Alright so this is my first offical High School Musical story published on Fanfiction, I'm hoping people enjoy this. Also many other people from various places and things will pop up in here. A spoiler for you.

Sharpay and Ryan Evan's aunt is none other than Emma Frost...minus the telepathy she has in the Marvel Comics. She is set to appear later on in the story.

High School Musical

Chapter One

East High was bursting with activity as students piled in, the first day back from Thanksgiving break. The jocks of the school sat around at the front entrance, goofing off and playing a little bit of Basketball while the geeks tried to get passed them without being snarled at. Cheerleaders were practising on the field; the band geeks were busy practicing off by the doors leading to the music room. All in all it was another typical day at East High. A silver van pulled up to the school, parking in one of the vacant spots.

"Mama," said Gabriella, turning to look at her. "Seriously I don't want you to come in with me. I'm a big girl now I can handle this."

"I know," she said, smiling. "But I don't want to look like I'm not interested in your schooling, and it being senior year for you to. Now please, stop arguing and let's go," she said looking at her watch. "Aye, hurry honey or we're going to be late."

They quickly exited the van to see the commotion. Gabriella gulped; knowing right away she wanted to fit in, make this place work. Every school she had been to she had become the freaky math girl but this time…this time she'd make it different. They walked past the jocks, to busy with basketball to notice much of anything, and into the school, heading into the principals office.

"May I help you?" asked the petite blonde woman Gabriella, assumed was the Secretary.

"Yes," said Mrs. Montez. "My daughter is transferring here and we were told to see Principal Matzui? Is he available?"

"Oh yes," said the woman. "He's been expecting you, go on in. His office is just around the corner."

They walked into the back and into the office, to see a shorter man sitting there, however his smile brightened up the room he was in.

"You must be Mrs. Montez and Gabriella," he said, shaking their hands. "It is a pleasure to meet you. I've gone over all your transcripts and everything is in order. We're very pleased to have you this year at East High. Here is your timetable and a map of the school to help you find everything. I will show you to your homeroom and I'm sure Mrs. Darbus will be more than happy to assist you if you need it after that."

Gabriella nodded and watched her mother leave the school before heading to homeroom. The bell had rung just shortly after they had entered the office so the halls were empty now.

"Here we are," he said. "Do not worry to much. We hope you have a wonderful time here at East High."

She smiled and walked into the room, earning her the entire class staring at her for disrupting Mrs. Darbus. The woman standing on the make shift mini stage was definitely the drama teacher, that much was obvious.

"Can I help you?" she asked.

"Oh!" said Gabriella, handing her the transcripts and her timetable.

"Ah, I see," she said. "Very well then. Welcome to East High Miss. Montez. Here is your timetable back, you may sit in the empty desk there beside Taylor McKessie."

Gabriella took her timetable and then sat down, looking at her desk until she was certain people had stopped staring at her. She noticed Taylor, however still looking at her.

"I'm Taylor," she said. "If you'd like some help locating everything I can walk you through it all?"

"Thank you. I'm so lost right now. I could use the help," said Gabriella, relieved someone was willing to help her.

"No problem," she shrugged. "Lemme see your timetable?"

She handed over her timetable to Taylor who looked it over.

"Well good news is you have two classes with me and the same free period," she said. "Bad news is, you have two classes with Troy, and one class overlooking his first class."

"Who's Troy?" she asked.

Taylor looked at her and said, "I'll explain everything during our free period, but just a heads up, if you hear a group of boys and they look to be popular…it's probably the basketball jocks and your best bet is to get out of their way. Also, the art room is the room over viewing the gymnasium."

Gabriella nodded as the bell rung. Taylor took Gabriella's map and quickly marked, in different colours, how to get to each of her classes before handing it back to Gabriella. Gabriella collected her bag up and took her timetable from Taylor before passing by a small group of people. One in particular grabbed her interested. He had really, really bright blue eyes and this messy brownish hair. He really was kind of cute. He was hanging with a bunch of boys and suddenly Taylor's words echoed in her head.

"Ike, the basketball team!" she thought, half running, half walking past them to avoid any unpleasant confrontation.

She followed the path traced out for her by Taylor until she found herself where she was supposed to be, and she was three minutes early to. She took a seat by the windows, over viewing the gym and noticed the basketball team heading onto the court.

"So this is what Taylor meant," she thought, noticing that boy again.

The bell rung, snapping her out of her thoughts. She looked up to the teacher and smiled at the assignments needing to be done. She knew how to do all of that.

Down in the gym Troy was busy shooting hoops and practicing lay ups with his team, his teacher, who also happened to be the basketball coach, and, much to Troy's dismay, his father, was busy watching them all and shouting tips to the other players. Troy finally stopped and began stretching his muscles, warming up, beside his best friend Chad Danforth.

"So dude," said Chad. "Seriously did you really kiss Stacey Emeris over Thanksgiving? She's going around telling everyone you did."

"No," answered Troy, groaning in annoyance. "She only wishes I would, but you know cheerleaders. They need to make up stories so others will think they're cool."

He stood up and rolled his shoulders before glancing up at the art class. However this time he noticed something different. Usually he could see the tops of people's heads because they never sat by the large windows, but this time he could very clearly see a girl sitting there. She had long black hair; Latin tanned skin and was wearing a brown, shoulder less sweater.

"Hey Chad," he called over. "Who's that?"

Chad looked up and shrugged.

"No clue man," he answered. "Must be the new student who came to homeroom today. Montez or something like that."

"She's in our homeroom?" asked Troy. "Oh right…the one who walked in late. I wonder why I didn't notice her before?"

Chad shrugged and ran off to practice some more. Troy watched her glance over and down right at him and smirk. She then turned away again and pushed a piece of her hair over her face to cover her blush. He went back to practising, stealing glances upward at the new girl. She, however, didn't look down again, a slight disappointment but not discouraging. Finally, with ten minutes of class left he went into the change rooms hit the shower and then quickly changed again before the bell rang. Thankfully it was free period so he didn't have to rush off to another class. Soon he found himself surrounded by the basketball team and they walked down the halls, students rushing to dart out of their way. They continued on until Troy saw that girl coming down the hallway. She looked up and he could see it, she was new and already the fear of being picked on was there. However he noticed that change as she strode up to them. This made them all stop and look as she just walked straight ahead making them move aside for her.

"Thank you boys," she smirked as she walked on, making more than the jocks head's turn.

"Did she?" started Chad.

"Did she just…?" continued Zeke.

"She just made us move to the side for her!" finished Jason.

Troy however wasn't as shocked by this as they were. Truthfully he could see strength in her and knew, just knew, East High had a very large surprise in store in the form of this girl.

"Guys I'll catch you later," he said taking off, leaving the stunned team to fend for themselves.

"Taylor!" called Gabriella, making Taylor smirk.

"You made it," she said. "How'd you get passed the jocks?"

"I just…walked down the hall…they moved out of my way when they saw I wasn't backing down," she explained. "It wasn't that bad actually."

Taylor looked at her and looked as if she might faint.

"Gabriella, you probably got away with that because you're new," she said. "Trust me they won't be as forgiving the next time around."

She nodded and then followed Taylor. Not noticing Troy come in looking out of breath and frustrated.

"Gahh where is she!?" thought Troy, grabbing his head in annoyance.

"And finally, we have the drama club," said Taylor, indicating the people in the drama room. "See that blonde haired girl there? Do not cross her. She's an evil Ice Queen named Sharpay who wants nothing more than to be the biggest star on the planet…oh and she wants to be Troy's girl."

"And let me assure you that's never gonna happen," came a very exhausted voice from behind them.

Taylor and Gabriella turned to find Troy, out of breath and looking like he'd run a marathon. Gabriella thought he looked cute.

"Troy?" said Taylor. "Can…I…um…help you?"

"Yeah," he said. "Yeah you can. Who's your new friend?"

Taylor looked at Gabriella before looking to Troy.

"Listen Troy, I don't know what kind of sick game you and your basketball buddies are planning but leave her out of this," she said. "She's new, she don't need your crap right now!"

"No really," he said. "I just want to know her name. This way I know who's looking at me during first period."

Gabriella blushed again and turned her face away, making Troy laugh softly and Taylor to gasp.

"Don't worry," he said. "Truthfully I kind of liked it."

"Gabriella," she said, still blushing like mad. "I just transferred from Sun High."

"Troy Bolton," he said. "Youngest Captain of the East High Wild Cats."

They shook hands and then looked at each other again. Taylor looked like she was going to have a seizure.

"Ok seriously, this cannot be happening," she said. "You're totally messing with the flow of space and time here Troy. You, basketball Captain, jock…don't interact well with smarter people."

"Well I think it's about time I did," he said. "And I'm not dumb thank you Taylor. I get straight A's in all my classes. I'm just not as open about it as you are."

Taylor opened her mouth to say something only for Chad and the rest of the team to appear.

"Oh joy," she muttered. "Your faithful pets have arrived."

"Hey Troy," said Chad, glancing at Taylor and Gabriella. "Are these geeks buggin' you?"

"No," he said. "I'm actually talking to them Chad. I wanted to find out the name of the girl who was looking at me during first period and now I have my answer."

"Oh," said Chad. "Hey it's the girl who barged through us. Listen, that privilege expired so from now on can you, ya know…go around us or just stay out of our way?"

"Last time I checked the halls in the school were for students to use," said Gabriella, before she could stop herself. "Why don't you and the rest of the team try to not take up so much space? I'm sure you'll find it more productive that way."

Troy bit his tongue so he wouldn't start to laugh at Chad's face. This was a rarity to see someone standing up to Chad and he looked as if he'd been slapped in the face.

"While you're at it," she continued. "I'd try chucking that attitude out the door. If you're trying to make me afraid of you it's not going to work. Thank you Troy for the nice conversation, Taylor let's go, I still haven't seen where the Math room is."

With that the two girls walked by leaving Chad to look shocked.

"She burned you bad man," said Jason. "You totally got shot down."

He glared at him.

"Shut up Jason," he said. "Troy, why didn't you back me up?"

Troy finally let out his laughter.

"Because," he laughed. "That was just to funny to pass up."

"Thanks Troy," said Chad, watching his friend laughing with the rest of the team. "Thanks a lot."

Taylor pulled Gabriella into the Cafeteria again and looked at her, laughingly.

"Where did that come from girl?" she asked. "You just totally shot down Cad Danforth. That was amazing."

"I don't really know myself," answered, Gabriella. "It just sort of slipped out."

Taylor shrugged and continued walking with Gabriella, the two of them talking, telling each other about themselves. Truthfully Taylor didn't have a lot of friends that she was really close to and the way she found herself opening up to Gabriella, she felt she finally had a best friend.

"So Gabriella," said Taylor. "What are your talents?"

"Well I'm smart," she smirked cheekily. "I was part of the Scholastic Decathlon team at my old school. I'm not to bad at art and my mom says I'm a good singer but I don't think I am."

"I bet you are," she said. "Come on sing a little something?"

"Oh, no way," said Gabriella. "I can't sing in front of people. In my room by myself is one thing but in front of others is totally out of the question."

Taylor laughed and they kept walking until the bell rang to signal the end of free period. Taylor walked in the opposite direction, heading for her class.

"Good luck with Troy," she called out. "Wherever Troy is, his group of lost puppies are sure to be right behind him.

Gabriella entered the classroom to find Troy and his basketball group already there. Chad looked up and his eyes narrowed at her, she only smiled and walked past him…again. Troy looked up to see her walk past and sighed, knowing she was deliberately sitting far away due to the group he hung around with. However he noticed she was coming back so he decided to clear his throat to get her attention.

"You can sit here you know?" he said, pointing to the desk beside him.

The team stopped what they were doing and looked at Troy as if he had just sprouted another head. She nodded and sat down, a little nervous about this. She glanced over to Chad.

"Listen, I'm sorry about what I said. I'm just new and I want things to be different this year," she said. "I'm tired of being picked on because I'm not a cheerleader. I just got here and already I had people looking down upon me. I got a little ticked off. No hard feelings?"

Chad looked at her a little awkwardly. This was the first time someone had actually given him a genuine, heartfelt apology.

"Uh…sure," he said. "No hard feelings."

"Good because if Taylor was right about that person, the Ice Queen is waiting at the door," she said, pointing out Sharpay, making googly eyes at Troy.

Troy groaned and smacked his head into his desk, while Sharpay still tried to get his attention. Gabriella looked at Sharpay, then back to Troy before she held out her hand to him.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Just go along with it," she whispered back.

He took her hand and interlaced his fingers with hers. He then felt her raise their hands up, allowing Sharpay to notice. Troy, for the second time wanted to laugh and had to bite his lip not to at the expression on Sharpay's face. She stormed off, screaming incoherent curses at innocent bystanders as she passed. Gabriella then let go of his hand, and Troy felt like something was missing.

"Ok that was cool," said Chad. "You totally just made Sharpay jealous…and made her back down for now."

"I'm sure she'll get over herself," she said, before looking up. "Or have you all hoped for that since whatever grade?"

"Yeah," said Troy. "We're still waiting for her to get over herself. She's been like that since grade four."

Gabriella just shrugged and then sat up when the bell rang for class to start.

"I don't understand any of this," hissed Chad, as he tried to work out algebra.

"It's really not that hard Chad," said Gabriella, turning around. "Here. You need to figure out what the value of x is. All you have to do is solve the question. We have 2x + 5(7 x 2) 56. Do the multiplication in the brackets first, then multiply the answer in the brackets by five."

Chad quickly did it all up and then looked at her again.

"This is the part I don't get…how the hell do I do this?" he asked, looking frustrated.

"Ok you want to get x by itself and in order to do that you need to take the numbers from the left side and put them on the right side. Your answer of 28 there is moved over, behind the answer of 56, so the question is now 2x 56 – 28."

"But why is it subtraction now?" he asked. "It was just addition on the other side."

"It was addition over on the left side…when you move it over to the right it becomes the opposite of what it was. Addition becomes subtraction, subtraction becomes addition, multiplication becomes division and division become multiplication," she answered.

"Ok so then the question should read x 56 – 28/2?" he asked.

"That's correct," she said. "Then all you do is solve it."

"Then the answer should be 14?" he asked.

"That's right," she answered. "See it's not that hard now is it?"

"No, actually it's really easy. I can't believe I couldn't see that before. Thanks a lot," he said, starting the next question and managing to get through it faster.

She smiled and went back to her own work. She'd finished the Math work ages ago, now she was currently working on her art work so she could catch up. Troy looked up to see her drawing a very intricate and complicated landscape, something right out of a tropical paradise. It was all in pencil right now but he could see the pastels in her bag.

"Hey Gabriella?" he whispered.

She looked to Troy and smiled.

"Yes?"

"When you finish that, could you let me see it?" he asked. "I'm not a big art fan but that looks amazing."

"Well thank you," she smiled, sweetly. "I'll give it to you when it's been marked, how's that sound?"

"I'd like that," he said, going back to his math work.

Chad had watched the way Troy was looking at Gabriella and, true she was cool…well sort of, but there was no way, no power on earth or heaven that would stop him from making sure Troy did not go after her.

"She is so not his type," he thought. "He has an image to maintain, if anyone saw him dating a Math Geek his entire High School dating life would be so shot."

The bell rang, startling Chad out of his thoughts. He quickly grabbed his stuff and headed out the door with Troy and Zeke.

Lunch Time

The jocks all sat at their table in the school, laughing and joking about something or another while the other groups sat elsewhere. Troy was in the centre of it all, enjoying it until suddenly Gabriella came in. He watched her take a sandwich and a carton of milk before walking off with Taylor.

"Why do I feel so funny whenever I see her?" he thought to himself. "I mean I've felt things when I'm with a girl yeah but this…this is just different. It's not a normal attraction…something is different about this."

"Yo, Captain?"

Troy was pulled out of his thoughts when Chad called out to him. Truthfully, Chad was his best friend and solitary confidant but he could get very annoying very fast.

"Dude you've been staring off into nowhere land for the last 20 minutes," he said. "Something up?"

"No. I'm just getting lost in my thoughts," he answered. "Sorry, I have to go. I'll see you last period."

Chad watched Troy leave and knew he'd have to act fast, this Gabriella girl was affecting him a lot more than he wanted her to.

Troy stalked through the halls of the school, looking everywhere for the girl that made his heart fly every time she entered the room. He had checked all the rooms he could think of before heading down the music hall. He heard playing coming from one of the rooms so he opened the door to find a small girl in there, wearing glasses and a funky hat playing the piano and writing music down. He quietly closed the door, so as not to disturb her and then continued on his way until he found himself heading up to his usual, secretive place outside in the gardens above the Science room. He sighed and turned the corner to his bench only to find Gabriella already there. She looked up, startled that someone had found her.

"Oh," she said. "I'm sorry is this where you go to get away?"

"Kind of," he said. "But don't worry. I don't mind sharing it. I was actually looking for you."

She looked at him a little funnily before smiling.

"Ok, so you found me," she said. "What's up?"

"I don't really know," he answered. "It's to soon to be sure but I think I'd like to get to know you a little better. I guess what I'm asking is would you like to be my friend?"

She smiled and nodded at him, blushing a little bit.

"Of course Troy," she said. "I could always use another friend. It's not like I have people lined up to fill that position."

He sat down beside her and smiled. However the warning bell rang and he groaned.

"Great I have Chemistry next," he sighed.

"Really?" she asked, grabbing her bag. "So do I."

She notice him perk right up when she said that. It might have been to soon but she could see the sparks…no, not sparks…fireworks was more like it. She felt something for him but was too afraid to admit it. Also like he had said it was just to soon. She walked to his locker with him, chatting about her hobbies and getting to know him better and before they knew it, they were in Chemistry.

"Gabriella!" came Taylor's voice. "Over here."

"Oh Troooooooooooy," came a sickly sweet sing song voice.

"Troy," called Taylor. "Over here. Hurry before she gets up to get you."

He glanced over to see Sharpay making googly eyes at him again from her seat and he sprang towards Taylor and Gabriella.

"Thanks Taylor." he smiled, trying to hide his discomfort of Sharpay. "You are so generous."

"Truthfully," she whispered. "No one deserves to suffer at the hands of Sharpay."

He put his hands together like he was about to pray and gave her a slight bow/nod of his head, making her smirk. Gabriella was smiling to but for other reasons.

"God he's just so cute," she thought. "He's so well toned, look at all that muscle. He's a popular guy, kind, charming and he seems to really be interested in me and what I like."

"She's so hot," he thought to himself, working on the assignment on the board. "She's so not like those other girls. She seems to really be into me because of me. Not my body or my popularity standing. Maybe I could really make a relationship work with her? No, it's to early for that…but oh god she's so irresistible."

Taylor had been working but now her attention was focused on Troy and Gabriella. She had noticed already Troy's instant warmth towards her. She could tell he was swooning over her and playing everything safe.

"Perhaps I judged Troy to soon?" she thought to herself. "Now that I think about it, Troy never really was like the others. Chad was the worst…second only to Sharpay but Troy was never really the bully. Now that I think about it Troy's never done anything to me to make me dislike him. Maybe I am a bit stereotypical."

Taylor got up and grabbed three textbooks from the shelf and handed one to Gabriella and Troy, earning her two whispered thanks from each of them. She sat down again and began to work out the problems with the chemicals and their genetic make up.

"Hey Gabriella?" Troy whispered. "Could you help me with this?"

"Sure," she answered, looking at what Troy was doing. "Ok so what we have here is a Vitamin B12 strand. You need to figure out what's in there that doesn't belong and then reorganize it to look the way it's supposed to."

"I know that but I can't figure out what's wrong with it," he said. "Truthfully I'm not really good at Chemistry, it's the only class I'm getting a 60 in. I'm trying but I just don't understand it."

"Ok here," she said. "Vitamin B12 is made up of a large array of elements that get more and more complex further in. However H2O does not occur in this vitamin so that water source there is wrong. After that I really don't see anything wrong with it. So after you remove the water molecule from it, you need to redraw it out to look proper or clean. There is no right or wrong shape for it, but there is a right or wrong order it must go in."

"Oh," he said, looking over the sheet. "So all I have to do is reorder them so they are proper and that's it?"

"Yup," she said.

"Thanks Gabriella," he smiled, returning to his work.

Gabriella continued working on what she had to, before heading to the teacher and getting the work she'd need to catch up on.

"Oh don't worry about it dear," said the teacher. "There's just to much work. Just start from today and this will be the first assignment in your records for my class."

"Ok thank you very much," she said. "Could I just know what you guys did though so I can study it for the final exams?"

"Oh certainly. Just read all of chapter one and three and the last four pages of chapter six. If you finish all that we are currently reading chapter seven, right up to the page you just worked on."

"Ok thanks," said Gabriella, returning to her table.

She began to read the chapters, having covered most of the work at her previous school while Taylor and Troy continued to work on the pages. None of them noticed the way Sharpay was looking over at them and the evil glare she kept giving Gabriella.

"I swear Troy will be mine," she thought. "Math Geek or not I'm going to crush her like every other girl…and when I do I'll finally have Troy all to myself. I'm going to ruin Gabriella Montez's life even if it's the last thing I do!"

The bell rang again as Gabriella, Taylor and Troy gathered their things up and headed out the door.

"I'll see you around Gabriella?" asked Troy as he stopped in the hallway.

"Of course," she said. "I'll see you tomorrow."

With that he watched her walk down the hall with Taylor to the Science room. Grinning he ran off towards the gym…again for his last class. He had all the major credits he needed to graduate; now he was just filling up the rest with one's he liked. He had Health and Fitness next and truthfully it was just a poor cover up class so the basketball team could practice some more. He entered the court to find Chad already there with Zeke and Jason.

"Where's everyone?" he asked.

"Late," said Chad, throwing his hands up. "As usual."

Troy shrugged and entered the change rooms, ready to start practice again. They needed to practice so they could beat the West High Knights.

"Ok Gabriella," said Taylor. "Spill, what's the deal with you and Troy?"

"We're just friends," she insisted. "He seems really charming and nice and he wanted to hang out with me."

"No girl can be 'just friends' with Troy Bolton," said Taylor, smirking. "You're either his first, second or third girlfriend or the girlfriend on the side. He's a nice guy but he goes through girls like there's no tomorrow."

"He didn't seem like that to me," she said. "He really goes out with more than one girl at a time?"

"That's what we've all heard and Troy's never denied it," she said. "Than again he's never confirmed it either, it's all just speculation but you get the gist."

Gabriella looked at her work a little harder, thought's going through her head at alarming speeds; she was beginning to get a migraine. Truthfully she didn't see that type of person in Troy. He seemed like a kind, caring person who just happened to be part of the in crowd where people weren't nice. She sighed and finally looked up at Taylor.

"Do you really think that's true?" she asked. "I mean he doesn't look like that kind of person."

Taylor shrugged.

"I don't know Gabs," she said. "I really don't know. From experience, I know that looks can be deceiving."

Gabriella exited the school heading home after a long and tiring day. She had very limited amount of homework due to her teachers telling her not to worry about it. The only thing she needed to do was her art and the teacher told her she had a week to finish that. She also had to add Taylor to her msn contacts when she got home. She was so lost in her thoughts she didn't realize a car had pulled up beside her until finally it honked at her.

"Hey Gabriella," said Troy, smirking from the drivers seat. "Hop in, I'll give you a lift home."

"Thanks," she said, going around and getting into the passenger side.

When she got in she realized Chad and Zeke were in the back seat, obviously getting a lift home from Troy as well.

"Hey it's funny girl," said Zeke. "Seriously, we all enjoyed what you did to Chad today. It was hilarious."

She watched Chad punch Zeke in the arm and glare at him.

"Shut it Zeke," he threatened. "Besides, Gabby and I have worked out our differences. Isn't that right?"

She smirked and nodded a little before Troy pulled up to a house she assumed was one of the boy's. Chad got out and waved to them before heading into the house. Zeke smirked.

"Seriously Gabriella, seeing someone put Chad in his place is a very rare thing and we got to see it today," he said. "It was very amusing."

"Well I only did that because I can't stand being looked down upon like I'm not as important as anyone else," she said. "We're all equal, in high school nobody can see that though."

Zeke nodded before Troy stopped at his house. He got out and closed the door.

"Thanks again Troy," he called out, running up to his front door.

"Ok now where do you live?" he asked Gabriella.

"Oh, sorry I forgot to tell you that," she blushed. "I live on Hazelnut Drive. Number 35."

Troy began to drive before realizing where that was.

"Hey, I live right there on Ashburn Boulevard," he pointed out. "It's like a two minute walk from my house to yours."

She smirked and got out of the car when he pulled up to her house. She closed the door and then leaned on the door.

"I'll see you around more often then won't I?" she asked. "I do have one question though for you and it's kind of personal, you mind?"

"Not at all," he said.

"Well, someone told me that when you have a girlfriend, it's never one at a time it's usually…" she started.

"You've been talking to Taylor to much," he said. "I've dated four girls in the school. One at a time and only one of them lasted for a year. I kissed two of them. All four of those girls are actually gone now to different schools, so anyone who say's they've dated me or kissed me are trying to grab some attention."

"I thought as much," she said. "Thanks for the ride home Troy. I'll see you tomorrow."

He nodded and watched her go into her house before backing out of the driveway and heading home.

"Troy and Gabriella. Gabriella and Troy," he thought to himself as he got out of his car. "It has a nice ring to it. I think I might go for it. I like her; I can easily see she's into me. It's been about two years since I dated last maybe it's time to try again?"

Gabriella put her bag down on the kitchen chair before grabbing a cup of juice from the fridge.

"Hello honey," said her mom. "Who did that expensive car you came home in belong to?"

Gabriella smirked and drank her juice down.

"Troy Bolton," she said. "He's a very nice boy. He's on the basketball team and probably the most popular guy in the school. I'm finally in the in crowd…or well sort of."

"That's wonderful news dear," she said. "Just be careful though. I don't want to see your grades slipping. You've always been a wonderful student."

"Don't worry mama, I'll be fine," she reassured her. "Oh also I have some things I need you to sign for the school, medical records and updates."

She handed her mom the sheets.

"Of course," she said placing them down.

Gabriella had noticed her mom was being extremely pleasant…not that she wasn't a nice person on a daily basis but she was being overly nice this time.

"Aye mama, what's wrong?" she asked. "No oculte las cosas, talk to me?"

"It's my company," she said. "They want me to go lejano, to New York for un mes."

"Un mes!" said Gabriella. "Mama that's a month! What am I gonna do here?"

Her mother sighed and sat down.

"They have not transferred me, they just need me to go and over look some stuff for them, the staff and official paper work, la materia tiene gusto de eso," she explained. "You're old enough now to ocúpese. I'm sure you can handle it."

Gabriella sighed and ran her hand through her hair.

"Well there's nothing I can do about it," she said. "I'll be fine by myself for a month. Just call me every so often to check in would you?"

"Of course I will," she said. "I'm leaving tonight, mi pequeña muchacha so I will be making dinner in about an hour. My plane leaves tonight at 8:30."

"Ok mama," said Gabriella, heading to her room and putting her bag down by her computer stand.

She pulled out her artwork and placed it down on her desk before walking back downstairs again.

Gabriella sat at the table with her mother, eating the Taco's her mother had whipped up recently.

"So how was school today honey?" she asked.

"It was good actually," answered Gabriella. "I met a friend there named Taylor. She's in the Scholastic Decathlon and she's the head of the Science club. She helped me most of the day get to my classes."

"That's great to hear. Now honey I've left my numbers on the fridge if you need to call me. If something happens call me and I'll be on the next flight home," she said, cleaning up her plate and the leftovers going into the fridge.

Gabriella nodded, putting her own dishes away and cleaning up the kitchen while her mom got her suitcases into the car and grabbed her coat.

"Ok Gabriella," she said hugging her daughter. "I'll see you in a month. I'll call you when I get there ok?"

"Yes mama, now go before you're late," she said.

She watched her mom get into the car and then pull out of the driveway. She waved to her as she drove down the street and then she was gone. Gabriella pulled her sweater closer to herself and walked back into the house, closing and locking the doors before going to her room. She sat down in front of her computer and quickly started up her msn instant messenger. She added Taylor to her contact list and soon found her friend signed in.

MSN Chat

ScholasticGirl: Gabriella! Hey girl you finally got on.

Gabriella: Hey Taylor, yeah I got on finally. My mom just left for a month in New York. Her company sent her off to over see some work and stuff.

ScholasticGirl: You're by yourself for a month? Wow a new place and already you gotta be by yourself. If you need to call someone or want someone to spend the night over just call me up.

Gabriella: Thanks Taylor. I definitely will. Well tomorrow's Friday so you wanna sleep over tomorrow night?

ScholasticGirl: Sure thing. Oh before I forget, Troy wants your msn name so he can add you. Somehow he got a hold of my e-mail and contacted me to ask you. Is it ok?

Gabriella: Sure. Troy seems nice enough. Why not?

ScholasticGirl: Ok, he's adding you now. I gave him permission to add me to his contacts list to.

Gabriella: Lol

WildcatCaptain has added you to their contact list. Would you like to allow them to see when you are online and have conversations with this person?

Gabriella clicked the yes button and watched the little green symbol come up to show Troy was online.

WildcatCaptain: Gabriella?

Gabriella: Clearly. My msn name should have given that away. :P

WildcatCaptain: With the internet you never know now a days. So how are you?

Gabriella: I'm good. Mind if I add Taylor to the convo? It's easier to talk to both of you at the same time that way.

WildcatCaptain: Sure go ahead.

ScholasticGirl has entered the conversation.

WildcatCaptain: Hey Taylor.

ScholasticGirl: Hello Troy. Gabriella.

WildcatCaptain: So Gabriella what's up?

Gabriella: My mom's gone away to New York for the month. Figures as much, we just move in and already her company has her traveling all over the place again. At least this time I'm not being dragged around the country with her.

WildcatCaptain: Ouch. That's gotta suck. Well if you want to chat I'm just around the corner and I'm sure my rents would be more than happy to have you over.

ScholasticGirl: Wow Troy, you're so sweet. I never knew you had such a generous side.

Gabriella: Thank you Troy, that's very generous, and lol Taylor.

WildcatCaptain: Ha ha Taylor. And you're welcome Gabriella.

ScholasticGirl: Hey so I'm a bit stereotypical of cliques at school. You happen to be part of the clique I'm not so fond of.

WildcatCaptain: True enough.

Gabriella: Well I'm heading to bed now. I'm tired and to be honest I know tonight's gonna be hard. It's so eerily quiet in my house.

WildcatCaptain: Ok. Night Gabriella. If you need to call my number is my personal info on msn there.

ScholasticGirl: Night night. Same thing here. If you need someone to call I gave you my number earlier. Just call and I'll be right over.

Gabriella: Thanks guys. Goodnight.

Gabriella has left the conversation.

Gabriella signed off and shut her computer down before changing into her nightgown. She brushed her hair, her teeth and then cleaned off her face before turning off the lights in the house and heading for bed. She turned off her bedroom lights and opened her window to allow the breeze into her room before getting into her bed.

Ok so that's the first chapter of my story. It's not my first attempt at a High School Musical story but it's the first one I've published so far. I will have an update soon. I hope you all enjoyed it. R&R please.

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