Troy and Brie intertwined their hands together and walked out with the rest of the gang following. Once they were in the hall and Ms. Darbus couldn't see them, Brie jumped on Troy, wrapped her legs around his waist, and they shared a very passionate kiss. They put everything that had built up from the past year. Troy twirled her around and then pushed her up against the lockers. The rest of the gang were confused, but let them have their moment. A couple minutes later, they pulled away breathless. Then they heard a few coughs and some of them cleared their throat.

"Oh. Sorry. Guys. This is Troy. Troy this is Sharpay, Taylor, Kelsi, Chad, Zeke, Jason, and Ryan. Sharpay, we call her Shar, Taylor, we call her Tay, Kelsi, we call her Kels. Sharpay is dating Zeke, Taylor is dating Chad, Kelsi is dating Jason, and Ryan is solo." Gabi explained

"Hey guys" Troy said with his arms around Brie's waist.

"Hey" They replied.

"Um. So. Im guessing you guys are dating. But. Im kinda confused because you have the same last name. How do you guys know each other?" Shar asked.

"STORY TIME!" Brie exclaimed. Troy laughed and kissed her cheek. He loved to see her excited.

"Once upon a time.. Haha just kidding. So our moms and dads were best friends. They went to the same high school and college. Then my mom and dad got married as well his. Both families moved to New York City. Our Moms got pregnant with us around the same time. Troy is 3 months older than me." Gabby started.

Troy picked up where she left off.

"We were always in the same classes. When were were 5, we gave each other our first kiss-" Gabby cut him off.

"I remember it exactly. It was Friday night on August 21, 1996. We laid out a blanket to lay on and watch the stars. I laid my head on his chest and he wrapped his arms around me. We were laying there in a comfortable silence. I felt eyes on my and looked up at Troy. He was staring at me. We both smiled and locked eyes. He leaned down and kissed me. It was a very soft, gentle, sweet and loving kiss. It wasn't long. Only like 5 seconds." As Brie told the story, Troy was smiling at her.

"Yep. and it was the most amazing first kiss in the world." Troy told them staring into her eyes. He then leaned down in kissed her on the top of her head. "Back to the story. When we were 7, I asked her to be my girlfriend. She said yes. We only broke up only 1 time from then to now. A month into sophomore year, I proposed to her. We got married 2 months later. Um.." At this time he looked at Brie for permission.


She shook her head no. "I..Im not re..ready. Some other t.. time." Then she starting crying hard.
He pulled her to him and she buried her face in his chest. He put his arms around her and stroked her hair.

"Hold on" he mouthed to the confused gang. They nodded. "Shh. It's okay. I'm here now. Just breathe baby, breathe." he said in a soothing tone.

"I...I'm s...Sorry. It j...just hu...hurts." she apologized still crying.

"Hey Hey Hey, You have absolutely no reason to be sorry. I know it hurts baby. I know. Its okay." Tears were brimming his eyes. He hated seeing her this upset. He hated seeing her upset at all. He kept whispering calming words into her ear. Soon, the sobs subsided to tears, tears to whimpers, whimpers to sniffs.

"Sorry guys." she said.

"Its okay" They told her.

"Anyways, about a year or so after we married, I moved as you know. I've been here a year so I haven't seen him in a year, and now he moved here. For some reason, Troy only knew I lived in New Mexico. He didn't know I lived in Albuquerque. His parents did though. I think they planned this. My grades have gone down from straight A+ to A- or B+." Gabby continued, and directed this next thing to Troy "And Troy here got worse in basketball I hear. Also his grades got worse and we were both kind of depressed for a bit after the move. Now, Troy! How could you let your basketball get worse? Your dad told me you went from getting 10 out of 10 to 0 out of 10 right after I moved, and then went up to 7 out of 10." Gabby exclaimed.

"Well, how could you let your grades slip. Ha, we are even. Plus, I missed you, and you know when something bothers me I can't make many shots. Like whenever we get in a fight mostly, or when you move." He said cutely.

"Aw. Your too sweet." She said back and kissed him sweetly on the lips. Then they looked back to the gang.

"Gabs, if you don't mind me asking, what happened to your real dad? I mean, I've seen pictures and Coach Bolton is definitely not him." Taylor pointed out. Gabi turned her head and leaned on Troy. She looked up at Troy and he got the message.

"Brie's dad was a firefighter. He was called in on September 11. He died when the towers collapsed. But he did save around one hundred lives. So he died a hero." He explained while rubbing Brie's back. Brie found it comforting when Troy was rubbing her back so she managed to not cry.


"Oh Gabi, I'm so sorry." Kelsi exclaimed.

She looked at them. "It's alright. Like Troy said, he died a hero."

"Come on. Class is almost over. Let's go back to my house."

No cliff hanger. Cute story of their first kiss huh? Also a sad one about Gabby's father. Read the next chapter.