No One's POV.

"Hi Troy!" Gabriella yelled out to her boyfriend.

"Hey babe." Troy took her into a hug and swung her around. He set her down and gave her a gentle kiss. "What's going on?"

"Nothing just checking on you." She poked his shoulder playfully. "You ready for tonight?" Troy gave her a questioning look. "You know, the musical. Hello? Arnold and Minnie, TwinkleTowne. That thing that you and I have been rehearsing for the past month?"

Troy smiled at her. "I was so joking. I knew what you were talking about. And yeah, I'm totally psyched."

"Troy, no one says psyched anymore." Gabriella teased.

"Well, sorry, miss vocabulary. Would you prefer some word like zealous or evangelical? I don't even know what they mean."

"Yeah either would work. I got to get to class." She leaned towards him, gave him a quick kiss, and ran off to her next class. Troy walked away going over all his lines for the big TwinkleTowne event. He wanted the musical to go perfectly, with no mistakes. Since he was otherwise preoccupied, Troy was late for class and landed himself in detention. He couldn't go. They had a quick rehearsal then. Troy needed to skip the detention even if it meant even more trouble. He needed to make sure he was ready.

Rehearsal

"Ok, everyone. Lets go from Arnold and Minnie's last song til the end. I think we need a little more practice with the effects there." Ms. Darbus ordered. Troy's face lit up and so did Gabi's. This was their favorite scene. The last song, romantic obviously finished with a deep kiss. The two have them have come a long way in the time they have been practicing. The first time they tried the last scene, lets just say it was a nightmare. The music started and they sang in perfect harmony. It was the best ending they'd ever had. "Bravo! That's the best I've seen! Do it JUST like that for the show tonight." Ms. Darbus clapped her hands feverishly.

Troy and Gabriella smiled at each other. By now, they weren't ashamed of kissing on stage in front of a bunch of people. Gabriella didn't even blush. "That was awesome you guys!" Sharpay ran up and gave Gabi a big hug. "You guys are going to be great tonight."

"I so agree." Ryan called from some place behind the curtain.

"Thanks guys." Troy put his arm on Gabriella's shoulder.

"Yeah," Gabi said, "But we couldn't have done it with out your help. If you guys hadn't rehearsed with us we would have never come this far."

"Definitely." Troy agreed.

"Thanks!" Sharpay flipped her hair.

"Ok, that's enough chatting. Go back to where ever you're supposed to be." Ms. Darbus interrupted. The group scattered away from one anther. Ryan and Sharpay left to go to the computer lab. Gabriella went to go tutor some of the senior math students even though she's only a sophomore. And Troy left for detention. He walked down the hall worried about what the detention supervisor might say.

"Troy Bolton?" The fat man behind the desk asked.

"Yeah."

"Your late."

"I know that." Troy smirked.

"Who gave you this detention?" The fat man asked.

"Mr. Stevens." Troy answered. The man behind the desk scribbled something onto a piece of paper and folded it in half.

"Go to Mr. Stevens and give him this. See what he says."

"Okay." Troy left to find Mr. Stevens. He expected to find him in the library, but instead found him in the middle of the hallway talking to Troy's dad. Troy walked up to them and was relieved to hear them talking about the basketball team's record and not him.

"Aren't you supposed to be in detention?" Mr. Stevens said when he noticed Troy standing behind him.

"Yes."

"Then why are you here?" Troy thrust the note into Mr. Stevens's face. He quickly read it and then pulled Troy away from his dad.

"This will cost you all of next week's free periods. Maybe that will teach you a lesson." Mr. Steven's six foot four inch frame towered above Troy.

"Okay."

"Is that all you can say? Aren't you sorry for yourself? Are you going to fight back like all the other kids?"

"No." Troy answered simply.

"Okay then. I guess we'll see you after school then."

"Umm, that's a problem. You see, I play a lead roll in the school's musical and it's tonight. I can't stay after for detention." Troy retorted.

"Yes you can. You see the good thing about taking a drama class your senior year is that you can stop kids who are lying to you in situations like this. In drama I learned that for the lead rolls there are these things called understudies. They play the part instead of you incase you cant make the show. Which is exactly what you're doing." Troy's heart sunk. The thought of Ryan having to kiss Gabi at the end just got him mad.

"I'm sorry Mr. Stevens. You're going to have to schedule it for another night."

"Ok, how about the next month? Everyday after school. Does that sound good?" he smiled.

"I guess so." Troy looked away.

"Now go away before I change my mind and make it for the rest of the year!" Mr. Stevens turned and went back to the conversation with Troy's dad. Troy went off to find Gabriella. He figured that the seniors would be happy to skip the rest of tutoring for today. On his way up the stairs the lunch bell rang. It was later than he had thought.

Troy grabbed his lunch and headed to his usual table of about a month. He waited for Gabi, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, Zeke, Jason and Kelsi to join him. Kelsi was the first to come.

"Hey Troy." She smiled.

"Hi Kelsi, how was your day?" Troy had never seen her this smiley before.

"Oh nothing special. It's just that tonight's the night of the musical and my mom is coming from New York to watch. She said she was very excited to see my composition."

"That's great Kels." Troy smiled. Kelsi's mom and dad divorced when Kelsi was twelve. Her mom was an alcoholic. She went to rehab though and got a little better. She's told Kelsi time and time again that she would come for her birthday or some other event, but so far she's only managed to make it to Kelsi's 16th birthday. Troy really hoped that she'd make it to this one. Zeke joined the twosome at the table.

"Hi guys. I baked some cookies for the table today. Everyone has to eat one for good luck tonight." He pulled a bag of chocolate chip cookies out from his bag.

"Thanks Zeke." Kelsi said. She took a cookie and set it on her tray.

"Thanks Zeke." Ryan and Sharpay said in unison as they each grabbed their cookies. Neither Troy nor Kelsi had seen them coming.

"You're welcome babe." Zeke said to Shar.

"Thank you Zeke." Gabriella came up from behind him and grabbed a cookie. "Mmm, they're delicious."

Next was Chad and Taylor. They both came about ten seconds later and took there cookies. The gang chatted about nothing really for a little while.

"There are two cookies left. Who wants them?" Zeke asked once everyone was finished with there food.

"I'll have one!" Jason said.

"Me too!" Gabi called the last one.

"How could you eat that much, Gabi? You're lucky you don't blow up like a balloon." Sharpay teased. Gabi pretended like she didn't hear her and sank her teeth into the yummy cookie.

The lunch bell rang and the gang went there next classes. "Meet me after school, by the swings." Troy said to Gabriella once everyone had left.

"Okay. I'll be there." Gabi winked and hurried off to the bathroom. Maybe Sharpay was right. Maybe she had eaten way to much. Maybe she was going to blow up like a balloon. Maybe she already was a blown up balloon. Gabi thrust her fingers down her throat and up came her entire lunch. Is it that easy? She thought.

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