The next morning Gabriella lay in bed with her eyes open waiting for her alarm to go off. The whole time, she kept thinking about that wink that Troy gave her yesterday. She tried to shove the thought from her mind. Come on Gabi! Troy probably forgot about it 5 seconds after he did it! But Troy had in fact not forgotten about it, he was probably thinking about it more than Gabriella was.
Why did I do that? Troy still couldn't find the answer to the question of why he winked at Gabriella. Is she pretty? No, no wait, yes…oh my god she is. Is she sweet? No…well, I guess so. Did I flirt with her? NO…yes. Do I like her? Nooooo way. Troy sighed at the last question, his head said he didn't like her but his heart was saying differently. His alarm went off and he slapped the snooze button and got out of his warm bed. He groaned at the rush of the cold air that filled his room and rubbed his eyes with his fists.
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So far it was a normal day at East High for Troy and Gabriella. Gabriella got pushed into a locker on her way to her locker by some stupid cheerleader who was in fact on her way to slobber all over Troy Bolton. And Troy, he was worshipped like a god as per usual. A cheerleader, the one that pushed Gabriella into the locker came up and slung her arms around Troy's neck. "Hey Troysie!!" she squealed, so excited to be touching the Troy Bolton.
"Uh, hey…St-" Troy was struggling to remember her name, all he knew it started with S and she was a great hook up last summer, in the pool house at a friend's party.
"Stephanie" she said disappointed.
"Hey, I was just kidding, of course I know your name!" Troy said. Her face lightened up along with a sickly sweet smile. Troy knew how dumb she was to believe a lie like that. The only reason he said it so nicely, was to hopefully do her in the gym at lunch. He wanted to, at least he thought he did. They began to walk aimlessly down the hallways, stopping at a friends locker now and then.
Gabriella was at her locker and she was rubbing her arm from where she got pushed into another locker. She slid in her English book in her locker and took out her Spanish book. Someone pulled up next to her to get something out of their locker and they accidentally bumped her locker door in her other arm making her drop her book and it basically rolled into the middle of the corridor. God dammit. She went to pick up her book but as she reached down, someone kicked it away from her. No, not now, I just want my book. She went to reach for it again but it got kicked away once again. She stood up and was face to face with Chad Danforth. Behind him was Troy and Zeke and a few other ditzy blondes, one which had Troy's arm around her waist. For no more than a split second, Gabriella felt a tinge of jealously but it went away pretty damn quickly when she forced it out of her mind, she was good at doing that. Gabriella looked at the floor and saw Chad had his foot over her book. "That's for slapping me" he said as he pressed down further on the book and Gabriella saw the pages crumpling and twisting. She just stared at the book, it was just a book but it made her sad. She sealed her lips together and tried to hold back the tears. "Geez, crying over a book?" Chad said. No, maybe after all the years of being tormented by you fucking egotistical jerks.
"Maybe after all the years of you being a jerk?" Troy said out of the blue. Gabriella looked at him and Chad immediately flung his head around to Troy giving him a 'what the fuck?' look. "Uh…" Troy said, wondering why he said that himself.
"Are you on medication Troysie?" the stupid blonde attached to his side asked.
"Uh what? No" he replied. "Why would I be?" he asked stumped.
"Oh, I just thought you might be having some weird side effect" she said.
"Listen Barbie, I just said it ok? No big deal" Troy said grabbing her arms and pulling them off him.
"Wh…I'll see you in the gym at lunch right?" she pleaded.
"Uh…I dunno" he said and as he walked off he winked at Gabriella again. What the hell Troy?! He said to himself. Why does he keep winking at Gabriella?
Why does he keep winking at me? Gabriella kept wondering this all through Spanish, but somehow, the thought of it brought a smile to her face. The winking situation was all that was on Troy's mind.
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It came the end of the day and Gabriella caught the bus home. She walked in her front door an saw her mum was home early and making a meal. "Mum?" Gabriella said. Her mum turned around and hand signaled she had to make a meal because she was going out tonight. She was making some amazing salad. Gabriella nodded her head and went out to the backyard for once. She sat on the back doorstep and looked around her backyard. She was looking at the trampoline. I haven't gone on that for like 3 years she thought to herself, so her feet carried her over there. She crawled on the trampoline and started bouncing, higher and higher as she went. A smile formed across her face. She loved the feeling of the breeze and the way her hair went up and down as her body did. She was very much enjoying it, she felt free and as if her troubles had gone!
In the meantime, Troy was going for a run around the neighborhood and spotted a girl in the corner of a backyard going up and down. That's right he remembered that this is where she lived. He watched her go up and down and noticed the way her hair waved around in the wind and how her arms moved next to her body. He noticed everything about her and he couldn't seem to take his eyes off her. His eyes were glued to her and his feet were glued to the cement below him.
Gabriella was happily going up and down with her eyes closed and a permanent smile plastered across her pretty mouth She turned around in the air and opened her eyes to see a boy standing out on the pavement just before her house. She stopped bouncing and even though they were far away from each other, they could feel their eyes locking with each other. Troy felt his hand move up to his face and give a small wave in Gabriella's direction. Gabriella did the same and waved back and they both seemed to show an uncontrollable grin. Seeing each other's smile made them smile even more, it was a vicious cycle. Gabriella was shocked when Troy gestured her to go and see him out the front. She cautiously went out and her heart was beating fast, what if he found out?
Gabriella walked out the front looking at the ground and playing with her hands, she reached Troy and stopped. She looked at him incase he said anything. "Do you ever talk?" he asked bluntly. Gabriella nodded her head, but I don't really want to. "So are you going to talk?" he asked again. Dammit I knew I shouldn't have come out here! Gabriella pointed to her throat and stuck her tongue out as if she couldn't talk. "You lost your voice or something?" he asked. And Gabriella very quickly nodded. All of a sudden she got a message on her phone.
I have to go now, come back please to lock the doors. Gabriella flipped her phone closed and waved goodbye to Troy and ran back inside leaving Troy standing there in shock. That was weird. Troy just asked her if she spoke and she said yes and left. Troy sighed and continued running until he got home, Gabriella didn't flee his mind once.
"Mum I have an issue to discuss" Troy said immediately as he ran in the door.
"Oh ok honey" his mum said while chopping carrots.
"This girl is stuck in my mind and I don't know why" Troy said quickly.
"Ah I see. Well y-"
"She's in my mind and I can't. Get. Her. Out!" he said a little bit more angry.
"Well sweetie. If she's stuck in your head and you can't get her out, maybe she's suppose to be there" she said and gave him a look that said 'you know I'm right'. Troy sighed. God dammit I hate mothers.