Okay, this is
written in Sari's POV. YAY!
Disclaimer: I don't own High School Musical, nuff' said.
How dare she talk to me like that? I could feel my face turn red with anger.
"Who the heck was that?" I asked the foursome
"Oh, just Sharpay Evans" whispered Chad
"Wow, that was helpful" I mumbled under my breath
"She's like the queen-bee of East High. Except, she's one of us now" whispered Taylor
My eyes bulged in disbelief. "She's one of you guys?"
"Shh. If you think she's snobby now, you should have seen her last year. She and her brother were like that last year. But now, they are nicer, more humble people" Troy explained.
"Because last year, when I came, things started to really change here in East High" said Gabriella
"How?" I asked. I was so curious as to how East High changed for the good if you couldn't tell. Gabriella carefully told me the story of how she was a new student and a real brainiac, just like Taylor. (Well, they are still now) And Troy was a Basketball jock, just like Chad (again, they are still now) and how they broke from they're usual roles and auditioned for the School Musical. And how they helped the rest of the school also, brake from they're usual roles. I was fascinated. After Gabriella told me the entire story, I could here Troy humming a song. I tapped him on the shoulder.
"Troy, what are you humming?"
"Nothing."
"Please tell me"
"It's called Breaking' Free." Gabriella looked up from what she was writing and they looked at each other with a smile on each of their faces. "We sang it last year, when we auditioned"
"Callbacks" Gabriella said, nodding, probably as a sign for remembering. Before they could explain it to me more, the bell rang.
"So Sari, what's your next subject?" Troy asked me as the four of us walked out of the classroom. I took out a black, leather wallet out of my pocket and took out a credit card sized laminated paper with my schedule on it. The four looked at me weirdly.
"My mom made this for me. She makes one every year." I looked at the schedule. "Next subject, Science"
"Troy, isn't that your dad's class?" Taylor asked Troy
"Yeah, I'll take you there."
"Thanks, I just need to get to put this in my locker". Holding up my binder. Putting back the schedule in my wallet and into my pocket again.
"Okay, well we'll see you later Sari". Said Gabriella
"Yeah, sit with us at lunch, okay?" offered Taylor. I nodded
Troy and Chad gave each other a 'pound', and then we went our separate ways.
"So where's your locker?" Troy asked
"I think that is my locker" pointing to one of the lockers across of Ms. Darbus' new classroom. My locker was 316 just the number of the locker where I pointed to. We walked to my locker. I took out my wallet again, but this time I took out a laminated piece of paper that had my locker code. "45 to the right… 54… 69" I opened my locker and put my binder inside. I heard the person whose locker was beside mine; close his/her locker and greeted Troy.
"Hey man, what's up?" he high fived Troy.
"Hey Ryan." He turned to me. "Sari, meet our friend, Ryan Evans"
I smiled at first but when I heard Ryan's last name my smile disappeared in an instant.
I thought he was pretty cute, too. I guess he has the looks in their family. I put on a slightly fake smile.
"Oh, so you're Ryan. Gabriella told my about you and your sister."
"Yeah, sorry if she was being mean to you, earlier."
"Oh no. That was entirely my fault" I said politely. There was a short pause then Troy finally changed the subject.
"So Ryan, what's you next subject?" Troy asked
"Science" Ryan replied
"Oh, me also" I said
"You want to walk to class together?" Ryan asked. I looked at Troy
"Go ahead. I have to get to Gabriella anyway"
"Thanks" I mouthed to him. He just chuckled a bit then started to walk away.
"Shall we go?" He held out an arm.
"How about your sister?"
"It's fine we have different schedules this year"
"Oh" that was my only response. What was I supposed to say? 'that's so great, now you have less time to follow your sister around and more time focusing on me' or that's too bad, you seem totally lost without her'? That would be embarrassing.
"Let's compare schedules" Ryan offered
"Okay, sure" I took out my trusty wallet and my schedule and showed it to him. I swear I could see him raise an eyebrow at first.
"Wow, this is weird. We have almost the same schedules, except for gym and History"
"Are you serious?" Looking over the two schedules that Ryan had in his hands.
"Weird. Oh well, at least now we can get to know each other better"
"I guess so"
Before we could talk more, I was thinking he was gonna ask me out, we arrived at Science class, with minutes to spare. We found our seats and sat down.
"So, you are new right?" He asked me.
"Yeah, I came from New York. My parents wanted to live in a more "safer" environments" I did that finger sign to show I was just emphasizing 'safer'.
"That sucks, you were happier there, weren't you?" he asked
"No, I just haven't gone used to everything yet. We just moved in last week"
"With a boyfriend? I don—" I interrupted him
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who said I had a boyfriend?" I asked him with one of my eyebrows raised.
"Oh, uhmm, ahh" before he could 'answer' Coach Bolton walked into the room. I hadn't realized that he came in, and not in the classroom, at least while me and Ryan arrived. I guess I was too busy talking and staring into his light grayish—oh never mind.
"I just needed to use the bathroom. Sorry if I took too long"
No one answered at that. So Coach continued with his class.
"Do we have any new students this year?" he asked. With that, everyone looked at me and Ryan glared at them. Coach nodded to me and stood up.
"Hi my name is Stacy Arianna Bautista. You can just call me Sari" I said loudly and clearly to the class.
"Okay, that's settled" he turned to face the board but turned again to look at me. "Oh, and Welcome to East High, Sari" I smiled.
The rest of the day, until lunch, was just like Science, Each teacher would acknowledge me and I had to introduce myself to the class and the teacher would explain the rules and the regulations, like we were in the first grade when we were all ready seniors.
I stuck to the Ryan the entire time. He helped me with most stuff, introduced me to some of his "friends", but in the end we were still pretty uncomfortable because of our previous conversation. When it was time to lunch, we walked to the cafeteria together. There was complete silence between us; we wouldn't even look at each other. I concentrated to the floors and Ryan seemed be staring at the ceiling. I couldn't help it; I had to break the silence.
"Ah, uhmm, well, I am sorry to make you think I had a boyfriend." I looked at him. He looked at me.
"It's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong. You just assumed."
"So we" the pointed at him then me fast, couple of times "are okay?" I asked
"Yeah we're fine" then we started talking and laughing until we reached the cafeteria. I was surprised it was so big.
"Wow" Looking at the second level of the enormous cafeteria.
"I know" Ryan said, grinning. I smiled. But my smiled disappeared when I heard someone shout Ryan's name. I found Sharpay on the second floor yelling "Ryan… Ryan" waving her arms up trying to get his attention. Unfortunately, she did.
"Umm, you better go." I pointed to Sharpay. He just nodded
"Meet me here after lunch?" I asked. He nodded. Then started walking. When he left I sighed.
Where was I supposed to go now?
To be Continued…