Keeping it moving.

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Disclaimer: Boogie. (I don't own it)

Chad looked over to his clock again. Now it was 6:30. The sky had dramatically changed from its gloomy state to a brighter state including a mixture of colors swirled in all to create daytime. How did Chad know this? He watched it happen. He watched it happen like he watched the clock change number subtly corresponding with the seconds he counted.

He leaned back on his bed and the clock changed once more. Any minute now his mom would come barging in, waking him up for before school basketball practice. The season had just started and coach, a.k.a. his best friend's dad, had decided that everyone could use a bit more practice. He said it was a good way for everybody to meet the new members, blah, blah, and blah.

As if on cue, Ms. Danforth comes rushing in to awake her son. No knocking, no preparing, just barging straight in.

" Chad, get rea…" she began before Chad stood up and paraded to the bathroom. Ms. Danforth looked at the bathroom door as if she could spot the change in her son through the wood material separating the two. She wrapped her bathrobe tightly around herself as she walked back to her room.

Chad turned on the faucet. The running water drowned out his fears. It was calming. He didn't want it to end. But everything comes to an end. He knew better than anyone. Chad stared at his reflection in the mirror as the faucet continued. He quickly turned away releasing he couldn't tell who was staring back at him in the mirror.

A few hours had passed. Chad stepped in the car, wearing basketball shorts and a shirt, in contrast to his mother, dressed in a blouse with a knee length black skirt. Ms. Danforth glanced at her son once he silently stepped inside the car.

" Chad, is there something going on?" she asked concernedly.

" Nothing, mom," he said nonchalantly keeping his focus on the leaf covered road ahead.

" You can tell me anything," Ms. Danforth added.

" I'm fine, mom."

" Son, if it's anything about Rico…"

" I said I'm fine, mom. Now can we go?" he interrupted still not looking at her.

Kelly Danforth had nothing else to do. She started the ignition and drove to East High.

Once the Danforth pulled up to the familiar high school, Chad immediately opened the car door and headed out.

" Bye, mom," Chad muttered.

" Sweetie?" his mother called out. Chad turned around to face her. The first time he's done so this morning.

" Yeah?" he asked.

" I love you, son." A moment of silence had past before Chad finally returned the phrase.

" Love you too, mom," he said quietly so only she could hear him.

" Have a good day," she said pulling off the wildcat parking lot.

As Chad watched his mother drive away, Troy Bolton approached him.

" Hey Chad, wassup?" Troy greeted as he patted his friend on the back.

" Hey Troy," Chad replied.

" Dude, you ok? You seem kinda quiet today," Troy spotted.

" Me quiet? Nah, you must've hit you head on something. When am I ever quiet?" Chad said.

Troy looked at him. Chad thought for a second he could see right thru him. That he knew this Chad Danforth person didn't exist. That he's been lying to him everyday.

" You haven't been quiet since I first met you," Troy chuckled. " Now let's get inside, co-cap. I want to teach you this new fake-out move."

Troy headed towards the gym basketball in one hand, his gym bag in the other, while his backpack laid on his back. Chad began following him until he heard a twig snap in the distance. He looked around him, but no one was there.

" Chad, come on, dude," Troy called out.

" Coming, man."

Chad continued to follow him, forgetting the sound far off. Today began another day in the life of Chad Danforth.

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