Spinner looked at her weird, uh creepy new girl eh? "Did I uh do something?"
Gabriella sneered at him, "Yeah actually you did, you're the drug dealer who got Derek Venturi hooked" she was still stepping back, she didn't know what he was capable of doing.
Spinner had a shocked looked on his face, "Woah Derek, you know…him? How is he?"
Gabriella chuckled, "Better than ever, he's in love with a wonderful girl and is finally seeing things better WITHOUT the drugs" she made sure she made the "without" part bolded to show what an idiot he was.
Spinner smiled to himself, Good kid he was, "Aw man that's good, I haven't seen him in forever well since I've been clean"
"Oh…" Gabriella looked down, feeling awkward for judging him.
Spinner smiled at her, "Hey, people judge me all the time, I don't take any offense don't worry"
She laughed a little "Sorry…"
He smiled, "C'mon lets get to class" he started to walk, Gabriella following.
As they walked down the hall Spinner ended silence, "So whose Derek so in love with?" he chuckled.
Gabriella gave him a weird look, "Casey Macdonald, why?"
"HIS STEP-SISTER?! Woah…" he stopped and looked at Gabriella with a disgust face.
Gabriella started to get a bit mad, "Hence the word step? It's not like they're blood related, they started to get close and it just happened. You can't control who you fall for…" she found herself pondering about Troy, she continued, "whether it's the star of the basketball team, whose known to be a player and says he's changing for you but than you find out he and your best friend have been too friendly and-"
Spinner interrupted her, "Are we a little angry?" he laughed.
She smiled shyly, "Eh…long story. But still, Casey and Derek are adorable and its all because of some party last week with a guy named Sam and Derek rescued Casey" she smiled, "Romantic eh?"
They started to walk into a classroom, Spinner responded. "I guess romantic can be with your sister?" he laughed as Gabriella hit him.
"STEP!" she pushed him a bit. The teacher looked at them and told them to sit down and take out their books. Gabriella felt her phone vibrate twice indicating text messages were received. Who the hell.., she slowly took out her phone underneath her binder so no one could see her phone. She clicked "Open" on the screen and read the first message.
From: Casey Macdonald 8:02 am
"Hey girl! We miss you EXTREMELY! Hope you have a wonderful first day in NYC =) talk to you later, love you! -Case, Derek, Miley and Nick."
Aww I love them, She smiled to herself than quickly clicked onto the next message and felt her heart drop.
From: Sharpay Evans 8:03 am
"Words can't even explain right now, no joke. We miss you more than anything; it's not the same without you. Have an amazing first day, we know you will. We love you, always and forever. Love Sharpay & Troy 3"
Gabriella fought the tears coming to her eyes, she quickly texted back Casey, Derek, Miley and Nick "Thanks" and just stared at Sharpay and Troy's text. What could she possibly say back, their facebook pictures said it all. She was stupid to think that nothing never went on between them before she came, considering she was the most prettiest and popular girl at East High and he was the most popular boy, and best looking. They were meant for each other, at least that's what most people thought. Gabriella smiled to herself remembering the day they had told her she changed the school; Sharpay was no longer the ice queen, and Troy no longer the player. Gabriella looked at her phone screen and chose to "Reply" back. She quickly typed in on the phone keyboard, "Some love? Nice facebook pictures btw…." She shut her phone and shoved it back in her pocket. She was angry, she knew why. Her first love and best friend had backstabbed her.
Sharpay looked down at the text message, and looked up. "Troy…she saw the picture" her face looked frozen, as if someone close had just died.
Troy sighed and put his hand into his pocket, "Where do we go from here?"
Sharpay felt a tear trickle down her cheek, as she was sitting, leaning against the wall in the hallway. Troy slid down beside her and put his arm around her, "Hey…it will be okay… I promise" he kissed the top of her head as she cried.
Six hours later, school had ended and they all went home to their separate ways, besides Casey and Derek. School had become strangly busy, giving no time for any of them to talk to each other about anything that was going on. They all kept to themselves. A few weeks later everyone had really stayed apart. Casey had oddly had many mood swings come along, so they all tried to stay on her good side including Derek. Sharpay and Troy hardly spoke to each other, nor Gabriella except for one night on the phone when Sharpay and Gabriella fought and ended their friendship. Alex and Nick texted each other a lot, Miley leaving Nick's house wondering who he's always texting, Derek had gotten back together with his old band but without Sam this time and they had started to play at gigs again.
Casey walked into the room, she was angry at Lizzie who had thought she saw Derek and her hugging. Yeah it was the truth but they couldn't let anyone know right? Screw this, she threw her phone across the room, she hated being secretive about everything and specially keeping things from her mom. Derek had come into her room and sat next to her on her bed. He held her and looked at her, "What's wrong lately?"
She gave him a weird look, "What the heck are you talking about?"
He looked into her eyes, "Case, you've been extremely moody"
She smiled, "No I haven't!" she laughed. "I just get mad easily lately? I don't know"
Derek sighed, that was just another mood swing why is that happening? "Alright Case…whatever you say" he kissed her which led to them makingout.
Nora by that time had walked upstairs and saw that Casey's door was closed. She knocked on it, "Casey, you okay?" Casey and Derek both jumped and quickly moved away from each other, Derek looked around for a place to hide.
"Yeah mom just a second….!" She pointed to her closet, and pushed Derek in.
Nora swung the door open, "What's going on honey?" she looked suspiciously at Casey.
Casey smiled shyly, "Oh nothing…just…putting clothes away!" good excuse...not
Nora smiled, "Alright well dinner's going to be ready soon so wash up" she turned around and closed the door while walking out. Derek got out of the closet and sighed, "Close One?"
"Extremely" Casey covered her face with her hands and sat down on the bed why do I have a headache?
Derek sat down next to her, "How long do you think we can keep this up?"
"I don't know okay?" Casey's voice had tension in it.
"Case whats-" he stopped his sentence, "Wait are you having second thoughts?" what the hell casey
Casey snapped back at him, "Second thoughts?" what is he on?
"Yeah, second thoughts about us!?" he looked stern and couldn't believe he was asking that.
"Um okay when did I say that?" she knew their first argument of being a couple was coming.
"Well you're all nice and sweet one second than the next you're all angry at me?" he knew something was up.
"I can't help it Derek, I'm probably getting my period soon so my hormones are off?" she questioned herself and him by saying that, That's gotta be it right?
"I know…" he settled back down, "I love you". He said it for the first time, they looked at each other shocked.
Casey slowly looked up from the ground and stared at him, he loves me? He said he loves me! Didn't he?, "You love….me?"
Derek felt like a ghost, did he actually really just say that to a girl….and specially to Casey?! He slowly nodded, "I do… I just said it so I obviously do…love you."
Casey smiled shyly, inside she was screaming happily but she didn't want to show it, she wanted to be calm. "I love you too"
Derek smiled, Score D. He slowly leaned and…
"DINNER!" Nora called from downstairs.
