"You're such a bubble buster, Troy." Alexa said, glaring at him. She walked back down the steps and swung an arm lazily around Gabriella's shoulder. "Gabriella, I swear when you hear this you are going to die."

Gabriella looked at Troy confused, noticing his color drained face. "Wh..what?" she asked, almost too nervous to even want to know.

Alexa sighed. "You had your shot, Bolton." She shrugged. She turned her face back to Gabriella and smiled. "You remember when you and Troy broke up for the first time?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, we all know why. To be honest, I don't know why I was the cause of yours and Troy's first break-up considering we really didn't do anything, but that wasn't the case a couple days later." Alexa said, feeling Gabriella shift uncomfortably.

Troy sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Alexa, don't." he said, narrowing his eyes at her.

Alexa smirked and arched a brow. "Me and Troy, well, I was just comforting him, but then ya'know, we kinda had sex. It was totally accidental, but I asked Troy if he was sure and he just kissed me. I don't think I should be blamed for that one."

Gabriella stared at Troy, feeling her stomach drop as the words rolled off of Alexa's tongue like nothing. She swallowed, feeling her throat become dry.

"So, yeah, that was fun." Alexa laughed. "Oh my god, and then, just recently when you guy's had a fight over me, which I must say I was flattered, but anyways, he came over to my house telling me to leave you alone."

"Alexa, stop." Troy mumbled, feeling Gabriella's cold stare, piercing into him.

Alexa shook her head. "Sorry, Troy. I just couldn't let Gabriella go on thinking you were just perfect and that you never lied to her. Now, back to my story, so Troy came over to my house, and blah, blah, blah, and well, we ended up having sex, again. Can I just say you are a lucky girl? He is amazing and so easy. I mean, all you have to do is take a couple clothes off and-" she stopped quickly as she felt Gabriella move away from her and walk up the steps of the stairs.

"Gabi." Troy said, trying to grab her arm.

Gabriella shook her head and continued to walk up the steps, feeling tears sting in her eyes.

Troy looked down, guilt washing over him. He looked up, quickly and glared at Alexa. "Thanks." he muttered, shaking his head at her.

"What? You actually don't think that you and Gabriella would stay all lovey dovey for ever, right? Plus, this gives a chance for me and you to come together and maybe console each other." Alexa said, trying to kiss him, but failed miserably as Troy moved away from her.

"Just go, Alexa. You've down enough."

Alexa rolled her eyes. "Just call me when you're ready for a real relationship and not some phony one, ok?" She grabbed her purse off of the floor and smirked at him, before walking out of the house.

Troy sighed and began his way upstairs, knowing what was to come next. He stepped into his room to see her, slipping her white dress back on, and putting her earrings back on. "I'm sorry." he said, walking toward his bed, where she was sitting. He let out a breath as she moved away from his quickly, grabbing her shoes from the corner. "It was all a mistake, Gabriella."

Gabriella stayed silent, trying to hold back her tears. She grabbed her purse off of the top of the dresser and began making her way toward the door. She sighed as Troy grabbed her arm, holding it tightly.

"Gabs, don't be mad. We weren't even together. It was all a mistake and none of it meant anything."

Gabriella shook her head, feeling anger and sadness rush through her veins. "We weren't even together? Troy, I was fucking letting you make-out with me, grope me and everything, yet, you turn to her? I get that you were such a man whore after we broke up, but still, Alexa? You told me that you had never done anything with her. You made me feel so guilty after we broke up the first time, because I was feeling sorry for you, thinking you never did anything, but it was just a lie. This whole thing is a lie." she said, hearing her sobs.

"It was a mistake. I was drunk both times."

"Oh, there you go again, Troy. Playing the I was drunk card. God, here I was this whole time, thinking that you were god's gift, and now, you're nothing but a bastard. I gave everything to you, everything. All this time, when I've been asking you what's up, please tell me what's wrong and all that, you told me nothing. I even apologized to you. You made me out to look like some pathetic girl, Troy. I trusted you." she cried, wiping her tears.

Troy sighed. "You could hate me all you want, but don't stand there saying that everything was just a lie. It wasn't, Gabriella. Everything I said those couple of days ago, were real, and I still do love you. Why do you care so much, anyways? It was just a random hook-up, that meant nothing."

Gabriella crossed her arms. "It's Alexa Fryer, Troy! The one girl, that I was scared to losing you too, and now it's all coming true."

"You didn't lose me." Troy said, softly.

"Well, you sure as hell, lost me." Gabriella said. "We're through. If you wanna go fuck Alexa, because that's what you do best, you go right ahead. Nobody's stopping you. It's not like you have me to tell you what to do."

Troy shook his head, sadness running through him. "I'm sorry, Gabriella. What more do you want me to say? Sorry, that I'm such a man whore, sorry that I'm a bastard, I'm sorry about everything. What possibly do you want me to say, dammit?"

"There's nothing to say! Me and you are over. Done." She gripped her purse and turned around, stopping as she heard his croaky voice.

"There you go again. When it goes and gets tough, you just run away, as always."

Gabriella shook her head. "I tried with you, Troy. I really did. You on the other hand, could care less about anyone, but yourself. All you are is a lying conceited bastard. You and Alexa are a match made in heaven, in my book." She opened the door, pushing past a confused Mr. and Mrs. Bolton as they stood in front of the door. Slamming the front door behind her, she left, leaving a frustrated and sad, Troy.

"Troy, what is going on here? Me and your father get home to see this?" Bethany said, resting a hand on her hip and staring at him.

"Just go away." Troy said, slamming and locking his door. He sighed and fell on top of his bed, closing his eyes trying to hold back his tears threatening to fall.

"Zeke, I said to drive me to Gabriella's house not to fucking Gabriel's restaurant. Are you deaf or something?" Sharpay yelled, as Zeke was reversing his car and heading back into the large neighborhood that rested in the north or Albuquerque.

Zeke rolled his eyes. "Will you just chill out?" he asked, sighing.

Sharpay looked at him darkly, arching a brow. "Excuse me? Do you not realize that my best friend just broke up with her boyfriend? Instead of trying to get smart with me, you should be trying to rush me to Gabriella's so that you can go console your friend." She groaned and hit the inside of the passenger side as she tried getting out of the car, while Zeke pulled up to Gabriella's house. "Dammit!"

"It's locked." Zeke muttered, pressing the unlock key.

Sharpay turned and glared at him. "Next time I see you, you better be a little bit more patient with your freakin' girlfriend who is on her fucking period!" she yelled, slamming the door and stomping toward the Montez' front door, oblivious to his blank face.

Zeke glared the back of her head. "Go overdose on Midol or something!" he yelled, sticking his head out of the car, hearing the blonde's loud gasp.

"Go to hell, you asshole!" She screehed, stomping her way through the front door.

Zeke rolled his eyes, again and sped off, his tire's screeching.

Sharpay groaned and threw her jacket onto the floor as she walked into the house to see Mr. and Mrs. Montez, climbing up the stairs. She smiled and waved. "Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Montez. Is Gabriella up?"

Sonia nodded, sighing. "She's outside in the back. She's refused to talk to anyone and just cry, but hopefully you can talk to her. Plus, it's late Sharpay, so you're welcome to stay over if you'd like." she said, smiling.

"Thanks." Sharpay cheered, beginning to walk toward the arcadia door on the other side of the living room. She slid the door open to see Gabriella laying on a lawn chair on the side of the pool, with a tub of chocolate cake frosting in her hands. "Hey."

Gabriella turned around to see her friend, smiling weakly. Gabriella sighed and turned back around, unable to smile, as tears just continued to flow down her face. She sniffled and dipped her spoon into the tub of chocolate, staring at the pool that was glowing from the midnight moonlight.

Sharpay pursed her lips and clapped her hands together, while sitting in the lawn chair next to Gabriella's. "Chocolate and crying. Ah, the best sadness reliever." she said, throwing her legs onto the chair and laying down. "You ok?"

Gabriella shrugged. "Are my parents asleep?" she croaked out, feeling a new batch of tears coming on.

"Yeah, when I got here they were walking up the stairs. They said you haven't been talking and just been crying. Are you ok, Gabs?"

Gabriella snuggled into her large oversized hoodie, sniffling. "I loved him and he just lied to me." she cried, wiping her tears. "I can't believe that he slept with her. H..he told me that they did nothing."

Sharpay nodded. "It's ok."

"No, it's not. I feel so stupid for believing all the lies that came out of his mouth. I even starting doubting myself and making myself feel bad."

"Because you loved him and you still do."

Gabriella let out a sob, sticking her spoon inside her mouth, again. "I love him so much, but I just feel so stupid. Stupid for believing him, putting my heart on my sleeve and just everything. I gave him everything. I even had sex with him after he touched her. Oh my god."

Sharpay stayed silent not knowing what to say. There was a silence for a moment before Sharpay sighed. "I..I knew that he had sex with her, Gabs. I was gonna tell you."

"Why didn't you?" Gabriella snapped. "Hell, did everyone know?"

"No, just me and Taylor."

Gabriella scoffed and shook her head. "Great. First I'm lied to by my ex-boyfriend, then my own best friends. Nice, real, nice."

"Don't blame me or Taylor, Gabs, for part of Troy's wrong doing. Why are you moping around? If you still love Troy, you should be making him pay and trying to settle things."

"I do that everytime, Shar. Look at every time me and Troy try to work things out, Alexa always comes in."

"Because both you and Troy let her get inside your heads. How hard is it to tell a girl, fuck off?"

Gabriella shrugged and threw her back down on the lawn chair. "I just wanna go to Troy's house and yell at him for everything, then, just tell him how much I love him."

Sharpay nodded. "The question is through, Gabs. Do you wanna be with him, again? Are you willing to put your heart on your sleeve for the third time?"

Troy groaned and threw his phone as he called Gabriella's cellphone yet, again and there was still no answer. He rested his head on the pillow, sighing.

Pain and guilt were the two things that ran through him. He did not want Gabriella to find out the way she did; Alexa making a joke out of it. The way Gabriella stared at him through her dark brown eyes, that he had grown to know as the soft brown eyes, that made him weak in the knees.

He rolled his eyes as there was a knock at the door. "What?" He looked away as he saw his mom walk into the room.

"Troy," she said, closing his door behind her. She walked toward his bed, sitting on the other side of it, "are you ok? Did something happen with you guys?"

"We broke up." Troy muttered.

Bethany looked at her son taken back. "What?" she asked. "You guy's barely got back together."

Troy shook his head, feeling a lump grow in his throat. "Mom, I screwed up. Big time."

"What'd you do?" she asked, sighing.

"I'd rather not tell you, but mom, I just feel so horrible. Everything Gabriella told me was right. I'm just a lying conceited bastard. I love Gabriella so much, but I don't know how to actually be in a relationship. I'm so caught up in everything, that I know that I didn't give her what she deserves. She deserves someone who's honest, caring, and is actually willing to forget everything and just center on her. You can't possibly let me marry her, Mom. Please."

Bethany shook her head. "Troy, I..I don't know what to tell you, other than go try and talk to her. I've known Gabriella since she was twelve, Troy, and when you two met you should've seen the way her cheeks turned red and her nervousness going right through her. She's been head over heels for you that long. I'm sure that she still does. She's just very upset." She placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Go to her and just tell her everything you're feeling, see where it goes from there. Ok?"

"Mom, it's past midnight. I'm sure she's asleep."

Bethany scoffed. "Please, all girl's stay up all night eating chocolate and crying after a break-up. She's awake, trust me. Now, are you gonna stay here moping around or go see what you two have left?"

Troy smiled weakly. "Thanks, mom."

"Oh, what are mom's for, right?" She smiled and kissed him on the forehead. "I love you, Troy." she said, standing up and walking toward the door.

"Love you too." he said, watching her walk out of the room. He stood up grabbing a pair of jeans off his floor and grabbed his cellphone, before walking out of his bedroom door, quickly.

"He gave this to me in eight grade." Gabriella cried, holding up a gold chain with a small basketball on it. "It was when he told me he had a crush on me."

Sharpay watched her friend pile all of the stuff that reminded her of Troy or that Troy had gotten her, crying helplessly. She'd stop crying a second, before letting out a loud sob and allowing a fresh batch of tears to release. She saw as the brunette looked fragile in just a tank top, oversized UCLA sweater, pyjama pants and Uggs. Her face was red and wet, while her hair was messy in a bun on the top of her head. She sighed and just listened to her sad friend reminiscing about her and Troy.

Gabriella grabbed a teddy bear off of her bed. "He won this for me at the Junior year carnival. He said, it was sorry for the first break-up and how he loved that we were friends, again. Oh, another time I fell into his arms, after he had sex with that tramp."

"Gabs, come lay and try to calm down."

"No." Gabriella said, glancing toward her vibrating phone. "Is it him, again?"

Sharpay grabbed the phone off of the nightstand and nodded. "Yep." She gave Gabriella a confused as she held an outstretched arm.

Gabriella grabbed the phone, putting it on speaker so Sharpay could hear, before answering it. "I thought I said, that we we're done and that there's nothing to say to each other?" she said, into the phone wiping her tears.

"Gabs, please, I need to talk to you for just a second. Come outside."

"No. Just go to hell and don't speak to me, again."

Troy rolled his eyes. "I'm marrying you, I'm sure I'm gonna have to kinda speak to you, again. Now, just come outside. Please."

Gabriella glanced toward Sharpay who was nodding toward her friend, with a gentle smile. She sighed. "Where are you outside?"

"Your front yard."

Gabriella shut her phone and grabbed the box off the bed. "We got everything, right?" she asked.

Sharpay made a disgruntled face, looking at the almost bland room. "Uh, yeah, I guess."

"Good." Gabriella said, simply, before walking out of the bedroom.

Sharpay sighed and fell onto the pillows. "Why god why did I have to befriend two people that are so foolish and in love, ugh."

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Troy looked up to see a tear strained Gabriella. She almost looked different to him. He sighed and watched as she sat on the other side of the porch step that he was sitting on, with a box in her hands, looking off into space.

"What'd you wanna talk about? I'm pretty sure, Alexa's waiting for you, so get talking."

He shook his head. "Gabriella, it's not like that. Not at all. I love you, not her. Both times with her were mistakes and they didn't mean anything."

Gabriella gripped the box, trying to hold back tears. "I'm so tired of crying over you, Troy. I defended you to Alexa, I made myself look dumb for saying that you never did anything with her. I believed you and you couldn't even had the decentsy to tell me that you were lying all along. I loved you, so much and this is what I get out of return. Nothing, but lies. God, I just can't get over the fact that it was with Alexa. She's been trying to make my life hell for how long, yet, you turn to her and once again she's the reason why we broke up."

"When will you get that I don't love her or anything like that?" Troy asked, frustrated as he stood up. "I was drunk and stupid, but come on! You're so busy trying to push what we have away, that you just won't hear me out. We weren't together in anything committed, I didn't do it-"

"Troy, I loved you. I poured my heart out to you. Maybe, we weren't together in anything commited, but still. I let you touch me and to think that you had sex with her, grosses the hell out of me. You don't even realize that what you did was wrong. If you still loved me when you had sex with her, why'd you do it? And do not say you were drunk, because that's a bunch of bullshit. I've been drunk how many times and have you ever seen me taking my pants off for anyone?"

Troy shook his head, shrugging. He looked into her glossy brown eyes, seeing the sadness in them. "I don't know, Gabriella. I honestly don't know. The one thing I do know is that I love you, not her. I've never thought of her that way. It was a random hook-up."

"If it was such a random hook-up why couldn't you just tell me?"

"Because I knew this was going to happen."

Gabriella stood up and passed him the box, receiving his confused face. "I..It's just everything. I really didn't want us to end like this, Troy, but I feel like I can't trust you. Plus, you seem like you have more fun just hooking up with hot chicks rather than actually sticking to a committed relationship."

"Gabriella, please."

"No. Let's just agree not to even be acquaintances with each other, because when we did that look how it ended up. You live your life now, and I live mine. We'll talk when the wedding comes into place."

Troy set the box down and stepped forward toward her. "I love you so much. Please, just try with me. What we have is special, Gabs. I don't wanna lose it."

"What we had was just a lie." Gabriella whispered, moving away from him before he could grab hold of her. She stepped forward to the door, not daring to look at him knowing that if she did, she'd be right back into his arms. She bit her lip to stop her sob from escaping her lips, before walking into the house and locking the door behind her. She sauntered up to her bedroom, opening it to see Sharpay jump up awake, as the sound of the door shutting was heard. She let out a loud sob, sliding down the door and rolling into a ball.

"Oh, Gabi." Sharpay sighed, jumping off the bed and walking toward her friend. She sat next to her, wrapping a comforting arm around her shoulders. She shushed her softly as her loud cries were heard.

"I love him." Gabriella cried, into the blonde's shoulder.

Sharpay nodded and hugged her friend tightly. "I know you do." she said, weakly, feeling a lump settle in her throat.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews. I appreciate them alot. I told you that this sad and kind of short chapter would be up very soon. So, please review. (: