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"Gabriella, Derek needs to see you."

"Great. What does he want?"

"Who knows, better get there quickly. I heard him and that girl got into a fight last night and today he's boss-zilla"

"Oh thats even better. If you don't see me come back. I'm giving my office to you." The 22-year old said to her redhead friend, "Remind me why I still work here?"

"Because I'd die of boredom and annoyance. Boss would drive me crazy, plus he gives half of my assignments to you so I'd have more work if you weren't here. Besides, its always been your dream to be in journalism right?"

"Kylie! Ugh, Why did I ever tell you that?"

"Who knows, now get a move on."

KNOCK KNOCK

"Hey Boss, Kylie said you need to see me?"

"Yes, have a seat Gabriella. Now you know you're one of my top writers here."

"I am? I mean, I am aren't I?"

"Of course. Now let me be honest, a year ago when I got your résumé looking through wasn't the first thing I did. Actually I tossed it to the side for a while. You were fresh out of college-"

"Are you gonna fire me or something?" Gabriella asked nervously.

"Of course not, now back to what I was saying. Fresh out of college, and you expected to write for ESPN. Do you know why I took a chance on you?"

"Because of my last name?"

"Partly. Your grandfather, Robert Montez is up there with the greats of basketball, and one of my personal favorite players. But after he retired, it was his writing that got my attention. Growing up, as a sports fanatic your grandfather was one of the very few writers I actually knew the name of. He had played the game and knew what players went through so I respected his opinions. So I hired you, in hopes you'd atleast be able to cover some college stuff."

"Is this supposed to be some kind of pep talk? I mean its not really up-lifting to hear that you had no hopes for me. Have you even looked at my résumé yet?"

"I did, actually the week after I gave the job. Impressive, most noticeable was your article on the Standford coach manipulating grades for some of his players. Whats even more impressive was the fact that you went to Standford."

"Yeah..well not to be rude but why am I here? I don't know if you remember but I have tons to do before flying to Boston to cover the Red Sox-Yankees game."

"Change of plans, I'm giving that to Tony, you're covering the NBA finals this year." That took her by storm. The biggest assignment she had ever gotten was covering last year's NCAA tournament. That was only college but now the pros was where the big fish swam. Who would take some young girl seriously?

"Is that break up making you- I mean..

"No I'm not crazy. Who better to cover the Suns and Raptors than the girl whose grandfather's jersey hangs high up in the US Airway Center?"

"Yeah but you have so many others who is way more experience than me. Like you said I'm fresh out of college, I just graduated last year."

"Well besides doing interviews there's something else."

"Something else?"

"There's been speculations about players from Phoenix using steroids." Derek said.

"By players you mean Troy Bolton and you want me to play detective and find out the truth right?"

"Yeah"

"I was just joking. Beside how am I supposed to find out anything. I'm sure they know I'm a reporter."

"Find a way, you busted Standford, this shouldn't too much of a challenge. Your flight's in two hours. No buts- if you get this scoop, we might just have a spot on air for you."

"You mean like like on ESPN news?"

"Maybe SportsCenter, we'll see. Just make sure you find out the truth"

"Pheonix, here I come" Gabriella mumbled to herself as she walked out his boss's office.

AN:Just a quick preview kind of thing. So if you want the real story then review!! If enough people like it I'll continue.