I am really busy at the moment so I hope that i will upload soon! And hate me if you want for being slow but I am going through a really hard time right now so please bare with me... :)

One day and fourteen hours. That's how long they've been apart. Him being in Chicago at the moment and her still in Albuquerque. So yes this was going to be a long month. He had promised to call her every day though. And so far he had.

Because it had only been one day and fourteen hours!

Are you coming home soon?

She texted him this morning, she had hardly slept anything because her bed was big and it was very lonely, she had been offered to go to his place while he was away. But she said thanks but no thanks because his bed was bigger then hers and she didn't wanna wake up alone in his bed.

Its been one day Gab 3, but if it helps I miss you too.

The texts went back and forth between them and she missed him and Sharpay and Chad was going insane with her but at the moment she didn't really care.

"Gab there is a party this weekend maybe you could come with us you knew try to forget that Troy is out of town and such…" Sharpay suggest.

"Yeah because I am such a party person and I will be a great company while the two of you make out in a corner. Awesome night!" The last part is said sarcastic from her side and Sharpay just glared at her. But Gabriella didn't care she just continued sulking.

Its was harder then he imagined, it was harder to sleep, he barley had any time to call her but when he actually did he smiled the whole the conversation even if she just talked about a day that was just like the previous days before but it was something he always looked forward to. Just to hear her voice calmed him down. So when his phone rang while looking through some paper in his room. He was surprised, he usually was the one who called.

"Hey…" He smiles.

"Hi… What are you doing?" Her voice sounded so soft and fragile.

"Nothing really… Looking through some paper and just missing you. How about you?" He asks knowing that she has probably been running and done some schoolwork and perhaps been with Chad and Sharpay.

"You know what I have done" She giggles. "Shar and Chad are trying to convince me to go to a party on Friday." She confess to him.

"But I guess that you don't want to." He asks.

"I don't know… I am not really a party type "

"Then don't go…" It was a simple solution, and he didn't want her to either because he knows how teenage guys work, get her drunk and get into her pants. No he wasn't jealous he just preferred it when his girlfriend was in his arms and not some drunken ass. And besides she said so herself she wasn't the party type.

"I don't know… Maybe I'll go just to see what the fuzz is about." She says softly. Fuck he missed her. What wouldn't he do to just get back to his bed tonight and have her beside him. He usually hated Chicago but right now he hated it more then ever.

"You do that baby… Anyway I have a surprise for you when I get home and I think you gonna like it." He says teasingly.

"I hate you! You know I wanna know when you say things like that!" She mutters to him but he can't help to smile. God he misses her.

"You don't hate me, you don't date someone you hate! Hey it even rhymes." He laughs at his own joke and he hears her giggle on the other side of the phone. "I…" he begins but stops him self, that was to big to say over the phone.

"You what?" She asks him.

"I miss you…" He saved the situation.

"I miss you to…"

"I gotta go but I'll call you tomorrow okay?" He says.

"Okay… Good night " Then the conversation was over. He found it harder to not say the words he desperately wanted to say to her. Those simple words yet so powerful. The "I love you" was coming on.

"I will go to the stupid party if it makes you shut up!" Gabriella said on Thursday afternoon after hearing several people nag at her to come because lets face its not like she has anything better to do. Well maybe she and Troy would have a really long conversation on Friday night and… Who was she kidding its wasn't like they were talking about anything important.

"Sweet! Little Gabi will go to her first party and she will be awesome at it!" Chad half sang while eating his cheeseburger. Then he kissed Sharpay softly and Gabriella's heart hurt at that because she knows she won't be able to kiss her boyfriend tonight like she usually does. She will just hear his voice and she just had to settle at the moment.

Some cheerleaders came up and joined them at the table where they sitting and Gabriella didn't really pay mush attention to them but instead she focused on Chad who was doing some trick that made him look like a fool but al the other laugh and that was what Chad always wanted to make people laugh, that guy could make anyone laugh in the darkest moment of your life.

The cheerleaders glance at Gabriella every once in a while and she looked down at she was wearing and it was a blue puma sweatshirt she had taken from Troy and pair of tight low cut jeans with converse, it was nothing unusual for her to wear except that the sweatshirt was to big for her but it calmed her down when she could feel his musky and warm smell. So she looked back at them with a questioning look.

She nudged Sharpay lightly in the ribs with her elbow to get her attention and it succeeded and she nods in the cheerleaders direction and looks questioning at Sharpay.

"I don't know." Sharpay in a tone that was unusually low for being her.

"I feel like a zoo animal." Gabriella whispers.

"You don't look like one…" Sharpay says softly but with a wink in her eye.

Gabriella tried to ignore them but its quite impossible to do that. They looked at her again and giggles and whispers.

"Excuse me is there something wrong?" She asks them annoyed at the unwanted attention.

"No not at all… Its just…" They starts giggling again and Gabriella has no fucking clue what the hells wrong with them, maybe they've fallen down from a pyramid or just ran into a wall. "Is it true that you are dating Troy Bolton The Troy Bolton?" They asked in awe.

"Why do you ask?" Gabriella suddenly feeling uncomfortable in this situation wishing she had never asked them what was wrong.

"Because is like superhot and super rich!" Came the answer.

"I'm leaving." And so she did because she wasn't in the mood for an integration from bitchy cheerleaders.

"I don't wanna go…" She whined into the phone on Friday afternoon to her boyfriend who was kinda glad that she was so negative to the party. But of course he didn't say that she was free to have a life besides him. He had a life beside her so why shouldn't she be allowed to have a life of her own.

"Then don't…" Came his simple answer. Why complicate things that wasn't complicated to begin with?

"I have to… Shar and Chad is forcing me."

"Then go home early…" He laughs softly. He missed her like a crazy person. Was it even possible to miss a single person this mush? He couldn't remember a time when he felt so strongly towards one single person. "By the way my mom wants to meet you when I get home." He says.

"Should I be afraid?" She giggles and he can't help but smile.

"Not as mush I fear you dad. He is a scary dude! And my mom thinks its about time that I met someone that can tear me from work. So she will probably love you and discus our future and what we should name our kids."

"Our kids? You see us having that kind of future together?" Her voice sounded uncertain and insecure.

"Yeah… I mean it just feels right with you…" He explains to her hoping he hadn't scared her of.

"It feels right with you to." She answers softly.

"Good…" He smiles from ear to ear knowing she would probably be by his side when he was sixty years old. And for many it was a scary thought but when he saw it with her it was just peaceful to think about it.

"I got to go Troy but I'll call you tomorrow or you me… Whatever." She giggles softly

"Okay have fun tonight…" He says and then the conversation is over.

So a drunk Gabriella? Not the best idea Chad and Sharpay have had in their minds. Drunk Gabriella is everything Sober Gabriella isn't, she is loud, mean and just all over the place. And they don't like that side of her. Its just not… her.

"Should we get her home because she is wasted!" Chad ask his girlfriend when they see Gabriella doing an other round of shoots with the football team.

"I think so… Or maybe she should be staying at my place because her dad will kill us if she comes home that wasted." Sharpay reasons with him. They both know that her dad is way to protective of her and she coming home like this would probably kill him and his soul.

"Yeah that's probably the best idea." Chad says.

"Lets get her home before they suggest body shots!" Sharpay hurried over to her best friend that was out of her mind drunk. And she would be feeling the causes of it tomorrow. "Sweetie maybe we should go home now… You are a bit drunk." Shar says to soften the reality of her state.

"No! I am having fun!" Gabriella whines like a child.

"Yeah and soon you'll be having to mush fun… Believe me. This is the booze talking and not you and tomorrow you will thank me." She promise her best friend.

"Then you have to drive me to Troy's apartment… I wanna sleep there tonight!" She commands.

"And how do you plan on getting into his apartment hunnie?"

"I have a key." She answers like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"You forgot to tell me that part then!" Sharpay was a bit annoyed to not been informed of this part of their relationship. "Best friends? My ass!" She mutters to her self then she starts helping her best friend to the car witch was shown to be a difficult task when Gabriella suddenly seemed to become best friends with every single one at the party. "Gab come on! I wanna get home tonight and not in a week!"

"But I just want to say bye to everybody…" Gabriella whines.

"You can say bye the next time we are at a party okay?" Gabriella nods and fallows Sharpay out to the car and when she finally gets in she talk constantly. "So where does he live?"

"You know those buildings that were build like three years ago and was sold for a fortune?" Sharpay nods. "He doesn't live there." Gabriella giggles hard at her own joke.

"You know if I don't find out where he lives you are staying at my house tonight." She warns.

"Bennett street building 4" Gabriella answers less amused now.

"Thank you!"

He is about to go to bed when he hears people outside his door being loud and just annoying, he was exhausted and just wanted to sleep. Then he heard his lock go open and he wondered who the hell was here in the middle of the night, was he being robbed? Then he heard the familiar giggling.

"Gab?" He shouts out.

"Troy?" She asks happily. Then Gabriella appears in his room. And she smells heavily of booze. "What are you doing home? You are supposed to be in Chicago!" She states.

"We finished early and the New York office postponed a few days so I am home until Tuesday…" He explains to his drunken girlfriend.

"That's awesome!" She giggles.

"Yeah… It is… But babe how did you get here because I doubt you walked here." He asks her. Sharpay makes her self known.

"I drove her…" Sharpay explains. "I am Sharpay." She stretch out her hand to the shirtless man in front of her.

"I am Troy, nice to meet you." He says politely. "How mush did she have to drink?" He asks her.

"She and the football team did shoots so a lot." She giggles. "I am gonna go now so she is your responsibility." Troy just smiles and then looks at his drunk girlfriend.

"How are you feeling?"

"My head is spinning." She states.

"Then we are getting you to bed." Said and done within half an hour she was in one of his t-shirts and under his covers curled up to him sleeping heavily. And even if they haven't been away for that long it felt better then ever to be next to each other.

His kisses was placed on and visible skin of her body wanting her to wake up from her sleep. She mumbled something but he continued his loving treatment of her neck. "Baby…" He whispers softly and brushes hair out of her face. She blinks slowly, adjusting to the light. "Hey sleepyhead…" He says softly.

"What time is it?" She asks groggily, her head pounding.

"11.30…" He smiles, then he gently place his lips on her lips kissing her.

"Did I sleep that long?" She burst out after the kiss.

"You usually do that when you are drunk…" He chuckles. He watch her bite her lower lip and find it very cute. "So shots with the football team? Is there any chance I should be worried?" He asks already knowing the answer.

"Do you really think I would be here then?" She asks him.

"People do weirder stuff believe me…" He kisses her again.

"Well its you I wanna be with so I am not gonna jinx that." They both smile.

"I love you…" He blurts out.

"What?" She sits up shocked over his confession. "You love me? Already!" She had no idea how to react to the situation that was new and foreign to her. She would understand Greek easier then this.

"Shit… Look it wasn't supposed to come out like that, but yes I love you and I know its big words and I know that I am speaking the truth when I tell you that." He explains. "And if you can't say it yet its cool okay? I want you to mean it." He says to her hoping and praying that he haven't scared her of for good. She nods at his words. "Lets just get up and have breakfast okay?"

"Its more like lunch…" He smiles at her softly at this.

They were good.