A/N: Bonjour! Jezzie here. So, I was talking to a bunch of friends on msn the other day, and I got some of them to R&R my story. Thanks to them, and you... I have 50 reviews. 50 reviews for 9 chapters. Pretty good, if I do say so myself. lmao! jokes! Anyways, sorry I wasn't able to update sooner. Yesterday, we went out to Burlington to go to my parents' friend's birthday party. And we didn't get home till around midnight, I think. I went on the computer to write a couple paragraphs, but then I couldn't keep my eyes open, so I decided to go to bed. Hope you like this one.

How Do You Sleep: A Troyella Story

Chapter 10:

The 4 used-to-be-best-friends stood there, standing on opposite sides of their high school hallway. They have been standing there for 5 minutes, in pure silence. They were all thinking. They were replaying the scene that just happened in their minds. Ryan had stuffed his hands into the front pockets of his jeans. Chad had his hands placed on the back of his neck while leaning against his locker, looking up at the ceiling while doing so. Sharpay and Taylor were just staring at the ground. The boys would clear their throats once in a while, but none of them were brave enough to break the silence. Not the silence of thinking, but the silence that had been built up when the Evans twins had left the group.

Ryan had cleared his throat again, but this time looking at Sharpay. She felt the eyes of her brother burning her, so she turned to look at him. He gave her a look, and she shook her head. He sighed. It was silent for another 5 seconds until Ryan gave up. "Um… look, I know we haven't talked in a while, but can we at least talk about this?" "You mean this whole 'Troy and Anne' thing?" Chad asked stupidly. "Yeah…" Ryan replied. "So what's up with them?" Chad asked. "I think Troy likes her." Taylor said looking up. "But, what about… Gabriella?" Ryan questioned nervously. "Hmm… I don't think Troy likes Anne, it may look like it, but he doesn't." Sharpay said, brushing her index finger and thumb across her chin.

'Why'd you leave?' 'It wasn't my choice to leave. My mom's job transferred us to Canada…' "Troy asked her why did she leave. So he must know her from before." Taylor pointed out. 'I didn't want to ruin your birthday, which was the next day…' 'Do you know how hard it was? How hard it was to not see you there?' "…didn't want to ruin your birthday." Sharpay mumbled. "…how hard it was to not see you there…" she continued. "What are you talking about?" Ryan asked. "She was invited to his birthday party…" Sharpay said. "Wait! But the only people Troy invited were us 4 and Gabriella. The rest was his and our families." Taylor exclaimed. "Right… so I'm just gunna pretend like I know what you girls are talking about." Chad said, crossing his arms.

They sighed. "I see where you're getting at. But something's missing…" Ryan stated. "GABRIELLA!" The 3 shouted. "WHERE?!" Chad said, looking around frantically. Taylor hit him on the back of the head. "OW!" Chad yelped. "That's what you get, stupid." Taylor said resuming her train of thought. "Anne is Gabriella." "Since when?" Chad questioned. "Chad, where were you the past, I don't know… 10 minutes?! Gabs wanted to surprise us, so she used a fake name." Taylor said. "Why were we so stupid? She looked familiar, and we just let it slip. Now Troy won't be talking to Gabs… We could have prevented this from happening." Sharpay said.

There was a buzz. "Sorry one second." Ryan said, looking at his phone. His face dropped, heck, his phone almost dropped out of his hand. "Ry, you ok?" No, how can I be ok when I just got dumped. Over a text message! "I'm fine…" He went quite. "Do we know as a fact, Troy still likes Gabriella?" Sharpay asked, turning back to the other 2. "Actually, we haven't been asking him since she left." Taylor replied. "Yeah, it was just too hard for him. Like a couple days ago we asked him if he wanted to go to the Valentine's ball, he said he wasn't going because it was just another place that would make him feel left out." Chad added. "…I got an idea, but it's going to have to wait." Ryan finally said. Sharpay sighed… "How long exactly...?"

It is now, sophomore year for our main characters. From the last term of last year and throughout summer, the twins, and Chaylor have been working on Ryan's plan. And yes, it's been half a year for Ryan's plan to finally kick in. "Ryan, remind me why we waited this long to bring your plan out into the open?" Sharpay sighed. "Because we needed to see how Troy and Gabriella were like around each other, and seeing that all summer Troy tried to stay away from Gabriella, he wasn't going to let her explain. Either that, or he isn't used to having us 2 around anymore." Ryan replied. "Maybe it was both." Chad chimed in. "But still, are you sure this is going to work? What if something goes wrong?" Taylor asked, worriedly. "Ryan! We haven't even asked Gabs about this, yet!!" Sharpay screamed. "Oh… right." Ryan said. "We'll ask her now." He grabbed his sister's phone and scrolled down her contact list, once he found her name he pressed the green call button and put it on speaker.

(Underlined: Gabriella Italics: Shar/Ry/Chad/Tay)

"Hello?"

"Hey Gabs." They all said.

She giggled. "Hey guys. What's up?"

"Nothing much. How about you?" Chad asked.

"Nothing really… just getting my stuff ready for tomorrow."

"Oh yeah! I gotta get a new outfit for the first day of school." Sharpay exclaimed.

They all laughed. "Anyways, any reason to why you guys called?"

"Well, actually yeah. We were wondering…" Ryan started. "If you'd…" Chad continued. "…wanna do this plan?" Taylor said.

"What's this plan about?" She questioned.

They talked for a while…

"Are you sure? I mean what if something goes wrong?"

"That's what I said!" Taylor exclaimed. "Taylor!" Sharpay hissed, and nudged her. "Ow!" Chad and Ryan took over. "Gabster, don't worry." "Yeah, nothing's gunna go wrong."

"Um… ok then." Gabriella stuttered.

The next day…

"This is kinda…weird." Gabriella stated, while holding Ryan's hand. "Thought it was, 'cause from behind, it looks weird too." Chad said. "OW!" "Whoops, my hand slipped." Sharpay said innocently. "You 2! Break it up! And Ry and Gabs, just act natural." Taylor said, stepping in between Chad and Sharpay. "Ok, Chad, Taylor you know what to do." Ryan said nodding in Troy's direction. "Yup, hope this works out well." Taylor stated before grabbing Chad's hand and walking towards Troy. "Guys, I have a bad feeling about this." Gabriella stated.

"Hey Cap!" Chad exclaimed before they did their wickedly awesome handshake. "Hey, Chad- my man!" They chuckled. "Hey Tay." He said, hugging her. "Hey Troy." "How was the rest of your summer? We didn't see you for the last couple weeks." Chad asked. "Well, I was kinda busy the past few weeks." He stated. "It wasn't 'cause of Sharpay and Ryan was it?" Tay asked. "Nah, hanging with them was fun. Like old times, you know?" Troy chuckled. "Yeah, so you don't mind if we started hanging out with them at school too?" Chad asked. "Nah, it's fine with me. 'Bout time we all hung out." He said closing his locker. "Have you talked to Gabs lately?" Taylor questioned in a soft voice. "Um yeah." He said. "Troy, saying 'Hey' and 'Bye' don't count. We meant an actual conversation." Chad said, crossing his arms. "Well, then in that case. No, we haven't." "Hey, here they come now!" Taylor said waving at them. "Hey Troy." She opened her arms. He chuckled and hugged her. "Hi Shar. Hey Ella. Hey Ryan." He went to go shake Ryan's hand, but noticed they were holding hands, and he quickly pulled his hand back and shoved it in his pocket. "Something wrong?" Sharpay asked. "Um… Nope."

Chill, Troy, they're just holding hands. Doesn't mean anything… I mean, see. Sharpay has her arm around Ella, doesn't mean anything. Maybe you should have at least talked to her over the summer. Troy thought to himself. Just then the bell rang. "Hey, we better get going. Don't wanna be late for home room on the first day, right?" Troy said quickly and walked off. "I told you this wasn't gunna happen!" Gabriella said, letting go of Ryan's hand. "Nothing happened, yet. We just gotta wait for free period to make the real move." Sharpay said. "I'm still not liking this." Gabriella mumbled and they walked off to home room.

Free Period…
"Do we seriously have to? I don't like doing this. No offense Ryan, you're just not my type." Gabriella stated. He chuckled. "Yeah, I kinda figured that out…. when we were 4." They all laughed. "Ok, here he comes! Gabs, lean on your locker and hold Ryan's hand; Ry, lean your other hand against the other locker. Chad and Taylor let's start a conversation." Sharpay ordered them. "On what?" Chad asked. "ANYTHING!" Sharpay nearly screamed. Just as soon as Troy stepped beside Sharpay and Chaylor, he noticed Ryan and Gabriella. He froze for a couple of seconds. Then his face started to turn to a shade of red. "Uh-oh…" Sharpay, Taylor said at the same time. "Not good…"Chad added.

A/N: Dun Dun Dunnnnnn!! CLIFFY!! lmao! Anyways, that was chapter 10. I checked it out, and this is the longest chapter as of... when I post it. lol! Hope that was a good cliffy, I'm not really good at doing those. I seem to pull them off... But, anywho... remember to review. Thanks! xoxo; Jezzie x3