A/N: I'm backkk :) lol. Now I'm going to be updating this frequently I'm ahead on my chapters so updates should be up every other day! Unless the site ends up playing up again. Lol. This is sorta slow but you need information. And I've missed out of 2 weeks of reviews so make up for it when you've read this chapter :) Thanks!

"Today I had a thought. What if I... what if I had never met you?"

- Carrie Bradshaw Sex and the City

"Gabriella". Phoebe called after her. God hadn't she gone home yet? It was 12 o' clock, the beginning of lunch and she hadn't gone home. Fucking great.

The annoyance was rising in her blood stream. She didn't know why she was making such a big deal out of this but she was. Her eyes closed tight in irritation. "Yeah Pheebs?"

Phoebe reached out her slender arm and placed her warm, toasty hands on Gabriella's leather coated limb. "You forgot this, this morning"

Gabriella watched at Phoebe's tight grin flashed at her before she placed her hand in her black high wasted trouser pocket and pulled an item from it and closed her fist around it. "Open your hand"

Gabriella obeyed her request and felt the cold metal touch her petite hand, opening her sweaty hands and suddenly remembered that she hadn't put it on this morning.

In her hand sat a white gold linked bracelet. The charms so clean they were sparkling in the chocolate spheres. She had always had a charm bracelet since she was a little girl. It was a gift from her mom when she was born and every birthday she had and Christmas they would add a charm to it. And on her 13th birthday it was a gift to her and she hadn't gone a day since without wearing it. She had always felt naked if she hadn't and couldn't believe she had walked out in such a nervous state that morning she had forgotten about it. And every birthday and Christmas she had still added charms to it to that day. Of course it would have looked too cluttered and tacky if she would have worn all of them so she adjusted and changed them occasionally.

"Thanks" Gabriella smiled and held out her boney wrist for Phoebe to fasten it.

"No problem. I picked it up this morning and I was gonna give it to you when you were in class but you rushed out so. Anyways I'm going home now so, want me to pick you up? After school?" Phoebe questioned.

"Um, yeah that'll be fine" Gabriella responded distantly and further down the corridor she could see the outlines of Chad and Taylor walking down the corridor.

"Gabriella" Taylor's deep voice called down the corridor before they both came to a halt at the two. Great. Now Chad was going to think her sister was hot and he would tell everyone and they would only talk to her because she had a 'hot' sister.

The two stopped infront of Gabriella and her sister. "Hey. You remember my sister Taylor right?"

Chad furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and Gabriella didn't know whether he was confused thinking that her sister was called Taylor or how Taylor had met them but she would have told him that right? Taylor nodded her head slowly and smiled at the elder Montez. "Chad this is my sister Phoebe. Phoebe this is Chad"

"Hi" Phoebe greeted enthusiastically at the male standing before her.

Chad matched her actions and smiled brightly at the 25 year old. "Hey"

Good sign. Maybe Chad wasn't as bad as she thought he would be.

"Gabi, I'm gonna go sweetie. I'll see you after school okay?" Phoebe coaxed before pressing her thin lips onto Gabriella's cheek and made the 'mwah' sound, a giggle erupting from Gabriella's throat.

"Okay. I'll see you later". She fare welled her sister watching her walk down the long airy corridor.

"And I'm gonna go too, you know what hoops is like if I'm late for a workout" Chad explained and Gabriella's thin eyebrows narrowed in confusion. Hoops? What kind of a name was that?

"Alright. See you later" Taylor smiled knowingly and let Chad press a kiss to her baby smooth blushed cheeks. "Come to my locker with me?"

Gabriella nodded. Anything would be better than walking around the school alone. It resembled a somewhat jungle. There were so many different kinds of people walking around like the numerous different numbers of animals that would roam the jungle. The school was so big it felt like it was never ending to her. The corridors were so long. Like how big a jungle would be and lastly, everything was red. Blood red and the white writing resembled something that you would write when using a stencil. And it reminded her of how everything in a jungle would be green. That's what east high was to her.

A jungle.

The lockers were all the same, white with red 'east high' or the 'wildcat' drawn on them, until out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of pink. Actually, who was she kidding it was like pink had cornered her and slapped her in the face. It was so different to the others. Shocking pink. Normally she would have found it tacky but it was, intriguing. Taylor pinned in the combination of her locker and the door swung open on its hinges.

"Whose is the pink locker?" She asked distantly, she didn't even hear the tapping of the metal heel against the hard tiled floor. She didn't see the petite figure walking towards her and Taylor from the other direction and she didn't hear the...

"It's mine" Gabriella's small frame jumped to look at the source of the voice.

She had never seen anything like it. From what Gabriella could tell was around 5"3 but she was never a good judge.

The heels she was wearing stood around 2 inches from the floor. But what caught Gabriella's attention was that everything she was wearing contained pink. Pink snake skin boots rose up to her calf. The same material created the skirt she was wearing which wasn't too short but not too long either. It pleated and it showed off the slender thighs that were underneath.

A white blouse covered her top half, cropped just above the elbows. The same shade of dark pink that was on her skirt and boots housed a strip on the sleeves of the girl's blouse.

Around her neck she was wearing an attractive chain, necklace. That had all different shapes and circles and of course was pink. Gabriella's chocolate spheres moved up to the blonde's face. Her nose was long and slender and curved out at the tip. Her eyes were brown. Light brown, like a light chocolate, a few shades lighter than Gabriella's.

The hair on her head was long. Really long. A golden blonde, honey blonde. It was loosely curled and it went to just below her rib cage. It was gorgeous.

"Gabriella, Sharpay. Sharpay Gabriella" Taylor introduced without taking her eyes from the locker which she was rummaging around frantically in.

"Hi" The honey blonde beamed brightly. Her teeth were perfect. In fact, everything about the girl was . Perfect. Whom Gabriella now knew was Sharpay.

"Hey" A wide smile crossed her face and she saw Sharpay looking her up and down, making her shift uncomfortably.

"Oh my god. You're bracelet's amazing" She said enthusiastically and grabbed onto Gabriella's arm and stared at the bracelet intently. Gabriella didn't know whether to take her seriously or not. Weather she was lying and really just being bitchy. But Taylor was a nice girl right? She wouldn't be like that.

"Thanks" Gabriella responded and felt Sharpay shifting the white gold around her bony wrist to look at all of the charms.

"What is it? I mean I know what it is but where did you get it?" Sharpay rambled and Gabriella let a soft giggle tickle the back of her throat.

She didn't want to give too much away because they would just ask about why she didn't live with her mom or something but what could it hurt to tell her something. They were friends right? "I've had it since I was born and my sisters buy me charms for it every birthday and Christmas"

Taylor didn't seem to be acknowledging what the two were talking about and Sharpay was staring at the charm bracelet in awe. "Holy shit that is so adorable. I wish my parents would have done something like that for me"

She smiled tightly and Sharpay let go of her arm which solemnly fell down her side.

"So Tay, I saw Tara this morning. She had this skirt on that was right up her ass and a shirt that basically showed everything" Gabriella's black eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Who was Tara? Was she getting involved in a bitchy crowd and she was going to be hated?

To shake her from her thoughts there was a loud slam causing both of the girls to jump and Taylors normally calm face looked irritated and annoyed. "Don't fucking talk about that skank"

Curiosity surged in Gabriella's blood stream. "Who's Tara?" She asked in a small timid tone.

Taylor sighed deeply and lent her back against the metal lockers. "She's just a fucking whore"

Gabriella was taken aback by Taylor's way of talking. Around 2 minutes ago she thought Taylor was a well mannered young 'adult'. Of course Gabriella did use that kind of language when she felt it was needed.

"Tara went out with Chad. And Taylor thinks that there's still something going on" Sharpay explained without unlocking gazes with Taylor.

"Do you not trust Chad?" Maybe she was out of line asking Taylor but hey, she was a nosey person.

"Of course I do. It's her I don't trust. They went out and she broke up with him and he was like hopelessly in love with her. So he was devastated, anyways we got together and ever since it's like she doesn't want anybody else to have him but she doesn't want him so she tries to come onto him" Taylor explained with disgust and irritation laced into her voice.

"Oh" Gabriella said awkwardly. She had well and truly put her foot in it. She didn't have a clue what to say.

"Tay, he's totally in love with you though. He practically kisses you're big toe whenever he sees you" Gabriella seemed to like Sharpay. Even though she had never quite met anyone like her, she seemed intriguing, and incredibly blunt. But Gabriella seemed to be intrigued by it.

"Yeah but it only takes one party where he gets shit faced and something happens right?" Gabriella could tell that Taylor was feeling awkward and her voice was starting to crack giving her the impression that it was hurting her alot more than she was letting on.

"Hey. Don't even worry about it okay" Sharpay reached out and touched Taylor's arm rubbing up and down comfortingly.

If Gabriella had to guess she would say that Sharpay and Taylor were best friends.

Distantly Gabriella could hear heavy footsteps on the floor coming towards them. Gabriella turned towards them and she could see two guys walking towards them. One tall and one quite short.

The tall guy had an oval kind of shaped head and was a few shades lighter than Taylor's skin tone. The small guy had black hair that she could make out distantly and stubble on his pointed chin. As they got closer she could see the tall one staring at the three of them. No scratch that, looking at Sharpay and she was looking at him in the same way. A look of lust boring from the pair of their orbs.

They didn't exchange words, the two guys just carried on walking to the end of the corridor, Gabriella following them with her eyes intensely. What had just happened? "Is that you're boyfriend?"

Taylor rolled her brown orbs and rested her head further onto the lockers. While Sharpay laughed at the black haired tanned clueless girl standing close to her. "Oh, sweetie uh-uh"

She narrowed her face in confusion when realisation dawned on her. Maybe they just liked each other? That had to be it right. Sharpay's hand latched onto Gabriella's thin arm and her brown spheres looked down to see a fully manicured hand with a giant pink ring on her first finger. "You ever heard of friends with benefits?"

Of course she had! She wasn't a fucking alien for god's sake! But she didn't want her new 'friends' which she felt like they were, to think she was awful by screaming at the two of them. "Yeah"

Sharpay looked knowingly at her, with a tight smirk on her face. "That's Zeke Baylor. He's on the basketball team. We've been seeing each other for around 6 or 7 months"

So basically they had been meeting for a quick fuck for the past 6 months without committing to the other. "Oh.....I see.. right"

"Don't act so smug Shar, he might not be around forever" Taylor chimed in, and Sharpay sent daggers her way.

"Why would you say that?" Her high pitched voice questioned quickly.

"Shar, honey. He's been asking you out for the past what 6 or 7 months and you've said no. He might get pissed and.... I'm sorry to break it to you" Taylor commented

"Miss Mckessie. Miss Evans. Stop talking about my basketball team and tell me where if you have seen Mr Danforth, or Mr Baylor.... Miss Evans?" A deep voice entered her ears.

She turned to look at him and he looked like a teacher. Well he was a teacher undoubtedly. Except he was wearing a pair of tracksuit bottoms and a polo top. And she knew that he had heard probably just about every word that Sharpay and Taylor were just telling her.

So in conclusion to what they had just said, Sharpay and Zeke were just 'fucking' and he had been asking her out and she had been saying no. Strange. Very, very strange.

"Um, Zeke just walked down the corridor with Jason and Chad left around 5 or 10 minutes ago sir" Taylor stated firmly at the teacher. He was around 35 onwards. No older than 40 though. Oh and he had funny hair.

"Thank you. And what's your name Miss?"

Her whole body stiffened in fright. Had she done something wrong? Was he going to tell her not to be with the two girls she was with? "Gabriella. Gabriella Montez"

"I thought so. Welcome to East High Miss Montez" The man said as he walked on down the corridor.

"Who wa..?" She started to say but the two girls shook their heads rapidly and latched onto Gabriella's arm in a link.

"Come on" Sharpay instructed and they carried on down the corridor and through two double doors.

And there she was.

In the centre of the jungle.

It was awful. There were people running around left right and centre, the noise was overpowering. It was intimidating. At her old school she would be sat in the middle of that, and she knew every single person who was creating the noise. Now the only people she knew were the ones sitting next to her.

"You alright?" Gabriella shook her spherical head and looked at the beams that were hung all over the walls. What intrigued her was the one straight opposite her, it was 3 basketball streamers. So now she knew the school was big on basketball? Right.

"Yeah. Yeah. There are just so many people" Gabriella reached for the bracelet and started to rub it in to comfort her.

"Come on" Sharpay smirked and lead Gabriella through the people to a table right at the back of the dining hall.

And then there were so many people sitting there. There were around 30 people surrounding just one table and they had all just stopped and looked around at the 3 standing there and then all stopped and carried on eating in the jungle.

"Gabriella. Taylor, Sharpay" The only face she could recognise was Kelsi. And she was beckoning the three over. Gabriella happily obliged and squeezed through the body's that were separating her from her destination. She finally sat down next to Kelsi and let a deep sigh erupt from the back of her throat.

"How's your first day going?" Kelsi smiled at the distressed Gabriella before returning to the pasta that was in the clear plastic box.

"Um... it's weird, y'know. I'm kinda not used to not knowing people and not talking to people and now you Taylor, Sharpay and..." She was about to finish but Taylor's deep voice cut her off.

"CHAD". At her old school if somebody would have shouted that loud it would have stopped the entire people in it, but everybody had just carried on.

Funny how different it was.

She narrowed her chocolate gaze to see Chad walking closer to them, but wasn't he meant to be at a workout? But then she saw it.

Absolute perfection.

Her breath was completely sucked from her lungs and her heart was slamming against her chest, so quick it might explode. He was the most beautiful person she had ever seen.

He was tall, much taller than her. But as she said she was never good at judging. He was wearing a pair of jeans and a white top with red sleeves. His face was rounded and his chin wasn't too pointy. The tan skin that was beneath was glowing, radiating towards her like she was drawn to him.

His golden brown hair was messy, but adorable. It was cut around his face, shaped around his eyes. His eyes. It was like staring into perfection. But of course he wasn't looking at her. The colour was so... electrifying. It was like a piercing blue, an azure shade. Like she was staring into the ocean, hypnotizing, mesmerising.

Suddenly her first day was getting so much better. The view of perfection only had to be matched by a stunning name. If she was his mom and his dad she would be so proud to have produced such a son like that.

He was walking with Chad who had just looked in her direction. Her eyes quickly jumped sizes too big, she didn't want to be caught looking at his friend. No way. She checked her chin slyly for any wet pools of saliva. Well he was that amazing.

Chad finally got to his destination and rested his hand on Taylors shoulder. The only question surfing through Gabriella's mind was where was Mr Perfection? Oh there he was, he was stood talking to that tall guy. Zeke was it? Sharpay's 'fuck partner'

"Hoops" Chad beckoned the perfection towards them. She quickly tried to curl her stray tendrils around her little finger without anyone noticing her trying to look even remotely presentable for Mr. Perfection.

Wait, hang on a minute. Hoops? Her mind suddenly cast back to what Taylor and Chad were talking about. So he was the obsessive work out guy. Well it showed. The muscles beneath the white shirt he was wearing were so defined and what she would give to have those muscles around her. If his name was hoops, which she highly doubted he could pull it off. With a face like that he could pull anything off.

"What happened to the workout?" Taylor called over the noise. Gabriella was pretty sure it would be quieter at a Nirvana concert.

"Ask him" Chad replied before pressing a kiss to Taylors midnight hair.

Gabriella looked and saw Mr. Perfection looking around and his almost black eyebrows furrowed and narrowed in confusion as if to say. Who the fuck are you? But he almost stared at her. Looked at her, like he was shocked or something. Shocked there was a new girl hanging out with what seemed like the jocks. Well any group he belonged to had to be popular.

"Troy? What happened to the workout?"

Troy. Troy.

It was an unusual name but it went with the way he looked. He was unusually beautiful. Like he had made a deal with the devil for good looks and he had been given what he got which was absolutely earth shattering. But the name was almost sexy.

Like a hero from a fairytale she would have read when she was little. Like a knight that would rescue the princess from the big bad world.

She only wished she could be his princess.