New Years Eve
"Gabby, it's new years eve, enough reading!" said Mrs. Montez.
"Oh, but mom I'm almost done and-
"C'mon! The party. I've laid out your best clothes. Come get ready!" interrupted Mrs. Montez.
Gabriella answered, "Can I have my book back?"
Mrs. Montez handed Gabriella her book.
"Thank you!"
"Come on!"
Gabriella and Mrs. Montez walked down the hall to get ready.
"Keep workin' left, Troy. We're goin' to the championships! That's what they expect! Your torture!" screamed Coach Bolton who was also Troy's dad.
"Am I going left?" Troy asked.
"Yah! Go through the middle and take it downtown!" yelled Coach.
"Okay, like this?" Troy asked as he did the basketball move perfectly.
"Whooh! That's it man! Sweet! I wanna see that in the game!" encouraged Coach.
"Boys? Did we really fly all this way just to play more basketball?" asked Mrs. Bolton.
Troy and Mr. Bolton looked at each other before saying, "Uh, yah."
"Its the last night of vacation! The party. Remember?" Mrs. Bolton replied.
"Right! The party, the party. New Years Eve!" screamed Mr. Bolton.
Mrs. Bolton said, "Troy, they're having a kids party downstairs in the freestyle club."
"Kids party?"
"Young adults! Now go, shower up!" ordered Mrs. Bolton.
"Come on! One more! Last one!" whined Troy.
Troy threw a picture perfect slam dunk.
"Yah! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!" yelled Coach as Troy left to get ready for the party.
When Troy got to the party, a few snowboarders were singing at a karaoke machine. Everybody in the room could hear. Apparently, it was open miche nite.
As they finished singing, nobody else volunteered to sing. The DJ flashed the spotlight at Gabriella, then at Troy.
The crowd yelled, "Ooooooooooo!"
Troy and Gabriella were pushed to the stage.
"Hey, hey! Know what? Someday, someday you guys might thank me for this." said the DJ as he left the stage. "Or not."
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When they were finished singing, the whole crowd cheered.
"Troy." said Troy
"Gabriella." said Gabriella
They both walked outside.
"But, seriously you have an amazing voice. You're a singer, right?" asked Troy.
"Just church choir is all. I tried a solo once and nearly fainted!" exclaimed Gabriella.
Troy asked, "Really? Why is that?"
"Well, I took one look at all of the people staring at me and the next thing I knew, I was staring at the ceiling. End of solo career." answered Gabriella.
Troy said, "Well, with the way you sang tonight, that's pretty hard to believe."
"Well, that was the first time I'd done something like that. I mean, it was so cool!" exclaimed Gabriella.
Troy replied, "I know, completely!"
"Well you sound like you've done a lot of singing too!"
"Yah, sure. My shower head is very impressed." goofed Troy.
Both of them started laughing at Troy's remark. In the background they could hear people counting down. Then, as they got to one, fireworks went off in the sky. They stared at them in awe.
"I-I better go find my mom and wish her a happy New year." shouted Gabriella over the screaming.
"Yah, me too. I mean, not your mom. My mom. And dad. Uh,I'll call you! I'll call you tomorrow. Here. Put your number in." said Troy as he took his phone out of his pocket and gave it to Gabriella.
Gabriella did the same.
"There." said Troy as they finished.
"Okay. Here you go. Well just so you know, singing with you was the most fun I've had on this entire vacation. So, uh, where do you live?" asked Troy. But Gabriella was already gone.
