Chapter one

A/N- Just a story I was thinking of doing.

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All of my life. That's how long I've been here. All of my life. I've been going to school in this town, had most of the same friends, and lived in the same house all of my life. It wasn't that I was afriad of chage or anything. Usually I welcomed it, but it was the others around me who liked to shield off things unfamilair. I, on the other hand, liked the adventure of not knowing what was to come. I liked not only seeing the story unfold, but being apart of the story. It was an interest, a shinging moment. A new day to be someone I'd never been before. Too bad I was stuck in this same town, with the same people, in the same exact place I was forever ago. I gueess I'm stuck just being Sharpay Evans forever.

"Hey Shar..." My twin brother's voice rang in my ear as he murmered to me from his seat behind me.

"Yeah?" I asked, my eyes not leaving the front of the room.

"Do you have a pencil I could borrow?"

"I gave my last one to Chad." I said, glancing toward my big haired friend across the room who was whispering with his girlfriend and another one of my friends, Taylor.

"Why him? I'm your brother yet you give out pencils to Chad. Geez, shar."

I looked back at him curiously, an eyebrow raised. "Did you forget to take your meds this morning Ry?"

He sighed. "Yeah. Nevermind, I'll just ask Gabby for a pencil."

"Good idea. You can stop annoying me then."

Ryan put on a face hurt face. "That's painful Shar. I thought you loved me."

"I would love you more if you stopped talking to me."

"Fine. That's done." He gave a smirk before turning around again to ask his long term girlfriend and my best friend, Gabriella, for a pencil. And that was basiclaly our group. Me, Ryan, Gabriella, Taylor, and Chad. We also had a couple other good friends, but we were the closest of the group. I glanced at Chad and Taylor, smiling and laughing. Then at Ryan, who was making Gabriella blush at something he said. One thing that I wanted to change was that I was the only single one in the group. Sure, I have plenty of guys who liked me. And who had made that perfectly clear, but nothing ever really caught my attention from them. There was nothing...special about them.

"Class..." Our teacher's voice rang throught he classroom, her authority and need for our attention in her voice. I looked up to notice a shaggy brown haired boy next to her, his face hid as he looked towards the door as if he couldn't wait to leave the room. "Class, this Troy Bolton. He's a new student, so please make him feel welcome."

It was then that he finally looked up and I saw his face. I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little mesmerized. He was gorgeous, with incredible blue eyes, his face slightly paled. He stood carelessly, biting his bottom lip slighlty as his eyes slightly wondered the room. After a moment of starring at him they came to mine. I starred back into his incredible blue eyes with intesity. They were so...wow. There were no words to describe them. I couldn't look away. He starred back at me for what seemed like forever before he finally broke the gaze, looking to the floor. I looked to my desk, ebarasssed. But apparently I hadn't been the only one who had trouble keeping from looking at him. Almost every girl in the room, except Gabriella, Taylor, and another girl, who were all desperatly in love with their boyfriends, had their eyes on him.

"You can take a seat next to Miss Evans there." The teacher, Ms. Darbus, informed him, pointing to me then to his seat. I was a little realived that she didn't say my first name. I kinda of hated my name sometimes. Sharpay. That was...original, but so...well, I'm named after a wrinkly dog. It's not the best first impression made on people.

"Okay class," Ms. Darbus began again. "Please choose a partner so I can continue with today's plans."

Everyone began to run around, looking for their partner. I knew where all my friends were going, to their boyfriends. I sighed. I always hated partner projects. I always had to be partnered with teh dorky girl in class with no friends in the class. usually Gabriella and I would trade off so one project I could be with Ryan and one project she could. It was her turn to have him this time and yup, that made me a little sad.

"Um, excuse me." I heard from above me. I looked up to see the new boy, Troy, standing above me. His blue eyes were friendly yet somewhat disatant and he had a small smile on his face. "I was wondering if you wanted to be my partner?" He asked in a soft velvet voice.

I looked at him curiously then looked around the room. Everyone had paired off. So it must have either been me or the dorky girl in the back of the room. I nodded. "Yeah, sure."

"Great." He smiled, though I didn't exactly know why. He seemed kind of happy to want to be my partner but with looks like his he could have any girl in the room as a partner, or as a girlfriend for that matter.

"So, do you want to work here?"

He nodded, smiling still as he pulled a desk over and took a seat, his desk next to mine, but slightly titled away so the desk weren't touching. "Since I have no clue what we're doing, what do we do?"

I smiled. He looked cute when he looked confused. "Don't worry, I'll help you out."

"Thanks, so I uh...didn't catch your name."

"Oh, it's Sharpay. But just call me Shar."

He nodded, smirking a bit. "Sharpay's an original name."

I sighed. "It's a weird name. I know it. That's why I go by Shar. That's what everyone calls me anyways."

"Well, I like to be original and since you don't like your name, how about I call you...Pay?"

I lifted an eyebrow. Was he flirting or was he always just this charming? Nah, no way could he be flirting with me. "Pay...I like it."

"Good to know...Pay."

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"And then it went boom." Chad finshed his story proudly as Taylor rolled her eyes along with me as Ryan and Gabriella laughed.

"You know Chad, you've been telling that story since you were in eighth grade." I pointed out.

"So?"

"So, it wasn't funny then either." I smiled as everyone laughed, except Chad, who pouted and threw a fry at me. I returned the favor a few times before Ryan interrupted us from our fry fight. We had those often.

"So, I had this great idea." Jason, another one of our friends said drawing the atention to him.

Taylor snorted. "If it's fro you it's probabaly a bad one."

Jason glared at her. "No. I was thinking we should go to the beach next weekend. It'll be fun. We can camp and everything." He said, his voice changing to happy again.

I sighed. "The last time we went camping we almost got eaten."

Chad shook shi head. "That's not true. Only You and Gabby almost got eaten. I got attacked by a squirrel. A really evil squirrel."

I laughed as they all continued to discuss plans for next weekend, letting my eyes wonder around the cafateria. Lunch time was always pretty crazy at times. Everyone runnign around, drama unfolding, people laughing, gossiping. My eyes landed on Troy. I hadn't seen him since our class together this morning. He was sitting at a table alone in the back of the room. I was surpised. I would have thought a thousand girls would be coming up to ask to sit with him. Then I noticed that there were. A group of girls have formed aorund the table next to him, just watching him. I smirked getting up from the table. "Hey guys, I see a friend. I'll be right back." I excused myself, making my way towards his table, hoping that I wasn't about to make a fool of myself.

I stopped in front of his table as his eyes slowly followed from my legs to my face. He smiled gently. "Hey Pay."

I smiled, glad that I hadn't been an idiot for coming over. "Hey. I saw you all alone and was wondering if you wanted some company?"

He smiled a litlte wider this time, showing off his pearly white teeth with that dazzling smile of his. "Sure."

I took a seat across from him, for a moment just starring at him as he stared at me untilI finally broke again and looked down. "So, uh.." I started nervously under his gaze. My voice cracked a bit. "How uh...how do you like East High?" I asked, trying to shake my head of the stutter in my voice.

"It's nice. Differnt."

I nodded. "Crazier than most places. You'll get use to that. Eventually the weird rubs off on you."

He laughed a bit. "I'm pretty use to the crazy and weird."

I nodded. "Where did you use to go to school?"

"All over the place really. I move a lot."

"Wow, I've lived here my entire life. In the same house even."

If I knew it was practically impossible, I could have sworn he looked a little envoious of that. "You're lucky."

"I don't know. I always kind of wanted to travel the world. See things. Not much happening around here." I said, relaxing a bit as I saw fro the corner of my eye several girls starring over at us with glared and looks of jealousy. I tried to shug the feeling of being watched off.

"But you're lucky you have roots. I've spent most of my life all over the place. Plus, you look pretty happy here."

I tried to ignore that his statement implied that he had been watching me. even if it had only been for a second. It was something. "Yeah, I do love it sometimes." My eyes traveled over to the table of girls again, all glaring at her. "Looks like you have admirers."

He looked towards the table too, seeming unimpressed. "Or you just have some haters."

I smiled and looked down again. I was blushing and I wasn't even sure why. He was just so...alluring. "Nah, I think it's the first one. I mean, I'm pretty lovable."

He laughed. A very charming and sweet laugh. "You seem to be." He said, making me blush even deeper.

"Yo, Shar girl!" I heard Chad call over my shoulder. I turned to see him waving me over.

I shook my head, sighing. "I better go. I'll uh...see you later?"

He nodded, smiling again. "Definitly."

I smiled again, dazed as I went to walk away, only to hear his voice call me back again. I turned around to see him smirking slightly. "Thanks for...making this a really good first day." He said with his charming voice.

And again, I was as dazed by him as ever.

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FYI, yes Troy is a vampire. And no, it's not totlaly based on Twilight. I did get the idea from that, but it's a differnt plot and Twilight will be mentioned when she finds out. Like something about how this isn't the Twilight book or something. Anyways, hope you liked it. I was just seeing if you guys liked the idea.

Please review.

-Peace!