So this is what it had felt like for Troy and his guys. Sixteen minutes left on the clock. Sixteen minutes left to prove that they were the best. Sixteen minutes left to wear the East High jersey. Sixteen minutes left to be a Wildcat.
Jimmy loved it.
He had been naively flattered when at the end of his freshman year, his idol, Troy Bolton, had written in his yearbook Don't break all of my records all at once, Champ! It was while he was in that same naïve state that Jimmy had decided that even if he couldn't break Troy's records all at once, he would at least try to break them all.
However, in the year following Troy's death, Jimmy had come to understand that it didn't what he did, or if he got the highest score. There would never be another Troy Bolton. Not just because of his basketball skills – although he'd had plenty of those – but because Troy had been special, the sort of special that was rare and only came around once in a blue moon. Troy hadn't been afraid to break free of what was considered the acceptable – if sometimes confining – social norm and he had encouraged others to do the same. He had been a friend to everyone, it hadn't mattered who you were.
Now that Jimmy had gotten a few years older and matured a little, he had come to the decision that those were the things in Troy Bolton that he wanted for his own. As he scored the winning basket in the final game, though, Jimmy decided that the basketball prowess wasn't all that bad either.
Please review and make my day! This marks the end of this story, and I will now be trying to focus on my Criminal Minds/iCarly crossover, "When Things Happen." Feel free to check it out! Thanks for all of your support guys, especially ElenaBolton19 and Ceciliaa93.:)