Chapter 2:
As October flew past really quickly and soon it was the beginning of November and two of her friends were now in relationships. Gabriella and all of her friends were hanging around Taylor's locker as usual talking about what has been going on in their lives and how great it felt to be in the dating world. Gabriella always smiled when her friends were talking about their boyfriends and their love lives, but inside she started to feel left out, because she never felt before what they were going through. Finally there was a lull in the conversation when Taylor pulled her aside. "What's a matter?" Taylor asked her curiously. Gabriella shrugged and said "nothing." Taylor shrugged and then looked up again. "You know that cute boy in Mr. Thompson's class? I could tell that he was totally checking you out!" She said excitedly. Gabriella always thought that she would never love anybody else but Mr. Thompson, but suddenly she started to wonder what it would be like to experience what her friends were going through and by giving Troy a chance, maybe she would get to experience it as well.
The next morning Gabriella and Taylor were in Mr. Thompson's classroom again. Gabriella made up her mind and decided to give it a try and ask out Troy. She was feeling a little shy about it, especially since she never asked anyone out before. So taking the shy way out she grabbed a piece of notebook paper and wrote her question down on it and placed it on Troy's desk, and then grabbed Taylor and ran out of the room, because she was too afraid to stay and wait for his answer.
Gabriella started to feel really frustrated when she still hadn't heard from Troy and his answer, and she started to express her frustrations to Taylor. "Why hasn't he answered?" Gabriella asked her. "Maybe he just doesn't know how to contact you, especially since we aren't in the classroom like we usually are in the morning. You notice how we conveniently switched to hanging out there in the afternoons after school gets out?" Taylor reminded her slyly. Gabriella sighed "yeah maybe." Was all she said in response. The next day Gabriella decided to be brave and once again went to the classroom in the morning again. "So where have you been lately?" Mr. Thompson asked her curiously. Gabriella looked around, and thankfully noticing that Troy hadn't arrived yet, she spoke up. "I gave Troy a note, asking him out, and I was too shy to wait around and get an answer so I've been kind of avoiding him." She explained. Mr. Thompson nodded knowingly. "I see." He said as he chuckled. A few minutes later, Mr. Thompson cleared his throat and nodded in the direction of the doorway. Gabriella looked up quickly and saw that Troy had walked in. He walked over to his desk and sat his books down and then walked quickly over to Gabriella. "Hey, where have you been? I've been missing not seeing you everyday." Troy said smiling. He wrote down something on a piece of paper and handed it to her. "Here, this is my cell number, and this is my email address, call or email me anytime." He said. Gabriella looked at the piece of paper and saw his number: 717-6229. Then ran over to the notebook paper bin and grabbed a sheet to write hers down for him. A few hours later in her computer tech class, Gabriella took that opportunity and decided to send Troy an email, asking him out, and this way she couldn't be shy and be afraid to get an answer because it would be through email. Troy, I was wondering if you would be interested in going to see a movie with me on Friday. Talk to you later. Gabriella. It took her a few minutes to gather up the nerve to actually press "send." A few minutes later, muttering to herself, she closed her eyes, and moved the mouse arrow over to the send button, closed her eyes, and clicked. "Too late to back out now." She said to herself.
