Things were changing and she had to admit that, if only to her own self, since his return things have been awkward between them.
The school's cliques were beginning to take charge, reigning supreme over their once treasured friendship, a relationship that had taken place when they were only babies. Their mothers the masterminds behind it all, wanting their children to grow up with the same feeling of security and love they had been blessed to have in the form of their best friend.
Of course, seeing as they were both of the female variety, they were never hit with the problem she was facing. Of the hurt it had already cause.
Sharpay Evans was falling in-love with her best friend.
And he was drifting away from her.
A sigh escaped her down turned lips as she watched him turn and walk away from her. He had looked more than a little uncomfortable when she had strutted up to him, starting a conversation and wanting to know if he would be auditioning for the year's school musical, just as she had done in the couple of years prior. She had always wanted him to, she adored the sound of his voice, but he never did. He was either to shy to, which was his excuse when they were merely freshmen, both having not yet made a name for their selves, or he had basketball practice or games to attend to when the auditions came around. Of course, this year's reason didn't surprise her at all. It did involve basketball, which had somehow become his number one priority.
Mainly, it involved his teammates, and namely Chad Danforth.
He was one of the many that believed wholeheartedly in the school's clique system. Only jocks hung out with the jocks, brains stuck with each other, and it was the sole reason why the drama department had their own exclusive spot in the cafeteria. Then there were the skaters, band members, etc.
No one mixed, no one mingled. There were exceptions, yes, Sharpay and basketball star, Troy Bolton, one of the few that chose to break away, to break free.
That was, of course, until Christmas break began. Sharpay had only heard from Troy once. Before Chad had somehow succeeded in convincing Troy that hanging out with the 'Ice Queen' was bad business. Troy was naïve enough to believe him. Or just plain stupid, she thought.
Those who believed in the status quo were, in her mind, nothing more than mindless sheep. She figured Troy was one of them now.
She refused to follow.
Sharpay Evans was no sheep. She believed in what wanted to, did as she pleased, and broke out of the schools cliques because she actually had friends outside of the drama department and because she found it to be just too boring to stick with the same group every single day she found herself in the walls of East High.
She, with the few friends she had made with no help from the Golden Boy, will not follow the status quo.