I'm so so sorry! I know this should have been up last Saturday. I hit a little writers block, and our class have been preparing a return visit for our Dutch exhange school. A huge shoutout to Pumkingking5 for review agian! A moment of seriousness people. I am over the moon about how many readers I have on this story but when I check the reviews I feel a little bumed. I am doubting this story and how it is turning out, so can you please leave a review? I woul LOVE to read what you thing. That's all I ask you for is a small comment on what you think about the story. Thanks for reading this!
Thursday September 27th
Gabriella's POV
For the rest of the day we arranged how Troy and I could be on time for our competitions and the callbacks. Our plan should work perfectly if we did it correctly.
I was sitting on the bed in my room reading Stars of Magic when a thought crossed my mind. Troy said he knew about her but what had she written that interested him? Therefor I opened my laptop and googled Maryl Laflamme. Several books popped up and her most recent once was a drama book named Angel of The World and Whisper of Dreams, but neither of them crossed me as books Troy would be interested in. I decided to scrolled a little further down and saw that she had written a book about the royal family in Etrea named A biography about the Royal Family: Their stories. Deciding against clicking on it, I thought that Troy would tell me a thing or two about it. Besides there was no reason to read this the day before the competition.
I opened the drawer on my nightstand and found my camera to make another entry.
"Today it is Thursday, September 27th and I just found out that the callbacks have been moved till tomorrow. The same day as the declaration competition and Troy's basketball match against North High. You can take one guess at who it was. None other than Sharpay Evans, the president of the Drama club. All she wants to is to protect herself even though she states that she is doing what is best for the drama department," I said into the camera.
"I really hope me and Troy could pull this off. It would be really fun to act in the musical but I'm slightly nervous too. Why is it so hard for me to sing in front of people, but not writing up solutions and answers to a bunch of questions on a board?" I questioned myself before continuing.
"Besides the drama with Sharpay everything is doing great," I said smiling.
"On Friday Troy was over meeting my mom and we worked on our Spanish project," I said and laughed a little.
"Apparently he has never had Spanish before so I have to say he is pretty good except the occasional word choice mistakes," I laughed.
"Anyways I love you Troy," I said with a giggle before turning the camera off.
Seeing that it had a low battery so I found the charger and plugged it in. I read over my notes for the competition tomorrow and the lyrics for the audition. When I looked up again the clock was twelve thirty.
"Where did the time go?" I mumbled and gathered all the papers, putting them in my backpack. I put my backpack by the door to my room before I went to bed, falling asleep at once.
When I awoke the next morning I was excited yet terrified about the day. So much was at stake! I got dressed and made sure I had all my notes and books for the day and various competitions and auditions.
"God morning Gabriella," mom greeted me once I came downstairs.
"Morning mom," I said as I started making my lunch.
"I have a meeting today but I'll try and make it to the declaration competition today," she said to me. "When are you going?" she asked.
"First," I told her pouring cereal into a bowl for breakfast.
"I'll do my best to make it," she promised as I poured milk into the cereal. I found a spoon and started eating while mom and I made small talk. I looked up at the clock and panicked.
"Oh no, I'm late," I said and put the bowl into the sink.
"I'm leaving now; would you like me to give you a ride?" she asked.
"Yes please," I said and made sure I had everything. I put on my black marry jane shoes and jacket before mom and I walked out of the house. Five minutes later she dropped me of outside of East High just in time. I hurried inside and towards my locker where I saw Troy standing, looking at his watch.
"Sorry I'm late. I don't know how it happened," I said spinning my combination.
"Well I'm just glad you're here," he smiled and I laughed.
"The highlight of your day?" I asked sarcastically and Troy nodded.
"Yes actually," he answered seriously looking at my face.
"You're serious?" I asked surprised taking out my geography books.
"Why yes?" he questioned raising an eyebrow.
"Never mind," I said with a little smile shutting my locker door. "How is your team looking?" I asked him curios as we walked down the halls.
"Great. We're ready to take down North High and fight for a chance in the championship game. What about your and Taylor's team?" he asked equally interested.
"Great!" I said closing the door. "Our minds are sharp and full of un-useful stuff that have a high value for us," I said and Troy laughed. Oh boy I loved that sound. It was my favourite sound and every time I would smile.
"You crack me up," he laughed and we walked into our classroom just in the nick of time.
People were sitting in the room as we heard the cheers of the mascot outside, followed by a bunch of fans and a small group from the band group, walking by. I looked up at the stands and saw my mom take a seat subtly smiling at me. Taylor, me and the two others all had on a lab coat look-a-like coat with a red ribbon indicating our team. I was standing by the table talking quietly to Taylor.
"Everything is set?" I asked her quietly.
"Yes," she said confirming.
"Great," I said and walked up to the wooden framed white board. I grabbed the black marker and took one last look at Taylor who nodded confidently at me.
At exactly 3:50PM we were given the questions and started writing down the answers. I knew the answer so it was just a matter of fact to write it down on the board correctly. I put in the last answer and stopped the clock. I could feel everyone in the audience look at me as the judge walked over to my board. He looked at my answers and back at his cards. He looked up once again and time couldn't pass more slowly. Finally, he nodded approving lifting his hand gesturing towards us.
"Yes!" Taylor cheered and we share a group hug as the small audience clapped. As we sat at the table Taylor opened the small black laptop and entered the codes pressing enter. She and Chad had gone together to wire the PC to the gym's score board. We were really careful not to break anything because that was the last thing we wanted!
"Time for the Wildcats to make an orderly exit from the gym," Taylor said quietly pressing enter and the words transmitting code was shown. Taylor closed the laptop smiling confidently as a beaker with a blue substance was boiling. It was starting to smell and we were coughing by the horrible smell. The audience soon started and the judge stood up gaining everyone attention.
"Please could we make an exit to the school's auditorium," he said and I hurried out in the chaos. I ran down the hallways towards the auditorium.
"The callback lists will be up on Monday thank you," Ms. Darbus said as I ran into the auditorium.
"Please Ms. Darbus! We're here," I called as I came running down towards the stage, and onto it, along with Troy.
"We're here." Troy said as he too stood on the stage beside Darbus and Sharpay.
"I'm sorry but rules are rules..." her voice was drowned by the crowd entering from the game and scholastic decathlon competition.
"We'll be happy to do it again," Sharpay said looking dreamily over the large audience.
"I cannot believe this," Darbus said amazed. "I'm sorry but we don't have a pianist," Darbus said sadly.
"I guess that's showbiz," Sharpay's bitchy remark came.
"We will sing without a pianist," I begged her.
"Oh no you won't! Pianist here Ms. Darbus!" Kelsi reported standing beside Darbus.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Sharpay spat towards her.
"Oh I'm sure. Ready on stage!" she challenged.
"Now that's showbiz!" Darbus exclaimed getting off the stage. Troy handed me a microphone and I took one look at the audience as Kelsi started playing. I knew exactly when to start but as I opened my mouth, I froze, before closing it again. Troy looked at me and I whispered to him; "I can't do it," I said turning to leave the stage.
"Hey look at me, right at me. You can do it ok? Just like at the auditions. Just you and me," he said to me and pointed at Kelsi, who started to play again.
This time it was Troy who started to sing, and suddenly it wasn't so scary anymore. It was as he had told me a moment ago. It was just the two of us, like the audition. I started singing my part and we just had fun on the stage. The moon was lowered and we just danced around on the stage being ourselves. Nothing was choreographed and we were carefree in that moment. When the song was about to end, we suddenly came back to reality. People were watching us differently than we saw each other but that was ok. All because we broke free.
That was it! I will try to update next Saturday but I can not promisse anything because of our school's Dutch exhange program. Pleas, pleas leave a review and tell me what you think. Again thanks for reading.
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