Ok so this is the second chapter in this series of oneshots. Probably not as exciting or as long as the first one, I'm afraid to say. I went back and forth between typing this and taking long breaks. Hey I was lazy. And school was really crazy. I woke up at six for an eight a.m. class and I foudn out that classes would be delayed till ten. So I got out of my first class andlost about an hour of the second one. And lemme tell you, it was snowing like heck today. Other than a really light snow, I have no experience driving in it. I was going at least ten miles under the speed limit when I drove and since I'm almost too short to reacht he top of my car to clean, I couldn't get the snow off of it; so when I drove snow decided to keep falling in front of the car and I had to drive slower. Not fun, huh? Oh and then when I went back to my car after my one and a half classes there was a giant puddle. Yeah, that's how wet it was today. You don't even wanna know how wet a lot of us got. So now it's just raining, but still wet. Still not fun. And I have on class tomorrow for two and a half hours so I'm hoping it's not too bad. Anyway, enough about that. What else is there to say here?
Oh yeah, since I don't own HSM I'm taking the last line of the first a/n in each chapter to say one thing I would change about HSM is I owned it. So here's the first thing. Taylor and Kelsi should do a lot more singing, they have really strong voices. Don't save all the songs for Gabriella and Sharpay! And how about more duets with Chad and Taylor? They sounded pretty good together in HSM3, don't you think?
Gabriella Bolton and Taylor McKessie laid on the couch in the living room of Taylor's house flipping channels. It was a Friday afternoon and they were both off from work. Gabriella worked in the retail business and Taylor was a doctor.
"Ok we really need to find something better to do." Gabriella said, moving some brown hair out of her face. "We've been watching reruns of shows on the N all day we're not even teenagers anymore so why should we watch these shows?"
"Because evidently we have no life outside of our offices?" Taylor shrugged. "Either that or there was just nothing else on."
Gabriella giggled. "Maybe both." She said. "My only home life is at night."
"Gabriella I don't need to hear every detail about that part of your life." Taylor stated.
"Oh I know." Gabriella sighed with a small giggle. "But at least I have one."
"Gabriella!" Taylor gasped. She took the couch pillow from behind her and threw it at Gabriella.
"Hey!" Gabriella replied, trying to defend herself. "I was just kidding." She picked up another pillow and threw it back. Before the girls knew it they were having a minor pillow fight. Yes, a pair of twenty-eight year old women were goofing off in their living room instead of talking anything business related.
"Whoa whoa whoa, what did we just walk in on?" Chad Danforth chuckled as he and Troy Bolton walked in.
"I think we've finally discovered why they're foreign territory." Troy joked. He walked over to Gabriella and wrapped his arm around her in a hug before kissing her. "Hey Gabs. How was your day off?"
"It was great Troy." Gabriella replied as she kissed him back.
"Get a room you two." Chad laughed.
"Well gee, if you wanted to kick us out of your house why didn't you just say so?" Troy asked.
Gabriella smiled and rolled her eyes. "Come on Troy. I'll drive us home." She offered as she headed to the door. "See you guys later!" she called to Taylor and Chad before walking out the door with Troy.
"See what you do Chad? You made our best friends leave." She whined playfully.
Chad stood behind Taylor and put his hands on her shoulders. "So that's how you great me when I come home?" he moaned.
"Oh alright." Taylor gave in. She leaned back so she was right under Chad, then leaned up and kissed him. "Happy?"
"Very." Chad nodded with a smile. "Now I gotta catch up with Troy for a minute before he leaves. I'll be right in." He headed out the door. "Yo Troy!" he called.
Troy was about to get into the truck when he turned and saw Chad. He told Gabriella he'd be right back, then went to talk to his friend. "Come to apologize?" he teased.
"You wish." Chad chuckled. He rubbed the back of his head. "Actually…I kinda came here for some advice."
"Yeah right." Troy laughed. "Very funny."
"No man, seriously." Chad said. "It's about Taylor."
"Oh man, you finally got her didn't you?" Troy sighed.
"What? No!" Chad insisted. "I don't know where to go with her next. Tay and I are doing great but I keep getting worried that it's not gonna last."
"You've been with her for as long as me and Gabriella. Do you know how long that is?" Troy questioned. "And every time you guys went through a breakup you got together two days later at most."
"About that…" Chad stuttered.
Troy pulled Chad over to the side so there'd be less of a chance that Gabriella would hear them. "What did you do?" he demanded.
"Look Tay and I have been living together for a year. We have fights less often than we always do. But before we ever moved in together I didn't exactly take the breakups so easily. So…there might have been a couple of times when I…"
"Dude, no." Troy moaned. "You didn't."
Chad nodded. "And if Tay ever finds out she'll want nothing to do with me."
"Then you gotta tell her." Troy insisted. "And make sure you tell her nothing but the truth. You gotta let her know that all those girls you went with are nothing compared to her."
"Dude you know she's not gonna go for that so easily." Chad sighed. "She'll still end up giving me the cold shoulder."
"Then do something big to prove to her that you want nothing to do with those other girls." Troy said. "If you want her that badly then you know what you have to do."
Chad thought about it for a minute. He remembered everything he and Taylor ever did together. They would make excuses just to see each other in school. They'd have long phone conversations even if it got them in trouble. They went to every dance together, every party together. They went to prom together. They endured things they didn't like to ensure the others' happiness. They always found a way to spend time together. Chad could never find the right words to express how he felt about Taylor. If he couldn't think how to tell her those, how could he get anything of the sort out of his mouth?
"Actually Troy, I think I know what I have to do. And I think it's the only way to really let her know how I feel." Chad said.
"So what are you gonna do?" Troy asked.
"I'll let you know how it turns out." Chad promised. "Thanks for the talk man. See ya later." He went back into the house.
Troy shrugged and got into his car.
Taylor turned to Chad when he walked back in. "What was that about?" she wondered.
"It's nothing, don't worry." Chad shook his head.
"Are you alright?" Taylor asked. "You seem distracted."
"Yeah, I'm fine." Chad nodded.
"Chad you can talk to me. I won't get that mad." Taylor promised. "We said we'd work out our differences when we agreed to move in together. And we've worked them out well. This isn't going to make a difference." She sat down next to Chad on the couch and gently rubbed his shoulder.
"Thanks Tay." Chad nodded. He stood up and walked upstairs. "I'll be right down. I just have to get something."
Taylor sighed and leaned up against the couch. She didn't know what was going on in Chad's mind. Sometimes he was just so difficult to understand. But Taylor knew how they felt about each other so why should they let petty meaningless problems get in their way? She turned her head to see Chad slowly coming down the stairs again. He seemed a bit nervous, like he was shaking nearly all over.
"Chad are you alright?" she asked, seeming concerned. "What's wrong?" She stood up and walked over to him. Chad held out his hand to Taylor and she took it.
"Tay you have no idea." Chad sighed. "But I just can't keep acting this way anymore. There's something that I have to tell you."
"What are you talking about?" she asked. "I'm not sure I'm liking where this is going." Taylor raised an eyebrow at him and slowly shook her head. "Chad are you hiding something from me?"
"Actually…yeah." Chad confessed. "And all I can say is I'm sorry. Taylor if I knew that our breakups wouldn't last I would have never even done what I did half those times. I'm not the guy you think I am." Taylor opened her mouth to speak but Chad stopped her. "Tay this is really hard ok? It's gonna kill everything you know about me but I wanna make it right. I wanna make it all up to you. Those girls that lasted one night, they never meant anything. It was a different girl every time but they were never able to compare to you. I don't even deserve a girl like you. I cheated ok? I admit it. It was wrong, stupid, unloyal, immoral and just everything that I knew I shouldn't do. But I did it anyway and I never should have. But I have to prove to you that it's never gonna happen again, that those days are gone. And now all I can do is ask…no, forget ask, beg…for your forgiveness. And to just let me prove to you that it'll never happen again." Grasping onto her hand tight, still not giving her a chance to say anything, Chad got down on one knee. He revealed the small case he was holding and flipped it open, which held a simple gold ring. "You're my world Tay. And I just wanna know…will you let me be yours?"
First of all, 'unloyal' wasn't even a real word. But Taylor didn't bother to correct him on that. She was caught up in everything else he had said. "Chad Danforth I can't believe you!" she yelled. "Cheating? Hooking up? So I guess instead of just hitting your head against the wall wondering what you did all you could do to forget about it was to just run to some other girl who didn't give a care about you at all. Did you even stop to think about my feelings in that, Chad?"
"Tay I know it was wrong." Chad blurt out. "All I need is one more chance. I can prove that I learned it was wrong…"
Taylor backed up and angrily moved her hand from his grasp. "And you have the nerve to just come to me with a ring after spilling that to me?" she continued, her voice rising. "Do you honestly think I'd ever want anything to do with you after you tell me all that? And why wait until now to tell me? If this has been going on for so long then why wait all this time before saying anything? Did you just want some one to satisfy you in a way I couldn't?"
"No, never." Chad insisted.
"You know what, just forget it. I don't want anything to do with you Chad Danforth. You might as well go find yourself another one of those flings because you're going to need it. We're finished, Chad. For good. I don't want anything to do with you anymore. I don't want to look at you, I don't want to talk to you, I don't even want to think about you." Taylor concluded.
Chad couldn't keep listening to this. All he wanted to do was try and prove to her that he knew what he did was wrong. He wanted to show Taylor that she meant more to him than any other girl has before. But she couldn't get past his affairs. Maybe he couldn't blame her for losing trust in him; if it were the other way around Chad probably would have acted the same way. But he didn't want to think about that now. All he wanted to do was just pull Taylor into his arms and get her to listen. But as soon as he reached for her she backed away even farther. She shook her head at him in a disappointed manner and stormed out of the house.
How could Chad be so stupid? He had been Taylor's world before. But that was all changed now. He probably had a good twenty other worlds or so. What would losing one meaningless world be anyway? Not like it would make a difference. All Taylor wanted to do was get away from Chad. She wanted him to be wiped away from her mind completely. She didn't want to live with him, see him, be with him, or anything. He hurt her and he caused her to lose all trust in him. Taylor didn't want to go back to him.
So then why couldn't she get him out of her head? He was all she could think about. Every time she walked past the littlest thing in the street she thought of Chad. Every time she closed her eyes she saw Chad. Everything she smelled reminded her of Chad's scent. Taylor desperately wanted to move on now and remove him from all thoughts in her head but she realized that she couldn't. That would mean that since the two of them started dating, all of those years would be a lie. Everything they went through together would mean nothing. Did that mean Taylor was ready to let it all go? That she could let herself go through with it?
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"Yes."
Chad blinked as he slowly picked his head up. He had been going through a photo album looking at pictures of him and Taylor. He just thought back to the old days when it was only them, when things were good. Before he opened his big fat mouth. But when he lifted his head he was surprised at who he saw.
It was Taylor standing right there in the doorway. She was leaning up against the wall, her head up against it and was staring at him on the bed. She didn't look as angry as she did when she left. Something was different about her. She looked tired. Down. Lost. Hurt.
Chad slowly placed the book down as he walked over to her. He stopped a few feet short of Taylor and looked at her confused. "What are you talking about?" he wondered.
"About what you asked before." Taylor admitted softly. "I know what I said before…but I couldn't completely mean it. I can't stay away from you for even a fourth of the time that I claim I can. And I shouldn't have been as furious as I was before. I was only caught up in the thought of you cheating and not listening to anything else you said. My reaction was wrong and everything I said was wrong." She took a deep breath before she removed her head from the wall to look at him. "I'm glad you confessed about what you did and realized that it was wrong. But that doesn't mean you've completely won my trust back. I want you to truly show it and mean what you said."
"I don't blame you for hating me." Chad shook his head. "Everything you said…or yelled…I deserved every bit of it. But every time we break up we get back together right away and if I always knew that would happen you'd be the only girl ever in my arms. And I don't want to hold anyone else. I could never really be with anyone else."
"Then prove it to me." Taylor said.
Chad didn't even need to think for another second. He leaned in and kissed her deeply and passionately. He doubted she would return the action so Chad tried to make it as quick as possible. But much to his surprise Taylor did kiss him back. From that one action she could read his feelings. She could tell from the amount of love and passion he put into the kiss that he really did care about her, that it was never a lie. It was a slow and gentle kiss but it was all they needed. Chad wrapped his arms around Taylor's body and pulled her closer to him and Taylor placed her hands on his cheeks. They finally broke the kiss slowly and placed their foreheads against each other. Now they were just staring into the others' brown eyes feeling their breath on each other. Taylor's arms went around Chad's neck and Chad's hands went down to her waist.
After a few minutes of silence, Taylor had her voice heard. "Ask me again." she whispered.
Chad didn't even need to think twice. "Will you let me be your world Tay?" he asked softly.
""You already are." she answered with a smile.
Chad smiled back and pulled her in for another kiss. Taylor accepted and returned the action. Chad had even forgotten that the ring he had to give her was on top of the dresser in the bedroom. But when he realized it, he decided he'd wait until they were finished. No way he would let it on another girl's finger. But Taylor didn't even need the ring right away. Right now she was sure that only she was his and no one else was. No one else mattered. Chad felt like the luckiest guy on the planet now. He was able to prove himself again.
And as the pair sat down on the bed lost in each others' embrace they realized that they almost lost so much more than they thought. And they were just happy to have it all back.
Sorry for the long a/n on the top so I promise this one will be much shorter. I don't know if I'll update anything else tonight unless it's correcting typos or whatnot. I really should stop putting those off by the way. But if I don't update tonight, I'll see what I can get to tomorrow. Just playing it by ear and amount of laziness I guess. XD So lemme know what you think if you'd like and I'll let you go and read more stories now. Like I said, I like replying to reviews. So once again I'm gonna try and do that as much as possible even if it's just to say thank you. ^^