Chad Danforth was a 15-year-old with the dream of being a ball player. He knew ever since seeing his dad play in the NBA that that's what he wanted to do. Chad was a sophomore in high school and on the basketball team for his school. He was known for being a very strong and dedicated person.

Danforth was on the way to one of his best friend's party. He walked to the house, able to hear the music blasting from out of the house. Chad walked inside the house to see people all over the place upstairs and downstairs. He found his best friend Troy, who was throwing the party, and walked over to him.

"Hey man, you made it." Troy was the star of East High's basketball team and Chad was always right beside him. Standing beside Troy was Gabriella Montez, Troy's girlfriend.

"Yeah after begging my mom she finally let me come. How did your parents let you throw a huge party while they were gone for the weekend?" Chad asked his teammate while looking at the girls who were walking past.

"They don't know about it." Troy responded and received a chuckle from Chad.

People always thought Troy was the one to never go behind his parent's back, but that was a lie from the beginning. His parents didn't want him seeing Gabriella and today he's still with her.

Gabriella and Troy headed upstairs while Chad headed down to the basement where more of the party continued. Chad saw a few of the players from the team and associated with them.

"Hey man there she is." Zeke, another friend of Chad and Troy said, looking at the door.

Sharpay Evans walked through the door of the basement and looked around as people spoke to her and she hugged people.

"And she has a friend with her." Chad spoke as he looked at the girl standing next to Sharpay.

"Sharpay!" Zeke called out her name. She looked over in the boys' direction and smiled. She and her friend walked over to greet them.

"Hey guys." Sharpay hugged them all and introduced her friend who was rubbing her hands and looking down at the ground. "This is Taylor, she moved next door to me a few days ago and she'll be coming to school with us starting Monday."

Taylor looked up and smiled. She looked at Chad and eyed him up and down. Chad looked down and then back up at Taylor then looked away.

"Well, we'll see you guys around later." Sharpay and Taylor walked off into the crowd of students dancing.

"Yo, that Taylor girl is bad." A guy from the team said. Chad looked off into the direction the two girls went and saw Taylor and Sharpay dancing.

He was mesmerized by the way Taylor's body moved to the beat and the way she moved her hands. Taylor looked over and saw Chad staring at her and back the other way. That was the last time he saw Taylor that night.

The next morning Chad was at Troy's house playing a game of one-on-one and was both scoring shot after shot. They stopped playing after Chad won and went into the kitchen to get something to drink.

"Hey man, you're party was hot last night." Chad said as he sat at the table wiping some of the sweat off his forehead.

"Yeah, I heard Sharpay came with some girl. Who is she?" Troy asked.

"Her name is Taylor; Shar said she'll be going to school with us Monday." Chad responded.

"She cute?" Troy asked drinking his water.

Chad took another sip before responding. "She's mad cute."

"You like her don't you?" Troy asked.

Chad sat back in his chair, "Nope, I just think she's really cute." He wasn't lying though.

"Just use that Chad charm you have." Troy said.

"Naw, she doesn't seem like a typical girl I'm used to talking to."

Troy saw that chad was going into a deep thought and Taylor and snapped him out of it.

"What you need to focus on is this upcoming game we got coming up on Friday." Troy said.

"Do you not remember the game just taken place out there?" Chad referred to the one on one with him and Troy. "I think you need to be the one to focus on practice more than me."

Monday morning Taylor woke up and headed off to her new school with her headphones in her ears. She walked in the school getting stares from all the guys and headed into the office. She took one ear bud out of her ear and talked to the woman at the desk.

"I'm Taylor McKessie, the new student."

She received her schedule and walked out of the office, putting her ear bud back in her ear. She walked down to her locker which was right next to her first class which was home room. She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to see Sharpay smiling at her.

"Hey, what's up?" Taylor asked as Taylor stood against the other locker.

"Let me see your schedule." Taylor handed the blonde girl her schedule and smiled as she realized they had all the same classes. Taylor closed her locker and turned her body towards the blonde.

They walked to home room and sat behind one another. Gabriella walked into the class and sat besides Sharpay.

"Hey Sharpay." Gabriella greeted Sharpay.

"Hey Montez, this is Taylor. Taylor this is Gabriella." Sharpay introduced the two girls to one another.

They were all talking and laughing before the doors of the classroom opened and Chad, Troy and the rest of the basketball team entered the class.

Zeke walked over to Sharpay's desk and began talking to her as Troy gave Gabriella a kiss and then looked at the girl sitting behind Sharpay as sat behind her.

Class started and everyone went to their seats. Troy sat behind Gabriella and Zeke sat on the other side of Sharpay. Chad sat behind Taylor, who was sitting behind Sharpay. During class ms. Darbus made Taylor introduce herself and the class got a chance to know her.

I skipped lunch and walked to the rooftop of the school and saw Taylor sitting on a bench writing in a book.

"What are you doing up here?" Chad asked walking up to her and sitting beside her.

Taylor looked up at Chad and closed the book she was writing in and put it in her bag before Chad could see.

"It's pretty up here. I saw the stairs leading and decided to take a look." Taylor responded. "Why are you up here?"

Chad sat down next to her and looked up at the sky. "I come here when I need to think and get away from all the noise of the students."

"What exactly do you think about?" Taylor asked looking at him.

Chad looked at Taylor and smiled. "My mom, my future, everything."

Taylor nodded and moved the hair from her face.

"Well I been told I was a good listener, so if you ever want to talk you know I'm here."

Chad nodded and the two sat as the breeze cleared all the things going through their minds.