A/n: I just have to say I know nothing about basketball so I just sort of made it up :P lol. Please review :)

Inspiration

Kelsi scribbled three sentences on her notepad; She eyed them critically and then erased them.

With a frustrated sigh she got up and threw her full notepad into the trashcan under her desk.

Who was she kidding, it was no use, you couldn't just sit down and force yourself to write, you needed inspiration, and well right at this moment, Kelsi had none.

A knock on her door interrupted her from her thoughts.

"Come in"

"Hey Kelsi" Gabriella Montez greeted as she walked into the room.

"Hey Gabby"

"What's up?" asked her best friend sensing something was wrong.

"Nothing will come to me Gab's," replied Kelsi referring to the play

" My mind is like a complete blank, the play is two and half weeks away and I haven't got one song"

Gabriella sat down on the bed and gave her a sympathetic look.

"Could you imagine Darbus reaction if she found out"?

Gabriella let out a small giggle at the thought.

"This isn't funny Gabriella"

"I'm sorry" she paused "Lets see" Gabriella cupped her chin in her hand " could your lack of inspiration have anything to do with the fact that a certain boy hasn't been around in awhile"

"Huh?" responded a clueless Kelsi.

Gabriella rolled her eyes.

"I came round to tell you Troy's coming home tomorrow"

Kelsi couldn't hide her delight. Troy had been gone seven days, the wildcats had won the championships and had gone on to play the state tournament, and though she wouldn't admit it out loud, the time apart had seemed more like 7 weeks.

"Just look at that expression" Gabriella grinned knowingly.

"What"?

Gabriella laughed, "It's so obvious you have a thing for him"

"I don not have a thing for him" Stuttered a shocked Kelsi "Troy and I are just friends"

"Uh huh"

"Well we are" added Kelsi stubbornly, trying to convince herself more than her friend.

"Sure"

Kelsi sighed, letting the thought sink in, He was the main inspiration for most of her songs, a popular basketball player in love with the shy sensitive girl always got her pen going, and then there was the fact that his name did always bring a smile to her face, and when they talked her stomach did do summersaults. Kelsi placed her face in her hands in shock revelation.

The girl in her songs wasn't Gabriella, as she had once visualized. It was her.

"I like Troy!"

Gabriella laughed, "She finally admits it"

"Oh boy"

Gabriella patted her shoulder encouragingly "You've seen the light, one down one to go"

Kelsi looked up "Gabby your making no sense"

"Haven't you noticed that Troy always opens the door for you"?

"Yeah so"?

"And he always saves you a seat at lunch"

"His a friend that's what friends do"

"He carries your books, he walks home with you every day, including the days he has practice, he listens to you play the piano, and when you get up after you finish and drop your music sheets like you always do he rushes over to help you pick them up"

"I know all that, what does it prove"?

Gabriella let out a screech of frustration "I give up" she said throwing up he hands "I'm going home, maybe if I leave you alone you'll be able to figure it out"

Kelsi watched in stunned silence as her friend left.

She lay back on her bed, staring up at the ceiling

Well she had one thing figured out, she liked Troy

"Now what?"

Next day

Kelsi placed her science and history books in her locker, and took out her math and English books.

She shut her locker. She had been dreading and looking forward to both classes all day, they were the only classes beside drama that her and Troy shared.

In math she barely got the chance to see Troy, their teacher had decided to surprise them with an unexpected quiz and that had taken up the whole period.

When she arrived to English she had discovered that their teacher Miss Hunter was away, Hence the reason why boys were throwing paper planes around and drawing obscene pictures on the chalk board, while the girls were either talking on their cells, or painting there nails.

Kelsi made her way to the last spare desk, which just happened to be next to Troy's.

He looked up from his book.

"Hey Kelsi" he grinned, "Long time no see"

"Hey Troy" she looked down to see what he was writing.

She quirked a brow "Homework already"?

He shrugged, "I have quite a bit to catch up on, I don't suppose you could do it for me " He stuck out his bottom lip in a pout "Pretty please"

Kelsi laughed "Not a chance, I have enough with the play on my hands"

This time it was Troy to quirk a brow " Your not done, home many songs have you written, 1,2,3"?

Kelsi sighed, "Try none"

"Seriously"?

Kelsi nodded her head

He cocked his head and gave a smile "you must have missed me like crazy" he teased

Kelsi could feel her cheeks heating up, if only he knew

"Something wrong" he asked seeing Kelsi's expression.

"Nah I'm fine"

"Don't worry to much about the play, that inspiration is sure to kick in any minute".

"I hope so"

Troy grinned "Sure it will, tell you what why don't you come over to my place after school"

"Ok"

"I mean I'm no whiz with writing songs, but I might be able to give you some ideas"

"ok great"

"Then maybe afterwards you can stay for a movie"

Kelsi eyes widened in surprise. Sure he had asked her to do before when they were hanging with the group, but never just the two of them.

"I mean if you want to that is, " he quickly added.

"Sure" she replied in a squeak.

Maybe it's possible Troy likes me too

Troy turned back to his books, and Kelsi reached down for her book, opening up to a blank page, she picked up her pen and started to write.

Something unfamiliar yet exciting was starting to happen between herself and Troy, and even though Kelsi wasn't quite sure what the outcome would be.

She looked at the two paragraphs in front of her. She definitely had her inspiration back.

FIN