"You guys need to really get this routine together." Gabriella said, in an irritated tone. She was currently taking out her frustrations for Troy on the dance team.

Gabriella's friend, Chelsea groaned, "This routine is difficult."

"I don't care. If it's easy, then I'm not pushing you guys hard enough. You guys wont be looking like crap at the basketball game on Saturday.

Another girl groaned, "Your attitude kind of sucks, Gabriella."

"So do your dance moves." Gabriella shot back. "I want you guys to do it again." She turns up the music and everyone frowns.

The start the routine again and everyone starts dancing again. They were having a hard time keeping up with the fast spins, dips, and pops. In the middle Gabriella stopped the music.

"I want you guys to run 2 laps around the gym." Gabriella yelled to everyone.

During the middle of Gabriella's meltdown, Lola walked in to the gym. "Hey sis."

Gabriella looked up, "Hey."

"Why is everyone running?" Lola asked.

"Because they all forgot how to dance." Gabriell answered. "My new routine is like so hard to them."

Lola laughed, "Dictator Gabriella is back."

Gabriella nodded,"Yeah. I'm pushing them to be perfect and they are settling for average. I don't do average."

Lola laughed, "I'm so glad I quit the team last year."

Gabriella frowned, "I'm not. I could use someone with talent."

"They have talent." Lola argued.

"No they don't."

"You shouldn't take your anger out on these poor people." Lola said.

"I'm not angry." Gabriella argued.

Lola rolled her eyes, "You're very angry."

Everyone came back to where Gabriella was standing and they all sat down.

"Ok when we practice again on Wednesday I ecpect every single one of you to give me 150%." Gabriella ordered. She grabbed her gym bag. "And go to the spa and gets massages because you're all very stiff and tense. Amd practice your dance moves because you all suck."


Cristina walked into her daughter's room and set down a bouquet of roses. "These are for you."

"Who are they from?" Gabriella asked. "Those are beautiful."

"Troy." Cristina answered.

Gabriella's smile fell, "Oh."

"At least his apologies are getting better." Cristina said, trying to lighten the mood.

Gabriella picked up one of the roses and quickly dropped it. "Shit." She just pricked herself. "Stupid roses."

"They're gorgeous." Cristina defended. "You're the dumb one who picked it up."

Gabriella walked into her bathroom. "Thanks, mom." She wrapped a band-aid around the cut. She walked back into her room and grabbed the flowers.

"Where are you going with those?" Cristina asked.

"Nothing. I'll be back." Gabriella called out.

~The Next Morning~

"Hey Gabriella." Troy greeted. He walked up to Gabriella's locker.

"Hi." Gabriella greeted back.

"Did you get my flowers that I sent you?" Troy asked.

Gabriella sighed, "Yup."

"Did you like them?"

"I pricked my finger on a thorn so I soaked them in nail polish remover." Gabriella replied. She pulled the dead flowers out of her bag and handed them back to Troy. "You can have them back."

"They were a gift for you." Troy said.

"I didn't want them." Gabriella insisted.

Troy sighed, "Brie what more can I do to make you forgive me?"

"Nothing else." Gabriella answered. "I'm sick of you apologizing to me. I'm just not ready to talk to you or forgive you."

"Why not?"

"Just leave me alone." Gabriella snapped. "This conversation is over." She closed her locker. "I'm supposed to meet Andrew in the gym."

"Andrew?" Troy repeated. "Why do you need to see him?"

"We aren't friends anymore so I don't need to explain anything to you." Gabriella said. She started walking off in the other direction.

~After School~

"She's haning out with Andrew now." Troy told his brother. "Can you believe that?" He backed out of a parking lot. He and Marcus had just gone to Quizno's."

Marcus shrugged, "I mean, kind of. Didnt Gabriella have like the world's biggest crush on him like a few months ago?"

"Yeah but still. It's wrong."

"How is it wrong?" Marcus asked. "You two weren't really dating. You seem to forget that whenever we talk about Gabriella."

"But Andrew thought we were and he and I were friends." Troy explained. "He does not have any respect for guy code."

Marcus snorted, "Girl code is don't go after your friend's exes. Guy code is don't dont tell parents or girlfriends anything, bail your friends out of jail, don't tell your guy friends they look nice, and don't touch each others faces or hair."

"You also need to ask your friend for permission to go after their ex." Troy added.

Marcus rolled his eyes, "You two weren't really a couple. That rule doesn't count. He doesnt need to ask you shit."

Troy groaned, "It should count."

"Well it doesn't." Marcus shot at him. "Stop being a pansy and get over it. You got Dustin."

"No." Troy replied. "We arent dating."

"Oh. Well do something with your life before you start getting on everyone's nerves."

Troy rolled his eyes, "I'm sorry that I piss you off, Marcus."

"I'm sorry, too because you really are starting to piss me off. You're personal life is really irriatating."


"I cant believe you destroyed that gorgeous bouquet of flowers." Lola said to Gabriella. "You could uave gave them to me if you didnt want them."

Gabriella rolled her eyes, "Um, those flowers were for me. So I decided to kill them."

"Dont you thing you're being too hard on Troy?" Lol asked. "I think he's trying."

"I dont care. I'm not ready to talk to him. I don't want to talk to him either."

"Why not?"

Gabriella inwardly groaned, "Lola I dont feel like talking about it anymore."

"Running away from the situation won't help you." Lola pointed out.

Gabriella put her pillow over her face. If she looked at Lola for one more second, she would have burst into tears. Talking about Troy made her want to stab him Fatal Attraction style and cry like a love-sick puppy at the same time. "I'm not running." She mumbled.

Lola smirked, "You can't even look me in the eye and say that to my face."

"Leave me alone please." Gabriella begged. She hated being vulnerable in front of people. Even if said person was her sister.

Lola got up and sighed, "You and I aren't done with this conversation. I'll be back." She said in her Terminator voice as she walked out of the room.

Gabriella groaned, "Someone just shoot me now."


The next day, Gabriella was walking to the library when she saw Troy standing by her locker. She frowned, "What do you want, Troy?"

Troy shrugged, "I don't want anything Montez."

Gabriella smiled, "Good because I need to meet Andrew."

Troy's jaw clenched, "Oh."

"You sure you didn't want anything?" Gabriella asked. "Time is passing us by."

Troy smiled, "I just want you to tell Andrew I'll see him at basketball practice." He planned to teach Andrew a nice lesson in guy code after school. Starting with running for laps around the gym for 45 minutes.

Gabriella nodded, "Ok." She walked off.

Troy smirked as he watched Gabriella go. If she wanted to play games, he could play them to. And he knew the perfect person to play them with.


Hi! Here is another chapter or you guys. I would have had it uploaded faster, but FanFiction had been giving me some problems and I could not login. Did anyone else have that problem? Anywho, I just wanted to thank Younmckee for suggesting that I bring Andrew back into the story. I honestly forgot about him! Anyone else have suggestions because I'm going through writers block at the moment