Chapter one

A/N- Just a new story I wanted to try. Italics are dreams or flashbacks.

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"Gabby!" Sharpay squealed as she and her best friend entered the barn where they spent many afternoons hanging out. It wasn't like Sharpay Evans to really hang out in a barn full of horses, but she loved riding. She and Gabriella both did. "Gabs, be careful." Sharpay warned between giggles as her best friend climbed up the barn ladder.

Gabriella pulled out a bottle and raised it so Sharpay could see. "I've found the mother load my dear." She carefully stepped off the ladder with a thud and opened the bottle of beer that they had kept up there.

"Oh, gimme gimme." Sharpay cheered, taking a big drink of the beer and handing it back to Gabriella.

Gabriella took an ever bigger gulp, but had it pulled away by Sharpay. "Hey!"

"Save some for poor me." She smiled, setting the bottle aside. "You don't want to become an alocholic."

Gabrirella snickered as she stepped onto a line of railing on the floor, walking barefoot along it. "You know, when Ry and I get married you're going to be sorry you treated me so badly. I'm your future sister!"

Sharpay laughed. "Gabs, you've always been my sister. Always have been, always will be."

"Till the end baby." Gabriella finsihed with a grin. "So, any plans with Troy Boy tonight?"

"Nope. He's visiting his grandparents. I'm all alone."

"Well, you still have me and Ry. Come with us to the movies tonight."

Sharpay cringed. "No thanks. I would rather spare myself the images of you and Ryan making out all night long. There's things I just don't need to see in my life."

Gabriella laughed and grabbed the bottle of beer, taking another drink then handing it to Sharpay. "You know what we should do?"

"What, my oh so lovely future-sister-in-law?"

"Let's go for a ride. We'll take the horses out. It's nice outside."

Sharpay seemed to consider it before grinning. "I get Shooting Star."

"Great. I get Jazzy."

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"Ah!" Sharpay half-yelled as she rose suddenly from her sleep. She placed a hand over her heart to try to slow her breathing. Her head was spinning, and her heart was pounding. She took a couple deep breaths and tried to calm down a little. She hated those kind of dreams. The moments that she hated re-living.

"Baby..." Troy's soothing yet worried voice said groggily as he awoke also by her sudden movements. When he saw her he instantly knew something was wrong. "Pay, baby, what's wrong?"

Sharpay shook her head, trying to erase the dream. "I'm...I'm fine"

Troy wasn't buying it. He knew her too well. "No, you're not. What's wrong?"

"I just had a very...weird dream. That's all."

Troy looked at her curiously and moved some of the hair away from her face. "What kind of dream?"

"About...nevermind. It's not important." She said, giving him a small smile. "It was just a dream. I'm okay."

"You sure?"

"Positive." She lied. She hated lying to Troy, but she was sure she didn't want to talk about this.

"Okay." Troy nodded, giving her a light kiss. "Do you want to go back to sleep or do you want to watch some TV?"

"I think I'll watch TV for a while. But why don't you go back to sleep." She said, touching his cheek softly. "You look tired. Sorry I woke you up."

He shook his head and placed his hand on top of hers on his cheek. "Nah, I'm okay. I'm awake now anyways." He said as he brought Sharpay closer to him so they could snuggle together while he turned on the TV in Sharpay's room. "Besides," He started, giving her a smile. "The more time I'm up, the more time I have with you."

She smiled back and kissed him. "You're a little too sweet sometimes. You know that?"

"It's because I love you that much."

She blushed and smiled even brighter. "I love you too."

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"Morning Ry." Sharpay greeted her brother that morning. She felt tired since she hadn't gotten back to sleep last night (but she had forced Troy to), but also in a better mood since the dream because Troy had been there to take her mind off it.

"Morning sis." He said, giving her a smile as he ate his cereal. "Where's Troy?"

"I'm letting him sleep in a little. He didn't get much rest last night."

Ryan made a face. "Ew, Shar."

"No, not that you perv." Sharpay laughed, slapping his arm playfully. "I woke him up during the night because I had a bad dream. I didn't get back to sleep and he wanted to stay up with me."

He gave a smirk. "Yeah. I'm sure that's exactly what happened."

"It is. Now do you want to ride with me and Troy to school or not?" (A/N- Their parents aren't home often, so when they aren't Troy spends the night with Sharpay)

"Nah. I got my own ride. I still have to get ready." He said, getting up and putting his dish into the sink. "See you at school." He said to Sharpay, giving her a kiss on the cheek before making his way upstairs, passing Troy on the way. "Morning Pal. I hear you had a quite the night last night."

"Ry, Shut up!" Sharpay called after him.

Ryan simply smirked and went to get ready. Troy came down and gave Sharpay a kiss. "I can't wait until we get married and we don't have to deal with Ryan every morning."

Sharpay laughed, subcontiously looking down to the enagement ring on her finger and smiled. "Me too."

"You know, since we decided to wait until after graduation to get married, maybe we should go ahead and-"

Sharpay drowned out a little while Troy continued talking. She was too bust starring at the calendar on the wall. It was only two days away from the...the day. Sharpay shuddered at the thought. Maybe that was why she had the dream. Because it was so close to...She shook her head. She didn't want to think about all this right now. Or ever really. But she knew this day would have to come eventually.

"Baby?" Troy called, snapping Sharpay out of her daze. She looke back at him with confusion clouding her vision. "Pay, you okay?"

"Yeah, sorry. What were you saying?"

"Just that I think we should go ahead and tell our parents about the enagement at our graduation party." He said absently, focusing on her. "Are you okay?"

She nodded. "Yeah, sorry...again. I guess I'm just spacing out. Must be from lack of sleep."

He smiled softly and kissed her forehead. "Why don't you go upstairs and rest for a while? We can be a couple hours late to school."

"No, it's okay. I'm going to wait in the car. Maybe some music will wake me up a little."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. You eat breakfast and come out whenever you're ready." She said, giving him a kiss before picking up her school things and going outside.

She was instantly hit witht eh fesh cool breeze of spring. She smiled a little as her head began to clear, but frowned when she turbned to see her family's barn where all their horses were kept. It was always hard seeing it everday, knowing what that theat's where she and Gabriella had spent past of their last few hours together. She looked down and tried to shake the feeling of guilt and remorse away as she got into Troy's car and turned up the radio.

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I know a lot of it doesn't make much sence, but it will later on. But don't you just love how sweet Troy is? Aww. I just got this idea while I was laying in bed one night and I thought it was a good one.

I havn't decided yet if I'm going to continue on with it or what. If you like it, I'll continue writing.

So please review.

-Peace!