It had been a few weeks into kindergarten now. All the children were coloring printed out pictures. At their table Sharpay was working on a pink and orange spotted squirrel, Troy was busy coloring the grass blue, Chad was adding non included basketballs, and Ryan was making his picture as practical as possible: green grass, yellow sun, blue sky, gray squirrel, and absolutely NO basketballs.
The teacher was over at the door talking to a woman. After a while, the woman left and the teacher turned around to the class. "Class this is Gabriella Montez." She gestured to a meek little girl standing behind her legs, "She is a new student and I know all of you will be nice to her right?" She led Gabriella over to Sharpay, Troy, and Chad's table. "Gabi you can sit here." "Aw yuck!" Sharpay cried, "I don't wanna sit with the new girl! She…" "Sharpay!" The teacher cut her off, "That will be quite enough! Gabi don't worry all the children are going to be very nice to you…right Sharpay?" She gave her a meaningful look. Sharpay crossed her arms and turned away to go back to her coloring.
Gabriella fidgeted in her seat for a minute. After nobody really paid any attention to her she said, "Hi, I'm Gabi." "We know that dummy the teacher just 'nounced it to the whole entire class!" Sharpay replied. Troy looked up, "Don't worry about Sharpay. She won't be so bad after a while. She kinda grows on you." Gabriella smiled. She tried to patch things up with Sharpay. "I have a little Shar-pei at home." She offered. Sharpay's eyes tripled in size. "You have a little me at home?" She asked in complete awe. "No I have A Shar-pei at home. She's a wrinkly little dog." Sharpay sprung from her seat. "I AM NOT A WRINKLY DOG!!!" she screamed. The teacher groaned, "Sharpay please sit down. I can't handle one of your outbreaks every time you get upset." Sharpay pointed an accusing finger at Gabi. "Gabriella called me a wrinkly dog." She tattled. Gabriella stood up. She looked ready to cry. "No! I said I have a Shar-pei that is a wrinkly dog. Her name's Daisy. A Shar-pei is also a bread dog." Sharpay looked at Gabi skeptically, "You have a dog made out of bread?" she asked in a tone that said she didn't believe her. "No, a bread is a type of dog. Our dog is a Shar-pei. You don't look like her at all."
Sharpay sat down and smoothed her skirt. Gabriella looked sheepish as she sat, "I'm sorry." She said sincerely. "I don't think you look like a dog. You're very pretty." Sharpay smiled, "I know it." She informed Gabi. Sharpay went back to her coloring but Gabriella sat there, clueless of what to do. Sharpay glanced over at her. "Oh for Pete's sake." She groaned handing Gabriella a coloring sheet. "Who's Pete?" Gabriella asked puzzled. "It's a egg-spression." Sharpay explained. "Oh." Sharpay reached over into Troy's crayon box and pulled out a blue and a red. She handed them to Gabi. "Use these." She said. Gabi smiled, "That's all right I have my own box." She pulled out a 120 count box of Crayola's from her book bag. "Whoa!" Sharpay said greedily grabbing a bright pink, a dark purple, and a light blue from the box. "Neat box of crayons!" Troy shouted.
"Everyone's welcome to use them." Gabriella said. Sharpay, Troy, and Chad helped themselves. Ryan shook his head, "Not me." He said, "All I need is a simple red, blue, and yellow and I'm set for life." Gabriella nodded, "You only like primary colors." "Huh?" all the others said in unison. "It's the first three colors." Gabriella informed, "They create all the other colors. You know like blue and yellow make green. Red and yellow make orange. Those are secondary colors." The children listened with their mouths open as Gabriella rambled on. "Whoa." Sharpay looked solemnly and sincerely at Gabriella, "You just blew my mind." She said wide eyed. Gabriella smiled brightly. Sharpay grinned back, "You can be my new best friend okay?" "Sure!!" Gabriella said eagerly. "Aw but last week you said I was your best friend." Troy complained. "Well Troy that was before Gabriella came so now you just have to be my second best friend." "Aw man!" Troy said. Sharpay smiled, "Look on the bright side Troy. Gabriella and me are just friends. You get to marry me." "Ugh." Troy said, obviously unhappy to that decision, "You can't make me say I do."
Sharpay stood up in her chair, "Attention everyone!" She called out. "Sharpay sit down!" the teacher hissed. Sharpay continued, "I would just like to letcha know that Gabriella is my new best friend. Plus she has a big box of crayons and knows smart words." Sharpay curtsied and sat down. The teacher came over, "Sharpay it is very kind of you to be friends with Gabriella but I am tired of speaking with you about speaking out in class without permission. This is your last warning." The teacher threatened. Sharpay huffed and sat down in her seat. "Sorry." Gabi whispered.