Hola East High Wildcats!

As fun as it is to be in the gossip world, it's down to business. Everyone's gone home and ready for bed for tomorrow's back-to-school party from one of our classmates. GM is apparently still up, writing in her daily diary. Is it about what's been going on in her life or her sexual fantasies of her delicious boyfriend? Oops, too much info. TB is still playing with his basketball pillow that his father oh so loved when he was much younger. Think he's thinking about the same thing as everyone else? As might as it hurts to say, it's our senior year, so keep up with us. When school starts, it's all about college crapplications, scholarships to our dream schools, and ending the year fantabulously.

I'm your host, Gossip Girl, and the game is about to begin.

You know you love me always.

xoxo,
Gossip Girl

Chapter 2

Gabriella wrote her last words of her latest diary entry and sat back with the journal and her light blue pen in her lap. Words were going through her head as she remembered the conversation her friends had at Charpon's in the afternoon.

"Everyone's going to Charlotte's party on Tuesday, right?" Taylor brought up. Their orders just came to their table and they're all munching on their food.

"Why did she have to have it on a school night?" Kelsi said.

"That's the point. It's a going back to school drunk and happy party. If we don't get drunk there, it's no point of celebrating that the summer's over."

"Did you notice that this is going to be our last summer before the summer where we just head to college?" Troy said. Everyone sighed.

"Don't remind us. When school starts, that's when we start worrying about college applications," Sharpay said, rubbing her forehead.

"And I seriously need to get a scholarship!" Taylor shouted.

"Me too. I don't think my parents would be happy that they have to pay for my college tuition," Troy said. Chad and Jason agreed.

"I'm just waiting to be discovered," Sharpay said freely.

"Shar, believe me, a million years later you will find yourself begging for money with hobos standing beside you, thinking the same damn thing." Sharpay gasped.

"I will not. I have my parents. And you guys, of course." She smiled as everyone else looked away, pretending they don't know her. "You guys!"

"We're kidding. But seriously, you can't depend on other people forever. Didn't you say you wanted to go to Julliard?" Sharpay nodded.

"That's why this year's production, Daddy said he's getting scouts from Julliard to watch me. I'll be a pitch in for sure."

"I'm planning to go to Broadway to be a musical composer, so I'm aiming for NYU," Kelsi said.

"Me too! I'm studying fashion there!" Gabriella exclaimed.

"Then I guess I'm going to Columbia since it's closer to you," Troy said.

"I thought you wanted to go to Dartmouth?" Chad said. Gabriella looked at him confused.

"Well, I don't want to leave Gabi." Chad shrugged. Gabriella looked back at her plate and played with her food, thinking about Troy's and Chad's words.

Gabriella rubbed her forehead in frustration. She knew Troy wanted to go to Dartmouth for a long time since the last scout that visited his last basketball game said he's about to get a full ride scholarship. She also knew Dartmouth is only a few states away, but Columbia was a lot closer since it was in New York City too. She didn't want Troy to give up his dream college just to follow her. That would be selfish and she didn't want to be the bad girlfriend. In the past when Troy and she were unofficially together, she had treated him like an abusive mother. She learned her mistakes when Taylor pulled her back one day Troy was ignoring everyone and told her that Troy was mad for her egocentric behavior. She apologized to Troy after, which got Troy to calm down a little but it was basketball that caused him to be in a bad mood. Even though Troy was mad about something else, Gabriella still thought she owed him more than her life. He brought a lot of fun to her life and she loved being with him, even when it's fighting against Gossip Girl or scandalous rumors. Troy was always by her side and until now, she had never really appreciated it.

Gabriella entered her lock code from her iPhone and checked the time. It was a little after midnight, which meant Troy might be awake. Troy wasn't mad at her now, but she put the phone down and took the college thought out of her mind. She didn't want to bother Troy for her rant just because she wasn't feeling too good about it. A good night sleep was a better cure than letting your problems out that could be solved in the future. It's still summer, so why is she already worrying about college?

Troy flipped his basketball pillow up in the air again and again. The whole conversation about college popped in his mind again. Sure, he loved Gabriella and he wanted to be there for her forever, but is going to a college that he has no interest on going to help his relationship with Gabriella? He wanted to go to Dartmouth, but that was in Hanover, New Hampshire. If Vermont wasn't in between them, New York would be right next to New Hampshire and Troy wouldn't have a problem balancing to visit Gabriella at NYU and going to Dartmouth. We're in reality, so of course Vermont is still in between. Troy flipped his basketball pillow again and with frustration threw it across the room to the wall. His father came in just in time to see the basketball pillow hit the wall and collapse down on the ground.

"What's wrong, Troy?" His father asked, concerned. Troy grunted and crossed his arms.

"Nothing." Jack Bolton took a seat near Troy's feet at the edge of his bed.

"It doesn't sound like nothing."

"That's because I don't need you butting into my business!" Troy groaned again and covered his face with his green pillow.

"Are you sure? You're in a bad mood." Jack didn't get mad easily, but he did get stern when it came to basketball. Usually, the punishment came form Laura's mouth.

"Do you seriously wanna talk, Dad?" Jack nodded, knowing that he's going to get the problem out of Troy.

"Gabi wants to go to NYU and I want to go to Dartmouth, but it's two states away from each other so our relationship would never work that way, so I thought I would go to Columbia since it's in New York City too. But I'm just regretting everything because I've always wanted to go to Dartmouth but I don't want to end my relationship with Gabi. We just started a few months ago and I don't want it to end just like that, but a long distance relationship is hard to handle when you don't see the person so much and I'm afraid that someone's going to hit on Gabi and she's going to like it and forget about me. I don't want to be overprotective and possessive, but it's just all getting into my head and I just don't know what to do." Troy looked at his dad, finished with his rant while Jack was still breathing in that his son is finally worried about college.

"Well, let's start with summer. Summer hasn't even ended yet so why are you worrying about it now?"

"Because we had this conversation at Charpon's today and Gabi wants to go to NYU and I just blurted out that I'll go to Columbia to follow her because I love her that much, but suddenly Chad just spits out that he always thought I wanted to go to Dartmouth when I do, but I don't want to leave Gabi."

"Do you know how Gabi's reacting to this?" Troy rolled his eyes and his jaw was open.

"Oh my god, she's like happier than a kid getting a million lollipops on Halloween."

"Okay… Do you want to be with Gabi and risk your dream college or do you want to go straight to Dartmouth and tell Gabi to hold on to your relationship with her?"

"I don't want to hold her back. It's going to get her nuts just thinking if we can still be together after college."

"You never know. Your mother and I went to different places and we still managed to stay in contact." Troy looked at him dumbfounded.

"You were a drop out in high school and mom went to U of A. It's not really a long distance."

"Can you still manage the relationship when you don't see each other as much?" Troy stood silent for a minute before answering.

"I seriously don't know."

"Well then son, you sure have a lot to think about." Jack patted his son's leg before getting up and leaving the room. Troy sat there in silence for a few seconds before getting to get the basketball pillow off the floor. He jumped back onto the bed and turned off his lights. He cuddled with the basketball pillow, squeezing out all his problems away.

"Gabi… did you get your beauty sleep last night?" Gabriella swatted Sharpay's arm.

"As a matter of fact, I couldn't." Gabriella rubbed her red, puffy eyes. She couldn't get some sleep last night because of the conversation she had with the gang yesterday.

"What got you pulling an all nighter last night?" Taylor asked. Gabriella bit her lip. She didn't want to tell the girls yet what was on her mind yet. She thinks it's better to just think about it when they actually start applying for college.

"Nothing. I'm just paranoid about stuff."

"We're here to talk, you know."

"Of course I know. You guys are my best friends."

"And we're always going to kick Troy's butt whenever he makes you cry…" Sharpay cut in, not even paying attention to the girls as she pulled out a purple oversized fleece sweater that hangs on your shoulders. She pulled it to her body to see if she looked good in it. "Will this sweater make me look like a pregnant whale?" Taylor rolled her eyes. Sharpay was always dressed for best, so she must always get the best opinions for her clothes.

"I'm sure you can pull off that sweater without being pregnant," Taylor insisted. Sharpay shrugged her shoulders and placed the clothing back in its rack.

"Are you sure you don't want to talk about it?" Gabriella nodded. Her phone went off with her newest ringtone 'Love Lockdown' by Kanye West. She smiled when she saw the familiar photo of last year's Valentine's day with her beau holding the brown teddy bear holding a mini stuffed heart pillow that he gave her that included a heart shaped cover full of chocolate. She touched the answer button and held it to her ear.

"Hey baby," she greeted her boyfriend. She could hear him chuckle.

"Hello to you sweet thang," he said slowly. Gabriella immediately could tell he was drunk.

"Have you been drinking?" He laughed in response. She also heard Chad yelling at Troy about taking his glass of vodka away and then a crash. "What's going on there?!" There was no response until someone picked up the phone.

"Umm… Gabs, we'll have to call you back. Troy's a little… down," Chad said. He hung up before Gabriella could reply. Gabriella touched the end button and grabbed her stuff.

"I'm going over to Troy's or Chad's. There's something wrong."

"We'll go with you," Taylor insisted. They waited until Sharpay noticed them staring at her.

"What?"

"Let's go. We're going over to Troy's. Or Chad's if he's over there." Sharpay groaned. She gave up, placing the cashmere sweater back on the rack. They left to go see what's wrong with Troy.

"Dude, stop drinking." Troy poured another glass of pure vodka as he wrestled with Chad. He managed to distract Chad and gulped down the drink. Chad groaned and took the vodka into his hands. "Drinking is not going to helping. Knowing Gabi, she's coming here right now."

"I yeeeee donnnnnnnn'tttt cahhhhhh-airrrrrrrrr," he said, drunk. He tried to reach Chad but Chad took one step back and Troy fell on the floor. He moaned as he tried to get up. The doorbell rang several times; Chad could tell the person on the other side was getting impatient.

"Wait here," he told Troy. Troy couldn't move anyways as he was holding his side in pain. Chad ran over to the door and was instantly pushed out of the way.

"Where the fuck is he?" Gabriella shouted, looking around for her boyfriend. Sharpay and Taylor followed inside, looking like they were in a car that was being driven 108 miles per hour.

"He's in the kitchen," Chad pointed to the kitchen and Gabriella ran in there.

"You might want to pull Gabi back from Troy. She's going to get a butcher knife and slice his lips off," Taylor warned her boyfriend.

"At least that's what she said," Sharpay said. Chad ran into the kitchen, finding Gabriella lifting Troy onto the chair next to him. When she finally succeeding in getting him on the chair, she slapped his head so hard he fell on the floor again.

"Gabi!" Sharpay yelled. Chad ran over and helped his best friend up. Troy grasped his head in pain.

"Hangover hurts," Troy groaned. He looked up at Gabriella. "Don't you know not to hit a guy who has a huge headache from drinking?" Gabriella glared at him.

"Then maybe you shouldn't drink then," she snapped back. Chad glared at her and shook his head.

"Gabriella, this isn't the time to lecture him. He's in the down mood and you don't even know why," Chad strictly said. Gabriella's face dropped. That's right; she didn't know why he was even acting like this. He was happy yesterday, giving her kisses across her neck and jaw. Now he looked like he was too tired to even touch her, to let her know that he was okay. Of course though, he's not okay. She leaned down at her beau.

"Troy," she caressed his cheek, "are you okay? Why are you drinking again?" Troy coughed a little before looking like he was about to barf. Gabriella stepped back, allowing Chad to quickly lead Troy into the bathroom and let him barf his guts out.

"Gabi, you should stop overreacting. Troy looks like he's going through something. When he's ready, he'll tell you," Taylor patted Gabriella's back. Gabriella nodded sadly.

"I know. I'm just worried."

"Are you going to stay here?" Sharpay asked.

"I'm going to take him back to my house. You guys wanna leave?"

"Yeah, sorry. I have ballet lessons in a half an hour," Sharpay apologized, "We'll call you when we have time." Taylor nodded and hugged goodbye to Gabriella. Sharpay and Taylor left together, driving in Sharpay's car. Chad soon came out of the hallway behind Gabriella.

"He's on one of the guestroom bed. You say you wanna bring him home?" Gabriella nodded and headed toward the hallway Chad just came out of.

"I'm bringing him to my house. My mom's flight to Ecuador is tonight so she won't mind. Can I borrow your car?" Chad followed her to the guestroom Troy's in.

"Yeah you can take the Volvo." Chad walked inside the dark guestroom and helped lift Troy out of the bed. Gabriella helped by holding Troy's other arm as they tried dragging Troy out to Chad's car. Chad unlocked his car and set Troy in the passenger. He threw Gabriella on the driver side of his car. He closed Troy's door and peeked inside. "Remember to bring it back on the first day of school."

"Great, that's in two days," Gabriella complained sarcastically. Chad chuckled and left to go back in his house. Gabriella turned on the engine and drove out of Chad's driveway.

After many tries of getting Troy onto her bed, she managed to lay him down on her bed. Troy groaned and tried to turn but he grabbed his forehead.

"Don't move," Gabriella warned. She ran to her bathroom, wet a towel, and ran back into her room to put it over his head. She brushed her knuckles over his face and looked at him. His pale face was scrunching up from the headache Gabriella could tell he was having. She planted a kiss on his cheek before getting some Aspirin for her beloved.

It's not everyday you find the hottest girl in East High with her boyfriend while her boyfriend is drinking himself away.

In two days will be our worst nightmares: school is back. It's time to end our summer vacations filled with alcohol and summer hookups and get back to finish our last year with some dignity and pride.

Now I'm off to get a good night sleep so I can do some last day school shopping. And that includes preparing an outfit for the second day of school. That's right, I'll always look spectacular to you. Luckily, everyone looks awesome so you won't know who I am.

xoxo always and forever,
Gossip Girl

A/N: Sorry for not updating for so long. I haven't had time to type up stories and as the days get closer, I'm getting more busier. It's spring break next month for me so hopefully I'll get some stories done. I don't think I'm going to start new stories anytime soon. I'm just going to update the stories I have now and then just finish from there. After I'm done, I guess I'll just take a long break from Fanfic and just read instead of write. I know you guys love my stories but I'm just way too busy and I can't manage school work, flute, chinese school, choir, and soon-to-be orchestra so I apologize but I hope you'll just love what I give you soon. Thanks for all the support. I love you guys!