"Meet Jack Scott"
It was a typical day at East High: Troy and Chad were in the gym running shuffle-drills with the other players, Gabriella was watching Taylor and Martha observing bacteria from two separate Petri dishes to see if they could adapt to each other, Sharpay was on her cell-phone with who-knows-what while Ryan polished her toenails, pretty much nothing out of the ordinary for them here. It would've been like that for little Kelsi Nielson too, if something hadn't caught her eye that morning.
She arrived late for school that morning, she accidentally missed the bus. As she entered the building, she came across a rather cruel scene: a bunch of cheerleaders were laughing at a student she didn't seem to remember seeing, probably a new kid who just transferred or something like that. He wore a plaid blue shirt with a pocket protector and was carrying a clipboard, he was obviously a brainiac. His khaki jeans were a little baggy and seemed to have ripped at the knee. He was on the ground nursing the rips, so he might have tripped just now and the cheerleaders found that funny.
Kelsi couldn't bear to watch someone like him getting pushed around, it reminded her too much of how she herself was put down by Sharpay so many times. She went up to the boy, lifted him up, and walked off with him while the cheerleaders kept on laughing. "Are you ok?" Kelsi asked. "Sure" the boy replied in a squeaky, pre-pubescent voice. "This always happens to me, looks like my mom may have to sew these up again." He turned from his torn-up knees and looked at Kelsi, "And thank you, that was really kind what you did there for me." She smiled; he seemed like such a nice boy. Sure his voice wasn't music to her ears, but he had such a nice face for a brainiac boy (no pimples or anything like that). "What's your name?" Kelsi asked. "I don't think I've ever seen you around." "My name's Jack Scott, I just moved here from a town called Watershore" the boy replied. "Nice to meet you, Jack." "Same here." Suddenly the bell rang. Jack became nervous, "Well, see ya!" and with that he jolted down the hall like a roadrunner. Kelsi sighed.
"Hey Kelsi!" shouted a familiar voice, it was Troy with Gabriella at his side. The two ran up to Kelsi. "Missed you this morning" Gabriella said, "what happened?" Kelsi just stared out and sighed, "What a nice boy." Troy and Gabi shrugged to each other, "See you in class" Troy said as they walked off. Kelsi immediately snapped out of it and ran off to class.
To be continued….