Here is chapter 3 YAY!!!! And I think another YAY!!!! Is in order because I have finished my exams…okay I've got one more to go but it's more of a general knowledge one so no studying and no school for 10-11 weeks!!!!!

Now I did promise that I make this chapter more exciting and well I have tried and hope I have but you just have to tell me so R&R!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything…except polar bear bag:P

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Gabriella awoke with the sunlight shining on her face. She groaned and rolled over onto her stomach with her eyes closed thinking. 'Okay so I'm gonna meet Troy and his dad today at school to give him a tour at 11, and the time now is…' Gabriella opened her eyes slowly and blinked a couple of times to get use to the light. '10:15…' She bolted up and looked at the clock again to make sure she wasn't mistaken "crap!"

She got out of bed and had a look through some draws and her wardrobe and decided on jean shorts that came half -way up her thigh, a multi coloured belt, a plain white shirt that hugged her curves and white jandels. She had her hair down and had simple jewelry on.

After having a shower she brushed her teeth and saw that she only had 20 minutes to get to school when it's usually a 30 minute walk. "Crap!" she muttered as she ran downstairs, past Bren and out the door.

"Gone to meet your boyfriend Spanky?!" He yelled after her.

"Not my boyfriend Red!" She yelled back.

Bren laughed and shook his head as he closed the front door.

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"So Troy?" A man driving a car asked his son in the passenger seat.

"Yeah dad?"

"Are you looking forward to starting a new school?"

"Yeah I guess" Troy answered unsure.

"What do you mean you guess?" Mr. Bolton asked with a quick glance.

"Well I did leave my friends behind at West High"

"They're not far away Troy and besides I bet you'll make friends here."

"Yeah I know dad." He replied "I've already made one" He said to himself smiling.

A few more minutes went by and they arrived outside East High.

"Well son, here it is"

Troy looked up at the huge structure and sighed but as they were passing the front entrance he didn't see Gabriella out the front and wondered if she forgot.

Mr. Bolton parked up at the teachers' parking lot and they walked to the front entrance. As they made it to the front Troy still couldn't see Gabriella anywhere. His dad unlocked the front doors and opened them for Troy to go in first, but when he looked back at his son he noticed that he seemed a little distracted.

"Are you ok son?"

Troy turned his head and looked at his dad. "Yeah. I think I'll just stand out here for a while."

"Oh, okay then. Well if you need me just try and find me or text me." He said shrugging and leaving him alone.

Troy nodded and turned back around to face the street. He sat on the steps with his back against the wall as he leaned his head against the cold concrete and closed his eyes. 'I hope she hasn't forgotten.' He thought to himself.

"Hey bum"

Troy snapped his eyes open and looked up at the owner of the voice. He smiled as he saw who it was. "I'm the bum? I'm not the one who slept in." He said standing up and looking down at her.

"And I'm not the one with the shaggy hair that makes you look like a bum." She said cheekily.

Troy grabbed at his chest in fake pain. "Ouch Brie, that hurt" He replied smiling.

Gabriella stared at him as her eyes grew a little bigger and her mouth parted a little.

His cheeky smile was replaced by a curious smile "What?"

Gabriella realized she was staring at him snapped out of it and looked away from him. "Oh, nothing. Sorry"

"It didn't look like nothing; I mean you were staring at me like I had just grown an extra head." He pointed out.

She looked up at him and smiled sheepishly at him. "Sorry it's just…déjà vu"

"Of what?"

"When you did that fake pain and grabbed at your chest thing." She started as he nodded "Well, Ryan did the same thing"

Troy felt like he just got punched in the stomach but he didn't look phased at all. "You still like that guy? Even after our little talk about him"

"I can't just brush a huge crush like that off! It's not that easy!" Gabby sighed.

Troy put on the warmest smile he could muster and tried to help her out. "Just give it time, you'll come around."

Gabriella looked up into his piercing blue eyes and found herself smiling back.

"And besides, I'm sure you have guys lining up for you" Gabriella blushed and giggled at his compliment and after realizing what he said to her he rubbed the back of his neck nervously and decided to laugh awkwardly with her.

"Well I didn't run here for nothing" Gabriella started as she grabbed the door handle. "I came here to give you a V.I.P tour and that's what you're gonna get!" She said defiantly as she pulled the door back and let him go in first.

"Wow." Troy commented as he took a step inside and looked around "It's so…"

"Big?" Gabriella helped out standing next to him.

"I was gonna say clean but big works too" He said smiling down at her as she smiled back. "So where to first?"

"Well, do you know what subjects you took for this year?"

Troy started to count on his fingers as he listed his subjects aloud. "English, Math, PE, Mechanic and Robotics, Physics and Biology"

"Wow, that's nearly all my subjects."

"So we could be in the same class?" He asked

"If we get put in the same option class then yeah"

"Oh yeah I forgot about that, well at least I have a chance that I'll know someone"

"Come on" Gabriella said with a nod of her head in the direction they're going. "I'll show you where the main area for your classes will be."

Troy and Gabriella walked around the school while she explained things about the school and showed him different and important areas, like the lunch room and the bathrooms to where the best car park is for students. They were walking towards Troy's last subject area: PE.

"Hey, I thought you said your dad was coming." Gabriella said curiously.

"Oh he's here. He went in before you got here."

"Oh, that could explain the unlocked doors"

"Yeah maybe" He said sarcastically.

She nudged him with her shoulder playfully. "Shut up"

Troy laughed slightly as they came to a stop outside the gym. Gabriella grabbed the handle and pulled it open to reveal a basketball court with bleaches on either sides of the court and a big Wildcat picture in the middle of the court. "And this, is your real stage"

Troy looked around and smiled. "I think I might like it here." He looked on the court and saw a huge rack of basketballs to the side of the court. He started to walk towards them and commented. "Convenient."

He grabbed a basketball and spun it in his hands. He bounced it a couple of times and started to bounce it through his legs from his right hand to his left then bounced around his back from his left to his right. He looked up and saw the hoop was out so he dribbled it up to the 3 point line and with a flick of his fingers it went in with nothing but net.

"I see why my friends want you on their team." Gabriella stated.

Troy jumped forgetting she was there as he was getting caught up in what he was doing. "Umm, I guess" He replied embarrassed as he jogged to pick the ball up.

"Aww and a modest one too" Gabriella said half joking as she walked next to him and put her hand out for the ball.

He handed it over and she took a shot in the same style that Troy did. It also went straight through the net.

Troy looked at her in awe. "I thought you said you're not the basketball type?"

"I'm not." Gabriella replied smirking. "I just play it for fun but I don't watch it."

Troy smiled and walked over to the ball. He picked it up and passed her the ball back. "Bet you can't make that shot again"

"What do I get if I do?" She asked while spinning the ball in her hands

"You get a free lunch, courtesy of Master Troy Bolton" He replied in a posh accent while bowing to her.

She giggled as he looked up at her and smiled playfully.

"Okay, on one condition" She said smiling.

"What more can you want than a free meal with the one and only" He said joking.

"Can we make it a brunch? I skipped breakfast to be here and I'm starving!"

Troy chuckled at her. "Whatever suits"

"Thanks" she said smiling gratefully but it soon turned into a smirk. "I just hope you brought your wallet" She said as she shot and let the ball roll off her fingers. It hit the back of the rim and went through the hoop and landed straight back into the hands of Troy.

"I hope I did too" He replied looking at the ball.

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They played a few games of horse where Gabriella won the first one but lost the last three. They walked out of the gym and Troy checked his phone to see if his dad called him to say that's he's leaving but there was nothing.

"Have you still got time?" Gabriella asked him looking at the ground

"Yeah looks like it, why?"

"Because, I…I think I want to show you something" She said still looking at the ground, unsure if what she will show him is a good idea.

Troy looked at her carefully. "Umm okay. If you want to" He assured her.

Gabriella looked up at him and smiled "Yeah I do"

She walked down a few corridors and up some stairs then there was like a hidden door where it was actually hard to miss. She opened the door and let him go up first again. Once he reached the top of the stairs the smell of flowers had filled his nostrils and the breeze that came through ruffled his hair. He was standing on a rooftop garden with a lookout of the whole school.

"How'd you find this?"

Gabriella placed her hands on the rail and looked out at the view. "I was actually just wondering the corridors thinking and I guess I just stumbled across this place."

He stood at the opposite hand rail with his back to her looking down at front of the school. "How'd you find it again if you were walking around distracted?"

Gabriella thought about it and laughed a little "You know I have no idea. I guess it was a walk and hope thing."

"So I take it that you come up here to get away from everything?" He asked knowingly.

"Yeah" Gabriella replied barley audible. She pushed herself off of the hand rail and turned to lean against the railing so she could watch Troy. But found he had already done what she had. His hands were deep in his pockets as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"So what problems do you come up here to think about?" He asked curiously

"I don't have problems" She replied lying.

"Oh please" Troy said smiling. "All teenagers have problems"

Gabriella shrugged and looked away from him. "Or are you one of those rare teenagers where you don't have problems?" He asked sarcastically. The corners of her mouth slightly turned upwards at his sarcasm. "Come on Brie, I'm all ears" He said softly.

She looked into his eyes and found the sincerity that swam in his cerulean pools. She signed and turned away to look out at the view.

"I guess it's my family." Gabriella started softly. "My brothers and my dad are overly protective, my mum worries about me too much and she is trying to live her life through mine." She started to grip at the railing as Troy edged closer to her. "I just feel like a caged bird! They expect me to be perfect but how can I be if they don't let me out of my cage to make my own mistakes and learn from them!?"

Gabriella was fuming and gripping the railing so hard that her knuckles were turning white. "Oh and do you know what else I do that's just the cherry on the cake!?" She asked sarcastically. Not waiting for an answer she dove into more emotional expelling. "I just can't say no to them! I'm a pushover and people use it to their advantage and I'm sick of it! But I'm too nice to say anything!"

Her hands were gripping the railing so hard that it was actually starting to hurt. She felt so angry but relieved at the same time to finally let that out.

The anger though couldn't seem to subside as she stared out at the horizon. She was about to say something else when she felt a warm hand on hers. It was softly grazing her hand in hesitation of not knowing if it's a good thing to do that but the heat that was emitting from his hand was comforting. She looked down watched Troy's thumb massage her knuckles as if to get more blood circulation in her knuckles.

She looked up at him and he was grinning softly at her. She looked back down at his hand on her and she loosened her grip slowly while keeping her other hand relaxed on the railing to support her as she turned to face Troy.

He let his hand flop down to his side as Gabriella looked at the floor and took a deep breath. "I'm sorry" She said barley audible.

Troy shrugged, still grinning down at her. "I told you I was all ears"

Gabriella smiled softly and looked back out at the view. "I just don't know what to do Troy. I've had 16 years of this and I don't know how long I can last before I blow my top."

"I can't say I've experience this sort of thing before." Troy said standing next to her. "But I can give you some advice."

"What's that?" She asked and looked at him curiously.

He looked down at her and smirked. "Toughen up!"

She looked at him shocked. "What?"

"Don't be so rational and forgiving all the time!" Troy told her. "Stand up for yourself and what you want"

"Easier said than done!" Gabriella squeaked defensively.

"Have you tried saying no to someone?"

"Yes!" She shot back, turning to fully face him.

"Oh? And what happened?"

"I…" She sighed and mumbled sheepishly: "…felt guilty and did it anyway"

"My point exactly" Troy said triumphantly.

"Well what do you expect me to do?" She asked shrugging. "Say no to people who need my help?"

"No, look all I'm saying is that if you don't want to do something then just say no"

"But I…" Gabriella trailed off as she heard the 'Jaws' theme.

"Sorry" Troy said sheepishly as he dug into his pocket for his phone. Gabriella raised her eyebrow at him as he shrugged and answered it.

"Hey dad…Now?...Okay, I'll meet you out front…Don't worry I have a guide…You'll meet her on- -…yes I said her…" He smiled and shook his head at Gabriella as she smiled back. "…Look you'll meet her once we're out the front…see you" Troy hung up and put his phone away.

"I guess that's out cue to go" Troy said as he turned around to walk down the staircase.

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They walked to the front of the school and met a patient Mr. Bolton.

"Hey dad" Troy called out. He turned around and smiled at them as they stopped in front of him.

"So Troy is this your guide?" Mr. Bolton asked.

"Gabriella, dad. Dad, Gabriella"

"Nice to meet you sir" Gabriella greeted and stuck her hand out waiting expectantly for him to grab and shake.

He firmly gripped her hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you too Gabriella"

"So dad, I kind of lost a bet with Gabriella and I promised I'd buy her brunch, so I'll see you at home, 'kay?"

Mr. Bolton smiled fondly at his son and nodded. "Okay, you kids have fun now"

"I just need to grab my wallet out of the car" Troy informed him.

"Oh, right sure! You can walk me to my car" He said and turned to go to the car park.

"Your dad seems nice" Gabriella commented quietly to Troy.

Troy leaned down and whispered back. "That's because he is"

Gabriella smiled at him and playfully nudged him in the ribs.

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"So where are we going?" Troy asked as they started down the footpath.

"A place that I love"

"Aaaand that is…?" Troy pressed on.

"A surprise" Gabriella said with a sly look.

"How far away is it?"

"Not too far. Ten to twenty minute walk."

"You're joking right?"

"Aww can't the poor little ex Knight handle a twenty minute walk?" She mocked him in a baby voice.

"I can handle the walk…It's just the person I'm walking with is the problem."

"Hey!" Gabriella squeaked as she pushed him. She didn't really realize how hard she pushed him or that there was a grass hedge that he is now sitting in.

"Oh come on!" Troy said struggling to get up. Gabriella, on the other hand, quickly took out her phone and took a picture of him. The picture was a bit blurry but she tried to hold it as still as possible while laughing hysterically.

"No fair!" Troy strained to say.

"May I remind you about a certain boy that took a picture of a girls legs in the air yesterday?" Gabriella said crossing her arms.

"Okay Okay. Please just help me up"

Gabriella sighed dramatically and replied. "I suppose so" She reached down a hand and Troy grabbed it.

He was actually surprised at how deceiving she is. She's a lot stronger than she looks and in one powerful tug he was on his feet but, it was so strong that he stumbled onto her. He instinctively grabbed her waist to hold him and her up, as she sub consciously grabbed around his neck to keep her from falling. They both managed to stay off the ground as they locked gazes. The way they were standing looked like they had just finished dancing, the way Troy held her by her waist and dipping her and the way Gabriella's hands clutch to Troy's neck.

"Umm…th-thanks" Gabriella choked out, barely audible. Her attention was still on his eyes.

"Thanks yourself" Troy said also in a whisper and fixed on her eyes.

'Is it just me or is the already little gap between us closing?' She asked herself but before she could answer herself, someone spoke up.

"Gabriella?"

Troy and Gabriella got such a fright by the sudden voice that they let go of each other, in turn letting Gabby fall with an "oof!"

"Gabby!"

"Brie!"

They said simultaneously. Before Gabriella realized what was going on there were two strong hands around both her arms but she could tell they were different people because one felt warmer than the other but she couldn't tell which one was warmer.

She looked up and saw two pairs of eyes having a glaring contest.

"Back off Bolton!"

"No! You back off Evans!"

"Both of you both off!" A high pitch voice firmly said.

Gabriella was now starting to register what was going on and decided to stand between the two glaring boys.

"Gabby, did he hurt you?"

"No Ryan, I'm fine"

"Are you sure? Knights can be dangerous" Ryan said shooting Troy a glare.

"Wildcat Ryan"

"Huh?" Ryan asked confused

"Troy Bolton here is an ex Knight. He is now a Wildcat." Gabriella announced.

"So this is Troy Bolton?"

"Yes, this is Troy Bolton Shar" Sharpay nodded and crossed her arms over her chest, suggesting that she's judging him.

"Why is she looking at me like that?" Troy whispered to Gabriella

She looked at Sharpay and rolled her eyes. "Shar! Why are you looking at him like that?"

"Because you said that when I meet him I'll know why you did what you did yesterday" She said, eyes still focused on a nervous Troy.

"I did say- -"

"What did you do when you met him?" Ryan asked curiously.

"All I did was- -"

"You told them about me?" Troy asked

"Yes, but only- -"

"You met Bolton yesterday and you're going out with him already!?" Ryan asked incredulously.

"Technically yes but- -"

"You didn't tell me you're going out with someone!" Sharpay said surprised.

"Would everyone shut up and let me answer!" Gabriella said firmly frustrated.

Everyone stared at her and muttered quiet apologies.

Gabriella sighed and turned to Sharpay. "I did say that but try talking to him first before making any judgments." Sharpay's mouth formed an 'o' but stayed surprisingly silent.

Gabriella turned to face Ryan. "All we did was take a few pictures and he fixed my air conditioning." Ryan nodded satisfied.

"Troy…" She started as she turned to face him. "I'm a girl, I tell my girls anything and everything they want to know" She said smiling.

"That could explain it" He muttered.

"And to you two…"She said referring to Ryan and Sharpay. "Troy and I are just friends. I was just showing him around school and he lost a bet so he's buying me brunch" She explained.

"Then why did it look like you two were about to kiss?" Sharpay asked.

Gabriella, Ryan and Troy all stiffened at the question, but for Gabby and Troy there were additional blushes grazing their cheeks.

"We did not!" Gabby squeaked defensively.

"Yeah it did, I mean you two looked pretty comfy in a rather awkward position to play tonsil hockey in the middle of a street"

Gabriella looked horrified but was offset by her blush, Troy was rubbing the back of his neck furiously with the same colour to his cheeks and Ryan looked like he was about to turn into the green eyed monster.

"Sharpay! You know me better than that!"

"You're right…" Sharpay said

"Thank you" Gabby sighed.

"…you'd rather be away from any public eye before playing tonsil hockey" She said smirking.

Gabriella shot her a death glare before lunging at her. Fortunately for Sharpay, both Ryan and Troy grabbed her arms to hold her back.

"Gabby, calm down!" Ryan said

"Yeah Brie! It was only a joke"

Ryan looked at Troy weirdly. "Why do you call her Brie?"

"That's my nickname for her" He explained looking at Ryan.

"Sure it is, or you could be confusing her with your current girlfriend!"

Troy let go of Gabriella's arm to fully face Ryan. "What are you talking about!?"

"You heard me!"

Troy and Ryan started fighting as a result they let Gabriella lose on Sharpay.

"Sharpay! Why would you say that in front of them…especially them!" Gabby said frustrated.

"Why is it especially them?" She asked smugly.

"You know what I mean! Stop confusing what you and Zeke do with what I do!"

"Hey! I don't do that!" Sharpay replied, feeling the heat rushing to her cheeks.

"Yeah, and I don't like two guys!" Gabby said sarcastically.

To on lookers the fight would look stupid and childish and completely immature…which it is. That is exactly what two people were thinking as they made their way onto the scene. They looked at each other and rolled their eyes at each other then turned their attention back on the others.

"Guys!" A girl said a little loud.

"Hey! Cut it out!" He said in the same volume.

When there was no response the girl drew in a deep breath and screamed at the top of her lungs. "HEY! SHUT UP!!!!" They all stopped screaming at each other and looked at her. "Thank you"

"Taylor? Chad? What're you doing here?" Ryan asked.

"Better question, what's going on?" Taylor asked

"And why is Bolton here?" Chad said changing his posture in an attempt to intimidate Troy.

"I invited him" Gabby said.

Chad gave her a weird look. "Gabs, I know you don't watch the basketball games but surely you know that he's a Knight"

Gabriella sighed and blew a few strands of hair out of eyes. She did that whenever she was getting really annoyed or frustrated. "I met him yesterday and found out he's a Knight turned Wildcat so I gave him my number, he called while we were at the beach and said that his dad was going into the school and asked if he could take my offer of showing him around he school, I said yes, we made a bet I won so he's buying me brunch and that's when Ry and Shar showed up."

Everyone except Gabby and Troy was silent as they processed her information.

"You know…" Taylor started "Brunch is sounding good right now, can we come?" She asked as she grabbed Chad's arm.

Gabriella smiled at her friend and replied: "Everyone can come if they want" She said scanning her eyes over everyone.

There was a wave of shoulders moving up and down and a few bobble heads nodding.

"Alright then, it's settled."

"No it's not"

Gabriella rounded on Ryan and gave him a glare. "Why not?" She asked through gritted teeth.

"Because…" He started as he faced Troy "…I'm not sitting with a Knight"

"You heard Brie! I'm not a Knight anymore, I'm a Wildcat!" Troy said defensively.

"Not yet you're not" Ryan said defiantly. "I'm the captain and I say if you're in or out!"

"Guys stop it!" Gabriella said standing beside them.

"Some captain you are!" Troy replied sarcastically.

"I'm a better captain them you'll ever be!" Ryan said as he shoved Troy backwards.

He stumbled but easily regained his balance as he used the momentum of closing the gap between them to push Ryan harder. "Is that why my team wins the Championship from you!?"

They were about to start throwing a few punches here and there when Gabriella stepped between them, extended her arms out and used all of her strength to keep the boys at bay. "I can't believe you two!" She said raising her voice in disbelief. "You're letting your stupid team pride get in the way of each other!?" She asked incredulously.

"And my stomach" Chad added in but with a swift jab to his ribs by Taylor he was silenced.

Troy sighed and straightened up. "Sorry Brie"

"Yeah, sorry" Ryan said straightening up. "I guess that if us being friends means so much to you then we can give it a try, right Bol- -I mean Troy "Ryan compromised holding out his hand.

Troy smiled and firmly gripped his hand. Gabriella breathed a sigh of relief and let her arms flop down by her sides. "Now was that so hard?" She asked smiling.

She walked over to where Sharpay was standing but did not stop by her side, instead she carried on and let Sharpay fall into step with her.

Everyone took the hint and followed the girls. Sharpay leaned into Gabby so that no one could hear her. "You know, they weren't fighting over a team"

"What?"

"Troy and Ryan, they weren't fighting over a team, they were fighting because of you."

"Shar, I don't know about you but I didn't hear my name in that fight at all." She replied quietly looking at the pavement.

"Gabby, Ryan likes you and by the way Troy was holding you a minute ago, I'd say he likes you too"

"Yeah maybe as friends." Gabriella said although her flushed cheeks weren't very convincing.

"Mhmm" Sharpay hummed unconvinced.

"I'm serious Shar! The way I feel is never reciprocated!" Gabby reasoned with her.

"You are so oblivious!" Sharpay whisper yelled.

Gabby rolled her eyes but couldn't help but blush and smile a little as she looked back at the two boys talking.

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Gabriella got home afterwards and made a beeline to her room, ignoring the sly remarks from her brother. She grabbed her diary and jumped on her bed.

Dear Diary

Today was great! Troy is such an amazing basketball player! But I thought that he was a good guy though…then again, I though Ryan was too. They started to push and yell at each other and if I didn't step in then we may have had lunch at the Hospital, and in Chad's words: his stomach was so empty that he could barely stand let alone hold back two guys!

But after that we went to the café and had a blast…! Did I just say blast…? Meh, Anyways, they liked Troy and I'm not just saying that! Chad pretty much announced it to the whole café! But they didn't have to tell him that initiation into the Wildcats was to pay for their meals too.

Oh well, Sharpay invited us back in an hour for a sleepover and she invited Troy and because it's her house that means Ryan will be there! But I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing…Oh well…

Signed

Excited

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WOW!!! This is a very long chapter…but it's here and now that I read it, it's not really that exciting, in fact I don't really like this chapter…but my first ones are just building into my later chapters so Meh…I guess we're all going to have to wait.

R&R thanks for reading.