Early in the morning, Gabriella woke up and beat her alarm clock before it went off. She stretched and tied her hair up in a messy bun. She didn't know why she woke up extra early, probably because of her breakfast thing with Troy. She got into the showers and took a warm shower before getting dressed and ready for him to come pick her up. The rest of her family were probably still in bed so she didn't need to worry about them coming in her room anytime soon. An hour later, her phone went off and she went over to answer it. "Hello? Okay, I'll be out in a minute." She hung up then went to grab her backpack and her purse then went downstairs and out of the house. She saw his car parked in the front of the house and she looked back to the window where her parents' bedroom was. She didn't see her dad so she smiles and got into his car.
"Hey." She said to him.
Troy smiled, "Hey." He said then drove off to Denny's.
Gabriella set her stuff in the back of the car then faced back forward. She didn't know if he felt awkward after what almost happened last night. She rested her hands in her lap and looked out the window in silence.
"Why are you so quiet?" Troy asked her. He didn't keep his eyes off the road as he was speaking though.
Gabriella looked up then over at him, "Huh? Oh…no, I'm just thinking." She informed him.
Troy nodded slowly, "Ah I see…" he said, "About what?"
Gabriella shrugged, "Just stuff I suppose…" She said to him.
They didn't really talk as much as they usually did when they were in the car together. When they got to Denny's they both got out and Gabriella walked through the door first.
"Hello Gabriella, here by yours-"The waiter began to say then saw Troy. "With Troy Bolton?" She emphasized Troy's last name.
Gabriella looked back at Troy then at the waiter, "Yeah." She simply said then walked with him towards a booth table.
Troy looked at her then at the waiter, "you know him?" Troy asked.
She nodded, "A friend of my brothers. He graduated last year." Gabriella told him then opened her menu and looked through it.
"I see."
The waiter took both of their orders then left the two there in another silence.
"Really Gabriella, what's wrong?" Troy asked.
"Don't worry about it." Gabriella said to him. She didn't want to talk about what could've happened last night in case he was going to brush it off like it never almost happened.
"I want to know."
Gabriella rolled her eyes, "You Bolton's want to know everyone's business huh?" Gabriella didn't mean it in a mean or offensive way, she was just saying.
Troy took this by surprise and looked at her and a smirk came across his face, "Well my bad for caring, shit…" Troy looked back at the rest of the restaurant. "You sound just like your dad…" Troy muttered softly.
Gabriella had heard this and turned to look at him, "excuse me?"
"What? I'm just saying, you sounded like your dad there."
"And what is that suppose to mean?" Gabriella asked him. She crossed her arm on the table as she waited for him to answer her question.
Troy shook his head, "don't take it offensively," He said, "you guys think you know everything when really you don't."
Gabriella rolled her eyes, "wow." That was all she said before she didn't talk to him anymore.
"Wow, are you seriously mad?"
"Shut up, don't talk to me." Gabriella spoke.
"You get mad really easily don't you?" Troy asked her, he tried making eye contact with her but she didn't look at him at all. "Whatever then." Troy said.
The two of them sat there, waiting for their food. Gabriella could feel the big tension between them. Once the food came, Gabriella thanked him then began eating her food in silence. Troy had done the same thing too; he didn't speak to her until they were half way through their meal.
"You're just not going to talk to me?" Troy asked her.
"I can manage; I've been doing that for seventeen years haven't I?" Gabriella said in a matter of fact voice.
Troy mumbled something under his breath and continued eating. At first Gabriella didn't understand what he mumbled then she heard the B word and she put her fork down.
"You're a jerk." She said to him then picked up her fork again. "Don't even think about talking to me after this breakfast." Gabriella said.
"You're totally over reacting Gabriella." Troy said.
She didn't say anything back to him.
"Gabriella, I'm sorry!" Troy said, "It's just when you talk about my family I tend to get angry…just like you. When I talk about them you get all personal about it." Troy said to her, "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings or call you a bitch. I was just so mad that you weren't talking to me."
"You really do have mood swings don't you?" Gabriella said to him.
"Right, you have way more mood swings than I do." Troy said to her, smiling.
Gabriella smiled at him, "its fine, I understand…I would get just as mad as you did."
"Thanks for understanding." Troy said to her then the tension was broken.
"See? Can't you tell how I can hate you in one minute then like you the next?" Gabriella said and raised her eyebrow.
"OH yeah." Troy said while nodding his head. The two had a good laugh about what had happen then they finished their meal. They had fifteen minutes before they had to get to school.
Gabriella's phone rang and she looked at the caller ID and saw it was her dad. "Crap." She said and then answered, "Yes daddy?" She looked up at Troy when she was talking on the phone.
Troy was sitting back and waiting for her to get off the phone.
"No, dad I didn't run away…my friend took me to school." Gabriella rolled her eyes, "yes don't worry I have it all under control." She shook her head then closed her phone.
"What did the dad want?" Troy asked her.
She shook her head, "There you go again, wanting to know my business." She laughed, "It's nothing he wanted to know something…family issues that's all." Gabriella said, "Let's go to school." She told him then got her money out. She was about to pay until Troy wouldn't let her. He paid of the breakfast then the two headed to school. The two got out of the car together and walked into the school together. That definitely got people talking about them.
"Are they dating?"
"Troy and Gabriella are together! Do their parents know?"
"What the hell is he doing with her?"
"Don't they hate each other or something?"
A smile came across Gabriella's face when she heard all this gossip going around. She knew they were just friends and nothing more. Gabriella had a job to do and so did Troy; though neither of them knew what it was. When Gabriella got to the locker, she saw Sharpay and taylor leaning against it and waiting for her. They were looking at the two walking together and their jaws dropped lightly. Gabriella smiled then opened her locker.
"Hey guys." She said to them.
"Are you and troy…" Taylor began to say.
"Dating?" Sharpay finished the sentence for her.
Gabriella laughed, "No, we're just friends…"
"You two are friends? Really? Is this some joke…I thought you two hated each other…I'm sure you hated him a day ago." Taylor said.
She shrugged, "He's okay." Gabriella closed her locker and began walking over to where the others were.
Chad walked up to Taylor and Sharpay, "okay I just saw those two walking together…is something up?"
"There has to be something up, I for sure know that the Montez and Bolton's will never been friends." The three of them began walking to class.
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Troy stood at the locker with his guy friends and he felt his phone ring. He looked at it then excused himself from his friends. "Hello?" He said after answering his phone.
"Troy?"
"Yes Dad."
"I have a way that you can get to Gabriella's heart faster."
Troy sighed and shook his head, "What is it?"
"Ask her to the dance."
"What?"
"Ask her to the formal and then during the dance break her heart."
"I don't know dad, she's probably going to go with someone else and I think that's wrong for me to ask her and break up with her." Troy said.
"Do you want to win and go to Duke?"
"Yes." He lied.
"Okay then do what you need to do." The line went off after that.
Troy shook his head and sighed.
Gabriella walked to her first period and walked passed Troy. Troy saw her and began walking with her. "Hey." He said.
Gabriella smiled, "Hello again." She looked around as she walked.
"SO I was thinking…" Troy began to say.
"Yeah?" She asked, still smiling at him.
"How does winter formal with me sound?"
Other people had heard him ask her when they were walking by and stood near them to see what her answer was. They were going to be shocked if she said yes even though they were already shocked because he asked her to go with him.
A smile spread across her face and she nodded, "Yeah I'd love to." She said to him. Part of her was excited to go to this formal dance since she's never been to one but she knew she couldn't get attach to Troy because she had to do this on her dad's term.
Troy smiled, "Alright cool, it'll be fun." He said. Even though, he felt really bad because he was going to have to ruin her first formal dance.
Now it was really on.
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Gabriella sat next to her friends at lunch and they had a weird look on their faces. "What?" Gabriella asked them.
"Today, I overheard that you were going to the dance with Mr. Troy Bolton?" Sharpay asked.
She shrugged, "Yeah, so what?"
"SO WHAT?! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!" Taylor demanded to know.
Gabriella rolled her eyes, "he asked me so I said yes, and it's as simple as that." She poured ranch over her salad.
Sharpay shook her head, "How is that even possible?"
Gabriella smiled, "It just happened okay?"
When Troy was getting his lunch, people were coming up to him and asking him the same thing as they did to Gabriella. Troy said the same thing over and over, "I just asked her, get over it." He looked for a table to sit at and saw Gabriella. He went over and sat next to them. "Hey ladies."
The two girls; Sharpay and Taylor looked at him weirdly and Gabriella smiled at him. There was an awkward silence until Gabriella began talking to Troy. "So what color tie are you getting?" She asked him. She was more excited on what they were going to wear.
Troy laughed, "Whatever color your dress is I guess."
Gabriella nodded, "It's a tie between pink and blue." She told him, "I'm unsure."
Troy nodded, "Well whenever you know, just tell me."
The girls listened to their conversation and exchanged weird looks between each other. Gabriella knew the girls would act like this because they were utterly shocked about the two together.
"We have to go." Sharpay said then the two of them left the table which left Gabriella and Troy alone.
Gabriella watched them then turned to Troy, "I've been getting those looks and questions all day." Gabriella said. She let out a big deep breath.
"Same here..."
"It's ridiculous." Gabriella said.
The lunch bell rung and the two of them walked to their next class, well Troy walked Gabriella to her next class.
"I'll see you later? And remember to go to volleyball try-outs." Troy said to her.
Gabriella smiled, "I will."
"Alright, cool." He waited for her to walk into her classroom then walked off to his class. A smile was still on his face when he was walking off. Was he falling for her? He didn't know.
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