Title: Rumors

Rating: PG-13

Chapter: 1. Preview

Fandom: High School Musical

Summary: Jack and Kelsi start spending time together after school, but their unknown intentions make everyone suspicious.

Comments: I'm not sure if I should write this. This is just the preview and if you like it, say so and I'll try to keep going.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the idea.

Jack walked into the principal's office to find Kelsi sitting in one of the chairs opposite Principal Matsui with her head in her hands, trying to dry her tears as they fell from her eyes.

A wave of panic hit the basketball coach when he realized she was crying and raced to kneel down in front of her and her chair.

"Kelsi," his soft gasp was just a wave of air to the small teenager.

Kelsi looked up at him. Her face held only one emotion. Fear.

Her eyes were an open book and he only had to read her just to know this wasn't anything about his team or about his fights with Darbus. This was about him and Kelsi sneaking around to see each other.

Jack sat in the seat next to her rapidly and waited to hear what Steven Matsui had to say before jumping to any conclusions.

"Coach, is it true that you and Kelsi have been seeing each other?" Steven asked, looking at him with beady eyes of intentional shame.

Kelsi went quiet and looked at him as well, but in anticipation for him to tell the truth.

"I have been seeing Kelsi, Sir," Jack replied sternly and assuringly.

Kelsi reached for another tissue and started weeping silently to herself at hearing his answer which implied her no comfort. Somehow she knew this was going to happen and should have said no from the start, but it was too late.

"But not for the reasons you think," Jack added honestly, staring Steven right in the eyes.

"So you haven't violated this young girl anywhere? Let alone... possibly... school property?" Steven eyed suspiciously, giving no sympathy to the wailing pianist sitting before him.

"I would never! Steven, are you insane!? I have a wife and three kids! Chelsea, Troy, Elizabeth, and Kelly are my life!" Jack exclaimed in shock and surprise that one of his good friends would even assume that of him. "There are teenagers here! All they say is rumors! None of them are true!" he continued to shout.

"None of them are true? None of them!?" Steven raised an eyebrow at this false statement. "What about Chad Danforth, one of your star plays, and Taylor McKessie? Rumors were they had sexual intercourse and were pregnant! And now they have a three month old boy! Christopher Tyler, named after Mister Danforth's father, who died when he was three!" he contradicted, raising his voice even more every word.

"How... how do you know that?" Kelsi questioned softly, finally speaking up for the first time since she had been call in.

Jack sat next to her and shared her confusion on the subject of the matter.

"Taylor sent me the birth announcement with an explanation of the name," Steven admitted with a slight chuckle.

"Oh," Kelsi mouthed to no one unparticular, sitting back in the plush blue chair and wiping her running nose, since her eyes were out of tears to cry.