Disclaimer: Do not own High School Musical in any way shape or form! If I did I would currently be rolling in money!
Troy Bolton: Eyes dark as stone, heart as cold as ice, but inside lies someone who waits for the right person to melt the ice, someone to excite a fire in his heart. But are his barriers really that easy to break?
Gabriella Montez: Student Body President - well liked, well mannered, and unfairly attractive, but does she hold a secret? Or is she looking for her saviour or someone to save?
Both hide secrets that they try to bury away, but when confronted with unexpected meetings do they finally let someone in that could help them heal,and as consequence will new relationships be formed?
Both in a world of lies, pressure, gossip, popularity, air-head cheerleaders, superficial jocks and inner problems,
They say no one knows you more than yourself but when these two unexpected people form a bond will letting someone inside prove painful?
Gabriella Montez walked down the hallways of East High with her head held high. People greeted her from the left and the right, she smiled and acknowledged each of them. She loved this, she loved coming to school just to know that people went out of their way to make her day better, after becoming Student Body President Gabriella found coming to school a lot easier.
As she walked down the hallways directing herself to her locker she noticed a boy that she hadn't seen in over a year. Troy Bolton, they guy who disappeared, well not really disappeared but went away to some basketball academy in New York for a year. Apparently he was amazing at basketball and colleges from all over America were begging him to join them.
Gabriella had always been strangely fascinated by Troy Bolton. His eyes were extremely expressive and what he couldn't say with words his eyes told. His moods were reflected through his eyes she noticed. When they were a cool sky blue he was calm, when they turned to an aqua blue he was happy, but when they turned dark, to an almost midnight blue people knew to stay away.
Although Troy wasn't generally a violent person and rarely caused trouble, people respected his authority and stayed out of his way at all costs when his eyes were dark, afraid of the power that lay beneath his cold stare.
All of this just made Troy more fascinating to Gabriella. She sighed as she opened her red locker door spinning the dial and looking inside absentmindedly. She inwardly cursed herself for spending so much time thinking about someone who had never even sent her a side-ward glance. Or so she thought.
Gabriella was awoken from her daydream with a startle. Chad Danforth her best friend of 12 years tickling her sides making her erupt in a fit of giggles, hence his nickname for her.
Chad was in the grade above Gabi but ever since Chad moved in next door to the Montez's when he was 6 and she was 5 they instantly became best friends, but were practically brother and sister.
After Chad stopped tickling Gabi he spun her around with a questioning look on his face.
"Giggles what has you in this mood today?", He asked with a worried expression
Gabi just stared at Chad with her say-what face, confused about what he meant.
"Gabs you know what I mean, you have been staring into your locker for the last 5 minutes and constantly sighing. Nothings wrong is it? If there is something wrong you would tell me right? Right?"
"Cookie there is nothing wrong, I'm just uh stressing about..about err..homework, yep that's it..homework!"
Chad stood there unconvinced but was suddenly distracted by all the commotion going on down the hall. Just as he was about to grill Gabi on her strange behaviour he turned his head and saw what everyone had been making a fuss about. Within a second Chad had shot down the hallway running towards his best friend who had been gone for a year and mysteriously was back at school without any notice.
"Troy dude!" Chad called whilst running towards the blue-eyed boy
Troy instantly turned around recognising his friends voice and his eyes turned to a bright aqua blue, obviously elated to see his friend after his long absence.
The two man-hugged and started catching up. Apparently Troy's return had been a surprise for Chad as well.
Gabriella found it strange that although her and Chad were best friends and had been for some time that her and Troy had never been formally introduced. Troy was Chad best guy friend and was in the same grade as him, which was a year above Gabi, but Chad was always throwing parties which both of them attended. As Gabi thought about this more she realised that whenever Chad hung out with Tory was when she would have her 'girl time' with Sharpay and Taylor, which was ALOT!
As the boys continued catching up Gabriella walked towards them to get to her homeroom. As she walked past she called out to Chad laughing at his excitement,
"i'll see you at dinner cookie", she said with an obvious smirk on her face
Chad groaned when he heard that nickname but didn't fight it,
"yeah I'll see you later giggles" he said trying to hide his embarrassment in front of Troy of having such childish nicknames with each other.
Gabriella loved to use this nickname for Chad and it was the ultimate embarrassment in front of his friends but he never told her off. It originally came from Chads obsession with Ms Montez's famous choc chip cookies but it stuck over the years much to Chad's dismay.
As she looked back once more before entering homeroom she smiled to see how the two interacted but was instantly shocked from her thoughts when Troy's gaze met her and sent her an earth shattering wink. Gabriella finding it hard to think properly quickly pulled open the door and walked in, confused as to what just happened.
AN: This is my first fic! Let me know what you think and if I should continue :)
