Don't Stop Believin'
Chapter 1: Falling in Love
"Vanessa, you're in love with Mr Efron?" Ashley Michelle Tisdale asked her friend at lunch. "Yup!" Vanessa Anne Hudgens was a believer. She believed that her life would be perfect. "Why?" Monique Coleman never understood her new friend, but she just went with it. "I love his eyes, his hair, the way he talks, and laughs. He's prefect." Vanessa sighed dreamily. "Uh, FYI Mr Efron is nine years older than you." Olesya explained. "So…? What's your point?" Vanessa asked. "He's not your type V." Ashley said as Vanessa rolled her eyes. "Well I don't have a type." Vanessa stood up and walked out of the cafeteria just as Mr Efron entered the cafeteria. Her friends giggled while she just blushed. "I'm sorry." She mumbled to him. "That's alright." He smiled at her as she looked up at him and they walked away from each other. Ashley, Monique, and Olesya exited the cafeteria and followed their friend to her locker. "God I am such an idiot for acting that way." Vanessa opened her locker.
"Hey, at least he won't remember that, or maybe he will. But who knows what he'll say. Look, I suggest you go and find yourself a new guy Ness, otherwise you'll grow up single and alone." Ashley closed Vanessa's locker after Vanessa took out her journal and her book. "I'm NOT going to grow up single and alone. Just single, maybe…" Vanessa walked to her class with her friends following behind her. The four of them had English next with Mr Efron. They all entered and took their seats just as the rest of the students poured into the classroom. Ashley raised her hand and she asked to go to the bathroom. Mr Efron, as always let Ashley go. One by one, her friends all went to the bathroom except Vanessa herself. This was her last class before the day ended. The bell rang and everyone hurried out of the classroom, while Vanessa was gathering her stuff, Mr Efron asked her to stay for a while. And she quietly obeyed.
Vanessa was a freshman in high school, which makes her 15. Along with her other friends as well; "My mom's—""I know; she's going to pick you up, but this isn't the reason why I wanted you to stay." Mr Efron smiled at her again which made her heart pound against her chest and make her flush a bright pink. Ashley, Monique, and Olesya were peeking through the window of his classroom wanting to know why Vanessa was still in there. "I wanted you to stay because…" he hesitated for a bit. "Because…?" she asked, interested in what he was trying to tell her. "Well it's not the fact that you're the top student in this class, well one of them at least, you're a very smart girl and I have noticed since the first day of school. Now tell me something about yourself. Just one fact and I promise that I won't say one word about it." Now Mr Efron himself was curious about the girl that stood before him.
Her long curly brown hair, brown eyes, and her petite figure captured him. It was a perfect Kodak moment right before his eyes. "Um…" Vanessa hesitated, looking away for moment. She just stood there, looking right into his bright blue eyes and glancing at his brown hair every once in a while. "I-I don't know what to say Mr Efron." She stuttered. And then he smiled again, resting his hands on her shoulders as she looked up at him. "Just call me Zac alright and that'll be our little secret." She nodded and she said good bye. She met up with her friends outside of the school; "So, what did you guys talk about?" Ashley asked. "Nothing important Ash, well I gotta go, my mom's here." Vanessa hugged her friend's good bye and headed towards her mom's car.
Once they finally reached home, "Hey Ness!" Stella, Vanessa's younger sister ran up to her sister to hug her. Stella was 8 years old and loved her sister very much. "Hey Stells!" Vanessa hugged her sister back. Both went upstairs after eating dinner, Vanessa didn't feel like talking during dinner. She wanted to keep some thoughts to herself. She didn't want to tell her parents that she had fallen in love with a handsome teacher who suggested that she should call him by Zac instead of Mr Efron. She entered her room, closed the door, and sat down on her bed as she took out her diary.
September 21st
Dear Diary,
Sometimes I wonder why friends keep bothering me about the fact that I absolutely love Mr Efron—I mean Zac—and also they wanted to know why he wanted to keep me in after class. I'm not really much of a talkative person, but you're the only thing I confide in diary. You've been with me ever since I was 9 years old. Most of my journal entries from the first day of school and now have really changed. I'm actually surprised that my liking for Zac has increased. It has gone from liking him to actually falling in love with him. I wonder what crazy thing will happen next. Maybe I'll dream about marrying him or something, but he's 9 years older than me and I think he has a girlfriend or something. Or probably he's getting married soon. Ashley is right. Maybe I'm going to grow up single and lonely. But I don't want anyone else. I've already planned out my life from here.
If only I could see Zac again, wait…I'll see him tomorrow morning. He's my homeroom teacher anyway. Yes! But that'll leave me all alone because Ash, Momo, and Lessy (Olesya) are in different homerooms. Dang! Well anyway, I will write about my life tomorrow. So for now, good night diary.
Love,
Vanessa
Anne Hudgens
