Chapter 11 – We're all in this together
Troy and Gabriella and the gang walked into school the next day and saw Kelsi standing there looking at the drama notice board. Troy looked at the board and said ''call back the same day as the game''.
Gabriella looked at Troy upset and said ''and the scholastic decathlon''. Taylor looked at Troy and Gabriella and said ''why would they do that''. Chad looked at Troy and said ''I smell a rat named Darbus''. Kelsi looked at Chad and said ''actually, its two rats, neither of them named Darbus''.
Chad looked down at Kelsi and said ''do you know something about this…small person''. Kelsi looked at all the people and sighed and said ''Mrs Darbus may think she protecting the show, but Ryan and Sharpay are only concerned with protecting themselves''.
Chad looked at Troy angry and shouted ''do you know what I'm gonna do to them two overgrown show dogs''. Troy looked at Chad and said ''nothing. We're gonna do nothing to them, expect sing maybe, okay this is only going to work if we all work together…so whose in''.
Troy put out his hand and everyone else put there's on top of his.
Troy walked into school the next day and saw Gabriella and gave her a cake and she told Troy to walk over to the board and she showed him a maths question and turned it around to show a pictured of a wildcat and Gabriella throw some soft basketballs at him.
The whole of East High was waiting for the championship game and everyone was getting excited. The drama kids were sitting down waiting for the call-backs to start. Mrs Darbus was giving the young actors a pep talk.
Sharpay and Ryan were on stage acting like big celebrities. Mrs Darbus called out Troy and Gabriella name but they didn't turn, so Mrs Darbus finished the call-backs and Kelsi ran off upset.
Troy was in his basketball game when the score panel started crashing; Troy smiled and ran out the court. Gabriella and Taylor were sitting down in the scholastic decathlon when the chemical bottle starting overflowing and Gabriella ran out the room. The call-backs were over when Troy and Gabriella arrived.
Gabriella ran over to Mrs Darbus and said ''please''. Mrs Darbus looked at her and said ''rules, are rules''. Lots of people came running in and Sharpay and Ryan wanted to take to the stage again.
Mrs Darbus said ''it's just too late and we haven't got a pianist''. Ryan looked at Gabriella and Troy and said ''that's showbiz''. Troy looked at Mrs Darbus and said ''we'll sing with a piano''.
Kelsi came running in and said ''oh no you won't, Pianist here''. Sharpay walked over to Kelsi and said in a treating voice ''you really don't want to do that''. Kelsi looked at Sharpay and said ''oh yes, I really do''. Sharpay looked at Kelsi shocked and Mrs Darbus looked at them and said ''that's showbiz''.
Kelsi started to play music and Gabriella looked at the all the people looking at her and she started to get stage fright and walked off. Troy chased her and Gabriella said ''I can't do this, Troy, not with everyone starring at me''.
Troy looked at Gabriella and said ''hey, hey, look at me, right at me, like the first time we sang together, remember''. Gabriella nodded at Troy. Troy said ''Like Kindergarten'' and Troy and Gabriella started to sing.
Mr Bolton came around the corner and saw Troy singing and smiled and thought to himself that his son is a good singer and why did he encourage him to stop.
Troy and Gabriella went back to their team games and won. Gabriella ran into the gym and saw Troy and ran over to him and went to kiss him but Chad put the ball between them. Chad walked over to Taylor and said ''so you're coming with me to the after party, right''.
Taylor smiled and said ''as in, like a date''. Chad smiled and said ''must be your lucky day''. Sharpay walked over to Gabriella and said ''well congratulations, I guess I am going to be the understudy in case you can't make one of the show, so break a leg''.
Gabriella looked at Sharpay confused and Sharpay said ''in theatre that means good luck''. Sharpay smiled and walked off.
Two separate people from two separate worlds can find something in common and break free from their social groups and changed everything people knew and make people say ''we're all in this together''.