Troy and Gabriella pulled up to his drive-way in his old pick up truck. he shut the door, "hold on." jumping out of the car and going over to the passenger seat and kicking the door. Gabriella smiled, and he helped her out. Gabriella tossed her bag around her shoulder as they walked hand in hand into the garage. "So, I need to talk to you about something." Gabriella started as they made their way inside from the garage and upstairs to his room.

He tossed his bag on the bed. "Okay. what's up? seat." they both took a seat on the bed, as he held her hand, Gabriella bit her lip, "I decided, I wanna go to NYU...to become a dancer.." she looked into his eyes, hoping for the best.

Troy looked at her, not believing it...he burst out laughing. "Troy.." Gabriella said, "Troy-" "Are you crazy!" he yelled, interrupting his laughter, "you can't go to NYU." "Why not?! You don't own me Troy Bolton-" "Dancing isn't your future gabriella...you're supposed to go to Stanford it's your dream." Gabriella scoffed, "no it's not.." she grabbed Troy's wrists and looked him in the eye.

"it's my mom's dream...I don't want to be a lawyer or a docter-" "Dancing's not a career-" "Neither's basketball!" Gabriella yelled, Troy looked at her, "Yes it is! I can make a lot of money from-" "Shooting an orange ball into a net while wearing baggy shorts ..uh huh, yeah for a while! What happens when you get old Troy? You become obsolete! A thing of the past!" "So will you if you become a stripper!" Gabriella felt anger build up in her chest, "Troy Bolton...take that...take that back."

Troy rolled his eyes, "No.. and your not doing it-" "what if I will!" "What if I say no!" she glared at him, "You can't tell me what to do Troy! you don't own me! you don't control me! this is my life! and there's nothing you can do to make me change my mind."

Troy bit his lip, "what if I said it was over?" Gabriella stumbled back, closing her eyes, and opening them, "You..You don't mean that-" he looked away, "Just go Gabriella." Gabriella bit her lip, grabbing her bag off his bed, and walking towards the door and then stopping and turning around, "Remember, do the thing that scares you."

Troy rolled his eyes, pinching the bridge of his nose, "cut the bullshit okay? Geez, sometimes I think my life would be easier if I never met you." Gabriella felt the tears in her eyes, "Well...I-I..." she straightened her shoulders. "You don't mean that Troy." He looked at her, before he could think of the words to say, the wrong words slipped from his mouth. "Yeah...I mean it. Cause my life sucks right now!"

Gabriella looked at him, "Maybe your right. maybe we shouldn't of ever met. maybe I shouldn't of walked into Mrs Darbus class that one morning, after all we had been through for the past 4 years together.. yeah, maybe we shouldn't of met...goodbye Troy." and she walked out the door. Troy groaned, starting to kick and throw everything in his room like in charlie st. cloud.

He was breathing heavy, leaning against the desk. his eyes going to the lucky military dog tag that he got from his cousin's funeral. Troy went over to it, and looked at it, and looked at the back, "Make a wish."

He squeezed it tight in his hand, leaning his head on the desk as he mumbled his wish, "I wish...me and Gabriella never met. I wish my life is better. Without her in it at all." he lifted his head abruptly and opened his eyes, he didn't know what to expect but...being in his same bedroom with the chaotic mess around him wasn't it. He sighed, holding the dog tag in his hand as we walked to his bed and flopped down. "I guess wishes are for little LITTLE kids."

After dinner that night, Troy walked into his room, and took off his shirt and putting on a T-Shirt. He slipped into bed, and turned over to look at the picture of Gabriella looking at him. she was outstandingly beautiful. he sighed turning the other way and drifting off to sleep.

*Be Careful What You Wish For*

The next morning, the alarm went off. Troy sighed, yawning sitting up and scratching the back of his neck. when his eyes opened, he looked around, this wasen't his house, this wasen't his room. he looked over at the night stand, the picture of Gabriella...Gone. he ran a hand through his hair, "Oh Shit...Oh Shit.." he ran down the stairs and looking at the picture frame in the living room of him and Gabriella's homecoming picture. the picture was replaced with a flower vase.

"Troy." Troy's head snapped to his mother, she smiled, "Good Morning." he bit his lip, "Uh..Good morning.." he paused for a minute, "Wheres the picture of me and Gabriella?" his mother looked at him, "who's gabriella?" "Who's Gabriella? Mom, Gabriella, the girl I've been dating for 4 years..?"

She looked at him, "Honey, are you sick? let me feel your forehead." "Mom, I'm fine.." she felt his head, "you don't feel warm.. but you better get ready for school." he bit his lip sighing, going up the stairs, maybe not much has changed at School.

Troy was dressed in dark wash skinny jeans and the only shirts he had in his closet were plaid, short sleeve button downs with black, white and grey wife-beaters. He sighed, looking down at his outfit for the day: dark wash skinny jeans, blue plaid button down short sleeves and underneath is a grey wife-beater. Checkered vans covering his feet. He looked up at East High, it looks the same; from the outside. "Okay..." Troy tells himself, walking into the school-the inside looked the same too, so...what changed? Troy dug through his backpack, taking out his schedule.

But he never got that far because someone had pushed him hard on the ground, "Oof!" "Hey Bolton! Next time you better walk and deal with your nerd stuff as you go...get it? Nerd on the go!" the group behind the voice laughed loudly, Troy turned as he stood up. He saw..."no way.." he whispered, the leader of the group. "oh what was that Bolton? You need not to mumble.." "Guys..." it was his basketball posse, "Why are you...who's this asshole?"

Everyone paused. The leader in the middle stepped closer to him, "what'd you call me?" "Danny!" yelled a high pitched voice, they all turned and Troy's mouth dropped when he saw Gabriella walk up - in a cheerleader's uniform. "what are you doing?" Danny nervously laughed, "oh..nothing just talking to my pal Bolton here." Gabriella rolled her eyes, "No..you're not. I told you not to pick on him."

Danny rolled his eyes, "Oh come on baby, I'm just having some fun." Gabriella walked towards him and came closer face to face, "Listen, I don't care if your on the basketball team, and you think you can bully around everyone danny, It's not cool, and it's not right.."

The whole basketball team went, "oooohhhh" Danny chewed on his inner cheek, then wrapped his arm around her waist, "Okay. I promise, I won't bother him." Gabriella smiled, "You promise?" he kissed her, "I sealed it with a kiss." Gabriella giggled, "I love you." she said.

Troy felt his guts inside give a twist, "oh.." he groaned softly, his hand going to his stomach; rapidly he turns on his heel and runs to the men's room and into the nearest stall. Tossing up the contents of his stomach-french toast and pancakes; courtesy of his apparent maid, Helga.

After about a minute of barfing, Troy wiped his mouth and walked out of the stall to clean up at the sink. Another guy walked in, blond hair and green eyes. "Hey.." he whispers. Troy looks at him, he looks familiar..."I'm Ryan. Evans." That's it!

Troy looked at him, "umm er hey.." he washed his hands, and then splashing some water in his face. "So I saw what happened with Danny Knight?" Troy looked at him, "Yeah. who is he by the way?" he asked grabbing a paper towel and wiping his hands, "His the captain of the basketball team, Rich, Popular, and has the most beautiful girlfriend in the whole school."

Troy sighed, "I've noticed... when did she become cheerleader?" they walked out of the bathroom together, "Well, she's been a cheerleader since middle school, and well she's way too sweet and innocent to be with danny.." they came to the stop when he saw Gabriella and Danny talking at her locker.

She was beautiful through Troy's eyes he couldn't take his eyes off of her. Ryan sighed, "Don't even bother." Troy looked at him, "what?" "Gabriella is known as Danny Knight's Girl, she's off limits to everyone.. so don't even waist your time talking to her, nice girl and everything, but if danny catches you with her, your head's going to be in the toliet..while the toliet's being flushed."

Troy looks at Ryan with slightly wide eyes. "What?" Ryan sighed, "she's off limits. Not worth the drama of Danny Knight." Troy looked at Gabriella again, a smirk suddenly appearing on his face. "I like a challenge, cause Gabriella is supposed to be my girlfriend."

Ryan looks at him, "supposed to be-" the bell rings loudly, and Ryan curses as he runs out. Troy pulls his schedule out from his bag and reads it. First period: French class. What the? He hates French.

Troy made his way into French and he looked around and he saw Danny and Gabriella talking. "Oh Baby, come on, You'll have fun at the party friday night after the game." Gabriella sighed, "Danny, I..I don't know, I just, you know that my Grandfather has been sick for the past couple months, and he needs me, with him."

Danny rolled his eyes, "Hey, you live, you die, that's life." Gabriella glared at him, "Danny..I'm being serious." "I am too...at least think about it.. I wanna.." he pulled her close to him, cupping her cheeks, "I wanna show you how much I love you...physically."

Gabriella pulled away, "Danny no, I'm sorry...but I can't go to the party." Danny rolled his eyes, "come on babe, have fun, you're too stiff-" "Shut up fuckhole." Gabriella cursed at him. Danny growled, grabbing her by the wrist hard enough to leave a bruise, Troy acted fast and got between them; putting Gabriella behind them. He wasn't sure how he ACTED in this world, but if everything was normal, no body hurts his Gabriella.

"If I was you," Troy said threateningly, "I'd get myself some manners." Danny laughed, shoving Troy backward; so hard that he landed on his ass. He grunted at the impact on the floor, Gabriella gasped, "Daniel Jeremy Knight!" she yelled, kneeling beside Troy and checking to see if he was okay before standing up and glaring at the basketball captain. "That..that...you ...you...that's it! We're done!"

Gabriella looked at Troy, "Are you okay?" she asked. he smiled at her, "I"m fine." Danny grabbed her elbow, "Gabs, please.. come on-" she looked at him, "No. I'm not allowing this danny! not at all." Danny sighed, "Listen, If I apologize, then, then can we just forget about the whole thing?" Gabriella bit her lip, Troy was standing up, and was hoping she would say no.

Come on Brie, your smarter then this, don't fall for it. Gabriella crossed her arms, "Okay Fine." he looked at Troy, "I apologize." Gabriella slipped in her seat, that was infront of Troy's. "I gotta run." he kissed her lips gently, and walked out of the room.

Class started, and the teacher walked in, "Okay students, I want you to get a partner, and write down some more french vocabulary, you may talk while you do so." Gabriella stood up with her books close to her chest, she looked at Troy, she smiled, "Wanna be my partner? my best friend is absent."

Troy looked at her, "uh...I...sure." Why the hell is he so nervous? Gabriella smiled, sitting the desk next to him and scooting closer; people began to whisper, Troy tried his best to ignore it. "So..." Troy started, but Gabriella cut him off with: "Bonjour monsieur, comment ca va?"

Troy looks at her before looking down at his hands, "Uh I...er, don't speak French that well. At all really." Gabriella giggled, he looked up. "you don't speak French?" Troy nods hesitantly, she laughs louder. "then why are you on the 'honor student' wall? You're like...the smartest guy in the school." Smart? Honor student? What fucking world was he in?

Gabriella began writing the vocabulary on a sheet of notebook paper. Troy bit his lip, "So umm.. Danny.. how long have you two been together?" Gabriella bit her lip, not looking at him, but kept writing, "umm about 2 years." Troy smirked, haha. I got 4 years with her.

He bit his lip, "Can I ask you something?" she looked at him, "Sure." he sighed, "Why are you with Danny?" Gabriella stopped writing, and sighed, "Troy...I..I love him...I know his a jerk, but deep down inside his real sweet and sensitive, and.. his just.. his wonderful.. he makes me happy... he purposed to me, and I said yes, See." she showed him the diamond ring.

Troy's heart broke in two, like his heart was ripped out of his chest, and thrown on the ground and was danced all over. god it hurt. Troy gulped, "umm yeah, It's beautiful...like you." Gabriella smiled, "Thanks." he smiled, "So..Your really happy with him?"

Gabriella smiled, "Troy, his my forever.. no guy has ever made me feel the way he does. Haven't you ever had a girl who made you feel like, like you get butterflies in your stomach, and you just feel so inlove with that girl, like you can never let her go?" they were looking into each other's eyes.

Gabriella smiled, then the bell rang, and she gathered up her books. "It was nice talking to you Troy..I'll see you around?" he nodded, "Yeah. Definetly." Gabriella smiled walking to the door, with her bag draped over her shoulder. the room was empty, except her and Troy.

She stopped, and turned around, "Troy?" he looked at her, she smiled, "Thanks.. for being my partner." he sighed, "Umm yeah no problem." she smiled and walked out the door. Troy sighed, why in the hell did he make that wish?