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"I don't know why you couldn't have waited like one more minute to open the door, Bolton!" Gabriella said as she walked to the den. He smiled,

"Sorry…I thought you had already kissed…honest mistake." He smirked and walked in front of her to the den. It was nearly midnight and he had stayed up just to make sure she actually came home. Gabriella flipped her brown hair and spoke,

"Oh whatever! I'm going to sleep! Don't even think of coming into my room and like…raping me." Troy Bolton whispered to her,

"That won't happen, usually I like begging for more not begging for less." She was tempted to physically abuse him again but she was too tired to even consider doing that.

"Night…wait? Who won the game?" Troy leaned in close to her and whispered slowly breathing hot air into her ear,

"I always win." She glared at him and he continued, "UK, duh." She just giggled.

"I'm going to sleep now." She said as she approached her door, which was right across from his. He rolled his eyes,

"Night." Gabriella opened her door and changed into her pajamas. She was so glad tomorrow was going to be Saturday.


Troy Bolton woke up to the ringing of his house phone. The clock read 6:02. Who would call at this hour? He groaned and grabbed it quickly. He heard his step-mother's voice ring throughout,

"Hello? Evans-Bolton residence." Troy smiled. It was really nice of Sharpay and her mother to hyphenate their last name. Troy had never had a mother before, until Mary. He actually considered her calling her 'mom' sometimes.

"Mary, darling?" That voice belonged to Gabriella's mother, Troy could tell by her accent.

"Oh hello…how is England?" England? Gabriella's parents abandoned her to go to England? Gabriella's mother's spoke slowly,

"Fine…how is my baby girl?" Her baby girl? Troy was furious, how can a mother leave a child and still refer to them as 'my child.' Mary spoke slowly,

"She's good. She and Sharpay are rather close." Troy smiled. His sister had never really had friends. It's not like everyone hated her but…she wasn't really close to anyone.

"That's lovely." Mary let out a long deep breath. Troy could hear his father's snores in the background. Troy knew he should hang up but he couldn't. He wanted to know exactly why Gabriella's mother was calling.

"You know we are best friends, right, that's why I'm doing this for you. But…you need to tell me why I'm taking care of YOUR daughter." Troy caught his breath. He had never heard his mother…his stepmother… speak to someone like that.

"Mary…I'm in trouble." Troy's eye lids were getting heavier, but he had to find out what was going on.

"What kind of trouble?" There was a really long pause.

"We…we are bankrupt." Troy held his breath to keep from gasping. Broke? No…that's crazy. Gabriella can't be insolvent. That's crazy.

"What? You sent Gabriella with 10,000 dollars and a credit card." Gabriella came with 10,000 dollars? Troy smirked; he would pay 10,000 dollars just to have her stay here.

"I know. The reason she is there…with money, is because we sold the house in California and sold everything off. Mary, someone embezzled all of the money from our company."

"Oh…we would send you money…but…" Gabriella's mother stopped her quickly. She didn't like people pitying her. Just like her daughter.

"No! Just take care of my little girl, for me. I…I don't think we'll be seeing her for a while." Troy Bolton hung up the phone quickly. Gabriella was poor now? She doesn't even know. Her parents are broke and they didn't even tell their daughter.

Now he felt a bit guilty. Her life wasn't picture perfect. Troy fell asleep thinking of whether or not he should tell Gabriella about the phone call.


Troy woke up at noon. He hadn't really slept well. What could he do? He opened his door and saw a very sweaty Gabriella stretching in front of his door. 'Low' by Flo Rida was blaring through her ipod.

Troy was slightly turned on.

"Ella!" He yelled in her ear to make her jump. She turned around and glared at him. He looked funny. He had awful bed head and had dark circles under his eyes.

"Yeah?" She snapped at him. She had gotten back from her morning run. Every morning she woke up at 10 and went for a run. So, even though she was stuck in another city, she still went for her run.

"You look so hot when you are sweaty." He felt his stomach drop. How could he treat her badly? She was poor now. Her parents had given her away.

"Shut up." Her cell phone rang in her back pocket and she smiled when she saw the caller id NATE. She picked it up slowly,

"Hello." She was trying to hold back that she had been breathing heavily. That's an awkward way to pick up a call.

"Hey…I was wondering, there is a huge party on Tuesday, since we have no school on Wednesday, I was wondering if you wanted to go with me." She glared at Troy Bolton who was checking her out, then spoke through the phone.

"Um…I'd love to." Then the line went dead, he didn't even say goodbye. She turned around and stared at Troy Bolton. Blue eyes and Brown eyes were connected for a minute until Troy spoke quickly,

"I…um…yeah." He turned around wondering exactly what he had just done. He decided at that exact moment that he wasn't going to tell her about the phone conversation he had heard. But how could he, Troy Bolton, worry about breaking a girl's heart?

"BRIE!!" There was a scream coming from Sharpay's bedroom. Gabriella walked to the room slowly. She was freaking out because she was probably stinking up their whole house because she was sweaty with no deodorant.

"Yeah." It looked as if Sharpay's closet had exploded. There were clothes everywhere and shoes were chucked random places. Gabriella was shocked, Sharpay was one of the most organized people Gabriella knew, and now her clothes were scattered everywhere.

"I have a date tonight and I can't figure out what to wear!" Gabriella chuckled and headed into the room. She had never gotten to help pick out another girl's clothes.

"Well…why don't you wear some of my California clothes? We wear the same size and you can switch it up a bit." Sharpay shook her head and headed toward Gabriella's room.

The Evans-Bolton family had made Gabriella's room special, it took them three weeks to paint it and make it pretty and then two days to move her stuff in.

"Ok." Gabriella opened her closet. It had 2 rooms. It was a rather spacious closet and it was full of expensive clothes. Sharpay walked in and looked around,

"I can't pull any of these looks! He's going to think I look AWFUL!" Gabriella rolled her eyes,

"No he won't. Why is this date so important?" Sharpay pulled out a shirt and held it against herself,

"He said it's a different type date. You know, he said I'm going to love it and that it will be the most fun I've had, ever. What if he tries to, you know, sleep with me?" Gabriella laughed. Sharpay and Troy were nothing alike. He was a man-whore and she was too simple to be a whore at all.

"I'm sure he won't, Shar. He's a nice guy. Now let me see your outfit."

"I'm ready!!" Sharpay yelled coming out of the closet. She was wearing a mini skirt and black leggings and a pink t-shirt with a picture of rock, paper and scissors with the words 'CHOOSE WISELY' on it.

"Very cute." Gabriella said slowly.


"Chad, she better be home before 11." Troy said lecturing his best friend at the door. "And you better not try anything." Chad rolled his eyes,

"You tell me this before EVERY date. It gets old. I'm surprised you didn't mention ripping off my manly hood if I even broke her heart. Dude, I'm not Nat…" Gabriella walked beside Troy and looked at Chad,

"If you do anything to her that I won't approve of then you will die a slow painful death, that includes spending 24 hours straight with Taylor, the slut, then I'll claw out your eyes. Got it?" Chad's eyes got wide and he muttered,

"You scare me more than Troy does." She grinned,

"Good. Now, may I introduce, Sharpay Evans-Bolton?" She pointed to the top of the steps where Sharpay was standing. Chad gasped a little. He had never seen Sharpay dress like that.

"You look…beautiful." He said slowly. Sharpay blushed. She looked normal, except for the style of the clothes. "Let's go!"


"Chad, where are we?" Sharpay asked as they arrived by a random park. It was a romantic empty park with a lake. The sun was starting to set and it was a very dreamy atmosphere.

"Our picnic in the park. I thought it was different." Sharpay jumped of his FJ Cruiser and headed toward the area he had set up. It was a pink blanket and all of her favorite foods were on it. She grinned,

"Chad! This is the sweetest thing ever! How did you ever think of this?" Chad sat down across from her,

"Your brother told me. I was talking about how I ran out of date ideas and I wanted to do something really romantic, yet fun, and he told me that you would like this. She giggled,

"He thought of it? Oh man…" Chad smiled,

"The real reason I brought you out here is something I kinda want to do something really big." Sharpay was silent for a moment and spoke,

"Ok…" She was freaking out. What if he did want to sleep with her? She couldn't handle that.

"I-I've been in a lot of really bad relationships and I-I've never done this before. I trust you more than anything, right? That's why I wanted to say," Chad found his mouth going dry. How could he be nervous? It was Sharpay, his perfect girlfriend.

"I love you." Sharpay was silent. Of all the things she was expecting, this wasn't even on the list. "It's stupid…I know…" Sharpay spoke quickly,

"I love you too." Then they kissed. IT wasn't a lust kiss full of passion. It was a kiss like never before.

It was a kiss full of true love.

Sharpay Evans-Bolton had finally found her true love.

Gabriella Montez hadn't found hers and she couldn't do a damn thing about it.


I couldn't think of a good last line for Gabriella so I kind of winged it! What do you think? I had to slip a bit of Chadpay in there. They are so cute. Oh and Sharpay's t-shirt was like Chad's style...how cute!

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