Summary: Gabriella moved away from California and into New Mexico to leave behind the tragic death of her father. When her next-door-neighbors, the Boltons' introduce themselves, Troy seems to trip Gabriella and she seems to be falling- in love! What can they do when Gabi's afraid of commited relationships ever since her mother became widowed. Troy wants her, he's in love with her, and he'll do practically everything for her- including giving up basketball and landing up in detention for trying to hook up with her! Watch as they have heated moments together, and dramatic roller-coaster rides at EHS. (Fluff in later ch.) Troyella.

Chapter 1:

"Gabi, take these boxes to your room," her mother, Mary, instructed.

"Alright," Gabriella moved away from California, leaving all her friends behind, to move to New Mexico, starting a fresh, new life, with something, or someone missing- her father. She never seemed to get over it, while Mary acts as if nothing had ever happened, hooking up with different guys every other day. Yes, you guessed it; her mother was, well, hot.

Just as Gabriella took her last few boxes up into her room, the door rang.

"I'll get it!" Gabriella yelled to her mom. She opened the door, revealing a family of 3- a mother, a father, and a son- a very attractive son. "Hello..."

"Hi, you must be the Montezs'?" the mom of the house spoke.

"Yes, we are," Mary came opening the door wider from behind Gabriella.

"Hi, We're the Boltons'. Actually, I'm Megan," the mom introduced.

"I'm Jack," the dad spoke.

"Hey, I'm Troy," he smiled, sort of talking to Gabriella and just her. She couldn't help but smile back.

"Hey..." she spoke softly.

"Oh, where are my manners? Come on in!" Mary exclaimed, gesturing with her hands to come in.

"Okay. Do you guys need help with anything?" Jack asked.

"Oh no, we're just...unpacking everything," Mary replied, looking at the mess, barely being able to find the floor. "Yeah, that's it. just cleaning and unpacking," she sighed.

"Well, we want to help!" Megan insisted.

"Oh no, no no no. We're fine."

"Oh come on, it'll be fun!" she said. Gabriella and Mary looked at each other. Gabi had an approving look in her eyes, so Mary said, "Oh alright. By the way, my name is Mary," she said.

"and i'm Gabriella, Gabi for short," Gabi smiled.

"Hello Gabriella, Mary," Jack said.

"Okay. Um, Megan, you can help me clean the kitchen up. I think we're going to need to find it under this mess before we try cleaning it," Mary said. Everybody laughed.

"Mom, you better hurry. I'm starving, and if we don't have food on the table tonight, I'm leaving to-urgh." Gabriella was still used to saying that she was going over to Sarah's, her best best best friend in California, or more like the whole world.

"Aw, I'm sorry. As soon as we get settled, we'll get you a new cell phone, but for now, we're going to clean up. Take Troy upstairs and start organizing your room,"

"Okay..." she sighed. "Come on," Gabi looked over at Troy. He followed her upstairs.

"So what school do you go to?" Troy asked as they walked into her room.

"Well, I used to go to Westwood High, but I guess I'm going to East High now..."

"Oh, I go there, too! East High, I mean,"

"Oh really? That's cool. Maybe we'll see each other there," Gabi said.

Troy's Point of View

Gosh. She's so pretty when she talks. I love how there's a smile for every word she speaks. She's so beautiful...

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"Yeah, maybe..." he spoke softly.

"So Troy, is it?" he nodded. "what grade are you in?"

"Senior year here, you?"

"Same! Wow, that's weird,"

"Yeah, huh?" They had a moment of silence just smiling at each other until she shook her head and started speaking. "Okay, could you grab the box where it says Photos?"

"Uh-huh, sure," he said as he ripped the tape off gently and opened the box. Inside, he saw stacks and stacks of pictures, both in frames and not in frames. There were ones with her friends, ones of her as a baby, recent pictures of her, and her family- her, her mom, and her dad.

Troy's POV

Wait, is that her dad? She sure looks like him. I wonder where he is...probably at work.

End.

Gabi was taking her clothes out of a box and hanging them in her closet or putting it in her dresser in her walk in closet.

"Hey Troy," He looked up.

"Could you put the stacks seperated as they are and just take it out?"

"Sure thing," he took one stack by one stack out.

"Are these your friends Gabriella?" he asked, showing her one of the pictures.

"Yeah, they're back in California, where I moved from,"'

"Oh, why'd you move out to New Mexico?" From this question, tears welled up in her eyes, and it felt like something was pushing her throat.

"Um, well, you see," she said shaking.

"Oh no, it's okay if you don't want to tell me. I fully understand,"

"No, it's okay. I think I should talk about it to somebody,"

"Alright then. So go on,"

"Uhm, well, my dad, h-he passed a-away, from a c-car accidnet, b-by my b-boyfriend," she started crying at this point.

"Oh my goodness, Gabi I'm so sorry," he said hugging her tightly.

"N-no it's fine. Chris was a jerk anyway,"

"I'm assuming that that was your boyfriend's name?"

"Yeah. We never really called it off, because to me, it seemed like he did it on purpose, so since then i never talked to him, called him, looked at him, or anything."

"W-wait, hold up, did you say that he did it on purpose?"

"Yeah." she replied sadly. "That night, we were suppose to go see a movie but he said that he was going to have some 'fun' with his car and his friends, and after the hospital called saying that my dad was gone, I immediately called him and told him, and he's just said 'Whoops', and started laughing. Troy, it hurt so much, and now I'm forced to leave it all behind. My mom assumes that I'll just forget about it, but I won't. I can't, you know?"

"Honestly, I don't know, but I can tell that you're devastated. How about I help you out? On your first day, I'll drive you to school,"

"Are you sure?"

"Of course I am! I don't want you to be alone on your first day. I want it to be as easy and comforting as you can. You can hang out with me and my friends,"

"Thanks Troy,"

"No problem," he smiled. Gabriella smiled back, as they had their 'moment' for about a minute after turning back to their boxes that they were unpacking.

Gabriella's POV

Oh gosh. I think I'm falling for him... I'm probably going to be heartbroken again...

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(A/N: Please read and review! What'd you guys think?)