Chapter 5: The dance:
"Wow. This place is crowded." Ashley said as we entered down stairs.
"Ok. I need everyone to crouch down!" Jennifer yelled. Then me, Ashley, Monique, Zac, Corbin, and Chris crouched down in the corner. Zac covered my head. That made me feel so safe! Then luckily the tornado didn't go through the hotel. Then when we heard the tornado tear through the resteraunt next door me and Ashley screamed. Then we heard babies crying and everyone screaming. That made me think of Stella, and how she reacted in that tornado we were in. She was only 3 years old. She didn't quite know what was going on, but yet she was still scared to death. I mean she still doesn't quite know what's going on when we have a really bad storm and we have to go into the lowest level. The I heard Ashley scream again. I really hope Stella's dealing with my mom being in the hospital alright. I really need to get down there and see how she's doing. Oh well, just another month. Then all of a sudden something, I have no clue what it was hit me hard in the head.
"Nessa!" Zac yelled. "Vanessa are you alright?"
"Yeah. I'm fine. I just...Whoa." I said. All of a sudden the room just started spinning.
"Ness?" Ashley asked worried.
"I'm ok. Just the rooms really spinning." I said. "OK. Not any more."
"You have scar. It's not too big though." Zac said.
"Oh. Is it noticeable?" I asked. I don't wanna have a huge scar while shooting the movie.
"No. It's being covered by your hair." Zac said. Then me and Ashley screamed at the shock a loud crack of thunder.
"Chris I'm scared!" Ashley yelled.
"It's ok. I'm gonna protect you." Chris said holding Ashley tight. Then Zac held me even tighter. After 10 minutes of storming we finally got up and went back to our rooms. Everyone came into our room.
"Is she alright?" Lucas asked.
"I don't know. Vanessa?" Zac asked.
"Yeah I'm alright. It's just a scar. And a terrible head ache." I said sitting down. "But I'll be alright."
"Ok. Well I'm just gonna stay here with her Corbin. You can go back without me." Zac explained.
"Ok. Later guys." Corbin said going back to his room.
"Bye." Monique said.
"Well I'm exhausted. So I'll see you later." Lucas said then left.
"Yeah. I'll see you later Ash." Chris said.
"Bye." Ashley said.
"I'm just gonna lay down." I said laying down. Zac laid next to me. And I fell asleep. Then finally about an hour later the power went back on so Ashley turned on the tv.
"Oh. TRL! I remember when we went on there. It was so much fun!" Ashley said.
"Yeah, it was." Zac said as the music video for "Promiscuous" came on.
"I love this song!" Monique said. Then I woke up.
"How long was I asleep?" I asked.
"For about an hour." Zac said.
"Oh. Well I'm going back to sleep. Oh I love this song!" I said ignoring my tiredness.
3 days later. The day of the dance.
"Ok. I hope to see you all at the dance tonight. And I hope to see you all maybe with dates and dressed appropriatly." Kenny explained. Me and Zac smiled at each other. "Rules! These are the rules. Rule number 1: Any inappropriate dancing, and you will be kicked out of the party. Rule number 2: There will be no hooking up at the party. If you do you will again be kicked out of the party. Rule number 3: Any vandalisam done at the dance, and you will not only be kicked out of the party, but you will be fired from the movie permanantly. And I don't think any of you want that to happen."
"No way." I said.
"Now. This is just a little twist I thought of. I am going to have each and everyone of the characters that have singing parts sing a song for everyone just to get an idea of how your doing in that department." Kenny explained. "Now. Those people are Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, and Lucas Grabeel."
"Zac Efron. Will you mind going first for us today?" Kenny asked.
"Sure." Zac said.
"Ok. Zac is going to be singing "So Sick" bye Ne-yo. Go ahead Zac." Kenny explained.
"Ok." Zac grabbed the lyrics from Kenny and sang the song. Then it was my turn.
"Now. Vanessa Anne Hudgens will be singing "No One" by Aly and AJ." Kenny said handing me the lyrics. Kenny is picking the songs we sing.
I started singing. Then I got to the chorus.
And you ask Your self...
Who do I wanna be
Do I wanna throw
With a cane
And invent a whole new me
And I tell myself...
No one...
Don't wanna be
No one
but me...
Zac's POV:
Wow. Vanessa is so beautiful! I love her so much. I just don't know how to tell her. I've been giving her hints but I don't think she's gotten them. She has such a beutiful voice. I remember the first time I met her...
Flashback...
"Hi. I'm Vanessa Anne Hudgens." Vanessa said.
"I'm Zac Efron." I said.
"Hi. So who's part are you trying out for?" Vanessa asked.
"I'm trying out for Troy Bolton's part." I explained.
"Really? I'm trying out for the part of Gabriella." Vanessa explained.
"Really? Cool." I said. At that time I knew I really liked her.
"Well hopefully we get those parts." Vanessa said.
"Yeah." I said.
End of flashback...
We are movin' through the crowd...
Vanessa's POV:
Oh. Finally I'm done. I haven't sang in front of all these people before. Besides in the movie, but this was reality. Everyone clapped. Then I went back and sat down next to Zac.
"That was great!" Zac said.
"Thanks." I said.
"Ok. Ashley Tisdale!" Kenny called out.
Later that night.
"Ok. I'm ready!" I said coming out with my dress on.
"You look beutiful!" Monique said.
"I know right." I said imitating Monique. But she didn't get it.
"Well are you ready?" Ashley asked.
"I said I was didn't I?" I said.
"Let's go." Monique said. Then we met the guys in the lobby.
"Hey Zac." I said giving him a quick hug.
"Hey. Wow. You look beutiful!" Zac said amazed.
"Thanks. You look very handsome." I said.
"Well..." Zac said. Then we went out into the vans and left. The dance was at a ball room at a different hotel. After 20 minutes of riding we were finally there. It was so awesome in there!
"So Vanessa. Do you wanna dance?" Troy asked.
"Sure Zac." I said. Then he pulled me onto the floor.
"So what do you think of the dance so far?" Zac asked.
"Zac we just got here." I said.
"Hey I'm just trying to make converstation." Zac explained.
"I know. I'm just joking. I think it's so awesome." I said.
"Yeah. It's perfect. I'm here in the perfect week, in the middle of shooting High School Musical 2. And I'm here with the perfect girl." Zac said. Then we leaned into kiss but then Corbin stopped the moment.
"Hey you guys. Chris and Ashley are together now." Corbin said. Just as usual. We can always count on Corbin to break up the perfect moment in the movie and in reality.
"Well that's good." I said.
"Yeah." Zac said laughing a little.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing." Zac said.
"Well I hope Chris and Ashley work out." I said.
"Yeah." Zac added.
"Ok Zac I'm just gonna come out and say it..." I think I'm gonna tell him how I feel. "I...In the year that we had off before we had to come back and shoot this sequel did you date anyone?"
I lied. I guess I don't have the guts.
"The truth?" Zac asked.
"The truth." I said.
"I didn't date anyone. But I guess I did know this girl on the net that really became close to me." Zac explained.
"Really? Who?" I asked.
"Well actually it was just like a chatt room and her username was Musicalgirl411." Zac explained. No way! I that's my username on a chatt room!
"Really? You know I talked to this guy on a chatt room over the break and we became close too. His username was Actorboy14." I explained hoping that was him.
"What? No way! That's my user name! Wait a minute. You're musicalgirl411?" Zac asked.
"You're Actorboy14?" I asked.
"Yeah." Zac said surprised.
"Wow. I guess we talked to each other over the break more than we thought." I said.
"Yeah." Zac said smiling.
"Well that's sweet. I guess then I'll be talking to you after the movie is shot. And maybe if there isn't another movie after this one we can get together again." I explained.
"Yeah." Zac said. Then we just kind of stared into each other's eyes.
"So Ashley. Do you think you wanna go out tomorrow?" Chris asked.
"Sure. Where?" Ashley asked.
"Oh I don't know. Like a movie or something?" Chris asked.
"Sure Chris." Ashley said then gave him a quick peck on the cheek.
"You guys are so cute together." Monique said.
"Thanks." Ashley and Chris both said.
"So are Vanessa and Zac. I can tell they both love each other." Corbin said.
"You know we should come up with a plan to get them together." Ashley suggested.
"Yeah!" Monique said.
"Good idea Ash." Chris said.
"I'm in." Corbin said.
"Ok. This is what I was thinking. I was thinking that I'll go and get Vanessa and one of you guys can go and get Zac. Then we are going to hide Zac in like the closet in one of our rooms. And then I'm going to talk to Vanessa about how she really feels about Zac. And trust me. She loves him." Ashley said.
"Well if she said she loves him why don't we just tell Zac that?" Chris asked.
"Because this is more fun." Ashley said.
"Right." Chris said.
"So if Ashley ends up staying in Chris's room tonight do you wanna have a movie night in my room?" I asked.
"Sure." Zac said smiling.
"And I'm sure Monique will end up staying in your room with Corbin." I said.
"Yeah." Zac said.
"Yeah. So um how's Dylan?" I asked Zac.
A/N: Ok for people who don't know, Dylan is Zac Efron's brother.
"He's good. He's kind of mad at me for always being gone." Zac explained. "But he's cool about too."
"Yeah. Stella had a really hard time letting me go when I had to leave. I heard her talking to her friend about how I'm always gone and now that I'm gonna be gone for a year. So I had to talk to her, she was yelling but then I sat her down and made her understand. So now she's pretty cool about it." I explained.
"Yeah. Well your her sister and she loves you. I guess she's just not used to it yet." Zac said.
"Yeah." I said. "So are you still coming to LA with me in April?"
"Yep." Zac said. "I wanna see Stella, and your mom especially. I hope she's ok."
"Yeah. My dad said she might die." I said sadly.
"That's just too sad." Zac said.
"Yeah. I wonder how Stella's taking it." I said.
"Yeah. How old is she again?" I asked.
"She's 5." I said.
A/N: Just remember what I said. I said that in this story I'm making Stella younger than she really is.
"Yeah. Well I hope she's ok." Zac said.
"Yeah." I said. Then me and Zac started to stare into each others eyes again.