CHAPTER 6

It was Wednesday; the day of the auditions. Troy had called Gabriella the previous night, but she hadn't picked up the phone, not even listened to the answerphone messages. However, she couldn't resist looking at one text.

Call me, please? xxxxxxxx

Gabriella just didn't get how Troy could be so friendly with this girl he had only known for two days. To be fair, after observing Kate, she had to admit that Kate was very nice – quite like Troy, to be honest – but the only explanation that Gabriella had about Troy's peculiar behaviour was that Troy felt the same way about Kate that Gabriella felt about Troy.

The many books she carried on her way into school weighed Gabriella down, and when she reached the steps she tripped, resulting in both her and her books going flying. Immediately, Kate rushed up to her.

"Gabriella, are you ok?" she asked, sounding concerned.

"I'm fine," Gabriella replied, looking at the ground instead of at Kate.

"Do you want a hand with your books?" Kate asked, her kind personality shining through.

"Look, I don't need your help, ok?" Gabriella said, quite aggressively, and instantly felt bad; after all, she had a kind nature too.

"Oh…ok then," Kate said, sounding surprised. As Kate slowly walked off, Gabriella's conscience prickled even more, because Kate's voice hadn't sounded angry or upset like most girls' voices would have. Instead, it just sounded really upset, as if Kate had really wanted to be her friend but Gabriella had rejected her.

Gabriella didn't know why she was being so mean – well she did really. It was because she was jealous of Kate who was everything she wanted to be; cool, confident, sporty, pretty and, most importantly, Troy really liked her. Still, that was no excuse. Gabriella knew she was starting to act like –

"Hey, Gabriella!" It was Sharpay.

"Oh, Sharpay! I was just thinking of you, actually!" Gabriella replied with a mischievous grin on her face

"And why wouldn't you be?" Sharpay gave her affected laugh as she spoke the words she really believed.

Gabriella just smiled, as she had got off to a bad start with Sharpay in her first few weeks at East High when she beat Sharpay in the callbacks for the Winter Musical.

"So, are you going to be auditioning for the Spring Musical?" asked Sharpay in a would-be casual voice.

"Well, I was thinking I might audition for one of the supporting roles, in a singles audition," Gabriella replied, leaving Sharpay looking surprised but satisfied.

"Break a leg!" Sharpay laughed, and walked away.

Gabriella felt slightly ashamed that she hadn't talked to Troy about the auditions, but put it to the back of her mind – after all, Troy had Kate, didn't he?

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