Side #1- Troy/Gabriella
(Lights up on the rooftop garden, Horticulture Club headquarters. It’s a hidden oasis, filled with flowers in full bloom. TROY and GABRIELLA run on.)
GABRIELLA
How crazy was that?!?
(catching her breath)
Wow, so this is your private hideout?
TROY
Thanks to the Horticulture Club. I come up here when I want to be alone.
GABRIELLA
Must be tricky being the coach’s son.
TROY
He’s gonna freak when he hears about the singing thing.
GABRIELLA
You’re worried?
TROY
Sometimes I don’t want to be “the basketball guy.” I just want to be, you know, me.
GABRIELLA
I know what you mean. At my other schools I was always “the freaky math girl.” I hated it.
TROY
But you can’t let people stop you from doing what you want to do, right?
GABRIELLA
Remember how cool kindergarten was? You’d meet somebody, and ten minutes later you were best friends.
TROY
Yeah, they didn’t care if you could shoot hoops or solve equations.
GABRIELLA
Right. So you really want to do the callbacks?
TROY
Hey, just call me “freaky callback boy.”
GABRIELLA
Thanks for showing me your top-secret hiding place. Just like kindergarten.
TROY
Be your best friend.
(TROY and GABRIELLA smile. And very tentatively, hold hands. Lights fade.)