Okay so this is the second chapter of my new story and I just got two reviews on the last chapter so I really hope that you will leave more reviews and tell me what you think^^

Chapter 2: A date or not?

"Its not a date!" Gabriella said for the 100th that day. At least it felt like it. Ever sense she arrived Thursday morning to school after an other day of from school, her friends had noticed something different about her. Probably because she was glowing of happiness, but could she be anything but happy when Troy Bolton had asked her to the movies. Well he had suggested it now she had to wait until she heard from him. When she walked down the hallway it felt more like she floated, she never fully put her foot down on the floor. Her happiness level was trough the roof and the best part was the nothing could bring her down.

"The guy is taking you to the movies and you don't call that a date!?" Her blonde friend shrieked. The whole hallway turned around at the high pitched voice but when they saw who it was they just sighed and went back to mind their own business. Sharpay Evans was a blonde self centered cheerleader and Gabriella's best friend. They were not very alike. Sharpay was glad if she passed her classes while Gabriella had a melt down if she didn't have an A. Sharpay cared more about her appearance and her clothes while Gabriella was happy in her jeans and t-shirts. The best friends was so different but they didn't care, they had been friends sense they been able to walk and even if they were different now it didn't matter to them because they knew each other deeper then that.

"We are just two friends who will go to a movie together…" Gabriella explains calmly to her best friend that was more excited then her about this so called date.

"And this friend of yours just happens to super hot! And he just happen have the biggest bank accounts in the world! And he just happen wants to be friend with you!" Sarcasm was lacing the voice the closer she got to the end.

"Hey! What's wrong with being friends with me?!" Gabriella exclaims surprised by her best friends statement.

"Gabs… You are hot, so I doubt if a billionaire asks you on a date it's not so you can be friends!" The best friend explains to the brunette like she was a five year old.

"It is not a date Shar! And it probably won't happen because he haven't texted me or called for that matter. It was something he did in the heat of the moment and now he regrets it and wont call!" Gabriella explains to her best friend, who was speechless. Her friend was giving up on a chance every girl was dreaming of! A older boyfriend that had their own apartments and a real job! And her best friend was giving up on that chance right in front of her eyes.

"You are fucking unbelievable Gabriella Anna Elizabeth Montez!" Sharpay shouts out. The bell rang interrupting the speech she had made up in her mind about her trying to forget about Troy. "This is not over Gabriella, when this class is over I will talk some sense into you!" Then she stomps of to her classroom while Gabriella who had free period she went to a empty study hall to finish of some homework.

A small part of her was wishing that Troy would call her and start make plans with her about Saturday. But she a majority of her told her that he wouldn't call. He wasn't interested in an inexperienced girl like her. And he probably wanted someone with less brain and more confident then she was. She sighs and returns to her French essay.

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Gabriella Montez

He was thinking about the pros and cons of calling her. She was probably in school right now and wouldn't pick up anyway and would probably get mad if she texted her in the middle of her class.

God he sounded like a high schooler al over again! He was 22 for god's sake! He should be able to call a girl and ask her to a movie! But something about her made him doubt him self, nothing he usually does when it comes to girls. But she... She was something special. She had that innocent glow over her. And he would probably destroy that if he started date her. Should he ignore to text her, pretending like he had forgotten all about it? No that would be plain cruel, and Gabriella did not deserve that.

He leans back in the black leather chair letting his eyes searching for a crack in the ceiling. But he didn't find any. He let out a heavy sigh trying to get some of his frustration out. But it just keeps getting higher. He just wanted a calm afternoon. Not that it would be very calm sense there was architects coming in to discus further work in China, if they should re-do any of the sketches they had already drawn. To him it would be just stupid to redraw it sense they had already begun working on it and if they get information now that they have new sketches for the hotel the workers will kill anybody that is near!

Urgh! Everything that happened with the new hotel just seemed to screw up! Maybe it was a sign from a higher power that they shouldn't build that god forsaken hotel he had been against sense the start of this stupid project! He bet that it was his father that wanted to witness one rise of a hotel before stepping down from his post and let Troy take over. But they all knew Jack Bolton he would still run this business until the day he died.

His phone went of blinking and ringing, and for a millisecond Troy hoped that it would be Gabriella, but shortly after he remembered that he didn't have given her his number. Stupid idiot! He sighs and takes up the phone to answer. It was his mother. "Hi mom…" He answers sounded more annoyed then he should have.

"Is that the right attitude to great your mother who spent 16 hours in labor for you!?" She asks harshly to her ungrateful son. She could hear her son breathing deep on the other side of the phone.

"I am sorry mom I am just having a bad day and you bringing up my birth isn't exactly making anything better!" He mutters to her still annoyed of course. His parents had been divorced sense he was 14 and his little brother 12. Yes at first it been hard to accept but as they got older they could understood why. His father had a mistress. Bolton Hotels! She could have sworn that he was more married to his job then her and being 14 at the time Troy had no idea what she was talking about. Or if he denied that he understood what she was talking about. He doesn't remember clearly.

"Oh well… I thought you and I could catch up today at lunch!" His mother suggest happily. "I got Nate to join us to!" Nate is his 20 year old little brother. A real pain in the ass that used the company's money more then he should. Nate being 20 years old single, good looking and having a rich father made him the ultimate heartbreaker. With the blue eyes the male Bolton's carried and charms and well fitted body after spending hour after hour at the gym. No girl could resist his little brother.

"Oh joy… Nate..." He says sarcastically. He cared about his brother he really did but when you already have a crappy day Nate isn't the one who brings your mood up.

"Troy! Nate is you little brother!" His mother lectures him.

"Mom… Look I would love to have lunch with you and Nate I really do but its crazy at the office right now and I just don't have time today..." He explains to his mother in the best way to not hurt her feelings.

"Oh but sweetie we are already on our way up!" Of course! She always does that and he should have seen it coming. Though, he was surprised that she wasn't standing outside his door.

"Okay fine mom you win! We go to lunch and then you leave me alone for a week or two because I haft to work!" Then he hangs up, he gets up from his chair and takes his jacket that was hanging on his office chair, after that he heads out to the elevator were his mother and brother would be arriving any minute. He stands outside waiting for the ding to come so he could go in and suffer trough lunch with his mother and brother that was a pain in the ass when they united against him and he wouldn't be surprised if his mother would be nagging about him settling down with a girl, if she had to decide it would be a society girl that would look perfect in his arms but not fit into his lifestyle.

DingHe looked into the elevator that opened before him, His mother and brother was standing in the corner of the metal box. Taking a deep breath before meeting the devil and its secretary he steps into the elevator. "Hi mom…" He kisses his mothers cheeks and embraces her softly. "And is it the first time Nathan here is sober on a Thursday. Call the press!" He says sarcastically.

"Troy! Why must you always be mean to your little brother?" His mother asks. He looks at the older woman that is his mother. Grey soft eyes that rarely fired up. A thin body that had gained a few extra pound on later days. But as she said when someone said that, she is a woman in her 50th and have given birth to two children, she deserved to treat her self. And quite honestly Troy thought she looked healthier that way. Her brown hair was up in a hair clip. With beige linen pants and white t-shirt and cardigan over she looked ten years younger. She accepted that she was getting older and didn't try to hide the fact she had lived a while.

"Mom… I know Nate will always be your baby but let's face it he isn't very good with responsibility… Maybe its time for him to grow up! Make your own money!" When the last words were spoken he was directed to Nate. There were always fights between the siblings, and right now they were in the middle of Nate not growing up, in a less then a year he would join Troy and his father and Bolton Hotels.

"Troy just shut up! Just because you are the perfect son in this family!" Nate mutters to his older brother. And once again tense silence was over them.

"Boys! I haven't seen either of you in a long time could you please behave now?" Their mother pleaded with her sons. She rarely met them and when they actually met the brothers was always arguing or simply ignored each other.

"Sorry mom..." Troy excuses like a little boy that did something wrong. He maybe was in line to be owner Bolton Hotels but he still had a lot of respect for his mother.

"Like usual Troy is sucking up! Mom! I think this was a bad idea!" Nate says complaining to his mother, he also going down to a small child's level in maturity.

"Yeah somebody has to do that to Nate!" He spat at his younger brother. Their mother sighs at the immaturity her two sons had at the moment. But it wasn't unusual with her sons, after all they had always been at each others throats since they had hit puberty, both always wanted the prettiest girl, and the girl always picked Troy because he was the oldest and Troy just had to rub it in his brother's face that he was the most wanted Bolton of the two. And when Troy dumped the girl the evil circle started al over again. It was routine, and you don't break a working routine.

The rest of the elevator ride was in silence, the only word that came out of Troy's mouths was when he greeted people he knew in the building, people he saw everyday but not really knew. And once in a while you could hear Nate mumbling 'suck up' to him self. But Troy heard every time. He just ignored his brother like usually did. But in a near future he would regret that, he just didn't know it yet.

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She dropped the books in the green Diesel bag she was caring her books in at the moment. She had come down from her ninth cloud to rejoin with her fellow classmates in the regular stress the midterms was giving them but she smiles slightly with hope when she feels the phone vibrate in her pocket, forgetting everything about putting down books she picks up her cell phone but the hope left her when it was from her mom asking her is she wanted pizza for dinner.

"Hey girl!" Sharpay greats her best friend that now was completely down from her cloud. Reality had come over her. He wasn't calling her. She knew that now. She was just a young foolish girl. With believes about having a gorgeous guy that he wanted her.

"Hi Shar…" She answers her softly.

"Have Mr. Hotshot called you yet!?" She asks excitedly.

Gabriella just shakes her head. Her mind forgot about it and went back to remembering on what books she needed to take home with her. Sharpay on the other hand did not let this go! Her best friend was gonna get together with this big hotel owner, even if she had to kill her self on the way because her friend needed to get a boyfriend!

"You don't even care?! Why don't you call him!?" She suggests hoping that her shy friend would take a step up from her innocence.

"He just took mine…" She explains simply. "I got to go, mom and dad wanted me home.." She lied. Her parents were working tonight and she would be home alone. Probably doing her homework or something else that gave her the stamp of a geek. Because that was what she was a water proof geek and everybody knew it, she should understand it to! And beautiful guys like him don't go for a girl like her.

"If he calls you call me okay!" Sharpay shouts after her best friend that was leaving the corridor, she put up her hand in the air showing she had heard her friend's request, or demand what ever you want to call it. But she knew if she didn't inform her best friend about eventual progress in a possible relationship she would be dead.

She pulls out her Ipod and puts in the ear buds and starts the music and let it consume her on her walk home. She lets the heavy beat take her a place far from here, in a world she would be with Troy and his eyes would only be on her. They would dance and he wouldn't be able to take his eyes of her. Then he would whisper sweet nothing in her ear and sometimes dirty fantasies and she would blush at his confession. He would chuckle at this and place kisses on her forehead, then they would continue to dance, the moonlight being their only light he was wearing a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and black dress pants and he would look beyond gorgeous. She would wear a red silk dress as the danced together in perfect union.

She broke out of her trance when she saw her house nearing. Neither of her parent's cars was in the driveway. They wouldn't be home for an other four hours she guessed and that gave her plenty of time to finish her homework and probably watch TV to before her parents would come home from their jobs.

She takes out her keys to the house so she can come in to her house. She dumps her bag when she comes inside the door. She sighs and makes her way to the kitchen to find her self something to eat. When that thought passed trough her head her stomach growled lowly to inform her that it needed the food she giggles slightly to her self when that happened. She put her phone on the counter but before she left it unnoticed she opened and saw she had a text from an unfamiliar number. Letting curiosity get the better of her she opened it and read it.

Hi

-T

It was short. But somehow sweet. She didn't know why she thought it was sweet. She smiles brightly when she realize that he had actually kept his promise to her about contacting her.

Hi

- G

She copied him with her answer, with slight nervousness she sent the text away but she knew when she had sent it she wouldn't regret it. She put the phone down on the counter and went to the fridge to pick out something to eat. Finding a can of soda and a small chocolate bar. For having a mother who is a dietician they sure as hell had a lot a junk food in their fridge and having pizza for dinner. She would never have guessed her mother was an dietician. But she was a regular at the gym as well so she guessed that's why she stayed in cell phone vibrated again and she was surprised that she didn't fall when she literary jumped on the cell phone when it made the vibrating noise on the wooden counter.

Copycat :P Anyway you wanna

Do something this Saturday?

-T

Her heart was beating faster by the second at this question. Her hands was shaking but somehow she managed to type some sort of response with out sounding to eager.

Always ;) Yeah sure.

What do you wanna do?

-G

When she had sent it she realized how stupid she was! They had said they were going to the movies! Gah how could she be such an idiot?! For being a straight A student she sure as hell was clueless when it came to guys and dating. She looked at the home phone and considered calling Sharpay for advice but the thought was soon pushed aside, she would say she would call him instead of texting like they were now. Not noticing that her cell phone had started to get more vibrated in her hands and soon 'All about us' with TATU was screaming out in the quiet kitchen. Shocked at the sudden noise she nearly drops the phone on the floor but catch it in time. She answers not looking who it was and puts the phone to her ear.

"Gabriella." She says as a greeting to who ever was calling her now.

"Hi… Its me…" Her eyes opens widely when she hears that voice she probably would recognize anywhere now. If you heard the god spoken once you will never forget the beautiful words he has spoken.

"H-hi…" She stutters suddenly feeling shy and blushes wildly. She was happy that he didn't se her through the phone. She jumped clumsy up on the counter so her knees wouldn't give out on her while she talked to this God, if just hearing his voice would make her legs like jell-o then what the hell would happen if they did something else?!

"I didn't interrupt something did I?" He asks slightly worried. She smiles and his concern.

"Would I pick up if I was busy?" She giggles softly finding her self becoming more comfortable when she talked with him.

"I guess not… So what should be do on Saturday??" He asks and her heart races faster then her brain making it hard for her to think straight.

"Uh… You choose… I am up for anything really…" She says softly hoping he would take the hint. The hint that she wanted him to choose.

"Movie and a pizza?" He suggests. And she was grateful for the simple date plans.

"Sounds like a great plan… Uhm what movie theatre should we go to? I'll meet you there.." She says, she didn't want her dad to know about this just yet. She wanted to give it a shot before her father came and scared him of. Or banned her from seeing him.

"Just tell me your address and I can come and pick you up…" He replies and she hears him searching for some pen and paper, from the desk or were ever he was at the current moment. "I am ready just tell me your address…" He says. Its quiet on the lane for a while.

"Uhm.. Glades street house 13…" She says and keeps in a heavy sigh knowing she had just lost an argument that didn't even excited... If that made any sense.

"Great… I'll pick you up and 6?" He question her.

"Yep, that sounds great!" She smiles into the phone and waits for him to hang up first.

"Then it's a date, see you on Saturday…" He says before hanging up.

"It's a date…" She says to the quiet room. "It's a date." She confirms to her self before shutting the cell phone down.

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He leaned back on his coffee brown couch. He had done it. He had asked the perfect Goddess out on a date and she had agreed on it. It was a miracle, at least in his mind that this was a wish coming true. He looks at the wall clock; soon one of his best friends would come and drop of her daughter. Apparently her baby sitter was sick and she asked him if he could and being the good guy he is he left early from work to spend time with his god child.

Kelsi Nielsen got pregnant at 17 and the father said that he didn't want anything to do with either Kelsi or her child. But she kept her daughter and she raised her to the most beautiful girl in the world and the best thing Troy knew was watching because she was an angel. The door rang and he went to open it. And he was not surprised when the little girl hugged his leg tightly he chuckles softly at the action of love. He bends down and picks up the four year old girl with ease.

"Hey princess!" He greets her with a wide smile. "Are you staying with me tonight?" He asks the little girl who nods and smiles widely.

"Thanks for doing this un such short notice Troy…" Kelsi spoke up. He smiles to her. "I wouldn't ask you if there wasn't an emergency…" She apologize to her friend. Kelsi still being short and wearing her glasses. She hadn't changed mush since high school. Her daughter being mush like her. Green eyes that made her looked more innocent and with the brown curls she could be mistaken for a real angel.

"Kels its fine… You know I love watching Dani… And I needed to get out of the office for a while… So its fine, and if you are late she can stay here tonight and I'll take her to day care tomorrow…" He assures her.

"Thank you Troy… I'll call if am to late okay… And Dani behave for Troy now. I love you." She placed a soft kiss on her daughters back head before leaving.

"Bye mommy! I love you to!!" The little girl shouts after her mother when she walks down the stairs. Troy closed the door for them and carried both of them into the small living room he had. "I am hungry Troy!" The young girl whined.

"I'm on it Dani.." He chuckles. He drops her and let her run free in the apartment while he was making dinner for the two of them. He chuckles when he hears her starting the television she loved to watch Disney channel on his big screen TV. He lets his mind run free when he starts on dinner. Having no idea on were this dinner would end. But as long as it went down their throat it couldn't be that bad.

Later that night Troy found him self sitting on the couch with a sleeping girl over his lap. His hand was placed on her lower back keeping her safe on the couch. His other hand texted one of his co-workers. Asking about where he put some documents. While searching through his contacts he saw Gabriella's number there. He smiles at this. A small thought crossed his mind if he should text her. It was only 8.30 and she probably wouldn't mind if he started to text with her. He sent the message to his coworker and then he started on a text to Gabriella.

Hi

What you doing?

-T

He sent it and put the Iphone down on the couch and refocused on the television. The news was on and he listened on the stock market and how it was going. Then his own picture appeared on TV, they talked about the new hotel in China and him leading this work and some doubted his leadership while others thought he was an excellent leader. He just groans. Many thought he was simply to young to take over a big businesses as Bolton hotels. He would ruin the big company with his new ideas.

"Troy? When will mommy be here?" Dani was awoken from her sleep. Slightly confused about her location, she looks up at her god father waiting for his answer.

"When she is done working sweetie and if she gets too late you will stay here tonight and I will take you to day care..." He explains to the sleepy girl that seemed to understand what he was saying. He pushed a brown stray out of her face.

"Can I stay here tonight I wanna sleep…" She asks.

"If you want to stay you can stay sweetie… But then we should call your mommy first so she knows that you stay with me tonight." He says, the girl just nods to him. She was tiered this was pretty late for a four year old girl to be up, especially if she had day care the day after. Dani gets up from the couch and starts with heavy steps to go to Troy's bedroom. He chuckles softly at this before he fallows her and makes a quick text to Kelsi informing her about the situation. Glad for having a few spare clothes for her so she wouldn't need to wear the same clothes two days in a row.

She changed rather quickly and Troy sat on the edge of the bed tucking her in. "When will you go to bed Troy?" She asks while drifting in and out of her well needed sleep.

"About an hour or two sweetie… I haft to fix something things before sleeping Dani… But you sleep and I will be here as soon as I can… Okay?" He places a kiss on her forehead before heading out of the bedroom and let her sleep alone in quiet. He left the door slightly ajar if she wanted to have water or something.

After starting his laptop getting him self a fresh cup of coffee and a sandwich he remembers to check his phone to see if he have gotten an answer from Gabriella. He smiles when he sees that he has.

I am watching TV.

What about you?

- G

He thinks for a moment on what he was actually doing before answering.

Just put my godchild to bed.

Doing some work while eating^^

A perfect way to spend a Thursday night =P

- T

He sent the text and then he let his mind being carried away by boring work that needs to be done before tomorrow. Only good thing about tomorrow was that after Friday its always Saturday and on Saturday he will be out on a date with the most beautiful girl in this world. As long as tomorrow flies by everything will be just fine.

At least he thinks it is.

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