The morning was peaceful and quiet until…
wake up wake up
on a Saturday night
could be New York maybe
Hollywood and Vine
London, Paris, maybe Tokyo
theres something goin on
anywhere i go tonight
tonight, yeah tonight
The loudness of the music woke up in instant and made him fell out of bed. "Ow!" He groaned getting up from the floor and stretched out his sore muscles.
The music got even louder and was coming from Sharpay's room. Troy marched over there and pounded hard on her door while yelling "Sharpay! Sharpay, turn the damn music down, dammit!"
The music finally was lower; and Sharpay opened the door, still wearing her pajamas pants, but a white long sleeve cuffed blouse and gray vest. "What is it, Troy? Some people are trying to get ready for school." She said.
"Well thanks to your ipod speakers, your music woke up me and made me fall off my bed." He complained.
Sharpay smirked, putting her hand on her hip and said "Then you should be thanking me that I woke you up. School starts in 40 minutes- you better get ready." Then she shut the door in his face.
Troy gave the door one last punch and yelled "You are so getting it when you come out!" He grabbed a towel, took off his shirt, and charged into the guest bathroom, figuring no one would be there.
But just as he opened the door, he stood there shock by a huge surprise. Gabriella was in there, just done taking a shower, still soaking wet, with a white towel wrapped around her, and her hair wet, too.
"Oh my god!" He exclaimed. He tried to take his gaze off her, but couldn't. She looked like a hot, wet goddess.
Gabriella smiled, squeezing her hair dry, and said "Good morning to you, too. Sorry about that. Guess I should have locked the door."
"No, no, no," He said, shaking his head "I should have knocked first. But you can stay, and I'll leave."
Gabriella shook her head as she squeezed her hair one more time and ran a comb through it. "Don't worry; I'm already done so you can use it now." She said. She gave him a smile as she left the bathroom.
Troy shook his head again, still in shock by what he just saw and how gorgeous it looked. He took a breath, and brushed his teeth. He took a breath, and brushed his teeth. And took a quick shower.
He dumped the wet towel in the dirty hamper and went back to his room. He combed his hair and changed into the school's uniform his aunt got him – white short-sleeve shirt with a navy blue tie, navy blue pants, and dressy black shoes. It wasn't as bad as he thought it would. He put on his black hoodie, stuffed his things into his backpack along with his sketch book, and went to the dining room to get breakfast.
"Ooh, don't you look handsome?" His mother said, taking out a camera and taking pictures of him "I can't wait till I send Jackie these pictures of her baby brother on his first day of his new school."
"Mom." He whined, covering himself from the camera. From the corner of his eye, he saw Ryan and Sharpay, trying not to laugh, at the dining table. He clenched his fists to fight off his anger that was about to build up, and shot them death glares.
Ryan was wearing the same uniform Troy was wearing, but of course added a matching hat.
Sharpay was wearing the girls' uniform- a white cuffed blouse, a gray vest, black mini skirt, and black Gucci flats. But she added pink accessories to her uniform. Pink tights, pink patent hair-band, pink heart-shape diamond pendant, pink bracelets, and of course her pink backpack with her initials S.E in crystal.
"Do you ever get tired of pink?" Troy asked, taking a seat across from them.
"No way! I love pink. It's the one color I'll never get tired of." Sharpay said.
Troy rolled his eyes. Of course Sharpay loves pink since it was the color of the most of her stuff. Examples: her huge bedroom, most of her clothes, and the convertible her parents got her for her sweet 16th which is parked in the hotel's indoor parking lot.
"So would you ever get tired of black?' Gabriella asked, walking into the dining room, dressed in her St. Peters uniform, taking a seat next to Troy.
Troy's mouth dropped looking at her sexiness. Gabriella looked sexy like a model in the uniform; expect instead of a long-sleeve blouse, she wore a ¾ cuffed one. She also wore a pair of 1 ½ inch heel black ankle-strap pumps, and for accessories a bright yellow hair wrap wrapped around her hair, matching leg warmers, and a long gold chain necklace. (Vanessa's school-girl look from her Sears's commercial) She looked too sexy that it made Troy's mouth water. He could feel drool threatening to come out.
Finally he snapped out of it, and said to her "Good morning."
Gabriella gave her warm dazzlingly smile and said "Good morning. So you excited about school?"
Troy shrugged, letting out a breath.
She lightly punched him on the arm and said "Don't worry, champ. St. Peters is a cool school."
He looked into the warmness of her chocolate eyes and smile, and smiled back at her.
Greta severed them triple chocolate, chocolate chunk pancakes- their favorite- with a side of bacon and some juice. After breakfast, they grabbed their sweaters and jackets and went downstairs to the lobby to wait for the limo.
Troy's mother followed them, pulled Troy a side, and said firmly "Please, please, please try to behave today at school, Troy. Please I'm begging you. Do not cause trouble and please, please try to control you anger. Please behave!"
Troy didn't make eye-contact with her, not sure whether or not he can keep that promise. He finally shrugged and mumbled "I'll see what I can do." And with that, he turned and joined the others in the lobby, waiting for the limo to come.
Ten minutes later, the limo finally came and the driver opened the door for them, carrying a tray of Starbucks, handing them their favorite snacks one by one as they entered the car.
For Sharpay, a non-fat, non-foam soy latte and a plain bagel. For Ryan, a French Villain decafe coffee and double chunk chocolate chip cookie. For Gabriella, peppermint tea and chocolate muffin. And for Troy, just hot chocolate with extra cream and brownie.
The teens chatted for awhile and talked a bit about school. Gabriella even volunteered to give Troy a tour around the school, which please him a lot and at the same time caused him to blush.
Sharpay beamed, seeing their cuteness, absolutely determined to get those tow together, and of course Ryan would help her.
Finally the driver parked in front of the school, and opened the door for them.
Sharpay thanked him as they got out of the limo. She breathed in the campus air as she reached into herm pulled out her Gucci pink sunglasses, and put them on. "Let's go." She said, leading the way into the school.
Troy looked around the school as they entered in, and was…amazed. St. Peters was pretty big and it reminded him of a college campus. It sure was big as one.
With the help from Gabriella, Troy was able to find the admission's office. The secretary was a middle-aged woman, who pasted a smile on her face, which he couldn't tell whether it was real or not. Once he told her who he was, she handed him his schedule, some school books, his locker combination, and a map of the school.
Troy grabbed the stuff, thanked her, and left the office to see Gabriella waiting for him, with a smile he could easily tell was real.
"You got your stuff?' She asked him.
"Yeah," He said, checking his schedule 'I have homeroom and English with Ms. Darbus." (A/N: She just seem like an english teacher)
"No way! We have those classes, too." Gabriella said.
Troy smiled, pleased, hoping that he would get a seat next to her. "And my locker is 3412. Do you know where that is?' He asked.
"Yeah, it's right across from mine." She answered, taking his hand and taking him to his locker.
"Thanks." He said.
"No problem." She said, and then went over to her locker which was next to Sharpay's double lockers, which surprise, surprise was painted pink.
Sharpay opened her lockers, which inside was of course pink, gazed admirably at her reflection in her mirror, and coated some more lip-gloss on her lips. "Did you hear about the new winter play?" She asked Gabriella.
She nodded, handed Sharpay some bubble gum, chewed her own piece, and said "Yeah, Romeo & Juliet, I already know that you and Ry have already signed up."
"Of course, and you should audition, too. It will be so much fun." Sharpay said, smacking her gum, blowing a bubble and popping it.
Gabriella thought for a moment and said "Alright, besides it's my favorite play. I'll sign up during free period or lunch time."
Sharpay beamed, pleased that Gabriella was gong to join them for the audition. She does of course love the spotlight and getting the leads in plays and musicals, but it's also fun when her brother and best friend audition with her.
Gabriella checked the clock, and said "We better get to homeroom, Shar. Where's Ry?"
"He went there already with Kelsi. He totally likes her." Sharpay said, giggling, taking out her pink binder and English text-book.
Gabriella took out her blue binder and English, turned to Troy, and said "You coming?"
He nodded, smiling at her, grabbed his English stuff, and followed them to homeroom. He handed the teacher his transcript while introducing himself.
"Alright then Mr. Bolton. Welcome to St. Peters. You may take s eat next to Miss Montez." Ms. Darbus told him, pointing to an empty desk in the back row next to Gabriella.
Troy practically zoomed over to the desk and took a seat. He felt his cell phone vibrating in his backpack. He took it out, and read the new text message he just got.
'You'll thank me later
-Shar.'
The message readied.
He signed as he text back to her
'I should have known.'
Troy really should have known that Sharpay pulled a few stings to let him have a seat next to Gabriella, probably even in all the classes he has with her.
Gabriella leaned over to him and whispered "You better hide that. Ms. Darbus hate cell phones in class and gets detention to anyone who has them."
Troy quickly turned off the phone's ringer and put it back in his backpack.
The rest of the students arrived before the bell rang. Once everyone was in their seats, Ms. Darbus shut the door, got out her clip-board, and said "Good morning, students. I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving holiday. I'll start with some announcements. First off if you readied the bulletin boards then you know about the school's winter play, Romeo & Juliet. I will be holding the auditions Friday during free period. Also sign up sheets for clubs such as Drama, sports, music, creative-writing and more. And now moving on to English, this week we will be studying William Shakespeare and his plays. You will have a test about him on Friday. So I suggest if you want to do well on the test, then pay attention to today's lesson through Thursday and take a few notes."
She dimmed the lights, closed the blinds of the windows, and placed the projector in between Troy and Gabriella. "Now pay attention to the slideshow we are about to watch and copy down the information on each slide. For those of you who don't write as fast as others do, do not worry because I will pause each slide for about three to five minutes or so. Now let us begin learning about a great poet." Miss Darbus said, and then stared the slide show.
Troy took out his pen and notebook, and wrote down everything on the slides. Even sketch some of the images.
Troy was a fast writer so he was able to write down all the facts less than two minutes. Whenever he was done before others were half through, he would think about some sketches he was planning to sketch later and would occasionally take a peek at Gabriella.
He noticed that she was a fast writer than he was, and whenever she was done, she writes in that poem/song journal of hers until the next slide would come on.
Troy wanted to see what she writes, but Miss Darbus was behind them, keeping a watchful eye on her students.
They went through 20 slides until the bell finally ranged. The students signed relief.
"Don't forget to study the notes you've just written and also for homework, this week we will be studying Shakespeare plays starting with Hamlet. So tonight read the book and write a 3-page essay about what you readied so far and what you think about it." Miss Darbus said. The students groaned as they left the classroom.
So far the day was okay for Troy, but the thing that was most awesome to him was that he had almost every class with Gabriella -expect for chemistry- and got seated next to her. This pleased him very much.
As he was walking to the cafeteria, he passed by a few sign-up sheets. The one that caught his attention was the basketball try-outs after school tomorrow. Shrugging, Troy decided to sign up for it.
He also stopped by the one for the play. Troy didn't mind acting and knows a thing or two about Romeo & Juliet.
"Boo!" Someone said, sneaking up on him.
Troy turned around and jumped, seeing it was only Gabriella. "Jesus! Are you trying to give me a heart attack!?" He asked.
"Maybe." She said, innocently, smirking.
Troy smirked back at her and punched her on the arm.
"Ow!" She said, rubbing her arm, her smile pausing.
"Oh my god, are you okay?" Troy asked, worried that he hurt her. That's the one thing he never wants to do, hurt Gabriella.
"Don't worry about it." She said, slowly smiling. She looked at the sign-up sheet for the play, and then looked back at Troy. "Are you going to sign up?"
He shrugged and replied "Maybe."
"How about we both audition as a pair? It will be fun." Gabriella suggested.
Troy nodded his head and said "Yeah that would be cool."
"Aright then." Gabriella said, taking out her pen and writing her name on the pair sheet. Troy took her pen and wrote his name next to her on the sheet.
"Come on, let's go to lunch." She said.
"So what's for lunch?" Troy asked Gabriella as they walked into the huge cafeteria.
"Tuna salad. But Shar texted me at history saying that she ordered Chinese food us." Gabriella said, buying a Coke for them from the vending machine, hading Troy a soda, and leading him to the table outside where Ryan, who was texting Kelsi on his cell phone, and Sharpay, flipping through a magazine, where at.
Sharpay spotted them and waved to them to come over.
They went over to the table, greeted them, and ate Chinese food while talking about this morning.
Sharpay beamed and clapped with delight once they all told her that that they sign up for the play. "Fabulous! I can't wait till Friday." She said.
Troy noticed a few people looking at their cell phones and pointing at Sharpay, and snickering and whispering about her.
When she saw them, she looked down at her food. Gabriella noticed and asked "What's wrong, Shar?"
Sharpay nodded her head toward the people who were snickering and pointing at her. Gabriella and Ryan turned to them and scowled. Troy gave them a look telling them to fuck off.
"Yeah. That's been going on all morning since 2nd period." Sharpay said, plating with her food. Then her eyes grew wide, fearing a possibility. "What if they found out about what happened Saturday night?!"
Troy, Gabriella, and Ryan looked at one another, unsure what to say. They knew it could be a possibility. Sharpay was really drunk, and was with that pervert Bass. Anything could have happened.
Lunch ended, and they went to their lockers, grabbing their stuff for Math. As they were walking in the halls, most people were looking at their cell phones, snickered, and pointed while whispering at Sharpay.
Sharpay blushed, which rarely happens, and felt very uncomfortable. Gabriella wrapped her arm around her shoulder and gave her a smile saying that everything will be okay. Sharpay faintly smiled a grateful smile at Gabriella, while resting her head on her shoulder.
Sharpay could always count on her because she knew that Gabriella always has her back no matter what.
"You guys!" A voice cried after them.
They turned around to see Kelsi, Taylor McKessie, a classmate and friend, and Chad Danforth, another classmate and friend, rushing up to them.
"You guys have got to see this!" Taylor said, flipping her cell phone open, and showing them a picture she had just received.
They gather around her, looked at the picture, and were shocked by what they saw.
The photo was of Sharpay at the party last Saturday, on the rooftop, obviously drunk with hr high-drunk looking smile and glassy eyes, pulling her dress and bra up, wearing only her thong. Besides her underwear, she was naked.
"Oh my fucking god!!!" She screamed. She screamed at the top of her lungs, practically cracking all the glasses, making everyone cover their ears. She then fainted into Gabriella's arms.
"Ry." Gabriella said to him.
"I'm on it." He said, reaching into his sister's bag, took out her favorite perfume, and sprayed a bit in front of her.
Once she caught the scent of the perfume, she instantly woke up and got back on her feet. Sharpay grabbed Taylor's cell phone and looked at the photo again, feeling sick to her stomach.
"That bastard is a dead-man!!!" She yelled, storming off. The gang followed behind her.
"You are fucking asshole!" She yelled, charging up to Chuck and slapping him.
Chuck sucked in his breath, but smirked, turning his head toward her. "So I guess you found out?" He said.
Feeling disgusted by him, Sharpay slapped him again harder. "You asshole pig!!!" She yelled.
Chuck let out a dark chuckle as he pushed her. "It's not my fault that you're a slut like your cousin, Jackie." He said.
Troy's ears perked up when he heard his sister's name. He pushed Sharpay a side and said to Chuck "What about Jackie?"
Chuck chuckled darkly again and said "Apparently, according to my cousin Mike, who goes to Yale with her, she's the school biggest whore there. Oh but hey, since you're Jackie's brother, can you give me her phone number. I hear she's pretty good and I want to see if that's true."
Troy clenched his fists so hard that his knuckles were ghost white. Sure Jackie acts a little slutty and two boyfriends, but that doesn't make her completely a whore. And no one talks about his sister that way, no one.
Feeling his anger building up inside of him, Troy slammed Chuck against the lockers and punched him hard in the jaw.
Everyone heard a crack, and was sure that it was Chuck's now broken jaw.
Chuck shoved Troy off and punched him in the face. "Hey it's not my fault she's a slut. But you two are obviously related since I heard that you were quite the man-whore back at your old school." He said.
Everyone 'oohed' and rumors began flying.
But that just did it. His anger snapped, and exploded.
"Damn, you asshole!!!" Troy said, jumping on Chuck and punching his face in.
Everyone gathered around and chanted. Pleased that Chuck Bass was getting a taste of what he deserves. But a few people noticed something.
After the 9th punch hard in the face, Chuck stopped moving and blood was coming out. A lot of it. And most of it was staining Troy.
A few people, including the gang, were trying to break through the crowd to break up the fight.
Gabriella managed to break through the crowd, and tried to pull Troy back.
"Troy, stop! You're going to kill him!" Gabriella said, struggling to pull Troy away.
He turned to her, with anger raging in his eyes. It almost feared her, sending a chill down her spine.
"You stay out of this, bitch!" He yelled, getting off of Chuck, who stopped breathing, and shoved Gabriella –unbelievably hard- against the lockers.
Gabriella, wishing she didn't have to do this, slapped Troy in the face.
But it only increased his anger even more. He slapped her back –even harder. The slap was so hard that everyone could feel it. The gang panicked.
"Troy, leave her alone!" Sharpay yelled.
Troy ignored Sharpay, grabbed Gabriella's wrists instantly hard, and slammed her so hard against the lockers that Gabriella could feel liquid coming out of her head.
She winced in pain, feeling water dripping from her head. The tightness in her wrists was so tight that she could feel the circulation in them stopping. This brought back too many horrible memories. Memories that she wanted more than anything to go away.
"Mamá, por favor, deje!" She yelled, crying recalling horrible memories.
Mostly everyone tried to pull Troy away from her. The gang pulled with all their strength, but Troy wouldn't budge.
"Troy, let go of her!!!!" Ryan yelled.
"Troy, please stop!" Gabriella yelled again in pain.
Troy couldn't control himself. His anger was just eating him up. He slapped her again harder, and tightens his grip on Gabriella's wrists. "Listen bitch if you don't shut the fuck up and stay out of my way, I will fucking kill you! Do you understand?!!!!" He yelled in her face.
Gabriella nodded her head, remembering the horrible times in her past, with tears running down her cheeks.
Finally Troy released his grip, and the people who were pulling him, finally pulled him away from her.
Gabriella sank to the ground, her wrists swollen, her head hurting and blood pouring from it, crying hard.
The gang came to comfort her. Sharpay hugged her and told her everything will be okay. But Gabriella closed her eyes, still crying, repeating those Spanish words over and over again.
"Mamá, por favor, deje!" She whispered to herself.
One of the students called an ambulance for both Chuck and Gabriella. Principal came and reported Troy to his office and called his mother.
When the Principal was done calling Chuck and Gabriella's parents (Or parent in Gabriella's case.), he turned to Troy and his mother, shook his head at Troy and told Lucille about what happened.
Troy's mother was shocked by what she just heard. "Troy Alexander Bolton!!!" She said to Troy. She turned back to the Principal and said "How Chuck and Gabriella?"
Principal Mr. Matusi took a deep breath, but nodded his head. "Well I might say that Gabriella will be a bit better than Chuck. He is going to be just fine, but has a lot of bruises on his face and a broken jaw. He will be staying in the hospitable for a few days. As for Gabriella, she needed a stitch at the back of her head, her wrists are very much swollen, but she will be alright. However she will be staying in the hospitable for the night and won't be returning to school till Friday. However Mr. Bolton, you will not be so lucky. You will have detention for the rest of the month and will be suspended for three days. Your cousin Sharpay will be bringing you your schoolwork."
"Where is Sharpay?" His mother asked him.
"She and Ryan along with Mr. Danforth, Ms. Kessie, and Ms. Kelsi (A/N: sorry don't know her last name) all went to hospitable with Gabriella." Mr. Matsui said.
When they left the school, Troy's mother yelled at the top of her lungs at Troy for what he did. She kept yelling and yelling until they reached back home. His aunt Phoebe had to calm her done, but she and Troy's uncle said to Troy how disappointed they were of him.
Troy ignored all of them. He sat on the couch and kept quiet.
Finally Sharpay and Ryan came home. They gave him the cold death glare, but repeated to their parents what happened at school.
"How is Gabriella?" Sharpay's mother asked them.
"Thank god, she'll be alright. Her sister and brothers came down from Yale once they heard about what happened. Tia and Jason are staying with her at the hospitable until she goes home tomorrow. I feel so horrible about what happened," Sharpay said and then cold stared at Troy. "And it's your entire fault, you asshole!!!"
"I didn't do a damn thing. She was in my way, so I told her to stay away!" Troy yelled.
Sharpay marched over to him and slapped him.
He was about to punch her, but his uncle and Ryan pulled him down while his aunt and mom pulled Sharpay away.
"You don't get it, do you?" She yelled.
"Get what?!!!!!!" He yelled.
Sharpay broke free of their grips, walked up to Troy and said "What you did was absolutely horrible. It wasn't already horrible enough that you slapped her, but you also had to slam her against the lockers, squeezed her wrists, and slap her again. She cried and begged you to stop, but you wouldn't. You hurt my best friend and that is not okay with me. You brought back horrible memories to Gabriella. Memories that she wishes would just go away."
"And what memories would that be of?" Troy yelled.
Sharpay frowned tightly at her cousin, crossed her arms and yelled back at him "Memories of her mother's beatings!!!!" She lower her voice "Her mother abused her, Troy!!!"
(A/N: So the secret's out! That's Gabriella's secret past that she doesn't like to talk about. That bruise on her wrist from chapter 4 is one of her mother's beatings. So what do you think will happen next? Only way to find out is by reading my stories. So what do you think? Thanks for the awesome reviews by the way. You guys rock! Until next time, peace!