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Gabriella steps into the girl's locker-room and walks slowly inside. She didn't know any other girl who was in her gym hour, so she walked alone. Gabriella hadn't talked much for the rest of lunch after Sharpay left. It wasn't that she thought Sharpay liked Troy again, but it still hurt her too badly to think about. When they had gone back to their lockers, Troy kept asking Gabriella what was wrong with her. Obviously, she wasn't going to tell him, so she just pretended everything was ok. Now it was the last hour of the day, gym. Slowly making her way around the corner, she stops when she hears the sound of her name fill her ears over the other chatter of girls talking.
"Well with Gabriella out of the way, I think that it's time the school goes back to normal. I mean, it's destined that the basketball caption and the cheerleading caption should date." Gabriella heard Bridget's voice fill the locker room. She stays behind the wall so Bridget doesn't see her.
"I don't know Bridge, I saw them in the hall right before lunch and they looked pretty cozy to me. Whatever happened between them this summer, it doesn't look like it really affected them too much." Gabriella heard another voice speak and smiled to herself.
"Please…" Gabriella could imagine Bridget rolling her dark brown eyes. "I heard that he broke up with her because she wasn't 'satisfying' his needs. I always knew she was prude."
Gabriella's mouth drops. Prude? She wasn't satisfying his needs? She broke up with him! And it had nothing to do with sex! "I don't think so Bridge, I heard she broke up with him because he was hanging around Sharpay too much and wasn't treating his friends well. I heard Sharpay talk about it to someone in drama today. It sounded like she sorta felt bad about it." Gabriella felt a small swell of thankfulness for Sharpay. But that ended almost as quickly as it started.
"I doubt it. I bet Sharpay just didn't want to give details. I bet Troy got sick of not getting anywhere with Gabriella and slept with Sharpay. It would make more sense." Not being able to take it any longer, Gabriella turned the corner and made eye contact with Bridget. The other girl's chatter dies down suddenly and everyone stares as the two glares at each other. Gabriella walks toward Bridget, giving her the dirtiest look she could possibly get onto her face.
"For the record, I broke up with him. And who ever told you it was over sex should get their facts straight, cuz it wasn't." She spits out with as much anger as she could possibly manage. Gabriella watches as Bridget turns bright red and spins away from her. Gabriella walks toward the back of the locker room as the chatter of girls talking fills up again. She goes behind a wall of lockers to find a bunch of girls looking at her. Girls she recognized as other members of the cheerleading team.
"Don't worry about Bridget Gabriella." One of them, her name was Shannon and Gabriella was friends with her, says and the rest of them nod. "No one really believes anything she says. I don't even know how she became caption anyways." About four other cheerleaders nod in agreement and Gabriella gives them a smile showing her thanks. "It's about time someone stands up to her."
Gabriella smiles again in thanks and opens an empty locker and begins to change into her gym clothes. Suddenly, she hears her name again. "Gabriella!"
Gabriella looks up to see a blond walking toward her. She smiles as she recognizes her and waves. "Hey Chloe!"
Chloe walks up to Gabriella and smiles still shyly. "I didn't think anyone I knew was going to be in my gym hour. I'm so happy you are though!" She smiles brightly and looks over to the empty locker on Gabriella's left, since the right side was taken by Shannon. "Is anyone putting they're locker here?"
Gabriella smiles and nods. "Yea, you are!" They laugh and finish changing. The two girls, Shannon and the other four cheerleaders leave Bridget and her other two friends who were in front of the mirror, putting on lip gloss, inside the locker-room.
"Who puts lip gloss on for gym?" Chloe asks Gabriella and Gabriella laughs. The two spot Chad and Troy on the other side of the gym, shooting baskets.
"I guess there's a benefit to be the son of a gym teacher here, you can pull out all the basketballs you want and no one cares." Gabriella says and notices that neither Troy's dad nor any of the other gym teachers are out. The other guys in the class were watching the two with awe as Troy makes a three-pointer leaving nothing but net. "Come on." She says to Chloe and the two walk away from the group of girls. Gabriella quietly sneaks up behind Troy, who was facing the net. She quickly grabs his shoulders and jumps onto his back, leaving him surprised but he immediately throws his arms back to catch her legs. Gabriella watches as Chad and Chloe laugh at the fact that Troy was giving Gabriella a piggyback ride.
"Guess who?!" She whispers in his ear and he laughs. She puts her hands over his eyes as if to blind him.
"Damn Chad, you lost a lot of weight." Troy jokes and Gabriella slaps his arm. "Oh it's just you you." He says as though annoyed and Gabriella slaps his arm again.
"Fine, then put me down." She orders and tries to squirm out of his grasp. Troy shakes his head in disagreement.
"Nah, I wanna watch you squirm first." He says and starts to run around the gym. Gabriella lets out a soft scream and grips his neck tightly. After running about two laps around, Troy finally returns back to where Chad and Chloe were standing before, but had disappeared for some reason.
"Bolton! Montez! Come on and join the party over here!" A loud, deep, but kind voice echoes in the gym. Troy spins around and Gabriella sees an extremely tall, muscular man standing in the middle of the gym. He was tan and holding a clipboard. Gabriella remembers him as her gym teacher last year. She also remembers his name was Mr. Guerrero and he was the coach of the JV basketball team, which is probably why he knew Troy's name. Lucky for Gabriella, she was one of his favorite students from last year. Troy gently lets Gabriella down off of his back and jogs over to wear the rest of the class was sitting. Gabriella smirks slightly as she watches Bridget glare at her. Troy sits down next to Chad and Gabriella sits in front of him sitting next to Chloe.
"Good afternoon everyone. I hope has had a good first day of school." A groan echoes from where the class was sitting on the bleachers. "Anyways, welcome to Phy Ed. 12. Most of you by now should know what Physical Education is about, but I have to go over the rules with you anyways. Rule one, no gum while participating…"
"Troy!" A whisper rings from Gabriella's right. She turns her head to find the source of it and finds Bridget waving her fingers at Gabriella's ex. Gabriella sits up intently and looks back to see Troy nod in Bridget's direction, but then looks down at Gabriella and smiles. It may have been her imagination, but Gabriella swore she heard and angry "hmmph" in Bridget's direction. Gabriella turns back around to look at Mr. Guerrero again. Suddenly, she feels hands come down to her waist and begin to tickle her. She starts to squirm and slaps Troy's hands away from her sides.
She suddenly feels hot breath in her ear which gives her the shivers. "I told you I like to watch you squirm." Troy says seductively and Gabriella shivers once again. She silently tells her body to calm down, because he had just driven her crazy.
"Alright, any questions?" Mr. Guerrero asks, bringing Gabriella back to earth. She realized that she hadn't paid attention to a word he had said the whole time. "No? Alright, good. Since we only have about twenty minutes left, you guys are can have open gym."
With that, Gabriella feels the bleachers shake as Troy and Chad run out from behind her to go grab the basketballs. The rest of the guys follow and they quickly form a game. All of the girls move to the center of the bleachers to watch the guys. Bridget and her two friends, Jackie and Alexia, moved off to their own corner whispering. Chloe turns to Gabriella. "So how long have you and Troy been dating?"
Not expecting a question like that, Gabriella becomes at a loss for words. "Ummm, Troy and I aren't dating. We're just friends…"
"Oh, god I'm so sorry!" Chloe apologizes covering her mouth. "I just assumed, cuz you guys were so close and it just seemed like… god I'm sorry!"
"Don't worry Chloe, it's an honest mistake." Shannon responds and smiles at Gabriella. "They act like it anyways. They dated last year and we're just waiting for them to get back together again." Gabriella feels herself blush and turn away. Did she and Troy still have the chemistry they did last year?
"I don't even know if he still likes me." Gabriella responds. She closes her eyes and lets their words from the night of the break up swim around in her head.
"I think we just need to keep our options open right now."
"I don't want options Gabriella, I want you."
"Umm, hun." Another cheerleader, named Mandy starts. "Have you seen the way he looks at you? Any girl would die for that famous Troy Bolton look." Gabriella blushes again and looks out to the court to locate Troy again. She can see the sweat collect on his face and her breath is caught in her throat when Troy runs over to the side lines and takes off his shirt. He looks up at Gabriella and smirks slightly, and then throws the wet t-shirt into her hands.
"Hey! I don't want your dirty laundry!" She yells down to him with a smile and he shrugs.
"Sorry Gabi! I guess I didn't see you there!" He lies and she sticks her tongue out at him. He smiles back and returns back to the game he was playing.
"See Gabriella! He can't stop flirting with you!" Shannon responds and the rest of the girls nod.
"You call throwing dirty laundry at people flirting? I call it disgusting." She says even though she found herself having a tight grip on the sweaty t-shirt. She watches as the rest of the guys follow Troy's lead and take of their shirts too. But Gabriella can't help but keep her eyes on Troy's shirtless body. How his muscles where so defined and perfect. How badly did she want to run her fingers over them, or how she wanted those defined arms to hold her tightly and never let her go.
"You know, for the first day at East High, I think it's turned out pretty good." Chloe states and Gabriella laughs.
"That was random. But how so?" She asks, still not taking her eyes off of Troy.
Chloe sighs. "Well, the people are nice. Already have an awesome new friend who's in my gym hour." Gabriella finally tears her eyes away from Troy's body to smile at Chloe. "And…" Chloe turns her gaze back to the guys playing basketball. "I don't think I've ever seen so many guys shirtless in a school before in my life!" Gabriella laughs and turns her attention back to the court to find Troy jump up in the air for a slam dunk.