Ok I know this is really late but I haven't gotten a lot of reviews and school is stressing me out so yea. Here's the answer to the trivia question. To refresh your memory, the question was, "Monique Coleman was baby-sitting when she first saw High School Musical. How much money per hour was she making when she saw the movie?" the correct answer is 12 per hour. Unfortunately, no one got it right, so no one will get mentioned. Ok so here it is, chapter 3.………

Over the next few days, Troy and Gabriella (or T and G as they continued to call each other) got to know each other better and fall for each other even more. They both wanted to tell each other how they felt, but didn't know how to say it and were to shy. Well, Troy would have definitely told Gabriella how he felt, but he wasn't sure how Gabriella would take it. Would she be scared? Feel the same way? He didn't want to take any chances.

It was sort of similar for Gabriella. She wanted to tell Troy, but she was WAY to shy to say anything, even though she was sure if her feelings. Plus, what if her stepmother found out she was in love? She would be furious and never let her out again. But that wouldn't matter 'cause she could talk to T anyway. And what if Troy didn't feel the same way? It scared her to death.

About a week and a half later, Troy and Gabriella were deeply in love, and Gabriella was relaxing in her room when she heard a knock on the door.

"ANSWER THE DOOR, GABRIELLA!" Mrs. Evans called.

"Ugh, fine." Gabriella said to herself. But she got up and went to the door anyway.

At the door was a short, chubby man in a fancy blue suit was at the door. He was wearing a curly, white wig (Gabriella wasn't sure if it was a wig, but no one had hair like that anymore, so it had to be a wig)and carrying a letter wrapped in a red ribbon. The man opened the red ribbon, unrolled the letter, and started reading.

"Hear ye, hear ye," he began like all of the royal people Gabriella had seen. "Prince Troy requests that all women in the land be at the palace on--"

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!! Gabriella screamed and snatched the letter from him, not letting him get to the date. She stared at the letter dreamily and slammed the door in the man's face. She stared at the letter, trying to concentrate on the words. She couldn't believe it. It had always been Gabriella's dream to meet Prince Troy and dance with him. Maybe he would fall in love with her, but it wasn't expected. After all, she was only a servant girl, not a rich princess. But the letter said ALL the women in the land, and that included her. Gabriella's eyes finally settled on the phrase, "Prince Troy is looking for a wife." Gabriella had the dire urge to scream her lungs out, but denied it. She just sighed dreamily, staring at the words for as long as she could, but it wasn't very long because as soon as her eyes found the words, the letter was snatched out of her hands.

"Hey!" Gabriella shouted. "I was reading--" she immediately stopped talking when she saw that the letter was in Mrs. Evans's hands.

Mrs. Evans scanned the letter with Jess and Melanie surrounding her. Sharpay was standing next to Gabriella.

Sharpay leaned over to Gabriella and whispered, "What's the letter about?"

"Prince Troy requested that all the women in the land go to the palace to get a chance to possibly his wife!" Gabriella said excitedly.

Sharpay squealed softly with Gabriella. Then she asked, "When's the ball?"

Gabriella's huge smile slowly started to disappear. "I don't know." she said. But Mrs. Evans came out with the answer.

"'Be at the palace on Friday, the 17th of August.'" she read. (A/N: Yes I did that on purpose….) "THAT'S IN TWO DAYS!!" Mrs. Evans shouted suddenly. Jess and Melanie squealed excitedly and jumped up and down. Sharpay and Gabriella jumped and squealed with them. Jess and Melanie pulled Sharpay into their circle, leaving Gabriella to jump by herself. But she didn't care. She was going to see prince Troy, and that was all that mattered. Then, something crossed her mind. She went up to Mrs. Evans and asked, "When am I going to get my dress?"

Jess and Melanie stopped their squeals and stared at Gabriella. Sharpay slowed her jumps, but continued to jump. Gabriella looked from Sharpay, to Jess & Melanie, to Mrs. Evans. When she saw Mrs. Evans, it nearly crushed her.

Mrs. Evans was on the verge of laughing. Her face was red and you could tell she was holding her breath. Gabriella looked back towards her stepsisters. They were holding their breath, too. Well, not Sharpay. She wasn't like that. Then, Mrs. Evans let out the biggest laugh ever. Jess & Melanie let out their laughs, too. Sharpay just stood there and gave Gabriella a sympathetic look, like she had nothing to do with it and couldn't do anything about it. Gabriella gave her a look back that said, I know, it's okay.

Eventually, Mrs. Evans, Jess & Melanie stopped their laughing. Mrs. Evans rested her hand on Gabriella's shoulder. "You're not going to get your dress." she said.

Gabriella gave her a confused look. "Why not?" she asked.

Mrs. Evans chuckled. "Isn't it obvious? Prince Troy would never want do be with you, so why bother?"

A look of pain crossed Gabriella's face. How could her own stepmother say something like that? That she wasn't good enough for Prince Troy. Just like that. It was unbelievable. Gabriella walked back up to her room on the verge of tears.

When she got there, she shut the door and slid down, sobbing. Her one and only dream was to dance with Prince Troy, and now that she had her chance, it was ripped to shreds. A tear slowly fell from her eye. But then she thought about T. If she was with Troy, then she'd have to explain it to T, and how would she do that? She loved him. Then she realized that Troy started with T. Could it be him? Prince Troy is in love with her? No, it couldn't. He wasn't. She looked at the only picture of prince Troy she had. His blondish-brown hair that was too long for a normal boy but not too long for anyone else, his blue eyes that looked like water and you swam in them whenever you looked in them, and his muscles. Oh, how she loved his muscles! But then, her tears started up again, and she put the picture down. Just then, her mice friends, Pierre and Mark, crawled up onto her leg.

"What's wrong, Gabriell-y?" Pierre asked.

"My one shot at being with Prince Troy is ruined all because of my stupid stepmother." Gabriella's voice cracked as she spoke.

"Why wont she let you?" Mark asked.

"She won't let me get a dress just because she thinks Prince Troy won't like me just because I'm a servant girl." Gabriella got louder and louder with every word.

"Well," Pierre started. "you never know. He might fall in love with you, and you'll get married and become princess."

Gabriella shook her head and sighed. "I have to go wash the windows." she said. Then she got up and left the room.

"Poor Gabriell-y" Pierre said after Gabriella had left. "She really wants to be with the prince-y."

"Yea," Mark said. "If only there was someway we could get her to that ball, and make the prince-y fall in love with her."

"THAT'S IT!" Pierre shouted. He quickly whispered his idea to Mark.

"How is that going to make the prince-y fall in love with Gabriell-y?" Mark asked.

"I don't know, but I sure hope it will."

Over the next 36 hours, the mice worked hard and diligent, and kept the whole thing a secret from Gabriella until 2 hours before the ball.

OOH wut are the mice planning for Gabriella? Will she get to the ball? The next chapter might take as long as this 1, it might not idk. The next trivia question is:

Lucas Grabeel shares a birthday with what other Disney Channel Star?

The answer will be in the next chapter. Please R&R. thanks!!

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