Chapter 6: Everything goes wrong:
The next day.
"Ok. I got the tickets last night. We're all packed. And Taryn's going down!" I said.
"Ok...Well are you ready?" Troy asked.
"Almost." I said. "I just gotta get out of my pajamas first."
"Right." Troy chuckled. Then I did that and I came out with A blue halter and blue jean sparkly skirt.
"You look beutiful." Troy said.
"Thank you. You don't look so bad yourself." I laughed.
"I'll take that as a compliment." Troy said then we left.
On the plane.
"So. Are you ready to lose in the compition in a week?" Taryn asked us on the plane. Sadly she was riding the same one.
"Actually I think the question is, are you ready to lose in the compition in a week." I said.
"No. It was my question." Taryn said. I just gave her a weird look.
"Taryn. Turn around before I barf looking at your face." I insulted her. "Here's a mirror, so you can see why."
Then I handed her a mirror but she just threw it at me. I didn't mind saying that to Taryn, but I didn't say that to the cab driver.
6 hours later.
"Ok. So you just go to your house and like un pack and stuff and then I'll meet you for lunch." I said.
"Ok." Troy said giving me a kiss.
"Bye." I said getting into my car.
"Bye." Troy said walking away to his car. Back at my house.
"Hey mom!" I said.
"Hey Gabi!" My mom said giving me a hug.
"So tell me again why you're coming back so early." My mom said.
"I told you. There's this compition I'm having with one of the girls from San Diego." I explained. "And it's in 1 week so we had to come back and we have to gather as much people from our school to dance with us in the compition."
"Ah huh. Well, since you came back so early, you have to babysit tomorrow for Chelsie. Our neighbors grandaughter." My mom explained.
"Ah, babysitting? Mom I have to prepare for this compition!" I explained.
"Gabi. You already know the dance and the words. I think you could take a night off to babysit. And I know you can, because you're gonna." My mom said.
"Fine." I said. "How old is Chelsie anyway?"
"4." My mom told me. "She's a very sweet girl. I went over there yesterday to visit, and Chelsie was there. And she's so adorable."
"Ok." I said. "What time?"
"7." My mom said.
"Am I watching her over here or over there?" I asked.
"Well actually neither. She's going to her aunt's house and you'll watch her there." My mom explained.
"Great." I said sarcastically. "So anyway. I just got to go un pack, and then I'm meeting Troy for lunch at 1:30." I explained.
"Ok." My mom said.
A/N: Just to let you know Troy and Gabriella left San Diego at like 2:00 in the morning. So it's still early.
Then I went to un pack.
"I gotta call Sharpay." I told myself.
"Hello." Sharpay said.
"Hey." I said.
"Hey girl! Are you back yet?" Sharpay asked.
"Yeah we just got back." I said. "Ok. Please tell me everyone agreed to do the compition?"
I had told Sharpay last night to tell everyone about the compition.
"Well so far, I've gotten Taylor, Chad, Ryan, Zeke, Kelsi, Jason, the whole basketball team from that year. And the scholastic decatholon team from that year." Sharpay explained.
"Well at least we got some people. I need to beat Taryn at this. Cause In when I went to school with her I could not beat her in anything! But that's not gonna happen this time. Now way!" I explained.
"Oh don't worry. We won't let you down." Sharpay said.
"Thanks Sharpay." I said.
"And plus Taryn and her crowd don't even know the dance! There is no way she could beat us, the people who do know the dance." Sharpay explained.
"Yeah, I know." I said. "I've seen Taryn dance and, it ain't pretty."
"Good." Sharpay giggled.
"Well anyway. I gotta un pack. But I need you to tell everyone you called that we're gonna meet at the high school tomrrow at 9 am. Ok?" I explained.
"Got it. Tomorrow at 9 am." Sharpay explained.
"Thanks." I said.
"No prob. Bye." Sharpay said.
"Bye." I said then hung up. Then I finished un packing and went to the resteraunt where I was meeting Troy.
"Hey!" Troy said running up to me in the parking lot.
"Oh hey." I said, then we went inside and sat down at a table.
10 minutes later. We already have our food.
"Ok. So Sharpay has gotten Taylor, Chad, Ryan, Jason, Kelsi, Zeke, the basketball team, and the scholastic decatholon team to agree to the compition." I explained to Troy.
"Ok good. I think we should like put up flyers around the city and see if we can get anyone else." Troy explained.
"But then we might pick up people that don't know the dance and we'll have like only a few days to teach it to them." I explained.
"Oh you're right. We'll we can say that you would of had of gone to East High 3 years ago, in order to be in the dance." Troy explained.
"That could work." I said.
"Alright then. I'll make some flyers tonight." Troy said.
"I'll help you. And then we'll put them up tonight too. Cause tomorrow we have the meeting, and I have to babysit." I explained.
"Babysit? Who?" Troy asked.
"My neighbors grandaughter, Chelsie." I explained.
"Oh." Troy said.
"It sucks." I said. Troy just smiled.
Later on.
"Ok. Well were done with the flyers so let's just like go put them around town." I explained.
"Ok." Troy said.
This is what the flyers say:
Attetion Students that went to East High School 3 years ago, and were apart of the dance that they danced to called "We're all in this Together".
We are looking for those students that participated in that dance, because we are gonna be in a compition with another school group dancing to that song. And if we win, everyone who was apart of it: WINS A TRIP TO MAUI FOR A MONTH!
So if you could volunteer to help us out with this, and dance with us, that could be you in Maui!
Sincerly,
Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton!
Then me and Troy split and went posting them around the city and handing them to people we recognized.
The next day.
"Oh man I hope a lot of people show up to this meeting. I mean I need to crush Taryn!" I explained at the gym waiting for people to show up.
"Oh don't worry. We will." Troy said. "I think..."
Then people started coming in.
"Yes!" I said. "Ok everyone just sit in the chairs!"
And they did that. We had at least like 30 people in there. Good enough.
"Ok. Now we just need to make sure you went to East High 3 years ago, and had participated in this dance." Troy said. Then like 10 people left.
"Ok then." I said.
"Now. Everyone should know from the flyers that if we win this compition everyone wins a trip to Maui, Hawaii!" Troy said then everyone cheered.
"Yeah and everyone knows that if we win we can rub it in Taryn Totokini's face!" I said. Nobody cheered. "Oh come on, that's the girl on the other team going against us." Then they cheered.
"Yeah!" They all yelled.
"That's right!" I said.
"Ok now let's do it!" Troy said.
"Wait! First of all! Do you all remember the dance!" I asked.
"Yeah." They said.
"Ok good. Just wanted to clear that. Go ahead." I said. I can't believe everyone remembered the dance. I thought like only half would.
Then we did the dance a few times until it was like perfect!
"Alright!" I yelled.
"That was good." Troy said.
"Ok yall can go home now. But just remember we have practice everyday until the compition day! And the compition isn't for a week. So ya." I said. "Bye!"
Then they left.
"Gabi? We're having practice everyday!" Troy exclaimed.
"Of corse we are. I mean we need this dance to be great! So that means we have to work very hard! And that means every day! Ok?" I said. But Troy just gave me a kind of a fake smile. "Love ya. Bye."
I blew him a kiss then left.
"Everyday?" Troy said. "This is not going to be good."
Later that night.
"Ok. So I'm off the watch Chelsie." I said.
"Ok. Here's the address." My mom handed me a slip of paper with the address on it.
"Ok. Thanks." I said. "Bye."
"Bye." My mom said as I left.
At Chelsie's aunt's house.
"Ok so the emergancy numbers are on the fridge. She usually gets tired and falls asleep around 8:00." Her aunt Sandy explained.
"Ok." I said.
"So ya. Well have a good time sweeite!" Sandy said to Chelsie.
"I will." Chelsie said.
"Love you." Sandy said to Chelsie. Then she left.
"So what do you wanna do?" I asked.
"Play barbies!" Chelsie said handing me a barbie.
"Ok..." I said. After 10 minutes of playing barbies, Chelsie got hungry.
"I'm hungry." Chelsie said.
"Oh, ok. Let's go in the kitchen and see if we can find a snack then." I said helping her up. "Ok so what do you have?"
"I don't know. I barley live here often." Chelsie said.
"Ok. Well there's animal crackers." I said.
"Yeah!" Chelsie said.
"Ok." I said taking it out of the cubboard. And then we ate for a while, and then we went and watched a little movie and Chelsie fell asleep about 1/2 hour into it. Then I noticed her sleeping, and I took her up to her room and put her to bead. Then I went back down stairs and watched tv instead of the baby movie we were watching.
11:00 pm.
"Hello..." Sandy said quietly walking in the door.
"Hi." I said getting up.
"Oh. Hi. Is Chelsie asleep?" Sandy asked.
"Yeah she fell asleep around 8:00. Just like you said." I said.
"Oh good. Well thank you so much for tonight. And I owe you 20 dollars." Sandy explained handing me a 20 dollar bill.
"Thank you." I said. "Bye."
"Bye." Sandy said as I left. Then I got in my car and drove off. Then Sharpay called me.
"Hello." I said.
"Hey." Sharpay said.
"Oh hey Sharpay." I said.
"Listen about practice today. Did you really mean us having practice every day?" Sharpay asked.
"Oh. Yeah, I mean you do want this to be like fabulous and perfect don't you?" I asked.
"Well ya, but Gabriella come on. 4 hours a day for a whole week?" Sharpay asked. "That's a little much, don't you think?"
"No." I said.
"Oh...ok well. That's all I needed to know." Sharpay said. "Bye."
"Bye." I said with a weird face.
"Everyday?" Sharpay said. "Argh."
The next day.
"Ok! Now these practices will be 4 hours long each day for the next 5 days!" I explained.
"Ahhhh..." They all whined.
"Oh come on!" I said. "Now let's get to dancing."
After 5 hours of dancing and singing everyone was beat.
"Ok! I'll see you all tomorrow at 9:00 again!" I said then they left.
"Ok Gabriella if were gonna have practice everyday for 6 days, don't you think we should shortten the amount of time we have to practice?" Troy asked.
"No way. Troy this has to be perfect! I mean you do wanna win don't you?" I asked.
"Yes. But I wanna have fun doing it. And looking at the way everyone is taking this, it doesn't look like they're having fun." Troy said.
"Oh come on Troy. They're having fun. It's just hard. Trust me." I said.
"Gabriella. I've had people call me and complain to how much you're pushing them, and how they agree that you're pushing them too hard." Troy explained.
"Well then...I don't know. But we have to win this. And I'm having fun, but if they aren't, then that's their fault and their problem. Not yours and mine." I said then I left.
The next day at practice.
"Ok! Now let's re-do that! Alright, now from the top!" I said. Then we started again.
"Uh...no! That was way wrong! We need this to be perfect!" I said. "Starting again!"
"Ah..." They all said.
"Oh come on." I said then we did it again.
After practice.
"Ok. Same time, same place tomorrow people!" I yelled then they left.
"Ok Gabi. You really need to give them some slack. I mean if they make one mistake we have to start all over. I mean trust me, they are not having fun. I got more phone calls last night. And some of them said they want to quit." Troy explained.
"What?" I asked.
"Yeah. And I was just thinking the same thing." Troy said.
"What?" I asked.
"What I'm saying is, everyone is having a hard time and aren't enjoying it. You're pushing them too hard. And right now, I can't really blame them for wanting to quit." Troy said.
"Well then, if they want to quit, then...why don't you just quit with them." I said then ran off.
Back at my house.
"Hello." Sharpay said.
"Hi." I said.
"Oh. Hi." Sharpay said.
"Listen Sharpay the compitions off." I said.
"What?" Sharpay asked.
"It's just because I know you guys aren't having fun and Troy isn't either and so we're just gonna forfit." I explained.
"Ok..." Sharpay said. "Bye."
"Bye. And can you tell everyone that?" I asked.
"Sure." Sharpay said.
"K. Thanks." I said then hung up. And then I started to cry.
At Troy's house.
Troy's POV:
Oh man I feel so bad for what I said to Gabi. I hope she can still forgive me. But yet I'm still a little up set about her and the group. Well I don't care. I'm gonna call and apologize.
Gabriella's POV:
My phone rang. I saw Troy's picture so I didn't pick it up.
Troy's POV:
Oh man!
Gabriella's POV:
The next morning. I woke up to my phone, and it was Troy again. I didn't pick it up.
"Gabi!" My mom yelled from downstairs.
"What?" I asked coming down.
"Uh hello, it's 8:30. Shouldn't you get going to practice?" My mom asked.
"No. I decided to forfit." I explained.
"Why?" My mom asked.
"Because...um...well it just didn't work out." I said. Then I went back up to my room and started to cry again.
Later on. Troy called again for like the 10th time today.
"You know what mom." I said to her.
"What?" My mom asked.
"I'm gonna go back to San Diego." I said.
"Oh...ok." My mom said.
"I'll get you the tickets then." My mom said calling the airlines.
"Thanks." I said then Troy called again. But I didn't answer again.
2 hours later. I had my plane ticket and I was on my way.
6 hours later I was back in San Diego. I came knocking on Sarah's door.
"Hey!" Sarah said letting me in.
"Hey." I said.
"What are you doing here? What about the compition? Where's Troy?" Sarah asked.
"I'm here because I have no life in Albuquerque right now. I forfited the compition. And me and Troy are sort of in a fight." I explained.
"What happened?" Sarah asked.
"Oh. Well we got a group together for the dance and I kind of pushed them too hard and then Troy was like 'Oh I don't really blame them for wanting to quit.' And then I just walked away." I explained.
"Wow. Well are you ok?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah...no." I said. "I mean I was so siked to be able to beat Taryn in this one thing. But then I just went over the top for it and pushed everyone too hard and then...here I am now. Pretty much without a boyfriend, and like no friends."
"I'm sorry." Sarah said giving me a hug.
"It's alright." I said.
A/N: There was my next chapter! I hope you loved it! And remember, REVIEW!
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