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Chapter 4
Gabriella was about to walk away from the bulletin board but stopped when she heard a voice. Gabriella turned around and saw three girls and one guy walking towards her. Noticing the boy, she had to admit he looked kinda cute.
"Hi! I'm Sharpay Evans and this is Taylor Mekessie, Kelsi Neilson and my twin brother, Ryan Evans." she said, pointing to each person.
"I'm Gabriella Montez…"
"So… how do you like East High so far?" Taylor asked, smiling. 'I hate it, everyone here acts so weird.'
"It's been alright… so far anyway." she replied.
"That's nice… so, we couldn't help but notice that you were looking at the scholastic decathlon sign up sheet and the arts sign up sheet." said Sharpay.
"Oh… yeah, umm I just wanted to see what East High had." Gabriella replied. "Are you gonna join any clubs or teams?" asked Kelsi, speaking up.
"Uhmmm, I dunno… most likely not." she answered. Sharpay, Taylor and Kelsi's faces fell when they heard her say no and Gabriella noticed. They seemed nice enough. Who knows, maybe they even wanted to be friends and she couldn't pass that up.
"Uhhh, but you never know… I might join later… maybe, but not right now… I'm still new here." she recovered quickly. Sharpay, Taylor and Kelsi's faces perked up at Gabriella's answer.
"Well, which teams or groups are you interested in?" asked Taylor excitedly.
"Maybe the scholastic decathlon and arts, I use to be in both groups at my old schools…" she replied, trailing off. Taylor and Sharpay smiled wider when they heard Gabriella say this.
"Well Gabriella, you're in luck cause Taylor here is the president of the scholastic decathlon team and I'm head of the drama department." said Sharpay.
"Ryan and I are also in the arts department, but were into music more." added Kelsi. Glancing at Ryan, she saw him turn his face away quickly; she noticed his face was a little pink. 'What's wrong with him?... Maybe he's embarrassed to be around the new girl, but his sister and friends don't seem to mind me.' She looked back to the girls. 'Forget it Gabriella, it doesn't matter.'
"Oh… okay, but I'm not joining anything…yet." she said.
"That's okay, but if you change your mind… you know who to ask." said Taylor. "Thanks." she replied, giving them a small smile.
"What classes do you have?" asked Kelsi.
"Uhmmm…. I have science, math, P.E and music." Gabriella answered. "You have at least one of us in your classes." said Kelsi, smiling.
"You have science with Ryan and Kelsi, math with Taylor, P.E. with me and music with Ryan." said Sharpay. Gabriella nodded her head. 'At least I know people now, so I don't look like a loner.'
"Speaking of classes I think we should get to them." said Taylor, pointing to the clock in the hallway.
"Yeah, let's go… Gabriella, we'll walk with you to science class." replied Kelsi pointing to Ryan and herself. "See you guys later." said Sharpay.
"Nice meeting you Gabriella." smiled Taylor. Gabriella gave a small smile back. 'They seem genuinely nice, this usually doesn't happen on my first days.' Ryan hadn't said anything yet so Gabriella assumed he didn't like her very much. 'But he's still cute.' she thought. As everyone was walking away and making their way to class, Sharpay nudged her brother and pulled him aside.
"Why didn't you say anything to Gabriella? Usually you talk all the time… it seemed like you were a little rude." she whispered.
"Sorry, I was just…" Ryan replied, trailing off. "Nervous?" smirked Sharpay, finishing off his sentence.
"What?! Uhhh….ummm… wh- why would I be nervous? What kind of question is that?" he asked quickly, stuttering a little.
"I think we both know why…" said Sharpay her smirk getting bigger, as she walked away. Ryan stared at his sister with shocked eyes. 'How did she figure it out?' he thought. He turned around when he heard his name being called.
"Ryan!" yelled Kelsi at the end of the hallway "I thought you were going to walk with us." she said. "Yeah, I am. Sharpay just needed to talk to me about something." he replied catching up to Gabriella and Kelsi.
"Sorry." he said, looking at Kelsi and shyly looking at Gabriella, Ryan gave her a small smile. "So… I guess we should head to class we don't want to be late." he said, quickly regretting what he said. 'I sound like a loser.' he thought.
"Yeah, we should get going, since our class is on the other side of school." Gabriella replied, looking at Ryan and returning a small smile. Gabriella and Kelsi turned to the direction of their next class, unable to see the big grin Ryan had on his face. Ryan walked over to Gabriella's left, with Kelsi on her right and all three started walking.
'Just talk to her!' he took a deep breathe. "So, Gabriella…" he said trying to start a conversation, giving her a friendly smile.
Walking out of Mrs. Darbus's class Chad, Zeke and Jason surrounded Troy.
"So…?" Jason said. "So…what?" Troy replied, confused.
"Remember? This weekend?" Zeke asked. "What?" he replied, confused even more.
"Dude… you seriously don't remember?" asked Chad, surprised. "I seriously don't….wait… is this the same thing you were going to ask me this morning before we got into that fight with Taylor, Sharpay and Ryan?" asked Troy.
"Yeah!" all three guys replied. "Okay, so what is it?" Troy asking again.
"Hmmm… I dunno, maybe a little something called 'your date with one of the hottest girls in school'… remember now?" Chad answered sarcastically, as if it was the most obvious answer.
"Oh… yeah." Troy replied "…it was… okay." "That's it?" Jason asked.
"So, your saying that Kristen McCall, head cheerleader, most popular girl in school, blond, perfect body, pretty face was an… okay?!" asked Zeke.
Troy sighed. It wasn't really date, Kristen and Troy were just hanging out but his friends always thought it was more. Truthfully Kristen and Troy were just good friends but since Troy had the reputation of being the most popular boy in school and Kristen being the most poplar girl in school, naturally people assumed that they were together.
Troy and Kristen would always tell people that they were only friends but no one would believe them so they just tried to ignore. It would get pretty annoying so they would just stop denying it and let people believe what they wanted to believe.
Even though Kristen was gorgeous, popular and genuinely nice, Troy didn't like her in that way; Kristen felt the same way about Troy.
So basically they came to the decision that if people didn't believe them no matter what they would say they decided to just play along and maybe people would stop asking, but they were both wrong. It just made people even more curious, they could do nothing about it.
Troy groaned.
"Ugh come on you guys… I don't know, it was… what do you want me to say? That we…" he paused.
"Ummm gee, I dunno… that maybe you hooked up or something?" replied Chad. Troy didn't reply. "ANYTHING?!" yelled Zeke and Jason, causing people in the hallway to look at them weirdly.
"Yeah, she's…hot." Finding it weird calling one of his good friends hot "… but, I guess… I dunno… it didn't feel like a date, it felt like we were just hanging out." he continued.
"So, you didn't do anything?" Zeke asked again. Troy shook his head 'no', trying not to roll his eyes. "Wow… I think you're the first guy who didn't try anything with the Kristen McCall." said Chad.
"Do you always have to call her by her full name, cant you just call her Kristen? It sounds weird when you always call her by her full name." said Troy. Chad just shrugged.
"Dude! Are you crazy? I can't believe you didn't do anything! Now… heh, if that was me…" Jason said raising his eyebrows up and down suggestively.
"But it wasn't." said Zeke, laughing. "You wish it was though." added Chad, Troy laughing along.
"Shut up." replied Jason. "Anyways, can we change the subject?" asked Troy.
Before he could say anything he saw Gabriella walked by, his eyes followed her until she stopped at the bulletin board. Troy was listening to his friends talk but secretly kept giving her glances, he had no idea why he eyes would always land on her. Troy turned his attention back to his friends' conversation, who were making pointless and idiotic jokes, pretending to laugh.
"Guys…look." said Chad, pointing to what ever was in front of him. All three other guys turned to where Chad was pointing and all eyes landed on the new girl, who was talking to none other than Taylor, Sharpay, Kelsi and Ryan.
"Looks like we know what group the new girl belongs to now." said Zeke.
"What a loss… " said Jason. "What do you mean? I thought you said she was hot?" asked Troy.
"Well…" said Jason, trailing off trying to find the words to answer Troy's question.
"What I think he's trying to say is that… even thought Gabriella's hot, she's one of them now." replied Chad.
"Plus she's just one girl, there are plenty more ladies at our school who wouldn't mind being with me." said Jason.
"Ha… more like, the ladies wouldn't mind having us." replied Zeke, referring to himself, Chad and Troy. This caused Zeke and Chad to start laughing at a scowling Jason.
Troy gave a small smile. "Yeah… your right." he said. 'I guess.'
He turned to look back at Gabriella and saw her walking with Kelsi and talking to Ryan, who had a big smile on. He looked at her face and saw her smiling back; he sighed and faced his friends again. 'You don't even know her. Shes just another girl.'
"…The pure substance… made up of 2 or more elements….smallest particle is a molecule…positive or negative charge due to loss or gain of electrons…"
Gabriella softly sighed; here she was sitting in science class listening to her teacher drone on about atoms. Looking to the window beside her, she tuned out the teacher's voice. Her morning had gone better than most of her first days at school, but she wasn't getting her hopes up.
East High was very different; she actually made acquaintances with people on her first day, at most schools students wouldn't talk to her after a week or so. Ryan and Kelsi walked with her to class and she was kind thankful she didn't have to make her way to class by herself.
Gabriella looked around the classroom and observed the students in her class. Looking at the rows of desks occupied with people, she immediately saw the cliques, every clique sat together. Most students had bored expressions on their faces, others whispering or passing notes to each other and a few students who were actually paying attention to the teacher.
Her eyes landed on Kelsi and Ryan, Kelsi was sitting beside her in a different row and Ryan was in the same row as Kelsi sitting in front of her. She smiled at how funny Kelsi looked, who was dozing off, only coming to attention every time her head would droop. Gabriella then turned her attention to Ryan who was writing in his notebook, his eyebrows and forehead scrunched up in concentration. She stared at his features and wondered what he was doing that needed his undivided attention.
Straining to get a look at what he was writing in his notebook she didn't notice that Ryan had turned around to glance at Gabriella. Feeling like someone was watching her; she looked up and saw Ryan looking back.
She turned her head back to the window, blushing slightly, embarrassed that she was caught looking at him. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Ryan slightly smiling, amused at her curiosity. She looked down at her binder hoping that Ryan didn't notice her pink cheeks. 'Why can't I ever mind my own business?'
On the way to class Ryan was not as quiet as before and she managed to have a conversation with him, she found it easy to talk to him and Kelsi. The bell rang and students quickly got out of their seats and left without letting the teacher finish what she was saying. 'Finally.'
"That felt like the longest class of my life." muttered Gabriella, once out of the classroom and into the hallway. "It wasn't so bad." said Kelsi. Gabriella gave Kelsi a small smile.
"That's because you were practically sleeping through the whole class." she said, making fun of her behaviour in class. Ryan laughed and Kelsi just blushed slightly but managed to smile at her embarrassing moment.
"Anyways, what class do you have next?" Kelsi asked Gabriella. "Ummm… math." she replied, looking down at her schedule.
"Okay, that means you have class with Taylor." said Ryan. "Oh, okay." she replied "Which way is that?"
"Go down this hallway, turn left, then turn right to the first hallway you see and your room should be on the second or third door on your left." said Kelsi, pointing to the direction of where she needed to go.
"Don't worry it's not as hard as it sounds." reassured Ryan when he saw the confusion on Gabriella's face. "Oh… well, that's good to know… I think." she replied.
"Okay, well my next class is this way." said Kelsi, pointing in the opposite direction of the hallway "and I don't want to be late… so I'll see you guys around, bye!" she added, making her way through the crowded hallway.
"Yeah, I should get going too… so I'll see you later?" said Ryan. Gabriella nodded her head.
"Yeah…" she replied and turned to the direction where Kelsi pointed of her next class. Before she could walk away she turned around when she heard Ryan say something.
"You know. If you wanted to see my notebook, you could have just asked..." said Ryan, grinning and left before she could reply. Gabriella just stood there, watching his retreating back then looking down the hallway she had to go through, which was still crowded with students. 'Okay you can do this…' She hated crowded hallways. 'Just follow Kelsi's instructions… go down this hallway…'
She began walking, occasionally looking at her map, she passed students who were laughing and talking loudly to their friends. Once she reached the end of the hallway she turned left down another hallway.
'Okay, then turn right… two or three doors down on your left.'
Making her way through another crowded hallway, she noticed it was less crowded when she turned to the right. Looking at her schedule, she tried to find the number of her math room.
'103. The second or third door on your left…'
Looking to the left of the hallway for a classroom with the number 103 she didn't notice the student walking towards her.
'101, 102... 10-' Too busy looking for her class she accidentally bumped into someone. 'Ow… not again.'
Gabriella managed to steady herself so she didn't fall this time, she looked up to see who she knocked into, ready to apologize.
"Sorry." Both said at the same time.
She ran into a boy. 'Wow...'
She stared at his face, her brown eyes finding his blue ones, he was staring back. Noticing she was staring a little too long, she looked shyly down at her feet and walked past him.
'Stupid, stupid, stupid, if you stared any longer he would have probably saw you drooling.' Gabriella shook her head trying to forget how stupid she looked but couldn't help but blush. 'Oh god… kill me now. Well he was staring back though. Ha. Probably thinking about how stupid you looked.'
She didn't dare look back just in case he was still there. Finally reaching her class, she opened the door. 'Probably has a girlfriend… I bet he could get any girl with looks like that.' She looked around the class, looking for a seat. 'He's just a boy…'
Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard someone calling her name. '… A really cute boy.'
"Gabriella! Over here!" She turned her attention to the voice that was calling her and saw Taylor sitting at a desk with an empty seat beside her.
"Hey." said Gabriella once she reached her. "Hey, sit here. I saved you a seat." replied Taylor, pointing to the desk beside hers. "Thanks." she replied, giving her a smile.
Gabriella found it easy to talk to Taylor, they had lot in common. Gabriella was about to answer a question that Taylor had asked but noticed she was glaring at something or someone. She followed the direction of where Taylor was looking and her eyes landed on three boys. One had curly, puffy hair, the second had dark brown hair and the third was really tall, she thought they were pretty cute.
'But not as cute as the guy in the hallway…' Gabriella's eyes widened. 'Where did THAT come from?'
"What's wrong?" Gabriella asked, turning back to Taylor.
"What do you mean?" replied Taylor, still looking at the boys. "Why are you looking at those boys over there? It looks like you want to kill them or something." said Gabriella.
"Ha. I wish. They're just obnoxious people who think there better than everyone." replied Taylor, obvious hatred in her voice. Gabriella just nodded her head, not knowing what to say.
"Okay, that one right there, the one with the puffy hair is Chad Danforth, the one beside him is Jason Cross, two of the most stupidest people you will ever meet." Gabriella turned back to look at them. "What about the other one?" she asked.
"Oh, the tall one? That's Zeke Baylor, he's actually pretty smart but I don't know why he's friends with those two idiots though." replied Taylor. Gabriella noticed that three boys were looking back; she quickly turned around to face Taylor.
"They're looking over here." she said. "Yeah, nothing new… we go through the same routine everyday." replied Taylor.
"We? Routine?" asked Gabriella, clearly confused.
"I guess I should tell you… okay, so Sharpay, Ryan, Kelsi and I never get along with them. We always get into fights or arguments with them at least once through out the day." said Taylor referring to Chad, Jason and Zeke.
"Why?" asked Gabriella. "Well… we get on their nerves and they get on ours, were just different from them and their whole cheerleader and jock group." replied Taylor, shrugging her shoulders.
"Their jocks, their part of the popular crowd and to them were considered geeks and drama freaks… we just don't like the same things they do, were different." she added. Gabriella was beginning to understand.
"They all follow Troy Bolton, he's like their leader… they practically worship him, it's really quite pathetic." said Taylor.
"Who's Troy Bolton?" asked Gabriella, noticing the class quieting down.
"You'll find out soon enough." whispered Taylor, paying attention to the teacher who was at the front of the class, ready to start the lesson.
Math class couldn't have gone by any faster and Gabriella was thankful it was over. During class she noticed that Chad, Jason and Zeke were giving her glances. 'That's only because I was sitting beside Taylor.' she kept re-assuring and reminding herself but she still felt uncomfortable. When she came to East High she decided to lay low and try not to cause any attention on herself. 'Looks like there's nothing I can do about that now.'
She was aware of the fact that everyone at school knew she was the new girl and it looked like her decision to "lay low" would be harder than she thought. 'I should be use to this by now… this is how it always is every new school I go to. By the end of the week everyone will pay attention to someone else and forget about you being the new kid.'
Gabriella smiled at the thought. 'Yeah… no one will pay any attention to me after the first week.' repeating it again to help assure herself that it will happen. 'Just make it through the first week… you've done it before, you can do it again.'
Even though deep down inside, she was tired of trying. Sure, she was use to the attention of being the new girl at every school she went to but that didn't mean she enjoyed it or that it benefited her in any way.
What Gabriella wasn't aware of was that she just picked which side she wanted to be on.
What she didn't know was that she took a side between two of the biggest rivals at East High, unaware that this was the real reason why everyone was talking about her.
What she didn't know was that she was the reason for causing all of this attention on herself. It wasn't her fault though; she had no idea that she made friends with one side and not the other.
Once class was over Taylor and Gabriella made their way out of class and into the hallway.
"So math class was pretty easy." said Taylor.
"Yeah… It was." she replied. "All though, I didn't get the bonus question… did you? It was kind of hard." asked Taylor. Gabriella didn't reply. Actually, she thought math class was really easy.
She even noticed the teacher make a mistake on the board but decided not to tell anyone, afraid that people in class would think she was this huge nerd and she certainly didn't need any more attention. If Taylor saw how really good she was, she would definitely make Gabriella join the scholastic decathlon team.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw Chad, Zeke and Jason make their way out of the classroom and down the hall. She decided to try and change the subject, so she decided to ask Taylor a question
"Taylor, when you say that Chad and Jason are stupid… what are they doing in an academic math class then?" she asked, nicely.
Taylor paused for a second before answering. "I don't know, I mean I have no idea… never asked." she replied. 'Then how do you know that their actually stupid?' thought Gabriella, but decided not to ask.
"Oh, okay." was all Gabriella said while she looked down at her schedule. "So… you have PE next right?" asked Taylor, trying to fill the silence that fell between them.
"Yup… wait, I don't have any gym clothes though." she replied. "Don't worry, just tell Sharpay." said Taylor
"… Tell Sharpay? Why?" she asked. Taylor lightly chuckled. "That girl has everything. I swear, her locker and her gym locker are like small replicas of her closet." Taylor replied.
"So… she has some extra gym clothes then." said Gabriella. Taylor snorted. "Okay, when I say everything. I mean shirts, skirts, shoes, purses… you name it." said Taylor.
"Wow…" replied Gabriella. "Yeah, I know… a little much, but Sharpay says you can never be too prepared." said Taylor. Gabriella laughed lightly, amused by Sharpay's behaviour.
"Well… I guess I should get to class." said Gabriella. Taylor nodded her head. "Yeah, me too. I'll see you later." she replied. With that, both girls left in opposite directions and made their way to their next class.
Troy was waiting for his friends to come so they could walk to their next class together. While waiting he thought about what happened earlier in the hallway. He accidentally bumped into Gabriella, both were not aware that someone was in front of them.
'You had the perfect opportunity to think of something witty and charming to say but noooooooooo. All you did was stare. Probably freaked her out. Ha. Must be the reason why she walked away so quickly. I must have looked like an idiot.'
Guys would say hi to him as they walked down the hallway while girls would giggle and blush as they passed him, but he was use to it. Looking down the hallway he saw his friends making their way to him.
"Hey guys." said Troy, once they finally reached his locker.
"Troy we need to tell you something." said Jason. "Okay… what's up?" he replied.
"Well, you know the new girl…" said Zeke trailing off. Troy nodded his head.
"Yeah… Gabriella, right? What about her?" asked Troy, looking at his friends.
"So… she's in the same math class with us and we saw her take a seat beside Taylor." replied Chad.
"Taylor Mckessie?" asked Troy. "Yup, the one and only." replied Chad.
"And…" said Troy thinking that there was more. No one replied.
"What's your point?" asked Troy.
"Don't you get it?" said Jason. Before Troy could answer, Zeke interrupted. "Okay, think about it… if Gabriella keeps talking to Taylor…" said Zeke.
"She'll start talking to Sharpay, Ryan and Kelsi, then they'll start hanging out, then they'll become friends…" said Chad.
"Which means she'll eventually be on their side… do you get it now?" asked Jason. Troy didn't reply.
"I'm going to take that as a no." said Zeke. In fact, Troy did get it. He didn't say anything because he didn't really care and he had a feeling that Gabriella had no idea that she decided to become friends with his biggest rivals and he couldn't be mad at her, he didn't even know her.
"No… I get it." Troy finally replied.
"They have an advantage now, they have another member in their group." said Chad. "Nahh, don't worry. I don't think she'll cause anything." replied Jason.
"Yeah, maybe." said Chad. "Uhh… you guys I think we should head to class." said Zeke. All four guys agreed and started walking in the direction of the gym.
"I wonder what were doing in PE today." said Chad. "Oh. I heard my dad say that were having gym with the girls class today." said Troy.
"Nice." replied Jason. "You guys realize that this is the only class that all four of us have together?" said Zeke.
"Thanks to my dad. I asked him if it was okay for all of us to be in the same PE class and he pulled some strings. He said that he didn't want his four top basketball players to be split up." replied Troy.
"Ahh, the perks of being friends with the coach's son." said Chad.
Gabriella pushed open the girls changing room and stepped inside. Most girls were still changing, talking loudly and joking. Looking around ignoring the loud girls she spotted Sharpay but she saw Gabriella first. "Gabriella!"
"Hey Sharpay." she replied and made her way over.
"Uhmm… Taylor told me to tell you that I didn't bring any gym clothes and that you can help me." she said. Sharpay smiled.
"No problem! I have everything… all you have to do is pick." she said. Sharpay opened her gym locker to reveal exactly what Taylor had told Gabriella earlier on, but too see it with her eyes was… "Wow, how do you manage to fit all those things in there?" asked Gabriella.
Sharpay laughed "I don't know… I just find a way." Gabriella nodded, smiling. "Well… take your pick, I think you're the same size as me, so it won't be a problem." said Sharpay.
She settled with black shorts, with red strips going down the sides, a simple white t-shirt and she paired it off with black and red Nike running shoes. She didn't really want to stand out. Sharpay on the other hand was a different story, she's was wearing a bright pink t-shirt, white shorts and bright pink running shoes with white strips.
When she finished changing she noticed that the shorts were… short. But not too short that her ass was hanging out, she was thankful that it wasn't. Sharpay certainly did not mind, her pair or shorts were the same length as Gabriella and she was comfortable wearing them.
Gabriella could have said something but she didn't because she was already thankful to Sharpay just for lending her clothes and she didn't want to complain. Plus, she didn't mind that much; she just noticed that they were short.
'It's only going to be us girls anyway.'
Both girls left the changing room and entered the gym, most of the other girls were already there talking and gossiping as they waited for their gym teacher. Before Gabriella could say something, their gym teacher arrived. Looking at the group of girls, she noticed Gabriella who was standing with Sharpay. Both girls made their way over to her.
"Mrs. Adam, we have a new student today." said Sharpay.
After taking attendance, Mrs. Adam announced what they were going to do it class that day.
"Today we will be having class with the boys." Mrs. Adam announced. A few girlish squeals irrupted from the group. Gabriella rolled her eyes and noticed that Sharpay had the same reaction, both girls started laughing quietly.
"Girls, calm down. I still need to take attendance." said Mrs. Adam.
While Mrs. Adams was doing with attendance, Gabriella looked around the group of girls. She definitely noticed some cheerleaders who were decked out in the school colours red and white, a few science nerds, some athletic girls. She also saw a Katie look-a-like. She learned that her name was Kristen McCall and figured she was a cheerleader and most popular girl in school. She was also blonde, tall and really pretty.
Gabriella also looked around the vast gym. The wall was still up that separated the gym, it was definitely big even though she only saw half the gym. Memorabilia hanged from the ceiling, titles hanging back from the old days.
"Today we'll mostly be focusing on fitness and endurance." Mrs. Adam announced. "But we'll wait for the boys and Coach Bolton so that we can tell all of you at once." she added.
Mrs. Adams went to the door to handle the wall separating the gym in half and the wall started moving, revealing the guys and Coach Bolton on the other side.
"Okay, everyone to the center of the gym!" said Coach Bolton. Both groups made their way to the center, Gabriella and Sharpay taking their time. Gabriella looked at the group of guys and noticed a few of them.
'There's Chad… Jason… Zeke…' Looking around more, her eyes landed on… him.
It looked like he noticed her too; he gave her a small smile when he saw her looking at him.
Gabriella returned the small smile, hoping she looked calm and collected trying to hide the fact that she really wasn't. She quickly turned her attention to both the teachers in front of the group and tried to listen.
As she tried to focus on what they were saying she couldn't help but give him glances every once in a while, she saw him quietly talking with Chad, Jason and Zeke. 'Wonder what his name is…'
Listening to the teachers, she finally heard what they were saying. It looked like they would be put into groups and would do fitness activities around the gym. Once Coach Bolton and Mrs. Adams finished explaining what they were supposed to do, the class were put into groups. Thankfully Gabriella was in the same group as Sharpay, so she wasn't alone.
While separating in to their groups Gabriella managed to lock eyes with the boy again but both looked away. Gabriella smiled slightly as she went to catch up with Sharpay. This didn't go unnoticed by Sharpay though and she decided to ask Gabriella about it.
"Gabriella, do you know Troy Bolton?" asked Sharpay. Gabriella gave her a confused look.
"No… but I have heard of him, don't know what he looks like though." she replied. "Taylor told me he's a total jock, the most popular boy in school and that everybody worships him." she added, listing off the things Taylor told her.
"Yup… you got most of it, so she must have told you that we don't get along with him and his friends right?" asked Sharpay.
"Yeah… she said that you guys fight at least everyday." she replied. "Well… he's in this class." replied Sharpay.
"Really? Which one is he?" she asked, looking around the gym, trying to spot him.
"The one you kept giving glances too." said Sharpay.
Gabriella even more confused asked. "What? I don't understa…"
Gabriella's eyes widened in shock. Everything made sense now.
'Oh shit.'
'Hallway boy is… Troy Bolton?!'