"What? Troy..."
"I forgot that... What I meant to say was, Gabriella Montez, will you be my 'late valentine' and make up for missing Monday, by hanging out with me Saturday?" He blushed, and Gabriella's came across her face again.
"I'd love to." She answered then they turned their heads to the screams of Taylor, Kelsie, and Sharpay. "What's wrong?" Gabriella turned her attention to the girls.
"Oh. My. Gosh!" Sharpay nearly screamed once more. "Thank you Zeke!" She tackled Zeke into a hug.
"Thank you soo much!" Taylor hugged Chad.
"Aw, thank you Jason, it's beautiful."
"You're welcome!" The three guys said in unison as they each hugged their girl.
"Hmm, wonder what they're screaming about." Gabriella said with curiosity.
"Oh yeah, which reminds me... again of course. I mean I didn't forget or anything..." Troy said as Gabriella turned her attention back to him.
"Troy, you're rambling... again." She smiled.
"Yeah, sorry." He smiled sheepishly.
"No, it's fine, I like that about you." She blushed.
"Yeah, well" Troy chuckled. "Here." He said handing her the box. "Happy, um.. belated Valentine's Day!" Gabriella couldn't help but smile.
"Troy, do you always act like this if you know someone who misses a holiday?" She giggled accepting the box.
"Ha-ha, very funny." He put his hands in his pocket and bit his lip.
"So what's this?" She asked, unwrapping the box.
"Hm, I guess you could call it a Valentine's gift. You know... I didn't want you to feel left out or anything. Just trying to be the good friend that I am, because I am a nice guy and everything..."
"Troy. You're rambling.. again." She smiled.
"Sorry." He blushed. "Um, how about you just open it." He grinned.
"Alright." She looked back down at the box in her hands, and removed the lid. Gabriella's eyes grew wide at the sight. "Oh my gosh." She gasped. Troy just smiled and swayed back and forth on his feet.
Gabriella took out the locket. It was the locket with a red gem on it that Troy and the other guys had bought at the mall the same night they all went to the movies.
"Red, my favorite color." She squealed, taking it out of the box. Gabriella opened it, but it was empty. Troy saw her open it.
"I didn't know what you'd want inside, so I thought I'd just leave it empty. You know how girls like to keep secrets sometimes, so I thought you might as well keep one of yours in there." He smiled.
"Thank you." She said, not taking her eyes off of the locket. She closed it, and turned it to the back. Her eyes widened again. On the back was an engraving saying.. "You're like no other & I'm always here for you. -Troy". Troy saw her reading the back, and had a confused look on his face. She smiled, and looked up at Troy. "Oh my gosh. Thank you! That's so sweet. I absolutely love it!"
"You're welcome." He smiled. "Here, let me help you with that." He said taking the locket, and unclipping the chain, while reading the back of the locket. After he finished reading the engraving he put the necklace on her. "There you go."
"Thank you Troy." She thanked again and hugged him.
"No problem Gabby. Plus, I think that's the billionth time you thanked me." He chuckled.
"Oh, sorry. I tend to become repetitive when I'm excited about things like this."
"It's fine." He smiled.
"Alright students, listen up. I've got an important announcement to make." Principal Matsui said into the microphone as his voice boomed throughout the cafeteria.
"The staff just got out of a short meeting and has decided that you students responded to our Open-Mic Wednesday so well, that we're going to give you all a choice. Would you guys like to keep this activity going for the rest of the day, or carry on with classes?" He smiled. The cafeteria fell silent.
"Open-Mic!" Chad yelled breaking the silence, starting loud cheers from everyone else.
"Alright. Looks like we'll be doing this for the rest of the day!" Principal Matsui announced as everyone cheered. "Only as long as there is a constant flow of participants. Once it stops, we'll have to go back to classes. We want to raise as much money as we can, so that we can have more activities to last throughout the year. Is that understood?"
The entire cafeteria nodded or verbally said yes.
"Wonderful. Now, for anyone who would like to go on with their education for today, there will be teachers in the library to answer any questions and so on. Now let's continue!" Principal Matsui said.
"Let's see, who's up next?" A student who was helping run the event said. "Hm looks like we've got ourselves a group next. Jason, Chad, Zeke, and Ryan. You guys are up!"
"What? Guys?" Troy asked them.
"Um, yeah, we thought since you sing, we'd give it a shot." Jason said stepping onto the small stage.
"Yeah, Ryan's been helping us out." Chad blushed.
"You'd be surprised. They're actually kinda good." Ryan said laughing.
"Uhm, Hi everyone." Zeke said into his microphone as he took his place on stage while Jason was hooking up his MP3 player to the machine. "We're gonna sing a song called 'Talkin To You'"
"Yeah, and we'd like to dedicate this song to each of our beautiful ladies at our table right here." Chad said pointing to Taylor, Kelsie, Sharpay, and Camille.
"Oh my gosh, this is so sweet.." Gabriella said walking over the girls.
"What are they doing?" Troy said still in shock. He never heard his friends sing before other than Gabriella, Sharpay, and Ryan.
(A/N: This song is called "Talkin To You by Devotion. Sorry I don't have a ling this time for those of you who never heard the song, but you guys can go download it or something if you really wanna hear it... it's a cute song. READ THE LYRICS!)
"I saw you walkin by
And girl you caught my eye
How could i been so blind
When you're lookin oh so fine" Jason sang, focusing his attention on Kelsie.
"Do you see me looking at you
Come on girl I know you do
You don't have to turn away" Zeke sang, continuing the song, but singing to Sharpay
"Cuz I just wanna talk to you" Jason sang, finishing the first verse.
"Ooh...I'm talkin to you
And fighting for you
To give you all the love you're looking for
I'm talkin to you
And fighting for you
To give you all the love you're looking for" All four of them sang together.
"I know it gets hard sometimes
To find a man that's gonna treat you right
But I'm here to tell you" Chad sang.
"I know just what you need
Only if you could see
That I'm the kind of man who can fulfill your every fantasy" Ryan continued.
"Ooh...I'm talkin to you
And fighting for you
To give you all the love you're looking for
I'm talkin to you
And fighting for you
To give you all the love you're looking for" The four sang the chorus again.
"Baby let's see what you and me can become" Zeke and Jason sang in unison.
"If we can be together as one" The four sang together once again.
"I can give all the love you need if we try..Oh Oh" Chad and Ryan sang in unison.
"If we can be together as one" They all sang together.
"Ooh...Ooh...I'm talkin to you
Wanna spend my life with you
Spend my nights just thinking of you
Ooh...Ooh girl, I'm talkin to you
Ooh...Ooh...I'm talkin to you
Wanna spend my life with you
Spend my nights just thinking of you
Ooh...Ooh girl, I'm talkin to you
Ooh...Ooh...I'm talkin to you
Wanna spend my life with you
Spend my nights just thinking of you
Ooh...Ooh girl, I'm talkin to you
Ooh...Ooh...I'm talkin to you
Wanna spend my life with you
Spend my nights just thinking of you
Ooh...Ooh I'm talkin to you" They all sang together and finished the song.
Girls POV
"Oh my gosh. What is Chad doing.?" Taylor asked with her eyes wide.
"Are they really trying to humiliate themselves for us?" Camille laughed.
"Can they sing?" Kelsie asked.
"I just know Ryan can, soo, you're pretty much safe Camille." Sharpay said.
"You guys, calm down. Who knows they might be good singers. You never thought Troy would be.
"True." Sharpay, Kelsie, and Taylor said. Then the girls heard the song start, none of them have ever heard it except for Gabriella.
"Ohhh, I like this song!" She whispered, then they continued to watch and listen. The girls had tears building up in their eyes, and said their "Aww"s after each of their boyfriends sang their little solos. After the song finished, the girls were all smiling.
"Geez, you guys are so lucky to have sweet boyfriends." Gabriella said after they finished the song, and were putting away the extra microphones.
"Yeah, but you've got Troy, Gabby." Taylor said sympathetically.
"We're just friends though, remember?"
"Right..." Sharpay said rolling her eyes. Then the guys finally jumped off the stage and hugged the girls.
When the guys came to hug the girls, Gabriella felt uncomfortable.
"Um, I'm gonna go buy lunch. Be right back." Gabriella quickly turned, and bumped into a guy's chest. She lost her balance a little, almost falling, but he caught her.
"Whoops. I'm so sorry." Gabriella said straightening herself up.
"No, its okay. It's my fault, I wasn't really looking at where I was going." He said. "I'm Brad." he held his had out, smiling.
Sooo what do you guys think? Hmm, is my story not good anymore? LOL just wondering, because the reviews started dying down after chapter 2. Anyways REVIEW PLEASE & THANK YOUS! Mmmkay, bye.