Once upon a time…

East High's annual winter formal was around the corner and everyone was excited. The nerds, jocks, preps, drama geeks, and even the emo kids were all joined together at the fact that all anyone would talk about was the upcoming winter formal. And everyone waited in anticipation, wondering who the basketball star, Troy Bolton and his posse was going to ask to the upcoming event…

"Students of East High School, we have an unexpected twist to our winter formal this year." said the intercom in homeroom, only one week away from the dance.

Everyone groaned this was bad news.

"Our dance this year will be a masquerade!" Said Principal Matsui excitedly, "Everyone will be required to wear a mask to hide their face and no dates allowed."

As soon as the intercom clicked off the classroom filled with talk.

"WHAT?" Sharpay screamed at the top of her lungs in the drama class room. Her brother Ryan covered his ears and sighed, he knew he would have deal with this more at home.

But Gabriella and Taylor eyed each other, sighing with relief they both didn't have dates and now they did have to worry about it.

"OMG Troy, can you believe this?" Jessica, head cheerleader at East High and date to Troy Bolton for winter formal, squealed, "We are so going together anyways!"

"Yeah, whatever…" Troy said absentmindedly. Honestly Troy didn't care about the stupid dance. It was just another dance there were plenty more to come.

His mind was far away, thinking about this girl. He had met a girl as a pen pal; in the sixth grade, and for five years they had written letters, and eventually started sending texts and emails. He didn't even know her real name or the school she went to. But they told each other all their deepest secrets and were best friends.

At first they had begun as strangers, then friends, and then best friends, and now… he was totally and completely in love with her. Not that he would ever tell her. People say that you can't have a relationship with someone you've never met, but she was something different. He always tried to set up a meeting, but she was the one who always refused, he sighed, it was a chick thing. He had always wondered why she refused to meet him… was she hideously ugly or was a guy pretending to be a girl? Troy shook the thought out of his head, she probably had a really good reason… just as Troy was thinking this his phone vibrated, and he smiled.

Brains&Beauty: Hello!

BASKETBALLboi: Hey, just thinking about you.

Brains&Beauty: Me? Good things I hope.

BASKETBALLboi: Wondering why you won't meet me… Wanna here my new Theory? I think that you are a boy, disguising as a girl!

Brains&Beauty: What?! LOL! I checked I was a female!

BASKETBALLboi: Good. I can check that off my list.

Brains&Beauty: Hey, don't forget the pact we made 5 years ago!

BASKETBALLboi: I know, I know. No Meetings, No Pictures, No real name, No really school. Come on! Its been fiver years!

Brains&Beauty: We talked about this! I just don't feel ready. It's a "chick thing".

BASKETBALLboi: Fine… g2g. talk to you later.

Troy sighed and picked up his books, and headed to second period.

Gabriella, put her phone back in her pocket and sighed. She was IMing her pen pal BASKETBALLboi, and she was feeling pressured into meeting him. But there was no way in hell. He was the most popular boy at his school, the basketball star, he had tons of girlfriends, and always went to parties, his life was fun and exciting. Unlike hers. She was the biggest nerd at her school and she was constantly moving, and didn't really have any close friends, much less a boyfriend. She had only been at East High for two months now and only had two friends. Taylor McKessie who was her best friends at East High and was part of the Decathlon Team with her and Sharpay Evans, even though they had their differences they had a fun time in the drama club together.

She was afraid that once BASKETBALLboi met he would lose interest in her, and never speak to her again. She could never let that happen, because somewhere along the five years, she fell in love. Not that she would ever tell him that.

I know this one is pretty short! But I hope You like it! Continue reading and write reveiws please! More to come if people say they like it! :) PEACE!