Playing Pretend Just Got A Lot Gayer

Disclaimer: I do not own 'High School Musical' or 'Hamlet'

Authors note: I should be working on the other story I'm writing, but this idea got stuck in my head so I have to write it out or fall victim to its powers…Anyway please Read and review!

I was running as fast as my un-athletic legs could carry me. I had just gotten the worst news from Ezekiel, and I was running to avoid said news.

You see apparently a certain female bulldozer wanted to ask me out. I shuddered at the thought. I wanted someone with brains not brawn, but most of all I just didn't want to be Eva's bitch.

I entered a door that led into the hallway of Playa De Loser that my room was in. Sadly upon entering I ran into a small brunette with a missing tooth.

"Sorry Noah." Cody said about to keep walking when I heard the voice of Eva.

"Hey Noah, you up here?" I panicked, her voice was close, but perhaps she didn't realize how close I was to her.

"Just go with it." I said grabbing Cody and pressing him against the wall before mashing our lips together.

"Hey-Noah?" I heard her voice and pulled away.

"Hey Eva." I said faking a nervous tone.

"What was that?"

"Things for Cody haven't been right since that kiss at the awake-a-thon; he likes girls, but he's started to think about guys too, so I decided to help him get a handle on what he was feeling, since you know I'm gay."

"You're gay?" Eva sounded surprised, but not mad, that was a good sign.

"Of course I, uh, love boys." The words felt odd coming from my mouth, but I would take that over the pain of dating Eva.

"Oh."

"So what was it that you wanted?"

"Um, I just wanted to see if you wanted to, uh, play pool, but I can see you're busy." Eva said turning around.

"Uhh, wait, Eva? Can you not tell anyone about what you saw?" I asked pleading with God to give me a break.

"Uh, sure." Eva said exiting the room quickly. Once she was gone I slid down to the floor to sit.

"Are you gonna explain?" Asked a very shocked and confused Cody.

"Look, Zeke found out Eva was going to ask me out and I panicked. I just had to find a way to call her off."

"So you couldn't have said you were dating Katie, who you've been flirting with for weeks?"

"I could've, I also could've watched Eva beat her up so she could have me."

"Oh, so it's okay if I get beat-up then?"

"She won't hit you. If she thinks I'm gay then she'll give up because I could never like her anyway."

"So why me?"

"Because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"So what happens when she realizes you're lying?"

"She won't find out." I answered glaring at him in a 'I'll kill you if you tell' sort of way.

"Dude, I'm not going to tell her, but she's gonna be watching you like a hawk. She's going to notice you flirting with Katie and staring at Izzy's boobs every time she talks to you."

"You, uh, noticed me staring at Izzy, huh?"

"Yeah, and luckily for you Owen hasn't. But I bet you Eva's going to start noticing. I bet she'll be looking for any sign that you're strait; you know Eva, she doesn't give up that easily."

"Okay so I've just got to stop doing those things."

"Can you stop?"

"Do I have a choice!?" I hissed at Cody. It was pissing me off that he was thinking this through farther than I was.

"Not unless you want killed."

"Then I'll stop."

"What happens when Katie gets mad that you're ignoring her and causes a big scene?"

"I tell her I was trying to act strait, but I just realized I was gay and that couldn't change."

"And the day you realized that you were comfortable enough to kiss a guy?"

"Okay then Cody, since you've already thought this though what do you suggest I do?" I hated asking him, but for once he was out thinking me. I couldn't concentrate; I needed someone to think it though for me.

"You've got to show Katie you're gay. If she sees it she'll think she was wrong about you flirting with her, she'll think it was her imagination. If you just tell her you're gay she'll think you're lying so you can ditch her." God the way he was making since was pissing me off.

"So basically I make-out with a guy in front of her and problem solved?"

"In theory."

"Wanna make out." It was a fucking joke! And yet there he goes getting red as a tomato!

"Um, actually I have a proposition for you."

That was not what I thought he would say. I was expecting something along the lines of 'no', 'gross', or 'Noah you're sick'.

"Continue."

"Look to put it mildly I can't stand Eva, like, really can't stand her. I wakeup every morning in hopes the she's been crushed by her own barbells; when I see her eat breakfast I hope she chokes, and when I see her walk by the pool I'm hoping she falls in and breaks her legs causing her to drown."

I'm just staring at him now. He has a dark side? Who knew?

"Anyway my point is that I want Eva to suffer, and I think that seeing you with someone else would not only hurt her, but be the perfect ironic revenge that I've been looking for."

"Revenge, huh? Before you continue, how about you tell me why you need revenge."

"Well it started at breakfast…."

Flashback

Cody was at the breakfast buffet getting food when Eva gets behind him in the food line.

"Morning Eva."

"Shut it shrimp!"

"Sorry I-"

"I said shut it! I don't want anyone to see my talking to a wannabe like you."

"How am I a wannabe?" Cody asked getting a little frustrated.

"You want to be cool, but you're just a pathetic loser."

"I am not pathetic!"

"Gwen thinks you are."

"She-"

"And so does everyone else. No one wants a piece of the Codemister, or the Codestir, or any other stupid nickname you've given yourself."

"People like me! And I can get a date!"

"Maybe in your dreams, with a blow-up doll." Eva said before pushing Cody to the ground and walking away with her food.

End Flashback

"And that's what happened."

Poor kid finally got told the truth, but even I admit he could have bee told in a nicer way.

"Okay I see why that would need revenge, but what's your plan?" I knew what he was going to say, but I needed to hear him say it.

"We pretend to date. Not only am I dating someone, but I'm dating her crush. It's the perfect revenge!" That's exactly what I thought he would say, but now it was my turn to question.

"You're willing to act gay in front of everyone on television?"

"The cameras are off until next summer since Chris decided they'd need extra time for TDA."

"But you're willing to act gay in front of Gwen?"

"She doesn't like me that way, so yeah. Besides I bet she'll totally change in front of me if she thinks I'm gay."

"Well technically you'd be bi. That's what I told Eva, besides I think the way you hit on the girls makes you obviously strait, saying you're bi is pushing it."

"Okay that's fine, I can still get revenge. And don't worry I can totally pull this off, I'm a great actor! I even got the lead as Troy, in our 'High School Musical' play. Well technically I was his second understudy, but that's still good! What about you, you think you can pull this off?"

"I was Hamlet in our school play."

"Dude, I didn't know you liked to act!"

"I don't. My gym teacher was the head of the drama department; she wanted me to be Hamlet because I could actually pronounce all the words, and she said if I did she'd give me an A in gym so I could keep my 4.0 average."

"Wow she came to you? You must be good! We can totally pull this off! Look, I was just gonna head to my room for some shut eye, and I suggest you do the same because tomorrow this plan goes into full action!" Cody told me as he walked away.

"Yeah, goodnight." I said walking toward my suite, because tomorrow will be a long day.

Okay, please read and reveiw! Also I will probably update once a week, however it could take longer, or shorter, but probably weekly.