A/N Hello all my lovely readers!

So my friend suggested I try a Trelsi, and well, I did. It was…um…ok, I guess. Well, I guess it's really up to you.

This one's dedicated to Xochyl (So sorry if I spelled that wrong honey; your name's pretty complicated…lol.) who suggested it and gave me some ideas as well. And yes girly, let's audition together! Let's go "Into The Woods", lol.

BTW, this is AU to the second movie…and in case you didn't know, the song is "You Are The Music In Me."

Hope you all like!

Title: Musical Romance

Author: xCuteyCupcakesx

Pairing: Trelsi TroyxKelsi

Disclaimer;

Sadly, I don't own HSM or it's characters and/or songs.

Chapter 2: Who's Really The Music In Troy

It was Valentine's Day and Troy Bolton didn't have a date. Troy Bolton was single on Valentine's Day. The basketball captain didn't have a girl on the fourteenth of February.

No matter how you worded it, it just didn't sound right. It just wasn't what was expected in East High. Then again, after the whole "Breaking Free" incident, the expectations seemed to have changed.

By now it would've been acceptable for him to date Gabriella Montez, the freaky math girl, and one of his closest friends, but that wasn't what he wanted. It wasn't what she wanted either.

"Hey Troy!" A brunette raced up to him right after the schoolday had come to a much-awaited end.

"Hey Gabby, what's up?" he asked, shutting his locker.

"Rehearsals are canceled for today," she answered.

He couldn't help the disappointment he felt at this; it was his excuse for not having a date this year.

"Oh," he said, trying to sound as casual as was possible. "So what're you gonna do later?"

"Well," she grinned, "Ryan actually asked me out. You?"

"Not much. Got a lot of stuff to catch up on."

"Really? The Wildcat superstar is dateless this year?" She instantly frowned when she realized how it had sounded. "Oh! Um…sorry, I meant th—"

"It's fine. I've got someone in mind," he replied hurriedly.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. I'd love to continue this, but I think you're keeping someone waiting." He motioned behind her, to where Ryan stood, leaning against a locker.

Turning, Gabriella smiled and headed in his direction. "See you later!" she called as the couple headed toward the school entrence.

Kelsi Neelson was an amazing composer, that was true, but there was a fine line between reality and fiction. Her compositions were all fiction; fictional characters falling in love and living in blissful peace for the rest of forever. They were filled with cheesey romantic moments, overly-sweet lines, everything that could represent this one day, and everything she resented to no end. There was a large difference between fiction and reality.

Sinking down on the bench in front of the piano, Kelsi extracted her notebook from her backpack, and began work on her new creation. Placing it to the side, she pressed the first few keys, and opened her mouth to sing the loving lyrics.

(You know the words once upond a time, make you listen, there's a reason…)

She sped up the tempo as the song progressed and started to really get into the feel of it. Her delicate voice floating off the auditorium walls. It wasn't as strong as others, but it was pure and tender, and filled with passion.

A certain blue-eyed Wildcat happened to be walking by as she performed to the empty room. Hearing faint music, he stopped to listen for a moment, mezmorized by the sweet sound coming from beyond. It wasn't one of the Twinkle Town songs, wich increased his curiosity.

As he entered the seemingly vacant room, he noticed a small girl perched on the piano bench, eyes closed, and hands flying smoothly across the keys of the piano. Out of her mouth came beautiful lyrics, wich complimented the melody coming from the instrument.

(When I hear my favorite song, I know that we belong…)

Who would've thought that Kelsi Neelson had such a voice. Troy looked up at her, hesitant to make a move in her direction; at least not until the song was over. He couldn't deny how beautiful she appeared at the moment, in such deep concentration.

(You are the musuc in me.)

As the song came to a close, her eyes slowly opened and she looked around, sensing a presence. Locating Troy near the entrence she froze. 'How much did he hear' she thought in embarrassment. She wasn't fond of people hearing her unfinished work; she tended to be verry self-conscious about these things. And Troy of all people! She no longer tried to tell herself that she felt nothing toward him, she just didn't make a move to go after him. He was with Gabriella anyway, right? They were always together; they were the perfect couple, everyone expected that.

She pulled herself out of her pondering when she realized her, quite obvious, stare in his direction.

"Oh, um, sorry. I'll go. Did you need the—"

"No it's fine," he cut her off. " I just heard you from out there and…"

'What the hell are you saying' he thought to himself. She's with Jason, one of your team mates.

Despite his comfirmation that it was okay for her to be here, Kelsi began to gather her things and leave. As she stood up, her notebook fell from her trembling hands; all the loose sheets from within falling in every direction.

She felt her face turn as red (or maybe redder) than a verry ripe tomato as she bent down to collect everything. 'Well, that made you look grate' she thought with humiliation.

"Need a hand?"

She looked up to see Troy standing only feet from her with a slightly amused expression.

"Um, I, Um…"

Not waiting for an answer, he lowered himself to the stage floor, gathering more of the scattered papers.

"Don't you and Gabriella have somewhere to be?" Kelsi froze after realizing what had accidentally escaped her lips.

'Shit, why did you say that Neelson' she mentally scolded herself.

"Gabriella? Why would I have any plans with Gabriella today?"

She gave him a confused look. "Aren't you guys, like, together? I mean, you're always around each other, you hang out a lot during rehearsals, you're the leads, and with that whole "Breaking Free" thing I just thought that maybe—"

Troy laughed softly. "We're not together. We're really good friends, but I'm not interested in her. She's actually out with Ryan right now."

"Ryan?" was all she could think of saying. Although, she couldn't control the speck of hope that rose when he said that he wasn't interested in Gabriella. 'But he said he was interested in some one else, it can't be me; he wouldn't have said it to me if it was…

Her thought process was interrupted as he spoke again.

"So? Why the sudden interest in me and Gabby?"

The red returned to her cheeks as she realized how incredibly random and overly-curious she must have sounded just seconds ago.

"Uh…no reason. I just assumed…" She stopped herself, unable to think of a reason to justify her questions.

Summoning up some courage, Troy took the chance to ask something he'd been curious about; they were on the topic after all. (Or at least, that's how he reasoned it with himself.)

"So why aren't you out with Jason?"

"Me and Jason? Me and him are nothing. Do people think we're dating or something." She tried to recover from her former humiliation and act normal.

"It looked like something at the afterparty. SO you guys aren't together?"

"No. I'm interested in someone else," she replied, once again scolding herself for letting another hint slip. "So why the sudden interest?" She tried to take the focus off her before he asked something she didn't want to answer.

"Uh," Troy searched his brain for a reason. "Just seemed to fit the comversation; just clearing up some rumors. So you're into someone else?"

It was like tag. The weight came and left each one periodically.

"Yeah."

"Who?"

"Who were you talking about?"

He quickly looked away at this. "Just…some girl."

Kelsi frowned. "There're a lot of those around…"

'God, just tell her' he told himself.

"Uh…let's um…finish picking this up…it's kinda late…"

'Not that'.

Kelsi's hope plummeted, but, realizing that they were still positioned on the stage floor, she agreed and began to grab at the last of the papers.

Trying not to look at each other, they collected the papers quickly in an awkward silence. At one point they both grabbed the same page; they really should've looked.

Looking up Kelsi was met with a hypnotizing pair of blue eyes. She tried to look away, but it proved to be quite impossible. The gaze was held, an incredible intensity building between them.

'Go for it' Troy kept mentally shouting at himself.

Unable to stand it any more, he leanded forward and wrapped an arm around her small waist' pulling her closer to him.

She felt her heart racing at an unnatural speed. She felt sick. The butterflies in her stomach were flying a hundred miles an hour.

In spite of themselves, they both uttered the words that the other had wanted to hear so much.

"I was talking about you."

With this revelation as motivation, Troy cupped her face with his other hand and gently guided her closer; eventually joining in a sweet and tender kiss. It was simple and quick, but it was all that was needed to break the ice.

"So…"

"So…"

"You're definitely not interested in Gabriella?"

"So you're definitely not into Jason?"

She smiled at him. It had finally happened, and it was so much better than either of them could've imagined.

Troy picked up the sheet of music they'd both grabbed before, and looked it over. "So this is what you were playing earlier?"

"Yeah," she said softly, "it's really not grate. I'm not really finished."

He smiled at her. "It's amazing."

He couldn't help pulling her in for another, and more passionate, kiss.

"Miss Neellson! Mr. Bolton!"

'Crap' they thought as they broke apart, looking up to be met with a verry annoyed-looking Miss Darbus.

A/N And the Trelsi is done! Hope it was at least worth the read. Please review; I'll take any comment. And if you have any ideas for couples and/or songs, let me know.

Thanks much for reading!

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Xox-Daizy