Time After Time
Summary: Gabriella left Troy a year in freshmen year. She went to UCLA with her other friend, Lucy. But Lucy is a big Troy Bolton fan since Troy became a Laker. What if Troy goes to visit Gabriella at UCLA, which gets Lucy hyped up?
Chapter 1: Long Time No See!
RRRIIINNNGGG!!! Gabriella's cell phone alarm rings at 9 a.m.
"Didn't you hear the alarm, Brie? It's time to get up," Lucy, Gabriella's roommate, yelled from the bathroom.
"I don't want to get up," Gabriella moaned. She covered her head with her blanket that wrapped around her slender body.
"If you don't get up, I'm going to pour water all over you." Gabriella widened her eyes, remembering the last time Lucy said the exact same phrase.
"If you don't come to the party with me, I'm going to pour water all over you," Lucy said. She begged for a long time and now she's bribing Gabriella to go. It didn't work for Gabriella at the time.
"I'm not going, Lucy. I'm tired, for the last time," Gabriella whispered, obviously out of breathe.
"You're going to regret that, Gabriella Montez." Lucy stomped her way to the door and walked out.
12:00 a.m.
Gabriella walked into her room after a nice bath. She slid inside her queen bed and wrapped her blue covers around her. She was about to fall into a deep slumber when she felt water dripping on her neck. Then she felt a splash on her head and the upper part of her body.
"Gotcha!" Lucy mischievously grinned. Gabriella screamed and got up to chase after Lucy, who ran after she poured the water on Gabriella.
"I'm getting up!" Gabriella loudly grumbled. She slid out of her bed and patted her tangled hair. She walked into the bathroom and shower for about 10 minutes. After that, she decided on a white Abercrombie cami and a yellow t-shirt that went all the way to the hip bone over it. She put on capris and slipped on her white K-Swiss sneakers. She walked into the living room, where Lucy was eating a bagel and looking at the latest Teen People magazine.
"What's on this month's issue?" Gabriella called from the kitchen to find something to eat.
"Troy Bolton." Gabriella rolled her eyes in the refrigerator so Lucy can't see. Troy Bolton was her ex-boyfriend and first love in high school. They broke up because Troy was focusing too much on basketball to notice that Gabriella sneaked away from him to UCLA. He became the captain of the LA Lakers and didn't go to college for his freshmen and sophomore year. When Gabriella came to UCLA, she met Lucy, who was her roommate and her first friend. They talked about everything except high school. At least, Gabriella didn't talk about high school. She remained silent about it while Lucy blabbed all about Gibbons High School. If she didn't talk about high school that also meant that she never told Lucy that she dated Troy Bolton.
Lucy was obsessed with Troy Bolton. She had magazine cut-outs, posters, and candid pictures from the internet of him on her 'Troy Bolton, I love you' bulletin board. Gabriella couldn't tell her about her dating Troy before or it would crush Lucy's heart.
"What about Troy?" Gabriella asked, pretending to care.
"It says Troy is having a break from the Lakers and is coming to downtown Los Angeles to visit a friend."
"Alright…" Gabriella took out some eggs and started on the stove.
"Oh my gosh!" Gabriella turned her attention to Lucy.
"What?" Gabriella cracked open the eggs and dropped the eggs on the pan.
"It says TROY BOLTON IS COMING TO UCLA!!!" Lucy yelled in excitement.
"WHAT?!" Gabriella lifted up her pan too high, causing her eggs to hit the cupboards behind her. She turned around and gasped. "My bad."
"Yeah, you're gonna have to clean that up." Gabriella turned off the stove and grabbed a napkin to pick up the eggs and throw them away.
"Oh my god, I can't believe Troy Bolton is coming to our school!" Lucy sat down in one of the dining room chairs.
"I can't believe it too," Gabriella mumbles.
"I wonder who he's trying to see." Lucy reads the rest of the article and gasped. Gabriella tried to look over her shoulder, but she stood up and walked back and forth.
"He's coming to UCLA to see his first love." Gabriella turned around and cursed under her breathe.
"He has a first love?" Lucy plop down on the couch and stares at the article. Gabriella sighs and walked over to Lucy and sits down next to her.
"Maybe he and his first love won't be together anymore. He's just visiting. It's not like he's gonna get her heart back."
"Then why would he say his 'first love'? Couldn't he say 'friend' or a random person?" Lucy shed a tear and Gabriella wiped it.
"C'mon. Let's go to class. We'll talk about it later." Lucy nodded and they both walked out of the apartment.
Everywhere there were whispers of Troy Bolton coming to UCLA. The girls were silently screaming their heads off of seeing Troy Bolton in person. The guys tried to control their female friends or their girlfriends. The only person who wasn't ecstatic about this was Gabriella. Lucy, on the other hand, was excited and sad at the same time.
Gabriella and Lucy walked into their science class and sat in their usual spots, in the middle seats of the second and third rows. They were sitting side by side together.
"Troy Bolton is going to pick me over his first love. I bet his first love isn't even that pretty." "His first love might be a princess, but I'm the total package." "Troy Bolton is going to be mine after he sees this body." Everyone was criticizing Troy's first love as in they actually has a chance with him. Gabriella fake gagged and rolled her eyes.
"Gabi, are you okay? Ever since you heard about Troy coming to UCLA, you started being disgusted," Lucy said.
"I'm fine. It's just that it's mean for the girls to insult Troy's first love. You never know, she might be as pretty as…"
"Moi? In her dreams," a voice appeared. Gabriella and Lucy turned around to see a perky blonde walking toward them. She had pink highlights in her hair and she dresses exactly like Gabriella's friend, Sharpay.
"I'm not in the mood, Kirstie," Lucy said.
"It doesn't matter. I'm talking to Miss Mexican here," Kirstie said.
"It's Filipina, Blonde Girl," Gabriella snapped back.
"Ooo. Good comeback," she said sarcastically, "if you think Troy Bolton would like any of you, you're way out of your head."
"Yeah right. He'll see right through you and know you're nothing but a perky slut who fart her skirt up in the air," Gabriella said. Lucy giggled.
"That was once!" Kirstie said to defend herself. "It won't matter as long as Troy chooses me as his first love."
"He already has his first love."
"Then he'll have his true love. You don't stand a chance against me." Gabriella got up from her seat and stood one inch away from Kirstie, pushing her face toward her.
"Am I really going to compare myself to you?" Kirstie raised her eyebrows.
"How are you going to prove that he'll be yours?"
"I don't have to. But I'm not interested in him." Every girl in the room gasped and turned their attention toward the two girls.
"Really?"
"Really, he's just my friend." All the girls crowded around Gabriella and blabbed questions out. Kirstie raise her hand up in the air to quiet everyone.
"Yeah right. And I'm best friends with Beyonce," Kirstie said sarcastically. Gabriella took out her Blackberry and ran through her pictures. She clicked on the picture that she took of Troy at the New Years Eve party. She shoved it in Kirstie's face, who widened her eyes and dropped her jaw.
"Is that Troy Bolton?" one girl behind her asked.
"Yeah, he took it when we were in high school. New Years Eve."
"Y-y-you were close to him?" Kirstie stuttered. Gabriella smiled.
"Closer than ever." The girls squealed behind Gabriella and asked her questions. The bell rang and the girls ran to their seats. Kirstie glared at Gabriella and walked to her seat. Gabriella sat back down. Lucy leaned over to her.
"You knew I was obsessed with Troy Bolton. How come you didn't tell me you were friends with him?"
"I'd like it to be a surprise."
"Well, can you introduce me to him?"
"Sure, he'll love you for sure."
"Yay! Oh by the way, then do you know who his first love is?" Gabriella looked around, pretending to not know. Lucy nudged her in the arm.
"I can't say. It's confidential."
"Oh please. I won't tell."
"Even if you won't tell, people are still listening to our conversation." Gabriella motioned her eyes toward the girls who were leaning over to them and trying to listen to their conversation.
"Fine. You win." Lucy dropped her shoulders and put her chin on her hand with her elbow on the table.
Big steps were walking down the hallway. Some of the girls checked constantly to see if Troy Bolton is coming. The next time they looked, they started squealing. Some of the teachers had to close the windows for the girls to stop squealing.
"Troy Bolton is here."
Every girl passed on the message in class. When the message got to Gabriella, she rolled her eyes and passed the message in an annoyed tone. The girl behind her squealed and passed on the message. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Everyone look up and gasped. Gabriella looked up and her eyes were wide open. He looked older than the last time she saw him. He still had the dirty brown hair, but they were lighter. He wore a navy blue Hollister t-shirt, American Eagle jeans, and blue American Eagle flip flops. He was holding a piece of paper that Gabriella couldn't really see from the middle of the room.
"Hey." All the girls scream and run up to Troy. They crowded around him. Lucy shot up and ran over to Troy, holding a pen and the Teen People Magazine that she was reading this morning. Gabriella grabbed her stuff and ran to the back of the room to the emergency door in the back.
"Gabriella!" Troy yelled from the crowd. The girls kept pushing their way toward Troy while Gabriella escapes from the emergency door. She ran out and turned down the hallway to find Chad and Taylor walking toward her.
"Hey Gabi! Long time no see!" Chad smiled.
"Wait a minute," Gabriella said. She pointed at Taylor, "You told him I was here." Taylor started whistling and looking above her.
"She didn't mean to," Chad said.
"Then what did she mean to do?"
"Troy noticed you were gone two years ago, but Taylor wouldn't tell him. She promised to tell him on his 20th birthday."
"And you did. Didn't you?" Gabriella said to Taylor.
"I felt sorry for him. He was drowning himself in pudding every day. When I told him where you were, he immediately started exercising and play basketball again," Taylor said.
"He stopped basketball?"
"He did because he was so depressed about you. He couldn't concentrate, so he got to take a break from the LA Lakers for a year."
"Then what about the gossip about him during the whole year?"
"What do you think? Would he actually have the mood to go out with Emma Roberts, as so the celebrity news said?" Gabriella shook her head. "He immediately got back into the Lakers when he started playing basketball again."
"How would I know?"
"Exactly. You didn't know. You didn't even bother calling and telling me how you were. Troy would ask everyday if you called and I would say no because it was the truth."
"I was busy."
"With another boyfriend?"
"No. I haven't even had a boyfriend ever since I left. I was just busy getting used to the new environment and working really hard here."
"For what?" Out of the blue, the screaming of girls grew louder. Gabriella turned around to see Troy running away from the girls. It looked like more girls than her class, so it might have been some other classes too.
"RUN!" Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor ran for it while Troy ran after them. They jogged outside and turned the mechanical building. Chad and Taylor ran straight while Gabriella turned around the corner and stopped there. Troy, who didn't know Gabriella was there, turned around the corner too and stopped there while all the girls ran straight after Chad and Taylor.
Gabriella and Troy caught their breathes without noticing each other side by side.
"That was close," Troy loudly said. Gabriella gasped and fell back. Troy caught her just in time, wrapping his right arm around her waist. Gabriella instantaneously linked her hands together around Troy's neck. Gabriella closes her eyes when Troy caught her.
"You look beautiful." Gabriella opened her eyes a little to see Troy staring down at her face. She let go of her hands around Troy's neck and pulled back. Troy unwrapped his arm around her waist and stepped back.
"What are you doing here?" Gabriella said after a moment of silence.
"I thought I'd drop by." Gabriella raised her eyebrow. "To see you…"
"Well, thanks for the visit. But I'm a busy person and not ready for another relationship that makes me wait for my boyfriend." Gabriella walked around Troy when Troy grabs her wrist.
"Gabi, I'm sorry. I was so focused on my career I forgot about you."
"And you expect me to just forgive you? I've waited a year for you, Troy. I'd thought you'd get it in your head and actually remember me for once."
"Gabriella, I'm really sorry. I promise I'll make it up."
"Well, I'm sorry too. Because I'm not in the mood to start another relationship."
"So what does this makes us now?"
"Either ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend or just friends."
"I'll pick friends."
"Doesn't matter what you choose, it'll still be both." Gabriella walked away, leaving Troy in the corner.
A/N: Hope you like it. My idea; no taking! Unless you tell me and not copy the WHOLE idea.