Chapter started: September 13, 2008

Chapter finished: September 14, 2008

HSM3: Senior Year

-Chapter 10: Xavier High School Tournament-

"This time of day shouldn't even exist!" Chad moaned as he walked with Taylor and their parents over to the charter bus that was taking the Varsity volleyball team to the Tournament at Xavier High School which was two and half hours away from their school and since their first match was at 9:32 AM they had to leave East High School at 7 AM.

"I know what you mean." Jason, Zeke and Ryan all mumbled in reply as they each had their hands laced with their girlfriends' hand.

"Hey guys!" Troy tiredly greeted as he walked up to them with his parents, Gabriella's parents and brother, Gabriella's duffle bag over his shoulder and his fingers laced with Gabriella's who was dressed in a pair of red cotton sweatpants that were rolled up to her knees showing off her perfectly tanned, toned and shaved legs, a gold satin cami and a white zip up jacket with a pair of black adidas slip on sandals.

"Hey Troy, Gabriella!" They all sleepily replied back before the girls all through their duffle bags in the storage part of the bus before they walked on the bus, taking the same seats they sat in from last week's game against, West High.

"Evans, head count." Lucille told Sharpay, since Gabriella did the head count last week.

Sharpay tiredly stood up and counted before replying, "One coach and her husband, 6 special guys, 6 volleyball players, one first aid trainer, one stat keeper, three mangers and one bus driver. Also the parents. All accounted for."

"Alright. Let's get this show on the road then." Lucille told the bus driver.

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"Aw Taylor look at this!" Sharpay told Taylor in a whisper. Taylor did as she was told and looked to where Sharpay was looking and awed at the sight in behind her, Troy and Gabriella were cuddled up in the two seats together, fingers laced, Gabriella's head on Troy's shoulder, Troy's head on top of Gabriella's head, a pillow behind Troy's head and a blanket over both of them. Taylor and Sharpay each took their cameras out and took a picture of the sleeping couple before they cuddled up to their boyfriend and fell asleep.

Ten minutes later, Lucille quietly stated to her husband, "Its so quiet."

"Its because everyone is sleeping. Which is what I want you to do. Now get some sleep, I'll wake you up when we stop at Sheetz." Jack told his wife who did as she was told.

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An hour later, everyone woke up and headed into Sheetz for some breakfast, drinks and sugary products so they could be hyped for the game and or games.

After everyone finished ordering and paying for their food, they all got back on the bus and ate as the bus drove the other hour to Xavier High School.

"Oh! My! God! This is delicious!" Gabriella said as she took a drink of her large Oreo Frozen Creamerz drink from the Espresso Bar at Sheetz.

"I know." Troy said since he had the same one.

"This is so good too!" Sharpay stated, as she took a drink of her white chocolate hot chocolate with caramel and vanilla.

"I know I've had that before its so good!" Gabriella replied before taking a bite of her breakfast burrito that Troy tried to take a bite of, but got slapped and glared at by Gabriella causing the ones who saw to laugh at him. Troy just smiled before taking a bit of his sausage breakfast burrito.

"Sheetz has the best hash browns ever!" Taylor exclaimed as her and Chad both took a bite of their hash browns at the same time.

"I know!" Gabriella and Troy exclaimed.

"This stuff is awesome!" Kelsi exclaimed before she took a long sip of her JOLT.

"I know!" Gabriella and Sharpay exclaimed.

"Alright, girls since we're almost there. Gabriella pump them up!" Lucille told Gabriella.

Gabriella smiled and yelled to the girls, "Let's do my boyfriend first."

All the girls nodded before they watched Gabriella count it off on her fingers before they started the pump up chant, "My boyfriend said if I spend another night playing volleyball he would leave me….gee I'm going to miss him."

The girls, Lucille and Jack all laughed after the cheer as the boys just glared at the girls.

"Shar-Bear choose another one!" Gabriella told Sharpay who smiled and nodded.

"Let's do we got the power!" Sharpay said and everyone nodded and waited as Sharpay counted down on her fingers before starting the cheer with everyone else joining in, "We got the power to be number one. Through the rain, the snow, and the very warm sun. We are the Wildcats and we know what's best. From North to the South, to the EAST to the West. GOO Wildcats!"

Gabriella smiled and started the next cheer, "P…U…M..P, PUMP IT UP…P…U…M…P, PUMP IT UP."

"P…U…M…P, PUMP IT UP. P…U…M…P, PUMP IT UP!" The girls echoed her.

"PUMP THAT WILDCAT SPIRIT UP!" Gabriella yelled.

"PUMP THAT WILDCAT SPIRIT UP!" The girls echoed Gabriella.

"GOO WILDCATS!" Gabriella and the girls said together.

Finally, they arrived at Xavier High School. They all got off the bus in the same order as they did for the West High game and the girls grabbed their bags before heading into he school.

"Hi, East High Wildcats." Lucille told the people in charge of the details.

"Alright. You're first match is at 9:32 against North High School. And your in locker room 14." The person told Lucille who nodded and told the girls who all said goodbye to everyone before heading into the locker room to change and get ready.

"So now that I explained the main stuff to you. Let's go warm up." Lucille said as they all ran out to Court B and looked to see the two teams on Court A already playing. They looked over the other side of the Court B to see the team they were going up against first which were the North High School Hornets.

Both sides spent five minutes serving, bumping, stretching and spiking before the ref blew the whistle telling them to get ready to start the game.

"Alright, girls. We got this. We got this. Now we got the serve so that means, Gabriella your serving first. I want you to move, talk and hustle out there! And remember the Golden Rule, I would rather see two of you go for it than none. Now Montez pump them up!" Lucille told the girls and then Gabriella.

"BUMP, BUMP, BUMP THAT WILDCAT SPIRIT UP. SET, SET, SET IT UP, SET THAT WILDCAT SPIRIT UP. SPIKE, SPIKE, SPIKE THAT HORNET SPRITE ALL THE WAY DOWN!" The East High Wildcats girls said as North high did pump it up.

The whistle blew for their side and the ref did the signal for Gabriella to serve. Gabriella looked at Troy who sent her an encouraging smile, before she turned around and bounced the ball, threw it up in the air, and over hand served it hard over the net and to the back line getting the first ace of the game.

"Ah, you got served! Aye, Aye, Aye!" East High said doing their ace.

"Come on Brie, you got this babe!" Gabriella heard Troy who was sitting in the stands behind her with the rest of the Wildcats audience say before she served the ball and it went over and strait down in the hole, getting the second ace of the game.

"Aww, sweet ace!" East High said doing their other of many aces.

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"Bump!" East High said as Abigail bumped the ball to Kelsi.

"Set!" East said as Kelsi set it up.

"Spike! Kill!" East said as Gabriella did the footwork and spiked the ball over the net and strait into the hole, getting her team a point from her perfect kill.

"Bump, set, spike, that's the way we like it!" East chanted.

"Come on Taylor Anne! You got this!" Chad yelled to Taylor as she went up to serve the ball.

Taylor smiled as she tossed the ball up in a perfect and accurate toss before hitting it over and done, giving her team an ace since no one hit it.

"Ah, you got served! Aye, aye, aye!" East said.

"Come on baby. You got this!" Zeke and Troy yelled to Sharpay as she and Gabriella went up to block. "Yes!" They then said as the girls successfully blocked it.

"Awe Access," East said before they hit the floor and said, "DENIED!"

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Finally after ten more long minutes the two games to twenty five were over for East and North, with East beating North both times. East cheered with their families after they gathered their water bottles and towels up and sat on the bleaches with them. Troy noticed someone very important in his life was missing and asked the volleyball girls, "Where's Brie?"

"She's out in the hall. Talking with someone from North High that she knows." Abigail told Troy before she cuddled back into the arms of her boyfriend who was on the basketball team with Troy, whose name is Miguel.

"Oh." Troy said as he watched for Gabriella to come back in. Soon later she did followed by a Latina looking girl about the age seventeen with black straight hair, green eyes, a tanned and toned body, and a white, silver and orange North High volleyball uniform, both laughing, but then stopping to talk to Greg and Inez who nodded and hugged the Latina girl before Gabriella handed her stuff to the managers and her the Latina girl ran across the court to side A to a group of girls and guys, and together they all walked out of the gym, a guy picking Gabriella up from behind and carrying her while she laughed.

"Where did Brie-Ella go?" Sharpay asked Greg and Inez.

"She went with some people real fast. Don't worry she'll be back for the next game." Greg replied as he watched Dordado High School -Wild Hogs- and Desert Crest High School- Thunder- play on court B.

As promised, Gabriella returned with five minutes to spare before the next game. She smiled at the group that she left with as they sat down with the rest of North High fans and the volleyball team who were going to watch East High vs. Adams Apple High School-Lizards- game.

Thirty minutes later, East High finished their games with A.A.H.S. Lizards, winning both games and got ready to play Desert Crest High School-Thunder- in two games.

Thirty minutes later, East High also won those two games against Desert. Smiling they all along with the parents and boyfriends walked out to see which three teams from Court B were playing in the semi-finals.

The girls squealed as they found out it was them (since they didn't lose any games), North High (who only lost the two against East) and Dorado (who beat Desert) were the three teams from Court B. From Court A, it was Xavier High School-Warriors-, Otto-Elk-Otters-, and Kane-Wolves-.

"Well, I'm hungry. Do you want to go get some lunch with me Brie?" Troy asked Gabriella, but he turned around to already find her gone. He turned to Greg and asked, "Where'd Brie go?"

"She went with her North friends to get something to eat. Which I think we all should do too. So lets go." Greg said leading the way and following the signs to the lunchroom.

"I'M GOING TO HURT YOU JAY-T. YOU BETTER RUN YOUR ASS OFF!" The Wildcats all heard Gabriella yell as they entered the Gabriella. They looked for her and found her chasing a teenage boy around the lunchroom table while some other teens were trying to separate them while laughing the whole time. They watched as Gabriella picked up an apple and chucked it at the boy's head, hitting him directly in the noggin.

"OW, G.M.M. THAT HURT!" They heard the boy said rubbing his head while the others and Gabriella laughed.

"You had it coming to you Jay-T." Gabriella replied with a giggle until she saw the look Jay-T was giving her. She stopped laughing and then said, "Uh Oh! Bye Guys see you later!"

The others in that group laughed as Gabriella took off with Jay-T hot on her heels. Gabriella seeing her dad and mom and the rest of the group, she squealed, "Daddy help me!"

"I think you brought it upon your self baby girl!" Greg told his daughter who just glared at her dad, running past him with Jay-T still hot on her heels.

After what seem like forever, Jay-T stopped running, but never catching Gabriella said out of breathe, "Alright G.M.M I give up you win."

"Like always." Gabriella said with Jay-T knowing he was suppose to repeat after her.

"Like always. Come on G.M.M lets go finish our lunch." Jay-T said putting his arm around her shoulder and her putting one around his waist.

"Did you guys finally stop running?" Greg who was sitting with everyone else listening, asked.

"Yeah, I couldn't catch her. She's fast and won like ALWAYS!" Jay-T told Greg with Gabriella proudly smiling and giggling.

"What do you expect she plays volleyball, basketball, softball and cheerleads. She's an athlete." Greg replied before Jay-T and Gabriella walked off to join the rest of the North High group.

"Who's that?" Sharpay asked.

"That is Jake Tucker Simmons, he's the football captain and decathlon captain at North High School. Him and Gabriella have known each other since they were two years old. They've been inseparable before we moved to L.A. and even then they still talked on the phone. They dated for six months before we moved to L.A. and since they broke up their still pretty close friends." Greg replied to Sharpay's question.

"Girls guess what?!" Lucille told volleyball team after they just kicked Kane's butt.

"What?!" They asked excited.

"Your in the finals! Your going up against Xavier High School for the championship!" Lucille told them excited.

The girls all squealed and jumped for glee after hearing the noise, but soon settled down and got serious for the game against Xavier who they knew would be hard to beat since Xavier hated to lose at their home turf.

After Lucille gave her speech to the girls, she turned to Gabriella, smiled and said, "Pump them up Montez."

"Watch out, we're here! Warriors stand clear! Let's shout, let's cheer! Our victory is near! Wildcats! W-I-L-D-C-A-T-S! That's our name; we are the best!" Gabriella and the girls shouted.

"You might be good at basketball. You might be good at track, but when it comes to volleyball. You might as well step back. You might as well step back!" East chanted again before they took the court ready to beat Xavier High School Warriors.

"Wildcats serve!" The ref said as the ref line judge passed Gabriella the ball who turned listened for the whistle to blow as she bounced the ball. She threw it in a perfect toss in the air and over hand served it strait to where the whole was in the middle of the court earning the first ace for her team because no one from Xavier hit it.

"Ah, you got served. Ay, Ay, Ay!" East volleyball said while the fans clapped their hands.

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Finally for what seemed like forever, it was the last of the three matches against Xavier, both teams tied with match wins, 1-1; so this one really counted and determined the Championship winner!

"Come on Shar-Bear! You got this! You got this!" Gabriella yelled at Sharpay as she went to serve.

Sharpay took a deep breathe before throwing the ball up in the air and serving it over the net and down, but not before someone got under it and bumped it up to the setter you set up the strong side spikier to spike the ball. The spikier spiked the ball only to have it be blocked by Taylor and Gabriella whose blocks sent the ball back over and down on Xavier's side, no one getting it on Xavier's side.

"Aw access," East volleyball said getting down on the floor and then slapping it they said, "DENIED!"

"GAME POINT!" The ref yelled to the court seeing as it was game point, 24-23, Wildcats.

"Come on Gabriella, you got this! You got this! Just take your time!" Gabriella whispered to herself as she bounced the ball getting ready to serve.

Before she hit it she heard Troy yell, "I love you Brie!"

Gabriella smiled and it the serve hard sending it over and down, right on the back line. Everyone waited as the line judge, in what looked like slow motion called the serve, in or out.

"IN!" The liner ref said causing the Wildcats on and off the court to jump with joy. Gabriella had scored the game point for the championship game.

"Way to go Brie!" Troy said as he picked Gabriella up and spun her around causing her to giggle.

"It was because you gave me the strength when you yelled I love you to me in the stands. And fore the record I love you too. So fucking much!" Gabriella told him before they kissed passionately ignoring everyone watching and around them.

Well, there you go another chapter and a day after I posted the other chapter. This one was fourteen pages, shorter, but hopefully still good. I hope you guys will like this chapter, I just had to write it because I was so excited from yesterday! I'm also today really tired and sore from yesterday. I have some quick things to point out from this chapter so here they are….

-I OWN Julie, Jay-T (Jake Tucker Simmons), Miguel and the other people from North High Gabriella was hanging out with.

-I OWN North High School-Hornets-…Dorado High School-Wild Hogs-…Desert Crest High School-Lizards-… Xavier High School-Warriors-…Otto-Elk-Otters- and Kane-Wolves-.

-I OWN Xavier.

- Otto-Elk is named after a real high school from a town called Otto-Eldred AND from a town called Elk County Catholic (ECC), Kane Wolves is a real team in real life too!

Okay, that's it for this chapter, please R&R, nice ones! Love you all! Specially (like always and forever) Girly411!! XOXO

--Jessica!!

It's fifteen pages now!