Gabriella sighed as she sat down at her regular table at Baylor's. The girls had gotten up at seven and were out the door by eight. Shopping with Selena requires you to be energized. Be prepared to walk till you drop. It was now well past noon and Gabriella had convinced her to eat some lunch. She had left her paying for more clothes and promised Gabriella to meet her as soon as she paid. When the two girls had gotten back to the hotel, Selena had demanded Gabriella to tell her why she was so happy. Gabriella had told her that a girl never kisses and tells, which lead Selena to squeal.

Gabriella sighed as she took out her phone. She and Troy had been texting throughout the day. She had yet to call Cameron to tell him that their relationship was over. He had given up on texting her and was now annoying her with calling her. She had gotten so fed up with it she had put her phone on silent. She laid it on the table as the waiter came and asked her what she wanted to drink. She ordered herself and Selena water. She was staring off into space when she saw her phone glow. She looked to see who it was and saw that it was Cameron. She thought it was a good time to tell him that it was over. She sighed and pulled her sunglasses off from the top of her head and put them on as she answered.

(Gabriella/ Cameron)

"Hello?"

"Gabriella! Listen to me!"

"Why should I?"

"She was drunk! Okay I was just trying to leave the club! You gotta believe me! I would never hurt you!

Gabriella sighed as she looked across the street to see Troy heading towards her.

"Gabriella! You still there?"

She sighed again as Troy hugged her and sat in the other empty chair.

"Yeah I'm still here Cameron."

She looked over at Troy to see his reaction. His face was hard to read.

"Look, I really want to believe you! I really do, but I can't be with some one like you. You know what? We should just break up. I'm pretty sure Miley will be happy to hear that."

She hung up her phone to find a text from Selena telling her she was on her way. She finally looked up at Troy who was smiling at her. She smiled back and noticed that he had drank all of Selena's water.

"You do know that that was Selena's water, right?" she said.

"I kinda figured, but seeing as she isn't here.." Troy trailed off. Gabriella shook her head as she took a sip of water from her own glass.

"BUBBLES!!"

Troy and Gabriella turned around to find Selena running towards them with her shopping bags in hand.

"OH MY GOD! Remember that show I auditioned for before heading out here?" Selena said taking the last empty seat, completely ignoring Troy.

"Umm the one where you are the school bitch?"

"No! The other one!"

"NO!!!"

"Yes!"

"Are you serious?"

"Yes! My manager just called! I start shooting next month!"

"That is so cool!"

"Tell me about it! Oh hey Troy!" Selena said finally noticing Troy.

"Hi! So the bonfire was fun last night." Troy said, looking at Gabriella.

"Yeah totally! I heard what you two did! Gosh! So you talk to Cameron yet? Did you break his heart?!" Selena said.

"Yeah, I did actually did break up with him. I guess that makes me single." Gabriella said looking at Troy. The two just stared at each other.

Selena groaned and said "Oh god you two make me sick! You know that? Anyway soooo Troy! What is a guy like you doing here? Shouldn't you be working?"

Troy smiled and said " HA HA, very funny. For your information, I was meeting Chad here so we can go over some plays for the basketball game."

"Oh really??!"

"Yes"

Before Selena had a chance to respond, the waiter came to the table and took their orders. After the waiter left the three of them were left with an uncomfortable silence. Selena took to her phone and was texting Chris who had plans to come into town. Troy went inside to talk to someone he knew. Gabriella was playing with her phone.

Selena cleared her throat and said "So!"

Gabriella looked at her friend and said " So what?"

" URGH! Oh my god! I'm just going to come right out and say it! Are you guys going out???"

Gabriella laughed and said, "He has a girlfriend."

Before Selena could answer, Troy came back with their food, with the help of Zeke.

"Here you are, ladies!" Zeke said, while he placed their food in front of them.

"Aww why thank you! You know Troy, you should be a waiter! You look so cute doing it!" Selena said making fun of Troy.

Troy stuck his tongue out at her, which made Gabriella laugh. Soon the whole table was laughing. Zeke excused himself so he could get back to work. Selena ordered herself the Caesar salad. Troy, being the boy he was, ordered ribs while Gabriella treated herself to a burger. Half way through lunch they were joined by Chad, who just ordered a coke.

Selena sighed and said, " I need ketchup!"

Chad and Troy looked at each other while Gabriella just rolled her eyes. Chad, who didn't know what she was talking about, reached for the ketchup that was on the table and said "Ummm okay? Here it is but I don't think you'll like it on your salad."

The two girls looked at each other and then burst out laughing. Chad looked at the girls then leaned toward Troy and said "Dude! I think we're missing something!"

"Yeah I think so" Troy responded.

It took a couple of minutes for the girls to calm down. Gabriella looked at Chad and said, "She was talking about a restaurant, well our favorite place to eat when we do a girls night out back home."

"Oh, so does their mean there's like a place called Mustard?" Chad asked.

This made Selena laugh harder, Gabriella just giggled and said, "No, I don't think there is Chad."

Chad sighed and said, "Oh, well we have to go! Lots of work to do if we want to win that championship game! Come on Troy!"

The boys left and it was just the two girls. Selena, who finally stopped laughing, said, "Oh man! I sure am going to miss that guy when I leave!"

"When do you leave?" Gabriella said, wishing her best friend didn't have to go.

"Two weeks from today."

"Oh yeah.."

They finished their meals, paid, and walked back to their hotel.

East High Gym

"Alright man! What's going on with you and Gabriella?" Chad asked Troy. The two were in the gym watching their team do stretch es before starting practice.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh, don't play dumb with me! You couldn't stop staring at Gabriella at lunch. Doesn't she have a boyfriend?"

"Well yeah, but she broke up with him. I kinda walked into the conversation when we were at Zeke's. So it's over between them."

"Okay so they broke up! But your still tied down! Remember? Haley? Ring any bells??"

Troy frowned. He had completely forgotten about Haley, the one thing that stood in his way from getting Gabriella back.

"Hey coach!"

Chad and Troy both turned to see Trey, the captain of the Wildcats, standing with his friends.

"Are we going to start practice or what?"

Chad laughed and blew his whistle, ordering the team to do suicides.

He turned back to Tory and said, "Where is Haley?"

"She said something about visiting her parents."

"You don't even know where your own girlfriend is?"

"I know where she is!"

"What kind of boyfriend are you?"

"Oh, shut up!" Troy said, punching Chad playfully.

After the team finished up, Chad, who was in no mood to yell or get frustrated, let the team play around in the gym.

"So Taylor is doing this dinner thing at our house two days from now. She wants me20to tell you. So in other words, you have to come." Chad said.

"Oh yeah? Hey, is it cool that Haley comes? She's supposed to come home tomorrow."

"Troy!! Come on! You have to break up with the girl! If you ever want a chance to be with Gabriella!"

"You think I don't know that! I just don't know how to break up with her."

"Troy now is not the time to be acting like a gentleman! Do what the kids are doing these days."

"And that would be?"

"All you have to do is send her a little thing called a text message!!

"You really want me to break up with her like that?"

Chad didn't get a chance to answer Troy, they both whipped around when they heard yelling and fists hitting a person. The rest of the team was trying to stop the fight between Trey and another teammate named Chase. Trey's friends finally pulled him off of Chase and were holding him back. Troy had got a hold of Chase.

"YOU DO THE STUPID MUSICAL AND YOUR GAME WILL BE OFF!" Said Chase trying to get out of Troy's hold.

"WE WERE JUST SINGING! IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT DARBUS AND MS. NEILSON HEARD US AND GAVE US A CALL BACK!" Trey responded, who was also trying to get out of his friends strong hold.

"Is this what this whole thing is about? The musical? You guys do know that me and Troy were both in musicals right?" Chad said.

Chase looked at his coach, shrugged off Troy, and started walking towards the locker room. Soon the rest of the team followed. Trey's friend Brandon, who was holding Trey, let him go and followed.

Troy looked at Trey and said "If you wanna do the musical, go right ahead. No one is stopping you."

Trey just looked at Troy and headed towards the door that led out to the track. Chad started to walk around the gym and started to pick up the balls and put them back on the rack. Troy did the same thing until he felt his phone vibrate.

"Hey hoops! You think history is repeating itself??" Chad said

Troy sighed and said, " It looks like it doesn't it? Plus didn't Jones transfer here from West?"

Chad nodded.

"So he really isn't use to people here breaking the status quo is he?"

"Hmm guess your right. So you want to head over to the theater and see if Kelsi is there?"

"Oh, she is. So is Gabriella and Selena." Troy said, started to walk out of the gym.

"I'm guessing Gabs texted you, telling you?"

Troy looked at his best friend and said "Now how did you know that?" and he kept walking.

Chad shook his head and followed his best friend . When they walked into the theater, they found Kelsi at her piano with a student, and Gabriella and Selena were sitting in two of the many seats that filled the room. Gabriella had a notebook on her lap.

"Okay, how about I stayed grounded as the amounts rolled in?" Gabriella asked Selena.

"Yeah that works." She responded.

Gabriella smiled and started to write the lyric down. When she was finished, she was going to say something to Selena when her phone started to vibrate. Selena looked around and noticed Troy and Chad.

"Troy! We have got to stop meeting like this!" Selena said.

"Well, Selena, your on my turf now." Troy shot back.

Selena looked at Gabriella to complain about Troy, but she was still on her phone. She looked back at Troy who now had a smirk on his face. Selena sighed and started playing with her phone.

"Hey Kels! So what is this we hear about Trey and his girlfriend getting call backs for the musical?" Chad said, walking towards her.

"How do you know that? You hardly ever come out of that smelly gym of yours!" Kelsi said, joking around with him.

"Ouch Kels! That hurt!" Chad said.

Kelsi laughed and said "Anyway, yeah Trey and Vicki were great. They're supposed to come here to start rehearsing for the call backs if you want to stay."

"Well I would love to! But Taylor is waiting at home. So I have to go! Don't forget the dinner!" Chad said waving at everyone and walking out the doors.

"Thanks Taylor. I will be hanging out here for a little bit." Troy said, taking a seat next to Gabriella.

"Thank you so much Kenny! We both will be there next week!" Gabriella said. She finally hung up her phone.

"So what did Kenny want?" Selena said.

"Oh he's just getting together people for a Disney commercial and song. He wants us both there and I said yes."

"Hmmmm who else will be there?" Selena asked.

"Well, for the commercial, like most of the Disney stars. So like 29 people. For the song just me, you, the Jonas Brothers, and Miley."

Selena looked at her and said "Wait, did you just say Miley?"

"Yes, do you have a problem with that?" Gabriella said, turning to look at her.

"No, I think the real question is are YOU okay with that?"

"Selena, what are you talking about?"

"You just said Miley! Miley Cyrus! She is going to be there. You both are going to be in the same place at the same time!"

"Yeah and your poin t is?"

Selena threw her hands up in the air and said "You know what! I give up! I'll be out front waiting for you! Let me get the car! Oh yeah, I have to call Chris about your song." She got up and walked out of the theater the phone already to her ear.

She turned her attention back to Troy and smiled and said "Hey! What's up?"

"Did you do that on purpose? I mean, you doing that commercial and song thing, knowing that Miley Cyrus was going to be there?" Troy asked her.

Gabriella shrugged and said "Well, for the commercial, a lot more people will be there so what are the chances of running into her then. As for the whole song. I still haven't figured it out yet. Anyway, I have to get going. We leave tomorrow and I have to pack and say bye to everyone" She went to get up when the doors opened and Trey and Vicki came in. They went straight up to Kelsi, leaving no time for Gabriella to say bye to her. Gabriella just thought she would call her later.

Troy got up and followed her outside. "So, when are you leaving again?" he asked.

"Umm tomorrow" Gabriella repeated, not meeting his eyes.

"But we were finally happy! Me and you together, like it should be!"

"Troy, you have a girlfriend. Remember?"

A car pulled up to the curb and they both turned to see Selena. Gabriella sighed and kissed Troy on the cheek. She got in the car and Selena speed off. Troy stayed there for a couple more minutes before heading towards his car. He started it up only to hear Gabriella's voice fill his car with her latest single. He leaned over and turned off the radio. He pulled out of the parking lot, towards his apartment.

Hey guys!!! sorry it's been such a long time!! school is kicking my butt! college is keeping me busy! anywho don't own anything! cuz if i did i would be rich! hope you like it!!

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