Hey Everyone

Hey Everyone!! Okay so now its being a month since my last update and I am so sorry for that!!

I have actually had this chapter in my head for a while but I've had a few assignments that were kind of important (Back me up Belinda).

Okay only two dedications this chapter- Therese Lemonade and ichirukipwns (sorry if that's not the write spelling I wrote it down but my writing is like crap lol.) Both of them were really sweet in their reviews.

Anyway here's the next chapter. Kind of filler for something bigger I guess you could say.

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Part of the Family

He felt embarrassed. He felt horrified. He couldn't believe he's eyes. It was like a really bad nightmare that he wished he could wake up from.

The love of his life and his best friend? How could they do this to him? How could they do this to Taylor? He knew that Gabriella and Chad had being spending a lot of time together, but he never expected this.

"Oh my God, is that Gabbi and Chad?" Kelsi asked on behalf of Sharpay, Ryan, Zeke and Jason. Troy could only manage a nod in response, while Taylor just stood there, tears threatening to leak from her eyes.

"What in the hell are they doing?" Sharpay asked removing her eyes from staring at Chad and Gabriella to Troy and Taylor

"I have no idea." Taylor answered covering her mouth. Jason, deciding it was easier to just ask why on earth Chad and Gabriella were acting the way they were, decided to call out to them.

"Gabriella, Chad!! What the hell!"

Hearing their friend's voice Chad and Gabriella separated, going to either side of the wide hallway. Smiling slightly they nodded at each other before jumping out into the middle of the crowded hallway, accidentally pushing two freshman's into the lockers. Holding up their hands in a fake gun position, they started to 'stealthily' move down the hallway going in-between people every now and again silently communicating with each other.

Once they were about 10 meters away from their stunned friends (most people in the long corridor had moved off to the side interested in the fiasco), they immediately dropped to the ground doing several forward rolls, before smoothly jumping up in front of their friends, once again in what could be considered a Charlie's Angels position.

Taylor took one look at the duo before finally letting out the laugh she had been suppressing. This in turn triggered the rest of the group as well as some bystanders to laugh. However, Chad and Gabriella kept straight faces, slowly parting and 'inspecting' several juniors that were standing by.

"Okay, so um, what are you doing?" Zeke questioned, watching as they came back over to the group, after sending the juniors 'on their way'.

"Well you know how we all decided that we should have one goal to achieve before the end of high school?" Gabriella stopped waiting for them to nod before continuing "So we all fulfilled ours, except Chad's. So I talked to Chad about it and here we are."

"What are you suppose to be exactly?" Kelsi asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Chad answered. Everyone shook their heads no.

"Spies! We're spies!! Look at what we are wearing!" Chad dramatically sighed, gesturing to his and Gabriella's clothes. Both were clad in black zip up jumpsuits, with a belt around the middle. The belt held a home for what seemed to be a walkie-talkie, handcuffs, and a plastic gun. While Chad was wearing black work boots, Gabriella was a bit more fashionable wearing black stiletto boots. To complete the look they both had their hair tied back in a pony tail which was only just noticeable under the black beanie.

"Now if you will excuse us we have been asked to see Mr. Matsui." Gabriella and Chad nodded at the group before returning to their stealth walk along the hallways, occasionally stopping and nodding to each other to go ahead as well as saying some really weird code words, as a true spy would.

"So I'm gonna go to my locker." Troy broke the slightly awkward silence, breaking away from the group, Zeke followed alongside as his locker was next to his. Soon the rest of the group split up to head to their respective lockers.

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Taking a seat in homeroom, Troy noted the absence of his girlfriend before engaging in a conversation with Taylor about what the hell their respective others were on. They were soon joined by Kelsi and Sharpay, who had just walked into the room and Jason and Zeke who simply did not want to be left out.

"Whatever you are talking about, I'm sure it can wait till after class yes?" Ms Darbus' voice boomed into the room. Silently everyone made their way to their seats, not particularly wanting to face her wrath.

"Okay, a few announcements. Mr. Jenkins is having soccer try-outs today; anyone involved in the musicale is to come to the theater after 5th period. I would also like to add that anyone who wishes to be involved in the musicale should speak to me, and I do encourage you to do so. I remember when I was your age and working on my 30th production, yes it was a fair summer-" Ms Darbus was interrupted as a newly changed Chad walked into the room, expressing his apologies.

"Well how nice of you to join us Mr. Danforth. That will be 15 minutes of detention." She sent Chad a glare before starting up her story again, to which no one was listening.

Now slightly worried about the absence of his girlfriend, Troy quietly ripped out a piece of paper from his English book, scrippling down a quick note. Seeing Ms Darbus in a world of her own, Troy quickly threw the note onto Chad's desk, awakening him from his slight daze.

Chad looked down at the note, curiously opening it up.

What did Matsui want and where's Gabbi?

Chad leaned back and picked up one of Taylor's pens, writing down a reply before throwing it back to Troy.

He thought that we should change as we were dressed and acting in a way that isn't proper. Crazy right! He sent me out but he told Gabster to stay back so he could talk to her.

It seemed pretty serious…

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Meanwhile with Gabriella….

(This is set just after Chad left the room)

"So what did you want to talk to me about sir?" Gabriella politely asked. Mr. Matsui smiled before pulling out a folder, placing it in front of Gabriella.

"What's this?" She picked it up curiously.

"This is your acceptance to Berkley, Brown and UCLA." Mr. Matsui announced quite proudly.

"Excuse me sir? How could this be possible? Acceptant letters don't go out for months (I don't live in America so I don't know if this true!) and shouldn't they be sent to my home not to the school?" Gabriella looked skeptically at her principal.

"Well in normal circumstances that would be true but you Miss Montez caught the eyes of many college scouts through your fine academics in the past year you have been at East High s well as your old schools." He smiled at Gabriella who was still trying to figure out what exactly was going on.

"You see Ms Montez, when you first applied here, I checked over your transcripts and I must say I was beyond impressed. The level of work you were doing was amazing. So I told all of your teachers to continuing tell me how you were grading. With your astonishing SAT scores last year, I knew I should get in touch with a couple of the elite colleges."

"So for any major assignments or tests I have been posting your scores through to these colleges and to say they are impressed is a true understatement. After meeting with a few of the scouts it was decided you could very well benefit from starting college now instead of waiting 6 months like your fellow classmates." Gabriella shot up out of seat hearing this and began pacing the room.

"So you're saying I could start college right now?" He simply nodded in response.

"You would be going on an academic scholarship of course. We wouldn't expect you to pay for it." Gabriella sat down again, re-flipping through the folder.

"Do I have to accept?"

"We did discuss the matter of what you would do if you chose to stay and finish along side your classmates. What would happen is that instead of going to normal classes, the college in which you chose would have work that you would be doing if you were infact at college. So it's like you would be doing advance AP subjects. You would still choose the subjects in which you want to learn, you would still have the same assignments but you wouldn't have the professors that could help you." Mr. Matsui looked at the nervous girl in front of him.

They sat in silence for a few minutes, him letting her think a few things over. Although the silence was broken by the faint ringing of the bell. Gabriella slowly stood up, holding her beanie and the folder in her hands. Mr. Matsui stood up as well, grapping a larger folder in his hand.

"I don't need to know your answer right now, although I will need one by Friday. This is filled with information on all of the schools. I suggest that you talk to your friends, to Troy or even to some of your teachers about what you want to do. But Miss Montez keep in mind this is your future we are talking about, and I want you to really think it through." Mr. Matsui smiled sympathetically at Gabriella as she slowly made her way out of his office.

Gabriella meekly made her way down East High's corridors to her locker, thankful that class had started and that she was the only one with that period free from her group. Pulling out her spare clothes for the day, Gabriella made her way to the bathroom to change, the two folders never leaving her hands.

After changing into her normal clothes, Gabriella headed to the place where she thought best- the music room. Unlike Troy's rooftop garden, the music room held complete silence, where she could bash at the drums as hard as she could without having someone know she was even there.

Gabriella had never been so confused in her life. She still had a few questions that were yet to be answered but it was all too much to take in at one time. Gabriella knew for sure that she would be staying at East High; she just didn't know which school she would be studying under. While there were many other schools she would also like to attend the three given to her were in her top 10, generally because they are schools that are close to where Troy as well as the rest of friends wanted to go to. Her mind was screaming Berkley or Brown but her heart was telling her to go to UCLA as that meant a chance to be near Troy.

Pulling out a pen and a piece of paper, Gabriella did the only thing that she could think of; writing a pro and con list for each college.

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One period later, Gabriella had not gotten closer to an answer actually it did the complete opposite. Although Gabriella was determined not to let it bother her, she would talk to Troy about it as well as a few of her most trusted teachers, she would do further studying into each of the colleges. Getting a decision by the end of the week would be a piece of cake.

Or so she thought.

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Yer so it wasn't great but it's an update I should have the next one up a bit sooner (hopefully).

One quick question for anyone who actually reads these authors notes things.

When and for how long is Spring Break?

Well review for any thoughts on it.

Nikki