Chapter Four

Troy showed up to basketball practice the next day and was shocked to see Eric standing there in a uniform. He looked over to his father who was busy talking a mile a minute to Eric. Troy walked over at Chad who just shrugged his shoulders.

"What is going on here, why is Eric at our basket ball practice?" Troy said ignoring Chad's shrugging of his shoulders and asked anyways.

"Well from what I heard he was some hot shot basket ball player from his last high school so your father thought it was only fair to give him a shot here. Your father didn't think it was fair that he lost his chance at playing just because his father moved him here." Chad said.

"Yeah, isn't my dad just the greatest." Troy said sarcastically.

"Hey man, what's wrong with you?" Chad said picking up on his sarcasm.

"It's nothing, just didn't sleep well last night." Troy said, he didn't know why but something about Eric he didn't like.

"OK Wildcats gather around." Coach Bolton yelled to the team, "I would like to introduce you to the newest member of our team Eric White. He'll be playing forward today seeing that is his old position and I find a permanent position for him once I see how he plays. To warm up we'll work on some chest snaps, now line up."

Seeing the look on Troy's face his father came up to him and said, "I know you play forward but I want him to feel welcomed and that was his old spot, I don't want him to regret coming to me, so please don't turn into drama son on me over this and let Eric get comfortable with the team and you'll go back to your spot."

Troy just shock his head and walked away from his father. He couldn't believe what was going on, his own father had replaced him, the captain of the team for the new kid. He dreaded the next hour of practice and decided to look forward to the musical rehearsal and getting to spend time with Gabbi.

When Troy got to the auditorium he was completely shock to see what was happening on the stage. There singing their song, the one that Kelsi had written for the two of them was Gabriella and Eric. He didn't know what to think, first Eric replaced him in the gym, with his own team, now he seemed to have replaced him on the stage.

When the song ended was when Gabriella finally noticed Troy standing there.

"Hey Troy, what's going on." Gabbi said in her usual bubbly voice.

Trying to shake this feeling that he was being replaced Troy said, "Nothing, came to rehearse, but I guess you don't need me."

He didn't mean to say that, but it just came out. However everyone either didn't hear him or they chose to ignore it.

Gabriella looked over at him and asked, "Well are you gonna come up here and sing with me or is Eric gonna have to fill in for you all day?"

Her comment really wasn't meant to be mean but to Troy it was as if she had slapped him. He didn't understand why everyone after one day had taken such a liking to Eric.

"Actually I'm not feeling so good, I came to see if you wanted to skip rehearsal, but seeing you have a partner I guess you won't have to miss it. I'll call you later."

With that Troy walked out of the gym, he could hear them start up the lyrics that were their song but that didn't matter. Troy didn't know what was wrong with him but he knew that everything had turned backwards in the school.