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You don't know how it feels
To be outside the crowd
You don't know what it's like
To be left out
And you don't know how it feels
To be your own best friend on the outside looking in
On The Outside Looking In- Jordan Pruitt
"YOU KILLED HER! ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"daddy please, your scaring me, I-I didn't mean to…"
"GET OUT OF MY FUCKING SIGHT! I HATE YOU"
Bolton Residence September 5th 2010
Gabriella Pov
"No… No…. No!" I moaned in my sleep, tossing and turning as I did so. "I didn't mean to…"
"Gabriella…." a woman's voice entered my dreams, it sounded familiar but I couldn't think of who's voice it was
"Gabriella…." I heard the voice again
"Gabriella" the female voice spoke again softly and began shaking me, shaking me out of the nightmare, my eyes opened to find Lucille sitting on the edge of my bed.
"Good morning sunshine" she smiled at me, her blue green eyes glistened with happiness, whenever I saw her she always looked so happy, I don't understand that, how can someone always be happy?
"Mmm Morning?" I asked sleepily, finding it hard to believe it was already morning, I was up most of the night because of the nightmares.
"Yes sweetie it's morning, you need to get ready, it's the first day of school" she said rather perkily.
"Oh great" I thought, "a new school, new people, I get to be the outcast… woo hoo"
"Okay, I'll get dressed and be down shortly" I told her, putting on a fake smile.
"Okay sweetie, I'll see you in a bit" she said, and with that she walked out of the room and closed the door.
Okay…. Now….. What To Wear?
Troy Pov
"Troy…" a soft voice said, bringing me out of my slumber. "Troy…" I heard it again and I through my pillow in the direction of the voice, I want to sleep. "Troy David Alexander Bolton!" the voice snapped suddenly, Shit
"Mmmmmm" I groaned lifting myself out of bed
"Troy I need you to do something for me today at school, okay?" my mom asked me. Oh no… this can only mean one thing…
"I need you to show Gabriella around the school, maybe introduce her to some of your friends? So she can have someone to hang out with?" Fuck.
"Fine, whatever" I said plainly and walked over to my closet.
"Thank you Troy" she smiled "Breakfast is downstairs when your finished getting ready" and with that she left my room. I walked over to my closet looking for something to wear.
Gabriella Pov
I walked into the kitchen wearing my favorite skinny jeans and a flowing navy blue tank top, my white and gold ballet flats and my cubic zirconium studs, I woke up a little late so I just left my hair in its natural soft banana curls, I didn't put on a lot of makeup this morning, I decided not to over do it with my makeup just a subtle foundation with a little eyeliner and mascara and a clear lip gloss. I wore my silver "Live, Love, Laugh" bracelets on my wrists which matches the silver bow on my shirt (Outfit In Profile). I thought I looked nice, hopefully Troy thinks so, wait…. I did not just think that… why do I care what he thinks? He's an asshole. I grabbed my newsprint purse and when downstairs to find Lucille and Troy already down there.
"Gabriella!" Lucille shrieked, "You look beautiful, don't you agree Troy?" she asked, casting a look over to the kitchen table, where Troy was leaning. "mhm whatever" he mumbled without looking up
"Don't be rude Troy, I think she looks lovely" Lucille scolded and Troy looked over to me. "Troy you're driving Gabriella to school today" Lucille added but Troy wasn't paying attention, he was staring at me, but why was he? "Huh?" he asked and cast a look over to Lucille, "Your father and I have to go to work now and we wont have time to drop her off, so she's going with you"
"Fine" mumbled and looked over to me, "Just don't bug me or any of my friends, got it? Good, now lets go" and with that he got up, glanced over at me and walked out the door, I grabbed my bag and followed him out to his car.
"Get in the back, Chad's sitting in the front" he scowled
"Who's Chad?" I asked curiously
"A friend of mine" he said kind of annoyed
"A friend of your's? Wow man I thought we were more then that but fine" an unfamiliar voice spoke jokingly from behind me, I turned to see the owner of the voice and came upon a very tall African American boy with a very big very untamed afro, and by his side was a shorter, darker girl with chin length black hair, Chad had his arm wrapped around her waist so I assumed they were dating, I softly smiled at them and Taylor must've noticed because she smiled back..
"Damn, you make it sound like we're married" Troy joked back.
"Nahh sorry man, Taylor's just a little bit hotter than you" Chad said with a laugh, Taylor and Troy started laughing with him.
"Troy who's this?" she said, referring to me.
"Oh, that's Gabriella" Troy mumbled
"Oh, well hi Gabriella!" she greeted smiling and walking over to me, "I'm Taylor McKessie, and this is Chad Danforth" she looked nodded towards Chad.
"Hey" I smiled, she seems nice
"Well we better get going, we don't wanna be late for Darbus." Troy said cringing.
"Damn straight" Chad laughed "You know how she is when someone is late"
"Who's 'Darbus' ?" I asked quietly
"Only the worst teacher at East High, don't get on her bad side, it won't be good" Chad warned me
"She's not gonna like, eat me is she?" I asked dumbly and Chad laughed
"She might" he laughed and I looked up at him "I think I'm gonna like you Ella"
"Ella?" I asked
"Gabriella is too long, so I'm renaming you Ella" Chad said smiling, and he got in the car
"Oh my gosh! You should sit with us at lunch, the gang will love you!" Taylor squealed excitedly.
"Umm ok? Who's 'The Gang' " I asked
"Well there's Troy, Chad, Me, Ryan, Martha, Kelsi, Jason, And Zeke, and now you!" Taylor squealed again
"Sounds great" I smiled, then out of the corner of my eye I noticed something, Troy was staring at me and smiling. What's going on?
Troy Pov
Damn she's so confused it's almost cute
I smiled a small smile at Gabriella through the rear view mirror as I started to pull out of the driveway
"Oh my god, she's seriously living with you? You're so fucking lucky!" Chad said in a hushed tone to me pulling me out of my thoughts as I was pulling out of the driveway.
"And why would I be lucky exactly?" I asked him in a dry voice.
"She's fucking hot! That's why!" he whisper yelled.
"First, shut up, and second, you have a girlfriend" I said in a more annoyed tone
"First, I know I have a girlfriend. Second, you don't have a girlfriend. Third you didn't deny that she was hot. And fourth you like her." Chad told me with a sly smile on his face.
"I Don't Like Her!" I about yelled at him.
"You so do like her, if you didn't you wouldn't be getting all defensive and pissed off" Chad said, still smirking at me.
"I'm Not Being Defensive And I Don't Like Her!" I said on the verge of yelling.
He looked back to the girls who were laughing about something and he turned back and faced forward, "Fine, fine, Gabriella sure has a cute laugh doesn't she?" he asked quickly.
I smiled a little "Yeah she really.." I started and then looked over to Chad who was grinning his ass off "Shut up" I said slightly embarrassed and looked back to the road.
"I knew it, you like her" he said, sounding awfully proud of himself. "This is gonna be fun" oh no, this can't be good.
Gabriella Pov
East High School September 5th 2010
Oh my god! This school is so big. I just got my schedule, I'm gonna end up getting lost for sure. I looked down to my schedule, Ms. Darbus room 207. Where the fuck is that?
"It's up the stairs down the hall and it's the third door on the left with the big 207 on it" I heard from right behind me, I looked behind me to find
Troy standing right behind me. And I looked up at him "we're in the same homeroom so just follow me" and with that he started walking away, so I followed.
When I got into the classroom and found a seat a middle aged woman with grey-blonde hair in a messy bun and a rather extravagant outfit stepped into the room and everyone automatically stopped talking and looked forward.
"Welcome my young thespians to yet another glorious year at East High School" is this chick for real? "I recognize almost all of you" she said as she walked towards my desk, "and who might you be?"
"um, I'm Gabriella Montez, I'm new here" I said shyly.
"Ah, well welcome to East High miss Montez, seeing as you are a new student I am to assign you a 'buddy' to show you to your classes and help you get to know the school" she looked over to Taylor and smiled. "Ah, miss Mckessie, would you be kind enough to show Gabriella around today?"
"Absolutely Ms. Darbus" Taylor smiled brightly
A few minutes passed a the bell rang, announcing the end of homeroom. Within seconds Taylor was by my side with her schedule in her hand. "ok since today's the first day its pretty much just 1 big free period, new students can go to their classes just to find out where they are and what the teachers are like but you've got me, so I can show you where the classrooms are and explain what the teachers are really like" she giggled. "but other than that I can get to know you better and introduce you to the gang, I think they'll really like you"
"Ok sounds great" I said smiling.
Troy Pov
"Dude I haven't seen Taylor since homeroom" Chad said for about the 500th time today.
"She's showing Gabriella around, remember? Look there they are now" I said pointing to the girls walking into the cafeteria.
"Finally! Taylor! Ella! Over here!" Chad yelled from across the caf.
The girls must of heard him, because they came running over to us, well Taylor was running, Gabriella was being dragged along.
"So you ladies been having fun?" Chad asked as he put his arm around Taylor.
"You bet!" Taylor said giddily
"This school is huge, and there's so much going on around here, so many clubs" I said looking around the cafeteria.
"School clubs and sports are what East High's all about" Chad said looking over to her. "Were you in any clubs at your old school?"
Right when he asked her that her head snapped up to him and her eyes darkened. What's that all about?
"Um, cross country" she said in a small voice and then sat down at the table. What's wrong with her? Everyone else sat down and there was only one seat left…next to Gabriella…oh I wonder who planned this *cough* Chad *cough*. I sat down next to Gabriella who seemed to be deep in thought.
"Gabriella? Are you okay?" Taylor asked in a soft tone as she gently touched Gabriella's shoulder, which about made her jump out of her skin, something isn't right. "Whoa Gabi, calm down I just wanted to know if you wanted me to introduce you to the gang?"
"Sorry, um, sure I'd love to meet them" she smiled softly
"Ok!" Taylor smiled big.
Gabriella Pov
"Ok so this is Zeke" she said pointing to a dark skinned boy with short black hair, he looked like he was a little taller than Troy. "he's on the basketball team with Troy and Chad, and he's an awesome chef!" Taylor giggled
I smiled at him, trying to be polite
Before he could respond Taylor went onto the next person, and the next, and the next, and… I think u get the picture. everyone seemed so nice.
All of a sudden I heard someone scream, I turned my head only to see a bleach blonde girl wearing a hot pink lizard skin skirt with matching pink boots and a white and pink top (The Outfit She Wore In The Beginning Of Hsm 3) speed walking to the table looking super pissed. She walked right up to me and gave me a death glare.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" she screeched right in my face
"I, um, I-I d-don't know?" I stuttered and looked to Taylor
"Don't worry sweetie. You're not doing anything wrong" Taylor said gently and then she turned to the girl in pink. "Sharpay leave her alone, she didn't do anything to you." Taylor said venomously to Sharpay.
"She's new, and she's a freak, she shouldn't be sitting with basketball players! Especially not Troy!" she yelled again. God this chick has some powerful lungs, and why does she care if I sit with Troy?
"Look Sharpay, she's not a freak and we invited her to sit with us, but I don't recall asking you to join us" Troy suddenly spoke, defending me, wow. "And why wouldn't she be allowed to sit with me?" Troy asked her.
"Because you're mine!" she shrieked.
"No I'm not Sharpay and I never will be, I've been telling u that since 4th grade, now go away so we can eat in peace!" he said on the verge of yelling.
'UGH! Whatever! I'm not finished with you Troy Bolton, You either Freak!" she shouted and then stalked off. Leaving me there in shock of what just happened.
"Are you ok?" I felt a hand on my shoulder, I looked over and saw that Troy was staring at me.
"I, um, yeah, but, would anyone like to explain to me what just happened?" I asked confused
Taylor sighed. "That's Sharpay Evans, the ice queen of East High, who has a very unhealthy obsession with Troy, she has since we were kids"
I suddenly felt a pang of jealousy, but I shook it off "Has she always been so… pink?" everyone started laughing
"Oh yes, even her locker is pink, she had her dad pay the school to let her paint the locker pink, she's a pink freak" Chad said with a laugh
"Is there any special reason that she hates my guts?" I asked curiously
"She's mean to everyone, don't take it personally," Taylor explained
Troy Pov
I kind of felt bad for Gabriella after Sharpay freaked out on her. She looked so scared and hurt. UGH! Why do I even care? This is all so fucking confusing, I've never felt like this about someone before, actually caring isn't really my thing, it's weird, I have no idea what's wrong with her, but I plan on finding out.