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Gabriella stared through the window seeing the scar body of Troy walking back onto the basket ball court slowly. Her eyes looked at each scar carefully seeing some of the pieces of his flesh were ripped out or even burnt away. Just looking at all those marks made her own skin hurt when someone touched her shoulder making Gabriella jump from the scare. Taylor was next to her looking at her best friend with Sharpay and Kelsi right behind her but moved a bit faster seeing Gabriella jump from the same scare.
"You scared me Taylor" Gabriella said with her hand towards her heart breathing slowly.
Taylor smiled looking at Gabriella "You have always been a scary cat Gab. So why aren't you inside the gym watching the guys" she asked raising one eyebrow looking at her best friend.
"Yeah I am I get to see Zeke's rock hard body his muscles just so big while he plays and his…." Sharpay stopped seeing three stares looking at her.
Gabriella was trying to figure out a excuse when she turned back seeing that Troy was still standing on the court stretching his body slowly then looking at her friends pointing through the window of the door. All three girls looked through the window seeing Troy's body with their eyes widening at what they saw causing them to look away.
"What do you think happen to him?" Taylor asked first one speaking from what they saw all over Troy's body.
"I don't know my mom doesn't like to talk about a person's past but I think he was abuse from his parents" Gabriella said thinking about all her ideas about what would have happen.
"Man Gabriella, beside the scars all over Troy's body I must say he is a hotty" Sharpay said with a glint in her eye. A smiled played over her face while watching Troy who was talking to the other people on his team.
Gabriella looked through the window again now taking a good look at Troy when a blushed appeared over her face. Troy had muscles over his scars his arms were strong and large with his leg showing how strong they were. Soon Gabriella watched Troy nodded to a tall guy talking about something that she couldn't tell. On the other side the cheerleaders had just sneaked in to see the gym seeing the fresh guys for the team and they all stopped seeing Troy's scars and body they all we're in awe.
Troy knew that they were all watching him but that didn't matter right now for him because he was in a battle against the shirt side. He walked behind a tall guy who was going to be the jumper. The blue eyes disappeared behind his eyelids when he took a deep breath then opening them up seeing everyone on both sides the beast within roar wanting to start. Troy lowers his stance on the ground like a predator waiting for the first movement.
Coach walked out onto the court with the basket ball looking at each side throwing it up and getting out of the way. Both taller players jumped the skin player got the ball hitting it back with Troy suddenly catching then passing it down court without looking. Several laughs could be heard from the bleachers from the starters but a skin caught the ball doing an easy lay up scoring the first basket of the game. Once again it was silent on both sides with Troy standing tall giving a small high-five to the guy who had just scored.
The game soon started again with the shirts starting to run back into the offense with Troy looking at player his cold blue eyes seen all their motion carefully. He suddenly yelled an order to the guy on the right saying watch the pass within a second of ordering he took off down court. The skin stole the ball doing a fast break with Troy easily catching it and doing another lay up. He looked around seeing everyone whispering but his three friends smiling at him with a nodded of his head towards Chad, Zeke, and Jason.
Hour Later
It was an up roar the skins had completely destroyed the shirts with Troy and his teammates were hardly breathing for he had down all the assists and several three point shots with two pointers too. Coach was speechless for what he had just say a single player making an all star team out of players that he never play with, it made an smiled appeared on his face. He stood up and walked over to the skins and started to point too players when he finally pointed to Troy last his smiled widen when he pointed at Troy.
"Troy, you stay afterwards I want to talk with you a bit" he said walking away with Troy rushing to get his shirt back on for people looking at him made him feel uncomfortable.
Chad, Zeke, and Jason rushed over to him all with smiles all over their faces "Dude, you were amazing at playing" Zeke said sitting above of Troy.
"Yeah, you are a natural leader you could make a better Captain then Drake" Jason said with a nodded of his head.
Chad just smiled "Dude, I think we can finally win against the West High Knights for the championship" He said slapping the back of Troy's neck.
He looked up at the three "Maybe I don't really know if I did that good" he said just shrugging a bit with his shirt over his scars placing his hands together.
Within a few seconds the gym was empty beside the four who stayed to play some more. Coach walked into the gym again looking at his three best players plus the new one and they made a great time.
"TROY" he yelled with walking up to them with all four stopping and looking at the Coach.
"Yes sir" Troy asked wiping off the sweat from his forehead looking up at the man.
Coach looked at him "Son, do you think you could lead this team?" he asked looking at Troy carefully.
He thought about it carefully with what Coach said then taking a deep breath "Yes sir, I really do think I could lead this team" he said in a strong voice knowing that he could because he could feel the beast within me telling him he could.
Coach smiled looking at Troy "Good then tomorrow at practice we'll have a vote for Captain" he said patting Troy's shoulder walking away.
Behind the bleachers a very steamed Drake had just heard what the Coach had told Troy and he was going to do something that still make him captain of this team. After talking to the guys, Troy head towards the locker room to get his clothes slowly walking in getting the locker open for himself. Suddenly he moved his head just in a split second when a fist made contacted with the locker. He turned his head seeing Drake in pain from punching the locker and a smiled appeared over Troy's lips grabbing his arm pulling it straight like a crowbar behind his back.
Drake screamed in pain "What the hell you're a weakly aren't you?" he said through the pain grabbing a locker with his free hand.
Troy held tightly on Drake's arm moving his mouth closer towards his ear "Listen very carefully Drake" he whispered in a ice cold voice "I didn't fight back because I was asked not too for the sake of someone but now I have nothing to hold me back. However, you're lucky because a few weeks earlier I would have ripped out your throat so count yourself lucky about that. So I want you to leave me alone and everyone I know and if you don't then there is no telling how hard or fast I will find you and beat you until an inch of your life" Troy whispered with his icy cold voice.
Drake was shaking uncontrollable now he could from Troy's voice and the look in his eye for he knew that this guy was telling the truth. "What are you" He chocked out to Troy of fear.
He smiled at Drake's question leaning in closer "I am a Beast Drake and you should never forget that" he whispered releasing Drake's arm grabbing his clothes and walking out of the locker room.
Drake watches Troy leave the locker room while holding his arm with hate in his eyes when he wanted to get him badly now. However, he knew that his power on this school was slowly slipping away so he would be to start fresh somewhere when an idea popped into his head.
Troy was walking through the hallways when people started to whispered when seeing him the words of 'Scars' and 'He is totally hot' were going all around the school. Sighing slowly he kept walking to his locker when seeing Gabriella who seemed to be deep in thought about something. He walked up and looked at her for a long time like he was trying to read her brown eyes.
"What are you thinking about" he asked opening his locker while getting a few books.
Gabriella suddenly jump not knowing that Troy was next to her taking a deep breath "Well I was remember the night I came home drunk and someone carry me to my room" she said looking at Troy who stop for a split second then went back grabbing books. "Well I remember touching a large scar across someone's chest and I saw you at try outs so I was wondering Troy was it you" she asked in a curious voice.
Troy just nodded at her when she asked about that first night when he started living with the Montez family. He didn't say anything to Gabriella for the whole day as he went through his class like it was a dream for people kept whispering about him. Troy didn't mind when girls were starting to follow him through the time in-between classes. Somehow he became popular too fast even he knew that as he knew that Chad and the others told the cheerleaders about him so it went down the food chain he guessed.
After school Troy and Gabriella where back at her house with Troy in the kitchen eating some apples that were set out for them. He looked at the note saying that Miss. Montez was going to be late coming home. Troy just nodded reading the note taking a bite of an apple. Suddenly Gabriella walked down wearing some nice looking jeans and a plain T-shirt. She was looking at her feet when standing in the kitchen.
"Troy do you want to do for a walk so we could talk about each other" she asked looking up at him with her beautiful brown eyes.
Troy was taken back by this action for he didn't know what to say while he thought about it slowly then letting out a quiet sigh "Alright" he whispered barely audio able to Gabriella.
She smiled and grabbed Troy's hand and ran off towards somewhere which Troy didn't know. After, a few minutes of running but not before shutting the door of the Montez's house, Troy found himself walking with Gabriella in a beautiful park which looked a lot like that park he saw in New York for only a few moments when he was shopping. It was quiet all around them with birds flying all around them with a few people smiling and waving at them which Troy guesses Gabriella knew them from somewhere. He closed his eyes smelling the fresh air which was something that he would never get old of for it felt so free for him like nothing mattered.
"Troy" Gabriella said walking backwards looking at him seeing that his eyes were closed.
"Hmmmm…" he said opening them revealing his ocean blue eyes to her when he saw her blushing slightly.
Gabriella quickly turned around and returned walking next to him "So how do you like East High now that you must be the most interesting person now" she asked placing her arms around her back.
Troy laughs a bit "Well I don't know for the fact that everyone knows that I am a basket player so a lot of people are going to be watching me. Or maybe it's because you heard about my incredible geniuses which hasn't been seen in years" he said making fun of himself.
Gabriella laughed a bit "I don't know if I have heard about that but I heard you're like some sort of basket ball god who hasn't been seen" she said skipping a bit now.
Troy continued to walk looking around seeing how peacefully it was but his ocean blue eyes kept looking at Gabriella for a feeling was arising within him that was different. The sound of his heart beating harder and harder could be heard within his eyes. 'What's wrong with me' he thought watching her. The smell of her perfume was within his nose now which causes him to smile without even thinking.
Gabriella suddenly turned around and saw that he was looking at her "What are you looking at Troy?" she asked pretending not knowing what he was looking at.
He shot up looking at her "I don't know but can I ask you a question?" he asked walking in front of her hands still in his jean pockets.
She nodded "Sure what is the question" she said following him while looking at the back of his neck.
He took a deep breath "What do you seen in Drake?" he asked in a sort of trying not to give away emotions within the question.
Gabriella laughed a bit "Well, what I saw in Drake that is a good question" she said tilting her head and started to think about it. "I think it was because I was the 'it' girl. So I sort of had to fall to the date Drake I guess." She said thinking more and more about it. She caught up to him "Troy, you have to remember High School is filled with different groups and everyone has to be fallen within one of them your going to be falling within the jocks with Chad and everyone else" she said looking up at him.
Troy slowly nodded "Gabriella, I learned something in New York is that never give up on anything especially when your life is always on the line" he said stopping and looking at a playground.
Gabriella looked at him even more "What do you mean when your live is always on the line?" she asked wanting to know what he meant by his words.
"You know I never had a normal childhood" he said looking at kids playing happily around. "I mean I never got to play anything with anyone else I just sat and waited until I was needed" he said in a sad voice when tears started to form up within his blue eyes.
Gabriella looked seeing the tears starting to form within Troy's eyes as she absent mindedly wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him into her. Tears started fall from Troy's eyes that were held in for years upon years they fell from his eyes like a little child. Gabriella held Troy tight while crying for it was a quiet cry no sounds just only tears. She could feel her shirt starting to get wet from Troy's tear she wonder how could someone feel this much pain.
"Troy please tell me what happen to you and how you got all those scars" she asked in a whispered worried that it was too soon.
Slowly, Troy didn't say anything for he kept crying but soon he stopped wiping his eyes so they wouldn't show that he was crying. However, he didn't mind that Gabriella saw that he weeps from something important. Troy's eyes looked at her for a long time unsure how to answer her question that she asked him. The beast within me told me him not to tell her anything but he had to tell someone for this was important and one of the darkness moments within his life as he pulled away from her slowly.
He slowly took a shake breath then waited for a moment "Gabriella, you had a lovely life I can tell from what I see but I am just not ready to reveal what happen to me and how I got these scars" he said in a quiet voice. "However, you are the only one that I seem calm and normal with like I am not some sort of animal or beast which I thank you for. But one day I will tell you what happen to me but just for now I am not ready" he said in a shake tone.
She nodded slowly "Troy, I understand that your not ready but in a different way. But know this Troy, I am here for you and you can always come and talk to me about anything" she said wrapping her arms around him again and hugging him again.
Troy let her hug him the warm from her was so nice her smell was intoxicating to him which he loved. He slowly wrapped his arms around her perfect waist and held her close to him. This moment right now for Troy was something that will last in eternity and nothing was going to change that for him.
After, a few moments they broke apart looking at each as Gabriella just giggle slightly then pulled away from him. They started walking again and just talked like a boy and a girl nothing weird or anything just talking. This moment was something that both of them was much enjoyable. They walked for a some more hours until reaching home seeing that Miss. Montez was already in bed tired from work. Troy and Gabriella didn't say anything for the rest of the night while they went to bed for the next day.
Next Day
Troy was sitting in Miss. Darbus classroom reading a book which he found on her desk he just picked it up and started to read it. The reason why Troy was here so early was because he went to the gym early so he could practice a bit more. The coach had seen him working out and working on shooting and rebounding too. So that lead Troy getting a long talk about how he had a good work ethnic and how it will help him in the long ran. However, that talk was nothing to him for he had to just get some anger out and that was playing basket ball now. The sound of a paper flipping of the book could be heard through out the classroom. This book was something completely interesting to him for he never actually read a book before.
"Mr. Troy, may I ask what are you doing here so early" the sound of Miss. Darbus voice breaking through Troy's train of thought.
He looked up seeing Miss. Darbus at the entrance of the doorway when he set the book down on his desk. "Sorry Miss. Darbus, I just got done with my early morning work out and I saw this on a desk and I just started to pick it up" he said seeing if she would do something against him.
Miss. Darbus slowly removed her glass while walking towards her throne "Tell me, Mr. Troy what do you find interesting about Count of Monte Cristo" she asked eying him carefully.
Troy swallow slowly thinking about his respond "Well I found it interesting that Edmond Dantes is traveling around the world to find all those wrongly done by his enemies which makes him help them in special ways" he said "While using the Count as another person that is allowed him to get close to all his enemies" he added hoping that was the answer Miss. Darbus was looking for.
A smile appeared on the woman's lips when hearing Troy's respond "Interesting theory Mr. Troy please tell me what you thought of the book when you are done with it" she said starting to read the newspaper slowly.
Troy was a little bewilder at her respond when going back to read when suddenly he could hear herds of students coming in talking and laughing about things. Troy sighed when seeing that his little peacefully world was over and real life came once again. He stood up taking the old looking book under his arm and smiled "Thank you Miss. Mr. Darbus" he said walking out of the room and towards the hallways.
Miss. Darbus nodded at Troy when leaving when smiling "Well this boy is something of a gem within this whole school" she said to herself when looking at the paper again.
Troy walked slowly through the hallways when seeing the group of his friends forming at the front which he didn't mind seeing. His eyes suddenly caught Gabriella laughing and talking to Sharpay and Taylor about something. He took a deep breath and walked toward them.
Author note: Sorry about the long wait but school and work finally caught up with me. Thank you for all the reviews too.