Chapter 1

The new girl

Gabriella walked through the halls at her new school trying to find her locker.

'Locker number 39. Where in the world is locker number 39!' She thought as she looked at all the numbers.

'Finally!' She said as she opened it she shoved all her books in it except for what few she needed. She closed it and walked to her first class. "Are you Miss Montez?" Ms. Darbus asked as Gabriella walked through the door of the classroom.

"Ya." She said nervously looking down at her feet.

"She's HOT!" Chad said as Gabriella told everyone about herself.

"I know!" Zeke said back. Troy just looked at her and listened to what she was saying.

"Dude. Troy! Hello!" Chad said to Troy. Finally he just smacked him upside the head.

"WHAT, DO YOU WANT!" Troy yelled. He noticed that everyone was staring at him and he sunk down in his chair. Gabriella's seat was right next to Chad. He was just staring at her.

"Is there something wrong?" Gabriella asked giving him a weird freaked out kind of look.

"Oh um no." Chad looked at his paper and then turned to Gabi. He was just about to say something then the bell rang.

Her next class was math. She was once again seated next to Chad and Troy.

"Hey can you help me on this?" Chad asked Gabi as she was finishing the last equation on the board.

"Sure. Ummm, what problem are you on?" She asked as she looked his blank paper.

"One. I'm not good at math." He said scratching his head. Gabriella laughed and so did Chad. That really ticked Troy off.

"Hey Gabriella. I was wondering if you could help me too." Troy said looking at her.

"Sure how about during free period?"

"That works." Troy said looking at Chad with a 'Ha! I get her for an hour' face.

"Okay let's get started on the problems! Ummmmm, Chad? Chad? Hello!" Gabi said waving a hand in front of his face. He finally snapped out of it and answered,

"What? Oh um, sorry." He said blushing and sinking low into his chair.

"It's ok! Know lets get started."

Free period

"Hey, ummmm, Troy right?" Gabriella said walking up to Troy and sitting down at the table.

"Ya, so do you have the questions?"

"Yes. So let's get started." He stared at her too; it was the same sappy look that Chad, Zeke, and Jason gave her.

"Hey, Troy! Are you paying attention?"

"What. No sorry about that." She laughed at him. It wasn't too long until he was laughing too.

"Are we going to start anytime soon?" Gabriella said giggling.

"If we stop laughing enough to maybe!" Troy said laughing.

"But seriously we need to start working!" Gabi said still giggling and pulling out paper, the text book, and three pencils.

"Okay, If-"Gabriella said being cut off by Coach Bolton.

"Troy you have basketball practice! Chad told me you would be here." He said staring at Troy.

'Chad!' Troy thought to himself as he got up.

"Hi, I'm Gabriella. I'm tutoring him in math." She said extending her arm so he could shake her hand. When he didn't she pulled it back shyly.

"Nice to meet you. But anyways, Troy have you forgotten about practice? We are never going to win the championships if you don't come to practice! Now let's go."

"Bye Gabriella." Troy said looking back at her as he followed his dad.

"Bye!"