Hey everyone, here I am again! Thank you for the reviews! I'm always so happy to read the reviews for this fic because I'm having so much fun writing it. I didn't really get any suggestions for a new summary, but thanks to Nodoubtrox for trying to help me out with it :). So we just came upon the juicy part of the story, now lets see what will happen next…
DISCLAIMER: I do not own High School Musical, it belongs to Disney. Yada yada yada…
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The Diary Of A Broadway Star
Chapter Nine:The Next Morning
Sharpay slowly opened her eyes and stretched her arms. It took her a minute to realize that she wasn't in her own bed; and when she did realize, it brought quite a reaction.
She sat up and looked around the room. She looked down at the sheets and the comforter that had been covering her and her eyes became wide. She slapped her hand to her forehead and closed her eyes. 'Oh my god, what did I do?' She swung her legs over the side of the bed and found a note on the night table. She picked it up and read it.
Hey Sharpay,
I'm sorry I'm not home but I woke up early this morning and realized that I had to go to work.
I didn't want to wake you so I left you to rest and thought of a way for you to get home if you want to.
I took the train to work and I left a set of keys to my car next to this note. You can take my car
to drive home or you can drive it to the train station. If you drive it all the way home you can
park it in a lot by your house and I'll pick it up there, and if you drive it to the train station you can just
park it there and I'll pick it up from there on the way home. You can just give me the keys the next time I see you;
I have an extra set with me. I also left directions in case you don't know how to get home by train.
Worse comes to worse, or if you just feel like it, help yourself to anything you want and I'll be home around 5:30.
Sorry for everything. I had a great time last night.
Love, Troy.
"Yeah, I'm sure you had a good time last night." Sharpay scoffed. She rolled her eyes and got up to get dressed. As she was walking around, she thought out loud.
'I left my appartment for a date last night and woke up in Troy Bolton's bed this morning. I'm assuming that there is no hope that maybe I didn't sleep with him. You know, maybe we were just so drunk and worn out that we fell asleep… next to each other…naked. Oh, who am I kidding?' Sharpay sighed as she slipped her shoes on. After getting dressed she made Troy's bed and sat down to check her sidekick. She had no missed calls or text messages, but she did have one event set up in her schedule for today. "I have that appointment with Doctor Green today." said Sharpay. "Great" Sharpay walked out of the room and swiped Troy's keys off the counter.
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"Hello Ms. Evans." said Doctor Green as she walked into the room.
"Hi." Sharpay responded, still holding her head from the hangover.
"You don't look so good. Headache?"
Sharpay didn't take her eyes off the floor tiles. "Yeah."
"Hangover?"
Sharpay picked her head up and looked at her. "…Yeah."
Dr. Green nodded her head and smiled, "I know how that feels." She rubbed Sharpay's back.
Sharpay groaned, but she decided to suck it up and get down to business. She straightened her back and took a deep breath.
"You want an Asprin?" the doctor asked.
"Yes, please." Sharpay opened her hand and took the Asprins. "I have a cool doctor." She snickered.
Doctor Green smiled and continued rubbing Sharpay's back. "Well, thanks." she said. "So, let's talk about those blood test results."
Sharpay looked up at her with dull eyes. This wasn't the subject she really wanted to talk about right now.
"How are you doing with that?"
Sharpay shrugged. "Pretty sucky, I guess."
"I'm sorry Sharpay. Nobody wants to hear that they have a disease. But this isn't something you were born with. It has to have progressed from an earlier sexual encounter."
"Well yeah, it's not like I do drugs." said Sharpay.
"That's a good thing to hear," Doctor Green laughed.
"Um, you know, I haven't actually had any recent sexual encounters; how long ago do you think this all started?"
"Well, there is known to be a couple years time span between the time you were exposed and the time when the infection starts getting more serious. Mild symptoms are showing up now but you were probably exposed to the virus longer ago than just a few weeks or months." she shook her head sympathetically.
"Oh." Sharpay replied simply.
"…I'm scared to ask this question but… how bad is it?"
Doctor Green sighed, "Well, you've already had the flu symptoms caused by the late Primary Stage, and now I'd have to say that your depleting immune system is going through the Asymptomatic Stage."
"Well what does that mean?"
"This is what it means:
One, that you've tested positive for HIV,
two, you may look fairly healthy despite a few mild HIV disease symptoms such as swolen glands, rashes or ulcers,
three, the virus is weakening your immune system,
and four, you can infect other people through unprotected sex or needle sharing."
Sharpay took a deep breath in. "..Wow." she said, still looking at the floor.
"Yeah."
Sharpay's head snapped up and she looked at the doctor. "Wait, what was the last thing you said?"
"That…you can infect other people through unprotected sex or needle sharing?"
"Yeah…that." Sharpay started to look scared. She started to breath a little heavier as she looked down to the floor again in shame.
"Sharpay…what's the matter?"
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"Troy, we need to talk." Sharpay barged in on Troy in his appartment.
"Hey Shar, how are you today? I'm fine, thanks for asking. Did you get home okay? Yup, work sucked. So what's up?" Troy looked at Sharpay.
"I'm sorry Troy," Sharpay hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, realizing that she stormed into his appartment without saying hello. But she still wanted to get to her point. "Listen, we need to talk."
Troy looked worried and confused. "Well what's up? Is it because of last night? Did I do something wrong?—"
"Did you use protection?"
Troy breathed and sighed. "Of course."
"Well, are you sure? How can you remember? We were both drunk!"
"Shar, believe me, I know."
Sharpay put her hands on her hips, raising her voice again, "How?"
"BECAUSE, I WOKE UP WEARING IT THIS MORNING!" He cleared his throat.
Sharpay looked down. "Oh." she felt embarrassed, being able to tell that Troy didn't want to share that.
"Okay then." she said.
"Yeah.." said Troy, even more embarrassed than she was. "Why are you so worried and uptight about it?"
Sharpay's eyes moved side to side nervously, as she quickly thought of an excuse. "Well Troy, it's only natural for me to be concerned about unsafe sex. I mean, sleeping with someone when you're drunk doesn't always turn out nicely!"
"Okay, okay." Troy tried to calm Sharpay down. "Shar, I understand."
"Are you…mad?"
Sharpay looked at Troy and thought about the incredible experience that she had with him the night before; or at least what she could remember from it. She thought about all the feelings she's had for him, and how long she's wanted to be with him for.
"…No." she said. Troy stood up from his couch and slowly stepped closer to her. He gently stroked the side of her face. She smiled.
"Shar, I wanna be with you." he said, and then he kissed her.
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It was kinda short, I know, but I thought that the ending was good for this chapter, and I wasn't sure what else to put in it for now. And as for the summary thing, I know it sucks the way it is now, but I'm just gonna put it off until I can think of a good one. :) So, thanks for reading! AND REVIEW!!!!!! …Please ;)