Three's a Crowd Chapter 2 The New Kid, a high school musical fanfic

Three's a Crowd

Disclaimer: I do not own High School Musical for any of it's characters

Chapter 2: The new kid

It was Monday morning and Gabriella tried to ignore the bright rays coming through her bedroom window. She had stayed up untill 3am the previous night studying for her history test and now she could feel this strain lack of sleep did to her body. After 10 minutes she forced herself out of bed and to walked over to her dresser. She went to grab her hairbrush but accidently knocked a photograph off the dresser.She bent over and stared at the photo. It was taken on Christmas, she was standing outside in a red and white jacket and jeans while Troy was beside her holding a huge snowball behind his back. She smiled rememberring that day..

-- Flashback --

"Troy! Stop eating the nose off my snowman, a snowman isn't a snowman without a carrot nose and I only have two left!" the young girl complained watching her friend chomp down on her carrot.

"Gabi, Gabi, Gabi, haven't you ever thought of mixing things up a bit? Everything is by the book with you, there are plenty of things we can make a snowman nose with," the blonde began searching the area, "I have a better idea anyways!"

Gabriella watched as Troy walked into her home and came back with a big banana. "Here we go!" He stated right before shoving the banana where Gabriella's carrot once was, "I don't like bananas so he can have it, plus bananas would look soo much more natural, the color is very similar to that of snow"

Gabriella rolled her eyes wonderring why she was friends with such a goofball. Troy was now standing beside the snowman pretending to have a conversation with it about carrots. After watching this for about a minute she got bored of him and went to go find her mother. It wasn't long before her mother burst through the front door holding a camera. Gabriella looked just like her mother. Ms. Montez had long brown hair flowing down to her back, she had dark eyes and a kind smile. She was always there for Gabriella even though some days they would get into fights. Her mother was a busy woman however, and Gabriella didn't see her too often, but it was a snowday and the roads were in no condition for her to go to work, so instead she stayed home and watched her daughter build a snowman.

"Gabriella, Troy, come here I want to get a picture of you two!" the mother demanded pointing the teens to a spot beside the snowman. They did as they were told and smiled for the camera, after the picture was taken Troy grabbed onto Gabriella's arm. Before she knew it a large snowball hit her in the back. The boy fell to the ground laughing at his friend's shocked face. Gabriella looked down at him and smirked.

"Oh if that's how you want to be then fine, no hot chocolate for you" she told him in a joking voice. The boy's face dropped as he followed Gabriella into the kitchen, pleading for her to reconsider. Gabriella just laughed enjoying Troys suffering, it was days like this she treasured the most.

--End Flashback--

That was last winter, it was almost summertime now but the memory was still very fresh. She placed the photo back on her dresser and looked for something to wear. She grabbed a simple white T-shirt with the Wildcat logo on it and a cute jean skirt, she wasn't much of a material girl and usually wore whatever she found comfortable. She put her hair up in a high ponytail and looked at her reflection in the mirror. She wasn't a bad looking girl but guys never seemed to have an interest in her, she didn't mind it but sometimes it was lonely being single all the time.

She looked back at her clock and realized it was already 8:15. She rushed downstairs and found schoolbag and left, forgetting her lunch. It didn't take her long before she had run out of breath and strength. Her backpack really was heavy. "I might have to take Troy's offer up about suitcase shopping, at least that way there's wheels" she told herself.

The bell rang shortly after she arrived and she made her way to history class alone. She hadn't seen Troy at all today but she was sure he was just late as usual. Right now he would be in science class probably throwing paper airplanes across the classroom. She took her usual seat at the back of the classroom and crammed a couple last minutes of studying in before she was given her test. She took a deep breath and looked over all the questions. With a smile she began the test, knowing it would be easy for her. It was 20 multiple choice, 5 fill in the blanks, 8 short answer questions and 3 long answer questions, personally she loved the long answer questions because she could really express her thoughts and opinions in them. Today was going to be a good day.

"Class there is a new student in our class today. His name is Jake Flores and he transfered here from Fisher High School."

Troy looked up at the new kid in his science class. He was tall with dark brown hair, dark brown eyes and a fair complexion. He was about medium build and wore a green bilabong shirt with white/green/brown bongo shorts. He looked like one of those surfer guys you see in clothing magazines. The teacher gave him a spot beside Troy and he watched as all the girls in his class stared the new student down. Troy rolled his eyes but didn't want to be rude.

"Hey, Im Troy Bolten"

"Hi. Im Jake" The two guys shook hands and smiled at eachother.

"So tell me about yourself, cause so far all I know is your name, and that you like some brand name clothing, please tell me your not gay or else I probably made you think I was hitting on you," Troy joked and was realived when the other boy broke out in laughter.

"No no Im not gay, and i don't think you were hitting on me, even though I wouldn't blame you, look at me. Anyways, Im 16 years old and I just transfered here with my dad. I love sports, especially basketball, but I also love chilling with friends and meeting some girls. What about you? You must know all the girls in this school by now." he asked winking at Troy and giving him a knowing nod.

Troy didn't know what to think of this new kid but he did seem kind of cool, "Well I am the captain of the East High Wildcats and I've lived here in Alberquerque all my life. I love sports as well and if you really like basketball maybe we can hang out at lunch today and shoot some baskets. You'd get to meet my best friend Gabi she's a little tempermental but fun to be around. I am not really interested in meeting any girls right now and you're right I do know them all but alot of them are really shallow and all looks but no brains. Which reminds me, if you have drama you can meet this girl named Sharpay, shes not bad looking but I wouldn't advise you hit on her she'd bad news."

Jake smiled, "Sometimes the bad ones are the best. So tell me about this Gabi girl. It's kind of odd for a guy's best friend to be a girl, is there something going on between you two? What does she look like? Oh well I guess ill have to see at lunch, id love to take on the wildcat superstar captain at a game of horse."

Troy waited for a minute to reply, "Umm.. well there's nothing going on between me and Gabriella, we've been friends since way back, and you'll have to see what she looks like for yourself. Horse sounds good though"

Right after saying that the science teacher glared at the boys and they stopped talking for the rest of the period. They were learning about the periodic table of elements and Troy was bored with it, they had already learnt about it in grade 9 and Gabriella always taught him more then required so the lesson wasn't the least bit interesting. The impatient teen stared at the clock waiting for the period to end.

Gabriella smiled as she left period one in a really good mood. The test was easy and she had finished half an hour earlier then everyone else in the class. She walked to her locker and reached for her math textbook. Unfortunately, all of her textbooks came crashing down around her. A group of girls giggled next to her and Gabriella rushed to pick up all her books.

"Oh poor nerdy little Gabi! You know if you were like a normal girl you wouldn't have that problem. Instead you decide to suck up to all the teachers by doing alot more work then your supposed to. Why do you do it? Trying to impress Troy? I don't even understand why he bothers to talk to a loser like you. I guess your not THAT ugly, but still," Sharpay Evans mocked.

The blonde girl and her group of friends walked away leaving the brunette surronded by all her books. She picked them up and walked away, her earlier confidence crushed. She walked down the hall head down, trapped in her own thoughts. This wasn't the first time the popular blonde had insulted her but Gabi never was able to stand up against them. She never told Troy about the other girls though, she was afraid he'd listen to them and ditch her as a friend. This was one of those things she had to deal with on her own.

The lunch bell rang and Troy headed to the cafeteria, Jake followed close behind. In the corner was Gabriella sitting alone at their usual table. He smiled and snuck up behind the girl and grabbed her from the side. She let out a short yelp and looked at her attacker, when she reconized Troys brilliant blue eyes she smiled and moved over to save him a seat. It wasn't until after he had taken his seat that the girl noticed Jake.

She was shocked to see another guy standing there and watched as he took a seat across from the two. She looked into his eyes, they were dark and mysterious, very different from Troys blue friendly ones. He introduced himself and the three of them made light conversation. It wasn't until then that Troy noticed Gabriella had no lunch. Against her protests he got up and went into the cafeteria kitchen to buy her something to eat.

When Troy was out of sight Jake turned his attention to the girl infront of him, "So what is such a beautiful girl like you doing hanging out with Troy? Shouldn't you be off with your boyfriend somewhere?"

Gabi blushed, "I don't have a boyfriend and Troy's my best friend, why wouldn't I hang out with him?"

"I was just kidding around though I am amazed you don't have a boyfriend, you are by far one of the best looking girls in this school"

Gabriella felt her cheeks burn up as her blushing got even more noticable. No boy had ever talked to her like that before and it was nice to hear. Maybe she was right, maybe today was going to be a good day afterall.

They two sat in silence until Troy came back, holding 2 big slices of pizza in his hand a large carton of chocolate milk. He gave Gabriella the drink and a slice of pizza and chuckled at the big smile on her face. She loved pizza and chocolate milk, she could probably have it for lunch every single day if she could afford it.

When the three finished their lunch they headed to the gym so Jake and Troy could play a game of horse. Gabriella sat on the top bleacher watching the two boys as they tried to show off. It was very entertainning because it was obvious they were trying really hard. By the end of lunch Troy had defeated Jake and the two boys made plans for a rematch.

Gabriella went to class thinking about Jake and what he had said, for once a boy other then Troy had called her beautiful and she couldn't help but be flattered. She knew she had a crush on this boy and she couldn't wait to tell Troy...

Well thast chapter 2. Hopefully It wasn't too boring or to fast paced. Anyways Read and Review :) I was also wonderring what you guys felt about having song lyrics in the story, not a song fic but I love music and I think it might be nice to have my characters love it was well, though they wont be auditionning for a musical or anything its been done :P Anyways tell me waht you think :)

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