Author's Note: I intend to keep this story going all summer long, as it's about summer. Please review! And check out Baby-M-xo's stories, she came up with how they meet and Sami 8D, who helped me with various bits and pieces.

Disclaimer: I only own stuff you don't recognize.

NOTE: There is no High School Musical gang in this story. I mean, like, they don't know each other. Just wanted to make that clear.

Relocation

Chapter 1: Bad Memories

By musiclover94

"Are you sure you're not bringing your cell phone?" Enchante Evans asked her only daughter, a worried expression creasing her face.

"I'm sure, mom," Sharpay repeated, adjusting her bag on her shoulder.

"But what if something terrible happens?" she asked, trying to change her child's mind.

"I'm sure they have pay phone in Riviera Maya." Sharpay said in a 'duh' tone.

"But why do you have to go so far away?" her mother pleaded.

"Places around here, they hold too many bad memories." Sharpay paused to readjust her bag again, but really thinking of the not-so good memories with her ex-boyfriend, Chad Danforth.

Flashback

Sharpay was walking to her locker after school let out. Mrs. Darbus had wanted a word on information concerning the Drama Club, which she was President of. She stepped over countless discarded school supplies the janitors had yet to throw away, old pieces of loose leaf, broken pencils and pens, the like. She was holding a card to give to her boyfriend Chad, as it was their 1-year anniversary. She turned a corner and almost fell over flat on her perfectly made up face, her heels skidding on the scuffed floor.

Chad was leaning up against a red locker, heavily making out with the new girl, Gabriella Montez. They were centimeters away from each other, his hand in her thick, dark, wavy hair, her hands around his neck.

The card fell out of Sharpay's suddenly weak hand, fluttering to the ground and collecting with the other debris, something that was unwanted.

Chad broke apart from Gabriella probably sensing eyes on him. When he saw his girlfriend standing there, he quickly took several steps away from a lovesick Gabriella. He walked calmly toward the blonde, who took several disgusted steps backward and, ironically, stepping over a paper heart someone had torn in half.

"Shar, I can explain…"

Sharpay laughed shortly, disguising the brimming tears she had, refusing to look at Chad. "You can explain? You were kissing Miss Montez, she wasn't kissing you." Chad opened and closed his mouth several times, but no useless words came out.

"Save it, Danforth. We don't need any more carbon dioxide in the air. We're over." She turned on her heel and walked in the direction that she came in from, leaving a dumbfounded Chad in her wake.

End Flashback

"Flight 29 to Riviera Maya now boarding," a cool female voice said smoothly over the speakers.

"That's my flight. See you at the end of the summer." Sharpay said to her mom, hugging her quickly. She again readjusted her bag, the only thing she had brought with her. She walked to the boarding door. As she handed her ticket to the attendant, she turned around and waved at her mom one last time. She waved back, looking sad.

She made her way through the narrow aisle on the airplane, having to apologize numerous times for bumping into people. At long last, she found her seat K2 and sat down gratefully, stowing her bag next to her and pulling out a copy of Essence of the Theatre.

"Sorry…excuse me…sorry…"She heard a voice coming closer and closer to her, sounding as apologetic as she had sounded. Sharpay looked up from the latest details about the Tony Awards. A teenage boy probably around her age was making his way to his seat. In her direction. He had kind of shaggy, brown hair and blue-gray eyes.

"Some trouble?" she asked in a friendly way to him.

"Yeah. These aisles are really small. Did you have trouble?" he asked, taking a seat right next to her. Sharpay silently celebrated this fact.

"Tons. I bet people were just about ready to kick me off the plane." Sharpay smiled at him. He was actually pretty cute. As she thought this, she looked down shamefully. She couldn't get caught up in another romance now, not after just breaking up with Chad.

"What's your name?" he asked.

"Sharpay Evans. You?"

"Troy Bolton. What are you going to Mexico for?" he asked.

Sharpay tried to find the right words and finally said, "Romance." After hearing what she said, she quickly added, "Romance issues, I mean."

"Oh," Troy said, sounding a little disappointed.

"What about you? Why are you going to Mexico?" She turned toward him.

"Visiting my cousins, for the whole summer. Should be a lot of fun." He smiled at the thought.

"It's just that…I just had a really bad breakup with my boyfriend a couple days ago, and I need to relocate, see some new terrain, you know?" She kept on thinking while she was saying this he's a complete stranger; why am I telling him this?! But there was just something about him that made her say it.

"I see what you mean," he said quietly.

The plane gave an almighty rumble and started to wheel down the lane, gradually loosing wheels until it was in the air, high above Albuquerque, the life she was leaving behind for the summer.

"Where do you do to school?" she asked.

"Jasper High. You?"

"East High," she said, not smiling much at the name.

Troy noticed the magazine lying opened in Sharpay's lap. "Big on theatre, are you?" he teased, smiling at her.

"Very. Been in every musical since kindergarten," she said proudly.

"I've dabbled in musical theatre too," he said offhandedly.

"You have, have you?" Sharpay was very interested now. This guy seemed intriguing, and exactly her type.

"Well, sort of. It was on accident," he caught sight of Sharpay's disbelieving expression and continued with a tale of him being all about basketball and then he met this girl on Christmas vacation (Sharpay frowned at this part and felt slightly jealous of that girl) and sang with her. Once returning to school, they sang the audition piece, not knowing the director was hiding behind sight. They had callbacks! He, Troy was getting pressured to drop the callbacks and only focus on basketball, but he did the callbacks anyway. He won the championship and was cast the part of Arnold in Twinkle Towne along with the girl. (A/N: Sound familiar? :D)

"What was the girl's name?"

"Gabriella."

Sharpay said nothing about this fact, but was considerably quieter the rest of the plane ride. She stopped once to look out the window, feeling slightly foolish, like she was six again and looking out a plane window at all the dots below.

Troy reached over and wrote his cell phone number in a margin of the magazine's Table of Contents, where he was sure she would find it. He had a good feeling about this girl.

"We will be landing in Cancun International Airport in five minutes," a voice said over the intercom.

The giant plane began to slowly lower from the sky onto a runway. It landed with a small bump.

Troy and Sharpay exited through the same portal, but headed off in different directions. But Riviera Maya was a small city, and their paths would entwine once again.

Author's Note: Ugh, didn't like the ending, but you guys are judges! Please review and check out Baby-M-xo and Sami 8D's stories, they helped me a lot with this chapter. And I have a feeling that this story is going to feature a lot of Cascada music. Just a heads up. Please review!

Help?: I have no ideas for the next chapter of 100 Years to Live, so if you do, please, please please send them to me in a PM or a review. Thanks! I will credit you.