"Sharpay?"
"Yeah."
"I gotta say, I've never seen you this non-peppy."
Sharpay looked at Zeke with sad eyes.
"Ok, wrong time…you wanna talk?"
"Not really."
Sharpay was sitting on her mattress with all the pink sheets stripped off. The moving boxes were strewn all over the room. She had started to pack, but when she came across her picture book, she stopped, locking herself away from everyone. She thought locking everyone else out of her room would lock the rest of the world out of her life. All her family had tried over and over again to persuade her to unlock the door and talk to them, but she still had just sat on her mattress, flipping through the pages. So, finally, the desperate family called over Zeke. Zeke had picked the lock with a bobby pin, and told the family she just needed some space. With that, the rest of the family was downstairs packing everything up, and hauling it to the mover van. Sharpay just sat there, flipping the pages, silently crying.
"Sharpay, I know this is hard for you. Me, too. But you're only moving three hours away! I'll visit every weekend."
"Yeah, for like a month. Zeke, I hate to do this, but we have to break up. You're gonna want a girlfriend you can actually see once a month."
Zeke stood up. "Sharpay, we have been going out for about a year. Through that year, you have dragged me through mall, in and out of nail and hair places,to every dance, and you even made me get a manicure that one time. I have never put my foot down. But now I am. We are not breaking up."
"Yes, we are. I'm sorry."
Sharpay looked awful. She had her baggy pajama pants on, a small tank top the exposed several inches of belly, and her hair looked like a yellow bird's nest. Of course, to Zeke, she looked more beautiful than ever.
"I'll miss you, Zeke."
"Be sure to call?" He asked quietly.
"Of course."
"In the meantime, I brought you a present."
Zeke opened a brown paper bag and revealed several of Sharpay's favorite Disney movies. Sharpay smiled and quickly popped one in the VCR. They sat on the mattress, just watching the movies.
Half way through Bambi, Sharpay spoke. "Zeke?"
"Huh?"
"I love you."
"I love you, too."
They then continued watching the movies. As Sharpay sat there, in her Baggy pajama shorts and sort tank top, with a Coke and a bowl full of popcorn, she realized just how lucky she was to have a great friend like Zeke.
"And, Zeke?"
"Yeah?"
"Sorry about making you get that manicure."
He grinned. "It's okay. Really."
They watched the movies until she left, and that was the last Ryan ever saw of his best friend, Sharpay Evans.