Troy felt the sweat drip down his face, neck, forehead, arms, and back. But who could blame him, at East High it always seemed their gym was set at 85 degrees.
Troy was at basketball try outs and tomorrow they were gonna find out if they made the team and if so then they would have their first team practice before the weekend. Today it was Thursday and the last day of try outs had just ended. Troy was breathing heavily, but compared to everyone else, he was in perfect condition.
"That was…" Chad panted besides Troy as Zeke came over on Troy's other side and they started walking over to the bleachers. "Holy shit, I'm so sore." Chad panted as Troy stayed standing and Chad and Zeke both dropped down to the bleachers.
Troy lifted his arms to the back of his neck as he concentrated on breathing in and out. This was the part of basketball that he tried to forget, it seemed no matter how much he stayed in shape, his body was always sore after the first week.
"Baby, you looked so good today." Sharpay cooed as she wrapped her arms around Zeke from behind and Troy looked at Chad as they shared an eye roll. Troy still couldn't figure out how Sharpay did it. At school she was this over dramatic snobby girl, but now when she was with Zeke she was willing to wrap her body around his sweaty one?
"Hey there." Troy heard Taylor's voice as she walked up by Chad's side and he put an arm around her. Troy looked around the gym and saw that some of the guys were still scattered about in the gym since they had all four classes trying out at the same time, there just wasn't enough showers even if some of the upper classman drove home to shower. But Troy wasn't concentrating on the other players, he was looking for a certain brunette. "She's dancing Troy." Taylor said as Troy's felt his face drop a little. "Honestly, she's been gone the whole week dancing, it shouldn't be a surprise now." Taylor smirked at Troy and Troy rolled his eyes at her.
"It doesn't hurt to check Tay." Troy said back to her as Chad was busy nipping at Taylor's neck and she pushed him away.
"Yeah, but you're gonna be seeing her tonight, aren't you?" Taylor asked as Chad looked at her strangely. "What?"
"How do you know my best friend's schedule more than me?" Chad asked as Troy looked at them amusingly.
"Have you forgotten about Gabs and how I talk to her everyday?" Taylor retorted rolling her eyes. "Honestly Chad, I think you spend too much time with basketball."
"Tay, you're just high class." Troy turned his head to the brunette who was his girlfriend for almost a month now. Gabriella walked over to the group of three tired guys and the two girls. "Hey Wildcat, how'd try outs go?"
"He's a shoe in." Zeke said as Gabriella wrapped her arm around Troy's waist in a half hug.
Troy kissed the top of her head taking in her clean scent. He was surprised to see her, usually she didn't get done with practice until five and then she would have dinner, and then she would come over to his house or he would go over to hers, but it was just 4:30 now seeing as his try outs and practices started at 2:30.
"I am not." Troy said even though everyone all new he was trying to be modest.
"I bet." Chad mumbled as Gabriella smiled sweetly up at Troy and Troy couldn't help but feel lucky that they were still together. This has been the longest relationship he has ever been in.
"So what brings you here pretty girl?" Troy looked down and felt Gabriella shrug her shoulders.
"Mom needed to get to the office for some emergency meeting." Gabriella explained. "Is it still cool that I come over to your house?"
"Of course." Troy mumbled against her lips as he let his lips linger about hers for a couple of seconds before Gabriella stood on her toes and leaned up to connect their lips.
"Oh my God, get a classroom." Chad said in a bored tone.
"Chad, they can't get a classroom since they already have one, and the janitor's closet, and the science garden, and-" Sharpay was cut off.
"Okay, we get it." Gabriella said as she pulled away from Troy as her cell phone started to ring. Troy looked over her shoulder and saw her pull out her cell phone. "I'll be right back wildcat." Gabriella said as she pecked him lightly on the cheek before walking away.
"Well, we're off." Chad said as he had his arm draped around Tay. "Tay, my body hurts." Chad whined.
The last thing Troy heard from Taylor's and Chad's conversation was her withdrawing sex from Chad and him complaining some more.
"Yeah, we're leaving too. See you around man." Zeke said as he did his guy handshake with Troy and him and Sharpay left as they past Gabriella coming into the gym again.
Gabriella had a huge smile on her face and Troy looked at her curiously. All of a sudden within three seconds Gabriella was sprinting over to him and jumping up onto him as his hands automatically wrapped themselves on her lower back and under her butt.
Gabriella wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed a kiss to his lips with her grin widening. And even though Troy was sweaty from head to toe, his hair was sticking to his forehead, his body ached, he wouldn't trade in this moment for anything.
"Have I told you how happy I am?" Gabriella asked with a giggle as she kissed Troy again.
Troy didn't know who called her, he didn't know how she got this happy, all he knew what that he was liking this side of Gabriella. "I can tell." Troy said with an amused chuckle.
Gabriella kissed him again and right before Troy could react she pulled back and rested her forehead against his. "When is your dad coming home?" Gabriella asked as Troy could feel her breath against his lips.
"He has faculty meetings and then I think he's going out with some of the other teachers. And I guess my mom is apparently at the business meeting with your mom." Troy said.
Gabriella nodded her head with the same wide smile on her face. "Yeah, my mom said everyone got called in. I guess it's huge." Troy was about to say something when Gabriella covered his mouth with hers.
The quick kiss turned into something more as the hand that was on Gabriella's lower back moved up making Gabriella squeeze her legs tighter around his waist as his hand went to the back of her head and held her there. He parted her lips with his tongue and his warm tongue entered her mouth as their tongues grazed each other.
"You want to…get out of…here." Gabriella panted as she felt the need between her legs to be with Troy. Gabriella didn't wait for an answer, "Come on Wildcat." Gabriella dropped her legs from around Troy and interlaced their hands as she pulled him along.
They entered Troy's house chuckling and giggling like they were drunk, but they were only drunk on each other. There was no ounce of alcohol in their bodies. "Wildcat, you're all sweaty." Gabriella giggled into his mouth as Troy was carrying her and once again her legs were wrapped around his torso and he was walking up the stairs to his room that Gabriella has been in a lot the past week after dance.
"You know you like it." Troy huskily said as he kissed down her jaw bone and to her neck as Gabriella threw her head back in pleasure as she closed her eyes briefly.
"I can't wait til Tuesday." Gabriella said off hand as Troy carried her down the dark hallway and to his bedroom that had basketball posters hanging up on the walls, a desk, computer, and clothes scattered throughout the floor.
"Oh yeah…" Troy breathed against Gabriella's neck as he slammed her against the door to close it. "Me too…" Troy knew that was their one month anniversary and he had yet to get her anything because he had no idea what she wanted and she wasn't giving any signs either. "Hey Gabi?" Troy questioned as he reluctantly pulled his mouth away from her neck as Gabriella looked up at him, both of them breathing heavily.
"Don't…" Gabriella groaned as one of her hands trailed down to the hem of his t-shirt that was sticking to his body. "I told you I didn't want anything Wildcat." Gabriella kissed the crook of his neck as her hand trailed up and underneath his shirt to his sticky chest.
"Gabi…" Troy complained but stopped once Gabriella rolled her hips over his growing erection.
"What?" Gabriella asked as she made sure that her tongue flicked his ear.
Troy shut his eyes as he couldn't help but feel distracted by his throbbing problem. "Nothing." He breathed out as their lips connected in a passionate kiss, and their tongues dueled for dominance as Gabriella finally succumbed to Troy's ways.
Troy led them over to his bed as he leaned her back. Troy's knee wriggled it's way in between her two legs as he leaned up from Gabriella and pulled off his own shirt and discarded it to the floor.
Gabriella started slipping out of her shirt as Troy's hands found hers and held them still. Gabriella looked up at him with lust. "What's wrong?" Gabriella asked with slight disappointment.
"I want to go slow." Troy said as he lowered Gabriella's hands to her sides and trailed kisses up her right arm and to her neck, sucking softly on her sensitive spot. Troy smirked as he pulled back and was satisfied with the purplish, red mark on her neck and proceeded to kiss over to the other side of her neck and down her left arm.
Troy slowly lifted Gabriella's shirt inch by inch making sure that he kissed every sign of flesh possible. Gabriella shut her eyes as her hands were gripping the bed sheet below her as Troy dipped his tongue into her navel making Gabriella moan softly in pleasure.
Troy lifted her shirt up by her beasts and he traced the outline of her black and pink bra by pressing light kisses around her cleavage as Gabriella slid her arms out of her shirt. Troy lifted it over her head and tossed the light material to the side of his bed.
"God Troy…" Gabriella moaned in his ear as Troy's hands started to massage her back slowly while moving down towards her bra clasp. Troy smirked against her bare shoulder. He loved it when she said his name and called him Wildcat other times. For some reason, his name sounded better coming from Gabriella than anyone else.
"Gabi, are you sure…you don't want anything Tuesday?" Troy asked as he pressed a kiss to her shoulder and he could almost see Gabriella's eye roll.
"You're asking this now?" Gabriella asked in an exasperated tone. Gabriella turned her head and lifted one of her hands up to wipe away Troy's matted hair from his forehead. Her face turned softer and she gave him a soft kiss as his fingers danced around her clasp, teasing her. "I'm sure."
"Fine." Troy said even though he was determined to get her something, anything. Just as long as she would like it.
"TROY!" Troy and Gabriella froze once they heard Jack Bolton's voice ring out into the house. He didn't sound mad, which was a good thing, but he would be mad if he found them there in that condition.
"Shit." Troy breathed out as they both heard the footsteps on the stairs.
Gabriella looked around for her shirt. "Where's my shirt?" Gabriella asked quickly as Troy looked on the side of his bed that was farthest away from his bed room door.
"Right here." Troy whispered as he pointed to it and in one swift movement Gabriella rolled out from under him and landed without a sound on the ground as if she had practice at that and grabbed her shirt before rolling under Troy's bed. Troy was just thankful that his comforter on his bed reached the floor on both sides of his bed so you couldn't see under it unless you moved the blanket.
Troy heard his father knock on the door as Troy tried to regulate his breathing. Troy quickly looked around his room seeing if he could do anything to make this look any normal. Troy grabbed the first book he could reach on his side table and called out to his dad, "Come in."
Jack Bolton walked in still wearing his t-shirt and basketball shorts from try-outs and smiled at his son. "Hey there dad. I thought you had a meeting?" Troy asked as he closed the book that was in his hands and realized it was Gabriella's Romeo and Juliet book that she left over at his house.
"It got canceled so I decided to come home and talk with my son who always seems to be busy." Jack joked as he walked over to Troy and sat down on his bed also.
Troy looked around nervously. "Anything in particular?" Troy asked as Jack's eyes seemed to be evaluating him.
"No, just…you were reading…shirtless…with sweat coating you body…after basketball instead of being with your friends?" Jack asked slowly and Troy knew that this wasn't the question Jack wanted to ask but it probably did look suspicious having a son doing this instead of taking a shower to clean off.
"Um…yeah. You know I like to…" Troy finished lamely and weakly. "Read."
Jack nodded, "I didn't know that, I guess you do learn something new everyday. If you really like reading I have a couple of good books if you're interested." Jack offered.
Troy nodded biting his lip. "Yeah, that's great. But you know what, I think I'm gonna take a shower. Gabi and I had plans for tonight." Troy said starting to get off of his bed, but stopped once he heard his dad again.
"That's what I wanted to talk about."
Troy sat back down on his bed remembering that he had Gabriella under his bed right now. "Shoot." Troy said hoping it wasn't going to be a long talk.
"Well…you two have been joined at the hip lately." Jack started to say and Troy's eyes went wide as he now knew what talk he was getting, with his girlfriend under his bed nonetheless. He could just imagine her holding in her laughter.
"Now, don't give me that look. It's not what you think, unless you want to have that talk because I have books and pamphlets from health class at school."
"No." Troy said quickly. "NO thank you. You can just continue what you were saying before."
"Okay…" Jack looked at his son. "So, you and Gabriella are doing good?" Jack asked.
Troy nodded. "Yeah, we're doing really good. But, I should get going. You know, she doesn't like it when I'm late picking her up." Troy lied because Gabriella could really care less if he was five or ten minutes late, she just wouldn't like it if he was an hour late.
"Just hold up son, I'm sure she will understand if you tell her you were talking with your father." Jack retorted as Troy nodded.
"Can you just cut to the chase then?" Troy asked meekly.
Jack nodded with a smile. "So basically since you two have become closer and she seems like a nice girl, your mother and I want to get to know her better since she already is over here every other day to do homework…" Jack said trailing off.
"But?" Troy cringed. He knew there was something else wrong with that.
"But, your mom's only free day this week is Tuesday." Jack said as Troy swung his legs over the side of his bed getting ready to stand up.
"But that's our one month anniversary. I already had dinner plans for her and we already had to cancel them three weeks ago " Troy said as he felt a sharp pain in his lower leg. It felt like two nails dug into his skin and he kicked his leg forward. "Ow…" Troy muttered as Jack looked at his son.
"I know, but your mom is real persistent on what she wants and she feels that as long as you are spending most of your free time with Gabriella, that she has the right to meet the girl that has you so mesmerized." Jack said dramatically. "And those were your mother's words." Jack added.
Troy rolled his eyes, "But dad--" Troy stopped once he felt the pinching again and knew that it was Gabriella's way of telling him something. Troy sucked it up, "I guess we'll have four for dinner on Tuesday." Troy said lowly showing his disappointment.
Jack patted him on the back. "We promise not to get out the baby pictures. But thanks Troy, your mom will be happy." Jack said standing up. "Now go and get ready for Gabriella, don't want her to get mad at you."
Jack walked out of the room and Troy slammed his back down on the bed in frustration. "You can come out now." Troy said glaring at the ceiling as Gabriella slid out from under his bed with her shirt on and a soft smile on her face.
She plopped down next to Troy and propped herself up on her elbow so her face was right above Troy's. "Come on Wildcat, it can't be that bad."
Troy narrowed his eyes even more. "But,…Why Tuesday?" Troy asked out loud.
Gabriella pressed kisses to Troy's neck until she felt him ease up a bit. Gabriella smiled down at him again before giving him a peck on the lips. "If your mom is happy, then why not have dinner with them. I think it's about time that your parents meet me officially and get to know me, considering I'm here every other day." Gabriella defended.
Troy shut his eyes while sucking in a breath. He opened his eyes again, "I guess, but then when will I get to meet your mom?" Troy asked.
"Anytime you want. You see her at the studio all the time." Gabriella told him.
"But not officially." Troy teased using Gabriella's words against her.
"Fine, I'll set something up with her and my dad." Gabriella said and saw Troy becoming more alarmed. "Separately of course." Gabriella added as Troy nodded.
"You're dad? So you really are getting along with him then?" Troy asked as Gabriella settled her head down on Troy's bare chest that was still sticky with the dry sweat.
"Actually, on Sunday…I'm going over to his house. You can come if you want?" Gabriella offered.
"No, it's your time with him. I wouldn't want to oppose." Troy told her while stroking his fingers through Gabriella's hair.
"Come on Wildcat. My dad's not one for dinners for meeting people. It will be a lot easier to meet him this way than in a formal way that neither one of you feel comfortable with." Gabriella convinced.
"I guess, but it's your first time with him, are you sure you really want me to come?" Troy asked.
"Yeah, it will be fun. Plus he's got an indoor pool and hot tub." Gabriella whispered in Troy's ear as she nibbled on it.
"Now you're talking." Troy smirked as Gabriella hit him lightly on the chest. "Is that who called before?" Troy asked just remembering that she got a phone call before.
Gabriella nodded, "Yeah, he said to come over any time after noon since he won't be up until then. I swear he is just like a kid." Gabriella said.
"So I shouldn't feel intimidated or anything like he'll try to scare me away?" Troy asked all of a sudden with nervousness.
"I don't know. You're the first one to meet my dad. I guess we won't know until Sunday." Gabriella said with amusement in her voice. "Now, I got to go home and shower because you got me all sticky." Gabriella said standing up.
"Wait, how about we help the environment and use less water by me coming with you?" Troy smirked with playfulness in his eye.
"Oh Wildcat, nice try." Gabriella smirked as Troy engulfed her in his arms knowing she would give into him anytime.
Author's note. I didn't really like it. Let me know what you think. I just felt I needed to get it moving a little bit more so I skipped over the try-outs, we all know that Troy would automatically make the team. It's nothing new. Thanks--