A/N - Thanks for the reviews, guys! They really mean a lot. About this chapter.. I actually did research a little but I'm still not too familiar with the processes involved to get tickets for international flights so we can try to look past that and just focus on the storyline, k?
Troy laid in bed, staring at the ceiling. It was the first Saturday he didn't have basketball and he had taken full advantage of the opportunity to sleep in. It had been almost a year since he and Gabriella had first gotten together. The day of his championship game, her scholastic decathlon, and their callback for the school musical. He remembered it like it was yesterday.
A lot of things had happened that night. Chad and Taylor had gotten together as well, fairly quickly and without any drama or second thoughts. Zeke had all of his dreams about being with Sharpay come true only to have them come to an end the very next day when Sharpay decided she was bored with him. Two months later, after having a hard time getting over what had happened, he transferred to West High. He was still friends with most of the East High basketball team but couldn't deal with seeing Sharpay in the halls every day. Even though he was close friends with the East High team, Zeke missed playing basketball so he tried out and made the West High team this year. News of this spread quickly in East High and he was instantly ridiculed and dubbed a "traitor" by the majority of the school's population, despite the effort of the basketball team to try to defend him. The school's rivalry with the Knights had only grown more intense since the previous year's championship game.
Finally, snapping out of his thoughts, Troy heard a familiar noise. He had been listening for it every day. Looking out the window, sure enough, he saw the mail truck. Troy jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs and out the front door in his pajamas, meeting the mailman at the mail box.
"Thanks." He muttered as he made his way back towards the house, sifting through bills and magazines. He stopped at one envelope, addressed to Troy Bolton. He left all the other pieces of mail on the kitchen and made his way back upstairs to his bedroom, carefully opening the envelope. He sat down at his desk and removed the contents of the envelope. Two plane tickets. Albequerque to Cancun. The last week of March. Spring break.
"What do you mean you want to see other people, Chad!" Taylor cried. "I thought you loved me."
"I do, Tay. I mean..yeah I do. But, I mean, senior year. And then soon enough we'll be off to college, different colleges, and you know how that is. It's hard being tied down to a relationship in that kind of scene. Don't you get it, Taylor?"
"NO. I don't get it. What's your problem, Chad? What a lame excuse. Go to hell, asshole." Taylor was in tears. She slammed her cell phone shut, unable to think of anything to say, or think. Chad had dumped her. Chad dumped her. Chad. The words ran in her head, over and over again. It was so unreal.