Troy walked down the halls thinking of ways to get out of basketball practice. He liked basketball, but that was all he had heard about for nearly two months and he was sick of hearing about he needed to work on his lay-ups and dribbling the ball better. It didn't make it better that his dad was the coach, so not only was he riding him for excellence in the gym, but at home also. Troy was so occupied in his thoughts that he almost didn't hear the strange sounds coming from the auditorium. He decided to check it out. He slowly peeked through the auditorium doors only to see the one and only Sharpay Evans. He was stunned when he heard her start singing. Of course Troy had heard Sharpay sing before, but this time was different. She was playing the guitar to a very heart felt song he had never heard. He moved closer making sure she didn't see him; he didn't want her to stop singing. Wow she sounds amazing, how come she never sang like that before? Troy thought as he kept listening. He couldn't help but think she was so beautiful up there. Ever since the summer at Sharpay's country club she had been a lot nicer and everybody started to really like her, even Chad! In fact she and Chad had become pretty good friends, and so had Sharpay and him. Gabriella and Shar were now best friends, along with Taylor. They always hung out and were all pretty close. Troy sat there and listened until she was done. He got up and started walking up the aisle towards her clapping. Sharpay was startled and jumped as she turned around. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it was only Troy.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" She asked putting her guitar up.

"Listening to you sing" He replied with a smirk.

"Okay, so what did you think?"

"You sounded great, what song was that?"

"Mine" She simply stated.

Troy was a little blown away. He didn't know she wrote songs and especially songs like that. It was so sincere and amazing.

"Wow" Was all Troy could manage to say.

"Did it totally suck?"

"No, no. It was…..amazing! I didn't know you wrote songs."

"Yeah, it's just kind of a hobby."

"Why don't you ever sing your own songs?"

"Because they're way to personal to share with the entire world."

"You wouldn't be sharing with the entire world, just all of East High." He said with a smile.

"Well it's still scary." She said looking away a little.

"Sharpay Evans…scared?" He said as he faked shocked.

"A little." She smiled a little at Troy's face as he still pretended to be in shock.

"Well you should, that was an amazing song. It was different hearing you sing it." He said sitting on the stage.

"What do you mean?" She asked sitting next to him.

"It's just not what people usually expect from you." He said looking in her eyes.

"I know, but I'm getting soo tired of musicals!" Sharpay laughed as Troy laughed along.

"All I know is that the song you just sang was beautiful, and you singing it was beautiful."

"Thanks Troy." Sharpay said as she blushed a little.

"Hey it's free period and I usually practice with the guys, but you want to come watch? It could be fun."

"A bunch of sweaty cute basketball players and I'd be the only girl. Sounds like heaven to me." Sharpay said smiling at Troy.

Troy rolled his eyes and laughed. "Come on then Evans." He said as he grabbed her hand and they made their way to the gym.

As they walked into the gym Chad automatically spotted them. "Hey guys." He called as he ran over to them.

"Hey Chad."

"Hey princess." Chad wasn't allowed to call her anything bad anymore, he couldn't use the word ice to describe her, but she did tell him it was okay for him to call her princess. So he often did, although he never meant it in a bad way. He no longer had a reason to call her anything mean since she showed her true side and truthfully he thought of her as one of the sweetest people he had ever met.

"What's up man?" Asked Troy and Chad bumped fist.

"Troy we're in a gym, what the heck do you think I'm doing?" He asked smirking at him.

"Oh right, whatever. Anyway Sharpay is going to watch us practice today, hope you don't mind."

"Of course not. Hey you guys want to hang out after school?"

"Yeah, sounds cool."

"I'm just going to see what Ryan's up to, but probably." Sharpay chimed in.

"Well Ryan can come too." Chad and Ryan had become pretty good friends over the summer. Sharpay and Ryan had really become part of the wildcats this summer.

"He'll probably be with Gabriella, those two have been inseparable lately." Sharpay said with a smile. She couldn't have been happier that they were together. All she wanted was for her brother and best friend to be happy, and if they were happy together then that was great.

"Aww young love." Chad said then sticking his finger in his mouth like he was gagging. "I swear those two are so lovey dovey that it almost makes me sick sometimes."

"Well at least you don't have to listen to Gabriella talk about her love life with my brother." Shar said making the same gagging movements that Chad had just done. They all started to laugh.

"Okay you win, you have it worse." Chad said still chuckling a little.

"Thank you." She said smirking. One thing about Sharpay that hadn't changed was the fact that she liked to win.