Author's Note: I know the last chapter was a disaster and had essentially no point, but this chapter will be better
Author's Note: I know the last chapter was a disaster and had essentially no point, but this chapter will be better. Please review!
For Better or For Worse
Chapter 5: You Are the Music in Me
By musiclover94
Click. Gabriella slowly opened the Music room door. It squeaked, sending echoes all along the empty hall. Gabriella winced and looked nervously around. No one here, excellent…
She made her way to the grand piano, its black top gleaming in the fluorescent glow of the lights up above, it's keys like celebrities' teeth, always an unearthly white. She slipped a thin, weather-beaten manila folder from her bag and opened it. She smiled as she came across the pieces of music. She selected one near the back and set on the piano.
Na na na na
Na na na na yeah
You are the music in me
You know the words
"Once Upon A Time"
Make you listen?
There's a reason.
When you dream there's a chance you'll find
A little laughter
or happy ever after
Gabriella's light fingers graced the piano like an eagle on water, waiting to catch a salmon. She smiled to herself as she sang, thinking of…a lot of things. Piano and singing were her ways to vent. She poured her emotion into the notes, the loss of her mother, the hurt from past boyfriends that only liked her for her fame and money, confusion about moving to a new town and starting public school again, everything poured out of her like a waterfall.
Your harmony to the melody
it's echoing inside my head
a single voice (single voice)
above the noise
and like a common thread
(Hmm) you're pulling me
When I hear my favorite song
I know that we belong
Oh, you are the music in me
Yeah it's living in all of us
And it's brought us here because
Because you are the music in me
Na na na na (Ohh)
Na na na na na
Yeah yeah yeah
(Na na na na)
SCREECH. The door opened and a very surprised-looking Troy entered the room. Gabriella stopped playing immediately and looked at him nervously.
"Uh, hi…." she said lamely.
"Hi, Gabriella! What are you doing here?" he asked, still looking surprised.
"Uh…I dropped an earring!" she said quickly, picking up a brat that had fallen off a bulletin board. Hopefully, Troy would think it was an earring. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"Oh, I forgot a book." he said. She looked at what he was holding, and it defiantly wasn't a book. It was a small, square box. He his it behind his back when he saw that she was looking at it.
"I heard you singing. I think I know your voice from somewhere," he added.
Gabriella froze. "Where from?"
"You sound exactly, like Gretchen-no-Gabriella Montez." he remembered. "And, come to think of it, you look exactly like her."
Her brain went numb for a moment. "That's because I am Gabriella Montez. Well, was Gabriella Montez." she said.
"What?" Troy asked, not daring to believe it.
"Then why aren't you in Hollywood?" he asked, looking at her with his ice blue eyes.
Somehow, that gaze made Gabriella spill everything.
Troy didn't speak for a moment after she had finished.
"What was that you were playing?" Troy finally said, gesturing to the piano and manila folder.
"Something I write for one of my albums, but didn't make it." she said, looking fondly at the paper.
"Why?"
"My producer said that I should leave the song-writing to the professionals." She said bitterly.
"Want to hear it again?" she asked.
"Yeah."
It's like I knew you before we met (Before we met)
Can't explain it (Ohh ohh)
There's no name for it (No name for it)
Troy chimed in, which caught Gabriella off guard. He didn't have a bad singing voice.
I'm saying words I never said
And it was easy (So easy)
Because you see the real me (I see)
As I am You understand
And that's more than I've ever known
To hear your voice (Hear your voice)
Above the noise (Ohh ohh)
And no, I'm not alone
Oh you're singing to me (Ohh yeah)
Gabriella looked into Troy's eyes and smiled. He returned it. Their voices matched in perfect harmony as the song continued.
Gabriella put the folder carefully in her bag and rose from the bench. "Catch you later, Troy…" she had turned around and saw Troy holding out that box she had seen earlier. It was open and inside was a beautiful silver band. Before she could say anything, Troy spoke in a dead serious voice.
"Gabriella, will you be my girlfriend?"
Author's Note: This might be the last chapter, because I don't really have any more ideas. Please review.