"Good, I was going to persuade you to come anyway." My mom replied smiling. I chuckled.

I went upstairs to change clothes. I liked my jeans, but the weather was just too hot. I got dressed in a pair of denim jeans and grabbed my sunglasses. I decided to go to the park, in the hope to bump into her again.

"Mom, I'm going to the park." I yelled while walking out the door. I heard a vague "Okay, be safe" from inside.

I strolled the familiar way to the park. I was just past my neighbors house when I heard Sharpay's squeaky voice.

"Troy! Where are you going?" I tried to figure out where the sound was coming from. She wasn't in her front garden.

"Up here silly." I looked up and saw her on her balcony. I smiled and waved at her.

"Where are you going to?" She asked.

"I'm going to the park." I replied.

"Oh! Fun! I'm coming!" She said excited. I didn't want her with me, but I don't think I even had a choice. I suddenly had a great idea. I messaged Chad. I smiled cheekily. This is going to be great.

"Why are you smiling?" She asked. I looked her way. She was wearing black high waist shorts, white chiffon shirt and sandals.

"Nothing, let's go!" I said.

We walked to the park. Sharpay is a really nice person. The whole way we talked and laughed. I saw Chad saw us coming, I gave him a nod up. We walked towards him.

"Hey man. Didn't know you were here too. I was heading to the park and Sharpay wanted to come." I gave him a look to play along, but I could see he was really confused.

"Oh yeah, I was just chilling, you know?" He replied. I was Sharpay looking at him.

"Anyways, you two talk. I've got to do something." I walked past them before they could reply. Too be honest, I wasn't going anywhere. I just wanted to get Sharpay off my back and Chad and Sharpay to hook up.

I walked towards the lake. It wasn't very big, but it was really nice. There were several benches, nearly every one had already someone seated on them. There was one nearby, an old lady was seated there though. I walked over and sat down.

"It's a lovely day, huh?" I said.

"Ah, yes indeed." She said smiling at me. She looked Hispanic. She had glasses and a beige hat on her head.

"I come here everyday. Feed the ducks and just stare at the beautiful lake." I smiled.

"That sounds great. I'd rather do that than go to school." I joked. She laughed.

"You'll appreciate school when you're done with it." She looked at me. I smiled.

"I don't know about that." I chuckled.

"I'm going to feed the ducks now." She wanted to standup, but I saw it was a bit difficult for her so I stood up and helped her.

"Ah thank you." She smiled at me, I smiled back. I put my sunglasses in my pocket.

"No problem."

"Do you want to feed the ducks with me?" She asked. I nodded.

"Sure." I smiled. I helped her walk to the lake. She grabbed a bag filled with little pieces of bread and gave it to me. I chuckled. I hadn't feed ducks at a lake for the longest time.

"My name is Troy by the way."

"My name is Abelina." She smiled.

"Do you live around here?" She asked.

"Yeah, just a few blocks away. Do you?"

"Ah, you must be a rich boy. My folks always told me rich people were no good, but back in Mexico rich people were never good." (I have no idea if this is true lol.)

"You are a very nice boy. You should date my granddaughter. She's very beautiful." I chuckled.

"Introduce me to her and maybe I will." I joked. She smiled.

"Grandma, I've been looking for you everywhere!" I recognized that voice.

"Ah I've been feeding ducks with this lovely boy." I turned around.

Face to face with the girl I've been going crazy about. Once again she had dark make-up on. This time she had dark shorts and a black and gray stripped long sleeve shirt on that seem to be a little too big.

"She's your granddaughter?" I asked, still not taking my eyes off her.

"Yes, I told you, she's beautiful." She smiled.

"Oh yes she is." She blushed.

"I've met him a couple days ago." She told her.

"How could you not mention it? This is a lovely boy, date him." She demanded. I chuckled.

"My daughter is having a barbecue tomorrow, you should come." She said. I smiled, but then I realized I already had a barbeque tomorrow. She noticed it.

"What's wrong? Don't tell me you can't come!" She actually looked pretty angry.

"I already have a barbecue tomorrow, but I'm definitely dropping by one way or another." I looked at Gabriella at the last part.

"Good! I'll be checking for you." Abelina said. I chuckled.

"Give him the address Gabriella." She was about to grab a paper.

"Just write it on my hand." I said smiling. She grabbed my hand with her right hand. Butterflies in my stomach. She took a pen and wrote her address on my hand with her left hand. Her hands were so soft. I wish I could hold hands with her, even if it was just for a moment. I was in trance. Her beauty was mesmerizing. After she was done writing, she blushed. I smiled.

"Thank you." I said.

"I'll drop by, I promise!" I said to Abelina, she smiled.

"We should really be going. It was lovely to meet you Troy." She gave me a hug and I hugged back.

"Yo Troy!" I turned around, I saw Chad standing a few feet away. He came towards us, with Sharpay.

"Troy, you're my homie for life. I owe you man, big time!" He gave me a hug.

"Yes Troy, you're the best." Sharpay said and kissed Chad.

"I'm guessing you two are together now?" I asked, grinning.

"Troy, we're going. Goodbye." The old lady said.

"Alright, nice meeting you. Do you need any help?" I asked.

"No, no, no, I'm good. Thank you though." She smiled.

"Alright, see you tomorrow. Bye Gabriella." She waved at me and they walked away.

"Why were you talking with that gothic girl?" Sharpay said with a disgusted face impression. I don't know why, but I felt my heart racing. I got angry. I barely knew the girl, but I got angry.

"The fuck? Why are you calling her that? I don't go calling you Barbie and shit, do I?" She looked a bit scared.

"Wow, wow, wow, calm down bro." Chad said.

"Shit got your eyes turning all dark and shit. Don't go Hulk on Shar." He said. I did a sarcastic chuckled.

"Yeah, whatever bro." I walked away.

They yelled after me, but I didn't turn around. I walked to my house. My mom noticed there was something wrong.

"Are you okay?" She asked concerned. I sighed. I could just say I'm okay, but my mom would keep bugging me until I told her what was wrong.

"I met a girl. She's a bit.. different than most girls I'd date. Apparently Sharpay, a friend doesn't really like her and she was acting dumb so I walked away. I barely know the girl, but I already have the need to protect her. I don't know what it is." I sighed.

"Maybe Sharpay just isn't good with words? You shouldn't throw a friendship away over a girl, even if the friendship is new." She said. Maybe she was a little bit right, but I am in no way apologizing to her.

"Yeah.." I replied.

I went upstairs until mom told me dinner was ready. I ate dinner, helped mom wash up and went back upstairs. I played Playstation until I decided I should go to sleep. I showered and headed to bed.

School wasn't something I was feeling today. My black Chevrolet Corvette arrived last night apparently so I drove to school.

I had History with Zeke as first period, Chad probably told him everything so this is going to be a hell.

I walked in the class and I could already feel everybody looking at me. I sat down, next to Zeke.

"Sup?" I said.

"Hey man." I replied.

"So, um I heard what happened." He said, unsure if he said bring it up or not. I said nothing.

"She's sorry. She doesn't really control the things she does and say."

"Yeah, whatever bro. I don't really care." I replied.

Mid-class the door opened. I didn't look.

"Sharpay? Shouldn't you be in class?" I heard Zeke say.

"Troy. I'm sorry. I feel like I ruined the friendship we had. I really enjoy talking to you." Everyone's staring at me. I actually feel pretty bad now. She's really trying. I stood up and walked towards her.

"Maybe I overreacted a bit." I said, looking her straight in her eyes.

"So, we're cool now?" She asked, hopeful.

"Yeah, we good." I grinned. She hugged me and I hugged back.

The day went by pretty quickly. The school let us go at 12 o'clock, because they had meetings early afternoon, which was great for us. Sharpay and I walked towards the parking lot, with the rest of the gang following.

"So you've got a thing for that girl, huh?" She said with a smirk.

"I don't know, I only know her name." It wasn't a lie. I did only know her name.

"Oh shut up, why would you otherwise get so mad about it?" She replied back.

"Okay, maybe I've got a little crush on her." I sighed and admitted it.

"I knew it!" She said with the biggest smile.

"You know, I know stuff about everyone in this school. I am currently making your file." She said.

"Wait, what? You have files about everyone? What are you? A FBI agent?" I said shocked and a bit scared too be honest.

"Oh calm down. It's important to know who everyone is." She said with a simple smile.

"That's weird as fuck. But, can you hook me up with Gabriella's file?" I asked.

"See! It is important!" She grinned.

"Yeah, yeah." I mumbled.

We all went our separate ways, except for Ryan, Sharpay and I, because we lived on the same street.

I opened the door and walked to the fridge.

"Don't eat too much, we have a barbecue to attend." My mom said. She was watching TV in the living room, I guess she heard me opening the fridge.

"Sure. What time is the barbecue though?" I asked while grabbing a water bottle.

"It's at 1 I think."

"Okay." I walked to my room, before I'd forget I quickly wrote down the address on a piece of paper. I went on Facebook after I was done. I had 20 friendship request from people at East High. I'm pretty sure I'm going to reach my friend limit soon. I've made so many friends everywhere. I accepted them and checked my notifications. I had a few girls commenting on my profile picture. The picture was made back in New York. We rented a big apartment. It was a picture of me standing on the balcony, dressed with just a pair of olive green shorts and sunglasses, staring at the skyline while the sun was slowly going under. An upcoming photographer made it, one of my friends down in New York.
There were a few wall posts that belonged to Zeke, Chad and a few friends from back in New York and friends I've kept in touch with in Florida. I didn't write them back.

I was on Facebook for another reason. I scrolled up to the search bar and typed in Gabriella. I hoped her to show up with –number- mutual friends, but she didn't. I typed in East High and I found her. Her name was Gabriella Montez (Dead Bunny), which was a bit odd. She had a private profile, so I couldn't see her pictures. I thought about poking her, but that's creepy. I wanted to add her, but before I could, my mom asked me if I was ready to go. Which I wasn't, shit. I put my laptop on standby. I changed into a pair of yellow Billabong swimming trucks, in case there was a pool and a plain white T-shirt, slippers and grabbed my sunglasses.

When I got downstairs my parents were already half out the door.

"Ay parents. I've got another barbecue to go after this one, I'll just follow you guys with my car." I said, my dad nodded. I got in the car and followed them. It was a 10 minute drive, but you could already the neighborhood wasn't a very wealthy one. We stopped in front of a pretty big house. You wouldn't have expected this house to be in this neighborhood. You could already see the party had already started. There was Spanish music playing, random people going in and out of the house. I grinned.

We walked in the house and we were greeted with a Hispanic lady that resembled quick a lot to the older lady I met in the park a day earlier.

"Come in, come in! So nice you could make it." She smiled. She gave my parents a hug and two kisses on their cheek.

"Ah, is this your son you talked about? What a handsome son you have." I smiled. She gave me a hug and two kisses too.

"Come, come, the party is in the backyard." She led us to the garden. It was big. When you walked through the glass doors you had two steps. Just 3 meters forward and you'd be in the pool. On the left you could see 2 barbeque's and 2 big tables. I think one table was for the adults and one for the kids.

She led us to the left part. "Here, meet my family." She smiled at us. She introduced us her husband, his parents, her and his brothers and sisters and their children. They seem like a very close family. I smiled.

"I have a daughter too, but my mom is getting her. She's always outside when we want her inside and inside when we want her outside." She joked, my parents laughed.

"Come sit." She took my hand and led me to a chair at the table with all the younger people sitting there. There currently was a guy that looked familiar sitting there, another guy around the same age as me, a girl that looked 13 and another girl that looked around the age of 14.

"Nice to meet you all, I'm Troy." I smiled, they smiled back.

"I think I've seen you around at school. You have with those popular guys." The guy that looked my age said.

"Eh Chad, Jason and Zeke?" I asked.

"Yeah, those. I'm Santos. I think we even have a few classes together." He said.

"That's why you looked so familiar! I think we have Chemistry together bro." I said.

"Yeah, probably. I don't really know." He replied.

"I'll look for you tomorrow." I said with a grin, he gave me a smile back.

"Look who I found!" I heard a woman say. I turned around and saw the old lady from the park. She caught my eye.

"Ah, Troy! You made it!" She said and walked towards me and gave me a hug.

"Actually, this was the thing I was suppose to go." I said with a grin.

"Wait, does this mean this is Gabriella's house?" I asked.

'Yeah, Gabriella's my cousin." Santos replied. He looked a bit surprised that I knew who Gabriella was, and that I knew his grandma.

"Wait, how do know her?" My mom asked confused.

"I met her at the park." I said with a smile. My mom nodded. She probably figured out that Gabriella's the girl I had a fight about with Sharpay. She always knew these things. Abelina remembered she was going to show somebody and walked off to the door, but it seemed like she couldn't find her.

"Where did Gabriella go now?" She asked her mom.

"I don't know mama." She replied.

"Wanna fill me in how you know my cousin?" Santos asked curiously.

"I met her in the park and met your grandma and her again in the park yesterday." I replied.

"Ah, that makes sense. I don't think your kind of people usually would hang with her type." He said. What, what?

"What type?" I asked confused.

"She's a bit of a gothic, emo, I don't know what I should refer her as."

"That explains all the dark clothes." I chuckled.

"Anyway, you want to take a jump in the pool?" He asked, getting up.

"Sure." I got out of my chair, took off my shirt and slippers. Santos jumped in the pool and I followed.


Lol, I know the little drama between Troy and Sharpay is a bit overreacted, but I wanted to show really cared about her and Troy's newly made friendship. Also, I filled the chapter a little more haha. I didn't check if my grammar was correct, because I wanted to upload as fast as possible, so forgive me if I wrote a sentence wrong or shit like that. Thank you so much for the reviews. Feel free to give me advice/constructive criticism or ideas. It is all appreciated. :)

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