Gabriella smiled as she left her now ex boyfriends house, Jason.

Jason was mean to Gabriella. He beat her, cheated, made her feel bad and he even raped her at times… she couldn't help but be thankful that she finally got the courage to leave him.

As she was walking down the pathway she heard someone call her name. "Gabriella!" it was Jason, he came up behind her and grabbed her by the shoulder. "You are not allowed to leave me!" as he was about to pull her back she punched him in the face "Don't you dare touch me, if you do… I will kill you"

As Gabriella was walking home she seen her best friend… Troy. "Hey, where you been all day… I've been trying to ring you" Gabriella smiled and stopped, Troy stopped and looked at her strangely. "I broke up with Jason" Troy smiled widely.

He was so happy, he hated Jason, he hurt his best friend and even though Gabriella kept standing up for him Troy knew that Gabriella didn't love him, she was just scared of him.

"Troy are you OK?" Gabriella asked when she seen Troy just standing there and not walking when she started walking. "I'm happy, he treated you bad Gabs and now he's gone… I'm happy for you. You can find a guy that can now look after you and treat you like a princess" Gabriella smiled and walked over to Troy and hugged him. "If you know of someone give them my number"

When Troy went home he couldn't help but be angry with himself. He had the chance to tell Gabriella how he really felt about her but he didn't because he was scared "Why didn't I tell her? What is wrong with me!" he put his shoes on and stormed off to her house.

"Hi Troy, Gabriella's upstairs in her room, you know where it is" Gabriella's mum, Maria, said and Troy went up to her room. When he opened the door he saw her reading a book and smiled. She was always reading some book. "Hi" Troy said to make his presence known, she looked up from her book and walked over and hugged him. It was then he realized that her eyes were red and puffy… sha had been crying.

He put his arms around her. "What's up?" he asked and rubbed her back with one of his arms. She walked over t her bed, picked up her pone and showed Troy a text she got… from Jason.

Watch your back Montez… nobody dumps me and gets away with it… just think what I did to you when you hadn't upset me, you have now upset me… hmm think of all the things I could do HAHA!

Gabriella put her arms around Troy and cried. "I'm scared Troy… what if he hurts you or Taylor or someone else important to me" Troy couldn't help but feel angry… he wasn't in her life now and he still managed to hurt her.

When Troy left her house a couple of hours later he was upset he still hadn't told her but there was some stronger going through him… anger. It was then that he got his idea…