Troy Bolton was THE player of LA. He was famous,22 years old, everybody knew him. But what they didn't knew was that he had a softer side. He was a basketball player, and he also worked with his friend, in the music business. When he had a game to play outside LA, he searched of talented singers.
Gabriella Montez, was a quiet sweet shy girl. It was hard to make friends, but if you were friends with her, you'd have a lot of fun! She wouldn't be the shy girl, she would be a sweet girl, laughing all the time and just having fun! She goes to East high, is a 'nerd', 18 years old, and in her senior year. Almost nobody knew her in school. And she liked it that way.
TROY just finished his training with best friend Chad Danforth. 'Dude, we are sooo gonna win the next game!' Chad said.
'I know! And after the game we have 3 weeks vacation!' he answered. They both walked to the showers, after 20 minutes they walked out together, totally refreshed they headed out to their cars and said goodbye.
After he arrived home, he saw Heather cooking in the kitchen. Heather was his newest girl, and they were good together. They were dating for a few weeks now, and troy liked her. But he knew that they weren't gonna last. There wasn't a really good connection, but for now it was good.
'hey heather' he said and gave her a kiss on the cheek. 'What are you cooking?'
'I'm just making some macaroni. How was your day?' she asked, and turned around to look at him.
'Just fine' right after he said it, his phone started to ring.
'hey Marcus' he said picking up his phone. 'What can I do for you?'
'Well I heard that you are free next week, and I was wondering if you could go and, you know, search for singers. I prefer girls this time.'
'yeah sure, where do I need to go to?'
' how about New Mexico? Albuquerque? I never went there for singers, and I just wanted to try something.' Marcus said.
'sure, look I need to go now, but I'll call you later this week for the details. Alright?' Troy said to him.
'Fine with me, tell Heather I said hi! Bye troy.' And he hung up.
Troy shut his phone, and look at Heather. ' Marcus said hi, since when are you guys so close?' he asked Heather, as she was setting the table.
GABRIELLA just walked out of her last class to her locker. 'GABRIELLA!' someone screamed in the hall, she looked around and saw Rachel Daniels running to her.
'Hi Rachel, What did you do this time?' she asked her best friend.
'Nothing, but did you read the magazines?' Rachel asked her totally out of breath.
'No, I never do that, you should now that by now Rach! But was is soooo important from the magazines?'
'THE Troy Bolton is coming to Albuquerque! AAAHH! He is sooo hot, I want to marry him!' Gabriella looked amused at her friend. Rachel had a boyfriend for two years, and they were totally in love. Everyone could see that.
'HEY! I thought that you wanted to marry me!' I looked up to see Mike Rushton standing behind Rachel and giving her a kiss on her cheek.
'ahh.. suck it up! You know I have a HUGE celebrity crush on Troy Bolton. But gabs, there is a reason I'm telling you this..'
'And that is?' Gabriella asked while closing her locker.
'He won't come here for a vacation, but for auditions! And you are auditioning!' she told Gabriella.
' uhm.. no I won't, I didn't sign up for that..'
'no you didn't' Rachel looked at Gabriella with a smirk. 'I did it for you!'
'YOU DID WHAT!'
TROY walks away from the plane, and sees a bunch of high school girls waiting for him. He smirks a little and quickly puts his sunglasses up. He waits for his luggage, and walks to the exit.
'troy, can I have a autograph?'
'Can I have a picture with you?'
'Will you marry me?'
'see you at the auditions!'
The list goes on and on, all the girls were screaming at him, but he kept on walking. He had no time for them. He had only a week for auditions, and convince the girls that this is what they should do, and come to LA for the start of their music carrier. 8 out of 10 times they would come with him, but sometimes they didn't come, and they would always regret it.
IT was Monday morning, Gabriella just finished her breakfast, grabbed her bag and walked out of her house. She didn't want to go to school today. Because after school she would have a audition, a audition she didn't want to have. 'But maybe it could work out' she thought.
She stepped into the bus and sat down in a empty seat. She always loved singing, did it all the time, until she abruptly stopped. No one except her mom knew why.
When she stepped out of the bus she saw that all the girls were dressed up. She looked down at herself. She had no make-up on, glasses, a large old t-shirt and a light jeans with sneakers on her feet. She went to her locker and put some books away she would need later that day. When the bell rang Gabriella walked to her homeroom. As she reached her homeroom, she rushed to her seat and sat quietly down, waiting for everyone to arrive.
'Hey girl! Excited for today?' Rachel asked Gabriella.
'No, not really.. I can't get out of this, can I? she asked looking hopeful at Rachel.
'No, of course not. You know that I love you right? And I always saw you singing, and that was when you looked the happiest, I'm doing this for you, so that you can be happy again. It doesn't matter if you get selected or not, I just hope that you'll start singing again, and just be happy.' Rachel told her, and gave her a hug, just when the teacher came and homeroom started.
HE was not happy, not happy at all! All day, he'd been sitting here, and just listened to all these girls, some were good, some just not good enough. Some were soooo bad, but they thought they could reach a real high semibreve, but then their dream was over, 'cause they were told that it was so not good, and that they should go.
He had only one candidate left and then it was the end of the day, but he was getting more and more pissed, because she was late! He was about too say that it was over for today, when a girl walked upon the stage.
'uhm.. hi, sorry I'm late' she said trough the microphone. Troy looked at her, she didn't look like a singer, more like a really shy girl. They locked eyes for a moment, and he saw that she was nervous, but most importantly, he saw that she didn't wanted to be here.
'why are you late?' he asked the shy girl.
'My bus was late' she answered him. Okay, well that happens. He had it all the time when he went with the bus. That's why, when he had the money, he quickly bought a car.
'Alright, what's your name, and what are you gonna sing?' Troy asked.
'uhm.. Gabriella Montez, and I'm gonna sing footprints in the sand. Troy was preparing himself for the worst, when he heard her start singing.
You walked with me, footprints in the sand
And helped me understand where I'm going
You walked with me when I was all alone
With so much I know along the way
Then I heard you say
I promise you, I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sorrow and despair
I'll carry you when you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand
I see my life flash across the sky
So many times have I been so afraid
And just when I thought I lost my way
You gave me strength to carry on
That's when I heard you say
I promise you, I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sorrow and despair
I'll carry you when you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand
When I'm weary, wel I know you'll be there
And I can feel you when you say
I promise you, I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sadness and despair
I'll carry you when you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand
'Alright that's enough' he said, and saw that she had tears streaming down her face. 'are you okay?' he asked her. She nodded and wiped her tears away. 'yes I'm fine, its just been awhile, and I just thought of my dad. That's all.'
'Okay, well I think you have a very good and strong voice. I want to meet you again, and then maybe you can sing for me again, and for some other people. We need to work this out, so I need your number. How about that?' he asked her. Gabriella was shocked and speechless. She didn't know she was this good. Her mother didn't even now about this audition, she didn't even know that after 4 years she started to sing again. Just when she was about to answer Rachel came running to her.
'How did it go!' she asked very loudly while she hugged a shocked Gabriella.
'uhum' someone coughed.
'can you wait till later, I'm talking to my best fr..' she said while turning her head to see THE troy Bolton standing there.
'OMG! YOUR TROY BOLTON!' Rachel screamed.
'uhm.. yeah last time I checked I was troy..' he answered while rubbing his neck. 'but I was waiting for an answer of Gabriella. So, can I have your number? So that we can discuss the things?'
'uhm yeah sure, uhm where can I write it down?'
'Just write it on my hand.' She grabbed a pen, and took his hand, when she did, she started to blush. 'there.. uhm.. can I go now?' Gabriella asked softly.
'yeah, you'll here from me soon.'
'Okay, bye.' With that she quickly grabbed her bag, and walked away. After two seconds she returned and grabbed Rachel by her hair and pulled her along.
'SHIT! GABS! That hurt!' Rachel screamed.
'that's your own fault! You didn't come! And you were daydreaming, that's the only way I can get you back to earth again!' Gabriella said back loudly, which troy found very amusing. While shaking his head, he walked out of the building, back to his hotel.
'MOM! I'm home! I need to tell you something!' Gabriella said, while closing the door.
'KITCHEN!' she heard her mom yell back. Gabriella dumped her bag on the ground, and walked quickly to the kitchen.
'sweetie, I need to tell you something too. And you might want to sit down.' Her mom said, while turning so that she could look at her daughter.
'alright, well you can go first, mom.' Gabriella said, while sitting down.
'My boss called me, and..' her mom stopped talking, and she looked at her daughter.
'you got transferred again?' Gabriella asked her mom. Her mom nodded.
'yes, but there is a good part this time. We can choose were we want to go to. We have three choices.'
Gabriella sighed. 'were can we go to?' She asked her mom.
'Los Angeles, or New York, or..'
'If we go, I want to go to LA, mom. There is something I need to tell you also, mom. Uhm.. it might be shocking, but I sang today mom.' She told her mom quietly, while looking down. When she looked up, she saw her mom sitting speechless, but smiling.
'That's great, Gabs, I..' She quickly interrupted her mom.
'I was not finished yet, mom. Rachel made me do a audition today. That's why I sang today. And he said, that he wanted to see me again, that I needed to sing in front of him again, and in front of other people.. I think that if that all goes well, and I agree to it…' her voice died away as she looked down again.
'Then what sweetie? What is it?' her mom asked.
' If I agree to it, I think I can became a singer mom.' She said quietly, then her phone started to ring.
' Hello?' she answered her phone. Her mom stood up, and started cooking again.
'yes Gabriella? It's Troy Bolton. I was wondering if you could sing tomorrow for me?' troy said trough the phone.
'Hello Mr. Bolton. Uhm yeah, I could do that. But I have school tomorrow.' Her mom looked up.
'Well, how about we pick you up from school tomorrow, which school do you go to? West High?'
'uhm, no, East high. My school is over at 3 PM.' Gabriella said to him.
'Alright, see you tomorrow then. Bye now' Troy said and hung up. She sighed and shut her phone, grabbed her bag, and walked upstairs.
TROY shut his phone, and went downstairs to the restaurant. After that, he went upstairs to his room again, and heard his phone ringing. He saw HEATHER on his phone.
'hey Heather! What's up?' he answered his phone.
'hey babe, well nothing much, how is it going? Did you found one?' Heather asked him.
'yeah, she's a good singer, not to old, but I think she is quite a shy girl and a nerd. At least she looked like one. But we can always work on that' He told her.
'mmhhmm… uhm yeah, look I gotta go now, love ya. Bye' and she hung up quickly. He shut his phone, took a shower brushed his teeth, and went to bed. It'd been a long day.