She walked through the front doors of the school looking at her schedule, trying to find her locker. After walking around for a while she finally found it. She put in her combination only to find out it was jammed and didn't open. "Great." She mumbled sarcastically.
"Hey, need some help?" She'd recognize that voice anywhere it was troy. He was leaning up against the locker next to hers.
"Hey, yeah that be great." She smiled. He hit the locker in various places almost to a beat and opened it. "Thanks." She said, still smiling. She put her books in her locker and walked down the hall with troy.
"Didn't I tell you to find me if you needed any help?" he said, grinning at her.
"Well technically you said if I needed help finding my classes, not opening my locker." She replied.
He chuckled at her and replied "Fair enough. Gabriella if you need help with anything, just let me know. How's that? Specific enough for you?"
"Yeah I think that's good." Gabriella couldn't help but notice how almost everyone said hi to troy as they where walking down the halls. "So I guess your pretty popular, huh?" She asked.
"Yeah I guess you could say that. I'm captain of the basketball team." he said not really caring.
"I see." she replied
After a long day of school the last bell finally rung. Gabriella met chad, taylor, ryan, zeke, Jason, kelsi and sharpay. Which where some of troy's closest friends and even tho she told him she could handle it he still insisted on walking her to all her classes even the ones they didn't have together. She was ready to go home, but of course her locker wouldn't open again. "Are kidding me? Come on. Open." She tried everything but nothing worked.
"Need some help?" Troy asked before he smacked it in the same beat as the last time.
"Thanks, again. I owe you" She said smiling. Somehow she couldn't stop smiling when she was around him.
"Well I think I got a way you could repay me-" he started before he was interrupted.
"Yo, hoops, don't forget. Practice today." said a dark boy, with crazy curls.
"Yeah dude thanks for the heads up." He said a little irritated. "As I was saying, I was wondering if maybe you wanted to hang out with me on Friday? Maybe go out on a date?" He asked nervously and bit his lip. It was weird. He was never nervous around girls, but with Gabriella it was different. With Gabriella everything was different. He couldn't stop smiling when he was around her and when he wasn't he missed her.
"Sure." Gabriella replied, her smile even wider that before.
"Really?" He asked his eyes lighting up.
"Yeah. I mean I do owe you right." She said
"Yeah. Well I got practice so I'll see you tomorrow."
"See you." She said hugging him.
The rest of the week went by pretty slow for both troy and Gabriella. It was the same thing everyday he would wait for her by her locker and walk her to class, she would thank him and they would pass notes in the classes they had together. Thank god for both of them it was Friday because they wouldn't have been able to wait any longer. Specially troy who had spent the whole week planning the date to make it perfect.