Okay for those of you that started this story before...I re-wrote it. I did this program for English, called NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month) and it's a hecka awesome program so u should look it up (link in profile to my nanowrimo profile!!!) So, for the program, I re-wrote this whole story...and now I think it's better, and different!! So I hope you enjoy it!! SORRY FOR THE WAIT...

Chapter 1

"Gabriella, could you please give us the answer to number 47?" Mr. Hock asked Gabriella Montez, his best student.

"Ummm," Gabriella said, as she quickly flipped over her math homework to find the problem. She hadn't been paying attention all period. "The solution set is 295."

"Great!" Mr. Hock said, smiling. Gabriella sighed in relief. She was good at math; it was just so hard to pay attention when it was your seventh period. Besides, she had other thoughts on her mind. To be specific, she was thinking about a boy.

Troy Bolton, like Gabriella, was zoning out in his last class of the day. He was in English and supposed to have been writing a response to chapter 10 of their in-class literature book, however he was busy thinking of something else, rather someone else. He desperately wanted to talk to someone about her, but the only one of his friends in English with him was Jason Cross. In any other class, Jason would've been talking a mile a minute, however he was really into English and was what you would call a teacher's pet to Ms. Moss. Troy looked over to where Jason was sitting and sure enough, his head was down writing furiously in a black composition notebook. Troy smirked a little, watching Jason's black shaggy hair wave from side to side while he wrote. It looked like a big blur from Troy's point of view. As if interrupting his thoughts, the final bell rang, signaling that all the East High Wildcats could get their stuff and go home.

Troy and Gabriella were complete opposites. Troy was the jock, more importantly; he was the East High Wildcat's Basketball captain. He had already succeeded in getting one championship under his belt and he hoped for another. Everyone on campus knew who Troy was, especially the cheerleaders who were constantly hanging on his arm and drooling over his every word. Gabriella on the other-hand was the smart one. Scratch that, she was the REALLY smart one. After winning the scholastic decathlon last year, she had become the captain of the mathletes and vice-president of the chemistry club. Despite their differences, the two had been best friends since last winter vacation where they met in a ski lodge.

At the ski lodge, they were forced to sing Karaoke together and the event truly did create the "start of something new," just like their song stated. Later, it was evident that Gabriella would be seeing Troy more often than expected, when she moved to Albuquerque for her mother's job. Ironically enough, she was transferred to Troy's school. Together they defied the "status quo" and starred in the school musical together.

"Roar!!" Troy screamed as he jumped out from behind the column next to Gabriella's locker. Gabriella shrieked.

"TROY!!!!" she exclaimed as she playfully hit him with her binder after she realized who it was that had scared her. "Don't scare me like that!"

"Aww, c'mon Gabby, it's the weekend, I'm excited!" Troy explained.

"Whatever" she said. "So what are you up to tonight?" she asked casually.

"Hanging at your house," Troy replied, smiling to himself, because he knew something Gabriella didn't.

"What? Since when?" She asked.

"Since my house burned down," Troy said, trying to look sad.

"Oh my goodness!!!" Gabriella gasped, "What happened?"

"Oh I don't know, one second it was up, the next it was all ash. Maybe it was... the abominable snowman!" Troy laughed when he saw Gabriella's look of disgust.

"Ugh! Troy! Don't do that, I was really worried!" Gabriella exclaimed. "You could just ask like a normal person like this, 'Gabriella may I please come to your house after school today?'"

"Uh, my name isn't Gabriella," Troy said, clearly just trying to get on his best friends nerves.

"Whatever, let's go!" Gabriella said as she grabbed his arm and dragged Troy out of the school.

"Hey wait a second, I need to go tell Chad where I'm going," Troy said and then ran down the halls of East High, while Gabriella stood against her locker, just thinking.

Suddenly, a voice said, "Gabriella?" she knew that voice all to well. It was Gabriella's other best friend, Taylor McKessie. Taylor was very much like Gabriella, mainly because they both were really smart! Taylor was the president of the Chemistry club and vice-president of the Scholastic Decathlon team.

"Oh hey, Tay, what's up?" Gabriella asked, while waving a hand through her long, brown, wavy hair.

"Nothing much, I'm just waiting for Chad, we're going to the movies later," Taylor said. She had been dating Troy's best friend, Chad Danforth since last year, after the Wildcats had won the basketball championships. Gabriella and Troy used to think it was weird having their best friends date each other, but they got over it.

"Cool," Gabriella said, not very enthusiastically. She was too busy thinking.

"Are you thinking about him again?" Taylor asked quizzically.

"Who?" Gabriella asked innocently, even though she knew exactly what Taylor was talking about.

"Don't play dumb with me, Gabriella. You were thinking about Troy, weren't you?"

There was no escaping Taylor's invisible wrath over Gabriella, "Yes..." Gabriella sighed. She had had a crush on Troy since last year. To be brutally honest, she had liked him ever since she had laid eyes on him. Some would say it was love at first sight.

"Why don't you just ask him out, then?" Taylor said, although she already knew what Gabriella was going to say, they had had this conversation many times before.

"No Taylor, it's not that easy, if we ever break-up I will lose one of my best friends!" Gabriella said, desperately wanting Troy to come back so they could drop the subject. The truth was, she really did want to be with Troy, and this was all an excuse for Taylor. Gabriella thought that if her and Troy ever did get together, it would last forever.

I know that this chapter was lame...but it will get better I SWEAR!!!!! Don't leave me yet! I'll have the next chapter up in a matter of minutes...

Oh and thank you to one of my youtube friends, "xxMartygirl4lifexx ", she reminded me to post this! Lol, so thanks Marty! If anyone wants to contact me, youtube works (link is on profile) or email!