Chapter 4
For the next couple of days, Sharpay mostly stayed to herself. She wouldn't even tell Anna about the mortifying experience she had with Troy Bolton.
That day, a Wednesday, Sharpay was sitting in her French class trying hard to pay attention to Miss Pearce's lesson. She was instead, thinking about what she'd do with her food at lunch. She wasn't quite down to size yet, but she was coming close. Anna had said the other day that Destiny Chavez, a girl who'd always get the lead in the plays, was a size 0. Before Sharpay went on a "diet" she was a healthy size 4. Right now she was barely fitting into a size 2. She was going to have to get serious if she wanted to fit into a size 0.
"Miss Evans?" a voice boomed at her. Sharpay's head bolted up. She looked around and saw everyone staring at her. She also looked at the front of the classroom. Miss Pearce was staring at her intensely. Suddenly, Sharpay realized that she was being called on.
"I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question?" Sharpay asked in a small voice. Before Julliard, Sharpay would have put on a fake voice and smile to soften the blow. But now, if she were to do that, than her head would have been chewed off for trying to fool them. She had learned it the hard way in Mr. Daniel's class.
Miss Pearce gave her the death glare and ignored her question. Instead she flatly said. "Pay attention Miss Evans, or else I'll fail you." She then asked another girl to answer the question. Sharpay merely sunk into her seat, trying to ignore the stares she got.
After class, Sharpay rushed up to her dorm. She was going to make an excuse to get out of going to lunch with a few friends she made in her Liberal Arts class. But when she got on her floor, her lunch dates were waiting for her at her dorm room.
Erin, one of her friends, saw her coming and excitedly asked if she was ready.
Sharpay tried to think of the best excuse possible. "Um…I'm not feeling up to it." Great excuse. Sharpay thought disappointedly to herself.
Ava, her other friend, quickly saw through this so she exclaimed. "Oh no you don't. You aren't getting out of this that easily."
Sharpay sighed. She knew that she wouldn't win this. She'd just have to purge it later. "Okay…"
Ava, Erin, and her other friend, Sydney all smiled and led her towards the stairs. They soon got a cab and went to one of Erin's favorite restaurants, Kip's (A/N: I'm just making it up. Lol. I've never been to New York…). During the car ride, Sharpay asked what kind of food that it served.
Ava answered immediately, "Oh. It serves the best kind of food: soul food. I mean this place can serve mash potatoes like my mom can make." Sharpay sighed to herself. This was going to be hard to resist. Plus, it was extremely fattening.
Soon, they came to the restaurant and the cab parked and let the 4 girls out. Sydney rushed in the restaurant so that they wouldn't lose their reserved table. When they were all in and ready, the waiter led them to their table. As soon as they were seated, Sharpay noticed two people she recognized. It was Chad and Troy. Sharpay slid into her seat, hoping that they wouldn't notice her. Suddenly, Troy's head swung over towards her booth. Too late, Sharpay sighed.
Soon Chad noticed Sharpay too. "Whoa! It's the Ice Queen!" He had never really warmed up to Sharpay enough to call her by her proper name.
Troy was staring at Sharpay. Contemplating if he should go over to her. Suddenly, she got up. He saw her lean over to tell her friends something.
"Hey, I'm going to the bathroom, okay?" Sharpay told her friends quickly. She then quickly tried to get away.
"Excuse me," Troy told Chad as he rushed towards Sharpay, leaving Chad speechless.
Troy caught up with her in the lobby of the restaurant. "Hey Sharpay!" Troy exclaimed at her. She stopped and slowly turned around. She weakly tried to smile at him.
"Hi Troy," She said nervously. She paused waiting for him to say something. He looked at her intensely thinking seriously about what he should say next. He hadn't really thought that far into his plan yet. She finally got fed up with waiting and started to say something.
"So…" she started. "What are you doing here?" Troy came out of his trance and spoke up.
"Oh, um well. I was just having some lunch with Chad. He came into town for the day," Troy tried to act cool, but it was very hard. He was trying hard to ignore how pretty Sharpay was looking. She looks different to me…Troy thought. Did she lose some weight?
Sharpay interrupted his thoughts. "Why isn't Chad in school?"
"Oh, well…" Troy started. "Well the thing is that he just wanted to talk to someone."
Sharpay didn't seem to be buying it. "He could have just called you…"
Troy sighed. He didn't really want to tell her the real reason. He'd then think that he'd be a total dork. But Sharpay gave him the death stare, so he finally gave in. "Well…the reason is that I wasn't really settling in, and I was missing Chad." He sighed and then said, "You think that I'm a dork don't you?"
Sharpay chuckled a little, shook her head and said. "That's all? You missed Chad? Why didn't you just go and see him?" She had thought that that would be the practical thing to do, since he went to the same college as Gabriella and Kelsi.
"Because he had the week off and I didn't really want to see him there," he said as he went to the nearest bench and sat down.
"Why not?" Sharpay asked as she followed him.
Troy sighed and said, "Gabriella and I broke up."
"Oh," Sharpay said, trying her best to feel bad. In truth, she was actually happy.
"Yeah," Troy responded. They both paused and watched people come in and out of the restaurant.
Finally, Sharpay stood up and said, "Well. You probably should get back to Chad."
"Yeah," Troy said as he also stood up. "I hope he's not lost without me." Sharpay giggled a little as they walked back to Troy's table. Chad wasn't at their table, though. Sharpay looked over at her table.
"Um…Troy?" She said tapping him on the shoulder so he'd turn around.
"Yeah?"
"I found him," Sharpay pointed over at her own table where Chad was sitting. He looked like he was having a great time flirting with the girls.
Troy laughed sharply and mumbled, "That's my Chad."
Sharpay heard and chuckled. "Hey, I don't think I really want to stick around, so I think I'll be going."
Troy nodded and said, "Yeah. I think I'll do the same." Troy went over and told Chad that he was leaving, and Sharpay told the girls the same.
Sharpay didn't even realize what kind of impression she was giving off when she left with Troy Bolton. Well, technically she wasn't leaving with Troy. He was just leaving at the same time she was.
"That's my boy," Chad said as he smiled a cocky smile.
As Sharpay walked out, with Troy at her tail, she was fishing through her purse for her sunglasses. The sun was extremely bright. Troy came up beside her and said, "So, do you want to share a cab with me?"
"Um…actually. I want to walk." Sharpay answered.
"Oh," Troy said.
"Do you want to walk with me?" she asked him hoping for a yes.
"Um…sure," he responded. It's a yes! Sharpay thought excitedly.
"Okay," Sharpay said trying to hide her excitement.
They walked in silence for a ways. Finally Sharpay broke the ice.
"So…why'd you and Gabriella break up?" She tried not to sound too interested, but she secretly wanted to know.
"Oh," Troy responded cheerlessly. "Well…we decided that it would be too hard to keep a long distance relationship. I mean, she's in California at UCLA, and I'm here in New York."
"Oh, yeah," Sharpay sighed. There was again silence. Sharpay suddenly felt the need to apologize about what happened a couple of days ago. "Listen, Troy. About the other day…"
Troy then interrupted. "You don't have to apologize."
"Yes I do. I shouldn't have barged in there. I didn't know it was yours though, if that helps."
Troy just nodded. "It's okay. Don't worry about it. It didn't scare you did it?"
Sharpay chuckled. "Naw."
Again, there was silence. Troy then started, "I'm sorry. You probably didn't get any lunch did you? You want to go get something from Starbucks or something?"
Sharpay started to panic. She quickly stated, "Oh no. It's okay. I have a class coming up soon," she lied.
Troy seemed disappointed, but he didn't notice that she was lying. "Oh, okay."
The rest of the walk was silent as they neared Juilliard. Luckily it was so centrally located.
"I'll see you later, Troy," Sharpay told him as she neared the dorm building.
"Okay," Troy stated as he watched Sharpay turn around. "Sharpay?" he suddenly asked.
She turned around. "Yeah?"
Troy mustered up all his courage. "Do you want to get together sometime? Chad's leaving, and Ryan and I don't see each other a lot…so…would you?"
Sharpay smiled. "Sure, Troy. I'd love to. Call me sometime, or you can just stop by."
Troy gave her a huge grin and responded. "Great. I'll do that sometime. See ya Sharpay."
"Bye, Troy," Sharpay said as she turned around. She smiled to herself as she walked into the brick building. She was finally getting everything that she ever wanted. She got to hang out with Troy, her crush since…well, forever. Her diet was also paying off too. She figured that it wouldn't be much longer until she could finally be able to be a size 0.
A/N: That chapter was my longest yet in this story. I hope you all liked it. Please review. I've also noticed that I haven't been getting many hits to my story. That makes me sad. But what makes me even sadder is when people don't tell me how I'm doing. I like knowing if I'm doing well or horrible. So please review!
