A/N: This was a spur-of-the-moment idea. I think Trelsi's kinda cute though, even though I love Troyella.

Disclaimer: Don't own nothin'.

Kelsi Nielsen sat at her front-row desk, next to Troy Bolton. Glancing at him, she found him openly staring at the back row, where Gabriella Montez was sitting. Kelsi laughed, watching some of her best friends openly show their love for each other and not even know it. Troy dimly heard her laugh and tore his eyes away from Gabriella.

"What's up, Kels?" he asked. She shook her head.

"Nothing. Just go back to staring at Gabi," she said, grinning. His head, which was already drifting back towards Gabriella, snapped back to Kelsi's smiling face.

"Kelsi! I was not staring at Gabriella. I'd know if I was." Kelsi rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, sure, Troy," she told him, knowing he didn't hear her. At that moment, the bell rang and Ms. Darbus walked in on the heels of Sharpay Evans, who gave Gabriella a scathing look. She slipped into her seat on the other side of Martha Cox, who sat on Troy's other side from Kelsi, and gave another scathing look to Kelsi. Kelsi rolled her eyes again, knowing that Sharpay was still crushing on Troy, even after the disastrous (in Sharpay's world) turn of the winter musical, in which Gabriella and Troy had beaten out Sharpay and her twin brother Ryan for the leads.

At lunch that day, Kelsi slipped into her usual seat between Gabriella and Taylor McKessie. Everyone was talking about the upcoming spring musical. Kelsi jumped right in.

"Ms. Darbus already has me working hard on writing songs for the show. Gabs, Troy, I'm hoping you guys win again, because these songs would sound better for you two than for Sharpay and Ryan." Gabriella smiled.

"Can we see any of the music yet?" she asked. Kelsi shook her head.

"Not yet, I'm not done. But I think you'll like it." Gabriella seemed satisfied with this answer, which was a welcome change for Kelsi. Sharpay would push and push until Kelsi showed her the music, and then change just about everything in it.

They kept talking, mostly about the musical and spring break, which was coming up at the end of the week. Kelsi had already decided to stay home and work on her songs over the break, but Troy seemed determined to shatter that idea.

"Come on, Kels, Gabi and Taylor and everyone are coming to Las Vegas with me. Come on, please?" Kelsi shook her head.

"I just don't feel like a trip this year. But don't let me stop anyone else from going. I know you all want to go. I don't. I'll see you when you get back." Troy finally gave up and the topic turned back to the musical.

On Friday, after school, everyone parted ways and the people who were going to Las Vegas (Troy, Gabriella, Taylor, Chad Danforth, Jason Cross, Zeke Baylor, and Martha) split up into Troy's and Gabriella's cars. They said goodbye to Kelsi and piled into the cars, the guys in Troy's and the girls in Gabriella's.

At twelve-thirty that night, the sounds of "Breaking Free" coming from her phone woke Kelsi up. Sighing, she rolled out of bed and grabbed the phone before it could wake her mom up.

"Hello?" she asked groggily. A distraught voice met her ears from the other end.

"Kelsi? It's Troy…there's been an accident." Kelsi's eyes bugged out and she was suddenly completely alert.

"What happened? Were you guys still in the car?"

"It wasn't my car, it was Gabi's. We were still driving, which was stupid of us, because none of us are very good night drivers. But everything was going fine. I was sitting in the passenger seat of my car talking to Taylor on the phone while Zeke drove, and Gabi was driving in her car. Suddenly the phone just went dead, and Jason screamed. The girls were in front of us, and we saw a semi swerve and crush their car between it and the guardrail. Thank goodness the guardrail didn't snap, because we were near the edge of a ravine.

"I dialed 9-1-1 and told them what happened. We all got out of the car and went to see what had happened. The driver of the semi had also gotten out. We could tell that he was drunk. But the car was still trapped, and I could see Taylor moving around. We couldn't see Gabi or Martha because they were in the front seat. When the paramedics got there, they got Taylor out first, and then they had to finagle Gabi and Martha out. There wasn't any room in the ambulance, so we followed them to the hospital. When we got there, we found out that Taylor had a broken arm and foot. They also had to amputate Martha's left arm." He stopped. Kelsi waited, tears streaming down her face at the thought of what had happened to her friends.

"What happened to Gabi?" she asked. She could hear him crying too.

"Gabi…they pronounced her DOA. Dead on arrival."