I'm...BACK! With the newest chapter of 'Love Me Or Hate Me,' a drama. Look for it on GABBIEnet Mondays, at 8/7 central. Haha, just kidding. I'm hilaaaarious!! HEHE!!

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BaByVanessa093 for her liking of Gabriella's mind. LOL.

"Hello?" Gabriella said into the receiver.

"Gabby?" came a masculine voice from the other end.

"Yeah, who is this?"

"Um, it's Troy," Troy said. Gabriella was about to lash out and insult him for calling her, but held it in, remembering the promise she made to herself.

"Oh, hi," she replied.

"Hi, um, I was wondering..." Troy began. Oh, Jesus, Gabriella thought. He was going to ask her out, and she hadn't planned an appropriate rejection excuse yet.

"Listen, if your trying to..." Gabriella began, trying to change his mind.

"Don't worry, Gabriella, I'm not gonna ask you out," Troy said, almost as if reading her mind. Gabriella was thankful he couldn't see her bright blush.

"Oh, well, I wasn't..." she said.

"I was wondering if you could tutor me in algebra II," Troy said, hopefully. He honestly needed help in Algebra, his grade was bordering on a C minus, and anything lower than a C minus meant he was off the basketball team.

"Oh, well, I don't know if I could..." she began, unsure of the subject.

"Seriously, Forges recommended you and this McKessie girl; I think she's Chad's girlfriend; and I didn't really want to interrupt Chad-Taylor time," Troy chuckled, pleading. Gabriella sighed. Who knows, maybe she could see another side of Troy Bolton.

"Oh, well, I guess I could," she said, giggling at his comment. She suddenly stopped laughing, realizing what she had just done.

"Alright, well, when can we meet up?" he asked, interrupting her thoughts.

"I don't know, maybe Monday, Wednesday, Friday after school?" she asked.

"Sorry, I have basketball," he replied, sounding slightly disappointed, "but I can do tomorrow." Gabriella looked at her calender. Today was October 1st, being a Friday. He seriously wanted to meet on a Saturday? She sighed again, figuring if they didn't meet tomorrow, they wouldn't meet at all.

"Yeah, whatever, what time?" she asked, absent-mindedly twirling her hair around her finger, an action she only did when she was enjoying the conversation.

"Hm, well, I don't usually wake up until like ten, so what about 11?" he asked.

"Wow, you wake up late," she commented with a giggle. He chuckled.

"Yeah, all this basketball wears me out," he replied. She smiled dreamily.

"Haha, alright, 11's fine," she said, laying on her bed on her stomach.

"Okay," he said in his smooth, dreamy voice.

"Okay," she replied awkwardly.

"Bye," he said with a nervous chuckle.

"Bye, see you tomorrow," she replied, pressing the red 'end' button her her phone. She rolled over onto her back and sighed heavily. What had she just done? She had willingly agreed to tutor Troy Bolton? The guy who had been coming on to her since freshman year. Come to think of it, in middle school, they had actually been pretty good friends. But that was in the past. Gabriella shook her head of those thoughts and changed into her pajamas. She glanced at the clock; 8:15. She shuffled down the stairs into the living room and sat down with her mother.

"Who was on the phone, mija?" Maria asked, flipping through a 'Lucky' magazine.

Gabriella waved her hand, "oh, just this guy who wanted me to tutor him," she replied. Maria looked up from her magazine.

"A guy? What guy? I know all of them," Maria said. It was true. Maria was the student activities coordinator at East High, and she managed all of the lists of students in each club or team.

"Oh, just, um, Troy Bolton," Gabriella replied. Maria smiled.

"Troy Bolton...really?" Maria asked. Gabby nodded, "mmm, if I was seventeen, I'd totally want to date that hunk." Gabriella made a gagging sound.

"Mom, please, one, he's not a hunk, two, I hate him, and three, he's the one who poured paint on me in freshman year," Gabriella said, pressing random buttons on the remote control.

"Oooh, that was Troy? I thought that was Marc Sanders?" Maria asked, confused. Gabriella thought back to the day...

Flashback

"Alright, Bolton, paint the whole banner red, please," Mr. Kaine said, pointing to a hanging banner.

"Ugh, remind me again why we hung this up before we painted it?" Troy asked, swishing the paintbrush back and forth.

"Because, Mr. Bolton, It didn't have enough color!" Mr. Kaine said, throwing his hands in the air. He looked over to see Marc Sanders hanging around in the corner.

"Sanders! Get over here, help Bolton out with this sign," Mr. Kaine said, pointing to the stepladder. Marc walked over coolly and climbed up the side of the ladder.

"Bolton," he said, rolling his eyes, and sticking an extra paintbrush in the container of red paint.

"Sanders," Troy said, not looking away from the banner.

"That's nice, Montez, keep up the good work," Mr. Kaine said, motioning to the banner in front of Gabriella. Gabriella smiled proudly and continued painting.

As Marc turned to look down at Gabriella's work of art, he flung his arms, knocking the container of red paint right onto Gabriella's head.

"Oops," Marc said, climbing down quickly from the ladder.

Gabriella screamed loudly as the surrounding students began to laugh, hard. Gabriella's head shot up to the top of the step ladder where Troy stood.

"Bolton did it!" Marc said, between laughs, pointing up to Troy. Troy put his hands out in front of him, shaking his head.

"Troy Bolton, I hate you!" she said, as she stomped off, shielding her face from the crowd as tears slid down her face.

End Flashback

"You know what? It was Marc Sanders!" Gabriella said, standing up.

"But he is a hunk, isn't he?" Maria said, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Ew, Mom, no!" Gabriella said, hurrying up to her room and turning on the computer. She logged onto her AIM account and IMed Sharpay, urgently.

GsMontez.x: SHARPAY!!
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: GABBY!!
GsMontez.x: OMG I have to tell you something!!
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: Ok, what?
GsMontez.x: You know how Troy poured paint on me in freshman year
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: Yeahh...
GsMontez.x: It wasn't him! It was Marc Sanders!!
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: OMG yeah it was!
GsMontez.x: do you know what this means??
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: that...we can go shopping to celebrate?
GsMontez.x: NO! I don't have to hate Troy anymore!!
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: YAY!
GsMontez.x: and things won't be awkward when I tutor him tomorrow!!
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: ...your tutoring him tomorrow?
GsMontez.x: YES!!
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: wow, you seem excited.
GsMontez.x:Yeah, I guess I am cuz I get a friend back.
PiNKPRiNCESSxox: Ooh! YAY. G2G, I have to pick up my car from Toolies, it's getting a now paint job. Bye!
PiNKPRiNCESSxox has logged off.

Gabriella put up her away message, 'doing stuff that's not this,' and sat down on her bed and opened her covers, climbed in, turned off the light, and drifted off into a deep, soothing sleep, knowing that tomorrow would be a very different, yet pleasant day.

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