Chapter 4- Friday Night
"Troysie!" Jenna walked towards him.
"Jenna, I told you that we're officially over!" Troy explained once more.
"Yeah, whatever." Jenna grabbed Troy and faced Sharpay again. "He's mine."
"Jenna, I'm not going out with him, chillax!" Sharpay said coolly.
"Sure, that's what you say. Sharpay, your acting skills are great, but save it for the spring musical."
"JENNA SINGLETON! FOR TH LAST FREAKIN—" Sharpay was interrupted by Zeke Baylor, her boyfriend.
"What in the world is going on?" Zeke stepped in.
"Boyfriend fight." Troy mumbled.
"Huh?" Zeke was confused.
Everyone was still staring at them, dying to know what will happen next.
"Zeke, I think your sweet girlfriend is not being honest to you." Jenna said.
"What?" Zeke looked confused.
"Sharpay stole my Troysie!" Jenna pretended to be hurt.
"Whoa!" Zeke laughed, "Shar and Troy? No way! They've been brothers and sisters since the 5th grade."
"See, I told you!" Sharpay glared at Jenna.
"Ok, if you didn't steal Troysie, she must have!" Jenna pointed directly to Gabriella. She spotted her talking to Troy earlier.
"Me?!" Gabriella was scared.
"Yes, you b-- " Jenna remembered that the teacher might hear her. "You idiot."
"What did I do?" Gabriella's cheeks started to turn red and hot. She noticed people looking at her and whispering things.
"Uh, you know what you did." Jenna said in a 'duh' tone. "You were stuck in detention with Troy and you were just talking to him. I'm not retarded, Montez."
Taylor looked at Gabriella. She knew that Gabriella had something she didn't want to tell Jenna.
"Aha! I knew it was you, Montez!" Jenna said proudly.
Troy gulped and raised his voice. "Gabriella didn't do anything."
"Stop defending her, Troy! You know people will find out your lying." Jenna said.
"I'm not defending her. It's true. Jenna, I dumped you because you were being such a bitch earlier. Not for Gabriella." Troy heard the crowd gasp right after he said the "b" word.
"What did you just call me, Bolton?" Jenna was insanely mad.
"That's what you call Gabriella. Now you know how it feels, Jenna." Troy pushed her aside and walked away.
As the crowd began to spread out. Gabriella was left alone since Taylor had to return a book to the school library.
"Gabriella?" Troy tapped on her shoulders.
"Hi, Troy." She turned around. "Thanks for, you know helping me."
"You're welcome." Troy smiled. "Oh! You still remember tonight, right? I'll pick you up at 6." Once again, he winked at Gabriella.
That one wink made Gabriella melt. "I guess." She blushed, feeling all light. It was as if she could float in the air.
Troy said bye and walked off to his friends.
"I knew it!" Taylor appeared out of no where.
"Taylor, what the heck?" Gabriella was in shock.
"Troy did dump Jenna for you!"
"NO! He's in my history class and we barely even talk." Gabriella blushed.
"Well, I think that my ears are pretty damn accurate. Cuz I heard him taking you out tonight." Taylor smirked.
"Get your ears checked, girlfriend." Gabriella joked.
"Gabi, just admit it! You like him! You're blushing." Taylor walked faster to keep up with her.
"Ok, I like him. So what?"
"I can tell that he likes you too." Taylor said precisely.
"How do you know? Maybe I'm just a substitute for Jenna."
"I think you need to get your ears checked. In front of everyone, he called Jenna a… bitch." Taylor said and mumbled the last word. "And he told Jenna that that's how you feel when she calls you that. That's basically leaving a big hint that he likes you."
"Sure, whatever." Gabriella walked even faster.
"Well, looks like somebody's not listening to my advice."
"That was very shocking for you to say." Zeke told Troy in the locker room after basketball practice.
"Well, Jenna is quite a bitch." Troy said back.
"But what's up with you and Gabriella?" Zeke smirked.
"We're friends."
"Doesn't seem like friends to me." Zeke shook his head.
"Fine, I really like her." Troy whispered to Zeke.
"But dude, not that I have anything against her or anything. Once the school finds out, it's not going to be good." Zeke said disapprovingly.
"I know." Troy sighed. "Well, I asked her out."
"You did?" Zeke pulled his shirt over his head and threw his jersey in his bag.
"She said yes. So I'm picking her up at 6 tonight."
"Good luck, man. Tell me all about it on Monday." Zeke patted him on the shoulders as he exited the locker room.
"Mom, I'm going out tonight." Troy yelled to her mom from upstairs.
"With who?"
Troy walked downstairs to find her parents sitting in the living room. "This pretty girl name, Gabriella Montez."
"That's great. Where does she live?" Jack asked.
"Courtyard Crossing" Troy answered excitedly.
"Aren't those… apartments?" Jack asked, raising one eyebrow.
"Sure, why?" Troy said, tossing his car keys in the air.
"Son, I think we need to talk." Mr. Bolton motioned to his son to sit next to him.
Troy sat down next to him and got a bit worried. "Dad, I have to go in 15 minutes, could you make it quick?"
"Troy, what did I warn you about dating?" Jack asked as Lucille got up to leave the two boys alone.
"To choose a girl that you like and that you have to meet her after our first date?" Troy shook his head confusingly.
"No, I mean, the type of girls you should choose."
"Well, you told me to choose girls that aren't bad influences, that are sweet, kind, and willing to give up for a guy, beautiful-- " Troy was cut of by Jack.
"Your missing the point. The important thing is, I want you to be with someone that you can relate to."
"What do you mean?" Troy asked.
"Like you could relate to Jenna because you're both rich. But Gabriella is poor! Those apartments have only 2 bedrooms and one bath."
"Dad! I can't believe you're trying to judge Gabriella from what she couldn't control." Troy stood up furiously. "It's not her fault that her mom was pregnant at 18 and she never met her father!? It's not her fault that her mom doesn't make more than 1,000 dollars a month?! She's just an ordinary girl! Maybe Jenna's mom makes over 20,000 bucks a month, so?"
"Troy, how could you go out and be yourself when you have everything you wanted and she doesn't even have enough for a slice of that chocolate cake?" Jack pointed to a slice of an expensive and delicious piece of cake.
"Dad, why are you making this hard?" Troy shouted.
"I'm not, stop being so stubborn! And listen to your father!" Jack lectured him.
"I don't care! I like Gabriella and I want to go on this date!" Troy walked towards his garage, got in his Audi and drove off to Gabriela's house.
Gabriella checked herself in a body-length for the last time. She had on a nice purple evening dress and her hair left naturally curly. She wore her mom's old purple closed-toed 4 inch heels and walked to the front door when she heard the doorbell.
"Hey, Gabriella." Troy immediately locked eye contact with Gabriella as she opened the door for him.
"Hi…uh…" Gabriella stuttered.
"Troy you mean?" He chuckled.
"Yeah, sorry. I start to stutter when I'm uh…" She again, stuttered.
"Nervous?" Troy chuckled and Gabriella blushed.
"Yeah."
A/N: Did you like it? Well, review! If you want more then, review! Sorry for the delay! I saved everything on my computer but I wasn't home until like 11pm at night and I was very tired. Not my fault. My parents were treating me like a baby. They didn't let me be home alone. They were gone somewhere for their work. Anyway, Well, I wrote chapter 3 on Friday and didn't have time to upload it on Friday. So sorry if I kept you waiting! I also updated on Email my Heart. And I uploaded a new one-shot, "Girl In the Mirror" Check it out and review! ;p xxx Natalie
