HELLO! All this is my first HSM story so be nice lol. JKS if you hate the story.. love the idea.. let me know!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with HSM except any of the characters you don't already know and I made up hehe.
Troy walked into the building surrounded by painful memories of 8 years ago. The colors and the lockers, every tiny thing brought back one memory at least.
"Troy, it is good to see you here! Welcome back! Your office is next to your dad's in the gym locker room. Have good day! Oh, By the way we have staff meeting this afternoon at 4!" Mr. Matsui hadn't changed a bit. He was still bubbly, knowing that he was here trying to makes everyone's day brighter cheered him up. A little bit.
Troy walked into the gym and watched his dad do what he was so good at. The girls junior basketball team was practicing and they were quite poor in skills but made up for it in determination.
"Alright girls, hit the showers. He have practice again tomorrow free period DON'T FORGET!" coach Bolton's voice continued to echo around the gym until every girl was out.
Troy decided to make his presence known to his father. "Dad! What's up?" Jack laughed "Not much troy what is up with you?" Troy returned the laughter and walked over to be brought into a hug.
"How is your ankle?" Jack asked with concern. The younger Bolton shrugged "It doesn't hurt anymore, but it sucks that I can't play anymore!" he replied with disappointment.
"Well its good to have you back, Troy" he said back. Troy laughed. "Dad, I can still kick your butt on the court though!" they laughed together until Jack picked up the ball and threw it at his son, encouraging the bet.
"You're on, old man!" Troy said quickly before dribbling the ball around his father and effortlessly threw it through the hoop.
"Well, well Mr. LA Laker decided to show us some of this skills!" the Bolton men stopped when they heard a familiar voice behind them. Troy slowly turned around and grinned when he saw the familiar bushy hair of his best friend.
"Hey man! What's been happening?" Troy said with a laugh.
"Not much! Oh yer, I am getting married in two months. Be my best man?" Chad replied.
"Of course! Well, what a brothers for?" they grinned and shared a hug. "Who's the lucky woman?"
"You remember Taylor! She is even gorgeous, you will love the new her!" Troy could tell he was excited, but there was one thing that was bugging him. "What happened to Michelle?" Chad laughed.
"You really are behind. We broke up during college. She didn't want to be kept restrained to one guy. She is now engaged to some actor." He nodded "What about everyone else?" Troy asked with curiosity, knowing that Chad knew he really meant the one person who had always held his heart.
"You mean 'What about Gabi?' I honestly couldn't tell you. The girls kept in touch with her, but recently there hasn't been any news. We are all going to Zeke's restaurant tonight. You should come!" Troy nodded.
Jack joined the two younger men "Chad, What are you doing here?" he laughed "Oh, I almost forgot. Lucy wanted me to thank you for your lovely present. Anyway I better be going! See you tonight Troy?" "Yer, definitely"
The bell rang to signal the first class. A sport class ran through the gym to get ready in the locker rooms. Troy sighed, he was about to start his new career.
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Gabriella stood in the middle of her new office. Today was her first day at a new job. Everything that she had learnt in college was slowly disappearing as she became more nervous.
"Ah, Miss Montez! It's nice to see you again!" said her new boss. The old man looked much like he did 8 years ago.
"Mr. Matsui! It is a pleasure to be back!" she replied with enthusiasm that wasn't all fake.
"I expect that you are prepared to teach your classes today!" he said as the bell rang signaling first period.
"Ah, I must be off, plenty of things to do!" he said with a smile. He walked towards the door and opened it. Gabriella sighed, "Miss Montez, I do believe I have forgot to tell you that this afternoon there is a staff meeting! Just to introduce the new staff! See you at four!" Gabriella decided that the man was way to cheerful for his own good.
Her first class came in and stood around uncomfortably. "Class there is no seating arrangement! Come on in and take a seat." They all walked into the room with a new view on what chemistry this year would be like.
She opened her diary and got everything ready as the last few members of the class dawdled in.
"Today, we aren't going to dive right into the work. Everyone turn to the person next to you and get to know them for the next 10 minutes." She sat down and listened to the bustle of the classroom. At college they had taught her to make sure the children were comfortable before any lessons started. "Ok than you! My name is Miss Montez, and this is junior chemistry. I am going to go around the class so you can all tell me your names and something interesting you did on the holidays!"
It took 20 minutes for everyone to talk as some of them had said interesting things. "Excuse me Miss" someone said when Gabriella tuned around to start the lesson. "Yes, um Stewart" he nodded "You didn't tell us your interesting thing!" Gabriella smiled and thought "Well I am Gabriella Montez and the most interesting thing I did on the holidays was move from New York!" every ones hands shot up in the air.
"Why were you in New York?" "Where there any hot guys?" "Which college did you go to?" "Why would you come to Albuquerque if you were in New York?" were some of the many questions asked.
"I finished my high schooling here and I have always dreamed of teaching here!" Gabriella replied.
"Why did you leave if you loved it so much?" one student asked. Everyone looked interested.
"This really isn't any of your business, and we have work to do!" she said with little patience.
"Oh, come on Miss we promise to catch up!" another girl said.
"Well lets just say that some of my chemistry went wrong and I didn't want to stay." She replied thinking of her last few months that she was here. Her mind wandered to the blue-eyed guy that had broken her heart.
The students were clearly not going to settle down so for the rest of the lesson the class played get-to-know you games.
The bell rang and the students packed up and walked out. Gabriella let out a sigh, next lesson she was going to have to play her cards right if she wanted to get any work done. The bell rang pulling her from her thoughts. Her next class came in looking slightly nervous. Obviously freshman.
"Good Morning class, My name is Miss Montez and welcome to Science!" she said with a nice smile trying to make the class feel safe.
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The day continued on and both Troy and Gabi were unaware of each others presence. They continued their lessons. Troy starting to feel that being a coach and Athletics teacher was going to be good for his fitness. Gabi feeling that teaching was going to tire her mentally.
Already she was feeling the strain on her head. She knew that she would have a headache when she got home. Where was home? She was still living with her mum until she could find a place. The girls were supposed to help her find a place. But they were all to busy over the last few weeks.
Her final class strolled in and she was counting down the minutes until she could have a bath with some champagne and maybe an early night.
She was talking about the periodic table when something out of the ordinary happened. One of the student's cell phone rang. Gabriella told the student to turn the phone off and she would let her off on a warning. She continued speaking until the door was thrown open and a angry looking Ms Darbus walked in.
"Was that a cell phone?" all the students looked up at their teacher to see how she would react. Gabi looked stunned, like a dear caught in the headlights. The bell rang to indicate end of class. She tried not to cry as all the students walked out of the room. She hated being told what to do, even worse by the one teacher she truly hated. Talk about being saved by the bell.
Gabi was packing up her bag when she suddenly remembered that she had a staff meeting. She looked down at her watch. 4.05. She swore as she took off in the direction of the office.
"I would like to start by introducing old members of the staff. Coach Jack Bolton, Ms Elaine Darbus, Mr Frank Anderson, Ms Ingrid Ritchie, Mrs Francine Smith and Mr Rodney Richards." Everyone in the room clapped. Gabriella slipped into the room, going unnoticed by everyone but one person.
"Now to the new staff. Mrs Gay Sullivan, teaching Algebra. Mr Henry Klutke teaching IT and Legal studies. Mr Lucas Reucassel, teaching English and History. Miss Gabriella Montez, teaching Chemistry and Algebra." Troy's eyes flickered towards to Gabriella in surprise. "and Mr Troy Bolton, teaching Health and soprt as well as being assistant Coach. Welcome everyone!" Mr Matusi said. He continued on about some rules and the fires escape route. Though neither Gabi nor Troy heard any of this. "Thank you for coming and I will see everyone same time same place next week!" he finished with a smile.
Everyone began to start filing out. Gabriella and Troy stood still, making sure that what they were seeing was really real. Jack said something in Troy's direction. Troy moved his eyes for a second in recognition that he had heard him. Jack nodded and left.
Instinctively the pair moved towards each other and only stopped when they could no longer go any further. "Gabi … I missed you so much!" he looked so sincere that it made her sick. Gabriella's eyes began to water before she ran from the room, only looking back for a second to see her first and only love looking hurt and confused.
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