Chapter 2

Graduation is still a ways off. Gabriella is not going to Stanford early, she is instead staying in town to Graduation.

Friday Morning

Many school buses pull up to East High to let students off. Gabriella climbs off of her bus and sees Taylor walking toward the school from the parking lot.

"Hey Tay, " Gabriella greets.

Taylor smiles, "Hi Gabby, so I hear that the four of us are double dating to dinner and a movie tonight."

Gabriella nods her head. The two continue talking while they walk toward the school.

Troy and Chad have just arrived at school and notice their girlfriends walking together. The two of them sneak up behind their respective girlfriend. Troy pulls is backpack tighter on his back and looks at Chad and counts to three and on three they both put a rose in front of them.

"Awww thank you!!" They both say. Taylor wraps her arm around Chad. Gabriella does the same to Troy.

Meanwhile inside the school

Kelsi has just closed her locker after getting the books she needs out. She is walking in the direction of her first class. Jason walks up next to her and wraps his arm around her shoulder. Kelsi smiles and puts her left hand up to interlock her fingers with his.

"Hi girlfriend" Jason says before he kisses Kelsi's cheek.

Kelsi blushes, she is still getting use to such displays of affection.

"Hi boyfriend" Kelsi replies.

"So its Friday night, do you have any plans?" Jason asks.

"No not really, I was going to stay home and study." Kelsi says secretly hoping that Jason will ask her to the movies or something.

"Oh, well that's too bad because I have two tickets to the opening night of that musical that you've been talking about for so long. I was hoping that you would be my date for tonight, but if you would rather study, that's okay." Jason says.

He showed her the tickets and then started to put them back in his pocket. When Kelsi stops walking and looks at him with a huge smile.

"I've been waiting for that for the longest time. I would love to go with you tonight." Kelsi says.

She throws her arms around Jason's neck and kisses him.

Jason puts his arm around her waist and pulls her closer to him as he continues the kiss. Unknown to them Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Ryan, Martha, Sharpay, and Zeke are standing about 8 feet away from the couple watching them.

The girls all gush at the cuteness of it the scene in front of them.

Taylor clears her throat, which causes the young couple to pull apart and blush at being caught.

Jason hands Kelsi one of the ticket and says, "I'll see you at lunch."

Kelsi nods. Jason leans down and kisses her quickly before heading off into the direction of his first class.

Jason turns around and calls out to Kelsi, "Kelsi, I want to give you something."

He walks up to the group and has Kelsi turn around so that her back is facing him. Jason puts his varsity basketball jacket over her shoulders.

Kelsi looks at the jacket and turns around to face Jason with the biggest smile. "Your varsity jacket, are you sure?" she asks.

Jason nods, "You're my girlfriend and I want you to wear it. If it makes guys think twice before hitting on you than that is just an added bonus. "

He leans down to kiss her and then says that he has to get to class before he's late and runs off down the hall.

The other couples say their 'see you laters' and head to class. Kelsi, Gabriella, and Taylor all have the same class.

Kelsi walks into the classroom with Gabriella following her pulling Troy's varsity jacket around her tighter, Taylor follows her pulling on Chad's varsity jacket.

Their teacher greets them as they enter. The freshman girls look on and when the three girls turn around, their boyfriends last names are in stitching across the back of the jacket.

One girl reads them, "Danforth, Bolton, Cross."

Zeke and Jason are sitting next to each other in math class. Zeke looks up from his notebook where he is writing out the math problem that are being written on the chalkboard, he looks over at Jason who is writing down the same problems as he is.

"So you and Kelsi are getting pretty serious. She is having a very good impact on you." Zeke says.

"Yeah she has been, she has helped me care more about doing well in school than I have before. I haven't told her this yet but I got excepted to NYU so she and I will be going to college in the same city." Jason says.

"That's great Jason, she will be so happy to hear that from you." Zeke says.

The teacher turns around and looks at them and gets their attention.

"Sorry" They both say.

The teacher turns back around and faces the board and continues to write on the board.

The morning goes by quickly and its now time for lunch and all the students head toward the cafeteria. Troy and the rest of the gang are already sitting down at their usual table. Gabriella, Taylor and Kelsi enter with their lunches. The three of them walk toward the table and behind their boyfriends.

Gabriella puts her tray down between Troy and Chad, Taylor is between Chad and Jason, and Kelsi is between Jason and Zeke. Sharpay sits next to Zeke, Ryan sits next to him.

Troy looks over at Gabriella and smiles. She leans her head against his shoulder.

Troy puts his arm around her waist.

Everyone at the table is talking about their plans for the weekend.

Gabriella and Troy finish their lunches first and take them back to kitchen to dump off their trays.

They walk back to the table and sit with their hands laced together talking to their friends. Soon the bell rings signing the end of lunch. The group of friends gathers their books and head off in the direction of their classes.

The rest of the afternoon goes by quickly and the school day ends and the and the after-school activities begin.

Later in the evening at 7:00 p.m. Troy pulls his dad's suv up to Gabriella's house after going to pick up Chad.

Troy had to borrow his dad's car because he didn't think his truck was nice enough to go on a double date. They picked up Gabriella first because her house is closer to Chad's than Taylor's is.

Troy parks the car on the street and walks up to Gabriella's front door.

He gets there and rings the doorbell.

He hears Gabriella talking to her mom as she makes her way to the door.

"Mom, Troy's here! I'll be home by 10:00, I promise." She says.

"Alright, have fun and be careful." Gabriella's mom calls to her.

Gabriella opens the door to find Troy standing there in jeans and a red dress shirt.

"You look great." Troy tells her.

Gabriella is wearing jeans and a flowing blouse.

"Well thank you, you look great too." She says.

They walk to the car. Troy opens the passenger door for her and then goes around to the other side to get in the car himself.

Gabriella looks to the backseat and says high to Chad. The three of them talk and laugh.

They arrive at Taylor's house and Troy pulls the car into the drive way and parks the car so that Chad can go and get Taylor.

A couple of minutes later Taylor and Chad climb into the car and put their seatbelts on and the four of them are off to have dinner before going to a movie.

Chapter 3

Dinner and a Movie