A/N: High School Musical and the songs used herein are not mine. Please R&R

Oh, It is Love by Hellogoodbye

Word Count: 610

Rating: K-K+ (these ratings are confusing no?)

Other Pairing/s: smidgens of Zeke x Sharpay

The first time they kissed was in the 1st grade when he impulsively went up to her and pressed his lips on her chubby cheek. It wasn't much of a kiss but he was just glad that she didn't scream "COOTIES!!" in his ear and throw sand in his eyes like Sharpay did when Zeke tried to do the same thing a week ago. Instead, she went all quiet and wide-eyed and red.

Mrs. Smith, their teacher, saw what he did though, and she took him aside and sternly told him that good little boys shouldn't go around scaring little girls into silent stupors. He didn't care much because all he could think of as his Mom picked him up from school was that maybe some girls weren't so bad after all.

The second time they kissed was in the 5th grade when Chad had cheekily dared him to lock lips with the first girl to enter their homeroom. Not one to back down from a dare, he readily agreed although he was a bit nervous because he didn't particularly fancy any of the girls in his class.

Then she had popped her head in, looking for their homeroom teacher, and amidst the cheering from his friends, he went up to her and quickly brushed his lips with hers. Unlike Sharpay who had screeched like a banshee and thrown her feathery pink pen at Zeke when he tried to launch himself at her, she went all red and silent and wide-eyed before stuttering something unintelligible and walking away in a daze. Unfortunately for him, Mrs. Collins happened to see the whole thing and declared it inappropriate behavior and sentenced him to a whole two hours of detention after school.

Time seemed to pass him by though as he erased blackboard upon blackboard because he was too busy thinking how glad and relieved he was that it was her that he had kissed and not some other girl.

The third time they kissed was after the championship game, the decathlon and the musical fiasco when everybody was off to the after-game celebration in Chad's house. He had offered to give her a ride to the party and she had accepted, not like Sharpay who had a fit and tried to stomp on Zeke's toes with her glittery stilettos when he tried to persuade her to do the same.

He drove carefully and kept up an easy conversation and even let her choose which radio station to listen to. And at an intersection, while the light was still red, he leaned over and kissed her fully on the mouth. A sweet and chaste kiss that left her red and wide-eyed. She grinned and squeezed his hand and declared it "much better than the last two ones".

He laughed and confirmed her sentiment by kissing her again and again and again until the car behind them started to beep its horn in impatience.

He didn't remember much from the rest of the drive except for the warm hand on his knee nor did he remember most of what happened at the party except for the petite girl who never left his side (and, as an afterthought, how ravenously Sharpay was devouring Zeke's homemade brownies while discreetly shooting Zeke admiring glances). All he could think of was how lucky he was that he managed to snag her and not some other girl and of the future opportunities he would get to kiss her again and again and again.

…I kiss you and I know

It is love from the first

Time I pressed my lips against yours

Thinking oh is it love?...