Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of updates but I've been REALLY busy lately so I can't really write much. Plus I'm really tired and had writers block. But I've made time so here it is. And I'm sorry that this story is really boring. I was just randomly reading it and I thought it was really boring and that nothing exciting happened. So I wanna thank you guys for like reading it anyway! I think I'm better at oneshots! Well I don't know you guys judge by reading my oneshots.

Sorry guys for the confusion on my last chapter where there wasn't little lines saying that it was a new place. I did put them in but I guess the site must of taken them out. So sorry!

Yay. Finally figured out why I couldn't put the URL for the website that has the cript for HSM on here. So here it is: http :// hsm. unlike theworld .net /index. php?p screen play But without the spaces

Answers time!

Q1: The poster behind Sharpay was advertising a car wash.

Q2: False. He was a lefty! Just like me! Go lefties!

So this chapter the dedications go to Dulcedancer2693doodleswriter357Jg RoxCutie122 and Jayne-94-2xx! You guys rock and know your High School Musical!

I also wanna give lots of credit to charli quack who helped me edit this chapter and put in a second perspective and to tututooba who gave me the idea for Troyella.

Disclaimer:I think that by now we've established that I don't own HSM. Well it's not like you guys actually asked LOL.

Recap: "Make love to me." She whispered in his ear.

"Not tonight." Troy replied.

"Why not?" Gabriella was just plain confused.

"I want you to solve the issues with your mother first."

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Chad was walking Taylor up to her door. Oh gosh is he going to kiss me? He probably won't, Taylor thought.

Does she want me to kiss her? It's our first date. Should I? Chad thought.

"I had a great time Chad. Thanks." Taylor said."Well I aim to please." Chad replied. They had reached her door. They stared
into each others eyes. They leaned in.

Bam

They had bumped foreheads. Hard. Chad grinned sheepishly and Taylor softly smiled. They leaned in again, Taylor pushing her chin forward more so they wouldn't bump heads again.

Bump.

I guess Chad had the same idea she told herself. Chad rubbed his chin a bit. He'd had enough. He'd gotten dressed up in a suit, attempted to comb his beloved afro, acted posh and sophisticated for parts of the night and he was gonna kiss his girl! SO, he grabbed her cheeks and pulled her lips towards his like one magnet attracting another.

They stayed like this for awhile. When they finally pulled away you could probably see their grins a mile away because they were so wide. Chad quickly left, the goofy grin still plastered on his face.

Taylor softly touched her lips before going into her house. She felt like Cinderella.

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"Why do you want me to make peace with my mother?"

"Cause I know it's bothering you and it hurts you inside."

"When did you get so deep?"

"Comes with the Bad Boy Basketball Captain territory. You have to look
inside and find what buttons to push."

"So you know that we'll never have sex, ever, right?" Gabriella
asked.

"I'll take that chance as long as you are happy."Gabriella sighed. She knew Troy wasn't going to back down. "I'll go talk to her now. She'll be back from work and waiting to yell at me. Bye." Gabriella kissed his cheek and got up to leave.

"I love you." Troy called to her smiling; it felt good to say those words to the one he truly loved.

"I love you too." She replied and left.

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Gabriella opened her front door, dreading to go into the place she was meant to call home. Why oh why must Troy be so cruel?

Gabriella found her mom sitting in the lounge reading a book. Gabriella sat in front of her.

"Mom?"

"Yes." She replied not looking up from her book.

"Can I talk to you, mother to daughter?"

"You're pregnant. You know, I just knew it! You take after my mother-in-law. Such a little skank." Those words hit Gabriella's heart.

"Mom I'm not pregnant."

"Then what is it? I'm kinda busy here."

"Why do you hate me?"

"My first son died because of you. I'm never going to forgive you for that." Mrs. Montez said as if it were as simple as a….piece of paper…..

"Mom that wasn't my fault."

"Wasn't your fault! Oh so getting ticked off at your brother, telling your drunk boyfriend to go after your brother and then getting him killed isn't your fault? You bloody liar Gabriella didn't I teach you better than that?!"

"Mom what are you talking about? I didn't tell Warren to go kill Josef!" Gabriella said confused. She was getting sick of being confused.

'Yes you did! That's what I heard from the stupid police, or if it wasn't them it was from Mrs. Kalowsky!"

"Mom you know that Mrs. Kalowsky is an old lady who loves gossip and likes to stretch the truth to add more drama to her life! She watches Desperate Housewives re-run all the time."

"Really?" she asked, still disbelieving. "So what did happen?"

"Mom, I was at a party and Warren was drunk and wanted to have sex. I told him no, I wasn't ready for it yet. He tried to force me but I got away and went home. Josef was at home and was comforting me when Warren showed up, really drunk and looking for me. Josef told me to lock the doors and went outside to deal with him. Warren killed him with a beer bottle. Mom that's the real story." Gabriella was pleading with her mother, begging her to believe her.

"Well why didn't you tell me?" Mrs. Montez responded, still sounding somewhat resentful and disbelieving.

"I thought you knew."

"Mija!" Mrs. Montez sighed; seemingly finally ready to accept what she was hearing as the truth. "If I knew the real story I wouldn't have been angry at you all these years. I thought you asked Warren to 'deal' with Josef or something."

Gabriella smiled at the new name. "Mija?"

"Yeah my mami called me it when I was little."

"I like it."

"So Gabi, that's really it? I feel like such a fool, blaming you for all these years. If you can even think of forgiving me, I want you to know how sorry I am. I guess…I was-am-still grieving. I never got to say goodbye to my Josef."

"Mom, it's ok. But… can I ask you one question?"

"Shoot." Mrs. Montez said.

"Did you ever hate me?" Gabriella asked.

"Gabriella…"

"No mom I want to know. Good or bad."

"As much as I wanted to and tried I could never hate my one and only daughter. So when I figured out I couldn't hate you I got angry with you. I love Josef, a lot. I miss him all the time. He would've grown up to be a great man, husband and father."

"I know. I could always see him as the over-protective father who gave the serious talks to any guy who even looked at his daughter, you know?" Gabriella could picture the poor guys face as Josef would yell 'My daughter is very precious to me. You hurt her and I'll get all the mates from work onto you. And I work with a wrestling business!'

"Yeah. So are we cool?"

"That feels so weird, having my mother saying that." Mrs. Montez laughed."Mija I definitely know I haven't been the best mother to you these past years so I want to make it up to you. You know, get to know you better."

"How about a movie then we could go to this great little diner down the road from there?" Gabriella suggested hopefully.

"How about tomorrow?" Gabriella grinned. She finally had her loving mother back and she had found the man who held the other piece of her heart.

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Their mother-daughter time was a success. They laughed through the movie and had a great time talking and making jokes at the diner. Gabriella felt she was on top of the world to be able to laugh with her mom and finally feel proud to say she had a mother. Mrs. Montez felt happy again. She hadn't felt this way since before Josef and her husband's death. She felt like she had a family again.

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Sharpay was walking down a street. It was about 9:00 at night and really dark. You could see her sparkly pink top glistening in street lights.She was scared. She needed something from the shop and the butler was busy and her car was busy getting re-painted a bright hot pink. Sharpay heard footsteps behind her but ignored it assuming it was a person just walking by.

Never assume. Cause you make an ASS out of U and ME (Sorry 8 Simple Rules moment) She felt a males arm wrap around her neck from the back, trying to cut off her air suply

"Give me your money." A rough voice said. Sharpay struggled to get out of her captors grasp."Give me your money or I'll slit your throat!" her attacker said. Sharpay could see the deadly knife hovering at her throat.

"Hey! Leave her alone." She heard a familiar voice yell. She also felt the arm around her neck tug away.Zeke Baylor was wrestling the thief. And winning.

Sharpay took a couple steps away. Enough to be way out of reach of the thief but not enough so that she couldn't help her saviour if he needed it.

The guy tried to take a swing at Zeke's face but with all his basketball training and his fast reflex's, he ducked and punched the thief in the stomach. He doubled over and Zeke took that as the opportunity to knee him on his nose. The thief ran off after that.

Next priority, Zeke thought.

"Are you OK Sharpay?" Zeke said walking closer to the quivering blonde.

"Yeah I'm fine. Are you? Did he hurt you?"

"No I'm fine. He didn't lay a hand on me." Zeke assured the love of his life.

"You saved me. Zeke I owe you one!" Sharpay leapt up to engulf Zeke in a hug."What were you doing out here anyway?" she asked.

"Taking out the garbage. I live over there." He pointed to the house directly across the road.

"Well thank you Zeke. I have to get home, mom's probably wondering where I am but I'll see you in school!" Sharpay kissed him on the cheek and scurried off home.

Zeke touched the exact place where Sharpay had laid her glossy lips. Definitely worth beating up a guy!

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Gabriella was over at Troy's house. She had told her boyfriend about her conversation with her mom and Troy could tell she loved it.

"So Miss Montez, wanna go upstairs and do intimate forms of exercise that my parents would kill me for if they found out I was doing it?" Troy asked suggestively.

"Troy I've decided on something."

"You met another guy. You met another guy and decided to leave me for him cause he was cooler than me."

"Troy-ey! Let me finish. I want to wait to do it again until I'm married."

"Why?"

"Because I haven't gone to church in ages so I decided to go with my mom and I asked for forgiveness for all my sins. And God said no sex before marriage so I want to try and get that one right now. Well from now."

"Well then that makes it all the more special for when we get married."

"When we get married?" Gabriella asked raising her eyebrows in a surprised manner.

"Yes when we get married. Look Brie I know we've only been going out for a couple of days but I can't picture myself with any other person. All I can see is you, a couple of kids and a dog called Max."

"Max? Can't we call it like, Dakota or something?"

"We'll get two dogs."

"Deal" Gabriella said straight away.

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"Jason?" Jason lifted his head to reply to the soft voice of his girlfriend.

"Yeah Kels?" he asked her, soaking up the warm sun radiating down onto the park they were lying down on.

"What if the school doesn't accept us?"

"What do you mean?"

"What if they ridicule us or make fun of me or stuff like that?" Kelsi asked worriedly.

"Well they can go get stuffed. I love you and nothing is taking me away from you. Besides why would they ridicule us?"

"Cause I'm the quite music geek you're they funny, popular jock. We're from different cliques."

"Well I don't care what they think. Besides Chad and Taylor go out and they're from different groups too."

"But lots of girls like you. What if they don't stop at anything to break us up?"

"Lots of girls like me?"

"There's a list on the girls' bathroom wall. There's one for Troy, Chad, Zeke, Brad and some other guys off the football and basketball team too."

"Well I don't care about those robots. And if they get really vicious I promise we'll run away to Las Vegas, get married and become Black Jack dealers." Kelsi giggled.

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Monday morning at school

Sharpay was rearranging her locker while she was waiting for Gabriella, Kelsi and Taylor to show up. She felt someone tap her shoulder. She turned around to meet the deep, dark brown eyes that belonged to her saviour, Zeke Baylor.

"Hey Zeke!" she exclaimed excitedly.

"Hey Sharpay. Um, you know how you said that you owed me one from the other
night-"

"Sure anything! Name what you want." Sharpay interrupted.

"I was wondering if you could keep me from being alone this Saturday night?" Zeke asked hopefully and nervously. He had practiced a lot in front of the mirror but it was so much harder talking to Sharpay the person, not her photo.

Sharpay grinned. "Pick me up at 7." She kissed his cheek and left to gomeet her friends at the front of the school. "See you later!"

Zeke once again touched his cheek. Life couldn't get any better. He did the victory dance. Right in the middle of the crowded hallway. When he realized EVERYONE was staring at him he quickly stopped and went to the gym.

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"Hey girls!" Sharpay said and gave Gabriella and Taylor a 'hello' hug. "Where's Kelsi?"

"Uh she told us she had a ride and didn't need to get picked up." Gabriella answered. Taylor had a fair idea of who her ride was.

A red car pulled up a bit away from them. Kelsi and Jason both got out, held hands and made their way to the girls.

"Hey." Kelsi said quietly.

"Hey Kels. What are you doing with Jason?" Gabriella asked.

"I'm holding hands with my boyfriend." She said squeezing her eyes shut, expecting the worst.

"OMG! Yay you finally went out with him!" Sharpay squealed wrapping Kelsi into a hug, making her let go of Jason. Sharpay twirled her around.

"When? Why didn't you tell us?" Gabriella said giving Kelsi a big hug too. Taylor joined in with the hug, though she already knew about them.

"Um we've been going out for about a month now and I didn't want to tell you because I didn't know how you'd react."

"Kels you know we want you to be happy!" Gabriella exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Sharpay agreed. "But YOU mister, if you ever hurt her I'll make sure you'll never play basketball ever again!" Sharpay threatened pointing to Jason.

"Well we have to go! Bye!" Kelsi said quickly dragging Jason behind her into the school before Sharpay could give out anymore threats and scare her boyfriend away.

"Hey girls, I have to go to the chemistry lab and get my book before homeroom but I'll see you then!" Taylor said.

"Yeah OK see you then."

"Shar I have to go pick up some books from my locker too. So I'll see you in class!" Gabriella gave Sharpay a quick hug before scurrying off to her locker.Sharpay stood there not knowing what to do. She then realized she looked like a loner in the school's front lawn.

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Gabriella slammed her locker shut. She had all her books she needed and 10 minutes to spare. She decided to go wait for Troy at his locker but all that changed when a certain blonde walked up to her.

"You know just because you go out with Troy Bolton doesn't mean you're cool. So don't get any ideas on taking my place as most popular girl!" Angela McCann spat.

"Oh honey, are you jealous?" Gabriella said with mock sympathy.

"Why would I be jealous of you?"

"Cause I got the guy you've been chasing since you were little? Maybe? I dunno."

"Argh whatever."

"Well sweetie it was lovely standing here talking to you but I gotta go do something actually worthwhile my time," Gabriella said as if she were talking to a 7 year old "But FYI? Troy loves doggy styles." And walked off but not before smirking at Angela's reaction. She didn't know if he did but what Angela didn't know couldn't hurt her.

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"Hey baby." Troy said to his girlfriend who sat down on his desk.

"Hey." She said and gave him a kiss.

"So what are you doing on Friday?" Troy asked.

"Nothing that I know of yet, why?" Gabriella asked suspisciously.

"Cause I'm going to take you out on a proper date."

"Really?" Gabriella grinned.

"Uh huh." He nodded. Gabriella gave him a big kiss when the bell rang. She then walked off to her seat. She, once again, felt on top of the world.

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Gabriella, Troy, Taylor, Chad, Kelsi, Jason, Sharpay and Zeke were all bunched around a table in the cafeteria.

"Who knew that we'd all end up together?" Sharpay said.

"Who knew that Troy here would settle for one girl?" Jason piped. The whole table laughed except for Troy who punched Jason in the arm.

"Well I'm glad he did!" Gabriella said.

"Me too." Troy agreed nuzzling Gabriella's neck.

"Guys seriously if you're gonna do that please do it in private! We don't wanna see it!" Chad exclaimed. Everyone laughed again.

It had been a long time since Gabriella felt this happy. She had real friends for once-for the first time in 3 years. A terrific boyfriend who she loved more than anything and she actually felt proud to have a mom. She had finally found the one thing she wanted more than anything in the world. Love.

Cheesy ending I know. But what else can I write? Well anyway I really want to thank all my readers and reviewers! You guys really rock! And I will be writing an epilogue. It should be out soon. A week tops a promise. Once again I want to thank you guys with all my heart (what's with all my cheesiness?)!

Wow this was just over 3,000 words! My longest chapter ever! Well I guess you guys deserve it after the loooonnnnnnggggggggggggg wait!

Please review!

Always love from Bunny xoxoxoxoxoxox

p.s if you don't get the little...doggy styles thing with Angela read chapter 9.