Battle of The Highs

Chapter 10

Gabriella's POV

I looked at lunch it was gross looking. We had spagetti, but the sauce was watery and the noodles were juck yuck! I threw mine away, but everyone else ate theirs.

"That was the worse spagetti-" Beverly started saying.

"Yeah I know." Becca interuppted.

"...But I was hungry." Beverly continued.

"Understood." Candice nodded. We all parted and went to class. I was currently walking with Sharpay and Beverly.

"What do you think we're doing in class today?" I asked them.

"Don't give a fuck." Beverly said to me.

"I think we'll be going over that project we'll be starting." Sharpay said too me.

"Do you guys wanna be in a group with me?" I asked them.

"Who wouldn't wanna be in a group with you?" Beverly laughed.

"Um, a lot of people." I said truthfully.

"Try half the school." Beverly laughed. When we got to the classroom Troy was standing outside of it looking worried.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"I'm sorry." he said and kissed me.

"It's fine, I'm not mad."

"Great, because I uh-nevermind." he smiled again and hugged me.

"Oh my gosh, I think I'm gonna be sick." Beverly put her hand on her stomach and ran to the closets trashcan and threw up. Sooner or later many other students were rushing to bathrooms, trashcans, buckets, anything they could find to throw up in. That's when it dawned on me.

"They beat us with our own medicine." I said to Troy. "Did you eat the spagetti?"

"Hell no." he laughed.

"They must've put laxatives in it, like we did to the basketball team."

"Good thing we're getting them back tonight."

After school I walked into the gym. I was dressed in spandex and a tank top, along with half the cheerleading squad. The basketball team was already on the court warming up. I saw Troy looking at me and smiled at him turning around and bending over giving him the perfect view of my butt.

Troy's POV

I saw Gabriella bend over and I couldn't tear my eyes away from her, well from her ass. It was so perfect. She stood back up and looked at me then bent over again and then I had the perfect view of her cleveage. I was enjoying the view until the ball hit me in the head.

"Damnit Troy, pay attention!" Daniel yelled at me. I nodded at my older brother then looked at my girlfriend who was in the splits talking to some of the other cheerleaders.

"Sorry." I said. I picked up the ball and dribbled it and took a shot. I made it, of coarse. I then looked at Gabriella again her and Beverly where dancing to 'Birthday Cake' by Rihanna. I hope they weren't using that song for competetion.

"Imma make you my bitch!" Gabriella and Beverly sang.

"Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake..." Becca started saying. Gabriella laughed and looked at her.

"Troy, man, you gotta pay attention." Chad said.

"Look at her." I said.

"Yeah, I understand, we're playing West High in a few weeks and can't loose."

"You're right, we can't loose to them." Troy nodded.

"Besides, you'll always have your girlfriend." Chad said as Troy nodded. "But you won't always win." I nodded then looked back at Gabriella she talking on the phone before making eye contact with Becca then walking out of the gym.

"Did you see that?"

"See what?"

"They did some kind of communication with their eyes?" I said awkwardly.

"Um, okay." Chad said confused nodding.

"Everyone split up into two teams, we're gonna scrimmage." Daniel announced.

Gabriella's POV

I woke up to my phone ringing. It's was 3:30am. I got out of bed in pj's and walked downstairs slipping my slippers on grabbing my purse and keys and running out to Troy's car.

"Did you guys get the stuff?" I asked them tiredly.

"Yep." The said in unison.

"We have to go pick up Sharpay, Becca, Chad, and Zeke." Daniel said. They picked everyone up then made their way to West High, they all went inside the school through the girls lockeroom since it was always unlocked.

"You know what to do Gabriella?" Troy asked me. I nodded and everyone else ran away leaving me and Sharpay.

"What are we doing?" Sharpay asked me nervously. I held a rolled up poster in my arms, with tape, and sharpie's in my bag. We went to the top of the stairs then went to the front were you couldn't miss anything and took out the tape.

"What's this a picture of?" she asked. It was a picture of Kyle, since he was Class President everyone knew him or of him atleast. So this was a picture of him when he was nerd at band camp. He had the bad acene, braces, ugh it's a horrible picture, that's one of the reasons why I never found Kyle attractive because of that one picture. Troy got it out Sharpay's room and made a larger copy so we could hang it up for the whole school to see.

"You'll see. Once you do this, you have to promise me something?" I asked her unsure.

"What is it?" she said. I looked at her then looked away.

"You can no longer cross-date. You're wildcat and you always will be."

"W-What?" She said shocked. I felt horrible, I felt guilty, but what could I do?

"Please." I added. I unrolled the poster and let it hang as I duck taped it the rails. I stood up then looked at her.

"Fuck you." she said. "First you start a war between our schools."

"I didn't even start the war!"

"If you didn't like my brother this wouldn't even happened Gabriella, I bet your just using him aren't you?" she asked me. "Took make it seem as if you like it here, when we all know you hate it."

"What? How could you say that!" I snapped. "I thought I was your friend. I did so much for you and this is how you repay me, yeah thanks."

"You're a bitch." she said. Becca ran up to us. "We have to go come on!" she pulled us and we ran out the school. I got home with just enough time to get ready and take a trip the Starbuck's for some coffee since I didn't get a full nights sleep.

You know the damange to West High was bad.

There was silly string everywhere, and the walls were spray painted with red, white, and black. The school smelled like rotten eggs due to the eggs that were thrown on the walls and ground. There was toilet paper everywhere, it was crazy. Before we left Daniel let out a bunch of roaches around the school. To top it off. We stole their mascot costume.

So basically. We just go them back, bad.

I pulled into the school parking lot and got out the car holding my empty Starbuck's cup that was once filled with a Caramel Frappuchino. I threw the cup in the trash then walked up to everyone by the fountain.

"Hey guys." I said smiling.

"How are you not tired!" Becca said yawning. "I'm gonna sleep during every class."

"I went to Starbuck's." I laughed.

"Why didn't you get me anything?" she said. I felt arms around my waist and turned around then smiled and kissed Troy.
"You looked amazing in your pajamas." he said. "And those Panda slippers with little pink bows turned me on." he said and I laughed.

"Shut up, I like my Panda little pink bow slippers." I said.

"So did she agree?"

"She got mad at me." I said. "I asked her to promise me and then she went all, Fuck You, you're using my brother on me." I said then shrugged.

"Oh well, she'll get over it." he said.

"No, I think you should let her go with him." I said batting my eyelashes and doing the puppy dog pout.

"Ugh, no." he said and I kept doing what I was doing.

"Please, she really likes him. I don't like her seeing all sad." I begged.

"Fine." he said mad as if he didn't like saying that well of coarse he didn't. He looked at me. "Under on condition." he asked me. I looked at him hoping he'd ask me to homecoming.

"You go with me tonight on a date, I could use the extra luck for the game tomorrow." he said smiling. I was a little disappointed but I was also happy. Another date! I took his hand and kissed him again but this time it was more than a peck but not enough to start a makeout session. I pulled away from him and smiled.

"Walk me to class. I'll tell Sharpay we have first period together." I said and he nodded. We started walking into the school until Beverly screamed and started jumping, she was smiling brightly and yelled out "YES!" she laughed and wrapped her arms around Lucas McCartney he was on the varsity soccer team, and I think he was co-captian. I think he just asked Beverly to homecoming, and I think she just said yes.

"She got asked to homecoming." I said smiling dreamily.

"Yeah, that's been happening a lot." he laughed.

"I wonder who's gonna ask me to homecoming." I said dreamily. "I'll probably say yes to the first guy." I giggled.

"Even if i-it w-wasn't me?" he asked nervously.

"Maybe, I can't go to homecoming alone." I shrugged then smiled at him. "I'm pretty sure you'll ask me." I smiled then he looked unsure.

"Uh, yeah." he said unsure then walked away. I sighed and walked into the classroom and saw Sharpay in the back of the room reading another book. I walked up to her.

"I have some good news." I smiled at her.

"What?" she said sounding annoyed. "Did you finally tell my brother the truth?"

"No even better. You get to go to homecoming with..." my voice trailed off and I smiled.

"H-How?"

"Troy changed his mind, he didn't like seeing you hurt. So I guess him and Daniel talked about it, and now you get to enjoy homecoming." I laughed.

"That's amazing." she said acting as if she didn't care still not making eye contact with me.

"Um, guess not." I said then got up and went to my chair on the opposite side of the room in the front.

I waited in my livingroom for Troy to pick me up. I was wearing a light red dress, it was strapless and had a bow at the top that was a darker red shade and it showed my curves then at the waist it had a short flowy ruffle. I was wearing gold strappy heels and gold jewelry. My hair was straight and down with a gold rose in my hair. I heard the doorbell ring and I opened it.

"You look..." he smiled big. "Gorgeous." he continued.

"Thanks, you look handsome." I giggled. He was in tuxedo and had a red bow tie. What are the odds? We match?

"Let's go." I grabbed my purse locked the door and walked out my house with Troy and go into the passenger side of his car. We talked the whole ride there and sooner or later we pulled up in front of Rainforest Cafe'. I loved it here, except this one was much more beautiful there was an actual river running through it and second story seating which was outdoor and giving you a beautiful view of Alburqurque at night and the river.

"I made reservations this morning." he smiled cheekily.

"Where are we seating?" I asked him. He didn't reply he just smiled.

"Reservations under Bolton." he said to the hostess. She looked up and smiled.

"Okay, follow me." she smiled. We walked up the stairs and Troy smiled at me again. "Best table, everyone always tries to get this table." she said smiling. "I will be right back with your drinks."

"We didn't order our drinks yet." I said confused.

"I preorder our whole meal." he smiled.

"You're amazing." I said then kissed him.

"Thank you." he said then smiled. "So how do you feel about our third date?" I looked at the river and saw fish swimming in it.

"I love it."

"I knew you would, Beverly, Mia, and Becca helped me. I wanted this night to be like a movie date." he said.

"Troy, you didn't have to do all of this." I giggled.

"You know this is the exact table my mom told my dad she was pregnant at?" he said. I looked at him and smiled.

"Really." I said suprised.

"Yep." he nodded. "I wanna give you something."

"You don't have to give me anything." I said. He pulled a ring out of his pocket.

"This is my championship ring from last year. Coach Drew promised he'd buy us all one if we beat West High, and that we did do. So he got us one. A lot of people from the team last year just showed it off. I didn't want to. I wanted to give it to that one girl that I'm falling in love with. I've been with a bunch of girls but they've never made me feel the you do Gabriella." he smiled. He met eyes with me, who was sniffling trying not to cry and ruin my makeup.

"Why are you crying?" he said then rushed over to me.

"That's the sweetest thing." I hugged him then kissed him.

"You're worth it, I'm falling for you."

"I love you." I said then gasped at what I had just said. He went back to his seat.

"You're apparently falling harder for me than I thought." he said and I laughed. I took the ring from his hands and he pulled out a thin silver chain.

"Thank you." I said. I took the chain and put the ring on it and then the chain went around my neck.

"Now everyone will know, that we're offical." he smiled big.

"But we've been offical?" I asked him confused.

"Yeah well, we're twitter offical." he said and I started laughing.

"That makes no sense!" I said.

"It doesn't have too."

We had just finished dinner and were about to go, until we decided to walk around downtown for a little bit. We stopped and sat a big fountain, it was one of those wishing fountains you threw pennys into.

"Do you think we're moving too fast?" he asked me.

"No." I looked at him and replied truthfully. "Why?"

"Because we've been together for like a week or two and we're already saying I love you, like we've been together for weeks when we haven't you know?"

"Maybe it was love at first sight." I said smiling. "We were probably meant to be, you know like Romeo and Juliet. We're kinda like them."

"Yeah, but they both die in the end." he said chuckling.

"You're right." I sighed. "But they died because they loved eachother, they were star-crossed lovers. Their love was written in the stars."

"They still died." he said again.

"Well, I would die for you. Anyday." I looked at him and smiled.

"You know I would die for you." he smiled and then looked me in the eyes. He leaned down and kissed me. Although we've had a million kisses before this, this kiss was like a fairytale kiss. Like the end of a princess movie, it was the perfect kiss. He was the perfect guy for me, and I just knew it. I pulled away and smiled at him then we started walking back to his car. I held onto his arm and put my head on his shoulder.

"You know, out of all our three dates." I paused and smiled. "This is has to be the best. It was perfect."

"All because I'm with the perfect girl." he said and I giggled then started fiddling with his championship ring that was around my neck.