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Shoot For The Stars
When Gabriella had chased Chad around the whole diner, including the rather large car park, she flopped back down in her seat panting. "When I get my hands on that little-"
"Language Timothy" Panted Chad flopping down beside his best friend and putting on an extremely bad English accent.
"What in the name of Eleanor Roosevelt possessed you to 'youtube' me?" Gabriella growled, tying her hand in knots in her lap.
"I was bored" Chad shrugged, "I've done it to all my friends. If you type in Sharpay's name you get a load of performances from Lava Springs' talent show. Type in wonder boy's name you get a load of amateur fan videos about basketball." Chad clapped a red faced Troy on the shoulder "Type in your name and you get two videos."
"Yes?" Prompted Gabriella.
"You get one of you in Los Angeles, you're in a talent show and are singing suddenly by Ashley Tisdale"
"I love that song!" Sharpay interrupted.
"And the second one is you in San Francisco. You're singing a song I don't recognise, I'm that girl. Something like that."
"I'm not that girl from Wicked the musical." Gabriella explained.
"Yeah, that's it" Said Chad.
"When did you do this?" Gabriella asked, her hands loosening slightly.
"About five months ago." Chad said, going slightly pink.
"And you've only just told us?" exploded Sharpay and Taylor in unison.
"I thought Gabriella had a right to tell us in her own time. But when she said about not being able to sing I couldn't contain myself any longer."
"You're not a bad person are you Chaddy?" Asked Gabriella ruffling Chad's hair affectionately.
"Nope" Grinned Chad.
"Anyway, that was like a different person. I don't sing any more. That was all in the past" Gabriella tried to explain.
"With a voice like that?" Chad exclaimed "You should be on American Idol, let alone a stupid school talent show"
"No!" Gabriella shouted. "I don't do that anymore. That's not me!"
Gabriella ran out of the diner and all the way home, bursting through the door of her house she ran all the way up the stairs tears blurring her vision. It wasn't fair, she was trying as hard as she could to get away from her previous life but it just seemed to come back and haunt her. There was no getting away from it. Singing had always been the thing she'd shared with her brother, every night she would sing him to sleep before standing and watching him drift off. He would smile when he was sad, laugh when he was crying and all this was because of Gabriella's singing. Gabriella hadn't sung a single note since her brother's death, not even singing along to her ipod.
Gabriella was pulled out of her reverie by a knock at her bedroom door.
"Who is it?" Gabriella called through her tears.
"Me, Troy" Called a soft voice back.
"Come in" Gabriella hiccoughed.
"Hey baby. What's wrong?" Troy sat down on the bed and pulled Gabriella close to him and when it was clear that Gabriella wasn't capable of speech he began to sing.
And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It's you, it's you, you make me sing.
You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.
Gabriella sobbed harder at the sound of the lyrics; she knew that Troy would never truly be hers. She knew that in his heart he must love Mia.
When it was clear Gabriella's sobs were not letting up, Troy continued to sing.
You're a carousel, you're a wishing well,
And you light me up, when you ring my bell.
You're a mystery, you're from outer space,
You're every minute of my everyday.
Gabriella's POV
I wish he meant that, I wish he loved me the way the lyrics say he does . the feel of his strong arms around me just feels so right. I love him so much, I just want to lie in his arms forever. But I can't, he has Mia.
No POV
Gabriella felt her eyes growing heavy gave in to the lull of sleep. Letting the sweet sounds of Troy's voice wash over her like the call of the ocean.
When Gabriella awoke she felt much better, her head had cleared and she knew what she had to do. She had to take control of her life, she couldn't be controlled by the past. And that started with the talent show.
Two days later Gabriella was sat on a park bench when she sensed someone walking towards her, she looked up and her heart sank. Mia was walking towards her looking annoyingly pretty.
"Hey Gabriella, can I have a word?"
"Yeah, go ahead" Said Gabriella a little coldly.
"It's about Troy." Gabriella's heart sank even lower, she did not want to hear about how much in love they were, she could not be doing with questions on how to please him.
"I think I'm going to break up with him" Mia was looking down at her lap and Gabriella could see that there were tears in her eyes. Gabriella's heart soared.
"Why?" She asked.
"He doesn't really love me. He never has, I think he fancied me but it was nothing more than physical attraction. He liked me but there was never that spark. At the beginning I was so attracted to him that I didn't see it, I blanked it out because I wanted to believe that he loved me. That we would be forever but it soon became clear that he was attracted to someone else. He never said anything or cheated on me but the way he acts when he's around this girl is different to anything I've ever seen. There's a grin that just doesn't leave his face. He's in love with you Gabriella, can't you see it?" Mia finished, the tears were dripping freely off her face now.
"What?" Gabriella was gob smacked, she hadn't been expecting that.
"He's in love with you. Always has been always will be." Mia said.
"I love him so much" Gabriella stated simply.
"Then go for it Gabriella, shoot for the stars. You deserve them." Mia gave Gabriella a little hug and turned to walk away.
"Mia?" Gabriella called after her retreating back.
"Yeah?"
"Thank you" Mia smiled at Gabriella and in that moment Gabriella knew that they would be friends.
"Yes, I will shoot for the stars" Gabriella said to herself.
A/N: Well, this story's very nearly over. There's only one maybe two more chapters left. Thank you for reading. Please review. Izzy x