A/N Thanks for the reviews! This is the fifth chapter...

Vanessa quickly dressed the next morning, getting ready to go to school. "Bye mom!" she said, and was off. Her dad dropped her off, and she waved goodbye. She was early to school that day, so the school wasn't entirely filled with students running here and there.

She saw somebody wave to Vanessa and started coming towards her. She didn't know who she was, but, "Are you Vanessa Hudgens?" the girl asked. Vanessa nodded.

"Well, Our headmaster told me to inform you that your locker is available now."

"Really? Wow! Where is it?" Vanessa asked, and the girl told her and also gave her the combination for it. Vanessa immediately went to a corridor that the girl had mentioned. "Let's see, third from the right," she told herself. She walked up to it and opened it with the combination that the girl had given her.

She kept everything required inside, and also tried decorating it in every way possible with the materials she had brought from home. When she was done, it was almost time for the bell to ring. So, she walked to her first classroom.

"Vanessa!" Somebody cried, from behind. She turned around and saw Alyson walking to her. "Hey Alyson!" Vanessa greeted back.

"Vanessa, heard you talked to Zac yesterday night."

"How did you know?" Vanessa asked, surprised.

"Chad told me. So tell me everything."

"It's nothing really. We just talked."

"O-k," Alyson replied, but not actually believing it. The two of them had their first class together- drama class. Ms Darbus was their teacher, and to Vanessa's surprise, Zac and Chad was there too! Vanessa smiled and Zac smiled back. Alyson and Vanessa took two seats in the second-last row.

"Welcome, students. Before we start, I would like to educate you about our newest musical for the year- Twinkle Towne. I want each of you to give an audition, yes, dears, it is compulsory. I wish to see if any of you have the talent. So, are you ready to…what do youngsters say these days?...ah!... are you ready to show me what you've got?" Ms. Darbus smiled, and looked around.

Chad was sinking in his chair, and Zac was filled with dread. "I can't sing!" he thought. Vanessa was scared. "Mr.Danforth, why don't you give it a try?" the teacher asked. Chad sunk even more into his chair. The class sneered. "Ms Darbus, I don't know if I am qualified!" Everybody laughed. "You won't know that until you try!" She tried to make him do it. But no matter how much she tried, Chad wouldn't budge from his chair.

Vanessa tried having a glimpse of Chad, but couldn't because a blonde girl was covering her view. "It's Ashley!" she told herself, surprised that many of the people she knew where in this class.

"Ashley, what about you?" Ms Darbus asked, tired of forcing Chad. "Oh, no, Ms.Darbus."

"Ashley, give us a sense of why we gather in this classroom. Come here, and sing any song you like. You wish for a duet partner, you may choose him." Ashley looked at Zac eyeing him to be her partner. Zac mouthed no, shaking his head.

She stood up and walked to the front of the classroom. "Zac, will you be Ashley's partner?" Ms Darbus asked him. "Ms Darbus, I can't sing." He told her and class sneered again. Chad patted his shoulder understandably.

"Mr Efron, this is your class. You will have to sing, but not at this moment. Once Ashley is done, I would like you to sing along with our newest student." The minute Ms Darbus said that, everybody turned and looked at Vanessa. Vanessa didn't realize that Ms Darbus had just asked her to sing in front of everyone until they looked at her.

She was completely embarrassed. "Ms Darbus..," she began to say, but the teacher cut her off, "Ms Hudgens, please don't behave like everybody else. I'm only asking you to sing." Vanessa looked down, but nodded.

Alyson, sitting next to her, said, "Van, you're going to sing with Zac!"

"What?" Vanessa said, shocked. Apparently, she also forgot that Zac had also been told to sing. A duet. Her mind was wandering. She didn't know what to sing. Heck, she didn't even know whether she could sing! Zac wasn't feeling any more confident.

Ashley started to sing, and it was perfect. "Wish I had a voice like that!" Vanessa thought. Ashley sang really well, and once she was done, Ms Darbus called Zac and Vanessa to come forward. They didn't move. Alyson tried pushing Vanessa, and Chad, tried doing the same to Zac.

"Please do not waste our time; come forward." Ms Darbus told them. "Vanessa, go, and sing! You'll be great!" Ashley said when she returned to her seat. Vanessa smiled at her, and stood up. Zac sighed and stood up. The two of them walked forward eyeing each other.

"Vanessa, I have no idea how to sing, so, it'll be better if you take the lead and sing most of the lines," he whispered. "Hey! I don't know singing any better than you do! What song do you want to sing?" She asked him, whispering.

He thought for a moment. The entire class was staring at them. "Zac, Vanessa, if you will not mind, can you please sing a song with the lyrics I give you?" The teacher asked.

They were shocked, but they nodded. Better that than nothing. She gave them two copies of the same lyrics. It was named the Start of Something New. Vanessa let a sigh of relief when she saw that the boy singer starts the song. "Phew! Zac has to start." She thought and looked at him. He looked nervously at the paper knowing he was not going to get any help from Vanessa at this point. He tried forming a tune in his mind. He sang it out:

Living In my own world,

Didn't understand.

That anything could happen,

When you take a chance.

Vanessa couldn't believe what she was hearing. Zac started the four lines of the song, and also happened to sing it extremely well! "I won't be that good!" she thought, preparing herself for her next four lines. The class was silent for sometime. Evidently, they were also shocked from what they had just heard. She tried thinking of a tune that would match the tune of Zac's. She sang it out:

I never believed in,

What I couldn't see.

I never opened my heart,

To all the possibilities.

It sounded pretty good, so far. She tried looking at Alyson's face and when she did, she saw her open-mouthed, and very surprised. She grinned to herself and saw Zac looking at her, having a small smile on his face. She looked at him, to sing the next lines along with him.

I know, that something has changed,

Never felt this way,

And right here tonight,

This could be the start of something new,

It feels so right to be here with you,

Oh

And now looking in your eyes,

I feel in my heart,

The start of something new.

Zac and Vanessa continued to sing, heartfelt, and once they were done with the last line, the entire class erupted into cheers and screams. Most of them couldn't believe that the captain of the basketball team and the new girl could sing. Nor could they believe the instant chemistry which appeared between the new girl and the popular guy. It was a wonderful moment.

Vanessa laughed, unable to grasp what's happening. It all happened to soon, and she knew that Zac felt the exact same way when she looked at him. "He's amazing." She thought.

"I can't believe it! I can actually sing!" Zac thought, really happy with himself. The class continued to cheer and the look on Chad's face told him that he and Vanessa had done a great job. "Vanessa's amazing," he told himself. The bell rang, and everybody cleared. Alyson told Vanessa how much she loved that class, listening to the two of them sing.

Luckily for them, the next period was free. Zac waited for Vanessa and Alyson to come. "Vanessa, today, I won't be able to stay with you during this hour. I have something to catch up on. Why don't you and Zac hang around now?" she suggested and asked the same to Zac.

"Sure," he said. Zac and Vanessa left the room, walking along the corridor. "I can't believe we can actually sing!" Vanessa exclaimed.

"Yeah! It was so weird out there!"

"Tell me about it," Vanessa said.

"Zac, Vanessa!" Somebody called. They turned around to see Ms Darbus. "You two are qualified for the lead roles of our play. Come to the callbacks which will be held one week from now, during the free period. Yes?"

They nodded, and thanked her. "Wow, this is getting really exciting!" Vanessa said. Zac couldn't believe it either.

After some time, "So where do you want to go first?" he asked.

"Alyson already showed me everything yesterday." Vanessa thought for a moment. "Will you guys be practicing basketball now?"

Zac shook his head.

"Great! Then probably we could just go for a stroll around the grounds of this school," she said. In a few minutes, they were there. "So, Zac, do you have a girlfriend?" Vanessa asked playfully.

"Me? No…"

"Seriously? That's surprising. The most popular guy doesn't have a girlfriend."

"Well, I did have one a year back, but not anymore."

"Was it Ashley?"

"How do you know? Wait, do you know her?"

"Hey, it's not that hard to guess, the most popular guy dating the most popular girl!"

Zac laughed. "So what about you? Do you have a boyfriend?" Vanessa shook her head.

"Never had one, either."

"That's hard to believe! A beautiful girl like you…"

Vanessa blushed and cut him off before he could say anything else, "Why, thank you!" There was an awkward silence. Zac and Vanessa continued walking around, but didn't say a word.

"Vanessa…umm, are you free tonight?" Zac asked her, blushing. Vanessa didn't notice this one coming at all. She was surprised when she heard that. She looked at him, smiled and said, "Make my first date special."

And the bell rang.

A/N Hope you like it!