The Brighter Side

The apartment building in this chapter is one I found online, I have no idea how to describe it so here is the link

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All in all today was a great first day, I seemed to of made four new friends, Martha and Ashley were coming over later today, and I was meeting Troy's little sister tomorrow. Troy, I don't know what to think of him. He seemed so nice but during homeroom he seemed kind of cocky. And what was up with that Gabriella girl? Couldn't she see that Troy was avoiding any contact with her? I'll have to ask Martha and Ashley what is up with her when they come over.

I and my mom lived in a Penthouse in Manhattan on top of a Bing & Bing building, I got out of my car and grabbed Owen, who was still in his car seat, grabbed his diaper bag, my school bag, and my purse and started heading to the front of the building.

"Hello Miss. Evans and Mr. Owen, how was your first day of school?" The buildings doorman, Benny, asked. Benny was 73 years old, and a retired veteran.

"It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Thanks for asking Benny." I said as he opened the door. I walked through the lobby and to the elevator, I slid my card through the slot to access the penthouse. When the doors opened I headed to my room and dropped everything on my bed except for Owen and his diaper bag. I then headed to Owens room and placed his bag on the dresser and took him out of his carrier. I walked over to the changing table and placed him on it.

"Hey my beautiful baby boy. How was your day today? Did you have fun with NeNe?" I asked as I changed his diaper, NeNe was my grandma that lived here in New York. She lived just a block away from us and watched Owen when I was at school. She forbid us all to call her grandma, so she came up with NeNe, if she heard any of us call her grandma in front of Owen, she would start this ten minute lecture about how she was not old enough to be a great grandma and blah blah blah. But the funny thing is that my mom was excited to be called grandma . . . kind of weird don't you think?

"Mommy has friends coming over later, and you are just going be love them. They are going to kiss you and hug you and never let me hold you until they leave." I said picking him up and carried him into the living room and got comfy in the rocker and started nursing him.

After a few minutes I got up and laid Owen down in the baby swing and headed to the kitchen to start dinner. I decided on my favorite tuna helper and cornbread. Just as I was taking the cornbread out of the oven my mom walked in.

"Hey honey. How was your first day?"My mom asked taking off her jacket and kissed Owen on the forehead, who had fallen asleep, and walked into the kitchen. She started filling both our plates with the food and headed to the dinning room while I followed with drinks.

"It was better than I thought. Oh is it alright if two of my friends come over later?" I asked sitting down.

"Yes that would be fine, I'm happy that you already made new friends. Do they know about Owen?" She asked.

"Yes they do, and their very excited to meet him." I said smiling. "Oh mom, I was thinking of trying out for softball, their varsity pitcher just graduated, and I know it would be a lot to handle with Owen and all, but grandmas always saying how she wishes she could see him more. So I was thinking that she wouldn't mind if I asked her—"

"Sharpay relax, you've obviously thought this through, and if you think you can handle it, than I'm fine with you doing softball again. I know how much you loved it." My mom said smiling, getting up and clearly the plates.

While my mom cleaned up the dishes I heard the buzzer ring. I ran over and pressed the button which allowed them to enter the penthouse. "Their here!" I sung while skipping to the door and opening it right as they stepped out of the elevator.

"Hey Shar, did you ask your mom about softball?" Ashley asked as we walked to the living room.

"Yeah, she said she would be fine with it, and she called my grandma and she's fine with watching Owen later." I said as I sat down on the couch while Martha and Ashley went to Owen. Martha lifted him out of his swing and smiled at me.

"He is the cutest thing ever; his picture does not do him justice." Martha said cooing at Owen, she handed Owen over to Ashley and Ashley took a seat in the rocker while Martha sat down by me.

"So I was wondering what the story was with Troy and Gabriella." I said "It seemed like she really liked him and he wanted nothing to do with her."

"Troy and Gabriella . . . Man, where do you start with those two?" Ashley said shaking her head.

Martha laughed and turned more to me, I could tell this was going to be good. "Troy and Gabriella used to be the hottest couple in school; they went out for two years, freshman thru sophomore year. Gabriella wasn't a bitch back then either, she had just moved here and she was actually a complete and total nerd. No one could figure out what Troy saw in her. They were total opposites, Troy had just made the basketball team and Gabriella was on the scholastic decathlon team. But overtime everyone got use to seeing them together."

Ashley had scooted the rocker so it was in front of us while Martha was talking, and took over. "Until one day Troy came to school and the air around him made everyone back away. He walked up to this senior that was on the football team, and tapped him on the shoulder and when he turned around Troy nailed him in the face, he started cussing at him will punching, kicking, and shoving him. After two teachers pulled Troy off of him, and after a week of suspension, we finally figured out what had happened."

"Turns out, Gabriella had been cheating on him for a year! He had called her and she had answered her phone saying 'Brad, you just left, how could you possibly miss me already?' and Troy freaked. Troy wouldn't even look at Gabriella after that, and Gabriella tried everything. She has been trying to get back together with Troy ever since Brad dumped her the day after he graduated, and Troy won't have a thing to do with her, which in turns pisses her off, so she takes her anger out by being a bitch." Martha finished.

I thought they had a history but I didn't think it was that deep. "Wow." Was all I could say, what do you say after hearing that?