It was a new year at last. Which for Troy meant a whole two weeks still left of break. He was attending USC and right now he was on a holiday break. So he had intended to relax and just chill out. But ever since last night when he saw Gabriella, or at least he thought so, he couldn't think of anything else. He hadn't talked or seen her in at least 5 years. He wondered if she would even remember him at all.

All these things were swimming around in his head, not being able to drain them out. So he decided, seeming how it was 12:30, that he would go and get some lunch to get his mind off of Gabriella. He grabbed his coat and walked out the door.

The sun was shining today, so he decided he would just walk over to Wendy's today. It was just a couple of blocks away, and he did need the exercise.

As he walked down the sidewalk, enjoying the fresh air, he noticed a car driving slowly by. He glanced at the driver.

He stopped in his tracks. Looking closer, it looked just like……Gabriella! As the car drove right on by, Troy just stood there still in amazement. Once he regained himself, he started running toward the moving car. It was quite a ways away, but he could still see it. It pulled into a Subway parking lot across the street. Troy impatiently waited for the traffic to stop so he could cross.

Once he did, he hurriedly walked up to the door and walked in. And right there, standing in the line was her. But she had glasses on, and a large warms coat, so it was kind of hard to get a good look at her without looking to strange. He walked casually into the line, right behind her. He kind of coughed to get her attention.

She didn't do anything.

This obviously wasn't working, so he tried something different. He got out his cell phone and called it so it would ring. He pretended to answer it and started making a conversation on his phone, hoping she would recognize his voice.

She still didn't do anything. And he noticed the people behind him starting to give him funny looks. Since he didn't have the guts to just say hi, he figured it was hopeless.

He walked over to the door and started to open it. But as he did he ran right into his roommate, Robby.

"Troy! Hey, what are you doing here?" he said kind of loudly.

"Well at the moment, I'm walking out the door." He said annoyed.

"Why would you be doing that when that chic over there is checking you out." He said in a slight whisper.

Troy turned around. The girl was looking out her glasses and staring right at him.

"Oh dang." He said to himself. Then he pushed past Robby and darted out the door. He started running toward the cross walk. Lucky for him it was clear. He dashed across and ran for his life. He heard his name behind him.

"Troy! Wait, STOP!"

But he kept running, fearing who it was. He was almost to his apartment. But there was still one more cross walk.

"Oh no." he said to himself. The light was red at the intersection. He quickly turned left and hid behind a large garbage dumpster. He made himself as small as he could, and held his breath. Then he saw Gabriella running past and stopping at the cross walk. She looked like she was about to cry.

He didn't want to make her cry. He hated when girls did that. He figured it was useless.

Stepping out from his hiding place. He walked quietly up behind Gabriella and stopped.

"You run way to fast for a girl you know." He said jokingly. She turned around immediately.

"Troy Bolton! You are in such trouble!" she said angrily. His smile disappeared immediately.

"Why in the world were you running from me?" she asked with her hands on her hips.

He looked down at his feet, and stuck his hands in his pockets. Now he felt really guilty.

"I didn't want you to see that I was following you." He said quietly.

"You were following me? Why?" she asked. Her voice had toned down a little.

"IhadthoughtIhadseenyouinyourcarsoIfollowedyoutherebutthenIcouldn'tgetyourattentionandiwastooembarassedtosayhisoistartedleaving." Troy said in one breath and very quickly.

"Hold it, say that again. I didn't quite catch all that." She said with a little smile on her face. This gave him a little more confidence, so he started again but slower.

"I had thought I had seen you in your car. So I started following you to Subway. Then I tried to get your attention, but it wasn't working. And I was too embarrassed to just say hi. So I started to leave. But then my friend walked in and kind of gave me away." He said to her.

"Oh. You know you really could have just said hello." She said tenderly.

"Yeah, I know that now. I kind of wish I had just done that instead. I guess I was just so hyped that I had seen you last night that I didn't know what to do." Troy said.

Gabriella looked puzzled. "But I didn't see you last night. I was at a party."

"Yeah I know, I was there too. I saw you just before midnight hit. I couldn't quite tell if it was you or not and you looked kind of sad. So I started to walk over to you. But then the clock went out and then it was impossible to get to you."

"You saw me crying?" she said turning away.

"Yeah. I also found this." He said turning her toward him. He took the necklace out of his pocket and put it in her hand.

She gasped. "I thought I had lost that. Oh Troy, where did you find it?" she said in shock.

"It was on the ground just out the entrance. I was trying to catch you, but you were already gone." He said

Gabriella looked up into his eyes. "Thank you Troy." She said with sincerity in her voice.

"Your welcome. I was kind of surprised you still had it." He said to her.

She looked away, her face starting to turn red. "Well, yeah, I was just……" but Troy stopped her.

"Hey, you don't have to tell me anything." He said with a smile on his face. She looked at him, not knowing what to say. Then she looked at her watch.

"Oh dang, I have to get back to work." She said panicking.

"Oh."

"It was nice seeing you again though Troy. And thanks for finding my necklace." She started to walk away.

"Wait, Gabriella!" She stopped and turned around.

"Yes, Troy?"

"Umm, would you umm, well, I mean, could you, or would you like to gotodinnertonight?" he said quickly.

She looked at him thoughtfully. Then she smiled. "Yeah, I would love to."

"Really? I mean, ok great. How about since I don't know where you live, you meet me at Subway at 6:00 tonight?"

"Yeah, I could do that. I'll see you then."

"Ok, great, I'll see you soon." He said. She turned around and started walking away. Troy watched her as she went. When she was across the other street Troy turned around and walked around the corner and let out his joy.

"OH YEAH MAN! CHA CHING! CHA CHING!" He said loudly dancing around joyously.

He had asked Gabriella to dinner, and she had said yes. Life was good.

(a/n: Well, tell me how you liked that one. I'm still kind of getting in the groove of it again, so it wasn't amazing. But it'll do for now I hope. Please read and review. Thanks)