A/N: Oboy here we go again mates. I wish I had something that read my mind and wrote down everything I think you know how sometimes you know exactly what to write but you just can't do it, yeah that's exactly how I feel and I am kinda out of inspiration since it's been over a year since I started it and I just reeeallly wanna be done because I have something even BETTER coming up. Anyway I'm stopping now, here is the next chapter, I really hope you enjoy it and blame the person who came up with school for making it be very delayed... Oh and Happy late Easter mates, I sure got a lot of candy I really didn't need. Enjoy!

"Ohmygod, Gabi, you look fucking amazing!" Sharpay squealed when Gabriella opened the door from the inside of her hotel room. Gabriella smiled thankfully at her best friend as she stepped out of the door and turned around to close and lock it.

"Thank you, Sharpay." She paused to take a good look at her best friend properly. "You look…quite good yourself." Sharpay was wearing a hot very short pink dress that didn't have any straps and a pink coat over it, bag on her left arm ready to party till the sun shone again.

"Thank you, hun. I'm meeting Ryan Kwanten there," she announced knowingly before she started to stride with her gracious heals down the hallway.

Gabriella hurried to catch up with her again. "Sharpay, you can't tell me that you actually call him Ryan when you umm….have your ways with him." After all, it wasn't the real Ryan Kwanten, because Gabriella had actually met him (he was a very good friend) and he was not in Colorado right now, but in Hawaii filming his new movie.

"Of course not, Gabriella. Puh-lease, give me more credit than that."

Gabriella watched as Sharpay strode out of the lobby and headed towards a waiting cab that would take them down to the city of Colorado. "I'm not sure I can," she muttered and hurried to catch up with the blonde, again.

-

Troy watched from the bar when Gabriella laughed at something Sharpay had just said. She looked absolutely amazingly hot that night, a dark blue top that sparkled on her pale olive-skin and black skinny jeans that hugged her hips and legs perfectly, her hair was down in beautiful waves that his fingers itched to be run through and the makeup was soft on her sun-kissed face. If it would've been his choice they wouldn't even be there that right now, but somewhere else much more private, where her face would be only inches from his own, she was laughing at something he had said, and he could just shift forward to lean his lips on hers again.

He shook his head, he couldn't think of that right now. He was already there and it didn't matter how much he wanted or didn't want to be there because he was, and Gabriella was, and he couldn't just expect her to want to sneak off and have their own little party because they had 'made up'.

"Hey dude, what's on the menu tonight?" the bartender Kadrian interrupted Troy's thought. He turned towards the guy behind the bar that he'd known ever since he came to Croascount and it didn't surprise Troy that Kadrian had succeeded at getting a job at this new bar because he was the best bartender in the entire Colorado.

"Just water for me tonight, man." Troy replied and flashed a smile as his eyes wandered over to the brunette once again, it didn't seem as he could take his eyes off of her.

What he saw then was not something he'd expected to see that night. A guy in their age stood between Gabriella's and Sharpay's chairs, facing Gabriella, which meant that he was really close since there was hardly any space between the chairs. Troy didn't recognize the man but he sure did not look like some gentleman. He guessed that he whispered something in Gabriella's ear since he was bending so close it almost looked like he kissed her. This sent cold chills down Troy's back and he scowled quietly, glaring at the two of them.

Just then Kadrian came back with Troy's water and was taken back a bit by the intense look in his eyes staring at someone across the room. The dirty-blonde haired guy followed his friend's eyes and saw the girl he thought he was looking at. He smirked, Troy always caught someone special every night he went out and even though it was just eye candy there was always one girl.

"Looks like it's time to make a move if you want her, man." Kadrian chuckled and handed Troy his water bottle. Troy glared at him and shrugged his shoulders and then started to dig for some money, but Kadrian stopped him before he could find some. "Hey, it's on the house, just make sure to catch that woman before the brat does." And with that, Troy was left alone at the full bar, his eyes once again turning towards the girl that was just mentioned.

So much for a relationship.

-

Gabriella had enjoyed her night this far. She'd danced with a few different guys and she'd met a really sweet one named Adam who also was in the acting business. They'd talked a lot and even swapped phone numbers to meet up when they both returned to Hollywood. It had felt nice to meet someone that was in the same business as her and talk to. He'd told her a lot that she hadn't had the energy to look up for herself and he seemed to understand her better than any of her best friends did. It was not that they didn't understand her, because after all they'd been the ones supporting her when she crashed, but having someone that actually worked with almost the exact same thing as her was comforting.

Though there was one thing missing to make this the perfect night.

Troy.

She had wanted to spend time with him that night, now it was starting to close people were leaving and she hadn't seen Troy more than when they came down there together. He'd gone to the bar to get something to drink and then he'd disappeared. She'd missed him and a small part of her wondered if she'd done something wrong that drove Troy away from her, making him regret what had went on between them in the last twenty-four hours. But a bigger and more dominant part of her told her that that was not the case and she shouldn't worry that much. Maybe he just wanted to enjoy some time in the new bar with his guy friends.

Gabriella sat in the bar swirling a bottle of water in her hands and watched a dirty-blonde bartender mix some drinks and hand it over to a woman older than herself. The guy looked pretty good in her eyes there was no denying that, but his blonde hair had not the same silk feeling to it as Troy's when she watched him. Nor did his crystal green eyes have the same sparkling effect in her stomach as Troy's azure blue ones.

Suddenly the good-looking bartender turned around and met her eyes and she quickly looked down at her bottle again, she didn't want to give him false hopes.

"Hey there, you want something?" Gabriella quickly looked up and met his eyes again, smiled and shook her head politely. "Looking for someone?"

How did he know? "Well actually, yeah. I haven't seen him in the entire night though I stepped through the door with him at my side." Why did she spill this information to the stranger anyway?

Kadrian on the other hand had a small idea of who this woman looked for due to recognizing her as the girl Troy had stared at earlier that night. He now saw why Troy was interested in her; she was attractive in a way that he was sure drove lots of men crazy when she was around. Though she was not really his type since he already had a fiancé whom he loved very much and didn't want to be unfaithful on even if it depended on his life. For a quick second he imagined how Troy and this girl would look together and when he'd came to the conclusion that they would look really good together the next question came up, why hadn't Troy caught her already. He tried to be as casual as he could while he glanced down at her left hand and saw no ring, well that was always something.

"Does that person happen to be Troy Bolton?" He questioned, motioned for her to hand over her empty water bottle and then replaced a new one in front of her again right after. Gabriella gave him an appreciating smile before she realized what he'd said and looked at him a bit shocked.

"Do you know Troy?"

Kadrian smiled and chuckled. "Met him the first day he got to Croascount with Chad and his family. We've been friends ever since." He explained.

Gabriella looked at him and her mouth formed in to an 'o'.

Kadrian laughed at her expression and nodded towards the dance floor behind her. "Well, there he is. It was nice meeting you Gabriella," he said when he suddenly remembered that he'd heard Troy talking about some Gabriella before and figured this would be the one.

Gabriella was even more shocked by him knowing her name but quickly recovered and turned around remembering that he had pointed behind her.

What caught her eyes then was the last thing she had wanted to see that night, heck even seen at all. Troy had his front pressed up close to a blonde girl, his hands roaming her ass while they danced to the music pumping through the club. She was not late to see how the blonde haired girl had her hands almost right between his legs while rubbing her breasts up his face. Due to a lot of people had already left, the dance floor was not that occupied making it easy for Gabriella to see exactly what was going on between the two.

A sharp pain show through her stomach and her breath hitched.

Some relationship.

-

Gabriella had hurried to go find Chad and Taylor, Sharpay was god knows where, to get her coat and tell them she was taking a cab home. They offered to go with her but she told them that she was just tired and felt a bit sick. Taylor watched her best friend leave and knew that she was not sick but decided to leave her alone for now. She'd come when she was ready.

But when she came outside, phone in hand, she heard her name being called from behind her. Gabriella followed the instinct to just ignore the person behind her and continued towards the road where all the cabs were standing. She knew who was calling her name, and he was the last person she wanted to talk to right now.

"Gabriella, stop it god damn it!" Troy ran in front of her, making her stop in the spot. "Why are you running away from me?" It didn't take a rocket scientist to know that she was upset with him in some way, but he couldn't think of any way why. He hadn't done anything she hadn't done.

"Troy just leave me alone, you're the last person I want to talk to right now." And she hurried the other way.

"Gabriella, wait! I thought we really had something together. Please don't go!" Troy hurried after her and took hold of her wrist, making her stop and turn around looking him dead in the eyes.

"That was before you felt that blonde up back in there," she said, ice the only thing that could be heard as an emotion in her voice. The feelings running through her body was something she could not describe, she was hurt, disappointed, mad, annoyed and so on. She felt so stupid for falling for the words he'd told her yesterday, for actually believing that he meant it. Because now she knew better.

"Well what about that brat you were talking to earlier, huh? What do you call that?" Troy defended himself, after all that was why he'd done what he did. Gabriella had gone on with someone else and so he couldn't see why he couldn't. "Because to me it looked like you had a really good time, did you go off to the restroom too to have a little one-on-one, yeah?"

If Gabriella's emotions hadn't screamed ice-cold before, they did now. Her eyes turned black and in one swift motion, a loud 'smack' was heard and Troy's head was thrown to the side with a stinging cheek.

"You bastard," Gabriella whispered through her teeth. "Don't you fucking dare say something like that ever again because I am not like that little slut you stuck your cock up earlier."

Troy moved his jaw a bit to make sure that it was still whole and then he turned to Gabriella. "Well, it looked like you two were really close to me." He muttered, making sure to choose his words carefully to not make her upset and slap him again.

"Is Troy Bolton actually jealous of someone? Whoa, who would've ever thought?" Gabriella smirked, feeling like she'd gotten her revenge. She watched how Troy froze in his spot and glared at her.

"I am not fucking jealous. That pussy was a complete brat who just wanted to get into your panties and didn't care how much effort it would take. I'd rather die than be like him." He sneered. It was half the truth, no way in hell he wanted to be a complete brat where he thought he owned the planet but he sure as hell wished he'd been the one to spend the night with the woman in front of him.

Gabriella's jaw fell open; she didn't want to believe her ears. "Are you jealous of Adam?"

"I AM NOT FUCKING JEALOUS!" He roared.

"OH YEAH?! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT THEN, HUH?! FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR DICK, OR ARE YOU ACTUALLY SUCH A FUCKING BASTARD THAT YOU PLAYED ME ALL ALONG?!" Gabriella screamed back. People walking past them looked at them weirdly, even people from the other side of the road watched as the passed. A fighting couple wasn't something you saw every night at one o'clock walking home half drunk.

"YOU DID THE SAME DAMN THING, GABRIELLA!"

"I WAS TALKING! TALKING, TROY, THERE'S A BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE!"

"YOU AND I TALKED BEFORE I FUCKED YOUR BRAINS OUT TOO!" He was sure they'd covered that part already. "Well, it sure didn't look like talking to me." He muttered. Right now, he couldn't see the end for this; they were always fighting what the hell made them think that they could be a couple.

"Oh well, everybody knows that you look with your dick by now, Troy, so don't worry I completely understand why you thought we were doing more than talking." She turned around again, decided to ignore the comment on them having sex, to walk across the road to hail a cab but turned around again. "And for your info, he's in acting business too; he told me that the paparazzi back home had backed off from my house."

Troy felt like a mashed tomato.