The next day Troy woke up to a knocking at his door.

"Troy, honey wake up." said his mother in a soft voice.

"Mhhmmmmm. Mom what do you wanannt." He whined as he rolled over and pulled the pillow over his head. "It's Saturday."

"I know, but we promised Gabriella we would take her and get her a car-"

Troy sat up quickly in his bed and cut his mother off.

"Your getting her a car!!" He yelled shocked. "How long is she going to be here anyway?"

"Troy, she's here with is forever, she's part of our family now."

"WHAT!? How come no one told me this!"

She sighed. "Troy we did you just wern't listening. Now as I was saying, we promised her we would get her a car but the two of us got called into work and I-We were hoping you would take her to get one."

Troy threw the sheets over his head and lied back down in the bed.

"No." He said stubbornly.

"TROY ALEXZANDER BOLTON!! You get your but out of that bed right now! And if you don't do this for us you will be grounded!!" And with that she slammed his bedroom door.

He sighed and got out of the bed and walked to the bathroom to take a nice hot shower.

Meanwhile with Gabriella in her room. She was already up, showered and dressed now sitting at her vanity applying make-up to her face. When there was a knock on the door.

"Gabriella, it's Lucille can I come in?" She asked cheerfully.

She smiled. "Yes."

Marie came inside and spotted her across the room and walked over to her.

"Good mourning Lucille." She said as she turned around in her chair to face her.

Lucille smiled at what such manners that she had.

"Morning." She said as she sat down on Gabriella's already made bed. "I have some news for you."

Gabriella's face fell remembering the last time someone said that to her.

"Oh no it's good news."

She sighed of relief. "So what is it than?"

"Well instead of Jack and I taking you to get your car Troy is going to take you. We would of loved taking you but we both got called into work." She explained.

"It's ok. Don't worry about it."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm positive. I'm sure he knows more about car's than I do anyway."

"Wonderful. Well he's getting ready now so he'll come find you when your ready to go." Lucille said as she looked at her watch. "Now I have to get going or I'll be late for work."

The both got up and surprisingly Lucille grabbed Gabriella into a hug. pulling back Lucille shakes her head."It's shocking how your so much like your mother. You have her looks and personality." Gabriella smiles at that. Glad a part of her mother could live on. "Nothing like your father."

She frowned. "Thank the lord for that." Lucille gave her sympathetic smile and walked out of her room.

Gabriella sighed and sat back down and took off her mothers locket, opened it and looked at the picture of her and her mother. Thinking of how great it was before she died. When suddenly she was interrupted from her thoughts as Troy barged into her room.

"Knock much?"

"Come on let's just get this over with I got things to do. people to see, girl's to fuck." Gabriella just rolled her eyes and put back on her locket and walked out of her room.

10 minutes later they were in Troy's black Lamborghini speeding down the road.

"So what car do you want?"

"My dream car." She said smiling.

"And that would be??' He asked rudely.

"A red convertible mustang."

Troy nodded. "Nice car." He said as he pulled into the car's dealership. "Now let's go get you your dream car."

About 40 minutes later Gabriella was cruising down the road with her hair blowing in the wind. She had the top down and her favourite song blasting through the stereo singing along.

"I'm going to CaliforniaGoing to live the lifeSippin on tequilaNight after nightDreaming of the moment when everything is rightA little bit of love goes a longWay tonight"

She laughed as she threw one arm up in the air with the other on the steering wheel as she danced in her car. Feeling such happiness she haven't felt in a long time. Just to throw her head back and have some fun.

In front of her Troy was driving, because she didn't know the way back to the house. When he heard the music he glanced in his rear view mirror and saw her dancing around in her car and laughed to him self.

"It's never going to be boring with her around." He said shaking his head and laughing at her.

When they got home Troy went out to meet his friend's. Gabriella, home alone, decided to unpack all of her things, with nothing better to do. Sunday her and Lucille went shopping for clothes, school supply's and a few other thing's that she needed.

Now it is Monday morning and the two teens are getting ready for school. Gabriella was in her room curling her hair as Troy was in the shower, just getting up. After a while of going through all of her clothes Gabriella finally decided on a beige flowing skirt that comes up past her knee, a dark pink halter top with a very light jean jacket over it, a white pair of open toed sandal heals, a pair of dangly pink butterfly earrings and to top it all off her mothers locket.

While Troy picked out his outfit with ease. He threw on a pair of dark jeans a polo with the collar flicked up and a pair of worn out sandals.

They both met out in the hallway making there way downstairs for breakfast. Troy looked her up and down with a sly smirk on his face.

"Damn girl, I bet you're a awesome lay." He said while looking her up and down once more until finally resting on her face.

Instead of putting on a disgusted face and yelling at him Gabriella decided to fight back and have a little fun. She gave him a sexy grin and walked closer to him and lightly laid her hand on his chest and leaned her head into him. Troy puckered his lips and started to lean into but instead of feeling a kiss her felt her breath on his ear as she said.

"You'll never find out." She pulled back and looked at his disoriented face, smiled, turned around and swaggered down the hall way. Gabriella had no clue where the new confidence came from but she liked it. She went down stairs to grab some breakfast as Troy was still upstairs standing in the same spot. He never seen that side of her before. He took off downstairs to find her in the kitchen getting a bottle of water and a apple out of the fridge.

"What the hell was that!?" Exclaimed Troy.

"Oh calm down don't go getting your panties in a bunch." She said with a eye roll.

He walked close to her until their noses were just about touching with his face full of anger, confusion, frustration and annoyance.

"Listen. Nobody and I mean nobody screws with me. Got It!" He said almost yelling.

She quickly nodded her head. Her confidence going right down the toilet as Troy stormed out of the house and slammed the door.

Gabriella walked out of the principles office of her new school with a map, school schedule, etc. She was walking down the hallway when she bumped into a group of friends walking down the hallway.

"Oh I'm sorry I should have been watching where I was going." Gabriella said sweetly trying not to get in trouble her first day.

"Hey no worries little lady." Said an African American boy with brown bushy hair. He had dark brown intense eyes.

A girl standing next time him rolled her eyes and smacked him upside the head.

"Chad would you shut up." Said a tall Blond head with light blue eyes. She was slim like Gabriella but taller.

Gabriella laughed at the sight of them and smiled.

"I'm Gabriella. I'm new here."

"Oh well let me introduce you to my friends here." said Chad the bushy haired boy. "Well let's start with me cuzz I'm the most important." He said proudly. "I'm Chad Danforth."

The blond spoke up after him.

"And I'm Sharpay Evens. And these two over here are Ryan Evens, my brother and Taylor McKessie." She said pointing over to a Caucasian boy with blond wings, blue eyes and average height. His built was ok but not better than Troy's. The Girl was African American who had black long hair that came down to her waist, with dark brown eye's, she was a small girl short and slim.

"Nice to meet you all."

"Who's your homeroom teacher?" Asked Taylor.

Violet looked down at her paper.

"Umm it's Ms. Darbus."

"That's our homeroom we'll walk you." Said Sharpay enthusiastically.

Gabriella laughed and nodded as they started to walk down the hall way.

"So where did you live before you came here?" Asked Ryan.

" A town called Silver Lake. It's in Canada."

"Cool." They all said in unison.

They all made it into the homeroom and took seats and started talking asking Gabriella some questions about her home town and stuff like that when the all heard a voice from behind them.

"Hey guy's sorry I'm late I took a little drive before I came."

"Oh hey Troy come meet our new friend." Said Chad.

Troy walked over to the group and his face fell.

"Hell no!"

Chad gave him a puzzled look.

"Dude what's wrong?"

"She is what's wrong!" Troy said while pointing at Gabriella.

"Well hello to you to Troy." Gabriella said.

"Wait, you guy's know each other?" Taylor asked confused.

"That's the girl that moved into my house."

"Oh that's great! Gabriella how about you eat lunch with us then?" Sharpay said more of a statement than a question.

"Sure." Gabriella replied happily.

Troy was just about to protest when Ms. Darbus came in and told everyone to take their seats.

Gabriella got to her first three classes with ease because she had her new friend's helping her find them all. And soon it was lunch and the gang and Violet where sitting at a lunch table talking about there plans for the weekend. Even though it was only Monday they wanted something to look forward to.

"Ok so we going clubbing Friday night is a go." Said Ryan.

"Yes it is man it's gonna be totally awesome!!" Chad say's as he laughs. "I can't believe people fall for our fake id's"

"I know!" Ryan quickly replied.

Sharpay rolled her eye's at the two guy's.

"So Gabriella you totally have to come with us Friday." Sharpay asked

"Yes you do!" An excited Chad said.

"But I don't have a fake id to get me in."

"We'll get you one this week. We can take you tomorrow and they'll have it ready in like a day. They take a little extra time to make sure it looks good." Said Taylor.

"Ok then I'm in."

Troy sighed in frustration. He didn't want HER to be a part of his life. He didn't want her hanging around with HIS friends. Why couldn't she make her own friends? Troy was suddenly pulled out of his thought's by Gabriella.

"Hey Troy?"

"What do you want." He answered coldly to Gabriella.

"Well do you think it would be ok with we invite everyone over Saturday to watch a movie or something?"

'What?! She was inviting his friend's over to his house?! And she just moved in Friday. She just met HIS friend's who does she think she is!!'

"Well? Do you think I should ask your parent's first?"

"No it's ok." He said through clenched teeth.

"Ok so you guy's wanna come over Saturday then?"

"Sure!" Everyone replied.

Troy pushed back his chair roughly and stormed out of the cafeteria with steam coming out of his ear's.

Gabriella was shocked by his actions but no one else was.

"What was that?" She asked with curiosity.

"That's just Troy being Troy." Said Chad.

"Yea I've noticed."

"What do you mean?" He asked curiously.

"Oh it's nothing he's just been giving me a hard time lately is all."

Chad just sighed. "Don't let him get to you. He'll come around eventually."

Gabriella just nodded and went back to eating her food and talking to her new friends.