"Brie, it is lunch. It's not like you are locking yourself in a room with him. You have to sit by him, big deal." Sharpay tried to comfort her best friend as they headed toward the lunch table. "By the way this is weird." Gabriella looked at her,
"Having a girl hate your brother?" Sharpay laughed,
"Having a best friend, usually I'm stuck with Chad and Troy all day. I mean I am popular but…I don't really have 'best friends,' I'm kind of like you were back in California." They walked up the steps toward the upper part of the cafeteria with all eyes on them.
Gabriella's brown eyes looked at the table. It was weird to her. The table had tablecloth and candles. She looked at the lower part and they were plain. The nerd tables were broken up and the cool table was one long table.
"This is really weird." Gabriella mumbled to her best friend. Sharpay laughed,
"Troy's dad set it up for me and Troy. We are his 'little angels.' Whatever," The two girls giggled. There were two open seats. The seats were between Chad and Troy.
"Ella…so nice of you to show up." Troy said as he pulled out her chair. She glared at him and sat down. "I was afraid you might chicken out on me." She smirked and sat down beside him.
The whole table was staring at them. Most of the cheerleaders were glaring at her because 'The Troy Bolton' was interested in the new girl. He had even given her a nickname.
"So…Ella…let's make conversation." He said looking over at her. She glared and opened her lunch box. She had a turkey croissant and wheat thins to eat, she also had Evian water to drink.
"About what? We have nothing in common. I hate you." He laughed and put his hands behind his head leaning back,
"Ella…I'm being very patient with you. I could make you sit down there with the nerds, you know, I'm doing you a favor." She took a bite of her sandwich and sneered,
"I'm sure you are doing it out of the goodness in your heart, Bolton." He took a bite of his sandwich. It practically had every meat imaginable on it.
"I did…I'm a nice guy…really. I mean I fulfill all of the girls' desires for them. What would they do without me?"
She put her brown hair up in a ponytail as she sat at the table. It was awkward and almost making her sweat.
"Stay abstinent?" He rolled his blue eyes. Why couldn't she be easy like all the other girls? Even though he had to bend over backwards to get her attention he was still oddly drawn to her.
"Nah…girls here aren't as stubborn as you. They'd find someone to screw. They are pretty promiscuous." Gabriella chuckled a bit at that. He had a joking tone but they both knew it was true.
"That's your type though…right?" He glared at her. He couldn't do anything to make her 'like' him. All he needed to do was make her think he was a nice guy so he could get her into bed. That was his main objective. Then he could throw her out like all of the rest of the girls.
"Nah…girl is my type. Hell…you are even my type." She looked at her food again. This guy was stupid. Could he not take a hint? She wasn't easy. She wasn't into cute guys with no cooperation. And she hated cocky guys with big egos.
"Too bad you aren't mine. Bolton, you can make me sit by you everyday and I still won't like you." He leaned over and whispered.
"Ella, sweetheart, once you sleep with me then you will definitely like me, ask any girl at the school." She slapped him. Nobody talks to her like that, let alone the cocky idiot Troy Bolton. The whole table silenced again. The only noise that was heard was a chuckle from Chad and Sharpay then Troy Bolton's silent profanity.
"Don't you ever talk to me like that again, do you understand?" He held his face for a moment and anger flashed in his eyes,
"Don't touch me! Do you understand the rules? I can make your life a living hell." She stared at him.
"The rules? Are these written down somewhere? Was someone supposed to read them to me? You can rule your school if you want to, but you aren't going to mess with me." He still had the anger in his eyes. If she wasn't a girl then she would have been hit in the face.
"Whatever. Go do whatever the hell you want!" Troy slammed Gabriella's chair into the table out of anger and Gabriella stormed off. "Why the hell won't she just sleep with me and get it over with? She lives in the same house…it's not like she'll actually have to drive there." Sharpay spoke,
"Bro, she loathes you! She's not the girl that will jump into the bed at any second. She wants the one thing you can't handle!" He rolled his eyes.
"What are you talking about?" Sharpay lowered her voice,
"She wants an actual relationship."
Troy frowned and headed the other direction. He didn't need a relationship. He had girls to screw. That's all he wanted. He could have any girl he wants, besides her.
Gabriella Montez wasn't going to have the picture perfect lunch table, thanks to Troy Bolton, and she couldn't do a damn thing about it.
Whoa! Did you know that the airport that Gabriella flew into in chapter 2 is an actual airport in Albuquerque? And…that there is a real high school called 'Eastern Hills High School' in Fort Worth, Texas?
Up next:
Gabriella makes a new friend that causes another conflict with Troy Bolton.