A/N thank you to everyone who put this story on story alert, I really appreciate it!! Here's chapter two and I'm sorry if people think it sucks a bit- it's only my first fanfic xx

Summary: Underneath an Icy shield is a girl who just wants to have fun, without getting hurt. Who will be the one to show her how to have a good time? Will she be happy even after her brother falls in love? Troypay and Ryella

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the characters I make up, Disney owns the rest

After confronting Sharpay, Troy dragged his feet back to his house feeling disappointed, he only wanted to see how she was, so why did she bite is head off? When he walked through the front door his mother (sue Bolton) and his father (Jack Bolton) were ready to interrogate him about where he had been, Troy wasn't up to telling them he went to see a girl who's mother had been murdered and when he tried to talk to her, she slammed the door in his face, so he simply went upstairs to his room ignoring his parents and their comments and only came back down for dinner.

Troy was not looking forward to the next day at school, he was going to have see Sharpay- wait, a part of him actually wanted to see Sharpay! His feelings were confusing him, and in order to sort them out he was going to have to talk to Sharpay...

Meanwhile at the Evan's house/mansion as soon as Sharpay had shut the door in Troy's face she had silently began to cry while saying to herself,

"Why me, WHY??? What have I ever done to deserve my mother dying, my brother biting my head off? Why can't I just take a chance to find out what it's like to have friends, friends who will always be by your side and aren't interested in your money? Oh, yeah that's right the last time I did that, it all ended horribly and me humiliating myself. Why can't I let my brother be happy, living the life he chooses instead of him always ending up protecting me? That's because I'm selfish, a selfish bitch! I mean what sister doesn't even tell her own brother their mom is dead and never coming back!"

Tears where now streaming down her face, she was home all alone, she had left the school after Ms. Darbus had found her and after listening to her sob story about her life and her mother's death decided she could take the rest of the day off school. Her daddy, Michael Evans was at work, his way of dealing with grief was working himself until he was exhausted- which couldn't have been good for his health, while her brother was somewhere with people 'friends' and she had no clue where. After her showdown in front of Troy and everybody probably knowing about her mother's death by tomorrow at school, she decided she was going to go to East High tomorrow to show she wasn't weak, vulnerable and needed help, no she was Sharpay 'ice queen' Evans, the person everyone feared, the person who didn't care what people said or thought about her, she was a person who never let anyone close, dressed in expensive clothes and never ever let anything bother her!

Troy was at his locker getting out his books and was surrounded by the b-ball team, Gabby and Taylor, when... BANG! The white entrance doors burst open and there stood Sharpay before them in a white top decorated with rhinestones, a pink denim skirt and silver shoes, her hair was straight and in a side-ponytail. CLICK, CLICK, CLICK went her heels against the clean marble floor in the hallway; she stopped in front of the whispering students who hadn't parted for her as usual, she heard snippets of conversations, but they were all talking about one thing...

"OMG I can't believe she's here even though her mom was murdered."

"She's brave to be here, I would be at home crying my heart out if my mom had been brutally murdered like hers."

"... She's the ice-Queen, she can't feel anything at all, and her heart has been frozen!"

The harsh words of the students around her hurt her but she never showed it, keeping her straight face, she cleared her throat before yelling,

"Well don't just sit there with your mouths wide open. MOVE!! ARE YOU PEOPLE STUPID OR SOMETHING?!?!"

At the Ice queen's outburst the students instantly parted for her and didn't' say anything as she stomped to her locker, got her books, slammed her door shut and marched off to her lesson, when they were sure she was gone they resumed their conversations, but stopped when a lonely figure walked through the doors- Ryan! Gabriella instantly walked up to her boyfriend gave him a hug before speaking,

"OMG Ryan I'm so sorry about your mum, just to let you know I'll always be here for you, through whatever forever! I can't believe you're not taking the day off school, are you ok?"

"Excuse me Gabby, what on earth are you talking about Sharpay told me my mom was on a business trip to Japan, I'm ok, seriously!"

Ryan chipped in before Gabby continued to speak,

"You mean you don't know? Didn't you see the news yesterday?"

"Nooooo, I was out with you getting ice-cream and when I got home I watched a film, did homework and went to sleep, is there something I should know!"

Ryan started raising his voice, which instantly attracted the attention of fellow students. Troy, Chad, Taylor, Kelsi, Jason came over to them to see what was going on, before Gabby started speaking again.

"Listen Ryan, your mum, she umm, she, well she was murdered 2 days ago, Sharpay lied to you, I'm really sorry, it was on the 10 o'clock news- everyone knows,"

Ryan was dumbfounded, his own twin sister had lied to him about his own mother, he had had a right to know that his own birth-mother was dead! Without warning he started stomping towards Sharpay's class, when Troy stepped in front of him,

"Dude, Ryan just calm down, Sharpay was trying to protect you I'm sure she was going to tell you when the time was right, don't hurt her, take it easy you can still take the day off school to let it sink in and grieve."

"GET OUTTA MA WAY BOLTON! BEFORE I DO YOU SOME SERIOUS DAMAGE!"

Ryan scream in Troy's face before pushing him away and continuing on his stampede towards Sharpay's history class, when he reached her class he froze in front of the door, placed his hand on the cool, brass door knob and slowly turned it, silently opening the door, with a creak.

At this sudden sound Sharpay jumped and turned round to see who it was, as soon as she saw Ryan she instantly look at the floor before getting out of her seat and slowly walking towards him, but Ryan was walking towards her rather quickly almost bumping into her, which caused Sharpay to walk backwards until her back slammed into the wall in the corner of the room- Ryan had cornered her which meant he must know about their mother and her suspicion was proved right when he scream in her face,

"WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT MOM, WAS I SUPPOSED TO NOT KNOW OR WHAT? I HAD A RIGHT TO KNOW, I'M YOUR BROTHER- HER SON. WHY COULDN'T YOU TELL ME INSTEAD OF ME FINDING OUT FROM SOMEONE ELSE!! WHY ARE YOU AT SCHOOL INSTEAD OF GRIEVING FOR HER, CUT THE ICE-QUEEN ACT FOR ONCE! SHOW YOU CARE FOR SOMEONE ELSE JUST ONCE! YOU SELFISH BITCH!"

Sharpay winced at his words; his face was getting too close for comfort to her face, despite being scared silly she whispered softly, she was too scared to use her 'Ice Queen Tone'.

"B-Because I was trying to protect you, I-I-I was going to tell you t-tonight after dinner- when daddy came home from work so we were together, you were so happy yesterday when you came home from wherever you w-were, I didn't want to put a damper on your mood, please Ryan, you have to understand, p-p-please."

"WHAT THE HELL, THAT'S NOT AN EXCUSE! YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME YESTERDAY EVEN THOUGH I WAS HAPPY! I WOULD RATHER YOU HAVE TOLD ME YESTERDAY THAN ME FINDING OUT FROM SOMEONE AT SCHOOL AND THE WHOLE SCHOOL KNEW BEFORE ME! ME!! DO YOU KNOW HOW THAT MAKES ME FEEL? YOU'RE NOTHING MORE THAN A STUPID, SELFISH BITCH, EVERYONE'S RIGHT YOU ARE AN ICE-QUEEN! I HATE YOU!"

Ryan fought back, Troy appeared in the door way suddenly, but neither of the twins paid attention to him. Ryan suddenly raised his hand at his own sister after his outburst/ yelling fit, prompting Troy to do something. Just as Ryan was about to strike Sharpay, Troy grabbed hold of Ryan's hand and twisted it behind his back, Sharpay cautiously opened an eye as to wonder why she had felt no pain and saw Ryan being held back by Troy. She breathed a sigh of relief straightened up, without noticing the single tear that had fallen, Ryan took note however and suddenly stopped trying to squirm out of Troy's grip, realisation dawned on him- he had tried to hit his own sister just because his anger had gotten the better of him, he was the fool! Troy relaxed his grip of Ryan and let go of him as Sharpay strutted up to him to speak to him face-to-face, he whispered to her...

"Shar, I'm so sorry, please forgive me I was never going to hurt you never, my anger got the better of me, Shar please listen to me, please forgive me, please?"

"Listen Ryan I know you were angry, but you had no right to do that, now if you excuse me I think I left something in my locker. Now do me a favour stay away from me until you have calmed down, because I don't think I can stand to be around you while you're like this."

Sharpay told him in her ice-queen voice and without hesitation walked out the room, and after a few seconds of silence Troy silently left the room. Once Troy was out of the classroom he look around and saw Sharpay walking up the stairs, he followed her- just to make sure she was alright. Once he had caught up to her, Sharpay just ignored him and carried on walking so he grabbed hold of her hand and turned her towards him and softly spoke to her.

"Umm Sharpay are you alright?"

"Well duh why wouldn't I be, now can you please leave me alone?" She quickly spoke

"No, you're own brother almost hit you, and you don't seem a bit fazed or confused or anything, I was just trying to be nice." He fought back.

"Well I don't need you're help, I can survive on my own, I don't need anyone at all! Why do you care all of a sudden? It's not like I've been nice to you after YOU and MONTEZ stole MY lead in the play!" At this she quickly whipped her hands out of Troy's grip after realising they were still holding hands.

"Listen Sharpay, I just want to be a friend, I can be here for all and protect you through everything! We can meet after school, hang out like friends, and the whole school doesn't even need to know. Please Sharpay listen to me, let someone in for once don't bottle everything up- take a chance!"

Sharpay hesitated as if she was seriously considering it...

"Listen Bolton, I don't need anyone like I said before! Leave me alone, I have friends, it's like your obsessed with me or something, why can't you just leave me alone for once, you think everyone worships you as if you're a god sent to earth- well you're wrong I don't agree!"

And with that she stormed off back down the stairs and to her pink locker, with Troy watching her every move, when she was finally out of sight he looked down at his hands- he had been holding hands with Sharpay minutes before- when his hands made contact with her he felt complete, he was warm and perfectly happy to have stayed like that forever, the only thing was Sharpay felt differently... The moment her hands left his they felt cold and empty- like he was missing something and that something happened to be her. He finally knew how he felt- He had fallen head over heels for Sharpay Evans!

Meanwhile when Sharpay reached her locker, she felt Troy's eyes following her and as soon as she got something pointless she went to her class while thinking about the moments they were holding hands and staring into each other's eyes while speaking or yelling. She couldn't believe she hadn't noticed him still holding her delicate hands until she looked down at the floor. When her hands touched his all her problems seemed to disappear for a moment and she was happy, whereas when she had yanked away her hands, the moment they weren't touching her problems seemed to come back to her and she was unhappy, friendless Sharpay once again. She had wanted to tell Troy all about her problems and for him to hold her, but knew better- the last time she had opened up it blew up in her face and she didn't want that happening again! So she bottled everything up and dealt with it herself, she didn't reveal her weakness to Troy, she couldn't, he would have used it against her, no body cared about her. Truth was she just wanted to be a girl, who had friends, who had fun and lived her life to the fullest but realised she couldn't if she kept everything bottled up- but she had no choice if she didn't want to get hurt again- so she decided to give up her fantasy being 'normal' and nice in order to be the ice-queen who never gets hurt. In the middle of her thoughts realisation dawned on her- she was starting to fall for THE Troy Bolton- today she had to make sure she was extra mean to him, to make it easier to ignore her feelings for him. That was her plan, after all life was a survival of the strongest!

A/N that's all for now I hope you enjoyed reading it and please, please, please review. Also thank you to everyone who has this story on alert. Toodles xx Also it wouldn't let me do the line thing xx