The Start of Something New (Troy and Gabriella / High School Musical)

Part 5

Days, weeks and months past and both Troy and Gabriella turned miserable. While, Troy fell into a deep depression only leaving his home for games and practices and ordering Chinese takeout for dinner every single night so he could watch the game he met the girl in the blue dress at over and over.

Gabriella was happy Troy's name never came up during meal conversations at least not the way it use to.

"Troy has never been the same player that he use to be since the game Gabriella and I were at," her brother said making Gabriella sick to her stomach. Troy was true to his word, he was spotted no where with a girl attached to his arm, he was spotted no where at all but games. Everything she told him she loathed, was no longer happening. He did want to be her boyfriend. 

 "It looks like he has now injured his knee, the way he is playing or he has some injury. Troy hasn't made a basket in months and the Lakers are thinking about trading him. I heard there is going to be a meeting next week with the Nets."   

She had seen glimpse of games and saw Troy play, he was no longer as swift, intense or bull like as he use to be. 

Bringing her dinner up to her room she dropped her plate beside her computer and looked up an article that was written the first day she met Troy Bolton. Then pulling out her phone from her pant's pocket and the letter Troy wrote to her the morning after their night together from a drawer in her desk that still had the words, "You are the start of something new," on it. Looking down at the letter then her phone she pressed 555 555 5555.

"This number is not valid," an operator said. Tears dropped from her eyes since she honestly believed Troy meant what he wrote. Once ripping up the paper, she exited the window on her computer and pulled up her English paper to take her mind of Troy.

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The next day Gabriella was caught off guard and stopped on her way to her last class.

"Gabriella, I was wondering if you would like to come go out for dinner with me tonight. Not in one of those cramped restaurants where everyone will be tonight because they don't feel like cooking but just watching the Laker game. However, a real restaurant were we can talk and enjoy our food with only the sounds of peoples conversations around us?" After a bit of hesitation she said yes, only to see her old Danny smile.

"I will pick you up at seven, I just need to know your address. 

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The doorbell rang and Gabriella ran down the stairs grabbing a glance of the game which Troy was no playing in. Ignoring the questions it raise, she opened the door to greet Danny.

"Hi you ready to go Gabriella?" Danny asked once he lifted his head when the door opened.

"Yay," she said grabbing her jacket from the closet. 

"Gabriella, you sure you don't want to watch the game with us. Troy Bolton isn't playing," her father yelled once the door shut.

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Troy put the key into the lock of his new house, happy to of retire from playing basketball despite the fact that his dad if he ever saw him again would kill him or haunt from the grave. He could no longer be on the court it reminded him to much of the girl in the blue dress, how the ways he released his anger at his dad made him lose her. Which was why tomorrow he was going to his new job at the grocery store. Troy never had time to make his own dreams since he was to busy fulfilling his dad's. So he was going to just work at minimum wage for now it he could find his own dream and follow them. 

Standing in the middle of the movers unpacking his small amount of thing from his apartment in LA he kept on thinking about how he got here. It was because of the girl in the blue dress that he moved across the country and changed his life. So once the kitchen table was set up, he sat down with  paper and pen and wrote.

'The girl in the blue dress (Gabriella) I know we only spent a few minutes talking about how you thought I was a spoiled basketball star and even through you rejected me I wanted to tell you because of you I have turned my whole life around to focus on me. I moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where I went to university, this is where I feel is my home, yes I had to play basketball but I focused on other things rather than my dad's dream, I even failed a course or two so I could take a break from the court. Now I am starting the exact job that I work when I didn't have a scholarship after lowering my grades.I am going to start a life without basketball and do what I love and it is all thanks to you.'

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The next day Troy was in the middle of the cookie isle placing boxes of Oreos on the shelf when he heard the sound of a girl singing, coming behind him. 

"I never believed in

What I couldn't see

I never opened my heart...

Too all the possibilities, Ohh"

"That was great Ruby."

"No it wasn't, if I want to get the part of Gabriella then I ne..."

"I thought it was pretty good, you sounded just like her," Troy intrepid turning around.

"You have seen HSM?" she said questioned since he was three times her age.

"I think everyone on the planet has seen it, High School Musical is a modern day classic love story. The whole trilogy is two teen ages meet at a ski clue then meet again at school where Gabriella has to go to because her mom just got transferred. It seems like fate, then watching Troy break the status quo and be with the girl he really cares for even though he is the basketball captain and she is a science nerd. It is Romeo and Juliet especially in the third movie when they battle and struggle about being about and Troy chooses Gabriella over UFA."

"And I thought your school choose to do HSM because there are valuable lessons in the movie and the parents enjoy the story as well," the mother joked yet it was unclear to Ruby since she said right after.

"No we are performing HSM for our winter musical being Zanessa just got engaged and are planning to get married on the 31th of August, in Hawaii."

"Let me see if I can help I will sing Troy's part and you sing Gabriella's," he said. Then it didn't take long before they were singing and dance in the store and Troy had found his passion. His start of something new.