Hey guys!!! Sorry for the wait. I had a writer's block for a week or so but then it hit me and it turned out pretty good. I wanted to make this longer but I thought that the end was too good to keep going on. So...enough babbling. Enjoy!!
-Grace =)
Gab's POV:
"Mrs. Levi?" I walked up to the girl's varsity basketball coach and girl's gym teacher.
She turned around and smiled. I always liked Mrs. Levi. She was 26 and had just gotten married over the summer (Miss. Miller was her maiden name). She was pretty (blonde hair and blue eyes) and had a great sense of humor.
Also, recently, I found out that she was my sister Mariana's best friend. They both went to East High and loved sports. They are inseparable still today. Our family was invited to the wedding (so were the Bolton's since Mr. Bolton is the boy's gym teacher). I wonder if I could guilt her into letting me on the team? That would be plan Z.
"Gabriella! Nice to see you! What is up?" I smiled at her peppiness.
"Ummm….I was wondering if I could try out for the girls basketball team?" Her smile grew bigger and I was confused.
"Of course!! I have been hinting all these years to have you try out!! You have tremendous talent Gabriella! Come to try outs today. We will have to share the gym with the boys but we still will have a scrimmage at the end. Is that okay?"
I nodded and smiled. "Thank you Mrs. Levi." She shook her head. "No Gabi…thank you." I smiled and walked to my next class which was my least favorite. Art. I never have been good at it but yet I was put in advanced art.
I walked in and sat down. All the art freaks were in there. I was a science geek but I liked sports. Art freaks were so worse. Then the next thing that came into the room after surprised me. Troy Bolton.
My eyebrows lifted up and he looked around the room then his eyes settled on me. He smiled and sat down across from me.
"So you are a science nerd, math geek, star basketball player and Picasso? Wow, Miss. Montez." He laughed.
"So you, Troy Bolton, are an asshole, a girl getter, star basketball player and Picasso? Wow." He glared at me and I laughed. I loved doing that to people.
"Whatever Montez." Miss. Reigns talked for a little while and then she gave us an assignment. To draw a portrait of the person if front of you. Egh!! In all of my 3 years I have been in this school I had barely talked to Troy Bolton!! Now he is wrapped up in my life in just one day!
We looked at each other at the same time then sighed at the same time then laughed at the same time then stopped at the same time which made us laugh again. Maybe this wasn't going to be so bad. We went and got our pencils and our pad.
We had about 45 minutes to do as much as we could. Split time between each person. I decided that I would be the model first then troy would be.
As soon as we got started I saw a new side of Troy Bolton. His art side was more becoming to him then his player side. He would look at me then tell me were to move and then look at me for a minute then fix me.
"Your eyes are your best feature. You can't hide them. They are really pretty." He blushed and I smiled at him. This was a whole new Troy Bolton. This was the other Troy that no one had seen except his family.
"Thank you. I think your eyes are your best feature too. Ice blue." He smiled and came over to me and pushed my left side of hair behind my ear and out of my face. I blushed and he smiled.
"Perfect." He went over to his easel and started. He looked up every once and a while but his pencils danced across the page. Then it was time to switch and I started getting ready. I put him in the right position and it was perfect. His eyes definitely were his best part. So I accented them but not too much.
"Class. I would like everyone to finish in the next week so if you have to stay after school then so be it. Class dismissed."
I got up and walked over to the table and grabbed my things. As I walked out I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see my best friend and Chad Danforth coming toward me.
"Gabi!" Taylor squeezed me so tight I thought I was going to pop. "I missed you this summer! Why did you have to go with your sister to Hawaii? Never mind, bad question. So……how was it? Do you have a guy? Some Hawaiian hottie?" I laughed.
"Nope. No guy yet. Not until I get a letter in the mail. Then I will chose my guy." She squealed and Chad groaned. He hated all this girl talk.
"So Gabs…I got no hello? Or hey Chad? Or I missed you tons this summer?" I laughed and gave him a hug as Troy came out of the art room.
"Hey Chad. I missed you tons this summer. But the guys in Hawaii made up for it." He laughed and gave me another bear hug as Troy made his way over.
"Dude! You know Gabi right? Guess what she did? Went to Hawaii for the summer! Isn't that sick!? It must have been amazing! Gabs? Did you see a volcano? Did it explode?" We all laughed.
"I saw a volcano Chad but it didn't explode when I was there. But it did exploded a couple days after." We all laughed. Chad hung his arms over Taylor and I's shoulders and Troy felt a little out of place. He sort of waved goodbye and walked over to some slutty girl.
I sighed. I had liked the other Bolton I saw today in art class. But I don't know which Bolton is the real one. The player Bolton or the sensitive artistic Bolton? I watched him go up to the girl and talk to her for a couple seconds then they started to make out.
I guess that answers my question. I sighed again knowing that he would never change. The next periods went by fast and lunch came quick. Today I didn't sit with the science decathlon people but the basketball girls. They all were very nice and were so excited that I was going to be on the team.
My favorite was Emily Hutch. She was in 12th grade like me and she was very pretty. She had auburn hair that was wavy and had green eyes. She was nice and funny too. I felt bad for leaving Taylor all alone with Chad but it was worth it.
"So Gabs? Why didn't you try out for basketball other years?" I looked up from my food to see Emily's green eyes looking at me. I smiled.
"My dream was to get into Stanford and I was all focused on school but then this year I decided what the hay!" All the girls giggled at the table. Then everyone's eyes shot to the boys' basketball table. Troy Bolton was sitting in the middle and staring at our table. He was staring right at me!
All the girls turned around including me. Emily gasped. " He was checking you out Gabs! Attention girls! Troy Bolton likes Gabriella Montez." All the girls gasped/
"Girls, no way! Troy Bolton doesn't like me." Emily sighed.
"Gabs….listen. Every guy in school is waiting for that letter sweetie. Then they are going to be all over you. Troy is…well…deep down…just like any other guy in this school. He is attracted to you." Some of the girls laughed. I giggled a little.
"Yeah right. Troy Bolton doesn't look for love. He looks for sex and all of you know it."
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Troy's POV:
I walked to Chad's locker with a smile on my face.
"You dude!! What's up Troy?" I turned around to see Chad already making his way toward me with that goofy grin on his face. I laughed.
"Not much man. I got to ask you something. Dude…. What do you know about Gabriella Montez?" His face lit up with excitement.
"Gab's great. Absolutely love that girl. Not just because she's Taylor's best friend but she's a great girl. Sweet, kind and very loyal but at the same time she can be all bitchy. Trust me." I laughed and he just had a serious face on.
"Seriously, Troy. Don't mess with her. She'll break your arm."
"Okay, Okay. So…… what's up with her no boyfriend and Stanford thing?" I kept my tone "just wondering" instead of how I really looked like "tell me now!!" .
"Don't make a move on her dude. I will punch you cuz she is like my little sister! But anyways…she made a decision like when she was 10 that she wouldn't have a serious relationship until she got into Stanford."
Huh. So she has dated before but never has had a serious relationship. Me too. I never have had a serious relationship. It was always dates (that never went anywhere). Also girls who liked having one night things.
"Oh but don't think she is innocent. She's done things….much to my dismay. Like home run things but only a couple times."
Dear god!! East High's sweetheart and goodie two shoes Gabriella Montez isn't a virgin? No way!! No possible way!! With who? I got very jealous for some reason.
"Really? Like she isn't a virgin??" He nodded. No fuck!! Gabriella Montez…never thought of that one.
"Yeah. Rick Manse, Joey Lucas and Lewis Towson. They all have something to say about her. Usually that she was "the best ever" then they got a bloody nose."
I was about to ask "by who" but then I realized that it was Chad. So Gabriella was some….sex goddess? Huh. Again, never would have guessed it. I talked to Chad about some more things so it wasn't like that I only talked to him because I wanted to know about Gabriella.
Then the bell rang and I said goodbye to Chad and headed to the worst class ever. Advanced Art. Egh! My dad had tried to get me out of it but it didn't work. I was stuck with a bunch of pansies drawing something or occasionally someone.
My luck it was always Margarita Sanchez. This girl who had the biggest crush on me ever. She would do these seductive poses until I was about to yell "Check please!!". I really didn't like Margarita and then she moved away. Her parents got deported or something.
So I walked in the classroom and saw a brown water fall at a table. Miss Gabriella. I forgot she was in this class. I walked over to her as she lifted her eyebrows.
"So you are a science nerd, math geek, star basketball player and Picasso? Wow, Miss. Montez." I laughed. She looked pissed.
"So you, Troy Bolton, are an asshole, a girl getter, star basketball player and Picasso? Wow." I glared at her and she laughed. Now I was pissed.
"Whatever Montez." She just shrugged. Miss. Reigns talked for a little while and then she gave us an assignment. To draw a portrait of the person if front of you. No way! I had to draw Gabriella? I barely know this girl! Well, besides the fact that she wasn't a virgin.
We looked at each other at the same time then sighed at the same time then laughed at the same time then stopped at the same time which made us laugh again. Maybe this wasn't going to be so bad. We went and got our pencils and our pad.
We had about 45 minutes to do as much as we could. Split time between each person. We decided that Gabriella would model first then I would.
As I got started I got in the zone. I didn't really like art but I did at the same time. It was very relaxing and very….I don't know…
"Your eyes are your best feature. You can't hide them. They are really pretty." I blushed and she smiled at me. I didn't usually give compliments like that but it was true. Her eyes were perfect.
"Thank you. I think your eyes are your best feature too. Ice blue." Ismiled and went over to her and pushed her left side of hair behind her ear and out of her face. She blushed and I smiled.
"Perfect." I went over to my easel and started. Gabriella was so much easier to draw then Margarita. She was more natural and confident. I thought I would never say that about Gabriella. She always looked so fragile but under that she was very confident.
Then we switched and I posed then she started drawing. I stared at her when she wasn't looking at me but then as soon as her eyes went up my eyes dashed away from her. She was clam and occasionally she would bite her lip in thought. We did this for 20 or so minutes.
"Class. I would like everyone to finish in the next week so if you have to stay after school then so be it. Class dismissed."
She got up and grabbed her stuff and walked out the door. No goodbye! Rude! I got my books and things and stepped into the hallways. Then I heard a squeal.
"Gabi!" Taylor hugged Gabriella. "I missed you this summer! Why did you have to go with your sister to Hawaii? Never mind, bad question. So……how was it? Do you have a guy? Some Hawaiian hottie?" Gabi laughed. Hawaii!! Guys!! For some reason I was jealous again.
"Nope. No guy yet. Not until I get a letter in the mail. Then I will chose my guy." Taylor squealed again and Chad groaned. I knew he hated girl talk.
"So Gabs…I got no hello? Or hey Chad? Or I missed you tons this summer?" Gabi laughed and gave him a hug as I fully came out of the art room.
"Hey Chad. I missed you tons this summer. But the guys in Hawaii made up for it." Chad laughed and gave her another bear hug as I made my way over to them.
"Dude! You know Gabi right? Guess what she did? Went to Hawaii for the summer! Isn't that sick!? It must have been amazing! Gabs? Did you see a volcano? Did it explode?" We all laughed.
"I saw a volcano Chad but it didn't explode when I was there. But it did explode a couple days after." Then Chad slung his arm around the girls and I felt out of place. So I made my way over to some really slutty girl which I didn't particularly like but I wanted to make Gabriella jealous.
"Hey…" She smiled at me. "Gretchen. Hey yourself Troy Bolton." I smiled at her and we started kissing. It was wet and disgusting but I felt Gabriella's eyes on me and I heard her sigh. Deep down Gabi wanted me.
Then she left and I quickly disconnected our lips and I asked for Gretchen's number so I wasn't being totally rude (even though I will never call her.)
The periods between then and lunch went by quickly and then I was at the basketball table with my friends. Today was different though. Taylor was there and some other girls….or girlfriends. I felt really out of place and awkward.
Then something caught my attention. Gabriella at the Girls' basketball table. She and Emily Hutch were laughing and talking and I couldn't help myself from staring at her. Then my expression changed. Why did Gabriella make me like her so much? Or not like but……be so interested in her? She was normal and ordinary.
Then Emily Hutch turned around and gasped at me staring at Gabriella. Yet I couldn't pull my eyes away. The whole Girls' basketball table grew quiet as Gabriella turned around to see me staring at her. She stared back but then turned around and talked to the girls for a moment.
Then I heard the worst thing probably in my whole life.
"Yeah right. Troy Bolton doesn't look for love. He looks for sex and all of you know it."
Boy was she wrong.