Chapter Two

Home room ended quickly and Troy gave Gabriella a quick kiss before him and Chad and the rest of the basket ball players headed toward the gym. When Gabriella went to leave Darbus called her back into the class room.

"Gabriella you are still fairly new here and so you know what it's like. I want you to show Eric around and help him get familiar with the school. I also want you to bring him to your and Troy's rehearsal, he was in the plays in his previous school so I told him due to his move we would find a role for him in our play." Darbus said.

Gabriella looked over at Eric. She couldn't help but start comparing him to Troy. Eric was much more built then Troy and his hair was darker and way shorter. She couldn't help but feel a little bit attacked to him but her mind quickly went back to Troy and the new song Kelsi had written for them.

"Sure I can do that." Gabriella said. "What is you schedule like?"

As they headed out of home room he pulled his schedule out of his book bag and handed to Gabriella who looked over it and found it amazing that they had everyone of the same classes.

"Well this will be easy, all you have to do is follow me around today seeing we have the same classes." Gabriella said heading toward science class.

"Don't tell me you are into sciences and math?" Eric asked amazed.

"Well at my previous schools I was known as the Freaky Math Girl, so yeah I guess you can say that I like Math and Science. Just last week our school's decathlon team won." Gabriella said proudly.

"Congratulations. I'm sure though that you are the brains behind the team." Eric said.

Gabriella smiled and blushed. "It wasn't just me, there was a whole team there."

"I'm sure you are the brains." Eric said.

Gabriella not wanting to keep the focus on her switch the conversation towards him.

"So where are you from?"

"From New York, my dad got transferred down here." Eric said.

"Well here's our class. Better get in before we are late." Gabriella said.

While in class Gabriella introduced Eric to Taylor and Sharpay. They both looked completely smitten by him, even Sharpay appeared to have a crush on him. After class they headed to the theater to meet up with Troy and Kelsi. But hearing that Eric would now be joining the Drama club under the assistance of Mrs. Darbus, Sharpay felt obligated to accompany them, along now with Ryan.