Chapter 3 - Odd Conversation
She wasn't in control anymore. The tears were running down her face, and just at the sight of him. She didn't like this one bit. Her legs turned and ran away, down the long and winding corridors.
"Wait, can we not talk? Gabriella ?!" Troy exclaimed.
"I have to go..." She shouted back.
She couldn't get to her car fast enough. Her footsteps were faster than her legs could go, forcing them to collapse every once in a while. "Why did I have to park so far away?" she thought to herself, she could hear faint footsteps behind her.
She reached her car, and collapsed inside.
Flash-back...
Troy started to walk towards Gabriella with a strange expression on his face.
"What wrong Troy?" Gabriella asked.
"Nothing, nothing... ehh... can we talk for a sec"
"Ehh... sure" This didn't sound good.
They walked along to an empty classroom, and sat down.
"So... Bolton, whats up?" "Ehh... I don't really know how to put this...but... ive fallen in love with someone else" he stammered.
"What..." she mananged to say as tears trickled down her face. "Are you breaking up with me"
"Yes, and I'm really sorry, I love you but..." he was stopped by Gabriella's screams.
"NO YOU DON'T!! You used to, dont make excuses Troy! Ive watched you... your not the guy I used to know!" she cried.
"I'm really sorry, but if you think about it, our relationship was gonna end"
"Was it really!!?!" she said angrily and sarcastically.
"Well, yeah"
"How Troy, Care to tell me why?! Coz i didn't think it was going that way"
"Well, we are taking different paths, different careers... we wouldn't have been together anyway"
"Who is she"
"What"
"WHO IS SHE???!" Gabriella shouted.
"Sh...Sharpay..."
The room fell silent, with the only noise being Gabriella's whimpers.
"Come here." Troy tried to comfort Gabi, but she was having none of it.
"Get of me Troy, I never want to talk to you again"
"Gabriella"
"Stay away from me!"
And with that she ran from the room.
End of Flash-back
Just thinking about that awful day, the day the world seemed to close on her, the day her dreams were thrown away, made her weep. She saw Troy coming to her car form the rear view mirror. She quickly found her keys and started the car... but she was too late, Troy had already caught up with her.
He signaled for her to wind down the window, but she decided to blank him, she couldn't look at hs face, it only rejuiced her to tears. His bangs on the window made her repent, and she eventually wound down the window. She didn't want to... it had started to rain.
"Hello to you too!" He joked.
She turned away.
"So, we've not talked in ages, i'd love to catch up.
"I'd rather not" she snapped back, he was shocked.
"Have I done something?"
She turned her head around, stunned. "How could he not remember" she thought.
"Have you Troy, have you... why don't you give me that answer!"
He thought for a while, then turned back to their conversation.
"I really cannot remember" he replied, stepping back from the car.
"Well, why don't you ask your girlfriend, Sharpay then, she might be able to help you!"
Like a tonne of bricks it all came back to him, it had pained him too, the way he had left things with Gabriella, he had pushed all of that to the back of his mind.
"Look... Gabriella..."
Goodbye, Mr Bolton"
She reversed out of the parking space, and zoomed down the street, with a confused and upset Troy fading away into the distance.