A/N: Yay! Two updates in one day. Awesome! And just for reference: the second part of each episode will probably always be shorter than the first part.

Disclaimer: No one said anything about leotards.--Troy Bolton

At East Middle, the seventh-grade classes were filing in to the lunch room. Beverley stood next to Hannah Lewis as she looked around for Zahiya. Catching her best friend's eye, she waved. Zahiya waved back, smiling. As Beverley watched, her friend's smile faded. Beverley glanced at Hannah, who was giving Zahiya a nasty look.

"What are you doing? She's my best friend!" Hannah rolled her eyes and shrugged.

"She's weird. If you want to hang out with me, you have to dump her. I can't be seen with someone like her. She is such a prude." Beverley gasped at Hannah's description. She glanced back at Zahiya, but she wasn't looking at the lunch line anymore.

"Zahiya is not a prude," she whispered, too scared to speak up any louder.

In art class at East High, Lilly, Emily, and Jason discussed Jake. Lilly still couldn't figure out a way to tell her parents. Emily and Jason were trying to convince her that it didn't matter how she told them, she just had to get it out.

"What if Jake finds out I told? He swore me to secrecy, too!" Emily rolled her eyes.

"Of course he's going to find out. And you mean he told you? You didn't just find out by accident?" Lilly shook her head hard.

"No! He told me because I found his razor blade. He was going to hide it before Mom and Dad saw, but I found it first. I was going to tell Mom, but he made me give it back and swore me to secrecy." Jason rolled his eyes this time, in exasperation.

"You actually had his razor blade in your hands and you still didn't tell them? Man, you can be thick sometimes." Emily gasped and smacked her brother upside the head.

"She was scared of him. She still is! But, what I want to know is, why are you scared of your brother? He's not actually going to hurt you." Lilly shrugged.

"I don't know. He just seems more intimidating than he used to." She stopped talking as the last bell rang. "There's the bell. Come on, let's go. I need to get out of here." She led the way out of the art room, Emily and Jason following close behind.

At the Bolton house, Vanessa was waiting eagerly for her brothers and sisters to come back home. As the first yellow bus pulled up at the corner and Chris got out, she bounced on the window seat.

"Chris is coming! He's coming!" she cried, jumping down and running to the door. As Chris pushed it open from the outside, she held up her hand. "Give me five!" Chris laughed and slapped her hand.

"Hey, V. Let me get a snack, then we can go hang out upstairs. Take your animals back up before someone trips on them too." She nodded and spun around, running towards the pile of stuffed animals still in the living room. Chris walked into the kitchen, almost running into Gabriella.

"How can you always get her to do what you want? I've been trying to get her to pick up her animals all day!" Chris grinned, his blue eyes flashing.

"I'm special." Gabriella laughed as she sat down at the small desk wedged into the kitchen corner and started sifting through a pile of bills. Chris pulled a cup of yogurt from the fridge and left, running up the stairs to his and Vanessa's room. She was putting all her stuffed animals back on her bed when he opened the door.

"You're here! What did you do at school today?" she cried as soon as he shut the door behind him. He laughed and sat down on the floor.

"Mostly boring stuff, like get-to-know-you worksheets. But I did learn something: one of the boys says it's dumb to like your older brothers and sisters. He says you're supposed to hate them and do mean things to them." Vanessa cocked her head.

"Really? I didn't know that…are we supposed to do mean things to Jake, Lilly, and Beverley?" Chris nodded.

"Yes. Do you have any ideas?"

The youngest Boltons talked about mean things to do to their brother and sisters until dinner. When they walked down, Chris slipped a whoopee cushion on Lilly's chair. After she sat down on it, she turned red and pulled the cushion off her chair. Chris and Vanessa shared secret looks as they tried to hold in their laughter.

A/N: There's the second part of the first episode of HSM Heaven. Hope you liked it!