AN: Hey guys, sooo sorry I haven't updated in a couple of days

AN: Hey guys, sooo sorry I haven't updated in a looooooooooong time! Thanks for all the reviews!! I love you guys!!

Disclaimer: Yeah, I own HSM and Taylor Swift. I also raised Britney Spears to grow up to be a crack head, and Jamie Lynn to be a pregnant teen.

PS. I don't hate Britney or Jamie, just so you guys know, lol.

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Gabriella looked at him innocently for a few seconds, and said, "NOT!!" she laughed at him. Troy frowned at her. Gabriella sat up and whispered into his ear and said, "Troy Bolton is the sexiest man, in the universe."

At that, Troy closed the door and they started to do what they were doing earlier. Again.

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Gabriella was smiling when she came downstairs the very next morning. It was like she forgot all about Troy and Sharpay getting married, except she didn't. She sat down at the same seat she sat at the day before, as did everyone else, except Kenzie, since she just arrived the day before and sat next to Ryan.

Sharpay and Zeke were actually the last people to come downstairs. That's probably why breakfast was later than usual; they had a cook come. Sharpay's hair was in a really messy bun and she wore striped silk pajamas and blue fuzzy slippers while Zeke just wore a robe over his pajama bottoms and white undershirt.

"Good morning guys." She yawned, smiling. She sat down, taking her plate. Gabriella looked at her friend, wondering why both her and Zeke were late.

"Shar, what's up? You didn't brush your hair this morning. Your hair is always slick and smooth when we come down." Taylor said. Sharpay shifted in her seat and adjusted her voice.

"Well, I gotta over sleep sometimes, don't I, Taylor?" Sharpay said, even though that wasn't really an answer.

"But I thought you had an alarm clock that wakes you up at 7:00 AM every morning." Kelsi said, biting a piece of turkey bacon.

Sharpay swallowed some of her scrambled eggs. "Maybe I didn't want to get up. Maybe I just took out the plug." She said, chasing some cut pieces of sausage on her plate.

"That's what I do all the time!" Chad said, smiling, but then it turned into a frown. "Until Taylor gets up and drags me down here to eat."

Everybody looked at Taylor. "What? It's true, he does! I have to do it! It's human nature!!" she explained.

Everybody laughed. Suddenly, the cook came.

"Ms. Evans, Mr. Bolton, guests, would any of you like dessert?" he asked, pulling out a tray of some of the desserts that Zeke had made the day earlier.

"See? If I didn't drag you down here every morning, you would have missed out on the dessert!" Taylor said, examining his gleaming eyes of pleasure that have been glued onto the dessert tray.

Gabriella shook her head as she grabbed a plate of dessert along with everybody else.

Suddenly, when everybody was eating crème brulèe, cake, Zeke's brownies, etc., Sharpay got up and smiled.

"Guys, another announcement!!" she said, giddily. "Today, we are going to get a singer for the wedding!!"

"Hey, why doesn't Gabriella sing, so we don't have to have to listen to horrible singers audition all day?" Jason said.

Sharpay stayed quiet for a while. "Hey, that's a great idea, Jason!" Sharpay said finally, frowning a little, realizing she just said that to Jason. "But, we need a back-up singer if Gabriella doesn't want to or can't sing at the wedding."

"No, no. I want to sing, it could be fun." Gabriella said, shrugging. "But I am definitely not going to listen at the rehearsals or auditions."

Everybody else nodded in agreement.

Sharpay frowned again. "Troy, you'll come with me, won't you?" she asked.

Troy looked at Gabriella. She was eating a piece of her turkey bacon. He sighed. "Sure, Shar. I'll go with you."

"Zeke, do you want to come to? The cook is gonna be here for the rest of the day, so you don't need to cook. And, when we were in high school you never minded listening to me sing on stage during rehearsals." Sharpay tried not to sound like she was eager for Zeke to come, but for the passed few days she started missing how they were like back then.

Zeke's straight face turned into a happy one. "Well, sure. I've been needing something to do for the week."

"Great!" Sharpay said.

Auditions

"Because I can't remember when it was me…" Gabriella heard that when she entered the door to the auditions.

When she looked to see who was singing, she saw the same girl from Starbucks, the day they were trying on the dresses.

"You're hired! You can sing a duet with my friend Gabriella. If only she ca-" Sharpay started, but she saw Gabriella.

"Oh, she's here!" Sharpay squealed. "Monica, this is Gabriella. Gabriella, Monica."

The two shook hands. "Hey, aren't you the same girl that I saw singing at Starbucks about a day ago?" Gabriella brought up. "You were singing the same song."

"Yeah, I did. I think I remember you, were you the girl who I saw kissing this one guy, I don't know how he looks like, but I'm pretty sure he had blue eyes…?" Monica asked.

Sharpay raised an eyebrow in interest. Gabriella gulped.

"No…I was just the girl sitting in a chair, having a frappucinno. I have no romantic feelings for anybody right now." Gabriella half-lied.

"Oh, than it must've been someone else. I swear you looked a lot like the girl. Same brown curly hair, chocolate eyes. Really pretty." Monica said, smiling. Monica was wearing a blue elbow-cut sleeved shirt, jeans, and her hair was layered, with blonde highlights to compliment her darker brown hair.

"Thanks. Well, the girl must be my twin, from the back at least." Gabriella giggled. Sharpay's expression changed back from suspicious to happy. Gabriella was relieved. That was close… Troy and Gabriella both thought.

"Wait a minute…I think I really do know you. Monica…Monica Carrington? From the modeling course I took in the beginning if college?" Gabriella said, examining at the girl.

"Gabby! Right, now I remember! We had to rehearse that one mirror thing together in college. Hey, didn't you show me a song you wrote? What was it…uhh, Teardrops on My Guitar?" Monica asked.

"Yeah! I actually wrote that back in high school, after one of my school's er…proms." Gabriella said, remembering.

Flashback: 10 years ago: Valentine's Day

It was study hall; the whole gang was in there. Troy and Gabriella still weren't together yet, but Gabriella was happy because that day was the day of their school's Valentine's Day Dance. And she was going with none other than Troy Bolton. She remembered that she found out he was going to ask her after he let Sharpay tell her; and Kelsi told Troy that Gabriella said yes.

Unfortunately, something Gabriella wasn't expecting was about to come.

"Troy says that he's going to the dance with Karen, she asked him yesterday in a card when she gave him a box of chocolates, and you didn't give him shit, ha just kidding, but he says he'll go to the next dance with you. So…yeah." Chad said, when he walked up to Gabriella. After that he turned away back to the table where he and Troy were sitting.

Sharpay was next to her, and she witnessed the whole thing.

"I'm so sorry Gabriella." Sharpay said, resting her hands on her friend's left shoulder.

At first Gabriella didn't feel that sad, she tried convincing herself that she didn't care about it. But as she and Sharpay continued what they were doing tears got into her eyes, but she held them in and didn't cry. Karen was Troy's ex who had an on and off relationship with him until Troy decided to officially end it.

At the dance, Gabriella had to run from school with Sharpay to Kelsi's house to change and then when they were running back to school it started raining. Gabriella always knew that bad weather meant a bad day for her or someone else.

When they got in, Gabriella avoided Troy's eyes when she handed Lauren (Troy's cousin) her ticket. Gabriella's eyes were still filled with tears, but she still didn't cry.

When Gabriella finally got home, she ran to her room and immediately burst into tears. Gabriella wasn't the kind of girl to cry for a boy, so this was a first for her. Her crying proved that she had real feelings for Troy, but he played with her heart and tore it apart. After all, loving someone is giving them a chance to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

End Flashback

(AN: for your information…the flashback happened to me, way back in February. That's one of the reasons why I didn't update…)

Troy looked at Gabriella; she smiled a little, and then looked away. She started having second thoughts about Troy. That was only the first time he'd hurt her. Then there was graduation. What are the odds of him hurting her again?

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AN: Again guys, I am seriously really, really, really, really sorry for the lack of updates, since I haven't updated in like four months!!