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East High Parking Lot...
"Thanks for driving me to school Tia Maria!" said Riella to her aunt as the walked into the school lobby. Maria Montez offered to drive Riella, so she could talk with the school principal.
"You're welcome, Riella. I hope you have a good day back." Marie responded.
"I hope I do, too. I'll see you later." Riella hugged her aunt.
Then, she hugged Gabriella, "Have a great first day, Gabi. Remember, just take it easy for the next couple of weeks."
Gabriella nodded. "I'll try."
"That's good enough for me," Riella smiled, "well, I gotta go get a book out of my locker." She hugged her aunt again and set off towards her locker.
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At her locker locker, Riella needed to put her math book up and get her history one out. While in the process of getting math book out her bag, her two friends from softball came over to talk.
"Hey, Ri." greeted Alexa. Alexa stood at 5'8. She had long, shiny, blonde hair tied into a tight ponytail and light green eyes. Alexa had fair skin and was wearing a maroon tank top with a white cardigan, light blue capris, and white flats.
"I like your jeans, Ri." commented Alexa. Today, Riella was wearing a navy blue hoodie, white-wash jeans, and white Converse. Her short, curly hair was was in it's natural curls and her bangs were pulled to the sides of her head in braids.
"Thanks, Lexa. You look nice as well. You, too, Hallee" replied Riella.
"Thanks, Ri. What's up?" chimed in Hallee. Hailee was 5'6, like Riella, and had gorgeous, shoulder-length strawberry locks, pale brown eyes, and pale skin that showed her freckles. Hailee was wearing a light yellow shirt, a gray jacket, dark blue jeans and white Nikes.
"Besides my cousin, Gabriella, is enrolling into our school today, nothing much," Riella cheered.
"REALLY?!" exclaimed Hallee. It was very loud. Everybody in the hallway turned to look at Alexa, Hallee, and Riella.
After an awkward moment of silence, Alexa had enough. "Ignore us, please, and go back to what you were doing."
She said in a sort-of threatening way and everybody immediately went back to normal. They know better than to mess with a softball player.
"Yes, really, Hal. Now, don't be so loud." chuckled Riella.
"Where is she?" asked Alexa.
"She's at the principal's office. My aunt wanted to walk Gabriella in and get her settled. She, also, wanted to talk to Principal Matsui." confirmed Riella.
"Is she interested in playing softball?" asked Hallee. They were looking for more players, so that they can be added to JV softball. .
"No. She isn't interested in doing anything at the moment," commented Riella, while gettning her lanyard that has her student id and house key on it out of her locker, "Gabriella wants to get settled and caught up in school before she does anything. Anyways, she isn't interested in sports, she's more interested in her grades and Scholastic Decathlon."
"Oh," sighed Hallee and Alexa and it was the end of that conversation. They caught up on what happened on the past two weeks. Riella was helping her mom clean the house, so it looked presentable, Alexa went to Colorado for a family reunion, and Hallee went to her grandparents house in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The school bell rang ten minutes later.
"Well, gotta go or Darbus will get on to me and make me work in theater for detention." complained Riella. She hated detention.
"Yeah, I got to go, too. Or Friar will give me a detention as well." commented Alexa.
Hallee nodded, "I'll see ya guys at softball this afternoon, right? It's the first practice for the year."
Alexa and Riella nodded.
"I wouldn't miss it for the world, unless I somewhow get detention." Riella declared, while laughing. Hallee and Alexa started laughing as well. They, then, said their final goodbyes and went their separate ways.
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While walking towards Ms. Darbus's for homeroom, Riella bumped into Zeke Baylor and Zach Montgomery. Well, more like they bumped into her. The two, being at almost 6 foot tall and still growing, missed Riella at her height of 5'6. At the collision, she dropped her history book and her binder that had her homework for all classes in it. As she fell, she saw both of the guys who were wearing Wildcats shirts and jackets.
"Hey! Watch where you're going, you morons." smirked Riella, as she got back up.
"Sorry, Ri." "I'm sorry, Riella." muttered Zeke and Zach at the same time. Zeke picked up her history book and Zach picked up her binder.
"Thank you, guys," snickered Riella, "Anyways, how was y'all's break?"
The three started walking towards homeroom again. Zach put his arm around Riella's shoulders, and she blushed.
"Oh, you know, the usual. Non-stop b-ball practice until Coach Bolton and Troy left for their vacation." recalled Zeke.
"Yeah, and it's going to be non-stop practice til the championships." complained Zach.
"Wait, you usually love basketball. Is there something wrong with practicing?" taunted Riella. They normally teased her when she complained about softball towards spring and how long practices were getting.
"Haha, very funny. It's still fun, but I think it's because we're getting closer game is all." stressed Zeke.
"Hey, where's Jason. He's usually with you two?" remarked a puzzled Riella.
"He's already at Darbus's. Chad brought him along with him and Troy." Zach informed her.
"Oh," Riella nodded.
They continued talking about anything, but basketball, softball, and practice.
When they arrived at Darbus's room, Zeke and Zach let Riella in first.
"Ladies first." sassed Zach.
"How gentlemanly of you two," joked Riella.
"I know, right?" gloated Zeke as he held down a laugh.
Riella walked in with the two of them following and went to her seat. Zach sat in front of her and Zeke on the right. It was the closet that Zeke was going to get to Sharpay Evans, his crush or as every one knows her, the Ice Queen. She was all about herself and the Drama Club. Her twin brother, Ryan, was about the Drama Club as well, but he tried to make his sister happy by doing what she wanted. Jason Cross was talking to Troy Bolton, Varsity Basketball captain, about Troy's New Year's vacation. Chad was messing with his basketball that Darbus will somehow insult about two-to-three minutes into homeroom.
Riella noticed Gabriella come in through the door and go over to give Ms. Darbus her information. When, Gabriella turned around to look for a seat, Riella waved her over. When Gabriella walked by Troy and Jason, Riella observed that it looked like Troy stopped talking and looked at Gabriella. While the tardy bell rang, everyone got in their seats, except Sharpay, who quickly said hi to Troy and sat down. Gabriella whispered hey and sat down in the desk behind Riella.
"I trust you all had splendid holidays." annouced Ms. Darbus with her loud, dramatic voice.
"Check the sign-up sheets in the lobby for new activities, Mr. Bolton," Darbus reprimanded Troy for not being in his seat.
"Especially for our winter musicale," She droned on, " We'll be having singles auditions for supporting roles and pairs auditions for our two leads."
Chad made a disapproving noise and a thumbs-down.
Ms. Darbus was already on the way to getting onto Chad for the basketball, "Mr. Danforth, this is a place of learning, not a hockey arena!" Chad started to put basketball up by trying to push it underneath his desk.
Darbus went on with the annoucements, "There is, also, a final sign-up for next week's Scholastic Decathlon competition. Chem Club president, Taylor McKessie, can answer all of your questions about that." Taylor raised her hand. Riella hung out with Taylor time to time.
Then a cell phone made a noise. "Ah, the cellphone menace has returned to our crucible of learning." Ms. Darbus brought out her cell phone holder that takes away phones, but was really an empty paint can. Troy, Sharpay, Ryan, and Riella had their phones out. Gabriella had hers out at last moment.
"Sharpay and Ryan, cell phones. And I'll see you in detention." Sharpay was flabbergasted, as was Ryan.
"Riella Cruz, I thought you were better than this," Darbus started, "cell phone now." Riella put her phone in the paint can.
"Yeah, I thought you were better than that, Ri." mocked Zach. "Mr. Montgomery, you'll be joining Ms. Cruz in detention" '
"Aw, man!" Zach muttered. Ms. Darbus went right by them without acknowledging what Zach said or that Zeke was snickering quietly beside them.
"We have zero tolerence of cell phones in class and we'll get to know each other in detention. Cell phone! And welcome to East High, Ms. Montez."
"Mr. Bolton, I see your phone was involved and I'll see you in detention as well."
"That's not a possibility, Ms. Darbus," Chad interrupted her, "we have basketball practice and Troy-"
Chad was interrupted by Darbus, "Ah, that'll be fifteen minutes for you, Mr. Danforth, count 'em."
"That'll be tough for Chad, since he probably can't count that high." mock-whispered Taylor.
"Taylor McKessie, fifteen minutes." Taylor gasped.
"Holidays are over people. Way over! Any comments? Questions?" Darbus exclaimed.
Jason, from the back raised his hand. "Jason," called Ms. Darbus.
"How were your winter holidays, Ms. Darbus?" Jason asked innocently. Everybody in the class groaned out loud. Even Ms. Darbus. Then the bell rang for class.
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Zach followed Riella out of Darbus's classroom.
"Thanks for getting me into detention." sighed Zach.
"Aw, it wasn't my fault that I decided to mock Darbus," mocked Riella. "If anything, you didn't want me to be alone."
"I don't think you would've been alone with your cousin there."
"Well, you never know." Riella smiled at him.
Zach looked over at Troy and Gabriella, "Do you think they know each other?"
Riella looked at two. "I don't know, I'll find out later."
Zach seemed to take this as an answer. "Okay," he offered his arm to her,"to history class, m'lady?"
Riella smiled at Zach and blushed, "Yes, we may." She took his arm and walked towards their history class.
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In the hallway next to the auditorium...
"Gabriella, do you know Troy Bolton?" Riella asked her cousin. It had been bugging her since Zach brought it up to her after homeroom.
Gabriella looked nervous. "Yeah, I met him at the young adult party at the ski lodge Mom and I stayed at on the way here."
Riella gave her cousin a knowing look. "Anything else?"
"We sang karaoke," Gabriella paused. "And..." Riella signaled for her to tell more."
"And that's all, we met on New Year's Eve. And he was a good singer."
"Nice! Well are you ready for detention?" She asked.
"Well, sort of."
"Don't worry, I won't make fun just yet." Riella reassured Gabriella, grabbed her hand, and led her through the auditorium doors.
DISCLAIMER: I GOT THE DIALOGUE FOR DARBUS, CHAD, TAYLOR, AND JASON FROM THE MOVIE. IF I OWNED HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, I WOULD BE THE PROUDEST PERSON EVER!