A/N: Hello my peoples! Here with another chapter to How Do You Sleep. I've gotten some reviews from new readers! Thanks goes to you guys. I was kinda getting worried that only a few people were reviewing my chapters, over and over, chapter after chapter. But its a relief to see new pennames. xD I finished all of my hw early today. I had 11 questions in Math, which took me a while. 2 questions in History, 2 questions in English with about 14 descriptions and read up to 7 chapters in the novel we have been reading and also do an intro to our rough draft copy of an essay. This was the result of finishing my hw early...


How Do You Sleep: A Troyella Story

Chapter 9:

Troy, Chad and Taylor were sitting at the table they always sat at, when it came to lunch. They had just sat down after buying their food. "Dude, what's with the whole Alex thing?" Chad asked stuffing his face with a taco. It was taco day today. "Nothing, it's just that, when I had met her at the ball, I didn't know if she was one of those girls who would go crazy at any mention of my name. So I used the name Alex." Troy said biting into one of his tacos. "Oh, ok. But are you going to keep letting her call you Alex? What if she finds out you're not Alex?" Taylor asked. "That's why I'm going to tell her that I'm not Alex, when I think the time is right." He replied taking a sip of his juice. "Right." Chad said drinking some of his water to help the food in his mouth go down. "Hey there she is! Hey Anne! Over here!" Taylor stood up waving her hand in the air, motioning for her to come over. And she did. "Hey guys." "Hey," they all chimed. "Why don't you sit down?" Chad asked. "Uh, well I met up with Sharpay's brother, Ryan, in the hallway, and he asked me sit with them today. I said yes, is that ok?" She asked. There was a silence. "Uh, yeah… I-I'm gunna go for some air." Troy said, pushing away his half eaten taco, and grabbed his juice box. "…Troy?" Chad called. Troy slowed his pace for a second and sighed. "Yes Chad, you can have the rest of my taco." By the time Troy had walked to the door, Chad had already stuffed it in his mouth.


There they were, standing at her locker. Laughing about something he had said. He wondered what he had said to make her laugh, that beautiful laugh of hers. "What do you think he said?" Troy asked. "I don't know, all I know is, if I'm late to Darbus' class one more time before the weekend, I'll have no weekend. She told me I had to be on time, if not, I'd be in Saturday detention." Chad said starting to walk backwards. "Alright, talk to you later man." Troy said as Chad left and he went to go to his locker, which was beside hers. He 'accidentally' bumped into him. "Yo, Bolton! Why don't you watch where you're going?!" He said with one of his hands rested on the locker he was leaning on. "I was; if you haven't noticed, Evans, you were just in the way." Troy replied and walked around him, went to his locker and turned the lock to his combination numbers. Anne (Gabriella) went to go grab a text book out of her locker when the warning bell went off, but if fell to the floor. Troy beat Ryan to picking it up and saw he missed a few pieces of stapled paper. He took it in his hands and before he gave it to her, he glanced at the title; 'Plant and Animal Cells. Gabriella Montez'. What the frig?! No, that can't be right. He glanced at it again. Gabriella Montez… He quickly gave it back.

Shit! He saw! This wasn't the way I was supposed to tell him I was Gabriella. What do I do now?! He closed his locker and locked it back up. By that time, classes had already begun again, and Chad, Taylor, the Evans twins, Troy and Gabriella, all had free period. Sharpay had just come up next to Ryan and Chad and Taylor had walked up from the other end. Troy was just about to walk away when, "Wait!" She called out. He froze. "What?" He murmured. "I'm sorry." She whispered. "So you knew?" He questioned. "Of course I knew! I could never have forgotten you." She said shoving her stuff in the locker.


"What the frig are they talking about?" Sharpay asked? "I don't know. We were just talking and then Bolton came up and bumped into me. We had our minor fight, as usual and then he walked to his locker. She dropped a couple things out of her locker, and he picked them up. He glanced at a piece of paper she had dropped before handing it back and tried to rush off." Ryan replied. "Weird of him…" Sharpay mumbled and walked near Anne (Gabriella), with Ryan close by.


"Chad, what are they talking about?" Taylor asked as they moved closer to Chad's locker, near Troy. "Not sure, but they both kinda look upset." Chad replied as they reached his locker.


"Well it seemed like it! You wrote once, and you never wrote again…" Troy sighed and continued, "Why didn't you just tell me who you were?" "I should be asking you the same question." She replied. "It was because I didn't know if you were one of the freakin' messed up girls that go to this school, who would… I don't know. Pee themselves at the mention of my name, or the fact that there would be a chance one of them would faint." He said backing up and leaning against a locker across from his, which just happened to be Chad's. "Why didn't you tell me who you were?" He asked softly. "I wanted to surprise you; I wanted to surprise all of you guys." She said looking around to meet their gaze. "We all said we were going here. And when I found out I found out that we were moving back to Albuquerque, I almost cried." "Why'd you leave?" He questioned, looking up from behind his shaggy light brown bangs. "It wasn't my choice to leave. My mom's job transferred her to Canada. It was a last minute thing, Troy. I'm sorry I didn't tell you. But I knew you'd be upset and I didn't want to ruin you're birthday, which was the next day, by telling you I was moving to another country."


"Surprise us?" They 4 friends on the said all said.


"Didn't she call him Alex before? She just called him Troy. Remember when Troy explained to us why she called him Alex?" Taylor said, puzzled. "Yeah, what is going on here?" Chad replied.


"She was invited to his birthday party? When was this?" Sharpay questioned. "I don't know. I think we would have known about an 'Anne' before we stopped being his friends." Ryan answered.


"I am so confused." The four mumbled at the same time, to themselves.


"Do you know how hard it was? How hard it was to not see you there." Troy asked. "Yes, because it was just as hard leaving. And packing my stuff; leaving my house; my friends, my school. Not being able to go to grad or even graduating with my best friends. I had to make new friends, which was hard, seeing as they all saw me as a geek." She took a breath. "It was hard graduating with a bunch of strangers." She said softly. There was a silence. "I need some air." They both whispered at the same time. They had 15 minutes of free period left. They walked opposite directions and left Chad, Taylor, Ryan and Sharpay starring at each other.


A/N: Yes, I know. A lot of line breaks. But it was a fun way to separate things. :P This was like, the longest of all the chapters I have written to far. I have already started part of the next chapter. So tomorrow, I'll probably be finishing it up. Hoped you liked this one. Hope it made up for the crappiness of my other chapters and the shortness of them too. Review and tell me what you liked/didn't like/thought was good/thought was bad/and even if you have questions, ask me in the review (not too personal though.) :P xoxo; Freshmas. xD

Shout out goes to Ryan! And another goes to Sammy! HBD to him and to her. :P Have a good one you two!