She felt his breath on her neck. She could sniff out his cologne as they were surrounded by a hundred or so people. Gabriella shut her eyes as his hands slid themselves into her black adidas sweat pants as they moved to the rhythm of the song. Gabriella opened her eyes as their bodies molded together while her back was firmly pressed into his chest. She could feel him poking her in the lower back as his hands slowly massaged her.
Gabriella knew she needed him as his warm hands ran across her folds. She shivered as his lips left open mouth kisses on the back of her neck. Gabriella lifted her arms up and put them around his neck as their bodies continued to grind on each other. She played with the little hairs on the back of his neck as she felt him flick her clit as her breathing picked up heavily.
He smirked against the back of her neck as he teased her making her even more wet. Gabriella turned her head and tilted it upwards so that he could meet her in a long passionate kiss. He entered one finger in her, but stayed stationary as everyone around them continued to be oblivious to them or else they were doing the same thing.
He pulled one hand out of her pants as his finger stayed in and started moving. Gabriella bit back a moan as his hand trailed up her exposed stomach since she was only wearing a strap sports bra, and an adidas black sports jacket that was unzipped since she came here to dance, after all it was a club that she went to when she did have free time. She never would've expected him to be there.
He added another finger making her moan out. "Troy…"
"Gabi…" Troy huskily said in Gabriella's ear as he tugged on her ear lobe gently.
"GABI." Taylor said loudly as Gabriella's eyes flickered open and closed and then open again only to squint to the bright school lights hanging over her head.
Gabriella looked around and jolted upright in her seat once she realized where she was, she was in AP Calculus, the class she shared with Taylor and…Troy. And then Gabriella's face paled, did she just have a dirty dancing dream in school? About Troy? She knew that she was attracted to him, who wasn't? But they haven't even said one word to each other, and she was already dreaming about him fingering her?
"What time is it?" Gabriella managed to ask as she calmed herself down and looked around and saw no one in the classroom.
"It's last period now." Taylor said as Gabriella stood up and gathered her things. It was Monday which meant she had just survived another intense weekend with her mother at the studio. The two walked out of the room as Tay looked at Gabriella wondering silently if Gabriella was going to explain herself for falling asleep throughout the whole lesson. Gabriella just looked at Tay with a guilty face. "How do you do it?" Taylor asked as they walked down the halls.
"Do what?" Gabriella asked with a yawn.
Taylor rolled her eyes dramatically. "You are in two AP classes this year, dance every night, get exceptional grades, and you still can manage to fall asleep in school and then dance some more!" Taylor exclaimed drawing some kids attentions in the hall.
Gabriella shrugged her shoulders as she leaned up against the lockers and shut her eyes. "I honestly don't know."
Taylor flicked her best friend in the arm making her jump and snap open her eyes. "What the hell Tay?!" Gabriella half yelled.
Tay just gave her a cheeky smile as they continued walking down the halls. "Why are you so tired?"
Gabriella sighed and blew out a big breath of air. "Really long dance practice yesterday since I skipped out on Friday night." Gabriella said as if it was nothing.
Taylor's jaw dropped open as she looked at her friendly quickly and then averted her eyes forward so they didn't run into any kids. "You skipped Friday, what happened?"
"I just needed…a release." Gabriella said as they stopped at their lockers whith were two away from each other. "So you have gym class right now?" Gabriella asked.
Tay scrunched up her face in dislike even though her boyfriend for a year was in her class. "Yeah, but it's not the same that you're not in it."
Gabriella let out a little laugh as she grabbed her black duffel bag and slung it over her shoulder getting ready to leave school since she didn't need to go to gym. "Tay, I have only been in your gym class one time before and I only stayed in it for a week." Gabriella reminded her best friend.
Taylor shrugged her shoulders as she stood by Gabriella's locker now. "Still, that doesn't mean that I would prefer suffering through dodge ball by myself than with a friend."
Gabriella just smiled at her friend. "So you would want to take me down with you, nice." Gabriella and Tay shared a laugh as Gabriella took out her ipod and started turning it on. Just then a blur of afro pushed past them as there was only a couple of kids in the hallway now. Gabriella was brushed aside as she nearly fell if Taylor wasn't behind her to help steady her friend.
"Hey!" Taylor called out angrily and then noticed that it was her boyfriend that just rushed past him obviously running from something.
"Hey Baby, talk to you later!" Chad called as he quickly turned the corner and out of sight as Tay and Gabriella just stood there dumbfounded as they heard Chad's faint voice call out, "Bye Gabster!"
"What the he--" Gabriella was cut off as another body slightly slammed into her small shoulder and spun her around 180 degrees. "Hell?" Gabriella finished as Taylor steadied her body again.
This time Gabriella looked back angrily and then froze in her spot. There he was, Troy. Troy stopped once he felt his body collide with someone else's and as he turned around they locked eyes again. Gabriella felt her breath hitch as her eyes softened to match Troy's.
They stood there for what seemed like hours as Troy took a step forward to get closer to Gabriella and Taylor. She wanted to say something, but she had been avoiding him all day. They hadn't locked eyes at all and during their classes Gabriella made sure that her music was turned on exceptionally loud as she just would doodle in her notebooks. Gabriella took a step back and ripped her eyes away from Troy, what was she supposed to say, 'sorry for running out on Friday, hope you don't mind I made you chase after me?' Yeah right, she wasn't going to.
Gabriella quickly turned around and started for the front doors with her music turned up so she could barely hear anything. Troy stood there stunned as Taylor gave him a curious look and then turned around and called after, "Gabi!"
Gabriella turned on her heel one last time so that she was walking backwards as she gave a 'sorry' look towards Taylor, avoiding Troy's eyes, and pointed at her head phones as she gave a shrug of the shoulders and continued her way out of the school.
"What the hell was that?" Tay asked as she turned back around to see that Troy was nowhere to be seen. Taylor looked over her shoulder and then left to right to see no one. Taylor sighed shaking her head as she made her way to the gym again. What she saw from Troy and Chad just in the halls was their usual guy behavior, but the way Gabriella just upped and left was different.
Troy wanted to make himself visible to her again. It had been a week since he saw her at his game and it had been a week since she had made eye contact with him, did he do something wrong? No, he couldn't have, maybe he was looking at her too much and that crept her out a little? No, since half the time he would catch her looking at him and he would return it also. Troy was going to get noticed today, whether that meant he would have to stare at her all day, or even talk to her, he was going to do it. He was Troy Bolton, he does not just get ignored that easily.
Troy stared at her as he was in his homeroom seat and there she was, her head propped up by her hand as her elbow rested on the desk lazily, and her eyes softly closed as she was once again sleeping.
Troy continued to look at her hoping she would feel his eyes present on her petite body, but she didn't stir. Ms. Darbus was doing role call, and he knew that if she didn't wake up soon due to him staring at her, then she would by Ms. Darbus' shrill voice.
"Dude, you okay?" Chad asked as he managed to tap Troy lightly on the foot as he sat two seats behind him.
Troy shook out of the stare he was sending her way and looked at Chad with a furrowed brow. Troy didn't answer Chad as he turned in his seat again and looked at Gabriella.
"Miss Montez?" Troy heard Darbus call out as he saw that Jake was lightly shaking her awake. What could make this girl so tired that she would fall asleep during AP Calculus, and homeroom. Maybe he could understand the math situation but falling asleep on DARBUS!? "Miss MONTEZ!?" Darbus called again as Troy felt envy run through his body as he saw that Jake slightly leaned over to Gabriella's stirring body and whispered something in her ear as she shot right up with wide eyes.
Jake sat back in his seat with a small smirk on his face as Gabriella looked around for a short moment, missing Troy's eyes and then looked at Ms. Darbus apologetically.
"Sorry Ms." Gabriella said as Troy felt his heart almost skip a beat at just hearing her voice. This was the first time he heard her say anything since Monday and that time he only heard her say one word, 'hell', but Troy would take what he could get.
Troy just sat there taking in every inch of Gabriella as Darbus and her battled it out with of course Gabriella coming out on top as the bell rang. Troy kept his eyes on Gabriella as he watched her rub the sleep out of her eyes.
"So are you still free tonight?" Troy heard Jake ask as the memory of people saying that they were going out ran through his head.
"Nah." Gabriella said simply as she knew that Troy was watching her, maybe she should just get out of this weird mood and just talk to him? Jake looked at Gabriella curiously. "I have a date with Club Neon." Gabriella said as she walked out of the room with Jake following her.
Troy smirked, she obviously wouldn't of said that loud enough for him to hear on accident, would she? Troy was planning on going to some house party that was at this large house out in the country, but all of a sudden going to Club Neon seemed a lot more interesting. Ms. Darbus looked at Troy weirdly seeing as he was the last one to leave as he was just standing by his desk. Troy noticed this and hurried out of her room as he came side by side with Chad and Tay.
"Hey, what do you guys know about Club Neon?" Troy asked seeing as he only knew where it was, he had actually never been there.
Chad shrugged his shoulders as Tay looked at Troy skeptically. Troy connected eyes with her and quickly looked away cursing Tay in his mind for being smart since she was giving him that look that said, I-know-what-you're-up-to.
"I don't know. I hear they have awesome music." Troy closed his eyes briefly at his friends response, of course they must have good music if they were one of the well known clubs around there.
"Tay?" Troy asked.
Taylor let out a little 'humph' sound and then looked at Troy as her hand was being held by Chad's. "They play rap music, people from all over go there whether they dance professionally or their from the streets. And you don't dress like you usually would for other clubs to impress, you dress like you're ready to dance, girls wear easy fit clothes that are easy to move in, and guys wear t-shirts and loose jeans." Taylor said. "Why?" Troy looked up at her again quickly and saw the smirk on her face.
Troy shrugged, "No reason I guess, it was just something I heard about lately." Troy said.
They three continued to walk down the halls as Troy looked behind him to see and hear Jake giving Gabriella a piggy back ride and Gabriella giggling as she asked Jake to put her down through her laughter. Troy turned back around with what he knew to be jealousy flowing through his veins.
Taylor saw this and said, "We should all go tonight."
Troy's head shot up and he narrowed his eyes on Taylor as he knew that she knew what she was doing. "What?" Troy and Chad both said.
"Yeah, Gabi is going tonight so why don't we three go too."
"Gabi was able to get away from her drill sergeant?" Chad joked as Taylor lightly hit his arm.
"Don't call Anna that, she can be nice sometimes, and she's on a business trip so Gabriella is skipping the practice." Taylor exclaimed. "What do you think Troy? There must have been a reason why you wanted to know."
Troy kicked a paper ball that was on the ground further ahead of them and looked at Taylor with no amusement. "I'll see you guys later." Troy walked off in another direction as Tay looked at Chad proudly.
"I'll take that as a yes." Chad just chuckled as he leaned in and kissed Taylor.
Gabriella walked into the club with Taylor as they were meeting Chad there, Taylor just forgot to mention to Gabriella that Troy was planning on coming. Gabriella felt eyes on her from all directions as she walked in with a smirk on her face, wearing a dark red strap sports bra with her sports jacket unzipped to show off her flat stomach that had some muscle on it, as she was wearing black sweat pants that were rolled down at the top so that there was at least 4 or five inches below her pierced navel of skin showing.
"Where's Chad?" Gabriella called over the music as a good beat was echoing through the club that was jammed packed with people.
"He said he'll meet me by the bar." Taylor called back as Gabriella briefly looked at her before she scanned the people that were dancing right now. Gabriella smirked as she saw a guy that looked to be about the college age as she continued walking closer and closer.
"I'll meet you guys later then." Gabriella said heading off to the dance floor to join in seeing as you really didn't need to have a partner to dance hip hop.
Taylor sighed as she wanted Gabriella to come with her to the bar so that Troy and her could actually have a proper introduction and then they could actually start talking to each other instead of having all those awkward moments with each other. Taylor rolled her eyes as she saw her boyfriends afro and then Troy standing right by him as he took a sip out of the glass that Taylor knew was alcohol.
"Hey baby." Chad greeted as he looked over her shoulder with Troy expecting to see Gabriella.
"She's not here." Taylor said as she slumped down on the bar stool.
"Where is she?" Chad asked as Troy leaned back against the bar table and scanned the groups of people dancing.
"She's here, just not here here." Taylor said. "She's out there." Chad looked at where Taylor was pointing and shrugged. He personally didn't see the big deal of getting Troy and Gabriella introduced, if Troy wanted Gabriella then he would go after her, it wasn't like Troy to avoid sex, unless he wanted her for more than sex?
Troy leaned against the bar and scanned the dance floor to see Gabriella dancing with a tall dark haired tan guy that didn't go to high school, so Troy guessed he was from U of A. Troy rolled his eyes and then narrowed them as he saw Gabriella drop her body and slowly bring it back up against the front of that guy as his hands were all over her on the dance floor. Troy had to let a small smile take over his face as he saw Gabriella smile as she let the music wash through her.
Troy just wished that he was that guy that she was with instead. Troy sighed as he turned his head to see Taylor and Chad all over each other and roll his eyes. Troy looked at Gabriella again rolled his eyes. He didn't exactly know why they haven't talked to each other in the two years that they have been around each other, maybe it was because they felt safe in the staring competitions they shared. Maybe it was because they knew that they couldn't get hurt if they were only using their eyes, but lately Troy had been wanting more and unknown to him, Gabriella was thinking the same thing.
Troy tore his eyes away from Gabriella and pushed himself off the bar as he walked coolly onto the dance floor. It took less than 20 seconds until a blonde came over to him and started grinding on him. Troy could smell the alcohol on her as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pushed her small chest against his hard torso. She didn't feel nearly as good as he had imagined Gabriella to feel like.
"My name's Dani, have we met?" She tried to sound enticing and seductive, but Troy had to still force himself from showing disgust.
"No." Troy replied bluntly as he peered over her shoulder to see the guy breathing heavily against Gabriella's skin as Gabriella had her eyes shut gently with a lazy smile on her face as if Troy had to describe what was happening, he would have to say that that smile wasn't on her face because of the guy, but because of the music she was letting flow through her body.
"Really?" Dani said as Troy felt his body starting to sway with hers. "You look so familiar, are you sure I haven't seen you on campus?"
Troy couldn't help that his eyes rolled. "Yeah, I don't go to U of A."
Dani smirked as she grinded her pelvis against his. "So you 're the mysterious kind of guy, huh?" Her lips got closer to Troy's as he could really smell the alcohol coming from her mouth.
"I'm in high school." Troy said right when the song ended and something caught his eye. He looked up past Dani and saw that Gabriella's mouth was moving as the guy was nodding his head and then he turned around and left as Gabriella made her way off the dance floor.
Troy dropped his hands from Dani's waist and didn't even look back at her as he pushed past people to get to Gabriella. Gabriella was almost off the dance floor as she was thirsty and decided to take a break, but felt two strong hands grab onto her waist making her freeze in her spot. Gabriella turned her head slightly to see out of the corner of her eye the person she went to measure of avoiding all week.
Troy didn't know if it was the little alcohol that he consumed, or the music blaring in the background making his adrenaline rush, or just knowing that this could be the perfect moment, but it didn't matter as he boldly put his hands on her waist not really knowing how she would react. Troy had a straight face on when he saw that Gabriella turned her head and was looking at him through the corner of her eye. He smiled as he felt Gabriella turn around fully as his hands loosened up so that she could move a little more easily, but they still gently rested at her waist.
Troy leaned over and made sure that his mouth brushed up against her ear lobe as he spoke. "Let me buy you a drink."
Troy didn't know what all of a sudden changed, usually he was this confident person with other women, but when it came to Gabriella something just went off in his mind that told him that he better play safe or else things that could happen will never get a chance to happen, but now something was different. It was like Troy had this new burst of energy as he smiled at Gabriella as he pulled back to look at Gabriella's unreadable face.
Gabriella put her hands on Troy's two hands and interlaced their fingers. Troy could feel the cool smoothness on Gabriella's right ring finger of her silver band. Gabriella lifted Troy's hands off of her waist as she dropped his left hand and gave a half grin for a second. "I like vodka, straight up." Gabriella turned her back on Troy and started making her way to the bar as she still held onto Troy's right hand.
Troy smiled at her back turned to him, he did it. He spoke to her, and surprisingly it went okay. Troy started to follow as he felt her tug on his hand gently. Troy watched her hips sway from side to side and even though she was in black sweats they still fit her well and just knowing what could be underneath her clothes was making his thoughts run wild.
When Gabriella and Troy reached the bar Gabriella leaned forward and leaned her elbows against the counter top. She looked at Troy while the bar tender was busy serving some other people. Gabriella was silent as Troy ordered their drinks and when the bartender who looked to be about 25 looked at Troy he gave Troy the look that said, 'nice-choice.'
Troy turned towards Gabriella with his side leaning against the bar as the music was blaring all around them and people were crammed into small places as the lights were dimmed and the blue lights outlining the bar radiated off their faces.
"I'm Gabriella." Gabriella said over the music even though she already knew that he knew her name.
"Troy." He put out his hand for her to shake with a smile. "I believe we go to school together, and you have been avoiding me all week." Troy said slyly as they pulled their hands back after realizing they had stopped shaking and were just holding onto each other.
Gabriella thanked God that the lights were dimmed so he couldn't see her cheeks go pink. They were actually talking! Gabriella put on a smile as she looked at him. "So no basketball game tonight?" Gabriella asked as she changed the subject while taking a sip of her drink.
"No dance tonight?" Troy asked back and Gabriella smirked as her eyes ran over his body as he was wearing loose fitting jeans, and a t-shirt.
"Touché." Gabriella looked into his eyes and saw Troy slyly move closer to her. In the two years that the two have been making eyes at each other, just wanting and longing for a conversation to happen between the two, it all seemed like it was impossible to happen. But now after they had just had the short five minute talk, they went back a step and started using their eyes again finding it almost reassuring.
Gabriella found that her body was swaying with the beat of the music again as Troy slowly got closer to Gabriella again. "You dance…wow." Troy said as he put a stray curl behind her ear and let his hands fall at the side again.
"You play basketball…wow." Gabriella copied which earned her a smile from Troy.
Gabriella put an innocent smile on her face as she bit down on her lip a little as she beat Troy to his own game of moving closer. She put a hand on his chest and tapped her fingers lightly. "I've been watching you." Gabriella said lowly as Troy rested his hands on her waist, bringing her closer.
Troy kinked an eye brow. "Stalkerish?" Troy teased as they both knew what Gabriella meant.
"And I know that you've been watching me." Gabriella said in his ear as Troy started nuzzling the side of her face with his and just running his nose against her nook of the neck as he took in her scent of vanilla, which just so happened to be his new favorite smell. If Troy or Gabriella were with anyone else then some people would say that they were moving fast, but after two years of watching each other, they called it making up for lost time.
Just then Gabriella's cell phone vibrated against her thigh as Troy pulled back from pressing kisses to her neck as her hands were running along the top of his jeans which were about an inch or two lower than his red and white plaid boxers. Troy pulled back as Gabriella briefly shut her eyes and grabbed her cell phone from her front pocket. When she looked back up and stuffed it back in Troy could see the flash of disappointment in her eyes.
"I got to go." And with that Gabriella slipped out of Troy's reach and started scurrying to the dance floor.
"Wait, when will we talk again?!" Troy called out as Gabriella turned on her heel and looked at Troy with a tint of sadness in her eyes.
"I'll see you around Troy Boy!" Gabriella called back as she scurried off into the crowds of people dancing on the dance floor and disappeared out of sight as she made her way to the exit. Gabriella purposely used the word 'see' as she hurried off towards her jeep and sped off to the studios to be greeted by her mother who was home early from the business trip which was unusual.
Gabriella and Troy both wondered if they would regret ever talking to each other because now they could never go back to just staring, could they? Gabriella knew that maybe the reason she didn't say that she would talk to him later was because she knew that she couldn't take any distractions from her dancing. She had to win the competition in five months, in the middle of February. Scouts from Julliard were going to be there and they were already interested in her, and if she won this then she almost had her future locked. But was dancing what Gabriella really wanted, or would pursuing a relationship with Troy be worth it?
Troy had a straight face on once he lost sight of Gabriella in the crowds. But cracked a smile as his head repeated over and over again, Troy Boy. He believed Gabriella wouldn't just be a one night stand and that slightly scared him because was Gabriella ready for a relationship? Because he knew that he was if he was with the right girl, and if Gabriella wasn't ready then that would hurt even more.