This is what a woman wants
Any man of mine better walk the line
Better show me a teasin' squeazin' pleasin' kinda time
I need a man who knows how the story goes
He's gotta be a heartbeatin' fine treatin'
Breathtakin' earthquakin' kind
Any man of mine
Gabriella Montez was not your typical 21 year old woman. In fact she was never your typical little girl. When you're a young girl you're made to believe that when you grow up that Prince Charming will arrive, sweep you of your feet and you'll live happily ever after. Early in life she discovered that this is what the publishers of books and Hollywood wanted you to believe, bringing to your life fairytales, but in reality she thought it was bullshit.
She was seven when her father walked out on her and her mother claiming he had fallen in love, but that he didn't mean for it to happen. The person he had fallen in love with was his fresh out of college new assistant who in his words was vibrant, athletic and loved to go out on the town. Apparently working long hours, having a curvier figure and wanting to stay at home rather than go out didn't work in her mother, Maria's favor. So her parents divorced and in the aftermath Maria was determined to be the best single mother that ever existed. And she was.
After watching her mother have her heart ripped out her chest, she was puzzled as to how she could still believe in love.
"Awe, Mia. I'm still a woman who is still a romantic at heart and believes in love. Women all over the world have their hearts broken everyday but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist." Maria would remind her.
After a few years of healing her mother finally felt she was ready to 'get back out there'. She began to date casually but if she clicked with someone she would take it further. She had several boyfriends over the years all starting off to be 'mind blowing' as she would say, then at some point it would be revealed as to whom these men really were. Even after all that Maria is still dating and trying to find 'the one'.
Gabriella respected her mother for going after something she wanted. A true, long lasting romantic relationship, but she had decided early in her teen years that there was no was in hell she was going down the same path of being so open minded to anyone. Gabriella had rules/tests that would prove to her if the pursuing man was good enough. She had boyfriends that would get through a couple of them but would fail on all other aspects and when they did she would kiss their cheek and walk away.
Sitting at a coffee shop with her pre-law books piled in front of her she looked out the window taking a break from the mind boggling text. With her I pod headphones nestled tightly in her ears, she listens to the song that has inspired her rules, Any Man of Mine by Shania Twain. Even though she wasn't the biggest country fan there was something about this power woman song that had struck a cord with her from the first time she had heard it and seemed to fit when describing the type of man she was looking for. Her friends had called her crazy for 'setting such ridiculous standards based on a country song', but she had explained that it was no different than the high standards some of them had come up with. She had listened to the song a thousand times, but as she people watched out the window, her mind wondered if she would ever find someone that would make it through all of them, if such a man existed. After all she thought, there are six billion people on this planet, though the majority of them being women, she still felt that there had to be one in the two billion plus men out there, right? She was after all a 21 year old college student, though young in age their was still a small part of her that wanted someone to pass with flying colors and wanted to experience all that love entails.
The small and questioning part of her must have sent a signal out to the universe that day for sitting in the coffee shop with pre-law books in front of her it would grant her someone by the name of Troy Bolton.