A/N: Sorry for the late chapter! Next one to come soon!

Shane's POV

I looked at Mitchie, and our eyes met. I smiled at her, and a grin appeared on her face. I stood up and headed over to her.

"Hey," I said softly, for some reason speaking louder didn't seem to fit the situation.

She smiled sweetly "Hey. What you did, that was really sweet." she smiled. "Well, I mean not for Tess, I mean now she is pissed, but for me, it was sweet. You'd really rather be my friend instead of dating her?" she asked.

I grinned "Of course Mitchie, you're so much better than her. She just only thinks about herself, everything in her mind is about her. I didn't want to be in a relationship like that. Plus your sweet, caring, think of other people, and always try to make their day even if you're not having the best day. I'd rather you in my life instead of her. I can live without her, with no problem. Now without you in my life..." I smiled, "that would be hard, we have become good friends."

Mitchie grinned "Thank you Shane, you have no idea how much that means to me. your a very sweet guy," she giggled.

"Thank you" I chuckled. "So can I sit with you and Caitlyn?"

"Of course! Come on!" she grabbed my hand and pulled me over to her table after she got some lunch.

We sat down and it was actually so much better and so much fun to sit there than it was to sit with Tess and her little followers. They threw food, like crackers and tomatoes, at each other, they would laugh at some really random thing, like Jason noticing a rainbow, and Mitchie would look at me the way Tess would never look at me, with real friendship.

Mitchie's POV

Can you believe it? Shane is like the sweetest guy ever! He chose me over Tess! ME over TESS! Never in my life would I have ever thought that would happen. If you ever asked me if I thought it would, I would laugh at you and say you have lost your mind. But here I am, Shane sitting next to me during lunch and he chose me over Tess. Could life get anymore better?

I smiled to myself as I looked at Caitlyn, my best friend, and Shane, a very good friend who I think today I have become closer with.

The bell rang for class and I hugged the group goodbye, minus Shane because we had History together. Not relationship history, but like, Greek Gods and the Roman Empire history.

We made our way down to Mr. Gorecki's room laughing and joking with each other. People were hi-fiving Shane saying words of encouragement. I think this made Shane have an even bigger ego.

When we got to the classroom we sat at our normal spots and class went on as usual. In fact, not one of my afternoon teacher said anything, and I know they were all in the cafeteria at lunch.

After school was done, I went to my locker and started to pack up my books and I grabbed my script and music book for the musical. As I shut my locker, arms grabbed me and picked me up.

"PUT ME DOWN! I SWEAR I KNOW TAI KWON DO! I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU!" I screamed.

"Mitchie, relax! It's just me!" A muffled voice said.

"Oh, sorry Nate! I forgot that you could pick me up!"

"It's okay. You really scared me when you started screaming though."

"I do have the lungs of a singer!" I winked at him. "So are you looking-"

"What's wrong? Are you okay Mitchie?" Shane shouted while running towards me.

"I'm perfectly fine Shane."

"Oh. I thought I heard you screaming."

"You did. Nate surprised me, and I got freaked out. But it's all good now!"

It was now time for rehearsal and we are all sitting in the auditorium waiting for Mrs. Randle to say something.

"Alright everyone is here! Good, good! So please quiet down!" Mrs. Randle said.

We all stopped talking and paid attention to Mrs. Randle.

"Alright! So an important announcement, we are changing the play! Instead of "Rent" it is going to be "High School Musical"!" she said.

Everyone looked at her confused and started to ask why.

"The school board would not allow us to do "Rent". They did at first, but re-thinking it they completely changed their minds, but it is okay! "High School Musical" involves dancing, singing and is really fun! So I'm going to read off who you all are!

"Gabriella Montez is played by Mitchie Torres! Troy Bolton is played by Shane Gray! Sharpay Evans, Tess Tyler. Ryan Evans, Jason White. Chad Danforth, the guy next to Shane, Nate Black. Taylor Mckessey, the girl sitting next to Mitchie, uh, Caitlyn Gellar. Kelsey, Rachel Hartwood. Everyone else, back up" After Mrs. Randle said that I turned to Shane grinning.

"Still lead roles." I giggled.

Shane chuckled "And we play love interest, excited?" he smirked.

I hit his arm playfully. "I'm not even going to answer that!" we laughed.

"I'm only joking around with you," he smiled.

"Yeah, sure you are Shane." I giggled.

"Okay, fine, but still, you know your excited to play my love interest, you just dont want to admit it, but I know you secretly are." He smirked once again and winked.

"And our best friends are acting as our best friends!"

"Maybe it was good that I met you. You know, football star meets the theater girl." He said, pointing to himself and then me. (A/N: haha! Title!)

"Yea, maybe it was." I smiled. Before I knew it, we were leaning in and…

A/N: ! Cliffy! Do they kiss? You will have to wait and find out! And someone please tell ImABeliber that Starbucks is better than Dunkin Doughnuts!