Hey, I'm sorry that this has taken me ages to put up, but I've been really busy recently. I'm going to try and update the chapters more frequently now. There's days when I don't do anything, so hopefully I can get loads done! :)
It's kind of a long one, the longest chapter in this story anyway, I hope it was worth the wait. Review x

The next morning, Gabriella was awoken to the sound of her rather loud alarm. She hit it with her hand and lazily sat up.

"woaaah, mistake!" she said to herself. Her head was spinning.

Gabriella swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood up, standing still for a couple of minutes until she was no longer dizzy.

After deciding a shower would be a good idea, she slowly walked into her bathroom, taking her clothes off and climbing into the shower.

As the water rushed down her, she felt her muscles relax, and the memories of last night came back to her. The fashion show, and of course, the party.

After shampoo-ing and washing herself, she turned the shower off, and wrapped herself in a towel. Throwing on a dressing gown and walking downstairs.

"you look as rough as I feel" Sharpay laughed, sitting at the table with her dressing gown on also.

"I could say the same for you" Gabriella smiled, sitting down and grabbing some toast.

"Here, I made you a coffee" Sharpay pushed a mug over to Gabriella and she eagerly took it. Sipping the hot substance.

"Just what I needed" Gabriella grinned.
"I know you so well"

After about a minute, Sharpay broke the silence.

"How good was last night?" She grinned excitedly.

"Pretty damn good!" Gabriella finished her coffee in record time. "I'm gunna go get ready anyway, we've got an hour anyway, you want a lift today?"

"Yeah thanks" Sharpay replied.

Gabriella dragged her feet upstairs and entered her room. She walked into her wardrobe, dropping her gown and towel, and grabbed some underwear from the drawer.

She picked out some leggings and a white/blue long top from her wardrobe and put it on. Finishing with some white flats. She smiled at her outfit in the mirror, then walked over to her dressing table, to start on her makeup.

Lucky for her, her hair hung in natural, loose curls, which always saved time.

After brushing through it, and applying her natural looking makeup, she grabbed her bag, phone and keys, and made an exit to the door.

"Ready?" Sharpay asked, as she reached the kitchen.

"Yep, lets go, I wanna stop at Starbucks and Gina's on the way anyway"

They exited the door, and then went on their way to work.

When they arrived, Gabriella parked her car in the staff car park, then walked in the opposite direction to the building, in order to go to Starbucks.

"You drink so much coffee!" Sharpay commented.

"I have a huge hangover, and I'll be falling asleep if not" Gabriella laughed.

"Good point"

They entered Starbucks and queued up, looking at the menu. When it was finally their turn, Gabriella asked for 'something strong'. Which made the staff laugh.

Gabriella paid the woman and waited for her coffee at the end.

"what you going into Gina's for" Sharpay asked, as they walked out of Starbucks.

"magazines, when I have nothing to do...I read" she grinned.

Sharpay laughed and they entered the newsagents.

Gabriella began scanning through the magazines, picking up one of her regulars 'vogue'.

"Erm, Gabs" Sharpay said.

Gabriella turned around, to see a paper in her hand, and a very worried face.

"What?" she replied, walking towards her and taking the paper out of her hands.

"Oh no." Gabriella paid for the newspaper and magazine and walked into her office, at a rather fast pace.

"morning Meg" Gabriella said quickly, to the other receptionist.

"morning Gabriella" she replied politly.

Gabriella said hello to everyone on her way to the lift, rushing as fast as her legs could take her.

When she finally arrived at her floor, she said bye to Sharpay and briskly walked into her office closing the door behind her and dropping her bag by the side of the desk.

She took the newspaper out of her bag and began reading the front page.

"Bolton's new Girl' Read the large, black writing. Underneath was pictures of her and Troy from the previous night. One of them drinking together, and another where they were talking.

'Troy Bolton, New York's best basketball player, was captured with Gabriella Montez (Owner of Twenty-One magazine) late last night.' Gabriella read in amazement, so it wasn't that bad...yet.

'The two were pictured together at different times throughout the night' Gabriella kept on reading, scanning the bits which didn't seem as important.

'Could this be Troy's new girlfriend?'

"What?" Gabriella said out loud.

'Pictured outside the nightclub, Troy and Gabriella's body contact shows signs of intimacy'

"INTIMACY?! YOU MUST BE JOKING!"

Gabriella shot her eyes towards the door, as she saw a figure lingering outside.

She recognized the figure as Troy Bolton's.

'Well this would look good' she thought.

"Come in Troy" She shouted. She saw Troy turn around and walk in.

"Hey" he said, shyly.

"You've seen the papers then?" Gabriella laughed slightly.

"Yeah, I thought I'd...come" he smiled slightly, sitting down on the sofa's.

Gabriella knew he found the situation just as awkward as he did.

"So, what do we do know?" Troy asked, finally bringing his head up to meet her eyes.

"What do you mean? I had a good time last night..." Gabriella grinned.

"Do you want to go out with me tonight?" Troy asked, a grin spreading across his face.

"I'd love to, I get off work at half 6" Gabriella replied. "Here's my address" she scribbled down her address on a piece of paper, and handed it to him.

"Pick you up at half 7?" he asked, accepting it and standing up.

"Perfect" she smiled.

The two shared a hug, and Troy walked out a rather large smile on his face.

"I take it he read the paper then?" Sharpay interrupted the silence, walking into the door.

"How do you...?"

"I saw him walking down the corridor, I couldn't help but come and investigate!" Sharpay grinned excitedly.

"We're going out tonight" Gabriella replied, logging onto her computer and taking a sip of coffee she had bought that morning.

"Oh, so your going to give things a go"?

"What? We're going out as friends Shar! Nothing else!" Gabi replied.

"You, are in denial sweetie" Sharpay shook her head and exited Gabriella's office, shutting the door behind her.

Gabriella shook her head also, and began to type away on her computer, working out who was doing what for this months magazine. Their meeting was in half an hours time, so Gabriella had plenty of time to gather her thoughts.

5 minutes before the meeting was about to begin Gabriella saved her work and saved it onto a memory stick, before grabbing her laptop and bag, and heading for the meetings room.

Almost everybody was there when she arrived, there was the general office chit-chat going around the table.

"Five mins till we start guys" she smiled at everyone. Gabriella walked to the head of the desk, and turned her laptop in, getting the things she needed out of her bag. She plugged her memory stick into her laptop, and then she was ready to begin.

"Morning everyone! Did you all enjoy last night?" Gabriella asked politely, once everyone was here. A crowd of 'yes' and 'yeahs!' erupted the room, each person turning to the next and sharing a quick story.

"Good. Right, so as you know, my goal is to make every issue of Twenty-One....better than the last, However, last issue was an amazing issue, and it went down well with the public. So, it's going to be hard to beat! But, it doesn't mean we can't try!"

Gabriella looked around and saw most of the people nod their head in agreement.

"So, I've been thinking of a few ideas this morning, and...I've come up with a few, but we need more! So, I'll pitch my ideas, then you lot can join in and add, does that sound okay to everyone?"

Everyone replied with a yep, yes, yeah or whatever other word they could think of that showed they agreed.

"As always, we need a feature on yesterdays antics, the fashion show and the party, So that could actually take up a few pages, if we fill it with pictures" as always, Gabriella waited for the room to tell her if her idea was good.

"I have some great pictures from last night!" Matt grinned enthusiastically.

"Perfect!"

After the meeting, everyone had been assigned their jobs, and what they would be working on for the next month. So the offices was pretty empty, due to everyone going out and having interviews done.

Gabriella had chosen to select some pictures out for the fashion show feature, then pass them on to Claire, a brown haired girl, early twenties, who was quite new to Twenty One. Gabriella thought it would be an idea, to get Claire to figure out some designs for how the feature would go. Gabriella explained they don't always go with their first idea, so she hadn't to feel disappointed if they didn't use it. Which thankfully, she understood.

By the time 6:30 arrived, Gabriella was beginning to get exited about what the night was going to bring with Troy. To think, all this started with a photo shoot at her magazine.

As Gabriella walked out of the building, she said goodbye to all the people still left in the building.

"See you later Sharpay" Gabriella called into her office as she passed by it.

"Have fun!" Sharpay winked.

Gabriella did nothing but roll her eyes and walk out. She was eager to get home and decide on what to wear. She didn't know what they were doing last night, so she figured she could be deciding for a while.

On arriving at home, she locked her car and unlocked her house. Stepping into the hallway, she hung her coat up and ran up the stairs. Gabriella threw her bag down onto the bed and headed for the shower. After a long day at work, she didn't want to smell!
She knew she only had an hour, so she made it a quick shower, lathering herself in shampoo, and washing her hair.

Gabriella glanced at the clock, 7:04, And she still didn't know what to wear. She was stood in her underwear in her cupboard, scanning the racks for something suitable.

Finally deciding, that she couldn't go wrong with leggings and a dress, she reached for some black leggings and pulled them on. Her next goal was to find a dress suitable!

Gabriella began looking through all her dresses she owned, she wanted to look pretty casual, so she decided on a white strapless dress, which was lightly covered in red roses. The dress stopped just above her knees. Satisfied with her look, Gabriella found some white sandals and placed them on her feet. She looked in the mirror one more time, and smiled.

"Troy!" Gabriella said, opening the door to reveal Troy. He was wearing some black skinny jeans, a plain grey top and a jacket. He looked handsome.

"Gabi! You look amazing by the way" He smiled hugging her. "You ready?"

"Yeah" Gabriella grabbed her bag and then walked out, locking the door behind her.

"So where are we going?" Gabriella asked, getting into the passenger side of Troy's car.

"Some fancy restaurant okay?" he asked, laughing.

"Perfect" she grinned. Gabriella was pleased she chose this outfit, as it would fit a restaurant perfectly!

Troy had taken Gabriella to a posh restaurant in the center of town, Troy had booked a table at the back, clearly for good reasons, the streets were flooded with paparazzi, so far, they had managed to avoid them.

"It's such a nice place here" Gabriella said, as they waited for their food to come.

"Yeah, I don't come here much, never really had a reason to" Troy laughed, playing with a napkin which was in front of him.

"That's a shame, I bet all the ladies you've had would have loved it!" Gabriella replied.

"Even you know I haven't been out with that many people, I'm fed up of people using me for my fame" Troy looked up at Gabriella, she knew she had hit a soft spot. "It's nice to know you're kind of in the same position as me"

"Troy, I'm hardly known throughout America! People know the magazine, they don't know the manager, I don't think they even care" she laughed.

"Gabriella, everybody knows who you are, if they don't then their fools!" He laughed "Foods here" he said discretely as a small women walked over, plates in hands.

"Enjoy your meal" she said, as she put the plates down and walked away smiling.

"Wow, it looks nice aswell!" Gabriella grinned, only just realising how hungry she actually was.

"That's always a good thing" Troy laughed, beginning to dig into his own meal.

The two talked slightly throughout the meal, talking about work, personal lives, and anything else that cropped up really.

"Can I have the bill please?" Troy said to a passing waitress. Gabriella reached into her bag and brought out her purse.

"No no!" Troy almost screamed "I'm paying" Gabriella laughed at his reaction.

"I don't mind" Gabriella insisted.

"Please! It was my treat!" he grinned pulling out his own wallet.

Gabriella put her purse back into her bag, admitting defeat, and watched awkwardly as Troy paid the bill. She didn't like people paying, she always felt harsh for letting them pay it.

Troy and Gabriella got their jackets and headed outside, towards the car.

"I knew they'd be here sooner or later" Troy nodded towards a group of paparazzi walking around the streets.

"Of course" Gabriella rolled her eyes at them and they headed towards Troy's car, ignoring the flashes and questions being thrown at them.

Once inside, Gabriella breathed a sigh of relief, escaping the paparazzi was always good, and it was even better that Troy had blacked out windows.

"I'd hurry if I were you, they're heading over here" Gabriella laughed.

"Oh piss off!" Troy said, starting the car and reversing.

Gabriella laughed, looking at Troy in his frustration "Oooh, Troy's a rebel" she grinned.

"Do you wanna go some place else? I know a beach, the paps don't go there much" Troy smiled, looking ahead at the road.

"Sounds perfect!" she grinned, looking out the window and smiling.

When the pair arrived at the beach, they got out of the car and walked, hand in hand down to the beach. Gabriella didn't know why Troy held her hand, but she wasn't complaining, she liked the closeness.

Gabriella looked over the horizon and noticed the sun, nearing the edge, dissapearing.
"I've always wanted to watch the sun set!" She grinned excitedly.
"There's a first time for everything" he smiled back, sitting down on the sand. Gabriella still held his hand, leaning into him and enjoying the comfort.

The two spent the night talking, laughing and watching the sun go down.

"I had a really good time tonight" Troy said, as he stood on her doorstep.

"Me too, I'd love to do it again sometime?" She almost said it as a question.

"Of course, I'll see you later" He smiled.

He leant in and they shared a quick, but sweet kiss. Pulling away, both grinning, they went in their seperate directions.

Hope you enjoyed It (: Sorry for the wait... Review x 3