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Chapter 4

Gabriella and Sharpay walked into East High debating on which guy was hotter from their homeroom.

"Gabriella I'm telling you Rick is hotter." Sharpay protested.

"Well, I don't believe you." Gabriella said crossing her arm over her top, standing her ground.

"Well I will prove it to you. He plays basketball and I heard they take their shirt of during his practise. Then you'll see his body and just melt to the ground."

"No, I don't think I will but you can get a picture o him for me." Gabriella joked.

Sharpay sighed. "You don't wanna go because of Troy right?"

Gabriella looked away and said nothing longing more than anything but to carry on with another conversation. Troy and her hadn't spoken all weekend. He didn't want to look at her and she didn't want to look at him. She still wondered if they could ever even be friends again. Gabriella pretended to busy herself with her nails still looking away from Sharpay. Behind her, she heard Sharpay heave another great sigh then took Gabriella's upper arms with her small hands and forced Gabriella to face her.

"Gabriella, you've got to talk to him! I hate seeing you like this. I know you miss him." This time it was Gabriella's turn to sigh.

"I can't Shar. It's just got to complicated," Gabriella lowered her head to the ground wondering if she should run ff but deciding against it, "to complicated." She repeated.

"Well maybe you're just making it more complicated than it seems. Talk to him. Trust me, its worth it. You guys were so close and it's not worth throwing all that away just because of one night." Sharpay said softly.

Gabriella lifted her head facing Sharpay. "I never knew you could be so good at giving advice." She smirked.

Sharpay smiled and linked arms with Gabriella "And I never knew you could be so bad at changing subjects. Now c'mon lets go and find Kelsi and Taylor. They're probably wondering where we are." Together they walked through the crowded corridor and finally reached Taylors locker were Kelsi, they both seemed in the middle of a heated conversation.

"Hey guys." Gabriella said casually, opening her locker and sorting her books.

"Hey." They replied simply.

"Whatcha talking bout?" Sharpay questioned admiring her nails every now and then frowning at something. Taylor rolled her eyes. "Kelsi thinks her outfit sucks."

Sharpay and Gabriella turned to look.

"Kelsi you look fine." Gabriella reassured smiling.

"Yeah Kels you looked great." Sharpay said glancing over again. Kelsi nodded slightly and looked a little relieved.

"Hey Gabriella where did you go on Friday? We got so worried." Taylor said looking Gabriella straight in the eye.

"Um...I called my Mom to pick me up because I wasn't feeling well." She lied putting her chemistry book in her bag.

"Mmmmhhhh." Taylor said obviously not convinced. Gabriella avoided eye contact with Sharpay.

"Gabriella you should have called us. We got really worried." Kelsi scolded.

" Sorry guys."

" Oh well, we better get to homeroom before Ms.Darbus gets there." Just then they saw a girl wearing a black mini skirt and a very low cut top. She hair was straightened and she was covered in make-up. She strutted through the corridor attracting everyone's attention.

"Kate." The four muttered. Kelsi pretended to gag and Gabriella went bright red. Crap! She thought panicking slightly. I completely forgot about her!!

"C'mon." Sharpay said leading the way into homeroom. When they had reached homeroom they took ther seats by a window. Kelsi started to talk to Sharpay while Taylor scribbled in a book. Gabriella sighed and turned on her phone seeing old messages from Kelsi, Taylor and Sharpay. She felt angry now. Troy hadn't bothered to call or even text. Gabriella didn't either but she still couldn't help herself from feeling a little upset. That was normal right?



After 5 minutes a women walked in wearing colourful clothes, big round glasses and had her hair up in a high bun; Ms.Darbus. Gabriella rolled hr eyes as she listened to usual morning announcements. The first was about some drama auditions that day and Gabriella could've sworn she heard Sharpay clap her hands. Sharpay had always been into drama along with fashion. After another 5 minutes someone burst into the classroom. This lucky person caught the whole classes attention. That someone was Troy Bolton. Gabriella swallowed hard and looked out of the window refusing to meet the cool blue eyes.

"Ah, Mr. Bolton you're late." Ms.Darbus said not even looking up from her papers she was holding.

"I ... had to ...help my Dad." Troy panted.

"Uh...Jack has no respect for time." Ms.Darbus muttered. Troy frowned slightly. "Mr.Bolton take a seat next to Ms.Montez." Gabriella felt eyes on her but still carried on looking out of the window seeing new droplets of rain beginning to curtain it. She heard footsteps coming her way and her insides burned. He's just sitting there. Nothing else. Calming down slightly she turned her attention to Ms.Darbus.

"Gabriella! Gabriella!"

Gabriella looked up to see Sharpay standing over her clutching her books. The rest of the class seemed to be leaving. Gabriella frowned.

"Wow, that went fast."

"You know Troy was staring at you like every five minutes. He misses you. You could see it in his eyes."

"Ok. I'll talk to him." Gabriella whispered lowering her eyes to the floor again. Next she had free period so she made her way to the library to pick out another book. After walking down two corridors and turning left she walked through to the empty library. There were two reasons Gabriella liked the library. One because it had books and the other because nobody hardly went there so it remained a nice, quite area.

A small smile met Gabriella's lips as she finally found what she was looking for. Romeo and Juliet. It had been her favourite book for years and years. Finding a comfortable seat at the back of the room she sat, her eyes scanning the words to reach her favourite parts.

"I thought I'd find you here." A deep voice had spoken, one Gabriella knew very well. Her stomach felt like it was doing summersault, her heart was beating faster and faster. I'll have to face him one day. Bravely, Gabriella lifted her head to see ocean blue eyes staring right back into her chocolate brown ones. To her surprise he sat down opposite her.

"I miss you Ella." He admitted. "And I'm not letting one stupid, drunken night get in the way of our friendship." Gabriella smiled slightly.

"I miss you to Troy." Gabriella said softly.

"Can we forget that night and carry on just being us?" He asked hopefully.

"Sure."

Troy smiled wide. "How about we check out that new place?" He asked.

"What new one?" Gabriella frowned, her eyes lowering to the book again.

"That pizza place. It's near where I live." He explained leaning back on his chair and eyeing Gabriella's bag.

"That one? I've already been but I guess I could go again...What do you want with my bag?" She questioned.

"I didn't say I wanted anything with it" Troy defended. Gabriella raised her eyebrows.

"Fine! I forgot to do some math homework. Can I Please copy yours?"

"No." Gabriella replied simply.

"Please." Troy pouted.

"Uhhh...fine." Gabriella dug into her bag and pulled out a blue maths book. "Here."

"Thanks. Hey, Gab? Haven't you read that book like twenty times? People who read that must be really boring." Troy said pullin out a pencil.

"Troy, do you want my homework or not." Gabriella asked bringing her book towards her slightly.

"NO I'm sorry. "

"That's what I thought." Gabriella smiled and looked back to her book skipping a few more pages.



After school Gabriella walked out with a big smile on her face.

"Brie?" Gabriella turned to see Troy jogging over. "Do you want to go to that new place. I swear I'm starving and I can't get that place out of my head." Troy looked dreamy for a moment.

"Um...okay. Let me call my Mom."

"Alright. I'll meet you in my car." Troy ran off at a very fast speed. Gabriella sighed and dialled her mothers cell.

"Mija?"

"Yeah, it's me. I called to tell you I'm going to the new pizza place with Troy."

"Ok, bye."

"Bye mama." Turning off her phone Gabriella walked to Troy's car. Droplets of rain fell on her head. Gabriella smiled, she loved he rain. By the time she reached Troy's car she was soaked.

"Well you took your time." Troy complained, he put a hand on his stomach as it grumbled. "Let's just go." Gabriella said, turning to turn on the radio."So, how good is this place?" He asked, turning around a corner.

"Well, pretty much the best."

"Good."

"Wanna here a secret?" Gabriella asked a smile appearing on her lips.

"Always." Troy said imitating Sharpay.

"I forgot my homework sheets in a classroom so I went back to get them and guess who I saw kissing."

"Who?!" Troy asked eagerly.

"SHARPAY AND ZEEK! " Gabriella screamed.

WHAT?!"

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