Chapter 8:"Your so Fine, You Blow My Mind."

3 months later...

Taylor, Gabbi, Sharpay and Ryan arrived at the arena about an hour and a half before the game started. They parked their car and had to walk 5 blocks just to get to the arena. Gabriella and Sharpay's high heels clacked on the sidewalk. Taylor's high heels had been covered by the long pair of jeans she was wearing. "OW! My heel just got stuck in that crease of the sidewalk!" Gabriella moaned as she stopped, held onto Ryan's shoulder as she checked her heel. "That's why I covered mine.' Taylor gloated with a snicker. All of them wore matching blue and yellow UCLA Bruins t-shirts. Sharpay's jean skirt bounced as she walked, as her hair with a yellow bow in a leave-some-up-some-down hair-do did the same. They pranced another 2 blocks as they were 3 blocks away. Ryan lifted up his baseball cap as he waved it over his head. "It's a hot one." he laughed as he hung his arm over Gabriella.

"I am so glad Troy is back to playing again! I love seeing him do what he loves to do!" she squeeled. She enjoyed the game mostly because she got to see Troy happy, and the occasional "Hey baby." she got from the guys in the crowd. She loved that. She would point to Troy who was on the court and reply "See him. That's my boyfriend. Don't think I'm looking for someone like you." she would giggle.

They continued walking until the got to the entrance. They moved through the lines of people waiting to get in. After they squeezed through about 50 people, they got to the front. Yeha, they were getting to evil eye for moving ahead, but they were privelaged to. They pulled out their passes from the guys and their tickets and got in side. It was huge. They wandered around inside, looking for something to eat. "OH! Tumbleweed!" Gabriella said as she pointed and grabbed Ryan's hand. Taylor and Shar watched as the love sick puppies stood in line. "Why don't they hook up already?" she laughed. Shar thought to herself as she messed with the bow in her hair. "I don't know. He's always talking about her." she laughed.'But maybe tonight is special. Anyway, wanna get some ice cream?" she said as she wrapped her arm around Taylor's arm as the skipped to the nearest ice cream stand.

After Gabriella had stocked up on food, piles in each arm, they went to their seats. "Row A, seats 4,5,6 and 7." Ryan muttered to himself as he held theri tickets in one hand, and his popcorn in his other arm."AHH! Here we are!" he said as he let the girls in. Taylor in seat 7, Sharpay in seat 6, Gabbi in seat 5, and himself in seat 4."Wow, I can't believe we are like right here!" Taylor said as she placed her hands on the bars that stood infront of them. She looked over them to see the opposing team's bench. She snarled at the sight. Gabriella jumped up infront of half the crowd on their side and yelled. 'GO BRUINS! BEAT DOWN THOSE TROJANS!" The other three gave her a sit-down,-NOW! look. She frowned and took her seat.

Finally after about 15 minutes, an announcer came on. 'Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for attending tonights game!" he said as the crowd went wild. The four jumped up with the rest of the crowd. "Please welcome, the opposing team, The USC Trojans!" he said with a grumble in his voice. 'GET OFF THE COURT!" Ryan yelled as the girls laughed at him. They stuck out their thumbs down at the players on the court with the red jerseys. "And please welcome,the rock'em, sock'em, UCLA BRUINS!" he shouted as 'Are You ready For This?" music came on.

One by one, the players came out as mists of smoke gathered aroound them. They waved as they warmed up. Troy finally found Sharpay. He smiled as he said "Hey." Sharpay laughed. She blew him a kiss as Troy caught the air kiss and placed it on his lips. The others laughed at them as Sharpay glanced at them. They all turned away as they tried to forget the icey look in Sharpay's eyes.She giggled. "I've still got it!" she laughed.

The game continued on a tad boring till half time. Jason had fouled out, Zeke had hit a slam dunk, Troy had scored most of the points, and Chad had been the best one on defense. They stood up and cheered most of the game. This was the life. Sharpay was so glad she decided to come to L.A. They jumped up and down as UCLA kept winning.Taylor was hyper, so she was going nuts. She shouted out to the court. "CHAD,...I LOVE YOU!" she said as Chad looked at her a smiled. WHAM! Chad flung to the ground. Troy rushed over to help him up. The four made uneasy faces as they noticed Chad had missed the pass from Troy. Chad got up, rubbing his head, and continuing in the game. Taylor made fun of herself as she nearly knocked out her boyfriend.

Finally, Troy just had one more shot until he broke the UCLA record! The four looked on the screen as the crowd stomped their feet and clapped. "HEY TROY, YOUR SO FINE, YOUR SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND!" Sharpay joined in with the crowd."Hey Troy, Hey, Hey, Hey Troy!" they laughed. They continued this until the moment it was Troy's time to shine. Troy slowly approached the basket. 8 seconds left. The four inerlaced eachothers fingers inbetween eachothers. They held them up to their heads, clenching onto their teeth. Taylor bit her lip as the clock counted down a second. Troy finally faked right, and broke left. He watched for the pick as watched for the defense at the same time. He took the ball to the basket, about 7 feet away. He jumped up, eyes closed, bit lip, and hoping for the best.

NAILED IT! They crowd went wild! Jumping, screaming, and jumping onto the court. In an instant the court was like ants ontop of a piece of bread you accidently dropped. The four decided that they didn't want to get lost in that mess, so they continued outside and down by the players entrance.

They waited as thay stood by the wall with the others family and friends of the other players on the team. The played Down by The Bank because there was nothing better to do. One by one, slapping eachothers hands as they laughed and giggled. The players finally piled out. Troy and Chad knuckled other older players as Zeke, Chad, Jason, and Troy filed over to the four. Sharpay had her back faced to the guys who wore jumpsuits, their hair hot and sweaty. Troy wrapped his arms around Sharpay's stomach as he picked her up and spun her in circles. Sharpay tried to hold her skirt so that she wouldn't moon anybody. "Why don't we have that kind of realtionship?" Taylor asked Chad, giving him dirty look. Chad laughed and picked Taylor up, spinnging her in circled too. Ryan shrugged, and picked up Gabriella, spinning her around. Jason and Zeke stood their staring at him. Zeke attempted to put his arms around Jason, but Jason stepped away. "I'm good." he said patting Zeke's back.

They finally sat the girls down. Sharpay whipped around as she wrapped her arms around Troy's neck as she laughed and gave Troy kisses at the same time. She placed her hand in his hair. Her eyes opened big as she let go. Troy's arms were still wrapped around Sharpay. She looked at her hand with disgust."Ewww." She said as she wipped her wet palms on Troy's jacket.They laughed as they let go of eachother.

Evreyone decided that they were going to go back to girl's place for a movie. As they walked to Chad's navigator, Troy had his arms wrapped tightly around Sharpays waist, as Sharpay stuck her hand in the back pocket of Troy's sweats. They laughed as they looked into eachothers eyes. Sharpay thought to herself. "You ARE so fine you blow my mind."