Sports

He loved sports, she knew, she knew the day she met him and the day they started dating. She just always figured that love would be held higher then sports. But it didn't. He loved her. He told her that much, but it was the sports that drove him to what he wanted. Basketball, she never even understood the damn sport. She came close to hating it, but that was mostly because Troy Bolton chose it over Kelsi Nielson.

Tears spilled down her face that day he told her. The were driving back to school from lunch, and he told her he needed to concentrate on the rest of the season, he needed to get into a university and play. It was what he truly wanted, she knew, she had asked him twenty times and it was always the same response. She spent the last of her classes in the bathroom bawling her eyes out. She went home that day to cry it all out on her pillow again. Troy was breaking up with her for basketball. That stupid game. But it was everything to him, she knew it, but it still hurt her. She thought maybe he'd try to make it work with all of it, but he didn't even try.

Kelsi called him at midnight the day after he broke up with her. She grilled him about the future, their love and basketball until he finally came clean. It was his Dad, he was pushing him and making him feel like Kelsi was in the way, even though she really wasn't. They cried together that night, and they made up. But there was still no way they could be together, not again. Even though Kelsi fully understood what was going on, she knew that Troy's Dad would stand in the way of them, it wouldn't work.

So she cried the next night. She went through the shoebox she had of her and Troy. It held mixed CDs, love letters, pictures, lists, promises, she cried harder with every object she peeled out of the small box. It was over, their love was over. All because Mr. Bolton thought that basketball was the best sport on earth. Granted, Kelsi did know that Troy loved the sport, but she really didn't think that he'd break up with her for it. She really didn't.

She couldn't sleep since he broke it off with her. Every night she sat against her wall and wrote down lyrics for her songs. It was the only thing she could do at night. Two weeks after it was broken off Kelsi tried to sleep, she tossed and turned in bed for five hours before finally giving up. Since then she took the time to write down lyrics, she did the music in the day when she could really pound on the keys. But at night she listened to the midnight air, wrote lyrics and cried. It was all she could do, to Kelsi losing Troy was close to her world shattering. And she wrote about it. Twenty sad love songs sat on her desk, with some chords and keys to go with the lyrics. Twenty sad love songs spoke the truth about her lost love for Troy.

Kelsi always thought about sending the lyrics to Troy and seeing how he'd react. But she knew that was stupid and childish. So she stuck to sitting on her bed every night and crying. She thought it was what was left of her life. Until two months after the breakup. The sound of the phone ringing shrilled loudly throughout her room, glancing at the clock she saw it was four in the morning. Jumping off her bed Kelsi picked it up quickly, hoping that it hadn't woken up her parents already. "Hello?"

"Kels." She heard Troy say and she felt her heart skip about eight beats. He was calling her, for the first time since she called him that night to grill him about the break up.

"What's going on?" She asked him falling down on her bed while pressing the phone very tightly to her ear.

"I miss you." He blurted out and Kelsi felt her heart soar. Those were the best words she'd heard in a really long while.

"Yeah Troy…I miss you." She told him back and she smiled in her dark room. "I really do." She added making sure he knew exactly what she meant.

"I want to get back together. I don't care what Dad says. I love you." Troy told Kelsi and she nodded her head, even though he couldn't see her.

"I love you." She whispered back. They talked until it was time to leave for school, the whole time Kelsi felt more happy then she had for a long time. She had missed Troy. She fell apart without him in her life and she was glad that he was make. Sports or not, Troy would always love her.