Ok so I deleted my other story because I hated it!! But it's good news for this story because I can concentrate on this one instead of any others. :D
I thought that I have left it long enough for an update so here is the next chapter but since I am in the preparation stage for my exams the next update may be a little while. I'm still thinking through everything that's going to happen!
Well here it is and because I already did a disclaimer on the first chapter I really don't think I should have to do one on every page I mean come on!!
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"Wait; let me get this straight…" Sharpay said sitting up and looking at Gabriella in disbelief. They had enough of swimming and decided to catch the last rays of sun for the day with Taylor joining them. "You expect me to believe that you bashed your air conditioning while…name?"
"Troy" Gabriella replied exasperatedly feeling like a broken record for repeating his name over and over again.
"Right, Troy…while Troy interrupted you and told you that you kept him entertained for the past half hour, which may I add sounds stalkerish!" Sharpay said defiantly
Gabriella just inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly, trying to listen to her best friend's rambling while attempting to relax.
"And then he takes a photo of you? But no not your whole body just your legs in the air?!" Sharpay said at length. "Then fixes your air con, you go all mushy mushy, I like Ryan crap on him even when you just met him and I had to annoy the crap out of you just to find out you liked him! He says your pretty, which pretty much every guy tells you anyway AND after all that…" She inhaled deeply having said that in one breath. "You give him your number?" She finished looking at Gabriella incredulously.
"For the thousandth time: Yes!" Gabriella answered her.
Sharpay sat and stared at the sand that lay between her and Gabby in silence, until she looked back at Gabriella and spoke up. "I still don't get it"
Gabriella was finding her extremely annoying at the moment so she propped herself up on her elbows and laughed incredulously at her. "What's to get?! Yes, he took a photo of only my legs in the air, yes he fixed my air con, yes I told him I liked Ryan, but it was not intentional, and yes I gave him my number! What else is there to understand?" Gabriella asked exasperated.
"Hmm, oh I don't know…" Sharpay said sarcastically "What about, what the hell was going through your head?!"
Gabriella groaned and fell back onto her back. She pressed the heels of her hands into her eyes as if to squeeze her frustration out of her ears.
"Sharpay's got a point Gabs" Taylor spoke up.
Gabriella removed her hands from her eyes and turned her head to face Taylor. "Aww!" She moaned "Not you too!"
"I'm just saying that I haven't heard the full story and what I have heard, well he does sound a little…stalkerish" Taylor said unsure.
Gabby groaned for the millionth time that day and referred to both girls. "Look, just wait until you meet him okay?" She reasoned "Then you'll know why I did what I did"
Taylor shrugged "I guess I can wait."
"But you- -" Sharpay started but was interrupted.
"Just drop it Shar" Gabby told her firmly.
"But- -"
"Come on, Shar you know what went on and, like I said, you're just gonna have to wait."
Sharpay frowned but lay back down in defeat. "Fine, but just remember this has only been dropped not buried!"
"Finally some peace" Gabby said sighing contently. A second later Sharpay's high pitched screams filled the unexpected ears of the poor people occupying the beach.
"Ugh I'm gonna kill you Zeke!!" She screamed. She picked up the seaweed that was thrown on her by the very tips of her fingers and ran down to the water to chase her boyfriend.
"…or not" Taylor confirmed, as Chad, Taylor's boyfriend, came in from the water.
"Hey Babe" Chad said smiling mischievously at her.
Taylor raised her eyebrow at him. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Chad shrugged and smiled innocently "Like what?" He said standing over her dripping wet.
"Like that" She confirmed
"Oh no reason…" He said shrugging and looking away. She accepted it and lay back down, he saw her do that and the smile returned. "…But I was going to do this" He said as he bent down and picked her up against his wet body and started walking towards the water.
"Put me down Chad!!" Taylor screamed
"But then you might get hurt and then I would've broken my promise to you when I first asked you out!" He said innocently while still walking towards the water.
Taylor stopped screaming and looked at Chad "Aww, you're- -" She wasn't able to finish her sentence as he dropped her in the water. She stood up slowly and gave him a death glare.
"What were you saying babe?"
Taylor faked a sweet smile and put on a nice voice. "I was saying babe, that you are so DEAD!!" She yelled as she started to chase him around in the water.
Gabriella watched her friends from afar smiling softly to herself. She jumped though as her phone rang in her bag next to her. She pulled it out and saw it was an unregistered number; she frowned but answered it all the same.
"Hello?"
"Hey Brie" a deep voice replied
Gabriella smiled and knew who it was straight away. "Hey Troy"
"You knew it was me?"
"You are the only one who calls me Brie" She pointed out.
"Oh yeah"
She giggled a little and asked: "So why'd you call?"
"Well I was kinda wondering, because my dad is going to be a teacher at East High and I'm gonna be the new kid, can I take you up on that offer for you to give me a tour around the school tomorrow?" He asked a little bit too nervously.
"Umm sure Troy I can give you the tour but, it'll have to be when school starts back next week" She replied confused.
"But my dad is going in tomorrow so I was gonna go with him to have a look around but I thought I might get lost"
"Ohh, and that's where I come in"
"Yeah" Troy said relieved
Gabriella shrugged. "Sure, I don't see why not. What time are you going tomorrow?"
"Umm, I think at 11 in the morning"
"Okay I'll see you outside the school at 11 tomorrow" She said smiling.
"Okay cool, thank you!" Troy replied appreciatively.
She giggled a little at his thanks "It's ok. I'm sure being the new kid will be hard."
"Well let's hope not. Anyways thanks again and I'll see you tomorrow at 11"
"At 11" She confirmed. "Bye Troy"
"Cya Brie"
Gabriella hung up and looked at her phone as if that didn't just happen. He actually called her! It took a little while but it sunk in and when it did Gabriella's face lit up and she smiled at her phone.
"I know girls love their phones, but to smile at it and hold it so close to them is a little over the top." A person stated and gave Gabriella a charming smile. "Don't you think?"
Gabriella looked up at the owner of the voice and smiled at him. "Coming from the guy with a fetish for hats?" She asked him playing along.
He winced and grabbed at his chest in fake pain "That cut me deep Gabs"
"Aww, does wittle wyan have baby skin" She mocked him in a baby voice.
"No, but wittle wyan has a question"
Gabriella giggled a little and spoke normally. "Okay, shoot"
"What are you up to tomorrow?" He asked her, giving her his million dollar smile.
Gabriella reflexively placed her hand on her stomach as she felt butterflies float around.
"Gabby?" Ryan asked concerned "You okay?"
Gabriella stared at the sand as she answered him. "Yeah, but I'm busy tomorrow sorry" She replied slowly and hesitantly. She cautiously lifted her gaze to meet his and swore she saw his face fall.
"That's okay, maybe another time" He replied shaking it off as he stood up and ran back down to the water.
Gabriella looked down at her stomach and back at Ryan's retreating form with her mouth open. She quickly reached back into her bag and pulled out her diary. She took it everywhere; it was the only way she knew it would be safe from her brothers.
She opened to a free page and clicked her pen on:
Dear Diary,
So I met a guy named Troy Bolton today and he's a really great guy who made me forget about my crush on Ryan and I think I have a small crush on him, so I gave him my number. But Ryan just came along and he gave me that smile and my stomach did its usual thing and flopped around like a fish out of the water!
Maybe the Troy crush is just a phase? Maybe it's a way for a higher power to test my relationship with Ryan?...Oh who am I kidding?! The only relationship we have is hi and bye!
Oh well…whatever it is, I'll find out tomorrow when I meet Troy to show him around the school. By the way, I can't believe he called me…Aww man!! This doesn't look good!!
Signed
Confused
Another thing that she likes to do is sign off every day with her main emotion at the time.
It started to get cold out as the sun started to fall in the sky. She put her diary back in her bag and grabbed her clothes and put them back on. With the gang in the water she waited for them to finally come out. When they did they dried off and gave Gabby a goodbye hug. She even hugged Ryan, although it was a very awkward and her stomach did another giant, uncomfortable flop.
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Gabriella arrived home and was about to go upstairs for a shower when her mum came out of no where and engulfed her in a bear hug.
"I was so worried about you! Where were you?" She asked concerned
"Mum! Do we have to do this every time I come home?" Gabriella asked exasperatedly
"I'm your mother I have a right to be worried!"
"Yes but you take it too far sometimes!" She pointed out "I told you I was going to the beach with my friends"
"Well we didn't buy you that phone for nothing Gabby! You need to call us" Her mum said firmly before finally letting her go.
"I know mum" Gabby sighed "Sorry"
"It's okay, now go wash up, dinner is nearly ready" She said as she turned and walked away.
Gabby shrugged and made her way up the stairs to her room. She passed her older brothers room and greeted him.
"Hey Red!" she said calling him by his nickname she gave him because him and his fetish with tomato sauce is really…weird. So she called him Red because that's the colour of tomato sauce, but his real name is Bren.
He looked up at her with his hazel eyes and smiled "Hey Spanky!" he replied with her nickname. She has no clue why he calls her that and whenever she asks he just says because she's spanky…which she doesn't get. "At the beach again?"
"Yup!" She replied leaning on his doorframe.
"Mum had a fit at me asking if I knew where you were"
Gabriella rolled her eyes "Well, she needs to stop worrying about me."
"Yeah but what can you do" He stated. "Now to a more serious matter?" He started as his eyebrow went up and he tried to suppress a smile that was tugging at the corners of his lips.
Gabriella sighed; she knew where he was heading with this. "Yes Red?"
"Any guys down at the beach?"
"Red, it's a beach of course there were guys"
"But was there any that talked to you?"
"Apart from Chad, Zeke and Ryan…nope"
"Ryan! You still like that boy?"
Gabriella looked up at him stunned. "How did you know?"
He smiled a little. "I didn't, you just told me" Gabriella gave him a sheepish look and played with a bit of her hair. "You know, if any guy ever hurts you…" He said cracking his knuckles to emphasize his point.
"Don't worry Red, I won't let anyone get that close" she replied laughing at her brothers over protective nature.
"Mkay, if you say so" He replied a little unsure.
"You don't need to worry yourself Red, I'm too cautious when it comes to guys anyway" She said reassuringly.
"Whatever you say sis." Gabriella was about to leave when he started to speak again. "Oh and by the way"
"Yeah?"
"Jared's coming over tonight" Jared is Gabriella's eldest brother. He's the oldest out of the kids but Bren isn't too far behind. Jared just turned 21 and has moved out and living quite a ways from her house. She calls him curly because, for some reason he has really tight ringlets for hair when her parents don't have curly hair, her mums' hair is wavy but her dads' hair is straight.
"Oh great more boyfriend questions" She said jokingly.
Bren chuckled and said "You know you'll get it from dad once you get down stairs again."
"I know" She said as she left and grabbed her track pants and a t-shirt out of her draws to put on after her shower.
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"Hey Gabby" Jared said giving her a big hug.
"Hey curly" she replied muffled in his shirt.
He pushed her back at arms length and looked at her the same way Bren did. "Now Gabby do you- -"
"No I don't have any boyfriends, yes I like someone and no you can't meet him." She said anticipating the questions. "Anything else curly?" she asked smiling at him
"…Nope that's pretty much it but we're gonna have to talk about meeting this guy you like" He said putting his arm around her shoulders and guiding her to the kitchen.
"Good timing guys, dinner is ready" Gabriella's dad announced.
"Oh and Gabby - -"
"I have no love interest dad" she said also anticipating his question
"Good enough for me, let's sit down for dinner" He announced as Gabriella rolled her eyes and grabbed her plate.
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"So Spanky?" Bren asked standing at Gabriella's doorway halfway through his apple.
Gabriella was lying on her stomach on her bed reading her book. She finished the sentence and looked up "Yeah?"
"What're you doing tomorrow?"
"I'm showing a new person around school tomorrow"
"I thought you were still on school holidays" He queried
"I am but his dad is going to be- -"
"Did you say his?" Bren asked mid chew
Gabriella sighed "Yes Red, his dad is a new teacher and he's going in tomorrow so he called me to ask- -"
"Wait he called you!? You gave him your number!?" Bren asked incredulously
"Yes!" Gabby replied exasperatedly "He called me to ask if I can show him around school tomorrow"
"…What's his name?"
"Troy"
"Do you have his number?" He asked curiously
"He called me so; yeah I'll have it somewhere, why?"
"…Can I have it?"
Gabriella grabbed her pillow from her bed and threw it at him "No! Now get out!"
Bren dodged the pillow and closed the door to her room. Gabriella put her book down and rolled onto her back with her palms pressed against her eyes. She groaned and flung her arms straight out at her sides. She closed her eyes and hummed a song she'd been working on in her head. Thinking of a new line she got up and grabbed her guitar and began strumming until her tiredness creped in and she called it quits to get ready for bed.
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Well here is the second chapter. Sorry about the wait and about the uninteresting part of it but I promise the next chapter will be more exciting, this chapter is just to show you how protective Gabriella's family is…hence the title. Anyways R&R please and thank you!! :)