A/N; Yo yo, as usual you mates are amazing. I would like to send Zac to you all in thanks so just pretend he's there to give you a hug for your awesome reviews. Uhm, this chapter is more of a filler and a warmup for the next chapter, now I won't spoil anything because that would be a shame, but I think you'll like it ;) Once again, thank you so much your response was awesome and I get so happy when people likes what I write! Enjoy!

"What's with all your energy and happiness today, Gabriella? It is really starting to creep me off, and I slept with that Ryan Kwanten wannabe last night." Sharpay had never been one to be shy about her sexual activities.

"Nothing, nothing. I'm just so glad we're here, God it's such a beautiful paradise here, don't you think, Shar?" A very enthusiastic Gabriella said as she sat down at the breakfast table the next morning.

~*~

Gabriella's eyes met Troy's, she stared, he looked back. She couldn't rip her eyes away, it was impossible. The sparks in her stomach came back, tickling her sides as if trying to tell her something. And as something moved far away down the slopes from the Hillside, the blue-eyed guy make the quickest movement of his life and grabbed the woman in front of him, tugging her to him, staring into her beautiful eyes while he stroked her slightly pink cheek.

And then he kissed her.

~*~

Sharpay looked over at Taylor who also sat at the table, reading the newspaper before her other friend came to the table. The exchanged weird faces and then turned them back to their currently very happy friend.

"What's up with you?" Taylor asked, watching as Gabriella showed a big piece of bread in her mouth and chewing for all she was worth, the beaming eyes far away.

"Gabriella!" Sharpay snapped, her hand moving in front of the brunettes eyes to make her come back down to earth.

"Huh?" Gabriella said confused, taking another big bite of her sandwich.

"Welcome back do earth," Taylor smiled when Gabriella looked at her confused. "What's up with you today? You're acting like you've won on lottery or something."

"I'm just happy, since when was that a crime?" The brunette explained simply, looking at her best friends as if she didn't know what they were talking about.

Life was good, the night had been good, things were good.

"Let's see, maybe since you haven't been like this since… I can't actually remember which is very uncommon for me since I am Sharpay Evans after all, but that's beside the point. The point is, something must have happened because you were not this 'happy' – as you put it – yesterday when you complained like a dead cat to Taylor about the Bolton boy, who by the way are coming over right at this moment." Gabriella flew around, and true to Sharpay's words, there was the reason to why she was so happy this morning, walking towards their table was Troy, clad in light washed jeans and a grey t-shirt with the United Kingdoms flag and some text on it that clung to his upper body perfectly.

A beaming smile once again lit Gabriella's whole face when she met his eyes, and so did his. The four eyes that watched the two people in front of them went wide when the blue-eyed boy bent down to kiss their best friends cheek tenderly.

Troy took hold of a chair from the table beside them and placed it beside Gabriella's, sitting down and then placing his arm around the back of her chair, looking at the two other female at the table who was currently in shock.

Gabriella wasn't focused on her two best friends but on the man sitting on her side, his masculine scent filled her nose trails making her insides turn like butterflies. She looked over at Troy and blushed when he winked at her.

"W-what is going on here? Is Ashton Kutcher here or something? Why are you two acting like you are... friends?" Sharpay said shocked, and Taylor nodded in agreement, not being able to close her mouth or get a word out.

"Why are you so shocked, Sharpay? You wanted this all along, didn't you?" Troy asked with an amused smile on his face as he bent over to pick up a bite of Gabriella's sandwich, making Gabriella smack him playfully on the chest.

"Of course I freaking wanted this! But what the hell happened last night?" Gabriella rolled her eyes, Sharpay always acted like she had the right to have all the secrets and dirty details; it was quite funny sometimes actually.

~*~

"God, Troy, where did all this come from? We've never talked this much without being mean to each other before, and suddenly you exclaim that you want to know everything about me. How am I supposed to know you're not going to backstab me later and laugh with all the other creepy players here?" Gabriella exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air to add to the dramatic effect.

"Because if you ask Chad, he is going to say that I've been madly in love with you since the day you arrived here." Troy explained, making her giggle a bit resulting in him grinning too. "And if you ask me, that is a bit dramatic and too much untrue, but I've definitely been interested in you since you came." Gabriella cocked an eyebrow at him again, crossing her hands over her chest. "Even though I showed it in a bad way." He hurried to add, making her nod in agreement.

"That you did."

~*~

"I mean it's not like you had sex last night like I did, because you don't have that glow, but dang girl – and boy," she nodded her head to Troy. "You did some pretty good things."

This made Troy laugh, he'd known Sharpay for a very long time and he knew how she could be blunt. But Gabriella just glared at her best friend, trying to understand why she always had to be so blunt and just completely careless. Because even though the blonde girl was not shy at all about her sexual activities, the brunette was quite the opposite and she liked to keep it that way. Especially since she and Troy had made up just last night.

Taylor, who had now gotten her sake back, saw her friend's unease and nudged Sharpay under the table, earning a glare form her. "What Sharpay means," Taylor corrected. "Is what happened between you two last night that makes you so happy?"

"Uhm, well-"

"YO TROY MATE!" Ah, saved by Chad. The crazy-haired man came walking across the restaurant in a hurried pace towards the four friends table. He didn't seem to notice anything that wasn't natural then, he was so focused on the task he had came to accomplish that when Troy turned around to face him and placed his hand on Gabriella's knee instead, he didn't observe it.

"What's up, Chad?" Troy asked, a bit too enthusiastic if you asked Sharpay and Taylor. They crossed their arms over their chests and shook their heads in a not approving gesture. Gabriella cringed a bit in her seat and turned her attention to the newly came male who talked business with Troy.

"And well, I told him that it was your day off but he wouldn't have it and insisted on that you work today. I'm sorry man; there was nothing I could do." He apologized when Troy groaned and let his head fall back to rest on the top of his chair.

"I swear that man hates me as much as I hate him," he muttered as he took a last bite of a giggling Gabriella's sandwich, bending over and kissing her forehead. This once again went unnoticed by Chad since he was currently busy talking quietly with his girlfriend. "I'll see you later?" Troy asked quietly only him and Gabriella being able to hear.

Gabriella nodded and gave him a small smile before she watched him walk away with Chad on his side, now discussing something she would thing was about this man that hated Troy as much as he hated him. The smile on her face didn't disappear once he was out of her sight, and when she turned back to the table again she was met by two smirking girls.

"Ooh, you have it bad, Gabriella Montez," Sharpay cooed, smirking triumphal at her best friend.

"Real bad," Taylor nodded in agreement.

-

"Come on, Gabriella, you've got to tell us!" Taylor exclaimed later that evening. The three girls were currently sitting in Chad's living room that had turned out to be more and more Chad and Taylor's living room. Tea mugs and sweets were on the table between them within reach when one of them wanted it.

"What? What do you want to know exactly that I haven't already told you?" The brunette beauty said, curling up her feet under her butt to keep them warm.

As it turned out, Troy had to work all day which left him no time to see Gabriella like they had planned on. And therefore she'd been cornered by Taylor and Sharpay asking her questions about her and Troy, questions that she couldn't quite make out the answer to.

"Are you two together?" Sharpay said in a 'duh'-tone.

Gabriella looked down at the cup in her hand, twirling it around on her finger while trying to come up with a good answer that would keep her from being bombed with more awkward questions like this one. "Umm…" Truth was Gabriella didn't know if what she and Troy had was a relationship. She liked him, yes she had admitted that, and he seemed to like her but they never really discussed that little detail. "I don't know, girls, I truly don't know…"

"But-" Sharpay was about to complain but she was interrupted by the front door being opened and two familiar faces with snow in their hair stepped in. A smile immediately crept up on Gabriella's face when she saw the one in the back, smiling happily back at her.

"We're home!" Chad – who was too busy getting his shoes off to look up and see the girls sitting in the living room – shouted, making the other four laugh.

While Taylor dragged Chad into the living room to give him a proper welcome home, Gabriella took his place in the hall in front of Troy. The smiles hadn't left any of their faces since they saw each other and they stood and smiled ridiculously at each other for a while before Troy bent over to give her a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Hi," he said softly.

"Hi."

"How was your day?"

"Good, it was good. Yours?"

"Pretty boring to be honest."

"Hey lovebirds! Stop sneaking around in the hall and come in here, we have some things to discuss!"

Both Troy's and Gabriella's smiling faces fell when the voice reached them and their eyes met one last time sharing the look of disappointment before they made their way towards they eager friends. One day they would do the same to them, one day.

"Yeah?" Troy said in a pretended cheering voice.

"So there is this new club…" Chad's voice slowly faded away when Gabriella got lost in the picture through the glass in his living room, her thoughts drifting off to someone with lighter skin, golden hair and sparkling blue eyes.