Portwell

Portwell is the het ship between Gina Porter and E.J. Caswell from the High School Musical fandom.

Season 1
In The Auditions, E.J. Caswell first met Gina Porter at auditions for High School Musical at East High School. E.J. was a senior and Gina was a sophomore and a transfer student when they first met. Then during auditions when everyone was in a line when Miss Jenn was going through the line asking everyone who they are reading for Gina stands next to E.J. on his left side. E.J. originally audition for Troy Bolton and Gina originally audition for Troy Bolton's love interest Gabriella Montez. E.J. didn't get the part of Troy Bolton instead he was cast as Chad Danforth and Gina didn't get the part of Gabriella Montez instead she was cast as Taylor McKessie. Both E.J. and Gina got mad when they were both cast as the main characters Troy and Gabriella's understudy.

In The Read Through, one day during rehearsals when no one is looking Gina steals E.J.'s girlfriend at the time Nini Salazar Roberts phone for E.J. and puts it in his backpack. E.J. finds Nini's phone in his backpack and thanks his cousin Ashlyn Caswell for stealing it for him and Ashlyn looks at him very confused because she never stole it to begin with. Then Gina walks up behind E.J. and talks to him for the first time offering alliance to team up because they both "want the same thing" according to Gina.

In Blocking, Gina walks up to E.J. at his locker offering to help him out to get the part of Troy and to win back his ex Nini who just broke up with that day. They end up becoming friends. Then later that night E.J. shows up at Gina's house after he got her text to meet up with him at her house so she can tell him about her plan. Gina answers the door and doesn't let E.J. in for some reason so she comes out the front porch and shuts the door behind her. Then E.J. asks Gina about what her plan is. Then Gina tells E.J. that he is taking her to the Homecoming dance as his date and E.J. looks at Gina very confused about her plan.

In Homecoming, E.J. and Gina pretend they are dating by walking in together at the Homecoming dance to make E.J.'s ex-girlfriend Nini Salazar-Roberts jealous who ends up not going to Homecoming anyways. E.J. and Gina check in with Mr. Mazzara who is very confused why E.J. took Gina as his date instead of Nini who he was originally supposed to go with before she broke up with him. Gina explains "there was a last minute cast change" to Mr. Mazzara. Gina drags E.J.'s hand to come take a photo with her at the photo booth. After they are done getting their pictures taken Gina posts a photo of her with E.J. at Homecoming on Instagram. Both Nini and Ricky show the photo of Gina with E.J. that she just posted on Instagram to their best friends Kourtney Greene and Big Red. Then Gina asks E.J. to get her some punch. Then E.J. gets up and leaves to get Gina some punch while Ricky Bown scoots closer to Gina and tells her that E.J. is "bad news" and that she can do better than that. Then Gina gets upset about Ricky's rude comment. Then Gina goes over to the Punch table and argues with E.J. to go with her plan and E.J. asks her what her plan is. Then Gina gets mad and pours a Punch on E.J.'s head and storms out of the school gymnasium by leaving the dance early.

In What Team?, the next time E.J. sees Gina is at the photo shoot for the musical's poster. E.J. walks up to Gina during the photo shoot and asks Gina what happened to the plan. Then Gina replies that it is very complicated. Then E.J. asks Gina "Do you care about Ricky now?" Then Gina replies "What if I do."

In Thanksgiving, Gina gets a call from her mother during Ashlyn's Thanksgiving Party telling her that there is emergency in Washington D.C. and that they need to move again before opening night for High School Musical. Gina is upset that she has to move again causing her to miss opening night. Then E.J. ends up buying Gina a plane ticket to fly to Salt Lake City so she can come back to East High School for opening night so she doesn't miss the show.

In Opening Night, Gina surprises everyone on Opening Night for High School Musical and explains that a friend bought her a last minute plane ticket to fly to Salt Lake City on Opening Night.

In Act Two, it was officially reveal that E.J. was the friend that bought Gina a last minute plane ticket when Gina thanks E.J. for buying her a plane ticket when Nini and Ricky are performing "Breaking Free" on stage. Then E.J. says to Gina "It didn't seem fair for you to miss all this."

Fanon
Portwell is one of the most popular pairings in the High School Musical fandom. Portwell is the fourth most written ship in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series tag on A03. Portwell is the most written ship for E.J. Caswell in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series tag on A03. Portwell is the second most written ship for Gina Porter in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series tag on A03.

Fandom

 * FANFICTION
 * E.J. Caswell/Gina Porter tag on A03


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