Dear Readers,

I know this has been a confusing couple of updates for you all and I apologize for that. The reason behind my previous short and awful chapter is that I had a few health scares happen to me and had to get a lot of testing done. That combined with finals and trying to stay positive took a toll on me and I had to disconnect myself from the story for a while. Now I can say that I'm back on track and ready to write and dedicate myself to the story even more! Please bear with me and I promise it will be worth the while.

Much Love,

Hysonn.

Also I huge thank you to my beta Wake Up and Live\ Brittany! Thanks for every thing you've been a huge support system and a friend. If it wasn't for you I would not be writing this story!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Except for my ideas and characters Disney owns everything else.


"Humph" Sharpay mumbled as she turned in her sleep and rammed into Troy. She slowly opened her eyes and yawned sort of stretching a little. Sharpay reached out and patted the person beside her and accidently hitting them in the face. When she heard the moan of pain she squinted and looked over at him and jumped up.

"God Troy!" she said grabbing his face and looking over his bruises. The one side of his face was an ugly purplish blue color right below his eye. His lip was a bit swollen and he had ice resting on his right hand.

He tried to smile at her, but it only came out as a half smile," Babe don't worry I--."

"You are not okay!" she finished for him looking at his lip. She reached her hand up to lightly trace over his lip and pulled back when she felt him wince. "Oh. Ouch. Sorry" She quickly added.

"I'm fine. Honest," he told her while grabbing her hand, "So stop worrying Sharpay."

Sharpay sighed and looked once again at his bruises. "When we went to sleep you were perfectly fine," she said out loud voicing her thoughts, "and now I wake up to see you covered in bruises and icing you fist." She picked up his hand and looked at it. Beyond her control she yawned really loud cutting him off.

Troy snatched his hand back before she could get a closer look at it. He pushed her lightly back onto the bed and pulled the covers over her, "Go back to sleep you look so tired. I am fine really."

"Troy please can we just." she whispered to him. She reached out to touch his good hand. She knew he was cutting himself off from her and she did not want that to happen. From all of the drama with Chad, and her mom, plus college she did not want their relationship to go down the drain.

"Sharpay we will talk tomorrow. Go to sleep now." He whispered in a soothing voice that Sharpay suddenly found herself almost falling back asleep. She struggled to keep her eyes open as she felt Troy's thumb trace her palm.

"Troy" she whined while drifting off.

"Just close your eyes. You can close you eyes. Don't be surprised if you just close you eyes." He sung softly in a low voice and against her will Sharpay was starting to close her eyes.

"I just love it when you sing." She managed to mumble out before sleep claimed her. The last thing she heard was Troy laughing and kissing her forehead before she fell asleep.

"I just love you." Troy whispered when he knew she was asleep. Even though it sounded creepy he loved to watch Sharpay sleep. She looked at peace and didn't have a worry at all. Troy watched her sleep for a while and finally let sleep claim him too.

Troy woke up and cracked his eyes open a little bit. He leaned down and kissed Sharpay's forehead and smiled as she snuggled into him.


Troy stretched his back a little and the covers slipped off of him. The cold hit his chest uncomfortably. He looked over his shoulders and saw bruises that weren't there the night before.

"You got more bruises." Sharpay's voice cut out making him jump a little. She was tracing the one on his shoulder with her forefinger.

"Guess so." He mumbled kissing her on the lips. They kissed for a little longer until Troy pulled back and leaned his forehead on hers.

"Mornin' Pay" he said with his voice still husky from sleep. He ran his hand threw her hair a little and pulled her head closer to his bare chest.

"What happened to you?" she asked quietly looking up, her eyes were sweeping over the bruises glittering on his bronze completion.

"Don't worry about it." He said shrugging it off and climbing out of the bed and stared out his windows with his back to her. He stretched a little more and walked barefoot over to the closet and grabbed a pair of sweatpants and climbed into them.

Shocked by his act she just lied back in the bed and pulled the covers over her head. She took a deep breath underneath the sheets and pulled them off her. Still ignoring her, Troy reached over to his iPod and put some music on.

Troy bobbed his head to the song "My Mind Must be Playing Tricks" on me by the Geto Boys as he moved around the room and stopped at the foot of the bed.

"What?" he asked as he looked at her. She was chewing on her bottom lip not looking at him and she was wearing one of his old wildcat tee-shirts, which stopped at about mid thigh.

"You promised." She whispered to him as she got off the bed and walked to the door, but was stopped when she felt his arms wrap around her waist.

He dropped a kiss on her neck and whispered he was sorry over and over again. "It's just hard for me to talk about some things. I forget that you really do care about what happens in my life. I shouldn't keep it to myself, I'm so selfish Pay."

She sighed and leaned back into him and wrapped her arms over his that were around her tiny waist, "I just worry for you. You know that. It's okay to talk about things because when you don't it makes me worry more."

He moved to the other side and nuzzled his face into her neck again. "I know. I'm sorry." He stopped and lowered his voice to a whisper in her ear. You're too good to me sometimes."

"I got in a fight with Chad last night." He told her and felt her stiffen in his arms. "I went to his house and punched him and he punched me then the whole thing escaladed into Chad and I beating the shit out of each other."

Sharpay took a few deep breaths before talking, "I told you I'd cause a fight. God I'm sorry I didn't want your friendship to have to go through this."

Troy turned her around so that she was facing him. He took her hands in his and kissed them, "We don't have a friendship anymore. Not after the way he treated you. You have nothing to be sorry for. He was an asshole to you and no one should ever treat you like that."

Sharpay looked down and kicked the floor almost crying a little. Troy's words always had such an affect on her. She was trying to get the tears to subside, but instead Troy just grabbed her chin and pulled her in for a kiss.

Troy snagged his arms around her waist making the already short shirt ride up a little more to expose her underwear. She put her arms around his shoulders lightly to avoid the bruises but melted when he started French kissing her.

Jack and Lucy Bolton were in the kitchen making breakfast. Jack was flipping pancakes and putting them onto the growing stack. Just as Lucy finished setting the table Jack flipped his last pancake.

"Jack go wake up Troy would you, oh and wake up Sharpay too remember she's in the guest room." She said grabbing the orange juice out of the refrigerator and filling up the glasses.

"Sure Luc" Jack said going over and kissing his wife on the cheek and walking the short distance from the kitchen to Troy's room.

"Let's go Troy," Jack said opening Troy's door while stepping in and looking down, "It's time for break-" he said finally looking up and seeing the two teen's spring apart. Troy ran a hand over his mouth and Sharpay tried to pull down the shirt that now seemed extremely short on her.

"Fast." Jack finished dropping his voice a little. His mouth dropped open in shock as he stared at the two.

"Uhh." Troy said clearing his throat trying to get his dads attention, "We will be out in a minute."

Wordlessly Jack walked out of the room and into the kitchen where his wife was. He sat down at his place at the head of the table and put his head in his hands.

"Holy crap Troy." Sharpay said blushing as she pulled on a pair of Troy's boxers and rolling them up on her hips.

Troy grabbed the end of his boxers and tugged her towards him. He slid his hands up her back and pushed her down on top of him a little.

"Don't you dare." She said guessing his actions while pushing his hands away from her back, "Your dad just caught us making out. Oh God how embarrassing!"

Troy shot her a smug grin as he kissed her neck lightly which made her breath quicken, "Come on babe. Please."

"Troy stop making out with Sharpay and come join us for breakfast." Jack yelled from the kitchen interrupting the two, which made Sharpay flush a deep red color all the way down to her neck.

Troy rolled his eyes and grabbed her hand while walking out the door to the kitchen. As Sharpay and Troy sat down at the table Mrs. Bolton was looking at the two with daggers shooting from her eyes.

"Well Good Morning." She seethed as she forcefully placed her own napkin on her lap and grabbed her silverware.

"Morning" Sharpay whispered as she took a drink of her orange juice. Sharpay was looking anywhere but Mrs. Bolton's glare.

"Yes it was." Troy mumbled low enough for Sharpay to hear which caused her to spit out the orange juice she was drinking.

"Sharpay are you okay?" Jack asked worriedly as he patted her on the back. Mrs. Bolton lost her mean exterior for a minute and looked concerned at Sharpay. Troy on the other hand was smirking like there was no tomorrow beside her.

"I-uh" she tried to say, but was flushing out of pure embarrassment. Her palms were sweaty and she was shocked beyond belief.

'This is going to be a long breakfast.' Sharpay thought as Mrs. Bolton handed out the toast.


After breakfast was over Sharpay ran from the table at lightning speed. The whole time Troy was either making sly comments under his breath or playing with her foot or hand. It was incredibly hard to remain calm with all of the Bolton's glares on her.

Sharpay was lying face down in the pillow when she heard the door open. She did not look up when she heard the door shut. She didn't move a muscle when she felt the bed sag beside her and she still didn't lift her head when she felt an arm wrap around her middle.

"Thanks for that stunt at breakfast this morning Troy." She complained into the pillow when she felt the arm rub her back.

"It's funny," a familiar voice said still rubbing her back, "I don't think I look like Troy at all."

"Ryan." she breathed out and hugged the boy tightly. She could feel the tears pool in her eyes, but she held them a bay.

The twins hugged for a while before either of them pulled away. Ryan looked the same, but to Sharpay he was a whole other person. On the outside Ryan was still dressed in the crisp oxford and khakis of course with the shoes. The only thing missing was his hat which she guessed was in his passenger's seat of his car.

"What are you doing here?" she asked reaching for his hand and holding it in hers.

Ryan looked at her and smiled that crooked smile that only he could pull off, "I can't be worried about my little sister?"

She shrugged and shook her head no, "I haven't heard from you in days. And now it's like now poof you're here. Not that I'm not excited it just…"

"Surprised? I know I'm a little shocked myself." Ryan butted in voicing his thoughts to her. "Who would have thought that after running away Sharpay Evans would be shacked up in the Bolton's house?"

Sharpay scrunched up her face in confusion. "Ran away?" she asked him, "Who said I ran away. I got kicked out Ryan."

"Very funny Shar you're hilarious." He snorted and continued like she hadn't interrupted, "Mother told me she found the note after she saw all of your stuff was gone. I mean I was going to look for you, but then Mrs. Bolton called our house and said you were here. I mean I was worried for like two days. I tried your cell, but it wasn't working. It said it got disconnected or what ever."

Sharpay pulled her hand away from his and Ryan stopped his story and looked at her.

"What Sharpay?"

"I did not run away. She practically banished me Ryan!" she told him Sharpay reaching over for her bag. She dug around and looked for her cell phone and flipped it a few times and saw that it was shut off.

"She did not banish you." He said using air quotes around banish, "You were at the luncheon. Why would she banish you and then invite you to the lunch! You're not making sense."

"The luncheon was for appearance Ryan. I was forced to go." Sharpay made sure that she put extra strain on forced, "Ryan she's lying to you she really did kick me out!"

"God how can you say that? You were forced to go to a party for my acceptance for Juilliard?" he sputtered out while using his hands to point at his chest.

Sharpay stared at Ryan for a second and thought back to the lunch. She felt like the worst person ever. She had a scowl on her face the whole time and hardly talked to any one.

She remembered sitting there trying to be invisible and shutting out all of the party. No wonder they were serving all of Ryan's favorites and he was talking to every one. That's why people were shaking his hands and that's why Kelsi was there to.

Finally it clicked for Ryan and he jumped to conclusions, "God are you jealous? Is that why you looked so pissed off the whole time? Because they were celebrating me not you?"

Sharpay gaped at Ryan like a fish bobbing her mouth open and closed. She had no clue what to say or do. Sharpay felt like the whole room was closing in on her.

"Just once. ONCE! I wish you could have been happy for me." Ryan looked at her and shook his head sadly. "But there's no room for two in your show is there?"

With out another word Ryan stalked to the door and forcing it open. Ryan rushed down the steps and he could feel the blood boiling in his ears as he reached the door, but he felt Sharpay's dainty hands on his biceps.

"No Ryan please, I promise it wasn't like that." she whispered trying to stop him from walking out the door.

"Don't touch me." he hissed freeing his arm which made her snap back and hit the wall.

Troy walked in at the sound of a slam and saw Ryan standing before Sharpay with a finger in her face.

"How can you do this? How can you blame our mother? Is it because she likes me just a little more? Are you that jealous?" he asked in shock as she kept trying to explain the situation to him.

"No Ryan you don't understand she hi.." she was going to say, but was cut off when he reached the door.

"Save it Sharpay." He muttered emotionless. He was almost out the door, but he turned back and looked at her sobbing on the wall.

"I've been you best friend through everything. I defended you when obviously you were at fault, I let them tease me for being your lap dog, I let them beat me up for doing theater with you, I let them call me queer and fag for you and this is how you repay me? By blaming other people?" he yelled slamming his hand against the wall beside her head making her jump.

"Please Ryan." She begged trying to grasp him, but he just pulled away.

"Maybe" he stopped and tried to make the lump in his throat go away, "Maybe it's best that we just don't talk anymore."

If the room was anymore quite you could hear Sharpay's heart snap and crack into tiny little pieces when he said those words.

"Good bye Sharpay." He said walking out the door and speeding off towards the Evans mansion with out a look back.

Inside the house Sharpay sunk down to the floor in a heap. She was sobbing into her hands and it was getting hard for her to breathe. She could hardly feel the pair of arms that carried her into a room and place her on the bed.

Somewhere in her state of disorder she could feel Troy trying to soothe her but the damage was already done. Loosing her twin was like loosing a part of herself and for once Sharpay Evans felt what it was like to loose someone she truly cared about.


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