Sam and Cat:High School Musical

Chpt 9:Troy and Gabriella make-up☺️

-THAT EVENING
{We see Troy walking along the sidewalk in front of Gabriella's house. A dog can be heard barking in the distance. Troy walks up to the front door and knocks. Miss Montez answers the door}
Troy: Hi, Miss Montez, I'm Troy Bolton.
Miss Montez: Oh, Troy!
{Hearing Troy's name, Gabriella comes down the stairs till she's withing earshot of her mother and mouths "No."}
Miss Montez: um... Gabriella is kinda busy with homework and such, so now's not really a good time.
Troy: I made a mistake, Miss Montez, and I would really like to let Gabriella know that. Could you tell her that I came by to see her?
Miss Montez: (smiling) I will... Troy. Good night.
Troy: Good night. Thank you.
{Troy is about to go home when he gets an idea. He silently goes around to the back of Gabriella's house and dials her number on his cell phone. Gabriella is sitting on her bed when her phone starts ringing. She picks up}
Gabriella: Hello?
Troy: (on the phone) What you heard, none of that is true. I was sick of my friends riding me about singing with you, so I said things I knew would shut them up. I didn't mean any of it.

{Gabriella turns on her nightstand lamp}
Gabriella: (on the phone) You sounded pretty convincing to me.
Troy: (on the phone) Listen, the guy you met on vacation is way more me than the guy who said those stupid things.
Gabriella: (on the phone) Troy, the whole singing thing is making the school whack. You said so yourself. Everyone's treating you differently because of it.
Troy: (on the phone) Maybe because I don't wanna only be the basketball guy. They can't handle it. That's not my problem, it's theirs.
Gabriella: (on the phone) What about your dad?
Troy: (on the phone) And it's not about my dad. This is about how I feel, and I'm not letting the team down. They let me down. So I'm gonna sing. What about you?
Gabriella: (on the phone) I don't know, Troy.
Troy: (on the phone) Well, you need to say yes. Because I brought you something.
Gabriella: (on the phone) What do you mean?
Troy: (on the phone) Turn around.
{Gabriella turns around and sure enough, Troy is standing on her balcony. They hang up their phones as Gabriella goes to the door and opens it}
Troy: (singing in acapella)
This could be the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you
Oh
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something... (spoken) new.
(holds up Gabriella's copy of Breaking Free) It's a pairs audition.

{Gabriella has made her choice. She walks over to Troy with a smile and takes the music sheets. They get close to each other as... the scene changes to the next day in the gym. Troy is on fire! He moves around the court and passes the ball a few times till it gets back to him and he makes a perfect basket}

Coach Bolton: Whoo!
Troy: Yeah!
{Next we see Gabriella and Cat in the science classroom drilling her fellows}
Gabriella: Zn4, and by doing that, you end up with two... and two. Got it?
Cat:Got it!
Science Girl: Yes!
{Taylor high fives the girl and couldn't be happier. Troy has now finished basketball practice and is getting ready to leave the locker room}
Wildcat: What's happening?
{Troy stops in front of a mirror and does a pose, then races out of the locker room. Gabriella is now showing her fellow a chemistry experiment}

Gabriella: Guys, come here. Go ahead and put five grams of this in, (points to a substance on the table) and that causes it to change from an acidic state. Causing the color to change from pink to blue. Just like those pH test strips. (checks the clock) Oh, gotta go. See you guys later!
Cat:Bye, Gabriella!
{Gabriella takes off her goggles and apron and hangs them up as she leaves.Cut to Troy coming down a hallway. He stops, checks an invisible watch on his wrist, just as Gabriella comes up and takes his hand}
Troy: Whoa! (they take off in the direction that Troy came from) You're late!
{scene shifts to the big piano in the music classroom as Troy, Gabriella, and Kelsi are rehearsing Breaking Free}
Both: ...strength to believe
Gabriella: We're soarin'
Troy: Flyin'
Both: There's not a star in heaven that we can't reach
{Just as they're doing that, Sharpay and Ryan strut by}
Sharpay: (singing to herself) Bop bop bop....
Troy: (from the music classroom) If we're tryin
Both: Yeah, we're breakin' free
{Sharpay gasps}
Ryan: Wow. They sound good.
{Sharpay scoffs. She goes to the window in the classroom door and watches}
Troy: Like a wave the ocean just...
Sharpay: (turning to face Ryan) We have to do something. OK, our callbacks on Thursday and the basketball game and the scholastic decathlon are on Friday. (has an idea) Too bad all these events weren't happening on the same day... at the same time.
Ryan: Well, that wouldn't work out because then Troy and Gabriella wouldn't be able to make the...
{Sharpay shoots Ryan a "Keep going" kind of look}
Ryan: (realizing) I'm proud to call you my sister.
Sharpay: I know.