Chemicals React Chapter 2: Chemicals React, a high school musical fanfic

Chapter One: Chemicals React

Elaine was walking down the hallway, her heart still broken from the last breakup. She remembered everything, every last painful word, once again her tears hid behind her. She didn't want to seem weak once more, instead, why not take on an icier attitude? She doesn't want to show her real persona any more, it only brought her misery and anger. Then she saw him. He was everything she ever wanted, not ashamed of wearing pink, she liked that in a guy.

Gabriella was new and fresh out of a relationship with her old boyfriend. She bumped into East High's golden boy, Troy Bolton, and he smiled and said, "Let me help you out there." She was about to refuse help, she didn't want another relationship, but looking into his blue eyes froze her on the spot, and she couldn't help but wonder who was his girlfriend. She nodded, and he handed her back her books, and said, "I'm Troy. Troy Bolton." She couldn't think of anything other than, "Hi." "What's your name? I haven't seen you around," he said.

You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm walkin' on broken glass
Like my world's spinnin' in slow motion
And you're movin' too fast

"Gabriella," she said to him, "Gabriella Montez." Troy smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, Miss Montez. What class do you have, maybe I can take you there?" At the same time, Elaine had bumped into the new kid, and she said frostily, "Watch it." He looked at her, and said, "I'm sorry Elaine." How did he know her? Wait, wasn't he an Evans? "Well, Evans, don't do it again," she said. He nodded and walked off to his sister, the ice princess, and second most popular girl and school.

Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react
The chemicals react

"I'm going to Drama class with someone called Darbus," Gabriella said. "Great, I'll walk you. I have that class too," he said.

Ryan didn't seem as strong as his sister, and that's what made Elaine feel terrible, she hated preying on the weak. It didn't make her feel stronger; it made her feel stupid and pathetic. Yet at the same time, she was too strong for anyone in this school, so no one dared to take her on a challenge. She didn't have anyone who knew her for her real self. Amber tapped her on the shoulder and said, "You feeling alright?"

Elaine looked at her and nodded. She looked at the time and said, "We better go to Darbus's room, you know how she loves handing out detentions." Amber nodded, and the rest of the team followed. Elaine rid herself of any emotion and noticed a new girl hanging around Troy Bolton. She heard Ashley say, "Looks like Bolton's hangning around with a geek." Elaine forced a laugh, and didn't say anything about it, since she usually got all A's in class, but didn't want to show it.

You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm driftin' out to the sea
Like the tide's pullin' me in deaper
Makin it hard to breath

Troy kept looking over to Gabriella, and couldn't help but wonder were she came from. She was beautiful and the only girl who made him feel a certain way. Elaine felt something while looking into Ryan's frightened eyes, but she brushed it away. After all, she had to deny this feeling, and Ashley looked at her funny but brushed off Elaine's strange actions.

Elaine heard her being called up to recite a passage from Romeo & Juliet, her favorite line by Juliet. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet." Ms. Darbus looked at her, and looked a the passage and said, "That's exactly right! But what was Juliet refering to?" Elaine said, "Romeo Montouge was her family's enmy, and his family also was against their family. She was saying any other name he went by would still refer to the same man." Ms. Darbus looked at her in shock and said, "That's correct!"

Amber looked at her like she was a freak, and said, "Where did you learn Shakespeare?"

We cannot deny how we feel inside
We cannot deny

Elaine shrugged and noticed Troy and Gabriella flirting and Gabriella looked happy. Ms. Darbus looked at the pair and said, "Detention, Mr. Bolton and Miss Montez, and next time, do not disrupt my class with PDA." Chad looked at Troy, who was turning red, and said, "No, no, that's impossible, Ms. Darbus, your honor, see, 'cause we have basketball practice and Troy..." She cut him off and said, "Ah, that will be fifteen minutes for you as well, Mr. Danforth, count 'em!" Taylor snickered and Elaine heard her say, "That could be tough for Chad, since he probably can't count that high."

"That will be fifteen minutes for you too, McKessie and Harrison. Does anyone else have any comments or questions?" Elaine rolled her eyes as Jason raised his hand and asked, "How were your holidays, Ms. Darbus." Everyone groaned at his stupidy. The bell rang, and everyone rushed out.

Elaine froze as she remembered something.

"Watch it, Evans." "I'm sorry, Ella. It won't happen again." "See to that." I gave him my famous icy glare, and he scurried off, scared. I felt stupid for picking on the weak when I hold so much power and strength and he doesn't.

Elaine shook it off, and once again, she took off. Elaine knew that Ryan and Sharpay got detention for something about cell phones and she was in detention for egging on Taylor, since she chuckled. She had to bail on cheerleading because of the detention, and she noticed Troy and Gabriella looking at the audition list, but Elaine didn't sign up, even though she thought of it. Troy was going to, apperently.

She chuckled and thought, Troy? In a musical? That was a good one, Ella. I should start writing these down. I can only imagine what Chad would say. Heh, that's funny. 'How do you expect us to be focused on a game if you're off somewhere in leotards singing Twinkle Town?' And Troy's response: 'No one said anything about leotards.' Heh, that's sound funny. She was snapped back to reality when she hit the door to Math, and she said, "Oops, my bad."

She went inside, and saw that new girl there. She took a seat next to her, and looked at the board, confused about the second equation. Something's not right about that equation, she thought to herself, and frowned, looking at her notes. Of course, she forget she didn't take notes because she was doodling over and over again 'Ryan Evans' and placing hearts around it. Of course. Stupid short attention span, she thought.

Kaleidoscope of colors
Turning hopes on fire, sun is burning
Shining down on both of us
Don't let us lose it (don't let us lose it...)

Then she heard the new girl say, "Shouldn't the second equation be sixteen over pi?" Of course, that makes sense!, Elaine thought. That was, until the teacher said, "Sixteen over pi? That's quite impossible... I stand corrected!" She started to erease it when she said to Gabriella, "Oh, and welcome aboard." Elaine looked at her, and smiled, before going back and writing in the equation.

She waited for the bell, detention was soon to come. Trust her luck Taylor happened to ask about Troy with the new girl. Elaine kind of ignored it and instead went to work on her science work. Taylor then looked at her and said, "Hey, it's something you don't see everyday! A cheerleader actually doing work." Elaine gave this I-don't-care-what-you-say-I'm-going-to-live-my-life and said in a voice that suggested she was better, "Oh, I'm sorry for trying to stay on the cheer squad. And for taking time to do my science homework. After all, it's not like I'm smart or anything and don't know anything about chemistry like when you mix hydregeon and soduim perioxide you'll get a gastromic gas that will explode when it contacts with, say, oxygen."

Taylor's mouth dropped and Gabriella said, "That's correct. It's like what happened with Hitler's ships since they couldn't afford normal fuel and instead used hydregon, which caused a massive chemical explosion." Taylor pulled Gabriella away and said, "How did she know all of that?" Gabriella shrugged and said, "Maybe she actually cares about her science grade?"

Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah

Everyone had there eyes one Elaine and she said, "I am SO out of here. In other words, Tera, I am so gone!" She grabbed her cheer bag and slung it over her shoulder like nothing happened. She stormed off before anything else could be said.

We lived
We loved
We hurt
We jumped
We're right
We're wrong
We're weak
We're strong
We lived to love

Elaine slammed her locker door shut as she went to Home Ec. She was the only one in the school who knew Zeke baked, since they took a private course. "Hey, Zeke, ready for some baking?" "You know it!" She looked through and said, "Let's try creme brulee again, I'm sure you almost have it!" Zeke looked excited and said, "I love making creme brulee!" She laughed, and then said, "You remember Ryan Evans right?" "Sharpay's twin brother?" "Yeah, he bumped into me in the halls today. But I didn't feel too upset about it. You think that means something?"

"Huh. That's funny, since I kind of was starting to like Sharpay. You think it means anything?" Elaine and Zeke told each other everything they would tell anyone else, since they never where ones to spill secrets that they were trusted with. "Possibly. You think somethings changing? Taylor did seem shocked when she found out I knew a lot about science. She was hanging around this new girl." "Same one Troy's hanging around with?" "Possibly. Get this, she knows math like the back of her hand." "Wow, she sound awesome." "I know." They pulled out the creme brulee and said, "Perfecto!"

They laughed and Elaine looked at her watch, and said, "I got to go to detention with Darbus." "Same one Troy's in?" Elaine laughed and said, "Yeah."

But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
Watch the chemicals react
And just like that
The chemicals react
(The chemicals react)

Chapter one has been edited to show more details and show something I forgot to mention. This shows a little about Zeke and Elaine's bother-sister like relationship. It's just something I had to do while I fixed the lyrics to be the same they were supposed to be.