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"Good morning all!" Ms. Darbus sang, her voice traveling through her homeroom filled with sleepy looking students, all except Sharpay who always looked her best. Of course it was her duty to do so since she was constantly in the public eye. She had to be an example for all of the underclassmen who admired her. How bad she felt for them when she would leave East High for the very last time. They could always check out their local movie theatres and see her acting abilities spanned across the silver screen. She let out a dreamy sigh and meditated on accepting her first Oscar.

"It has been brought to my attention," Ms. Darbus continued, "that the peer voting of Prom King and Queen is underway!"

Sharpay jumped back into reality as the title "Prom Queen" grabbed her attention.

"Today you will decide on whom you will nominate. The top picks will be listed outside of the office and voted upon during the Prom. Now, choose wisely, for this is not just a popularity contest…"

As Ms. Darbus continued on about the importance of wise decisions, Sharpay leaned over to Ryan. "You nominate me, I'll nominate you," she whispered discreetly.

Ryan nodded. "What's in it for me?"

Sharpay was appalled. "You get the satisfaction of doing something nice for your sister. Remember you owe me!"

"Shar!" Ryan interrupted her before she bit his head off. "I was kidding. I'll nominate you."

She took a deep breath and glanced around the classroom. "Now, it's all a matter of convincing everyone else." She suddenly started to regret the way she had treated her classmates over the previous years. Yea, at times she was pretty mean, but she had changed a little since then. Just last year, she unselfishly gave up her Star Dazzle Award to Ryan. Didn't she deserve some good deed points for that?

"Well you could always bribe them," Ryan joked as Ms. Darbus handed him a small ballot.

Sharpay thought about that for a moment. It wasn't such a bad idea.

Ryan looked up at her once he didn't get a response and knew that she was actually considering the idea. "We really need to work on this 'joke' thing." He picked up a pen and signed in Sharpay's name, stopping at the second line. "Who should I put for Prom King?"

"Yourself," she said curtly. Who else would he put?

"What's the point of everyone putting in their own names?" he asked, totally at a loss of the concept. "We'd get nowhere."

Sharpay sighed at her clueless brother. He could be so dubious at times. "Everyone's not going to vote for themselves, Ry," she explained. "They're too... modest. That's why we should!" After signing Ryan's name, she signed her own in elaborate, huge letters.

"Whatever." Ryan, still uncertain, shrugged and signed his name.

"Taylor McKenzie." Chad read aloud as he wrote Taylor's name down on his slip.

"Don't even think about it," Taylor whispered firmly.

Chad smirked and held up his paper. "Too late."

Taylor smirked back and folded her paper in half. She had nominated Chad as prom king, of course, and Gabriella as prom queen. Being on the prom court was never a big deal for her. Honestly, she couldn't care less if she made it or not. It would kind of be awesome to go to the prom with a prom king that is if Chad were chosen. The worse scenario with that situation could be if Mina won prom queen. So in order to prevent that from happening, she would do everything in her might to make sure that Gabriella won instead. After all, she really did deserve it. Because of her, the whole school was a different place. It was united and the cliques that were created were now diminished. Brainiacs could talk to basketball players. She smirked at Chad. And even date them.

Ms. Darbus had left the room for reasons she had not known since she wasn't paying attention and looking over her classmate's shoulders she could see that some of them were still undecided. This was the perfect opportunity to promote Gabriella.

"Excuse me!" She held up her hand and everyone looked her way. "I know that this is all a secret ballot," she admitted nervously, "but I would like to put in my suggestion, if I may." The class seemed to be attentive so she continued. "Our prom queen should be someone who has made a big impact on our school and someone who's wildcat spirit shines contagiously." Taking a deep breath, she turned to Gabriella who widened her eyes. "I nominate Gabriella Montez."

In every direction, heads were nodding in agreement and pens started to move about the small piece of paper. Gabriella glanced at the ballots around the room getting more nervous every time she spotted her name. She looked over at Troy for help, who smirked and held up his own paper with her name written on it.

"And," Gabriella chimed in. "I nominate Troy Bolton. As prom king."

Troy's grin faded away, "Wait!"

Suddenly his protests where muffled by the chanting of his and Gabriella's name. Gabriella and Troy turned to Taylor who held up two thumbs with a cheery smile while Chad rooted them on with the rest of the class.

Sharpay and Ryan, who had been watching the whole thing looked at each other.

Ryan gave a weak smile. "So much for that."

Sharpay continued to watch the chanting class infuriated. This was not happening. Again!

Mina strolled through hallway with one thing on her mind: becoming prom queen. How convenient it would be for the queen of the halls to be crowned in front of her peers, in the arms of her handsome king. Talk about happily ever after. But, unfortunately, in order for her fairy tale to come true she had to round up as many serfs- classmates- as she could to vote for her. She knew it wasn't going to be an easy task seeing as though Sharpay also had a heads up being the schools top thespian. And then there was Gabriella Montez, the new girl. To Sharpay's horror, she stole her precious showcase from her. Thankfully enough, Gabriella didn't try out for the cheerleading squad. Not like she was any match for Mina. She just knew that Gabriella had a way with people. Manipulating them with her too good to be true smile. Anyway, whoever it was that she was up against, she had to make sure that she was in the lead.

Taking out her cell she dialed a number and held the phone up to her ear. She had to get in touch with her secret technician nerds, so that they could come up with all of the content for her campaign. Just then a hand swooped down and grabbed her phone. Upon retaliation, Mina spun around and watched her phone get dropped into a tin can.

"Ms. Lovett!" Mina sighed and crossed her arms at the sight of Ms. Darbus, the crazy drama teacher. "How wonderful to see you again. I assume that you recall where our detention is held."

"Yes, Ms. Darbus!" she answered as sincerely as she could pull off.

Ms. Darbus nodded and went on her way, leaving Mina to scold. Great! She had detention with Ms. Darbus. This year was off to a great start…