NEXT DAY ~~ SCHOOL LIBRARY

Third' P.O.V.

"What spell has this elevated-IQ temptress girl cast that suddenly makes you wanna be in a musical?"Chad asked Troy.

"Look, I just did it. Who cares?" Troy asked.

"Who cares? How about your most loyal best friend." Chad told him.

"Quiet in here, Mr. Danforth." The Liberian told him.

"It's him Miss Falsaff, not me.' Chad innocently pointed to Troy.
Miss Falsaff moves on.

"Look, you're a hoops dude, not a musical singer person." Chad hands the ball to Troy, who sighs, and tosses it right back to Chad.

"Have you ever seen Michael Crawford on a cereal box?" Chad asked.

"Who's Michael Crawford?" Troy asked.

"Exactly my point. He was the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. Now my mom has seen that musical 27 times, and put Michael Crawford's picture in our refrigerator. Yeah, not on it, in it. So my point is, if you play basketball, you're gonna end up on a cereal box. If you sing in musicals, you'll end up in my mom's refrigerator." Chad explained.

"Why would she put his picture in her refrigerator?" Troy asked.

"One of her crazy diet ideas. Look, I, I don't attempt to understand the female mind, Troy.It's frightening territory. How can you expect the rest of us to be focused on a game if you're off somewhere in leotards singing 'Twinkle Town'?" Chad asked.

"No one said anything about leotards." Troy told him.

"Not yet, my friend, but just you wait. Look, we need you Captain. Big time." Chad told him.

"Mr. Danforth." The Librarian warned him again.
"I tried to tell him, Miss Falsaff. Really tried." Chad said the last part looking at Troy and walked away.

CLASSROOM

Chad, Zeke,Jason and the Penelope from the cheerleaders march into the science classroom and walk up to Taylor, with not a good face. Then Sharpay walks in to them like she is gona kill someone.

"I need your help and I'll kill if I need!" Sharpay yelled.

"Fine, calm dow. We don't want Cat singing with your brother in the show." Penelope tell her.

"We have a plan, but we need your help too." Chad tell Sharpay and Taylor.

"What's the plan." Taylor ask.

"The plan is...." Chad start.

After discussing...

"Do you really think that's gonna work?" Taylor asked Chad.

"It will work. I am gonna ashure!" Sharpay yelled.

"It's the only way, so are you two on?" Chad asked Taylor and Sharpay.

"Yeah." The two sey together.

"Good. So we start tomorrow then?" He asked.

"OK, the first thing." Taylor told him.

"Nice. Let's go." He said and everybody left the science class.

NEXT DAY – OUTSIDE

Chad and Penelope come out from behind a statue as Taylor arrives to make her delivery: a laptop with a webcam.

"So, my watch is 7:45 Moutain Standard time. We synched?" Chad asked.

Penelope nodded.

"Whatever." Taylor said.

Then Sharpay come to them.

"All right, then we're on a go mode for lunch period, exactly 12:05?" Chad asked.

"Yes, Chad, we're a go. But we're not Charlie's Angels, OK?" Sharpay said to him.

Taylor hands Chad, Sharpay and Penelope the equipment.

"I can dream, can't I?" He asked.

"What ever." Sharpay says.

INSIDE THE SCHOOL

The various students are heading to their classrooms. Troy is looking around the men's locker room, searching for his teammates, but with no luck so far. He goes a bit further and finds them all gathered around a table filled with pictures and trophies

" 'Spider' Bill Netrine, class of 72. He was the MVP in the league championship game." Chad told Troy.

"Sam Nedler, class of 02. Also known as 'Sammy Slamma Jamma.' Captain, MVP of the league championship team." Zeke told Troy.

" 'Thunder Clap' (everybody claps) Hap Hadden, 95. Led the Wildcats to back-to-back city championships. A legend." Jason told Troy.

"Yes, legends, one and all.But do you think that any of these Wildcat legends became legends by getting involved in musical auditions just days before the league championships?" Chad asked.

"Get your head in the game!" The Wildcats scream.

"No. These Wildcat legends became legends because they never took their eye off the prize." Chad told Tory.

"Get your head in the game!" The wildcats screamed.

"Now, who was the first sophomore ever to make starting varsity?" Chad asked the Wildcats

"Troy!" The wildcats scream.

"So, who voted him our team captain this year?" Chad asked.

"Us!" The wildcats screamed.

"And who is gonna get their sorry butts kicked in Friday's championship game if Troy's worried about an audition?"Chad asked.

"We are." The wildcats said not enthusiastically.

"Guys, come on. I mean, there's 12 people on this team, not just me." Troy told them.

"Just 12? Oh, no. I think you're forgetting about one very important 13th member of our squad." Chad told him.

Chad receives a picture from a Wildcat behind him and hands it to Troy. It's Coach Bolton, his dad.

"My dad." Troy said.

"Yes, Troy. Wildcat basketball champion, class of 1981. Champion, father, and now coach. It's a winning tradition like no other." Chad told him.

Troy looks at the picture

Science class

"From lowly Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, to early warriors, medievel knights. All leading up to... lunkhead basketball man." Taylor Taylor shows Gabriella a poster of a basketball player with Troy's head, enlarged and superimposed on top of it. Gabriella smiles at the poster.

"Yes, our culture worshipped the aggressor throughout the ages and we end up with spoiled, overpaid, bonehead athletes who contribute little to civilization other than slam dunks and touchdowns.That is the inevitable world of Troy Bolton.(speaking warmly now) But the path of the mind, the path we're on, ours is the path that has brought us these people: (presses a button and historical articles and pictures appear on her laptop) Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Sandra Day O'Connor, Madame Curie, Jane Goodall, Oprah Winfrey and so many others who the world reveres." Taylor told her.

"Uh, but what is? You know, I've got Kelsi waiting for me to rehearse." Gabriella is about to leave.

"Gabriella!" Taylor yelled.

Gabriella sits back down with a somewhat scared look

"Troy Bolton represents one side of evolution. And our side, the side of education and accomplishment is the future of civilization!" As Taylor says this she slaps various things with her pointing stick "This is the side where you belong."
Gabriella had nonplussed expression on her face. 

Locker room

"Guys, if you don't know that I'll put 110% of my guts into that game, then you don't know me." Troy told the wildcats.

"But we just thought..." Chad began.

"I'll tell you what I thought. I thought that you're my friends. Win together, lose together, teammates." Troy told them.
Chad and another classmate set up the laptop and the camera, oblivious to Troy.

"But suddenly the girl... and the singing." Chad said.

"Man, I'm for the team! I've always been for the team. She's just someone I met." Troy told him.

Science club

"All right the singing thing is nothing. Probably just a way to keep my nerves down. I don't know. It means nothing to me. You're my guys and this is our team. Gabriella is not important. I'll forget about her, I'll forget the audition and we'll go out and get that championship. Everyone happy now?" Troy asked through the laptop screen.

The transmission ends as Taylor starts again.

"Behold lunkhead basketball man." She said.
Taylor fails to notice the tear that raced down Gabriella's cheek which is evident in what she says next. She was just tinking of herself.

"So, Gabriella, we'd love to have you for the scholastic decathlon." She told her. Gabriella just nood her head.

"Did you wanna grab some lunch?" Taylor asked.
Gabriella manages a weak smile as she shakes her head at the offer.

"Well we'll be there if you wanna come." With that Taylor left.

While all that was happening, with Catlyn was happening something similar...

Cat was looking for Penelope and the cheerleaders but she couldn't find them. Finally she see them in the gym with a laptop beside them.

"There you are. I've been looking for you everywhere in this school!" She exclaimed.

"We need to talk to you is seriously." Penelope said.

"Okay." Cat asked.

"We need to talk about Ryan." She told her.

Cat instantly smile and look to them " What about him?" She asked.

"You like him" She asked.

"Yeah, I like him. So what?" Cat smiled.

"Do you know who he really is?" She asked.

"What are you talking about?" Cat was confused, and sit in the floor. 

In the auditorium

"There you are Sharpay I've been looking for you everywhere." Ryan entered .

"What do you want? I have some things to do." Sharpay say.

"I just want to talk about your song." He said coming to her side.

" Why don't you ask Catlyn, you are going to the auditions with Catlyn and not with me." She faked cried turning her back to him.

"I am gonna do with you to." Ryan told her.

"But you gonna forget about me and stay just with her." She said fixing the camera in the laptop.

"I wont, you're my sister." He said to her.

Cat's P.O.V~~~~

In the Gym

The cheerleader turn on the laptop and Ryan's face popped up and that made me smile. Making me watch.

"But you make me thought that...." Sharpay's voice came from the laptop.

"You thought wrong ok? Cat is just a girl I met at a stupid party in the new years eve. She is not important to me like you are. I'll forget about her! I'll forget about the auditions! I'll forget about everything, if is that what you want.Ok!" Ryan told her, when he says that I start to cry not making a noise just leting the tears fall my face. How can he say that about me.

"Thank you Ryan!" Sharpay suddenly stopped crying and kissed him on the cheek.

"What just happened?" Ryan said in a confused tone looking at her like she was crazy.

The cheerleaders shut down the laptop as the tear left my eyes. They didn't even realize. I get my pulse and start to rub him were is the cuts. I happy that I put a coat today.

"We got our captain back!" Chad shouted as he entered the gym coming to us.

"And we got our head cheerleader back!" Penelope screamed. I wiped her tears so they can't see it.

"Go Wildcats!" Troy and I screamed and all of us went to the cafeteria.

"Wildcats!" Chad exclaimed.
"Get your head in the game! Whoo! Let's go!" All of them screamed.

The Wildcats have decided to throw a celebration for us. The girls start screaming my name and the boys scream Troy's. I look at them and start to remember what Ryan said and start to get sad. I put my hand in my wrist felling the fabric in contat off my cut skin.

"T-Troy I going to the bathroom. See you later." Itell my brother that just nood his head.

I walk to the bathroom and when I get there I lock the door, I get my bag and open getting the razon out.

'Feeling used
But I'm
Still missing you
And I can't
See the end of this
Just wanna feel your kiss
Against my lips
And now all this time
Is passing by
But I still can't seem to tell you why
It hurts me every time I see you
Realize how much I need you'

I start to sing, I put the razon on my wrist and let the cold metal touch my skin making me shivered.

'I hate you I love you
I hate that I love you
Don't want to, but I can't put
Nobody else above you
I hate you I love you
I hate that I want you
You want her, you need her
And I'll never be her

I miss you when I can't sleep
Or right after coffee
Or right when I can't eat
I miss you in my front seat
Still got sand in my sweaters
From nights we don't remember
Do you miss me like I miss you?
Fucked around and got attached to you
Friends can break your heart too, and
I'm always tired but never of you
If I pulled a you on you, you wouldn't like that shit
I put this real out, but you wouldn't bite that shit
I type a text but then I never mind that shit
I got these feelings but you never mind that shit
Oh oh, keep it on the low
You're still in love with me but your friends don't know
If you wanted me you would just say so
And if I were you, I would never let me go
I don't mean no harm
I just miss you on my arm
Wedding bells were just alarms
Caution tape around my heart
You ever wonder what we coulda been?
You said you wouldn't and you fucking did
Lie to me, lie with me, get your fucking fix
Now all my drinks and all my feelings are all fucking mixed
Always missing people that I shouldn't be missing
Sometimes you gotta burn some bridges just to create some distance
I know that I control my thoughts, and I should stop reminiscing
But I learned from my dad that it's good to have feelings
When love and trust are gone
I guess this is moving on
Everyone I do right does me wrong
So every lonely night, I sing this song'

I pull the razon making a line of red in my skin, the blood fluid out doing his way through my hand to the floor.

'I hate you I love you
I hate that I love you
Don't want to, but I can't put
Nobody else above you
I hate you I love you
I hate that I want you
You want her, you need her
And I'll never be her


All alone I watch you watch her
Like she's the only girl you've ever seen
You don't care u never did
You don't give a damn about me
Yeah all alone I watch you watch her
She's the only thing you've ever seen
How is it you never notice
That you are slowly killing me


I hate you I love you
I hate that I love you
Don't want to, but I can't put
Nobody else above you
I hate you I love you
I hate that I want you
You want her, you need her
And I'll never be her'

I have tears all over my face with my make-up out, my hands were bloody so I get up and clean the cuts and the floor, bandage my wrists and reply my make-up tring to hide my red eyes.

Then I get out of the bathroom ad walk to my locker. Ryan approached me, I didn't say a thing.

"Hi." Ryan appeared, I didn't answer to him just stay looking in my locker.

"Thats is the part where you talk back like 'Yellow.' And we smile at each other and hug." Ryan told me. I won't talk to him, I can't or I might cry.

"Ok...well I was going to talk about the callbacks the we have." He began.

"It's ok I don't wanna do it anymore either. I know you don't." I told him.

"What?No. I was going to say that we have to..." He began again.

"It's ok don't need to lie, you have your sister and I have my cheerleaders and brother. Goodbye Ryan. Maybe we see each other some time." I said.

"Hey Cat wait..." He began, but I cut him..

"Catlyn, my name is Catlyn." I corrected him.

He looked at me hurt I just left him standing there, just walk away from him.

Then the Wildcat parade arrives at the lockers.