Chapter 1
"Hush little baby don't say a word, momma's gonna buy you a mockingbird." Gabriella sings to two week old Lorenzo. She in sitting in her and Troy's bedroom on their bed smiling. He gives his mother a toothless smile and his hands go for her hair. Troy was currently doing pre-season training at U of A for basketball since he made the team, Gabriella wasn't going to school. She planned to take over her parents business when they retired. She knew everything there is too know about the business, she knew a lot about business and hotel management. So her parents weren't forcing her to get a degree. They just wanted her to raise Lorenzo, marry Troy, and hopefully have a happily ever after.
"And if that mockingbird won't sing, momma's gonna buy you a...is it a golden ring or is it diamond ring?" she sings confused. Lorenzo smiles bigger and pulls Gabriella's hair. "Ow!" she shrieks. "Renzo. That hurt!" Lorenzo starts laughing and he closes his eyes about to fall asleep.
"I'm home." Troy says. He walks into the room and sees Gabriella holding a smiling now awake Lorenzo.
"Hey babe. How was training?" she asks him.
"It was pretty good actually." he smiles and kisses her taking Lorenzo out of his arms. Lorenzo looks at his dad and pokes his eyes. "Ow!" Lorenzo laughs. Gabriella gets up and looks at him.
"He keeps pulling my hair. It's hurts a lot. I'm suprised he hasn't pulled out any strands yet." she says looking at her scalp in the mirror.
"Your hair looks fine, just like...you." Troy says looking at her attire. She was just wearing his white t-shirt which went to her thighs over her bra and underwear. "Why are you dressed like that around our son?"
"Troy he's two weeks old, he doesn't know that I'm barely wearing clothes."
"Are you gonna dress like when he gets older."
"Of course not." Gabriella says and shakes her head. "I need to take a shower." she
"Okay." he says and smiles. Gabriella's phone starts ringing and she picks it up before going to the bathroom.
Lorenzo James Bolton. What a beautiful baby boy. I wonder Gabriella, how much of his life are you going to be alive to see?
-Annie
Gabriella drops her phone on the floor.
"Oh my gosh." she whispers.
"What is it, what's wrong?" Troy asks her. He sets Lorenzo down on a pillow on their bed.
"S-She..." he voice fades out and she tears up. "I'm going to take a shower." she says and walks out. Troy looks at Lorenzo seeing him sleeping. He bends down and picks up Gabriella's phone but sees that she picked it up and took it to the bathroom with her. He sighs.
...
Sharpay was on stage speaking her lines for the director.
"And while you say that, I need you to get closer and be more sad and less happy. You're Antigone. She's crazy."
"Um, I guess." Sharpay shrugs.
"She wanted to die!" he yells. "Take 5, no actually take all night because rehearsal is over!"
"This guy is nuts." the boy playing the chorus says.
"But his plays are always amazing." Sharpay shrugs.
"He's a crazy ass director. I bet he smokes pot." the boy playing Haemon says.
"Why can't we just do something easy like Romeo and Juliet?" the chorus boy says.
"That's way to overused. How about the Notebook. I'd be in that play any day." Sharpay smirks.
"Who wouldn't, or Titanic." the girl playing Ismene says smiling dreamily.
"Why are tragedies so...tragic. Everyone dies in the end." Ismene girl says.
"I never got you guys's names." the Haemon boy speaks.
"I'm Sharpay."
"I'm Johnson." chorus boy speaks.
"I'm Katherine!" Ismene girl says smiling.
"I'm Harry." Haemon boy says. "Nice meeting you all."
"Do you guys wanna go get a bite to eat?" Sharpay asks them.
"Oh yeah sure!" they all say.
"Let's meet up at TGI!" Harry says smiling.
"I'll see you guys there!" Sharpay says smiling. She goes to her locker and opens it and something falls out. She bends down and picks it up. It was an envelope. Sharpay frowned and opened the envelope seeing a hairpin in it.
FLASHBACK Freshman Year Annie was walking beside Sharpay who was humming show tunes. "Five hundred, twenty five t-"
"Shar, please not again. I've heard that song all weekend."
"I'm playing a big important role in RENT senior year, I need to practice this."
"You're practicing for play...senior year?"
"Yes Annie." she snaps then smiles. "I'm gonna get the main part. I'm absolutely adorable who wouldn't give it to me?"
"Um, me?" a boy says and Sharpay shoots him a glare and he walks away.
"Guys are such pests." she scoffs.
"I know." Annie says. "My hair is out of control today!"
"Want me to fix it, my fellow blonde?"
"Sure, although you're technically a bru-"
"I'm blonde." Sharpay says. "Sit." Annie sits down in a chair in the cafeteria and Sharpay puts her hair in a messy but cute updo. She pulls a red sparkly butterfly clip out of her bag.
"Perfect, keep the clip. I thought it was pink when I bought it." Sharpay says. The bell rings. "I'll see you later Annie!"
"Bye Shar!" Annie says smiling. Sharpay runs off to class. END OF FLASHBACK
"How." she whispers. She hadn't seen this since the day she gave it to Annie. "This isn't happening." she shakes her head. She gets in her car and calls Gabriella.
"Hello." it was a deep voice, Troy's deep voice.
"Troy, where's Gabriella. I called for her, not for you!" Sharpay hisses anonyed.
"She sleeping right now, whatever you tell her she tells me."
"I-It's Annie."
"What?"
"Freshman year, I gave her this red glittery butterfly pin. I haven't seen it since that day b-but I found it in my locker, at the theater."
"I think, she texted Gabriella today. But I didn't get to read it because I think she deleted it."
"Why is she doing this to us!"
"We must've done something really bad to her. She wants to kill us."
"You don't think..." he voice fades out. She pulls into her driveway of her smal but very much luxury house. "You don't think Gabriella did anything to her?"
"She hates Gabriella for dating me. She hates her because I love Gabriella and not her."
"Troy, come on. There has to be more to the story." Sharpay says getting into her car.
"She would tell me, i-"
"I'll get it out of her." Sharpay says then hangs up. She starts driving then gets to TGI. She gets out of the car and sees Brenda standing by the door with Liam beside her. Sharpay gets out of the car and walks up to them.
"What are you guys doing here?" Sharpay asks them.
"Why don't you keep you blonde hair and witch nose out of other people's business." Brenda snarls. "Stop searching and just worry about yourself, can you do that?"
"I'm sorry." Sharpay says and walks away she looks back to see Brenda glaring at here. She felt like what Brenda had said about minding her business wasn't about asking about the dinner, but about something else. She shook off the feeling and saw her friends from the theater sitting at the bar laughing and talking. She walked over to them.
"Hey Sharpay!" Katherine says happily. "I saved you a seat!" she pats the seat next to her.