Chapter Ten:
Mia opened her eyes to find herself lying in a bed.
"Hey you ok?" she jumped at the sound of Gabriella's voice. Troy was sitting next to her on a chair.
"Yes i'm fine, what happened the last thing I remember was...Brandon" she stared up at her sister, Mia seemed lifeless saying his name. Troy wondered what could be going on but if they wanted to tell him then they would is what he decided in his mind. Mia had only known Troy for a short amount of time but she had to come to realize that if Troy really cared about for Gabriella then he deserved the truth.
"I think we should tell him, he deserves to know." Mia spoke up to her sister after being silent for what felt like an eternity. She looked over to her sister who turned to her boyfriend. they sat their telling him every detail. Mia explained to Troy of her situation with Brandon and the reason why she suddenly came home. Now they had to figure out if Brandon was really somewhere in East High and for what reason, could he be their to hurt Mia or her family, unfortunately she thought of something more tragic before coming back to reality.
The rest of the morning went by as normal as could be expected, unfortunately no one new what Sharpay Evans was up to. Ryan was walking to the auditorium when he passed by the library he noticed his twin sister was busy away, or as usual, planning to take down someone. He regretted walking up to her and asking, but he had to know just in case someone had to do damage control.
"Shar, what are you up too?" Ryan sat down next to her, she was typing away on the computer. A wave of fear came over Ryan when he noticed the look on his sisters' face.
"Ryan, why do yoiu think Gabriella's sister mysteriously appeared just a few months before graduation?" Sharpay asked when she finally finished typing.
"Well.." Ryan started to answer but Sharpay interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"Mia Montez has a secret that I intend to find out." Sharpay was a determined woman to say the least. Unfortunately, not a single person would like what would come. Ryan the left the library to head over to the auditorium for rehearsal. Everyone gathered on stage once Ms. Darbus came into the room. Mia introduced herself to everyone once rehearsals officially started. Everything was going great until a couple of girls who idolized Troy Bolton and of course due to that fact hated Gabriella with a passion decided to let something not so totally nice accidentally slip out of their mouths about her precious sister.
"Apparantly this new girl Mia has one sick past. this guy in my English class was talking about how she slept with almost every guy at her other school." Mia wasn't too far away surpringly enough to hear their so called private conversation. She decided to ignore their rude and snarky comments that would be heading her direction. So she focused on her tasks at hand which was to make sure things were in a somewhat organized manor with the cast for this musical she was new to the job she was becoming a pretty organized stage manager. Ryan was choreographing the dancers on stage, Troy and Gabriella were off to the side by the piano with Kelsi rehearsing one of their duet numbers. The bell rang to dismiss everyone and head to lunch. Mia was trying to gather up her stuff and head over to Gabriella,Kelsi, and Troy when the dancers who had been talkiing about her blocked her path.
"So you're Mia." the blonde one spoke
"yea, that's me." she tried to head past them but the blonde girl's brunette confidaunt blocked her path until one of them finally moved Mia pushed past the two anorexic tween wannabees as quick as possible.
"Hey, you ok?" Gabriella asked placing a comforting arm onher sisters shoulder.
"yea i'm good." Mia responded, she would've felt a heck of a lot better if somehow she could find out if Brandon was the guy that was telling the blonde chick all of those lies about her, could he really be somewhere in East High waiting for the right moment to strike and make his move.
"alright let's jet, I'm starving." Troy said placing his arm around Gabriella's waist. She smiled at him as Kelsi started to gather up her stuff. Mia glanced over to the piano, for the longest time Mia had always had the talent for piano but since her incident with Brandon and struggling to come to terms with the situation the love and gift of music that she had seemed to have come back into the forefront of mind for her. The question was could she somehow get the opprotunity to play again, she just needed one moment. The first time she ever approached a piano she didn't even know what to do but it was as if the music was calling out to her. When her family dynamic changed Mia's passion for music increased because the vulnerable state she was in at the point. Music had become such a huge part of her without anyone actually coming to that realization including Mia.
"Mia you coming?" Gabriella asked as she and Troy got off stage and grabbed their stuff.
"Actually I think I'm going to stay here." she said glancing at the piano quickly before answering, she had to get back up their to prove to herself that she still loved it and could actually perform for herself.
"Are you sure?" Gabriella asked she felt a little uncomfortable leaving her sister alone.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. Remember I'm the older sibling." she smiled jokingly at her sister as they walked out of the auditorium. Kelsi was taking some of her music out of her bag.
"Hey Kelsi." Mia said getting out a song she'd been working on since before all of the craziness in her life started to take place.
"Hey what's going on...I didn't know you were a song writer." Kelsi spoke after greeting Mia she noticed her taking out her song sheets. She was curious to see what Mia's talent could lead to. Not many kids at school minus Kelsi of course really had the passion for music as she does. Maybe there was more to Mia then most expected.
The rest of the day went by pretty normal. Except for Sharpay who seemed to be asking almost anyone what they know of Mia. After a short rehearsal Gabriella went home to get ready for her date with Troy.
Troy pulled up in front of the Montez home when he noticed Kelsi walking to the door.
"Hey wildcat." Kelsi greeted her best bud with a smile and a hug before ringing the doorbell. Troy straightened his tie for the third time since stepping out of his truck when Mia finally opened the front door.
"Hey Kelsi, hey Troy nice tie." Mia gestured for the two to step inside, once Troy did his hands became sweaty. He didn't know why he was so nervous all of a sudden, granted this date was fairly important for the couple but he hadn't been this nervous since their first date. Remembering that he now had a feeling of excitement rush over him.
"So what will you both be doing tonight?" Troy asked Mia and Kelsi who both were whispering to eachother not to far off from Troy.
"Just working on the music for the show for the millionth time. If I don't get these songs perfect I might actually fling myself off of an extremely tall building." Kelsi stated, Troy couldn't believe how much pressure she was putting on herself.
"Kels, you are putting way too much pressure on yourself. Just relax you are a sinch for the scholarship." Troy stated comforting his friend. Hopefully his encouraging words would take some pressure off. Although Kelsi was amazingly talented sometimes she did dought why she could actually wind up receiving the scholarship to Julliard. Troy believed she would most likely be the one to get it, out of the four she deffently deserved it.
"I've got a couple ideas for some of the songs so maybe we can put our heads together for the finale." Mia spoke after a moment of silence between the three. They looked up to the staircase when Gabriella came. Troy smiled up at his girlfriend, their magnetic connection they had seemed to make time stop as if nothing else was their. Troy walked over to her placing a lilght kiss onher cheek.
"You look beautiful." They took a few pictures before heading out for their date. Mia and Kelsi decided to hang out in the living room to wait for Ms. Montez to come home for dinner.