Where the hell did she go? Isabella walked around the house and saw Gabriella sitting downstairs with Beverly watching tv. She sighed relieved looking around making sure her sight was intact. She thought she might have snuck around while she was sleeping. Beginning to be afraid, she walked downstairs and turned off the tv.

"It's a little past your bed time at 3 in the morning." Gabby rolled her eyes and gets up.

"I'm 17, I don't need a bed time."

"Well now you have one." Isabella grabs her and throws her into her room giving her a huge rug burn on her knee. This is so illegal, it should be abuse.

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Waking up from a plesant slummber, Gabriella rises around 1 in the afternoon. She smiles and runs a hand through her hair thinking about Troy. He's amazing to her and she never wants to let him go. Last night was amazing, feeling like that little girl she used to be. She was glad that she was back. Gabby walked downstairs and looks around the house. It was oddly quite. She smiled and ran to Beverly's room and knocked on it.

"Yes Mija?"

"Where's Izzie and Lauren?"

"They went to the beach for a couple of hours." Gabby smiled widely.

"Can I hang out with Troy today? Please!" She begged with her huge smile. Beverly smiled and nodded her head thinking of how happy she is, coming out of her little depression. Gabby runs full speed upstairs and changes into a comfy outfit looking attractive for him. Is it possible to like a guy this much and you just started hanging out with him? She throws on a gray tank and white shorts brushing her nicely straightened hair from last night. She grabs her phone and calls Troy.

"Hello?"

"Troy! Guess what!" He smiles hearing her voice.

"What?"

"Izzie and Lauren are out of the house for a whole day! Want to hang out?" Troy jumped out of bed quickly hoping around changing into something suitable for her.

"Yeah, I'll be over there in 10 minutes okay?"

"Okay! Can't wait!" She squealed then hung up. Troy ran around looking for his nice pants and a fresh clean shirt. Why are you freaking out? She likes you for who you are. And it hit him like that. She likes him. If she had the opportunity to escape and hang out, she would do it with Sharpay her best friend. Troy smiles and runs downstairs and grabs the keys.

"Mom, I'm going to Jason's house. Ill text you when I'm on my way home." She stops him.

"You haven't been going to Jason's in the past few days." How would she know. He looks at her confused. "Jason called wondering where you disapearred off to." She grabbed his keys. "You are not getting these until you tell me what's going on." He sighs.

"Mom, I've been sneaking out at night to see this girl. She's locked up in her house like Rapunzel and is treated like Cinderella. I just wanted to treat her like the human being she is." She smiles and gives him the keys.

"What's her name?"

"Gabriella Montez. And shes beautiful. You have to meet her sometime." Lucielle smiled and felt confused. That name had sounded oddly familiar.

"Okay, well have fun okay?" She kissed his forehead and away he went.

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Gabby was waiting by the fence where they snuck out last night. Troy dove through the hole colliding with her and knocking her down. He was ontop of her.

"I am so sorry!" She giggles looking into his eyes.

"There's nothing to be sorry about...I-I didn't see you." He was looking into her eyes too. He smirks wanting to kiss her so badly. She wants to stay like this forever holding onto him. Troy notices how comfortable he's feeling right now with her. Slowly getting up, He helps her up to.

"So." She said breaking up the awkwardness in the air. "What are we doing today?"

"Well, I was hoping you would want to meet my friends. Then we could...Go mini golfing!"

"Mini golfing?" She asked confused.

"It's a little tradition we made up. Plus, people have been doing this forever since they were probably toddlers. I haven't gone yet this year, so I was wondering if you would like to accompany me?" She smiled and giggled.

"I would love you-I mean to. To." She had no idea where that 'love' had come from. Being embarrassed by what she said, she felt her face burn up. "I'm going to get some money okay?" She ran into the house full speed wondering why she said 'Love'. She wonder if she actually did love him or if she was trying to say something else. The hotness on her face made her freak out and go to the bathroom looking at her face that was perfectly fine. She sighed relieved and ran to the jar to grab money then to accompany him.

"Ready?" He asked putting his arm out. She smiled and linked their arms together walking to the hole and to Jason's house. Jason opened his door seeing the two.

"Hey, you're actually outside." He smirks and reclines against the wall trying to look attractive in front of Gabby.

"Um, yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" He smiles.

"Damn, a face like your's makes the world melt." Troy felt raged inside. How many times has this happened to him where Troy brings a girl to meet his friends, and Jason's the one who steals a girl from him and makes it his. He couldn't flirt with his Gabby. His? Did he just claim her. He looked over to Gabby an noticed that she had the, 'I don't want anything to do with you' face on.

"Thanks for the lovely compliment but I'm just here to introduce myself. I'm Gabriella." She puts her hand out and he grabs it kissing her hand. She pulls it away fast.

"I'm sorry, I thought you were a princess and wanted to be greeted that way." She rolled her eyes looking at Troy.

"Hey, are you okay? Say something." He looks at her then Jason.

"Oh, Hey man." Troy replied bored. Jason smiled.

"What's up faggot!" He brought him and Gabby inside. The african american guy sitting on the chair playing video games was relaxing and enjoying himself.

"Hey, is that the girl you've been talking about?" SCORE! he likes me! I can't deffintatly tell.

"Yeah, Chad this is Gabriella. Gabriella, this is Chad." Chad put his hand out and shook it.

"Do I know you from somewhere? You look strangely familiar."

"You do too...I knew someone with your kind of hair." They looked at each other trying to process what was going on. He gave up rather fast and shook his head.

"Nah, Don't let it bother us. So are we going mini-golfing or what?" He smiled.

"Mini-golfing is for faggots so Troy should do it." Gabriella looked at him and felt hurt. Why is he being so quiet around his friends? He sure doesn't act like this around her. They walk to the car and sit in there before Chad joined them.

"Hey...Why do you act so different around your friends?" He sighs defeated looking at the wheel.

"There's a girl named Marissa who shook up my confidence after our break up...She told me that if I had real friends, then they wouldn't be like these guys and that I'm a lonley pathetic guy." He looks over to her.

"You shouldn't listen to people. They don't know you and deffinatly don't know the guy I've been sneaking around with." He smiles.

"Miss Montez, are you implying that we have a secret relationship?" She giggled.

"Well if you put it that way, then its a yes." They both laugh until Chad had joined them. After going to the mini golfing place, Troy gave her a ride home smilling and laughing about their whole day at the fun house. Gabby snuck in carefully and opening the sliding doors, shutting them and reclining on them smiling.

"So, thats why you are sneaking out? For a boy?" Isabella looked at her dead square in the face serious. Gabby's smile wiped off her face immediatly.

"Um, no."

"I saw him. Don't lie to me." She walked up to her. "You will never see him again as long as I'm in charge of this house." Isabella spat.

"No! I'm actually happy then being stuck here in a house full of bitches. Mainly you!" Gabby felt good revolting in the time being, but that feeling died down soon when Isabella lifted her hand and slapped her hard across the face. Gabby felt the pain surging through her cheek. Isabella grabbed her cheek that was still stinging and pinched it hard.

"As long as you are going to be a huge baby about this, you will be treated like one. I'm going out. Now if I find out that you sneaked out tonight, I will take care of you personally." She throws her down into the chair and walks to the front and locks the door. Gabby rushed to her room and slammed the door shut and slid down the wall crying. She hated her so much making her hide in the room all day. She should know better then that and it made her feel horrible and not making her feel happy.

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Troy goes through the hole making his daily rountine to her room. He notices that its quite in her room today. He wonders if anythings wrong and fears that she was sad or sleeping. He climbs the vines and reaches her room knocking on the door. Gabby looks up to it and slowly gets up and opens it. He smiling and all happy. She turns the knob and quickly faces the other side of her room away from him.

"Hey, what's wrong? Are you okay?" He walks up to her and is towering over her from behind. She bites her lip and turns around slowly and faces him. "Oh Gabriella." He looks at the bruise on the side of her face that is blue and somewhat purple. She looks up to him about to cry.

"I don't know what I did to deserve this." He looks into her eyes again.

"Nothing sweetie. I swear. She's just being difficult. How did this happen?" He gently removes the pieces of hair from her face and tucks it behind her ear.

"I called her a bitch." She begins to cry and she rests her head on his shoulder feelin extreme comfort holding onto him. Troy wraps his arms around her body clutching her tight and keeping her close. She cries harder. He strokes her hair hoping she would stop.

"Ssh, don't waste your beautiful tears on this. I'm here okay?" Gabby nodded choking back a few more water droplets before falling on her face. She gave up and started sobbing holding onto his chest. Troy picked her up bridal style and walked with her to the bed having him sit upright and her to lie down still holding him.

After a few hours, she fell asleep quietly on his chest breathing in slowly and rythmically. He smiles and kisses her forehead before going to sleep. His wish was granted; To sooth her after being said and defeated. He thinks he's falling in love with a girl he simply met a few weeks ago.

"Good night beautiful." He reaches over and turns the lamp off.

Awwwhh! I loveed this episode! so yeah, review ;D Oh yeah, I really didn't want to go into detail with mini-golfing because i wanted to get to the bottom of this chapter.

"Oh really. And what are you going to do about this?" Troy said leaning into her face sticking his tounge out and making a goofy face."

"I don't know." She giggles and looks into his eyes, he looks into hers smirking. They slowly lean in about to kiss when-

"Gabriella. I'm home!" Her heart sank as she heard her dad coming up the steps.

mwahahah. (: