Note: Well this is the last chapter of the story... And I hope you guys like it. I have no plans to write a sequel to it, but I'm thinking about my new story... so thanks for reading and reviewing my story.

Chapter 10

With her blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, Sharpay stood by the window in her bedroom and watched her brother climb into his car. Then waited until he drove out of sight before she left her room in search of her mother.

"MOTHER," she yelled as she went downstairs.

"In the kitchen," her mother called back. "What do you need, pumpkin?" She asked when Sharpay entered the room.

"What time are the catering people going to be here?" Sharpay asked her.

"Not until two o'clock," her mother replied. "What time are the girls getting here?"

"They'll be here soon," Sharpay said. "We're going to setup the dinning room and the other room. Then they'll leave around three so I can get ready." She grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge, but before she could unscrew the lid, the doorbell rang.

"Hey Ryan, come on in," Chad greeted after he opened his front door.

"Hey," Ryan replied. "Thanks for inviting me over..."

"No problem," Chad said, closing the door. "Troy and Jason are downstairs in the basement. You can leave your stuff up here or take it downstairs."

"I'll take it downstairs," Ryan said as he followed Chad. "Do you have a playstation?"

"Yeah," Chad nodded. "You play?"

"I do have a life outside of the drama department," Ryan pointed out. "Besides, it gives me an excuse to hide in my room." He opened his bag. "I brought a game." He held up a baseball game. "Do you have this one?"

"Not yet!" Chad exclaimed, grabbing it. "Come on!" He raced down the stairs. "Troy, turn off the game! Ryan brought a better one!" He tossed the game to Troy.

"Move it a little more to the right," Sharpay instructed as Gabriella, Taylor, Martha and Kelsi moved the dinning room table. "There! It's perfect!"

"Sharpay, this is exactly where it was when we started!" Taylor exclaimed as she took the water bottle Gabriella offered her. "And you could be helping instead of barking orders at us."

"But I got my nails done last night and I don't want them to get ruined," Sharpay replied, holding up her perfectly manicured nails.

"I'll ru-" Gabriella stepped between Taylor and Sharpay before Taylor could do anything.

"Calm down, Taylor," Gabriella said. "But Taylor's right, Sharpay, you need to help us."

"Whatever," Sharpay replied. "We need to set the table now. Kelsi, Martha, come with me."

Taylor crossed her arms as she watched them leave the room. "She is so annoying," she said.

"Taylor, we've gotten this far without any big fights," Gabriella reminded her. "We're leaving in like an hour and when we come back here you'll be so distracted by Chad that you won't notice-" She stopped when Sharpay ran through the dining room. "What the?"

"Where'd Sharpay go?" Taylor and Gabriella turned to find Zeke standing in the dining room.

"Probably her room," Taylor answered.

"Thanks," Zeke said, going in the direction Sharpay went. He ran up the stairs and smiled when he saw a pink door in a hallway of white ones. He knocked on her door.

"Go away!" She called.

"Shar, come on, talk to me," he sighed.

Sharpay opened her door with her mascara running down her cheeks. "It was supposed to be a surprise," she cried. "And now you're going to go and tell them and it'll all be ruined!"

"Shar, I'm not going to tell them anything," Zeke told her.

"You aren't?" She looked up at him surprised.

"Shar, you're my girlfriend," Zeke smiled. "I know this is important to you and you guys have obviously worked really hard to put this all together."

"We have," she nodded.

Zeke grabbed a tissue from her desk and handed it to her. "You okay, now?" He asked her. Sharpay nodded. "Good. Now I'm going to go back downstairs and help my aunt cook."

"Okay," Sharpay replied. "Oh and Zeke?" He turned to look at her. "Stay in the kitchen, okay?"

"You got it," he said before leaving the room.

Sharpay went into her private bathroom and washed her face. She took a deep breath then went back downstairs. When she walked into the dining room, she found the other girls setting the table.

"You okay?" Gabriella asked her.

"Yeah," Sharpay nodded. "How'd you guys know how I wanted the table set?"

"Your mom found your drawing," Taylor replied, holding up a piece of notebook paper. "Then we went from there."

"How does it look?" Martha asked Sharpay.

Sharpay looked around and smiled her approval. "It looks fabulous," she said. "Good work."

"I hate suits," Chad grumbled as he sat in the living room in the dress shirt Troy's mom had bought him and his boxers. His mom had flipped and demanded that she iron his dress pants when she'd seen how wrinkled they were. "They're so uncomfortable." Ryan nodded in agreement as the doorbell rang. "You wanna get that and if it's one of the girls, warn me first."

"Sure," Ryan replied. He walked to the front door and opened the front door. "Hey Troy."

"Let me guess, Chad's doing his hair?" Troy smiled as he came into the house.

"I heard that, Bolton," Chad called from the other room.

Troy laughed and followed Ryan into the room where Chad was. "Why aren't you wearing pants?" He asked his best friend.

"Because they were wrinkled," Chad's mom said coming into the room with Chad's pants as Ryan left the room to answer the door again.

"Thanks mom," Chad said, grabbing the pants. He was pulling them up when he heard snickers. He looked over his shoulder and saw Taylor and Gabriella standing in the doorway with Ryan, Zeke and Jason. He finished putting the pants on as his face burned bright red.

"Taylor, Gabriella, your dresses are beautiful," Chad's mom smiled. "And I just noticed that they're the same colors as the stripes on Chad and Troy's shirts. Very cool."

Chad smiled as Taylor walked over to him, her knee length green dress with thick straps, a deep V-neck with a thick band of material just under the bust swaying as she walked.

"Cute boxers," she smiled. "Frogs are my favorite animal." Chad's face reddened again. She reached out and touched the collar of his shirt. "Mrs. Bolton was right, this shirt looks great on you."

"How'd you guys know about the shirts?" Troy asked as he wrapped his arm around Gabriella's waist. "She said she ran into Mrs. Evans."

"We ran into your mom after we bought our dresses," Gabriella told him as she adjusted the straps of her simple spaghetti-strapped blue dress that fell just above her knees. "After we told her what we were doing, we showed them to her then she decided that she wanted to buy you guys shirts to match our dresses. So then the three of us went to one of the department stores and found your shirts."

"I don't know how I feel about you and my mom shopping for me," Troy stated. "Or the whole thing about you two being sneaky together."

"She's already asked me to help her with your Christmas presents," Gabriella told him.

"What?" Troy's jaw dropped.

"Just kidding," Gabriella giggled.

"Kelsi?!" Jason exclaimed, causing the others to look in his direction. His mouth was wide open and he was staring at a timid looking Kelsi who was wearing a silver dress, with medium black straps, an empire waist and a thick black band around the bottom.

"Kelsi, you look amazing," Taylor told her. "But that dress seems so-"

"Sharpay?" Kelsi asked and Taylor nodded. "She took me shopping yesterday since I still hadn't found a dress. She made me try it on and I don't know, I kinda like it."

"It's really pretty," Jason told her. "It's shiny like a pop can."

"Thanks," Kelsi laughed.

"You look really pretty too," Ryan told Martha, who was dressed in a black wrap dress with a ribbon tied around her waist.

"Thanks," Martha smiled.

"So it's seven, where's Sharpay?" Chad asked.

Before anyone could answer, they heard a loud honk. They looked at each other then headed for the front door.

"Oh my god," they all gasped when they got outside and saw Sharpay standing in the sun roof of a white stretch Hummer limo. Her pink halter dress shimmered in the sun.

"No freaking way!" Chad exclaimed as he and Troy high fived.

"Come on!" Sharpay exclaimed as she ducked back into the vehicle.

The driver opened the door and the others piled into the limo.

"This is way cool!" Troy grinned as he sat down next to Gabriella. "I can't believe you got us a limo!"

"My dad's friend owns a company," Sharpay shrugged. "He gave us a good deal."

"So where are we going?" Jason asked.

"You'll see," the girls chorused.

"Why are we here?" Ryan asked when the limo stopped in front of his and Sharpay's house.

"You'll see," Sharpay told her brother.

"I'm really beginning to dislike that phrase," Chad shook his head.

Once they were all out of the limo, Sharpay and Zeke led them into the house. While she led the others into the living room, Zeke slipped into the kitchen to find out if the food was ready. He returned a couple minutes later and gave Sharpay a gentle nod.

"Okay, so for the past two weeks, the girls and I have been planning something special for you guys," Sharpay said.

"And driving us crazy," Chad muttered and grunted when Taylor elbowed him in the rib.

"We wanted to show you guys how much we care about you," Sharpay said. "So we decided to throw a dinner party."

She led the others into the dining room and they all sat down at the table, where their hors d'oeuvres were already waiting for them.

"Zeke, how'd that catering thing go today?" Troy asked.

"You tell me," Zeke smiled, sending a wink in Sharpay's direction. "My aunt and I catered this."

"You knew and didn't tell us!" Chad exclaimed.

"I found out today," Zeke replied. "Besides, the girls worked really hard to get this whole thing setup. I didn't want to ruin their surprise." He smiled. "Besides, we all know that you wouldn't have told if Taylor had told you. Cause you're a softy when it comes to Taylor."

Chad looked at his girlfriend and nodded. "True," he grinned. He slipped his hand under the table and pulled Taylor's chair closer to his. She laughed and leaned against him.

Chad let his eyes graze over the table and saw each of his friends having private conversations with their girlfriends. It was then than that he realized that when it came to dealing with their girlfriends, his best friends were different guys too. And the girls were different as well.

Sharpay was actually listening to Zeke, who was explaining how he made their dinner, sharing secrets of his recipe that he wouldn't have shared with anyone else. Kelsi seemed to enjoy Jason's off wall comments and stupid questions and Jason was hanging off every word she said. Ryan and Martha were talking their weird dance language that nobody else seemed to understand and Gabriella and Troy were sharing private jokes, when they weren't staring into each others eyes.

Chad turned his attention to Taylor and smiled at her.

"What are you thinking Chad Danforth?" She asked.

"About how I dumb I was to think that this wasn't going to be fun," he admitted.

"It was pretty dumb," Taylor agreed. "But this is really fun, too. I still think Sharpay's a bit of a nut job, but everything has worked out great."

After eating their dinner, they sat around the table telling embarrassing childhood stories, including the story about the day Chad and Taylor met. They snacked on chocolate covered fruits and sipped sparkling apple cider as they laughed and teased each other.

Shortly before ten, Sharpay's mom came into the room and informed them that it was time for everybody to go home because the limo rental would be over in thirty minutes.

When they arrived at Chad's house, they said goodbye and soon it was just Chad and Taylor standing in front of his house with her wearing his jacket over her shoulders.

"You wanna come in for some ice cream or something?" Chad asked her.

"I'm still full from dinner," she smiled. "Besides, I need to get home before curfew."

"Yeah, curfew," Chad sighed as he put his hand on the small of her back and walked her over to her car. He punched the code into the keypad on her door thus unlocking the door, which he then opened.

"Thanks," she said as she leaned against the car. "I'll bring your jacket back tomorrow."

"Uh, Taylor," Chad said as he felt his stomach knot up.

"Yeah?" She asked, looking up to meet his eyes.

"I just want to tell you that I, um," he stammered. "That, I love you."

A smiled spread across Taylor's face. "I love you, too, Chad," she said. She grabbed his shirt and pulled him towards her. "I love you, a lot."

He put his hands on the car on either side of her head and lowered his lips to hers. He lowered his hands down to her hips and they remained with him pressing her into the car until the garage door opened.

Chad looked up and saw his mom standing behind her car, in her pink robe, tapping her wrist. He sighed and stood up straight.

"I'll see you tomorrow," Taylor said. "Maybe we can meet up with Troy and Gabriella for lunch."

"Whatever you want," Chad replied. They said their goodbyes and exchanged 'I love yous' one more time before he walked up to the garage where his mom was sitting standing. He watched as Taylor drove out of sight before he followed his mom into the house, happy to admit that not all of his plans worked out the way he planned.

To view the girls' dresses copy and paste the following links into your internet browser or go to my profile for links you can just click.

Kelsi's - http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?imagekelsiwh3.jpg

Gabriella's - http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?imagegabriellamo2.jpg

Sharpay's - http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?imagesharpaycc9.jpg

Martha's - http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?imagemarthagw9.jpg

Taylor's - http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?imagetaylorid1.jpg