Troy walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.

"Good morning," he said with a bright smile.

"Good…morning," Julia said awkwardly. "Troy I usually have to pry you out of bed, and you're here, dressed, wide awake and," she looked at her watch, "half an hour early."

"Oh well I'm taking Shane to school today."

"Shane? As in our new neighbor Shane?"

"Yea, how do you know her?"

"Well I was at her house yesterday when she got home from walking…what is it Steve?"

"Steve-O, I just didn't want her to be late on her first day."

"Well that's nice of you." He stood there for a second.

"Ok, bye." He picked up his notebook and walked out the front door. He flipped open his phone and called Shane.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Hey it's Troy, are you ready?"

"Almost, come over."

"Ok." He hung up and crossed the street. Shane's mother opened the door.

"Hi, I'm Troy."

"Hello Troy, I'm Jane, Shane's mother."

"Nice to meet you."

"Come on in, Shane's almost ready."

"Thank you." He walked into the unbelievably large house.

"Are you hungry?" Jane asked.

"Um…"

"Shane told me you're a basketball player and I know you guys have big appetites please come into the kitchen." He followed her into the kitchen and sat down in the built in diner booth. A maid set down a plate with eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, and hash browns. On the side came toast, muffins and a fruit bowl.

"Wow, thank you." He began to eat. Five minutes later the back door swung open and in walked a guy that Troy hadn't seen before.

"Hey Julian, this is Troy, he's our front door neighbor and going to be taking Shane to school," Jane said.

"What's up man?" Julian said, shaking Troy hand.

"Hey man, you're Shane's brother?" Troy asked.

"Yea."

"Where were you?" Jane asked.

"I went for a run."

"Troy is captain of the basketball team."

"Cool, maybe we can shoot some hoops today when you get back from school."

"Sounds good."

"Ugh, Julian, go shower your stinking up the kitchen," Shane said, walking into the kitchen.

"Right, give me a hug," he said walking over to her.

"Touch me and I'll make sure you never have babies." He blew a kiss at her and walked upstairs. She slid in front of Troy and a plate of food was placed in front of her.

"He seems cool," Troy said.

"Yea, well you wouldn't think so if you lived with him." Troy let out a laugh. "So I was thinking we can take my car."

"Which would be which one of the fantastic four?"

"G-Wagon, but we switch off all the time."

"That's nice." She smiled and they finished eating their breakfast.

"Bye mom."

"Bye, have a great day kids."

"Thank you," Troy said. They walked out of the house and Shane tossed the keys to Troy.

"Here you go." She got into the passenger side of the car and Troy stayed outside staring back and forth from the keys to the car. Shane had to beep to snap him out of it. He got into the car and put his hands on the wheel. "You have to put the keys into the ignition, Troy."

"Right." He started up the car.

"Dude relax."

"Sorry, I just don't want to do anything to your car."

"You wont, now come on." He backed out of the driveway and they were on their way. "You see it's not that bad."

"Yea, sorry about that."

"Don't worry about it." They had a short conversation since school was only about ten minutes away.

Chad, Taylor, Zeke, Sharpay, Kelsi, Ryan, Jason and Gabriella were all sitting outside waiting for Troy to get there.

"What's taking him so long?" Gabriella asked. She and Troy weren't officially together but everyone thought they were, especially with the way they acted towards each other.

"Wait; is that a G-Wagon?" Zeke asked when he saw the car from a distance.

"My friend yes it is," Chad said excitedly. They all sat up and moved closer to the parking lot to get a better view.

"Ok, why are they so excited to see what's in the G-Wagon?" Taylor asked.

"Beats me," Sharpay said. All three boys were literally jumping. The car parked and Chad slapped Zeke's arm.

"Here she comes," he said.

"Excuse me? Here who comes?" Taylor asked. Everyone else stood up and lined up next to the boys. The driver side door opened and out stepped…

"Troy?" they all said at the same time. Troy looked over at them and gave them a nod.

"Wait, the passenger side is opening and yes!" Shane jumped out of the car, book bag in hand. She stopped when she noticed everyone staring at her.

"What's wrong?" Troy asked.

"Um have you seen the giant crowd of kids staring at me? Maybe I should just go back home, I hear home schooling is really great." She turned back to the car but Troy stopped her.

"Whoa whoa whoa, you're not going anywhere. Come on don't be shy, besides those are all my friends, remember the guys staring at you yesterday?" she looked at Chad, Jason and Zeke who had the same goofy grins on.

"Right, them…but what about everyone else?"

"Don't worry about them, look just take my hand and I promise you'll feel better." He outstretched his hand and she looked at it for a second before taking it. She readjusted the strap on her shoulder and they started walking towards the school.

"Do you always get this much attention when you're walking into school?"

"Well not this much, they're just surprised to see such a pretty girl walking with me." She blushed and they continued. When they got to everyone all the guys rushed over to Troy and Shane.

"Hi, I'm Chad."

"Hi Chad, I'm Shane, nice to see you again."

"What does she mean again?" Taylor asked. He completely ignored her.

"You're going to have to let me drive that car sometime," he said.

"Sure."

"I'm Jason."

"I'm Steve."

"I'm Zeke."

"I'm Zac." Boys started introducing themselves to her.

"Ok guys, she needs to go and get her schedule, you can talk to her during lunch," Troy said, pulling Shane away.

"Phew, man that was crazy," she said.

"You sure did draw a crowd."

"Are you jealous that I'm taking your worshippers away?" he laughed.

"Please, you can't compete with this." She laughed and slapped his shoulder.

"Ok, who was that?" Sharpay asked once Shane and Troy were inside.

"The girl of my dreams," Zeke said.

"Zeke!" Sharpay yelled.

"I mean she's Troy's new neighbor, we saw her yesterday."

"Those people are loaded, they have a Range Rover, a 7-Series, a CTS and a G-Wagon," Chad said.

"Not to mention that they moved into the nicest house in town," Jason added.

"Man they way she is formed I can…" Chad started but was smacked by Taylor.

"Walk us into school now!" Sharpay yelled. They quickly put their arms around their girlfriends and walked into school.

Gabriella watched the crazy scene unfold before her and couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe one girl was getting so much attention, especially from Troy.

'Am I jealous?' she asked herself. She shook it off and walked into school.

"Hello Troy, how may I help you?" Ms. Sanchez, head of the office, asked.

"Hi Ms. Sanchez, she need her schedule."

"Ok, name?"

"Shane Damon."

"Shane? That's a unique name."

"Thank you." Ms. Sanchez handed Shane her schedule and she and Troy walked out of the office.

"Alright let me hear them."

"Ok, Drama, calculus, art, English, Economics and I finish off the day in study hall."

"Ok, we have everything together except Calculus, I have Integrated and Art, where I have P.E. instead."

"Well then to drama we go." They stopped by Shane's assigned locker and dropped off her jacket, Troy's was a few down so they went to his then headed over to Darbus' class.

"New student?" Darbus asked when Shane and Troy walked into class.

"Yea, hi I'm Shane."

"Nice to meet you Shane, it's a waste to take a seat because we are going to be heading over to the auditorium now anyways so just wait for the rest of the class to get here."

"Ok." A few moments later Chad and everyone else walked in.

"Hi Shane," he said.

"Hey Chad." Troy leaned in to Chad's ear.

"Keep this up and you're not going to have a girlfriend anymore." Chad looked back at Taylor who was looking at him angrily.

"Yea," he walked over to Taylor and put his arm around her.

"Ready to go class?" Darbus asked. They walked out and made their way to the auditorium.

Gabriella saw Shane and Troy walking next to each other and decided to do something.

"Hey Troy."

"Oh hey Gabriella, this is Shane."

"Hi," Shane said. Gabriella gave her a fake smile and wrapped her arms around Troy's.

"Gabbi you have Shane for calculus."

"Really? How cool," she said a little too enthusiastically.

"Yea."

"Hey Shane," Chad said, Taylor next to him.

"Chad how many times have you said hi to me today?"

"Like four and that's the last time," Taylor said, pulling him away. Shane looked to her side and saw Zeke.

"Hi Zeke."

"You remembered my name?" Sharpay rolled her eyed.

"Um, yea, why does that surprise you so much?"

"I never though a girl like you would."

"A girl like me?"

"Yea one that's so beaut…"

"Ok come on Zeke," Sharpay said, yanking him away. All the other boys were taken away by girls that weren't even their girlfriends and Shane was left alone.

"Welcome to East High," Shane said to herself.

"Ok, I have some stage work to do so just talk among yourselves and keep it low," Darbus said as they walked into the auditorium. Shane sat down a few rows behind everyone and took out her notebook.

"Why is Shane sitting by herself?" Troy asked.

"Because nobody wants to sit with her duh," Gabriella said. Chad started sitting up.

"Chad if your butt lifts up one more inch this relationship is over," Taylor said. Chad obeyed and sat back down.

"Well I feel bad, so I'll see you guys later," Troy said.

"But…" Gabriella started but he was already half way up the row.

"Hey," he said, sitting down next to Shane.

"Hey, um what are you doing here?"

"I just came to sit with you; if you want me to leave I'll…"

"No, you can stay, it's just that all your friends are over there and I would think that you wanted to sit with them."

"And leave you all alone over here? I don't think so."

"Now you see what I meant about the whole not making friends thing?"

"Yea, it's kind of harsh."

"Tell me about it."

"So what you got there?" he asked looking at her notebook.

"I'm just drawing something."

"What?" she let out a sigh and showed it to him.

"Wow, this is really good."

"It's what I saw when you handed me your hand." The picture was right after she had gotten out of the car that morning. All the kids were in the background but Troy was standing next to her with his hand outstretched, the caption saying "Just take my hand and I promise you'll feel better."

"You have anything else in there?" she nodded and handed him the notebook. He laughed when he turned to the one of Chad, Zeke and Jason standing outside Troy's house. Their eyes were popping out and they had their idiotic grins on. "Man your art teacher is going to love these."

Gabriella looked back at Troy and Shane and saw them looking at a notebook, laughing.

"I so don't like her," Sharpay said.

"I know, who does she think she is coming in here and flirting with our boyfriends," Taylor said.

"And look at her all over Troy, ugh," Gabriella said.

"Guys, come on she's just a girl," Jason said.

"Just a girl? She's…" Chad started but looked at the evil glare Taylor was sending him and shut up.

"I really hope she doesn't go to Troy's party, if not I see some serious drama unfolding," Sharpay said.

"Didn't you hear? Troy's party might now happen."

"What? It better. That's the best party of the year," Sharpay said.

"Well unless he finds a house there won't be a party of the year."