The Way the Wind Blows Chapter 10: Keep Holding On, a high school musical fanfic

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Chapter 10: Keep Holding On

Sharpay's eyes slowly fluttered open the next morning. She sat up and yawned. As she looked around the events of the previous evening came rushing back. She was so glad that it was the weekend, that meant she wouldn't have to face Troy until Monday. What would she say to him?

Sharpay quickly brushed her thoughts of Troy to the back of her mind; she wasn't going to worry about him right now.

Just as she was climbing out of her bed there was a knock on the door. "Come in," she said, sounding half asleep.

"It's locked," her brother yelled through the door.

Sharpay unlocked the door and pulled it open before going over to her vanity table.

Ryan took a seat on his sister's bed. "I wanted to make sure that you were okay."

Sharpay shrugged. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"You don't have to put on an act, I heard you crying last night. But when I tried to come and see if you were alright your door was locked, so I figured you wanted to be alone."

Sharpay sighed and began to brush her hair, not responding to Ryan's statement.

"Come on, Shar, you can tell me. Did something happen with Troy?"

"Do you want to go see a movie today? I heard that there are some awesome ones playing," Sharpay said, trying to avoid his question.

"Shar, don't change the subject. What happened last night?"

"Ryan….I……….."

"You what?"

"Last night I realized that I…..I might be in love with Troy Bolton," Sharpay finally admitted and almost laughed at Ryan's reaction.

His eyebrows shot up and his draw dropped. "What?!? What made you realize that?"

"Well, we were walking down the beach and then we kind of…. well….we kind of kissed. I know that, that doesn't really mean that we're in love, but it was really meaningful and I could just feel it at that moment."

Sharpay didn't think that anybody's jaw could drop as far as Ryan's did. "Wow!"

"I know," Sharpay replied as she sat down next to Ryan on her bed.

"Well…..um….I don't know that much about being in love with someone, but aren't people usually happy when it happens?"

Sharpay sighed. "Yeah…"

"Then why were you crying?"

"Ryan, don't you see? I can't fall in love with someone right now because I'll just have to leave them behind."

"First of all, you aren't going anywhere! And second, weren't you the one who said that you'd rather live like you're dying than die without ever living?"

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that I should fall in love. If I'm living like I'm dying then I'm going to do things that I wouldn't normally do, not things that I would usually do."

Ryan looked thoughtful for a moment, still taking in all of her words. He eventually just shrugged and stood up. "Whatever. I'm going to go look at the newspaper and see what movies are playing."

Sharpay was glad that he had dropped the whole subject; she didn't really want to talk about it anymore. She nodded. "Okay."

Sharpay and Ryan had decided that their day would consist of going to mall and then going to see a movie. They had been at the mall for a little over and hour and were just coming out of a store, when Sharpay began to feel weird. She suddenly became dizzy and lightheaded so she put her hand up to her head in attempt to steady herself, but the sudden movement made it worse and she began to falter.

Ryan instinctively reached out and caught his sister. "Shar, are you okay?"

"I…..I don't know," she stuttered.

"Come on let's sit down." Ryan led his sister to the nearest bench and sat down. "What happened? You look really pale."

"I'm not sure. One minute I was fine and then the next I felt dizzy and lightheaded."

"I'm going to take you home," Ryan said firmly.

Sharpay merely nodded in response and let her brother help her out to the car.

The whole way home Ryan was thinking about the incident, it had really scared him. But it had also convinced him even more that he couldn't give up, he had to help his sister, even if his help was unwanted.

When they got home everything was quiet. Their dad was still at work, so Ryan decided to call him and tell him what had happened. Sharpay slowly went up to her bedroom and sat down at her computer desk, which happened to be the closest to the door. She decided to check her e-mail and typed in her password to sign in. When she saw the new messages in her inbox she sighed. There were eight of them, all from Troy. She stared at the computer for a minute before shaking her head and, without reading any of them, deleted all ten messages. She felt bad about ignoring Troy, especially because he probably didn't really know what he did wrong. But she couldn't handle it right then, she just wasn't strong enough. I'm sorry, Troy; I really wish that I could tell you how much that I care for you.

After calling his dad, Ryan retreated to his room. He switched on the radio and collapsed onto his bed. Thoughts were racing through his brain. What was he going to do? How could he convince Sharpay to do something about her leukemia? There were so many questions running through his mind, but there was one thing that he knew for sure. He would do anything to stop his sister from slipping away, anything to keep her holding on. He almost smiled at how ironic it was that just as he was thinking that, he noticed the song that was playing on the radio.

You're not alone
Together we stand
I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand
When it gets cold
And it feels like the end
There's no place to go
You know I won't give in
No I won't give in

Keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Just stay strong
'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you
There's nothing you could say
Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

So far away
I wish you were here
Before it's too late, this could all disappear
Before the doors close
And it comes to an end
With you by my side I will fight and defend
I'll fight and defend
Yeah, yeah

Hear me when I say, when I say I believe
Nothing's gonna change, nothing's gonna change destiny
Whatever's meant to be will work out perfectly
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Keep holding on
Keep holding on

There's nothing you could say
Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

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