Life Has Its Reasons
Chapter 1
Gabriella Montez was at the pool with her two best friends Taylor McKessie and Sharpay Evans. All three of them were lying on the beach chairs getting tans when suddenly a soft, flying object hits Gabriella square in the head. She opened her eyes, grabbed the object, which was now sitting on her lap, and stood up searching for where the beach ball came from. She looked to see and a shaggy, brown haired boy with blue eyes jog up to her.
"I'm sorry. I never meant to hit you, my friends and I were just goofing off," he says seeing the slightly angry look on her face.
Gabriella's face lightens up a little as she looks into the boy's eyes. "Um, I guess it's cool just make sure it doesn't happen again."
The boy smiles at her. "Trust me; I don't go around flinging beach balls at hot girls in bikini's trying to tan…..at least no on purpose."
"I flattered you think I'm hot," Gabriella said smirking. "But hitting me with a beach ball and then trying to flirt is not exactly a good first impression to make."
Troy's cheeks go red and he scratches the back of his neck. "Yea, maybe not. I'm Troy. Troy Bolton. You are?"(An: I know it's diff than the trailer but I changed some of it coz I changed my mind)
She smiled at him. He expected her to tell him her name but she wasn't going to. "You don't need to know my name Troy," she says walking backwards to her friends. "But hopefully I'll see you around."
Troy watched as she made her way back to the row of three chairs where her friends were. "Does that mean you'll tell me one day," he says, which causes her to turn and smirk at him.
"That is if I see you again and what makes you think we'll see each other again."
"I'll make sure we do just so I can learn your name." Troy hears his name being called so he turns and makes his way away from Gabriella and back to his group of friends.
3 weeks later
Gabriella walks through the doors of East High school ready for her senior year. A bunch of people smile and look in her direction as she makes her way down the hall toward her locker, but she was used to it by now. Basically you could say Gabriella was popular at East High but not evil popular, more of nice popular. She look down the hallway to see two girly figures, that she could plainly make out as Sharpay and Taylor, standing at her locker, probably waiting for her to arrive.
"Hey, chicas," Gabriella says, reaching her locker and opening it to grab her books for first period.
Taylor leans up against the locker next to hers. "Hey, Gabs. How were your last few days of summer vacay?"
"Same old, same old. I mean I'm glad to be back yet I wanna stay home for another 3 months at the same time," she says closing her locker and making her way toward homeroom.
Sharpay sighs and falls into step with her. "Yea, I know what you mean. As much as I love Darbus (An: her name is just plain old Darbus unless they're in class coz I'm too lazy to write Ms. Lol) and Drama club, she can get pretty annoying sometimes."
Taylor and Gabriella both laughed at this. "I don't see why you put up with her and do cheer AND drama," Taylor says as they enter Darbus' classroom(their homeroom of course).
"Hey," Sharpay say, taking her seat two in front of Taylor. "I put with her only 'cause I like to sing."
Gabriella smiles. "Yea we know." The bell rings and students file in, taking their seats and Gabriella sits next to Taylor.
"Good Morning, class," Darbus says, sitting a book on her desk and turning to face everyone. "Now before I talk about the musicale that I saw over the summer and express their meanings with you, then ask about your summer, I would like to introduce a new student." She turns toward the door as does everyone's head. "Mr. Bolton?"
Gabriella watches as the familiar blue eyed boy with shaggy hair from the pool walks into her classroom and hands Darbus a note. Darbus reads the note and points to the empty chair right in front of her. "You may sit there. Everyone Troy Bolton, Mr. Bolton you may take a seat." As his sits, Darbus starts into another one of her 'musicale' theatre rants, but Gabriella wasn't paying the least bit of attention, as she was too busy staring at Troy. A sudden voice interrupts her staring.
"Staring at the new guy, huh?" Gabi looks over to see Taylor smirking at her.
Gabi's cheeks immediately become flushed as she realized what she was doing. "Um…why would you say that?"
Taylor only smiles at her friend. "I wouldn't blame you for staring. If only I didn't have a boyfriend already."
"Whatever you say, Tay." Gabriella turns back in her desk to look at Darbus again.
"Hmm, I think Gabriella's gonna get herself a new boyfriend."
"Tay, I don't even know him."
"Gabriella and Troy sitting in a tree…"
Gabriella gave her a warning look. "Taylor, stop"
"Mrs. Gabriella Bolton"
"TAYLOR, PLEASE!," Gabriella says yelling and turning to her best friend. The entire class stops listening to Darbus and turn to Gabriella, who sinks down in her desk a little.
Darbus looks a little pissed that she was interrupted. "Ms. Montez, is there something you would like to share with us?"
"No, Ms. Darbus," Gabriella says feeling everyone's eyes on her, especially Troy's.
"Are you sure? You seemed like you wanted to share something a few minutes ago."
"I'm sure."
"Good then." Darbus turns back to the board and starts her rant again.
Gabriella leans toward Taylor's desk and whispers, "Thanks a lot, Tay."
Taylor's face looks guilty. "Sorry, Hun."
Gabriella's POV
The bell rang and I gave Taylor a look telling her and I understood and that I wasn't mad, just annoyed. I rushed out of Darbus' class before she could say anything about the incident and headed down the hall back toward my locker. Halfway through homeroom, I realized that I left my geometry text book in my locker. I decided to text Taylor letting her know I would be late.
Tay, left mi text in mi locker will b der a lil l8 sve me a seat xo Gabi
I tucked my iphone in my jeans pocket and dialed in the combo to my locker. As I was getting ready to close the door, I heard a voice speak out behind me. "Hey."
I turned only to some face to face with Troy Bolton. "Oh, um hi. What's up?"
He smiled at me. "Nothing, but that was quite a show back there. I think I'm not the only one bad with first impressions."
"Actually, this is my second impression," I said smirking at him. "It was great meeting you again Troy, but I have geometry." I turned to walk toward my class when I heard Troy call out behind me again.
"Well, that's great I have geometry too. Maybe you could show me around after."
I stopped and looked at him, trying to read his face. "What makes you think I'm gonna be your personal tour guide?"
He looked as if he were in deep thought. "1. You're the only one I know here so far and 2. You're nice and hot, so I score 2 points in one day."
I rolled my eyes at this comment and started walking off geometry. I stopped when I noticed he wasn't following me. "Are you coming or not Bolton?" He ran to catch up with me and we walked into geometry class together.
Mrs. Lawson was standing at the front of the room. "Gabriella Montez you are late." She turned to Troy. "And you must be our new student, Mr. Bolton."
"Yea, I am. Nice to meet you."
She smiled at him. "Welcome. Did you have any trouble finding your way here?"
He looked at me. "Actually, Gabriella here was just volunteering to show me around and we kinda had to stop at our lockers after forgetting our books."
Mrs. Lawson looked questioningly at the two. "Gabriella, you know the rules here, but since Troy is new and you were showing him around you are excused for today. Next time you're late you will have detention."
"Thank you, Mrs. Lawson." I made my way to my usual desk and Troy sat in the empty one beside mine.
"Thanks for saving my butt back there, but you didn't have to," I said as we sat down together.
Troy looked at me and said "No need to I wanted to, but that does mean you have to show me around."
I smirked at him. "Yea, sure." I turned back toward the board and zoned out until the bell rang. I felt someone tap my shoulder. I looked up to see Troy standing there looking at me curiously. "You coming Montez?"
I got up and grabbed my books following him out the room, when Sharpay came up to me. "Hey, little dancer." I smiled at her and could see Troy giving me a look from the corner of my eye.
"Hey, Shar, what's up?" I looked back over to Troy, who was still standing next to me.
Sharpay started to go into her full explanation of her morning so far, when she finally noticed Troy next to me. "Um Gabi, either you have a stocker or you know him," she said pointing. "So, who is he?"
I was about to introduce Troy, but he beat me to it by doing it himself. "Troy Bolton," he said holding out his hand for Sharpay to shake.
Sharpay ignored his hand and looked at me. "Ok, Gabs, where'd you find him?"
I glared at her hoping Troy didn't hear what she said, but she knew that he did since he was standing there looking awkward. "Sharpay be nice."
I watched as she groaned. "Fine," she said. "Anyway, we have French next, let's go."
I looked nervously between Sharpay and Troy. "Actually, Shar, I told Troy I would show him around since it's his first day."
"Are you sure?"
"Yea, go ahead. I'll meet up with you at lunch ok?" She nodded her head to me as she walked away.
I turned to Troy and he looked at me. "Well she seems very…..nice."
I laughed at his way of trying to be nice. "It's just that she knows you're new. Once you get to know her it'll get better."
"Does this mean you want me to hang out with you?" He looked down at me since he was about 2 feet taller.
"I guess. I mean you have no other friends here, so why not introduce you to mine."
He chuckled and rolled his eyes. "Wow, can you make me feel like any more of a loser?"
I giggled a little and looked at my new schedule. "I could if I wanted to. I have French next, you?"
He looked down at his schedule. I tried to get a look by peeking over his shoulder, but his folded it and put it in his pocket. "You don't need to know."
I put on my best sad face. "Please, Troy."
He shook his head at me. "I have French."
"Yay," I said excitedly as we started to make our way down the crowded hallway.
Troy's POV
I watched as Gabriella squealed after I told her I had French with her. I had only known her for a couple of hours, but I could already tell we were gonna be great friends. A small little part of me knew I liked her and I wanted to be so much more than friends, but I had to take it slow with her. Not only was she hotter than any girl I've ever seen, it's the fact that she's not even trying. I could tell that there was something special about her and I wanted to get to know her before I made my move.
An: ok so that was chappy 1. Kinda boring but c'mon it's the first chapter and it's basically you just getting to know them and the story. It will get better but if at any time you feel it's getting boring let me know but no harsh flames-I need constructive criticism. So anyway the next chapter will be more Troyella of course and Troy meeting Gabi's friends.
