My Life In College. Is the story of Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton (in Troy's POV). Their time in college has been going great so far, but, with a new apartment, new friends, stress of their third year in college. Will it all turn out for the better? Or will things just seem to get worse for them both?

Disclaimer: I sadly do not own any of the HSM Characters.

But, I do own their new friends and the college. Well, I hope you enjoy the chapter and the story


Chapter 1

Gabi and I decided that at the end of High School we were going to go to the same college this way we wouldn't be away from each other. As you should know, we got together after that one school play audition. Thinking back on those years it seems like it was just yesterday, but really it was six years ago. Now, during junior and senior year I was on the basketball team and Gabi stayed on the Decathlon team and we both won our big game/tournament each year. We also participated along side of Ryan and Sharpay Evans in the school plays. It couldn't have been a better High School experience. We still keep in touch with Taylor, Kelsi, Ryan, Sharpay (after that year we all became pretty close), Chad, Zeke, and Jason. All of them still reside in New Mexico, but spread out across the area to attend different colleges. Zeke was accepted to the study abroad program and at this exact moment he is in Paris studying Culinary.

Now, they say college is supposed to be the best days of your life and I can truly say that it has been so far. Me and Gabi stayed in dorms for our first two years and we made some pretty awesome new friends. There's Alan and Akamu that were on my floor. Akamu is cool, we call him Moo for short and he's from Hawaii. I had the pleasure of rooming with him for those two years. For the girls there's Sarah, Heather, and Stephanie. All of them were on Gabi's floor and she roomed with Heather the first year and the second year with Stephanie. Every now and then we go out on double dates and whatnot. Since we're in our junior year of college, both Gabi and I are pitching in on an apartment. Which our parents aren't fond of, but who cares? We wanted this because we love each other and thought it was a good idea. We are residing in a two bedroom, two bath apartment just outside the town of Goerges University. It was only about an hour and a half drive from Albuquerque, this way we could still visit easily for holidays and such.

That is where this story starts. Its about myself, Troy Bolton and my best friend and girlfriend, Gabriella Montez. We're about a month into the first semester of our junior year and still getting comfortable in the apartment. This Saturday was a big party we were holding for our friends and family. Gabi was constantly on the phone with Zeke, running up our bill, on how to make this and that. Did I mention what our majors were? No, well I was majoring in Criminal Justice and would be done with most of schooling at the end of this semester and would be able to get a job as a cop. My dream is to become an FBI cop, like that Seeley Booth on the show Bones. Don't ask, Gabi watches it on the phone with her friends Heather and Steph. Gabi was of course majoring in science, to be exact Atmospheric Physics and is trying to get a Ph.D. in it. Don't ask me what it is, I have no idea. Gabi tries to explain to me, but after the second sentence I'm always lost.

I can hear Gabi in the other room, she's humming a tune that I can't make out, but when she hums, it makes her even cuter. She's typing away on her laptop doing the homework for the week for one of her classes. I should really take after her more because I have an essay due in two days and I haven't even started it yet. Since I was hungry, I got up to walk to the kitchen, in which you have to walk through the living room where she was at the desk with her laptop on it. She was so content with her homework I knew she'd be done in no time. Sneaking up on her, I wrapped my arms around her neck and kissed her cheek.

"Hey, how's the homework coming?" She turned to look at me, but was typing away.

"Its going good, don't you have any homework?"

"Yea"

"Then shouldn't you be doing it?"

"I got hungry." I said smiling.

"Sure, you haven't even started that essay that's due. Don't you know it's a major part of your grade?" She saved her file and turned around in the chair completely. I was standing in front of her.

"I know it is, but I don't like writing essays." The fridge was calling my name, since it was just about dinner time and we finally had food in there. "What do you want for dinner?" I asked her.

"Uhm, food?" she said sarcastically. I laughed and walked into the kitchen and took out chicken legs that I was going to make.

"Well, chicken legs and a salad sound good to me."

"Me too," and she turned to begin working on something else. Over her shoulder I could see she had AIM on and was checking her email. I shook my head and began to bread the legs and popped them into the oven. After setting the timer I went back into the living room and jumped over the back of the couch and sat down. I reached for the remote control and turned the TV onto ESPN where a college soccer game was on.

"Do you mind?" Gabi asked me.

"Nope, come and sit next to me. You deserve a break; you've been doing non-stop homework since we got home." She obliged and turned off the laptop, coming to sit next to me, her legs were pulled up next to her and she leaned against me. I draped my arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer. "Isn't this much better?"

"Then doing homework? I guess if you think watching sports is so much fun."

"You don't like this channel? Okay, then what do you want to watch?" I held out the controller for her and she gladly took it. Switching to some show on Style called 'What Not To Wear'. "Okay and this is much better?" I asked her.

She nodded and smiled, "Mm-hmm."

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