Hey guys sorry this late, I was sick this weekend, and I have lost track of what day is what, with being out of school for the winter break. Enjoy.

Gabriella woke up and rolled over and reached her arm out looking for a warm body to curl up to however all she felt was the cold sheets. She let out a little groan and sat up looking at the clock; 11:17. She fell back down and groaned again. She was only laying there for a few seconds when she smelt bacon. Now Gabriella was a person who made sure that she ate a healthy diet and exercised regularly, however, if she had one weakness, it was bacon.

She rolled out of bed and walked out of her room, where the smell of bacon got stronger. She looked at the stove and saw Troy standing there in just a pair of his sweatpants that he leaves at her house. She walked over without saying anything and sat down at the table just watching him dance along with the radio that was on low.

"Ouch!" Troy jumped back and looked down towards his stomach before a sweet giggle come from behind him. He quickly turned around, not expecting to hear anything. "What are you doing up?"

"Are you okay?" she asked with a smile.

"What are you doing up?" he asked again placing the fork he was cooking with on the counter and slowly walking over to her.

As he walked over, she saw a red mark on the right side of his stomach, "Are you okay?" she asked a little bit more seriously, while placing her left hand over the spot.

Troy looked down again, "Oh yeah. It was just the grease splashed. It's what I get for cooking with a shirt on. I'll be fine. Now back to my question, why are you up?"

Gabriella smiled and kissed the red spot before leaning back and looking up at him with a smile, "I smelt bacon."

Troy, smiled back at her, turned and went back to the stove, "Ah yes. Bacon is your weakness." He grabbed the plate of bacon and placed it in front of her. "Bacon cooked in the microwave for three minutes." He leaned down and gave her a kiss.

She smiled in the kiss, "Thank you handsome." She grabbed a piece of bacon and tore a piece off of it.

"I was going to bring it to you in bed, but you ruined it."

Gabriella giggled while eating the bacon, "I'm sorry handsome. Maybe some other time."

Troy finished making the egg sandwiches and placed them on two plates with hash browns and sausage. "No. you ruined it. I'm never going to give you breakfast in bed again." He placed her plate in front of her before grabbing the orange juice and sitting with her.

Gabriella just smiled, "Okay then, be like that."

They just smiled at each other before eating their breakfast. They finished up their breakfast and did the dishes together. After that they sat down on the couch and turned on the TV.

"Let's see what is on," Troy said, mostly to himself.

As he scrolled through Gabriella stopped him, "Boy Meets World! We are watching it."

He just smiled at her and put it back on. The two of them sat there for a while watching Boy Meets World before Gabriella placed her head on Troy's lap. Troy started to play with her hair while keeping his eyes on the TV.

"If you keep doing that then I am going to fall asleep," Gabriella said sleepily.

Troy just laughed softly while looking down at her, "If you want to sleep then sleep."

Gabriella sat up, grabbed the remote and turned the TV before turning towards Troy, "I want to talk about yesterday."

Troy looked shocked, "I honestly didn't think you were going to want to."

"I know but like you said this isn't going to be the first patient I lose and I can't let this make me think that I am horrible doctor. I mean I feel like I could have done more, but I have also always that believed when our time has come there is nothing we can do. The only thing going through my head is her little face, covered in blood. I don't know how you perform surgeries on kids all the time."

Troy smiled at her and grabbed her hand, "Because the smile on their face when they say thank you, beats the memory of them on the table. A few of the parents even send in updated pictures so we can see how they are doing."

Gabriella smiled at him, loving seeing that look of pride on his face, "you really love being a doctor, don't you?"

"Yeah I do. I love connecting with the kids. They are some of the strongest people I know. I mean I am twenty-nine years old and I don't think I would be able to go through half of what they have to."

Gabriella just smiled at him and leaned in gave him a soft kiss before pulling away a little and whispering, "You, Troy Bolton, are an amazing guy."

Troy smiled back and gave her a kiss, "you're pretty amazing yourself, Gabriella Montez."

They kissed for a lit bit more before turning the TV back on and watched movies for the rest of the day.

It wasn't until 6 o'clock before either one of them moved, and it was only because there was a knock at Gabriella's door.

"Troy will you get that? I have to go to the bathroom," she said while heading towards the door.

"Yeah, no problem," he got up and walked over to the door, where he saw a guy, whom he didn't recognize. He opened the door, "Hi, can I help you?"

The guy looked up and looked back at the street, "This is 10 National Street right?"

Troy nodded his head, "Yeah it is, can I help you?"

"I'm sorry I think I might have the wrong address I was looking for a Gabriella Montez," the guy turned to walk away.

"No, you're right. Gabriella lives here, she is just in the bathroom, one second." Troy turned called for Gabriella, "Gabby, there is a guy here for you."

Gabriella came out of the bathroom with a confused look on her face, "Who?"

"I don't know," Troy stepped back and let Gabriella look at the guy.

"Sean?" Gabriella looked shocked.

"Hey Gabriella, I wasn't expecting you to have a friend over."

Gabriella stood in front of Troy, "He isn't a friend, he's my boyfriend. Why are you here?"

"Oh, you have a boyfriend? I didn't know. I thought you were still single." Sean said awkwardly.

"Well I haven't been. We got together about a month ago but we have been seeing each other for a like two months. Why are you here?" Gabriella said getting annoyed that he wasn't answering her question.

"Well we haven't really talked since you started at Mass General."

"So you drove all the way to my house to 'talk'. You could have called Sean." Gabriella said leaning up against the door frame not believing that was the reason he was there.

"Gabs I'm going to order dinner, alright?" Troy asked mostly because he wanted to give them privacy.

Gabriella turned towards him, "Okay, I'll have chicken, ziti, broccoli, with no broccoli…"

"…extra chicken with alfredo sauce," Troy said with a smile, "I know."

Gabriella smiled at him, "and a Pepsi."

"Of course," Troy turned and walked away to order dinner.

Gabriella turned back to Sean, "why are you really here Sean?"

"I was wondering if you were coming to the wedding," he said again with not much conviction.

"I have already responded to Brittany that I am so why are you?"

"You have a boyfriend, what's his name."

Gabriella shook her head in disbelief, "That's why you're here. Because you heard I have a boyfriend. Unbelievable."

"You meet him at the hospital."

Gabriella tilted her head, "Who told you that?"

Sean smiled a little, "No one, he was the resident doctor in my surgery two years ago. I don't really remember his name, but his face is familiar."

"Troy."

"What?"

"His name is Troy and he a PGY-3."

"How old is he?"

Gabriella narrowed her eyes, "Why does that matter?"

"Just wondering."

"Twenty-nine."

"Do you love him?"

"Sean, why are here. Do you really care whether or not I love him, or are you here because you are upset that I finally have a new boyfriend. When I found out you were going out with Brittany again I didn't drive to your house and ask a million questions. And that was only a like two weeks after we broke up."

"Do you… love him?"

"Sean…" Gabriella turned around to see Troy still on the phone with the people at the restaurant.

"Do you?"

"Sean…"

"Gabriella, do you love him?"

"We have only known each other for two months, only been dating for one. It's a little too soon for the L word, don't you think?"

"I don't know do you?"

"Sean, look, as much fun as this random visit from you has been, my boyfriend and I planned a quiet night alone, watching movies together. So if you don't mind, the next time you want to 'talk' call me, okay?"

He just nodded, "It was good seeing you Gabriella." With that he turned and walked away.

Gabriella turned and stopped when she saw Troy staring at her.

"Do you?" he asked.

Gabriella looked at him like he had ten heads, "Do I what?"

"Do you love me?"

Gabriella took a deep breath, "Look Troy, we have only been dating fo…"

"Do you… Love me?" Troy asked stepping closer to her.

"Troy…"

"It's a yes or no," he said calmly, closing the distance.

"No it's not." Gabriella said walking by him.

Troy turned and looked at her, "Yes it is."

Gabriella turned towards him, "No Troy it's not. Okay I don't not love you, but I don't know if I love you yet. Do I think that one day I will love you? Yes, I do. Do I love you now? I don't know."

Troy just looked at her with a small smile, "But you could love me?"

Gabriella just rolled her eyes, "I could love a wall if I wanted to."

Troy winced jokingly, "ouch that one hurt."

Gabriella just smiled, "Do you love me?"

Troy jokingly took a deep breath, "I mean," he started walking towards her, "I suppose sometime down the road, in like a week or a month or maybe a year, I can see myself loving you." He walked up to a smiling Gabriella and wrapped his arms around her. "I can tell you now that I love spending time with you. And I love kissing you," he said as he stole a kiss," but the one think I love doing with you the most is our movie nights."

Gabriella wrapped her arms around his neck, smiling, "I like spending time with you as well."

Troy pulled back, "Like? Just like? You like spending time with," he said with a fake disbelief.

Gabriella just smiled, "okay I guess I love spending time with you."

"You guess?"

"Okay, I love spendin…" she was cut off by the door bell ringing. "I'll get that." She grabbed some money and got the food. She turned around and saw Troy pouting on the couch. She smiled and placed the food on the counter and walked over to him, straddling him. "What's wrong handsome?"

"You like spending time with me?"

Gabriella's smile dropped, "are you seriously upset about this?" She waited for his response but it didn't come. "Troy I was joking! I love spending time you; if I didn't then I wouldn't be dating you." She leaned in and gave him kiss, not moving until she felt him kiss her back. When he didn't kiss her back she didn't move her lips but said, "I'm not moving until you kiss me back."

When he did kiss her back she pulled away, waiting for him to say something. "Look Gabriella, I am twenty-nine years old, I have come to the point in my life that I am looking to settle down. My point is… I love you."

Gabriella's eyes widen.

"I have been in a serious relationship before, I was engaged, and I had my heart broken. I was, or I thought I was, ready to settle down. That was four years ago, and ever since I have been really careful with who I let in. I told myself that I wasn't going to let anyone in unless I knew she was the one. From the moment I saw you sitting on the floor with Lilly that day, I knew you were special. I knew that I wanted to get to know you." He stopped for a second and took a breath, "I know what the nurses and female doctors think of me. I'm not stupid, they think they're whispering, but they're not. I just choose to ignore it. With you it was different. I never heard you whispering about how hot I am or that I have an amazing ass. I mean I have caught you staring a few times, even before we started dating, but you never made me feel like a piece of meat."

"You're not."

"I know, but there are some women who make me feel like it. You know only talking to me so they can laugh at something stupid that I said just so can they can grab my bicep and give it a squeeze."

"Who? Do I know her? Is that Jackie up in cardio? It is isn't it? I knew she was making the moves on you…"

Troy smiled at her, "Gabriella."

"…I have heard her talk about you before…"

"…Gabby…"

"…In the break room…"

"…Gabriella…"

"… I haven't said anything because they don't kno…"

"… They know."

"… abou… what?"

Troy smiled, "They know."

"They know what?"

He rubbed his hands along her thigh, "They know that we are together."

"Who does?"

"Everyone at the hospital, well except for Warner, but that's because he's an idiot."

Gabriella looked shocked, "They know? How?"

Troy laughed a little, "I don't know, does it matter?"

"I don't want people to think that we aren't professional."

"I talked to Dr. Brady and he said that we were behaving fine."

"Then how did people find out that we were dating?"

"Maybe because we started arriving together or the way we have been flirting a little bit more than usual. I mean we did say that we wouldn't hide the fact that we were dating. Like I said Mr. Brady said we were fine. I don't plan on making out with you in the middle of the ER now."

"Well I wouldn't let you anyways. You know I'm not a huge fan of PDA."

Troy smiled at her, "yeah I know."

They sat there not saying anything just looking at each other for a few minutes.

"You love me?"

Troy smiled, "Yes I do. I wouldn't have started a relationship with you if I didn't."

Gabriella took a deep breath and looked away for a second before looking back at him, "When did you realize that you loved me."

"The moment I felt comfortable enough to freak out around you."

"You mean when you freaked out about Dr. DeSantis?"

"Yes."

"That was like the fourth time we ever talked and only the fifth day we knew each other."

"Yes, and I felt comfortable enough to freak out and complain about someone else to you. I don't complain about people very often and when I do it's to only a few people; my mom, my dad, my sister Beth, my grandmother, my friend Derek and you."

"So that means that you love me?"

Troy took a deep breath and looked at semi-freaked out Gabriella, "I didn't tell you to freak you out. I didn't even tell you to hear you say it back. I said it because it's how I feel. I understand that you don't not love me and yet you don't love me either. I am okay with you loving me down the road. Knowing that there is chance for you to feel the same way about me that I do about you, is enough for me. I don't want you to feel like you have to say it back, or that I am expecting you to. I will tell you this, I am not in love you; I'm falling in love you. Every day we spend together I am falling more."

"So you love me like a friend?" Gabriella asked confused more.

Troy smiled, "No, I love you more than a friend. The feelings I get around you, I don't get around any other woman. I love you in a way that is leading to that type of love in all those Rom-Com movies you watch. The sickingly whipped kind of love."

Gabriella giggle, "You already are whipped."

"I am not."

"Yes you are! Every movie night we have, we watch whatever movie I want to."

"That's only one example, and I let you watch whatever movie you want to because I know it makes you happy. Besides you don't always pick a Rom-Com, sometimes you pick a comedy or a scary movie. And I am never going to say no to a movie that will end with you in my lap and your face in my chest."

"So you like when I'm scared?" she asked raising her eye brows and tilting her head.

Troy smiled, "No I like that you need me in those moments. I like that you feel safe in my arms. I like how when we go to sleep after those movies, you cuddle up next to me a little closer than usual. I like how you stay cuddled up to me throughout the whole night instead of pulling away at some point."

Gabriella smiled a little, "I like knowing that you're always there."

Troy smiled and leaned and kissed her, "I know the idea scares you, I can see it on your face, but just know expecting you to tell me anytime soon. I can tell that you have special feelings for me just by the way that you look at me."

"I do have special feelings for you. I have never felt like this for a guy before, so maybe it is love, but I don't know yet."

"When you do know, can I be the first person you tell?" he asked with a smirk.

Gabriella smiled back, "Maybe, if you're lucky." She leaned in gave him another kiss, "As much as I have enjoyed sitting like this, and I have, our food is definitely cold now. So why don't I heat it up for us, and you can choose a movie."

Troy acted surprised, "You mean I get to actually pick the movie tonight?"

Gabriella laughed and stood up, "yes you can pick the movie, any movie. I'll even watch Miracle again."

"Hey, Miracle is an amazing movie!"

Gabriella turned towards him, "Troy, we have been dating a month, known each other for two, we have watched that movie maybe twenty times, in those two months, and every time USA plays the Soviets you sit on the edge of your seat. News flash, USA wins," she jokingly gasps, "every time!"

"I know they win Ms. Sarcastic, I sit on the edge of my seat because…"

"You're afraid the ending might change."

"… No. I sit on the edge of my seat because the tension of the game is unreal."

"Troy, it's a movie; 'tension' is the same every time we watch it."

Troy threw his hands up in the air, "Exactly! How can you not get excited every time?"

Gabriella laughed, "Because I know who wins and I know how they win."

Troy huffed and fell back on the couch, "you just don't get it."

Gabriella grabbed their heated up food and placed it on the coffee table, "You're right I don't."

They spent the night watching Indiana Jones, something they both love. Troy spent most of the movie looking at Gabriella to make sure she was alright; he knew the whole thing with the little girl was affecting her more than she let on. He also knew that the whole 'love' thing threw her for a loop, and he was definitely going to ask her what was up with the whole Sean thing tomorrow.

Gabriella could tell he was watching her but her mind was racing with a million different things. Do I love him? Why did Sean really show up? Did I really do everything I could to save Hannah? I can't picture my life without Troy anymore, is that what love it? I thought I loved Sean but maybe it was just has a friend. I wonder if Sean was here to see if I was happy or if he was upset that I had actually moved on. I don't know if I could deal with losing another patient. She was in the middle of her thoughts when she felt Troy kiss her head.

"Why don't we go to bed?"

"But the movie isn't over."

He stood up and reached out his hand, "we both know that neither one of us is paying any attention, so why don't we get some sleep. The last forty-eight hours have been some pretty intense forty-eight hours."

She just nodded, grabbed his hand, and followed him into her room. Let's hope I can get some sleep.