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Ima make you guys review. I'm not gonna update until my reviews reach at least 45. (Or until Nicola beats the crap outta me…) come on! It's not that hard! (Hehe I'm so evil!)
Jasmineprnc, uh no. no I don't know how to speak American lol YAY for sex Ed! Actually sex Eds really awkward… I was magically sick on that day…
So I've rambled for ages now…
On with the story!
Oh! One more thing! This chapter is for Sam, Larissa, Jess and Nic who are all in it! Again… on with the story!!
"Troy! There's a letter here for you!"
I bounded down the stairs to see my mom cooking breakfast
"How'd your date with Gabriella go last night?"
"It went great. Are you gonna tease me with those pancakes, or are you gonna hand them over?"
She laughed, before handing me a plate laden down with pancakes
"So what did you two do?"
"We just had dinner, and then danced and… yeah…"
"Aw, my little Troy can be romantic"
"Yeah mom, but only when I wanna be" I laughed as I began to open the envelope
Dear Mr. Troy Bolton,
We are pleased to inform you, that you have been chosen to receive a full basketball scholarship to the University of Albuquerque.
Please call the Dean of Physical Education to confirm your scholarship, and also to discuss further options you have available to you.
We look forward to hearing from you soon,
Yours sincerely,
John F. Matheson,
Dean of Admissions
"YES!" I cried as I jumped off my seat and began jumping around the room
"What? What happened?" Dad asked as he came running into the room, obviously hearing my cry of happiness
"I got in! I'm in! Full scholarship baby!" I cried as I began my victory dance
"You did? Oh sweetie that's fantastic!" my mom cried as she engulfed me in a hug
"Son that's fantastic!" dad cried as he began doing his own little victory dance
"Im gonna go see Gabriella!" I yelled as I ran out of the house clutching my letter in my hand
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This cant be happening. This can not be happening. How can this be happening?!
My life was going so great that I had completely forgotten about going home. Well… going back to New Zealand at least. After all, I didn't really have a home back there.
My life was all planned out before I got here. I was supposed to go to Otago University and study to be a pediatrician, then I was gonna get a good job at a hospital, fall in love with a doctor, get married, have two kids and live happily ever after.
Ok so that wasn't exactly my plan. It just sounded good. I didn't really have much of a plan. But I did see myself still in New Zealand.
I hadn't seen my friends for close to 7 months now. Sure I'd made new friends, but I still missed home. It was after all, where I grew up. 17 years of my life was back there. I could go back to my old home (it had been rented out to some friends of my mother) and I could start my life over. Again.
Oh crap. How was I supposed to tell Troy? There is no way he'd let me even think about moving back to the other side of the world!
I was gonna have to make this decision by myself. There was no way I could tell Troy.
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I barely even pulled the handbrake up in my car before I was running into Gabriella's house still clutching the letter as though it was the most important thing in my life.
"Hi Stephen! Kat!" I cried as flew through their kitchen in the direction of the stairs
"Hi Troy…?" I heard Kat reply
"I GOT IN!" I yelled as I flew through Gabriella's door
After a sever lack of screaming, I looked at Gabriella who was lying on her bed, hugging a pillow. She looked as though she was in another world.
"Brie?" I asked quietly as I walked to her bed and sat down beside her
"Hmmm?" she said, sitting up, shaking her head to get out of her daze
"Are you alright?"
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"Um… yeah… just not feeling 100, that's all. What's up?"
"I got into U of A"
"That's great Troy" I said trying to put on a smile. I was happy for him. I really was. I was just a bit distracted at the moment.
"Are you sure you're alright?"
"Yeah. I've just got a bit of a head ache"
"Ok babe" he said as he lay down beside me, pulling me into his arms. Something that used to evaporate any stress, but right now, only caused more.
Gah!
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When I left Gabriella's that night, gone was the happiness and excitement of my full basketball scholarship, and it was replaced with fear. Not fear of heights or of the dark, but fear for Gabriella. She seemed really upset about something, only she wasn't telling me what.
My mind was telling me I was being stupid, and that I should just believe her when she said that she had a headache, but my heart was telling me there was something else.
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After Troy left, I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to go out and socialize, to be honest; I was in a rather depressing mood. I had barely slept all night. I tossed and turned, imagining my different options playing out in my mind.
I had a choice. I had to decide which of my lives I wanted to leave behind. Sure I had Dad, Kat, Troy and the rest of the gang here… but New Zealand was, and always would be home to me. Grrr! Why was this so hard?!
I needed a distraction. I logged onto msn and quickly blocked anyone from East High… leaving 4 of my friends from New Zealand
SaMsAm: hey Gabi Wabi! Hws America?!
Gabster: cnt complain realy
NicNic: Soooo… Hws troy??
Jess: real subtle Nic
Gabster: lol um… hes… gud…
Larissy: jst gud? Ur stil wth hm rnt u?
Gabster: yeees…..
Jess: then whts wrng?!
Gabster: I gt a lettr th othr day sayn tht I cn cum bak 2 nz
SaMsAm: nd hes pissed?
Gabster: no
NicNic: he wnts u 2 go?
Gabster: no…
Larissy: thn what?!
Gabster: he dusnt knw
NicNic: he dusnt knw ur cumin bak?!
Gabster: I dnt knw f I'm cumin bak!
Jess: wht do u mean, u dnt knw? Course ur cumin bak!
SaMsAm: bt y wud she wana gve up her perfect life in ALBURQUERQUE 2 cum bak 2 us?
SaMsAm: hehe tht word craks me up
NicNic: serious convo here sam
SaMsAm: sorry…..
Larissy: y wudnt u b cumin bak?!
Gabster: I dnt knw yet
NicNic: whts he gonna say whn he finds out?
Gabster: I dnt knw
SaMsAm: mayb u cud go nd jst wait 4 him 2 call u nd ask whr u r nd thn go 'oh yea. I 4got 2 tell u… I went bak to nz'
SaMsAm: I dnt thnk he wil mind…
SaMsAm: …much
Jess: sam!!
SaMsAm: sorry…
Gabster: wht do u thnk I shud do guys?
Larissy: we cnt say. Were biased. We wnt u 2 cum bak
Jess: yea we miss u
Gabster: I miss u guys 2…
SaMsAm: I like bananas…
NicNic: SAM!
Jess: SAM!
Larissy: SAM!
SaMsAm: WHT?!
Gabster: u guys havnt chngd much hav u?
Jess: nope.
Gabster: haha
NicNic: look at t ths way gabs. U cn cum bak, nd f t isn't hw u remember, or wht u wntd, thn u go bak. No biggie
Gabster: but…
Larissy: u knw, Nic has a point
Jess: Larissa has a point about Nic havn a point
SaMsAm: yea and Jess has a point about Larissa havn a point about Nics point
Gabster: Ok! Ok! I get it!!
NicNic: finally lol
Gabster: I guess I'm cumn bak then…
"how am I gonna tell Troy?" I mumbled to myself
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"Where's Gabs?" Chad asked as I walked through the front doors of school alone the next Monday
Recently, she had decided that we could walk into school together without creating a riot
"no idea. I went to pick her up this morning and she had already gone"
"really? Maybe shes tryna work on extra curricular thingys to fix her A"
"hmmm maybe" I murmured.
I knew something was wrong with her. On Saturday she said that she wasn't feeling well, and I believed it then. But when she didn't answer any of my phone calls and only answered my texts with one worded answers, I knew she wasn't sick. The problem was, I didn't know what was wrong…
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I didn't mean to ignore or avoid Troy. It just happened. My Bio teacher asked me to stay for homeroom and the next two periods to help her with something (I was so out of it that I didn't even know what I was doing) so I didn't see any of the gang until 3rd period, which was (stupidly) Biology with Sharpay
"hey Gabs. Where've you been all morning? Troy's looking for you"
"oh uh, I've just been in here helping Sir"
"oh? Well Troy's been ringing you and hes kinda freaking out a bit"
"I didn't mean to freak him out. I just lost track of time"
"seriously Gabs. What's up with you? None of us saw you all weekend, and this morning you… well you disappeared. Troy told us he went to your house to pick you up but you'd already gone. Its just not like you Gabs. You can tell us anything, you know that right? We wont judge you"
I laughed at how long Sharpay can talk for without breathing
"relax Shar. I was just kinda distracted"
"oh? About what?"
"um… its kinda hard to explain…"
"we have an hour in which I will do no work. And if I sit here stabbing you with my pencil saying 'Bug ya neighbor! Bug ya neighbor!' you will do no work either"
I caved. She was very persuasive! I told Sharpay the whole story. Even about why I came here to begin with. The gang never really knew the full story, but I could guarantee that within the next 2 hours, they would all know.
This was the one time I had seen Sharpay quiet. She was silent for around 5 minutes.
"Miss Evans?" the teacher asked
"yeah?"
"Are you alright? You havnt talked for a while…"
"hmmm? Oh yeah I'm fine" she called back to the teacher with a huge smile plastered on her face while the whole class laughed, only just noticing why the class had been so quiet
She turned to me and whispered, "so are you seriously going back?"
"I kinda have to. I mean, the rest of my family's back there and all that"
"so? What about your new family?"
"well if it doesn't work out back there, then I can always come back"
"but what's gonna happen when you tell troy? I mean, you've still got like 6 weeks before you go. Its gonna be so hard with you both knowing your going. And hes gonna try and convince you to stay…"
"yeah I know… I've been thinking about that"
"and?"
"I – sorry – we aren't gonna tell him"
"so your just gonna disappear?" she said raising one of her eyebrows at me questioningly
"of course not!"
"so what are you gonna do?"
I just looked at her
"I have no idea"
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"GABRIELLA MONTEZ!"
After my 3rd period confession to Sharpay, I decided I didn't want to be at school any more. I signed out and went straight home, sending a brief text to Troy to tell him that I still wasn't feeling very well so I was going home. I had no other communication with any of the gang until I heard Taylor storming up the stairs. Dad and Kat weren't home so I could only assume she knew where the spare key was too
"How come you didn't tell me you were going?!" she cried as she flew through my door closely followed by a breathless Sharpay
"I didn't have time"
"but you told Sharpay"
"well she was in my class… and it just kinda came out"
"so she's not lying then?"
"nope"
"so your actually leaving?" she asked as they sat on my bed watching me absentmindedly surfing the internet
"yep" I said as I turned to them
"I told you!" Sharpay yelled at Taylor
"and what are you gonna do about Troy?"
"I honestly don't know"
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