Okay you guys, this is the beginning of my story. Its about Zac and not Troy. In this reality, Zac isn't doing Hairspray, but he's going to start filming another movie while at the same time, promoting HSM in New York City. There's going to be drama, angst, and romance…just keep on reading…

XOXO

ME

Zac Efron smiled and waved to the crowd of screaming girls that stood behind the red carpet line. He looked around at the rest of his cast members who were signing autographs and taking pictures with fans. Zac walked up to his fans and signed a couple of autographs as well.

"Excuse me, Mr. Efron?" a little voice from the crowd asked. Zac looked up and grinned as he saw a little girl around the age of nine holding up a microphone to him, "would you mind answering my questions?"

"No, but first you have to tell me your name" he smiled at her.

The young girl grinned excitedly and nodded, "Shauna"

"Hi, Shauna, what do you want to know?"

Shauna's eyes widened and she put the microphone to her mouth, "do you like chocolate ice cream?" The older girl next to her rolled her eyes and grabbed the microphone.

"Excuse my little sister but I told her I'd let her ask one question. This is for my school. I told them I was coming here and I was hoping that I could interview you?"

Zac nodded coolly, "No problem, but its going to have to be later on because we have to roll on inside. And the answer to your question," he said as he turned to Shauna, "is yah, I love chocolate ice cream" he winked at her and then left to go into the studio with the rest of the High School Musical Cast surrounding him.

Shauna smiled widely with big eyes and blushed slightly at the movie star's notice of herself. The rest of the girls seemed to let out a dreamy sigh as their screams got louder.

Zac settled into his bed at the hotel nicely. He looked over at Cordin, who was snoring comfortably in his bed across from Zac's. Zac sighed as he patted the pillow under him. Tomorrow was another day of promoting and signing autographs, but at least he'd be doing something different.

Tomorrow was the day they would start shooting a new movie that he was cast to play the lead male role in. He was so excited. They hadn't decided on a name for the movie yet, but the script was amazing and much more mature than his role in High School Musical:

The story was of two young adults, Jake and Samantha, who are deeply in love. After they graduate from high school, Jake proposes to her and she says yes. So, they move into a small and dirty apartment in New York, where their lack of money starts causing problems but never breaks them up…until Jake is offered a recording when he is heard singing at the café he works at.

Then, the mood of the movie becomes much darker, as Jake is thrown into the vicious world of Hollywood. Samantha tried to deal with all of the glamour and façade of Hollywood that blinds Jake into thinking of how lucky he got.

He soon becomes involved in wild parties, drugs and alcohol, while Samantha tries to convince him of his self-destruction. He pushes her away and it tears them apart. The movie goes on but neither Zac or his costars know the end yet.

Zac drifted of to sleep a few seconds later, wondering how hard he will have to rehearse at playing Jake.

The next morning, Zac woke up to find Cordin running around the hotel room in a fury, collecting clothes and other valuables.

"Cordin?" Zac asked as he awoke from his sleepy state.

Cordin looked over at him in a frenzy, "Zac, man, I have a photo shoot to do with Monique and you have to go over to the studio for your movie"

Zac gave him a confused look, "but that's not till 10:00"

"well, buddy, its 10:30 now"

"What?" Zac cried out as he rushed out of bed and hurried to dress himself. He was already late to work and it was only the first day.

11:00 came too quickly as Zac rushed into the studio and collapsed into the rehearsal room, where he saw a group of people waiting expectantly around and large circular table. He assumed that this was going to be the rest of the cast.

"Mr. Efron" an man around the age of 40 announced crossly, "being tardy won't help progress your career. As I always say" he says as he turns to everyone else, "punctuation is key!"

Everyone else nods and mummers as Zac takes the nearest seat next to him. He grabs a script off the table and turns to the second scene.

"No, no Mr. Efron! Put that away" The man waved to him, "today is 'get to know your cast and crew day'! It is highly pivotal to the performance and chemistry between actors! I will now slowly introduce you all by your names and characters, starting from the smallest roles"

The man called out the names of the director, producer and camera men, since they had no parts in the movie, then he started with the main cast, finishing with:

"All right, the man who plays Mr., Demnin, the recording agent and the man you brings our lead character into this dark and scary world is our very own, academy award winning, Samuel Peterson ( in my world, he's famous and a huge celebrity, but for you guys, he's made up)"

Samuel stood up and took a small bow and everyone chuckled slightly.

"Lastly, our two main leads, our male played by talented singer and actor, Mr. Zac Efron" Zac stood up and smiled and then sat back down again.

"And our gorgeous female lead played by the beautiful and glamorous new-comer Sophie Alexander"

Zac glanced around to see his costar, but was slightly taken aback as she stood.

He was right, she was as beautiful and gorgeous as he said she was, and even more. Her deep blue eyes glistened and sparkled as she introduced herself with a smile. Her chestnut colored hair kept around her shoulders in a wavy structure, giving her more volume and character.

"And I of course, am your main man! You are going to see me every day during rehearsals for this movie. I am Tom McSmith, you're executive producer. I am here to help you get through all of this and straight to filming! Now let's mingle!"

The rest of the day was spent as Zac introduced himself to most of the cast, having not met his main costar, Sophie, yet. He yawned slightly, a little bored with shaking hands and putting on a smile. He was getting tireless and annoyed. He got up to leave and accidentally bumped into someone, he felt a few things fall to the floor. But Zac had no time to turn around and help the person, so he jogged off quickly before a voice stopped him from going any further. He turned and found Sophie collecting all her papers off the floor.

"Thanks buddy." She said sarcastically, "It took me forever to organize this"

"I'm-" Zac started to apologize but was cut off.

You know, a little respect for the rest of us here would have been nice had you shown up on time. Half an hour or my day wasted waiting here for the almighty Zac Efron was not the way I wanted to spend it" Sophie snapped out at him.

Zac was taken aback by her sudden bitching at him and so he retaliated, "who the hell are you and why are you saying this shit to me?"

Sophie rolled her eyes at him, "of course, a guy like you wouldn't know who some one like me is, and so we should probably keep it that way for the rest of filming. As for the shit I'm currently spewing at you, its called a lesson at manners, try taking it some time" she turned around and left him with his jaw hanging. What did he ever do or say to the bitch to make her go crazy?

Zac shook his head and murmured to himself. 'How the hell was he going to pretend to be married to this girl if he hated her already?'. At least she was hot, that helped.

A few hours later, Tom had ended the mingling session and one by one told them where to go.

When he stopped at Zac he said, "okay, you and Sophie have to go meet Jack Michaels, he's our director (I also made him up), he wants to test your chemistry since you two weren't put together at the auditions. He wants to make sure he's got the right leads"

Zac nodded and went off the room labeled 'Jack's Shack', which really was a normal office with a messy desk and a bearded man sitting behind it. Zac could also see that Sophie had already settled herself into the chair across.

Zac took a seat on the chair next to her and turned to Jack.

"Hey you two" Jack smiled at them, "how's it going?"

"Good" Sophie answered with a radiating smile that sort of surprised Zac.

"Fine" Zac mumbled still wondering how she managed to act like this to Jack but a total bitch to him.

"That's great. Okay, the real reason you both are here is because we sort of made a mistake by not auditioning you together to see if you have any real chemistry because the characters in the movie are supposed to really have sparks fly and shoot all over the camera, got it?" Jack asked them and they both nodded. Zac slowly snuck a glance at Sophie, wondering if it was going to work with the whole 'chemistry thing' between them.

"Okay, I want you two to act out a scene-or you know what? Even better. Talk to each other. Say something…have a normal conversation" Jack suggested.

Zac turned to Sophie awkwardly, just as she did the same, "So, Sophie, how was your morning?" Zac said through a strained voice, since even looking at her face pissed him off, no matter how beautiful she was.

"Fine" she replied in the same strained tone, "how's the promoting going?"

"Fine" Zac nodded. They both glared at each other and then after a few seconds of silence turned to Jack.

He was staring at them with a small smile playing across his lips, "you know what, I want you two to have a fight"

"What?" they both asked in unison.

"Fight" he gestured between the two of them, "with each other"

Zac shrugged, "I don't even know her? What am I supposed to fight about?"

"We could fight about how arrogant a person like you is?" Sophie suggested. Zac turned to her with a angry glare.

"You think you know everything about me, don't you?" Zac snapped at her.

Sophie nodded with a smirk, "just about"

"So tell me then…what am I like?" he replied angrily

"You think you're better than everyone else and that you're the main star and you should get everything you want, etc…etc.." she rolled her eyes.

Zac shifted his seat towards her, "and how exactly did you get that during only a couple of hours and a few words?"

"I noticed how you were during the 'mingling session' Tom organized. You were bored and didn't care. You barely said hello to anyone, including me, who is supposedly your costar. Then you run into me, but don't even bother helping me up. Just because you're famous does not mean that everyone else is lower than dirt compared to you" she replied harshly. But, surprisingly to Zac, she sounded like she was honestly hurt by the way he acted and wasn't only bitching at him for no reason.

"Listen, I have no idea where your mind came up with all that shit, but I suggest that you put it all back because that is not who I am and not what I'm like. But do you want to know what I've concluded from you?" Zac asked as their faced drew barely inches apart from the chairs.

"What?" she asked and Zac could feel her soft breath on his face.

"I think you're a conceited little bitch that doesn't know her foot from her ass" he answered, but regretted it as soon as it came out after seeing the look on her face.

But during the few seconds, her face had recovered too and she looked away.

Zac glanced at her but was interrupted by a loud cough. Both of their head snapped around to notice that Jack was still in the room. His smile had grown larger and his eyebrows were raised.

"I think you two are going to be…perfect"

'Perfect'? Zac thought to himself as Dave, his limo driver took him back to the hotel to continue promoting HSM with the rest of the cast. How could one girl piss him off so much when he had only just met her? And why is she still in his head? Why did he keep going over how her eyes sparkled or how her hair would fall over her eyes? Zac sighed and collapsed his head into the palm of his hand.

This day was just looking longer and longer.