Quick updates are fun, aren't they? I was bored during Spanish, so I wrote up Ryan's!! And since I love Ryan to death, him being my favorite character and all, this was my favorite so far to write! And I've been asked, and I will do these for everyone. Even Ms. Darbus and others like that if you guys really want!! Thanks again to HermioneRose, autumnamberleaves, Heaven and Earth, Car2nfreak, Darcehole, and bsbneysdc for reviewing!! Oh and because I forgot the last times:

DISCLAIMER: No I don't own HSM. If I did, Ryan would have a solo, and three duets with Kelsi. So yeah, it's not mine.


1)

Ryan was not gay.

People would automatically assume this. That just because he didn't dress "normally" and he was into performing and theatre, and enjoyed listening to music other than rap or rock, and had a strange facination with hats, that he was gay. And maybe the fact that he wore pink once or twice without "tough guys wear pink" plastered on it, it made him gay. Those things didn't define him being gay.

To put it simply, he liked girls. A lot.

2)

Ryan didn't hate his sister.

He actually liked spending time with her, most of the time. Many people assumed that he either didn't like her, or was just plain scared of her, because of the way she treated him. True she wasn't the nicest she could have been, but he didn't mind most of the time. He knew her critisism wasn't really that heartfelt, and she was only occasionally annoying. And to tell the truth, he didn't really know what he would do without her.

He'd probably have a quiet, peaceful life.

3)

Ryan noticed that people assumed a lot of things about him.

They assumed he was gay. That he was just a little obedient slave to his sister. That he was just a drama geek. That he wasn't all that smart, and didn't have an opinion on things. But things were rarely as they seemed with Ryan. The first two were covered above. No one knew he was a really great baseball player. He was pretty good at all his subjects, except for Math, which not a lot of people were good at. When he was trying to read the G-O-D-R-A-M-A-C-L-U-B on the shirts, he didn't have his contacts in. Yes Ryan wore contacts. There were a lot of shades of gray to Ryan. No one ever stopped to look for them though.

And you know what they say. If you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.

4)

Ryan loved music.

Music was pretty much his life. Ovviously a lot of it came from the whole performing/singing/dancing thing. But beyond that, Ryan was obsessed. He could play the guitar, drums, and piano (although not as good as Kelsi.) He had an iPod that held thousands of songs, and tons of computer programs that let you make your own music. He would spend hours in his room, playing his guitar, doing something on the computer, or just listening to his iPod. No matter what it was, it was something musical.

He also knew just about every musical that was ever produced in modern times.

5)

Ryan was not a follower.

True, it seemed like all he did was follow his sister around, but in truth he did his own thing. He obviously dressed differently from just about everyone else at school. Only Kelsi came even close to owning as many hats as he did. (They counted once; he had four more than she did.) He was in the drama club and theatre, when he could have easily been on the baseball team. He chose what made him happy instead of following the crowd.

Instead he followed his sister.

6)

Ryan was very creative.

He loved drawing and art of any kind. He was actually a pretty good drawer, and took lots of different art classes. Writing as well, was something he did well. He didn't flaunt his talents, and actually kept them pretty quiet. He once won an award for a drawing he did in an art class, but when he told his parents and sister, they brushed it off. After that he kept it quiet and just focused on performing.

He actually helped Kelsi write the song "Everyday" but whenever someone mentioned it, they just said that Kelsi had wrote it.

7)

And speaking of Kelsi...

Ryan wasn't sure when he started liking her. They had known each other from both being in drama club together, and they bonded whenever Sharpay got bossy. He had always admired her and her incredible talent. He secretly considered her even more talented than Sharpay was. (Not that he would admit that out loud.) Over the summer, they had gotten to be really close friends, and had ended up writing "Everyday" together, and were co-conspirer's in the plot to save the talent show. And somewhere along the way, he had fallen in love with her.

And he had to say, that the hats were rather cute.

8)

Ryan was very good at baseball.

This isn't really a secret, especially after the whole thing at the country club, but how he got into it and the fact that he was a really good baseball player had been a secret for a long time. He had been teased by the kids at his old elementary school because he was in the Drama Club, so he decided to join a sport. He had picked baseball, and he was incredibly good at it. His team did really good that year, and after that season though, Sharpay made him drop it and come back and perform.

But he still had his fast pitch hiding there.

9)

Ryan had never had any real friends.

He obviously hung out with Sharpay all the time, and talked with some people from the Drama Club, but that was about it. So when Gabriella and Taylor asked him to hang out, he was shocked. And even though he challenged the others to a game, he actually won their respect, and became friends with all of them. Chad Danforth and Gabriella Montez were people he would have never thought that he would have been friends with, but all that changed when they made one simple, kind gesture to him. It was still strange to walk down the halls, and have people smile at him and say hi.

And he got to know Kelsi better, which was a definite plus for him.

10)

Ryan loved hats.

(No!! Really?)

He didn't remember how he started liking hats. He always loved to wear his baseball cap, and after he ran out of those, and they didn't really match the outfits he wore, he started looking for more. Newsboys, fedoras, you name it, he had it. They were kind of like his safety blanket in a way. He didn't feel completely dressed or comfortable, if he didn't have a hat to wear.

To this day, Ryan owns 84 hats.


Yayy I'm done with Ryan!! Fun times fun times! And who knows? Maybe Ryan has even more hats than that. It was a totally random number! I'm thinking that Chad is going to be up next. This should be an interesting one. R&R Please! Reviews make me all happy inside!! ;)