Gabriella Montez used to be loud, outgoing, fun, and cool. Her best friends, Chad and Sharpay, were just like her. They talked about anything and everything. But on November 24, the day of her birthday, the now 17 year old was changed forever. She stopped talking, stopped going out, stopped caring, stopped everything. She now held on to a very dark secret. A secret no one must know. Then Troy Bolton came in. He was hot, quiet, dangerous and also held a secret. The secret that made him so dangerous. If anyone were to know, he and they would be killed. He talked to no one, except his best friend Chad. And then he met Gabriella. He became fascinated of her, as well she of him. They talked sometimes and hung out. She felt she could trust him and told him her secret, the one that not even Sharpay knows. A few days later, during a fight with each other, Troy accidentally blurted his own secret. Now he is in the race to save not only his life, but something far more precious to him. Gabriella's life.