2 months later in the University of Albuquerque; "Troy, aren't you going to eat?" Sharpay asked.
Troy shoved his tray away and walked outside to think for a moment. Then someone covered his eyes.
He smiled and turned around. "Ella." He hugged her as she hugged him back.
Surprisingly, Chad and their friends were watching Troy hug some 'random' girl.
"Who is she?" Sharpay asked. "Troy's new girlfriend." Chad whispered. "What's her name?" Taylor asked as she crossed her arms.
"Alyssa." Troy replied without hesitating. "I guess he already forgot." Kelsi mumbled to the others.
They agreed as they nodded. "Forgot what?" Troy looked towards them. "Gabriella Montez. Your ex-girlfriend."
Taylor explained to him. Gabriella Montez… He let her name ring in his head. "I don't remember her."
He said before walking away with Alyssa. "I guess he has forgotten who—"Ryan's phone suddenly rings.
"Hello?" "Ryan Evans?" A voice asked. It didn't sound familiar, but Ryan said, "Yes?"
"I'm Gabriella Montez." He dropped the phone. Everyone looked at him he was in shock. "Hello?"
Gabriella's voice sounded really impatient as Sharpay picked up the phone. "Who is this?" she asked.
"I just said that I was Gabriella Montez." Sharpay suddenly screamed and Gabriella rolled her eyes sighing.
"Look, I guess I'll call someone else. Bye." Gabriella hung up and sat down with her friend, Christina.
"Hey G, what's wrong?" Christina asked seeing that her friend wasn't in a good mood today.
"Chris, I cannot believe it. My friends don't remember me anymore.
I called my friend Ryan, he could be in shock right now and his twin sister Sharpay could be screaming.
And probably—" "ALY!!!!" Christina ran up to a girl named Aly. Gabriella saw who the girl was with.
Gabriella stood up and walked to Christina. "G, I want you to meet Aly. She's one of the smartest girls in school."
Christina explained. "That's great. Who's that guy over there?" Gabriella soon asked. "That's Trevor Bolton."
Oh Troy… Gabriella sighed. "Is he related to Troy Bolton?" she asked after a minute of thinking.
Aly nodded. "Yeah, but Troy's with my sister, Alyssa. We call her Ella for short, but we have no idea why."
"Ella used to be my nickname, and most times it can be Brie, Gabby, Gabs, or just Gabriella when someone's mad at me."
Gabriella walked away and went outside. She sat down on the bench and sighed. She hated going to Stanford University.
She hated being away from her friends and felt like she didn't belong there. Someone walked up to her and sat down.
"First day?" he asked. Gabriella turned and said, "Yeah; it feels like it." "I'm Trevor; what's your name?"
Trevor asked with that Bolton smile of his. Gabriella refused to smile, but seeing Trevor smile made her.
"Gabriella." The bell rang and Gabriella told him that she had to go to class.
During winter break; "Troy, don't you miss Gabriella?" Taylor asked as everyone gathered in Sharpay & Ryan's mansion.
Alyssa looked at Troy, "Hey, my sister's coming over in 10 minutes." "What's your sister's name?"
Kelsi asked. "Aly and her boyfriend is—" "Let me guess, Trevor Bolton." Chad guessed. Alyssa nodded.
"How do you know?" Troy asked coz he never told anyone about his evil twin brother.
Suddenly the doorbell rang and Sharpay walked up to the door to answer it. "GABBY!!!!" she hugged her.
"Sharpay!!" Gabriella hugged back, giggling. Trevor and Aly were right behind her.
"We drove Gabriella here. She begged us for her to come with us coz she wanted to see her friends." Aly explained.
Troy saw his brother and gave him a glare. "Dude, let it go." Trevor walked up to Troy.
"Why should I?" Troy asked meanly. "We were 10 and it was an accident." Trevor answered.
"Yeah Troy, it was an accident." Gabriella said, siding with Trevor. "How do you know?" Troy asked.
"She was there Troy." Chad told his friend as he sided with Gabriella & Trevor.
"I didn't know Troy. You both look exactly alike. I didn't bother to ask if I was giving a kiss on the cheek to the right guy."
Gabriella explained. "Look, Gabriella's back and we should start talking about—" "No Sharpay." Troy interrupted.
Sharpay soon got quiet. No one has ever seen Troy this angry before, except for Gabriella and Chad.
"Guys, can we settle this somewhere else?" Gabriella asked quietly. Troy looked at Gabriella.
Gabriella was starting to be afraid of Troy. "Why are you acting like this Troy? You've changed."
"Of course I've changed Gabs. I couldn't live without you at all, but someone told me to let go of the past.
I thought that person was crazy trying to tell me that. But all I wanted was one day to see you again.
No one would ever give me that day, but I decided to give up. I loved you Gabs, I always have.
But no one could pull me away from you, except me. I decided to stay in Albuquerque, instead of following you.
I made a bad mistake and I've done every wrong thing that a boyfriend should do to his girlfriend."
Troy explained as Gabriella started to tear up. She slowly walked to him and hugged him really tight.
"I'm sorry that I moved to California. I wished that my mom could've thought about taking that job promotion.
I wanted to stay, but now it's too late. I forgive you about everything that you've done.
You made a good choice to stay here Troy coz I'd be keeping you from fulfilling your dream.
If you ever graduate college and someone asks you for that dream job you've always wanted, take it.
Take everyone with you, but you'll always know that I'll be there. Not even if I'm at your games in person.
Just remember I'm the brightest star in the sky." She smiled and pulled back, wiping away her tears.