For those with reviews asking to continue on this story since it has been over 5 years since I updated. Back then there wasn't much reviews on this, so I lost inspiration in continuing this and wasn't inspired to finish this. But since that time, people still read this with reviews in wanting me to continue this so I finally decided to finish this no matter what. Which I really hope it happens but I will try, so thanks for all of your support.
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Chapter 7
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Friday morning...
We see Chad coming out from behind the statue that stands in front of the school's main front doors waiting for his accomplice. Then we see Taylor walking up the the steps that lead to the school and Chad spotted her and motioned her to come to him. At that time the warning bell rang and once Taylor got to him, Chad started to discuss their plans.
"Okay my watch is 7:45 Mountain standard time, are we synced?" the boy looked at his watch.
"Whatever..."
"Alright then we are going for our lunch period at exactly 12:05..." acting like some secret agent as Chad quickly glanced around them.
"Yes Chad, we are a go...but we are not Troy's agents...okay?" Taylor handed over a laptop to the boy.
"I can dream, can't I?" Chad stated as the girl walked away and soon after he did too.
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At lunch...
The bell for lunch rang exactly at 12:05 where students of the school are now heading towards the cafeteria and outside for their lunch.
We see Troy walking down the hall of the empty boy's locker room since his team told him that they are having a team meeting. As he walked, he looked into each locker section until he found the one where his entire team was in. To his surprise the team was standing around what seems to be a display table of the school's basketball trophies and pictures.
"Spider Bill McTreem...class of 72, he won the MVP league champion game." Chad held up a black and white picture of a basketball player and was pointing to it.
"Sam Neddler...class of 02, also known as Sammie Slammer Jammer. Captain MVP of the league championship team." Zeke who stood up next with another picture.
"The Thunder Clap..." Jason introduce another picture as the team did a quick clap.
"Pat Paddon '95 led the Wild Cats back to back city championships, a legend."
"Yes legends one and all...but do you think that any of these Wild Cats legends became legends by getting involved in musical auditions? Just a week before the league championships?" Chad continue.
First Troy was totally confused about whats going on but now he was getting it to where this was all about.
"Get your head in the game!" the entire team stated.
"No...these Wild Cats legends became legends because they never took their eyes off the prize." Chad continued on while Troy couldn't believe that his team was doing this.
"Get your head in the game!" the team stated again.
"Now...who was the first sophomore ever to make starting varsity." Chad continued.
"TROY!" the team shouted.
"So who voted him for our team captain this year."
"US!"
"And who are going to get their sorry butts kick in next Friday's championships game if Troy were to audition."
"We are."
"Guys come on, there are 12 people on this team not just me." it was finally Troy's turn to talk.
"Just 12? Oh no. I think you're forgetting about one very important 13th member of our squad." Chad took a picture from another team member and handed it face down to Troy.
"My dad..." turning the picture over to look at it.
"Yes Troy, Wild Cat basketball champion class of 1981. Champion, father and now coach...its a winning tradition like no other..."
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At the same time...
Sharpay wearing her usual expensive pink theme outfits was walking down an empty hall and was going to get some lunch when Taylor walked out from an empty classroom right in front of her. Then the students of the Scholastic Decathlon team surrounded Sharpay and two of them grabbed hold of her arms and hustled them into the empty classroom and closed the door.
"Hey! Get your hands off of me! This is kidnapping you know! I know a lot of people in high places! You don't want to mess with me!" Sharpay shouted as she was dragged further into the room.
As she looked around the room which happens to be one of the science rooms in the school but what surprised was that Ryan was there, sitting on a stool with two of the male members of the Scholastic Decathlon team holding him down on the seat with their hand upon each of his shoulders. Ryan was wearing something different then usual instead of his normal dramatic dress wear, instead he was wearing a pair of blue jeans with a white untuck t-shirt and a blue pattern dress shirt on top that was also untuck as well unbuttoned. The biggest noticeable difference was he didn't wore one of his hats and had the sleeves of the dress shirt rolled up a bit. It scared his sister that morning a bit but he said he want to try something different than the usual today and people have been staring at him all morning.
"Hi Sharpay." Ryan waved at bit nervously.
"Ryan! What are you doing here? They kidnapped you too?" as the drama queen was force to sit on another stool near her brother.
"Yeah, sort of..."
"Alright, what do you want?" Sharpay crossed her arms and looked at Taylor with annoyance.
"Well we 'invited' you here today to discuss something." stated Taylor.
"Which is?" the female Evans was getting impatient.
"You are diminishing our chances at winning the Scholastic Decathlon this year!" the team leader stated.
"Huh?"
"I'm talking about Gabriella!" Taylor sighed.
"What about her?"
"As you know very well yourself how smart she is, so she is the one that will be winning it for us this year."
"And what does that got to do with us?" Sharpay gesturing to herself and Ryan.
"Because if it wasn't for you, she wouldn't be spending half of her time singing when she could use it to study." Taylor pointed out.
"Look I didn't force her to do the musical with me, I just asked her and she said yes. So you can't just blame it all on me." the drama queen replied.
"No but what you don't understand is that she and us are on the same path, the path of the mind, the path that we're on, ours the path that brought these people." Taylor answered as she walked over to the turned on laptop that was sitting on the table, opened and facing the Evan siblings.
"Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Sandra Day O'Conner, Madam Corinne, Jane Goodall, Oprah Winfrey and so many others who in the world reveres." the African-American girl stated out in amazement as she showed a power-point presentation of famous ladies in history.
"I don't even know who the heck, over half of these people are! Just get to the point." the long hair blonde shouted, throwing her hands up.
"The point is that one day Gabriella might become a famous person like these ladies here and by doing this musical it might destroy her chance of becoming one."
"Okay but why am I here?" Ryan finally spoke up.
"She's your friend is she not? And as her friend, you don't want to be the one responsible because for your own selfish needs, destroying her bright future now do you?" Taylor gave Ryan an intense look.
"No, I guess not..." the male blond answered in a low voice, looking down at the ground.
"Besides the side of musicals and the performing arts are not as important as our side, the side of education and accomplishment is the future of civilization. This is the side where she belongs." the leader stood proudly with her team standing right beside her.
"I heard enough of this. Look Ms. Brainiac, if you really want her to spend all her time with your team then you should go and talk to her about it instead of coming to me! Come on Ryan, we're getting out of here!" Sharpay forced herself up and started to head for the door.
"Actually we have something else to talk about with your brother."
"Oh, no you don't." the girl Evans turn back towards them.
"Sharpay, its okay..." Ryan tried to calm his sister.
"But Ryan..."
"I want to hear what they have to say, just go on ahead without me."
"Fine, but I'm watching you!" Sharpay pointed her finger at Taylor and glared before she walked out of the door.
'Well that sort of didn't work, time for plan B.' Taylor thought as she turned to the other Evans.
"So what is it?" Ryan faced Taylor.
"Look Ryan, even though we're not friends but I don't want to see you get hurt." the girl sighed.
"What do you mean?" the boy was confused.
"From lowly neanderthal and cro-magnon, to early warrior and medieval knights, all leading up to..." Taylor started another slide show on her the laptop with a picture of an evolution kind of chart.
"Lunk head basketball man." one of Taylor's male teammates held up a poster which unrolled which she pointed at and it showed a pictured of a basketball player doing a slam dunk but with Troy's smiling face pasted on top on the original picture, which the blond laughed a bit in the cuteness of the picture.
"Um can I keep that when we're done?" Ryan asked sheepishly.
"As I was saying...Our culture worshipped our aggressor throughout the ages and we end up with spoiled, overpaid, boneheaded athletes who contribute little to civilization other than slam-dunks and touchdowns. That is the inevitable world of Troy Bolton."
"Okay..." the boy wasn't sure where this was heading.
"Ryan, you and Troy Bolton are from two different worlds, you're a performer and he's...something else. You should stop now from getting too close to him, or he'll hurt you like everyone else. Do you really think, he really cares about you?"
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Back in the locker room...
"Guys...if you don't know that I'll put 110% of my guts into that game, then you don't know me." Troy told his team.
"Look we just thought..." Chad started.
"I'll tell what I thought...I thought that you're my friends, win together lose together team mates."
"But suddenly Ryan...and the singing..."
Unknown to Troy that they had a laptop with them and Chad slowly opened it up as another team mate fixed up a web-cam on top pointing towards their captain.
"Man...I'm for the team, I'm always been for the team...he's just a friend. Alright the singing thing is nothing...its just a way to keep my nerves down, I don't know it means nothing to me. Your my guys and this is our team. Ryan is not important...I'll forget about him...I'll forget the audition and we'll go out and get that championship, everyone happy now." unknown to Troy that his friends were recording the entire thing.
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Back in the Science room...
"If you don't believe me, I'll show you." Taylor pressed a button on her remote and a video of Troy in the locker-room started to play.
"Alright the singing thing is nothing...its just a way to keep my nerves down, I don't know it means nothing to me. Your my guys and this is our team. Ryan is not important...I'll forget about him...I'll forget the audition and we'll go out and get that championship, everyone happy now."
Ryan just stared sadly at the screen as he felt like a knife was stabbed into his heart, twisted and ripped out and his eyes started to water like he was about to cry when he heard those words coming from Troy's mouth.
"Behold lunk head basketball man." the girl gestured at the screen.
A few tears started to slowly slide down the blond's face.
"I think we should leave you to think things over a bit." as the decathlon team leave the room followed by their leader.
Ryan just sat thinking to himself how could he be so stupid think that Troy would be different from the others or even have a chance with, he should blame himself for being so naive. Suddenly the boy started to hear chanting of the Wildcats coming from outside, so he got up and walked over the classroom windows and looked down towards the front of the school. The front was crowd with people including the basketball team, school cheerleaders and the band all dancing and chanting the Wildcats song. Even Troy was down there in the middle of it being carried on the shoulders of two of his teammate as they danced and moved around the fountain. Ryan just turned away from the scene in sadness and leaned against the counter with his arms against the edge that was in front of the window in thought and started to sing.
It's funny when you find yourself,
Looking from the outside,
I'm standing here,
But all I want is to be over there,
Why did I let myself believe,
Miracles could happen,
'Cause now I have to pretend,
That I don't really care
(The blond pushed himself away from the counter and started to walk towards the door, out of the classroom and into the empty hallway of lockers of school and started to walk down to the other end.)
I thought you were my fairytale,
My dream when I'm not sleeping,
A Wish upon a star that's coming true,
But everyone else could tell,
That I confused my feelings with the truth,
When there was me and you
(He ended up at the top balcony of a set of stairs that looked over down to the bottom floor of the school and walked along it as his left hand glided across the white smooth railing. Then stopping in the middle, he turned around and leaned back against the railing with his arms resting on the top and rested there a bit.)
I swore I knew the melody, That I heard you singing,
And when you smiled,
You made me feel,
Like I could sing along,
But then you went and change the words,
Now my heart is empty,
I'm only left with used-to-be's,
And once upon a song
(As Ryan started the second chorus he started to walk down the sets of stairs that was connect to the balcony he was standing at before towards the bottom floor of the school.)
I know you're not a fairytale,
And dreams are meant for sleeping,
And wishes upon a star,
Just don't come true,
'Cause now even I can tell,
That I confused my feeling with the truth,
Because I like the view,
When there was me and you
(He ended up in another empty hallway of lockers on the bottom floor of the school where he walked past a wall mural of the Wildcats basketball team with enlarge photos of the team players in different action positions with Troy right smack in the centre.)
I can't believe that I could be so blind,
It's like you're floating,
While I was falling,
And I didn't mind,
Because I like the view,
I thought you felt it too,
When there was me and you
Finally walking down another empty near where his locker was as he finished his song and turned a corner when students started to fill the halls once again since lunch was almost over. Ryan opened his locker sadly and started getting his books and stuff for his next class. At that exact same time Troy came weaving through the student body and headed towards the blond, and when he got there he leaned against the locker next to Ryan's with his left arm up with his other hand in his jean's pocket. Noticing the change of style of Ryan's clothes but decided to not mention anything about them besides he looks good in them, instead of his usual.
"Hey, how you're doing?" the the brunette asked with a smile.
But Ryan just stared into his locker not looking at the other boy as he greeted him.
"Look there's something I want to talk to you about." the school basketball star continued not noticing the change in the other boy.
"And here it is. I know what its like to carry a load with your friends, I get it. You got your boys Troy its okay, so we're good." Ryan finally turned around to face the other acting as normal as he could even though he was still hurting inside and put a small smile on.
"Good about what? I was going to talk to you about the callbacks."
"I don't want to do the callbacks either." the blond continued still putting on a fake smile, "I mean who we're trying to kid, you got your team to worry about and I got no one except my sister. I'll go back doing the school musicals with Sharpay and you win the championships. Its where we belong."
"Go Wildcats." as the blond pulled out the music piece that they suppose to be rehearsing with and handed it to Troy.
"But I..." the brunette started but was interrupted.
"Me neither." and the male Evans closed his locker and walked around behind the athlete and down the hall.
"Ryan?" Troy just stood there for a moment before turning around wondering what's going on with the other boy as he watched him disappear into the crowd of students.
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