Hey there :),
November 2010 Monday
Troy looked around the school as he pulled up in his black Audi, if you would have asked him a year ago about him being the new kid in a different state he would have laughed in your face, he would never have even imagined being forced to move to a different town with his older brothers because his dad was thrown in jail for being caught up in a drug scandal. But now there he was, in front of his new school, East High, in New Mexico, Albuquerque, about to walk through those big glass doors and become the new guy that he so much desperately didn't want to be. Although he was a tad bit excited, in his old school he ran the place, he was looking forward to the reactions on people's faces once he walked through those doors, and of course meeting new people is always interesting. Just.. what if New Mexico is somehow incredibly different from New Jersey? What if he's basketball skills and charming charismatic personality, didn't mean anything here? He could be a zero, he could end up friendless, he couldn't ever let that happen, he had a rep after all, what if some how his old friends from new Jersey found out he was an outcast? He'd become a laughing stock.
Troy shook his head, plugging his earphone into his ipod turning up Simple plans 'shut up' as he stepped out the car, he wasn't going to think about it to hard, or else it would probably end up coming true, and he wasn't going to try to hard either, he remembered what happened to the new people who did that in his old school.
Troy walked up through the crowd of people towards the school entrance, feeling slightly nervous as he noticed a handful of people staring over at him. He cleared his throat trying to act confident, the way he usually was. Remembering he was supposed to go down to the office and pick up his classes and locker number, he headed down to the place he remembered the office to be at, thanking god when he got there that it was the right place.
"Hey, Troy Bolton, I'm new here I was meant to –" Troy started as he stood on the other side of the glass window
The women with blonde-almost grey hair looked up at him through her glasses, Troy found himself cringing at the sight of her not so subtle facial hair and crows feet "Yes I know" Her voice came out more manly then even Troy had expected, she turned around and he watched her go through a whole bunch of files before pulling out two letter sized papers sliding them through the crack in the bottom of the glass window "Here"
Troy grabbed the papers nodding his head "thanks" he mumbled looking quickly down at the first paper which read his locker number, 555 "sweet" he said to himself, something he could definitely remember. Troy headed into the hall looking over at the closest locker number 479, he sighed walking further down the hall, lucky he had gotten here early, there wasn't much people in the halls, but the people that were there, at least a quarter of them turned to stare over at him while he walked past, he couldn't blame them though, he would have done the same thing, he did actually whenever there was a new kid at his old school, he would judge them straight away. A mistake he probably shouldn't have made, karma. At least 10 minutes later Troy had finally found his locker looking back down at the paper to figure out his code for the lock, 2,46,2,35. He quickly spun the lock till it opened and grabbed onto his backpack shoving all the books he had brought that day into the locker as well as the bag, he didn't understand why he even brought the books, he wasn't planning on using them, he was in his last year, but there was no way he would get into a college, plus him and his brothers had promised to look after their fathers business when he went to jail, they fixed cars, they had sold the old shop in New Jersey and have just begun looking to buy a new one here, they wanted a fresh start. Troy could work there all his life, and there's a lot of money in car mechanics, plus he was good at it, his dad had taught him all he knew.
"Hey man, I was wondering when someone was gonna take that locker" Troy spun his head around to the voice that came from beside him, a dark skinned boy was standing at the locker beside him unlocking the lock, he had big hair, like an Afro, and looked to be sweating. He turned to look at Troy and crunched up his eyebrows "wait, I haven't seen you around here" Troy shook his head looking back to his locker "you must be new then, well I'm Chad Danforth"
Troy turned back to look at him and grabbed onto his hand that was extended for a shake "Troy Bolton" He said back
"Cool, sorry, I know I smell but I just got back from Basketball practice and coach didn't give us enough time to hit the showers.. he's a prick" Troy laughed nodding his head
"sounds like one" He agreed before realizing what he had said, basketball! Thank god they had basketball here "So you're in the basketball team?" He asked looking down at his list of classes for the day
Chad nodded from beside him "Yeah, every year since freshman, but this year Coach wants all the old team to try out again.. why?"
"I used to play at my old school, think you could get me in try outs?" Troy asked closing his locker shut, figuring he didn't need any books on his first day anyway
Chad shut his locker as well rubbing the back of his neck "well the try outs were this morning.. but I'm pretty tight with the coach, you recon you're good?"
Troy nodded his head instantly which made Chad laugh "Yeah uh, same as you I've played since freshman year, been able to spin a ball on my finger since I was 7"
Chad nodded "alright meet me here at lunch and I'll take you down to the gym and ask coach"
"Thanks.. wait, do you know where Mrs. Darbus', class is?" Troy asked feeling slightly embarrassed that he had to
Chad chuckled noticing his embarrassment "that's my homeroom, come on" Chad nodded his head in the direction down the hall way and the two boys began to walk side by side
Outside in the quad
"Gabriella" Sharpay smiled waving a hand in the air signaling for her to walk over to her
"Shar!" Gabriella smiled beginning to walk over "oh crap, why is she with Kayleigh?" Gabriella whispered over to Lisa
Lisa shrugged "Their in the cheer leading squad together this year, I better leave anyway, Sharpay doesn't like me.. see you in Lunch?"
"Can't I'm singing for the squads practice" Gabriella told her friend stopping before they reached Sharpay and Kayleigh
"You're so nice" Lisa said sarcastically rolling her eyes
Gabriella laughed "Shut up, I still have a lot of friends on the squad and plus it'll be good for my signing classes outside of school, it'll give me some experience with singing in front of a large group of people.. considering all the guys that go to watch the cheerleaders practice"
"Yeah isn't it pathetic?" Lisa questioned "sorry, not late enough for jokes?" she asked looking over at Gabriella who just rolled her eyes "alright, see you whenever then" they both hugged before Lisa left towards East Highs entrance, and Gabriella walking towards Sharpay
"Hey S" Gabriella smiled hugging her best friend "What happened to you this morning? You rang for a lift and then when I offered you said you'd get here another way?" she asked confused
Sharpay nodded biting her lip "Well I would have, but you said your brothers were giving Lisa a lift as well, and she probably needed it more then I did seeing as my dads bringing my car down here at lunch so I can get home apparently it'll be fixed by then, and well I don't like Lisa"
"I'm not gonna get into that" Gabriella stated and Sharpay mouthed sorry to her "So you still have to tell me what happened with you and Zeke last night" she reminded her
Sharpay nodded her head about to open her mouth when she was cut off
"Hey Gabriella!" a brunette girl waved over to Gabriella who waved back with a smile
"you know you don't have to be nice to freshman" Kayleigh stated looking over at the brunette girl who was now talking excitedly to her friends
"Oh Kayleigh, I didn't see you there" Gabriella stated looking over at the tall blonde with a smile on her face "how are you?"
"give me a second, I'm gonna go throw up" Kayleigh told Gabriella glaring at her before walking off
"oh she's so mature" Gabriella watched after her making Sharpay laugh "Why do you hang out with her"
"Well I wouldn't be if someone didn't give up being captain to her, but she could kick me off the squad if I'm not careful, which means no dancing scholarship for Julliard" Sharpay pointed out as she linked arms with Gabriella and the two of them started to walk towards the school's entrance
"I'm telling you- oh hi, brad!" she waved back at the captain of the scholastic decathlon team before turning back to Sharpay "I'm telling you, you should do what I did, quit the squad and I can get you a spot in my dance classes"
"Gabriella it took you all of junior year to get into that class, as well as you're singing class, and the squad is all I have here, bedside's being friends with you, girl people worship you here, so for you quitting the squad changed nothing in you're status at this school but there's no way I could pull that off like you, thanks though, but I'll be fine" Sharpay finished when the bell rang
"Alright well, I don't think I'll see you till Lunch so after you're practice we'll talk about Zeke" Gabriella smiled stopping Sharpay in the middle of the hall
Sharpay laughed nodding her head "will do, see you then Chicka" they both hugged before parting ways.
Gabriella looked around searching for someone in her homeroom, smiling at the people who were waving or looking over at her, sighing in relief as she saw Ryan and Taylor right in front of her "Hey guys" she smiled at them as she reached the two of her friends
"oh hi Gabriella" Ryan smiled uncertainly at her and Taylor just nodded her head
"alright what's wrong spill it" Gabriella got in the middle of them linking both her arms through theirs "I promise I wont tell anyone, you know you can trust me"
"We might as well tell her" Taylor suggested to Ryan who nodded
"Were worried about Kelsie" Ryan admitted sighing
"why what's a matter with her?" Gabriella asked interested
"Well nothing really" Taylor started
"it's just, she's getting way to involved with Logan Grey, the football co-captain" Ryan reminded Gabriella who nodded
"Yeah I know who he is, but wouldn't you be happy she's finally found someone?" Gabriella wondered confused
"Gabriella, she keeps telling us how hard she's falling.. Have you met Logan Grey?" Taylor asked
Gabriella nodded "Yeah but he's always nice to me"
"Who besides Kayleigh isn't nice to you though?" Taylor told Gabriella who shrugged "Have you seen him with other people?"
"Well yes, I admit he is kind of a jerk and bully towards some people, but haven't you noticed that he's always with Drake when he's being a dick? Maybe Kelsie got to know the side of Logan without Drake in the way, and maybe he's really actually nice" Gabriella stated her opinion
"Gabriella you only think that cause you're nice, but in real life Logan is just scum, he's bad news and he's gonna hurt Kelsie" Ryan sighed worried for his friend
Gabriella nodded understanding "Yeah.. I'll help anyway I can" she told them as they walked through the doors of their homeroom
At lunch at Troy and Chad's locker
"Hey bro" Chad greeted Troy as he walked up to them doing the man shake "This is Jason and Zeke"
"Hey" Jason and Zeke nodded their heads over at Troy who did the same back
"their gonna come and help us, just in case" Chad said before the four of them started to walk towards the gym
"Hey man thanks for all this but you don't have to go through all this trouble" Troy rubbed the back of his neck looking over at his new friend
"Bull shit, you said you were good, and I kind of goggled you in science, you've gotten tons of awards, you've been in the paper and you hold the record for most free throws shot in under a minute in New Jersey, we need you in our team if we're gonna beat West High this year" Chad stated and Troy chuckled "I'm not a stalker, just Science is boring" chad mumbled making the other boys laugh
"how many shots did you get in?" Zeke wondered
Troy shrugged "53"
"Shit" Zeke rubbed the back of his neck "that's good, you tell coach that and he'll put you on without even trying out"
"Na I wanna try out, seems fairer" Troy stated and the boys nodded
"True, you might even make captain" Jason implied and Troy suddenly felt uncomfortable, everyone wants to make captain in their senior year, if he was still in his old school and some new guy came along and stole captain from him he'd be pissed off
"I don't know" Troy shrugged as Chad opened the double doors which lead into the gym and Troy froze before grinning as he looked over at the sight before him.. cheerleaders
"Yeah who ever said East Highs attraction was Football and Basketball didn't know about our cheerleaders" Jason chuckled stepping into the gym
"I look and stare so deep in you're eyes, I touch you more and more every time, when you leave I'm begging you not to go, call you're name two three times in a row"
Troy looked over at where he thought the voice was coming from, he couldn't find it though, she must have been singing into a microphone because the voice was filling the entire gym as the cheerleaders danced along to it, obviously practicing a routine
"You're loves got me looking so crazy right now, got me looking so crazy right now, you're touch got me looking so crazy right now, got me hoping you'll page me right now, you're kiss got me hoping you'll save me right now"
"Who's that?" Troy asked
Chad looked around the crowd nodding his head "Gabriella Montez" he pointed to the girl with long black wavy hair who was sitting down on the court in front of the cheerleaders with a mic in her hand as she sang into it, with a group of people around her
"She's good" Troy nodded watching the girl on the other side of the gym "and-"
"Really hot" Jason chuckled "Yeah you're not the first person to think that"
"I didn't think I was" Troy chuckled "So whats her story?" he asked out of curiosity
"well believe it or not she used to be the captain of the cheer leading squad, up till the end of last year, she quit so she could do these classes for dancing and singing, apparently there only for a selected group of people and the waiting list takes ages to get in, she had to quit cause the practice hours after school interfered with her lesson times" Chad explained to Troy who continued to watch the petite girl who had just finished singing and was clapping at the squad with a smile on her face
"and to answer you're un asked question, no she doesn't have a boyfriend.. if you don't include Drake Baker who thinks their in a relationship, but he's just a dick in denial, fact is she hasn't had a boyfriend in about a year" Zeke filled Troy in some more
Troy looked over at the three boys about to ask how they knew all this about her
"And if you're lucky enough maybe we'll introduce her to you later on" Chad grinned which answered Troy's un-asked question "Come on, there's coach" Chad lead his friends to the opposite side of the gym from where the cheerleaders were practicing up to his coach
"Hey boys, if you've came to find out whether you're in the team this year I can't tell you yet, but if you're seriously doubting your position on the team then you're crazy" Coach told the boys as they walked over to him
Troy stared over at him, he had grey almost white hair which was almost completely gone with his receding hair line, he was kind of fat which made Troy wonder whether he ever really played basketball at all, he was wearing matching red sweat pants and jacket with the classic silver whistle hanging from his neck which made Troy grin
"no Coach, that's not why we're here" Chad shook his head "this is Troy Bolton, he just transferred here from New Jersey, today was his first day and he didn't know about the try outs-"
"And he wants in" The coach looked over at Troy "and why are you boys bringing him to me? You know as well as I do, try outs started and finished this morning"
"yeah we know that coach, but Troy's really good, he was in the team every year since freshman year in his old school, and he's gotten all these awards and he holds the record for most free throws shot, in a minute.. he's good" Chad finished
"Just give him a shot" Zeke added in
"Well Troy.. why do you think I should give you a shot" Coach asked obviously trying to get Troy to talk up
"because I can help you win, I've been playing basketball since I was 6 I know the game like the back of my hand, I love it-"
"That's good enough" Coach cut him off handing him a basketball "one against three, and boys" he turned to Chad, Zeke and Jason "Don't go easy on him just to get him in the team, or he may take one of you're places" he warned them and they all nodded
On the other side of the gym
"Thank god, practice ended early" Sharpay sighed falling down onto the ground next to Gabriella "I bet you don't miss this"
Gabriella laughed "Well sweating and smelling like ass is always more embarrassing in front of your school then it Is in front of just you're trainer"
Sharpay nodded "Yeah I hate you, good job on the song by the way, my little Beyonce, you we're great"
"Thanks" Gabriella smiled "Sooo, guess who's playing basketball over there" she nodded her head to the opposite end of the gym
"Who?" Sharpay asked not bothering to get up of the ground and look
"Zeke.. and well Chad, Jason and some other guy who I don't know.. he's pretty good actually, kind of hot" Gabriella shook her head quickly "not the point" Sharpay laughed "anyway, seeing Zeke reminded me that you still haven't told me what happened between you two while you were baby sitting you're little sister last night! Spill girl, I wanna no!" Gabriella whined
Sharpay Lent up on her elbows looking over at her best friend "alright if you must no, my sister was so annoying last night that it stopped us from actually having the conversation of what we are"
"ohhh, Shar" Gabriella looked over at her best friend feeling sympathetic
"Well we had one chance, Eliza was having a bath, but well we decided making out seemed better at that point" Sharpay mumbled and Gabriella rolled her eyes "But! But, we pulled away right and he was about to open his mouth and say.. something, which I assume was either asking me to be his girlfriend, or go on a real date, or ditch me all together, but I didn't get to find out cause-"
"Eliza" Gabriella ended Sharpay's sentence nodding "well lucky for you I sort of suspected that would happen, because I know you're little sister, so I organized a little something something for after school today" Gabriella smiled
"What, what? Tell me" Sharpay got excited
"me and you are joining Chad, Taylor and yours truly Zeke Baylor, down to the park after school"
"Really? Well what are we gonna do at a park?" Sharpay wondered
"Well I figured Zeke and Chad would probably play a little basketball, then Chad and Taylor would most definitely walk off to get a little alone time, that's when you and Zeke can talk things over" Gabriella smiled again feeling pretty proud of her plan
Sharpay smiled "But wait.. what about you?" she wondered, her smile turning into a frown
"Don't worry, I'll run after Chad and Taylor" Gabriella shrugged
Sharpay gasped covering her mouth with her hand "Oh Gabriella, you're gonna be a third wheeler for me? That's so nice!"
"Oh my god! That's so nice, I love you Gabriella!" Drake walked over to the two girls putting on a girly voice making Logan beside him laugh, mimicking Sharpay who turned and glared at him
"What do you two want?" She asked looking up at him
"we just came over to see Gabriella" Drake answered "How are you baby"
Gabriella fiddled with the rings on her fingers feeling uncomfortable "Drake, I told you not to call me baby" she told him
"Why not?" He asked
"Cause she's not you're baby!" Sharpay answered for her best friend feeling herself get angry already
Drake looked over at Sharpay with a glare in his eye before looking back at Gabriella "I'll see you later, sometime when you're not with this one, come on Log" Drake tapped Logan over the back as he began to walk off
"Bye ladies" Logan bent down bowling to the two girls, which made Sharpay roll her eyes but Gabriella almost laugh
"Oh that reminds me, Logan, I have to talk to you" Gabriella spoke up suddenly remembering about the situation wit Kelsie
"You do?" Logan asked confused looking behind him, Drake had kept walking not even noticing that he wasn't behind him
"Ah yeah, but tomorrow" Gabriella told him as she looked up at him
Logan nodded "Ah alright, see ya" He said before chasing after Drake
"What was that about?" Sharpay asked confused
"There's a nice guy hidden in there somewhere, and I am going to find it" Gabriella watched after Logan
Sharpay laughed shaking her head "alright then, so where was this guy over with Zeke you were babbling about before"
Gabriella laughed "Oh over there" She pointed towards the tall brunette guy
"oh mumma" Sharpay smiled making Gabriella laugh
With the boys over the other side of the gym
"that was good" Coach admitted as the four boys walked over towards him, all puffed out and sweating "that was really good"
"So what do you say?" Chad asked interested
"Am I in?" Troy wondered
"you tried out, like 62 other boys in this school did, now you'll just have to wait a week till the list come out" coach stated before walking away
"Is that a good thing?" Troy wondered
"I think so" Jason nodded "Now you're in the shitter like the rest of us for a week"
Troy looked over at Jason before back at Zeke and Chad "love the way he puts that"
Zeke and Chad nodded laughing "Hey, what are you doing after school today?" Chad asked
After last period at Troy's locker
Troy shoved some more books into his locker before slamming them shut, he didn't get any important homework today, plus he was always behind homework in his old school, why should he change for this school?
"You're the new guy right?" Troy turned around facing a big guy with blonde hair looking over at him with another guy beside him
"yeah, Troy" Troy nodded his head at them
"I'm Drake, that's Logan" Drake introduced the two of them "you know I came here to dag on you but some reason now that I'm here I don't feel like it, you look pretty cool"
Troy shrugged "I'll take that as a compliment" he muttered going to walk away
Drake grabbed onto his arm pulling him back "Alright, first rule, never walk away from me while I'm talking to you"
Troy sighed not at all intimidated by this guy, after all he used to be this guy "Well I didn't think this was going anywhere, and I have somewhere better to be"
"Is he being a smart ass?" Drake asked looking back at Logan
"Looks like it" Logan nodded
"After what I just said? After I just let you off the hook, you're gonna be a smart ass to me? You've got balls" Drake glared at Troy but couldn't help but be a little impressed by him
"Yeah, do you?" Troy asked not really wanting to start a fight, he just wanted to get out of the school
"You think you're a bad ass don't you?" Drake asked stepping closer to Troy getting ready to push him
"Drake!" Troy turned around towards the smooth voice which came from beside the two of them, the girl he had seen at the gym standing there looking over the two of them "what are you doing?" she asked
"he was being a smart ass, so I'm about to show him what happens for that" Drake explained turning from Gabriella to Troy
Gabriella rolled her eyes taking a step in between the boys which made both of them back away, Gabriella turned to Drake placing a hand on his chest "go home Drake" she told him in a whisper
Drake looked around the corridor, at the people that were watching, he rubbed the back of his neck stepping away from Gabriella "next time" he pointed at Troy before walking away with Logan
Gabriella turned around, looking up at Troy through her lose strands of hair "You're welcome" she told him quietly before walking over on her heels
"See you've met Gabriella already" Chad sighed as he walked over to Troy
"yeah- wait were you there the whole time? Thanks for helping out man" Troy stated rolling his eyes
"Hey, when it comes to Drake, I don't have balls" Chad threw his hands in the air "So I guess the surprise is kind of ruined now but are you sure you don't wanna come to the park? She'll be there"
Troy pointed behind him to where Gabriella used to be and Chad nodded with a smirk, Troy grinned "I'll met you there"
"Can you give me a lift? Zeke's already taken off on me, he had to stop past his house first" Chad asked
Troy nodded "Yeah sure"
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