Why I Love You
Chapter 1: I Love Her Eyes

Note: This chapter is from Jason's POV. I did the best I could trying to be like Jason.
And, like stated on my profile, I own nothing. I'm just borrowing them with permission. So please don't sue me.

I'd seen her around school all the time. I don't think any one else saw her, but I did. She was always wearing a hat and they were always really weird. They were kinda cool, but weird.

The day before Winter Break, I was passing by the auditorium on the way to basketball practice when I heard this beautiful music. I peeked into the auditorium and saw her. She didn't have a hat on and she had the prettiest eyes I'd ever seen. They were green but had this tinge of gray. They were unique, like her.

The song she was playing was really pretty. Then, she started singing, "You know the world can see us, in a way that's different than who we are. Creating space between us, till we're separate hearts," she sang. I loved it. I was going to walk in but then…

"Dude!" Chad yelled.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"We've got practice!" he yelled.

"Right," I said, sad. "I'll be there in one minute!"

"No, you gotta come now. Hoops already got a detention because he got caught using his cell phone in Darbus's class. Coach is ticked. You better get a move on," he said.

"I guess."

"What are you looking at?" Chad came over to me. "Who's that?"

"Kelsi Neilsen," I answered.

"Oh, you mean that dorky little piano drama geek? Why are you looking at her?" he asked.

"Umm…I thought she was…"

"What? You like the short person? Why?" he asked.

"I don't like her! I was just looking. I never realized how big the auditorium is until now!" I said, trying to cover.

"Right," he said.

"Hey guys!" Troy called.

"Hoops! It's about time you got here. Your dad's having a hissy! He's scarier than Darbus when she gets on about the evils of cell phones," Chad warned.

"I'm dead!" Troy worried and we ran to the gym.

After that whole thing with Troy getting a callback, I was walking around during my free period, trying to walk it off. Why would he do something like that? I didn't even know he could sing, but that he wanted to? Although, I think it has something to do with that Gabriella girl. He seems to like her. But I'm not sure. I told this to Chad and Zeke, and they just stared at me. Maybe they hadn't thought of that yet. And they said I was slow! Give me a break.

And then with Zeke knowing how to bake? I mean, I'm happy that he can cook so when my mom's birthday comes up, he can bake her a cake, but other than that, why would he want to cook? To experiment with that stuff? That's just not right!

That's when I heard it, that music again. But someone else was singing. I went to investigate and found Troy singing while Kelsi played the piano. He was running around with a gong stick in his hands and she was playing and really getting into it. And she had a damn hat on! Why? But she was smiling. I'd never seen her smile before. She was smiling so big I thought my heart would burst. She looked so beautiful. I tried to get closer without being seen, but I accidentally landed on a pair of cymbals and they caught me. I ran out the door.

"Who do you think it was?" Troy asked.

"Ryan or Sharpay. Probably Ryan because Sharpay is too graceful, she wouldn't have gotten caught. I hope this doesn't ruin anything," she said worriedly.

"I don't think it will," he said, but he didn't sound too sure.

From that moment I was determined to help Troy get that part, just to make her happy.

They all doubted me. They always doubt me. I told them he really liked to go to that room that the Nature Club made, but they never listen. I don't know why, since I was right about Troy and Gabriella, but whatever. We found him there and we apologized about breaking them up. I wasn't sure what we did since they didn't tell me much. Everyone thought I was going to blurt it out to Troy, even Zeke. That was insulting. Everyone knows that it wasn't me who blurted out that we were throwing a surprise party for Troy in the third grade it was Zeke.

We told him that we were sorry and he should sing and then we told him what our whole plan was. He looked really mad and afterwards, we had a talk.

"Jason?" he asked.

"What's up?" I ask.

"Why didn't you tell me? I know Chad's obsessed with basketball, but why didn't you tell me?" he asked.

"To be honest, they really didn't tell me very much. They just told me that they were going to make sure you had your head in the game, that's it. I was confused the whole time," I admitted.

"Okay. Well, I feel a little better," Troy said.

"You have to go to Gabriella. Tell her what happened. Make her listen," I urged him.

"I guess I should," he said, but he sounded doubtfull.

"Tell her everything, blame it on us. Just go. I know you like her, and she likes you," I told him.

"Yeah! I'm going. Thanks Jason!" he called, running.

"Hey Troy?"

"Yeah?"

"Who was it that told you that we were throwing you a surprise party in the tird grade?" I asked him.

"It was Zeke. Everybody knows that!" he said smiling.

HA!

I was happy I wasn't the only one who wanted them to succeed, although the others only wanted them to win after Troy and Gabriella broke up (although I don't think they were together in the first place but when I mentioned that Taylor hit me so I stopped talking. She scares me. She's so mean. Her and Chad are always together. Like Troy and Gabriella? You don't think…nah!). We came up with this whole plan so they could get to the callbacks since it was on the same day as the big game and the decathlon, as mentioned above. Even though I knew what would happen, I was still really freaked out when the lights kept going on and off.

"Zeke? What's up with the lights?" I asked.

"Taylor got the codes," he said.

"What codes? What's going on?"

He just shook his head at me. Why do people always do that?! Then…oh yeah, Kelsi and the callbacks. I knew that.

When we got there, they were amazing. I was wowed. Kelsi looked so happy up there, like that was her home. The music was beautiful. The only thing was that she had a stupid hat on, although the hat was pretty cool. Troy and Gabriella were okay too, I guess.

We won the game, but that was expected. Kelsi was there and Troy gave her the game ball. And she had a hat on. I couldn't take it anymore. I did what I'd been wanting to do for a long time: I took off the hat. She smiled at me the biggest smile ever and I helped her shoot the ball through the hoop. Nothing but net.

I looked at her and we both just knew that basket was an omen. A wonderful, beautiful omen.