"Isn't it beautiful?" sharpay said as she looked at the beautiful view. It was quite breathtaking in my opinion I mean if I had to agree with my sister on anything it would have to be that I have never scene anything like it.
"It's amazing" Taylor said
"Spectacular" agreed Kelsey.
"It's a mall" Chad said shaking his head clearly not getting what the fuss was about
The group of us stood in the main entrance of the overly sized mall of America. Although we had only been on this trip for five days it felt as though we had been together for weeks. I was beginning to get annoyed with the rest of the group and by the rest of the group I mean Gabriella. After me and troy's amazing night ended on a sour note Gabi made sure that troy was never out of her sight. The whole next day found the group hanging around the hotel if troy went to work out Gabi would join him if he went swimming Gabi tagged along. And to say it annoyed me was an understatement.
That night we all went for dinner at the embassy bar and grill as me and troy had the night before which we both had a laugh about when we ordered the same thing we had ordered the night before. Gabi wasn't too impressed by our inside joke so for the rest of dinner she pretty much demanded his attention. All threw out he sent me apologetic gazes and weak smiles. And by the time we all went to bed I had barely talked to troy all day. Of Corse Gabi decided to sleep in the bed with troy yet again.
I never experienced this before usually when something makes me feel uncomfortable I can confront it head on but now it was like I couldn't do anything I was completely helpless to stop Gabi from ruining everything. In the eyes of society I am the one in the wrong no matter how much of a bitch she is. And it's not like I can tell her to stay away for troy that would not only out him but it would also let everyone know what he have been up to. I didn't like the feeling of not being able to even fight back.
After our stay in Lincoln we got back on the road where once again Gabi hung off of troy like a pair of cheep earrings the whole way to Minneapolis and once at the hotel continued to take up all of his time. But if I knew troy he wouldn't be able to stand it mush longer and I was right.
"How about the girls and the guys split up" Taylor suggested "that way we can go to stores we want to go to with out the guys complaining"
"I like that idea" Chad said earning a slap upside the head by Taylor "what? It was your idea"
"Actually I was hoping that me and troy could spend some time alone" Gabi said and instead of smiling sweetly she glared daggers at me. It's like she knew that her spending time alone with troy someone hit me right in the gut.
All of the girls but sharpay smiled and as if the idea was the cutest thing they ever heard and the guys just shrugged and nodded there heads agreeing with the idea. After observing Chad the last couple of days I had noticed that he was in a bad mood when troy and Gabi where arguing and he got progressively happier in the last few days noticing that they were spending more time together. Which to me shows me that troy was right about how Chad and the others like everything to be perfect and normal and them not being together would go against that. I can't say I would be surprised if when the time came for me and troy to reveal our relationship that he would be the first person to put up a sign of protest. I mean he even tried to break up troy and Gabi when they first started dating because things weren't going his way so who is to stop him from trying the same with me. But my head kept telling me that he was not a threat at least not once the summer was over.
"Gabi I think I would rather just hang out with the guys today" troy said
"What the hell troy?" she said offensively crossing her arms like a child throwing a tantrum "all I want is to spend time with you"
"Gabi we had dinner alone last night and we spent half of the trip here in the front together and now I just want to chill with the boys"
"Well I want you coming with me" she said with a finalizing tone.
Troy raised his eyebrows and stepped away from her "excuse me but since when do you tell me what I can and can't do?" troy said raising his voice offended. At this point any grin that was plastered on the others faces was wiped away and of course sharpays sneer was replaced by a satisfied smirk.
"I just want to spend time with the man I love is that so wrong?" she said with her patented everyone's against me pout.
"Well maybe that's just it" troy said "maybe I don't want to spend time with you anymore"
"You don't know what your saying troy" she said "we are in love we just are in a rut we can fix it if we just try"
"I know exactly what I'm saying Gabi" he said now lowing his voice back down to the sensitive voice he used when he was trying to be the nice guy " I cant lie to myself anymore I have been doing it for too long"
"We are not a lie you love me" she said
" no Gabi I don't I mean yeah at the beginning I liked you but I never loved you but I care about you enough to end this before I end up hating you we both saw this coming you know you did"
There were a number of thoughts going threw my head at the moment all of them good. The first was that troy was clearly breaking up with Gabi. The second was that I no longer had to feel guilty for loving troy and the third and best one of all was that it really showed that troy cared about me if he was going to put his neck on the line with his friends to be with me. It filled me up with pride knowing that I had him and that he was not only doing this for me but for himself as well.
"You don't care about me" she spat "if you did you would try harder to be with me"
"The last thing I want is for this to get ugly" he said in a serious tone "I think its time for the both of us to move on"
Instead of retorting which is what I expected her to do she just dropped her head and began quietly sobbing. Taylor and Kelsey both moved to comfort her but she held her hands out to stop them "don't touch me" she said angrily before turning around and exiting the mall.
"Dude" Chad yelled looking at troy "what the hell was that?"
"I don't love her" troy said not raising his voice.
"What do you mean you don't love her you going to Berkley for her of course you love her you cant just give up because of a few fights" Chad said.
"I wish people would stop telling me how I feel" troy said frustrated "because no one here knows what's best for me except for me so stop trying to make everything sound to catastrophic"
"It is though" Chad said "god everything was perfect for the two of you why screw it up?"
"Jesus Chad is there something you don't understand?" troy said "I don't love her and what looks perfect to others may not be what is perfect to me" he then said looking at me as his mouth turned up in a smile. Chad followed his gaze to me.
"Is this you're doing Evans?" he accused pointing his finger at me.
Oh crap this isn't good. My face began to get hot and redness formed in my cheeks as I was put on the spot. Thankfully as usual my sister the strongest back bone of the Evans family came to my rescue.
"Ok hold up Danforth" she said putting her hand up to stop his accusation "if you even remotely knew what was going on you would know that Ryan was confronted by both of them for advice on the situation he was only trying to help"
"Well a lot of good that did" he spat
"Who are you to call on that if I may ask?" sharpay said smirking "it's not your relationship so what dose it matter if it is over to you and if it's what troy wants what dose it have to do with you at all?"
"It matters because now everything will be different between all of us"
"It doesn't have to be "troy said
"Yeah right I'm sure Gabi just loves the idea of not being with you enough to storm out of a mal right?" Chad said sarcastically.
" who cares if she is upset about it…. we are all going to be going to university in about two months anyway nothing will ever be the same after that so who says troy rocking the boat a little bit early is a bad thing" she said " and further more what kind of friend are you ? Isn't troy's happiness more important to you then an image?"
"Wow sharpay I didn't know you were capable of caring about anyone but yourself" Chad shot at the blond.
"That's a fucking cheep shot and you know it Chad" zeke said defending his girlfriend.
"Well it's true she is only saying all this shit because now that troy is single she can lust after him again"
"Take that back" zeke said now getting in Chad's face. At this point Taylor stepped in between the two boys and Jason and sharpay began to speak heatedly. I tried to block out the raised voices and the people from around us watching the fight that had escalated way to far out of hand.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" I heard from behind. I turned around to see Kelsey looking angry as ever. All other arguments stopped and we all looked at her shocked that the loud scream came from such a small body. "For gods sake you are all acting like children… if I wanted to here people argue all day I would have stayed home and listened to my mom and step dad. And as far as I am concerned troy did the right thing and seeing as how you are his best friend I thought you would have had his back no matter what but you couldn't see past your own selfish need for perfection to see that clearly troy wasn't happy being with Gabi"
Chad looked away from the small composer and crossed his arms.
"and troy as much as I agree that stringing Gabi along was not a good idea and I am glad that you ended it before it got worse I cant say it was the sharpest move to do it while we are all on a road trip together but over all I find it insulting that this group of people who have said time and time again that we are all in this together if falling apart so easily"
Kelsey was right about everything and it made me feel like a piece if shit. I couldn't see passed my selfish need for troy to see the consequences of getting what I wanted in the end. It was completely bitter sweet and now all I wanted to do was apologies to Gabi even if she was in the wrong. We were once good friends best even and I let a guy come between us… not that I didn't love troy nor did I blame him but If I had been smart and not gotten involved then fate would have taken its course and they would have broken up in time but I couldn't control myself enough to do it.
"Kelsey's right" I said looking at troy "we are all friends we are stronger then this and it was wrong for me to get involved at all"
"No Ryan you …" troy said
"No troy" I said cutting him off "I was playing both sides of the field and that was wrong and because of it I may have just lost one of my best friends"
Troy looked at me with a look of hurt in his eyes and as much as it hurt me to see that I couldn't let me cave if I did then it wouldn't make a difference what I said and for the first time since this trip started I wanted to actually mean what I said.
"I think I'm goanna go talk to Gabi" I said turning around and bolting before anyone else could say anything to stop me.
I made my way out of the mall and across the street to the Hilton hotel where we were staying. I quickly made my way inside and up to our Floor.
I found Gabi sitting on the pull away cot crying her eyes out. She noticed my arrival and glared at me threw her mascara stained eyes.
"Gabi came we talk?" I asked
"I have nothing to say to you" she said.
"Gabi listen you were right I was playing both sides of the field I was trying to help you both at the same time and that was wrong I should have just stayed out of it to begin with and maybe things wouldn't have ended like they did I just hope that out friendship is strong enough that we can move passed this" I said
Gabi looked up at me but her expression was unreadable. "You will never have him" she said smirking. That was the last thing I was expecting her to say I mean not that I completely expected her to throw her arms around me and apologies but I didn't expect this in all honesty I didn't even know what she meant.
"What?" I asked confused.
"You think I don't see the way you look at him Ryan" she said chuckling "your pathetic "
Oh no she couldn't know could she? This wasn't good here I was trying to give the both of us the benefit of the doubt and here she was confronting me about one of my biggest secrets.
"Just because we are over doesn't mean he will run into your arms…he's straight I would know"
A surge of anger filled me and I wanted nothing more then to throw myself at the stupid jealous girl. "You're a liar" I spat
" nope he took me at the end of the summer last year after the talent show… maybe I am not the only one who is delusional Ryan because if you think that now because we are finished that you some how have a chance at him then you are just as delusional"
"Why are you doing this?"I said in barely a whisper but she still understood me.
"Because troy is mine" she said "and so is his virginity" she then said in a cackle like laugh
I rushed from the room and onto the other one joining the two. Even though she was wrong and I did have troy I couldn't help but think about what Gabi had said. Did they really have sex even though troy had told me he was a virgin it was a possibility that I didn't even want to think about because not only would I never be able to share that special moment with him but because that would also mean he lied to me . I didn't want to believe that troy would do that but if it was true then what else could he have kept from me. And further more it's clear that Gabi knows I am not only gay but am in love with troy and it's only a matter of time before she tells every one and causes yet another rift between the group. At this point the tears where flowing from my eyes and the only word I could think at the moment I was …shit.
A/N ok so another chapter down and this one was so easey to right... sorry i dident update for a few days but i had a busy weekend so i managed to get one done today because i coudlent sleep. and as if gabi knowing that ryan is gay there will be another person finding out in the next chapter lets just hopethat he or she dosent conspire with gabi and ruin evreything. thats for the love for all the people who ahve revied with all of the amazinf feedback and i hope you all liked this chapter :D