A/N:

Don't own Highschool Musical doubt I ever will. Don't own the songs I used in this either.

Just Not Right

When you dream there's a chance you'll find,

A little laughter,

Or happily ever after

She was his dream. She was his laughter. Without her there was no reason to laugh. Life wasn't good enough to laugh over without her. Happily ever after, she had that covered too. Gabriella Montez was Troy Bolton's happily ever after.

It's like I knew you before we met,
Can't explain it,
There's no name for it,
I'm saying words I never said,
And it was easy,
Because you see the real me

That was his favorite part of the song. It described the way he felt about her so well. He couldn't have said it better himself. Kelsi truly had a gift when it came to this.

To hear your voice
Above the noise
And no, I'm not alone

What he'd do to here her voice now. What had he done? He'd messed up everything and now he had to go sing with Sharpay. This was awful. How could he have been so stupid?

I gotta say what's on my mind,
Something about us, doesn't seem right... these days,
Life keeps getting in the way,
Whenever we try,
somehow the plan is always rearranged.

Remembering those words hurt. How he could he have been so stupid? He'd let her go, he'd practically driven her away. And then when she'd given him back that necklace... that hurt. The hurt badly. It was at the point that he'd realized that he'd blow it. There was no more Troy and Gabriella. Why had he let her go?

Tears came to Troy's eyes as he took the necklace out of his pocket. He'd loved her. He couldn't deny that. She knew it too, but things had changed now and it was all his fault.

"Troy!" Chad yelled entering from behind him. "You ready to sing now?"

"Yeah," Troy responded, whipping away the tears, "I should probably go tell Sharpay that I'm gonna sing with her after all though."

As Troy spoke to him, Chad noticed that he'd been crying. "Dude, are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

"You sure?"

"Yeah," Troy stated, "I mean, everybody gets broken up with once in awhile, right? It's not like I was gonna marry her or anything. There'll be other girls."

With that Troy left the room. Really everything he'd said had been more of an attempt to convince himself of those things, rather than Chad. There wouldn't be other girls as far as Troy was considered. Gabriella was the only one for him.

Chad watched as his best friend left the room. He wasn't oblivious to the fact that Troy really hadn't meant anything he'd just said.

He couldn't help feeling sorry for his friend. Troy clearly still loved her, but by the end of tonight things should be alright again as long as their planned worked. Chad hoped with all his heart that it would. Troy and Gabriella not talking to each other just wasn't right.