Disclaimer: I don't own High School Musical or its characters.

Author's Note: This isn't a very good chapter… it's a rather cheap way of explaining who did it, but I'm just not really meant to write good resolutions to mysteries… but there will probably only be one or two more chapters to this… So please review!

High School Drama
Based on 'High School Musical'
By Fiyero Oberon
Chapter Thirteen
The Point of No Return

Bernadette seemed to be more suited for the theatre life than even Sharpay was. She slept in the dressing room on a pink velvet pillow every night until it was time for performance, when Sharpay would come in and powder-puff the dog's little white face, clip on the long red leash, and lead the dog over to Gabriella.

And Sharpay could hardly contain the flush of wicked glee that washed over her as she caught sight of Gabriella, sitting on a stool, sobbing. Darbus, Troy, Taylor, and a host of Munchkins were fussing over her, patting her back and telling her it will be all right. Darbus was biting her lip in a worried manner, struggling to push off the Munchkins so she could talk to Gabriella.

"Go get ready!" Darbus finally snapped and the Munchkins, suddenly frightened at the horrible shade of purplish-red that now curtained Darbus' face, scattered. "Come, Gabriella, come to the dressing room."

Darbus lead Gabriella to the girl's dressing room and Taylor followed – Troy left in the opposite direction, headed for the boy's dressing room. Sharpay, eager to know what was going on, picked up Bernadette, clamped her hand around the dog's muzzle to keep her quiet, and followed Darbus, Taylor, and Gabriella.

The drama teacher and the two girls hardly noticed as Sharpay slipped into the dressing room behind them – they were too distracted by Gabriella. Sharpay's brow furrowed in confusion and she squinted, trying to get a look at why Gabriella was crying…

What looked like bright red Fruit Punch was soaking the blue-and-white checked dress that Gabriella was carrying – above the large stain was "B. Ben Aaron J. H. Runs Slow" written in purple permanent marker, the same words that had appeared on the Munchkinland set.

"Gabriella, it'll be OK," Taylor was saying, rubbing Gabriella's back.

"No it won't!" Gabriella sobbed. "It's almost to the point of being dangerous out there – you saw what nearly happened to Alex last night!"

Final dress rehearsal had been a complete, total, and utter disaster. Alexandra Headey, as Glinda, had to run across the stage during a blackout because she had left her wand on the wrong side and needed it right away… A rope must have come loose or something like that because the Scarecrow's Field backdrop came pummeling to the ground and the pipe nearly hit Alex. Fortunately Ryan shouted a warning and she managed to dive out of the way, though the vast skirt of the pink Glinda dress was not in good condition.

Suddenly Troy burst into the dressing room.

"Bolton!" Darbus shrieked, whirling around. "This is a ladies' changing room, not a changing room for boys. Get out, go on, shoo!"

But Troy wasn't budging. His mouth was open, his eyes were wide, and he held out the pale blue shirt of his Scarecrow costume. "Look," he manages to say, though he sounds strangled. "B. Ben Aaron J. H. Runs Slow" was scrawled across the front of the shirt in green permanent marker. "I don't get it."

Suddenly a light went on in Sharpay's head.

"You'd think after all that, she'd at least be grateful…"

"I so admire your work, you were absolutely brilliant in last year's fall musical!"

"Let me see that shirt," Sharpay said and snatched the Scarecrow shirt from Troy's hands. Laying it out on the makeup counter, Sharpay grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and copied the words from the shirt onto the paper. She quickly began crossing out letters and rewriting them beneath the place where she had written until the top of the paper read:

B. on J. H. Rs ow

And the bottom read:

Luna Barnes

Troy, who was looking over her shoulder, said, "But what about the left over letters?"

"Maybe she added them to throw us off," Gabriella suggested.

"No," Sharpay said thoughtfully, "I don't think so."

She quickly began searching for a name out of the remaining letters.

John
Jon
Ron
Rob
Job
Row
Rosh
Bosh
Wosh
Josh

"Josh!" Sharpay shrieked and quickly began crossing off letters again until underneath the name Luna Barnes, she had another name written:

Josh Brown

"Josh Brown and Luna Barnes are sabotaging the show!" Sharpay announced. "Come on, let's go find them!"

Darbus, Sharpay, Taylor, Troy, and Gabriella ran from the room in pursuit of Luna and Josh…

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