Gabriella Montez was walking down the hallway, looking at the staircase she walked up just one year ago to meet with Troy in his secert hiding place. She took a deep breath while she shook her head, trying to get her mind off it. Then, it happened. Troy walked down the hallway, hand-and-hand with his new girlfriend, Natalie Smith. As they walked past her, she felt chills run down her spine. Out of all people, why her? It was their senior year and just before winter break ended, Troy and Gabriella had a huge argument, ending with them breaking up. Even when Gab's tried getting her mind off it, all that came to her mind was their special times together. And having her new locker by that staircase, didn't help at all. Grabbing her books, Gabriella shut her locker and turned around and began walking down the hallway, humming the tune to You Are The Music In Me quietly.

Gab's reached her class a few minutes later, right before the bell rang. She hated this class, not only was Natalie in that class, so was Chad, Troy's best friend. She knew they would be chatting about having double dates the whole time. And just as class began, so did they. Gabriella rolled her eyes before glaring at Natalie. Oh please, shut up. You don't like him, your using him.Gabriella thought.It wasn't true, but she wish it was. Then she could tell Troy, and he would break up with her, and then they could go out again! At least, that's what she wished would happen. "So, tomorrow night? You, me, Troy, and Taylor?" Natalie whispered in Chad's direction. He replied with a nod, then they both looked back and pretended to listen to the teacher's speech about silly things, like World History. Gabriella placed her cheek on her palm and began to doze off, quickly waking up when the bell rang 20 minutes later.

Troy was walking out of his class earlier since he asked to go to the bathroom, but really he was walking up to his secert hid-out. When he reached the top, he sighed, he automatically thought about Gabriella. This place was so special to them, so special that he hadn't even told Natalie about it yet. He looked off the side and watched the clouds roll by the mountains in the distance. He shut his eyes and placed his head in his hands. He shook his head, remembering of how they broke up.

FLASHBACK

"Gabriella! I can't believe your listening to everyone else," Troy shouted at her. At the same time Gabriella's eyes were growing teary. Troy continued, "You know and I that Sharpay was never in the picture, and never will!" Gab's shook her head, glaring up at him, "I never said that! I just said I've been hearing things about how you two use to go out." Troy pointed at her, holding back his scream, "We never went out, why are you listening to them?!"

"Then let's just break up!"

END OF FLASHBACK

Those words kept playing in his head, break up, break up. God damn it Troy, what is wrong with you?! No, Natalie. You like Natalie. Troy and Natalie, Natalie and Troy. Yes. He sighed then sat down on the bench, rushing his fingers threw his hair over and over again.

Gabriella was at her locker again, since it was time for lunch. She wasn't very hungry so she decided to skip it and sit in the garden. Troy was never usually there, at least whenever she was. She placed her books in her locker, shut her locker, then walked over to the steps. She heard someone walking around, in what sounded like a pacing motion. So she quickly rushed up before noticing it was Troy that was pacing. She stood there, motionless. Troy was going back at forth, whispering words to himself like Gabriella and Natalie. He turned and saw Gabriella standing there. Both of there eyes grew wide as Gabby walked up the rest of the steps. They hadn't said a word to each other since they broke up.

"So, what brings you to this neck of the woods?" Troy asked, smiling a little awkwardly. Gabriella brushed off her jeans and pulled the bottom of her sweatshirt down below her butt. "Eh, not really hungry I guess. What about you?" She asked, walking by him and glancing over at the bench. She sat down, placing her hands between her thighs. "Just..kinda, ya know. Thinking." He replied as he looked over the edge again. He placed his hands on the bar and kept looking over before he asked another question. "So, how ya been?" Gabby ignored his question because she was busy reading her book she had in her bag. "Gabriella?" Troy asked, turning around and seeing her reading. "Still a book worm, I see." Gab's ignored his playful insult, she just shook her head on continued reading. "You know, maybe it's better if I go, this is your hiding place anyways." She said, placing her book back in her bag and getting her things together. Troy was about to stop her from going but before he could say anything, she was gone. Troy looked down at sighed. He then mumbled, "It's our hiding place."

Later that day..

Troy was walking with Chad, his hand in his pockets. His sky blue eyes wondered around the hallway, looking for Gabriella. He found her and smiled softly, but his smile soon faded when he watched her walk away. Troy then felt a pat on his shoulder. Turning around, he soon felt Natalie's lip-gloss covered lips meet his. When she pulled away, he whipped it all away. "So, did Chad tell you about this Friday?" She asked in her usually hyper, bouncy tone. "I was actually just about to get to it." Chad bumped in, keeping his hands in his pockets like Troy. "You, me, Taylor, and Natalie are all going to the mall tomorrow." Troy faced grew a little confused, "The mall? Since when do we go to the mall?" Natalie laughed, lightly pushing him. "Silly, we just go to walk around. It's fun, I promise." She then walked off and rushed to her locker. Troy shook his head, looking at Chad. "The mall?" Chad shrugged, "Girls just love it." Troy sighed and they continued walking.

Gabriella had just reached the outside, when she felt her red ribbon fall out of her hair. She turned around to pick it up, but before she could, someone else had. "Excuse me, is this yours?" Gabriella heard from above her. She looked up and saw a tall, shaggy-blond haired, dark blue eyed boy standing above her with her ribbon in his hand. Gabriella smiled softly and stood up, "Yea, it is. Thank you for getting it for me." She giggled a little, slightly embarrassed at herself as she gently took the ribbon from his hand. "No problem. I'm Jesse, and you are?" He asked, smiling at her. "Me? Oh, I'm Gabriella. Nice to meet you, Jesse." She said while she continued walking. Jesse followed her then gently took the ribbon from her. "Let me put this back in your hair for you." Gabriella then felt her cheek blush and she felt his fingers go threw her chocolate brown hair.

"It was so nice meeting you, Gabriella. I hope I can see you around." Jesse said as he reached his motorcycle in the school parking lot. A small smile grew across Gabs' face while she nodded, "I'd like that, Jesse. Very much."

When Gab reached home that night, she was surprisingly happy. School went by fast, she met a cute boy, and she didn't loose her lucky ribbon. Well, it wasn't the best day ever, but at least her day wasn't completely flooded with memories of her and Troy. She then thought about them meeting today during lunch. "Jeez, that wasn't awkward. I can't believe that happened." She asked herself out loud, "Why didn't he bring Natalie?" That question seemed to pop in her head a lot. She knew he liked her, Troy never seemed like the kind of person just to date someone because of how they looked. But yet, he somewhat was the kind of person to go out with someone to make them jealous.