So, I got a lot of positive replies to the trailer, and I'm hoping it'll be the same for this very first chapter of Promises. For any reading Do I love the Geek or the Star?, I'm working on the next chapter, but I'm not making any promises, 'cause it's gonna be pretty long, and still really tied up in schoolwork... :S

That's us for you

"Troy Alexander Bolton, are you calling me a slut?!" Gabriella Montez angrily glared at the blue-eyed boy standing in front of her. They were standing in front of their Starbucks, well, their Starbucks, the Starbucks the gang always went to. Around them people were watching and there were light flashes everywhere. The light flashes were caused by the paparazzi taking pictures of their fight. They were used to it; seeing almost everyone from their little group was famous in some way, there was no other way...

"Well, yeah... maybe I am!" Troy Bolton angrily glared back at her. They were having one of their usual fights. They fought pretty much always; they hated each other. It's just that they were forced to hang out because they had they same friends. Unlucky coincidence.

"That's bullshit, Bolton, and you know it! If there are any sluts around it would be the pretty much undressed girls you hook up with!" On the side, their friends were watching the fight tiredly, for as far as they knew, it had always been this way. Troy and Gabriella had always hated each other, and nothing could ever change that. Not that they hadn't tried, they had! Especially Sharpay had tried every way she knew to get people together, and Sharpay Evans knew a lot of meddling methods.

"They are dressed!" At this, the girls that were part of the gang, meaning Sharpay, Taylor and Kelsi, snorted. They had seen the girls Troy hooked up with as well, and Gabriella was right a bout them being pretty much undressed.

"Of course they are, Bolton. After all... underwear is also clothes." At this Gabriella turned around and moved towards the flashes. Automatically the paparazzi made a path for her to go through, whilst still shooting pictures. After the first public fight of Troy and Gabriella, they hadn't, and they'd suffered the consequences of not listening to an angry Gabriella. So every time Troy and Gabriella had a public fight, let's say, almost every other day, the paparazzi moved aside when either one wanted to pass.

As Gabriella walked away, Troy cursed loudly. Why did she always have these good comebacks?! He looked at the gang and saw they were waiting for him to come so they could say goodnight and just get home already. Reluctantly he made his way to them, however halfway, a girl wrapped herself around him.

"Hi superstar... wanna have some fun tonight?" He looked at the girl. She had wild, long, blonde curls, big, blue eyes and perfectly kissable lips, covered in soft pink gloss. He than looked further and a smirk formed on his lips. The girl wrapped around him, wore a short, hot pink, with black lace decorated top that resembled a bra very much, underneath she wore a short, black, shiny, mini skirt and the outfit was finished with black four-inch heels.

"You bet… come, my car is over there." As the girl stepped in his car he looked over at his friends and winked, his usual way of saying goodbye when he was about to have a quick fuck.

"Great, so now both of them have left!" Sharpay pouted, her sparkly pink lips stuck forward childishly.

"I know, Shar… we saw them too." Sharpay rolled her eyes, and stuck her tongue out at Taylor, who returned the gesture.

"Anyways guys, I don't know about you, but I'm heading home. That fighting of them, it's getting me pretty tired." Kelsi nodded in agreement at Jason comment.

"You're right, I'm so sick of this! Isn't there anything you can do Shar?" Everybody turned to the blonde drama queen. Sharpay shrugged helplessly and smoothed out her white mini skirt.

"We've tried everything I know, everything I could think of myself, and even the crazy ideas you guys came up with!" They all sighed disappointed. But suddenly Sharpay let out a loud high pitched squeal. "I've got another idea!" They all looked at her curiously. "But I'll have to work it out before you can hear it, sorry." They groaned, but didn't argue, no one has ever come unharmed out of an argument with Sharpay Evans.

"Well, I'm heading home, coming babe?" Chad turned to Taylor, she nodded and the said goodbye to everyone, as also the others went home, leaving only the Evans twins.

"Shar, do we even wanna know what you have in mind?" Ryan Evans looked at his twin sister curiously. Sharpay smiled innocently, and shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly.

"How am I supposed to now?" Ryan groaned loudly as their limo arrived to pick them up and his older sis hopped in, slowly he followed her, wondering what the hell she would be getting them into this time. Sharpay's plans hadn't always worked out too well…

*Flashback*

"Sharpay Evans if you don't open this door up immediately I will… I will…"

"You will what, Gabs?" Sharpay smirked as she stood in front of the closet's door. The gang had been so fed up with all the fights between Troy and Gabriella that they'd decided to lock them up in a closet until they'd sorted out their differences. So, that's where they were now.

"Yes, what will you do Gabriella?" The teasing voice of Troy could now be heard through the door.

"If you don't shut up I will kill you, Bolton!" Everyone looked at Sharpay worried; she was after all the leader of all their plans. She too looked a little hesitant, but made no attempt to open the door.

"I'm not letting you guys out of there until you get along!" For a moment there was silence, and they all looked at each other, hoping the point had finally gone through their thick skulls.

"Are you crazy Sharpay?! I don't wanna be locked up with this bitch for the rest of my life!"

"Don't call me a bitch, you're worse yourself, you stupid asshole!" So much for the silence, and for getting the point through. They all looked at Sharpay again, who in her turn was watching the door in shock. Meanwhile Troy and Gabriella were still yelling at each other.

"Maybe we should get them out before the kill each other…" All heads turned to Chad, who was watching the door nervously. "I mean, I don't really wanna lose my best friend because I locked him up in a closet with his worst enemy!"

"He's right! They might just kill each other!" Taylor was looking very worried for the sake of her best friend as well, in her case Gabriella instead of Troy. Sharpay groaned in frustration.

"I'm not opening that door until they get along! For all I care they kill each other, in that way we'll get rid of the fighting as well!" And than she stormed away towards her suite. The rest of the gang remained standing in front of her major closet and looked at each other. Finally, Zeke shrugged.

"There's no use in standing here now, is there? She's got the keys..." And with that he followed Sharpay. Eventually, everyone ended up in Sharpay's suite, playing Truth or Dare and having the greatest fun, completely forgetting the other two friends. It was relaxing to be able to hang without having fights about every little thing every five minutes. Suddenly they jumped up, caught of guard by yelling coming from the closet. Immediately they shot up and ran towards it, wondering who'd gotten killed.

"Sharpay, open up!" Everyone let out a sigh of relief, it was just Troy yelling to Sharpay to open the door.

"No, not until you guys get along!"

"But we already do!" The whole gang looked at the door in shock, could it really be?

"We really do Shar… Troy isn't lying."

"Prove it!" Sharpay looked at the door anxiously, together with all of them, hoping, praying they really got along.

"How?" They shared a glance, before once again turning to Sharpay, who was chewing her lip in thought.

"Hmmm, I don't know. Call out three good characteristics of the other one…"

"Gabriella's smart, caring and she never breaks a promise…"

"Troy's funny, talented and he never breaks a promise…" Sharpay looked at the door in shock before squealing loudly and opening the door. Immediately Troy and Gabriella stormed out.

"Omg, Sharpay! I can't believe you had me locked up with that asshole for 2 hours, 14 minutes and 55 seconds!"

"You're one to talk! I was locked up with you for… for… what you've just said!" A loud groan of disappointment echoed from all our mouths and Sharpay sighed in defeat.

"You guys said you were getting along!" Gabriella turned to Sharpay and glared at her.

"It's called acting… you should know!" With that, she resumed her fight with Troy, leaving a shocked Sharpay. Finally, Shar managed to close her mouth, and sighed in defeat once more, before returning to her suite. Troy and Gabriella would never get along, no matter how hard they tried. And they tried… and they'd never give up.

*End Flashback*

The next morning Troy woke up surprisingly early after a short sleep. He looked beside him to find the blonde girl of the night before lying peaceful beside him. He smirked slightly as he saw various hickeys in her neck; he loved leaving his marks on a girl. He slowly got up and put on a clean boxer. He made his way to the kitchen and made himself coffee. As he took a sip he suppressed a yawn, he was damn tired. They'd gotten at his place around 10.30, and they probably hadn't gone to sleep until something like 5.30, and it was 9.00 now. Just as he was reliving the memories from last night he felt a thin arm wrap around his waist and a body being placed behind him.

"Good morning." The husky whisper made the hair on his arms stand upright, in a good way. "You know, I'd heard you were good… but still you were so much better as any guy should ever be aloud to be." He smirked again, like it's the first time he'd heard that!

"Why, thank you… you're pretty talented yourself." He felt her body shift closer to him.

"You got some time left?"

"Well, I've got practice at 10.00… so I've got to leave at 9.45." He felt her body press even closer to his and she brought her mouth to his ear as another husky whisper escaped her lips.

"Than we'll just have to be quick…" He smirked. He'd expected her to do something like that, that's what they usually said. He turned around. She was still naked, but had his blanket wrapped around her. He smirked again, before removing the hand that was keeping the blanket up and pulling her in his arms, kissing her passionately.

At the same time, Gabriella Montez slowly woke up in her own house, alone. As her eyes flutter open and she stretches, she thinks back of her dream from last night. It wasn't really a dream, more a memory… a memory she'd rather forget. She sighed before getting up and walking to her bathroom.

As she looked in the long mirror at herself, her eyes were immediately drawn to the thin white line next to her hipbone, just visible above her sweatpants. She adverted her eyes. That scar brought back other memories, other memories she didn't want to remember. She sighed again and than took of her clothes before getting in the shower. As the warm water streamed down her face, she did what a lot of people tend to do when showering… she sang. She sang the song she'd written right after he'd let her down. The song that held all the emotions she'd felt back than, the wounds he hadn't been able to heal, neither had he wanted to… after all, he caused them. The one song, she'd wanted to sing tonight.

She'd decided against it though, if you had to entertain a whole crowd at a finale-game for the NBA, you could hardly sing a depressing song. Tonight was the finale-game for the NBA for the Lakers, and back in those days, a player on that team had promised her he'd make sure she would sing at his first NBA finale-game… and he always kept his promises.

So… what did you guys think? Please let me know, in a REVIEW… Oh, and about the signing thing, I don't really know if it's possible or anything, but just go along with me here.

xoxo Naomi