Still On My Brain

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of High School Musical no matter how much I wish I do!

I wanted people to know the ages of my characters so that you don't get confused since they're not all the same age. I'll tell you the ages of the characters you have come across and will come across in this chapter. I will tell you the ages of characters that you will meet in the future in the chapter that you meet them in. I hope you understood that.

Gabriella Montez – 22 years old
Troy Bolton – 23 years old
Dean Montez – 25 years old
Sam Montez – 20 years old
Anna Montez (Gabriella's mum) – 47 years old
James Montez (Gabriella's dad) – 49 years old
Jack Bolton (Troy's dad) – 49 years old
Kelsi Neilson – 24 years old
Chad Danforth – 23 years old
Taylor Danforth – 22 years old (married to Chad for a year)
Sharpay Baylor – 24 years old (married to Zeke for two years)

Also I just want to say thank you for the reviews. I got 18 reviews! I decided to update earlier because I am going to Ironbridge with my school during the week-end. So there won't be an update then. I hope you like it!

Gabriella walked through the door of her apartment. She entered her bedroom and sank onto the bed. She had no idea what she was going to do. Should she move to Los Angeles? Should she marry Mr Bolton's son? Now that she thought about she didn't even know his name. She was going to be referring to him as Mr Bolton's son or my boss' son. A thought just struck in Gabriella's mind. She didn't know how he looked. For all she knew he could be really geeky guy who breaths really loudly and down her neck or he could be some really fat dumb idiot.

After thinking for what felt like years Gabriella decided to just leave it in the hands of her family. Just after Gabriella came to this conclusion she drifted off to peaceful sleep. She would have to call the members of her family once she woke up.

Gabriella didn't wake up until the next and once again she was running late for work so se no time to call her family and ask for their opinion on the matter. Gabriella went straight to her desk and got started on work. After an hour or so took a break and as she was walking to the lunch queue at POISE magazine, she noticed her best friend Kelsi Neilson was also in the queue. Gabriella cut the queue so that she could get next to Kelsi.

"I have major news to tell you," Gabriella hissed into Kelsi's ear whilst dragging her out of the queue to a secluded table in the corner of the room.

"What is so major that you had to pull me out the line when I was so close to the front," Kelsi asked in an annoyed.

"Sorry," Gabriella said sheepishly, "but this really is major well actually there are two major thing."

"Well are you gonna tell me anytime soon r am I gonna have to guess?" Kelsi enquired a little harshly.

"Okay! Okay come down," Gabriella said laughing at how easily her friend got pissed of with her, "umm… well the first thing is that the Mr Bolton gave me a promotion!"

"Wow Oh My God! I been and this job for 2 years and I've been waiting been waiting for a promotion for a couple of months now you must be good. Is that why he asked you to go to his office yesterday?" Kelsi asked realisation hitting her in the head. "But wait why were you in there for so long if that was all he wanted to say?"

"That's the umm… second thing," Gabriella said barely above a whisper, "he wants me to marry his son," she said even quieter.

"What? I can't here you Gabs," Kelsi replied.

"He wants me to marry his son," Gabriella answered louder. Kelsi stood still staring at Gabriella as if she was a ghost. "Stop staring at me like that, it's scary!" Kelsi didn't listen to her and carried on staring at Gabriella until she found her voice again.

"He asked you to marry his son," Kelsi repeated back.

"Yes, God I should just say no, for all I know he could be really ugly or really mean or abusive. Urgh! But if I say no will Mr Bolton take away the promotion and what if he fires me? What do I do Kels? What do I do?" Gabriella rambled on.

"Okay first things first are you sure you want to go to L.A.?" Kelsi questioned.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure, I always dreamed of moving there when I was younger," Gabriella finally admitted out loud.

"Well then I'm gonna miss you so much when you leave. Now second of all I know for sure that Troy is far from ugly he is like an angel that descended from heaven, I met him before in a conference call."

"Who's Troy?" Gabriella asked dimwittedly. Kelsi rolled her eyes.

"Troy Bolton is Mr Bolton's son," Kelsi answered.

"Oh! You've met him then?" Gabriella enquired.

"Yeah and I'm pretty sure he doesn't abuse others. My personal opinion is that you should marry him because he seems like a really kind, sweet and caring guy who will look out for you." This brought a smile to Gabriella face. After a couple more minutes of chitchat they both rejoined the lunch queue.

As soon as Gabriella had finished her work she grabbed her coat and bag and left the building. As soon as she unlocked her apartment door she picked up the wireless phone and went to her bedroom so that she could fall onto her bed. She first dialled her older brother Dean's home number but no-one picked up so she called his mobile after ringing three times he finally picked up.

"Hey Gabster," Dean said as he answered his mobile, he knew it was her due to caller I.D.

"Hey bro, when are you ever going to stop calling me Gabster? I'm 22 for god's sake not 5 anymore."

"Sorry sis but that name is sticking around for many years to come. So why'd you decide to call after god knows how long?" Dean asked.

"I need to speak to you it's really important. Can you make it back here to New York this weekend?"

"Why what's the problem? Gabriella you know you can tell me anything right?" Dean said with a worried tone.

"Yeah of course I know but I want to tell you face to face with the rest of the family. So do you think you can make it?" Gabriella informed.

"Of course anything for my little sister," Dean said still not convinced with Gabriella's reply.

"Well then I guess I'll see you on Saturday at mum and dad's place."

"Alright see you there sis. Bye!" Dean replied. Gabriella sat there okay one down two more to go. She next dialled her parent's number and after one ring her mum picked up.

"Hello this is Anna Montez speaking who is calling?"

"Hey Mum it's Gabi, I need to speak to you, dad, Dean and Sam about some things this week-end and I was wondering if you were free this Saturday," Gabriella said.

"Yes of course I'm free but are you sure your okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine I just need to discuss a few issues with the family. The family will be coming round your place. Well I better get going cya mum." With that Gabriella hung up the phone. She dialled Sam's mobile number and he picked up straight away.

"Hey there sis! How are you?" Sam asked.

"I'm fine thanks Sam you?" Gabriella replied joyfully.

"Life is great here at Massachusetts it is so different to New York."

"Well I was wondering if maybe you could make it back this week-end to New York because I need to talk to you and the rest of the family."

"You're pregnant aren't you? Oh God and you said that you were gonna stay a virgin until you got married now look at how that turned out. How are you gonna break it Dean or even mum and dad?" Sam enquired. Gabriella just chuckled.

"I'm not pregnant Sam; I stay true to my words. It's something else and I want to know your opinion on it. I want to speak face to face," Gabriella answered.

"Okay well I guess I could finish all my homework on Friday night and make it there Saturday morning since I'm not very far away. It should only take up to an hour to get there."

"Okay well I'll see you when you get her bye," Gabriella said. After all the phone calls Gabriella got up and made her self some dinner.

MEANWHILE IN LOS ANGELES

"Okay, guys that was a great practice, in this rate we'll be able to easily win the championships!" Coach Jackson exclaimed. "I gonna call it and end now cause after watching you guys, I am absolutely shattered."

"Oi Troy!"

"What do you want now Chad?" Troy asked in a bored voice.

"Do you want to swing by my house? Sharpay's there with Taylor," Chad replied.

"Sure anything to get my mind on other things." Chad stood in front of Troy to stop him from walking.

"What's up you've been moody and more snappy than usual these last few days so what is it?" Chad enquired.

"Dad's forcing me into an arranged marriage," Troy sulked.

"This is great you've been looking for a challenge, you always said that picking girls up was way to easy lately this way you can see if you can still pick up girls but without this girl you're marrying finding out."

"Dude, what there hell happens in your head, as big a player I might be I am not gonna cheat on my soon to be wife, it wouldn't be fair on her. She doesn't know what she's going to be getting into," Troy replied sincerely.

"Okay well then make your challenge to see if you can make her fall in love with you?" Chad said.

"Too easy," Troy answered.

"See how long it takes to bang her then?"

"Dude how can Taylor love you? You're really insensitive and degrading to women. I am not going to see how long it takes to 'bang' her, you idiot."

"Don't ask me why Taylor loves me since I haven't come up with an answer to that and it has nearly been 5 years since we first got together and for your information I am trying to lighten up the situation because as soon as you marry her you're gonna have the worst year of your life," Chad said just before he walked off leaving Troy to think about what Chad had just said.

So many questions were going round in his head, how the hell did he get himself into this situation? How will she react when she finds out about the contract? Will she be willing to give it a go? Was he willing to give it a go? What was the girl's name? Was she ugly? Did she only want to be with him because he was famous? Did she want to be with him because he was rich? It just hit Troy that he knew absolutely nothing about the girl he was supposedly going to marry and Troy didn't like this one bit but he was going to do it because he knew that he had promised his parents he would marry whoever they wanted him to marry and whenever. Why did he have to be a stupid child and agree to this?

Okay well that was the second chapter I hope you guys liked it. I quite liked it. I know that not much happened but it was sort of a filler because I really don't want to rush this story like I have done in the past but I also don't want to drag this story out forever. I also want to say another huge thank you for all the reviews, I've never received this many for just one chapter, it makes me feel so happy! Please keep the reviews coming. Sorry if there are any spelling or grammatical mistakes!This chapter is named after the song Still On My Brain by Justin Timberlake.