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CHAPTER 9

Gabi chewed on her bacon and sausage breakfast as she read the headline.

'Bolton bangs Montez daughter' and smiled as she remembered her dad's reaction to the press this morning. He'd gone absolutely mental.

It really was quite funny. He'd banned her from seeing Troy which was hilarious considering she wasn't seeing him anyway and the article had made up all kinds of rubbish about the pair of them, although they had an accurate description of her irate father she mused.

Troy wandered into the breakfast room and ran a hand through his hair, messing his fringe. He saw Gabi right away and grabbed his cereal, heading over.

"Hey, I saw your dad" he said as he sat and Gabi winced.

"Oh god, I'm sorry. Nobody deserves him before breakfast" she apologised.

Troy met her gaze "He told me about the headline" he added, seeing Gabi reading the article.

"Well, we know it's not true" she said gently.

"My mom will call me later I bet" he rolled his eyes.

"Mine too" she smiled "But I know what my mom will say" she laughed.

"What's that?" he asked interestedly and she blushed .

"Oh, nothing major" she lied, not wanting to repeat the fact her mom thought Troy was 'a beautiful young man' who needed a 'good woman' in his life.

"I know what mine will say. That I'm despicable and I should stop sleeping around" he mused.

Gabi felt a glimmer of sympathy for him. The way he said it, he wasn't actually sleeping around. Then she remembered the brunette going into his trailer and the fact he'd asked her to buy his condoms and she dropped her feelings for him quickly.

She chewed her lip as she ached to ask him if he did sleep around.

"Gabi, time to go" Gabriel said from behind them, bringing Troy's gaze up sharply.

Gabi sighed as she stared into his blue eyes and for the first time in this trip, she wanted to stay right where she was, even if that was with the most annoying guy she knew.

She blinked "See you on set" she said and got up to go off with her dad.

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Troy poked his head out of the back of the set and casually walked across the yard to get to his trailer. He'd just finished an awkward scene with the female lead and she'd propositioned him which made him feel extremely uncomfortable. He was just glad they had the sex scenes mostly wrapped up.

He saw Gabi hopping across the yard, seemingly playing hopscotch from a haphazard grid she had marked out.

"Hey, puke girl" he called and she turned, giving him her annoyed look "Wanna help me run lines?" he asked.

Gabi came over, flushed, and bright eyed, her hair loose around her shoulders and her trousers rolled up to her knees.

"Don't tell me, you can't read?" she asked sarcastically.

He rolled his eyes and curled his lips at her "You look bored as hell and I'm struggling with this scene" he explained.

She pursed her lips, considering him. She decided his blue eyes were honest enough.

"It's not a kissing scene is it?" she checked.

"No, it's not a kissing scene" he smiled, squinting at her "God knows I've had enough of those the last few days" he sighed and Gabi followed him into his trailer nervously, seeing it was actually really spacious and nice.

"Wow, this is nice!" she cooed as she came in and just walked round excitedly.

He frowned, hands on his hips where his jeans threatened to slip down.

"I have to say, I thought you were a pampered princess before I met you. I can't believe you've never been inside a trailer before" he mused.

She turned "I have. Just not THE Troy Bolton's" she said with wide eyes, teasing him.

"Ha-ha" he said drily.

"So what's it like? Kissing Jordan Finch?" she asked subtly as she sat on the sofa and he handed her his script.

He sighed. As a rule he didn't talk about work to anyone. Not even girlfriends. All it took was them to let slip and he could come across very badly. But Gabi was a child of the business. And strangely, although they hated each other, he trusted her.

"It's a trial" he admitted.

"Really?" she said, shocked "Kissing a beautiful woman all day? It's like a parody of your life" she smiled.

"It's not, believe me. I haven't kissed a beautiful woman in a real long time" he shared as he span and sat next to her.

"Oh. An ugly one?" she checked and he giggled. She'd never seen a guy giggle before and it was adorable.

"Contrary to popular belief, I am not the lothario people make me out to be" he said quietly, not sure why he wanted her to know that. His lashes flicked down and she realised he was nervous about opening up to her.

"Well if we're sharing deep secrets here, then you should know I'm not a complete monster like my dad is. And I'm not pampered" she added gently.

He smiled at her with his crinkle eyed smile and she felt herself smiling back.

"Now that we have that out of the way, shall we run through my lines?" he asked and she laughed .

"Yeah, okay so who am I?"

"You're Lara, of course. I'm Jake. We just…spent the night having fantastic sex…" he explained "And now we're having an argument because I find out about Simon" he said.

"What's it like, filming sex scenes?" she asked again and he cocked his head with a little sigh.

"Well, with Jordan it's hard because she makes the most of it; if you know what I mean" he rolled his eyes.

"Oh my god! Did she…touch your…" her eyes went wide.

"Pretty much grabbed my crotch and told me she'd have me in her trailer later" he mused.

"Oh my god!" Gabi said again, giggling.

"I didn't, though" he said quickly.

"Of course not. Okay so these bits in italics…"

"They're off camera instructions so just ignore them. Just read the lines"

"Okay" she said getting up and he stood opposite her.

"I can't believe you did that to me" he said gently, snapping into character so quickly, Gabi was shocked.

"Did what?" she asked blandly.

"Cheated on me!" he said more emphatically, his blue eyes drilling into hers "All I ever was to you was quick shag!" he shouted, angry now.

"Well you do have a great body" she giggled at the script "And I doubt you got into bed with me for my amazing mind" she was getting into this, jutting her hip out, planting a hand on the fleshy round.

"Actually I did, but that doesn't mean much now does it? I'm just a body to you" he sighed, raking a hand through his hair then came closer "I think I'm falling in love with you, Lara" he said huskily.

Gabi didn't care that she weren't Lara, if he'd have said those words to her, just like that, she'd have a hard time letting him down.

The script in her hand went forgotten as she tilted her face; his lips looking so soft and inviting as she leaned in and his eyes fixed upon her own lips, trailing from her eyes to her mouth as they came closer together.

"Oh my god! What am I doing? What AM I doing?" she asked herself, pulling back as she lost herself in her stream of consciousness as Troy stood back with an amused smile playing at his lips.

"You know talking to yourself is the first sign of madness" he interjected.

"It's you!" she accused suddenly, turning from her pacing of his trailer "It's your fault, stood there all….all…sexy looking!" she burst out. Why couldn't he just be obnoxious? Or ugly? Or both? she wondered to herself and Troy had to stop her gently as she continued pacing frantically.

"You didn't expect me not to kiss you, right?" he checked with a squint, his tummy going into freefall at her admission she thought he was sexy.

"Don't even think about it!" she warned, not sure if she was more scared if he did kiss her or if he didn't.

"Why not?" he asked "You are" he accused as he leaned in and she felt his breath across her face as his eyes seemed to hypnotise her.

Her eyes squinted in a frown, her lips parted ready to argue, Gabi took a breath and was shocked when Troy leaned forward the few inches between them and planted his lips on hers and she tensed up at the contact.

She pushed against his chest in an effort to stop him but that wasn't helping her because her fingertips betrayed her and zinged with pleasure at making contact with his impressively muscled chest.

As soon as his lips had touched hers; she had felt the aftershock rumble around her body and hit every corner. Every dead nerve, every ignored desire, it all woke up in an alarming symphony, leaving her buzzing it its wake.

It was all she could do to keep fighting him and kissing him back in equal measures. Just as her fingers curled into submission from their firm pressure against him, a loud knock sounded on the door.

"Gabi!" Gabriel called from the other side.

Troy dropped her like a hot potato and threw himself backwards onto his sofa, earning a disbelieving look from Gabi. What in the heck was that all about?

She touched her swollen lips and checked her attire before heading to answer the door, casting a look back at Troy. She couldn't think of one single thing to say to him that wasn't an insult. How dare he kiss her like that and then drop her as though she were trash!

"Hi dad" she said as she opened the trailer door.

Troy watched as she left wordlessly and closed his eyes in regret. Why had he done that? Why had he kissed her and let his body experience that tiny flash of heaven? And he had panicked when the knock came on the door, not knowing what to do. But she had stood there, hurt and bewildered at his abandonment.

He rubbed his forehead. He still hadn't learned his lines either. He had to get to it and quickly or he'd be in trouble with the director.

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"I thought I told you not to see that Bolton moron?" Gabe said as Gabi followed him into the hotel. Thank god she had her own room now so she could escape him.

"I was running lines with him, dad. That's not 'seeing him' in my book" she argued.

"It's spending time with him!" he raged.

"Not on a date" she called "Besides which, even if I was on a date, which I wasn't, it's up to me to make my own choices"

"He'll treat you like dirt, Gabi" he warned and Gabi knew that much was right from the way he had released her so quickly on them being nearly caught kissing.

Any guy, who was worth her affections, would not act like she was the embarrassment of his life.

"Do you not think I'm sensible enough to know that?" she asked back.

"Oh my god, he already did, didn't he?" he guessed.

She rolled her eyes "Jeez dad, you go on set with him every day." She said exasperatedly.

"I know. And he seems like a nice boy, don't get me wrong, but those headlines just make me dislike him intensely" he admitted.

"Not that I'm defending him, because I'm not, but the headline was wrong about us, and is it not possible the others are too?" she suggested.

She was angry at Troy, really angry, and she'd have it out with him tomorrow, but suddenly things didn't seem so black and white, and she wondered if he really had bedded that brunette in his trailer or if they had just read lines like she had with him and maybe, just maybe, if he went out for a night with a model then it was just a night out and not him 'sleeping around' as he'd hinted that he didn't do that.

Nonetheless, she wouldn't make the mistake of kissing him again. And her little game was definitely over. She didn't want anything more to do with Troy Bolton.