Troyces

by wildcats789

Troy had been looking forward to the callbacks for weeks, when suddenly a very important basketball game is scheduled for the same time as the callbacks, leaving Troy with a very important choice to make. Will he follow his heart and do the callbacks or succumb to peer pressure and do the basketball game?

4. Chapter 4

CHAPTER FOUR

RING! The bell rang signalling the end of lunchtime and Troy groaned. He was going to have to avoid Chad for the whole of homeroom and the whole afternoon. Gabriella looked at him and smiled.

"Scared?" she asked him, half laughing at his obvious discomfort.

"NO," he replied. "I'm just…afraid," he finished honestly, demonstrating yet again Gabriella's ability to gain Troy's trust so easily. She smiled at him.

"Don't worry about it," she told him, and suddenly Troy knew exactly what Gabriella's wise mum would have said, had she have been here.

"What will come, will come, and you can face it when it does." Troy could almost hear Mrs Montez's wise gentle voice in his head.

"Come on, Troy! Let's go!" Gabriella called out to him and, with a start, Troy realised that Kate had already left. Gabriella took his hand and led him out of the room. Troy almost smiled. With Gabriella, nothing could keep him worried for long.

When they got to homeroom, smiling was the last thing Troy felt like doing when he saw Chad glaring and glowering in his direction. However, he plastered a smile on his face and talked to Gabriella about nothing in particular for the whole of homeroom. As soon as the bell went, Troy dropped to the floor, oblivious of Gabriella laughing at his attempts to be a spy. Chad looked around, completely bewildered, and went out of the door, assuming that Troy had managed to sneak out without him noticing.

Troy sighed with relief and jumped up, brushing himself down, as Gabriella rolled her eyes.

"Was that all really necessary?" she asked, half in amusement and half in disbelief.

"I've had to do worse," Troy muttered under his breath, remembering when he was in third grade playing hide and seek with Chad and camouflaged himself in what he thought was mud but turned out to be fox poo.

"I don't want to know!" Gabriella laughed. "Now, come on Troy, the second bell's gone already and we're going to get a late!"

Troy smiled at Gabriella's geekiness but made his way to geometry where, thankfully, Chad wasn't in his class.

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