Since I have most of the chapters written for this story, I should be able to update fast.
It was already ten in the morning and Sharpay was still not quite awake. She sat on the couch staring at the blank TV trying to wake up. It took her a long time to finally fall asleep and she was interrupted so early by Ryan calling her, reminding her about the party for tonight. She was about to just scream at him, telling him that she knew and she that she was well aware of it. He didn't have to disturb her early in the morning for a birthday party that he had been talking about for two weeks! But she got over it quickly when she noticed her two and a half year old out of bed. She found her in the living room watching TV, but as soon as Sharpay walked in the living room, Madeline walked away. She didn't bother asking why.

Sharpay smacked herself standing up to head over to the small kitchen making a bowl of cereal for Madeline. She wasn't hungry herself, surprisingly. Usually she would be starving and craving for a bowl of cereal herself, but not today.

"MADELINE! BREAKFAST!" She yelled sounding sleepy.

Madeline quickly ran to the kitchen sitting down on her little stool waiting for Sharpay to hand her the bowl of cereal.

"Eat fast. We need to head to the mall." She smiled hanging the plastic bowl to her daughter.

Madeline just nodded and stared at her food. She always looked at it in a odd way like it had something strange in it. She ate the same cereal every day and she always did the same thing. She would sniff it first making sure it didn't smell funny then she would scoop it up with her spoon making sure it was wet from the milk. The way she looked at it made you think she would never eat it, but after playing with it and giving it odd stares she would start to eat it. Sharpay guessed it was just part of her routine or something. She seemed to do it all the time—just to that type of cereal too.

Sharpay walked out of the kitchen and towards her bedroom to get out of her pajama. She was so comfy in them it took her a while to finally change out of them. While she started to do her hair her calendar caught her eye. There was nothing special today, but she was glad that she had no work on a Saturday. Except for the fact that she had to go to Ryan's house for the party.

She was sort of looking forward to it. Only she wasn't sure what would happen though. It wasn't that she didn't like Gabriella; she actually learned to like her. Sharpay never really got how she just liked every person she met, she found it strange. She could never do that; it took her a long time to like Gabriella—and Troy… Troy not so long, but she never really liked Gabriella that much in High School, she was too perfect and it drove Sharpay crazy. Not anymore though. She had learned to like Gabriella after a while though. She had to anyways; she is her sister in law and since she was always so nice, why not return the favor?

Madeline finished her breakfast and walked to Sharpay's bedroom. She stood by the door like she always did and waited for Sharpay to tell her to come in or look at her. She never liked walking in rooms without getting permission. She didn't talk much so she usually ended up just standing by the door for a while before Sharpay would even notice her. Sometimes it got her worried when she's talking on the phone saying some things, she would always wonder if Madeline had been standing by her door listening to her whole conversation. Since most of the time her conversations were about Troy.

"You can come in anytime, sweety." Sharpay smiled finishing her hair.

Madeline walked in the bedroom and stood in front of her mom.

Sharpay picked up the outfit she had chosen for Madeline to wear and got her changed.

"Itchy!" She cried throwing the shoe across the room.

"Madeline!" Sharpay cried walking over towards the shoe across the room.

Madeline cried loudly throwing the other shoe a cross the room. Sharpay let out an angry sigh and picked up the other shoe. She wasn't in the mood to yell and she felt bad yelling at her daughter. Right before she picked up the shoe her cell phone rang. She could only guess who it would be.

Ryan.

Sure enough it was Ryan. He just wanted to make sure Sharpay was coming over for sure. Sharpay was getting annoyed and knew that Ryan would keep on bugging her until she gave him a firm answer. Once she did Ryan finally let her go. She knew it was also because she kept on putting Ryan off all the time. She would say she would go, but never did. Madeline cried throwing her shoes across the room.

She looked at her fussy daughter and rolled her eyes. Mornings like this came upon a lot. Madeline loved to cry and just fuss over the little things in life. It was like her favorite thing to do. Sharpay sometimes wondered if it was just to get her attention or just because she wants to put on a show. She could understand why her daughter would want her attention since sometimes she had a feeling she hardly paid attention to Madeline. But she did try her best to though. It was just very hard and she hated leaving Madeline at daycare most of the time, but if wasn't like she had a choice!

"Madeline! Just—put this on!" She snapped putting the shoes back on Madeline's little feet.

Madeline didn't fight back this time. She just sat there crying her eyes out and screaming. Sharpay choice to ignore it and carried her out of the house and into her car. She knew if she tried to calm Madeline down it would just make it worst and she didn't want to start her day out like that—not this early. All she wanted to do was get a present for Matthew, Ryan and Gabriella's son.

"Are you going to be fussy all day with me?" Sharpay asked her daughter through the rear view mirror.

Madeline didn't say a word. She just cried and cried. Sharpay never understood why Madeline would just cry at a random time, but she is a toddler, she cries for no reasons a lot. It didn't bother her so much, but it irritated her how she would cry louder and louder every now and then.

"We're going to go see cousin Matthew," Sharpay spoke loudly making sure her daughter could hear her.

Thinking it would cheer Madeline up, it didn't. She just ended up kicking the seat in front of her and she started crying even more. She never got close to Kevin, but she never got close to a lot of people either. She was only attached to her mom and sometimes to Ryan. Just sometimes.

"Don't you like Matthew?" Sharpay asked parking the car in the mall entrance.

Madeline shook her head for once and stopped crying. Sharpay could have sworn her eyes grew wide seeing her daughter's reaction. Though Madeline didn't like a lot of people, she never admitted it.

"What's wrong with Matthew?" Sharpay asked curiously unlocking the car.

"Meanie!" Madeline exclaimed.

"Huh?" Sharpay spoke taking her out of the car seat and headed towards the mall entrance.

Madeline just shook her head and rubbed her eyes. She had stopped crying and slowly calmed down. Sharpay didn't say anything after that. She didn't want to say something and make her cry again. She had enough of crying for today and her head was starting to ache from it.

Sharpay walked right towards the toy store right away realizing she only had less than fifteen minutes to pick out a toy and head over to Ryan and Gabriella's house. She rushed towards the little boy's toys and totally had no idea what she was going to pick out. Whatever showed up and caught her eye first would be what she was going to get.

"Matthew likes Spiderman, right?" Sharpay asked her daughter.

Madeline shot her a very confuse look. She blinked her eyes then giggled. That meant she had no idea what in the world her mom had just said to her. She hadn't really seen Matthew a lot and she didn't hang out with him either. As for she was younger and she liked girlie things… Not things that Matthew liked. She barely hung out with her cousin since Sharpay rarely had the time to go visit anyone.

"I'm just going to say he does," Sharpay grabbed the toy and walked around the store for a little bit.

She wanted to make sure she was really going to get the toy. She didn't know much about what to get Matthew since she rarely saw him. Maybe once every four or so months. She use to come over all the time, with Troy and she loved visiting them. She loved seeing little James who was only two months at the time and now he was sure to be around four. Matthew didn't even exist yet. Neither did Madeline. Time sure flew by quickly and at the same time slowly. Life without Troy was a big change in Sharpay's life…really big.

"You know what? I don't need another memory of Troy! Shut up!" Sharpay snapped at herself angrily not meaning to.

Madeline stared at her mother in once again a confuse look. Sharpay knew she shouldn't have done that. Screaming out for no reason and sounding so angry.

"Troy?" She repeated.

Hearing that name come out of Madeline's mouth for the first time ever made Sharpay want to break down in tears right there in front of everyone. She just wanted to cry and she wanted Troy to come and hug her—comfort her. Just one day, maybe he would come back for her.

But at times Sharpay got an image in her mind with Troy and some other girl, happy together. She tried her best to NEVER image anything like that but it was impossible! After all, Troy was the one who suggested all of this and that was to never leave her mind. She wasn't stating that it was his fault, no—but he did suggest it and she didn't understand. To this day she still didn't and she didn't think she ever would, until Troy came back and explained everything to her. That was when she would realize what was going on. That is if Troy came back for her. He did promise, so part of her still had that little hope inside, the other just gave up and concluded everything to be history. Just like that!


Ooooh...Lol...Next chapter shall be up soon. As in--tomorrow noon or something.