Previously on East High,

Gabriella's POV

Troy walked back in my life after a nasty break up. We made sure that since he was going to school with me again that we were on the same track. Now I'm actually a little happy that he's my friend.

The next class for Gabriella was creative literature. She had that class with Taylor, Chad, Sharpay, Troy, Trevor, and Tara. Gabriella walked in the classroom. She spotted Taylor, Chad, Sharpay, and Trevor. She ran to them. "Hey guys."

At the moment Troy, Tara, and her posse made their entrance. Tara was mumbling to her crowd and Troy rolled his eyes. He spotted Gabriella. Gabriella waved to him. Troy walked to them. "Hey."

Before anyone could greet him back the teacher interrupted. "Okay class. Time to start." Troy got a seat behind Gabriella. Gabriella sat beside Trevor. Tara sat beside Troy and behind Trevor. Taylor was in front of Gabriella. Chad was in front of Taylor. Sharpay was sitting behind Troy. (A/n Was that confusing?) "Class, I thought we would start the semester with a project." There were a few groans from the class. "I'm going to pick out partners. And the two of you will have to write about your favorite piece of literature and present it to the class. It should be due after Christmas break." Everyone nodded.

Trevor smiled at Gabriella, knowing that they were going to be partnered together. Tara waved to Troy, thinking they were most definitely going to be working on this project together. Troy rolled his eyes. "Chad and Taylor… you are partners." Taylor smiled.

"There's a shocker." Gabriella whispered sarcastically to Troy. Troy smiled.

"Okay who's next? Oh yes. Montez…" He looked down his list. "you are with, Bolton."

"WHAT?" Trevor, Gabriella, and Tara yelled. Troy just smiled to himself.

"I'm the teacher, and whatever I say goes." He looked away. "And Ms. Tara, you will be with Mr. Trevor." Tara sighed.

Back at the apartment,

Gabriella, Sharpay, and Taylor got back to their apartment that they all shared. "I can't be paired with Troy! I just can't!" Gabriella randomly yelled.

"Okay Gabi, chill."

"How can I chill when I have to do a project with my ex-boyfriend?!"

"I thought you were over that." Sharpay asked bumping into the conversation.

"I am." Gabriella answered without thinking.

"Really?" Sharpay replied with a smile. "You sure have some way of showing it."

"It's just-." Gabriella said looking for the right word. "Awkward."

"Oh yeah awkward. Yeah right."

"Sharpay, I need to talk to you about um- oh bills!" Taylor said out of no where, dragging Sharpay arm to her room. "She's still in love with him. I can tell."

"Oh my god, I know. She just won't admit it."

"We have to do something."

"Oh totally."

"Okay, Gabriella's getting suspicious. Let's talk about this later." Sharpay nodded and they walked back in the kitchen.

The next few days,

"Troy, really we need to start figuring out which literature are we doing. Which one have you picked?" Gabriella asked impatiently.

Troy groaned. "I don't know. Some dead guy."

Gabriella gave him a look. "Oh yeah Troy. We're going to put on our report. 'The piece of literature was written by some dead guy"

Troy shrugged. "Can't we just go out?"

Gabriella paused. "What do you mean?" She asked cautiously.

"I meant as going to get like burgers or something."

"Oh I knew that." Gabriella said brushing it off. "Let's go then." They got up and left.

At McDonalds,

Gabriella watched Troy scarf down on his large French fries faster than you can say "French fry". "Troy, would you please eat civilly?"

"Sorry. Are you going to eat your French fries?" Before Gabriella answered, Troy took hold of her food.

"Pig." She muttered. He looked up at her and smiled.

After they finished, they walked back to the car. Something caught both Troy's and Gabriella's eyes, the playground. They turned to the playground and smiled at each other. "Race you there." Troy said childishly. They started out running each other. Troy quickly got there first and ran to the slide. Gabriella went after him. Troy slid down the slide and Gabriella slid after him. Troy fell on the sand on his back and Gabriella fell on the sand too but on top of Troy. Their lips were on centimeters away. Gabriella thought it was an awkward position and quickly got off. Troy, on the other hand, felt like fireworks on New Year's Eve in New York.

Gabriella walked slowly to the swings and Troy followed. Gabriella quietly sat down and Troy went behind her and started pushing her. "Gabriella, can I ask you a question?"

Her thoughts were interrupted and she quickly answered, "Yeah."

"Do you still have some what of feelings for me?"

Gabriella quietly stared at the sky and truthfully answered, "The past is in the past, Troy. I don't feel that way anymore."

Troy felt his heart rip once again. "Oh, well I was just seeing if you and I were on the same track." He lied. He frowned a little so that Gabriella wouldn't notice.

Too bad, she did. She got up from the swing. "Why don't we go home?" He nodded and they left.

They got back to the apartment and Troy got his things and left. Gabriella quietly got in her bed. "Do I really have no feelings for him?" She asked quietly to herself.

Author's note x

Dun dun dun. Well I would really like to thank my BFF on fanfic, Nica, b/c I had no idea how to get this chapter. Wow I just sounded like I was making a speech for some award show.

Oh nevermind. Wow I just did like three chapters in one day, and I'm really tired. I'll do the next chapter tomorrow b/c I need to get some sleep.

Hasta la vista baby,

ANGiE