Chapter One

East High School was bursting with Disney-Channel energy after Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton led a huge dance party in the gymnasium. Even the emo-gothic students were doing the electric slide. Everyone seemed so happy. That was before the most tragic downfall in high school history.

Troy, the captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, classic nerd, assumed that having sexual feelings for one another meant that they were in love. That evening, Friday, April 14, 2006, Troy brought Gabriella back home to his place.

Hey… over this past month, I've really wanted to… well… you know – hang with you." Troy softly confessed to Gabriella.

Gabriella passed a flirty smile over to Troy. And without saying a word, she leaned in and attempted to romantically kiss him. Troy stuck his tongue out and licked her cheek like a labrador retriever, and led onto a sloppy, slippery, slobbered make-out session. Troy immediately threw off his fake Abercrombie shorts and his wanna-be Hollister top, pressuring Gabriella into an intimate evening.

Twenty minutes past when Troy finished up. He didn't really want Gabriella, so, being the preppy high school jock he was, he offered to drive the trampy girl home. Gabriella just wanted more wild high school sex.

Troy jolted back. "No, Gabriella. If your morbidly obese father catches me touching you, he'll be sure to crush me. And if he finds out you stuffed your bra just for me, he'll take those tissues and blow his nose!" Gabriella was shocked at this comment.

"Fine, baby. Just drive me home."

The two were both silent and drove into the darkness of the night. After long moments of deep thoughts but not talk, Troy pulled over to the curb and finally got up the nerve to tell Gabriella what he really wanted.

"Gabriella… There's something I have to tell you. I-I- well- I don't really, you know, want to be your girlfriend. I just wanted – well – wanted to get it on with you. From the moment I met you, I knew you were a girl who would believe every 'I-Love-You' that uttered out of my mouth, and- and- just linger. I don't want this relationship to go any further."

"What?! I just gave my hot body to you for- for nothing?! You've got to be joking me. We even danced as bad as Rosie O'Donald on a tight rope to stupid, cheesy, energetic songs in a low-budget movie that couldn't even make it to the theaters! How could you even think that way?!"

"I don't want to hurt you. It's only 'cause I've been trying to get with almost everyone I can in the school, like Taylor McKessie, Kelsi Nielson, Sharpay, and even her brother, Ryan! I even made out with Principal Matsui! I just- I just can't see you anymore! This won't work out!"

"Get out of the car," Gabriella sternly said, pulling out her tissues and wiping her tears.

Troy made a persistent face, "No way! This is my car!"

Gabriella then pulled out a Swiss Army knife and pulled out the mother blade. She rapidly pierced it into Troy's skin repeatedly, trying to slice his cheating heart. He screamed and tried to push Gabriella away, his breathing getting shallower and shorter. Seconds passed and there was no sign of respiration in Troy's body. Gabriella's heart raced and felt like it was going to pound out of her abnormally small bosoms. She threw his corpse into the small space of the trunk. She drove on to the lake and parked by the shore.

Mumbling and groaning to herself, she dragged the jock's body and attempted to drag it into the cold, shallow waters, but her scrawny arms couldn't simply toss the heavy corpse into the lake. At last, though with wet and mucky Kiddie Kobbler shoes, she got the whole body to float away. It came ashore a few times, but Gabriella kicked it down so it would sink and slide down the drop off of the black lake. With fury in her eyes, she started the car and drove off with bloody hands and a bloody trunk.