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When the World Falls Down

Chapter 10

And Things Work Out.

Mark hoped she would calm down a little, but he knew she had temper. He looked back at Britney, who looked at bit confused and mad. He knew she probably hated Sharpay, and especially now when she had ruined their date.

Mark looked back right into Sharpay's eyes, 'cause she was already over at their table. She looked annoyed and really, really mad. Her whole face was red of anger.

"MARK, HOW THE HELL CAN YOU JUST FORGET YOU HAD A MEETING WITH ME? WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE WITH HER?! IS SHE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ME?!" Sharpay yelled. Mark just looked at her. He didn't know what to answer. He just looked into her eyes.

"Of course I am more important than you. We are actually dating, Evans. But apparently you can see that. Sorry you can't get everything like you want it. Mark come, let's go." Britney said. She took his arm and tried to pull him after her. Mark rose from his chair.

"Pay, I am sorry. You got what you wanted, your big popularity. In getting it, you just lost me, okay? I have my own life, and sorry I didn't show up to your meeting, but your musical with soccer, is never gonna happen. It is a bad idea, who wanna look at some bad actors trying to play with a ball? Not me!" Mark yelled. Sharpay dropped her jaw, did he just say she was a bad actress?

"Don't you dare Pay me! You know what, if I hadn't helped you, you wouldn't be who you are now. It is my doing you look so Goddamn good! You are just a simple zero. You are nothing, and don't you dare say I am a bad actress." Sharpay screamed. Just then Troy came by them. He stopped to greet his girlfriend, but she didn't even notice him.

"But I am not lying. You are the worst. Sharpay, you are the meanest, manipulating person ever. The only reason you are together with Troy, is because you want to be popular." Mark yelled even more. Troy dropped his jaw. Was it true? But she had been so nice to him?

"Baby, is it true? Are you just using me?" Troy started to ask Sharpay. She didn't even look at him, she just kept looking at Mark. How could Mark be that mean. First he took her thunder and now he made her boyfriend worry.

"You don't even care if you hurt people's feelings. You have pushed Ryan away from you and me too. We cared about you, but I don't even know you anymore. You were so sweet back when I first met you in the diner. But you just stepped on me, when I helped you get what you wanted. Sharpay, don't you see you are the one who is a zero?!" Mark continued.

Sharpay started to get tears in her eyes. She knew he was right. She hadn't even talked much with Ryan and they lived under the same roof. She felt guilty, but she had been so caught up in it.

"You stole my thunder! It is all I've got back. Why did you have to take it from me?" Sharpay could feel her voice was all squishy and a tear rolled down her cheek. She didn't even care.

"Is that all you care about? Your freaking thunder! Sharpay you've got no friends, because of it. You are willing to push your friends away to get you thunder. I don't understand you! Me, who once cared about you, I actually liked you for the person you were, but I guess I didn't know you." Mark felt disappointed in her. He knew he had hit her weak spot, but he thought she deserved it.

"That's not true! I've got Troy. He's my friend and even more than that." Sharpay defended herself.

"You know, you don't even like him. He is just stupid enough to believe you do. You're only with him, because you want to be popular. Sharpay you are only a snobby little girl, who doesn't care about anyone else than yourself! Britney, let's go. I don't wanna spend a minute more with the ice bitch!" Mark and Britney left the room. Sharpay just stood there, looking out in space. She didn't know what to do with herself. She didn't want to look Troy in the eye. It would be too painful. Troy put his hand on her shoulder, dragging her into him, giving her a hug.

"Don't listen to him. You're not a snobby girl." Troy whispered into her ear. Sharpay looked into his blue eyes.

"Yeah, I am. He is right, I am a nobody!" Sharpay let her tears fall free.

"Pay, were he right about you using me? I just need to know." Troy asked, while he stroked her hair. Sharpay only looked at his eyes, not wanting to hurt him, but she couldn't lie to him. Slowly she looked away from his eyes. She couldn't get the words over her lips.

"He was? Pay, how could you do that to me? I didn't want to believe him, but I see I didn't know you well enough." Troy let go of her, looking disappointed.

"Troy, I just wanna let you know one thing. I separated you from Gabriella. I know it makes me sound even meaner, but I am gonna apologize to her. Troy, I am sorry. I'm so sorry. I am just an icy bitch." Sharpay broke down.

"No, Sharpay, you are pathetic. I hope you do know we're no longer an item." With that Troy left the room. Sharpay didn't even watch him leave. Sharpay just sat on the floor, crying her eyes out. She felt so alone in the world, without hope or friends. The worst of all, it was true. Not even her own family liked her, and it was her own fault.

She was just a mean, icy bitch, who didn't care about anybody else than herself. She just wished she had found out sooner. Then maybe she wouldn't have ducked that deep. Then this crap never would have happened and she would still have Ryan and even Maria. And Mark. She would still have been Mark's friend. The cute boy with a crappy style, but she didn't care about that anymore. She just wanted everything back, well not everything. She didn't want the big house or anything else they had left when her dad had lost her job, 'cause then she wouldn't have met Mark.

Mark, the boy she actually loved. She just knew it was hopeless now, 'cause he didn't like her. He thought she was 'the meanest, manipulative bitch' as he had put it. What could she do to make him see she wasn't anymore?

Just then somebody came into the room. She looked up to see Mark and Britney. What were they doing here? Didn't he say he didn't want to spend a minute more with her?

"I just forgot my shirt." Britney said, answering her question like she knew what she was thinking. Mark just looked at her in disquieting. They turned around walking out of the room. Sharpay looked after them.

"Mark" Sharpay exclaimed. Mark stopped and looked at her. "I am sorry for being so mean to you. I didn't mean to be like that, I just got so caught up in getting back what I had lost, that I lost focus on what is important." Sharpay said. They locked eyes. He could tell she was sorry, but he didn't want to forgive her.

Mark spun around again and left the room. Sharpay got up from the floor and ran after him. She looked after them out in the hallway, running in their direction. She didn't care about how she looked; she just wanted Mark to forgive her.

"Mark, please? I was stupid. Can't you forgive me?" Sharpay yelled after him. He just kept walking. Sharpay ran after him, but it was hard to get up them, because she was wearing high heels. Sharpay quickly stopped to get Gucci heels off her feet. She ran quickly after them.

She put her hand on his shoulder, stopping him from walking away. "Please forgive me? I know I have hurt you, but I…I've changed."

"No, Sharpay. You hurt me more than you never can imagine. I don't think I can forgive you ever!" Mark said coldly, pushing her hand off his shoulder.

"Mark, please. It's just I…I love you. Mark, please don't walk away." Sharpay admitted.

Mark locked eyes with her again. He didn't know what to do. On one hand he loved her, but on the other he couldn't trust her. He wanted to trust her, because he wanted her to be his. He also didn't want to take a risk, but if he wanted her he had to. Sharpay tried to find hope in his eyes. Just a little hope, that maybe he would forgive her for all.

The next thing happened so fast, Mark put his lips on top of hers. Sharpay could feel herself loosen up, putting her arms around his neck, starting to play with his hair. Mark planted his hands on her hips.

Everybody around them just looked at them. Britney looked mad at them. She really hated Sharpay, first for ruining their date, but now she was just stealing her guy. Why did she always get what she wanted? It was so unfair. Troy who was talking with Gabriella just looked at them confused. Troy had just told Gabriella that he had broke up with Sharpay and asked if they could get back together.

Mark leaned back to look her in the eye. "I'll forgive you, if you promise to never hurt me again. I don't know if I can handle it one more time. Okay?" Mark asked.

"Everything for you." Sharpay said and leaned in for a new kiss, "I love you Mark, I love you so, so much…"

Mark shot her another of his gorgeous smiles, and pulled her closer, getting lost in her kiss.

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The next day, Sharpay and Mark entered the school hand in hand. They'd walked there, so Sharpay was wearing sneakers, and her clothes were much plainer than usual. Not because she wanted to change herself, but she figured… turning down on the ice queen/drama bitch-ness wouldn't hurt.

Mark was wearing the style Sharpay had thrown together for him, and honestly; they looked good together. They were smiling and having fun, and some people noticed them, but not a lot. It wasn't like the other Sharpay who craved attention, this was just Sharpay and Mark… A couple. Who loved each other.

They got through most of the school day alright, and they only had a few classes together, but at lunch, Sharpay saw that Britney was looking really sad after her break up with Mark, while Troy and Gabriella seemed happy to be back together.

Ryan was sulking with Kelsi, and Sharpay knew she owed a lot of people an apology. And she decided…. What better to do it in front of the whole school – just to show that she really meant it.

She was determined to do it, so she jumped on top of a table, and screamed to get everyone's attention. It worked, so smiled around, and decided to come clear. To tell them everything.

"Everyone…" she said, smiling down at them all, in a manner she would have never done before, "I have a few things to say, so I hope you'll listen to me. Ah, first… I wanna start with the beginning. Ah, my dad lost his job just a month ago or something, and yeah, he owed a lot of money away, so Ry, dad and I are currently living in a small apartment. Which means… I'm not rich anymore. My car's gone, I have a bicycle to use to school. And I work at The Peach Pit, not because it's cool, but because I need to money to pay for food."

Ryan looked up, and got a huge smile on his face. He locked eyes with Sharpay, and gave her his blessings. Finally, she seemed to tell everyone the truth. He couldn't have been more proud of her.

"And yeah, naturally, I couldn't stand being poor and unpopular." Sharpay told them, jumping down from the table, because everyone was already listening to her, "So after I met Mark, he promised to help me get my popularity back. Well, I think he did it because he really liked me, which I chose to ignore, even though he's one of the few people who likes me for me. But he helped me set up Troy and Gabriella's break-up. If I could get together with Troy, I'd be popular in no time." She paused, and let out a breath, "And it worked."

She took a few steps to Troy and Gabriella's table, where she kneeled down on Gabriella's level, "I'm sorry Gabriella. I'm sorry I hurt you, I really am. I've changed now, and I hope you can forgive me somehow. I'm not asking to be best friends. But I don't hate you. You're cool."

Gabriella smiled in appreciation, as Sharpay stood up again, "And Britney I'm sorry I used you. I'm sorry I stole Mark from you after you dated him. Ryan, you're my brother, and I'm sorry I treated you the way I did. Same goes for Troy – I'm sorry. For everything."

She went over to Mark again and pulled him up, kissing him on the lips, "And just so you all know! – I'm in love with Mark. He's my everything. I work at The Peach Pit, and live in a small ugly apartment. And I'm telling you all this right now, because for once, I just wanna be me. Sharpay Evans. And I hope you can all live with that."

They all started clapping and cheering, while Mark pulled her in for a deep, passionate kiss. Ryan then came and hugged, giving her forgiveness. And as people started talking to her, and Taylor told her she liked her sneakers, Sharpay suddenly realized…

That by being poor, she'd made more friends, and she'd perhaps end up being even more popular. By being poor she wasn't mean, and she had gotten Mark – the guy she truly loved.

And by being poor, she was simply just Sharpay Evans.

So yeah, we hope you all liked this. It was the end. This story was certainly not our best work yet, but it was fun to write, and we explored our writing abilities while doing it. So thank you all for reading and reviewing, even though there weren't many people reading or reviewing this. It still meant a lot to us. And the whole point of writing it, was just for the fun of it. And we certainly did have fun.

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