Chapter 7: The Evans' Mansion

Gabriella approached the Evans' mansion excitedly, they'd invited her round for Ryan's huge announcement and a sleepover as her Mom was still away. Gabriella gave a quick knock on the door which was immediately opened.

"Hi Darling, you must be Gabriella, I'm Darby Evans Sharpay's mom" Darby said pulling Gabriella into a huge hug once she was inside.

"Nice to meet you Darby" Gabriella said politely.

"Please, call me mom or Dar, everyones waiting for you out back" Darby said leading Gabriella to their garden, down a long hallway and through a numerous amount of rooms they finally made it outside.

"Gabi!" Sharpay said leaping up and hugging her friend.

"Hey Shar, hey everyone" Gabriella replied as she set her bag on the floor before hugging Sharpay back, everyone else greeted Gabriella after.

Gabriella and Sharpay both took their seats next to each other in the huge lawn chairs.

"Mommy make sure Sofia takes Gabi's bag to my room and you did welcome Gabi properly didn't you?"

"Of course I did darling" Darby said going back inside the house before reappearing a few minutes later with Sofia who took Gabriella's bag away to Sharpay's room.

"Thanks Sof" Sharpay said with a huge smile, sometimes Sofia could be more like a mom to Sharpay than Darby was.

"So now that we're all here I'd like to make a huge announcement" Ryan said standing up eagerly to Sharpay, Gabriella, Kelsi, Zeke, Chad, Taylor, Martha, Jason and his parents.

"So as you all know I had a meeting with Ms Darbus the other day, we have decided to hold our charity fundraiser concert next April, it will be a huge concert held in a large venue which is yet to be chosen, and we will need singers, dancers, actors, gymnasts and as many people as possible"

"Sign us up!" Sharpay said as she held hers and Kelsi's hand up.

"Us too" Taylor and Martha added straight after.

"Zeke" Sharpay said pouting.

"Fine, me and Jason are in too" Zeke said grinning at Jason's reaction.

Now only Gabriella and Chad were yet to answer.

"I don't know" Gabriella said sighing.

"Please Gabi, with talent like yours it could be a huge success" Sharpay pleaded.

"Okay I'm in, but only if Chad is too"

Everyone now turned to Chad.

"Thanks Gabi" He replied poking his tongue out at her "Fine I'll do it, as long as there's no leotards".

"Yes, this is great" Ryan said as all the Evans' clapped.

"No Ry, it's fabulous" Sharpay corrected, everyone rolled their eyes.

"Sure, now we will be having a meeting about it on Tuesday at 4 in our homeroom and I would like you all to attend so we can all get signed up straight away" Ryan said before taking his seat.

After Vance Evans adjusted his sons hat he and his wife said their goodbyes to their guests and children before leaving the house off on one of their travels.

"So who's up for some drinks?" Sharpay asked standing up, everyone obviously cheered.

"Wait Shar, we need to head back to Chads, Troy said he'd give us some tips for our big game next week" Zeke informed.

"Give him the address he can come here for practise we have a court" Sharpay replied, Gabriella began to feel giddy.

"Okay I'll give him a call" Chad said standing up, he quickly walked away from the group to call Troy. Chad came back a few minutes later "He's on his way".

"Shar do you have anything to drink?" Gabriella asked surprising herself.

"Sure got loads, come on girls lets leave the guys to do their ball flinging thing" Sharpay said leading the girls back into her kitchen, the guys all yelled "It's basketball" at her.

"So I have wine, vodka, cider you name it. What do my girls want?" Sharpay asked looking at her drinks.

"Maybe not vodka seeing as we have school tomorrow but do you mind if I have some wine?" Gabriella asked.

"Red or white?"

"Uh white please" Gabriella asked.

"I'll have a white wine too" Kelsi said next.

"Same for me" Taylor added in next Martha just said "Same".

Once the wine had been poured out each girl grabbed a glass but Sharpay stopped them from drinking to order a toast.

"To friendship" She said with a huge smile.

"To friendship" The girls all repeated.

A few minutes later the girls' gossip session was rudely interrupted by the guys all running through the kitchen to the front door to greet Troy.

"Hey man" Chad said excitedly as he opened the door.

"Hi Troy" Jason said next with the same level of excitement.

"Troy my man!" Zeke greeted clapping him on the back.

"Hey T!" Ryan said more normally than the others.

In the kitchen the girls were all in hysterics "Gosh they sound girlier than us!"Gabriella stated as she laughed. The girls laughed even more when the guys walked in, Jason and Zeke by Troy's side practically linking arms with him.

"Hello ladies" Troy said with a slight wave as he walked past though his eyes were focused on Gabriella.

"Hi" They all cooed except Gabriella who just smiled.

"Come on girls lets go out with them, I need a tan" Sharpay ordered causing the girls all to groan as she dragged them out.

"Hey Zee" Sharpay said as she walked over to a topless Zeke and kissed him. Taylor walked over to Chad and Kelsi walked over to Ryan leaving Gabriella and Martha laughing awkwardly as they sat down.

"Being single sucks" Martha said moaning as she drank.

"Amen to that sister" Gabriella joked as they clinked glasses.

"Hey you should go and talk to Jason" Gabriella suggested to Martha.

"Really, he wouldn't go for me"

"Martha I said talk not fuck" Gabriella teased before turning more serious "Though he's totally into you look at the way he's looking at you!"

"Really?"

"Yes now go" Gabriella demanded pushing Martha up and smiling as she watched them talk.

"Well hey there cupid" Troy teased as he sat down next to Gabriella.

"Hello" Gabriella replied smiling before taking a drink.

"You look beautiful" Troy whispered in a low voice, Gabriella blushed gently.

"You'd look better if you took your shirt off" Gabriella teased.

"You know I had a lot of fun yesterday" Troy said truthfully.

"Really? Well yesterday wasn't so bad for me either" Gabriella said smiling.

"I gotta whip these guys into shape, talk later?" Troy asked before standing up and pulling his thin white tee over his head, Gabriella felt her breath hitch.

"Definitely"

Troy flashed Gabriella a big grin before turning to the guys who were surrounded by their girlfriends "Okay guys, if you're gonna win this game on Friday then we gotta get to work!"

The boys all cheered and the girls walked away and sat by Gabriella.

"What team?!" Chad yelled.

"Wildcats!" The guys all chanted back

"What team?" Chad yelled even louder.

"Wildcats!" The guys chanted louder before yelling "Getcha head in the game."

The girls all rolled their eyes as they began to watch the game.

"Wait we need the girls, we're an odd number" Jason said before recounting, this time he forgot to count himself "Oh there's 4 of us never mind"

"No Jason, you were right the first time" Zeke said patting his buddy on the back.

"You can count me out" Martha said as she began to relax.

"Me too" Taylor said next.

"Come on Shar, come on Kels lets have a go" Gabriella said laughing as she stood up, she helped pull Shar and Kelsi up before they walked over to the boys.

"So 2 teams of 4, we need 2 captains" Troy instructed, he couldn't help but smile at Gabriella.

"We'll be the captains" Chad said pointing at himself and Troy.

"Okay sure" Troy said agreeing.

"So I pick Gabster, Zeke and Pay" Chad said fistbumping Zeke as they made their way over to his team.

"Okay I have Jason, Ryan and Kels" Troy said clapping.

"You're on Bolton" Chad said taking the ball.

"Oh your teams going down Danforth" Troy argued back.

Halfway through the game Troys team seemed to be doing quite well, well Jason and Troy were as Kelsi and Ryan began playing another game involving their mouths much similar to Zeke and Sharpay which left Troy and Jason vs Gabriella and Chad.

"Come on team Chadriella!" Taylor yelled encouragingly.

Gabriella managed to steal the ball from Troy and scored, making the points even.

"Yes Gabster!" Chad said hi fiving Gabriella.

"Woo go Gabi!" Sharpay yelled once she'd removed her mouth from Zekes.

"Okay Gabster we can win this" Chad cheered.

Gabriella quickly grabbed the ball from Jason and passed to Chad who then scored, making them one ahead. Next Jason stole the ball from Chad and scored making them even yet again.

"Next point is the decider" Chad said feeling tired now.

"Okay 1 minute break while we talk tactics" Gabriella said pulling Chad away from Troy and Jason.

"So what's our plan?" Gabriella whispered.

"Fake right and break left?"

"No too obvious, we need a distraction" Gabriella said thoughtfully.

"You distract Troy" Chad suggested.

"Why me?"

"He's totally into you!"

"Chad!" Gabriella said hitting his arm playfully.

"Ouch, fine whatever happens happens" Chad said rubbing his arm before they took their places.

"What team?" Gabriella imitated.

"Chadriella!" Chad replied laughing as the game started.

Gabriella quickly grabbed the ball from Jason again before turning to find Chad though she bumped straight into Troy and dropping the ball. The two ended up on the floor with Gabriella on top of Troy giggling.

"Enjoying this?" Gabriella whispered quietly, she saw Troy hold in a small groan. Neither had realised that Chad managed to score.

"Maybe" Troy said winking, Gabriella rolled off laughing as she lay on her back with Troy laughing with her.

Troy quickly got up and turned to Gabriella and pulled her up quickly, Gabriella relished the feeling of his hand in hers feeling slightly disappointed when he let go.

Chad ran over to Gabriella and picked her up before spinning her around "We won Gabster!"

"Woooooo" Gabriella yelled as she was spun around, finally Chad put her down and made his way over to Taylor.

"Gabiiiiiii" Sharpay said as she made her way over to her friend.

"Shar!" Gabriella replied laughing even more as Sharpay hugged her.

"You guys make a hot couple" Sharpay whispered into Gabriella's ear, Troy heard and began smirking to himself.

"Oh I know" He said causing both the girls to turn around.

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