Previously on "Me and My Best Friend's Boyfriend.";
"Want to hang out this weekend?"
"Sure! What did you have in mind?"
"I don't know- maybe go for a drive or something."
"Sounds fun." Sharpay said sarcastically.
Darren laughed.
"Well, I'll come up with something- see ya Friday?"
"That's five days from now!"
"It'd be sooner, but I've told you how my dad is!"
"Haha. Right I forgot. Okay, I'll see you Friday."
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Chapter Four – The Party.
"Can you believe it's already Thursday? This week just flew by!" Gabriella exclaimed while she, Troy and of course Sharpay were out getting smoothies.
It had been Sharpay's idea to go out for smoothies- since the three of them were bored to tears. Gabriella had insisted on going out to starbuck's instead for a coffee since she thought it was to cold, but she was quickly outnumbered when Troy said that he could go for a smoothie.
Gabriella hadn't gotten mad at first that he didn't go with what she wanted, but she got over it in five minutes.
So, here they were sitting in 'Sammy's Smoothies', each with a small strawberry palooza in front of them.
"Fast? Are you kidding me? The week dragged by!" Sharpay disagreed with her friend.
Gabriella shrugged.
"Well, I spent all my time after school doing homework and extra curricular, so…since I kept busy that's why it went by fast for me!"
"I think it would be even worse to be wasting your time doing that." Sharpay stated.
Gabriella shot her friend a glare.
"Plans for tomorrow, Troy?" Gabriella asked Troy- changing the subject.
"Well, you know my friend Tegan Snow right?" Troy asked Gabriella.
Gabriella nodded.
"That one guy that goes to West High that you met at summer camp?"
"Yeah. His parents are out of town tomorrow night, so he's having a party at his place. Want to drop by for a few hours?"
Gabriella hesitated.
"I don't know…parties have never been my thing…"
This was Sharpay's cue to butt in to the conversation.
"Gabby, you just admitted less then two minutes ago that you spent all your time doing homework and extra curricular, well, tomorrow's finally Friday- you need to let loose! Go to the party with Troy!!"
"Oh, okay…"Gabriella agreed reluctantly.
"It'll be fun, Brie. I promise." Troy assured her before taking a long sip of his smoothie.
"AH! Brain freeze!!" Troy suddenly shouted rubbing his temples and shutting his eyes tightly. Gabriella and Sharpay giggled.
Troy's brain freeze went away a few seconds later.
"Shar, isn't this where you ask to come along with me and Troy?" Gabriella asked sharpay with a smirk. Sharpay rolled her eyes and smirked back.
"Nope. I've got a date tomorrow!"
"Who's the lucky guy?" Troy asked with a grin.
"Darren! Duh!" Sharpay replied. Troy's grin quickly faded.
"Oh."
"Something wrong, Troy?" Sharpay asked him.
"Nope." Troy said coolly-looking away because he could feel her eyes burning into his skin. Sharpay gave him a long stare before turning to face Gabriella.
"…Anyway, promise me you won't get too drunk at that party!" Sharpay said jokingly to Gabriella- who didn't take it as a joke. She gasped loudly.
"What!?!? There's going to be alcohol?!?!!?"
Troy tsk-tsked.
"Relax Brie! She's just playing with ya!"
"…But, she's right. There probably WILL be alcohol!" Gabriella said- realizing what she had just agreed to.
"Well…okay, you're probably right. But as long as you or I don't drink, it's all good, right?"
"Ugh. Fineeee!!" Gabriella whined- crossing her arms stubbornly over her chest.
The three of them talked for around ten more minutes when Gabriella excused herself from the table to use the restroom, leaving Troy and Sharpay alone. (AN: ooh la la! Lol!!)
"So, where are you and Darren going tomorrow?" Troy asked her- trying to sound casual.
She shrugged.
"He hasn't come up with anything yet. Just hang out some place."
"Ah."
"How are things with you and Gabby?"
"Fine…why do you ask?"
"Just wondering. I hope you two never break up- you really are the cutest couple ever!"
"Thanks, Shar." Troy said- smiling at her even though part of him was a little bit unsure.
They sat there for a few moments in silence- sipping their smoothies, when Troy suddenly caught a glimpse of Sharpay's cleavage.
Being a guy, he couldn't really help but stare at the very small amount showing. It didn't take Sharpay long to notice exactly what he was staring at. She gasped and quickly covered her chest with her arms, and accidentally knocked over her smoothie while she was doing so.
The blended fruity drink fell off the table and hit the floor with a splat.
Troy got up and ran over to the counter. The lady working behind the counter- who looked about twenty two, grabbed a mop , bucket, and a wet floor sign and carried it over to the spill.
Troy followed her back to the table. Sharpay, who was quite embarrassed about spilling the drink, apologized to the young woman seven times, while Troy stood a couple feet away- thinking about what Sharpay had just witnessed him doing.
Damn Bolton! You are SUCH and idiot!! He scolded himself in his thoughts.
Sharpay probably thinks you're a perverted sicko and will probably tell Gabriella!
The woman finished up mopping and carried the bucket away- leaving the wet floor sign in place, just as Gabriella was returning to the table.
"What took you so long?" Sharpay asked her friend.
"I'm on my period if you must know!" Gabriella hissed at Sharpay, who laughed.
"We should all go now." Troy muttered to the two girls. Gabriella nodded and lead the way outside.
Sharpay wouldn't even look at Troy. He felt so dumb.
They all three filed into Troy's car- that they had come here in, and began to drive.
Troy wanted to apologize to Sharpay, so he decided to drop Gabriella off first, making up a lame excuse about her house being closer so it was easier.
When they reached Gabriella's house, she gave Troy a quick kiss, and he promised to call her later, then she got out of the car and went inside.
Troy and Sharpay drove to Sharpay's house in a very uncomfortable silence. She still wouldn't look at him.
They parked in Sharpay's driveway, and the moment they did, Sharpay opened to door and was about to leave immediately when Troy stopped her.
"Sharpay- wait!" He said. She hesitantly drew her hand back from the door and looked at him- for the first time since the incident at Sammy's.
"Look, I'm really, really, really sorry!" Troy said- getting to the point.
"It's okay Troy. I understand, You're a guy, and that's what you do." Sharpay replied- remembering the way she herself had been staring at Troy shirtless on Monday, and decided to forgive him this time.
"Really? Well, thanks for being so cool about it, Shar. It'll never happen again- and I'm sorry…if you got offended or anything."
"Don't worry Troy. I understand."
"Okay- you won't tell Gabby, right?..."
"No. We will never speak of this again."
"Alright. Thanks. I'll see you at school on Monday!" Troy said. Sharpay smiled and gave him a quick, friendly hug before getting out of the car and walking up the drive to her house.
Troy drove away from her house- more confused then ever. He still liked Gabriella- a lot. But he just kept confusing himself- he'd been finding himself thinking a lot about Sharpay lately, sometimes-often,more then Gabriella.
Troy decided that he was just in a weird stage, and that it would pass by very soon.
Little did he know, that he couldn't be more wrong.
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It was now Friday, Darren had called Sharpay telling her that he'd thought of something to do today, and told her about a party at his friend Tegan's place.
That was when Sharpay remembered that that was the party Gabriella and Troy would be attending tonight, and she loved parties! So she quickly agreed. She told Darren to pick her up at seven thirty.
It was now seven thirty, and Sharpay was waiting anxiously for Darren to arrive, hoping he wouldn't be late again- like on their first date.
Luckily, he arrived at 7:32.
There was a loud knock on the door.
"I'll get it!" Sharpay yelled up the stairs to Ryan. Their parents were out at some fancy dinner party- heck, they could have had a party of their own!
That thought just struck her.
Sharpay pulled open the front door and saw Darren. He was dressed casually- a white and black striped polo shirt from Abercrombie, jeans that were ripped at the knees, and white Nikes. His hair was spiked.
He looked hot.
She herself was wearing a white tank top with a hot pink low-cut top over it, dark blue jeans, and hot pink peep-toe heels. Her long blonde locks were straight, and was held in place with a half up-half down style in the center of her head with a silver butterfly clip.
Probably not the best shoe choice for a party, but she looked good in her opinion.
"You look great!" Darren told her- as if reading her thoughts.
"Thanks- you to." She giggled.
Just then, Ryan came pondering down the steps and walked over to the door- curious as to who was here.
"Ry, what are you doing tonight?" Sharpay asked her twin curiously.
"Nothing." Ryan answered.
Sharpay sighed.
"We're going to a party- want to come?"
Ryan shook his head no- not even considering it.
Sharpay wanted Ryan to be more social- he only had a few friends, he hadn't had a girlfriend in forever, and he always lazed around the house. He was completely opposite of Sharpay.
"Come on Ry! It'll be fun!"
"Nah. Have fun though." Ryan quickly ran back up the stairs before Sharpay could beg him anymore.
Sharpay sighed and stepped outside into the cool night- closing the front door behind her.
"Is your brother okay?" Darren asked her.
"Sometimes I don't think so. He's so anti-social!" Sharpay exclaimed.
"Brrrrr!" She shivered. Darren wrapped his arm around her noticing that she was cold and guided her to his car, she could smell his aftershave.
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"Brie! Come on- you can't stay in this car! You agreed to come- so come on!" Troy begged Gabriella. They were sitting in Troy's car a few yards away from the driveway of Tegan Snow's house, since the driveway was already crammed with cars.
"Troy- I changed my mind! Look at that place- the yard is littered with beer cans, and I can here the loud hardcore rock coming from inside the house! It's way out of hand! And look- there's people smoking who knows WHAT over there!!" Gabriella exclaimed as she pointed two a group of about six guys smoking what looked like pot standing a few yards away from the car in a circle.
"Gabby! I already warned you it would be like this the whole way here- and besides, it's not THAT out of hand!"
Just as Troy finished his sentence, he and Gabriella both jerked their heads sideways to look in the direction of where a loud crash! Was just heard. It sounded like breaking glass.
Sure enough, it had been a window being broken, and a small wooden coffee table and a chair with one leg missing flew out of the window and onto the lawn, and Troy and Gabriella listened as a roar of laughter errupted from inside the room of the smashed window.
Gabriella shot Troy a look.
"Still think it's not that out of hand?!"
Troy groaned.
"Just come on! Please!"
"Fine!"
Troy grinned as he and Gabriella both stepped out of the car. He took her hand and pulled her close to him protectively as they made their way up to the house, stepping around miscellaneous obstacles.
A shoe…
Tons of beer cans…
A broken blender…
The wooden coffee table…
The broken chair…
A broken fishing pole...
And other unmentionables.
The house WOULD have been a nice house if it wasn't messed up like this.
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Darren parked his car about ten feet away from the driveway of Tegan Snow's house and stepped out of the car. He circled around the car and opened Sharpay's door for her- before she could open it for herself.
Sharpay giggled, stepped out of the car, and slid her small hand into Darren's. She looked around to check out where this party had been heading already.
Hmm…not bad…
The place was a MESS! It sure had to be some hell of a party so far…
Darren and Sharpay walked up and into the house- not bothering to knock on the front door, it was unlocked sure enough.
Sharpay stuck closely to Darren's side as he shoved his way past several couple's dancing.
A lot of people when they saw Darren, said "WHAT'S UP MAN!?" and slapped him high fives.
Other jerks, whistled at Sharpay and whispered something dirty to Darren, which he would just shove the perv away- whoever it was.
Several girls, glared at Sharpay when they noticed she was holding hands with Darren.
Sharpay heard one conversation going on between two girls around her.
"Who is she?!"
"I don't know! Probably some East High bitch!"
"She thinks she can crash a West High party and cling to Darren like that?!?!"
Darren obviously heard them to, because he told them to cool it.
"Wow- you seem like the most popular guy in school here, huh?" Sharpay asked Darren, as another guy high fived him.
"I guess." Darren shrugged as if it were no big deal.
"Want to dance?" He asked her. She nodded her head 'yes' and they began to dance to the rock music.
After half an hour of dancing, Sharpay told Darren that she was going to head over to the punch bowl to get something to drink. He said he'd be in the next room talking to Brad- because he had just spotted him.
Sharpay said 'excuse me' as she stepped around people dancing hardcore.
She was surprised that there WAS punch and soda- she was expecting only beer.
Sharpay gratefully picked up a new can of sprite at the snack table and opened it. She watched random people dancing for a while- she had actually forgotten about Darren. She was hoping she could find Troy and Gabriella somewhere.
Sharpay decided to see if they were upstairs, she made her way up the stairs and passed several couples making out in the hallway, who all ignored her and went about their business.
Sharpay opened a closed bedroom door, and quickly closed it again when she saw two people going at it on the bed- they luckily hadn't noticed her. They were too focused on something else.
Sharpay was just about to give up on looking for Troy and Gabriella, when someone grabbed her by the arm.
"Hey!" She shouted- alarmed, turning around.
"Oh sorry if I scared you!"
Sharpay reckognized Shay from the Red Heat.
"It's okay,you just sort of caught me of guard- Shay, right?"
"Yeah. You're Sharpay, right?"
Sharpay nodded.
"What's up?"
"Nothing really.Did you come here with Darren?" Shay smiled at her.
"Yeah."
"What are you doing up here?" Shay asked her- as she looked around as if noticing the making-out couples for the first time.
"Well, two of my friends from my school are here and I'm looking for them."
"What do they look like? Maybe I've seen them."
"Well, the boy is medium height, has shaggy brown hair, tanned skin, a nice smile, amazing baby blue eyes..." Sharpay trailed off, thinking about Troy's nice features.
"...Wait, what was my point again?" She asked Shay with an embarrased giggled. She'd always thought Troy was good-looking, she'd just never really thought that much about it before.
Shay laughed.
"You were talking about his amazing baby blue eyes!"
"Oh right! And well, the girl who's with him has short black curly hair, dark brown eyes, mocha colored skin, kind of short?"
Shay thought for a minute.
"Hm...well, I actually saw two people who looked just like that arguing by the snack area downstairs a few minutes ago. Come on."
Sharpay followed Shay down the stairs and back to the snack table, where she had been about 20 minutes earlier.Darren was probably searching everywhere for her right about now.
Sure enough, Troy and Gabriella were arguing quietly by the punch bowl.Even though she couldn't hear them, Sharpay could tell by the unhappy looks on their faces.
"Hey!" Sharpay greeted them. They looked at her with weird expressions at first, which turned into looks of surprise after a few seconds.
"Shar? What are you doing here?" Gabriella asked her.
"Darren invited me here.He knows Tegan."
"Where is he?" Troy asked her. Sharpay shrugged.
"I've been looking everywhere for you two! Why are you arguing?"
"Brie doesn't want to be here." Troy answered.
"Gabby- it's not that bad! Just dance with Troy!"
Gabriella looked at Shay,who was standing next to Sharpay, listening intently to the threesome's conversation.
"Um...hi?" Gabriella asked her uncertainly.
"Hi.I'm Shay.Darren's friend." Shay answered.
"Oh. Nice to meet you."
Just then, Darren and Brad came running up to the four of them.
"Sharpay! Where have you been? I've been looking for you for the past half an hour!!"Darren said by way of greeting.
"Sorry.I accidentaly wandered off." Sharpay replied.
Darren stared awkwardly at Shay. He had been avoiding her ever since the 'kiss on the cheek' incident on Monday, which he had decided not to mention to Brad or Sharpay.
Brad wrapped his arm around Shay's shoulders.She didn't react.She was staring at Darren. They locked eyes for a moment and he looked away- at Sharpay instead.
Shay rolled her eyes. She had had a crush on Darren forever, and she was just covering it up by going out with Brad.And now this...Sharpay girl had Darren. It made her so mad.
"Who are these two people??" Brad asked Darren rudely gesturing to Troy and Gabriella.
"Uh...I forgot their names,but they're friends of Sharpay's." Darren answered.
"Troy." Troy introduced himself,shaking hands with both Darren and Brad.
"Gabriella." Gabriella introduced herself, shaking hands with Darren and Brad as well.
The six of them stood their awkwardly, each with different thoughts in their minds.
Sharpay:
"Why does Troy keep staring at me and Darren?"
Troy:
"That Darren dude is NOT right for Sharpay at all!!!
But wow...Sharpay looks hot tonight...wait Bolton what are you thinking?!?!!?"
Gabriella:
"I hate this. I hate parties! this is terrible!"
Darren:
"Does Shay like me or something?What's up with that??"
Shay:
"Stupid Sharpay girl. Stupid Darren.How can he NOT see how much I WANT him?!?!"
Brad:
"I could use another beer."
"Come on, Darren- let's dance!" Sharpay said enthusiastically to break the awkward silence that fell over the six of them.
Darren smiled thankfully.
Okay,come on, Shar!" He said- pulling her over to an area that wasn't completely crowded,to dance.
"Shar?!? SHAR?!! Only Gabby, me, and Ryan are allowed to call her that!!!" Troy screamed in his thoughts.
Shay and Brad left to dance as well, Shay kept on shooting glares at Sharpay- which no one noticed.
"Troy. Let's dance!" Gabriella said- trying to be cheerful for the first time that night.
"Alright,let's go Brie!!" Troy said as they began to dance.
After a while of dancing, Gabriella felt her cell phone vibrating in her pocket.
"Troy come outside with me- my cell is ringing!!" She had to shout to be heard over the music. troy nodded and they walked outside together. She looked at her phone and Sharpay's name flashed across the screen.
"Hey Shar, what's up?"
"Hey- where are you and Troy?"
"Outside in front of the house- why?"
"Can you guys come and help me?"
"Okay- with what?"
"Darren passed out. I think he had to much to drink...and I really don't know what to do. I need you guys to help me move him- everyone else is to drunk to even notice!"
"Well, where are you?"
"In the middle the living room- you'll probably be able to find us, no one's really on the dancefloor anymore anyway."
"Alright we'll be there." Gabriella said- hanging up.
"Darren passed out.She needs us to come help her move him." she said- turning to Troy.
"Uh...to where?"
Gariella shrugged.
"Let's go though."
They walked back into the living room together,Gabriella immediatley spotted Darren and Sharpay- Sharpay had Darren's head on her lap and was shaking her head. Darren's eyes were shut and his tongue was hanging out of his mouth.
"Hey-come onlet's get him up." Gabriella said- running up to them. She grabbed a hold of one of Darren's arms while Sharpay took the other. They hosited him to his feet and he hung limply- with his arms draped across their shoulders.
"A little help here, Troy?"Sharpay asked. Troy took Sharpay's place.
"Let's move him to his car...he probably left it unlocked..." Sharpay said. She motioned for Gabriella and Troy to follow her out the door to Darren's car.
Sure enough, the car was unlocked.Sharpay pulled the door open while Troy and Gabriella let go of him and he fell lazily onto the backseat.
"Now what?" Gabriella asked Sharpay.She shrugged.
"I tried to wake him up- but everytime I tried, he would just groan and fall back asleep.He's completely wasted- I don't know what to do...I guess I'll just have to wait with him until he wakes up or something- oh no!" she said suddenly- interrupting himself.
"What is it?" Troy asked her.
"I think I left my purse inside- by the snack table..."
Just then, Darren groaned and sat up- rubbing his eyes.
"What happened?" he grumbled.
"You're drunk." Troy told him. Darren groaned again and fellback asleep.
"Gabby- can you help my come find my purse inside?" Sharpay asked her friend. Gabriella hesitated.
"I don't know...I don't really want to go back in there..." she said.
"I'll come." Troy said. Sharpay smiled.
"Okay- Gabby can you stay here with Darren?We'll be right out."
"Uh...sure..."Gabriella said. Sharpay smiled thankfully and gave her a quick hug.
"Come on buddy." she said- turning to Troy. Troy gave Gabriella a quick hug to before walking back up and into the house with Sharpay. More people had stopped dancing and were sitting on the floor groaning and holding their stomachs, others were laughing for no apparent reason, and some were still dancing- but stupidly.
"Hey look- I see it over there- by the snack table- just where I thought."Sharpay said- walking over to the snack table,as soon as she was about to take her purse off the table,some random drunk boy came up and grabbed it-running off with it.
"Hey you loser- get back here with that!" Sharpay shouted running after the boy- with Troy following close behind.
They ended up running up the stairs and into the hallway. As soon as the hallway hit a dead end, the guy with Sharpay's purse was trapped.
"Hand it over, man." Troy said- walking to him. The guy shoved Troy back hard, Troy shoved him back even harder- causing him to let go of the purse as he waved his arms in the air to keep his balance. Troy picked the purse off the ground and handed it to Sharpay- before punching the guy in the face. The guy grabbed his face and fell back- not bothering to get up.
"He's to drunk to move..."Sharpay said- trying to keep herself from laughing at the loser.
Troy laughed.
"Yeah." he said.
"Well, thanks for getting my purse back Troy." she said- hugging him tightly. He hugged her back- and the hug ended up lasting longer then either of them intended.
Sharpay finally pulled away and gave him a quick, friendly kiss on the cheek- not knowing what was going to happen next.
But what did happen next caused unexplainable feelings for both Troy and Sharpay.
Troy brought his face closer to Sharpay's and kissed her lightly on the lips- something he had never done before- or ever even dreamed of doing.It just...happened. No matter the consequences, no matter how many wrongs would come out of it, something told him that he had to do it.
Troy was about to pull away- realizing that he was kissing his girlfriend's best friend- but then surprisingly, she kissed him back- oddly enough.
It was surprising- beyond surprising for Sharpay to, and she didn't know why- but she just kissed him back.
Was it possibly because she didn't want to hurt his feelings by not kissing him back, or did she actually want to kiss him back?
She didn't know which was the right, and which was the wrong answer,but she just did it.
It was just a tiny, breif kiss anyway- right? It meant nothing- right?
Wrong.
The kiss deepend- became more meaningful, more powerful, until finally- Sharpay pulled away. She gently pushed Troy a tiny bit away from her,stepped back and looked at him- unsure of what to do,or even of what to think. What just happened? She hadn't really been kissing her best friend's boyfriend...had she?
Troy was about to start spurting out random apologies when Sharpay turned away from him and ran down the hallway and out of the house.
What had just happened was completely,utterly,100 percent real- Troy had kissed her,and she had kissed him back.
How was she ever going to face him again?
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Author's Note:- oooh they kissed...they kissed!lol well please review :D
sorry for the wait to- I actually re-wrote this ending like three times, I didn't know how to end the chapter exactly, but luckily I got over my breif writers-block in the end:D, because I decided to make Troypay kiss in this chapter- like my christmas present to you! hehe- Merry Christmas!(it's also mybirthday-I'm 13 yay finally!
-Serena/HeSaidSheSaidx