Chapter 4: I Say We Get Them Together!
Ever since Gabriella met Troy, she feels like a whole new person. When she got to the hotel with Taylor, she asked her a billion questions.
"What's Troy like?" Gabriella asked.
"Like a guy?" Taylor answered sarcastically.
"What kind of girls is he into?"
"The female kind?"
"What's his favorite stuff in the whole world?"
"His basketball?" Gabriella glares at her. "What? You asked."
"And you should have answered truthfully instead of sarcastically."
"Well, I don't really know. You could ask him yourself."
"For some weird reason, I feel like I know him from somewhere." Gabriella ran into her hotel room and straight into the bathroom.
"Trust me. You have no idea," Taylor mumbled softly enough for herself to hear.
The next day
Taylor and Gabriella promised to meet up at Chad, Troy, and Jason's house the next day. Gabriella was going to meet some new people. But they aren't new to Taylor. They are Kelsi, Sharpay, and Ryan.
Gabriella got excited to see Troy when she found out from Zeke about the invites. Although Gabriella doesn't remember about East High, it was the whole gang coming to Los Angeles to help Gabriella get used to the new environment.
Gabriella, Taylor, and Zeke arrived at the guys' house. Gabriella rings the doorbell. A perky pink-wearing blonde opens the door and hugs Gabriella.
"Oh my god Gabi, you look amazing," Sharpay said when she let go. They guys started laughing. She gave them a confused look.
"Um why is this girl hugging me?" Gabriella asked. Sharpay's eyes went wide open, remembering Gabriella lost her memory, so she doesn't remember her.
"Oh I'm sorry. I'm Sharpay Evans. I go to the school that you moved from San Diego."
"Oh yeah! Taylo told me I went to a school called East High after I moved to Albuquerque." Sharpay nodded and turn toward the crowd.
"Kelsi, Ryan, come meet Gabi." A girl with glasses and a guy with a goofy hat go up and walked toward Sharpay and Gabriella.
"Gabs, meet Kelsi and Ryan. They also went to East High." Gabriella shook Kelsi and Ryan's hands.
"Sharpay, how come you and Ryan look a lot like each other?"
"We're twins. He's my brother." Gabriella made an 'o' shape with her mouth and nodded.
"C'mon gabi, let's sit with the gang." Sharpay linked arms with Gabriella and led her toward the people on the couch. Gabriella knew pretty much all of them. She sat between Troy and Chad. Troy smiled at her and she smiled back.
"So we're having a reunion right?" Chad asked.
"Something like that," Jason answered.
"Then where's the food?" Everyone but Gabriella glared at him. She noticed.
"What's wrong with food?" Gabriella asked.
"Nothing. Chad's constantly thinking about food, so it gets us annoyed," Troy said.
"If nothing's wrong with food, then let's eat!" Gabriella got up from the couch and walked into the kitchen.
Chad got up too. "I like her brain."
"Good, cause you could use one," Taylor said. They burst out laughing. Troy got up.
"I'll go help her." Once Troy leaves the room, everyone left started chattering.
"Troy still likes her!" Sharpay squealed.
"It's hard to see Gabi not remember him. It's like she's acting when it's actually real," Kelsi said.
"I say we get them together!" Chad shouted. Taylor slapped the back of his head.
"No Taylor, that's actually a pretty good idea," Ryan said.
"Well, what should we do?" Jason asked.
"We should put them in a room and lock it until they confess their feelings," Sharpay said. Everyone shook their heads.
"That's too cliché," Taylor said.
"How about getting Troy to tell Gabriella about them meeting when they were five years old?" Chad suggested.
"For once, you don't need Gabi's brain," Jason said. Chad smiled proudly.
"So how are we going to convince Troy to tell her?" Kelsi asked. They started making up ideas and ways.
Meanwhile with Troy and Gabriella
Gabriella goes into the kitchen to find it messy. She started cleaning up the kitchen when she noticed a picture on the kitchen counter. She picked it up and saw the whole gang posing at graduation. She sees herself laughing in the picture. She let out a tear, sad that she doesn't remember any of it. She felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Gabriella, are you okay?" Troy asked.
"Yeah. I'm sad because I don't remember any of this. And I look really happy."
"It's alright. You'll remember it one day."
"But the doctor said it might not be temporary."
"Try your hardest to remember anything."
"If it's possible." Gabriella walks toward the stove, but slips on a napkin. Gabriella fell behind, grabbing onto Troy for support, but instead bringing him down with her. Gabriella fell on the floor with Troy on top of her. She opens her eyes, seeing Troy's face just centimeters away from her face. Her head started feeling dizzy.
"Gabi, are you alright?" Troy said worriedly. Gabriella didn't answer because her head started having a flashback.
Flashback (from At Last I Found You)"Hey Gabi."
Gabriella looked up. "Oh hey Troy. So what did you want to talk to me about?"
"I don't know. I just thought we could talk since you are new and like you said in the closet, we don't really know each other that much." He blushed when he thought about the kiss, but Gabriella didn't notice.
"Okay. Where do you want to start?"
"Um… OH! Where'd you live before you came here?"
"I lived in San Diego, California. You know, where Lego land is?" Troy laughed.
"Yeah, my mom took me there when I was little."
"Yup, then my mom's job got transferred to here so I had to move with her. But I'm used to it because my mom always gets transferred. I guess now I have a best friend from every state."
"Is it hard to move everywhere?"
"Well yeah. Cuz you don't know when you'll see your friends from other states again. They really mean a lot to you and they were part of your life. That's what makes us unique."
Wow she knows a lot. "So did you ever have a boyfriend?"
"No one serious yet, just a couple of dates here and there. But I was the freaky math girl from every school. Some guys used me as a person to tutor, other guys thought I'm too damn slow to figure out they're using me."
"I hear ya; I dated some girls who used me for my popularity. I hate it when they do that because they mix up your feelings and you don't know from lies to truth."
"Did Sharpay ever treat you like that? Like she's using you for your popularity?"
"Well, I'm going with the flow. She was already popular before I started dating her, so I guess its Most Popular Girl dating the Most Popular Guy in school."
"Movies always pair them up like that. It's weird because one of them starts falling in love with a nerd or science freak or anybody outside their clique.
You have no idea. "Yeah, you're smart for your age to notice these things. I haven't even figured them out and you figured it out for me." Troy smiled.
"We being friends like this is unusual for both of us. You really don't see most popular guy and freaky math girl hanging around each other. It's just like kindergarten. You say hi to a stranger and then the next second you guys just start acting like you were friends for the longest time."
"Yeah." Troy smiled.
"I know it's weird to ask you this but would you be my best friend? I know you'd say no but I got to give it a shot cuz you seem like a nice person and I've never had a guy as my best friend. And I…" Troy cuts her off.
"Of course, Gabriella. I'd love to be your best friend." Troy puts his hands on her shoulders and pulls her to a hug. Gabriella looks shock but then hugs him back.
Troy pulled back. "You'll be the best friend I'll ever have." Gabriella smiled.
End Flashback
"Gabi! Are you okay?!" Troy yelled more worriedly than the first time.
"I'm fine Troy. I just had a flashback."
"What flashback?"
"Something about me asking you to be my best friend."
"You actually remembered that? It was the day after spin the bottle with you. Also the day I broke up with Sharpay."
"You broke up with Sharpay?"
"I used to date her before…"
"Before who?"
"Never mind."
"That was my first flashback during the three years of memory I lost."
"I guess it's cause you hit your head?"
"Maybe." They hear clapping and turn their heads to see the whole gang applauding.
"Troyella is back!!" Chad shouted. Taylor elbowed him in the stomach and everybody laughed. Troy and Gabriella saw them still on the ground and got up.
"You guys okay?" Kelsi asked. They both nodded.
"Then it's reunion time!" Chad runs toward the refrigerator and takes out as much food as possible. "C'mon and help me get the food out." The gang runs toward the refrigerator and grabs all the food. They walk into the living room and pile all the food on the table like a buffet. They decided to watch 'Date Movie'. On the couch were seated Chad, Taylor, Gabriella, Troy, and Jason. On the floor is seated Ryan, Kelsi, Sharpay and Zeke.
Half of the movie was done and Chad fell asleep on Taylor's back. The girls were grabbing pillows and laughing into the pillows each time a funny part came up. The guys except Chad keep eating the food without watching the movie since they watched it a million times. When the movie was done, only Troy and Jason were awake. Everybody else was asleep.
"I'll go put Gabriella in my bed to sleep." Jason nodded and Troy carried Gabriella bride-style upstairs to his room.
Troy kicked his door open and pull over his covers to put Gabriella in. Gabriella sleeps peacefully and Troy pull his covers onto Gabriella's body. He kisses her forehead goodnight and leaves, but feels a hand pulling onto his wrist.
"Don't go Troy… I love you…" Gabriella mumbled. Troy heard it perfectly. "You… make my life… whole…"
"Gabriella what are you talking about?"
"Don't leave me… I regretted the day you broke up with me… I couldn't let go of you…"
"Gabriella what's up? Tell me."
"I… want… to be with you." Gabriella let out a moan.
"Gabriella?" Silence.
"Gabi?" Silence. I guess she's dreaming. Troy walks back downstairs to see Taylor awake, still having Chad sleeping on her back.
"Hey Taylor can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"I just took Gabriella upstairs to my room. Does Gabriella say stuff in her sleep?"
"Sometimes. Why?"
"She was talking about the day that I broke up with her. I thought she lost her memory."
"I know that's weird too. I've noticed that. Last time, she was talking about the time at the carnival."
"Did she really lose her memory?"
"I'm not sure actually. When she's awake, she doesn't remember East High. But when she's asleep, she remembers everything perfectly."
"I guess it's just sleep talking."
"Yeah. No biggie. It might be a sign telling us that her memory might come back."
"I guess." Taylor look back at Chad and smiled. Troy smiled too, but let out a tear for the first time, thinking of Gabriella would never get better all because of him.
A/N: Sorry for the delay. I'm getting a new one-shot of Troyella. It's about Gabriella getting a dog. He's one smart dog. But anyways, I also got the next chapter in my documents, so I'll post that up tomorrow or so. Thanks. And keep reviewing. You know I love it.
