Author's Note: Like I said in Step By Step, sequels are not often good (ahem..but, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 IS!!!), and if this story seems really out of wack, forgive me. Dedicated to musicfreak1107 and Fonzie101 for all their kind reviews! You guys really make my day!

Chapter One: Birthday Surprise

"Do you think she'll like these? My mom told me that their the hottest toys." Troy Botlon stated, as he and his girlfriend, Gabriella Montez, drove up the Lava Springs driveway, where everyone was meeting, including the Wildcats' favorite baby-sitting charge, Lily Jacobs.

"Oh, I'm sure she will! She'll love you forever, Troy. Especially after you gave her those golf balls." Gabriella replied as they got out of Troy's car, and walked into the Lava Springs. Today, the Wildcats weren't working, and they were just simply enjoying the Lava Springs as guests.

They heard voices coming from the lounge, and Gabriella smiled when she realized one of them was Lily Jacobs, with a mixture of Ryan and Sharpay Evans, Haylie Anderson, Zeke Baylor, Jason Cross, Kelsi Nielsen, Chad Danforth, and Taylor McKessie.

The gang was all there, except for Gabriella and Troy, of course.

"Troy!"

Gabriella stiffled a giggle as Troy was knocked down to the ground by Lily, who always did this for some reason with the Wildcat basketball team, but even more so to Ryan, who had taken the title of being Lily's big brother.

"Lily! You really need to stop doing that!"

Gabriella glanced up as Haylie Anderson came out of the lounge to see what was going on.

"No, it's okay, Haylie." Troy replied, as Gabriella picked up Lily, and Troy got up, while grabbing his goodie bag in the progress.

"What's in the bag, Troy?" Lily asked, pointing to the bag.

"I'll show you when we get into the lounge." Troy said as Lily smiled, toying with Gabriella's T necklace that was around her neck.

When the three came into the lounge, Chad walked over to them.

"It's about time you got here! What took you so long?" he asked.

"Troy had to make sure Lily got another present." Gabriella stated, as she gently placed Lily down, as she went over to sit between Ryan and Haylie.

Chad glanced at Troy as he smiled.

"Dude, your worse than Ryan! Your going to spoil her!"

Troy laughed as he said, "What can I say?"

They then went over to Ryan, Haylie, and Lily, and Troy pulled the surprise out of the bag.

"Here, Lily. These are called clackers. They clack when they knock into another." Troy explained as he showed the little girl how the toy worked.

Ryan looked at the toy as Lily played with it, laughing.

"Now why didn't I think of that?" he asked, and Haylie shook her head.

"Because Troy thought of it first, of course."

"Thanks, Troy!" Lily stated.

"Anytime, Lily." Troy explained.

Towards the middle of their party, Sharpay had Ryan go out for a minute, and she closed the doors behind him, and she then faced the group of Wildcats, who held a confused expression on their face, except for Haylie.

"Okay, you all may not know this, but Ryan's birthday is coming up, and I want it to be a total surprise."

Everyone just looked at her, their confusion turned to shock.

Since when did Sharpay ever care about someone other than herself?

Or perhaps Zeke had something to do with it?

Sharpay looked at them with a sour expression on her face.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Um...Sharpay...I don't mean to sound rude, but...have you always thrown Ryan a surprise birthday party?" Taylor asked.

"Of course! We do it all the time." Sharpay said briskly.

Of course, they heard about the parties Sharpay had threw, birthday parties or not, and they knew that besides Sharpay's personalities and Ryan's hats, Sharpay's parties were legendary.

"Look, since Mom and Dad are going to be out of town on the day of Ryan's birthday, I promised them that I'll throw Ryan's party here at the Lava Springs, and you all can help me. So, who's in?" she asked, and every Wildcat raised their hand, and Sharpay smiled.

"Good." she stated, and they wrapped up their conversation when Ryan came back, having an expression on his face like he missed something important.

"Did anything happen while I was gone?" he asked.

"Not really." Haylie stated, as Gabriella smiled.

Even a girlfriend knew how to keep her secrets from a boyfriend.