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Look My Way Chapter 2

Gabriella went throughout the day confused and in a daze, all over one certain boy, a certain blue-eyed boy that goes by the name Troy Bolton.

Gabriella went over the situation in her head time and time again, trying to convince herself of a logical reason that the item of her fascination had winked at her, the boy who never even noticed her existence before he went away. That thought stuck with her, had something changed about her that she didn't notice about herself? Did he think she was new and was trying to impress her? All these thoughts circulated in her mind, Troy was driving her crazy and she had never even talked to him!

Gabriella sat in her biology class scribbling in her notebook about anything other than biology, trying to convince herself that he must have had something in his eye or was looking at someone else, she almost believed it but in her heart she knew she was just kidding herself. He looked straight AT her!

Just as she was about to convince herself over the new theory that Troy had developed a lazy eye problem, she was startled as a pink piece of paper hit the side of her face..

Ok Gabs, what's going on with you? You have been all up in lala land for the last 20 minutes, tell me what up!? Love Shar

She knew that her friends were just being protective over her, only Chad and Sharpay knew what happened to her 6 months ago, apart from her family.

Flashback

Gabriella lay on the floor of her room crying uncontrollably, with two sets of worried eyes focused on her, Chad and Sharpay, as Chad tried to reach out to her she instantly flinched from his touch,

"Giggles, its just me, Cookie...come on Gabs please?", Chad whispered in the most caring tone, but no matter what, Gabriella was adamant to keep a distance from her two best friends..

"Gabs we are here to help you, please let us in," Sharpay begged as she tried her hardest to get through to her closest friend.

"Please, just please leave, I promise I'll be ok, please, I just…I need to be alone, please, if you were my friends you would understand, that's all I need, I just need to be alone" Gabriella pleaded before breaking into a new round of sobs.

Chad and Sharpay stood defeated, their heads filled with mixed emotions, hurt, anger, sadness, compassion and a great amount of love for their friend that they so wanted to help protect and shield from the obvious amount of pain that she was going through.

End Flashback

Gabriella shuddered at the memory, and then went back to her original train of thought, being fussed over and worried about got on her nerves, why couldn't they just leave her alone to wallow in her own thoughts for awhile, she wasn't going to fall into a state of depression if she was finally allowed to express her feelings, the one she had bottled up for months, world she?

As she thought about this she decided that she should probably write back to Sharpay and stop her worrying from developing any further,

Shar I'm just thinking about some stuff, nothing to worry about BELIEVE me, if there was something going on I would tell you, xx Gabs

She threw the note back to Sharpay and watched to see her response, which was an uneasy head nod with her perfectly manicured eyebrows rising unnaturally high on her forehead. Gabriella knew that Sharpay didn't believe her but was glad that she wasn't pressuring her to 'talk about her feelings' or something ridiculous like her family had tried so many times to make her do.

Before Gabi could sink back into her thoughts of the one and only Troy Bolton the bell for next period rang, Gym, her least favourite lesson, but also her favourite in a sense. Although they would probably only be discussing the upcoming terms schedule she still did not want to have to face that torture, but it always was an escape from her perfect world that she seemed to live in, she knew she wasn't gifted in sports, sure she was gifted in singing, dancing, maths, science, and English, but give her a ball and you run the risk of having your life endangered. At least that lesson would prove as a distraction from Troy, putting all her effort into trying to safely protect her fellow classmates from her terrible sporting skills seemed to be the only thing she ever thought about in gym.

That was until today.

As Gabriella walked into the gym after being a few minutes late from trying to find her other shoe she walked into the gym and was instantly surprised when she saw not only the girls junior gym class she was in sitting, but also the senior boys gym team as well! Things just weren't going her way today, she inwardly cursed when she noticed that Coach Botlton was the supervisor for the lesson, not once today could she escape the Boltons!

Gabriella's POV.

"Ok girls and boys, can you all sit on the court. We have a small dilemma; the outside courts are under construction so we have to join the girl's junior class with the boy's senior class, hopefully for today. So everyone partner up we are going to be doing basketball since both classes are focusing on that first this semester. Each boy should be paired with a boy. So everyone grab a basketball from the front and get going!" Coach Bolton yelled.

"shit", I whispered under my breath, not only was Chad not in this class but Sharpay had already run off to her brother Ryan leaving me hanging looking for a stupid boy partner. Seriously I think teachers enjoy watching students squirm when it comes to partnering with the opposite sex. I will definitely be addressing this issue in my next student council meeting.

As I looked around I saw two things, yes things, approaching me, Lacrosse captain, Shane Waters and my decathlon team-mate Warren Anderson.

The two boys that I can never seem to get rid of. The obsessed captain that will never get over the fact that when he asked me to his junior prom last year and I declined saying, 'I would rather stick pins in my eyes', I kind of stole that line from Sharpay, it was pretty effective though, and the geeky boy who drools when he concentrates too hard, that has also had a crush on me ever since we first met in first grade.

"ugh, just my luck"

What choice did I have, it seemed like everyone else was partnered up, and once again I was going to have to break someone's poor innocent heart (HA!) poor Warren, if was going to have to choose clearly it would be the boy with the athletic skills, I mean come on I don't want to ruin my shoes because Warren was concentrating too hard and drooled on them do I?

Just when I thought all the Gods had turned on me I was startled when someone grabbed my hand from behind me pulling me away from the two obsessed teenage boys.

"Whaa.." I didn't even get to finish my word before I was looking into the two aqua blue eyes that I had been trying to hide my thoughts away from all day startled me. Apparently the Gods thought my life was a sitcom, and they needed some more entertainment, or torture on my part in their lives.

"It looked like you needed saving" Troy said

"Uh.. um thanks?", I replied uneasily, in my head I was screaming 'WHAT IS GOING ON?!', seriously why was this boy winking at me and saving me from my crazy stalkers when he has never paid attention to my existence before today?!

"Pleasure is all mine, Brie" he replied releasing my hand, and turning away to retrieve a basketball from the front of the gym, with an obvious smirk on is face.

As his back was fully turned and retreated I stood still in my spot with a million and one thoughts going through my head, but one stood out more than any other, 'gym is definitely going to be interesting'.

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