Hello! Here is a new chapter. I hope you like it not completley sure about my portrail of Troy in this chapter, shows a new side to him I think and I hope you like it any way! Thank you for the reviews, following and alerts I have gotten.
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He walked into the locker rooms that night breathing in the smell of sweat, clean towels, body wash and cheap deodorant that was the boy's locker room. Everyone was buzzing around him talking about the game that was about to take place and how they would kill it on the court. He could hear the crowd in the background waiting patiently for the wild cats to enter the court, he knew that his parents was out there cheering on as well as Gabriella. For the first time he was nervous to enter the court, he had a lot to prove tonight, he had been gone for almost four months he needed to show that he was still the best.
The polyester clothing felt comfortable and familiar against his skin, the shoes laced slightly too tight to make sure they stayed on. He felt more comfortable here then he did anywhere else in the world. The coach announce that it's time to get into line before going out on the court. He takes his place at the back of the line as he always do. The front of the line start a small jog out to the court and he could hear the screams of his classmates as all of his teammates was running out on the court. Finally it was his turn and his heartbeat slow down and his breath evens out as he makes his way out to the court and he could hear the announcer to speak about him.
"He suffered an injury of the first game of the season but he has now he healed and is ready to take the court and show everyone why the East High Wildcats are the reigning champions three years in a row, he is back everybody the one the only Troy Bolton!" If you didn't know better you could think it was the NBA and not a high school game. He made his way out to the court and took a place between his friends.
The judge blew the whistle telling everyone to get in position and all he could think was, 'I'm back'
They won! He made the winning shot at the last minute making them winners again! He was feeling on top of the world again. He was on top of the world again, the others teams hated him, his team loved him and the school was ecstatic about having him back. It was only his mom that worried and thought his wrist would break again. But she was happy that he could play again, because that meant he was happy and wouldn't mope around the house and being depressed about it.
He walked out of the locker-room and was headed towards his car but barley got out the door when he sees a small figure waiting for him on a bench. His insides turn to mush and do both double and triple summersaults when their eyes meet. He was surprised how mush he had changed since she came into his life and even if he had started out with bad intentions he was happy that he gave her a chance. That he gave himself a chance to be happy and learn more about himself and that he could actually be in a relationship.
"Congratulations wildcat." Her sweet voice breaks the silence. She gets up from the bench and comes over to him and wraps her arms around his waist. Softly he pushes away some strands of hair from her face and place his hands on her cheeks before leaning down and stealing a kiss from her.
"Thank you Montez." He murmurs over her lips before kissing her again, she stands up on her toes to come closer to him. "You want to come with me to the victory party and celebrate my big return?" He questions never breaking the eye contact with her.
"I can't." She says in a low tone. His eyes become more alert trying to find a sign if he had done something wrong or if she found out why he started going out with her. But then she wouldn't kiss him or even wait for him outside the locker-room so he probably worried for nothing but still concerned why she had such a low tone. She was usually so happy and had a quite high pitched voice. "I need to get home." She shrugs it off.
"Everything okay?" He questions instantly, still concerned that he had said or done something wrong to make her feel upset.
"Yeah I am just tiered." She smiles softly. He still wasn't buying it. But he should probably trust her if she says she is okay.
"I can drive you home if you want?" She nods and slowly lets go of his waist and pulls away from him and start walking towards the exit leaving him standing there. That wasn't like her. She had been acting weird for a while now and he doesn't know why. He starts moving and catches up with her quickly and lace his hand in hers. It was uncomfortable between them, their handholding felt very stiff and like two eleven years old holding hands for the first time. And he was now certain that he have done something to make her upset. He just couldn't pin-point what he had done.
They had been spending a lot of time together over Christmas break and things had seemed fine and they had spent a lot of time together both alone and with each other's families and everything seemed to just go smooth until a few days before New Year's Eve when she suddenly wanted distance from him and avoided his calls and text's. They are finally at his car and they get in quietly. But Troy never puts his key in the ignition but turns around to Gabriella and just looks at her. "Tell me what is going on because you have been shutting me out for weeks now." He wasn't angry or upset. He was confused and hurt and his voice gave that away.
"Nothing I am just tiered I told you that!" Gabriella snaps to him and instantly looks out the window.
"So you have been tiered for like three weeks?" He questions looking at the back of her head hoping she would just turn around and tell him what was going on so he could fix it. Because he must have done something to make her feel like this, it was the only logical explanation seeing as she otherwise was very happy and wanted to talk to him and spend time together.
"Maybe I have!" She says still not looking at him. It was driving him insane! Couldn't they just talk it out and he would be sorry and everything would be great again.
"For fucks sake Gabriella! Just talk to me!" He demands his voice angry but his eye's telling a completely different story of hurt and confusion. All of this was new to him, the feelings, the uncertainty, the feeling of not being enough and just constantly questioning if they were on the verge of breaking up. It was driving him crazy.
"No…" She whispers, still looking out the window keeping her distance from him. "You'll think it's stupid." She adds, turning slightly in her seat but still looks out from the car.
"No I won't… If it's bothering you this mush it's not stupid." His voice once again soft and patient. He was finally getting through to her.
She bites her lower lip for a while or more like chewing it raw before taking a deep breath still looking out the window. She was not making eye contact with him. "Do you remember that night before New Year's Eve?" She questions and he nods.
She was giggling as Troy's hands were attacking her sides and places teasing kisses along her neck. They were supposed to meet their friends almost 20 minutes ago for dinner and a movie but Troy had started kissing her making it impossible for her to say no and make them get going. Then he had stared tickling her making her laugh and giggle unable to get out of his grip and just had to take it and hope that he would realize how late they actually were.
"Troy!" She shrieks as he started a new attack, worried that their neighbors might call the police by the screams she was making. He let his hands wander down along her side and under the loose top she wore. She had decided on jeans and a light pink top today instead of her usual dresses. She also wore her new matching underwear in the same color as her top. Light pink and lace. She knew he liked lace, he quite specifically told her so a few nights earlier. She was brought back to here and now when his fingers played along against the lace material over her ribs, making her body shiver.
"Wanna scream my name again?" He murmurs against her ear and nibble at her earlobe and place a kiss just below it driving her insane. Her hands that had found their way under his shirt was digging in to his lower back to remain quiet. He rested his forehead against hers, just looking into his eyes that seemed uneasy and like he wanted to say something but he remained quiet before leaning down and placing a small kiss on her lips. The intimate moment was interrupted by his phone ringing, obviously their friends wondering where they were.
Troy groans and unwillingly get's of Gabriella and sit on the side of her bed and answers his phone. "Yeah?" He mutters not happy at al that they had to break their moment. Carefully Gabriella gets up and sit slightly behind him and drag her nails of his shirt clad back. "I thought we said 6.30." Troy lies. He knew very well they were supposed to meet at 5.30. "We'll be there as soon as we can." He mutters and hangs up on whomever he had been talking to. "Why did we say we would see a movie with them?" He questions groaning.
"Because I said we needed to get out and do stuff." Gabriella giggles. She wrap her arms around his neck and leans up and nibble at his ear. He groans and closes his eyes. Slowly she works her way down his neck and the beginning of his jawline. "We need to get going." She says and gets up from the bed. She looks in the vanity mirror she had by the bed fixing her hair slightly and making sure her top is sitting right.
"I think you and I can have more fun on our own." He suggest as he looks at her while she is getting ready she blushes slightly at the comment. She turns around and leans against the vanity.
"Can I ask you something?" She sounded nervous he noted.
"Ask away." He replies not really worried what would come out of her mouth.
"Look I know that you enjoyed the single life and had casual sex but I also know that you knew that I would be a virgin until I get married so I don't understand why you would want to go out with me." She says. She didn't sound insecure or uncertain just confused. She had a point but she never knew the truth why he gone after her and he doesn't really know what to say.
"I don't know.. You caught my interest when you started hanging around and my focused shifted. I didn't want the sex I wanted something real, something that meant something and you seemed like a girl I could do that with." He says smoothly, it wasn't a complete lie but it also wasn't the whole truth.
"You don't want sex at all?" Gabriella asks feeling her heart drop.
"It's not like that with you." He shrugs. His phone beeps. "We should get going before they come here and kill us!" He gets up from the bed and soon they are both out the door.
"I am sorry but why does that upset you?" He questions I soft tone knowing she was a bomb just waiting to explode.
"Because you basically said that you don't want to have sex with me! Am I that undesirable?! What do you have to think about when we are intimate?! Other girls?!" She was upset by a situation she had completely misread. But hey at least she was looking at him.
"Gab." He says in a soft tone and place a hand on the side of her face, forcing her to have eye contact with him. "If you really believe all the things you just said I am sorry if I ever said something or done something to make you doubt yourself." His voice was still soft and very calm. "Believe me when I say when you go down on me and when I go down on you that other girls are the last thing I think about. And yes I want to have sex with you but I know you don't want to therefore I won't push it." He explains.
"But that's the thing. I think I want to." She says quietly.
"Are you saying what I think you are saying?" He questions and frowns his forehead waiting for her answer.
"Yeah… I think I want to have sex with you." She smiles softly unsure about the situation. "I am not saying that we should do it right now or that even will be soon but the thought have crossed my mind and it doesn't scare me." She explains to him and she feels like she can breathe again.
Troy nods and bites the inside of his cheek before speaking. "You decide whenever it should happen if you want it to happen but I have a condition…" He takes a deep breath knowing she will think he is a complete wimp. "Since I am new at this whole relationship thing." He ads before getting to the actual point. "I want it to mean something for the both of us. I have never had meaningful sex before, so if you decide that I am worth it I would really like it be meaningful…" He says feeling stupid once he said it she will think he is a wimp and not at all the guy he wanted to be in front of people. And it doesn't help when she is quiet. "And know you think I am a complete idiot." He sighs and leans back in his seat and closes his eyes just wanting to disappear.
"No not at all…" Gabriella answers. "I just never thought I would be with someone like you." He opens his eye's again and turn his head to her, surprised what had just happened. She was actually interested to get to know other sides of him or the real him. "I really like you Troy. All sides of you." She smiles and he can only smile back. Because he needed to hear that.
"And I really like you." He says softly. The second step for them to say I love you to each other.
"No Gabriella?" Chad asks when he enters the house where the victory party was being held. He just shakes his head and leans against the wall while scanning the room; everyone was already getting drunk and was going out of control.
"She was tiered so I drove her home." He ads later when his eyes finally lands on his best friend again that was holding a beer. Chad seemed ecstatic about winning tonight and that Troy had actually showed up to the victory party. He was team captain after all and it was his first game back yet he was not in a party mood like he should have been, like he used to be.
"Everything okay?" He asks while he start to sipping on his beer.
"Yeah… It's just something came up and changed everything pretty mush." He says and it was true because he never thought she would actually change her mind on having sex. Even less that he wouldn't jump at the chance to have sex with her. For the first time he wanted a meaningful relationship that would make him to be more true to himself. To become the one who he was but had been hiding for years.
"Something bad?" Chad was a man of few words and in moments like this it was quite nice. Not to many questions asked and if he didn't want to talk about it they would just drop it and move on to the next topic. It was that kind of friendship they had.
"No… Just forces me to be better and I guess that is a good thing." He gives him a half crooked smile. "But let's celebrate the fact that I am back and we will kill it this season!" Troy steals the beer from Chad and starts chugging it and had soon emptied it and was ready to get himself going.
They make their way into the kitchen were people was starting to set up for beer pong and shots was being served to anyone who wanted one and Troy was no stranger to shots and happily took one and let the liquid burn down his throat before putting the glass down and taking another one. The booze seemed to leave him unaffected, probably because he just played a game and his body was just burning off anything that came into his body.
"Getting drunk tonight?" Chad chuckles as he drowns a third shot hoping to get some buzz. He had stayed away from alcohol during his injury and now he just wanted to try to get drunk and hopefully actually have some fun tonight! Even if he just wanted to go home and lay down on his couch or bed because his body was aching so mush after playing, even if he tried to workout as much as possible during his injury to stay in shape it was nothing compared to his workout schedule he had when he had basketball and even worse, playing a whole game with people who actually wanted to hurt you and slammed their body into yours and he was starting to come down from the winner high and realize that his body had forgotten how hard it was to play.
"Yeah I think I need it to forget how hard basketball actually is. My body is killing me!" He mutters and take a beer that was standing on the counter and started drinking it as well hoping the alcohol would hit him soon and he would just be happy to be here and everyone would be his best friend.
Chad chuckles at his friend. "That is what happens when you stop playing and get a girlfriend!" He jokes and Troy just chuckles and shakes his head at his friend.
"Yeah fuck me right?" Troy chuckles. He knows that he will be back in shape in a few weeks, he just needed to get used to all the training again and he would be fine. "But it's not my fault my wrist snapped." He takes a few sips on his beer again and before he knew it he had Jordan by his side and he had a lot more to drink then he had. He also believed that he played Gabriella. He hadn't actually told anyone besides Chad that he actually felt something real for Gabriella.
"Troy how is it going?!" Jordan was very loud when he was drunk and very touchy. That meant that Troy was pulled into Jordan's side when his arm came around his shoulder.
"It's good Jordan." Troy mutters. He doesn't enjoy being touched by his friends even less by his drunk friends. "How about you find a girl to hug instead of me?" Troy suggests and gets out of his grip and takes a few steps away from him.
"Yeah maybe I should go hug Gabriella?" Jordan suggests and start to laugh but Troy does not find it funny. No his blood went from normal to boiling and wanting to kill his friend in front of him. Gabriella was nothing you could joke about without consequences. "Is she here?" He question seeing the affect he has on Troy. He clenches his jaw in an attempt to remain calm. He also stays quiet to not say anything that he will regret or worse do something he might regret.
"Troy maybe we should go outside and get some air?" Chad suggests but Troy remains in his spot and just stares down Jordan daring him to say something else about Gabriella.
"Yeah maybe you should Troy." Jordan taunts him and he knows that Jordan is an asshole when he is sober and even more so when he is drunk yet he let it get to him. So Troy raises his fist and hits Jordan straight in the face without really realizing he actually did it.
"Talk shit about her again and I will do something worse." Troy says and leaves the party. He didn't feel like partying anymore.