It was 1st period. Gabriella had just got into her

algerbra class. She took a seat near a window and

set her stuff on an empty desk next to her. It was a

really rainy day. It was thundering and lightning.

Surprisingly, the electricity hadn't gone out yet.

A boy with sandy brown hair and bright blue eyes walked through the door. He spotted Gabriella and walked over to her.

"Boo!"

"Oh my gosh!!" Grabriella yelled and jumped at the same time. She turned around to see who it was.

"Troy! What is wrong with you?!" Gabriella said hitting him lightly

"Ow! You hurt me. Kiss it please Gabriella??" Troy said playing along.

"Oh puh-lease! I didn't hit you that hard," Gabriella said.

"Yeah huh!" Troy said in a baby tone.

"Naw-"

But before Gabriella could finish her sentence there was a loud BOOM!! It was thunder and Gabriella jumped up and grabbed Troy's hand without thinking.

"It's okay Gabs, it's just a little thunder," Troy said trying not to laugh

Gabriella caught her breath and then her eyes drifted to their hands. Her eyes

widened. She quickly removed her hand and her face went a slight shade of pink then

as fast as she could looked out the window. "Oh and by the way Troy, that wasn't

funny." Troy just laughed again.

"Hello class. Happy Friday! Your teacher isn't her today. She went home sick so I'm your substitute. All that she has assigned you to do is this little packet for this class period," Ms. Clark said.

"Aww man," the class complained.

"Wow, your excitment for algebra scares me," Ms. Clark exaggerated. "But to make this easier, you can work with one, and I repeat one partner."

As soon as the packets were passes out everyone had their partner and started

working. For Gabriella, this was a pice of cake. She finished the whole packet in 10

minutes. Troy didn't have a problem with it either, expcept for some problems. That's

when he would ask Gabriella for help. Once they both finished they turned it in and

talked. Well that's what they would normally do anyways.

Troy couldn't help but stare at Gabriella. 'She's so beautiful' Troy thought to himself. ' Wait a minute Troy! You can't have feelings for Gabi, you two are best friends that's it.' While Troy was looking at her, he noticed something was wrong with her. Usually they were talking up a storm, but this time she just sat there, looking out the window. There was a sad look on her face and terror on her face. She even looked like she was hurt.

"Hey Gabs, you okay?" Troy asked. She didn't answer.

"Gabs?...Gabi?...Gabriella?!" Troy said shaking her arm lightly.

"Ow! Sorry, did you say something Troy?" Gabriella asked, and started rubbing her left arm.

"Are you okay? You've been spaced out this whole week. And you don't look so well. And whenever i playfully hit you..you start to wince in pain. Gabriella, is there something going on that I should know about?" Troy asked.

"Huh? Uh, yeah, I'm great," Gabriella lied, hoping that Troy wouldn't catch on, but he did.

"No you not," Troy started. "Something's wrong" But before they could finish their conversation the bell rang.

"Hey Troy, I gotta get to my next class. I'll talk to you later ok?" and without letting him say anything she slipped outta algebra class and into English.