A/N: The Extended and Official Prologue for Those Thousand Words, the sequel to A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words.
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Summary: After cheating and leaving a torn-up, depressed girl behind. When she took that scholarship she had an unsuspected and unwanted shock when she met up with him again. She finally realizes what this school has done to him wanting nothing to do with him, at all. What now? Only god knows.
Rated: TEE, baby.
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"I'm sorry, Bobby," Gabriella said into the phone as she packed up her things, "I'm just into you that way, plus you know I'm leaving for that scholarship."
"I know, but I like you a lot, Brie." Bobby whispered into the receiver.
"I'm sorry, I'm just," she sighed and sat onto her bed, "Still not over what happened."
It's been two almost three months since to Troy incident.
"I understand, I'll miss you, Brie, bye." Bobby said.
"I'll miss you too, bye Bobby." she nodded and hung up before finishing up packing up her closet.
She sighed and went to her lyrics notebook, where the progress of her song had been continued since Troy had admitted to cheating.
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Troy had been sitting in the on-campus library when he felt a pair of arms linger down his chest from the back.
"Hey there sexy, I missed you over Spring Break." a girl whispered into his ear.
Instead of smiling as he usually did he shrugged her off, "Kris, we gotta talk."
"No, you are not breaking up with me." Kristina exclaimed.
"I just, need a break." He nodded and kissed her cheek, "Just a break." he whispered once again in her ear.
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As she arrived in California with her mother who was staying a week til she got settled in the boarding school, she begged her mother to let her get her hair done.
Finally agreeing they rushed to the salon, where Gabriella got her hair dyed so dark it was considered black, but when up close it was really brown. She got a heavy bang going across her forehead where they parted her hair to the side.
After begging, and begging her mother finally let her buy some clip in extensions matching her dark hair, making her hair down to just above her abs.
Smiling with her new look she and her mother had gone to her dorm.
Where they set up her room in her single.
A week later, she had just said goodbye to her mother and hugged her one last time before catching a cab back to her boarding school, James Crawford Academy (A/N: random, made up) commonly known as JCA.
She exited the cab and turned to pay the driver. Turning she ran into a muscular body, "Oof!" Gabriella said as she stumbled backwards holding her head, "My bad." she muttered as she looked up at the boy,
"Not a problem, babe." the male said with a wink before jogging away.
She rolled her eyes, "Typical."
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The next morning, Gabriella awoke to her alarm ringing.
"God." she muttered before standing up and getting ready for class.
Her classes had been amazing so far.
It was lunch she planned on skipping it.
She sat on a random rock and took out her lyrics notebook and began to write.
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"Hey man!" A guy patted Troy's shoulder, "Heard you broke up with Kris."
Troy shrugged, "Who cares, Cam, she's just another chick."
"Dude whats up with you?"
"Nothing." he squinted and looked around the campus before swinging a sip of his Pepsi.
"Hey dude, who's that." he nodded the way a long dark haired girl who sat alone with there back facing them.
"I think I bumped into her yesterday, let me go see." With that Cam rushed to the girl.
"Hey there, beautiful." Cam whispered into her ear.
Gabriella instinctively put her hand up and slapped him across the face.
"Ouch, fiesty sorry." Cam whined.
"Sorry." Gabriella shrugged then went back to her notebook.
She sat there in skinny jeans, black low-top chuck taylors, a gray tank top with a dark blue bust and a black bow in her hair.
To put it this way, she had changed a lot.
"But you are beautiful." he said sitting on the grass in front of her.
She jumped forgetting he was still there, "Uh thanks. "
"I'm Cam."
"Thats nice."
"And you are?" he questioned standing once again.
"Gabriella."
"Come with me." he held his hand out to her.
"Why?"
"I want you to meet some friends." he shrugged and shook his hand once more.
Sighing, she stood not taking his hand.
"Alright." He began to walk with her quietly before reaching a bunch of jocks chatting.
"Hey guys."
Gabriella scanned the crowd of people that turned to her.
There was two males doing basketball moves before stopping and looking at them.
Then a girl in a cheerleading uniform that it looked like with her arms around a guy.
Then two girls, one putting her arms around a brown haired boys neck whispering into his arm before nodded towards Cam and Gabriella.
"Who's this?" Kris asked entering the crowd with her hands on her hips shooting the girl whispering in Troy's ear a look.
Troy turned and his eyes caught Gabriella, causing her jaw to drop, "Gabriella?" he questioned.
Cam looked at him, "Dude I thought you didn't know who it was, oh wait...that Gabriella?"
Everyone turned to Gabriella who stood there in shock.
She felt the way she always did when she was around Troy with a dash of fright and anger.
She knew she loved him but she would never allow herself to forgive him.
In one swift movement she dropped her notebook and ran as fast as she could.
Troy stepped forward and picked up her notebook, immediately recognizing it he ran after her.
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"What the hell?" Troy shouted as he rounded the corner where Gabriella was sitting on a rock with an ivy wall behind her head.
She jumped and looked up, "What do you mean?"
Gabriella sighed and rubbed her eye.
"You, here? What the hell are you doing here?" His voice rose with anger and he stood towering over her.
Gabriella scoffed and stood up.
Although he was taller, she was not intimidated, she knew him too well.
"Let me tell you something, rewind, last day of vacation. I got a phone call, letting me know I had received a scholarship..."
-Flashback-
Ms. Montez knocked lightly on Gabriella's door of the condo.
"El?" she whispered and opened the door to Gabriella and her cousin, Elena, going through her wardrobe.
"Hi Mama." Gabriella smiled over at her mother who had shut her door and sat on her bed.
"What's up?" Gabriella joined her mom on the bed when she didn't say anything after a few seconds.
"Well, honey, remember that scholarship you applied for in May?"
Gabriella nodded.
"You got accepted to go to James Crawford Academy on a Academic scholarship."
Her jaw dropped, "Oh my god!" she hugged her mother with a big grin.
After a tight squeeze she pulled away from her mother.
"Honey, you know this means you'd be moving to California, alone."
Her smile dropped to a frown, "But Troy and you?"
"You've gotta make a choice, nena." With that her mother kissed her daughters head and left the room.
Gabriella looked over at Elena,who gave her a sympathetic smile.
-End Of Flashback-
"And, guess what? I choose you and never told you." she shrugged and crossed her arms taking a step back from him.
That only caused him to take another step closer, "Doesn't explain why you're here."
"I begged for my scholarship back, I didn't know you went here, otherwise, I'd be on the other side of the country."
Gabriella turned away from him and adjusted her bag before walking away.
"Here." he followed her out and held out her notebook.
Only turning slightly to see her lyrics book, she pulled it away quickly.
"You didn't read them did you?"
"Not really." he shrugged and studied her.
"She really does look good." he began to think before shaking it off.
"You've really changed."
She scoffed and looked at him from the corner of her eye, "Me?"
Scoffing once more she turned on her heel, taking long nervous strides back to the dorm, silently promising herself that she will never forgive him or even let him in again.
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A/N: Alright, alright!
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I don't know if I like the name I might change it.