CHAPTER 1

((here's chapter 1 of the incredibly sad and depressing story, courage…the rating may change to M later on…but if it does…it wont be for intense romance scenes…you know what I mean…itll be the tragedy and the intensity of the tragic events…please tell me if you think it should be rated M…

VERY IMPORTANT RED THIS: This story starts December 21, 2006…senior year…almost a year after the triple win…Troy and Gabriella are going out…Chad and Taylor are going out…Jason and Kelsi are going out…and Sharpay and Zeke are going out…No one has emotional problems before the story begins…ms. Montez's first name is Karen…Mrs. Bolton's first name is Sara…they are their names in my other two fanfics…R&R…XOXO, CHRISTINE))

Watch the band
Through a bunch of dancers
Quickly, follow the unknown
With something
More familiar
Quickly
Something familiar

15 minutes left until the bell rand for Christmas break, and Troy couldn't be happier. He planned to spend the Christmas Holidays with Gabriella as much as possible. Not to mention, Christmas holidays were a time when he could forget about school work for a few glorious weeks and just have some well deserved fun playing basketball and hanging out with Gabriella, his lovely girlfriend who he would do anything for.

"Mr. Bolton," snapped Ms. Darbus, leading his thoughts back to school. "Christmas break does not start for another ten minutes. I expect you to pay full attention until the bell rings. Is that clear?"

Troy treated that as a rhetorical question. Ms. Darbus went back to babbling about some subject Troy neither knew nor cared about. How he wished the bell would just ring already. He imagined what the gang would do after the half- day of school got out. They would probably go out to lunch downtown at the Wildcats Café (completely made up by yours truly) like they always did on days like this. Then they would head off to the park and have the most massive snowball fight in the history of Albuquerque. They'd stay at the park all afternoon until their bodies were completely numb and wet before heading to Gabriella's house for Hot Chocolate to warm themselves up to avoid catching their death of pneumonia. Then, they'd all be exhausted and fall asleep watching a movie. Troy knew that the rest of the day ahead of them would be glorious.

"Mr. Bolton, this is twice in five minutes," Ms. Darbus scolded. "I would appreciate it if you could pay attention for five more minutes. If you can't then I will simply have to delay your beginning of spring break by a half an hour where you can paint scenery for the upcoming musical instead of wreaking havoc around town with your friends."

That was convincing enough for Troy. He didn't want anything to ruin his Christmas Vacation. He vowed to pay attention for five more minutes. After all, it wouldn't kill him.

The bell rang and nobody wasted time vacating the school. Everyone, including Gabriella and Taylor who were in love with school, were happy to reach the long break.

"So," said Chad, placing his arm around Taylor striking casual conversation. "Where should we go?"

"Where do you think?" she answered. "Wildcats Café all day everyday."

"To the café named after us!" shouted Jason happily. They walked one block in the windy biting freezing cold weather. "What a winter! It's freezing out here! We've never had snow here in New Mexico before." They entered the warm café. "Ahh, that's much better."

After lunch, they toughened up and went to the park just like Troy daydreamed to have a world record snowball fight. It lasted 3 hours, and the whole group could barely walk for being so wet and numb.

"We'll be lucky if we don't die of pneumonia," Gabriella stated when they finally reached her house. "I'm freezing. Let's make some hot chocolate." They brewed it, drank it, and fell asleep in front of a movie just like Troy had predicted.

Gabriella was asleep in Troy's lap, but her slumber was disturbed by a dream. A dream that scared her.

She was walking down the street, and Troy drove by her, in his beat up red car.

"Hey hon, I have a surprise for you, get in," he said. Gabriella ran across the street to get in the car, not being carful of what she was doing. There was a loud horn sound and Gabriella turned around and saw great, huge, illuminating headlights.

"Noo!" Troy shouted. He grabbed he and threw her aside, leaping out of the car. Gabriella watched the twinkle in his eyes die as the truck knocked him senseless for all eternity.

Gabriella woke up with a start that aroused Troy. "Wassamatter?" he mumbled. "Gabi, you okay?"

"Yeah," she replied spooked. "yeah, Troy, I'm fine."

Troy was checking out the silver necklaces in the jewelry store attempting to pick one out for Gabriella the next day. He knew she'd love them all which made the decision so hard. He finally picked one with her initials engraved on the front costing nine hundred and forty-five dollars. He shrunk a picture of the two of them and stuck it in there, proud of himself for picking out such a perfect gift for his perfect girlfriend. He went home and immediately hid the necklace in his drawer for safe-keeping to assure that he didn't lose it. He would give it to Gabriella on Christmas Eve after telling her that he loved her.

((yes I know I know…that chapters not sad…the next one may or may not be either…it depends on when the big tragedy stuff starts…the necklace will be in the story later to make it even sadder…don't forget about the necklace…and let's get the dates straight…this chapter began on December 21, 2006 and ended on December 22, 2006…I'll tell you the dates of each chapter as I go just so you know how much time has passed throughout the story…that may be important…I'm always open to suggestions but I do have a plan for this story…so if you suggest something…don't suggest a huge story changing thing because I'm pretty well planned out for once in my life…I know weird…I look forward to your reviews…next chapter up today or tomorrow…probably tomorrow…XOXO, CHRISTINE))