Note: Just so you know Troy plays basketball and hockey. Hockey is his main sport though. He is very athletic. He was playing basketball because there wasn't a rink close enough for him to get to while walking.

Chapter 4

Last week

Troy's POV

"Will you be my girlfriend Brie?" She smiles widely and nods happily. She leans in for another kiss and not a second after we hear someone clear their throat.

We both look to the door to see..?

Now. Troy's POV

We both look to the door to see my dad. Uh-oh I forgot he might be here. With school starting again he is getting his office ready. (He is the coach of our schools basketball team) I know Brie is embarrassed because she is hiding her face in my hoodie, its really cute actually.

"Umm… Hey dad." I say, not really sure what else to say.

"Hi Troy. Hi Gabi." My dad smiles at us. Well that's weird that he is smiling, but I guess he always though Gabi and I would get together.

"Hi Uncle Jack." Gabi replies quietly, as she slowly starts to pull her head out from under my hoodie. She has always called my parents Aunt and Uncle, same way I do to her parents even though they aren't related. When Gabi is finally out of hiding her cheeks are a rosy red from blushing and he lips in a small smile. My dad smiles and laughs at Gabi blushing, causing her to hid her face in my hoodie again. I put my arm around her and pull her closer.

"So are you going to tell me what's going on?" my dad questions me while smirking.

"Yea. Well. Brie and I are umm dating now." I spit out. My dad's smirk gets larger and turning into a smile. I'm really confused now.

"I win." He simply states, causing Brie to take her face out of my hoodie and look at my dad with the same confused face as mine. My dad must notice our faces because he starts talking again. "Your mother and I had a bet on when you two would get together. I said by the end of your guy's next sleepover, which happened to be this one and your mother guessed not until school started again." My dad says with a smile.

"Ok. So what do you win? And don't tell anyone about this besides mom yet please Uncle Jack." Gabi said. "The reason this happened here is because our friends made Troy have to leave the house and Chad start yelling at Shar."

"Chad was yelling at Shar?" I wondered. Brie nodded. That explains why he was so tense tonight, he had never been the one to try and get us together and this time he probably had an idea it was coming but didn't want it to happen.

"Ok I won't tell anyone besides Lucy because that way I get out of doing the dishes this week and 10 bucks." (Troy's Mom) Jack promised. "But you have to tell everyone else soon." He said sternly.

"We will Dad." I promised, while laughing at my parent's bet.

"Alright, well you two should get back home before your friends destroy something." My dad said as a joke.

"We will." Gabi and I reply together as we get up to leave. I give my dad a man hug and Gabi gives him a hug before we are on our way.

Gabi's POV

As we get to the door of the school, Troy grabs my hand a laces our fingers together. I look up to see him smiling at me and I smile back before leaning up for a quick kiss. After that I cuddle into his side as we are walking causing Troy to wrap his arm around me instead. Even with our major height difference we still fit perfectly together. It's nice.

"I love you" I hear him whisper before placing a kiss on my head. "Love you too." I whisper back, cuddling into him more because its cold and I only have my cardigan over my tank top on. Troy notices this and stops before taking off his hoodies and giving it to me. I smile widely at him before taking it and putting it on. His hoodies are the best! They smell just like is axe cologne, which I love. Most guys spray too much, but Troy sprays just enough.

We keep walking and Troy has me wrapped back under his arm almost instantaneously. We are walking and I'm wondering if we should tell our friends we are together or not yet. I mean in a way I want to keep this just between us because I don't want our friends to bother us, but I don't want to lie to them. "Troy, can I ask you something?" I wonder. He looks at me and nods. "Do you think we should tell everyone we are together yet?" He stops and looks at me.

"I think we should but I don't want to." He starts. I nod in agreement. "I mean they deserve to know, but I don't want them to bother us about it."

Wow we think alike. "I think that to." I say. "But I can't lie to my friends."

"How about we keep it quiet for a bit and then tell everyone?" he asks me while pulling me into him. I nod against his chest in agreement and I know he understands me because he leans down to kiss my head.

As we get closer to his house I get more and more nervous of what to expect. When I left there was a yelling war happening. We keep walking to his house and when we get there before we go in, Troy stops me a gives me a kiss. "It will be ok." Troy whispers and that's all I need to hear before walking into the house.

I heard some muffled yelling at first but as soon as the door closed it stopped. I look at Troy to see if he heard it and looking at his face, I'm going to say he did. Troy walks into the living room as I trail behind a bit and all the eyes turn to Troy. None of them look at me because I'm not sure the see me, I stayed behind the wall into the living room. I peer around the wall and I look at where everyone is and Chad and Shar are standing fairly close to each other and I know that's from the yelling. Everyone else seems to have just moved out of the way.

"What's going on?" Troy asks.

"Why did you leave?" "Where did you go?" Troy is bombarded with questions. He sighs before saying "I went for a walk." I know he doesn't want to give away his hiding place. "Why were you yelling?" he wonders.

"Because Sharpay thought it would be a good idea to make a HUUGE plan to get you and Gabster together and then you ran out so it didn't really work." Chad states angrily.

"You did what?!" I ask angrily finally coming out from behind the wall. All eyes turn to me including Troy's. All of them but Chad and Troy had shocked and nervous faces.

"When did you leave?" Sharpay asked me. Trying to avoid my question.

"You had a plan to get me and Troy together!" I yell. "How many times have I told you to butt out of my life with Troy! We are just friends. NO MORE!" I finished yelling.

Sharpay was quiet just then a scared Alex came in with his teddy bear in hands and his superman pajama's on. "Troy." He whined. "What's happening?" He looked on the verge of tears.

Troy knelt down to him and picked him up. "It's ok buddy. We will stop yelling now." Troy said calmly, while glaring at Shar knowing that she was probably the start of all of this, as Alex buried his face into the crook of Troy's next and started sobbing. Troy just rubbed Alex's back and whispered in his ear until he calmed down some more. "Can you look at me buddy?" Troy asked softly. Alex slowly pulled out of Troy's neck and looked straight into Troy's eyes. Blue, connecting to blue. Troy slowly wiped his little brother's tears away with his thumb. "You're ok, I promise. Do you want to go to bed now?" Troy spoke softly in order to keep his brother calm. Alex nodded slowly before he buried his face back into Troy's neck as Troy took him upstairs to his room.

I look at my friends and glared at them before following Troy not wanting to talk to any of them. I honestly just wanted to cry because I felt so betrayed by my friends. The only people I'm not mad at out of my friends right now are Troy and Chad.

Troy's POV

I finally got Alex to calm down and took him upstairs to bed. He is now sound asleep. I get up slowly and walk out of Alex's room and slowly down the hallway. To get back downstairs I pass my room but I stop as I hear sobbing coming from my room. I open my door more than it is to see Gabi curled up under my blankets and her face buried in my pillow crying. My heart breaks a little.

"Aw Brie. Come here." I say as I sit on my bed beside her with my arms open. She looks up, her cheeks tear stained and her eyes are full of tears. She slowly crawls out from under my comforter and into my arms. As soon as she gets into my embrace she breaks down completely. I place soft kisses on her forehead and rub her back as she cries into my chest. "Baby, do you want to tell me what's caused this?" I ask softly, know not to push her.

"I'm not really in the mood right now to talk, can you just hold me?" She questions quietly. I nod and pull her into me closer. I don't know how long we sit like that but soon I hear Gabi's breathing even out meaning she is asleep and then there is a soft knock at my door. I move Gabi out of my lap and back under my comforter where she snuggles into them.

I walk to my door and open it slowly and peek out to see Chad. I hold my finger up to my lips signaling for him to be quiet as I let him in and lock my door behind him.

"What's up?" I ask.

"I just want you to know that I had nothing to do with that plan. As soon as Evans said she had this plan I was against it and left." He rambled on.

"Bro! It's cool. I saw how tense you were tonight. I know you didn't have anything to do with her plan." I say to Chad, I know he wouldn't go behind Brie or my back unless he thought it was right. He is like my brother and he thinks of Brie like a little sister.

"So were cool?" Chad asks and I nod before pulling him into a hug, a real hug, not just a man-hug.

"Troy." I hear Brie whisper from behind Chad and I.

"Yea baby girl?" I ask her. She reaches out for me like a little girl would to her mom or dad and I know she wants to be held, so I walk over to her and crawl under the covers and let her snuggle into me completely forgetting that Chad is there. I place a soft kiss on her forehead before letting her fall back asleep.

"Sooo…" Chad says slowly making me look up. He gives me a look that says 'Explain'. So I tell him everything from when I ran out to when we got back to the house.

"I'm happy for you guys bro." He says.

"Thanks man and please don't tell anyone. I will Brie I told you in the morning she won't mind. Well I'm tired so how about you grab your blankets from your bag and we go to bed?" I offer. He nods in agreement before grabbing his pillow and sleeping bag and turning off my light before we go to bed.

What do you think? What will happen in the morning? Will everything be ok in the gang? Will they find out about Troy and Gabriella?