Hi everyone! This is my new story, I used to post stories here a long time ago under a different pen name, but I'm back. This one is a Ryan/Chad story. I have all but two or three chapters already written, so the updates should come pretty quickly.
This chapter is more of an introductory chapter, so read and review and let me know what you think!
Chad Danforth was extremely confused, and he didn't know why. He blamed it on Ryan Evans, but that is to be explained later.
Chad didn't really have anything in his life to be excited about, but couldn't really complain either. He didn't care too much for school, but got passing grades and that was good enough for him. His family life is decent, they had their ups and downs, but Chad knew deep down his parents loved him, even after the divorce. He is the starting point guard for the Varsity team at East High. His best friend, Troy Bolton, is the team captain. He had a good group of close friends. He didn't consider himself what was deemed a ladies man, but he'd had his fair share of female companionships so to speak. All in all, life was pretty boring for Chad.
He had the same routine everyday. He woke up at the same time everyday. He always went to his locker exactly 3 times a day. He ate lunch at the same table everyday. He had basketball practice at the same time everyday. He liked his routine, and wasn't looking for a way to spice it up. He enjoyed the familiarity of the day-to-day routine.
That is... until Ryan Evans became a permanent fixture in his life.
Chad and Ryan had been in the same school since second grade, when Ryan's family moved to New Mexico from Chicago. Going to school together for so long, of course they knew of each other, but they were never friends, and didn't have any mutual friends. Chad hung out with the jocks of the school, while Ryan focused more on the people into acting and singing. Chad really didn't have a problem with the blonde boy, he just didn't know him that well. It wasn't until high school that they had any classes together. Still they never conversed and never had any reason to, until Troy went over to the dark side, as Chad liked to call it.
Troy had met a girl, Gabriella Montez, on winter vacation. When school started up again, it turned out she had just transferred to East High. This along with some other unfortunate events led Troy to audition for the musical production being held at school.
This is the ultimate event that led Ryan into Chad's life.
They had a couple of unimportant conversations, started acknowledging each other while passing in the hallways, but neither made the effort to hang out with the other.
When Troy initially got the lead over Ryan, there was a lot of animosity between Ryan and the rest of the Wildcat basketball team. But when summer hit, Gabriella quickly formed a bond with Ryan and all of the animosity was washed out.
Chad felt betrayed a second time by Troy when he started hanging out with Sharpay Evans, the evil twin sister of Ryan. Troy turned into a flake, ignored not only his best friend, but the rest of his friends and his girlfriend. Chad had never been so disappointed in Troy in the whole time he'd known him.
Chad guessed since her boyfriend was being king of the assholes, Gabriella formed her friendship with Ryan. She wasn't looking to replace Troy in the love department, she was just looking for someone to talk to, spend time with. Troy now had Sharpay, Kelsi had Jason, Zeke was still pining after Sharpay, and Taylor had Chad.
Chad was in no way involved with Taylor more than a friendly way. He had asked her out after the championship game, but nothing really became of their relationship. They went out on about 5 dates, kissed a couple of times, but the spark was missing, and neither was willing to pretend that it was there. Now, they were pretty much best friends. Chad knew that he could tell Taylor anything, and he trusted her with his life. She gave great advice and was always interested to hear what she had to say.
The day of the staff baseball game, Gabriella invited Ryan to come. After the initial protest of not being a staff member, Ryan accepted the invite.
Chad was speechless as he watched Ryan pitch from the mound. He had no idea he was such a good athlete. He assumed Ryan was strictly acting, dancing, singing, the whole theatrical mumbo jumbo.
Boy was he wrong.
The rest of the summer led Chad and Ryan became actual friends. Even though he had Taylor, and Chad and Troy were back on speaking terms, Ryan was nice to talk to. They didn't talk about deep stuff like he did with Taylor, or basketball like he did with Troy, they just talked about life. They didn't go out of their way to hang out with each other, but when Chad was on break, he would sit with Ryan in the lounge, or they would sit on the golf course while Chad was supposed to be caddying for Ryan.
When their senior year of high school started, that's when it all changed.
That's what Chad went through what he assumed was called a sexual identity crisis.
His nice routine that he was used to went down the drain.
And it was entirely Ryan Evan's fault.