This chapter is where Troy and Gabi think about the night and exactly how they feel about each other. Kind of a slow chapter but this leads to how Racheal, my original character, will come into their lives.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own anything in this chapter. The song "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" is owned by the Disney company.

Author's note: When Gabi and Troy are alone in their rooms, they are thinking, and the lines are how their thoughts are contridicting each other.

CHAPTER SIX

Thoughts, Homework, and the Invite

Gabriella's Room, Midnight

After changing into some comfortable clothes, Gabriella laid down on her bed, thinking about the night. She wanted to remember everything. How Troy believed in her. How Troy is going to get her a summer job with him. The KISS.

"I remember how we met. Of course I remember. It only happened a month ago.

"Are we rushing things? We've only known each other for about a month.

"No, I feel as if I've known him my whole life."

She gets up and turns on the radio. The song "Start of Something New" comes on.

"This is our song. The song we first sang together." She sings along with the song.

"I never believed in/ What I couldn't see/ I never opened my heart/ To all the possibilities.

"We been through so much together.

"This could be the start of something new/ It feels so right to be here with you/ Ohh/ And now looking in your eyes/ I feel in my heart/ The start of something new.

"How am I to know what true love is? Troy's the only guy that ever came into my life and made me feel this way.

"We do come from two separate worlds. I'm a brainiac and he's a ball boy. We did turn the school upside down.

"I didn't know it before/ But now it's easy to see./ It's the start of something new/ It feels so right to be here with you/ And now looking in your eyes/ I feel in my heart/ That it's the start of something new/ It feels so right to be here with you/ And now looking in your eyes/ I feel in my heart/ The start of something new/ The start of something new."

The song ended on the radio and "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucas Grabeel, and Ashley Tisdale came on.

Gabriella paused to listen to the song.

"This song describes how I feel about Troy. I need to get him a copy of this song. I'd think that he'd like this song.

She stopped to listen again.

"Troy is the one for me and I hope that I'm the one for him."

She got up, turned off the radio and her lamp, went to bed, and closed her eyes to sleep, with a smile on her face.

Troy's Room, Midnight

Troy arrived home and immediately sat on his bed. He wanted to think about the night. About the things he said. His feelings about Gabriella. The KISS.

As if their minds thought alike, he went to turn on the radio and ironically "The Start of Something New" came on.

"Look at that. It's our song. The first duet I ever sang.

"Gabriella. How long have we known each other? A month? It feels as if I've known her my whole life and more.

"Only a month. Are we rushing things? No, I don't think so. We've been through so much together and that made us grow closer together.

"It's the start of something new/ It feels so right to be here with you/ And now looking in your eyes/ I feel in my heart the start of something new," Troy sang.

"I remember when Chad and Taylor tried to break us apart." Pause. "When Gabriella wouldn't talk to me. Now, if I didn't think that she was the one for me, why would I climb up the balcony to see her? Like Romeo and Juliet.

The song ended on the radio and "I Can't Take My Eyes Of Off You" came on.

"This song is pretty cool. Nice beat. The voices blend nicely. But it's the lyrics that really get me.

"I can't take my eyes off of you/ I know you feel the same way too/ I can't take my eyes off of you/ All it took was one look for a dream come true.

"I need to get Gabriella a copy of this song."

Troy got up, switch off the radio and the light, went to sleep.

Saturday Morning, October 7, Gabriella's Room, 9:59 a.m.

Gabriella is sitting by the phone, waiting for it to ring. She's waiting for Troy to call her.

"Come on, Troy. Please, call. I need to ask you something."

At Troy's house, he's preparing to call Gabriella just as his phone starts to ring.

"Maybe Gabriella decided to call me instead," Troy pondered. He pick up his cell phone, flipped it open and said, "Hello?"

"Hey, Troy!" said a very eager Sharpay.

Troy, taken back at the fact that Sharpay even knows his cell number, answers "Hi, Sharpay."

"I want to congratulate you on you win last night. I knew you'd win." she says leaving out the detail that Gabriella also won.

"Thanks."

"I wanted to know if you and Gabriella are going again tonight? Me and Ryan are having a party tonight. Want you to come. You can invite guest if you want to."

Taking this a another opportunity to ask Gabriella out again, Troy answers, "I'll think about it." Troy looks at the time. It's 10:05. He really needed to get a hold of Gabriella.

"Anyway, hope to see you there. Sorry for just call out of nowhere. Hope I didn't make you miss anything important."

"Thanks. Bye, Sharpay,"

"Toodles, Troy!"

Troy quickly hung up and raced to call Gabriella. Luckily Gabriella picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hey Gabriella."

"Hey Troy. Thought you weren't going to call."

"No. Something came up out of nowhere. Do you have plans tonight?"

"No. I've just got homework I need to finish."

"Well, Sharpay just called and invited me to a party and I want you to come with me. We could also bring Chad and Taylor."

"Sure only if…"

"Only if what?"

"You'll come over to work on homework with me"

"Deal. I really should finish mine."

"Good. It's a study date then?"

"Yeah. See you at your house."

"No. I think we should do our homework in the park. Get some fresh air into our systems. Meet ya there at the entrance. See you at 3?"

"Yeah. See ya then."

Gabriella hung up and closed her books. She was going to work on her homework but decided that it'd be much more fun to work with Troy.

At the Park, 3:00 p.m.

Gabriella walks eagerly to the park entrance. She's wearing a pink tank with her favorite blue jeans. Along with her is her book bag filled with her school books. She can't wait to meet Troy.

In the opposite direction is Troy. He's wearing his favorite Tee and his most comfortable jeans. He can't wait to see Gabriella again. He has a present for her. He's carrying a portable stereo system with a along with a CD and his school books. The CD contains some songs that he'd think she would like.

They both meet each other at the gate at exactly the same time.

"Hey Troy," says Gabriella, being the first to speak.

"I brought some music along to listen to. Hope you don't mind."

"No I don't."

They head into the park and stop by a big oak tree. Gabriella reaches into her book bag and pulls out a picnic blanket. She spreads it amongst the ground and settles onto it. Troy does the same exact thing.

Gabriella pulled out her homework while Troy set up the stereo. He puts in the CD and presses play. The song "Dance With Me" by Drew Seeley with Belinda came on.

"This was the song you chose to do for the contest, wasn't it?" asked Gabriella.

"Yeah, I don't remember where I heard it, but I remember I loved it right away."

They sat in silence except for the music in the background doing there homework for a while. They decided that they would take a break in about 15 minutes.

Fifteen minutes later.

"Wow. It's really nice to do homework in the park. You feel like you have no walls around you," Troy says.

"Yeah. I try to go as often as I can, but that doesn't always happen."

"Gabriella, when do your decathlon practices start?"

"The Monday we come back."

"That'll be great. We won't see each other after school till the middle of the week."

Just then, "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" came on.

Troy said, "Have you heard this awesome song? I heard it last night when I got home. I thought you might like it."

"I heard it too. The same time. Great minds think alike then."

"I believe so."

They decided that they should really finish up their homework if they wanted to go to Ryan and Sharpay's party.

"Did Sharpay say that we could invite guest?" Gabriella asked.

"Yeah. I'll call Chad and you call Taylor."

Gabriella called Taylor and as soon as she picked up, Gabriella heard, "Hey!"

"It's me, Gabriella. I wanted to let you know that there's this party at the Dance Palace. Troy and me are going and we want you and Chad to come with us. You in?"

"Party?" She took a couple of seconds to consider the offer. "Sure, why not."

"Meet us at my house, alright. See ya then." Gabriella hung-up and returned to finish her homework.

Zac quickly dialed Chad's number.

"Hello, Chad here."

"Hey, Chad. It's Troy."

"Hey Troy. What's up?"

"There's a party tonight at the Dance Palace. Me and Gabriella are going. We want you and Taylor to come with us."

"Sure. Where are we meeting?"

"Gabriella's."

"Great. See ya then."

Troy hung-up and scrambled to finish his homework.

They both finished their homework at relatively the same time.

"See ya tonight, Gabriella."

"Can't wait, Troy."

Once they finished, Troy took his stereo home and got ready for tonight,

Gabriella, after finishing her homework, folded up the blanket and headed home to prepare for the night ahead.