Author's Note: Wow... So The original drafts were really bad.
So basically, this is simply a rewrite... a rewrite for an overall better experience. Elaine's name won't change at all beyond sticking with Harrison, but this is just a rehaul to fix some mistakes in biology (Elisha and I clearly had no idea how biology worked), less overall dialogue ham, and some scenes may change in the entirety. I just feel so embarrassed because some of the self-harm scenes are triffled with inaccuracies (I won't explain how I know that) and certain scenes are just so over the top. Not only that, Elaine in some ways was such a Mary Sue that this is more of a fix-it for what happened last time.
Also, there are more breaks between the writing. Walls of texts, I have realized, just look plain awful.
A red head in a cheerleader uniform was walking down the hallway with her heart still searing from the a breakup she had minutes before. She remembered everything, every last painful word, once again her tears hid behind her. She didn't want to seem weak once more, instead, why not take on an icier attitude? She doesn't want to show her real persona any more, it only brought her misery and anger. Then she saw him. He was everything she ever wanted, not ashamed of wearing pink, she liked that in a guy. However, she knew that this school was insane about keeping the status quo, and if she was seen being nice to him, her reputation would go down instantly.
Gabriella was new and fresh out of a relationship with her old boyfriend. She bumped into East High's golden boy, Troy Bolton, and he smiled and said, "Let me help you out there." She was about to refuse help due to the fact she didn't want to jump right back into another doomed relationship, but looking into his blue eyes froze her on the spot. She couldn't help but wonder who his girlfriend was and she instantly felt ashamed for even wondering that at this given moment. She nodded, and he handed her back her books, and said, "I'm Troy. Troy Bolton."
Gabriella was in shock to see such a good looking guy even willing to talk to her. Her chocolate brown eyes looked up at his bright blue eyes. She couldn't think of anything other than, "Hi."
"What's your name? I haven't seen you around," he said.
You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm walkin' on broken glass
Like my world's spinnin' in slow motion
And you're movin' too fast
"Gabriella," she said to him, "Gabriella Montez."
Gabriella was shocked as he took her hand, shaking it. Troy smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, Miss Montez. What class do you have, maybe I can take you there?"
Elsewhere, Elaine had bumped into what appeared to be a new kid to her. Elaine hadn't the time to pretend to be happy or even act nice to someone she didn't know. She snapped, "Watch it."
The blond boy looked at her, and said, "I'm sorry Elaine."
Elaine froze for a moment, wondering how he knew her. Somewhere, her brain connected the Evans twin to the boy, and she stated, "Well, Evans, don't do it again." He nodded and walked off to his sister, the ice princess, and the second most popular girl and school.
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react
The chemicals react
"I'm going to Drama class with someone called Darbus," Gabriella said.
"Great, I'll walk you. I have that class too," he said.
Ryan didn't seem as strong as his sister, and that's what made Elaine feel terrible, she hated preying on the weak. It didn't make her feel stronger; it made her feel stupid and pathetic. Yet at the same time, she was too strong for anyone in this school, so no one dared to take her on a challenge. She didn't have anyone who knew her for her real self. Amber tapped her on the shoulder and said, "You feeling alright?"
Elaine looked at her and nodded. She looked at the time and said, "We better go to Darbus's room, you know how she loves handing out detentions."
Amber nodded, and the rest of the team followed. Elaine rid herself of any emotion and noticed a new girl hanging around Troy Bolton. She heard Ashley say, "Looks like Bolton's hanging around with a geek."
Elaine forced a laugh, not wanting to admit her own perfect grade record. In fact, she didn't know who she'd be without her grades or her social standing. It was hard to work both with a high grade point average and keep her role as a cheer captain, often forgoing nights of sleep. Elaine sometimes felt close to breaking down from how her head felt most days, and sometimes she needed a release as well.
You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm driftin' out to the sea
Like the tide's pullin' me in deaper
Makin it hard to breath
Troy kept looking over to Gabriella, and couldn't help but wonder where she came from. She was beautiful and the only girl who made him feel a certain way. Elaine felt something while looking into Ryan's frightened eyes, but she brushed it away. After all, she had to deny this feeling, and Ashley looked at her funny but brushed off Elaine's strange actions. Elaine didn't know exactly how else to react anymore.
We cannot deny how we feel inside
We cannot deny
Elaine shrugged and noticed Troy and Gabriella flirting and Gabriella looked happy. Ms. Darbus looked at the pair and said, "Detention, Mr. Bolton and Miss Montez, and next time, do not disrupt my class with PDA."
Chad looked at Troy, who was turning red, and said, "No, no, that's impossible, Ms. Darbus, your honor, see, 'cause we have basketball practice and Troy..." She cut him off and said, "Ah that will be fifteen minutes for you as well, Mr. Danforth, count 'em!"
Taylor snickered and Elaine heard her say, "That could be tough for Chad, since he probably can't count that high." Elaine couldn't help but laugh at the comment.
"That will be fifteen minutes for you too, McKessie and Harrison. Does anyone else have any comments or questions?"
Elaine rolled her eyes as Jason raised his hand and asked, "How were your holidays, Ms. Darbus?"
Seconds before Darbus could answer the bell rang, saving everyone from a potentially long and boring story.
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react
The chemicals react
Elaine shook it off, and once again, she took off. Elaine knew that Ryan and Sharpay got detention for something about cell phones and she was in detention for egging on Taylor, since she chuckled. She had to bail on cheerleading because of the detention, and she noticed Troy and Gabriella looking at the audition list, but Elaine didn't sign up, even though she thought of doing it several. Troy was going to, apparently.
She chuckled and started day dreaming about the idea of finally admitting that she herself liked to sing, that she always did like skateboarding down at the skate park. That she sometimes wanted to sign up for the school musical. She was snapped back to reality when she hit the door to Math, and she said, "Oops, my bad."
She went inside, and saw that new girl there. She took a seat next to her, and looked at the board, confused about the second equation. Something's not right about that equation, she thought to herself, and frowned, looking at her notes. It was then she realized she hadn't taken notes and a flush crept up on her cheeks. How silly of her.
Kaleidoscope of colors
Turning hopes on fire, sun is burning
Shining down on both of us
Don't let us lose it (don't let us lose it...)
Then she heard the new girl say, "Shouldn't the second equation be sixteen over pi?"
Of course, that makes sense!, Elaine thought. That was, until the teacher said, "Sixteen over pi? That's quite impossible... I stand corrected!" She started to erease it when she said to Gabriella, "Oh, and welcome aboard."
Elaine looked at her, and smiled, before going back and writing in the equation.
She waited for the bell, detention was soon to come. Trust her luck Taylor happened to ask about Troy with the new girl. Elaine kind of ignored it and instead went to work on her science work. Taylor then looked at her and said, "Hey, it's something you don't see every day! A cheerleader who is actually doing her work in class."
Elaine looked up at Taylor in disgust. "So you expected me to never once work in my life? That, oh, I don't know, maybe I've gotta keep my grade up to stay on the squad? You don't just have extra curriculars and not have good grades. There's a no pass no play rule in effect, in case you've forgotten. That means I've gotta have at least a C, and I'm trying to maintain an A-B average here. So instead of picking on me, how about you shut up?"
Taylor looked as if she had been bitched slapped before she pulled Gabriella away and said, "How did she know all of that?"
Gabriella shrugged and said, "Maybe she actually cares about her science grade?"
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
Elaine sighed, hating the random attention from Taylor and Gabriella. She trusted they wouldn't bother to tell anyone what had happened so she grabbed her cheer bag and slung it over her shoulder like nothing happened. She stormed off before anything else could be said.
We lived
We loved
We hurt
We jumped
We're right
We're wrong
We're weak
We're strong
We lived to love
Elaine slammed her locker door shut as she went to Home Ec. She was the only one in the school who knew Zeke baked, since they took a private course. "Hey, Zeke! Are ready for some baking?"
"You know it!"
She looked through and said, "Let's try crème brule again, I'm sure you almost have it!"
Zeke looked excited and said, "I love making crème brule!"
She laughed, and then said, "You remember Ryan Evans right?" "Sharpay's twin brother?"
"Yeah, he bumped into me in the halls today. But I didn't feel too upset about it. You think that means something?"
"Huh. That's funny, since I kind of was starting to like Sharpay. You think it means anything?" Elaine and Zeke told each other everything they would tell anyone else, since they never where ones to spill secrets that they were trusted with.
"Possibly. You think something's changing? Taylor did seem shocked when she found out I knew a lot about science. She was hanging around this new girl."
"Same one Troy's hanging around with?"
"Possibly. Get this, she knows math like the back of her hand."
"Wow, she sound awesome."
"I know."
They pulled out the crème brule and looked at each other with a wide grin. They chorused together, "Perfecto!"
They laughed and Elaine looked at her watch, and said, "I got to go to detention with Darbus."
"Same one Troy's in?"
Elaine laughed and said, "Yeah."
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
Watch the chemicals react
And just like that
The chemicals react
(The chemicals react)