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East High

They say that they are the greatest years of your life. Time of friendships, first loves and first heartbreaks. It's is the time when we learn and discover who we are, who we want to be and where we are going. Just before we grow up, move on, grow apart. It was High school. It was Senior Year. It was supposed to be amazing, so why did Gabriella desperately want to run away and not look back.

For her, High School was just more drama, immaturity, bitching, pointless fighting. More stupid kids who thought the most important things in life where how they looked or how popular they were, Gabriella Montez despised those people. She had been to hell and back, faced troubles and situations most people couldn't dream about, these kids wouldn't know problems if it bit them on the ass.

Despite all that however, here she stood in front of an obnoxiously bright East High, how she was wishing she had taken up her fathers offer of college abroad, too late know, she thought. Walking up the front steps, she stopped in front of the large blacked out windows, tapping her Louis Vaton heels against the concrete as she eyed her reflection. She had taken an unusually lengthy amount of time to get dressed this morning, having had changed her outfit almost ten times. Troy had told her most of the girls here had dressed like whores, that however wasn't exactly a look Gabriella planned to go for, she could do without the extra attention from pervy males. She had instead gone with black metallic leggings, with a white off the shoulder, over-sized tee, her black and white bag to match and finished it off with her beloved Louis Vaton heels. Her hair was down in its natural curls and she had swept her bangs off to the side. Overall she thought she looked okay, she didn't want to stand out or capture any ones attention, she was hoping to blend in this year, keep her head down.

Walking through the large white doors of East High Gabriella was hit with Loud and excited cheerleaders all greeting and hugging friends, who they hadn't seen through the holidays. Gabriella stopped dead in her tracks when her eyes suddenly feel upon an insanly large picture of Troy Bolton and what looked like the East High Basketball Team, or the Wildcats, as the large text read above their heads. Due to Gabriella's sudden stop, someone ran into her back. She heard a disgruntled moan as she turned to see who it was.

"Ugh..what don't you intent to apologise", spat the leggy red head, with a disgusted tone.

"You fucking walked into me idiot brains", shot back Gabriella, not used to the tone the girl was speaking in, most people knew better. She suddenly cursed herself, however wishing she had a better lid on her anger.

"Do you know who you are speaking to?", the girl asked, towering over Gabriella, as if trying to intimidate her.

All feeling of remorse Gabi had felt suddenly went out the window.

"No I don't and honestly I don't give a shit, more to the point do you know who you're talking to?", Gabi shot back her anger mounting towards the 'slut' in front of her.

"Obviously your new here, but I own this school and it would probably be best for you to stay out of my way", she threatened.

"Was that a fucking threat", Gabi spat, coming closer to the female.

"No, just some....friendly advise", she smiled.

At this Gabi noticed a group of people round the corner, stopping when they saw Gabi and the girl face to face. It took a minute for Gabi to realise that it was in fact 'the gang'.

"Is the a problem here Kacey", Sharpay asked, her dislike for the female obvious. Gabi thought she recognised her, it was the whore they had seen in the Cafe.

"No problem Shar", she started in a sickly sweet tone. "It's Sharpay to you", she shot back, cutting her off".

"Well Sharpay", she abbreviated the name, "I was just saying Hello".

"Like hell you were", Gabriella spat, "and Kacey was it? You can stick you 'friendly advise' up your arse, I've dealt with bigger bastards in my sleep, though none of them where quite as ugly".

"Ughh..you", she raged.

Leah grabbed Kacey's shoulder, "I really wouldn't if I was you, just walk away", she warned.

Kacey humphed and then made of down the corridor. Gabriella turned around to the rest of the group, met by confused and slightly concerned faces.

"Wow Gabs I didn't know you had it in you", laughed Chad a tad nervous, " There was me thinking you were the quite, innocent type".

Everyone in the group laughed and seemed to shake it off, as they too set of in the same direction Kacey had just walked.

"You couldn't have been more wrong Chad", mumbled Leah to herself, as she lagged behind the group, "you couldn't have been more wrong".

The first five periods leading up to lunch had gone in surprisingly quick. They had all consisted of the same welcome and pep talk from each teacher on how impressive her references were and how fabulous the school would be for furthering her talents. Gabriella had tryed to explain to the teachers, particularly those in the arts, that she wished to keep her head down and concentrate on her studies this year. They had all brushed this off however, saying that great performing talents such as the ones she possessed should not be hidden, instead shown to the world.

It was 20 minutes until lunch and Gabriella was sitting her Politics class, she had been allocated a seat beside a girl called Lisa Monroe. Lisa had been explaining to her about Democracy within the school and how those on the pupil parliament believed that they had the right to have a say on the running of their school. As much as Politics did intrest Gabriella, this conversation was really starting to bore her and she had ceased listening to Lisa quite some time ago.

"...and so we believe that every pupil has the right to their say", she continued, "Don't you agree?", she questioned Gabriella.

"Ehm..yeah Democracy's great, I mean we don't want East High to get as bad as China", Gabi said, confused to where the conversation had led.

Lisa laughed assuming Gabi had meant to be funny with her comment.

"Yeah, that would probably be bad, I mean if that happened we wouldn't even be discussing this right now".

God, that would be terrible, thought Gabi, sarcastically. She forced a laugh at Lisa's comment and went back to her book on poverty in the USA.

The bell signalling lunch rang. Gabriella quickly picked up her books and departed the classroom, desperately trying to get away from 'Liberal Lisa'.

"Hey Newby", called a voice from behind her as she left the class.

She turned around to an amazingly gorgeous Troy Bolton, leaning with his back against the wall. She hadn't seen him all day, apart from this morning when she was to fuming with Kacey to be paying much attention to anything. She had also missed him in Homeroom as his team had been called out for an important meeting, much to the disarray of Miss Darbus, their teacher.

"Newby", she laughed.

He was wearing light jeans, which hung low around his hips and a tight fitting white t-shirt, which when he streched, like he was now, allowed a great view of his fantastic abs.

Stop bloody staring, she cursed herself.

"So how are you liking East High so far?", he asked, starting conversation.

"Yeah, it em..lively", she replied, unable to think of a better way to describe the school. "Everyone is very excitable", she continued, looking around at the many students all hyper-actively making their way to lunch.

"Yeah, they're quite something", he laughed nodding in agreement. "Most of kids here participate in something, mainly the arts, drama, music, all that stuff", he commented. "Those who don't, tend to be involved in sport and then theirs the total outsiders, those who decide they don't want to follow everybody else, either that or they have absolutely no talent", he joked and Gabi laughed.

"So, where do you fit in?", he asked her.

"I don't", she replied simply.

He looked at her with a confused smile, "I thought you were a cheerleader and played sport", he questioned. "Oh and according to your friend Leah you also sing and act, seems to me like you would fit in pretty perfectly at East High".

"Yeah well I don't follow the crowd, I lead as a matter of fact", she said and he laughed again. "Plus I don't think I'll be doing much extra-curricular stuff this year".

They passed the student billboard which some pupils where gathered around writing their names on the sign up sheets there.

"You sure about that?", he questioned as he looked at the board. "You know, Hayley, our last cheer captain graduated last year, they're trying to fill her spot".

"I thought Kacey was captain?", she asked.

"She was, well at-least she was filling in, but she got herself into trouble at their last competition and so the coach Kara, she works with my dad, wants rid of her, but she had to get the other girls to agree, there was a big burst up because of it.".

"Oh cheer-ocracy", Gabi said laughing.

"What?", Troy asked confused.

"Doesn't matter", she giggled, at the look on his face.

"Anyway, supposedly they are having a 'cheer off' or something like that, because not everyone could agree on who should be captain, since half the people on the squad are friends with Kacey".

"Ohh", she said reading the flyer. "They're looking for a new captain and a few new members on the squad", she said more to herself than to Troy.

"Why don't you do it?" he asked, "Leah too, weren't you cheer captains at your last school".

"Yeah we were. You know Bolton you know a scary amount about cheer-leading", she said to him.

He laughed and shook his head,"That's what happens when your friends with Shar, it's not the cheer-leading I know about, just the drama on the squad".

"I really do need to get to know Sharpay better", she joked.

"Hey you", exclaimed a scarily cheery Leah as Gabriella took her place at the lunch table.

"Hey", she replied cautiously.

"Soo....you seen the Billboard?", she asked and Gabi knew where the conversation was going.

"Yes Leah and no I am not signing up to cheer-leading", she replied.

Leah's smile fell,"Hey not fair",

"Why isnt it fair, sign up yourself", Gabi said.

"Oh come on I'm no were near as good as you".

"Your still a damn good cheerleader though, better than that lot", she said pointing at the table to their left where girls stood with pom poms. "I mean who actually still use's pom poms?".

"Yeah maybe so, but not good enough to get to worlds, with 'that lot'", she said repeating Gabi's mocking words.

"What do you mean worlds, they don't do that here, they just cheer for the sports teams at rally's and shit", said Gabriella.

"Ells we dropped out in Canada in the semi finals of Worlds". she stated, clearly still upset about the fact.

"Why did you drop out?", Kelsi questioned.

"My brothers died", Gabi replied without looking at her.

"Oh..uhm..I'm sorry", she replied.

"Don't worry about it", said Gabriella.

"So what's your point", she asked Leah, annoyed that she was holding Worlds against her when she knew the reason she dropped out.

"No I don't mean it like that", Leah try-ed to correct herself, " I just mean, you've won before, In Australia, you won Worlds. This is my last year, I just want another shot at it", she said.

"You really think you could take them to Worlds", asked Gabi.

"No, I couldn't, but you could", she replied.

"Yeah I'm good Lee, but I'm not that good", she said mocking the so called cheerleaders who sat across from them.

"Well why not go down there today and see what they've got, they might have potential", she started, " and if not then we can leave and forget about it".

"Fine",Gabi agreed, "but if they're terrible I'm leaving", she knew this was a lie however, she had already gotten Leah's hope's up, she was really gonna work with these idiots.

So much for a quite year.

Their Tumbling was terrible. Their stunts were weak. Their dancing was pathetic. She had never seen a worse heel stretch pull down in her life. She had been in fear for the young girls life when she had done her Arabesque Twist and was considering going in to break things up when she witnessed the girls toe-touch basket. However, apart from that sure the team had potential.

She was going to kill Leah.

"So ughh...wotcha think", asked Coach Kara who was standing to Gabi's left. Leah had told her who Gabi was, and surprisingly enough the coach had heard of her and seemed overjoyed that she was considering joining her team. However, after watching them perform she seemed less overjoyed and more embarrassed. Gabriella was impressed at first with the teams chants and basic cheer leading skills which they used at match days, but when Gabi had asked for more extreme cheer leading everything had gone downhill.

"Ughh...is this a joke", Gabi asked.

"Sorry", said the coach.

"I thought you said this team had won at nationals, 5 years in a row".

"No, I said Wildcats had won at nationals", she said sheepishly.

"Aren't they the Wildcats?", Gabi asked , praying she would say no and that they were there warm up act.

"Yes, the new Wildcats, we won at Nationals with the old team, all of which graduated last year".

"So this is what I'm left with", she said, sighing.

"Please just give them a chance, they're good kids, they'd be willing to learn", the coach begged, "We have always been a good team, its going to look terrible on the school if they turn up like that on match day".

"Yeah and it'll be an embarrassment to me if they turn up with me on match-day". Gabi replied.

"Please just give them a chance", she pleaded, "plus it'll look good on you, your helping the school community, you'll get extra credit".

God Gabi just wanted her to stop, her begging was quite pathetic, "Fine, I'll see what I can do with them, no promises though".

"Thank you", the teacher smiled.

"Under the conditions though that this is my team, I do what I want with them. Also I get the gym when I need it and one final thing", she said and the coach nodded, "new outfits, because those are terrible".

"Consider it done", said the coach walking away.

She turned to Leah who was smiling like an idiot. "What are you smiling about?", she said. "I'm making you Co-Captain".

Leah hugged her, "You won't regret this", she said.

"I already am", announced Gabi looking around at her squad. This was gonna take some work.

Before Gabriella could say anything else the doors to the gym burst open, "What the hell is going on here", shouted an angry Kacey.

"We have a new Captain", one of the girls who Gabi didn't know announced.

"What!?!" Screamed Kacey.

"Yeah", said another girl. "It's Gabi, she's a professional cheerleader, she won Worlds".

"You", she said glaring at her.

Gabi snickered.

God this definitely wasn't going to be the quiet year Gabi had hoped for.

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Btw... I know there hasn't been much Troyella, however that will change as of next chapter. I think it will be in Troys POV. Things will get better soon :D promises xxx