Chapter 5: Not so new neighbors

"Troy!" Maria yelled for the third time.

"Yeah?" he said. As if he didn't hear her.

"What in the world were you doing up there? I called you four times."

"Technically you only called me three times but who's counting? Oh yeah MEEE!"

Troy said "me" in a little kid voice.

He heard laughing coming from behind him and he spun around quickly to see the most beautiful girl.

"Troy," his mother began to tell him," I'd like you to meet or remeet Gabriella Montez. Gabriella this is Troy."

"Um… hi again" Troy nervously said.

"Hi," Bella said looking down at her blackberry.

"Oh my gosh!" Bella's Mom exclaimed causing Troy to jump 3 feet in the air.

"You've grown so much!" she said looking at Troy. "Gabriella! Put that away this instant!"

"Si Mama" She replied. (Translation: Yes Mama)

"Gracias hija" (Translation: Thank You Daughter)

"De nada" (Translation: You're Welcome)

"WOW!" Maria exclaimed. "I never knew you could speak Spanish!"

"Oh yes. Our family is originally from Puerto Rico. It is an interesting story actually…"

Troy tuned her out and just thought about the brown-eyed beauty before him. Wow Troy thought. I can't believe that that's Bella. She looks a lot different than in the pictures. Wow! I can't believe that we were friends it just…

"TROY!" His mother called him.

"Hmm?" he asked.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah"

"Ok. Well why don't you take Bella upstairs so you can catch up?"

"Ooookkaaay?" he said..

Bella and Troy walked up the stairs and into his room. Bella sat on the bed and Troy sat across from her.

"So…" he said.

"So…" she repeated.

"How's life been treating ya?"

"Ok, depends. You?"

"Horribly"

"Why?"

"Well ever since I can remember my mom has been depressed. That is until I came home from school one day and I found out that my mom got promoted to here. She was ecstatic. She was jumping off walls. I was sure she was gonna pass out soon. Then a few hours later she stopped and I went downstairs to check on her then she told me about you. And that's how we got here." Troy explained.

"Interesting. Well what about your friends," Gabby asked.

"Well I had two good friends. Trey and Claudia."

"Oh. What were they like?"

"Trey is a gossiper. Even more than the cheerleaders."

"I find that hard to believe."

"It's true. He can get soo annoying!"

Gabby giggled.

"And Claudia… well she's more of the adventurous type. She loves to go mountain climbing and rock climbing and a bunch of other stuff."

"Sounds pretty cool"

"What about your friends?"

"Well…"

Author's Note

Please…..please…..PLEASE don't hate me! I know it's been over a year since I've updated but my life's been pretty hectic. I know that's no excuse, but if I still have any readers out there who are willing to give me another chance I would be sooooooooooo grateful. To make up for my absence I am going to try to post the next 3 or so chapters this week. I'm not exactly sure how that's going to work because I'm going to school tomorrow after a long winter break. Leave a review with your opinion in it and feel free to virtually pie me.

Love,

Jclover651