-1I'm truly happy. I posted the trailer and went back the next day and I have one review, one story alert, and one favorite author. Thanks a lot guys. I didn't think the story would do that good. Well to some people one of each isn't a lot but I think it is. So anyways, this is chapter one. I would like to thank my friend Nicole for helping me with ideas while we were going to Hairspray which was by the way amazing. Oh, and thanks Karina for giving me the idea for the name. Although I thought of it myself. Woo!

READ BEFORE GOING ON:
1) This is my first fan-fiction so be nice.

2) Please review.
3) This takes place the night of the musical.

4) Troy and Gabriella are dating.

That's it.

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GABRIELLA'S POV.

I took a look from behind the curtain, out into the audience. I saw my mom sitting in the front row next to Troy's parents. They were talking, laughing, having a good time.

There's a million people out there.

I took another glance and I noticed Sharpay and Ryan's parents sitting in the front row as well.

Do they think they're in the musical?

Right behind them were Chad and Taylor.

I hope they don't see me mess up.

Suddenly, someone covered my eyes.

"Guess who?" the voice said.

"Troy?" I guessed.

The person took their hands off me and I turned around.

It was my ex-boyfriend.

TROY'S POV.

What was I thinking? There's no way I'm going to make it through tonight. I'm going to get a line wrong, I'm going to trip, bump into someone while dancing, I'm going to forget everything and just pass out. I can't do it. I just can't.

I walked around a bit. I went over the script for the first scene.

"Mr. Bolton." I heard a familiar voice.

Oh please don't be…

"Hello Ms. Darbus!"

"Hi, Troy. I noticed you were reading over your lines?"

"Uhmm. Yeah, just making sure."

"Well if you don't know your lines by now, we can have Ryan take your place."

No way am I doing that to Gabriella.

"I heard someone say my name?"

Troy turned around, it was Ryan.

"Oh hey Ryan." said Troy.

"THAT DOESN'T GO THERE!" Ms. Darbus screamed to two kids doing props. She quickly ran toward them.

"So.. Tonight's the big night." said Ryan.

"Yup." said Troy.

"Well tonight is supposed to be my night."

"Well, don't blame me, I'm not the director here."

"How could you take my spotlight? This is my shot."

"Well… I…"

"How would you feel if someone on the basketball team thought they were better than you?"

Basketball… OMG I totally forgot, Chad. He must be upset that I been missing practices.

"Well I don't know but I really have to go so bye! See you later."

"Five minutes to show time!" he heard.

Troy ran off to find Gabriella. He wanted to wish her good luck in the musical and he to tell her that everything was going to be alright.

Troy then found Gabriella. Oh, he found her alright.

How could she do this to me?

He found her.. Kissing another guy.

Dad? No. Who makes out with their dad?

It was a boy. A teenage boy.

Troy was shocked. They been dating for about 3,4 months now.

This isn't like Gabi.

"Gabi?" Troy called.

Troy just stood there, nearly in tears as the two broke apart and Gabriella saw him.

"How could you?"

Gabriella ran away from the boy, and Troy.

GABRIELLA'S POV.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

Before her was her ex-boyfriend from when she was 14 and lived in New York, Jonathan Nergert.

"Well, my dad is on a business trip here. Since my mom is out of town, I was stuck going with him. We're leaving tonight."

"Oh. But I mean, why are you here, at my school, seeing my play?"

"Well, I saw a advertisement in the paper and I noticed your name. So I came to surprise you."

"Surprise me?"

"Yeah I mean I haven't seen you in over 2 years. I wanted to see how you were and things so we could catch up."

"Catch up? Jon, we went out for 2 years, since we were 12. Sure, we had our fights but that night, when I told you I was moving. You just left me. Never gave me a chance to say where I was moving too. For all you know I could of just been moving down the street. But no, you had to just run off leaving me in tears."

"Look I'm sorry about that but maybe we can start over."

"START OVER?"

"I mean look at you. You used to be the shy, Gabriella. You would love your time at school, spend all day taking notes, paying close attention to the lessons. Then stay after school to practice with the Decathlon team. Then at night you would just study, or read. You were the smartest girl in the school. But look at you now, you're the lead, in a musical. You're not that girl you used to be."

"Well, I pretty much am still the smartest girl is school, and I was never shy? What are you talking about? And I am on the Decathlon team here."

"Oh. Well I mean you were always shy to me. Since when did you ever sing? Yet act?"

"I always did church choir."

"Well, didn't you faint during that solo once?"

"Well, that was then, this is now. I changed. I… met someone."

"Okay? Look, Gabi."

Gabi? He never called me Gabi. Only Troy called me Gabi. No one else.

"GABI?" I interrupted. "Since when did you call me that?"

"Gabriella, Look, I still like you. Ever since you moved away, I realized what I did was wrong."

"It doesn't matter anymore. You had your chance and you blew it."

"What do you mean it doesn't matter? Gabi, I'm--"

"DON'T CALL ME GABI!"

"Sorry Gabriella, I'm leaving tonight. This going to be the last chance I'll ever see you."

"Yeah okay so?"

"Gabriella Montez, I love you."

"No Jon, just no. Don't think that you can just walk out of my life 2 years ago and come back and make everything alright again? Look Jon, things changed, I for one changed. You changed. I never thought I was going to run into you again and that made me happy. But now, I don't even know what you've become."

"Come on Gabi,"

He saw the anger in her eyes.

"I mean Gabriella, you can come with me back home, tonight. I can get you a ticket and everything."

"No Jon, just no. I don't love you anymore. I doubt I ever will, not ever again.

Jon leaned in to kiss me.

I quickly pulled away, thinking of Troy.

"Jon, what are you doing? You left me. And besides, I have a boy--"

Before she could finish, he kissed her again, this time making sure she didn't pull away.

"Gabi?" she heard someone called.

Gabriella turned around and saw Troy.

"How could you?"

Gabriella quickly ran away from the boy, and Troy.

NO ONES POV.

"ONE MINTUE PEOPLE!" said Ms. Darbus.

Troy couldn't do the musical, not with Gabriella there.

"So," he heard a familiar voice say.

It was Sharpay.

"Where's Gabriella?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out." said Troy.

"Well, since I'm the understudy, I guess it's me you're kissing tonight."

"No, Sharpay, there's no way I'm doing this musical without Gabriella."

Troy quickly ran off. He could care less about the musical. He just wanted to find Gabriella.

Basketball did him good. He caught up to Gabriella. She was sitting on the stairs outside East High, crying.

"Gabi," Troy said. "..What happened?"

Gabriella didn't answer. She knew Troy was going to hate her forever.

A few minutes of silence went by. Gabriella started crying harder.

"Gabi, I'm not mad okay. Well, maybe a little. Seeing someone you were supposed to do a musical with and kiss tonight being wrapped in another guys arms? You know how upset I was when I saw you two? I know you would never cheat on me like that. At least, that's what I thought."

"He….was my ex-boyfriend from New York. He left me when I was 14 and now he wanted to get back together. He's only here for tonight though and wanted me to go on a plane with him to New York. And then he kissed me when I tried telling him I had a boyfriend."

"Don't worry about it Gabi, you're never going to see him again."

"I know Troy. But, he hurt me, again tonight. I thought you were going to hate me."

"No, I'll never hate you because I love you Gabi. And you knew that. If I never met you, I would probably be home playing basketball right now and you would be reading. But together, me and you flipped East High upside down. Trust me Gabi, I'll never hate you, ever."

Gabriella smiled. Troy thought she never smiled wider before.

"…but I know someone who's going to hate both of us." Troy continued.

Gabriella looked a bit stunned.

"Who?" she asked curiously.

"Ms. Darbus."

At that second, they both realized that everyone is going to ask them questions, their parents would be disappointed. Everyone would be, well, expect Ryan and Sharpay. They got their parts, as they wanted. Okay I lied, the twins would be disappointed, they had to kiss each other in the play.

"I totally forgot about the play." Gabriella remembered.

"I know. I wonder how long we been out here."

"Well Sharpay got what she wanted, as usual."

"Not really…"

"What do you mean?"

"They have to kiss each other."

Gabriella couldn't help but laugh.

"I totally forgot about that part."

Troy gave Gabriella a curious look.

"…okay I didn't." she confessed.

"Let's go, this is something we can't miss."

They quickly ran, hand in hand to the auditorium. When they arrived there, they saw Sharpay and Ryan on stage. They seat hopped until they were in the second to front row. Gabriella and Troy both took out their camera. They needed a picture of this to post around the school.

Then it happened, the kiss between the Evans twins.

There was some "AWW's" from the ones who didn't know them.

"Ew's" from the ones that did.

"GROSS" from the immature kids in the audience.

But, there was hysterical laughing. Laughing until tears came out of her eyes.

Gabriella couldn't hold in.

"OH IT'S JUST ACTING." Sharpay roared.

The play stopped. All eyes were set on Gabriella and Troy.

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So that's it. I already have ideas for chapter two. Are they going to get yelled at? Kicked out? Not be able to perform in the next 2 nights shows? What is the school going to say?

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