Author's Note: Hey Guys! This is my first fanfic that I'm submitting ever so I hope you guys all like it.
How Will I Know?
Chapter 1
"Shouldn't the second equation read 16 over pi?"
He heard her voice from the front of the room and looked up. The new girl, he thought to himself. His sister already didn't like her because she was looking at the audition sign-up for the "winter musicale" as Ms. Darbus, their homeroom teacher and leader of the Drama department, called it. He didn't want anyone stealing his spot light either, but he didn't understand how Sharpay couldn't like her. She is smart, nice, beautiful...
The bell rang and shattered his thoughts of Gabriella. He got up and began to walk to detention. If Troy just hadn't called Gabriella in the middle of home room none of us would have to go to detention right now and I could be rehearsing. Although he didn't want to go to detention, he couldn't help but be excited to see Gabriella. He could tell Troy liked her, but he wanted her for himself, and he barely knew her! His thoughts were interrupted again that day as he heard his sister yell for him.
"RYAN!" He flinched at her voice. He loved his sister, but couldn't stand the way she treated him. Her voice even began to annoy him. But like the loyal, side-kick of a twin brother he is, he turned to face her. She scurried up to him and began talking. "Meet me in the Music Room after detention, we need to rehearse! After all, the auditions are less than 24 hours away!" She said with a smile and a flick of her full, blonde hair.
"Speaking of the auditions," Ryan began, "I was thinking about some really cool dan-"
"Yeah that's great, Ry. See you later, okay?" Sharpay cut Ryan off as Troy Bolton walked by. Once Sharpay was done talking, she ran over to him and began to flirt. It was no surprise to Ryan. He was often ignored by his sister, especially when the "Hottie Super Bomb" was around. Sharpay had liked him for a while now and he occasionally flirted back, but over all showed no interest in her. Sharpay was always bossing Ryan around. And he always listened. But not once has she ever returned the favor. I shouldn't have to be bossed around by my little sister, okay so only by 6 minutes. He kept pondering these thoughts until he got to detention, where he had to listen to Ms. Darbus talk about the proper use of cell-phones.Every once in a while he would steal glances at Gabriella as he was painting the latter. She is so beautiful with her long, curly brown hair and her bright, innocent smile.As Ryan thought, he didn't realize he began to paint off the ladder and on to his sister who was painting right beside him.
"RYAN!", she shrieked, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!" Ryan's face dropped as he realized what had just happened.
"Shar, I'm so sorry! I guess I wasn-" He was cut off for the second time today.
"I don't want to hear it, Ryan!" At this point everyone in the auditorium was staring at the Evan's twins. Ms. Darbus stepped in. "What is going on over here?" She asked."Oh, nothing really," Sharpay said with an attitude, "Just my empty headed brother over here decided it would be more fun to paint all over me than the ladder." She heard a few giggles in the background and stormed away to change. Everyone began to get back to work when the bell rang. Ryan was the last one out of the auditorium. He decided to clean up the mess of paint that got all over as Sharpay freaked out. As he turned the corner to walk out, he saw someone waiting for him and his heart began to beat rapidly. It was Gabriella Montez.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey, are you okay? She was pretty freaked. Oh, I'm Gabriella by the way." She stuck out her hand and smiled.
"Ryan." He replied and took her hand. "And yeah, I'm fine. Sharpay flips out like that all the time. She is a major drama queen. But I guess I should should have known better than to paint on my sister." She giggled. That laugh made him go weak in the knee's. He smiled back.
"Well I guess I will talk to you tomarrow then." She began to walk away.
"Gabriella, wait." This is my chance.
"Yeah?" She turned to face him.
"D-do you want me to show you around the school, si-since you're new and all. Maybe even go for a bite to eat after-wards?" He could feel his face turning a bright pink. He hated himself for stuttering when he got nervous. "Well," She began, "I was going to hang out with Troy." She could see the disappointment in Ryan's face, and continued on. "But, he left for basketball practice in the middle of detention, so why not?" She beamed up at him.
"Great!" The two new friends linked arms and walking down the hall talking and laughing together.
Finally, Ryan thought, Things seemed to work out for me.
Well I hoped you liked the first chapter! Please review and let me know what you think, good or bad, I want to hear from everyone. I will update once I hopefully have 5 reviews. But I'm really excited to write the next chapter so you never know!
