A/N: I'm back with a new story, it's sorta like One Tree Hill(one of my favorite shows) I have a couple chapters written up back after that I might be a little slow, with school, helping my sister, and cheerleading and a social life...so... This is just a VERY short intro type of chapter, enjoy XD

In a city called Alberque everybody knew everybody else's business. A popular story around round town was the story of Jack Bolton and his two sons. When Jack was in high school he had a high school sweetheart. Her name was Melinda and she was an honor student and on the cheerleading team. The two had dreams together, Jack was to go to Duke and Melinda was going to follow him. After Jack made into the NBA, they were going to get married and start a family. Well, that plan came to a halt when the family part became sooner than expected. After it was announced that Jack got a full ride to Duke, Melinda also announce that she was pregnant with his child. Selfish, Jack decided that the news of his scholarship was more important than the news of his child and left Melinda to pursue his basketball dreams. In the first semester of college he met his wife, Lucille and she was also pregnant within two months. Jack decided that he was going to right this time and married Lucille. She gave birth to a boy they named Troy, and it turns out Melinda also had a baby boy she named James. Jack considered James was a mistake and never had anything to do with him, so Melinda raised James on her own.

16 Years Later
Troy Bolton is East High's King. Simple as that. Every girl wanted him and every guy wanted to be him. He came from a wealthy family and drove the latest cars and lived in a fancy upscale house. As the captain of the East High Wildcats, he was on the fast track to be become like his father. No, better, see Jack never made it into the NBA. After Troy was born, Jack had a serious knee injury that forced him to give up basketball. Troy was determined to do better than his father.
James Bolton comes from a working class family. His mom runs a clothing store in downtown Alberquque, named The Perfect Fit. He was raised by Melinda all by herself. When she announced she was pregnant, all of her friends and family turned their backs on her because she was so young and she was blamed for trying ruin Jack's career. James wasn't the most popular kid in school but her had one true friend, Gabriella Montez. Gabriella's home life wasn't the greatest, her father died when she was only 6 and her mom was always away on business trips. James and Melinda were practically family and practically lived at their house.
James' passion was basketball. Though his was compared to his father and brother, he still loved it. When he was young he played in Junior Leagues, but the comparins to his brother and father happened to much he quit and stuck to playing in the old abandoned basketball court in the park.

The old court had cracks running through the pavement and the basketball hoops were chipped and rusted. The only people that used it was James and a few of his friends and James took care of it.
Gabriella sat cross-legged on the side of the court, book in lap. James watched as he sunk another three-pointer. "Have you ever thought about doing something different?" he inquired. Gabriella looked uo with a confused look on her face, "What do you mean by that?" "I was thinking of maybe joining the wildcats." Gabriella's face quickly turned from confused to shocked, "Well, way to I have to hide out, you know. All my life I've never done something for me, it's all ways been about what everybody else will think just because of my so-called father." James sighed. "Yeah, I guess, I mean if that's what your into." Gabriella smirked. James shook his head and rolled his eyes at his best friend.

"Whoo!" Troy cheered as he and his partner in crime, Chad Danforth left the gum to hit the showers after another winning game. "With games like this we are going to state!" Chad said excitedly. The two boys rounded the corner to come face to face with Jack Bolton.
"What the hell was that!" Jack yelled.
"You know what I have something to do...that's not here," Chad stammered. Troy rolled his eyes at his friend, who took off like a flash of light. "What?" Troy asked, "We won."
"Yeah, by five points when you should have been blowing them out of the water!" Jack critized.
"Dad" Troy started. "You look winded, we'll go for a run in the morning," Jack interrupted. Troy simply walked away from his father, "Whatever," he muttered.

So tell me what you think (it can be my belated birthday gift :D)

P.s. I had an idea to put trivia at the bottom of my chapters so
#1 My Mom is usually the one to come up with names in my stories, like she was the one to come up with 'The Perfect Fit'

-Kathryn