Okay after much wondering as to what is going on with Sharpay, I give you the answer…just please remember that I'm not a doctor! So this information may not be completely accurate.

Disclaimer: Same as always.

Keeping it Together, Ch. 10

She shook her head, "No honey, you're not." Sharpay would have said more, had her head not started to pound. "Oh, my gosh," she said, sitting down on the couch, her head in her hands.

Larissa hurried over to her mom, "Mom? What's wrong?"

"My…head," she said.

Larissa ran outside, "Dad! Something's wrong with mom!"

Troy stopped what he was doing and hurried inside to where Sharpay was, "Honey, what's wrong," he asked.

She looked up at him squinting, since the light was hurting her eyes. "Migraine," she whispered. "Troy I'm going to be sick."

He helped her to the bathroom and held her hair back as she got sick.

Once she was finished, she slid down to the floor, her head feeling a bit better, but not much. "What is wrong with me," she asked.

"I'm not sure, but we are taking you to the doctor first thing in the morning," he said as he helped her up to their room and to the bed. He went into the bathroom and grabbed the medication she was taking for the migraines she was getting every now and then and a glass of water. He walked back over to her, "Do you think you can keep this down," he asked.

She nodded, "Yeah…I'm not feeling all that sick right now," she said quietly, taking the pill and water from Troy. After taking the pill, she lay down and closed her eyes.

Troy took the blanket that was on the bed and covered her with it. He walked back downstairs, only to be greeted by three very worried faces. "Mom's going to be okay," he reassured them.

"Are you sure," Larissa asked, still worried.

He nodded, "Yes honey, she'll be fine." He proceeded to walk into the kitchen and found Sharpay's address book which contained the number of her internist. He dialed the number and made an appointment for the next morning, hoping that she would be able to help Sharpay with whatever was going on.

Next Morning…

Sharpay had been able to get a good night's sleep, thanks to the medicine. "Good morning," she said, coming down the stairs and into the kitchen. She had to blink a few times just to make sure she was really seeing what she thought she was: all four of her children were dressed and ready to go to school (since it was Monday) and were eating breakfast.

Ana hurried over to her mom, "Do you feel better, mom," she asked wrapping her arms around her.

"Yes, I feel better," she said as she hugged her back. She walked over to the table and sat down.

"Mommy," Kayleigh started.

Uh oh, Sharpay thought to herself. "Yes," she said, wiping her eyes.

"I said I was sorry to Larissa," she said, giving her best innocent look.

"Good," Sharpay said, taking the glass of orange juice that Troy had just handed her, "Thank you."

"So can I be in the callbacks," she asked.

Sharpay sighed and looked at her, "No Kayleigh. We talked about this yesterday. You're grounded, remember?"

"But I said I was sorry," she whined as her voice rose, causing Sharpay to rub her temples.

"Kayleigh, I said no and that is my final answer," she said.

Kayleigh turned to Troy, "Please, daddy," she pleaded.

He shook his head, "You heard your mother."

"Ugh!" She got up and left the table and grabbed her backpack.

"Where do you think you're going," Troy asked.

"School, duh," she said with an attitude.

Sharpay groaned, not wanting to deal with this again.

Troy walked over to Kayleigh, "We are not ready to go yet," he said sternly.

Sharpay got up, "I'm going to go get dressed," she said as she walked upstairs.

"Well that wasn't too bad," Sharpay said as they drove to the doctor's office after dropping the kids off at school.

He nodded, "I still think that Kayleigh is going to keep trying to get you to say yes to the callbacks," he said, glancing over at her.

"Well she will just have to deal with the consequences of what she did," she said, looking out the window.

Once they arrived at the doctor's office, Sharpay signed herself in and sat down next to Troy, still very nervous. What if this was something like cancer…or an aneurysm?

"Sharpay Bolton," the nurse called.

Sharpay stood up, "I'll be back soon," she said, giving Troy a quick kiss before following the nurse to the exam room.

"The doctor will be with you in a few minutes," she said after taking Sharpay's blood pressure.

"Thank you," Sharpay said as she took a deep breath.

The door soon opened, "Good morning, Sharpay," Dr. Weiss said as she entered the room.

"Morning," Sharpay said, starting to feel herself tense up.

"So from what I have gathered, you have been having more migraine headaches?"

She nodded, "Yes and I had one yesterday that was…well it was probably the worst one I've ever had."

"I see," she said, writing something down. "Are you by any chance taking birth control pills?"

"Yes," she said slowly, "Why?"

"Well there have been studies that have said that birth control pills can cause migraines. Is there a particular reason you are taking them? I know that you and your husband aren't trying to get pregnant…"

"No, we're not. I take them because of my horrible menstrual cycles," she explained.

"Yes, that's right; you told me about that," she said. "You went to see your OB/GYN about this, right?"

She nodded, "Yes and she is the one who put me on the headache medication," she said.

Dr. Weiss wrote more down. "All right." After a few minutes, she came to a conclusion. "I think you are suffering from tension headaches. In other words, you have a lot of stress in your life right now."

Sharpay nodded, "This is true." She sighed, "So how do I get rid of the tension headaches?"

"Easy: reduce the amount of stress in your life."

"Yeah, easy for you to say," she said. "You don't have four kids, all of whom are completely different and one of whom is a complete drama queen," she said, remembering yesterday. Just thinking about it gave her a headache. "Oh no," she said.

"What's wrong," she asked.

"Could my daughter be the cause of my headaches?"

She shook her head, "No, I don't think that your daughter alone is doing anything to cause all of this stress. It must be other factors as well." She went on to explain to Sharpay what the factors could be, many of which Sharpay ended up saying that she had.

"Poor sleep…sometimes," she said. "I don't really have any problems at home," she said.

"In any case, this is probably what you're suffering from," she said as she wrote out a prescription. "I'd like you to try taking this; it's basically Advil, only stronger. It should help and stop taking the migraine medication."

Sharpay breathed a sigh of relief; at least it wasn't anything too serious.

Troy sat in the waiting room, not being able to help worrying about what was going on inside the exam room. "Please let her be okay," he said to himself. He saw the door open and watched as Sharpay walked over to him, wrapping her arms around him, tearing up. "Is everything all right," he asked, expecting the worst.

She nodded, "Yeah…get this: it wasn't a migraine problem at all. I have been having chronic tension headaches," she said.

"Well that's a relief," he said. "I thought it was something…"

"More serious," she finished for him. "Me too," she said, taking a deep breath. "Basically she said to try and reduce the amount of stress at home."

"That should be fun," he said as they walked out to the car.

Saturday…

Sharpay had made sure to get the prescription filled right away. She had started taking the new medication, only as needed (since that was what the directions said) and tried her best to avoid the stressful situations…which wasn't easy at all.

"I'll get it," Sharpay said when the phone rang. "Hello…yes, this is their mother…really…yes…all right, thank you very much," she said. She hung up and looked at Kayleigh and Larissa. "That was the children's community theatre," she said, feeling a headache wanting to come on.

"What did they say," Larissa asked excitedly.

"Well you got a callback," she said with a smile.

"Yes!" Larissa ran to her mom, "Thank you!"

"For what," she asked.

"Making me want to act," she said.

She smiled, "You're welcome."

Kayleigh looked at her mom, "Did I get a callback?"

She sighed, "Yes but you're not going," she said.

"But I want to," she whined.

Oh boy, here it came…not only the tantrum from Kayleigh, but the headache Sharpay could feel coming on.

"What happened," Zach asked.

"I got a callback," Larissa said happily.

He smiled, "See, I told you," he said as he walked into the backyard.

Ana, who was right behind Zach smiled, "Good job, Larissa." She followed her brother outside.

Larissa went upstairs to call Maya to tell her the good news.

Kayleigh looked at her mom, "You're not fair," she pouted.

"Not now, Kayleigh," Sharpay said.

"But I want to do the callbacks!" She yelled.

"Kayleigh that is enough," Troy said, coming into the room. He looked at Sharpay and could see that another headache was coming on. "Come on, let's go upstairs," he said to Kayleigh.

"No!"

He took her hand and led her upstairs.

Theresa was beaming. Her parents had said that she could attend a party that her friend Shelly was throwing. It wasn't going to be at all like the one that Katie's friend Emily threw; this time Shelly's parents were actually going to check up on the kids periodically.

"Are you ready to go," Gabi asked as she came into her room.

She nodded, "Yes…thanks mom, for letting me go."

"Just make sure you don't do anything you shouldn't," she said.

"I won't." They walked down to the car.

Once they arrived at Shelly's house, Theresa said goodbye to her mom and rang the doorbell.

Shelly answered, "Hi, you're just in time," she said, pulling her into the house.

"Just in time for what," Theresa asked.

"Come on," she said, leading her downstairs.

"Please don't tell me you're drinking or…"

She rolled her eyes, "Theresa I'm not that stupid. Anyway, no it's not that. Have you ever played 7 Minutes in Heaven?"

She shook her head, "No…"

"Perfect!" She led her to where the party was. "It's just like Spin the Bottle."

Theresa followed her but stopped when she saw Jordan…and Kari.

Jordan smiled and walked over to her, "Hi, I've missed you," he said softly.

She made a face, "Oh please," she said as she was pulled by Shelly to where everyone was sitting…Jordan and Kari soon joined the group.

"Okay you all know how this works," Shelly said. "Jordan, you have to go first."

He nodded, "Okay." He spun the bottle and it landed on…well no one. It was between Theresa and another girl. But Jordan just smiled and grabbed Theresa's hand and took her into the closet.

Kari just sat there, stunned, "What the…"

Theresa pushed Jordan away from her, "I don't want to do this," she said, wanting to get out.

"But we have to be in here for 7 minutes," he said, invading her personal space.

"Jordan, let me out. Please." Theresa tried to get out, but Jordan, being taller and stronger than her blocked her way and pushed her to the back of the closet.

"Oh come on," he said as he kissed her. "You know you want me."

"No, I really don't," she said, now getting scared. "Let me out."

"But I thought this was what you wanted," he said, forcing himself onto her.

She managed to push him off, "No, it isn't! Now let me out!" She was about to open the door when he pushed her back.

"You are not about to make me look bad," he said.

"Jordan you're scaring me. Please let me out," she said, close to tears.

Meanwhile, while everyone else was talking and listening to music for at least 5 more minutes, Kari could sense that something wasn't right.

I know, I'm really evil. So will Kari come to Theresa's rescue or will she be a b-tch again and not care about what happens to Theresa? And you can rest easy about Sharpay, LOL.

Oh, and someone was wondering what the play that theatre is doing was. It's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Anyway, please review and suggestions/ideas are welcome!