A/N: This chapter is still full of drama, and the song is Haylie Duff's version of Material Girl. It's sad, that this is the last chapter left and I'm done with this one, and next is the sequel, more drama, more tramua, and more fluff. So, on with the last chapter in the story!
Chapter Nine: Material Girl
It's been only two weeks of fame, and already the girls had skyrocketed beyond just school musicals, since Elaine was working on a CD featuring a remix of a song from an old movie, Cinderella, with the song "A Dream Is A Wish". Gabriella already put out an album called G featuring songs from their school musical, such as "When There Was Me And You" and "Breaking Free", which made Sharpay mad, because she put out her album, Headstrong and was sued for the use of 'fuck' in her album. In return, she defended that Elaine's album contained a song the Fergie sung, but it turns out that Fergie was singing it with her for a remix, and then she defended that Gabriella used 'hell' in her album.
After that, the case was dropped, and the paparazzi took more intrest in everything with these constaintly fighting stars that are rising to the top with very little effort. When Elaine's album came out, entitled Sassy Ella, the paparazzi took intrest and dropped intrest in Sharpay, asking about Elaine's album, about how Fergie sang a remix on the album. Elaine said, "Well, it was great fun working with Fergie on this album. I also did a remix with Miley Cyrus on "Part of Your World", and everything was just great. We also had fun doing "So Long, It's Over," one of my most upbeat songs, and it's amazing." They asked her to sing it live for them. She said, "Sure, why not?"
Elaine went up, and started singing in her amazing voice:
You walk up to me
Thinking like I still need ya
But think, you don't know
It's over
Elaine knew the song was about something that wasn't a relationship, but it didn't matter,
So long,
It's not been good
We're on the rocks
And it's time to say
So long, it's over
I know that it's tough
It's hard to say how
We got this way
Since we used to have it
The correct way to think about that wasn't that they ever had it, it was the fact that nothing ever changes.
But know,
So long,
It's not been good
We're on the rocks
And it's time to say
So long, it's over
She wasn't sure what to think.
Get out of here,
I don't want to see ya
Anymore, since
Ya know
It's never too late
But in my heart I know
It'll never be the same
So long,
It's not been good,
So long, so long
We're on the rocks,
So long, I wish didn't have to say it
But, it's time to say
So long, it's over
Yeah,
So long, it's over
Yes, you know
So long, it's over
Elaine finished her song. She smiled and sat down, and sure enough, they asked what it was about. She said, "Uh, the fact that everytime something happens, it goes the same way, and how it's tough to say that it's over, but you have to know when to put your foot down."
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me
I think they're ok
If they don't give me proper credit
I just walk away
(I just walk away)
They can beg and they can plead
But they can't see the light
(They can't se the light)
'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash
Is always Mister Right,
Sharpay, however, was angry because that was apparently a song she wrote, but it was proved wrong by the fact Kelsi wrote the song for Elaine to sing. Chad and Taylor, however, weren't in the spotlight much, they always stood in the shadows. That was, until during an interview between Troy and Gabriella, the paparazzi managed to get a photo of them kissing behind the scenes, and then everything was set off for them. Chad was offered a record contract, Taylor was given the spot they thought of giving either Sharpay or Gabriella on Dancing With The Stars, which meant so much for everyone.
Taylor was never in the spotlight before, and to tell the truth, she kind of liked being in the spotlight for once. Taylor's apperence on Dancing With The Stars was with Chad because his album had recently came out and went multi-platunium on the first day of selling. In an interview, he gave a live performance of his song, "Deal With It," reciving raves before his album, The Backseat came out. When asked why he called it 'the backseat' he explained how he was never in the front, Troy always was, it was like he was the sidekick, but the backseat always gave him more room to spread out.
Ryan also was given a recording contract, and he gave a performance with Sharpay on her album, and also had did a remake of a song from The Fox and The Hound, which sent him skyrocketing with everyone as well. Drama still followed them, it was like an omen for them, and every day they had new stunts, and Ryan's recording of his first solo, Trusting Heart was probably the most publicized single that happened, then came the recording of "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" for Elaine's album in which Gabriella, Troy, Fergie, Miley Cyrus, Sharpay, Taylor, Chad, and many more artists praticipated in helping make.
The paparazzi said that Miley Cyrus helped make the remix of her remix of "Part of Your World" and that Fergie and Lindsey Lohan helped write the songs, with Fergie singing "Glamorous" with her. Elaine helped make it into a major remix and in the first day of the CD's launch, she sold over 2, 000, 000 copies, and the CD went triple platinuim on it's first day of selling.
However, all that sucess quickly went to follow drama, with Sharpay starting a speculation that Elaine lip-synchs, and she did that by saying, "Listening to her sing is like listening to cats that are starving. She can't really sing, they blended her voice with some of my voice and Gabriella's, and she just looks pretty on the album." When Elaine was told about that, she said, "Sharpay is just jealous about how my voice sounds, if you listen closely, it doesn't sound like her voice or Gabriella's, it doesn't have a twang and it isn't low like Gabriella's. It more of a Spainish accent mixed with French accent because of how I always trill my tounge whenever I use the letter 'R'. And, well, it's not true, I can tell that."
The whole thing was proven true when they listened again to her song that she sang, it did have her trilling her tounge softly, and a nasel sound when she used the letter 'n', and how she prounced 'it' like 'eet'. That made the speculation that Sharpay lip-syncs to her songs if she was so inscure about having a friend who sings great, because that usually is what that meant.
'Cause we are
Living in a material world
You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
No one knew fact from fiction anymore, and it was like now, they where saying, "Everyone said before we became stars, 'Don't do this, you'll only get hurt. You'll end up too thin. You won't be able to live your life like you used to.' And we just go, 'So what if we do? It doesn't matter what others think, only what we thought.'"
It's the end of the story here, and the sequel is in the saying they said about it. The next one is actually just a regular story, and believe me, even spicier than this one.