Hello! Well long time no read hope you enjoy it! Not so many chapters left! I am thinking about my next story I will write so yeahh hope you enjoy and give some positive feedback!

His hand was dragging up and down her bare arm. She was upset he knew that. But he couldn't figure out what to say to her. Not even close so he held her. Because that is al he could do without upsetting her further. She had gotten here earlier tears streaming down her face. Talking fast and scatted nothing made sense when she talked. But then she had said it loud enough for him to hear. She wouldn't be able to run in nationals. A sprained ankle, she would be out for two weeks nationals were in one. Everything she worked for was ruined. She wanted it so bad. That's why it hurt she had wanted it for years and worked for it. So he had managed to calm her down and they started a movie that neither of them was watching but it made the silence disappear.

"You want something to eat?" He asks quietly. Afraid to upset her again but she remains quiet. "Gab?" He asks again still no answer. He looks down at her and he sees that her eyes are open so she is just ignoring him, her mind working over time trying to process the day. He feels helpless. He knew how important this was to her so this was devastating to her because he knew that Susanna girl would take her place and that was almost worse than the injury.

They had been in competition for years and when finally she beats her, this happens. It was supposed to be her time to shine and get the scholarship to her dream collage in her case Stanford. But it was all lost now.

"Gabriella." He shook her slightly forcing her to look at him. Her eyes still red and puffy. He hated to see her like this. Even worse that he couldn't do anything about it. "Have you eaten anything today?" He asks her hoping she would answer.

"Lunch.." She whispers. "But I am not hungry." She ads looking down again. It was 9 pm now she hadn't eaten all day. She usually was starving when school ended.

"You need to eat baby." He got up from the couch and got in to the kitchen to find something for her to eat. He hadn't mush so and energy bar and orange juice had to do. He walked back in to the living room and she was curled up holding a pillow as a replacement for him. He sits down on the edge and hands out the bar and the glass of juice.

"Still not hungry." She mutters.

"I still need you to eat." He replies. And he knows she is hungry as she sits up and takes the food he has given her. He smiles softly at her as she eats the bar slowly. She glances at him and tries to smile but fails. He leans in and kiss her temple softly. "I love you." He says in hope of cheering her up.

"I love you too Troy." He place another kiss on her temple at her words and lean back on the couch placing his arm around her shoulders. "You think I still have a chance to get in to collage?" She asks quietly.

"Yeah you do. It's a sprained ankle not a busted knee or anything, you will do great next year and think they understand that you can't participate because you are injured." He answers her honestly.

"Thanks Troy." She says.

"For what?" He asks confused.

"For being you." She answers and he smiles at her softly and kisses her.

Getting around in school in crutches? Not as easy as one would think people had absolutely no respect for the weak and the wounded. Just push your way through. Gabriella groans for the billionth time that day. She was still upset about the injury. Troy had tried all weekend to cheer her up but she wasn't smiling. She was bitchy as ever.

Her mind was working overtime she was unable to collect her thoughts. She was confused over everything.

"Sweetie are you okay?" Sharpay broke her thinking. She looked at the blonde. "Gabi?" She asks again and Gabriella opens her mouth to speak but can't form her words fully so she just nods and smiles to confirm that she is okay. "No you're not but seeing as I am a great friend we will get a cup of coffee after school and talk this through."

Gabriella just smiles at her friend happy to have a friend like her that just knew when she needed someone to talk to and right now she truly needed her.

"Thank you Shar. I really need it." Gabriella answers and she tries to walk to the last class of the day. Sharpay helping her with her bag.

"Is it juicy though? Because you never talk about Troy anymore? Are you breaking up?" She asks trying to get as much information as possible from her. She was to curious for her own good. But her best friend was shy and quiet so if something big happened between her and Troy she had to force it out of her.

"Yeah I guess… I don't know. I just need to have some girl talk." Gabriella replies, they arrive to the class room and sit down in the back. "Just need some answers." She ads with a cautious smile Sharpay's mind is working overtime as well wondering what her best friend needed to talk about.

Troy had late lunch with his father. He already regretted it.

His dad dragged on and on about… something he stopped listing to a long time ago and pretended to work on his Ipad. Jack didn't seem to notice though or he was just used to talking to Troy's deaf ears.

"Oh and Apple called us." Troy looks up Apple always called his dad because they could get him buy these 'great offers only for him'. He waited for the rest of the story. "We are upgrading our system again and they would do it for cheap and everyone on the board would get free Ipads!" Troy sighs. They didn't really need an upgrade of their system or computers and he already had three Ipads. One for work one for private stuff and the third just laid in its box in his office. Who knows one of the ones he has might break.

"Dad, we just did that we don't need it and you don't even know how to use an Ipad." Troy groans. His dad barley used his cellphone.

"I can learn to use one!" He defends him self. Troy raise an eyebrow questioning him. "Okay fine! I hate those damn things! But maybe Gabriella wants one? She can have mine." He offers. "She hasn't been coming to the office lately. You are still together right?" He asks racking his brain if he had missed something again.

"Yeah dad… She is just not happy about her sprained ankle so she sits at home and is upset." He explains to Jack. "But I bet she will be thrilled about a new Ipad." Troy chuckles. Jack just shrugs his shoulders he hated everything technical anyway because he didn't know how it worked. He remembered the good old days when they sent letters and not emails and filed papers and not had on a computer.

"Great then I will get more favorite point over you mother!" Troy looked at his father. Points? Really? His father had made it his life mission to get more points from his sons then their mother and that was okay when they were younger because that meant more things and money and freedom the weeks they were at their fathers place and their mother became the witch who had curfews and rules. But when you are twenty-two you are kind of over it.

"Dad… Don't put her in the middle of your arguments." Troy warns him. They always argued and liked to drag them in the middle of it. Troy and Nate had gotten better at reading the sign and lay low when they started with their fights.

"We don't argue!" Jack begun. Troy raised his eyebrows to question him and Jack knows that he can't win this when Troy has raised his eyebrows.

"Dad argue all you want with mom but my girlfriend is not getting in the middle of it! Either way I gotta get back to the office and actually work so have a nice day dad and I'll see you later." Troy sighs and leaves his father.

Gabriella and Sharpay had arrived to the small café they usually went to get coffee and just talk. But today was a special day and Gabriella was the one who was doing the talking and she had no idea how to start this conversation.

"So sweetie what did you wanna talk about?" Sharpay begins. And Gabriella was biting her lip like she always did when she was nervous and she wasn't just nervous she was uncomfortable she just didn't know what to say and do. "Gabi what is it? Do I have to drag it out of you?" The blonde asks her best friend.

Gabriella sighs and grips her coffee cup firmly. She opens her mouth but closes it again. "How…I mean… When…" She groans not knowing how to go forward with this conversation. "I was wondering…" She took a deep breath. "How do I know I am ready?" She finally gets out.

"Well if it's your choice you just know in your gut. But if its Troy pushing you dump him even if he is a hot millionaire." She answers her best friend. Gabriella smiles to her feeling grateful for having her as a best friend. Even if she was a drama queen most of the time and demanded a lot of attention.

"He is not pushing me he is being great and understanding." She takes a sip of her coffee cup. Sharpay waits for her to continue. "But I don't know I feel ready to take the last step but at the same time I don't want to." She hoped it made some sense to her best friend.

"Gabi… I know you and I love you but I think you are trying to make this perfect and I get that but sometimes I think you get this expectation in your mind and when reality is not meet. You get upset." Sharpay was being honest about this and hopes Gabriella won't get upset by it. She was quite sensitive about this.

Gabriella was thinking hard to process this truth. She sighs. "I do that a lot don't I? But I don't want it to be a quickie on the couch." She explains.

"And it shouldn't be like that but it isn't like the movies." Sharpay smiles to her best friend who smiles back not feeling much better about the situation but had at least she had gotten some answers.

She was sitting at the kitchen table and doing some homework she hadn't done yet and she felt her mother's worrying eyes on her back. She had been quiet all night that's why she had her eye's on her. But she was ignoring it she didn't wanna talk about anything just doing her homework in peace. But of course that was to mush to ask for knowing her mother would never accept her daughter being grumpy in her house!

Gabriella tried her hardest to ignore her mother's steps around the kitchen. Looking at her daughter every now and then trying to be discreet but her mother was not known to be discreet. She was like Gabriella clumsy and was often caught staring at things she shouldn't be staring at.

"Gabriella sweetheart.." She begins carefully. She tries her hardest to shut her mother out. "Is everything okay? I mean you seem upset." Her mother continues making it impossible to ignore her. So she gives in with a heavy sigh giving her mother the attention she wanted.

"Yeah everything is good mom… I'm just upset about the foot." She explains and that was almost the truth. She didn't wanna talk to her mother about her private issues. She just smiles politely to her.

"Okay.. But if something was bothering you.. you would tell me right?" Gabriella lets out a small laugh about her mother's concern. But just nods at her not wanting her to be worried her daughter.

"Yeah mom I would… I promise."