"Troy!" all four looked up and saw a blonde skinny girl swaying her hips from side to side as she made her way over to their table with a guy a few inches taller than her following after.

"Here she comes" Troy groaned as Sharpay sat down in his lap and kissed him deeply in front of everyone. The blonde boy sat down next to Taylor and gave her apologetic smile as he brought out his lunch a turkey sandwich with a bottle of water.

"Ryan! My lunch" the blonde barked as soon as she tore herself away from Troy's lips. Ryan quickly dug out a ceasar salad and Evian water for his demanding twin sister.

"Gabriella meet Ryan and Sharpay" Chad introduced. Sharpay looked up sharply from Troy and glared at Gabriella.

"You're the one that ran in to me!" she yelled pointing an accusing finger in Gabriella's direction.

"You're the one that ran in to me!"

"You're the one that didn't move out of my way!"

"Sorry I didn't accommodate you princess!" Gabriella snapped looking as if she was ready to lunge at Sharpay.

"Troy are you gonna let her talk to me like that" she turned her attention to Troy who pretended he hadn't heard a word of what either girls had said.

"Talk like what?"

"She insulted and degraded me!"

"I'm sorry I didn't hear any of that" Troy replied looking over at Gabriella with an apologetic look.

"Evans what you doing over there all by your lonesome shouldn't you be making out with Ms. Darbus!" Andrew Garzias yelled from across the cafeteria.

"Ignore him" Chad whispered to Ryan who looked ready to cry.

"Aww isn't that cute your boyfriends comforting you, but oh wait, he already has a little slut I guess he don't need your ass anymore!" Drew laughed with his friends.

"Wanna say that again dipshit!" Taylor said in a calm voice standing up to face drew and his two followers.

"Your defending him, isn't that precious, I'm sorry but he doesn't like your kind" he said making a baby face at her and rubbing her arm in mock sympathy.

"No he likes your kind and your just upset that even though he likes what is in your pants he doesn't want yours, I can understand why cause I heard you don't pack that much" she smirked at him and rubbed his arm " but don't feel bad what you lack down there you make up in brain capacity, oh wait, you only have C's my bad" Troy and Chad laughed as Gabriella looked on in amazement, she didn't think that Taylor was the girl to speak her mind like this and fight back with just as much ammunition as her opponent.

"You're lucky I don't hit girls"

"I'm lucky I hit boys" Taylor said before throwing a punch at him. He staggered back but that didn't stop Taylor, she pounded on him and didn't stop hitting until Troy grabbed her by the waist and held her back.

"You're lucky the bitch's defending you but the next time you and the bitch won't be so lucky" Drew said holding his nose as he walked away with his two followers behind him looking back once to look at Taylor and then smirk at Troy.

"Next time I'll break his leg, then we'll see how good of a football player he really is" Taylor growled sitting back down and stabbed her sandwich with Sharpay's fork.

"My, my little miss innocent has a dark side" Sharpay laughed.

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Taylor made her way down the hall with Gabriella to the gym. They were both to met Troy and Chad after practice. Taylor and Troy were neighbours and therefore carpooled. Chad and Gabriella were going to the mall or something, Taylor hadn't paid that much attention to what anyone was saying at lunch after the incident with Drew. Both girls stopped dead in their tracks when they heard someone being slammed into a locker the bang and cry echoing of the walls. They both quickly made their way down the hallway and saw Drew and some of his team mates treating Ryan like a punching bag.

"Get coach Bolton!" Taylor said harshly to Gabriella and pushed her in the way of the gym. Gabriella ran as fast as her legs could carry her to the gym. She slammed the door open all the basketball players looked up at her shock written all over their features.

"Coach! You gotta come, you gotta come!" she cried pulling on coach Bolton's arm.

"Miss you'll have to tell me what is going on"

"You gotta come!" she cried and pulled harder on his arm he followed her with most of the team where Ryan Evans was being beaten senseless by the football jocks. Taylor looked ready to pound on all of them but she knew she didn't stand a chance against all of them no matter how upset she was.

"What the hell is going on here!" Drew gave one final punch at Ryan before looking up to see who cause the noise.

"All of you principal's office now!" he barked, the two players holding Ryan up against the lookers dropped him like a piece of trash, that was the final straw for Taylor she lunged herself at Garcia's who fell to the floor with Taylor on top of him punching him like there was no tomorrow.

"Taylor that's enough" coach yelled pulling her of Drew who didn't move for awhile. He stood up slowly and looked at Taylor with an evil glint in his eyes.

"Next time I'll fuck you up" he said turning around and walking down the hall. A cold shiver ran down Troy's spine at the words Drew had said. He looked over at his dad who looked just as scared as him.

"Not if I fuck you up first!" she yelled after him.