A/N: My first story, I hope you like it! R&&R!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot!

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Chapter One: First Sight

"Hey Nessi"

"Hey Gabs, what's chillin'?"

"Oooh, not much…I'm just looking round the hood…ya know... getting' to know the place, seeing who I'm gonna have to live with for the rest of my life till I finish studying…"

"Cool…seen any cute boys…?"

"No, not yet, Ummmm…there's this one guy next door, but he's…"

"Gabi."

"What Van?"

"Gabriella."

"What Vanessa?"

"You know!"

"I don't, tell me."

"A guy…"

"Troy, you mean?"

"Who? What? Where? When? and How?!!"

"Calm it Ness!"

"M'kay, just TELL ME!"

"Okay…!"

"Good!"

"Who: Troy Bolton, What: saw him next door and we did eye magnet thing, Where: In the back yard, When: An hour ago, and How: We looked at each other and he smiled and I smiled back and my stomach did flip-flops and we did the eye magnet thing, twice and then mom called me inside."

Silence

"Ness…?"

"OMG! You did the Eye Magnet thing…TWICE!!! That is totally something special!"

"I know."

"Then why do ya sound bored and upset!!"

"I totally don't!"

"Ya you do, anyways, is it because you miss us?"

"Maybe…"

"Well, please get over us and meet Troy!"

"Okay."

"Good!"

"Great."

"Gabi!"

"What?"

"Troy Bolton…?"

"Ya, later."

"Gabi, I will come over there and kill you!"

"It'll take a long time!"

"I know that!"

"I'm glad."

"Gabi!"

"Okay! I will go talk to him-"

"Gabi! Come on!"

"Coming Mom!" back to Ness, "That was Mom, which means I gotta go, which means I'll talk to you later, and…?"

"Bye Gabi, you better tell me more about Troy later!"

"Bye Ness I'll tell you more about Troy later."

"Miss Ya! Bye!"

"Yeah, Miss Ya! Bye!"

Beep.

I flipped my cell phone off and ran inside to mom, she was in the kitchen unpacking stuff…"Gabi, give me a hand here! I want to finish this today!"

"M'kay Mom!"

I helped unpacking things, while we talked,

"Gabi, you need to unpack your stuff, then you need to take a look round the neighbourhood, ask some of those kids around here about what there's to do around here, that kind of stuff; you need to survive the summer!"

"M'kay mom..." I was drifting off in thoughts of Troy…

"Gabi!" I snapped out of my thoughts, "Yeah?"

"Gabi, please tell me what's on your mind, you keep on drifting off, what's up?" she asked in a caring voice, I smiled and answered, "Nothing...it's just that I saw this guy…"

"Gabriella! You haven't even been here for 24 hours, and you've seen a guy! What am meant to say to this!?"

I smiled guiltily, "Erm…I'm sorry...?"

"Gabriella! Please! We don't know anyone around here, we have no idea what they're like, they don't know us-"

"Wasn't that the reason of us moving here?"

"That's not the point!" I bit my lip, mom was getting pretty angry, but was bound to happen, I mean, she was really stressed, because we didn't know what anything was, where anything was, we didn't know our way round here, we were complete strangers to the place.

That's what we wanted once upon a time, but now, I think we didn't get exactly what we wanted!

We'd get used to it…I hope.

"Look Gabi; we need to be careful, you need to be careful, please."

I nodded, "Okay, go and meet this guy, I guess you need to get to know people round here before you start school in a month."

I smiled, "Thanks mom!" I kissed her cheek, and ran into my 'room' and searched through the suitcases', I couldn't find it…I knew I'd packed it…there! I pulled out my Ralph Lauren Leopard-Print Bikini; it was the perfect weather outside, 99°F and cloudless blue.

I took my denim shorts and yellow halter top off and put my bikini on, feeling great, I stepped outside, the bright warmth of the sun hitting my skin; it wasn't like I needed a tan, I was different… Filipino, Chinese, Latina, Irish, Indian and American! That's a lot in one girl, but it's what I am…I repositioned my sunglasses, and stretched out on a deckchair by the pool, it felt great, laying there in the sun...

My cell phone started to ring, I groaned, but reached for it, I looked at the screen, it was Nessa, what did she want now?!

"What?"

"Gabi, guess what!?" she sounded excited, very excited…

"What…?"

"Guess!"

"Let me think…you got a brain…?"

"No…but I got something!"

"Okay…you got…love?"

"Getting closer…!"

"Someone asked you out?"

"Yeaaahh…"

"Oh! I got it!"

"What?!"

"Justin asked you out!"

"No."

"So it wasn't the guy crushing on you…it was the guy you're crushing on…?" I was getting closer to it… "Yes!"

"Oh My Gosh! Zac asked you out!"

"YES!"

"OH MY GOSH!!"

We squealed until mom came out to tell me to shut up and Troy was peeping over the fence!

"Wow! When!?"

"Just now!"

"By text…?"

"No, he's here right now!"

"Oh! I'll let you two make-out, I'm gonna go…" I said giggling.

""Okay, bye!"

"Bye!" I flipped my cell phone off and stretched out again, oblivious to Troy, staring!

But after a while I felt weird, so I took the sunglasses off and looked up and saw Troy standing there by the short fence that divided the two yards.

"Hey" he said, even his voice was beautiful!

"H-hi" I stammered back, my stomach was doing somersaults again! How was I meant to talk to him!?

"I'm Troy, by the way. So…you're new round here?"

"Yeah, my mom and I just moved in this morning… And I'm Gabriella" this was getting easier than I thought… "Oh, cool, can I call you Gabi?"

"Yeah, sure…we came here from Albany, not that I wanted to!"

"What happened? Why did you have to leave?"

"Oh…my mom's job transferred here, so she had to move here, but we were gonna move somewhere anyway…"

"Why's that?"

"My dad died in an accident 3 years ago, we thought that we'd get over it over time, but it didn't work, we were still living in memories, so we thought that the best thing to do was to move somewhere, anywhere, just away from there…that's when mom's job transferred to here, so we thought, might as well move there! So that's how we got here!"

Troy was really easy to talk to and he listened too!

"Oh wow, I'm really sorry."

"That's okay, we'll be hanging on!"

It went quiet again…not something I particularly liked!

"So, do ya want a tour of the town, I could show you where everything is, and stuff, and the school, I take you're coming to East High, right?"

"Yeah, I'll be starting my sophomore year, 10th grade, seems weird."

"Yeah, same; so how old are you?"

"I'm 15 my birthday is on July18th, what about you?"

"So am I, I mean, I'm 15 too, my birthday's July 15th, and I am looking forward to this time next year, because then, I'll be 16, and able to drive!"

"Well, in 351 day's I'll be 16 and just about able to drive!"

He laughed. It was as attractive as his voice!

It went quiet, again… I decided to go in and put some clothes on, as I was sitting here talking to him in a bikini!

"I'm just gonna go put something on, I'll be back in two seconds; you could go on in and help my mom unpack!" I smiled before rushing inside and putting my shorts and yellow halter back on, and rushing back out.

Troy was helping mom unpack, like the perfect son-in-law…wait, why did I just think that?! We're not even dating!

I mentally kicked myself and walked up to them, "Hey!"

My mom gave me a look, as if to say, 'Is-this-the-guy-you-were-talking-about?-If-he-is-then-I'm-impressed!' I slightly nodded, then said,

"So, Troy, do you want anything to drink?"

"No thanks, Gabi." He replied, smiling.

My mom gave me another look, as if to say, 'Gabi-he-called-you-Gabi-this-must-be-something' I just grinned at her.

"So, Gabi, do you want a tour of the town? If that's okay with you, Ms. Montez?"

"That's fine, Troy, just be back before dinner!"

"Ya, we will!" we chorused back at her as we left the house after grabbing or cell phones from the yard and locking p the back gate.

"We'll go by foot, I find that you remember the ways if you go anywhere by foot." He said, "Okay!" I replied, as we walked into, for me, a new life.

A/N: I hop you liked that, might have a cliffy next time! Review! xx