Okay I've been getting into this series again and damn it I will watch ever High School Musical over and over if I have to.
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Chapter Nine
"Come on Zara! Get your head in the game!" Coach Bolton Yelled as Jimmie tripped over his own feet for the eighth time.
"I'm trying coach." Jimmie Sat up and blew his hair out of his face, glaring at Kiki before standing up.
"Don't give me that look. I didn't trip you." Kiki snapped at him
"Alright time out. Evans, Zara! Over here." The two groaned but ran over. "I don't know what's wrong with you two but get over it! The team needs you two and I'm not going to cancel practice because the captains are angry at each other."
"Yeah well maybe if the other captain wasn't a liar." Jimmie said. Kiki whipped her head towards him.
"I never lied!" She informed him.
"Close enough."
"Oh my god Zara just because you-"
"ENOUGH!" Coach Bolton bellowed. "You two, leave you're done for the day and I don't want you back here until you grow up."
"But Coach," Kiki started.
"OUT!" He yelled. Kiki pursed her lips and headed out, followed by Jimmie.
"See what you did?" He snarled.
"What I did? You were the one acting like a child,"
"Shut up Kiki!" Kiki froze and turned to look at him.
"Did you just tell me to shut up?" She asked him.
"Yes! Just Shut up for five minutes. Stop being snobby, egotistical and bitchy for five freaking minutes."
"If I'm so snobby, Egotisical and Bitchy then why would you even want me going to a school near you?" She asked.
"Because I love you and I can ignore those thing when you love me."
"I do love you jackass, that's why I'm going to Stanford and not Yale." Kiki said, surprising even herself. Jimmie stopped and looked at her.
"Really?" He asked. She pressed her lips together but nodded. "Keeks… I'm sorry I just… the idea of going to college and not having you within driving distance… I'm sorry." She kept nodding.
"It's fine I- I can't wait to get to Stanford." Jimmie smiled, relieved and Hugged her. She made a distressed face behind his back, seriously hating herself.
"How's the Turkey?" Catherine asked the chef. It was Thanksgiving and Catherin wanted it all to be perfect, of course.
"Almost done." He said, the house smelled like roasted turkey and it was all warm and cozy.
"Good, my son should be here any minute. I'm so excited. He's at Julliard you know, for dance." Catherine said proudly. Sharpay and Kiki rolled their eyes as they watched their mom run around making sure all the food was perfect.
"So how's Rocket Man? I saw him sneaking out last night." Sharpay smiled at her little sister, who glowered back.
"He's fine, shut up." Sharpay simply laughed and looked at their mother, who was still running around. The door opened in the main hall and Catherine hurried out to meet her boy. The sisters rolled their eyes again and headed out, surprised to see, not only Ryan in Jeans, but a girl standing by the door, being assessed by their mother.
"Mom, Shar, Keeks, this is my… roommate, Opie." Ryan said, looking at the girl. She was pretty enough, extremely skinny with brown hair about as long as Kiki's and grey eyes.
"Ophelia Montgomery… call me Opie." The girl smiled. Catherine looked the girl up and down.
"Do you… go to school with Ryan?"
"No, I go to The New School… sometimes. Ryan and I are roommates."
"At two different schools?" Catherine asked. Opie looked back at Ryan.
"I'm not living on campus anymore mom." Ryan admitted.
"What?"
"Long story short, when I was with Kelsi we planned on getting an off campus apartment so we didn't sign up for housing, then we broke up and it was too late to sign up and… now I live with her and two other people." Ryan shrugged. Catherine shook her head.
"I knew that Kelsi girl was no good for you Ducky." Opie snorted.
"Ducky?" She asked. Ryan glared at her.
"Shut up Opie."
"So do you whistle the same song when you walk down to the fishin' hole or does Andy do it?" Kiki asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Kiki!" Ryan said in dismay. Opie simply laughed.
"Actually Andy and I have a tape that we play, we're both crap at whistling." She said. Kiki smirked and nodded.
"I like her."
"She's my roommate."
"Yeah, just like Daisy is Aunt Corrine's roommate." Kiki said. Catherine's head whipped around to her daughter.
"Kiely Killian-"
"Go Check the turkey, got it." Kiki turned on her heel and walked out. Ryan followed her, leaving Opie alone with Sharpay and Catherine.
"Hey Keeks." He said, kissing the top of his younger sister's head when they got to the kitchen.
"How long until the turkey's done?"
"Fifteen minutes, everything is set on the table and-"
"Dude you can cut the prim and proper chef crap, I'm not my mom." Kiki nodded. The chef visibly relaxed.
"It'll be done soon, my girls set the table, which looks way too long for your family, and the cake is being made as we speak."
"Awesome. Thanks dude." Kiki turned to Ryan.
"Hey Ry, so what's up?" She asked, smiling at him.
"Nothing, just-"
"And I repeat, I'm not mom."
"Things are less than great but I'm surviving."
"I bet Opie helps that survival."
"She's seriously just my friend and roommate Kiki." He insisted. Kiki rolled her eyes but shrugged.
"Yeah alright. Well I'd bet my left arm that your friend and roommate is being harassed in the other room." She said, walking out of the room. Ryan hurried to follow her.
"Pass the Potatoes." Vance requested as the family ate, it was fairly silent, save for the sounds of crunching and the clink of forks against plates.
"So, Kiki, Ryan tells me you're dating a guy named… Rocket Man?" Opie looked at the younger girl.
"His name is Jimmie, at some point he decided Jimmie didn't properly describe him anymore and thus… Rocket Man." Kiki smiled.
"I still think it's alluding to something dirty." Catherine muttered. Kiki shook her head, she'd told her mother over and over that there was nothing dirty hidden in the nickname but hell if Catherine would listen.
"It's not, she's just got a dirty mind." Kiki said. Catherine glared at her daughter, who simply smiled sweetly.
The dinner went on like that and finally the chef brought out the pies and cake he'd made for dessert.
"I think I'm going to explode." Kiki said as she took a piece of pie.
"Yet you keep eating" Ryan smiled at his sister.
"Yeah… so?" She smiled back at him and dug into her pie. Ryan laughed and shook his head, taking a bite of his own dessert.
The Next day the team met at Coach Bolton's house, He wanted to give them all a treat, a special 'Thanksgiving' dinner for the team. As well as Troy and Chad of course.
"Here's to another winning season!" Jack cheered, holding up his cup of juice.
"What team?" Chad bellowed.
"Wildcats!" The others yelled, taking a drink then digging into the turkey sandwiches and whatnot that Mrs. Bolton made them.
"Just hope it's not the last winning season." Ross said around a mouthful of food.
"Shut up." Larissa nudged him with a smile.
"Well you guys are going to have a lot of spots to fill when we leave, after all you're losing Me, Ross, Kiki, Dion and Rocket Man."
"Good then maybe I'll have a team that actually listens to me."
"We listen to you, we just opt to ignore what you say." Kiki smiled at the coach who rolled his eyes.
"And you're losing the best assistant coach our team has ever had." Donny pointed to Larissa who smiled at him.
"You guys are assuming all of you will graduate." Julie quirked an eyebrow. The Seniors all pointed to Ross, who looked around.
"I'm going to graduate! I'm doing pretty dang good in school right now thank you."
"Because of Kiki." Jimmie said, smiling at his girlfriend who smiled tightly and took another bite of the sandwich.
"I can pass without Kiki."
"Good to hear because I'm transferring classes after winter break." Kiki said after she'd swallowed the mouthful of food. Ross's eyes widened and he looked at McCall, who laughed.
After they'd all eaten people were hanging around, just talking Kiki was sitting on the porch swing, watching Jimmie, McCall, Ross and Donny play ball. She turned when the swing started moving, Chad sat next to her.
"So Larissa told me you were thinking about going to Yale." He said. Kiki looked over at Larissa, glaring at her.
"No, I was thinking about it but… I don't think so." She shook her head.
"Oh, well if you change your mind, You can call my girlfriend Taylor, she goes there." He handed her a piece of paper with Taylor's name and number on it. "She's always willing to go on about how great Yale is." He smiled and she stuffed it in her pocket before looking over at the guys, who were still playing. Jimmie looked up at her and waved. She waved back and turned back to Chad.
"I'll be sure to call her." She nodded.
