Chapter 7: Let's Play A Little Game

Gabriella yawns with the morning sun shining on her. She tries to get up but couldn't budge because of a pair of arms around her waist. She turns around and sees Troy sleeping peacefully next to her. She smiles at him, but frowns at the fact Troy was drooling on her pillow.

"Troy, wake up." Gabriella pushed Troy a little but he turns around, having his back face her, and hugging her pillow.

"Go away. Give me five more minutes." Gabriella pushes Troy again, only harder.

"Troy, get up, you asshole." Troy waves his hand, shooing Gabriella away.

"Go away Mom." Gabriella her eyebrows. He thinks I'm his mom huh? Gabriella leans in and kisses his neck several times. Troy smiled with his eyes closed.

"Stop it, mom. Stop kissing my… what the hell?" Troy opens his eyes to see Gabriella mischievously grinning. "BLAH!!!" Troy falls back on the floor and Gabriella laughs hysterically.

"What are you doing here?" Troy asked.

"What am I doing here? This is my room." Troy looked around the room, recognizing this is her room.

"How come you were kissing me like that? I actually thought it was my mom." Gabriella laughs really loud.

"Whose mom would kiss their son's neck like that?" Troy raised his shoulders. Suddenly, Gabriella's door opens.

"Gabriella, what happened here? I heard screaming," Ms. Montez yelled.

"Umm…" Ms. Montez then sees Troy on the ground.

"What is Troy doing here? I thought you guys broke up two years ago."

"We did, Mom. He's just a friend. He slept on the floor, so don't worry about us doing anything."

"Okay. Get up now or you'll be late for school."

"Kay mom."

"And nice to see you again, Troy."

"You too, Ms. Montez," Troy said, nodding his head once. Ms. Montez closed the door behind her.

Gabriella let out a sigh. "I Thought my mom was going to freak."

"Yeah. I was too."

"Yeah…" Gabriella looks at her hands and start playing with them.

"What you said about us… you not ready for a relationship… you want to stay friends?"

"Yeah."

"I understand. I'm just gonna go." Troy puts his jacket and his pants back on and walk toward the door. Gabriella grabbed his wrist and made out with him right there. Troy looked shock, but he kissed back. Gabriella pulled back and hugged him.

"I want us to be friends with benefit. Only because I don't want a relationship right now. I need to focus on my work before graduating. Until then, I don't want a boyfriend, but I really like you." Troy smiled, understanding, and kissed her forehead.

"I understand you don't want a boyfriend right now. But isn't friends with benefit the same thing as boyfriend slash girlfriend?" Gabriella looks up at him.

"I don't know. I just don't want a boyfriend to keep track of and always care whether or not he'll call me everyday. I don't want to spend a lot of time worrying about him when I have homework to worry about."

"Then you don't have to. I won't always call you just to check on you. That's called overprotective. I expect you to do whatever you want and not stressing over it. You don't have to worry about whether or not I'll cheat on you. After what happened on our last break up, I haven't been drinking since. I care a lot about you, so you don't have to stress over yourself about everything."

"Thanks Troy. But let me take things slow and think about it."

"Alright. I'll see you at school." Troy walked out the door, leaving Gabriella thinking things through.


Troy thinks about what Gabriella said to him. I just don't want a boyfriend to keep track of and always care whether or not he'll call me everyday. I don't want to spent a lot of time worrying about him when I have homework to worry about. Troy closes his locker and walks to the boys locker room to change for PE. He had the class with Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, Ryan, and Kelsi.


Gabriella walks into the girls' locker room and to her locker. She opens her locker and takes out her PE clothes and shoes. She takes off her shirt and puts on her white gym shirt. She takes off her pants and puts on her red gym shorts. When she was tying her white Puma sneakers, one of her cheer mates came over already in her PE clothes.

"Hi Tammy. How are you?"

"Hi Gabriella. I'm fine. Troy wanted me to give you this." Tammy hands her a piece of ripped binder paper. Gabriella took it and read the note.

Let play a little game. Starting with PE.

Gabriella rolled her eyes. "Thanks Tammy." Tammy smiled and walked off. Gabriella walks out to her number. A/N: At my PE class, we have numbers on the blacktop based on the order of our last names. She sees Troy walking to his number, 4. Her number is 14. They sit one number away from each other with Chad sitting between them.

"Kids, Mr. Hogan will be late, so stay on your numbers until he gets back," Ms. Munroe said. She was the teacher for the other senior class for the period. When she leaves, all the girls stand on Gabriella's side and all the guys stand on Troy's side. Gabriella walks toward Troy's side with the girls following her. (A/N: Think of those dramatic slow motion scenes of movies.) They were exactly one feet away from each other.

"So what's your game?" Gabriella said, folding her arms around her chest.

"Volleyball. Boys vs. girls."

"Alright. Who's your good luck charm this time?" Every game including PE games and basketball games, Troy would always have a girl as his good luck charm. When Troy and Gabriella were dating, it would always be Gabriella rooting for him. After they broke up, he chose a different girl for every game.

Troy pulls Sharpay from Gabriella' side and put an arm around her. "She's my secret weapon for this game," he said with a serious tone. Sharpay looked really scared, afraid how Gabriella will react to this.

Gabriella is shock, but doesn't show this. She pulls Ryan from Troy's side and wraps her arm around his arm. "He's my personal supporter," she snapped back, but in a serious tone instead of a mean tone.

"Yeah, choose the twin of my good luck charm."

"At least mine didn't make out with a taken man." Troy looks at her, furious. Gabriella grins evilly.

"At least mine isn't gay." Gabriella looks at him with fury. Everybody looks at this, but noticing Gabriella's mad. Nobody messes with her when she's mad. "Got no comebacks huh Montez?"

A few seconds before Mr. Hogan comes in, Gabriella does something she'll never regret. She slaps him. She slaps him so hard at what he said. He better regret it.

"Ryan is not gay." Sharpay's eyes were wide open and everyone else either gasped or had their mouths open. Gabriella's eyes were flaming up. Just then Mr. Hogan comes into the gym.

"Alright. Everyone break it up. And get back on your numbers." Everybody walks back to their numbers except Troy and Gabriella. They were standing on Chad's number.

"Montez, Bolton! Get back to your numbers!" Mr. Hogan yelled. Gabriella and Troy walks back to their numbers.


Gabriella finished changing into her regular clothes. She walks out of the locker room to find Sharpay waiting for her.

"Hi Gabriella."

"Hey Sharpay."

"I didn't plan the thing in PE. I didn't know what Troy was going to do."

"It's alright. I know. Troy's an asscrack."

"Okay. Thank God."

"Is that all?"

"Oh and do you want to come to my pool party this weekend? It's just us the gang re-uniting since we haven't been hanging out together for a long time."

"Sure. I'll be there."

"Great. See you then. You know what you need to bring." Sharpay walks off. Gabriella walks the other way. Before she could get into her locker, she was pulled into a dark classroom. She felt someone's lips on her neck, but she pushed them away.

"It's me." It was a voice no other than Troy Bolton.

"I know. You or another person, I'd still push them away."

"Why?"

"Because that was mean of what you said about Ryan." Gabriella's the type of person who's really nice to everyone, but can act bitchy at times.

"Well, you said something mean about Sharpay."

"What I said about Sharpay is real. What you said about Ryan was mean and flase."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't say sorry to me. I'm not the one who got offended."

"Fine. I'll say it to Ryan later."

"Good. Are you going to Sharpay's pool party this weekend?"

"Yeah. How could I not? I get to see you in a bikini." Gabriella hit the back of his head. "Ow. Do I look like Chad?"

"No. But you act like him. No wonder he's your best friend."

"Whatever." There was a moment of silence. Troy broke it. "So did you think about it?"

"Think about what?"

"Being my girlfriend."

"After what happened today, I might have to reconsider it."

"Hurry, cause I want to ask Melody out."

"Why Melody?"

"She's been trying to flirt with me ever since we started pretend dating."

"Yeah. She knows about us pretend dating cause I talk about it with her, Sherry, and Taylor during homeroom."

"Oh. No wonder." There was another moment of silence. Gabriella broke it this time.

"Go out with her."

"Huh?"

"Go on a date with her. I mean it's just one date before you're my boyfriend again."

"So you mean we're getting back together?"

"I'm still thinking about it. The date just gives me more time to think." Troy lets out a sigh.

"Fine." Troy walks out of the room. He walks to his locker, seeing Chad.

"So did you get any actions from Gabs?"

"What the hell?"

"I saw you come out of that classroom. And then I saw Gabs come out."

"I was supposed to, but Gabi is still mad at me about what happened to Ryan."

"But she said something mean about Sharpay."

"what she said was true. What I said was spread of rumors."

"Oh." Troy closes his locker.

"I'm gonna go. I gotta find Ryan to apologize and Melody to ask her on a date."

"What about Gabs?"

"I asked her. She's fine with it."

"Man, she's like your mother."

"Sort of. You know how she is."

"Yeah."

"Well, gotta go." Troy leaves to find Ryan.

"I heard everything." Chad turns around and sees Melody.

A/N: Ooo cliffy. I don't usually do cliffy since they're annoying. But I missed it. And the next few chapters is where Melody, you guess it, does something to break up Troy and Gabriella. So be prepared. And review, I noticed that if you update two or three days, you get more reviews. I'm trying that, but if you don't want me to do that and get the chapters done really fast, then I better see lots of great reviews. Thanks :D