a/n: yes, i know, it's been forever, but i have the hardest time writing troy's side of things. so i'm still looking for that all too important co-author to write troy's side of thing. i would love you forever if you did! just message me or let me know in a review or email me at my new email lookin4themusic at yahoo dot com!
disclaimer:
still don't own high school musical, but still waiting for zac!
TROY
"i'm gabi montez. i moved here from new york city. i sing and dance and i love school…and that's about it."
all day long that sentence had been running through troy's head. he couldn't believe his luck that the beauty next door was his new classmate. not only was she in his homeroom, but she was also in all of his ap classes. thank god for coach forcing him to take those classes. it wasn't that he wasn't smart enough to handle the ap classes; it was just he didn't want to apply himself to actually do good in these classes. however, maybe if he got lucky he'd get so close to failing from not doing his work that he could get the teacher to make gabriella tutor him. then again he could just be getting his hopes up with that. probably the best thing about having her in those classes was because she served as a better distraction than sleeping and risky getting a detention. that was the last thing he needed. if you added all the detention's he has gotten since his mother left, well, he was about one away from being suspended from the basketball team, and that was unacceptable in everyone's books. he wasn't the east high god for nothing, even if he knows deep down that any of the guys on the team could take his place if they put their mind to it. it was one of the reasons he worked so hard to keep himself in the spotlight on and off the court. like most, there was a lot more to troy bolton than most knew. he liked it that way though, it was his own little secret that he kept tucked away from the world. troy never imagined that a girl like gabriella montez would come along and introduce him into a world, a life, that would shock him into a realization about his own life.
even during free period scrimmage, troy was thinking about the new girl. no one would know it though. his teammates just noticed that he was on fire more than normal. they knew that that meant one of two things: either bolton had his eye on a new girl or that someone had already pissed him off beyond belief. knowing how troy got when he was angry, they hoped that it was a girl. none wanted to really take that chance just yet though. eventually chad went up to his friend and stated, "dude, you're on fire man. what's up?" troy just smirked and shrugged as he took another perfect shot, chuckling a little as it went in without even touching the back board with a perfect swoosh. instead of running to pick the ball up he just watched it roll across the floor, "you saw the new girl right?" chad nodded his head with a smirk on his face, at least it was a girl. "she's my new neighbor dude." and with that all troy could think about was that day she had moved in. it made him remember when his eyes connected with her gorgeous mocha chocolate ones. the annoyance, and distance, and surprise that those eyes held made him feel something, something he hadn't felt in a long time. maybe she'd understand him; maybe she could help him out of his rut in life. it was all about the troy, always. the next thing he knew, the gym doors burst to life and in came sharpay strutting as usual. the rest of the basketball team wolf whistled and hollered, but sharpay waved it off taking everything in her stride. who were they kidding, she loved the attention and they knew it.
"you'll never guess what i just found out!" she exclaimed as she stopped right in front of troy and chad. troy shrugged as he began to take another shot, and chad…well he just stood there being chad. "troy alexander bolton you will not shrug at me when i have the dirt on your next girlfriend!" this caught troy's attention for sure, not to mention the rest of the baskeball teams' attention although they were trying to act like it was no big deal. "what are you talking about shar?" the blonde sighed over dramatically as she threw her hands up in the air. "why do i even bother with you. gabriella montez, and don't even try to tell me your not interested," she added when she saw him open his mouth to protest. she had seen the way her best guy friend had looked at the new girl, and she was intrigued. troy hadn't looked at a girl that way since his mother left. could this newbie be the one to get her best friend back to his old self? "anyway, i was in the library and i decided to do some research on our new classmate," she started pulling some papers out of her pink prada shoulder bag, "and yes danforth i was in the library during my free period. anyway, apparently she's from new york city, where she is like this total up and comer in the underground pop scene or something and is getting ready to release her freshman album SILENCE next month." she shoved the papers at troy and suddenly he came face to paper with the girl who'd been haunting his thoughts. there was a picture of her in a black dress with her hand in the air and a hands free microphone visible in front of her parted pink lips. she was a vision.
troy had completely spaced out from what sharpay and chad were saying. no he was much too busy studying the picture in front of him. he had now been exposed to yet another side of the mysterious gabriella montez. it made him wonder how many sides were there to the girl. was she simply cut off from real life like he was, or was there something more devious and sinister at work? would she be a stereotypical new york native or would she like it here in a more relaxed town like albuquerque? these were things troy was determined to find out. he was pulled out of his thoughts by sharpay smacking him on the arm and glaring at him. "oooow and what?" he snapped rubbing where she hit him. that girl really needed to stop with the violence when it came to getting people's attention. one day she was going to piss off the wrong person in the wrong mood. then again the evan's probably had a better lawyer anyway. "invite her to my party." it wasn't a request; it wasn't an suggestion; it was an order. that was the only annoying thing that actually got to troy and chad. sharpay didn't ask, she ordered. of course things usually turned out better when they did what she said anyway. "why me? i mean, it's your party shar." she sighed and flipped her hair, "just do it bolton. now, i've got to get to choir and lay down the ground work." chad raised his eyebrows at the blonde as she turned to strut back out of the gym before turning to troy and mouthing ground work? troy just shrugged his shoulders again and took that last shot.
finally, the end of the school day had come and he was waiting patiently outside the gym doors, watching for the lovely gabriella. he had heard people already giving her nick names, like gabi or gabs, but he wanted to be different. he'd been thinking about it all day and came up with two: ella or brie. troy wasn't sure which he was going to use yet, but he wanted to make sure that no one else had ever called her that first. his was going to be different, she was going to remember he was the only person who called her that. it seemed like forever before he saw the brunette exit the school's main entrance. he was step for step with her as he watched to see which car was going to be hers. he was surprised when she stopped in front of the cherry red vintage camero he'd been admiring previously. well, at least she had good taste in cars. slipping beside her he leaned against the drivers door. inside he was jumping triumphantly when she turned and seemed to be taken off guard by his presence. "hi" it left him open to take her hand in his and kiss it lightly. just keep thinking smooth bolton, he told himself. "i'm troy. troy bolton." he watched as she blushed before pulling her hand back to herself. then she opened her mouth and the sweetest voice said, "gabriella montez."
"i know who you are," troy said pushing himself off the car to open the door and hold it for her to get in. he didn't see gabi roll her eyes at his statement, but he did see the sweet smile she gave him as she sat down in the driver's seat pulling out her keys. "and i know who you are mr bolton." troy grinned closing the door and leaning into the open window. "please, it's troy, and don't believe everything you hear. i'm not that bad i promise." he did see her roll her eyes this time before starting the engine to her car, "uh huh." troy wanted to smack himself. he should have known this wasn't going to be easy. he should have known when sharpay got all excited; shar never got this excited over him liking a new girl. "how about i prove it to you?" he asked trying to loose some of the natural cockiness in his voice. he watched as she slipped on her aviators before asking "how do you imagine you'll do that troy?" please god let sharpay not have changed the plan. "well my friend is having a party this friday, a school's back party so to speak. let me take you? i promise to make it worth your while." how he pulled that off without sounding perverted and cocky he would never know; however, he felt something like the old troy which was not acceptable. this new girl wasn't allowed to do that. "we'll see," she replied, and with that she shifted the car into reverse causing troy to leap back so not to get his foot run over when she backed out of her space.
"maybe she will change him," chad whispered to sharpay as they watched troy as he watched her pull out of the school parking lot.
