Chapter 2- A New School

"You'll love East High." Gabriella told Samantha as they drove their way to East High the next day.

"I'm sure I will." Sam said smiling. Gabrielle turned and grinned at her.

"Do I look ok?" Sam asked nervously as they drove.

"You look fine Sammy. In fact, you look great. I'm sure a lot of guy's heads will turn when you walk by." Gabriella said giving Samantha a reassuring smile.

Sam was wearing a jean mini skirt and a orange tank top. Over the tank top was a white button up shirt, open, with the sleeves rolled up. She wore a pair of flip flops the same color as the orange tank top. She wore her hair down. Gabriella was wearing a pair of designer jeans, a short sleeve, pink, collard shirt and a pair of Birkenstocks. Her hair was half up and half down.

"I'm trusting you." Sam said rubbing her hands together nervously. Gabriella laughed as she drove. Ten minutes later they had pulled up to East High and they were at the front of the building.

"I want you to meet some of my friends." Gabriella said, just as Taylor and Chad came up.

"Hey guys!" Gabriella greeted them

"Hey Gabi." Taylor said smiling.

"Sup Gabi?" Chad said.

"So guys I want you to meet my cousin, Sam." Samantha stepped forward.

"Hi Sam. I'm Taylor." Taylor said smiling. Chad grinned when he saw her.

"I'm Chad."

"Nice to meet you guys." Sam said smiling. Soon Chad, Taylor, Sam, and Gabriella were all talking and Sam immediately liked Chad and Taylor. While they were talking Sharpay and Ryan came up to the four.

"Hey guys!" Gabriella greeted them.

"Hey Gabi." Sharpay said smiling. "You're Gabi's cousin right?" Sharpay asked turning to Sam. Sam nodded and smiled. " Well, I'm Sharpay." She said smiling.

"And I'm Ryan." Ryan put in, grinning the same grin Chad had grinned.

"Nice to meet you." Sam said. "So Sharpay Gabi's told me you like to sing?"

"Yeah! I love it!" Sharpay said smiling and soon Sharpay and Sam were caught up in their conversation. No sooner did Jason, Zeke, and Kelsi show up and introductions were made.

Finally, Troy came and he headed over to the group of friends. "Hey guys!" He said grinning. He made his way to Gabriella and wrapped his arm around her waist.

"Troy, this is my cousin Sam." Gabriella said.

"Hi Sam. As Gabi said, I'm Troy." He said smiling.

"Nice to meet you." Sam said smiling. She really did like the group of friends already. All the guys were thinking along the same lines of, 'Wow she's really hot.' and the girls were thinking about the same lines as, 'She seems really nice.'

"So lets go on ahead and head inside." Chad said. The group nodded and they headed into the building. Sharpay, Kelsi and Taylor fell in step with Sam and Gabrielle as the guys walked ahead.

"So, where did you go to school before?" Sharpay asked.

"Oh well I went to a school in Florida." Sam told them.

"Really? That's far away." Taylor put in. "Why did you come here?"

"Well there were some problems going on at school and at home and mom thought it'd be good to get away from it all. So Gabi's mom said I could come and live with them and come to East High." Sam said.

"That's cool." Kelsi said.

"Yeah. We'll I'm glad you're here now." Sharpay said smiling.

"I am too." Taylor also said smiling.

"I have a feeling I'm going to like it here." Sam said.

"I think you will too." Kelsi said smiling. "Everyone's nice here."

"So Sam, what do you like to do?" Chad asked as the guys joined the girls in the gym a few minutes later. They were waiting for their schedules to be handed out.

"Well I love to play sports! I play soccer and basketball and I'd like to go out for track." Sam told him.

"Sweet. We all play basketball." Troy said motioning to Zeke, Jason, and Chad.

"That's cool. I love it but my true sport is soccer." Sam said smiling.

"That's cool." Zeke said.

"Alright! Everyone quite!" A voice boomed through the gym. The friends looked up and found their principle in the middle of the gym floor. "Now when I call out your name I need you to go to the teacher that has your schedule. The teachers are in grade order and alphabetical order!"

Soon everyone had their schedules and school had finally started!

Hope you guys liked chapter 2! Tell me what you think!

Crissy