DISCLAIMER: I do not own High School Musical or any related characters.

A/N: Okay, so I just want to say this to Sophie220 the last chapter was actually about them doing callbacks. If you read the last part of that chapter you can actually pick up on it. I know that it seemed pointless, when I read your review I went back to reread it and I get what your talking about. The callback thing wasn't exactly the main focus of the chapter and it kind of ran together when I was typing the other conversation.

Out Of My Element

CHAPTER 8

TEASING

Troy stared at the black board with a blank expression. He honestly didn't know how Gabriella did it. Who could be absolutely riveted by algebra? Glancing at her again, Troy rolled his eyes as he saw her scribbling away on her notepad, trying to figure out the equation on the board, obviously his girlfriend was. Troy shifted his gaze back to the board, a bored expression replacing his blank one. He really needed something to do. There was ten more minutes of torture to go and the teacher looked like she was asleep. This meant that she wasn't going to yell at him for not doing his work. Now the only thing left was to decide what to do. Troy glanced at Gabriella again and suddenly a small smirk erupted on his face. If there was one thing he was good at it was annoying Gabriella and doing it while she was trying to work was always a lot of fun. Very carefully Troy's hand slipped off the desk and he watched Gabriella carefully as his hand came in contact with her knee. Her hand that was resting on the desk twitched and the smirk turned into a grin as he lightly ran his fingertips up her thigh, displacing the material of her skirt as he did so. He watched as she shifted and bit her lip. Slowly, he ran his fingers back down her thigh and grinned again as shot him a stony look.

"Troy don't." Gabriella hissed glancing at the teacher. Troy grinned harder and leaned in closer to her.

"Why not?" he asked glancing at her work, Gabriella leaned over her book, covering the pages with her arms.

"Because amusing yourself for the next ten minutes by running your hand up and down my thigh will result in you getting in serious trouble." She replied quietly and he leaned in even closer.

"Montez, I still haven't gotten in 'serious trouble' for when I somehow made you late. Do you honestly think I'm that worried about getting in trouble?" he asked and Gabriella glared at him.

"Bolton, you know that I can get you into serious trouble." Gabriella said and Troy smirked, his blue eyes mocking.

"How can you get me in serious trouble Montez? Last time I checked, I was the one holding all the cards." Troy whispered his hand running back up her thigh. It was Gabriella's turn to smirk.

"How many people know how cute you were when you were a baby?" She asked and Troy blinked at her. Gabriella grinned; somewhere in the back of her mind she noted that although some aspects of their relationship had changed this one had stayed exactly the same. They were still able to tease each other.

"How many know how gorgeous you are in the morning?" Troy shot back and Gabriella stared at him.

"Come again?" she asked and Troy grinned.

"I have these awesome photos of you at six o'clock in the morning. You look hot in some of them. Others, the wicked witch of the west looks prettier." He said and Gabriella gaped at him.

"You took photos of me at six o'clock in the morning? What were you doing in my room at six o'clock in the morning?" she snapped at him and Troy shrugged.

"Actually, you were in my room and I didn't take them mom did. She thought we looked cute." He replied and Gabriella rolled her eyes.

"Remind me to stay in the guest room next time I sleep at your house." She muttered and Troy laughed quietly.

"You know you can't resist Montez." Troy said and Gabriella looked at him slyly. Glancing at the clock a small grin slid onto her face and she leaned towards him till their lips were only inches apart and their noses were just touching.

"You're right Bolton," she whispered, Troy's eyes darkened slightly as she moved and her lips just touched his neck. Gabriella moved back up and this time their lips were so close, Gabriella was having trouble remembering that she wasn't meant to kiss him. "I can't resist." As soon as the words left her mouth the bell rang and Gabriella pulled away from. Troy groaned softly and Gabriella grinned. Before uttering a soft moan as he squeezed her thigh and moved to kiss the back of her neck.

"Remember Montez, I can tease back." Troy whispered in her ear before getting up and walking out of the room.

"Jerk." Gabriella muttered gathering up her books. She didn't notice Sharpay approaching her as she placed her books into her folder.

"Hey Gabriella." Gabriella jumped when she heard the blonde's voice and then smiled at Sharpay.

"Oh hi Sharpay, how are you?" she asked and Sharpay smiled at the brunette.

"Not bad, how about you?" she replied and Gabriella shrugged glancing in the direction that Troy had gone.

"Okay I guess." She replied with a sigh.

"Mmm-hmm, what was with you and Troy?" Sharpay asked and a grin slipped onto Gabriella's face as she realized Sharpay was talking about the teasing.

"Nothing, he was bored and wanted to annoy me." Sharpay nodded and studied Gabriella carefully; she wanted to see if there was more to what they had been doing then what Gabriella had let on.

"Well, you'd better start telling people that." Sharpay said and Gabriella raised her eyebrows as they left the room and began walking down the hallway.

"Why?" Gabriella asked curiously.

"Well, you guys had the class' attention when Troy's hand found your thigh and cause nobody could hear what you guys were saying they kind of……assumed." Sharpay explained and Gabriella groaned and ignored the group of girls that they passed who shot her cold glares.

"That's just brilliant, isn't it? I bet you anything by the end of this afternoon everyone who doesn't hate me, will hate me." Gabriella said and Sharpay perked up. She gave Gabriella her full attention; maybe Gabriella would say something that would put her plan into action.

"What do you mean by that?" Sharpay asked and Gabriella wondered if she could trust Sharpay, what she wanted to say was something that neither Taylor nor Troy knew.

"Sharpay, you cannot be that dumb. Seriously haven't you been paying attention these last few days? Ever since Troy and I sang and Miss Darbus gave us a callback, the entire school hates me, not to mention Taylor hasn't spoken to me at all since yesterday and Troy……well I don't think that Troy has really noticed anything wrong." Gabriella explained frowning slightly as she realized that Troy hadn't given her any indication that he'd noticed a change in the attitudes of their classmates. Sharpay grinned slightly when she saw Gabriella frown, so maybe their relationship did have a crack in it.

"What do you mean Troy hasn't noticed? I mean it's kind of obvious." Sharpay asked and Gabriella shrugged.

"He just doesn't. Troy isn't the perfect person that everyone sees. He forgets things; he can become so focused on a task that everything around him just fades into the background. Like the game that decided whether they got into the championship or not? Troy was meant to meet my grandparents and he forgot all about that and ditched me for training." Gabriella said and Sharpay's mind reached overdrive as the plan she had started to formulate earlier, fully took shape.

"How could Troy forget something like that?" she asked and Gabriella shrugged.

"Ask Troy, he'd be able to give you a crash course." Gabriella said straightening as she saw Kelsi approaching. Sharpay saw the petite auburn girl approaching as well and sighed.

"I've got to go Gabriella, but……do you want to go to the mall after school or you could come over to my place or something?" Sharpay asked and Gabriella bit her lip, she had a million things to do, practice for the musical, talk to Taylor, tutor Troy, decathlon practice, it went on and Gabriella suddenly shook her head.

"That'd be nice Sharpay. I'll meet you out front okay?" she asked and Sharpay nodded and walked off.

"Hi Kelsi. How are you?" Gabriella turned her attention the petite girl standing just behind Gabriella.

"I'm alright, um, Gabriella. Are you and Troy doing callbacks?" she asked quietly and Gabriella suddenly smiled as the memory of them singing came flooding back to her.

"Yes we are. Do you want to organize a rehearsal time?" Gabriella replied and Kelsi brightened immediately.

"Sure, um, does during last period sound okay?" Kelsi asked, naming their free period for the day. Gabriella bit her lip again and then shrugged.

"Sure. I'll see you in the music room. Do you want us both there?" Gabriella asked and Kelsi tilted her head.

"Yes please. That way I can figure out which of you need the most work." She replied and Gabriella nodded as she spied her boyfriend walking down the hallway, the centre of the group.

"Sure. I'll tell him." She replied and Kelsi slipped away.

Troy glanced around the hallway as he made his way down it and smirked when he saw Gabriella leaning up against a locker, one leg bent, her foot resting on the locker, watching him walk down the hallway. Her books had been dropped to the ground and her arms were folded as she tilted her head to one side. Troy slipt away from the group, ignoring the knowing smirks and chuckles of his friends, as he headed over to his girlfriend. Troy reached Gabriella and put his hand just above her hand and leaned on it, crossing one leg over another as Gabriella looked up at him demurely.

"So, been enjoying yourself Montez?" He asked and Gabriella smiled sweetly up at him.

"What do you think Bolton?" She asked her voice nearly a purr. Troy moved closer to her and Gabriella tilted her head up to look up at him.

"I think you may have been waiting for me." he replied and Gabriella's eyes fluttered downward and she pushed herself off the locker and up against him, her hand slid up his shirt and traced his toned stomach and Troy's eyes darkened slightly.

"I think you may have been right." She squirmed as Troy's hand found its way under her own shirt and began to trace patterns on her back.

"Montez……" he breathed and Gabriella leaned up to his ear, her fingers still tracing his abs.

"We have rehearsal with Kelsi last period." She whispered in his ear and Troy smirked. So she knew how to tease. But that didn't mean she was going to have the final word. Troy pulled her even closer to him and leaned down to her ear, his lips grazing it gently.

"Watch what you're doing Montez. Teasing can get you in trouble." He whispered and then pulled away so abruptly that it took Gabriella a moment to realize that he was gone.

A/N: The next chapter is up, I don't particularly like it but what can you do? Um, you'll all find out what Sharpay's going to do in the next chapter. Anyway, I hope you guys liked it!