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So here it is, The pairing (if you can't tell from the tittle) is Chad/Sharpay, to move the plot along and because I love Troy/Ryan fluff, there is going ot be some Troy/Ryan in it. I think this is going to be fairly long, but the first chapter is fairly short, but thats because it's just an intro, so without further ado..

Petting the Mountain Lion

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I think you know me, Chad Danforth, I think I'm fairly popular, not quite as much as my best friend, but I think that's because of the sining thing. I have good friends, a good life, and I think I'm more popular than say... The Ice Queen, she's just soo... dramatic. Everything is, "Ah! The world is ending!", "Something's not right!" or "Why does everyone hate me!" Blah blah blah.

Not to mention what's with all the pink? She's just so annoying, and fake. Troy told me once he thought she was cute, yeah cute, like a mountain lion. May be pretty, but in that perfect little blonde head of hers there lies a vicious killing beast. I see those snarls, every time she flicks back her hair, with her perfectly manicured claws. She may not even be human, or female, more like an IT, not just any it, but IT. Because she's so full of herself so "Oh look at me, I'm so perfect." But if you make her mad, she'll rip your head apart, not just off, apart.

But enough about her, back to me. I go to East High, just imagine any generic high school in the united states, with a cross town rival, there you have East High. The West High Knights can beat us in a lot of things, Lacrosse, Chess, Forensics, and even the occasional football game. But one title that is ours, that they will NEVER again take from us, basketball. And thanks to my main man Troy, as long as we're still starters they won't be able to get past us.

You see, basketball is my life, it's like everything, during the season I eat sleep and breathe basketball. In the off season I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can improve it. Ever since my older brother, Elliot got me into it at the tender age of 6 playing at the Y I've gotten so hooked, it was like the only thing that we could bond over.

See, Elliot is like some kind of smart. He started school when he was 3 and a half, and started taking classes at the community college as a sophomore, and graduated college a year and a half early. And well, I'm... not smart. But not matter what he's doing with like his major physics lab and everything, we can always bond over basketball. He comes home for Christmas, and he tells our parents the latest and greatest, how great of a researcher he's working for, and they can look at him like they're so proud, I really don't understand anything they're talking about.

But later, he always makes it up to me, we play some one on one, the days he spends over a desk doing endless research doesn't seem to take too big of a toll on his skills. I can forget all he said over dinner, and how inferior I feel. Because it's just me and him on the drive way, and theirs nothing but net.

Anyways schools not so bad, I've got me and my crew, I've got my girl, the lovely and intelligent Taylor, my parents adore her, she's smart and sassy, for them they think she's a perfect match. She really is amazing. I really think she's the best thing thats happened in a long time. You see before her I never really had a "serious" girlfriend, I mean yeah I had some two week flings, but this is like long term stuff, serious stuff.

But yeah, that's me, I'm not perfect, not horrible, I'm just me. For better or worse, but hey, at least I'm not a mountain lion...

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So tell me what you thought.

Many thanks and lots of love to my beta reader TillThatTime, She's an amazing writer and if you get the chance check out her stuff!