August 30

Monday

9:15am

Gabriella walked outside with a sigh and her backpack over her shoulder. As she shut the door behind her and looked up she gasped. Parked in front of her house was Troy Bolton's pickup truck with no other than Troy Bolton sitting in the driver's seat.

Troy step out and went to lean on the passenger's side door. He smirked and looked at a shocked Gabriella.

Gabriella turned around to try and stop the rest of her family from coming out, but came face-to-face with her dad as he opened the door already.

"What's wrong sweetie?" Mr. Montez asked calmly. After Gabriella failed to answer he looked over her shoulder.

Tiara who was behind their father had a huge grin on her face. "Gabby's got a boyfriend! Gabby's got a boyfriend!" She yelled loud enough for Troy to hear who hung his head to hide his soft chuckle.

Gabriella's eyes widen and she covered her mouth. "None of that!" She looked at her dad who was eyeing Troy very closely and caused Gabriella to hesitate. "Um, dad?" As her dad turned to face her it caused her to stutter even more. "Uh, it seems I-uh already have a ride to school. So-uh bye. Love you!" She kissed him on the cheek and hugged her sister quickly and rushed off.

After Gabriella got in the truck with Troy and were away from her house she blew up at him. "What the hell did you think you were doing? You don't just show up to somebody's house unannounced. You could've at least called! My dad almost had a hard attack!"

Troy sighed and made his eyes go cross-eyed as he basically tuned out her rant. When she finally stopped with a final "Ugh!" he decided to speak. "Well if you were expecting me to apologize you're going to be greatly disappointed." Gabriella tried to interrupt but he put a finger to her lips, which she didn't take a liking to. "Just like I was disappointed when you didn't show up to my party Saturday!"

"Oh is that what all this is about?" She yelled angrily. "Because I didn't go to your stupid party!"

"You should've told me you weren't coming!" Troy yelled as he thought back to that night. He was standing by the door the whole time waiting to show her off to everybody, to show he was going to get the new girl to maintain his reputation.

"I was going to go. But, I knew you were going to try and seduce me," Gabriella said softly, but fervently.

Troy snuck a peek at the brunette and frowned. "You still could've let me know beforehand."

"Well if it bothered you so much, why didn't you call me and tell me that two days ago?"

"I prefer face-to-face confrontations."

"You could've called me and we could've met up some—."

"Yea, like you'd agree to that. If you didn't want to be near me around a bunch of people, why would you meet up with me somewhere with just the two of us?"

Gabriella didn't have an answer for that and simply turned away from him and started playing with her fingers in her lap when she heard an exasperated sigh from Troy. "Why do treat Georgia so horribly?"

The question threw Troy off guard. "What are you talking about?"

"God." Gabriella scoffed. "You treat her like crap. Did you even go see her Friday night?"

"No. Your point?"

"You don't treat her with an ounce of respect."

"She doesn't treat herself with an ounce of respect. Why should I? She throws herself at me. She's a whore."

"If she's so desperate why do you even keep her around?"

"Because I'm all she's got."

"What are you—."

"We're here." Troy rushed out with their stuff and tossed over Gabriella's to her after she slowly got out of the truck.

They walked side-by-side to their lockers slowly. Shortly after they arrived, Georgia came over and started making out with Troy.

Gabriella scowled and slammed her locker in disgust. "I'll never understand you Troy Bolton." She shook her head.

Troy and Georgia pulled apart both confused by her statement. "You don't have to, Brie!" Troy yelled after her.

"Brie? Why does she have a nickname?" Georgia asked with annoyance apparent in her tone as she looked at Troy.

"Because I gave her one." Troy leaned in but his lip made contact with Georgia's cheek instead of her lips. "What's your problem?"

"I don't like her." She pushed him away from her and crossed her arms with a frown on her face.

"So?" Troy pulled her towards him once more.

Georgia pushed him away once more. "Stop it! That's it, Troy! If you don't lose contact with her, I'm not doing anything with you for three months!" She put her hands on her hips and a determined look on her face.

Troy scoffed. "You're really making me choose between you and Gabriella just because I gave her a nickname?"

Georgia contemplated as he stared at her in disbelief. She didn't want Troy to take advantage of her anymore and Gabriella was making it hard for her to give him ultimatums. Then again, Troy had a point about this one. It made her sound desperate and unreasonably jealous. "No. I'm not making you choose between Gabriella and me over your new nickname for her. But, if you ever ditch me for her, you can say goodbye to any sex with me until you graduate!"

Troy stared at her blankly. He really didn't take her seriously and knew he could trick her into making her do anything he wanted her to do. Besides, he knows she loves having sex with him much more than he even wants to have sex with her. "You should just be happy I'm still talking to you if I have Gabriella to ditch you for." Troy walked away with a smirk, leaving Georgia with a hurt look on her face mixed with guilt.

"He doesn't mean that," she muttered to herself. "He just reacted like that because you yelled at him." She slapped her hand to her forehead. "You should've just kept your mouth shut and kissed him." You can make it up to him though, she thought. She started nodding her head. "Yes, I'll just give him lots of pleasure tonight." She smiled and walked away.

August 30

Monday

3:00pm

Free Period

"Hey, Kirsten." Gabriella sat down beside her at a table located in a far corner in the back of the school's library.

She looked up and smiled. "Hey, Gabriella."

"So we're still on for Friday, my place?" Gabriella asked, referring to their previous conversation over the phone Sunday night.

"Yea, of course." Gabriella sighed. "So, I meant to ask you. Did you go to Troy Bolton's party?"

"Wasn't invited," she said simply with a shrug of her shoulders.

"What?" Gabriella asked, causing Kirsten to shrug her shoulders once more. "That's not going to happen again. I have him wrapped around my finger, so anymore parties—."

"Uh," she interrupted and shook her head. "No, it's fine."

"Are you—?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Besides, I haven't had much good history with parties."

Gabriella opened her mouth to question.

"Long story. I'll tell you when I know you better."

"Ok," Gabriella said suspiciously. She opened her geometry book and started on her homework. However, she didn't get far when someone slammed books down on their table.

The librarian hushed her violently.

"Look, Gabriella Montez. I do not like you. I will destroy you, if I ever see you near my Troy again." Georgia stared down Gabriella with all the hatred she could muster. She was actually wondering what she was doing. She didn't mind Gabriella. She actually did like her. What she didn't like was the attention Troy gave her or the disrespect she received from Troy, and Gabriella seemed to be the perfect person for her to take her anger out on.

Gabriella wasn't afraid of Georgia. She's dealt with girls like her the majority of her life and has always dealt with them fearlessly and modestly. "I'll tell you what." Gabriella stood up so she was face-to-face with Georgia. "No matter how much I could try to avoid Troy, it wouldn't work. Your threats will get you nowhere."

Georgia tried to hide how taken aback she was by sticking her nose in the air and flipping her hair.

"So, why don't you leave me alone and leave Troy alone. He's not good for you, sweetie." Gabriella reached to rub Georgia's arm but she drew back. Gabriella didn't bother to play it off. "Troy's really good-looking, let's face it, but he's not boyfriend material and I'm not interested in doing anything with him that I might regret."

"No, you don't understand. He wants girls like you. You may think you know what you want, you may think he doesn't have an effect on you, but you're in for a rude awakening. Trust me, I was there."

"Well how the hell did you end up like…this?" Gabriella asked cautiously.

"Oh that's something I'm going to let you figure out yourself." Georgia smirked and turned to walk away.

"Georgia." Gabriella turned her back around. "Love's not enough."

"Get your hands off me!" Georgia snatched her wrist away from Gabriella.

"Ssssh!" The librarian loudly whispered.

Georgia rolled her eyes. "You don't know me."

"I know enough." Gabriella stared her down.

Georgia scowled and walked away with a flip of her hair.

Kirsten stared with disbelief at Gabriella. "What the hell just happened?" She whispered.

"Georgia's feeling a little insecure, but no worries, I can handle it."

"Ok," Kirsten said skeptically. "If you say so."

September 4

Friday

12:15pm

Gabriella raised her hand after finishing her test.

"Yes Ms. Montez?" Mrs. Garret asked after looking up from grading papers.

"I finished, may I go to the bathroom?" She asked innocently.

The teacher gestured for her to come and wrote her a pass. She took her test in one hand and handed her a pass in the other.

"Thank you." The teacher nodded and Gabriella walked out the classroom. She hummed to herself as she made her way through the halls she turned a corner, but quickly went back after seeing Troy with an angry expression on his face and Georgia with a scared one on hers.

"What did I tell you, huh?" Troy punched the locker over Georgia's head. "What did I tell you?"

"I said I'm sorry, Troy!" Georgia cried out softly. She was pushed up against a locker and blocked by Troy who had his hands on the lockers next to her by her head.

"That's not good enough! I need the money, G!"

"I know, but my mom—."

"I don't care about your mom! I care about my money! You better have it tomorrow or you'll suffer dire consequences!" Troy hit a locker up beside her head and stormed off fuming.

Georgia looked on the verge of tears as she slid down to the floor and put her head in her hands.

Gabriella laid her back flat against the wall in shock and decided to take a different route to the bathroom. However, while steps away from it she got pulled into a supply closet. She yelped, but it was muffled by the door being shut. The lights were turned on and Gabriella sighed. "What Jason?"

He started kissing her neck.

"Jason, stop." She pushed him softly and bit her lip to hold back a moan from him finding her weak spot.

Jason smirked as he continued to suck and nibble on her spot.

Gabriella continued pushing. She would add more and more force each time but he resisted her each time. "You're going to give me a fucking hickey, Jason! Stop!"

Jason smirked as he pulled away and leaned in for a kiss on the lips.

Gabriella turned so he got her cheek and she pushed him away again, this time succeeding as she recovered from the horniness he previously and involuntarily had made her feel. She scowled as she put her hand on her neck.

"What's wrong?" Jason asked innocently.

"You! You have a girlfriend and you gave me a fucking hickey." She slapped him hard across the face. She walked out and rushed into the bathroom. "No, no, no!" She removed her hand from her neck and saw a bright red spot on her neck.

She let her hair out of her high ponytail and tried rearranging her hair so it blocked her hickey. She mentally thanked herself for deciding to wear her short sleeve hoodie and zipped it all the way up to her neck. "God, I hope nobody sees this."

September 4

Friday

4:00pm

The bell rang and Gabriella sighed contently. "Doesn't it just make you want to cry?" Gabriella smiled as she stretched her arms back, causing her hair to fall back.

Kirsten giggled softly and stood up with her things. She looked up at Gabriella and gasped.

Gabriella immediately put her hand of her neck and muttered a curse under a breath.

"Who gave that to you?" Kirsten whispered while leaning in closer to Gabriella, intrigued.

"I'll tell you later," she whispered hastily as she grabbed her books. "Just," she looked around the library nervously. "Just stop staring at it."

"Ok, ok. Let me try to hide it." Kirsten brushed her hair forward and zipped her hoodie all the way up again. "That's better," she said with a proud smile on her face. "Come with me to the girls' locker room? I left all my things for this weekend in my gym locker."

"Okay," Gabriella said with a sigh. Gabriella gathered all her things and they started out. "But, let's go to our lockers first. I need to get my cell phone."

"K. Meet me back here in five."

"K."

Gabriella reached her locker and was just shutting it when someone pushed her against her locker.

"You thought I wouldn't find out?" Bridget yelled in her face.

Gabriella was shocked and scared all at once. "I-I don't know what you're talking about."

"You don't? I saw you with him! Stay away from my boyfriend!"

Gabriella covered her neck and pretended to be scratching the back of her head. "Bridget, he came on to me. Not the other way around."

"Don't give me that bullshit! And what's that you're hiding?" She moved Gabriella's arm violently and gasped. She cocked a fist up as if to punch her and Gabriella waited, anticipating the worst. But, Bridget's arm was pulled away just as she pulled her arm back causing her weight to be used against her.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Truman?" Troy bellowed loudly. He had pushed himself through the crowd that formed and did not like the scene produced in front of him. Gabriella looked so scared and innocent. He wondered what could provoke anyone to be so angry with her as to hit her.

Bridget turned her head and scowled. "I was about to teach this bitch a lesson! She made out with my boyfriend!"

"No I didn't!" Gabriella yelled.

Troy shook his head. "Hold up now. Gabriella would never do something like that."

"Then explain the hickey on her neck!"

The crowd gasped as Bridget removed the rest of Gabriella's hair that was blocking the hickey from view. She still had a hold of Gabriella's collar and her back pinned against the lockers.

Troy looked taken aback. He looked at Gabriella and saw the guilty and scared expression on her face. He turned back to Bridget. "Why would you go after Gabriella instead of your so-called boyfriend if he did cheat on you with her?"

Bridget frowned. "Because I- because-," she stuttered.

"Get out of here Bridget." Troy said dismissively.

She sneered at him and shot a menacing glance at Gabriella as she walked away.

The crowd dispersed and Kirsten walked up to Gabriella.

"What happened to you? I've been waiting by the library for 10 minutes."

Gabriella turned to Troy who had a disturbed look on his face as he tried to open his locker and looked back at Kirsten. "I'll tell you later." She turned back to Troy. "Thank yo—."

"Don't mention it." He said forcefully before giving up on opening his locker. "I'll be waiting in the truck." He walked away without looking in her direction at all.

"What—?"

"Later."

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