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"Troy" Chad said walking up to Troy like they been like friends for years slapping him on the back with a smile. "Dude, I heard from coach that Drake left the school and went some where else" he said in a happily tone.
Troy just smiled but his brain was working now for this was a little too strange even for this especially when Drake hatred him so much. 'It just not adding up' he thought walking towards the job slapping hands and nodding to them.
"Troy, where did you get that book" Taylor asked turning her head slightly letting her black hair hang covering her neck.
He looked down at the book and holding up to everyone "You mean Count of Monte Cristo?" he asked when he saw everyone's eyes widen.
"Troy, that's Miss. Darbus copy of that book" Zeke said in awe look on his face that he couldn't believe it.
Troy slowly nodded "Yeah, I was reading it after my morning work out" he said turning to Gabriella "Sorry about not being there this morning" he said.
Gabriella nodded but Kelsi just shook her head "Troy, Miss Darbus never let anyone have that book it like her grail or like the Musicals at this school" she said not believing what she was seeing.
Troy sighed "Alright, let's stop this conversation for I don't feel like its going to go anywhere" he said walking away from everyone and towards his first period.
Everyone watch but Gabriella tilted her head slightly when seeing everyone around Troy started whispering seeing if they could see his scars. "I guess word travels fast around this school" she said mostly to her self when Sharpay looked at her.
"Gabi, this is East high word travels like e-mails when something new happens then everyone knows about it" she said texting with her brand new pink crystal side kick.
Gabriella smiled "That is really true Sharpay but where is your man and your brother" she asked looking at one of her best friends.
Sharpay let out a small sighed "Ryan and Zeke are in the training/weight room for morning since they got permission to do something in there" she said not happy about not seeing Zeke or having some of his famous cookies before the start of class.
Zeke and Ryan were in the weight room in a wrestling mate which was apart of the weight room. It was one of the largest rooms within the East High school that all the jocks used at different seasons. All the most advance equipment for working out was here to help all the East high athletics to become stronger and faster then all the rest of the rival schools. Ryan and Zeke were fighting for Ryan was a master of Compo while Zeke was a boxer for the boxing team. The show man was back flipping perfectly back on his feet and fixing his hat after the show of athletics. Zeke looked at his girlfriend's twin brother sighing.
"Man, Ryan your really good at Compo" he said wiping the sweat off his brow looking with his gloves.
Ryan smiled looking at Zeke "It helps with going cart wheels and hand stands when I am on stage with Shar" he said with a smile when starting to move back and forth swinging his arms with his whole body.
Zeke started to bounce up and down slowly when rushing forth and sending rapid punches towards Ryan but the actor just cart wheeled out of the way like it was nothing. While he did a spin kick like it was nothing hitting Zeke's legs causing him to fall down. Ryan rolled backwards and jumped up perfectly looking at the fallen Zeke smiling.
"You have to watch your feet man" Ryan said helping Zeke up while he showed up his perfect body of his eight pack abs and wearing shorts.
Zeke sighed "I box I don't fight with my feet but thanks for the advice" he said taking the help from Ryan.
Suddenly the sound of clapping could be heard when Zeke and Ryan turned their heads seeing Troy in the door way smiling. Troy walked into the room looking around slowly. He seemed different now and both of the guys couldn't tell from how he walked. Troy had this powerfully aura around himself like a hungry beast wanting blood or something.
"You two are really impressive" he said looking at them with his beast like sky blue eyes.
Zeke smiled "Thanks man, its hard keeping up with Ryan sometimes" he said breathing hard.
Troy nodded slowly "I could see but hey do you both think I could join" he asked smiling like a wolf when asking to join the fight.
Ryan tensed up when seeing that smile from Troy which was something different that he never seen before. Zeke also tensed up seeing that look from Troy which was something different like a different person completely. However, Troy blinked slowly returning to himself slowly and taking a deep breath looking at his two friends.
"Sorry about that" Troy said rubbing the back of his neck slowly couldn't believe that he lost control of his monster.
Both guys relaxed themselves after seeing Troy returning to normal but that chill down their spines of fear still had feeling. "So do you want to join in Troy" Ryan asked in a curious voice wanting to see what Troy could do now after seeing that smile.
The blue eye teen nodded his head "Yeah sure" he said walking over to a bench and setting all his books on it. Slowly he pulled off his shirt revealing all his scars and setting his shirt on the bench too.
Both Zeke and Ryan was an unbeatable tag team in fighting others so they were warming up slowly. Zeke was jumping up and down slowly sending fierce jabs towards the air. Ryan on the other hand was practicing dance like styles of moving his body in different position on the mate. When Troy step out on to the mate it felt like a mighty pressure just appeared when he stepped on to the mate. He wore just his black jeans shoeless and sockless while he took two black gloves.
Ryan and Zeke could feel that pressure of Troy which they never felt before like they were going too died if they even move one inch from the look in Troy's eyes. Troy was jumping in the air slowly moving his head side to side trying to get a feel of the mate. Suddenly his eyes changed into the beast which hadn't came out since the last fight in New York. He slowly couches down like a predator waiting for his prey to make a move.
"Come on" Troy said in a low and deadly voice feeling his body remembering everything ever thing he did in New York.
Ryan and Zeke looked at each other for a long time unsure about what they should do for they never felt fear before. However that didn't stop them from charging right towards Troy which wasn't a good idea. Zeke set a canon like right hook right into Troy's face how haven't even more yet showing no emotion in his eyes. Right when Zeke's punch seemed like it was going to hit Troy, he disappeared and appeared on the other side grabbing Zeke's arm and throwing him against the ground. The blue eye teen quickly back flips backwards right when Ryan's heel came down to the spot that Troy was originally.
Ryan looked at Troy impressed at what he saw from him since not a lot of people could have guess that Zeke's weak spot was his blind spot is when he was throwing his punch. However, it was more impressive that he dodge his kick when a smile plays out on his face. 'This is going to be fun' Ryan thought fixing his hat for he hadn't fought in a long time. Troy stood up slowly smiling too in his wolfish grin once again seeing that this was going to be fun for him. Zeke was on the ground seeing stars trying to regain his senses slowly but it wasn't working from the hit against the mate.
Troy and Ryan circle around each other slowly waiting for the first person to mess up. Troy did the first mistake doing a miss step which Ryan jumped all over it not thinking it was a trap that he had set for him. Ryan did another downward heel drop but Troy was ready when grabbing Ryan's leg and moving all his body weight into his legs and throwing Ryan to the floor hard. However when doing that Zeke was able to recover his sense when seeing his partner hit the mate. 'This is unreal' Zeke said hitting himself with his gloves not believing now strong Troy is.
Troy turned his head looking at Zeke moving towards him slowly when Zeke put his guard up and started to send hooks and jabs right in to Troy's path. However, Troy just took the hit easily showing no pain when getting hit when Zeke was switching for his right hook Troy sent a powerfully upper cut making contact with his chin. When the hit made contact Zeke at a daze when that punch got his jaw but suddenly a hail of punches to his gut made Zeke weaker. Suddenly a mid kick made contract with Zeke's left side sending the big man to the ground with easy.
Troy's sixth sense suddenly kicks in when moving his head barely missing an elbow from Ryan who had gotten up somehow. He was moving back from the different sort of motions that Ryan was making which impressed Troy a lot for he was learning Ryan's and Zeke's style of fighting from watching them.
Ryan was spinning and doing things that seemed unnatural when watching him for Troy never seen a move when you hand stand and start spinning. Troy was getting hit every time as he felt the pain from his old wounds from where Drake gave them too him. Ryan however was starting to be ruthless about his attacks now feeling like he should be winning against Troy. Suddenly Troy just stopped moving his hair was covering his blue eyes. Each kick seemed like they weren't doing anything to his harden body.
Ryan back flips back to his feet when feeling that pressure suddenly returning from Troy. A cold chill ran down his spine when he shook his head to regain himself and flip towards him but Troy was already moving clothes lining Ryan with awesome strength which Ryan never felt before. Troy looked at the fallen Ryan who was coughing from the pain of the hit. He grabbed Ryan's arm and put his legs over his throat and chest and started to pull on his arm. A crowbar was what the move was call in UFC. Ryan started to tap out from the pain but Troy wasn't giving up when he suddenly returned to his senses.
Troy got off and looked at Ryan "Ryan, I am so sorry about that I just lost my control" he said helping Ryan up seeing him holding his shoulder.
Ryan shook his head "No man, it's alright I never had a fight like that in a long time your really good" he said moving to sit at the bench wear his clothing and things where.
Troy moved over to help Zeke up seeing that he wasn't getting up so Troy help Zeke up and lead him towards were Ryan was sitting. He looked at his sitting friends hoping that they were ok for he felt bad that he lost control when fighting with him.
"Troy, you're amazing" Zeke said gasping for air when blinking several times to make sure everything was alright.
Troy sat down on the mate looking at them and shook his head "No I am not I broke my promise with Gabriella and I promise not to fight and I fought which makes me sad now" he said feeling like he betrayed Gabriella some way for he was starting to feels for her now.
Ryan wave his good hand "It's fine Troy, beside I think with you on the basket ball team I think we have a really chance at the junk yard battle" He said with a smile on his face while Zeke was nodding in agreement with Ryan.
Troy looked at them carefully "What do you mean junk yard battle" he asked not understanding what they were talking about.
Zeke smiled "It's a huge battle against a bunch of rival schools like the West High Knights, North High Warrior, and South High Pirates. All the schools come together to Riley's junkyard and a group is selected to do a battle between the four schools" he said.
Ryan nodded "Yeah it was always been Drake, Chad, Jason, Zeke and myself fighting for East High but we always lose because of Drake" he said in a anger tone.
Troy looked at them again not understanding but shook his head "Sorry but I am not going to fight in this junkyard battle thing" he said standing up and walking over to where all this stuff was.
"Why not Troy, you're amazing you took both of us down like it was nothing" he said walking towards him.
He shook his head "I promise Gabriella that I will not fight and I will keep my promise to her. This time I just wanted to release some of my stress that was all and I thank both of you for that" he said pulling his shirt over his body.
Ryan and Zeke looked at each other seeing Troy walked out of the training room to head to class which was there guess. They both know that they need to Troy to win this year. Drake had always chicken out at the last minute so they would always be a disadvantage when facing the other schools. Ryan stood up and stretches when grabbing his clothing and looked at Zeke.
"So I guess we're going to tell the others about Troy?" he asked knowing what Zeke was already thinking.
A smile appeared on the boxer "Of course Ryan, when Chad hears what Troy did he will be begging Troy to help use with the fight" he said pulling on his shirt and they both slapped each other hands.
Lunch time
Troy was sleeping on the roof of the school which he had just found thanks to some of the people he over heard talking about the garden club. This spot was extremely nice which made the world seem at peace to him. However the feeling of the day seemed boring to him after the fight with Ryan and Zeke. Troy's blood was pumping and everything seemed slow to him now which wasn't a good thing. He tried to calm himself knowing that the beast had enjoyed that little awaking from what it was uses too. Troy moved his hand over his face looking up at the perfectly blue skin when thinking about what the guys asked from him.
'I can't do that it sounds just like what I was doing all those years before' he thought when his sensitive ears picked up on someone running up the stairs.
He quickly got up and ran towards the shadows hiding and making sure that he would be invisible to everyone. Slowly his sky blue eyes came upon Gabriella walking up wiping her eyes slowly. Troy saw that she was crying about something and he wanted to know why but he didn't move yet.
Gabriella moved slowly up the stairs to the small wooden structure that was made for the flowers as she sat herself down on a stool. She suddenly broke down and started crying for some reason. The girl that Troy thought was strong and powerfully was crying and he didn't know what to do. He could see the tears rolling down her eyes while she tried to content herself. Troy did something he never thought he would have done in million of years and that was he slowly stood up walked silently towards the one thing he found worth protecting and making sure nothing would happen to her.
Time it self seemed to stop when Troy stood behind her slowly and carefully wrapping his powerfully arms around her body carefully. He was so nervous that she would be ashamed of having someone seen her cry but he knew that this felt like the right thing to do. Gabriella tensed up when feeling someone's arms wrapped around her body and held her close his chest.
"Its ok, I am here for you just like you were here for me" he whispered into her ear showing that he was always here for her.
The tears kept going when he felt Gabriella shifted around so she was facing him. Troy saw her eyes were red and swollen when he felt her arms wrapping around his waist and holding him close not wanting him to let go of her. She burdens her head into his chest. He just held her close to him hearing the sobs from her which cause his cold heart which he haven't felt in years start slowly melting when seeing her like this. Gabriella was holding onto Troy making sure that he wouldn't move for she felt so weak and just waited someone with her now.
After, a few more minutes of crying Gabriella had calmed down and looked at up at Troy with a small smile her brown eyes looking into his sky blue eyes. Troy just smiled at her holding her close to him. He could hear her breathing was still a little shaken.
"Are you alright now" he said final after what seemed like a long silent of them looking at each other.
Gabriella slowly nodded at him "Yeah, Troy I am fine. Thanks for doing that for me it really help me" she whispered resting her head against his chest.
Troy just nodded "May I asked why where you crying" he asked in a whispered so not to upset her anymore.
Gabriella took a deep breath trying to remind calm "So after you left I went to my locker for a couple of my books right" she said not looking at him. "When I got there my whole locker was covered with poster of saying 'Gabriella is a slut', 'She got popular because of sleeping with Drake' all short of things. So through out the day I found more and more of them at my desk in all my different classes and everything" she said finally starting to cry again.
Troy started to move his hand against her hair slowly showing that he understood somewhat. "Its ok your not any of those things" he whispered never seeing her this weak before.
Gabriella let out a small hic up which causes Troy to just laugh without even thinking. She looked at him "Why are you laughing" she asked while Troy pulled away.
For the first time in his life Troy started to laugh he didn't even know why "I am sorry but that hic up was just funny" he said laughing again.
Gabriella suddenly started to laugh when seeing Troy laugh since he had a great laugh that she never heard of before. Soon they were both laughing about one small sound. However slowly it died away and everything was quiet between them with a small breeze of wind coming and moving the flower's pedals carefully.
"Troy" Gabriella asked tilting her head when resting her head against her hand while looking at him.
Troy was on the stairs back turned to her looking up at the sky seeing that everything seemed perfect to him. "Yes" he said turning and looking at her with one of his blue eyes.
Gabriella looked at him pushing some of her brown hair out of her face slowly. "Are you doing to the dance next week" she asked in a curious voice.
"Uhhhhh….I didn't think I was invited to go" he said turning and looking at her not understanding that a dance is where everyone can go.
Gabriella gave a perfect smile seeing Troy still didn't understand the teenagers' world. "Troy, everyone is invited I am just curious if you are going with someone or not" she said standing up straight.
He slowly shook his head no for he didn't think it was really important for him now. "No, I haven't be asked or I don't even think I am going to go since it something that isn't really my thing" he said trying to use his words correctly.
She nodded slowly "Well if I asked you if you wanted to go with me what would you say" she asked leaning forward and looking at him with a smile.
'What' he thought slowly trying to gather his thoughts but they weren't really coming together like he wanted. 'Think come on think, what can I say that I want to go with he' Troy thought but nothing was coming out of his mouth while his mouth was trying to form words.
Gabriella smiled seeing that Troy was trying to say something but it was coming out hard for him which causes her to smile. "Tell me when you're ready to give me answer" she said getting up and walking downstairs.
He watch seeing that she left he let out a huge sigh "I want to go with you" he said when starting to hate himself. Slowly he picked up Miss. Darbus book and started to read for the rest of lunch for he was angry at himself.
The rest of the day was mostly basket ball practice until the coach ran the team into the ground. However, Troy was breathing but not as hard as everyone else whiled he dripped a basket ball and doing some moves so his body would feel natural with the movements. He had also been getting bugged from Chad about the junkyard war which Troy guess that Zeke and Ryan told Chad about him. Troy was now getting down his lay ups thinking about everything from today when Chad's voice cut through his thoughts.
"Dude, come on I want to see the Wildcats win at least the championship and the junkyard battle once this year" he said standing next to Troy.
He didn't even acknowledge Chad's remarks when looking at the hoop carefully when shooting it and a perfect swish was made. Troy turned and looked at Chad "How do you say yes to someone who asked you to a dance" he asked out of the blue.
Chad blink slightly surprise "You got asked to the dance" he said in a sort of a shock tone.
Troy nodded "I am I the one who is suppose to ask the girl of is it the other way around" he asked not understanding what had happen to him.
Chad just smiled "Didn't you go to School where ever you live" he asked which Troy gave the afro friend an uneasy shrugged. "Ok this type of dance is a Lady Wildcat dance which means girls ask guys" he said patting him on the back.
"Are you going to the dance?" Troy asked looking at Chad now wiping the sweat off his forehead.
Chad nodded and started to move to an invisible beat "Hell yeah, Taylor and I are going to be dancing the night away" he said moving his head up and down.
Troy just nodded slowly "Alright then" he said running off when hearing the whistle telling the team to start running another set of lines.
The basket ball practice lasted until around six or seven at night which didn't bother Troy too much. He told Gabriella that she could just go home and didn't have to wait for him. The night breeze made Troy feel better for he was only wearing his jeans and a light black shirt. A duffle bag was hang from Troy's right shoulder which was red and white with a wild cat on the side a gift from the coach for being voted captain. He didn't really care about being voted Captain of the team he was more worried about not responding to Gabriella. She didn't really talk to him when he told her that she didn't have to wait for him. He was really worried now thinking that she may be anger at him or something.
Upon reaching the house Troy just looked at it carefully when going around back and looking at the tree which leads to Gabriella's balcony. He took a deep breath and started climbing the tree with easy. 'Come on Troy, you can do this' he thought moving through the branches like a ghost. When reaching the balcony he landed silently looking at the window doors seeing that Gabriella was listening to her IPod from what she told him last night.
Slowly Troy knocked on the window loud enough that Gabriella looked up from what she was doing and just looked at Troy. She slowly pulled out her headphones and walked to the door. She wore sweats and a white tank top that showed off her nice looking chest.
"Alright this is a new one Troy. Why did you climb up the tree instead of using the door" she said when opening the door and leaning against the frame her arms cross.
Troy took a deep breath "Gabriella" he said taking another deep breath "I would like it if the offer still stand" he said trying to remain calm.
He could see that Gabriella was watching him carefully seeing what he had to say first before doing anything. "That we go to the dance together" he said finally after a long pause of fearfully thoughts.
Before Troy could say anything Gabriella suddenly jumped into his arms and hugged him "Of course" she said hugging him tightly then moving away. "However, we have to go shopping for us to find something nice" she said nodding her head.
Troy just nodded "Yeah alright" he said moving towards the tree again "Good night" he said before climbing towards his window in a state of shock.
He slide into his room and was still in his state of shock "I am going to a dance with a very beautiful girl" he said to himself laid on his bed. Slowly he closes his eyes thinking about Gabriella and her smile when drifting off to sleep.
Author note: This was a good day that I got two Chapters out. Thank you for reading and please continue to review.