Gabriella walked into school the next day, wearing black sweatpants, and a white tank top with a jacket with her hair up in a bun going to her locker. Troy and his buddy Chad walked around the corner, "Dude, you went out with her last night? that babe is sexy-" "Hey, watch it." Troy glared at him, Chad raised a brow, "what? you like this girl don't you?" Troy bit his lip, "Just stay away from her, okay."
He walked over to Gabriella, "Good Morning, We still on for homework after school." Gabriella bit her lip, "umm yeah sure.." she held her books close to her chest, "I mean..if you..want too.." Troy nodded, "Yeah, Definetly." she smiled nodding, "Alright...and last night was fun."
"Yeah it was, uhm...if my friends come up to you at any moment, you have my permission to slap them." Gabriella giggles, hugging her books to her chest. It was a B day, so she had homeroom and then -somebody shoot her-theater. In reality, she took theater class because Zoey was in it-and Troy-but mostly Zoey-and so she can watch Troy. "So..." Troy says, "what class do you have today?" "Well," Gabriella says, "first I have homeroom and then...theater; with Miss Bayless,"
Troy looks at her, grabbing her elbow as he stops in his tracks, "you're in my...my class?" "For the year now." He smiles, "And we've never worked together?" "Well... I have a friend named Zoey whose my partner all the time." "That must get boring." "I wouldn't say boring-well, kind of, I suppose." Troy smiles, interlacing his fingers with hers. "Carry your books for you?" "Uhm...well, if you want-" "I want to."
Todd smirked picking up his books and walking over to her seat beside her. "Hey Gabi." Gabriella bit her lip, "Hi Todd." she took her pencil, and opened her notebook, "So umm the assignment is to write a short story-" Todd nodded, "Do you wanna go out with me sometime?" Gabriella bit her lip back, "Todd, I'm flattered and all but-"
"look, I know you went out with Bolton, don't get your hopes up princess, his going to be done with you and moved on to another girl in a few days." Gabriella sighed, and looked at her notebook, "umm I'll write the first part, and you write the second part?"
"I mean, come on...one date." Gabriella bit her lip, trying so hard not to lose her temper, "...and the story is supposed to be our revised editions of Romeo and Juliet-" "One date is all I ask, come on, what do you say?"
She looks at him, "Look, I'm sorry, but I'm going to say 'no'-" "that's not a good answer," he goes to grab Gabriella's wrists, but by some odd miracle, Troy appears at her side, shoving Todd away. "She said 'no'."
Todd grimaced, standing up from the desk, "Why are you stepping in Bolton?" Troy grinds his teeth together, moving to stand in front of Gabriella, "move it." he said, in those two little words, is a hidden threat. Todd scoffs, but says nothing. "All right boys." the teacher says, "move along, this is not a hockey arena...sit down now. Todd, you to the far side of the room, Troy-wherever your butt wants to be planted."
Troy sat down beside Gabriella, Gabriella smiled, "T-Thank you.." He smiled, "No problem. we're still on for tonight, right?" Gabriella nodded, "Yeah, we are." Gabriella bit her lip and began to write the story on the sheet of paper.
Troy cleared his throat nervously, "Listen, my parents are going out of town this weekend." Gabriella's head shot up, and looked at him, "Y-Yeah?" He smiled "Do you wanna... come stay with me?" Gabriella bit her lip, "What..what are we going to do?"
Gabriella bit her lip, Troy smiled, "well...I'm a pretty good...peanut butter and jelly sandwiche maker.." she giggled lightly, he continued, "and..I rock at Guitar Hero." "Guitar Hero? Really?" "Too nerdy?"
She shakes her head, "I'm just thinking that maybe I just found a worthy opponent, cause my mom says I'm too good at that game." "Oh really?" "Yupp." "Well...I can take you." "Bring it." "So you'll stay with me?" "It's on like Donky Kong."
Gabriella giggled, "don't say I didn't warn you." Troy smiled, "Listen, I..I wanna be your boyfriend." Gabriella looked at him, "You mean for a few days?" he shook his head, "No..I'm hoping for a real long time." he touched her hand.
Gabriella pulled away, "I..I'm sorry-" "What's wrong?" Gabriella bit her lip, "Troy..I..I like you..alot-" "I like you too-" Gabriella sighed, "But..I..I don't wanna be another one of your girls...I just wanna know, how long are you planning on having me around?"
Troy bit his lip, "Gabriella..it's different with you." Gabriella looked at him, "How is it different Troy? I'm no better or different from other girls-" Troy shook his head, "No Brie.. No-" she looked at him, "Brie-" "Brie, I.. you're making me feel feelings I've never felt before, I get shivers down my spine, and sparks up my veins when we kiss...I'm inlove with you Gabriella, Dammit.. I'm inlove with you." Gabriella bit her lip, "T-Troy...you..you can't have feelings for someone that fast...it's not possible."
Troy nodded, "You're on." she smiled softly as the bell rang and they both walked out the door, holding hands. "So, I'll meet you after school?" Gabriella nodded, "You better." he nodded, kissing her cheek gently, "I love you." Sharpay gasped quietly turning to face Taylor and Kelsi as they hid behind the wall. Gabriella smiled, "I um..I'll meet you at your locker."
Troy smiled, "I'll be waiting." Gabriella smiled, watching her-dare her inner child squeal loudly?-boyfriend walk away. She felt like clapping and jumping while screaming "Yay! Yay! Yay!" but she just settled for hugging her books to her chest and turning around slowly with that dreamy smile on her face. Pure bliss. "So," Sharpay says bitterly. Pure bliss interrupted. "Everything's sped up? He ALREADY loves you?"
Gabriella bit her lip, "Uhm...well, he asked me to stay with him this weekend." All three girls gasp, "What?!" Gabriella nods, "Yeah, we're going to have a guitar hero battle-" "Guitar Hero?" Sharpay gaped, "I didn't know he liked that game! I own like five of them-" "You do?" Taylor asked,
Sharpay shrugged, "well my brother does." Gabriella sighed, "I think that...we shouldn't do this anymore.." Kelsi stepped closer to her, "repeat." her eyes were a lethal glare, Gabriella gulped. "I mean, he's over you and well-" "Good God!" Taylor exclaimed, "she's already fallen for him!"
Gabriella bit her lip, Sharpay placed her hands on her hips, "Listen Gabriella, you're going to keep doing this, rather you like it or not! you were nothing before we made this revenge plan up! you were invisible! your going to stick to the plan!" Gabriella gulped, holding the books closer to her. Kelsi smiled, "Here's the plan for this weekend."
They dragged her into the bathroom, and sat her in a chair. they pulled up a board, and Taylor held a metal stick pointing it at the white board, "You're going to stay the night with him..then sleep with him, then the next morning, you'll leave a note saying it's over." Gabriella gulped, and bit her lip, "I..I.-" "Do it." Gabriella sighed, but nodded.
