WT: Do Something Right
Genre: Romance, Drama, Humor
Main Characters: Kelsi, Ryan & Jason
Pairings: Ryan/Kelsi (The Entertainers), Jason/Kelsi, Zeke/Sharpay, Troy/Gabriella, Chad/Taylor, Huff/Bayli
Listen to: Be my Baby by the Ronettes
Dedicated to: Bec & Holden
Summary: Kelsi was tired…tired of trying to make something out of nothing and while Jason tried to fight for it, she let go…and found her best friend there for her, who somehow, always knew what type of ice cream was needed on a day like today.

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Do Something Right
Go With Me

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"Carry the five over," Ryan tapped his finger against the notebook paper as Kelsi corrected her last trigonometry problem. "And distribute," he watched her bite her bottom lip and finish the numbers off. "Much better," he smiled down at her and grabbed a French fry off the tray in front of them.

"Much, much better but I did not say you get a fry for helping," Kelsi pointed out, grabbing one for herself.

"I'm sorry, but did I not buy these myself?" Ryan teasingly asked and packed up her math book without a second thought, pushing it away from them. "Now tell me the plan for the winter musical."

"I'm still working on stuff but I don't think Darbus will pick mine again," Kelsi confessed, "she's all into this revivial of Hairspray."

Ryan weighed that in his head. Darbus and Hairspray. Somehow and someway, it totally mixed. But he wanted to see more of Kelsi's work on stage and not only because it made her smile like she did when Nick came home or when Troy would say a corny joke and she would laugh like a three year old. That was the Kelsi he loved. "Tell me about it," he said, nudging her side as the fries dwindled down.

"There's this group of guys…"

"GUESS WHAT?!" Sharpay squealed, showing up out of nowhere, jumping in place with two bright colored pink folders in her hands. "Go ahead! Guess!"

Ryan looked from his sister to Kelsi and back again, "Um, you're turning into London Tipton?" he attempted the joked which only earned him a laugh from the soft brunette girl sitting beside him as Sharpay slipped in and sat beside them.

"Funny, Ry, really funny. But seriously – guess!"

"You redecorated your locker again?" Kelsi asked, wanting to really know if Sharpay would like any other color as much as she likes pink. "Or did Zeke properly ask you to…"

"Well, duh, but Huff asked Bayli!" Sharpay squealed again and started to shake the table in pure delight, clasping Kelsi's hands in her own and wanting her to be just as excited as she was.

Ryan saw the small smile on Kelsi's lips fade as she looked away from Sharpay and back to her school books on the table. He knew she had been looking forward to going to the dance and it was all she had talked about since Jason had told her of the once perfect plans for the Homecoming Dance. It was sort of a give that Kelsi would be going with Jason, just like Taylor was going with Chad and Gabriella with Troy. And suddenly, things had changed for her.

"That's great Shar, where's Bayli now?" Ryan asked, tugging on Kelsi's other hand beneath the table.

"With Huff, and Taylor and Gabby. She's so excited! And everything's coming together. I mean, we all have our dresses and all we have left is nails and hair and oh….next Saturday is going to be so much fun! Aren't you excited Kelsi?

"Um, yea," Kelsi replied softly and left the table without another word.

Sharpay's blonde hair swirled around her head as she turned back to her twin with a confused look on her face.

"Jason," was all he had to say and she understood again, "she was supposed to go with Jason."

"It's been over a month though."

"Shar, she really liked him. It's not easy to get over someone like that."

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"Hey," Ryan leaned up beside his favorite brunette's locker and watched her pull out her two sized too big physics book for the homework she had tonight. Her eyes didn't leave the insides of the metal compartment and he instantly knew that either Chad said something stupid or Sharpay's words were still eating her. So, he did what he did best – tried to cheer her up. "Did you hear about Taylor and Chad?"

"What?" She turned to him confused and shut her locker door.

"I'll let Taylor do the honors on tell you what she did during chemistry – or you can just look behind you," Ryan suppressed a laugh as Chad and Taylor passed by with Taylor still laughing at the smoke coming from his head.

"Okay, you have to tell me now," she stood next to him, still gazing intently at Chad's smoking head as they traveled down the hallway with the couple in front of them.

"Short story?" He asked and she nodded, "Chad was more interested in Taylor than the experiment today and well….didn't pay much attention to how close the Bunsen burner was to his hair," he looked down at her as she snorted out a laugh. This was the Kelsi he liked to see.

"I love that!" She cracked up, like she hadn't laughed in years. "Who else on this earth would this ever happen to?"

"I heard that Kelsi!" Chad's voice overpowered the groups' as they made it to Taylor's locker.

Kelsi still laughed aloud as she leaned into Ryan's shoulder and tugged on his hand. "Wanna ride?" he whispered between them.

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"How'd you get Sharpay to let you drive?" Kelsi leaned back in the black Sebring's passenger seat and watched Ryan follow the signs towards the community that Kelsi lived in, which was not far from his own. Her head lay flat on the headrest and she looked back over at him for an answer.

"Okay, question one – Zeke picked Sharpay up today. And I am not going to drive her pink convertible. Ever," he answered as the radio started to play with a hip-hop beat to a new song that he turned down.

"Liar," Kelsi giggled at him and turned the radio back up. "I hope Nick's still home," she confessed.

"He was going back today, wasn't he?" Ryan rhetorically asked, forgetting that for a moment.

"Yea. Just once, I would like to say goodbye before he goes."

"Then I hope he's there too," Ryan stopped at the stop sign and winked over at her. Turning the radio down just one notch, the two drove to her house in a comfortable silence. He had thought all day on what he was gearing up the courage to do in a few moments. As much as he knew she would complain about him bringing it up, he needed to. "Kels, can I ask you something?"

"Yep."

"You can kill me after, but I want to know. How much did you want to go to Homecoming?"

Kelsi stared at her best friend for a moment, not thinking about the 400 ways she could kill him for asking her that, but for how to respond. There were so many ways she could answer that. "I really wanted to," she confessed, a soft sigh escaping her as she said the words. It would've been her first Homecoming and that was something she had looked forward to her entire life. She remembered hearing the stories from Nick and Angela, his high school girlfriend, when they went. Angela's experience was magical and Kelsi wanted hers to be the same.

"Go with me."

"What?" Kelsi did a double take and sat up straight in the seat as he pulled into her driveway, turning off the engine. "Where did that come from?"

"I knew you really wanted to go," he paused, looking back at her clear eyes. "So go with me."

A soft smile appeared on her lips and before she knew what she was doing, she kissed him on the cheek, silently thanking him ten times over to maker her only wish at this moment – come true.