Finally the summer was over and everyone was back in East High and the gang was back for their senior year before college. They had all agreed to meet by the fountain at the front of the school before heading to class. Everyone was there, Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Zeke, Jason, Kelsi, Martha, the only ones missing were Ryan and Sharpay. Troy, Chad, Zeke, and Jason were talking about new plays that they were going to run when basketball season came around while Gabriella, Taylor, Martha, and Kelsi were discussing all the new ideas there were for the fall musical.

When a pink convertible with a license reading 'FABULUS' was drove into the parking lot the gang was surprised to see only Sharpay get out of the car. As she neared the group she noticed the questioning look on all of their faces and instantly pulled out her compact mirror.

"What is it?" whined Sharpay, "Do I have something on my face?"

"No Sharpay you look fine." said Gabriella. "We were just wondering where Ryan was."

"Yeah, where is the Drama King?" Chad chimed in. "We never saw him after Lava Springs. We were hoping he could join us for baseball."

"Don't worry," said Sharpay as she put her compact away. "Ryan should be here soon. He told me to go on without him. We don't always drive together. By the way ,Gabi I have to tell you about the cutest pair of shoes I bought."

After the whole Lava Springs incident Gabriella and Sharpay had become the best of friends and spent nearly every second together. As everybody went back to their conversations a sleek midnight black Hummer. Sharpay looked toward the car and instantly recognized it.

"See," said Sharpay pointing toward the car. "There's Ryan now."

"That's Ryan's car?" said Jason.

Even though everyone else thought the same exact thing only Jason was brave enough to say it. Sharpay looked at them and laughed at wide eyes and open jaws.

"Well you didn't think that we actually shared a car did you?" asked Sharpay.

Even though Sharpay wasn't surprised by the car she was just surprised as everyone else when Ryan actually stepped out of the car. If it wasn't for the hat on his head and his messenger bag none of them would even believe that it was Ryan. Let's start from the bottom and work our way up.

First instead of his squeaky clean dress shoes he wore a pair of dirt encrusted, worn out, black Vans with white laces. His pants were just regular baggy dark brown jeans with a tear and a rip here and there with chains hanging out of the pockets. The shirt he wore was a regular loose fitting black shirt, but when he turned around to lock his car the gang saw the mural of skulls and leaves that adorned the back. And even though the stripped black and white engineer's cap on his head hid most of it, everyone could see that Ryan's once blond hair was now a darker shade of brown than Troy's.

Right next to the gang the cheerleaders were whispering things to each such as 'who is that', 'he is new here', and 'he's so fine I could just-'

"Hey!" shouted Sharpay to the group of giggling girls. "That is my brother. He is not a rock star that needs a band of groupies whispering about him."

"What's going on?" said Ryan who had apparently heard Sharpay's outburst as he walked up to his friends.

"Ryan what are you wearing?!" shrieked Sharpay. "And what did you do to your hair?!"

"What are you talking about Sharpay?" asked Ryan.

Sharpay snatched the hat off of Ryan's head and pointed to his newly brunette hair, "That's what I'm talking about. Why did you dye you hair?"

Ryan grabbed his hat back from Sharpay and placed it back on his head, "Sharpay let's talk for a second."

Ryan grabbed Sharpay by the wrist and pulled her away after giving a friendly wave to his friends. Too awestruck by his appearance the gang just waved back like a group of zombies. When Ryan and Sharpay went into the school the gang finally found the ability to speak again.

"Was that really Ryan?" Gabriella being the first to speak.

"I think it was." said Troy.

"That couldn't have been Ryan." said Taylor.

"He looked so different." said Kelsi.

"He looked kinda hot." said Martha.

He looked really hot, thought Jason. Jason had always had a tiny crush on Ryan. Who wouldn't. He was cute, he could sing, he was one of the best dancers that Jason had ever seen. And with the new look he had today he was even hotter than before.

Inside the main hall of East High Ryan and Sharpay were standing against the lockers drawing more attention to themselves than Ryan's new look did alone.

"What is your problem?!" shouted Ryan at Sharpay.

"My problem?! Look at your hair! What have you done to your hair!" screamed Sharpay.

"I made it how it's supposed to look! After all it is my natural hair color." said Ryan, saying the last part in a whisper.

"I thought we agreed that no one was ever going to know. We made a promise to Mom and we made a deal as brother and sister to never let anyone know." Sharpay said also whispering. "Or have you forgotten."

"No I haven't forgotten. And nobody is going to know. Everyone will think that I just dyed my hair out of teen angst or something and soon people aren't going to care. I just thought that maybe for one year I could to school without lying to people about what I really look like."

Sharpay was stunned to say the least. She never knew how her brother felt about having to dye his blond like hers. "Fine Ryan. But we are going to have a talk with Mother when we get home today. You know she not going to like this one bit."

"Fine Sharpay." said Ryan. He looked over his shoulder and Sharpay turned to follow his gaze. There were guys that looked liked skater dudes by the way they were dressed. They nodded in their direction and she turned to see Ryan nod back. He looked at her one more time and said, "I got to go."

Sharpay watched Ryan walk away from her and towards the two skater dudes. He shook hands with both of them and they nodded towards Sharpay's direction making Ryan look back at her. Apparently they were talking about her, but only for a short time because a few seconds later they disappeared down another hall.

"What was that about?"

Sharpay turned again to see Gabriella and the rest of the gang standing behind her, also looking in the direction that Ryan left in. Even she wanted to talk about it Sharpay knew that she could never talk to anyone about Ryan. Otherwise someone might find out the truth.

"It's nothing. Ryan's just going through teen angst or something. I'm sure he'll be back to normal by tomorrow." said Sharpay walking away to homeroom.

With Sharpay and Ryan gone the rest of the gang were left to wonder what exactly was happening in the world of the Evans'.