"Hey guys," Sharpay and Troy greeted their friends as they walked in.
"Food is in the kitchen and the girls can throw their stuff in my room, and the guys can throw their things in Ryan's room," Sharpay said.
Everybody went to throw their things down, and then went to go pig out on the food.
"So, why'd you guys call us over here tonight?" Gabriella asked as soon as they had all arrived and finished stuffing their faces.
"We'll tell you guys later," Sharpay said, "we don't want to spoil anything right now."
"Okay," Ryan said.
"Where's Alex?" Jason asked.
Troy and Sharpay both froze at this question. They both didn't want to answer it or even have to reply to it.
"He's not going to be here," Troy said.
"Why not?" Taylor asked wondering why the two were acting so weird.
"He's just not," Sharpay answered.
"Is something wrong?" Kelsi asked seeing the looks that Sharpay and Troy were giving each other.
"Well, it's about Alex, we'll tell you guys a little bit later, we don't really want to ruin the sleepover," Troy said glancing every once in awhile at Sharpay.
"Yeah, it's not that big of a deal," Sharpay tried to assure them.
"Okay, if you guys insist, but you two are acting really weird. I think that you guys should tell us now," Gabi said.
"Yeah, we can help. It'd be better if we had more time to think about whatever it is that's wrong," Taylor said.
"Yeah, I agree with Tay," Chad said nodding.
"What's wrong Shar? I want to know," Ryan said concerned about his sister.
"It's just that, well, Alex—" Sharpay was going to continue, but she didn't want everybody to hate the new kid.
"Shar, just tell them it'll be okay or, do you want me to?" Troy asked sort of seeing her reasons for not wanting to tell everybody.
"That's alright, I'll do it," Sharpay said.
Troy nodded and put his arm around her shoulder. This gesture of Troy's, shocked the others. They all knew that Troy and Sharpay were broken up.
"Well, the past few days, Alex has been hitting on me a lot. He seems to have some kind of freaky crush on me, and I'm beginning to get creeped out. He got really mad at me yesterday when I told him that me and Troy weren't fighting anymore. He even began to yell all these bad things about Troy. I almost slapped him then and there," Sharpay sighed.
"Yeah, and he was really mad that I showed up here today after school while he and Shar were practicing their lines. That was when he started to yell. Alex was so happy that we broke up too, it wasn't even funny," Troy said.
"So, has he done anything too badly yet?" Gabriella asked, concerned.
"Well, he and I kissed for our scene, you know, the one for drama? And, he like took it too far. He was um, going at me and I was trying to get away, but we all know that I'm not the strongest person here," Sharpay said.
"What the heck? He did this to you Shar, and you didn't even tell me?" Ryan asked.
"It just happened like a few hours ago, Ry. I haven't really seen you since school," Sharpay said in her defense.
"Cool down Ryan, I think that you guys need to have a talk with Alex about this and we shouldn't leave Shar somewhere where he can get her alone," Gabriella said quite reasonably.
"You know, I think that for the first time in his life, Chad has said something reasonable," Jason said trying to get a laugh to lighten the mood.
"Jason shut up! This isn't the time," Kelsi almost yelled at her boyfriend.
This got a laugh out of Sharpay who didn't want her friends to worry about her.
"Guys don't worry about me, I can take care of myself," Sharpay said looking at the worried faces of her friends.
"Shar, you're not taking this seriously enough. He really likes you. In fact, I happen to think that he has a weird obsession with you too," Troy said looking at her incredulously.
"I told you, I can take care of myself. I don't want you guys to be worried about me. I'd prefer that we all go watch a movie and relax, now," Sharpay said trying to change the subject.
"Fine, let's just go watch the movie now. Shar, we'll talk about this later," Ryan said to Sharpay.
"Whatever," Sharpay told him walking off mad that she was ruining everybody's night. Sure she and Troy had planned to tell everybody, to see what should be done about Alex, but now she just felt bad.
"What's her problem," Chad asked.
"I know, we're just worried about her safety," Gabriella added.
"She just doesn't want you guys to worry about her. Also, she doesn't like being the one you guys are constantly trying to protect. We just need to pretend that we aren't that worried about her. Everybody just stay around her and don't let her take notice, okay?" Ryan advised them.
"Yeah, sure. We don't want anything to happen to her, but even if she does find out, we should still stay with her. Alex is a creepy dude, from what you guys told us," Jason said to Troy.
"Try listening to him yell and complain about you. I think he's going to try to do something to me, but I don't know what. He'll probably go after me or Sharpay. I really don't know at the moment," Troy said frustrated that he couldn't figure out what was going on in Alex's twisted mind.
"Don't worry Troy, Sharpay is always with us girls, or you guys, and the same goes for you. The only time you're alone, is when you guys are together," Kelsi said to Troy.
"That's very true Troy," Taylor said.
"Thanks guys, now we'd better go and find Sharpay before she finds out what we've been planning," Troy said getting up to go to the stairs.
"Hey, what're you doing?" Troy asked walking into Sharpay's room.
"I'm looking for a movie, since you guys are all obsessing over the Alex thing," she said not even turning around.
"We're all just worried about you," Troy said.
"Yeah, but you guys shouldn't worry about me too much, I'll be fine," Sharpay said.
"We can't not worry about you, we all care about you," Troy said.
"Maybe, but I still think that you guys shouldn't worry about me that much," Sharpay said.
"Sharpay. . .," Troy started.
"Don't even try Troy, I'll be fine," Sharpay said reassuringly.
"Fine, but if something happens, you promise to at least tell me?" Troy asked.
"Yeah, sure. I guess I will, now, let's go watch a movie with everybody else," Sharpay said not wanting to talk about Alex anymore.
"Okay, let's go," he said grabbing her hand and dragging her downstairs.
"Shar, we're sorry for obsessing about this, but we want you to be safe," Gabi said as the two came down stairs.
"It's fine, I don't want you guys to worry about me though, so let's just watch this movie and get on with our lives, okay?" Sharpay said trying to get everybody to stop worrying about her.
"Yeah, what movie do you have there?" Kelsi asked.
"It's A Walk to Remember," Sharpay said .
"I love that movie," Taylor said.
"Dang it, we have to see all the girls cry now," Chad whispered to the guys.
"I know, is there any less sad movie, we could watch," Jason whispered back.
"It's not that bad guys," Ryan said.
Troy nodded in agreement with Ryan.
"You two are whipped," Chad said shaking his head.
"Whatever, Chad," Troy said. Man, me and Shar are getting along great. I wish we were still going out. I had to go and make a fool out of myself at that dumb party. It's my fault anyways. She was only talking to a good friend and I was being stupid. I can't believe myself. I've got to find some way to get her to take me back.
"Dude, Troy? Are you there?" Ryan asked pulling Troy out of his thoughts.
"Huh, what? Oh, I was just thinking about some things," Troy said hoping they didn't figure out that he was thinking about Sharpay.
"Sure, whatever man," Jason said with a knowing grin.
"What are you boys doing just standing there? Let's go watch the movie," Gabi said seeing that the boys weren't paying any attention to what they were doing and were just standing there like a bunch of idiots.
"Oh, yeah, let's go guys," Ryan said not wanting the girls to think they were saying anything bad about them.
"So, what were you guys talking about?" Sharpay asked Troy as he went to go sit with her. Everybody had paired up, Ryan and Gabi, Chad and Taylor, Jason and Kelsi, so there was no where else for Troy and Sharpay to sit except with each other.
"Don't worry, we weren't talking about you and Alex if that's what you were thinking," Troy said.
"Good, now let's watch the movie," She said turning her attention back to the tv.
Troy figured that this would be a good time to see how much Sharpay liked him. A little bit after Sharpay started crying, Troy put his arm around her to see how she'd react. Surprisingly, she didn't throw his arm off, but leaned into him more.
This made Troy happy, he was finally feeling that Sharpay might want to get back together with him again, but he was still going to wait awhile before he asked her out again.
So I'm sooooo sorry that it has taken me so long to update. I've been busy, and I haven't even been home too much. I'm trying to update as much as I can, but for this next month, I'll be busy still. I'll probably be able to update the most in like May, or the summer. Thanks for reading and please review.
Also, I haven't been getting too many reviews on my other story, Not an Ice Queen no More, so, it'd be really nice if those of you who haven't reviewed, please review that story and this one. Thanks to all who have reviewed though! I really love reading them.
Jenny