A/N: Wow…Chapter 10 already! I feel like the time has flown by…Anyways, still sick…it really stinks. I was singing 'A Little fall of Rain' and my voice kept cracking since my throat's so dry. I'm trying to rest my voice, but when I'm listening to music, I just can't help but sing…it gets into my bloodstream, and I need to sing and dance.

And I've started up my art again, drawing little sketches here and there. Nothing too good, since I haven't drawn anything seriously in like, a year, but they're pretty cute little things. I'm drawing out the scene of 'Eponine's Errand' in 'Les Mis'.

StillThereForMe- I'm so jealous. I'd love to in any performance of Les Mis, but our school refuses to do it. They say it's too much work, even though we have a good drama program…I'd love to be Eponine though, but unless I was a senior at the time, I'd never get it. I'm not that talented, and there are way better people.

Court- I'd rather be on Broadway. While I have a love to write, performing just makes me so totally happy in every way. I spend all my time singing, and when I shouldn't be singing, I'm playing scenes in my head. I'm often in trouble at school for daydreaming about the latest musical I saw. My head's pretty much filled with musicals.

Anyways, sorry to all the people who wanted the last chapter to turn out happily. I just couldn't let that happen, because of dramatic tension. But I swear, it'll brighten up in the next few chapters. This'll be a pretty dramatic chapter. All those evil forces working against Chad and Ryan…Poor guys.

Also, for my next fiction, I was thinking of one pre HSM2, where Chad went out for the musical and fell for Ryan…I was going to do it for RENT, and then I read "Take Me, Baby, Or Leave Me" which is pretty much the exact thing I was going to do. (Not that same plot, just the idea of them being in RENT with Chad as Collins and Ryan as Angel.) So now I want to use the plot I have with another musical, so it doesn't seem like I'm plagiarizing…Any ideas? I know 'Spring Awakening' has a gay couple, but I don't think Chad could pull off being a German…

Standard Disclaimer: High School Musical and its characters belong to Disney. I do not own them, nor am I making any profit from this story. I am merely writing for my enjoyment. The title of this story also does not belong to me, but to Rent.

I Should Tell You…

Chapter Ten

Kelsi sighed as she shuffled her newly written music. It seemed as if all her time nowadays was spent writing new love songs for no reason except for her own pleasure. She had nothing to do anymore. Besides her job, which was only to play in the evenings, she was incredibly bored. Gabriella was too depressing to be around; she only talked about her problems with Troy, teared up, and then left after ten minutes. And Troy was always missing. Sharpay was gone too, she didn't even spare the time to boss Kelsi around anymore! Kelsi felt as if all her friends had gone missing, and that even her purpose as Sharpay's lackey had disappeared. Ryan was strangely depressed nowadays, and Kelsi didn't want to approach him in case she drove him into his depression more.

As she exited the room, she bumped into someone. Thinking it was a member, she began apologizing fervently, dropping to the ground and scrambling to pick up all the sheet of music she had dropped when she had knocked into the other person. Then, the next thing she knew, the boy she had bumped into was on the ground with her, bending down to help her pick up her papers. He handed them to her, and she looked up to see Jason.

"Jason!" She asked, surprised and delighted. Her crush on him had not abated during the summer, even though they had barely seen each other since she had accidentally taken his suitcase on the first day at Lava Springs. "I'm sorry! I thought you were a club member." She said, blushing at the fact that the first time they had seen each other in weeks was also the time to be a complete klutz.

"Hey Kelsi." Jason said, his face reddening slightly, he was quite a shy boy. For a basketball player, he was extremely gentle and kind. He was the one who always asked the teachers about their vacations (much to his friends' displeasure). He was also the one who had helped Kelsi out when she had received the game ball from Troy, and was unsure what to do with it. He had helped her make her first basket ever.

"It's been a while." Kelsi said, trying to get her brain out of park and into first gear, to try and say something intelligent and witty…well, maybe not too intelligent. Jason was, after all, a basketball player on the Wildcats team.

"Yea." Jason smiled at Kelsi gently. "Want to go have lunch together, since we haven't had a good talk in ages? I was about to get lunch anyways, so it wouldn't be any trouble."

Kelsi nodded a bit too eagerly, but she couldn't help herself. "Yea, I'd love that- I mean, I am pretty hungry." She corrected herself, cursing herself for blushing.

Jason nodded. "Why don't we eat outside in the ballpark today. It's pretty outside, and I think Troy said that's were the rest of us are having lunch today."

Kelsi looked happy, but a bit confused. "Wait, Troy's going to be there? I thought he was all caught up with Sharpay nowadays."

"He is…but he says there's a good reason. And Sharpay is coming, but she seems nicer, so I guess that's alright…" Jason shrugged.

Kelsi bit her lip, she still held a grudge and some fear for the formidable Ice Princess, but her feelings for Jason overpowered these thoughts easily. "Alright, let's go."

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"So this time it'll definitely work. We'll just have to bring the boys to the ballpark without telling them that the other will be there. They'll have no reason to refuse, and if they do, we'll drag them, alright?" Sharpay said cheerfully.

Troy nodded. "Yep. Even if I pull him kicking and screaming to the ballpark, we'll do it. And if they point blank refuse to come, make sure that they see the note from outside their windows."

Sharpay nodded. "Alright. I'll get Ryan, you get Chad." She instructed.

Troy rolled his eyes. "Obviously. Chad wouldn't go with you if you paid him." He muttered.

"Hey!" Sharpay sounded hurt. "I'm trying, I really am!"

"I know that." Troy said, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. "But I'm afraid you are Ryan's twin, and he still is kind of ticked off about you trying to tear me away from them last year."

Sharpay sighed. "Whatever. That was in the past. You stuck with Gabriella, didn't you? Is she going to be at the lunch, by the way?"

Troy shook his head sadly. "She doesn't want to come. She says I haven't paid any attention to her this summer, and she won't just come trotting back to be every time I blow her off…If only I could tell her what we were doing…she'd understand then." He muttered.

Sharpay shook her head. "We can't tell people about Chad and Ryan's sexuality issues without their consent…I'm sorry though, Troy." She said, upset. "I know this is my fault."

He merely shook his head. "It's fine. Let's get this show on the road."

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"Sharpay, I'm telling you I do not want to go to this lunch." Ryan hissed at his sister, who was dragging him by the arm towards the ball park. Ryan did not want to be at the place where he and Chad had first really connected a year ago, when Ryan pitched and then convinced Chad to learn how to dance.

"Too bad. You're coming." She said simply, not leaving him any room to argue. "It isn't about what you want, Ryan. You just can't stay locked up in your room."

"Can too." He said sulking, but giving up. Sharpay could be as stubborn as a mule when she wanted to be, and he might as well save his breath. However, when they approached the group of their friends eating on the ground, he drew in a sharp intake of breath.

"That is it. I'm leaving. Right now." He said, shooting Sharpay a filthy look that clearly signaled the message of 'How could you bring me here when you knew he'd be here?'

"As am I." Chad said, standing up abruptly, about to walk away. But Troy grabbed his arm and pulled him back to the ground with a crash, which resulted in Chad accidentally sitting on several PB & J sandwiches, which resulted in stains all over his clothes.

"Ew! Troy! Look what you did!" Chad complained, inspecting the damage. Ryan glared at Troy; he couldn't help feeling envious at how often the basketball star got to touch Chad. Before Ryan could leave, Sharpay pulled him down as well.

"Neither of you will be leaving. Ignore each other if you wish, but you can't leave." Sharpay said lightly. The rest of them looked around in confusion; they had no idea of the 'Love Fiasco', as Troy and Sharpay had dubbed it.

Ryan shot her a furious glare, but complied, picking up a sandwich. Chad threw his sandwich down, just to contrast the blonde, and crossed his arms, feeling sick, nervous, and idiotic.

Ryan sighed. This was going to be the longest meal ever. Excluding the medieval feasts that tended to last several days. But still, they didn't have to worry about sexual tension at those things.

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Gabriella glared at the baseball park, where her boyfriend should be having an enjoyable lunch, with his newest friend, Sharpay, who he seemed to place above everyone else nowadays. It didn't matter that he was dating Gabriella, or that Sharpay had tried to break them up several times. She was thinking these angry thoughts as she walked away from the ball park, when she noticed an airplane parked in a huge patch of grass on the gold course. She frowned, curious, and walked up to it.

"Hey little lady." A man with a huge mustache and pilot's goggles approached her, taking her by surprise.

"Oh, hello." Gabriella said, a bit flustered. Who was this man? She had never seen him before, but he seemed to be the pilot of the plane that was landed in front of them.

"That's my plane, if you were wondering." He said kindly. "Some little lady paid me to write a message in the sky for her special boy…or something. I was just looking for the lobby. I'd like to get a drink of water before I do this; it can take up to an hour."

"It's over there." Gabriella said, pointing in the direction of the Lava Springs lobby.

He nodded. "Thanks. By the way, feel free to check out the plane, if you want. Just try not to touch anything, in case you accidentally take off."

"Thanks." Gabriella said politely. Maybe she would take a peek inside the plane. She certainly didn't have anything better to do right now. She watched the pilot leave in the direction of the lobby, and hopped inside the plane. It was a small, old styled plane, nothing fancy. She could see the note typed up on a computer in a huge font, supposedly so the pilot couldn't mess it up while he was flying the plane.

She looked down at the bill for the plane, and whistled. Apparently, writing a message in the sky cost money. Then she looked down, and scowled. Sharpay had paid for this to be written. She ditched all guilty thoughts of invasion of privacy, and read the note.

Troy, I really like you as a friend, but I need something more then friendship. I love…

The note cut off to the next page, but Gabriella had seen enough. In a moment on insane rage, envy, and idiocy, she highlighted the words 'love' and replaced it with 'hate', not even bothering to look on the next page to see the name.

That'll teach Sharpay Evans to mess with me and my boyfriend. She thought cruelly as she left the plane. If she thinks she can steal my man, she's dead wrong. And thought Gabriella was supposed to be a genius, she didn't even stop to think that the sentence she had left didn't even make any sense. To like them as a friend, but to hate them as well sounded very contradictory. Unless the name in the second sentence was not the same name as the one in the first sentence…

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The lunch had gone by in uncomfortable silence. Everyone had pretty much finished eating, but nobody wanted to get up, in case they disturbed the palpable tension in the circle of friends. No one said anything either. They all sat, their hair on the backs of their necks standing up, even if they had no idea what was going on. The awkwardness between Ryan and Chad was so obvious, no one needed to really know the reason why, they just knew something terrible had happened, and they shouldn't disturb the silent war between the two of them.

In fact, the only one of the group not affected by the strange silence was Zeke, who was staring at Sharpay with adoring eyes. He probably wouldn't have noticed if a civil war broke out in front of him, he only had eyes for her. But he didn't interrupt the silence, since he was in such total reverence for the girl sitting across from him. His jaw was even slightly hanging open, and if there hadn't been so much tension, no doubt someone would make a teasing remark about this. But as it was…

Troy opened his mouth to speak, then closed it slowly, unsure of what to say. Even Sharpay seemed on edge, for the first time in her life, she seemed unsure of what to do, unwilling to take the initiative. Chad was staring at his knees, and Ryan was staring at anything that didn't have a fro for hair.

I just don't know what to say to him. Chad thought, a bead of sweat appearing on his forehead. What can I say? He told me not to ever talk to him. And he obviously isn't sorry about what he said. And he obviously hasn't changed his mind…I don't know how much longer I can stand this silence…I might snap any second, and just go mental. Things might be a lot easier if I did that.

He looked up nervously at Ryan, and then dropped his gaze as if looking at Ryan was just like looking at the sun. You couldn't look at it without hurting yourself, without damaging your eyes. He seems to radiate beauty. Chad noted. Beauty…and distress. And I'm the one who caused all that sadness that's so obvious in his appearance. Chad couldn't take this anymore.

"Ryan!" He called out. Ryan's gaze snapped up to meet his, and they both flushed, but didn't look away. "Ryan, look, I'm really sorry." Ryan looked confused, then hurt, then indecisive.

As the blonde opened his mouth to speak, and as everyone leaned slightly forward to hear the words that would fall from the boy's pink lips, the roaring noise of a plane overhead drowned out his words.

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The pilot, whose name was Eric, came back from the lobby after a longer period of time then he had originally planned. After getting his glass of water, he decided to have a snack at the lobby as well. Then he used the bathroom, since he couldn't very well go in the plane. Finally returning to his aircraft, he got into the small plane, and buckled his seatbelt.

He began to take off, already used to the roaring noise the plane made. It was noisier then most planes, being an older model, but after twenty years of flying it, a man got used to the sound.

After about ten minutes, the pilot checked his altitude, and decided he was high enough to begin writing the message. He checked his computer to look at the note. It looked exactly the same as when he had left the plane. He couldn't help but wonder if that nice girl who had helped him find the lobby had come to look inside the plane out of curiosity. She hadn't seemed too interested when he had given her permission to look inside. "Well, if she did come in, she left everything intact." He muttered to himself. He often talked to himself when he was flying the plane, it helped calm his nerves. Flying was exhilarating, but there was always the little bit of nervousness for each flight.

"Alright, let's get this over with." He muttered, beginning to write out the letters of the first word in the sky.

Troy…

A/N pt. 2: And that, my friends, is the end of chapter ten. I love cliffhangers…I really shouldn't torture you all by withholding my knowledge…but still…

Anyways, I've put the first chapter of this on If anyone is a good artist and wants to draw a scene from this fiction, I'd really love to see one. I'd try, but I'm not really that good at drawing humans, except in anime form, but they still aren't that good…like, something a 10 year old would draw…

I'm better at drawing animals and such…But I'm still doing like, a chibi Eponine scene? It makes no sense to me either…sometimes I'm not sure what I'm doing –laugh-. I'm completely hopeless. I have no idea what I am going to do with my life. Except for acting and such. But that's difficult…I really need a Plan B…

But enough of that! Any reviews would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to give me advice, or any plot ideas…And I think tomorrow I'm going to start my next fiction as well. It'll be Chyan, but more angsty, and set within a shorter time span. I'm not sure if I should make it Troypay or Taypay…Any advice on that would be appreciated too.

Until next time, everyone!