Two days later, Riella saw Chad, Zeke, Zach, and Jason talk more than usual to Taylor and the Chem club. They had barely talked to the smart kids unless it involved them getting help on homework that they barely did. She soon realized that the boys went against her objections and just thought about the championship game and Taylor was most likely wanting to get a Scholastic Decathlon win. Riella wanted to voice her opinions, but kept her mouth shut as she wanted to see how this was going to go.

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That day at school, there was going to be a pep rally. Riella wore her red Lady Wildcats warm-up jacket that had her last name and number on the back in white. She was also wearing a white Wildcats basketball shirt, and a pair of slightly ripped dark blue jeans, and white Converse. Her hair was up in a ponytail with curls, her bangs strategically placed because of her red bandana. It was going to be a great day.

It started all fine. Everybody was in Ms. Darbus's homeroom when the bell rang. It was the first time since the semester started. Basically all of the students were decked out in red and white, except Troy who wore a dark blue sweater and Gabriella who wore a mint-colored shirt. Riella was listening to the basketball players talk and was holding Zach's hand. Troy and Gabriella were sneaking glances at each other and Sharpay was glaring at them with all of her soul. Ryan just sat in his seat happily. Taylor was focused on the back of Chad's head as he spoke to Zeke, Jason, and Zach.

Ms. Darbus quieted everybody down, told everyone to get in their desk, and started droning on about school, drama cub, and the winter musicale announcements. Riella and everyone else blocked her out as they usually do.

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The school schedule for the day was shortened so that the pep rally could be in the middle of the day and that everybody could participate. At the moment, it was some students study hall, which was right before free period. Everybody wasn't studying though. The art club was making spirit signs for the pep rally, some random students were putting on more red and white to show their spirit, and the chem club was walking quietly. The brainy teens had sad looks on their faces, while their president, Taylor, was looking very focused.

The basketball team was going in and out of the locker room except for Jason and Zach, who were on the lookout for Troy. They were actually just goofing off. Riella, being more mature than both of them, was put on actual watch duty by Chad and Zeke.

"Why are we watching out for Troy again?" questioned Zach.

Riella sighed exasperatedly, "More like I'm the one watching out for him, since you two are messing , we are watching for him so that you guys can convince him to just do basketball and not the musical."

"Oh yeah, I just forgot." Zach said while tossing the basketball to Jason, who caught it swiftly.

"How could you forget that important piece of information?" Riella asked sarcastically, not really hoping for an answer.

Zach caught the basketball after Jason threw it, and looked at Riella with a smile, "I was distracted."

"By what?"

"Your beautiful smile." Zach winked. Riella blushed and kissed his cheek.

"You are such a kiss-up." She stated, smirking, slightly hitting his shoulder.

"Yes, I am." Zach smirked right at her and tried to kiss her lips.

"Quit being adorable, it's kind of disgusting." said Jason, grimacing.

"Shut it, Cross." glared Riella.

"Yes, ma'am."Jason mocked her. She went to punch his arm, but Zach put his arms around her waist and pulled her tight against him.

She tried to get out of his arms, but soon realized that it wasn't going to happen. Riella then settled for a very well practiced death glare. Jason blanched, skin paling to extremely white. He stepped far enough away to make sure that Riella wasn't going to do anything and nodded to Zach.

Zach slowly loosened his grip and turned Riella around.

"How about we talk about our date?" suggested Zach, nodding his head slowly.

Riella thought about it. They've already gone to the movies the past weekend, so what could they do now?

"Okay, where is the second date going to be at?" She questioned.

"I was thinking that it should be at the after party for the game."

"I've only gone to one of those and it was not fun. Remember, you were having a blast while I was fending for myself." She shoved herself away from Zach.

"No, what I remember was having a good time and you telling me the next day that you left about thirty minutes after we arrived."

"Hey, I couldn't stand being around morons who thought that girls were on good for looking pretty."

"That's understandable, but will you go to this party with us? The party will most likely be hosted by either Chad or Troy's parents or both of them." Zach said while pulling Riella toward him again to hug her.

Riella pondered this and was about to answer when Chad and Zeke came out of the locker room.

"Do you two need to be alone?" snickered Zeke. He was trying to cover up his laughter.

Riella noticed their current situation and pulled away from Zach's arms.

"No." She said quickly, feeling her face burn.

"Anyway, thanks for helping us out, Cruz." addressed Chad.

"It was no problem, Danforth." Riella smirked. "Now, if you guys may excuse me, I need to go find my teammates for the pep rally."

The guys said their goodbys and Zach kissed Riella on her cheek. Riella left quickly after the four basketball players disappeared into the locker rooms once again.

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Riella went outside to where the pep rally was being held. It was sunny that day and Riella was glad that she brought her black Ray Bans with her today. She looked around for Hallee, Anna, and Alexa and found them with the rest of the team. She went over there and sat down next to them. Her three friends looked at her with questioning looks.

Feeling awkward, Riella asked, "What?"

"Where were you?" smiled Anna knowingly.

"I was with Zach." Riella replied nonchalantly.

"Oh, really?" questioned Hallee.

"Yeah, and we were with Jason, Chad, and Zeke, too."

"Oh." said Alexa quickly.

"We were just hanging out and Zach also asked me to go with him to the party after the basketball game."

"I thought you hated going to parties." stated Alexa.

"No, I just don't like the jerks who host them that's all."

"Oh, yeah." commented Hallee.

"Anyway, what time is this pep rally beginning?" asked Riella.

As soon as she asked that, the basketball players ran out, the cheerleaders started cheering, and the band played the school song.

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Everybody was pumped up after the pep rally! The basketball team won the spirit stick, which was really a bigger version of a cardboard paper towel roll, covered in red paint with thinner white paint twirling around it. It also had white, red, black, and silver ribbon all over it.

Even though some students weren't really participating, every one was so happy. Some were really excited to get out of class, some were full of spirit and even went as far wearing red and white tutus, face paint, colored their hair, wear red or white hair extensions, bandanas, and etc. Others were showing school spirit, but weren't going all out, example the softball team.

The girls just wore a Wildcats shirt, their personal softball jackets, red and white face paint, and either a red bandana. Before study hall, Hallee, Anna, Alexa, and Riella met up and got their stuff together. They all had face paint, but Riella had white football paint and written on it in red was "Montgomery" on the right and on the left,"# 4." She didn't realize that it was there until Zach brought it up at the beginning of study hall. Riella also had a white bandana on her left wrist. Hallee had red and white football stickers on her cheeks, red on the right and white on the left. They said "Wildcats" on the right and "# 1" on the left. They made her pale brown eyes sparkle. Alexa only had white stickers on her cheeks and red extensions in her hair with a white bandana around her head making her blonde hair poof up.

Anna was a whole different story though. She was one of those students who went all out. She wore what the rest of the softball players did, and also wore a red and white tutu that was covered in silver sparkles. Her face paint was like Alexa's, but red and had "Wildcats" on both sides in white. The red made her baby blue eyes shine. Her caramel brown hair was bumped up in the front by her bangs, which was sprayed silver sparkles, and brought back into a sleek ponytail. A bright red and white bandana was placed right behind her bump. Anna also had white bandanas around her right wrist and left ankle. It was showing since she wore light blue capris today.

They all took selfies, group selfies, and a squad picture. Alexa, Anna, and Hallee made sure to get a picture of Zach and Riella. The couple was standing towards each other and holding hands. Zach's forehead rested on Riella's and they were smiling like crazy. The three friends knew that this could be a great birthday gift in a couple of months.

Soon, Mr. Matsui dismissed all of the students and faculty to their next period class. Riella took her time, walking hand in hand with Zach to her A.P. English and he'll continue onto Algebra II.

"So, I'll see you later?" He asked.

"Maybe, that is if you don't have practice." Riella smiled.

"Oh, yeah, I guess I'll text you."

"You better because all I have to do is homework and it'll suck without you asking for help."

Zach kissed Riella on her lips. It was gentle and over quickly, but not fast enough to not feel it.

"I'll see you soon." Riella murmured.

"See you soon." He whispered back and grasped her hand until he let go of it and went to class.

Riella watched him for a moment and headed into the class. She was happy until she saw Gabriella come into class looking like she was going to tear up.

"Gabi? Are you okay?" She whispered.

"I don't know." Gabriella muttered quietly.

"What happened?" Riella wanted to know more.

"Troy happened." Gabriella responded.

"What did Troy do?"

"It turns out that he didn't want to do the musical after all." Gabriella told her.

Riella went over to her and hugged her tight. She felt her good mood slightly lessen. She pulled back and looked at her cousin.

"You know what?"

"What?" sniffed Gabriella.

"We are going to have a movie night. Since you moved a lot, you probably haven't seen several movies. We are going to watch some, eat ice cream, and complain about everything in existence."

"That actually sounds very fun." Gabriella laughed.

"It's tons of fun!" Riella giggled.

The late bell rang and the two cousins reluctantly went to A.P. English.

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I based the information of the pep rally of my school's. Girls and boys show up in tutus, especially Pink Out!, which is Volley for The Cure. I also wanted to make the story more modern because I was like 7 or 8 when HSM came out.

SHOUT OUT TO:

Biggesthsmfan (GUEST) for your ideas!

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