Looking Back and Ahead,
Shakespeare once said: the course of true love never did run smooth.
Chapter one;;
How it started.
A new face came into town in the summer of 2007. She was fresh out off eighth grade and ready for high school, but her father's job required a relocation. So this girl was removed from sunny Napa Valley, California and placed in Albuquerque, New Mexico with the rest of the Montez's. This girl's family consisted of an older sister, a mother just as well as a father, and of course the family pet. A hundred and twenty pound golden retriever, whose name suited him well. Shaggy was not at all affected by the move, unlike the two younger Montez's. Camille and Gabriella had slammed doors and shot evil looks at their parents when they had discovered the move; Shaggy welcomed the house as well as the big yard happily. The huge house was covered with blonde fur in no time.
The new town had been anything and everything but appealing to the girls. Both Camille and Gabriella would pray every night before they slept that they could just move back home. But they soon realized home was no longer where it used to be. Although leaving friends and starting somewhere entirely new and unfamiliar could leave some teenagers peeved, they eventually got over it. Camille figured she should at least make the best of things and get to know this new town, and since she was a year older than her sister, Gabriella followed Camille's lead.
The fact that Camille and Gabriella were sisters was one thing. But because the two girls were so close and friend like, they held each other together in the new place. It was easier to make friends when you're with someone your comfortable with anyway. Soon enough the two had made acquaintances with some locals, and the friendly bonds still on going today, began that summer at the city pool where all the teenagers would hangout.
It was almost like a club, teenagers flocked there like seagulls on a beach. The pool was thee hangout spot of the summer. Everyone was there, and the people who weren't were either talked about or dismissed as nobody's. Camille had her own friends to hang out with then, and so did Gabriella. The two sisters were still close, but the new people they met down at the pool on those warm summer days became who they were. The Montez sister's drifted, but it was nothing too noticeable.
New girls usually have the reputation of being nerdy and not having many friends, right? Well there's always an exception, and that'd be Camille and Gabriella. The two Latina's fit in almost perfectly, really. It seemed all people ever talked about was the two black haired beauties as well. Camille and Gabriella were almost like the celebrities of the town, everyone wanted something to do with the two new chicks from California.
Then things started to heat up.
Gabriella had caught the attention of a boy no girl has been able to keep her hands on, ever. Sharpay had told her the guy was no-no, a major bad boy, while Taylor had just said he was a boy and there was nothing more to it besides his good looks. It left Gabriella curious about this new shady figure. She wanted to pursue him, you can't blame her, he was hot! What had she got to lose anyway?
When you're young, you do drastic things that don't seem so at the time, and you do them without much thought. If Gabriella had known what was to come in her near future, she probably wouldn't have sought out this guy that late July night while everyone was hanging out around the bonfire in the woods.
But she did.
It changed her future, drastically. Not only was Troy Bolton a bad ass, he was the top shot of the school, middle school and soon to be at the high school. Everyone knew him, everyone liked him no matter how he acted, and they're support only made him how he was and is today. Cocky, jock, hot, player. All of the above. Some people would call what the two had that first summer Gabriella was in Albuquerque to be puppy love, teenage love, not real love. Most adults think its impossible for teenagers to actually experience love, they stereotype it to be teenage love. Something temporary. Yet most adults had their own love experiences as teenagers and felt it was truly real. So who were they to judge?
Anyway, word got around quick when the hottie of the grade, who was as "untamable" as they called him, suddenly was hung up on this new chick from California. No girl could ever hold his attention long enough to get a relationship or any strings out of him. Well, until Gabriella that is. At first everyone was skeptical enough to make bets on how long this only sort of thing was going to last. One week, one day, three days, three weeks? No one had any idea, they weren't used to they're bad boy having a lady on his arm.
You've probably read about stories where the nice polite girl changes the bad boy into a good guy, right? Well this story is something like that… Okay I lied. That's not how things happened in New Mexico. Gabriella and Troy hit it off that summer, they hung out a lot as tight friends, and when they were apart phone bills got high from all the texting and calling that was done. So how is it not a happily ever after story, you ask? Well I'm not going to tell you what happens now; there'd be no point in reading on into my story then. But what am I going to tell you? God, just keep reading!
Troy left Albuquerque two weeks before school started to go to his cousin's wedding in the Bahamas, and knowing he wasn't going to return until late the day before school started, he said goodbye to Gabriella with a kiss. In the Bahamas he couldn't text or call Gabriella, or vice versa. So obviously no communication was exchanged. Troy's teenage head was confused when he left, and what'll you'll find out soon is what happened we he came and returned.
Ask anyone you know, freshmen year is always a bumpy ride, right?
Right.
I'm baaaaackk! This is just like an intro, don't worry, the chapters will be back to my usual size. I'm going to be writting in this style now, no more first person perspective, sorry.