DISCLAIMER: I do not own High School Musical or any related characters.
A/N: Here is the new chapter! I'm glad you all liked the last one, I actually do have a vague idea as to where I'm going with this so I'm not totally in the dark as to where I'm going with it. Enjoy!
Out Of My Element
CHAPTER 2
GIVE ME MY PHONE
Gabriella pulled open her locker the next day and growled as her books slipt out along with a note that Gabriella chose to ignore. She knew it was either a stupid joke from Chad or a note from Taylor telling her to meet her after school to work on homework. Troy never left her notes, it wasn't what he did. Although he had left her a few, and they had all been incredibly sweet, Troy wasn't one to do something like that. Knowing him the way she did, Troy was most likely to write a note and then completely forget that he wrote it, only to find it months later and get confused as to why he wrote it. Gabriella grinned and shook her head at the thought of Troy staring at a piece of paper and wondering exactly why he wrote it. She let out a small giggle as she pictured the look on Troy's face upon reading a note that he had written to her.
"Someone's obviously been forgiven." Taylor commented coming up and hearing Gabriella giggle.
"Huh?" Gabriella asked looking at her friend curiously, that was not how you normally greeted a friend.
"You're giggling, you replied to my question with a 'huh' and your eyes are sparkling. All of that points to a certain person being forgiven for an argument you originally started." Gabriella glared at Taylor as her friend smirked and leaned against the locker next to Gabriella's.
"Okay, that argument we had? He actually started it, not me. The episode in the gym was just a continuation of what he started earlier." Gabriella told Taylor vehemently and Taylor laughed.
"What was he wearing?" she asked and Gabriella blushed a little as she said that.
"His old blue jeans and a white wife beater." Gabriella replied and then looked at her friend sharply.
"But what does that have to do with anything?" she asked curiously and Taylor grinned.
"You have a weak spot for Troy dressed like that. I know you do because you go slightly red every time you see him in one of those white things he wears, because, as much as I love Chad, when Troy wears those things, damn does he look fine." Taylor said and Gabriella went even redder and glared at her best friend.
"I do not have a weak spot for Troy dressed like that!" Gabriella exclaimed and Taylor laughed.
"Sure you don't, and you also don't start to stutter like an idiot and lose your train of thought when he appears in one of those things." Taylor pointed out and Gabriella blushed.
"You also seem to do a lot of that, even when he's not around." Taylor said and Gabriella groaned.
"Okay, I surrender……whoa." Someone nudged the small of her back and Gabriella started to fall. Before she could fall completely someone grabbed her waist and steadied her.
"Do you honestly have no balance whatsoever?" Gabriella heard Troy's laughing voice and allowed him to turn her around her before raising her hand to hit him.
"Now Montez, what did I say about hitting me?" Troy asked and Gabriella grinned at him.
"I'm not in a skirt Bolton." She said and Troy just shrugged and removed his arms from her waist.
"So? You still didn't hit me." he pointed out and Gabriella just shrugged.
"So? It's not like my hits actually hurt you," she replied and Troy laughed, reaching over her shoulder, he grabbed her phone and gave her an evil look.
"No they don't, but if you even think about hitting me again I'll make sure that you never see your phone again." Troy said and took off when he saw the look on Gabriella's face.
"Troy! Give me my phone back!" Gabriella yelled slamming her locker shut and taking off after him, leaving Chad and Taylor standing at her locker, greeting each other in their own unique way.
Troy laughed when he heard Gabriella yell. Although he knew he was breaking a rule running in the hall, he didn't exactly want to face Gabriella. When she wanted to be that girl could be quite intimidating. Troy pushed past a person and sent them reeling into a locker.
"Sorry!" he shouted over his shoulder, Troy caught sight of Gabriella and turned around again. He saw his homeroom and came to an abrupt halt in front of it.
Gabriella ran past the boy that Troy had pushed into the locker and bumped into him, sending his reeling back into the locker again.
"Sorry!" she shouted over her shoulder, the boy shook his head and winced and wondered exactly why the two were going out.
Gabriella saw Troy stop outside their homeroom and immediately realized that she wasn't going to slow down in time. 'Uh-oh' she thought as she made an attempt at slowing down.
Troy turned to look down the hallway, searching for Gabriella. He saw the boy he had accidentally pushed be pushed back into the locker and felt sorry for the guy, knowing who had pushed him into the locker.
"TROY!" Gabriella yelled as she realized that she wasn't going to slow down in time. She saw him look around in surprise and closed her eyes, bracing herself for impact.
Troy vaguely heard someone yell his name, before finding himself flat on his back, his vision obscured by a mass of brown curls.
"Ow." Gabriella groaned and then looked at Troy who seemed slightly dazed.
"Are you okay?" she asked and he looked at her, his blue eyes darkening.
"Montez, you just knocked me to the floor. A floor that is hard and cold, to be exact, and you honestly expect me to say I'm okay?" Troy asked mockingly and Gabriella rolled off him, sending him a glare.
"I'll take that as a 'yes, I'm fine but am now seriously annoyed at you'," she said sarcastically sitting up. Troy followed suit and glared at his girlfriend, hating the fact that she could always read into his answers.
"Good guess." He snapped coldly and Gabriella just shrugged, knowing he always hated it when she read into his answers. Something that she was very proud of, it had taken her a couple of months to actually master it but she had. Troy stood up and turned to her offering her his hand.
"Thanks." She said quietly and Troy studied her, looking for any injuries.
"Your welcome." He replied and Gabriella smiled at him and then winced when she was pushed to one side as a blonde girl pushed through their joint hands. Troy saw her wince and gave her a look.
"What's wrong with your wrist?" he asked and Gabriella groaned, hating how he knew what was wrong with her before she even did. Troy hid a smile knowing she never liked it when he knew what was wrong with her and she didn't.
"I don't know," Gabriella snapped at him and Troy frowned at her.
"Show me." He commanded and Gabriella reluctantly let his examine her wrist. She winced when he applied pressure to it.
"Okay, you've sprained it. Nothing terrible." Troy said, releasing her wrist. Gabriella nodded and Troy pressed a kiss to her forehead, not realizing that they had an audience.
The students of East High had gathered around the two and where currently watching them with astonished. It was rare to see Gabriella and Troy act like a couple. Normally they were to busy arguing to act like they even cared about each other, so seeing Troy kiss Gabriella's forehead lovingly the way he just had, made them feel stunned and also slightly jealous. Nearly all of the girls watching wished that they were currently in Gabriella's position, and most of the guys wouldn't have minded being in Troy's position as they watched Gabriella reach up and press a kiss to his cheek and whisper something in his ear.
"Mr Bolton, Miss Montez!" Troy and Gabriella jumped away from each other upon hearing Miss Darbus' voice. The crowd groaned when they realized that the moment was over and when Troy and Gabriella turned to look at them they realized that they had an audience.
"Okay, I blame you for this." Gabriella hissed at Troy and he glared at her.
"How is it my fault that everyone's staring at us?" he shot back and Gabriella raised her eyebrows at him.
"You're the popular one," Gabriella pointed out and Troy shrugged, knowing that she had a point. Besides he wasn't sure that he wanted to argue with her in front of an audience again.
"Do you think we're going to get into trouble?" Troy whispered to her when they both saw Miss Darbus pushing her way through the crowd.
"Probably, you know she's not into 'public displays of affection'." Gabriella replied as Miss Darbus came to a stop in front of them, pushing her glasses back into place.
"As glad as I am that you two don't argue as much, you know your not allowed to-" Troy cut her off.
"Breathe?" He guessed and Gabriella stifled laughter as Miss Darbus went a delicate shade of red.
"No, Mr Bolton, you two know you're not allowed-" this time it was Gabriella's turn to interrupt their teacher.
"Move?" she asked innocently and Troy snorted slightly as Miss Darbus went slightly redder.
"Mr Bolton, Miss Montez, will you please let me finish my-" this time it was Chad that interrupted her, coming out of no where to join in annoying their homeroom teacher.
"Speech?" he asked and winced when Taylor hit him over the head.
"That's it, Mr Bolton, Miss Montez, Mr Danforth and Miss McKessie, detention!" Miss Darbus snapped and both Troy and Gabriella immediately regretted annoying her. She'd always been patient with them.
"But why?" Chad whined and Miss Darbus turned to him. Chad cowered slightly under her glare.
"Because, both Mr Bolton and Miss Montez were running in the halls, not to mention the display that just produced for all of East High to see, and you Mr Danforth decided to interrupt me when I was continuing my sentence and Miss McKessie chose to use violence as a way of stopping you from embarrassing yourself anymore. Now, all of you get to your homeroom NOW!" Miss Darbus roared and Gabriella, Troy, Chad, Taylor all jumped and ran into the room terrified of what would happen if Miss Darbus got on a roll.
As Gabriella walked past Troy's desk she glanced at him and saw his grin and then remembered why they had been running in the first place.
"Give me my phone." Gabriella hissed at him and she felt him press her phone into her hand as she passed. Gabriella grinned at him and seated herself, ignoring the looks some of her classmates had given her.
A/N: This chapter may have seemed pointless, it certainly seemed pointless to me anyway. But it was basically to differentiate Troy and Gabriella's relationship at school and away from school. Anyway, I may update soon and I may not. It's Christmas soon so there a lot of things to do. Sorry! Also I'm going away for a month and don't know if I'll have internet access just thought I'd warn you, I hope to get another chapter up before then anyway. I hope you enjoyed!