After school Gabriella went straight to the mall
After school Gabriella went straight to the mall. Usually she preferred the nice quiet atmosphere of the library, but today Sharpay and Taylor had dragged her to the mall, because it was Sharpay's philosophy that shopping solved all problems.
Gabriella was exhausted, she had dark circles under her eyes and he eyes were red from lack of sleep and crying every night. She hadn't really talked to her mother in about a week now, and of course Henry didn't even look her direction. She really missed talking to her mom, they used to have such a great relationship, it seemed that her family was quickly falling apart before her own eyes.
But once she did fall asleep she had that same dream of the winter formal, her dancing with her pen pal, in that beautiful gown. She sighed and looked for Taylor and Sharpay, noticing there were no where in sight. She slowly got up and went into the dress store straight ahead of her, remembering Sharpay saying something about a dress for the dance.
Gabriella was blinded by all the colors and different types of dresses. She could see Sharpay squealing and bouncing around with a bright pink dress on, gushing about how much she loved it. Gabriella went in the opposite direction she didn't want to deal with pretending to care, she absent mindedly flicked through some of the dresses on the clearance rack.
All of a sudden, her hand just stopped, Gabriella was shocked by this involuntary movement of her right hand. The dress that her hand had stopped at has shoved way into the back, and as she pulled it out, she knew, it was the dress from her dreams.
She could hardly breathe? Was she dreaming? How could a dress that she dreamed of actually be right in front of her right now?
She felt the soft silk fabrics, and the intricate beading, and perfect shade of creamy white. She looked at the price tag, and gasped. Even though it was on clearance it was still 780 dollars! She sadly reached to put it back, until a hand reached and grabbed it from her.
"Gabby! This is gorgeous! It will look absolutely perfect on you! You have to try it on!" squealed Sharpay. And she took her by the hand and led her to the dressing room.
Gabriella tried, what choice did she have?
It fit her perfectly, the waist, bust, and length fit so perfectly you could've said it was made for her. She walked out to show Taylor and Sharpay.
They were speechless.
"Gabs, you look beautiful…" Taylor said in awe.
"I'm speechless. That is one dress…" Sharpay said, using an normal voice for once in her life.
And Gabriella looked at her own reflection, she really did look beautiful. But looking at the price tag she knew this dress could never be hers, she ran back into the dressing room and changed as quickly as possible, and ran out of the store in tears.
"You are completely hopeless in math." Gabriella said, at the end of 4th period.
Troy ran his hand through his hair, which he did when he was frustrated. "This trig thing is impossible!"
Gabriella sighed, math had always just come easily to her, and it was frustrating that she never had enough time to teach him thoroughly and by the next day he had already forgotten everything.
"How about you come to my house after school today? Then you can teach me until I understand this stuff." Troy said.
Gabriella smiled; she took any reason to just get out of her house. "Yea, that sounds great."
"Meet me in front of the school parking lot, I know you don't have a car, and I'm bad at giving directions so we'll just study right after school." He said while packing up his books.
"Alright," Gabriella said, doing the same.
"Until then Montez."
"Until then Bolton."
Gabriella waited in front of the school parking lot, waiting for Troy. His Black Nissan 350z pulled up in front of her, "Get in." he said simply.
Gabriella opened the door, and she could feel someone death glare her, she turned around to see Jessica and her ring of cheerleading followers all give her the evil eye. Gabriella just shrugged it off and got in.
The Bolton house was huge; it had its own basketball court and everything.
"Mom, this is Gabriella Montez, she's the one whose been tutoring me in precal." Troy said introducing Gabriella to his mother.
"Nice to meet you Gabriella, I hope he's not too much trouble," said Mrs. Bolton.
"Absolutely not," Gabriella said with a smile, "I love helping anyone who needs it."
"Won't you stay for dinner? We're having pasta." Mrs. Bolton said.
"I don't want to be any trouble."
"Absolutely not! We would love to have you stay for dinner, right darling?" She said, eyeing Troy.
"Yea," Troy said while sighing, "We would love to have you stay for dinner Montez."
Gabriella smiled, "Sure, I would love to have dinner, Mrs. Bolton."
Then Troy lead Gabriella to his room to work, he was felt embarrassed by his mother.
This room was actually not as messy or dirty as Gabriella thought it would be. It was simple, except of the basketball posters that graced his walls, trophies that graced his book selves, and he had at least five basketballs in his room.
Gabriella sat down at the desk, and looked around as Troy went to get another chair. His computer was up, she sighed, people should turn off their computers, it was such as waste of energy. She wasn't trying to be nosey, but she was just using his internet to look at her myspace, and Troy came in behind her.
"What are you doing?" Troy asked suddenly fuming mad.
His anger startled Gabriella, "I was just… just… checking my my… myspace…" She stuttered.
"You know it rude to go on other people's computer without permission." He said, he seemed to be calming down a bit.
"I'm really sorry…" Gabriella said, she understood that he was mad, she would've been too… she had a lot of personal IMs saved and she would die if someone found them.
"Okay… I'm sorry I over reacted…" Troy said looking at Gabriella's shocked and guilt stricken face. "Lets get to work."
Troy took Gabriella home. The car was silent and awkward, Troy felt guilty about blowing up at her, but he didn't want her to know about his pen pal, it was his little secret.
"I'm sorry." They both said at the same time. "What why are you sorry? Hey stop that!"
They started to crack up.
Gabriella was near tears, it was good to laugh, and she hadn't laughed this hard in a long time. She was laughing and missed the turn to her house, and Troy had drive all the way around to get to her house.
Troy stopped outside her house.
"You're not all bad Montez." Troy said.
"Ditto Bolton." Gabriella said as she got out of the car.
"Same thing tomorrow?" Troy said.
"Yea sure." Gabriella said, and slammed the door.
She watched him drive away, sighed and went inside.
"Stay away from my boyfriend." Jessica sneered, cornering Gabriella in the girls' locker room.
"Excuse me?" Gabriella said confused.
"Stay away from Troy Bolton." Jessica said, this time one of her followers, repeating her, like in a mob movie.
"Um, I'm just tutoring him." She said.
"Yea, sure… there was no need for you to go home with him yesterday." Jessica said.
"Do you know how much he sucks as trig?" She said, this was stupid and this was just a waste of her time. "Why don't you tutor him then? I forgot you failed Precal too."
Jessica looked shocked, quiet, nerdy Gabriella Montez was talking back to her. Gabriella had been really snappy lately, she was still getting only a few hours of sleep each night, and problems with her mom weren't getting any better.
"Well just know that if you even think you have a chance with Troy… you don't." Said Brittney one of Jessica's followers.
"Didn't even cross my mind," Gabriella said as she pushed passed the group and headed for the gym.
"Nice going back there!" Taylor said, giving her a high five.
"Thanks." Gabriella said smiling weakly.
BASKETBALLboi: are you still depressed?
Brains&Beauty: actually im feeling a little better.
BASKETBALLboi: why the sudden change in mood?
Brains&Beauty: I snapped back at this girl who has been bullying me at school.
BASKETBALLboi: LOL. You?
Brains&Beauty: yea. Surprising right?
BASKETBALLboi: im glad your feeling a little better.
Brains&Beauty: thanks
BASKETBALLboi: how are things at home?
Brains&Beauty: sigh im still not talking to my mom.
BASKETBALLboi: you have to talk to her sometime.
Brains&Beauty: I know…
Brains&Beauty: hey… where do you live?
BASKETBALLboi: What? That was random! -.-;;
Brains&Beauty: I don't know I feel courageous today…
BASKETBALLboi: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Brains&Beauty: O.o Really?
BASKETBALLboi: yea…
Brains&Beauty: I do too!
BASKETBALLboi: That's cool. Why do you ask though? Why all of a sudden?
Brains&Beauty: …
Brains&Beauty: Another time.
BASKETBALLboi: What your going to leave me hanging?
Brains&Beauty: Dream about me tonight
BASKETBALLboi: I dream about you every night.
BASKETBALLboi signed off at 11:05 PM
Gabriella couldn't breathe. And read the it over again and again.
"I dream about you every night."
What could this mean?
I hope everyone is enjoying it! Next story is going have a lot more of Ryan and Chad, I noticed their hardly in the story! Don't worry, it will their moment to shine! Please leave a review if you enjoyed it, or if you have any suggestions! PEACE!
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