I woke up the next morning surprising early. I jumped out of my blue covered bed and walked to the bathroom. I turned the shower and waited until it warmed up. As I waited I looked the mirror, mainly at my hair. The sandy golden locks were all over the place; that's bed hair for you. Parts were sticking up, parts were flat and some other parts were normal. I stripped down from my black boxers and jumped into the shower. I spent a few minutes letting the water drop down onto my hair, down my back, chest and running down the rest of my body before reaching for the body wash. I splashed some onto a clean flannel before washing it all over my body. I let it run down as I shampooed and conditioned my hair. Once I was done, I stepped out and wrapped a towel around my waist, dried my feet and walked out to my bedroom. I chose a pair of navy blue jeans and a light blue shirt. Once I was ready and dressed I styled my hair and jogged downstairs.
"Morning mum," I said as I sat down on a stool at the breakfast. "Morning to you too dad."
"Morning," he mumbled and drank some more of his coffee.
"Morning sweet heart," my mum replied in a cheery voice. I heard my dad say a quick good bye and kissed my mum and was out the door to work. "Don't mind him Troy, he didn't sleep much last night."
"Why not?" I asked, before tucking in to the pancakes my mum had made for me.
"He's been working on that project, to get that promotion he told us about," she explained.
"Okay," I replied and we carried on eating our breakfast.

After finishing off my breakfast, I headed upstairs to carry on with some homework before I called Gabi. I had woken up a little too early so I knew Gabi wouldn't be awake yet so I decided to start my math homework. After a while I had it finished and I was getting very bored. It was only 10 o'clock in the morning so I could either call Gabi and one; wake her up or two; hope she is awake and talk to her. I dialed the number 1 on my phone and pressed the hash key. Speed dial. Gabi is number 1.
"Hello?" I heard a tired voice say.
"Hey, it's me," I said.
"Oh hiya, Why are you calling me so early?" she said, obviously just woken up from my call.
"Erm, Gabi it's like 10 o'clock," I said, trying to keep myself from laughing.
"Oh my god! Is it?! My alarm clock must have stopped because it says that it's only 4:57 A.M. Well that's buggered up my day," she complained into the phone.
"Why has it?" I said, as I sat down in my desk chair and swiveled round aimlessly.
"Because I was going to get up early and do homework before I saw you," she shouted. "Ouch!"
"What's wrong?" I chuckled.
"I just tripped over," she said, whimpering slightly.
"Be careful, listen do you wanna come over today? Or are you going to be busy with homework?" I asked.
"Well, can I get this history and English done and the come over? It shouldn't take too long," she said.
"Yeah that's fine. I'll call Chad, see if he wants to battle on the Xbox," I grinned, knowing she couldn't see me.
"Just don't tell him that he is my replacement until later on," she laughed. "I love you Troy."
"And I love you Gabi. I'll call you later," I said.
"Alright," she said. I waited until she hung up before hanging up the call on my side.

I immediately rang Chad. Dialing 2 then the hash key.
"Hey dude" I said down the phone.
"Early morning wakeup call?" Came the dazed reply. I laughed.
"Ha right. Wanna come round? Xbox battle, just till gabi comes" I asked
"Then I'm thrown out I guess?" Chad asked, sounded offended
"Knock it off, You know she comes first dude" I laughed and begged with him until he agreed to come round for an hour or too. Thank god I was bored!
"See you inna bizzle then" Chad said, putting the phone down. I shoved my phone into my pocket and ran down the stairs, taking two flights and heading into the basement. Calling to my mum on the way. "Let Chad down when he comes!"

I turned on the tele and set up the Xbox. I decided we would just play whatever's in. Call of duty. Chad loves it.
"Yo dudeeee" Chad shouted, as he walked down the stairs. "Bang COD in" He yelled, grabbing a soda and sitting on a bean bag.
"Thanks for offering me a drink! And it's already in" I laughed, he always made himself at home, which was good...I guess.
"So what's this about me leaving when Gabi comes around, kicking me out are we?"Chad asked, suddenly faking a sad voice.

"Gabi's doing homework before we go out, so she told me to ask you to come round so I'm not bored" I loaded up the game and began playing, that conversation was killed.
"You laid her yet?" Chad asked casually, breaking the silence.
"What?!" I shouted at him, while pausing the game.
"You laid her yet?" Chad asked again, still looking casual.
"That's a private matter, don't you think. How can you ask so casually?" I raised my voice a little, but laughing at the same time. It was expected from someone like Chad.
"We're best friends! We can tell each other anything!" Chad said, sounding a little shocked at my rejection to answer. I suddenly heard a shuffle on the stairs and saw Gabriella emerging.
"Hey Troy, Chad" She smiled, taking a seat on a spare bean bag. "I can see you're in a...in-depth conversation, I'll go shopping with Taylor or something if you want?"
"NO!" I almost shouted, I wanted to spend the day with Gabriella.
"You are NOT just going to kick me out!" Chad laughed attempting to un-pause the game.
I sighed and looked at them both. "Fine, we can go bowling later? Us and Taylor?" I reasoned, maybe this way I could spend some....alone time with Gabriella.
"Okay, fine. Bowling it is," Chad agreed. "I'll be going then."
"Bye Chad," Gabriella's sweet angelic voice said.
"See you later Gabster, bye Troy," he said as he left the room.

"So, what you do want to do?" I asked about fifteen minutes later.
"Um… how about the Xbox? You can show me how to play Called of Duty… is it called? I don't know…" she said shyly.
"It's Call of Duty. Or COD. Whatever you can remember," I laughed. "You really want to play? It's kind of hard Gabi."
"Well, I have you to teach me play. C'mon, budge up," she said as she sat down.
"Um… okay," I said, unsure of what to say. Gabriella actually wanted to play an action game.

An hour later we were still playing it and I was currently losing. I am so going down on the ranking scale. She was doing it all wrong… shooting the wrong people, killing her own team. To sum it up, she was crap.
"Hahaha!! I'm killing people!" she screamed.
"Yeah, the wrong people! The people in green are your people; they are on your side but the blue ones are the people you're meant to kill Gabi. But you're killing your own people and ruining my perfect rep as you kill them," I complained.
"Oh well, I'm just practicing Troy," she said, shooting at random people on the screen.
"Yes, but I was in 2nd and now…" I paused to check the rankings. "Now I am 7th!"
"Opps…" she said. That was all she had to say.

"I'm hungry," she said as I finished off the game. She stopped half way through, complaining she was bored so I had taken over and was secretly happy as I could get myself higher up the ranking level. Right now, I am in 4th place. Better than 7th. "Troy."
"Hang on one second…" I said as I shot some guys and then saved and quit the game. "C'mon then, we can see what we have."

We went to the kitchen and rooted through the cupboards, only to find nothing that we actually wanted to eat. We looked in the fridge, but even there we found nothing we wanted.
"Want to go out for lunch?" I asked.
"Um… if we split it 50-50," she compromised.
"Okay, that's fine. You go get your money and I'll start the car up," I said, grabbing my keys from the counter. We walked to the door and I let her out first. She ran to her own house and I got the car out of the driveway and drove down the street and parked up outside her house and waited. About 5 minutes later she was back with her bag and was putting 30 dollars in her purse. "Why do you have that much money?"
"I don't know. My mum just gave me it…" she laughed and settled her bag down on the floor near her feet. "Where are we going then?"
"Um… wherever you want to go," I said
"No, don't do that. You choose. You spent money on me yesterday so you should get to choose," she said while turning in her seat to face me. "So, where do you want to go?"
"How about Pizza Hut," I said.
"Pizza Hut's good," she said smiling.

I drove to the nearest pizza hut and parked up in the car park. I got out and Gabi followed my actions and I wrapped an arm around her shoulders and locked the doors and walked into the restaurant. We had to wait a couple of minutes to be seated; and once we were we got a window seat. The view of the entire city as the restaurant was on a slight hill and had no buildings or café's or anything surrounding it. "What pizza are you getting?" I asked Gabi.
"Let me look," she replied and picked up a menu "What about pasta? There is one that looks nice called Penne Bolognese."
"That looks good," I said, looking at the picture. "What about the pizza's though?"
We spent quite awhile choosing what we were going to have and numerous times had the waitress come over to take our order. "So you want that then and a sprite?"
"Yeah, it looks nice so why not," Gabi said. We waited for the waitress to come over again and I ordered for us.

"Hiya, what can I get you?" the waitress said, mainly looking at me but looking over at Gabi every once in a while. "Drink first."
"Um… can we have a coke and sprite please?" I said and she wrote that down. "Can we order food now or wait until you're back with our drinks?"
"You can order the food now, its fine," Kate said, I learnt her name from the name tag she was wearing.
"Okay, so can I have the Penne Bolognese pasta and the Meaty BBQ pizza with a side order of onion rings, cheesy Nachos and um… BBQ Chicken Wings… do you want them Gabi?" I said and looked over at her. I saw her give a smile and nod. "Okay, so yeah the BBQ Chicken Wings and that's it."
"Are you sure you're going to eat all that?" Kate said.
"Yes," I said.
"We're very hungry," Gabi said smiling at Kate. "Can we have the Garlic Bread as well?"
I laughed at the way she said it because it was in the sweetest voice ever!
"Yes that is fine, I'll be back with your drinks," she said and walked away.

Soon we had all our food in front of us and we were staring at it shockingly. "Tell me again why we ordered this much?" I asked, looking up to look at Gabi.
"Um… if I remember correctly, you were the one that ordered all this food. So we have to eat it because you were to the one to order it!" she laughed and tucked into some of her pasta.
"Whatever," I said and started with some nachos.

"I'm full!" Gabriella said, leaning back and throwing down her fork. I looked at her with disappointing eyes,
"You shouldn't have ordered so much should you," I said looking at the plates half full of food.
"I was hungry… now I'm not." She laughed, looking innocent. I sighed and stopped the nearest waitress, asking for the bill.
"Forty Two Dollars, wow. I bet we only ate about $5 worth!" I laughed, placing $21 down on the table. Gabriella laughed and reached for her bag, bringing out her purse.
"Oh well it was worth it." Gabriella said.
Gabriella reached into her bag and brought out her phone,
"Chad." she said, "Hey Chad." Gabriella said, her angelic voice echoing. "We can be there in....10 min?" She said, looking at me for an approving look. I nodded and then we walked out of pizza hut, being lectured about how we were late. We hadn't even arranged to meet them at any time!

"Woooooo" I screamed "STRIKE! Gabi, we make a great team," I looked at Chad and laughed in his face. Chad had reluctantly teamed with Taylor, he wanted Boys V Girls. But he didn't get his way. "We're winning now!" Gabriella cheered kissing my cheek and picking up a rather large pink bowling ball. We fell silent as she threw it.
"Whoop, I got most of them anyway" she smiled, turning towards me and sitting down on my lap. "Can we go to the cinema after this?" Gabriella asked her voice once again, echoing.
"I'm up for it." Said Chad, Taylor nodded and I nodded also. "Looser buys the popcorn." Gabriella said, running up to the alley and throwing another ball, knocking the rest of the pins down.
"I'd go to the cash machine if I was you Chad," Gabriella teased.

At the end of the game, me and Gabriella had won, obviously, so Chad had agreed to buying the popcorn...It was just choosing the film which seemed to be the problem.
"The ghosts of girlfriends past," Taylor said, over the loud shouting.
"No, I'm not watching no chick flick" Came the reply from Chad. "What about Night at the museum 2?" I added suggestively.
"The Uninvited" Said Chad finally, catching a glimpse of the boards.
Everyone agreed and we went to buy the tickets.

"Argh!" Gabi and Taylor screamed and jumped of their seats. It was half way through the movie and it was at the most scary part. Gabriella gripped her arms around mine and rested her head into my neck.
"It's okay babe." I whispered. "It's not that scary."
"It is!" she screamed. I shivered from her breath that lingered on my neck for a few seconds before soundlessly disappearing.
"See look, it's past the scary part now," I soothed, trying to make her feel better.
"Oh yeah, so it is," she said shyly and moved her head to rest on my shoulder and watch the screen.

There were a few more times when she got scared before the film ended completely and now we were walking out of the theater and to the toilets.
"Right so me and Taylor will meet you both out here," Gabi said.
"Yep, that's fine," I said and waited till she was gone before heading to the toilets.

About 10 minutes later we were ready to go home. Driving through the lit up city of Albuquerque, seemed like it was taking forever. It was late at night; around about nine thirty and we had school in the morning so we couldn't stay out late. I stepped on it when I hit the high way, only to be slowed down by the traffic. Lots of traffic.
"Call your mum. Tell her you won't be long," I said passing my phone to her.
"Okay," she said as she dialed in the number. "Hey mum, yeah it's me, listen, we're gonna be a bit late there's a lot of traffic." She paused as her mum spoke on the other line. "Yeah okay. See you when I get home." And she hung up.

Finally we were out of the traffic and a couple minutes away from out houses. Soon enough I pulled up to the curb of her house and she kissed me quickly and said a brief goodbye and she disappeared into her house and I drove down to mine. I got up to my bedroom and stripped down to my boxers and fell into bed, and decided to get some sleep after such a long day. I heard my phone bleep and I flipped it open.

Night Troy. Love you x

I grinned and texted a quick text back.

Night Gabi. Love you more (: x

And fell soundlessly asleep.

Sorry it is out so late! Please read and review :) x