Love's spelled D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R 1x15

**2 days later, Christmas Morning**

Jane Bolton tiptoed into her brother's room in the early morning of Christmas; it was around 6:00 am, but it didn't matter, there was no one that liked Christmas as much as she did.

She opened the door and ran to Troy's bed, pushing him off his bed.

"WAKE UP, MORON!" she laughed.

"WHAT THE FUCK JANE!" he yelled at her, causing Jane to laugh harder, so hard that it woke Gabriella up at the other side of the balcony.

Gabriella fluttered her eyes opened and looked over to her left to see that her best friend was on the floor and a laughing Jane jumping up and down on his bed. She smiled and giggled.

She stood up from her bed and walked out to her balcony into the fresh morning air.

"Good morning!" Gabriella yelled and Jane jumped off the bed to open her brother's balcony door.

"Good morning, Gabsy!" she giggled. "Merry Christmas!"

Gabriella yawned. "Merry Christmas, Jane" she giggled. "It's like 6:00 am, why are you tackling your brother out of his bed? you know how grumpy he gets"

"Apparently she doesn't care!" Troy complained as he stepped out to his balcony.

"Yeah! What he said!" she smiled and then ran off before Troy could do anything to her.

Troy chuckled and shook his head. "Gotta love her"

Gabby giggled. "Yeah" she looked down and then back up at him "So, we really haven't had any time for only ourselves…. What was that you wanted to tell me 2 days ago?" she asked as she scratched her forehead.

"Oh!" Troy blinked twice. "Nothing, nothing… just… that I found one of your bra's in my suitcase" he scratched the back of his neck, blushing.

Gabriella's eyes popped out of their orbits. "What?"

"I told you not to freak out!" he smirked. Thank God she believed it. I mean he did have one of her bras…. But we all know he wasn't going to say that, 2 days ago, right?

"Give it back!" she demanded.

"I already put it back in your suitcase" he smiled and shrugged.

Gabriella rolled her eyes and yawned. "You better!"

Troy smiled at her "You should go back to sleep"

"You know I can't…" she said. "Once I'm up, I'm up" she giggled.

Troy smiled "Okay. Do you want to watch a movie while everyone else wakes up, then?"

Gabriella laughed "Sure! Jump over!" she said as she made herself a side.

"I hope I remember how to do this" he chuckled as he grabbed one of the branches of the tree next to his balcony. He stood on the edge and like always, Gabriella had her heart in her throat. Having a good hold of the branch he launched himself to Gabriella's balcony and landed perfectly on it.

"Good!" she said and hugged him. "You didn't break your neck!" she sighed relieved.

Troy laughed and hugged her back. "You should have more faith in me!" he joked.

"I'll think about it" she smiled at him and kissed his cheek.

** Later in the Montez house**

It was around 10 am and both Bolton's and Montez were about to open their presents over at the Montez house.

"Thanks mom!" Tom exclaimed after he opened his present to find a new iPhone. "Awesome!"

"It was no problem sweetie!" Maria kissed his son's cheek and then gave him her scolding finger. "Now you have something what to call me with when you go back to collage!"

He smiled "Sure mom"

Gabriella laughed at her brother and mom and then stood up; the last presents were both Troy's and Gabriella's to each other. She picked up an average sized box and handed it to Troy.

"Merry Christmas, Winnie" she giggled as she sat down next to him.

"Awe, thanks Twinkie" he smiled and everyone in the living room laughed at their nicknames.

Troy opened the box to find a black sweater that had written "I love my Twinkie" in grey letters. Troy and everyone else in the room laughed at it and Troy put it on.

"Thank you Gabs!" he smiled and kissed her cheek.

"Don't thank me yet!" she smiled. "Look into the right pocket."

"Alright" he said frowning confused and dug up in his right pocket, taking out two tickets for the next Lakers game. "NO FREAKING WAY!" he exclaimed and Gabriella giggled.

"Now you can thank me!" she laughed and Troy hugged her.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" he pulled back and looked at the tickets. "Awesome!"

"Hey! Where's my present?" she raised her eyebrows at him and he laughed.

"Alright, alright" he smiled and stood up, he grabbed a pretty small box and handed it to her. "It's not much, but I hope you like it"

"Did you buy her a condom?" Tom asked and Maria slapped the back of his head. "What did I do?"

"You should be disturbed if he did!" Jane rolled her eyes. "Now open the present!"

Gabriella giggled and ripped off the paper to find a small flat, satin box. She stared in awe as she opened it to find a necklace. It wasn't true gold of course, that would cost Troy's part of the apartment, but it was a golden chain with a golden oval in the middle, it had engraved a picture of them and in the part of behind it was written "Winnie and Twinkie"

This was the kind of corny stuff Gabriella could tolerate… it was corny, but in the perfect amount; Troy knew how to be sweet without being ridiculous. A huge smile formed in her lips as she took the necklace between her fingers and pulled it out of the box.

"Care to help me put it on?" Gabriella smiled at Troy and raised her eyebrows.

"Sure!" he smiled and grabbed the necklace. Gabriella turned around and lifted her hair up and Troy put the necklace in the place where it'll belong in a long time.

The parents looked at them astonished, Tom felt kind of jealous and Jane was awed at her brother's detail.

"Thank you Troy, it is perfect" Gabriella turned around back at him with the happy, ridiculous grin that Troy loved.

"Nah, I thought you would like it" he shrugged not giving it too much importance.

Suddenly the moment was ruined by the door bell.

Gabriella sighed "I'll get it" she stood up from the couch and opened the door to find a delivery man with a small box in his hand.

"Are you Ms. Gabriella Montez?" The man asked with fake smile. Who would smile happily if you have to work on Christmas? I know I wouldn't.

"Yes, that's me" she said confused.

"Please sign this…" The man handed her a board and she took it.

After she signed it, she gave it back to the man and the man gave her the small box.

"Thank you" she smiled confused. "Marry Christmas Sr."

"Thanks ma'am, to you too" he smiled politely and then turned back around to his truck.

Gabriella looked at the box intrigued and walked back into the living room, sitting next to Troy.

"What's that?" Tom asked.

"I don't know… but I'm guessing it's Shane's" she sighed and ripped the paper off. She gasped as she saw a small satin box.

"Is it what I think it is?" Jane asked as she saw the box. Troy held his breath.

Gabriella opened the box and screamed at the sight of it, she threw it in the air and cuddled up to Troy.

"What! What!" Troy asked as he wrapped his arms around Gabriella.

"Tell me it isn't what I think I saw!" she whined and buried her face on his chest.

Maria picked up the box and opened it again; she gasped and put a hand over her chest.

"Oh my God… Gabby!" she said astonished.

"Please don't tell me it is an engagement ring!" she pleaded and looked afraid at her mother.

"A WHAT?" Both Tom and Troy yelled and looked over at Gabriella.

"Let me see that!" Tom took the box from her mother and then took out a small paper that was folded inside. "Marry me? Check yes or yes" he read. "God! He's so pathetic" he rolled his eyes and gave the box to Gabby, but before she could take it, Troy grabbed it and looked at the note.

"You're not going to marry this guy are you? I mean, you're only 19!" Troy exclaimed and looked down at Gabriella.

"Yeah!" Tom agreed. "He's a pussy! How could he even think about it? Wait! How old is this guy? Like 27 or something?"

"He's 22" Gabriella sighed. "I'm going to call him…"

She stood up and walked to the living room before grabbing the box from Troy's hand.

"She's not really considering it, right?" Tom asked her mom. "Right?"

Troy stood up and followed Gabriella to the kitchen. He didn't enter, of course, but he glued his ear to the door to hear her conversation.

"Yes, I got it" she sighed.

"So?" Shane asked excited. "Will you marry me?"

"Shane… I'm too young to get married!" Gabriella stated.

"So what?" Shane exclaimed. "We love each other, doesn't that matter?"

"Love" she sighed. "Love's a really strong word Shane… and we've only dated 2 months! I can't marry someone I barely know!"

"But if it was Troy who were asking, you would say yes, right?" he said jealous.

"What?" she exclaimed. "When did Troy become part of this conversation? He's my best friend, nothing more!" she exclaimed. "And I've known him for years! This situation doesn't apply for the subject!"

"I think it does!" Shane said. "I've seen how you two get along, and I don't like it!"

"Well, deal with it!" she yelled into the phone. "Because I'm not going to change the way I treat Troy, we've treated each other the same for 4 years!"

"Well, if you say there's nothing going on between you two, then marry me!" he demanded.

Gabriella sighed tired of him. "I'll think about it, alright? How about that?"

Shane smiled. "Okay. I can handle that!"

"Can you?" she yelled into the phone and hung up. "UGH, THAT SON OF A BITCH!"

Troy entered the kitchen and hugged her. They didn't say anything; they didn't need to. Only by having Troy's arms around her was already a comfort.

He rubbed her back in silence as she let anger tears fall down her cheeks. She was so stupid, she should've of broken up with him! No, that would be a coward thing to do. Breaking up with someone by the phone is the worst thing you could do.

"Better?" Troy asked a few moments later.

"Yeah" she nodded her head.

To Be Continued.