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Heaven and Earth
Inside scoop: This is also a crossover with Halloweentown, except twisted up.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except plot, future OC Susan Porter and bf OC, Peter Harrison, and Elaine Harrison.
Ryan's View Point
I wonder who else, besides my sister, knows that I am a warlock, and not just an ordinary teen like everyone thinks at this school. I am certain that I am not alone, if only I knew where Marnie was right now. It is odd how I sense she is close, but I know she does not go to school here.
Oh great, Darbus is going on about the new "musicale" and Sharpay is so giddy, it makes me sick to my stomach. Something is not right about that new girl, I think I know her from somewhere. Hey, is that my cell? Why would grandpa call during Darbus's class? He should know Darbus is against all sorts of cellular phones, even my cell and Sharpay's.
Elaine's View Point
Who's cell phone is ringing? God, I hope it is not , GABI'S? Why is she here? Oh God, the secret that was well hidden! I hope he does not get released, but it would require Susan to be here. Thank God for that.
No One's View Point
Sharpay had pulled out her cell phone, and asked Ryan while looking at it, "Is it grandpa?" However, her luck was unfortunate, as Ryan was to preoccupied flipping it up and down to tell her about Darbus or even know who had called.
Darbus told both of the Evans twins, "Sharpay, Ryan, cell phones. And I will see you in detention." She advanced on Gabriella, and told her, "Miss Montez, we have a strict policy about cell phones, so we will get to know each other in detention. Cell phone! And welcome to East High, Miss Montez. Mr. Bolton, I see you phone is involved, so we will get to see you in detention as well!"
Elaine glanced over to Gabriella, and towards Ryan and giggled softly at his confused expression. Then Elaine heard Chad saying to Darbus, "No, no, that's not even a possibility, Ms. Darbus, your honor, see, because we have basketball practice and Troy," before Ms. Darbus cut him off.
"Ah, that will be fifteen minutes for you too, Mr. Danforth! Count them," she said. Elaine tried to hold back her laughter at the thought of Chad counting anything other than the basketball score. It was made even harder when Taylor made her wise crack about Chad's counting.
"That could be tough for Chad, since he probably can't even count that high," she whispered to no one in particular. She laughed out loud, and her sides started to hurt from trying to gasp for air the same time. However, Ms. Darbus was swift on ruining her fun as well.
"Ah, that'll be fifteen for you too, Miss McKessie! Holidays are over people! Way over. Now. Any more questions? Comments?" Darbus looked around, and saw Jason Cross's hand up. Elaine rolled her as Darbus sighed and said sharply, "Jason." Elaine prepared for something stupid.
"How where your holidays Ms. Darbus?" Elaine looked at him, along with everyone else. Elaine's eyebrow raised way up. "What?" The bell rang, and Elaine grabbed her chic new Coach purse and walked out before Gabriella could even talk to her.
Elaine's View Point
Oh, my God. I know it is Gabriella now. Montez, smart, and everything I remember. Why is she here? Uh oh, here comes Taylor act natural. "OK girls, how do you guys feel about a little warm-up?" Huh? Is she going to ask us something. I waited as I narrowed my eyes at her, part of the usual act. Truth be told, I actually kind of like her tough girl attitude and how she is not afraid to look us down.
"Oh my gosh, isn't Troy Bolton, like, the hottie super bomb?" she asked. Uh oh. More acting. I feel like I have just been shoved into Ms. Darbus's classroom again.
"Oh my gosh, so beautiful," I gasped in my act. Amber said, "I would so love to hit that!" How rude!
Gabriella's View Point
Was that Elaine? Oh well. "I guess I might not know how to speak cheerleader," I said.
"Which is why we exist in an alternate world from Troy, the basketball guy," said Taylor. I acted like it wasn't a big deal. "So would you eat lunch with us, or discuss with the cheerleaders the importance of firm nail beds?" she asked.
"My nail beds are history," I said, showing my hands. She looked at hers and giggled.
"Sister!" I guess she wasn't half that bad, but still.
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Well, all Elaine wants to do is kill Chad. She is so ticked that he thinks just because he wants to try something different than the status quo, she decided to tell the cheerleaders the secret they have been dying to hear about. Elaine smiled at the girls and said to them, "Hey, my cheerleader friends. I have to tell you something so that way I can be sure that you know everything about me. Remember Gabriella?" All the cheerleaders nodded. She took a deep breath, and said, "Before I went to Albuquerque Elementary School, I was best friends with her and another girl named Susan Porter and we were all special. We each had the ability to bend reality and shape it however we wanted. In other words, we carried magic in this locket. It's been forever since I've seen her, but I know if Susan joins us, a force we locked away might just open."
Amber laughed and said, "We've just been punk'ed, right? Because no way could you ever have cast a spell, or even have known her before. She's different!" Elaine looked totally serious, and Amber stopped laughing after she just gave her a sharp, deadly glance. "Your serious, aren't you?" said Amber with a gasp. Elaine nodded, and everyone looked at her, and gasped.
Lilac, the girl with strawberry-blonde hair, said, "You know what? I don't actually care anymore. Because if everyone is going to be breaking the status quo, then I will just come out and say it. I don't really like Troy Bolton all that much. I've been eying that Scholastic Decathlon cutie for a long time now." Elaine's eyes widen and she gasped. And then she did the oddest thing. She laughed. Laughed!
"It's okay, Lilac. To tell the truth, I don't really like Troy Bolton all that much either. I've had my eye on Ryan Evans. I just don't know why. He looks familiar, like I've seen him before, but not in school, and I can't put my finger on it!" said Elaine. Everyone looked at her wide-eyed, not knowing she had other secrets in hide too. She hide that she knew Gabriella, had magical powers, and now she knows Ryan Evans from somewhere else other than school! This was insane! No one could tell how everyone seems to know someone from somewhere else. This is too odd.
Troy was at his secret hiding place, wondering if Gabriella would show up for this. He knew she would like it. Then he saw Gabriella running up the stairwell to his hiding place and he smiled. She looked beautiful, and surprised, and he knew that he had done well. "It's like a jungle up here!" she exclaimed, and she did sound happy. This only caused him to smile wider.
"Yup, thanks to the Science Club, which means my buddies don't even know it exists," he said. He knew what she was probably thinking, and Troy was waiting for her reply to his statement.
"It's like you have the whole school wired, Troy. It seems like everyone in the school wants to be your friend," she said with a slight smile. He chuckled at that thought.
"Yeah, well, unless we lose," he said, frowning at the idea. Gabriella looked at him sympathetically.
"Well, I'm sure it's tricky being the coach's son," she said with a small smile. He shrugged. She had sat down on the bench.
"Makes me practice a little harder, I guess," he said, "But you know, everyone's going, 'Your son's the basketball guy. You must be so proud.'" He paused and said, "Sometimes I don't want to be just the basketball guy. I just want to be, a guy." He looked at her.
Gabriella said, "I understand. Before I came here, I was just the freaky math girl. It's cool coming her and being, whoever I want to be. Singing with you, I just felt like, a girl." He laughed.
"You even look like one too!" Troy exclaimed. She laughed too, and Troy sat down next to her.
"But no, I meant, just like, you know back in kindergarten, one second you don't know someone and then the next second, you're playing like you knew each other forever. Singing with you felt like that. Just like kindergarten," she said. They looked away from each other, not knowing what to say next, then back to each other, like they where going to kiss, but then the stupid bell rung. "Ah," they both said. Troy grabbed her hand, and helped her hurry downstairs.
Chad and Taylor had different plans for Troy and Gabriella, however, and they both decided to discuss it in the science lab, with Sharpay and Ryan standing outside the doorway.
Taylor's View Point
I noticed Chad standing right beside me, looking so cute while he looked worried. I acted unaffected, though, saying, all agitated-like, "What do you want?" He simply looked at me.
"We need to talk. Troy and Gabriella auditioned for this musical thing without any word from us or you guys, right?" he said, and I just nodded. She didn't say anything about wanting to audition for the school winter musical to me, so I'm guessing she didn't tell anyone else either. "Well, I have a plan that might just make her want to forget about the callbacks with Troy, and it's going to need you guys to pull it together. See, if I could make Troy say some things about not wanting to audition with Gabriella, such as, the championship game, which we need him to focus on, then maybe you guys could show it to her on, say, a one way webcam feed," he said, starting to get pumped. "And then we all get what we want! So, are you in," he said, his eyes wide with joy. Chad's enthusiasm to help me just made my heart melt.
"Sure," I said, acting calm, but probably my heart was racing. Why do I suddenly feel like I like him so much? Like, as in a boyfriend? It's probably just a phase, so if I ignore it, it will probably go away. He sort of smiled, making my heart feel like a lump of joy, and making it melt at the same time, and I just ignored it all.
Chad said, "Cool. Thanks." I made this sort of 'awesome' motion to my friends. But then Alexandra had to bring up something I had been dreading to hear for the whole conversation.
"You like him, don't you Taylor. You sort of look way too happy that a jock was willing to help you. You normally would have said, 'Buzz off, afro man.' or something like that," she said. She had me! Stay calm was my plan, and act like I had no idea what she was taking about.
"Alexandra, you know we would never get Gabriella to believe anything about Troy we tell her, because she knows I disapprove of all jocks. The only way was to work with the jocks to get her to believe me," I said. Oh great, whatever happened to acting like I had know idea what she is talking about? Because now Alexandra is rolling her eyes like whatever, and I'm sure she doesn't believe me now.
"Sure. And one day pigs will fly," she said.
Sharpay's View Point, same time
I noticed Chad was talking to those science geeks in their territory, so I stopped Ryan, because otherwise he would have been to preoccupied with something stupid. "Ryan. Look. What do you think those science geeks and Chad are talking about in there?" I asked, knowing full well what they are talking about.
"It looks like they are trying to figure out how to beat us out. Look, the jocks almost rule the school, but if they get Troy into the musical, then they've conquered the entire student body by then," he said, smarter then I thought he was. And I knew a little something else too.
"And if those science geeks get Troy hooked-up with Gabriella, the Scholastic Decathlon goes from drool to cool," I said. I let out a gasp. "Ryan, we have to save our show from people who don't know the difference between a Tony Award and a Tony Hawk," I said, congratulating myself on my awesome whatever the term was for what I just said. I started to walk off, before I notice Ryan wasn't following me, and grabbed him to go along with my plan.
Sharpay and Ryan were with Ms. Darbus, totally clueless that Kelsi was overhearing the whole thing. "Ms. Darbus, if you want to protect your show, you have to move the callback time to 3:30 next Friday," said Sharpay. Ryan nodded his head, though he disliked this whole underhanded thing Sharpay was doing. He sighed and went along with his part, even though the words were sour in his mouth.
"Yeah, and Troy is probably only using this to boost his popularity while making a mockery out of you show! You really should change the time to his game and Gabriella's Scholastic Decathlon competition," Ryan said to Darbus. He kicked himself for doing this, he knew Gabriella way to well, even though Sharpay didn't know he knew her. She only knew that he was able to do magic, not that there where three witches he should protect. He could lose his powers for doing this, because it's harder to do magic on a broken heart. And the fate might just be compromised.
"I don't want to hear anything more about Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez," said Ms. Darbus, with Kelsi look over her piano at them. Darbus turned to face the Evans twins, and said, "Now, if you think changing the callback date might just save the show, then, I might actually agree with you." Ryan was shocked as she walked away. He never thought she would actually agree to this!
"Is that a yes," said Ryan, worried. Sharpay started to answer, but said, "Hum!" And walked away singing the song they were going to do. Ryan sighed aloud, and walked off with her. Kelsi just placed her papers back into place.
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Chad knew that they had screwed up when Gabriella and Troy wouldn't sit with their friends, so the team needed a team meeting, and Chad called it himself. Chad said to the team, without Troy, "You know, I think we really screwed up. Gabriella's not talking to Troy, Troy's playing cruddy, and we aren't acting at all like a team, and we should be ashamed of ourselves! We really messed up!" Everyone nodded in agreement.
Jason said, "You know, I think he really liked Gabriella. And we messed thing up for him! What kind of friends are we?" Everyone nodded in agreement. Zeke looked at his cookies, and had an idea.
"We should let Troy know what we did. And a good way to soften the blow would be to give him some of my cookies! Then he would be able to explain to Gabriella what we did and redeem himself," Zeke said. Everyone looked at him, and Chad's stomach rumbled at the thought of chocolate chip cookies. Everyone then looked at Chad. Chad rolled his eyes, and decided then that Zeke's idea had merit.
"You're right Zeke, let's help Troy out!" Chad was ready to do anything to help his best friend out, because Troy was really down in the dumps, and it was all because of his so-called best friend, Chad.
They went to his secret hiding place that they saw him go to.
Troy was upset, and he knew perfectly well why. After telling his friends off, all of a sudden, Gabriella won't speak to him. He couldn't understand why Gabriella wouldn't talk to him. He sighed, and starting to eat his lunch when his friends appeared. Troy sighed, and Chad said, "Hey, Troy. We just had another team meeting." Why did they have another team meeting without him? Troy guessed he must have looked confused, because Chad explained, "We had a team meeting about how we haven't been acting like a team. I mean, us, not you."
"Yeah," said Zeke, "If singing is something you want to do, we should be boosting you up, not tearing you down." And Chad knew what was next to say, because if he didn't understand, then he probably would wonder why they were telling him this.
"And we just want you to know we're going to be there for you when you sing," he said. He then gave a light punch and said, "Even if you turn out to be the worst singer in the world." And Jason interjected, because he didn't want Troy to get the wrong idea.
"Which, we don't know yet, because we haven't actually heard you sing," Jason finished. Troy sighed.
"And you're not going to hear me sing. Because Gabriella won't even talk to me. And I don't know why," he said. The whole team exchanged nervous glances. They had gotten to the part they didn't want to discuss. And Chad told him.
"We know," said Chad, a little nervous. Zeke handed him the cookies he baked.
"Here. I baked these fresh this morning. You may want to try one before we tell you the rest," said Zeke.
"Do you think I should tell Troy about what I heard," Gabriella said to Elaine. She knew know it was Elaine. They where in the Drama Club room, during Free Period. Elaine sighed.
"Not just yet. I have a feeling Troy will find out on his own," said Elaine. Elaine said, "You know Gabs, it's hard having to keep up this act. Everyone thinks I have to be snotty, just because I don't' fulfill the blonde part of the head cheerleader requirement, and I don't really like being a snobby. Because, it's nice being friends with you. I hope that people come to their senses soon," she said.
Gabriella said, "Me too, Ella. We better get going, otherwise people will get suspicious." They both laughed.
"By the way, the cheerleaders know about our ability to bend reality and that we knew each other in kindergarten. They won't tell, and besides, who would believe them if they did? After all, no one wants to think the head cheerleader can cast a spell, or even knows the new girl," she said as the left.
A/N I'm going to have a cliffhanger here. You guys know what happens, but not in my plotline!
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