Thank-you to all the people who reviewed!! In this chapter you find out why Gabriella missed the musical and all that jazz.
The laughter stopped abruptly as the rest of the basketball team saw her and everything fell silent. Gabriella felt her cheeks flush hot and she quickly walked off in the opposite direction of them. She heard murmurings between the team as she turned to a flight of steps and glanced over her shoulder once.
Troy was looking after her, a neutral expression on his face, his lips pulled in a tight line and his eyes filled with anger, confusion and…sadness?
Gabriella went to History class, but skipped last period and walked home before school finished. She was lucky that she wasn't caught, because she couldn't come with an excuse to be walking away from school. Gabriella stopped at a small café just down the road from her house and brought a coke. The bar--tender gave her an odd look, but said nothing as she paid and walked back out of the street.
Gabriella got home and slipped her key in the key--hole and let herself in, smelling the comforting smell of her house. First thing she did was go straight to the answering machine and deleted the two messages the school had left, saying that she had missed three out of the five classes that day. Second she went up to her room, sipping on her coke, and collapsed in her desk chair, staring listlessly at the white wall in front of her.
She thought about the events which had led up to the nightmare she was living at the moment.
It started when her parents had another argument. It wasn't unusual for Gabriella to lay in bed wishing they'd shut--up so she could go to sleep. But this time, it had been different. There had been slapping and thudding noises which made Gabriella cringe.
The next morning when Gabriella woke up, her dad's belongings and car weren't there. She missed the day off school, comforting her mum. She completely forgot about the opening for the musical and stayed at home, trying to stop her mum crying.
When she finally went back to school a week later, her friends had turned into enemies, including Troy, who she thought would give her a chance to explain. They all thought she was to blame for missing the musical she and all her friends had worked so hard to get them to win. They wouldn't listen when she tried to tell them and in the end, Gabriella just gave up.
The school also seemed to shun her, including Ms Darbus, the drama teacher. People didn't think of her as kind, shy, smart Gabriella. It was plain and simple Gabriella Montez. Gabriella Montez, who had let down the entire basketball and decathlon team, and it particular, Troy Bolton.
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