As the back door of the little restaurant on the corner opened, a 5'3 brunette girl swept through the door. Her brown curls thrown on top of her head in a hair tie, her makeup not yet applied to her face, and her shoe laces not yet tied. She was late, as usual.

"Hi Gab-" The other woman didnt get to finish her sentence because that girl ran right past her trying to juggle her purse and her Lit book in hand. She turned the corner to her bosses office and quickly grabbed her card, last name then first name. As she talked quietly to herself she punched it it with a minute to spare. Once her card was punched in she took a huge sigh of relief. She placed the card with the other 15 cards in the holding place and slowly walked back out with the rest of the staff.

"Hmm." One of the staff mumbled trying to draw attention to themselves.

"What?" Gabriella snapped. "Im here, on time." She dropped her stuff on the bench in the back took the hair tie out of her hair and ran her fingers through it. She reached in her bag and grabbed a bobby pin and pined her curls back. Then pulled her hair back behind her head and twirled it into a bun. She grabbed the white ribbon and put a bow around her bun. Then she grabbed the apron from her bag and pulled it around her waist.

"Studying got the best of you?" An older lady named Helen asked her. Gabriella looked up and smile big.

Helen was 56 years old, divorced with two kids who never come to see her. Her blonde hair was slowly starting to turn gray, but she still kept that style. She wore heavy make up on some todays, today happened to be one of those days. Helen wasnt over weight neither, she still kept her shape.

"I have a huge test tomorrow afternoon." She replied standing up and getting a new notepad in the closet where they kept them.

She was in rolled in a community college. Last year her dad got sick when she was in California and when she came back home, she knew that she couldnt leave again. She knew she had to stay home and help take care of him with her mom. She still doesn't know when or if she will go back to Stanford.

"Honey, knowing you, you will do fine." Helen told her walking back out serve the first pot of coffee that morning to Mr. Turner, the 70 year old man who comes in every morning at 6. Mr. Turner grew up on the farm, and they used to wake up around 4:30 every morning. Now hes retired, doesn't have anything to do, the only thing he has in his life is his naggy wife and his 6 am cup of coffee.

"GABRIELLA!" And there she was. Gabriella spun her body around when she saw the girl who emerged from the bathroom, it was her best friend of close to 15 years. The one, the only, Sharpay Evans.

"What?" Gabriella asked annoyed.

Sharpay walked her 110 pound body over to Gabriella. "So am I ever going to see you before work actually starts or am I just going to have to yell things at you during work?" She asked her. Almost everyday Gabriella was late to her job. The night before she was always studying or couldn't sleep, or just at something on her mind that always had her not hearing the alarm. "I told you for Christmas Im getting you a rooster, you might actually be able to hear the damn thing." She told her with a smirk. All Gabriella did was roll her eyes.

"I don't know Shar, maybe you should." Gabriella said walking to the kitchen to get the place settings for her tables for the day.

"Anyway." Sharpay said grabbing her place settings as well. "Since you were off studying last night, you know not living your life," Sharpay started off. "I went out to the bar and met the most amazing guy." She started off.

The thing with Sharpay was that, she always found amazing guys. Every guy she meets she automatically falls head over heels in love.

"Oh really?" Gabriella asked trying to act interested.

"Yes really." Sharpay beamed. "See we talked and he bought me a few drinks, I got a little tipsy." She said adding a little squeak in her voice for emphasis on the tipsy. Sharpay doesn't get tipsy, she acts tipsy and makes an ass of her self. Gabriella has seen it time and time again. Thats the one side to Sharpay. The other side of Sharpay is that she gets unbelievably drunk and cant even walk. Which Gabriella is always there to drag her butt back to the car.

"Oh really." Gabriella said acting interested some more as she folded napkins and placed forks and knives on top of them.

"Yes, his name was Toby or something." Sharpay said making the name sound like a guy she met on the street. Which she probably did. "Although I don't really remember." She said stopping looking off to the side trying to think of the guys name.

"Well Shar, he sounds like a real winner." Gabriella said sarcastically walking back to the kitchen to get cups and saucers, and Sharpay was close in toe.

"Im telling you Gab, its true love." Sharpay said starry eyed.

"Oh I bet it was." Gabriella said trying to amuse Sharpay. Another thing about Sharpay is that she is always finding true love.

"You know, you need to get out more and actually live life." Sharpay told her. Then she leaned in close to her ear and whispered. "You dont want to end up like Helen." Gabriella pulled back and her jaw dropped. "What did I say?" Sharpay asked not knowing what she said to make her upset.

"Helen is a very nice lady." Gabriella said walking back out.

"Yeah, I bet her cats are nice too." Sharpay mumbled grabbing another cup and saucer and helped Gabriella place them on the table.

"Im being serious though Gabs, when was the last time you went out and had fun?" Sharpay asked her and Gabriella just shrugged her shoulders.

"I dont know, I have just been busy with work, and school, and home and-"

"The last time you went out was with Sco-" Sharpay didnt get to finish it because Gabriella quickly set the coffee cup down and walked away from Sharpay.

Gabriella didnt like when people talked about him. His name was Scott. The way it ended between them was tragic and Gabriella didnt want to talk about him ever again, even if its been almost five years to the day.

"Im sorry." Sharpay called chasing after her. She found Gabriella putting coffee in the coffee maker behind the counter. "Gabs."

Gabriella whipped her head around and plastered a fake smile on her face when she turned to Sharpay. "What Im fine." She told her.

"Are you sure?" Sharpay asked her. "Because I didnt mean to-" Gabriella put her hand up and she pushed the coffee maker button for it to start.

"Shar, Its fine." She tried so hard trying to make it not sound like she is snapping at her. Sharpay put her hand on her back and rubbed her back soothingly, cursing herself in her head for bringing him up.

As the day went on customers walked in and out. They all ordered something different, but Gabriella soon figured out a trend. The older men wanted scrapple. No matter what time of day it was, they always ordered scrapple. The women most of the time ordered soup. "What is the soup of the day?" They would all ask, and Gabriella was there with a response. The girls Gabriella's age always say that they want something quick and order a salad. But thats not true because they never leave "quickly". They just sit there for an hour picking around the carrots and croutons. Then the guys Gabriella's age will order huge hamburgers with fries and all the other fatting things on the menu. She knew that most of these things were stereotypical but most of the time very true.

The bell on the door rang and two men stepped in. They were both pretty tall, maybe a little over six foot. They were wearing basketball shorts and under armor shirts that were blue. The one was very handsome. He had brown hair that was kinda pushed to the side, and piercing blue eyes. and he had a smile, a smile that would make any women drool all over the place. The other guy that was with him was african american and had outrageously curly black hair.

"Is this the place that the chick from last night told us she worked at?" The curly haired guy asked the other.

The one with the blue eyes looked around the diner trying to figure out if it was the place or not. The diner was kinda like a huge strip. The side the door was on was lined with booths all around the windows of the diner, and in the middle was the counter where the old guys and truckers would sit.

A guy with a balding head and a beer belly came out from the back and saw the two gentlemen at the door who had no idea what to do next.

"Take a seat anywhere guys." The man in the stained apron said to them as he wiped his hands on his stained apron. They nodded to him and the guy with the blue eyes pointed to a table all the way at the end of the restaurant. The two sat down and got comfortable. They picked the menus from the side of the tables and took a long look at them.

"What do you want to eat?" The curly head guy asked the other.

"Im thinking a burger."

In the back, Gabriella had her nose in her Lit book. She had to read the rest of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of The House Of Usher for her lit class by tomorrow. When she reads a book, you can just tell how into it she gets. She can shut the entire world out and focus. A lot of people cant do that, but Gabriella could do it no problem.

"Hey Gab." Helen said poking her head into the back room. Gabriella lifted her head up fast. "You got a table sweetie." Gabriella smiled and closed her book. She walked out and saw the two men sitting at the booth all the way at the end. She walked up and pulled her notepad out of the front pocket of her apron.

"Hi guys, what can I get for you?" She asked them taking her pencil in her hand.

"Coke please." The curly one said. Gabriella wrote it down and looked at the other guy. Wow she thought, His eyes are gorgeous.

"Same thing." He told her. Gabriella told them she would be right back and walked back behind the counter.

Sharpay was sitting on one of the stools for her break filing her nails.

"Shar." Gabriella whispered and Sharpay looked up at her friend. "Check out that guy." Gabriella nodded her head to the table at the end. Sharpay moved her body to the right looking down at the table and her eyes grew wide.

"Oh my god." She said. Gabriella rolled her eyes.

"I know right, its like they stepped off a billboard or something." Gabriella said.

"Not that kind of Oh my god." Sharpay told her. "Thats the guy from last night."

"Waitress is kind of cute." Chad told his friend sitting across from him at the table.

Troy turned his head around and watched her as she filled up their drinks.

"Yeah," He said caught in the daze of her. "She is."

Chad watched as his friend looked at that girl, love struck. "Dude." He called.

"Hmm, what?" he asked getting brought back into the world.

"So are we going this weekend or what?" Chad asked playing with the sugars in the sugar container.

"Going to what?" He asked putting his hand under his chin.

"Taylor's wedding." Chad said. "I mean she invited me, I'd feel bad if I didn't go." Chad told him. Troy couldnt help but smirk at his friend. Chad and Taylor dated for years, but they were never in love. They just fought all the time. They would fight, get back together, and then fight some more. So after high school they broke it off and went their separate ways, but still kept in touch. So now almost four years after high school, Taylor is getting married, and Troy and Chad both got invited.

"Its up to you man, I don't care either way." Troy told him now playing with the sweet and low packets. "Hey," Troy said changing the subject. He picked up a sweet and low packet and held it up for Chad to see. "What do you call a gay midget?"

Chad gave him the strangest look. "Um, I dont know?" He asked unsure of what Troy was going to tell him.

"Sweet and low!" Troy said. "Get it?!"

Chad just shook his head at his friends horrible joke, although he did find it a little funny. "Don't ever tell a girl that joke."

"Let me wait on your table." Sharpay demanded. Gabriella rolled her eyes as she picked the drinks up and started walking over to the table. She ignored her. Sharpay jumped up and got in front of Gabriella. "Please." She whined. Gabriella gave in, she had to study anyway.

"Fine." She said handing the drinks to Sharpay and she walked to the back room to finish her story.

Sharpay smiling ear to ear delivered the drinks to the to guys at the table.

"Hi guys." She said hoping they would remember her.

"Hey." The curly head guy said to her, "You're that girl from last night, umm Stacy." Sharpays smile soon faded.

"No." She growled.

"Stephanie?" He tried again. Sharpay gave up and got her notepad out of her front pocket and put her pencil in her hand.

"What can I get for you?" She asked without any emotion in her voice.

"You can get us the other waitress." The curly one said without any hesitation, making the blue eye guy laugh. Sharpay turned to him and glared.

"Ill get her if you can remember my name." She told him. The blue eyed guy stopped laughing and looked at Sharpay. He vaguely remembered this girl. He just gave her a blank stare.

"Yeah, okay." Sharpay huffed and walked away from their table. What a jerk. And she thought they had something special together.

Sharpay walked to the back room and told Gabriella to go back out there because she no longer wanted to wait on that table. Once again Gabriella closed her book and walked back out there, but the two guys were getting up and leaving.

"Leaving already?" She asked them trying to be the nice waitress that she was. Because according to Tom, the manager, We always want them to come back !

"Yeah." The curly guy said walking towards the door.

"Are you sure that there is nothing I can get for you?" Gabriella asked them. "Not even something to go?"

The blue eyed guy turned around and faced her. His eyes locked onto her big brown ones.

"You can get me a date for tonight." He said with a smile. Gabriella looked away breaking their eye contact and walked behind the counter to the register, the blue eyed guy followed her on the other side of the register. Gabriella quickly punched in numbers in the register as the blue eyed guy watched her. "Can I get that here?" He asked trying to joke around. Gabriella smiled looking down at the register.

"Thats not on the menu." She told him trying to be sweet about it and not acting like a total bitch.

"Not one date?" He asked. She sighed.

"You dont even know my name." She said to him. His blue eyes looked around her uniform looking for a name tag, he found it. It was a white tag with black lettering. And toward the bottom right corner was a little sticker of a butterfly.

"Gabriella." He said shining his pearly whites. She couldnt help but laugh a little at him.

"Well Im flattered, but no. Im sorry." He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet.

"I understand." He told her pulling out three dollars for the two fifty that the guys owed for drinks. He handed the money to Gabriella and she gave him 50 cents back. "Ill just have to come back next time and see if they changed the menu around." He told her smiling. She shook her head as he walked toward the door. He stopped when his hand hit the door handle.

"Oh Gabriella." He called causing her to turn around. "My name is Troy." and like that, he walked out the door and was gone.

Gabriella bit her bottom lip as she watched him walk to his car. She thought about what Sharpay said. When was the last time she went out for herself? It had been awhile. Maybe he was the chance to go out for the first time in a long time. Then again, he could be like all the other jerks that she knew, all they wanted was you in bed and they didnt care about anything else.

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