Disclaimer: I don't own anything of High School Musical or its characters, if I did then this story would have happened in its place.

Warnings: This story contains slash meaning boys with boys, meaning homosexual relationship. So if you don't like that sort of thing I suggest you leave.

I wrote this like back in March sometime and didn't post it up because the lack of slash fics but now since there is a lot more I decided to bring this out of storage. This is basically a story of what if it was Ryan that Troy met and not Gabriella at the New Years Eve Party but he just didn't know it. So its basically the same as the movie but with changes to fit with my story idea. So you could say that this is an alternate parallel universe kind of thing.

This will be mostly about Troy/Ryan or Tryan as I like to call it, as well as some of the original pairings in the movie. Except for Troy/Gabriella since none of it will be happening in this story. So every part that Gabriella would be singing, Ryan would be singing them instead, that would be interesting.

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Chapter 1

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New Years Eve...

We come to what seems to be a large resort with an enormous lodge surrounded by the white sparkling winter snow. Tourists were walking about outside of the hotel in the cool crisp air all in winters entire enjoying the night and looking upon the skiers that skied across the slopes.

Inside the recreational area of the lodge we can hear the bouncing of a ball echoing though the room with two male voices talking in a quick and tense manner. One voice was of a young male and the other was of an older one.

A brunette haired woman in formal wear walked briskly into the gym and was looking for somebody when she found them and was not amused. She wore an elegant black dress with cord like shoulder straps and a green shawl draped around her shoulders.

In the gym was a father and his teenage son playing basketball and it seem that they were going at it for awhile, since they were both glistening with sweat. The older man was wearing a grey sweatshirt with red pant with three yellow stripes running down the side from the waist to the ankle. The teen was wearing a navy blue sleeveless t-shirt with shorts and white stripes running down the side of the shirt and shorts.

"Keep working left Troy." the older man bounced the ball back at the teen who caught it.

"We gotta get ready for the championship game that we're expected. We'll torch them."

"Am I going left?" the teen panted as he stood in front of the other with his back to him.

"Yeah, its looks middle but you take it downtown."

"Okay, like this?" Troy breathed and fakes a left and turned around to the right and scores a basket.

"Woo! That s it man." Troy's father catching the ball as it fell down from the hoop.

"Boys!" the woman interrupted and the two guys stopped and looked at her.

"Did we really fly all this way to play more basketball?" she asked as she walked into the room towards the other two.

The father and son looked at one another then back at her and answered the same time, "Yeah!"

"It s the last night of vacation, the party, remember?" the woman turn around slowly in a twirl.

"Right! The party! New Years Eve." the husband now remembering.

"Troy, they have a kid s party downstairs in the free style club." the teen's mother pointed towards the door.

"Kids party?" Troy looking back her.

"Young adults, now go shower up!"

"Come on, one more!" grabbing the ball from his father, Troy pleaded a bit.

The woman just closed her eyes and sighed as Troy dribbled and shot another basket.

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The free style club...

The party at the free style club that Troy's mom mentioned what like any other party with loud music, packed with young adults dancing, socializing and playing games. The difference at this party was, besides the party hats that people were wearing but the masks as well. It was a masquerade party where everyone was wearing a simple party mask that covered the area around their eyes in all sorts of designs.

Troy who walked in wearing blue jeans, an un-tuck white dress shirt and a formal black jacket on top. Like the other teens at the party he wore a mask that was red with a thin gold border and small fluffy red feathers sticking out of the sides all around the mask.

With hands in his jean pockets he slowly walked through the room weaving his way around people and headed towards the centre of the room.

At the centre of the room, a small stage was set up with two microphones with stands upon it and a couple was singing a duet. It was a karaoke contest. As the song ended the host of the party hopped upon the stage.

"Alright! Give it up for a couple of snowboarders!" and everyone started to applaud.

"Who is going to rock the house next!" the host announced as the current singers got off the stage.

Immediately two spot lights started to move upon the room looking for their next victims to embarrass and one of them stopped on Troy. Troy's entire body froze with his eyes wide open like a deer caught in the headlights of a car. The second light stopped on a girl who was stand next to her friend when she also froze in her tracks. The girl had long blonde hair which reached her shoulders; her body frame was thin and a bit skinny wearing a pair of blue jeans and a white baggy turtle neck wool sweater that covered her neck which was quite unusual for a girl to wear that. The mask she was wearing was white with a large single white feather upon the forehead and little fluffy white ones sticking out around the sides.

The guys around Troy was trying to get him on stage but he resisted by giving excuses and the host walked over to the girl and pulled her towards the stage as well.

"I can't sing. No guys!" Troy trying to get out of this situation and but was pushed onto the stage with the girl.

"Hey, you know what? Someday, you guys might thank me for this or not?" as the host walked up between them and grabbed the mike and handed it to Troy and walked off.

Troy just stood there totally confused and thinking why him of all people. The girl beside him stood there nervously with her arms wrapped around herself, not looking at the guy and swallowed hard. The music to the song started to play and Troy placed his mike back on the stand and looked up at the screen that displayed the words of the song and he started.

Troy:
Livin in my own world,
Didn t understand

(Clearing his throat before continuing.)

That anything can happen,
When you take a chance

(Troy was about to walk off the stage seeing that the girl wasn't going to sing but he was wrong. The girl took a deep breath and decides to just go for it and sang.)

Girl:
I never believed in,
What I couldn t see

(Once he heard her sing he started to go back to his mike. The girl's voice was quite beautiful; it was feminine with a low tone to the side of it, giving you a wonder if she was really a girl or a boy.)

I never opened my heart

(Troy: Ohhhh...)

To all the possibilities, ohhhh

Both: I know...

Girl: That something has changed

Both: Never felt this way

Girl: And right here tonight

Both: This could be the

(Both of them started to get into it and started to glance at one another shyly, smiling as well.)

Both: Start of something new

Girl: It feels so right

Both:
To be here with you...oh,
And now...lookin in your eyes

Girl: I feel in my heart

Troy: Feel in my heart

Both: The start of something new

Troy: Ohhh, yeah

(Troy was really getting into it now as well as the girl and relaxed and started to have fun, smiling and started to remove his jacket and toss it to the side.)

Troy: Now who d of ever thought that...um

Both: We d both be here tonight...yeah

Girl: The world looks so much brighter

Troy: Brighter, brighter

Girl: Oh, with you by my side

Troy: By my side

Both:
I know...that something has changed,
Never felt this way

Girl: I know it s for real

Both: This could be the...

(The girl and Troy was now dancing to the beat as they sang as well as everyone around them who were also started move along with the beat.)

Both:
Start of something new,
It feels so right to be here with you...oh,
And now...lookin in your eyes,
I feel in my heart,
The start of something new

(Troy then grabbed the mike stand with both hands and started to dip it downwards towards the girl as he sang and she started to laugh a bit.)

Troy:
I never knew that it could happen,
Till it happened to me,
Ohhh, yeah

(And Troy immediately pulled back.)

Both: I didn t know it before

Girl: But now it s easy to see

Both: Ohhhhh

Both:
It s the start of something new,
It feels so right to be here with you...oh

(Troy started to slowly dance and walked towards the girl.)

And now...lookin in your eyes,
I feel in my heart

(Troy was now right up to her face and he could the beautiful blue eyes that belong to the person behind the mask as he looked right at her.)

The start of something new,
It feels so right

(Troy started to advance on her smiling as the girl stepped back a bit in surprise and stumbled off the stage but was caught by the people behind her and pushed her back up onto it and she stepped forward a bit.)

Troy: So right...ohh

Girl: To be here with you...oh

Both: And now...

Girl: Lookin' in your eyes

Troy: Lookin' in your eyes

Girl: I feel in my heart

Troy: Feel in my heart

Girl: The start of somethin' new

Troy: The start of somethin' new

Girl: The start of somethin' new

Troy: Somethin' new

As the song ended everyone was clapping and whooping as the two on the stage looked at one another breathing heavily a bit and heart beating a bit fast from the singing. Troy was about to introduce himself to the girl when all of the lights in the room turned off and everything was pitch black. Immediately people started to scream and shouted what was going on.

"Everyone! Stay calm; we may just have a small power problem. So please stay where you are and we'll get this problem fixed." announced the host somewhere in the room.

After about five minutes of waiting in the dark, the light finally came back on as well as everything else that need power. Troy looked to his side to where the girl was, she was gone and he quickly looked around the room hoping to see her but couldn't.

At the far side of the room away from the stage was the girl with the white feathered mask who was heading towards another girl talking to someone. The other had puffy long blonde hair and was wearing a designer label outfit and stands out saying this person had the money. Tapping on the girl's shoulder the other turned around and faced her companion. Along with the expensive clothes she wore a mask covered with jewels and sequins.

"Can we go now, Sharpay?" the feather masked girl asked in what seems to be a male voice.

"What? Already, Ryan? I thought you were having fun?"

"Sure...as in you winning that bet of ours and made me dress up as a girl for the party, not to mention me being forced onto the stage to sing a duet with a guy. Sure, you can say it was fun. It was a good thing that I could make my voice somewhat sound like a girl or I'll be in real trouble." the girl said sarcastically as she pull off the wig off her head, revealing for a fact that the girl was indeed a guy with short blond hair.

"Well the guy you were singing with looks cute, why didn't you ask for his number?" the girl named Sharpay teased.

"Sure...with the guy's face partly covered, like you could tell. Look sis, just because I came out last year doesn't mean I will go around and ask the number of every cute guy I see. I am not that kind of person you know." although Ryan did have fun singing up on stage with the unknown guy which left him with this light happily feeling in his chest and butterflies in his stomach.

"Fine, I thought that coming here for winter vacation would help you get your mind of the prejudice back at school. If you want to go then alright, we'll go but at least I got a souvenir for you to remember this event by." Sharpay smiling holding up a digital camera in her hand and turned it around to show her brother. On the back of the screen was a shot of Ryan in his girl disguise on stage singing with the masked guy.

"Thanks, now lets go." and the brother and sister started to leave.

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Back with Troy...

Who was still on the stage confused as where the girl went as he twist his head about looking throughout the room. There was something about that girl that he couldn't put his finger on but he shrugged it off. He was about to walk off when the host grabbed hold of his shoulder and turned him around handing him something.

"Here's something to remember this party by." the host handing over to him what seems to be a photograph.

"Um...thanks." Troy taking the picture as the host walked away.

Turning the picture over, it was of him and the masked girl he sang with on the stage similar to Sharpay's photo shot but from a different place in the room. Smiling at the photo this was the most fun he had on this vacation with his mom and dad and he walked off the stage with a happy feeling.

He walked around the room a bit hoping to spot the 'girl' before heading towards the outside balcony to get some fresh air. Once he was outside, he took a couple of deep breaths of the cold air and suddenly the countdown to the New Years started.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1...HAPPY NEW YEAR!" everyone at the party shouted.

Immediately fireworks started to fill up the night sky in all sorts of colours with Troy looking up at the large blooming night sky flowers made of light and sighed a bit. Unknown to him, Ryan and Sharpay walked right past behind him as they were leaving and were looking at the fireworks as well.

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So what do you think for my first HSM slash fic? So how do you like it? Want me to continue? Then read and review please!

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