone in between. Thursday he'd come with me after school to the book store so I could buy the limited vintage edition of 'Wuthering Heights', one of my favourite Victorian novels even though I already had a copy of the book. He'd even paid for the book while I was looking around to see if there was something else I wanted while I was there. The way he laughed at my facial expressions when I didn't understand what he was talking about when he was explaining the rules to basketball and he'd later drawn a little chart for me with different coloured stick men so I could understand because he knew I had a photographic memory.

I sighed, why did I miss him when he hadn't gone anywhere. He was there but right now he was completely out of my reach because I'd messed up and I was on the defensive because we were having the kind of fight only couples were meant to have and we weren't a couple. Sharpay pulled up into my drive and gave me a kiss on the cheek before got out and walked inside. My dad was home because his car was in the drive way.

"Hey Daddy" I said as I walked in finding him in the living room

"Hey baby, how was the game?" He asked

"We won, daddy can I have a hug?" I asked as I sat down next to him on the couch

"Sure baby, what's wrong?" He said as he wrapped his arms around me

"It's just been a long day" I replied snuggling closer into his embrace and he didn't push the matter any further. We watched T.V. for a while longer before deciding to go to bed.

I woke the next morning happy that it was a Saturday before realising that Troy and I we still not talking and we were meant to be hanging out today at his house. He'd invited me over to watch movies and chill out. He also said he'd teach me some basketball. I looked at the time and realised I'd over slept. If he was still planning on picking me he'd be here in an hour at 12 and it was already 11 now. I quickly run into the shower down the hall and showered and washed my hair, before grabbing a pair of dark blue skinny jeans and a white t-shirt from my closet. I put on a pair of red pumps and brushed out my hair leaving it wavy. I looked at the clock and saw it was 12, there was no time to eat or put on make-up not that I wore much. I run downstairs grabbing a grey cardigan on my way out and sat on my door step. Waiting and hoping that he'd keep the date regardless of our fight earlier.

Half an hour later I realised he wasn't coming, I went back inside and called Gabby to see what she was doing.

"Hey Tay" she said into the phone yawning slightly

"Hey G, were you still sleeping?" I asked

"Yeah, Chad and I went to a movie after the game and I got in late, so what's up?"

"G can I come over?" I sighed into the phone

"sure sure, you okay?"

"Yeah I just need some G time, I think I can still hear Sharpay's voice in my ear singing single ladies from last night on the way home" I laughed

"Okay girl, just come over whenever you're ready, I think my mum's gone shopping but you know where the spare key is in case I'm in the shower when you get here" She said as she hung up.

I grabbed my purse and started on my ten minute walk to her house. I got there to find Gabby just stepping out of the shower as I made myself comfortable in her room. I was watching T.V. while she got dressed.

"Okay Tay so haven't you talked to Troy yet?" She asked as she sat opposite me on the love seat in the corner of her room.

"No, he hasn't called me and we had planned to meet today, you know before the whole fight thing happened and I got ready hoping he'd still come but he never came, so I guess he's still mad"

"Aww I'm sorry Tay" She said throwing me a chocolate bar from her mini fridge

"Thanks... anyway why don't we go to the mall or something we haven't been shopping since this whole project begun"

"Okay why don't we call Shar and see if she wants to come, plus she's the only one of us who has a car" She suggested, I nodded and called Sharpay but she was out shopping with Zeke already and said she'd just see us when we got there.

"Okay well we could always just catch the bus, or I could call Chad and see if he'd give us a ride there and then we could dump him with Zeke and catch up with them later or something"

"Already trying to get rid of him are we G" I teased as she dialled the number and called him. He was over within ten minutes and twenty minutes later we were at the mall. We met Shar and Zeke at the food court and left the boys there as we embarked on our own adventures. We had just left 'Topshop' after purchasing the some new jeans from the Kate Moss range and few new tops and we were on the way to the next store when I heard someone call my name.

"TAYLOR!" I turned around to meet Deshaune from the game last night and smiled as he walked over, ignoring the look Gabby gave me.

"Hey" he said smiling as he nodded at Gabriella and Sharpay

"Hey yourself" I replied

"So what you doing?" he asked

"Shopping" I held up my bags, "I would have thought it was obvious" I said laughing

"you got jokes huh" He asked

"I try, so what's up?... oh excuse me, Shar and Gabby this is Deshaune, Deshaune this is Sharpay and Gabriella" I said introducing them

"Sup" He said nodding at the as they smiled back.

"Anyway it was nice bumping into you Deshaune, but we really have to go" I explained as he nodded disappointedly

"Okay well I won't keep you, and I know you can't give me your number but how about you take mine and if you ever want to hang out give me a call" he said as he scribbled his number on a piece of paper and handed it to me before I could object. I smiled as he left.

"Girl he is something fine" Sharpay stated as Gabby nodded "And he is completely hitting on you right now, good thing Troy isn't here" She said as Chad, Zeke and Troy approached us in time to see him walking off again. I sighed knowing it was about to kick off again and wondering when the hell Troy had got here.

An awkward silence went over the group as the boys looked at us. I looked at Troy trying to see what his reaction was going to be and saw that they were completely blank.

"Hey" Both me and him said at the same time.

"Erm, we are just going to leave you guys to it, Tay just call if you need us okay" Gabby said dragging an objecting Sharpay away, that girl just loved he drama I thought as she tugged herself free from Gabby and stormed off to the food court. I turned back to look at Troy.

"Sorry" We both said at the same time again before letting out nervous laughter.

"You go" He said as we sat down on a bench nearby. I sighed and proceeded to apologise for what felt like the millionth time to Troy. Seemed like I was always messing up with us.

"I keep messing up with us Troy, I know I do but I'm scared. I'm freaking out that we might fail at whatever it is we're trying to do, this thing, us, it's new and I don't deal well with change or surprises or anything I'm not in control of, not to mention the idea of failure" I laughed slightly before realising he didn't find it funny and continued

"I just don't know how to feel, the fight we had last night, it felt like a couples fight and we can't be a couple or else I'm not honouring my promise and that scares me regardless of the fact I made it when I was thirteen. I'm sorry if I hurt you because I know I did, but I'm just trying to deal with this the best way I can. This morning when I hoped you'd come and you didn't... it hurt Troy and what scared more than the fact we might fail is that last night I missed you and you hadn't gone anywhere, you were mad at me and I couldn't reach you and it scared me that I missed you Troy" I finished as I searched his eyes for some answers that I wasn't seeming to find.

"I hate not having control of my feelings, and you do that to me and I'm just scared to let myself go and feel whatever it is I'm supposed to feel for you in case I get hurt. Promises are easy to make in high school and just as easy to break." I finished looking down

"Taylor, I was just jealous because you're not mine, you aren't officially my girlfriend which means I don't have a right to warn other guys off you. That scares me, you're free to fall in love with and fall for anyone you want, you have no obligation to me and it scares me because right now I can't imagine even considering being with or dating someone that isn't you. Something led me to you and I want to know why. When I saw you with Dickface..."

"Deshaune" I said interrupting much to his displeasure

"Whatever. When I saw the way he looked at you and saw him holding your hand when I haven't even held your hand properly like that... like a boy with his girl should... I don't know something in me just snapped like I should be the one holding your hand and looking at you like that. I've never been the jealous type, I haven't even ever fallen for a girl to get jealous and I don't know if I'm falling or infatuated but whatever it is, it's not going away. Last night proved it; as soon as I walked away it felt like I'd left something behind and it took me a while to realise that something was you. I don't ever want to walk away from you, from this, from us not when we haven't even had a chance to see what we could be. I'm just sorry I got jealous okay, I don't want other boys to touch you" He said smirking slightly

"Promises are easy to make, you're right but when I promised to wait for you it wasn't made lightly I meant every word I said and I still do no matter how stubborn you are... I just don't want other boys to touch you" He repeated smiling this time

"I don't want other boys to touch me either, but he was just being friendly, I told him I couldn't give out my number and he left okay, whether we're official or not you're the only boy I've met so far that I can't figure out and I will figure you out Troy Bolton if it's the last thing I do. Can we not fight anymore please, I don't like having to ride with Gabby and Chad to the mall" I teased

"That's all I am to you, a free ride to the mall? I feel so used!" He said smiling "So what did he want now then?" He asked

"who?"

"Dickface" he said as I rolled my eyes and decided to tell him the truth

"To give me his number" I replied nervously taking out the piece of paper from my pocket and showing him

"WHAT!" He shouted as I laughed causing people to look at us. At least we were officially talking again, I sighed relieved.

"Let's not fight again please" I repeated pouting as he calmed down and pulled me into a hug which I returned.