A/N: Here's the next chapter, the next chapter might not be on for about 2-3 days or a little longer because I'm sick

Winter Formal Ball! Friday, December 12th!FORMAL WEAR ONLY!Exclusive for East High Students unless informed with permission.

Gabriella stood in front of the flyer as she read this. She's never been to anything this fancy before since she did go to an all girl school.

"Pretty cool eh?"

Gabriella turned when she heard a voice behind her, "Uh yeah…"She said to the person who was talking to her, "I never have been to a ball before so yeah." She shrugged her shoulders.

"Well it's not that great unless you have a great date."

She nodded her head slowly, "I'm Gabriella." She extended her hand towards his. She was friendly to everyone so she might as well introduce herself.

"I know." He shook her hand, "I'm Phillip, Phillip Daniels or you can call me Phil for short."

Gabriella nodded, "Pleasure to meet you Phillip." She said then continued meandering through the halls.

Troy walked down the hallway in a group of people and saw Phillip talking to Gabriella. He made a disgusted face and walked over to them, "Hey Philly, what are you doing?" He asked him.

Gabriella looked over at Troy and narrowed her eyes at him.

Phillip looked at Troy and shrugged, "What? I'm talking to the new girl." He shrugged innocently.

Troy laughed and took him aside, "Dude, don't even think about it…she's a manipulative person." Troy whispered but apparently it wasn't quiet enough.

"Shut up Troy, you don't know me." Gabriella snapped.

"Oh but I do know your family and I'm sure all of you are the same." Troy said, moving Phillip aside.

Gabriella crossed her arm, "Right and your family is full of rude, arrogant, greedy people." She said to him.

Troy felt a bit of anger inside of him as he got closer to Gabriella, "Don't you even think about talking about my family. Take a look at yours before you talk about mine." He said in an angry tone. His face was inches away from hers.

"Get away from me." She said about a minute later. She stepped back and looked at him. She walked off away from the two of them.

"You're on my territory Gabriella, remember that!" He yelled out to her.

Gabriella rolled her eyes and continued walking down the hallway. This is what she got herself into; everyday might even be like this. She knew Troy wasn't going to give up until she actually left this school and went to another school. Gabriella will not back down without a fight. She headed to her last class which was P.E. When she sat with the class, she noticed this was a class she didn't have with Troy, "Thank god." She whispered to herself.

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By the time Gabriella got home, her family was all home except for her brother who had basketball practice. "Mom, dad, I'm home." She yelled then gave her dad the key, "Thanks daddy." She said then went up the stairs.

"Whoa, whoa, where are you going? I want to hear about your first day at East High." He said to her when she was running up the stairs."I'll tell you at dinner, I have to shower." She exclaimed. By the time it was dinner; Gabriella went downstairs and saw everyone at the table already. Gabriella smiled at her family and they said their grace and began eating.

Her dad was the first one to speak up, "So how was your first day?"

Gabriella looked up at him, "It was pretty good." She said to him. "Daddy, guess who goes to my school."

"Hm?"

Matt spoke up for Gabriella though, "Troy Bolton goes there, you know; one of the Bolton's."

This caught her dad's attention, "What? As in Jack Bolton's son?"

Gabriella nodded slowly, "Yeah."

"I will not have you going to a same school with his son." He shook his head rapidly, you could tell he was angry because his face was turning red.

Gabriella's mom looked at him, "Honey calm down…"

"No! She will not go to school with him!"

"DADDY! It's not bad, I told him off today okay!" Gabriella pleaded.

He looked at her, "what did he say to you?"

"He was saying stuff about our family so I said stuff about his family back." Gabriella told her dad.

"I'm gonna kill that kid if he messes with you." Matt said to Gabriella. Even though Matt thinks Gabriella can be annoying he still cares for his little sister.

Gabriella rolled her eyes, "Don't worry, I know how to keep him in check." She said as she continued eating her dinner.

"Well be careful of that boy." Her dad said to her, "If I ever hear anything then his family will have a piece of my mind."

Gabriella shook her head and sighed, "Daddy, there's a Winter Ball coming up, can I go?"

"With a guy? I don't think so honey." Her dad said.

"MOM! Tell him!" Gabriella turned to her mother.

Her mom looked at the dad then back at Gabriella and shrugged her shoulders. "What do you think Matt? Should she go?"

Matt shrugged, "I don't know, I guess." He said, "It won't be that bad, that school is full of wimps and morons anyways. Gabriella knows what she's doing; she's a Montez."

"Well do you have a date?" Her dad asked.

"Well, no…but if I find one I want to go." She told her dad.

"Okay, fine." He said then they all finished dinner in peace and in a normal conversation.

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Troy drove his sports car home and parked it in the garage. He went inside to his happy family and sat down on the couch. "Dad, I can't believe Gabriella Montez is going to my school." He said and held his head like he had a headache.

"WHAT! Shouldn't she be going to West High like her brother?" He asked. He motioned the maid to go finish cleaning elsewhere and he continued to talk to his son. "She does not belong here, not at my school." Jack said.

Troy shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't want you to get close to her." He said. "She's no good and her family is no good, all they want is money and more of our money."

Troy nodded, "Well duh, why would I want to get close to her anyways?"

"Gabriella Montez is a pretty girl!" Troy turned to see his little sister speaking.

"Tessa, Gabriella Montez is a bad girl. Bad girls like her aren't pretty." Troy said to her, laughing a little. Troy couldn't lie though; Gabriella was hot for being in a family he didn't like.

"You two wash up for dinner." Troy's mom spoke through the kitchen.

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The next day at school, there were so many people asking each other to the formal dance. Gabriella walked through the doors and made it through a crowd of freshman and sophomores. She saw Taylor by her locker by some boy and she made her way over to them. "Hey." Gabriella said.

Taylor smiled, "Oh hey Gabs." She said to her. "Gabriella this is Chad, my boyfriend."

Chad looked at Gabriella; he remembered what Troy said about her. He looked at Taylor then back at Gabriella and nodded, "Nice to meet you Gabriella." He said.

Gabriella nodded, "as well to you too, Chad." She said and smiled at him. "Geez so many people are asking each other to the dance." She said, "Are you two going?" She asked.

Taylor nodded, "Yeah we are." Taylor hugged Chad and grinned.

"Are you going?" Chad asked Gabriella.

Gabriella shook her head, "Nah, I want to but I don't think I'll be ask." She shrugged, "I'm new, and who would ask a new girl?"

Chad laughed, "You're Gabriella Montez."

"Yeah Yeah I know, I'm Gabriella Montez; every guy should be at my feet asking me." She said, rolling her eyes. She is so sick of people stereotyping her; just because she comes from a rich family and is beautiful doesn't mean she can get any guy she wants. "I'll see you guys later. It's nice to meet you Chad." She said then walked off.

Chad looked at Gabriella, "She's not so bad." He said to Taylor.

"She's nice; I think we'll be good friends." Taylor said.

"Yeah, Troy was wrong she's not some bad girl." Chad said and continued walking with her.

Gabriella walked down the hallway and continued to watch people get asked in a cute way. She smiled to herself and leaned against the hallway. She watched a couple asking each other to the dance. It was cute. She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned her head, "Oh hey Phillip." She said to him, smiling. Phillip was a decent guy but she didn't think he was good enough.

"I was wondering if you wanted to go to the dance with me." He said.

Gabriella bit her lip, even though she wanted to go to this dance. She didn't want to give Phillip the wrong signs or anything.

Troy was at his locker and was getting his books out. Once he was done he was walking down the hallway and over heard the conversation between the two. He looked at Gabriella's face and noticed that she didn't want to go. "Oh god, I can't believe I'm going to do this." He said then walked over to Gabriella and placed his arm around her, "She's going with me." He said to Phillip in a bold voice.

Gabriella felt an arm go around her shoulder; she looked up and saw it was troy. Her face dropped as she wondered what in the world Troy was doing. She had a late reaction before she pulled his arm off around her but Phillip already walked off.

"No need to thank me," He said to her.

Gabriella scoffed and walked over to him, "and what is that suppose to mean?"

"I know you didn't want to go with him so I had to save you and pretend I was going with you." He said, rolling his eyes. "Keep up Montez." He said as he continued walking.

Gabriella shook her head and smirked, "wow, you do know that I'm not going to go with you. I'd rather go with Phillip."

"I didn't say you need to go with me." He said to her, "I'd rather go with a pig then to go with you." He spoke to her.

"That's good to know." She said in a matter of fact voice. "You're so lucky my brother isn't here right now."

"What is he going to do? Cry again?"

Gabriella rolled her eyes, "Shut up and stop being immature Troy." She yelled at him.

Troy smirked, "Okay, chill you don't need to go crazy on me now." He said to her. "I have no clue why I helped you. I would've rather watched you suffer into trying to find a way to get out of that." He laughed obnoxiously. "Now you're screwed going to the dance with no one."

"And who are you going with?" She asked him.

"Doesn't matter, I can go with any girl I want to." He said to her in a cocky tone.

"Right…" She said, "Not any girl."

"Prove it." Troy said, "Choose any girl and I guarantee I can ask her to go with me." He said to her.

"Me." She smirked, "I thought so. Not so smart now are you Troy." She said to him then walked off.

Troy watched her walk off; "Go home to your weak family." He called out to her, she had outsmarted him and he didn't like that.

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At lunch, Chad sat down next to Troy and gave him the guy handshake. "Hey man." He said.

Troy smiled, "What's up?" He said.

"I met Gabriella today, she seems pretty cool." Chad opened his food and began eating it.

"Dude what did I tell you? She's no good."

"Maybe not to you, but I think I'm gonna give her a chance, chill out okay." Chad said and then the other guys came over to the table.

Zeke was one of the other basketball players, "Hey so do all of you guys have a date to the dance yet?" he asked them. "I was gonna ask Sharpay but she asked someone from some other school." Zeke sighed.

Most of the guys nodded their heads except for Troy.

"What about you Troy?"

"Nah, I don't know who I want to ask yet."

"Well you better hurry; the good girls are running out."

These two basketball players were having a conversation on their own and Troy heard them talking, "man some guy will be lucky to take Gabriella."

"I feel bad for the guy who's taking Gabriella." Troy spoke.

"Aren't you going with her?" A voice from behind spoke.

Troy turned around and saw Phillip.

The others looked at Troy, wondering what was going on. Crap. Troy looked at Phillip, "Just sit man." He said to him.

Chad looked at Troy, "what the hell? I thought you two hated each other."

"I thought so too." Phillip said. "But I tried asking her today and Troy said he's going with her."

Gabriella was walking passed the boys basketball table and heard this. Over my dead body he wishes he was going with me. Gabriella turned, "yeah he and I are going." Gabriella said then walked over to the other table.

"Ooo, if your dad finds out he's going to kill you and Gabriella's dad and brother are going to come after you." Chad said.

Shit. What did I get myself in to? Troy asked himself.

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