Chapter 4
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A/N: Thank so much to everyone who has added this story to their alerts and people who reviewed! I think I'll be putting up 2 more chapter before I decide if I'm planning on moving forward with this fic. Let me know.
Ryan woke up to the sound of his cell phone ringing and he noticed two things. The first was that he had actually been asleep before 11:47 and the second was the the call was coming from Troy. Ryan shook his head to make himself more awake before he answered his phone. "Hello?" he asked still half asleep.
" Ryan? Are you asleep?"
" Not anymore. What couldn't wait until tomorrow?"
" I figured out how to fix things with Gabriella."
" That's great. Can I go back to sleep now?"
" I'm sorry. I just thought you would want to hear about it. Good night."
" Wait..." Ryan said sitting up in bed. He rubbed his eyes and turned on his reading lamp. "Yes, I want to hear it."
" Ok. I told Sharpay I'm quitting her show you know. So I figure instead of doing the talent thing I would just take her out. Like on a walk. Just lay it on the line. What do you think?"
" You are just going to aplogize and hope that fixes everything?"
" Well kinda."
Ryan threw his legs over the side of his bed and stood up. He pulled on a robe over himself and started over to his desk. It felt weird for Ryan trying to give advice about girls. Especially to Troy; No matter how he had acted over the summer, Ryan was somehow still crushing on him. He wanted to just tell Troy to forget about girls but of course, Troy was not going to listen to THAT advice.
" You need to not just apologize but show her you care about her. That's the stereotypical flowers and candies bit."
" Is that what will bring Gabi back?"
" Well I think it needs to be more. She's special. Do something that would touch her heart. I know she loves singing with you. Why don't you sing to her?"
" Sing?"
" Yeah. I mean... you are good at it. You guys were amazing in the musical."
" If you think that will make it up to her."
" I would like it if someone sang to me," Ryan said without thinking.
" OK. I will do it. Thanks. You have been such an awesome friend to me lately. I really appreicate it."
" Hey, no problem," Ryan paused. "And sorry about kissing you today. I... I thought I could prove a point. Or something." Ryan could feel himself blushing.
" I wanted to ask you about that. It felt really, well, real. Are you... um..."
Here goes nothing, Ryan thought. "Yeah. I'm gay."
" Wow. I guess I should have seen that coming. So if you kissed me, does that mean you are, like, into me?" Troy listened to the slience on the other end of the phone as Ryan fumbled for what he thought could be an acceptable answer. "You don't have to answer that if you don't want to. But you aren't ruining our friendship or anything. It was... well, nice. I feel complimented."
Ryan couldn't believe he was hearing those words. Troy was ok not only with him being gay but was over the whole kiss thing. If he couldn't have Troy. He supposed staying his friend was the next best thing. There are other guys out there, right?