With this story, I am going to be trying something different. Instead of telling this story in the normal linear way, the story will be going back and forth in time. The majority of scenes will take place before HSM1 or between the other films. This story is in the same universe as my other story It All Falls Apart. However, you do not have to read that story to understand this one, since everything in this story is happening before the events in that story.
Don't worry at the end of the story I will provide a guide that will put all the chapters in chronological order.
There are many characters in this story. However, all events will revolve around Troy, Sharpay, and Chad even if they are not in the chapter.
Summary: Sometimes the only way to understand why your life is falling apart is to take a good look at the moments that led to that point.
Pairings: C/S (Complicated relationship), TB/S (primarily friendship but not quite), TM/R, J/OC, TB/OC, S/Z, TM/C, L/V and G/TB (primarily falling apart)
Disclaimer: I do not own high school Musical
Chapter one: The Great Tree House Incident.
September 1, 2001
11-year-old Sharpay Evans stood in front of her father as tears ran down her face. "Dad I don't wanna go." She replied in almost a screening cry.
"It is for the best pumpkin," replied Vance Evans.
"I don't want to go to Rhode Island, daddy. I would have to leave all my friends behind to leave everyone. Don't make me leave Troy. I can't leave Chad, not now daddy. Not after his mom just died."
"Don't you want to be with her brother again? You will get to go to the same school. You love your aunt Carol." Vance said in reply completely ignoring his daughter's concerns.
"I want to stay here."
"Honey, with your mother at the spa, I feel it would be best if you lived with your aunt and your brother for a while.
"I don't wanna go. Please dad don't make me go." The tears were coming down even faster now.
"Honey, I cannot look after you and the company. Besides, Rhode Island may be better for your mom after she gets back from her vacation."
"Please stop lying dad. I am 11 years old, not stupid. Moms not at a spa, she is in rehab. I have been hiding the bottles since I was five." Vance seemed completely shocked his daughter's confession. "You don't care about her, you don't care about me, just how people see you. You're sending us a way because you're more concerned with your image than anything else. Do you love us dad?"
"A course I do honey."
"Then don't make me leave daddy. Don't take me away from my friends." Sharpay screamed at the top of her lungs as she fell onto the floor of her room.
"I have made up my mind your leaving tomorrow, your nanny Margarita will be up to in a few minutes to help you pack." Without a single look back of his crying child, Vince Evans left the room.
Within seconds Sharpay was out that the back window and down to the gardens below. She ran for blocks to the house that became her second home. She ran to a tree house that became her sanctuary from all the pain. However, she knew that the house and the tree house could not be that place anymore. The police tape was gone from the front door, but a for sale sign stood in the front lawn.
Sharpay walked to the back of the house across the grass and up to the tree house that her friends and Guardians created. She expected to be alone out there now that Chad lived with his uncle several blocks away. Instead, her best friend sat in the corner with basketball in hand.
"Are you hiding too?" He asked from the shadows.
"He's making me leave," Sharpay whispered in tears.
"What!" Chad exclaimed as he dropped his basketball and made his way through his friend.
"He's sending me to live with Aunt Caroline and Ryan." Sharpay said as she grabbed on to him.
"It will be okay, you miss Ryan. You two will be together again. I know you hate that Ryan goes to that private school in Rhode Island."
"You always look on the bright side of everything. I will miss you more than I miss Ryan now." She said it in almost a whisper.
"You will come back?" He said it as more of a question than anything else.
"I promise I will come back to you," she responded looking into his eyes. She will never know who made the first move and years from now, she would not understand why it happen. In seconds, his lips were on hers and she never felt more complete in her entire life. At that moment, Sharpay wonder if you can fall in love at 11.
