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Chapter 7

Marcus and Sharpay

It's been a few days since Gabriella broke her friendship from Troy. Ever since then, Zeke and Jason tried to get her to talk to Troy but she wouldn't. She didn't want things to get worst than thing were already. Of course she already missed having Troy around but it wasn't the same when you had people whispering about you all the time and blaming you for the losses of all the basketball team and then also having most of the basketball team was also blaming you and coming up with a plan to break you and your friend up.

Gabriella was now standing at her locker and glanced at the group of guys that were down the hall. One of the guys felt eyes on him so he turned to see who was looking at him and gave her a small smile. She shook her head before looking back into her locker. The guy sighed before turning to his 'friends.' Zeke and Jason looked at each other and both sighed knowing that their captain wasn't good and may not be good until they were friends again or even more than friends.

Gabriella was still facing her locker until she felt hands covering her eyes and she was about to scream until she heard a male voice in her ear, "You seriously aren't going to scream, are you?"

The guy chuckled before releasing his hands and Gabriella turned around grinning as she squealed, "Marcus!"

She jumped into his arms giving him a hug which caused him to chuckle before letting her down, "How are you doing kid?"

"Better now that you're here," she put on a real smile, "now what are you doing here?"

Marcus smiled and placed his arm around Gabriella, "What? I couldn't just drop in and visit one of my favorite girls."

Gabriella rolled her eyes at him before moving his arm off of her, "Tell me the truth, Marcus."

"Alright alright I just came to see how you were doing with everything since you moved here," Marcus turned to look her in the eyes, "and don't you dare try to lie to me because I've known you since you were born and you know you can never lie to me."

Gabriella sighed before glancing at Troy who was looking at her confused wondering who the guy she was talking to was before looking back at Marcus. Marcus saw this and closed Gabriella's locker before grabbing a hold of Gabriella's arm before dragging her to another hallway before turning to look at her.

"Who was that?"

She sighed, "Marcus."

"What did he do to you?"

"Marcus stop," Gabriella shook her head, "he didn't do anything to me. He's just a guy who happens to be my next door neighbor."

She looked down which caused Marcus to glare at her, "Gabriella Anne Montez, tell me the truth."

Gabrielle looked up and saw the look he was giving her and sighed, "Alright, I met him a couple weeks ago and we became I guess you can say friends but you see he's the basketball star and this school as cliques not like my old school so I was known as the new quiet freaky math girl. Then last week, Troy actually introduced me to everyone as his friend which caused the basketball team start losing games which everyone started blaming me and were talking behind my back about me. Then I heard the basketball team talking about me and I just couldn't handle all the stares and whispers so I broke off my friendship with him in front of everyone. That happened a few days ago and it sort of brought me down but I have to be strong for Adam and oh my father doesn't even know how to act like a father anymore since we moved here."

"Awe Gabsy," Marcus saw the tears in her eyes before hugging her but then realized what she said before slightly pulling back, "What do you mean about your father?"

Gabriella shook her head, "It doesn't matter. I'm starting to get used to not giving him around and having work all of the time and so is Adam. It would be nice to have family around though other than just the two of us."

"If I knew that," he sighed, "I would've come here sooner."

"Marcus, you have school."

Marcus shook his head, "If two of my little cousins needed me, I would have took a break from school to come and make you two all better."

"I know you would have but Marcus, seriously we're fine," she gave him a small smile, "but anyways let's be happy. Now how is Sharpay?"

"Ugh that little brat who is my sister," Gabriella nodded, "well she is still a brat."

"MARCUS EVANS!"

Marcus groaned as Gabriella giggled while they walked back to the hall they were in which the entrance of the school as well. They saw everyone in the hallways looking at a very angry blonde who was standing in the center of the hallway with her arms folded.

"Oh my dearest sister," Marcus smiled at her, "how nice of you to join us."

"How nice…how nice?" Sharpay walked up to them more to Marcus, "You left me in the car while you can find Gabriella first and said you were going to come back for me. That was like ten minutes ago!"

He just shrugged innocently, "I guess I just forgot about you when I saw my favorite girl in the whole wide world."

"I love you too," Sharpay huffed but looked at Gabriella who was just giggling, "GABBY!"

"Hey Sharpie," Gabriella giggled as Sharpay hugged her tightly which left it hard for her to breathe, "Alright Shar, if you loved me, you would let me go right now."

"Sorry," Sharpay giggled before pulling back, "I just missed you so much. How is everything? Have you met any guys? Are they cute? Come on, don't leave me hanging. Give me some details on New Mexico guys."

Gabriella giggled shaking her head, "Still the same Sharpay."

They both giggled as Marcus just stood there rolling his eyes at the two girls. He then saw two guys walking over to them which made him confused. He thought Gabriella wasn't friends with anyone here.

"Uh hey Gabs," one of them spoke.

Gabriella turned to look at them and smiled slightly, "Hey Zeke, Jason."

"We just came over to see how you were doing," Jason nodded as Zeke continued, "so uh who are your friends?"

Gabriella sighed knowing that Troy probably wanted to know but decided to introduce them anyway, "Zeke, Jason these are my cousins, Marcus and Sharpay. Marcus, Sharpay these are a couple of the basketball players, Zeke and Jason."

Zeke looked at her knowing she knew that Troy asked about them but let it go as he shook Marcus and Sharpay's hands, "It's nice to meet you but just to let you know, we're not like the other basketball players. We actually agree with the friendship Troy and Gabriella had going."

"Yeah what he said," Jason nodded.

Sharpay nodded confused, "Who's Troy?"

"It's a long story baby sister," Marcus spoke before Gabriella spoke knowing she didn't want to explain it all over again.

"Ok well Gabs?" Gabriella looked at her, "I better get the story because how can my idiotic older brother know and not me!"

Gabriella giggled, "I'll tell you Sharpie."

"Sharpie?" Zeke chuckled lightly but stopped when he saw Sharpay's face, "Sorry."

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"Gabriella?"

Gabriella turned around shocked to find Chad standing behind her. She looked around to see some people in the halls, then looked back at Chad.

"Uh why are you talking to me?"

Chad sighed, "Honestly I don't know but I do know that the other day when you had that breakout with Troy, you mentioned you hearing people talking behind your backs and I had this feeling that you meant the basketball team? Did you?"

Gabriella looked around and saw Troy walking down the hall and she looked down the other way to see Marcus and Sharpay hanging around with Zeke and Jason before looking back at Chad, "Yeah I did but you guys weren't the only ones talking about me. Basically the whole school was but you were the ones that made me not able to handle it anymore."

"Well first I want to say sorry for what you overheard," he looked at her sincerely, "and secondly I think you should be friends again with Troy. He hasn't been the same since you guys stopped being friends."

"Wait wasn't it me who caused him to change?" Gabriella closed her locker before turning back around crossing her arms, "I mean, do you really know who he is? How do you know that the Troy you see now isn't the real Troy? Or how do you know that the Troy who was my friend wasn't the real Troy? Or how do you know that the Troy before I came around wasn't the real Troy? Who is the real Troy, you call best friend? Yes now you're going to say that you have been friends since pre-school but Chad, this is the real world, not everyone stays the same since they were three years old. Also Chad, you can be friends with people who aren't like you because you never know you may have more in common with those people than the people who you play sports with. Now if you would excuse me, my cousins are waiting for me."

Gabriella brushed past Chad to be stopped by two bright blue eyes looking at her with a shocked expression on his face. She shook her head before walking past him to walk over to Marcus, Sharpay, Zeke and Jason who have become friends that day.

Troy followed his eyes over to them and then looked back at the back of Chad's head before he turned around to see Troy looking at him. Troy shook his head.

"Troy…"

"I should've known it was you," he shook his head, "you just couldn't take the fact that I was friends with someone other than the basketball guys. I hope you take in what she just said because everything she said was true."

Troy shook his head once again and was about to walk away but then turned around, "Oh and the real me was when I was friends with her so congratulations, you don't know the real me and you got rid of the real me."

Troy walked away before Chad could say anything. Chad just watched his best friend since the age of three walk away from him. He turned to see Zeke and Jason with Gabriella and her two cousins which caused him to sigh. Everything was changing. Was it a good thing? Chad shook his head sighing before walking off in a different direction.

So tell me what did you think of this chapter? I'm sorry it's a little late. I had planned this chapter a couple days ago but didn't know how to put everything down in ink but then I woke up one morning thinking of the way to put it all down so here it is. I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to follow Zanessa411 for your Zanessa news on twitter. Also please leave a review!