"Sharpay, what are you doing?" asked Claressa. "Well if I'm having you as a teacher, I need the basics to survive." Sharpay said packing in her backpack some extra clothes, extra makeup and a Mr. Clean magic eraser.

"You do know those ads on TV are just to make you buy stuff you don't need, right?" Claressa asked Sharpay, seeing what she was packing. "Yes, I know," Sharpay said "remember what happened to Ryan?"

Just then Ryan came in the room. "I heard my name." Ryan said as soon as he got in the door-way, with their little sister Saundree trailing not far behind him. "Yep, we were talking about that timed that you bought something from that TV ad." Claressa said. "OH, yeh." Ryan said. Stupid hat buffer that never worked.

"Well this will work." Sharpay said, holding up the sponge. "No it won't." Claressa said. "Yes, it will." Sharpay said her teeth clenching. "No, it won't." Claressa said. "YES, IT WILL!" Sharpay yelled, thus starting a fight.

"I think our sisters fight just to hear there voice raise." Saundree said. Ryan nodded in agreement. "Like the time Sharpay argued with the book for giving her a paper-cut." Saundree added. Ryan remembered and started to get the giggles. "Yep, it was the longest fight I've ever herd, well, at least one that you can have with a book." Ryan said. "Yeh, two and a half hours," Saundree said "but at least it wasn't as bad as in brother bear where those two mountain goats are arguing with their echoes." Saundree said. "Of course, her life and not to mention the night is still young."

If there is one thing Saundree knows, it's how to make her big brother laugh. Ryan started to laugh really hard, which made Claressa and Sharpay suspicious. They quit their arguing and came over to see what all the commotion was about.

"What's going on here?" Claressa asked Saundree because Ryan was laughing to hard to answer anything. "What is there that's unusual?" Saundree asked. "WHY IS OUR LITTLE BROTHER LAUGHING LIKE A LUNATIC!?" Sharpay and Claressa asked at the same time. "Oh that," Saundree said, watching her sisters nod "there's a simple explanation to that." Once I think of one.

She didn't want to tell her sisters that she and Ryan were laughing at Sharpay's argument skills. She could 'probly tell Claressa, but not with Sharpay standing right next to her.

"I… Um… well you see… there was this… we were watching… I got nothing." Saundree said. Just then Ryan noticed that Sharpay and Claressa were standing next to him. He immediately stopped laughing and stood up strait like a soldier. "I don't know what's going on, and I don't think I want to." Claressa said. "Me either." Sharpay said. "It's time to go to bed anyways," Claressa said looking at the clock. "Maybe Ryan was just tired, we all know how he gets when he's sleep deprived." Everyone nodded in agreement.

As Claressa and Sharpay led the way to Sharpay and Ryan's bedroom, Ryan and Saundree breathed a sigh of relief that they would not have to explain anything. Saved by Ryan's sleep-deprived habits.

When they entered the room Sharpay and Ryan jumped into bed, Ryan on the blue side, Sharpay on the pink side. Sharpay and Ryan both had a twin bed. They were pushed so close that if you pushed them a half an inch more, they would be touching. They each had a blanket of their own and a sheet to match the bed. They shared one big quilt that half was pink and half was blue. Every night Ryan would complain to Sharpay that she got more of the quilt or vise versa. Except when they were really tired.

Sharpay and Ryan were really tired that night on account of Sharpay's arguing and Ryan's laughing like a lunatic. "Get a good night sleep tonight." Claressa said to the twins. She looked over at the corner and saw Saundree in a ball in the corner.

"A little nervous about your class moving to the high school?" Claressa said. Saundree nodded. "I am to, especially since that means that I will have to teach these goofballs." Claressa said pointing at Sharpay and Ryan. "HEY!" they said together. "It's really not that scary, I mean, everybody knows us." Ryan said. "That's what I'm afraid of." Saundree said. "HEY!" the twins said once more. "It'll be O.K." Claressa said. "Yey," Sharpay said "let's wake up tomorrow and say SCHOOLTIME!"

"No, no." Sharpay said groggily when she felt Claressa shaking her awake the next morning. "Come on Sharpay, just wake up and say school time!" Claressa said imitating her from the night before. "Not school time, sleepy time." Sharpay said. "C'mon Sharpay don't make this harder than it needs to be." Claressa said.

Sharpay pretended not to hear her and pulled the covers over her head. "O.K. you asked for it little sis." Claressa said. She pulled the covers off that were on Sharpay and put them on Ryan, who was still sleeping and snoring peacefully. She grabbed Sharpay and made her stand up. "O.K. I give!" Sharpay said and Claressa put Sharpay back down on the bed to let her get up at her own pace.

Claressa went over to Ryan's side of the bed and started shaking him. "Ryan, wake up bud, it's time for school." Claressa said in her sing-songy voice. Ryan didn't stir and didn't make a sound. "Ryan, wake up!" Claressa said, trying not to get mad at her little brother. Ditto in the no comment from Ryan department. Claressa was getting mad because she knew Ryan was ignoring her from the fact that he wasn't snoring anymore, instead he looked like he was trying not to smile. "O.K. you're not asking for it, you're screaming for it." Claressa said. Ryan acted like he was naturally moving in his sleep, putting one hand by his ear and the other one more straight.

Claressa smiled to herself. "Ryan, you leave me no choice," she said putting her hands on Ryan's ribs "tickle, tickle, tickle" Claressa said tickling him in the ribs. Ryan's eyes opened wide and he started kicking and screaming. No one outside the family knows it, but Ryan is the only one that's ticklish in the Evan's family. None of them say it to anyone, though Sharpay one time came close to "accidentally" saying it to Troy, until Ryan saw her. He is a little ticklish in some places, but a whole lot ticklish in other places. He got his own share and the share of the other ones who didn't get it. Now, back to the story.

This startled Sharpay and she jumped out of bed. "What was that!?" Sharpay asked. Just then, Saundree entered the room "I heard Ryan scream." she said. "Sorry," Claressa said, ignoring the fact that Ryan was kicking her in the stomach "I was trying to wake Ryan up." "GET OFF OF ME, I GIVE!" Ryan screamed laughing. Claressa stopped tickling him and backed away to give him room to get up.

"Now that we're all awake, get dressed," Claressa said "I cannot be late for my first day of teaching." "And I can't be late for my first day at East High." Saundree added. "Well good luck." Ryan and Sharpay said and climbed back into bed. Claressa grabbed the twins by the waist and lifted the upside-down. She carried them over to a heap of clothes and laid them safely in the heap, putting clothes over top of them.

Twenty minuets later everyone started running to the car with Ryan in the lead. It would have been a lot longer, but Claressa spent every minuet after she got dressed banging on the bathroom doors and yelling at her younger siblings' not to make her late.

"I call shotgun!" Ryan said as he opened the door and leaped into the car. Sharpay picked up her brother and dropped him out of the car. "Hey!" Ryan said. "What?" Sharpay said "Ladies first." Sharpay got in the car, then she felt a hand on her ribs lift her up and put her where Ryan was. "Age before beauty." Claressa said. "But you have to drive. " Sharpay said looking up at her. "I know I just wanted a say in the matter." Claressa said.

"Why can't I drive then?" Ryan said starting for the keys. Claressa pulled them away, making Ryan go off-balance. "Tell you what," Claressa said "if you can reach the keys, you can drive." She held the keys as high as they would go. Ryan moaned and started jumping. Claressa is not that much taller that him, but tall enough to keep things just out of his reach. "Someone get Ryan a booster seat!" Saundree said. "I don't need a booster seat." Ryan said as he attempted to kick Claressa in the shin. But being as a klutz as he is, he missed her and kicked the car. "OUCH" Ryan yelled. Sharpay started to laugh, but cut herself off realizing it was kind of mean, for she is nice, to her younger twin anyways, sometimes. "I kicked the car" Ryan said moaning. "Did the car kick you back?" Saundree asked. "Yes." Ryan whimpered.

"Since youngest goes first I guess I'll go." Saundree said starting to get in the car. Sharpay, Ryan, and Claressa had no more ideas, they used all the sayings, accept for one. "Blonds are dumb!" they all shouted at the same time. Saundree looked at them oddly and then started laughing. When they realized what they had just said, they all clamped each other's mouth. "Yeh, especially the ones I live with." Saundree said laughing. "Oh hush." the rest of them said. "Why don't we let Ryan and me sit in back, while Sharpay sits up front with you? That way, they will have less chance of fighting with each other." Saundree said. "Good idea, Saundree. Ryan, get in the back." said Claressa. "Just because you're new history teacher and homeroom teacher while Miss Darbouse is away doesn't mean you can boss us around." Ryan said. "One, I can because I'm older than you by eight years. And two, you better be good or your good homeroom grade will be history." Claressa said. Ryan and Sharpay couldn't argue with that logic. Everyone quickly took their seats and they were off.

They have now been on the road for twenty minuets. Ryan was in the back dozing off with earphones in his ear and Sharpay's, who was dozing off as well. Claressa noticed that the twins were dozing off. She smiled evilly at the mirror, so Saundree could see her expression. Saundree was grinning evilly back, as though reading her mind. Saundree reached forward and turned the headset on blazing. She turned it on "I Don't Dance." Just then, Ryan and Sharpay shrieked and pulled the earphones off their heads. "Wake up!" Claressa yelled "don't make me make you have a flashback of what happened today." Claressa said reaching toward Ryan.

"I think you took a wrong turn or something." Sharpay said. "How would you know?" Claressa asked, her teeth clenching, she did not like to be proved wrong. "Because of the fact that one, I know my way to the school so much, I could sleepwalk there, and two we only live five minuets away from the school." Sharpay answered. Claressa then didn't say anything but quickly turned the car around. "It's a good thing I woke you up a hour early." Claressa said finally. "YOU DID WHAT!?" Sharpay and Ryan asked at the same time. "I told Saundree to tell you," Claressa said "You mean she didn't tell you?" They both shook their heads no and gave a death glare to Saundree. "Oh poo I must of forgotten" Saundree said trying not to laugh. The twins turned around for their was no use for arguing.

Ten minuets later Ryan and Sharpay were so bored; they thought they were going to die of boredom. "Ryan, let's play a game." Sharpay said turning to look at her twin. Ryan looked like he thought Sharpay got dropped on her head, but agreed. They couldn't think of anything. Then all of the sudden, out of the blue, Ryan started singing.

Life is a highway

And I 'wanna ride it all night long

Then Sharpay started singing.

If you're going my way

I 'wanna drive it all night long

Then Saundree joined in.

Through all these cities and all these towns

It's in my blood and it's all around

I love 'ya now like I loved 'ya then

But this is the road and these are the hands

Then Claressa started singing along until they went through the whole song.

"Last stop school." Claressa said as she drove into the parking lot when the song was over. They got out of the car and opened the doors to reveal the East High hallway.