A/N I don't own any of the High School Musical characters or anything like that.

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Chapter 1

Troy Bolton dribbled his basketball in the hallway of the school. He figured he could use the practice, seeing that they had a championship game coming up. He was very excited.

He avoided the glares he got from the teachers and corresponding students. They wouldn't be glaring at him when he won the game. "Hey, man!" Troy turned around to see his best buddy, Chad.

"Hi, Chad."

"We are going to cream West High!" Chad grabbed the ball. "He looks for someone to pass the ball to, but nobody seems to be open!"

"But Bolton gets open at the last minute!" Troy yelled, holding out his hands.

Chad passed him the ball. Troy dibbled it.

"Only four more seconds!" Chad yelled.

Troy threw the ball. It landed in someone's locker.

"And he scores!" Troy screamed.

Chad ran over to retrieve the ball. A girl had already pulled it out of the locker.

Chad and Troy were not pleased to see that the ball had gone in Sharpay's locker. She did not look happy.

"Next time, watch where you're aiming the ball," she said, throwing it at Chad.

"Sorry, princess," Chad said, snorting.

"You should be." She smiled at Troy.

He smiled back. He didn't know what else to do.

"I'll see you later, Troy," she said, shutting her locker. She glared at Chad, and then left.

"What a prissy wannabe," Chad said.

"What are you supposed to do? That's just how she is."

"Anyway, I have to go." Chad gave the ball back to Troy.

"See ya," Troy said. Chad left.

Troy looked at the ball.

The bell rang. Troy ran to his locker. He shoved the ball in it and grabbed some of his books. He ran off to class.

-

Gabriella Montez smiled as she saw her 98% on her science test. She admitted she could have done better, but it was still a pretty good grade.

"All right, class," their teacher said.

Everybody sat up.

"Today is the day to sign up for the Science Club. You will experience many different things in this club. It'll be a lot of fun." She looked at Gabriella. "Ms. Montez will be the leader of the club."

Gabriella blushed. She never liked a lot of attention.

"But, moving on, we will begin a new experiment this week. I'll give you your partners tomorrow. But today, we will be joining Mr. Johnson's science class."

Mr. Johnson's class wasn't an honors class like Mrs. Thompson's class was. Not that Gabriella was degrading the class, but it wasn't for her. She needed a challenge.

"We have to go and exchange notes and talk to each other about what we are learning. So, you will be paired up with others from his class and talk about things you have learned in science."

A boy raised his hand. "Why?"

"The principal wants to make sure you are all understanding what you are being taught." Mrs. Thompson looked at the class. "You can also help them if they don't understand something." She stood up. "So, let's head over to his classroom."

The class did as they were instructed. When they reached Mr. Johnson's room, Gabriella noticed that the majority of the Jocks were in it. No surprise.

"Welcome," Mr. Johnson said, smiling. "Come in."

Gabriella felt uncomfortable. She wasn't fond of Jocks.

"I will begin to name off people from my class," Mrs. Thompson said. "Then Mr. Johnson will name off someone from his class. That person will be your partner."

She looked around. "Gabriella Montez."

Mr. Johnson looked at his class. "Troy Bolton."

Gabriella felt her stomach churn. She didn't want to be paired up with the captain of the basketball team.

Either way, she went over to him.

"Hi," she said.

"Hey."

"So, what have you been working on?"

"Basketball."

"I mean in science."

"Oh, just a bunch of stuff I don't even know about."

Gabriella sighed.

"What?"

"Well, what are you confused on?"

"Everything."

"Is there anything in particular you'd like to work on?"

"Not in this class."

"Well, we have to talk about something."

"Okay. Let's talk about the game coming up."

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because that's stupid."

"No it's not."

Gabriella rolled her eyes.

"You do realize that if you fail one of your classes, you won't be on the team?" She just had to throw that in.

Troy looked worried. "I'm getting a D in here…"

"Which could turn into an F quickly."

"Oh, no! I have a test in here coming up! I'm gonna flunk it!" He turned to Gabriella. "Will you help me study?"

"Why should I?"

"Uh, so I won't fail."

"That would be your problem, not mine."

"Just come on!"

"I have a life, you know. I don't want to spend my time teaching you things you should already know."

"If you help me, I'll never annoy you again. I promise."

Gabriella considered. "No."

"Come on!"

"Why don't you just sign up for the Science Club?"

"That's during basketball…."

"It's your choice if you want to fail or not."

"Fine. I'll come for a little bit. But none of my friends can know about this, alright?"

Gabriella nodded. Troy Bolton showing up at the Science Club. This would be interesting.

-

Gabriella was actually pretty surprised to see Troy show up. Evidently, so was the rest of the Science Club.

"Okay," she said, standing at the front of the room. "Today we will be learning about photosynthesis. Now, can anyone tell me what this means?"

Troy raised his hand. Gabriella called on him.

"Where you take a picture and then write a thesis about it."

Gabriella tried not to laugh. "No, actually, that's wrong."

"Oh." Troy looked a little embarrassed.

"It's okay. You're here to learn," Gabriella said, smiling. He smiled back.

Science Club whipped by pretty quickly. Troy even stayed for the whole class.

He even stayed after to help Gabriella get the room cleaned.

"I thought you had basketball," she said.

"Well, I was actually having fun here," he said, throwing away some papers.

"You see, sports aren't the only fun things."

Troy nodded.

"When's your test?"

"A week."

"Well, hopefully we can cover that material in a week."

"Yeah."

They finished cleaning up the room.

"Well, I'm gonna head home," Gabriella said, picking up her bags.

"Yeah, me too."

"I'll see you tomorrow."

Troy nodded.

Gabriella walked to her car, smiling.

-

When Gabriella got to her bedroom, she received a huge surprise on her computer.

DramaQueenPrincess451: OMG! TROY WAS AT SCINCE CLUB? SO, HOW ABOUT WE TALK TOMORROW? WE NEVER TALK!

It was from Sharpay.