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"5, 6, 7, 8."
Troy called out in the studio, somehow his voice made it over the speakers as Outta Your Mind by Lil Jon ft LMFAO filled the mirrored walls. Gabriella, Sharpay, and Chad broke out into the choreography they were taught and Troy soon joined them in the front and they all laughed and joked that Troy was jacking up their style.
When they finished they high fived and laughed. Troy grabbed Gabriella's hand and pulled her waist to his. "Roll don't jerk." he moved his hips in a fluent downward motion, pulling Gabriella with him.
"Woo!" Sharpay hollered and Gabriella giggled and placed a kiss on his cheek.
Chad and Sharpay still hadn't talked and as much as it made them dancing together weird, they pulled it together as soon as Gabriella joined them.
"You gotta build them muscles baby!" Sharpay chuckled as she walked by and slapped Gabriella's butt.
"Muscles?" she shook her head. Sharpay nodded and began to twerk, "When you do, it'll be easy to do this."
Gabriella tried and failed but left the guys only to shake their heads. "Shar, what are you teaching my girl, she doesn't need to know that." he laughed and pulled his cousin back.
"Guys, let's try Nicki Minaj's verse in Monster." Troy got up suddenly and went to change the CD.
They all got up and stood behind Troy and tried to follow the steady two step he began but then his movements became elaborate. "Everyone feel the beat?"
They nodded in response and Troy pressed rewind and pressed pause. "Follow me then. Feet apart."
After catching some steps, they tried it to the verse and even added some steps to the rest of the song.
"Troy, man, I gotta go." Chad said after checking his watch.
"What a surprise." Sharpay said under her breath which earned her a pointed look from Gabriella and sighed. Troy nodded and checked his own watch. "Alright, I guess it's pretty late." he looked from Gabriella to Sharpay, "Are you ladies ready to go?" Chad began to pack up, not even paying attention to their answers.
"I can stay another half hour." Gabriella said hopefully. She looked at Sharpay who shrugged, "My mom has your little brother, no curfew here."
Chad left without a goodbye and Troy rolled his eyes and sat on the floor. "Gabs are you coming tomorrow?"
"I have practice, hun." She said as she sat next to him. "The show remember?"
"Yeah I remember, I got my tickets today." he smiled proudly after taking a swig from his water bottle.
"Don't forget I'm dancing too, Troy." Sharpay said with a grin.
"How can I forget, my two favorite ladies are in the same show." Troy said cheekily.
"You never told me what happened with your mom." Gabriella said softly after Sharpay announced she was heading to the restroom.
"Nothing really out of the normal." Troy looked in the mirror at himself.
"Bull shit. You haven't called me all weekend, you've been a dick." she rolled her eyes.
"I've been busy." He rested his head on his knees. Slowly, he wrapped his aching arms around his legs and pulled them closer.
"You've been avoiding me, and you know it. I called you and asked you to hang out because my mom wasn't home. Your mom was yelling at you so you said you'd call back." Gabriella rested a hand on his sneaker and began to play with his laces, "But you never did."
"Don't do that." he groaned.
"Do what?"
"That guilt tripping shit, I'm not a little kid, Gabriella." Troy pulled his head up to look at her .
"Then stop acting like one."
"I think I'm entitled to that every once and a while. Don't you think?" He said nastily. Gabriella bit her lip and her voice automatically softened at his harsh tone.
"Tell me, Boo Boo." she scooted closer.
"She's taking me to court for custody of Jamie. Now she's making me pay my own student loans- that are in her name- and she called my dad asking him to give up his parental rights. So now they're both pissed at me because they supposedly didn't know Jamie was in the hospital and a nurse called the Social Services on me."
Troy sighed. "My mom knew though, Brie, she knew because I was with you the night that she called me and said that she's taking Jamie home when he was released."
"Why did they call the CPS on you then?" she frowned.
"Because for the past 6 years every time he went to the hospital, my mom and dad were never there to sign the forms. It was always me." he threw his head back against the wall with a thud.
Sharpay came back in the room and gathered up her bags and clothes. "I'll see you guys later, I'll call you T." she bounced out the room after giving them both a kiss on the cheek.
There was a moment of awkward silence after the door shut and the night air engulfed them and slowly disapated into room temperature. "I have good news." Gabriella said hesitantly.
Troy looked towards her and smiled. "Yeah?"
Gabriella nodded and grabbed his hand before kissing his knuckles, happy to see him smiling. "I got the job."
"That's great, babe." Troy flipped their hands over and laid a kiss of his own on her hand. "Next step is getting you a car." he chuckled.
"I'm quitting tomorrow." she said sadly. "I don't really want to leave. I'm going to be visiting all the time and man, I'm going to miss Mr. Derby." she said with a sigh. Troy stroked his thumb over her knuckles and smiled.
"I'm sure they'll look forward to every visit. But you got to learn to move on and look at the future." he said distantly. Gabriella reached forward and stroked his cheek, "Hey, look at me." He looked over at her and kissed the palm of her hand as it slid down his face.
"You're amazing, Troy. Give yourself a break alright?" she said sternly. Troy nodded numbly before reaching over and kissing her lips. She responded slowly and wrapped her arms around his shoulders in a tight hug. He returned it and pulled her onto his lap and continued to hug her. Settling into her embrace reluctantly, he let out a shaky sigh.
"It's okay if you want to cry, Troy, sometimes all you need is a good emotional release." She stroked his hair and felt him tense before a harsh mumble erupted against her chest.
"I don't cry."
Troy's radio suddenly shut off and he looked up from the magazine he was looking through only to find a matching pair of curious blue eyes before him.
"I'm home." Jamie announced with a cheeky smile.
Troy chuckled and rolled his eyes, "I see." he pulled Jamie into a bone crushing hug and pushed him away before reaching forward from the wall behind him and hit play. Trina's voice began to pour out the radio and Troy began to bop his head. Jamie watched and then walked to the couch where he sat down and pulled out his schoolbooks.
"TROY!" he exclaimed over the music. Troy looked up and blew a bubble that popped around his lips. After pulling it back with his tongue he moved closer to Jamie.
"I'm hungry, Troy." Jamie said slowly.
Troy dropped his magazine, pulled up his pants, and sauntered over to the kitchen. He approached the pizza box on the stove and took out slice for Jamie. Jamie came in and followed him, "I don't want pizza."
"What do you want then?" he said biting into the slice himself.
"I want chocolate pudding." he grinned.
"We don't have chocolate puddng, pick something else." Troy said leaning into the fridge.
"Do we have cake?" Troy shook his head with a laugh, "No, we don't have cake."
"Then I'm not hungry anymore." he frowned.
"Go in the fridge and pick something, Jamie." Troy said lightly shoving his brother to the fridge.
"I don't want anything anymore." he whined.
Troy got a plate and put a slice of pizza on it and placed it in his little brother's hands, "Homework, now."
"Didn't you go grocery shopping, Troy?" Jamie looked up at him.
Troy shook his head, "Nope." He turned him around and guided him into the living room. "Sit and eat, Jamie."
Obeying, Jamie sat on the couch and leaned forward to take a bite of the pizza. "So what's on your neck?"
Troy looked up and gave him a curious look. "What do you mean what's on my neck?"
"Did you get hurt? It looks like those bruises I got when I had to have a blood transfusion." Jamie frowned.
Troy got up and went to the batheroom, looked in the mirror and found what Jamie was talking about. A huge, purple hickey sat right beneath his ear. He groaned as he touched it and then turned out the bathroom.
"Sharpay did it."
"Did what?"
"Hurt me." he laughed at the suspicious look that settled on Jamie's face. "You don't believe me?"
Jamie shrugged and turned back to his homework. "What's ¾?"
".75." Troy answered while peering into Jamie's book, "And that one is wrong, try again." He pointed at the one on the top of the page.
"Troy, what's sex like?"
Troy's head popped up and he looked into Jamie's devilish eyes. "What?" he croaked.
"Sex?" Jamie said with a smile, "What's that like?"
"Oh God, we'll talk about this some other time… When you're older." Troy mumbled. "Jamie, ½ is .50." He pointed at his workbook.
"I'm going into Junior High next year, and I'm going to be eleven next month." Jamie poked Troy's cheek with his fist, "There's not a whole lot of time for you to wait, T."
"Why are you thinking about that instead of fractions?" Troy said in a strained voice.
"Does that happen to be Gabriella's bra?" Jamie said with a raised eyebrow. Troy's face flushed as he looked to where a red lace bra sat draped over the arm of his grandmother's couch. He'd been caught.
"I don't know?" Troy squeaked.
"Oh you don't know do you?" Jamie reached to grab it but Troy dived for it instead and snatched it before Jamie's hands could get on it, he threw it down the hall and it hit the door of his bedroom before he looked at Jamie authoratively.
"Do your homework."
"Troy, I'm 10 not 5." Jamie frowned, "I'm going to want to kiss girls in other places soon." he said pointedly.
Troy cringed, "No, Jamie. Oh no." he looked at his little brother and shook his head, "You have a crush don't you?"
"As a matter of fact, I do, Mom." he said with a laugh.
"Oh Jesus, what's her name?" Troy said taking a bite of his own slice of pizza.
"Angela. She has red hair and hazel eyes and she's so hot." Jamie sighed.
Troy rolled his eyes and leaned against the coffee table, "Have you talked to her?"
Jamie's eyes widened, "What? No! Are you crazy? She'd probably laugh in my face."
Troy smiled softly, "You'll never know till you try." he offered. "You should try and talk to her tomorrow. Bring up something like, "Help me with this problem." or "Did you do your homework?" and "Can you show me how to do this?" I'm sure the conversation will go from there."
"You're making me sound like a geek." Jamie laughed.
"Well, excuse me if I don't know what 10 year olds talk about nowadays." He punched the side of Jamie's head lightly and laughed.
"Troy, it's not even worth it." Jamie flipped his blond hair and looked him in the eyes, "She wants a healthy, good-looking kid. Not scrawny, little, sick me."
Troy frowned, "Don't talk like that, I mean I have Gabriella and she obviously likes me a lot." Troy raised his eyebrows suggestively.
Jamie's face furrowed, "Gross!"
"If I got Gabriella then you can get Torie." Troy patted his little brother's back.
"Angela." Jamie corrected.
"Angela."
A shadow loomed over his desk and his hand automatically stopped writing and looked up to meet the prettiest hazel eyes in the 5th Grade.
"Hi." she said.
"Hi!" Jamie answered, a bit too enthusiastically.
Angela giggled, "I need a ride home and no one else can give me one, so I wanted to know if your dad could take me?" she said quickly, "I don't live that far, I promise."
Jamie nodded and looked to the door when he heard his name called. Troy raised an eyebrow when Jamie gave him a pointed look. It finally dawned on him and he gave his little brother a thumbs up.
Jamie looked back at Angela, "I'm sure he wouldn't mind." he smiled.
He got up and shoved his books in his bag. Angela picked up his lunch box and placed it inside for him. She grabbed her own bag and headed towards Troy following Jamie's lead.
"Tr-Dad, I was wondering if you could give Angela a ride home." Jamie said with a wink.
Troy grinned, "Sure," he reached a hand out to Angela, "Hi, Angela."
"Hi Mr. Bolton, I apologize for the inconvience if any but my parents had a business meetng and I totally forgot my metro card so I can't even take the train. I don't live that far and I promise I won't be a hassle." she said intelligently. She bashfully dropped her eyes from the handsome man's face.
Troy chuckled, "It's fine. All I had to do was Jamie's laundry."
Jamie elbowed him and Troy looked at him cheekily. "C'mon, you can sit in the front and show me how to get there."
"No! You have that thing in the front seat remember, Dad?" Jamie said pointedly. If Troy didn't get his act right he was going to ruin this for him.
"Right! How could I forget? Sorry, you're going to have to sit in the back with Jamie." Troy bit his lip to keep from snickering.
"I don't mind." she smiled but soon blushed afterward as Troy looked down at her with a raised eyebrow.
"C'mon." Jamie grabbed her hand and led her out the building. Troy followed behind with a huge, proud grin on his face.
"So did you do your homework yet? I didn't get number ten with the perimeter of a rectangle, you should show me how to do it."
"Hi, Mr. Derby." Gabriella entered the bedroom and closed the door. The old man looked up from his newspaper and smiled.
"Gabriella!" He closed the newspaper and set it aside. "I see you brought me my fruit cup."
Gabriella giggled, "Of course I did."
"What's wrong?"
Gabriella set the fruit cup and spoon on a napkin and hesitantly said, "I quit today."
"Oh." Mr. Derby said with a curt nod. "I sure hope that means you will visit often."
Gabriella nodded with a soft but sad smile, "I'm going to miss you, Mr. Derby. I'll miss everyone of course, but I'm going to miss you the most."
"You know what your grandmother told me before she passed away?" he said leaning into his pillows. Gabriella sat on the chair next to his bed and shook her head.
"She told me to take care of you, she said look out for my little girl because I know I'm not going to be here much longer. Watch her grow. Help her build a brighter future than what she thinks she can have." Mr Derby smiled at her. "I'd like to hope I didn't fail her, that I inspired you somehow."
"You're like the grandfather I never had." she said with a sigh.
"Your future begins as soon as you walk out those doors Gabriella." he picked up his newspaper and showed her the front page where her face decorated in the detail she was to have for her performance of Black Swan stared back.
"You started it so long ago, and you dreamt of teachng young girls how to dance and how to love, breathe, and eat the sounds that make anyone move." He flipped one of her curls, "This place was the only thing holding you back. Your grandmother didn't want to you to be here. She didn't want you to stay here, but starting at a school is a great way to break out of this shell." He opened his arms around his room, "You're so much bigger than this place."
Gabriella teared up and looked away, "I don't want to leave, I have so many memories but I understand that I have to."
"Then you're on the right track, you have so much potential to be bigger than you are now, you've been dancing since you were too young to stand." He rubbed her shoulder, "I remember when I first saw you, when you were 12 years old and you performed a piece for your Grandmother because she was too sick to go to your show. It was beautiful and brought tears to everyone's eyes. So don't come in here telling me you're sad to leave, because this is what you are destined to do, Gabriella. This is your future."
Gabriella reached forward and embraced the old feeble man, "Thank you so much for your support, Mr. Derby."
"Make me and your grandmother proud." he smiled.
"I'm trying, believe me, I am." she wiped at her eyes.
"Curtsy, round about, plie." Mrs. Giovanni called out to the class. Gabriella performed the choreography fluently and then finally began her solo.
Mrs. Giovanni watched as her best dancer began her part. She smiled as the moves became natural and a part of Gabriella. She was not going to lie and say she was not impressed by the petite brunette, she was impressed when she first saw her and loved her trying nature when she had first auditioned. She took the troubled young teenager who was seeking a better life in dance under her wing and molded her posture and grace into the beautiful dancer she had before her.
"Here comes the rond de jambe en l'air! Pierre move in!"
A young boy soon ran in and caught Gabriella a bit too early but Gabriella played it off smoothly with a kick and spin then began her chasse'.
"Atitude! Pierre now!" He picked Gabriella up and spun her in the air for eight counts as the rest of the dancers began their choreography around them. Gabriella bent into her next position, still midair, and then kicked her leg and dropped gracefully into uncharted chaines, her skirt circling about her. Everyone ran out again and Gabriella ran into ecarte'.
"Stop!" Mrs. Giovanni shouted. Pierre landed in his turn and looked over at Gabriella. The piano stopped and Mrs. Giovanni headed toward the young ballerina and straightened her leg then put a finger up. "DANSE!"
They continued the movements and the dance instructor watched approvingly, "Pierre now comes the fish dive, catch her and end the movements. Everyone now! Ballon! End it with a bang!" she shouted in her thick French accent.
The 6 minute dance finally ended and they clapped in conclusion.
"Take a break and then we're going to do the swan number!"
Sharpay high fived Gabriella who smiled in return, she was trying to catch her breath which wasn't working out so well.
"Your ass looked great, Troy is going to be so jealous of that guy." she sang and then spun around her friend.
"Please, no more spinning." she giggled. "I've had enough of those damn turns."
The girls laughed and sat on the floor. "I feel so achy, and my toes feel like they are about to bust open if I have to stand on them again!"
"Gabriella!" A thick French voice called out to her. She groaned and turned, "Yes, Madam?"
"Opening number, right now, go center stage, you do not rest!" she called.
Gabriella sighed. "If you sit, you will lose all the elasticity in your muscles and all the work you have done today will be lost." she scolded. "Maestro!"
"I swear I don't get paid enough to do this." Gabriella groaned. Sharpay laughed and patted her leg.
"Get up before she makes me go with you!" `
Troy threw himself to the ground in frustration, feeling the ground shake and vibrate under his aching body. He hated and loved when he had these moments, when all he could do was move. He couldn't stop.
Automatically, his body pulled up and moved into incredible isolations to Go Go Wine by Vybz Kartel. He had completely lost his body to the bass and rhythm as the mirrored walls shook with the volume of the song. Troy's body wanted to stop but his soul moved his limbs for another three songs.
"T, I called you like 100 times!" Chad threw his stuff to where Troy's was. Troy obviously didn't hear him but Chad shrugged and began stretching.
Troy suddenly dropped and Chad rolled his eyes at Troy's dramatics but when Troy didn't get up after a minute or two Chad called out to him, "Troy?"
He made moves to approach him when suddenly Troy's body began to jerk hysterically, "Shit." He ran over to his best friend and grabbed Troy's head and placed it on his lap, he began smacking Troy's face as he jerked more violently at Chad's restrains.
"Troy! Stop it, man! Stop playing!" Chad screamed. The music in the other rooms stopped and Chad continued screaming, "Someone call 911! Troy, please!" Chad screeched. A few people came into the room, gasping and trying to help him restrain Troy's violent movements.
"Don't hold him down, just turn him on his side!" a girl screamed. "He's having a seizure."
"Someone call an ambulance!" Chad screamed in frustration as he still held Troy's head in his hands.
OH GOD YOU GUYS PROBABLY HATE HOW MUCH SHIT I PUT TROY THROUGH LOLS. I AM DODGING IMAGINARY GLARES AT THE MOMENT BECAUSE I KNOW A FEW OF YOU GUYS ARE PROBABLY READY TO PULL MY HAIR OUT AND GAUGE MY EYES.
UNFORTUNATELY, I MUST TELL YOU THAT THINGS DO GET WORSE.
Review :)
And yes, soon we will get more in-depth about both Troy and Gabriella's relationship with their families, Gabriella's relationship with Mr. Derby, and the love triangle amongst Sharpay, Chad, and Taylor. Be prepared for a Sharpay and Zeke romance in the midst of this and an introduction to Jason. No, I have not forgotten about Kelsi. Some parts of the story are just more important than other parts lols, and there is a reason I made Kelsi a bitch in this story.
Okay goodbye now,
RACHELLE