When Taylor got to school the next Monday morning, she was frustrated. Chad had been ignoring her calls all weekend. She knew he had to help clear up the woods on Sunday afternoon, but she couldn't understand why he hadn't called her after he got home. She also hadn't had a chance to see him during the lessons in the morning, as coach Bolton had declared the morning a long practise session for the whole basketball team. She approached the cafeteria, hoping to see Chad. Sighing when she didn't, she went over to the first player from the basketball team she could say.
"Hey, you." She said, sitting opposite him.
"Oh..hi Taylor." He shrugged. "Wanna do my homework?" He grinned. Taylor raised an eyebrow at him.
"No, basketball boy. Where's Chad?"
"Oh, I dunno." He shrugged. "Don't you know?"
"If I knew I wouldn't be asking you." Taylor rolled her eyes. "How was the ghost hunt? Or whatever it was.."
"Yeah, it was good!" He laughed. "Bit of tent hopping, was fun."
"No real witches? What a surprise.." She murmured. "And tent hopping, why?"
"Well yknow…Zeke slept in Carrie's tent. Jenna slept in Chad's. That sort of thing. Carrie's was totally G-rated though." He grinned, dumbly. Taylor froze.
"…And Chad's?" She asked, shaking.
"Well…I wasn't in there." He laughs. "But there were noises and yknow…since we didn't find any ghosts or witches or anything--"
"OUT of my way!" Snapped Taylor, storming over to the table where Jenna was sitting with sitting, gossiping with the other cheerleaders. "YOU had better watch out!" She snapped, throwing her coke over Jenna. She let out a scream.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing!" She said, standing up.
"You SLUT! Coming all this way just to steal someone's boyfriend!" She pushed Jenna hard, and the whole cafeteria fell silent. "You think it makes you a bigger person?"
"Save it for someone who cares, honey." Said Jenna, rolling her eyes. Chad entered the cafeteria, and noticing the silence, and Taylor standing in front of Jenna, he rushed over, panicking.
"Um…hey Tay…honey. I haven't seen you all day. Let's go somewhere to catch up…"
"Stay AWAY from me!" She screamed, slapping her hands at him. "Is it true?! Did you sleep with this…thing?!"
"No of course not! We were just…talking!"
"Just…talking. Right. Well Chad, I'm 'just' dumping you." There were tears in her eyes. "Stay away from me, you primeval, primitive jerk!" She screamed, storming outside. Jenna was about to go over to Chad, when Harry stormed over, grabbing her arm and pulling her away from the crowd in the cafeteria.

Meanwhile, Kelsi and Sam had managed to hide all the drama that was going on in the cafeteria, by working on the play in one of the drama classrooms.
"…Wow." Smiled Kelsi, reading through the things that Sam and Ryan had already been working on. "This is so good. You really did it all today?"
"Yeah we had a free period together this morning." Explained Sam, taking the papers and putting them back into a folder. "Some of the scenes aren't finished, but I've highlighted where we're going to rewrite scenes."
"I don't think you need it!" Grinned Kelsi. "I'll get to writing some love songs to fit in with it."
"Love songs? Already?" Asked Sam, confused.
"Yeah! Well…the romance is coming across in the story already." Said Kelsi.
"We were just writing random things, we hadn't come up with a theme yet."
"Oh, sorry. It just…looks like it's going that way…"
"…Oh." Muttered Sam. "Well….write what songs you think would fit in…I'm sure they'll be good anyway." Kelsi nodded, smiling, and went over to the piano.

"What!" Snapped Jenna, as Harry shut the door on the classroom he'd just pushed Jenna into.
"Well I just wanted to say congratulations! Normally you do SUCH a good job at ruining your life, and mine, but we've only been here a week, and you've managed to ruin Taylor's! That's a record!" Jenna rolled her eyes.
"What part of get lost don't you understand, Harry? He enjoyed it!"
"He's a teenage boy! And a scum bag! Do you think you're special or something because of what you do?! You're NOTHING, Jenna! You're like a hurricane of misery! All you do is mess everything up for everyone!"
"It's none of your business, Harry!" She shouted back.
"It is my business, you're my sister! And one day you're going to want friends, and you'll be stuck! Because as it stands, everyone in two continents hate you now!"
"You don't know anything, Harry. I just like getting what I want. I wasn't the only one who did this! Chad's just as much to blame!" Harry through his hands up in the air.
"What don't you understand! You're a devious, spiteful, nasty piece of work! Everybody hates you, and if they haven't met you, they will once they do! You're pretty much just a free hooker!" Harry felt his face stinging as Jenna slapped him hard.
"Stop ACTING LIKE A PARENT, HARRY! BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT!"
"Someone has to! Dad doesn't care, and mum'd be disgusted if she saw what you'd become!" Jenna went very quiet, then glared at him.
"Don't you DARE! You know nothing about me and mum!"
"I know she'd hate you!"
"I loved her more than you ever did! I sat by her hospital bed for HOURS after the accident! You just went off with Sam!"
"I was too upset to stay there!"
"Well it doesn't matter, because she loved me more than she loved you anyway!" Harry went very quiet this time, and Jenna realised she'd gone too far. "N-no, Harry…"
"No. Fuck you, Jenna." He snapped. "Don't…ever talk to me about her or…or anything every again."
"Harry!" He shook his head, and pushed past her, rushing to the auditorium to find Sam.

Jenna stood there for a while, trying to calm down. She didn't mean any of what she'd said. It'd just came out before she could even think about what she was saying. She rubbed her eyes to stop herself from crying. She didn't want anyone to see she was weak. As the bell rang for the next lesson, she quickly left the classroom, and searched the hallway for someone in her class.
"Hey." She stopped as she saw Zeke approaching her. "Heard that the twenty dollars you gave me really hel--" Jenna put a finger on his lips, and pulled him into the locker room.
"You like me, right?" She said, leaning into him. Zeke found himself pinned against a locker.
"Well…you're pretty y--"
"That's good enough for me." She said, kissing him, and pulling him into the showers.

Harry sat next to Sam in class, and Sam could see he was visibly depressed.
"Are you okay?" She asked, tapping him on the arm with her pencil. He looked over, and shook his head. Sam saw his eyes were red and swollen, and he'd obviously been crying.
"Jenna…said some pretty harsh stuff." He sniffed, and explained everything that had been said about his and Jenna's mum. At the end of the story, Sam rubbed his back.
"It's not true, any of it. You know that." She said. "Your mum loved you both so much, and you're right, she'd hate what Jenna's turned into…"
"…Yeah." Harry sniffed. "I know but…it still hurt."
"Look, come round after school. We can--"
"Sam!" Sam looked up as Sharpay tapped her on the shoulder, passing her a hall pass. "Kelsi's wrote me a fabulous solo for the show! Wanna come and listen?"
"Oh well…I don't know--"
"I've checked with our teacher, it's fine! Come on!" She said, putting Sam's things in her back. Sam shook her head.
"Sharpay, I should stay with--"
"No Sam, it's fine." Sighed Harry. "You go, I'll be fine." Sam looked torn, but Sharpay pulled her up.
"See! He says it's fine! Come on!" Sighing, Sam followed Sharpay out of the classroom.

"I just can't believe he did it!" Said Gabriella, putting her school work down on Taylor's bed for a minute. It was early evening, and Gabriella and Taylor had gone round to do some homework, as Taylor didn't want to be left alone to think about Chad.
"He's a pig, of course he's capable of it." Snapped Taylor, researching a subject on the internet. After not finding the answer she was looking for, she sighed annoyed. "Okay, I give up, I am officially stupid."
"You're not stupid." Comforted Gabriella. "Maybe Martha'll know the answer? She'll probably still be online."
"Yeah, you're right." Sighed Taylor, signing into the school's messaging service. It was installed a few years ago to enable students in the same year to be able to talk to each other better during out of school hours, and get help with homework if it was needed. "Nope, no Martha. But…hello, what's this?" Gabriella looked up, and saw Taylor changing her account name.
"Tay, what are you doing?"
"Shh." She said to Gabriella, successfully changing her name. "This is payback."

Monique: Hi, you're new at our school, aren't you?
Jenna: Oh, hi. Not really sure if I'm using this right. I was just looking to see who was online. I need to talk to someone.
Monique: About what? Are you confused about the homework?
Jenna: No, but I did something stupid. You're not friends with Taylor, are you?
Monique: McKessie? No, I don't really talk to anyone at school. I get bullied a lot. I don't have any friends.
Jenna: Me either. I've pretty much alienated anyone I know.
Monique: Why? You can tell me, I won't tell anyone.
Jenna: I got into a fight with my brother. Then I slept with someone from the team to make myself feel better.
Monique: The basketball team?
Jenna: Yeah. Zeke.
Monique: I don't know who that is, but I won't tell anyone, I promise. If you ever need to talk to someone, I'm here.
Jenna: Thanks, you really seem nice. I'd better be going, I'll talk to you later.

As Taylor signed off too, Gabriella frowned.
"You shouldn't be doing that."
"What? I was just talking to her?"
"Yeah but…What if she tells you something really private." Taylor shrugged.
"Then she shouldn't have slept with my boyfriend. Just wait until the whole school hears about her and Zeke…"

When Sam got into school the next day, she looked down at her schedule, suddenly in a panic that she didn't remember where her next class was.
"I think you'll find, you have another free period." Sam blushed when she saw Ryan fold up her timetable and hand it back to her.
"Thanks." She smiled. "Do you have one too?"
"Yeah. Every Monday and Tuesday. Just like you. You wanna work on the show some more?"
"Sure." She said. "I heard Kelsi's solo for Sharpay…"
"Yeah, Sharpay was talking about it all night. It fits in with the story too." Said looked down at his feet, awkwardly. "Kelsi said the dialogues sounding good too."
"Yeah.." Sam was about to say something about it being romantic according to Kelsi, but Harry rushed up, annoyed.
"She's gone and done it again!" He said, angrily.
"Who?" Ryan looked confused. Harry ignored him.
"Jenna slept with another basketball player! It's all around the school! I swear I'm going to kill her!" Sam looked at Ryan, and smiled, apologetically.
"Let me sort this out first, and I'll meet you backstage, okay?" Ryan nodded, and left.

As Jenna got into school, she saw everyone whispering between themselves, and she heard her name mentioned occasionally. Confused, she went over to the cheerleaders.
"I'm so not speaking to you right now." Said Carrie.
"Why? What did I do?"
"You didn't tell us about Zeke!" She giggled, hugging Jenna. "You're really doing it, I can't believe it! Who'll it be next." Jenna sighed, relieved they weren't really angry at her.
"I don't know.." She muttered, walking over to Zeke when she saw him. "Why did you tell people!"
"Oh Jenna…Hi. I don't know? I don't remember who I told but….people just seem to know! Cool huh?" Jenna rolled her eyes, and stormed off.

Sam rushed into the backstage area of the auditorium, just as Ryan was about to leave.
"Ryan! Hey…Sorry about that. He was really upset and angry. I managed to calm him down."
"Hey, it's okay." He smiled. "You're here now, that's all that matters. You got your notes?"
"Yeah." She said, waving the papers at him. "I was thinking…the final scene of the first act…I don't like it?"
"Thanks, I wrote that." He laughed, sticking his tongue out, knowing they wrote it together. "What's wrong with it?"
"I just think they need more closure." She shrugged, moving the paper closer to him. "I mean they do the whole 'do you like me' thing and then the scene just…ends. That's not how it'd end. They'd at least kiss or something."
"You sure? I don't know if some of these lines sound right…"
"I know." Sighed Sam, head in her hands. "It's so hard to know how it'll come out on stage."
"Well, why don't we read through the scene? See how it sounds?" Sam looked at him, and swallowed hard, nodding.
"Sure." She said, running her finger up the page to find the first line. "…Why won't you talk to me?" She read.
"Because I don't know what to say to you." He continued, loudly and clearly.
"You don't have to avoid me. You could just tell me that."
"I can't look at you, I had to avoid you!"
"Why, what's wrong with me? Have I done something?"
"No it's…" Ryan took a long pause. "No, forget it."
"No!" Sam grabbed his arm, as it said in the stage directions. "Tell me!"
"No because you'd never like a guy like me!"
"That's not true."
"It is…I'm no good for you."
"You don't get to decide that for me!" Sam jumped to her feet. "I pick who I want!"
"Then who do you want!" Ryan jumped up as well.
"You know I want you!"
"Then prove it!"
"Fine!" Shouted Sam, pretending to rip a bracelet off her wrist. "Is that better?!"
"You don't understand!"
"Then help me understand…" Ryan looked down at the script, and had to agree with Sam. It shouldn't just end like that. Before both of them knew what was happening, they had stepped closer to each other, and were kissing. Neither pulled back for a while, before Ryan pulled away, dazed.
"….Uhh…" Muttered Sam, looking at her feet, and blushing more than ever before. "…Scene worked."
"Y-yeah…" Ryan said, taking a deep breath. "Um..Sam--"
"I've gotta go." She said suddenly, looking back at Ryan for a second, before running out of the auditorium.