When You Love Someone

When You Love Someone

(That’s What You Do)

When You Love Someone

Chapter One

You

Gabriella Montez threw her school bag by the door, hung her jacket on the rack and kicked off her shoes. She excitingly skipped into the kitchen, calling “Ma!” as she went.

She was happy today; she just wanted to sing aloud and do a funny dance. Nothing could bring her down, she was sure of it. Her mother had said there was something important they had to talk about, but she knew it wouldn’t ruin her mood. Nothing could.

Sharpay had smiled at her today. Sure, the blonde princess had done that before, but this time it was different. This smile could only mean that Sharpay felt more towards her than just friendship. They were together a lot after school, because Gabriella couldn’t help but want to spend time with her. Gabriella was in love with her; she had realized that a long time ago.

Her relationship with Troy had been crushed quickly after summer ended, and they had all become closer to the Evans twins. She was best friends with him, though he didn’t approve of her close friendship with the former Ice Princess. He said that maybe Ryan had changed, but Sharpay would not be capable of that. She would always be made of ice, and he was just waiting for her to strike again. But Gabriella didn’t believe that. She was positive that Sharpay really had changed, and she spent more time with her than anyone else of her friends. Even Troy, and he came to her house whenever it was possible.

She had no idea what happened, but somewhere down the road she came to like Sharpay a lot, and it had confused her at first, until she decided to tell Taylor about it. She hadn’t wanted to tell Troy since she knew how much he disliked Sharpay, and telling Sharpay was of course out of the question, which resulted in Taylor being the last person she could turn to. She hadn’t told her who the new ‘catch’ was, and Gabriella believed Taylor thought it was Ryan or someone. But Gabriella felt good about talking it through – even if she couldn’t mention any names.

Gabriella entered the kitchen and found her mother in the middle of a bash of brownies; “¡Hola, mamá!” she greeted, and tip-toed up, placing a short kiss on her mother’s cheek.

“Hi Gabby.” Elena Montez smiled, her brown eyes shining, “I’m making brownies. Just in case Troy comes over later, you know.”

Gabriella giggled, because her mother tried to wink, but it didn’t look as cool as she would have hoped for, therefore it just looked funny, “¡Má! We’re just friends. You know that.”

“I know that, Gabby.” Elena said, before turning back to her bowl, to focus on her brownies, “How was school, honey?”

Gabriella jumped onto the counter, snatching a freshly baked brownie from one of the former bashes, and bit into it, with a small smile, “It was alright. One of our classes got cancelled, so Sharpay and I went out and ate pizza. Her treat.”

“Oh.” Elena said, her voice a bit hesitant. She turned her head to the side again, locking eyes with her daughter, “Just you and Sharpay? No Taylor?”

“Nah.” Gabriella said, shrugging it off with a smile. She didn’t understand why her mother wanted to know that, but there was no harm in telling her, “She went to the library and tried, for the thousandth time, to teach Chad how to do algebra. I don’t think she’s gonna succeed anytime soon, but at least she’s making an effort.” Gabriella giggled, before pausing, to get a bit serious, “Why do you ask?”

Elena shrugged it off, “For nothing, really. Just curious.”

Gabriella nodded softly, not sure if she really believed her mother, when she said so. Something sounded wrong in her ears, “Okay…” there was a silence then, but Gabriella remembered her mother saying they needed to talk, so she decided to bring that up; “What was it that you wanted to talk about anyway?”

Elena stopped kneeing the pastry, and looked at Gabriella again, “Later bella. I’m making brownies first. Come down in an hour, okay?”

Gabriella nodded, but didn’t say anything. Her mother seemed to suddenly get serious for some reason, and it freaked her out. She couldn’t do much else, than just do what her mother said, and go upstairs to figure out something to do. Not that she had any ideas, but yeah.