A/N: Hey Loves! Fast update? Yes! I had sometime on my hands so I decided to write :) Love your reviews from last chapter! You guys are amazing! But I hope you love this chapter. Plus tomorrow for those who read SLY a chapter will be updated on that story forgive me for my lateness. Once again enjoy and I hope you love it! Review review review because I adore your feedback! Love ya - Amber xo

Chapter 9

Troy shifted his hair once again glancing in the mirror. He sighed for this was the 5th time he had fixed his shaggy golden hair. Troy knew that it was time for a change and maybe a cut of his hair was one of them. His phone vibrated against the bathroom sink and Troy smiled knowing who it was, he reached the phone and began reading the following text message that had been sent.

Lol Troy! Don't you dare cut your hair!

I love the way you look with your shaggy hair especially

when its all messy ;) but that's not the point. Don't Cut It!

And I hope the dinner goes well with your family. I wish I could

say Hi to your parents but I honestly don't want them getting the

wrong impression, Austin needs to tell them about us no longer being together.

-Gabriella xo

Troy's fingers began fiercely typing against his iPhone keypad responding to the text he had received. He was dreading this dinner even though he loved being in the presence of his parents but the thought of his asshole of a sibling being there was just the burden in the whole scenario.

Fine fine! I won't cut it...yet! Lol

And thanks now I know when I go to see you to make sure my hair is messy ;)

I agree with you though about Austin though he better fess up and tell them tonight.

I'm so tired of his ass I need to seriously get my own place already.

Maybe I could crash at yours? ;) haha.

-Troy

Troy pressed sent once he finished typing the message. He slipped his phone into his pocket grabbing his car keys from his dresser and made his way out of his room and down the stairs. He heard shuffling from the upstairs room and knew it was Austin. Troy glanced quickly at his watch impatiently tapping his foot against the wooden floor. He decided to wait another minute or so before saying something about their tardiness, but before the minute had passed Austin came stepping quickly down the staircase.

"Your car or mine?" Austin asked while typing on his cell phone.

"Mine." Troy stated shortly before opening the front door and walking out with Austin following behind him.

The car ride to the restaurant was completely and utterly silent. Not Troy nor Austin said one word to one another. Troy kept his eyes on the rode while Austin kept paying much attention to his blackberry that was within his hands. After about 15 minutes of driving Troy reached the restaurant that his and Austin's parents were meeting with the two boys for dinner. Troy pulled infront of the resturant getting out of the car as he gave the valet man his keys to park his car in the restaurants valet parking space. Austin and Troy both strided along towards the restaurant.

Gabriella smiled reading Troy's last text message he had sent her. The time she had spent with him yesterday was incredible. After there breathe taking kiss Troy actually did help her around the house. He had did most of the man work that Gabriella couldn't quite accomplish but she didn't complain. Just being with him made Gabriella's day worth while. They had spent the day fixing up the house, some more kissing, watching movies together, and making dinner. Gabriella had to admit that Troy was like no man she had ever met. The day they spent together she actually even got to know more about him and just grew feelings for him even more. Troy was different. There was no doubt about that.

Gabriella pulled out of her parking spot from where she had been filming at for her show and began driving home. She glanced at the time that was projected in her car and read 7:00pm. She was exhausted and couldn't wait to bathe herself and than crash into her comfy bed. She smiled softly at the thought of that.

Troy's eyes glanced the restaurant quickly before spotting the brunette haired woman he had been searching for. He saw that she had spotted them as well and a smile grew widely across her thin lips. He walked over taking bigger strides to finally embrace the older woman who knew to be his mother. He smiled inhaling her scent and hearing her sob over how he'd look. He held her tightly in a comforting hug before finally letting her go to get a good look at her.

"Troy! My baby! Look at you! You're practically a grown man!" She sobbed smiling threw her happy tears.

"Mama I am a grown man." Troy smirked before giving her a kiss on her cheek.

Once he let her go she went over to embrace Austin and Troy moved to give his father a manly hug.

"Son its good to see you! Look at you! Staying in shape I see." His father grinned patting his shoulder.

Troy nodded chuckly. "Of corse!"

The two men sat down across from their parents Jack and Lucielle. They began catching up and discussing everything that was going on in there lives at the moment. Jack was still a physical education teacher at Austin and Troy's former high school East High. As for Lucielle she was still working in a bank. When Austin and Troy were in high school they both had played varsity basketball in which their father coached. From the moment Jack had saw his youngest son Troy play he knew that Troy was going to be a very talented well-known basketball player as for Austin, Austin was good at basketball but not as good as Troy. He always secretly envied his younger brother due to he felt his father always favorited Troy more than him. Troy was known in his high school days as East High's Golden Boy. Everyone loved and admired Troy from the moment he entered freshman year. Austin was fairly popular like Troy but he was never put on a pedastile like his younger sibling. Troy was instantly voted as MVP and Captain of the East High Wildcats, and once Troy entered his junior year scouts were out to get Troy to join their teams and Universities. As for Austin he stopped his basketball career in high school and entered the music and business industry becoming an owner of one of the biggest record labels in the world. His parents were very proud of him but he always had this gut feeling that they were more proud of Troy being selected in the NBA.

"So Troy how's the whole divorce going?" Lucielle asked.

Troy sighed before sipping on his bottle of beer. "Its going well in less than two weeks I have my court date to where we decided who gets what."

"Make sure she doesn't take you for all you've got!" Jack joked chuckling.

Troy smiled slightly not finding his joke funny. "Yeah Dad."

"Are we going to see Gabriella before we leave Austin? I wish she could of been here." Lucielle frowned looking at her eldest son.

Austin cleared his throat glancing down at his hands that were on the table. "Uh- - yeah... she has to work late tonight with shooting an episode and all but you will definitely see her before you guys go back home."

Troy eyes shot at Austin his eyesbrows arched looking at him incredulously. He shook his head in disbelief onto how his brother could just keep lieing about it.

Jack caught on to Troy's vicious glare and couldn't help but say something. "Why are you shaking your head ?"

Troy glanced up at his father before taking a long sip of his beer. "Because your son is an asshole."

Lucielle gasp. "Troy Alexander Bolton! Language!"

Troy held up a hand. "I'm sorry mama but its true. Austin is an asshole."

Austin turned his head to glare over at Troy. "How the hell am I an asshole?"

Troy scoffed. "You really want me to answer your question. Ok. Well your lieing to mom and dad -"

Jack interrupted Troy. "What do you mean he's lieing to mom and dad?"

Troy looked at his dad and mom taking a deep breathe. "He cheated on Gabriella."

"You did what?" Lucielle exclaimed looking at Austin.

"Mom please were practically still together she forgave me!" Austin said.

"Still together? Another fucking lie!" Troy felt the anger rise within his body. It was like his temperature was boiling up.

"Shut the fuck up!" Austin yelled over at Troy.

"Calm down you two." Jack said sternly.

"No! I'm not gonna shut the fuck up you piece of shit! You cheated on Gabriella and she left your stupid ass! You need to realize that she does not want to be with you." Troy yelled back at Austin.

"Who the fuck are you to know what the fuck she wants huh? Troy I already warned you to stay away from her. She's Mine!" Austin stood up facing Troy.

Troy stood up facing Austin. "She's not yours! She is not a property that you can just own. She belongs to herself Austin and you need to stop possessing over her she's not coming back to you she doesn't want you anymore!" Troy spat in his face.

Austin chuckled. "And what you think she wants you?"

Troy looked into his eyes. "Yeah."

All it took was that one word that came out of Troy's mouth and a second later Austin lunged forward at Troy punching him hard in the jaw. Troy stumbled back being hit unexpectedly put then lunged himself forward punching Austin in the face and grabbing him by his shirt pressing him hard up against the restaurant wall. Troy began lashing out and hitting Austin repeatedly on the face. Troy didn't hear the yells and cries of his mother in the background and didn't feel his fathers hands trying to stop him. All Troy was focused on was hurting Austin. Making him feel the pain Gabriella felt. Making him feel helpless and vulnerable like she did when he grabbed her pushing her up against the wall. Troy wanted to make sure that he was going to bruise like he had bruised Gabriella. Troy wanted Austin to realize how he made that innocent beautiful raven haired girl feel.

After moments off intense hitting Jack finally pulled Troy off of Austin. Troy still blinded by the rage of anger saw Austin's face bruised, his eye was swollen, his lips was busted and his noise was broken. Troy felt satisfied seeing how Austin had looked and then made his way out of the restaurant. He heard his mother calling out for him but frankly he wasn't ready to face them. He needed time to cool off. He walked outside handing the valet man his ticket and soon enough the man came with his car. Troy got into and began speeding off.

Gabriella wrapped a towel around her bare wet body sighing in relief feeling stress free. She walked into her room slipping into a pair of black lace boy shorts with the matching black chemise. She pulled out the clip that held her hair together and her raven locks fell over her shoulders. Gabriella then began pulling back the comforter from her bed when suddenly her door bell rang. Confusion spilled over her face as she grabbed her robe throwing it over her skimpy night wear. She made her way down the stairs and to the front door opening it.

Gabriella saw the blue eyed man she adored standing at her front door. He looked like a wreck. She saw the anger and torness that was held within his eyes and immediately went forward pulling him into her embrace. She wrapped her slender arms around his neck pulling him into a comforting hug. She felt him hesitant for a moment but then wrap his firm arms around her small waist holding her just as tightly as she held him. Gabriella began running her fingers through strands of hair that was in the back of his neck. After a couple of moments of being in one anothers embrace they let go. Gabriella gestured for Troy to come in and he obeyed her order.

"What happen?" She question softly closing the door.

Troy sighed heavily. "I got into a fight with Austin."

Gabriella's eyes widen as she began examining his face and saw the left side of his jaw red. "How?"

Troy looked at her. "Because of you.."

"Troy..-" she began to say.

"No. I know what you're about to say that you don't want us fighting over you but I couldn't just let him lie about you two being together." Troy interrupted her.

She sighed taking his larger hands in her own. "Troy you two are brothers... you shouldn't be fighting over me.."

"I don't care Brie! I don't! How he hurt you is more important to me than anything. And I made sure that he felt the pain you felt because for him to do what he did was wrong. No man should ever put there hands on a woman especially you.." Troy said.

Gabriella didn't know if she should feel touched or torn that two siblings were fighting over her. In her reply she just pulled Troy into another hug. She didn't know what to say she just needed to hug him and that's exactly what she did.

After a couple of more moments of hugging Gabriella pulled away looking up at Troy and began placing small soft kisses along his bruised jaw.

He winced slightly at the pain of his jaw but was touched by her movement.

"So I'm guessing you're not going back to the house right?" Gabriella asked looking into his crystals.

Troy nodded slightly in response.

Gabriella bit her bottom lip at the gesture she was about to make. "If you want you can stay here... but I haven't set up the guest room yet so you will have to sleep on the couch."

Troy smiled softly and nodded once again. "Thank you Brie."

"Anytime. I'm going to get you some ice and pillows and a blanket for you. So why don't you go get comfortable." she smiled.

Troy leaned down placing a small chaste kiss on her lips before moving to the lounge and her couch.

Gabriella got two comfortable pillows and nice soft blanket and an ice pack all for Troy. She made her into the living room to see him already laying down. She gave him to pillows and covered him with the blanket. Once he was set and comfortable she handed him the icepack.

"Leave it on for a few so that it could help you swelling and bruise." she smiled before placing a kiss on his forehead. "Good night Troy."

"Good night Brie. And thank you again." He smiled sincerely at her.

Gabriella smiled before shutting off the light. "Anything for you Troy.."