Chapter 5
"So umm.. What do you have next?" Troy asked curiously wishing that he'll have the same subject as her.
"Maths." She said happily because that's her favourite subject.
"Oh ok." He tried his best not to show his disappointment.
"How about you?" She somehow, noticed his disappointment.
"Science." He said boringly and sadly.
"What's with a long face then? Science could be fun… sometimes?" She tried to cheer him up and luckily, she succeeded.
"Yeah sometimes. I wish that sometime is today though." He laughed and continued walking.
"Umm.. Gabriella. You don't need to answer this but, what was Josh like?" Troy asked nervously hopeful that he won't hurt her talking about Josh. He only wanted to know what kind of person Josh was really like.
"Well, he was the nicest guy I've ever met. He's really kind and understanding. He's cute and had a really nice personality." Gabriella answered without any expression on her face.
"I reckon you deserve that kinda guy and he deserve you. I couldn't thank him enough for what he did." Troy smiled wishing that he could've at least had one chance to talk to Josh.
"Maybe you deserve it!" By that, the bell went and they have to go to separate ways.
"Wait Gabriella!" Troy rant back to her quickly.
"Yeah?" She asked enquiringly.
"Do you know the way to your class?" Troy asked and was a bit confused when Gabriella stared at him weirdly.
"We're kinda in front of it, actually." She giggled and Troy swiftly looked at the door in front of him. He blushed when he figured out that she's right.
"Oh yeah. Umm.. I'm dropping you home right?" He tried to calm down so that his cheeks will go back to normal.
"Umm.. I think my mum's picking me up today so, maybe next time." She answered nervously.
"Oh ok." He was dissatisfied by her response but he couldn't argue and certainly couldn't blame anyone.
"See you tomorrow then." He looked away and started walking to his room.
"Bye!" She called out and went inside her classroom.
She searched for a spot to sit on and finally she saw one. She quickly walk towards it before someone else does. The girl next to her noticed that she's new so she decided to introduce herself.
"Hi! I'm Taylor." She said friendly leaning close to Gabriella.
"I'm Gabriella." Gabriella took Taylor's hand who was ready to have a handshake.
"You're new here right?" Taylor whispered being careful that the teacher won't see her.
"Yeah." She nodded, happy that she just made a new friend.
"You can hang out with me if you like." Taylor offered.
"Thanks!" Gabriella was really glad that someone actually want to stay with her unlike her other schools who always reject her because she was known to be the 'freaky math girl'.
"Do you know the way around the school?" Taylor said loudly because the teacher left the room to get something out of the staff room.
"Yeah. Troy showed me around." She answered and Taylor's jaw suddenly dropped.
"You mean Troy Bolton the wildcat superstar?" She asked making sure she heard Gabriella right.
"Yeah." Gabriella nodded a bit confused why Taylor was so surprise.
"You're probably pretty special because he never showed new girls around. She doesn't even hang out with them because he's not that type of guy." She explained.
"Oh ok." Gabriella finally understood.
Gabriella was surprise that she found Math boring that day. Maybe because it was the first day and all they did was talk about the basics. They reached the end of the day and Gabriella waited patiently for her mum to come and pick her up.
Most of the students were gone. She was wondering if her mum was lost or something.
"Hey!" Troy came out of no where and startled Gabriella.
"Oh hi Troy! You scared me for a second." She giggled a little bit and gave out a sigh of relief.
"Where's your mum?" Troy asked looking around if she's anywhere.
"I don't know. She's supposed to be here." Gabriella announced looking a bit worried. Suddenly, her phone rang. She was relieved to see her mum's caller ID.
"Hey mum! Where are you?" Gabriella asked quickly feeling like they will lost signal or something.
"Oh I'm so sorry Gabi! We had an emergency meeting here. I'll be there in about 30 minutes is that ok? Or you can just walk home if you want." Mrs Montez apologetically.
"I'll just walk home mum. Thanks anyways." Gabriella smiled reassuring her mother.
"Are you sure?" Her mum asked again just making sure.
"Yup!" She nodded her head as if her mum can see it.
"I'm really sorry Gabi. I got to go now. See you later ok." Her mum said quickly.
"Its ok mum. Bye!" They both hung up then Gabriella turned to Troy.
"What'd she say?" He asked clueless.
"I guess I need to walk home by my self." Gabriella gave out a big sigh.
"Who said you have to go home by yourself?" Troy asked raising an eyebrow at her but she didn't seem to get him.
"My mum?" She said looking really confused of what he's saying.
"I mean. You're not walking alone because I'm gonna drop you home." He smiled convincingly and Gabriella blushed for not understanding him.
"Oh right. Thanks. Wait! Are you sure?" She paused for a moment.
"Definitely why?" He started opening his car door.
"Its kinda embarrassing because you already helped me enough." She announced still not sure if she should take his offer.
"Not enough. I want to help everyone that Josh loved. I wanna be a useful person." They finally understood each other and knows what's playing in their minds.
"I really appreciate it Troy! Thank you!" Gabriella opened the door when they reached her house.
"No problem!" He smiled and drove off when Gabriella was out of sight.
"Mum?" Gabriella called out checking if her mother was home yet. But there was no response so it means that her mother was still in the meeting.
Gabriella opened her books trying to remember if she had any home works. Luckily, there was nothing to do so she have some free time.
"What can I watch?" Gabriella looked through her DVD's trying to figure out if there's any interesting movie she could watch that time. She couldn't decide so she just sat back down on the couch doing absolutely nothing.
"Maybe I should go to the park and walk around." Gabriella grabbed a jumper and head outside, to the park. She don't really know the place that much but she'd seen it once. Once she got there, she spotted the empty swings and she quickly walked towards it. It was late in the afternoon that's why its pretty quiet and peaceful which made her more relaxed.
Gabriella sat on the swing and started swinging softly.
"Gabriella?" A familiar voice came from behind Gabriella. She quickly turned around and saw Troy standing there smiling in astonishment.
"Oh my gosh Troy.." She quickly stood up backing away from the swing because he might thing that she was so childish to be playing with the swing.
"I love swings you know." He smiled because he seemed to understand what she was feeling judging by her expression.
"Really?" She asked dumbfounded at what he just said.
"Totally!" He answered and sat on the other swing. Gabriella smiled and realised that Troy was a really sweet guy deep inside and he was just trying to cover it because he was jock.
"Sit down Gabriella." Troy smiled, offering her the other swing. Gabriella grinned and sat on the swing.
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