Funnily enough, I do not own High School Musical or any of the characters in this story. Anyways, on with the show:
The final day of high school had finally arrived, flocks of students burst through the corridors singing and screaming at the top of their lungs. All of the flocks began to hug each other and cry, as if they would all never see each other again. It's as if they had forgotten there was a leaving party next week…
Ryan Evans finally spotted his sister struggling in a sea of extreme emotion, battling through hi-fives, handshakes and other strange gestures. She had just finished signing a girl's yearbook, after handing it back to her she gave the girl a very polite hug, she turned around to face her younger brother, drying her tears.
"I'm going to miss that girl!" Sharpay tearfully announced. Ryan had heard that comment before, so looked at her sceptically.
"Who was she?"
Sharpay took out a small white tissue and gently pressed it against her tears, making sure her makeup didn't run. Her frown quickly turned into a coy grin.
"…not a clue".
They both burst into laughter. If there were anyone who could almost rival Ryan in acting it would have to be his sister. However, general appreciation for Ryan's acting was rather scarce around East High…mainly because he didn't have breasts. There were sometimes when Ryan really envied his sister.
"Get any interesting comments in your yearbook Ryan?" asked Ryan's sister, already knowing his answer and flaunting her popularity in his face. Ryan rolled his eyes.
"Nope, just a few from drama club and from my classes. Kelsi and Gabriella wrote nice messages, nothing special though"
He breathed in slowly and bit his lip. He may as well get this over with now before his sister picked an even more inappropriate time to make him feel inferior.
"How about you?"
"Just about everyone! The best message has to be from Troy" she flicked over the pages of her yearbook lightly until she found the page with Troy's coarse scribble. Ryan eyed the piece suspiciously:
"Have a great summer! – Troy x"
'Was this really the best comment she got?' Ryan celebrated inside, he suddenly felt a lot better about his lack of entries in his yearbook.
'Sure, he must have spent a long time drawing the smiley face in the o of his name but the whole entry must have taken under ten seconds. Well, I guess Troy is writing so it could have taken him ten minutes! Wait, that was quite harsh…I'll take that back'
Ryan was grinning, happy in his own little conversation with his mind. He was suddenly brought back to earth by the harsh sound of his older sister coughing. Ryan knew that this was the sign to start asking more questions.
"Umm…why is this the best entry you got Sharpay?"
Sharpay's face turned an angry crimson shade. She usually went this colour when Ryan had missed some sort of point to what she was chattering on about. Whenever he saw her pull this face he had this funny image of her exploding. He grinned again.
"Look at it!!!" she practically screamed. Ryan adjusted his hat as he could have sworn she moved it three inches with her hurricane of an outburst. He looked at the signing again, really lost as to what she was pointing out. Luckily, she decided to put her brother out of his agony and carry on with the conversation as if everything was back to normal.
"He has put a kiss on the end, this is obviously a sign that he is in love with me!" she sighed softly. Ryan sometimes wished Troy were part of the Evans family just so that Sharpay would behave and not bug him as much, that wish was always taken back at the thought of incestuous siblings…
"Uh, that's…great!" Ryan felt so uncomfortable at this moment; he even did a cheesy two thumbs up gesture. In his mind he was repeatedly slapping himself, he was glad that nobody else was around to witness this cringe-worthy moment
"Hey Ryan!" came a voice from behind him, accompanied by a comforting hand on his shoulder. Ryan made a sudden jolt and turned around hastily, a little confused. The only two people he was comfortably a friend with were Kelsi and Gabriella…and neither of them sounds like a man.
To Ryan's surprise it was Troy Bolton, the figurehead of East High. Both star actor and basketball captain, Ryan didn't think it would be long before East High changed their school flag to a picture of Troy's face. Troy looked at Ryan and smiled, almost beaming. The blonde boy shuffled his feet a little, feeling quite uncomfortable. Ryan silently thanked the heavens when Troy removed his hand from the younger boys shoulder.
"Hey Troy…how…are you?" Ryan mentally scolded myself, for such an amazing actor with great skills in improvisation was a simple 'hey, how are you' the best he could muster? Luckily, Troy wasn't too hard to please.
"Yeah I'm good, bit of a weird day huh?" He cocked his head to the side slightly, almost as if he was talking to a younger child or a small pet. Ryan felt a little bit insulted but thought there was no point in ending his high school time by punching someone in the face.
"Yeah…in a weird way I'm really going to miss this place. No responsibility, no worries…" The Evans brother started to daydream with what he was saying. Troy looked at Ryan puzzled and started to wave his hand in front of Ryan's face. He snapped out of his trance, Troy let out a laugh, observing Ryan's shocked face.
"Hey, we haven't signed each others yearbooks yet!" Troy snatched the younger boy's yearbook out of his hands and tossed his own yearbook over to Ryan (who fumbled with the book, quite surprised that Troy would even want his signature in the golden boy's book of "Who's Who in East High".) Ryan saw that Troy had already closed his yearbook, so frantically scribbled something down and politely handed Troy his book back, smiling slightly.
"Here you go, take care Troy"
Troy gave back Ryan's book in return and smiled. He then stepped forward, quickly and forcefully embracing the blonde boy for what might have been the most awkward five seconds of Ryan's life.
"See you around Ryan!" Troy beamed and turned around, running up towards a crowd of girls, who all screamed and clapped their hands like seals when they saw him. Ryan rolled his eyes and turned to Sharpay, whose mouth had made a complete O' shape.
"What? Something on my teeth?"
Sharpay didn't move
"…my face? My hat?"
Sharpay stood still, gawping at her younger sibling. She finally snapped out of her trance and snatched her brother's yearbook from his hands, frantically flicking to the page Troy had just wrote on. She read the paragraph quickly, then again slowly, and then just to make sure that her mind wasn't playing tricks on her she read it again.
"Hmmm, this is very interesting. This message was clearly meant for me, but Troy…knowing we are twins…and that we are telepathic…knew that I would read your yearbook. Yes. That must be it!" Sharpay began to speculate.
"If we were actually telepathic Sharpay you would have picked up on the fact that I would actually like to read my own yearbook…so any chance I can read it?!" Ryan said through gritted teeth, wrinkling his eyebrows to hint to his sister that he was annoyed by her obsessive, bunny-boiling speech. She shrugged and tossed his yearbook over to him, with increasing curiosity Ryan flicked to the page and started to read:
Hey Ryan,
I really enjoyed all of our fun times in drama club; you really are a neat guy. I know you will go on to do some amazing things in the future and I want to know all about them! It would be cool to meet up with you in the summer, here's my number. Don't forget to call!
Troy.
Ryan closed the book slowly and looked at his sister in confusion
"Yeah…I know. Nobody says the word neat anymore, how embarrassing to have that in your yearbook!" Sharpay let out an enormous laugh and slapped her brother on the back. Even though it was playful, Sharpay's slaps still hurt like a bitch. Sharpay began to guide Ryan to her car; he let out a small giggle and put his arm around her.
'My sister can always help me get through difficult situations…although this situation isn't difficult, it's just strange. Why did Troy leave me such a nice note? I know that we had become a lot closer since "Twinkle Town" but not close enough to justify the note he left in my yearbook.'
"Thinking about the note again?" Sharpay burst Ryan's thought bubble with her smug grin
"How did you know?"
"I told you, telepathy. All twins have it! Well, that and the fact that you have stood next to the passenger door for ten minutes with a goofy smile on your face…now get in the car!"
Ryan got in the car and Sharpay began to drive at break-neck speed like she usually did, spending more time looking at herself in the mirror than the traffic all around her. She started to pout her lips together over and over again, before looking over towards her twin.
"Ok, you probably already know that I'm jealous about the note you got from Troy. In fact I don't even understand why he left you that note" Sharpay stated.
"That makes two of us…" Ryan agreed, he was going to start another sentence but got sharply cut off by his sister
"But if Troy does like you I'm glad it is you and not anyone else, because you are my baby brother and"
It was Ryan's turn to cut his sister off, "Sharpay, you're living in a dream world. Nothing is going on, nothing is going to go on. It's just a stupid comment!"
"Jeeze…calm down Ryan! Don't be a stressed Sally about it. I hope you wrote him a nice comment back"
Ryan took a big gulp, looking at his sister with guilt, also slight confusion as to what a stressed Sally actually was.
"Well, that's the thing. I feel so guilty about this" Ryan started to scratch the back of his head frantically before getting his hand slapped by his sister.
"What did you put?!" She instigated.
"I put: Troy, Good luck. Ryan" Sharpay looked at her brother as if he had committed the biggest crime in the world.
"Is that it?!" she fumed
"Well, I write the a in my name small…so I couldn't really fit a smiley face in it!" Ryan stifled a small laugh, cheeks starting to flush.
"Ryan. This is not a laughing matter, this is Troy Bolton we are talking about!" Ryan rolled his eyes, it was a good job that the Evans twins had finally arrived at their house. Sharpay slammed on the brakes at the last possible moment, almost giving her brother whiplash.
Ryan exited the car, making sure not to slam the doors (Sharpay hated it when people slammed the doors of her car, always reminding everyone that the car only came with one set of car doors) and ran up to his room. He sat on his bed and looked through his yearbook slowly, taking in all the kind (and in some cases, corny) words that his friends and fellow students had wrote. However, Troy's comments were still swimming in the young boy's head. They really stuck out of the yearbook, almost as if they were written with a giant pink highlighter.
"Just a stupid comment?" Ryan jumped and looked at his sister, who was leaning in the doorway smiling
"Yeah…it's just a comment" Ryan replied flatly. Sharpay rolled her eyes and turned on her toes, skipping to her room
"Whatever! I think you should call him!"
Ryan mimicked her in a silly voice, thinking that this would aid the situation. It unfortunately didn't. Ryan took a deep breath and placed the book open on what he had now referred to as "Troy's page" on the bed. He carefully scanned the doorway to check that his sister wasn't still lurking there and then pulled out his cell phone.
Well…there is the first chapter for you! Like I said before, any reviews would be appreciated! I'm quite busy this week so will update as soon as possible but apologies in advance if that doesn't happen .