Chapter 2

*Lovesick

(A/N: Hey! Here's the second chapter! It's short but the next few chapters will be longer as I get into the story more. I hope you like it! And remember; please review! And one more thing; I'm so glad I have the number of readers I have for this story. I can't thank you guys enough for reading my stories. I have more than 20 readers so keep the readers coming!)

Junior Year

"Are you sure this goes with my outfit? I don't want to go to school looking like lunatic that doesn't know how to match colors." Gabriella complained as she gazed in the mirror holding up a green tan top and a yellow tan top several times to see which one looked better with her pink skirt or if the orange tan top she had on was fine. Troy was sitting on the edge of her bed with his head in his hands.

"Troy? Are you even listening?" Gabriella turned around and put her hands on her hips, getting annoyed.

"It's fine. No one will even notice the slight difference in the colors. Just don't stress about it." Troy explained.

Gabriella stared at him before carelessly tossing the rest of the clothes in her closet. "Yeah 'cuz the first day of school isn't even important," She said sarcastically before grabbing her white and pink tote bag and started throwing random but things she needed for school stuff in it. "You know; you're a real pain in my –"

"Brie, I'm sorry," Troy cut her off. "I think your outfit is very brightly colored and it's a great first-day-of-school outfit. It's wonderful."

Gabriella looked at him suspiciously. "Behind those gorgeous blue eyes of yours, you probably didn't mean anything you just said." She pointed teasingly at him.

"Are you saying you don't believe your best friend?"

"No…not at all." Gabriella paused. "You really think I can trust everything you say?"

Troy frowned. "Brie -"

"Troy; I was kidding," Gabriella smiled. "I would never, for a single doubt; not take your word for anything. I trust you."

Troy smiled. "Well that's what I want to hear. We should probably get going. We don't want to be late." Troy grabbed his gym bag and followed Gabriella out the door. Troy's Audi A4 was parked in the parking lot.

"Can I drive this time, please?" Gabriella pouted.

"No way. Last time I let you drive, my car ended up backed up into garbage can. Clearly you don't know how to back up correctly."

"I'm sorry I'm not as perfect as you." Gabriella punched him playfully in the arm.

"Ow." Troy opened the car door for her and smiled.

"Thanks." Gabriella looked at him with her big brown eyes.

Don't get carried away. Troy told himself.

He tore his eyes away from her and climbed into the driver's seat. He could feel Gabriella's eyes on her and so he glanced over at her.

"Are you watching me?" Troy raised his eyebrow curiously.

Gabriella blushed. "Shut up!"

"So you were watching me? I know I look hot. Those cheerleaders can never resist me if they tried."

"Oh Troy; you're self-centered."

Troy smirked. "I guess I'll take that as a compliment."

"Ok you do that." Gabriella reached for the button on the stereo and 'You Belong With Me' played through the speakers. Gabriella suddenly felt little awkward because the lyrics to the song were exactly how she had been feeling about Troy but minus any girlfriend wearing short shirts or being a cheerleader. Troy didn't have a girlfriend but he would if he could see that she belonged to him.

Troy smiled and pulled into the parking lot of East High.

"Here we go. You ready?" Troy took a deep breath.

Gabriella took a deep breath too. "Yeah." They both stepped out of the car and took in the scene in front of them. There were students welcoming back the friends they haven't seen for three months. They had trendy clothes and welcome back gifts for all their best friends.

"Hey man, what's up?" Troy nodded to Chad.

"Nothing much just dreading having to be back in Ms. Darbus' homeroom…again."

"Aw man. That sucks."

"Dude, you're in her homeroom too."

"Yeah but I'm never on her bad side." Troy slapped him on the back before heading down the hall.

"Hey Taylor! How are you?" Gabriella said, giving her best friend a hug.

"I'm great! How are you?"

"I'm great," She looked around. "Wow, I can't believe we're already juniors. It's gone by so fast!" They both started walking to their lockers, stopping occasionally to greet their friends.

"I know right? Two more years and we'll be moving into our new college dorms." Gabriella thought about where she would be in two years. Images of Troy in a black tuxedo at a wedding, ready to vow to spending the rest of his life with her made her smile and shiver at the same time.

"Yeah. Have you heard from Yale yet?" Gabriella stopped at her locker, opened it and organized all her books around before closing it.

"No, not yet. Have you heard from Stanford?" They walked around to Taylor's locker which was a few lockers down from Troy and Chad's. Gabriella glanced over at Troy who was messing around with Chad and Zeke.

"Yeah I have. Earlier than I thought."

"Well did you accept?"

"No." Gabriella paused. "I think I'm going to apply to Berkeley with Troy."

Taylor stared at her in disbelief. "What? Why? Stanford is the college you've always dreamed to go too. You can't just not go. Look; I know you and Troy have been there for each other since you two met but you might need to think about letting him go. He'll understand."

Gabriella thought about she would be giving up for her best friend. She glanced over at him again, smiling.

He glanced over at her and smiled. "Yeah I know. I don't want to let him go though. He means too much to me."

Gabriella heard Taylor's locker shut but her eyes still lingered no Troy who was still looking at her. He started walking towards her, shaking his shaggy brown hair out of his face. Gabriella couldn't help but smile at how hot her best friend was and how deeply in love she was with him. She was so distracted that she didn't know that she was absentmindedly backing up as Troy walked closer to her but was really still far away. She backed up into someone and heard books fall to the ground with a loud crash.

"Oh my gosh; I'm so, so sorry! I didn't mean to-" Gabriella turned around and a bright smile spread across her face.

"Gabriella! Hey!" Scott Turner exclaimed.

"Hey Scott! How are you?" He bent down and started picking up the books that had fallen on the ground.

"I'm great. Here; let me help you with that." Gabriella helped him pick up his books.

"You know; I would of thought I'd run into you and you'd drop your books. This is the different book-dropping kind." Scott stood up.

Gabrielle giggled and looked across his features. He was almost a blonde-haired version of Chace Crawford with hazel eyes instead of blue. He had muscles like Troy and an irresistible smile. He was also captain of the football team. He was absolutely dazzling.

"Yeah. So maybe we'll see each other soon. I hope I have some classes with you." Gabriella said and smiled.

A sarcastic laugh came from behind them.

"Look who it is. I can't wait to have to deal with you in gym class again this year, Turner." Troy said sarcastically, making this way next to Gabriella who was now glaring at him for obviously ruining the moment.

"Troy." She said.

"Neither can I, Bolton," Scott turned to Troy and glared at him. "You better watch your back this year. I'm in charge now."

"In your dreams." Troy's eyes turned black; a sign that he was getting mad.

"Ok, stop it both of you. There's no use fighting. Come on Troy," Gabriella said, pulling Troy. "I'll see you later Scott." Gabriella smiled.

"You too." Scott smiled and his right eyelid came down in a wink when he sure Gabriella was still looking.

Deal with that, Bolton. Scott muttered.

Troy glared at him one more time before turning around.

This was going to an interesting year for the three; an interesting junior year.

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(A/N: What did you think? Pretty good huh? Again, the chapter was short but they will be longer as the story goes along. In the next chapter, it's going to be about Scott and Gabriella's friendship and how it starts to turn into something more. It's also going to be about Troy's jealousy towards them being friends. I'll update soon I promise! Please review! Luv ya guys!)

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