Why the hell did he not catch her name?
Troy walks out of the shower and grabs a white towel that was sitting on his floor. Why was he so stupid? She was right there, and he should have just asked her first thing. But how would he have known that she'd just walk out like that? No other girls did that to him. Usually, they would be more then happy that Troy Bolton was actually talking to them. But this girl? Yea, she was different. Way different. And that was probably the reason Troy wanted to know her so bad.
He sighs as he wraps the white towel around his waist and walks out of the bathroom. With a glance over, he finds Chad sitting in a pair of khaki shorts and a green t-shirt on that read, "I majored in vacation" flipping through the channels on the TV. He glances to the side to see Troy was going through his drawers to find something to wear. "A shower's never felt so fucking good in my life." Troy exclaims as he pulls out a pair of his light blue jeans and a blue t-shirt.
Chad laughs "I know what you mean man." He says as he turns off the TV and then stands up and stretches. Suddenly, Troy hears a phone go off with a ring tone that didn't belong to his own. Chad reaches for his phone that was sitting on his bed and a smirk forms on his face. "Hey Tay."
Troy rolls his eyes and tries not to laugh as a blush forms on his best friend's face. He really wanted the two to just hook up already. They had been like this for so long, and it was really time that they should just get together. "Tell her I said hey." Troy says but watches as Chad waves his hand telling him to shut up.
"You want me too... yea that'd be great..." Troy listens to the one sided conversation and jumps on his own bed. "Alright, see ya in like ten." He says and hangs up the phone. Troy smirks as his best friend mouths the word, "yes".
"Did she ask you to go fuck somewhere?" Troy asks as he leans his head back onto his pillow and Chad rolls his eyes.
"Nah man. She invited me over." He says and Troy nods. "I'm going to check out their pad over there. You wanna come?" He asks and Troy shakes his head.
"No... I'll just stay here and catch up on ESPN." He says while looking for the black remote. "And I'll let you have your fucking time."
Chad rolls his eyes. "There will be no fucking time even if I wanted it. Her roommate's gonna be in there."
Troy's eyes suddenly spring up in attention. That's right! The new girl was rooming with Taylor. He completely forgot about that one little detail. A smirk forms on his face as he stands up from his bed, feeling his calves tighten, since they were so sore from the camp. "I changed my mind. I'm coming."
Chad raises and eyebrow curiously. "I thought you wanted to catch up on ESPN?" He says, questioning his best friend's mysterious behavior.
Troy shrugs, trying to play it cool and not make it seem like he wanted to go for an apparent reason. "Whatever, I'll catch the highlights later. Besides, I want to see your future girlfriend, since I haven't seen her since the plane."
Chad continues to look at Troy curiously. Troy tries to put on a face that didn't have anything to hide as he walks towards the door. "Whatever man." Chad says, shaking his head, knowing that Troy had to be up to something else. But Troy just shrugs his shoulders and walks out the door, leading Chad outside.
They go though the hotel and walk out into the sunset. A small smile forms on Troy's face. This was his favorite spot in the world, but he wasn't going to admit that to anyone else. It was incredible, and all year he waited until this trip. It was better then any basketball game, any party, even his first junior prom the past year, where he won Prom King anyways. They walk across the sand and finally reach the deck of the pool right next door. There were a few people still out, two kids in the pool and what looked like their parents.
They walk through the back doors and suddenly enter the huge lobby. His eyes scan the place when he suddenly sees two familiar girls striding across with their long legs. They seemed to be having a very intense conversation about something and the tall blonde had an angry look on her face while the familiar brunette had a calm smirk on her face. "I don't think it's fair that you just take a it..." Troy hears the blonde exclaim as they walk closer to the two girls.
"I've been captain of this team for two years now, I think I should be the one to have it." The brunette says and suddenly turns her head. Troy's piercing blue eyes lock with the piercing green. Sharpay suddenly stops and turns with a smile growing on her face.
"Hey boys." Amber says in her familiar smooth voice. Troy feels a small smile grow on his own face while Chad beams at both of them.
"Hey Amber. What's up Shar?" Chad asks as they close the gap between the four of them.
Troy watches as the brunette in front of him. She was wearing a black, extremely revealing swimsuit and a low pink tank top that revealed her pierced bellybutton. She was also wearing short jeans shorts. Troy couldn't help it, his guy instincts couldn't help it. Amber was hot. Every guy at East High knew it. She was extremely rich since he knew that her father owned the Phoenix Suns. He had had a thing with her sophomore year, but it ended after about a month. She was also known in the locker room a good lay. "Hey Troy... Hey Chad." Amber says in her smooth and seductive voice.
"What are you guys doing here?" Sharpay asks and Troy smirks.
"Chad's going through Non-Taylor withdrawals... so we're here to see her." He exclaims and Sharpay laughs, while Amber lets a lazy smile form on her face, but she looks like she was interested in other things at the moment.
"Well... I'm pretty sure Tay's going through withdrawals too." Sharpay says and Troy laughs. Troy loved Sharpay like a sister. They had gone to the same elementary school together along with Chad. Sure, she could be extremely obnoxious sometimes, but hey... you needed some fun in your life once in awhile. "So you'd better get up there..." She says and Troy nods.
"Yea... See ya Shar." Troy calls and then looks down at Amber, who was giving him an innocent smile. "Bye Amber."
"Bye Troy. Bye Chad." She says and turns around, pulling what looked like a cellphone from her pocket.
"God... I could strangle her sometimes." Sharpay hisses and Troy rolls his eyes. Everyone knew that Sharpay and Amber never got along. It was just a known fact. But Sharpay sighs and flips her hair. "I'm gonna go give Zeke a call." She says and walks away as well.
"Come on, let's go." Chad says impatiently and Troy follows as they walk towards the stairs. "Tay said they're on two." Troy follows him as they walk slowly up the stairs, his muscles working against him right now. God they hurt so bad. Why hadn't they just taken the elevator? But they finally get to the top of the steps and turn to walk down the hallway. Chad finally stops in front of door 228 and turns. He knocks twice then turns to Troy.
"How's the hair?" Chad asks like a girl would, but Troy knew he was just nervous.
"It looks like shit, just like it always does." He jokes, but suddenly feels his own stomach start to knot up.
The door suddenly opens and out steps a beaming dark girl. "Chad!" Taylor exclaims and throws her arms around Chad's neck. Troy suddenly feels extremely awkward as they hang onto each other like their lives depended on it. He scratches the back of his neck and tries to look anywhere but at them. They finally let go and Taylor turns to Troy with a smile on her face. "Troy! You came too!"
He could suddenly feel Taylor's arms around his neck in a friendly hug. Troy hugs her back and then lets go over her quickly, with a lot less shorter hug that Chad had. She smiles back at both of them and opens the door further to them. "Come on in!"
Chad walks in immediately but Troy suddenly feels his breath catch in his throat. What if she thought he was a stalker or something? But then again, he could just use the excuse that he came with his best friend. Yea, that would be ok...right? Troy finally takes a couple steps forward into the room and Taylor shuts the door behind him. He walks into the room to see that a brunette was sitting on one of the beds, looking down at a magazine. Her hair was slightly wet and was hanging in her face, telling Troy that she probably just came out of the shower. Taylor finally walks towards the gorgeous figure as she doesn't make any movement. "Chad..." Taylor says as the girl's gorgeous head looks up at Troy swears he was looking into heaven itself. She doesn't seem to notice he was in the room but looks up at his best friend instead. "You remember..."
"Gabriella right?" Chad finishes and Troy suddenly feels his heart skip a beat. Gabriella. That just rolled off the tongue perfectly. Gabriella. He just wanted to keep saying her name. Gabriella. It was his new favorite name.
"Yea." The girl says in her perfect voice and Troy was pretty sure he heard angels sing. "I recognized the hair." She says in a joking matter and Chad laughs.
"Most people do." Chad says and then Taylor turns to him.
"And I don't think you guys have met." Taylor says and Gabriella's deep brown eyes suddenly lock on the piercing blue. They become wide as she stares at him in shock, just like they had when he discovered her at the studio. "Brie, this is Troy Bolton... Troy this is..."
"Gabriella?" Troy asks with a cocky smirk on that he successfully discovered what her name was. "I like it..." He says out loud and Chad and Taylor give them a really confused look.
Gabriella suddenly smirks at him. "I never asked if you liked it."
Troy smirks back at her. "Well, it doesn't matter. It's about damn time I learned it."
Chad suddenly looks between the two like a tennis match was happening. "Do you two know each other or something?"
Troy suddenly finds himself laughing, and he could hear Gabriella's sweet laugh coming from her perfect lips as well. He could get used to that laugh, even though this was the third time of seeing her. "I saw Troy in the studio." Gabriella explains and places a long, wet, curly strand of hair behind her ear.
"Oh." Taylor responds, but still had a confused look on her face. Troy couldn't help but not take his eyes off the girl who was now standing up. He took her body in fully. The way her short black athletic shorts lay on her perfectly curved hips. The way her flat stomach showed through her turquoise tank top and he swears he could see ab lines. The way he could see her bellybutton ring outline show through her top. His eyes look at her chest, which seemed to be the perfect size for Troy. Not huge, but also not small. But he suddenly sees a hand wave in front of his face and he quickly blinks and looks at the owner who was standing next to him.
"Dude, what do you think?" Chad asks and Troy shakes his head to bring himself out of his daydream again.
Troy nervously scratches the back of his head. "Err... sorry... What'd you say?" Troy says, hoping that no one noticed Troy was too busy checking Gabriella out to notice anyone else. God... he loved her name!
"Dinner. At the hotel... now?" Chad asks and Troy finally nods.
"Oh... right. Yea sounds good." He says and Gabriella walks towards her drawers, Troy staring at her in the process.
"Just let me change." She says and pulls clothes out. Troy secretly prays that she'd get changed in here, but she walks towards the bathroom. "I'll be right out."
The door shuts and Chad turns to Taylor. "She seems nice." He says and Taylor nods with a smile on her face.
"She is. And totally down to earth too." She replies and Troy feels himself smile. "What?"
He shrugs. "Nothing." He says and sits down on the bed that Gabriella was just occupying. He had a lazy smile on his face that he couldn't seem to get off. Gabriella. He loved it. He just wanted to keep saying it over and over again. "What's her last name?"
"Montez." Taylor responds and Troy feels his smile continue to stay on his face. Gabriella Montez, it seemed to roll off the tongue just perfectly. "What's that look?" She asks and Troy snaps out of his daydream once again.
"What look?" Troy asks and Taylor rolls her eyes.
"That look." She points to his face where he still had his grin pasted on. Chad looks down at him and smirks.
"You think she's hot." Chad exclaims. Troy suddenly feels a small blush erupt on his cheeks and he shrugs. Why deny it?
"Yea... whatever." He says Taylor rolls her eyes.
"Don't get any ideas. Brie's not like that alright?" She says and shakes her head. "She's not going to worship you like everyone else does."
Troy shrugs again. Maybe that's what he wanted. Maybe he was just really sick of girls drooling over him just because he was 'Troy Bolton'. Maybe for once he wanted a girl who would like him for being Troy, and not for being the perfect basketball god. But was he going to admit that to anyone? Of course not. He had a reputation to maintain. "Whatever. Who said I was interested anyways?"
With that, the bathroom door suddenly opens and Troy looks up. He tries not to let his jaw drop. She looked stunning, even though she wasn't dressed up at all. She was wearing a pink tube top that was long and fell over her light ripped jeans. She had white flip flops to match and her hair was pulled into a half ponytail, letting the strands curl tighter then when he saw her at the studio. She turns to them and flashes a small smile. "Are we ready to go?"
"Yea let's go." Taylor says and the two girls link arms and begin to walk out of the room, with the guys following. A smirk forms on Troy's face as he watches Gabriella hips sway perfectly. Gabriella Montez. He loved her name.
"Gracias." Gabriella says as one of the waiters sets down a plate of two chicken burritos in front of her. She was starving. Even though they gave the girls a huge lunch, dancing all afternoon and going for a run made her work off everything that she had eaten that day. Saying she was hungry was defiantly an understatement. Her hands grab the one of the two wraps and she suddenly shoves it into her mouth, immediately feeling a little more satisfied then before.
"You look like me!" Chad exclaims with a mouth full of his taco. Gabriella giggles as a little bit of lettuce falls out of his mouth and onto his plate.
"Chad is obsessed with food." Taylor explains and has a bite of her salad. They were eating in a restaurant that was located outside, near the fence that separated the pool area from the beach. There were white statues located around them with what looked like vines wrapped around the statues.
"Well... yea." Chad says, swallowing his taco basically all in one bite. Gabriella giggles a little and suddenly, the deep brown eyes connect with the piercing blue.
There was something about Troy that made her not want to take her eyes off him. He was cocky, but in a way it worked for him. After the half hour that they waited for their food, Gabriella found out a lot about him. Like, he had never moved in his life, his dad was the basketball coach, and he loved Mexican food. He was charming, in a way, but it wasn't an innocent charming. It was strange, but she didn't want to take her eyes off him. And she wanted to know more about him. But that was just because he was so interesting... right?
"So... how's the camp after the first day?" Taylor asks and Gabriella watches as Chad lets out a dramatic breath.
"Awful. I don't think I've ever run so hard in my life." He exclaims and Troy rolls his eyes.
"Dude... you run the two hundred in track. That's really sad." Troy says and looks at Gabriella, giving her a small smile. "It's not that bad."
"You run track?" Gabriella asks and Chad nods, finishing up the last of his taco.
"Yea. Same with Mr. Take-third-in-state-in-the-400 over here." Chad says, patting Troy on the back.
"And you say I'm cocky. You're the one who fucking brags for me!" Troy says looking at his best friend and smirking. Gabriella giggles a little.
"So you must be Mr. Athlete." Gabriella says and smiles as Troy's eyes connect with hers again.
Troy smirks back. "You could say that."
Taylor rolls her eyes as Gabriella rips hers away from the piercing blue. She takes a sip of her drink and tries not to blush as she could feel Troy's eyes still on her. "Have you guys taken her out to El Calor yet?" Chad asks.
Gabriella feels her eyebrows rise again. What was El Calor? But Taylor shakes her head. "Chad... she's only been here less then two days!" She exclaims and throws her hands up in a dramatic way.
Chad shrugs. "Well... we should take her out there this weekend." He says and Gabriella looks between all of them.
"What the hell is El Calor?" Gabriella asks and her eyes lock to see Troy's eyes were glued on her with an excited look on his face.
"It's a club." Taylor explains and takes a sip on her water that was sitting on the table. "There are a lot of them down here, but this is defiantly the best one."
A small smile forms on Gabriella's face. She loved clubs. Anywhere where she could dance, basically she loved. Her eyes look up again to see that Troy was still staring at her. But it wasn't a creepy stalker stare. It was one of those stares that she liked. One of the ones that made her blush. "Sounds like fun."
Taylor nods." It is. You'll like it. I know you will." She says and takes another sip of water. "We'll go on Saturday."
"Hey... I'm coming too." Chad says and Taylor gives him a flirtatious smile.
"What if I don't want you there?" She asks and Gabriella knew immediately that they were flirting. She looks back and forth between the two. They would look adorable together.
"You know you would have fun without me." Chad says and Gabriella's eyes suddenly lock onto Troy's, who was laughing a little but smiling at her. They both seemed to be thinking the same thing and talking to each other with their eyes. The two were adorable.
"Shar and Zeke will want to come too." Taylor says and Troy rolls his eyes.
"Both teams are gonna end up there." He says and takes a sip of his beer, and Gabriella was pretty sure that he and Chad were both seventeen, but still managed to get alcohol because no one seemed to check here in Mexico. "It's Amber's favorite place."
Gabriella's eyes suddenly shoot up. Troy knew Amber? Well of course he did! They did go to the same school. But for some reason this made Gabriella uneasy. She didn't even know why, but it just did. But then that also made Gabriella sudden think. Did Troy have a girlfriend? Well... it shouldn't matter if he did. She did just meet the guy. But something about them clicked. She found herself desperately wishing that he didn't have a girlfriend.
"Yeah. Amber's gonna be all over that." Taylor says and shakes her head. "Shar will be pissed."
Gabriella suddenly wonders. Why did Sharpay and Amber hate each other? Well, she wasn't sure that Amber hate Sharpay, but the blonde gave Gabriella the impression that she really didn't like her co-captain. And it wasn't that Gabriella didn't like Amber, she just didn't know what to make of her. "Whatever... She's just gonna have to get over it." Troy says and takes another sip of beer.
There were so many questions circling around Gabriella's head. So many things that were unanswered. But she would probably find out about everything in time, she just had to be patient. Gabriella suddenly feels her pocket start to vibrate. She assumes it's her mom, even though she just talked to her a few hours ago. But she pulls out the phone and looks down at the caller id, with her eyes growing wide. She feels her eyes narrow a little as she shakes her head and puts her phone back into her pocket, letting it vibrate against her leg but not wanting to answer it. Anger was staring to rush through her system, but she tries her best to kill it. She never wanted to answer to that number again.
Her eyes look up to see Troy's staring back at her with a smirk. "Miss. Popular?" He says with a smirk as Gabriella rolls her eyes.
"It wasn't important." She says and Troy chuckles.
"So you screen your calls." He says and takes another sip of beer. "You'd better not do that to me." He says and Gabriella rolls her eyes.
"Who said I'd give you my number?" She asks and Troy smirks at her again.
"We're not playing this game again. Cuz you know I'd win." He says, referring to her not telling him her name before. Gabriella smiles and takes a sip of her water.
"I'm always up for a challenge." She says with a smirk. Both continue to stare and smile at each other while the other two teenagers look at each other with confused looks on their faces. Gabriella then finally rips her eyes away from Troy's when she hears her phone beep. She looks down at it, her eyes narrowing even more.
One missed call: Jose Montez
She angrily deletes the missed call and looks back up at Troy, trying not to think about her past that caused her so much pain. Her dad.
A/N: I'm sorry the chapters aren't really exciting right now, but hopefully they'll get better soon. Anyways, thanks for reading and reviewing. I love you guys!