Chapter started: February 18, 2010.
Chapter finished: February 18, 2010.
Author's Note: Well, here's a new chappie for you all to read, I hope you all enjoy it and haven't lost interest in this story. I love ya guys! Toodles
=You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home=
-Chapter 2: Scream -
I don't know, where to go, what's the right team?
I want my own thing. So bad I'm gonna Scream!
I can't choose, so confused! What's it all mean?
I want my own dream. So bad I'm gonna Scream!
-- Zac Efron, "Scream"
"Ms. Darbus…I know I'm not suppose to be here," the eighteen year old East High ex-basketball captain said as he spotted the drama teacher sitting in the dark near the back of the darkened theater of East High, realizing that she would have heard his little song.
"Aren't you?" The drama teacher asked as she got up and started to walk towards him, "Well, nor should I be at this hour, I suppose, but I am trying to re-balance a show in which Sharpay now plays the role of Ms. Montez. And the reason for your visit is?"
"I don't know, I think I feel that this is a good place to…"
"Scream? Feel free," the drama teacher told the senior.
"Or just to think," the theater acting jock added on to it.
"The stage can be a wonderful partner in the process of self discovery," Ms. Darbus told the teenager before she told him, "You seem very comfortable up there."
"I do?" the electric blue eyed teen asked surprised.
"Which is why I submitted an application in your name to Juilliard," Ms. Darbus informed him.
"It was you," the chestnut haired asked, even more surprised.
"Better to consider opportunities now, than in ten years when life may limit your choices. If I've overstepped, I apologize," his homeroom teacher explained.
"No, no, I'm not mad…just confused," the ex-Lava Springs golf pro admitted.
"What a life in the theater has taught me is to trusts one's instincts and that takes courage. A quality you don't seem to lack," Ms. Darbus informed him before turning around and going back to her seat as she said over her shoulder, "Last one out, turns out the lights."
(Albuquerque, New Mexico - East High School)
"Hey man, you okay?" the assistant basketball coach asked the head coach, who was also the gym teacher and his best friend since kindergarten.
"Huh…yeah, Dude, I'm fine," the gym teacher replied snapping out of one of his most precious memories of his high school years at the Alma Mater that he know taught at.
"You sure?" the Afro haired, ex-basketball co-captain from the Senior Class of 2009 asked, concern in his voice and chocolate eyes.
"Yeah, I'm sure," the tanned and toned, twenty five year old reassured his best friend before he blew the whistle and told two East High juniors, "Anderson, Matthews, if you don't want detention with Ms. Darbus or myself then I suggest that you stop fighting right now."
"Got it, Coach Bolton," the two juniors replied together.
"Dude, I think you're turning into your dad," Coach Bolton's best friend, Coach Danforth, informed him with a smirk and a laugh.
"Nah, his dad was way stricter," a new voice dressed in a white baking hat on his head, a white baker's jacket, black plants, and black sneakers said as he entered the gym as the bell rang signaling the end of fourth period, meaning that it was lunch time at East High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
"True," Coach Danforth said as the three twenty five year old's moved to sit on the bleachers of the gym as they waited for the rest of their crew to join them.
Soon later, they weren't disappointed because in walked the music teacher who was also the East High Theater's composer, East High's dance teachers (one of them being the cheerleading coach also), the Film teacher and the Math teacher at East High. Smiling, at the group the three males, watched as they came over to them making clicking and scuffing noises as they walked across the gym to come and sit with them.
"Hey, Honey," Coach Danforth said as his girlfriend, the Math teacher, came to sit beside him, placing a kiss on his cheek and hugging him.
"Hi, Sweetie," the Math teacher, who was also an African American like Coach Bolton and Chef Baylor greeted her boyfriend before she greeted the rest of the group, "Hi, guys."
"Hey, Taylor," Coach Bolton and Chef Baylor replied with warm smiles for the woman they thought of as their younger sister.
The Math teacher, Taylor Annabelle McKessie or Ms. McKessie as she was known to the students, smiled back at them and asked, "How'd your guys' lessons go? Mine went pretty interesting."
"Mine was okay," the Film teacher, Jason Allen Cross or better known to the East High student body as Mr. Cross, said as he wrapped an arm around his music composing girlfriend, who was also the Music teacher.
"Mine was actually pretty entertaining…and delicious," the African American Zeke Lake Baylor or Chef Baylor, replied with a smile.
"Mine was completely…I don't really know a word for it," the Music teacher known as Ms. Nielsen to her students, but as Kelsi Monique Nielsen to the group she was with and to others outside of school, said with a soft smile causing them all to laugh.
"Mine was very choreographed," the female Dance teacher and Cheerleading Coach, Martha Lynn Cox or Ms. Cox, said with a smile as she laid her head down on her boyfriend's shoulder, who was also the male Dance teacher and the baseball coach with Coach Danforth.
"That's exactly the way I was gonna put it," Mr. Evans or Ryan Joshua Evans, stated causing all of them to laugh.
"Ours was pretty athletic," Coach Danforth or better known by the student body (or at least the ones who recognized him) as Chad Nicholas Danforth, whose retired number eight basketball jersey sat next to Coach Bolton's with all the rest of the legendary retired jerseys on the wall here in the gym.
"Whatever you say, man, whatever you say," Coach Bolton or as, like Chad, was recognized because of his retired number fourteen basketball jersey, his basketball skills that combined with his theater skills and looks, made him the envy of every female near him and he was known as the legendary Troy (Alexander) Bolton. Troy was the first freshman to ever make starting varsity on the basketball team, let alone be captain of the varsity and junior varsity basketball teams, not to mention his all time high score points that made him the top high scorer, who ever graced the East High basketball teams, both men's and woman's.
Everyone laughed at the two best friends as they all sat around laughing and talking about their days while they all shared their lunches with each other. Zeke remembering something, put his hand into his silver and red lunch bag, and pulled out eight little baggies filled with desserts and said as he handed them out, "By the way, I saved you guys all brownies and cookies from the morning classes this morning."
"Thanks," seven out of the group of eight replied and the ones who replied looked over at the one who did not reply and seeing the look in his eyes knew why as he stared at the brownie in the baggie. As Troy drifted off into a land full of memories so, did the rest of the group so, together they all sat; all of them with their heads full of memories of the two missing puzzle pieces to their Wildcat Puzzle.
The Wildcat Puzzle, as many has come to refer to their group as, didn't just consist of eight best friends, but ten best friends. The ten best friends were known as the Wildcats, it consisted of Troy, Chad, Taylor, Zeke, Ryan, Martha, Jason, and Kelsi, plus two more females who were now famous, and they were known as, the famous Gabriella Montez and Sharpay Evans or as they were called by fans Baby G and Baby S and when together they were called Shar-Ella.
Now, the group that was just called the "Wildcat Puzzle" was just that, a puzzle, one that was missing a pieces and very special pieces to make it complete, but as people looked at their group it almost looked nearly impossible. Impossible because seeing as that over the years the two starlets had left Albuquerque, New Mexico, their blessed Alma Mater, and their group of friends who were more like a family than friends, and never really looked back.
(East High – Theater)
"Hey, Ms. D, what's the emergency?" Chad asked as the Wildcat Puzzle walked into the theatre that held so many memories for the electric blue-eyed man, as they all went to lean on or sit on the theatre stage as the drama teacher, Ms. Darbus, who had also been their homeroom and drama teacher in their high school years.
"The emergency is that our cast knows barely anything having to do with the musical, which is coming up right around the corner, and you all know from experience that that is not acceptable," the drama teacher said as she took off her glasses with a sigh before setting her forehead in her hand as she thought: As Mr. Bolton once put it, it's so bad I'm gonna scream.
The Wildcat Puzzle all nodded their heads, all knowing that it was true also, they knew there really was noting much more to say or that could change that, but Ms. Darbus, as if reading their minds, had a sudden thought. Realizing that it was the only thing to do, she would put her plan into action as soon as she got home.
So bad I'm gonna scream!
Ohh! Ahh!!
TBC…
Well, here is another one for you guys. I hope you all enjoyed it. I'm also hoping that I'm keeping you guys interested because that is my intention as it for you to either like it or loath it and tell me to delete it with mean flames. I love you all!
Love Always,
Jessica.
OPINION TIME: What do you think Ms. Darbus is gonna do??
TRIVIA TIME: What story should I update next?
A. This One
B. HSM5
C. The Start of Something New
D. Or a New One shot
I wanna see that Hawaiian wedding,
I wanna see that blissful 'Honeymoon' phase,
I wanna see her bearing their child,
I wanna see that sweet little angel with its father's eyes and mother's features,
I Want To See Them Have It All
But... I guess I will have to wait...
~Z&V~