Sharpay woke up at about 7 that morning to make breakfast for everybody before their hike. She figured that when whe was half done, she'd wake up the others. The thought of the hike that they were taking that day had her jumping for joy on the inside. She couldn't wait to go. 'I thought that this trip wasn't going to be nearly as much fun as when I come with Mom and Dad, but it ended up being even better. Everybody is being so great, I haven't heard any complaining, even when I mentioned that the hike was gong to be 5 miles. I thought that for sure that Chad was going to say something, but he surprised me when he didn't. I have such great friends, but I wonder if Chad is really my friend now. If he's hiding something from me like Troy said, I must have done something to make him not trust me. Troy keeps telling me not to worry, but how can I not when everybody in the gang knows but me and I can't help but feel that it's about me. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but still it's just a gut feeling.' Sharpay continued to work on breakfast and had just cooked some eggs when Troy walked over to her and wrapped his arms aroung her waist and kissed the back of her neck.

"Good morning," she told him.

"Good morning, I see that somebody is quite the busy bee."

"Well I woke up early so I decided to make breakfast for everybody. Speaking of everybody, I actually need to go wake them up. Breakfast is almost done."

"Then why don't you wake the girls, and I'll wake the boys, ok?"

"Ok."

Sharpay went and woke the girls telling them that they should be ready and come eat breakfast in 10 minutes while Troy said the same thing to the boys.

When the two returned, Troy with Ryan and Jason in tow (Chad wouldn't budge), and Sharpay with all of the girls, they all sat down to eat. Eventually, Chad came out still in his pajamas, got something to eat, and sat down next to Taylor.

"Well, I didn't think that we'd be graced with your company this morning. You were just swinging at me and when I tried to yell at you to wake up, you just said go away and went back to sleep," Troy said teasing him.

"Ha ha, so I'm not a morning person, sue me," Chad replied to his best friend.

"Well Chad, it looks like you have bed head this morning," Kelsi said.

Jason catching on to what she was saying continued by saying, "Come on Kels he doesn't have bed head and you know that. . ."

Chad glad that Jason had stuck up for him interrupted by saying, "Yeah."

"That, that's what his hair looks like all the time," Jason finished with everybody laughing.

"Sure, pick on the guy with the big hair. Yeah, and thanks Jase for sticking up for me, not," Chad said.

"Awww, come on Chad, you know that we're just messing with you, we love your big bushy head," Taylor said.

"Ok, guys. It's time to stop making fun of Chad's big head, and get a move on it." Sharpay said. "It's almost 9 and I want to be on our way by 9:30."

"Sure Shar, don't worry. We'll be ready by then. We promise right guys?" Troy asked.

"We promise," they echoed.

"See. Why don't you go get ready, and we'll be plenty ready by then. We'll even pack something to eat, too," he said trying to get her to stop worrying.

"Ok, but I'll take that hike by myself if I have to. Got it?" Sharpay said seriously.

"Sure, whatever, but go get ready, ok? We'll go get ready in a few minutes," Troy said pushing her towards her tent.

"Yeah, ok, I guess but be ready in 30 minutes." she said turning to walk to her tent.

About 35 minutes later. . .

"Ok, now that everybody's ready, let's go." Sharpay said. They had been waiting for Chad again. He was taking time to work on his hair. Sharpay almost left him until Troy and Ryan convinced her to wait for him.

They set off down a path near the one that lead to the creek. Sharpay was in front with Troy by her side, they were followed by Jason and Kelsi, then Ryan and Gabi, and bringing up the rear was Taylor and Chad.

"Come on Chad, you need to hurry up, we're being left behind," Taylor said trying to rush her boyfriend.

"I don't want to Tay, will you just let me walk at my own pace, I'm really tired."

"Fine then, I'll walk with the girls and get the boys to drag you along."

"Tay, don't do that," he tried to tell her, but it was too late. She had already ran to Sharpay, but not before talking to all of the boys about Chad's slowness. Before he knew it, he was being dragged along by Troy and Jason while Ryan walked in front of them, just listening.

"Come on man, you're gonna ruin the plan. I'm supposed to be up there distracting Shar," Troy said a bit upset that his best friend was messing up his first chance to surprise Sharpay.

"Yeah man, you were the one that had come up with this plan and now you're gonna ruin it?" Jason asked him.

"Troy, you already got the girl. Why do you need to surprise her?"

"Dude, it was your idea and in case you don't remember what we talked about in our tent last night, it's a picnic for the girls also. I can't believe that you're being so selfish right now." Troy said frustrated with his friend.

"You can't believe me, well, you're the one that isn't doing anything to help us. I mean, we're doing this for you guys and now you're telling me that I'm being selfish?" Chad almost yelled at him.

"Come on guys, calm down you both need to chill right now," Jason said trying to settle this fight before it got too out of hand.

"Whatever, I can't talk to him right now, though, I'm going back to walk with Sharpay again," Troy said having heard enough. Before they knew it, Troy had walked back over to Sharpay, and was walking with the girls.

"What happened back there?" Taylor asked him.

"Why don't you ask your lunkheaded boyfriend?" he replied bitterly.

"Um, ok," Taylor replied getting scared of Troy.

Sharpay motioned for Gabi and Kelsi to to move back so that she could talk to Troy in private. "So do you want to talk about it?" she asked when the others had gone back to walking in the same order they had started.

"Not really. He was just being his selfish, jerky, self."

"What was he being selfish about?"

"Oh, it was nothing, it was stupid."

"Ok," she replied, knowing that he was lying.

"I just need some time to cool off with you," he said while slipping his arm around her shoulders and giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"I think I can help you with that," she said giving him a kiss on his cheek and putting her arm around his waist.

They continued to walk like this both not noticing that the others took another path.

Meanwhile back with the others. . .

"Chad, are you ok?" Taylor asked him.

"Not really, Troy the jerk was all upset that I was walking slowly and said that him having to come back here and here was screwing up the plan because he was supposed to distract Sharpay." Chad said.

"Well, Chad, he kind of was. You made up the plan yourself. I think that you were both wrong to say the truth," Taylor said not wanting to upset him more.

"How can you say that Tay? We're doing that picnic for him and Sharpay and now he acts like a jerk to me about it for no reason?"

"Chad, calm down. I can't really talk to you either right now, I'm going to talk to Kelsi and Gabi," she said walking off leaving him alone again.

"Fine, just leave then. I'll just walk back here by myself," he yelled at her as she went.

Soon, Ryan and the others let Sharpay and Troy keep walking on the current path, while they took a path to the right.

Back to Troy and Sharpay. . .

Troy didn't even know that the others were gone until he turned around, trying to find Ryan to ask when he would be taking the other path. He was surprised to see that they were already gone. Sharpay was going to turn around to see waht he was looking at when Troy stopped her with a kiss. When they broke apart, they were both smiling and kept walking.

Author's Note: I know I'm making fun of Chad a lot, but it's really easy to make fun of his character, so I don't mean to make anybody mad. This chapter makes fun of him a lot, so sorry if anybody is a big fan of him.