I forgot to mention before, but all the chapter are going to be either lines from the movie or lines from songs! Hope you enjoy!
Thursday came quicker then Gabriella had anticipated. Would she tryout after school or not? She had to talk to Taylor. Right before they headed to lunch she dragged Taylor into the gym.
"Gabs, what's going on?" Taylor was incredibly puzzled and obviously disgusted by the sweaty smell that oozed out of the gymnasium walls.
"Should I? Should I tryout Tay? Please help me decide." Gabriella couldn't believe that she was close to tears. She had been working out in her backyard the past couple days, she was a little rusty, but not as bad as she thought she would be. Also after looking through the albums her mom had dug out she realized how much she missed it.
"Do you want to do it?" Taylor was so matter of fact about the situation.
"I don't know. I want to do it for me, not for my mom and not for Troy, but that's what it feels like." Gabriella slumped down against the folded up bleachers.
"Gabriella, you know your mom is going to love you whether you are an Einstein-ette or the head cheerleader, and I think it's safe to say that Troy will too." Taylor smiled a contagious smile that Gabriella caught.
"I guess you're right."
"So, come on I'm starving." Taylor quickly stood up and then helped Gabriella up.
"I think I'm going to stay here and practice. It's the safest when everyone is at lunch. If anyone asks just tell them I am in the lab, no one will bother to look." Gabriella said.
"Are you sure you don't want me to stay with you?" Taylor asked. She didn't really want to and Gabriella knew that she was just trying to be a good friend.
"I'm sure. I work the best alone." The girls split in different directions, Taylor went to the lunch room and Gabriella to the locker room to change.
Gabriella returned to an empty gym and spread out several mats that had been stacked against the wall. She made sure she was well stretched out. She started to high kick, and then worked on her jumps. Her jumps were her strongest asset by far, her tumbling wasn't bad, it was her flying that she was worried about. She was too short to be a base or back spot, so flying was her only option. She had no way of practicing her basket toss or heal stretch without bases, so she decided to focus on her jumps and tumbling. She started with a couple round offs and cartwheels just to warm up her muscles. Then she went into her back handspring from a round off. She continued with her back handsprings and then once she felt like those were okay she moved on to front handsprings. She took a short break to stretch out again. Then it came her back tuck. Gabriella hadn't been able to do it that whole week she had been practicing, but might as well try it again. Round off, back handspring, stand, back tuck, bam! Gabriella landed flat on her back. She wasn't hurt, just frustrated. All of the sudden clapping came from behind the bleachers and vision of sparkles.
"That was real cute Montez, working on your circus act?" Sharpay sneered as she strutted towards Gabriella.
"What do you want Sharpay?" Gabriella's voice was shaking even though she was trying to be tough.
"Just for you to know that there is no way you are going to be making this squad." Sharpay was in her face now.
"Who said I was even trying out?" Gabriella began to fold up the mats.
"OH! So you're not?" Sharpay backed off a bit.
"I didn't say that either." Gabriella began to stack the thick, blue mats against wall, hoping she could just walk away from Sharpay. No such luck.
"Well, just so you know this is my year Montez! Last year was all beginners' luck. Don't count on your senior year being anything special." Sharpay turned and walked out of the gym while Gabriella continued to stack the mats. Just then the bell rang and she knew lunch was over and that the basketball team would be filing in the gym soon enough. She dashed to the locker room to change, thinking if she went fast enough she could just squeeze into the crowd of students heading to their free period locations. She made it out just in time to turn the corner and smack right into Troy. Damn!
"Hey, where have you been? I went to the lab, the library, the computer room, and you weren't there." He seemed more mad then concerned. This is what I get for asking Taylor to lie, the story probably got blown way out of proportion.
"Well I was heading to the lab, but then I didn't feel well so I went to the nurse." She hated lying to Troy. His expression quickly dropped to fear.
"You're sweating, do you have a fever?" He put his hand to her forehead and then her cheek. His touch sent an instant tingle through her.
"No, no, I'm fine." She pushed him away and laughed.
"Okay, well I better get to practice. See you later?" He asked.
"Last period." She smiled. Troy left Gabriella feeling relieved and nervous at the same time. How could she not tell him?