The rest of the week was uneventful for the girls. Selena went out with the girls but Gabriella chose to sit at home and took virtual tours of homes. She bookmarked the ones she liked and would show Selena. The weekend was boring to Gabriella, Selena told her it was because she wasn't going out and coming home till late at night. Gabriella just rolled her eyes at that theory. She noticed that Selena was asking about the coming week, whether or not she was busy. She asked her why, but Selena would always change the subject. It was now Tuesday and the girls were getting ready to head to the studio and lay down the track to the Friends For Change song.
"Selena! Are you almost ready?" Gabriella yelled from the living room.
"Will you stop yelling! I have a headache!" Selena said, walking into the living room.
"Well, who was the one who wanted to go out last night, and decided to drink! I told you we had to go to the studio!" Gabriella smirked as she watched Selena get an Advil from the medicine cabinet.
"Ugh. Let's just go!" Selena said, already walking out the door.
When they arrived, they noticed Joe's car already parked. They went inside and found Joe, Nick, and Kevin talking to Zac who was producing.
"Well, look who decides to grace us with their presence!" Joe said.
"Well we would have been here earlier if it wasn't for Selena over there." Gabriella said, giving the three brothers a had laid down on a couch with her arm over her eyes.
"Leave me alone!" Selena muttered.
"Alright, who wants to go first. Selena?" Zac said.
"Ugh, fine! Pick on the hungover girl!" Selena said, heading into the recording Booth.
"Alright! Let's do this!" She said.
"Okay! So, to start, let's do your mini solo first." Zac gave him a thumbs up. She heard the music and Zac gave her the signal to start
.
"A word is just a word
Till you mean what you say
And love isn't love
Till you give it away"
"Alright, well……"
"If you tell me to do that again, dear help me god."
"Okay well, okay so, Nick wanna go and give it a try!" Zac said.
"Wait! What was wrong with that! I thought it was okay!! Gabriella, tell them it was okay" Selena said.
Gabriella , who was looking at her phone, looked up and said "What did you say?"
"Ugh, fine! NICK, why don't you go in!!!!" Selena plopped herself on the couch next to Gabriella.
"So who the hell are you talking to this early in the morning?"
"God!! Just cause Zac said you sucked doesn't mean you can take it out on me!"
"Ugh! Why is everyone turning on me! Zac, you!"
"Um….Sel is something wrong?"
"What makes you say that" Selena said, not looking Gabriella in the eye.
"Well I don't know. You've been acting weird."
"Weird? How weird? What are you talking about? I'm not acting weird!"
"If you say so…." For the rest of the day, Selena didn't talk to Gabriella, which was weird. They all did their part of the song and soon it was time to go home. Word had gotten out that they were at the recording studio because there were a lot of paparazzi outside waiting to get a picture. Selena dropped Gabriella off at her apartment and told her she'll be back soon. Selena drove to her own apartment. When she entered her apartment she took out her phone and dialed Troy's number.
Troy/Selena
"Hello?"
"Oh my god Troy! Why did you tell me to keep a secret!!!"
"Why, hello to you Selena! How are you doing? Me? I'm doing good!"
"NO , Troy! Listen to me! I think she's catching on to me hiding something! I mean, I haven't kept anything from her since that one time we threw her a surprise party! And even then, when I was driving her she kept asking me what was wrong and I told her!!!"
"Okay, Selena listen to me! Take a deep breath! He heard Selena take a deep breath."Okay now exhale. Alright feeling better?"
"Ummmm NO!! Troy! I'm like dying here! You realize that I went out last night, just so your freakin' girlfriend will stop bugging me about what's wrong with me! I have a massive hang over!"
"Hahahahahahahahahaha!"
"Troy! This is NOT funny!"
"Okay, okay. Well It's not my fault! I mean, I didn't tell you to go out and get so drunk that you'd have a hangover! But, while we are on the subject, you guys aren't doing anything this weekend right?"
"Ummmm, well Friday we are doing this music video which leads into Saturday morning. How long are you going to be here for?"
"Just the weekend. We leave Friday night as soon as we finish coaching. So you are busy? Can't you get out of it?"
"No. Okay how about, you guys still come. Tell me what hotel you are staying at and I'll send a car to pick you guys up and I'll make the arrangements so you guys can come and watch us do our work."
"You can do that?"
"Puh-lease I'm Selena Gomez!! I can do pretty much anything I want!"
"Anything you want?"
"You know what I mean!! Either you want it or you don't!"
"Alright! Go,d aren't you a happy camper today!"
"Okay really! I don't need this!"
"Alright, alright calm down! Anyway, so what's going on between Ella and that vampire?"
"Vampire? Don't you mean WEREWOLF?"
"Same thing!"
"Um no I don't think so! I don't see NO vampire with a twelve pack! Anyway, nothing is going on between them. Strictly friends. I should know! Why did you think something was going on?"
"Um no! The girls were all freaked out. Well I gotta go. There is some commotion going on in the gym. So still on for Friday, and yes, do that whole inside connections you have."
"Alright! Bye! Don't forget to text the whole hotel thing!"
"I won't! bye!"
Selena threw herself onto her bed. The whole keeping a secret from her best friend was starting to get to her. She was doing everything possible to keep herself away from Gabriella, which meant going out last night with Massie. She felt her phone vibrate. She groaned and rolled over, looking at the text she received. She groaned again when she saw it was Massie.
Massie: Hey, going out again tonight. Wanna come?
Selena stared at the text message. Going out would mean avoiding Gabriella again, but it also meant getting totally wasted with a result of getting another hang over. But she was tired. She had stumbled into the apartment at 4 in the morning just to be awoken by a pillow being thrown at her at 7 in the morning. She replied with a "no" and got up from her bed, walked into her closet, and decided to pack some more of her clothes. She was excited with the idea of her moving in with her best friend. After about two hours of packing, she got up and decided it was time to face the music. She locked her apartment and was thinking of an excuse to feed her best friend about her weirdness.
Albuquerque
After hanging up with Selena, he jogged into the gym and found his team arguing with each other. He heard the door behind him open. He turned around and saw it was Chad.
"What is going on!" Chad asked .
"Well, I might have a hunch. I walked by the drama classroom and the final cast list was posted and seems like Vicki and Trey got the leads." Troy said looking at the team.
"Seriously! It better not be!"
The two coaches walked onto the court. Chad took the whistle that hung around his neck and brought it to his lips. He took a big breath and he blew it. The sound made the team of Wildcats stop their arguing and look around.
"What the hell is going on here? You guys should be practicing for the game on Friday! Not arguing with each other!" an angry Chad said.
"Coach! Trey here and his girlfriend are in the stupid musical! If he actually goes through with it he can cause us the chances of winning the championship!" said chase.
Chad sighed and said "Mr. Jones, I myself was in two musicals, one during basketball season and I can tell you that it didn't ruin our chances of the championship. I don't see how you guys can't come together and support your teammate!"
"But coach! Come on!"
"No butts Mr. Jones. So I suggest you support your teammate. That goes for all of you! Trust me when I say if you keep one of our teammate from doing what he wants to do, his basketball game is off. Isn't that right, Hoops?" Chad said, giving Troy a playful shove.
"That is right, Mr. Danforth. Now go and get ready for practice," said Troy, pointing his finger towards the locker room. The team all walked towards the locker room while Kelsi walked into the gym. The two boys gave their friend a hug.
"Hey Kels. What are you doing in our neck of the woods," Chad said.
"Just to warn you guys, your star basketball player got the lead."
"Yeah, we walked in on the team arguing about it." Troy said.
"Oh, well they were good. Even Sharpay had to admit it. And you know how she is with the whole one of the basketball players even going out for a part in 'her' play."
Chad sighed and said "well I'm going to check on the team. Make sure they aren't going at it. See you later, Kels."
"See you! Hey, so you talk to Gabriella's friend yet? Are they busy?" Kelsi asked Troy.
"Oh, yeah I talked to Selena. She's having a hard time with the whole keeping it a secret. She called me freaking out." Troy laughed.
"Oh, wow. But about them being busy? I asked Joe if he was busy and he said he had this music video all weekend. You think the two girls are in that?"
"Yeah, Selena said they have a music video that lasts all night Friday and early Saturday. But she said that she could get us in. All I have to do is tell her what time our flight lands and she's getting us a driver to take us there and surprise Ella."
"Ohh. That's cool. Alright well I have to go and meet with Taylor. Want me to tell everyone else about the plans?"
"Umm, you can tell the gang. I planned on going to Maria's house and telling them about the plan see if they agree or not."
"Alright, see you later!" Troy gave her a hug and she was off.
He heard the team coming out of the locker room. Immediately he saw that the team had split into two groups. He guessed the guys standing with Chase were by his side for the whole being apart the musical. The guys standing with Trey were against his being apart the musical. Troy sighed and looked at Chad. They both knew it would be a long practice.
BACK IN LA
Gabriella was laying on her stomach on her bed looking at her phone. She was worried about Selena. The last time she was acting this strange was when her friends had planned a surprise party. She knew she was keeping something from her. What exactly? She had no clue. She heard the front door open, and she knew Selena was home. She walked into the living room, and saw Selena on the couch flipping through channels. Gabriella walked back into her room and grabbed her laptop. She walked back into the living room and sat herself next to her friend.
"So, Tom thought it would be better to send me links to houses. So I booked marked the ones I thought was more us. Wanna see?"
"Um, sure why not!"
"Okay so this one has like 6 bedrooms, and a guest house. But the guest house isn't on the virtual tour. Tom said we could always go to the house and see it in person."
"I like it but the backyard is just so….."
"Empty, I know. I figured if you wanted we could remodel or something."
"Well, that could be a maybe. How about the other ones?"
The two girls sat on the couch for hours looking at houses. When they were finished, they fell in love with a house. It had 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, a game room, a massive backyard with a pool, and a place to BBQ. There was a fireplace in the living room. The kitchen was just the perfect size. The dining room was big enough to hold all of their friends if they ever wanted to have a dinner party. It was in a gated community, and in the email Tom had said that other celebrities lived in the neighborhood. They called Tom and they set up a day and time when they would go and see the house. Both girls were excited that they sent the link to Joe, and asked if he would go with them to see the house. He must have been online because he answered back right away saying he was down. For the rest of the night, the two best friends sat in the living room watching movies and eating popcorn.
Here you guys!!!!! hope you enjoyed it! and did you guys see the super bowl!!!! SAINTS WON!!! yay!!!! my voice is horse from all the yelling and cheering!!! well enough about that! read and review!!!!!
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