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Troy was looking into the back of his spoon nervously. It was almost 7.00, and she was not yet here. Maybe she would stand him up... just to annoy him. She never really seemed to wanna go in the first place. But she had been looking at him all the time. He glanced up as he felt someone's gaze on him. Immediately the heat rushed to his cheeks... it was her. As she approached the table he quickly stood up and pulled back her chair. As she sat down, he stayed behind her chair for minute. Suddenly she looked up, and he quickly smiled. It was weird, but somehow he had the idea something in her eyes changed, became warmer towards him. He shrugged it off as he sat down on his own chair.
"So... you look really pretty." That was pathetic! He was Troy Bolton, he was great with girls... Even though, he had never really been on a date. Damn, this was his first date! He'd fucked almost whole East High's female population, kissed almost all girls in Albuquerque between 15 and 20, and this was first date and he was actually nervous. Still, none of those girls had been like Vanessa. Somehow, he just knew she was different... for one, she didn't wanna go on a date with him.
"Thank you." She blushed. Good sign! Keep going Bolton! "You clean up pretty nice yourself." Gabriella smiled at him. Unknown to her, quite flirtingly. Troy grinned at her.
"You're only saying that to be nice..." She bit her lip, and he grinned. She looked so cute when she did that...
"Yes I am." Troy looked at her in offended shock and she burst out laughing. "Sorry... no, you look really hot." The moment Gabriella realized what she'd said her cheeks burned a bright red. Troy chuckled.
"And that's coming from the girl who said she wasn't physically attracted to me... told you you were!" Gabriella stuck her tongue out at him and was about to reply when the waiter came to get their orders. As they ordered, both wondered how they could possibly be so at ease with one another. Troy because he was with someone famous who he'd just met on his first date in a very uncomfortable tux in a place he'd never been before. Gabriella because she was with the one guy she hated more than anything on her very first date with a waiter who kept goggling at her. As they finished ordering and the waiter left, Troy leaned over the table.
"Seriously... that dude was almost drooling! I mean, c'mon!" She giggled at his hissed whisper.
"Well, apparently he's a fan... maybe I'll be able to get us a discount." She giggled again and Troy chuckled as well.
"That would be great 'cause this please is frickin' pricy." The moment he realized how that's sounded, Troy turned bright red again. Gabriella had to be bite her lip to stop another giggle coming from her mouth. In her whole East High life she'd never seen Troy Bolton blush, neither had anyone else, and here he was blushing nervously like a normal person.
"If you think it's so pricy, than why'd you wanna go here?" She frowns slightly as she looks at him turn even redder. What was he hiding? For what was he so embarrassed? Ugh, why did she even want to know? It's not like she was in any way interested in the thoughts of Troy Bolton... or was she?
"Well... umm...." Nervously Troy scratched the back of his neck. Damn, he'd gotten himself in serious trouble. But as he looked her into the eyes he realized he'd have to be honest if he wanted to keep a small chance with her. "It's just... you're like, really famous, and really rich... you can have every boy on this freaking planet, and I'm just me." He looked at the table, therefore not noticing how her lips curved into a soft smile and a warm glow appeared in her eyes.
"So... you were self-conscious?" He bit his lip as she wanted it reconfirmed.
"Well...yeah. You must think I'm a dork." She giggled slowly as she reached over the table and took his hand, causing him to look up at her in surprise. She was about the pull back when he smiled and her nervous expression changed in a smile as well.
"I don't think you're a dork... I mean, you're the basketball captain, after all." He grinned at her teasing tone and stuck his tongue out at her, and she faked being offended before doing the same. They looked at each other, than simultaneously burst out laughing, immediately lifting the atmosphere. They heard an awkward cough and looked up to see their waiter. Gabriella bit her lip and Troy muffled his laughter behind his hand, as the waiter but their food down. As soon as he left, they started laughing again.
"You – saw – his – face?!" Gabriella managed to choke out in between loud giggles. Troy nodded and held his stomach still laughing uncontrollably. Slowly their laughing eased to eventually die down completely as they started eating in comfortable silence. Troy looked up slightly at Gabriella and for the first time noticed her plate with food. With actual food, not a miniature salad with dressing. As he started at it, Gabriella looked up and uncomfortable began shifting in her seat. Was there something wrong? Why was Troy gawking at her food like that? Finally, she could no longer survive the tension.
"Ehm... Troy? Is something wrong?" Immediately he looked up, and, realizing he'd been staring, quickly sat up.
"Sorry, it's just. You're actually eating, I've never really seen a girl do that." As Gabriella bit her lip and fidgeted with her bracelets, he quickly added. "It's a good change! I can't stand it when girls starve themselves to become thinner, especially when they're already really skinny." She looked up and smiled at him slightly, picking up her fork and continuing eating. Throughout the whole evening, they laughed, talked, joked, teased... flirted. At the end of their date Gabriella and Troy walked out of the restaurant together (after Troy paid the bill of course).
"You know... I really did have a lot of fun tonight. And you're truly an amazing girl." Gabriella shyly looked down, not used to being complimented. "Maybe... could I have your number?" Gabriella looked up shocked, to see a very nervous Troy. "I mean I'd love to repeat this sometime." Gabriella bit her lip before searching through her purse. Troy looked at her confused, what was she looking for? Finally, she pulled out a pen. She took Troy's hand and swiftly wrote down a number he assumed was hers. As she looked up she saw Troy stare at it in awe, she giggled and he looked up with a half-smile. "You know I never really expected you to actually give it."
"Well, I had a lot of fun as well. You're really, really funny! This was absolutely not what I expected at the start of this evening... in a good way." She smiled before offering him the pen, as he looked at her confused she elaborated her intentions. "I want your number as well." Troy quickly nodded and wrote his number on her hand.
"So... I'll call you?" Gabriella smiled at him, and nodded.
"I'll be waiting..." She hesitated slightly, before leaning forward and pressing her lips against his cheeks quickly. Immediately after, she ran to her car and speeded away, leaving Troy to stand there with a soft smile and his hand on the place she kissed.
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Gabriella tiredly walked into the school that next Monday. She'd had a concert on both Saturday and Sunday evening, three interviews and she'd also made appearances on several popular shows. Than she'd also had to finish two essays that weren't even nearly due yet, start learning for the tests she'd had the coming week, and make all the normal homework as well on top of that. And she'd done all of that, because she was a geek.
"Gabi!" Gabriella looked up to see Taylor speed walking towards her. "I haven't heard from you all weekend!" Than she added in whisper tone. "I wanna know all about your date with Mr. Hot-Shot!" Gabriella groaned and started walking again.
"Plan 501, Tay." In the past three years, Taylor and Gabriella had made around 550 plans to deal with Troy Bolton, from which they hadn't even done 100. All those plans were saved on a USB-stick Gabriella kept in the drawer of her bedside table. It also had several other documents, unsent hate-mail addressed to either Troy, Chad, Sharpay or even any other East High student, a list with ways that were used to torture Gabriella, and loads of other things that made completely no sense and were completely useless. Plan 501 had been one of the few plans they'd actually tried, it was described as follows:
Plan 501
Ignore Troy Bolton, his 'friends', his clones, his wannabes, his hookups, his fans and Sharpay Evans at all cost.
Warning: Can cause a violent reaction from first three and last mentioned.
Does not get rid of insults.
Can cause the whole school to yell insults.
It hadn't exactly been fail proof but Gabriella was desperate enough to try it anyways. It hadn't hit her until she arrived back home and was safely in her own room, that she'd been on a date with Troy Bolton, liked it, and given him her number. After that, she'd panicked. She would never ever allow herself to like her worst enemy, her bully, Troy Bolton, East High's God, the boy all girls wanted and she could have... And there it continued some further. Even though, when Troy had texted her how much he'd liked it, she replied with how much she'd liked it as well, and than they'd texted throughout her whole busy schedule. So now she'd try plan 501 again, against her better judgment, because she was desperate.
"Was it that bad?" Gabriella stopped at her locker, but didn't open it. Instead, she turned to Taylor angrily.
"That bad?! Tay, it was freaking Troy 'I fuck whole East High' Bolton!" Gabriella struggled to keep her voice low and surprisingly succeeded. "And even worse, I liked it. We both had a great time and have been texting all weekend!" As she saw Taylor's look of disbelief, she grabbed her phone and handed it to her. As Taylor scrolled through her messages, she finally opened her locker and got her stuff. When she finished she shut it loudly and turned to a shocked Taylor. At the loud bang, Taylor seemed to regain consciousness and closed her mouth.
"Plan 501 it is than." And with that she handed Gabriella her phone back and together they speed-walked to homeroom. If they wanted to ignore them, they'd better avoid them, which resulted in hurrying to be early, to be there before them. Unluckily, today was the exception on the rule that Troy and Chad were always nearly late or late for homeroom.
Troy had been in homeroom for a couple of minutes already, reminiscing about his date with Vanessa, again. He wanted to remember all the details so he could tell them to the guys. Other than Chad than, he'd come over Saturday morning to play some ball and heard the whole story already. Suddenly Troy heard the door open, and he looked up to see the two people he hated most in the whole school enter the classroom. As they walked in, they ignored him and sat as far away from him as possible, which meant the two chairs closest to the door as he was seated in the back at the window. He shrugged and got back to staring out of the window and thinking about how beautiful Vanessa was. That's when he realized he'd been thinking about her the whole weekend, that he'd thinking about one girl for two whole days. And that's when he panicked.
Therefore the moment Chad entered the room, Troy jumped up, ran over to him, and pulled him back to his seat. As Chad stared at his panicked friend in bemusement, Troy managed to wave at his other friends before turning back to him.
"Help me!" Chad looked at Troy in surprise before realization dawned on his face.
"Troy, this was gonna happen sooner or later. For now, just be happy she seems to like you as well, and try to put some effort in your relationship." Troy looked at Chad in disbelief.
"How did you even know what I was talking about?!"
"C'mon Troy... We've been best friend since kindergarten! If there's anyone who knows you, it'd be me." Troy nodded slowly. What had Chad said? Try to put some effort in your relationship... troy wrinkled his brow, before his face cleared up and he got his phone out his pocket. Quickly he typed something to the number he'd learned by heart in less as a day. As he turned to the window, he didn't see a brunette in the front get her phone and look at it for a minute before he mouth dropped open in shock at the text...
'Hey V,
You wanna hang tonite? Just casual...My place? 7.00? I wanna see ya...
Your best date ever ;P
Troy (just in case)'
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