A/N: Okay so here goes the next chapter and I seriously hope that you'll like and enjoy this chapter as much as I did (although, I'm biased). Oh and I want to say that I did a lot of research for this chapter to make it more realistic and so I really wish that you like it. Lastly, before I forget thank all those who read and reviewed the last chapter. Thank you so much.

I do not own HSM


Chapter 3 – Cat, Dog and Page Six

"You look really beautiful Ivanka" Melania said as she admires the stunning dress her step daughter Ivanka has on. She was wearing a silk chiffon with a diamond embellished empire waist cut gown and a Christian Louboutin white pumps.

"Okay turn to the left" Sharpay instructed Ivanka as she's doing some finishing touches on the dress. After a several minutes, Sharpay stood up, did one final look through the dress and then announced "You're all set"

Ivanka smiled, sighed and then turned around to face herself in the mirror "Wow" she muttered under her breath

"You did a wonderful job Sharpay as always" Melania said

"You really did. Thanks Sharpay" Ivanka said as she turned around and gave her a hug.

Sharpay smiled in gratitude and was about to say something when Donald Trump and Vance Evans entered the room. Vance Evans also known as Sharpay's father is Trump's business associate and is one of the stockholders of Trump Plaza.

Donald smiled genuinely at his daughter and said "Princess, you look really stunning"

"Jared is one lucky guy" Vance said as he went towards Sharpay and puts one arm around his daughter

"He better be" Ivanka joked as the entire group laughed softly.

Donald then turned to Sharpay "How about you darling? Do you have any plans of getting married anytime soon?"

Sharpay smiled shyly and said "I would love to but I don't have any boyfriend as of the moment"

Donald creased his eyebrows in confusion and asked "Aren't you with that guy?... the son of Jack? What's the name?" He turned to Ivanka and asked "He's one of Jared's friends?"

Sharpay, Ivanka, Vance and Melania looked at each other with questions in their eyes. Donald noticed this and said "Don't look at me like I'm going crazy and just tell me the name of the Jared's friend…He's your photographer, honey"

"You mean Troy Bolton?" Ivanka asked, doubt apparent in her voice

"Yup, that's the one" Donald said and then turned to Sharpay "Aren't you two going out?"

"You and Troy Bolton are going out? How come you didn't say anything?" Ivanka exclaimed

Sharpay was about to retaliate when a 6-months pregnant Kelsi stepped inside the room and said "Excuse me. We're all ready outside. We can start anytime you're ready" It was a big wedding and Sharpay needed all the help she can get including bringing Kelsi back to New York even though she was pregnant.

Sharpay sighed in relief and said "Thank you Martha". She then turned to Ivanka and asked "You ready?"

Ivanka turned around to face the mirror, smoothing the invisible creases on her gown and said "I'm ready"

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The wedding was simply gorgeous. They were having a Jewish wedding since Jared and Ivanka, who was recently converted, were Jews – although this didn't stop them from having grandiose wedding fit for New York's elite. It was held at the biggest ballroom in the Ritz Carlton Hotel near Central Park and was officiated by Rabbi Joseph Potasnik.

The motif of the wedding was pearls and the ocean and so everything was in shades of ivory and blue. The whole ballroom was surrounded with blue roses and lilacs. The bridesmaids' dresses were also designed by Sharpay. It was a simple white tube top, A-line knee length dress with a blue silk lace around the edge of the dress. As for Jared and his groomsmen were all wearing classic Giorgio Armani tuxedos paired with Prada shoes.

Being that the couple wants this to be the wedding of the year plus it will be featured in the New York Observer, which by the way Jared owns and in Oprah, they hired Norah Jones to sing 'Come Away With Me' for the processional song and Whitney Houston to sing 'A Moment Like This' for the bride entrance song.

Sharpay smiled when she stepped inside the ballroom just as the bride reached her groom, all of their hard work and countless of all-nighters were worth it. Checking her headset and radio, she went to the side of the altar where Kelsi was as quietly as she could while watching the whole ceremony unfold.

"This is simply awesome Payday and may I add you look superb" Kelsi whispered. Sharpay was wearing corset paired with a knee-high pencil skirt, which was her own design and a white, jewel embellished strappy sandals by Manalo Blahnik. Meanwhile, Kelsi was wearing a white halter top, knee-length pregnancy dress with blue Swarovski crystals on the neckline paired with white ballet flat, both of which from Michael Kors.

Sharpay turned to her, smiled and said "Thanks and you look stunning even for a pregnant woman"

Kelsi rolled her eyes and both girls turned to look back at Ivanka and Jared.

"This is what every wedding should be like, a happily ever after. I just wish I could be as lucky as Ivanka and someday my prince will come. Someday" Sharpay thought as Ivanka starts delivering her self-written vows.

Kelsi, on the other hand, looked back at her friend with a small smirk on her face. Sharpay always did this in every wedding that they did whether it's a small and intimate to an extravagant and highly publicized wedding. When it's time for the bride and the groom to recite the vows, Sharpay always has the dreamy and longing look on her face. During the first may be five weddings that they did together, Kelsi would nudge Sharpay and bring her back to reality but now it just amuses her that even after all this year. Even though her wedding dreams have been shattered 7 years ago, Sharpay is just hopeless romantic who believes in the concept of 'happily ever after'. But then again, she hasn't dated anybody since then and so she lives this dream of hers through the weddings that they plan.

Their thoughts were interrupted, however, when a flash of light blinded their eyes. Both Sharpay and Kelsi rubbed their eyes, trying to adjust to sudden changes in lighting.

Sharpay was the first to adjust to the surroundings and quickly saw the source of the blinding light.

Troy.

Sharpay gave him his famous death glare and if only looks could kill, Troy Bolton would be dead now as we speak.

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With Troy, two minutes earlier…

"Somebody got stupid again and this time I can't believe that it's Jared" Troy thought as Jared started reading his vows. Through their father's business dealings, he and Jared met three years ago when Jared first started dating Ivanka and he never would have thought that these two would end up in front of the altar. Don't get him wrong, I mean he liked Ivanka as a friend and Jared's girlfriend but it is the mere thought of wedding that Troy has a problem with, which is kind of ironic since he is in the wedding business.

Troy is one of New York's eligible bachelors through and through. He is rich, young, and available who doesn't see himself settling down anytime soon. Well, at some point 7 years ago, he did see himself as a groom but now, as reality slowly hits him, he is somewhat happy that it did not push through. But then again, he hasn't taken anybody serious since then so that augmented his belief in reality.

He wandered around the altar, taking pictures of Ivanka and Jared one after the other, 'capturing every intimate moment' – as Zeke puts it. Trying to focus his Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III digital SLR camera as he took one more picture of the bride and the groom, his camera zoomed in unexpectedly to a beautiful blonde girl.

"She looks familiar" he thought and zooms in the camera a little more to get a good look but abruptly stops when he saw Kelsi beside her and instantly realized who it was.

Sharpay.

He snickered when he saw the pathetic look Sharpay got on her face. Thinking quickly, he lifted his camera back up to his eyes again and snaps this priceless scene. He saw how she was blinded by the camera flash and how she rubbed her eyes, trying to adjust her eyesight. When she realized that he was the cause of her recent discomfort, she gave him her famous death glares and instead of taking it seriously, Troy tried to badly imitate her dreamy look.

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Back to Sharpay…

Sharpay hissed under her breathe when she saw Troy imitating her. She curled her fist, wanting to clobber him right there and then but was stopped when Kelsi grabbed her elbow and whispered "It's not worth it"

Sharpay nodded and then smirked as she just thought of another way to get back at him.

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Back to Troy…

"What is she smirking about?" Troy thought. He was too engrossed in witnessing Sharpay's reaction that he almost forgot to take pictures as the bride and the groom exchanged wedding rings.

It was a good thing, though, that Zeke nudged him, which ultimately brought him back to reality and he started snapping away, capturing every moment.

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After the wedding ceremony…

Just after the rabbi proclaimed that Jared and Ivanka as husband and wife and told Jared to kiss the bride, Troy went to the aisle to take some more pictures. He also noticed how Sharpay and Kelsi went to the back of the ballroom getting ready to assist everybody to the next ballroom where the reception is going to be held – as if he cared?.

"One more picture, Ivanka, Jared over here" Troy instructed the couple while he slowly backs the aisle

"David a little lighting on the Ivanka's side…There one more picture of the couple…and we are done" Troy continued, stood up and turned around.

"We'll continue with the pi-ic-tuuuuu-re…" Troy stammered as he started falling to the ground down face first and hears people gasped all around him.

"Shit!" He thought. He was about to stand up when he saw a familiar foot stomping in front of him. He looked up at the tan legs and then to that beautiful face that embarrassed him in front of the important people of New York.

"Boss, are you okay?" David, the lighting guy asked

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine" Troy said as he stands up without taking his sights of Sharpay, who was masquerading an innocent look.

"You okay, man?" Jared asked

Troy turned to the newly weds and said "Yeah, don't worry about me and let's get back to the celebration"

"Okay" Jared said as he grabs his wife's hand and guided her and everyone else to the next ballroom for the reception.

Troy nodded once more and stepped aside, letting the couple and the guests pass him. He then saw a good friend of his Richard Johnson, a columnist for Page Six.

"Hey Rich, wait up" Troy exclaimed as he made his way towards his friend

"Hey Troy, what's up?" Richard said

"This is a serious 'you owe me' moment" Troy said

"Okay, so what do you need?" Richard answered as the two followed everybody to the reception.

Troy smiled and told him his plan.

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As soon as the bride and the groom started walking down the aisle, Sharpay and Kelsi walked towards the back of the church. The second half of the wedding is about to start, which means she better switch 'Ice Queen' Sharpay back on. She always did this as it scares the hell off of her staff plus it gets the work done in half the time.

Sharpay was about to exit the ballroom when she saw Troy backing the aisle taking picture after picture, she smirked at the opportunity presented. She sneakily went towards the aisle hearing Troy giving instructions after instructions. Seeing Troy distracted, she stuck her foot out, making Troy trip and land on the floor face down.

She attempted to restrain her laughter and started stomping her foot as Troy glowered at her. She smiled innocently at him, winked and then strutted out of the ballroom. "Serves you right Bolton" she thought.

She heard people gasped as she went out of the ballroom with Kelsi right behind her.

"Now why did you do that?" Kelsi asked

"Do what?" Sharpay asked back, trying to act all innocent

"You know what I'm talking about Payday" Kelsi rhetorically said

Sharpay rolled her eyes, sighed and turned to face her friend "Well he took a picture of me earlier that I must say is less than flattering for me, so I just want to get back at him"

"You two are hopeless. I just give up" Kelsi muttered as she saw Jason approaching them.

Sharpay rolled her eyes once more and quickly went to the other ballroom for the reception.

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The next day…

Sharpay woke up to the sound of her alarm clock; she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was only 9:30AM. The wedding yesterday ended at 2:00AM and since she was the wedding planner, she needed to help with the egress and settle all the payments to the hotel. She got home at around 5:00AM and plopped on her bed right away. She had meeting with another important client by 2PM and she needed time to get ready, so she set her alarm clock to 9:30AM. She groggily got out of her bed and walked towards her bathroom.

After refreshing, she went into the kitchen where she found Kelsi and Jason eating breakfast. They came only for the wedding and since Sharpay wouldn't dare let one of her best friend stay in a hotel, she invited them to stay over at her palatial penthouse and she has like 3 extra bedrooms.

"Good morning" Sharpay greeted the couple.

"You're in a good mood today" Jason said as he sips his coffee

"Well I saw Richard Johnson from Page Six yesterday and so I know for a fact that the wedding will be featured. Where's that newspaper?" Sharpay asked as she goes through the pile of newspaper on the dining table

After a couple of seconds, Kelsi handed her the paper she was looking for and said "Here. Sorry for the pile of crappy newspaper but Jason decided to look like grandpa Cross and read every newspaper that he can find this morning"

Sharpay rolled her eyes and opened the newspaper. Her eyes went wide as she saw her picture looking dreamy with the caption "Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride".

"It makes me look intellectual, right Pay?" Jason reasoned and then looked at Sharpay, who seemed to be frozen

"Pay?" Jason asked in concern. No answer.

"Payday?" Kelsi repeated, poking Sharpay on the arm as she tries to get any reaction from her friend

It took her a couple of minutes before she looked down at the page and saw the by-line "Photo and caption by Troy Bolton"

"Ahhhh!!!!!!!!!!" Sharpay shouted at the top of her lungs.


A/N: So there it goes... the 3rd chapter and I hope, hope, hope that you like it. By the way, I do not own the following: (1) Donald and Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner – although Jared is really an Orthodox Jew and Ivanka is converting to Judaism before their actual wedding, (2) Ritz Carlton Hotel, (3) Norah Jones and her song 'Come Away With Me' & Whitney Houston and the song 'A Moment Like This' by Kelly Clarkson, (4) the scene where Sharpay looks dreamy and Troy captures it on film was from the movie of the same title.

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