Hey Sorry it's been awhile since i updated i've been busy, also i was tryin to finish the other chapter in Barenaked Sharpay. but i'm going to finish this one then move on to finish barenaked Sharpay, then start my HEARTBREAK RIVER Story. well hope you like this chapter.

"You want what? Are you out of your mind?"

Sharpay bit her lip, not wanting to lash out at Gabby, who stood in the hospital room wearing an incredulous expression. "Don't get all hyper on me," she said as smoothly as possible. "I'm not asking you to rob a bank or anything."

"It's a dumb idea, Sharpay, and I won't do it. I won't pretend to be you!"

Gabby's stubbornness was testing Sharpay's patience. Didn't her brothers girlfriend realize she was desperate? And that desperate times call for desperate measures?

Sharpay had come up with the scheme late the night before and called gabby firs thing Sunday morning. "Please come see me right away," she begged. "Don't even go to church first just come straight here."

But when Gabby arrived and Sharpay revealed her plan for what she wanted Gabby to do later in the afternoon, Gabby adamantly refused. Sharpay glared at her friend whose chin jutted out obstinately. "I never ever ask you for a favor, and the one time I do, you act as if I asked you to murder somebody."

This is more than a favor, Sharpay. It's an out-and-out lie. I can't pretend to be you just so that you can impress some boy."

"This isn't some stupid kid prank, you know. I have good reasons for Troy's friends to think that you're me. Troy and I've become good friends. I really like him and I don't want his friends to tell him that I'm some kind of freak."

"You're not a freak!" Gabby stamped he foot. "And if anyone says you are, I'll deck'em."

"Thanks for the show of loyalty." Sharpay sighed. "But I can deck people if I choose to. The one thing I can't do is look normal. You're my best friend and I need you to help me out here."

"You really like this guy?"

Sharpay nodded bigorously. Was her best friend about to cave in?

"Then be honest with him. Tell him about yourself; he'll understand."

Sharpay exploded with "That's easy for you to say. You've never had people stare at you. Or call you names. Don't you see? I don't want to take the chance that he'll understand.' I want him to think I'm pretty. And if his friends meet you, then that's exactly what Troy will think."

Unable to look Sharpay straight in the eye, Gabby sagged into nearby chair and glanced down at the floor. "This is emotional blackmail."

"No. it's a favor. From one friend to another."

Suddenly Gabby sat upright, a gleam in her eye. "There is this small thing of your broken leg. Or do you expect me to throw myself down the stairwell?"

"I've already thought about that." Sharpay said, holding her hand. "If you roll into Troy's room in a wheelchair with you leg stretched out and a blanket over your lap, no one will know that your leg isn't broken. Troy's friends will see a pretty girl who says that her arms were hurting from using crutches. And Troy won't see anything at all. I'm telling you, Gabby; this will work if you put a little effort into it."

"What will work?"

Both girls whipped around in the direction of the voice that had interrupted their discussion.

"Ryan!" Gabby jumped up from the chair and went toward him. "What are you doing here?"

"I got to church and your mother said you came to see my sister instead, so I left and came to visit my sister and see you. So what's going on?" he said looking at both girls.

Sharpay groaned and flopped back onto her pillow. Just what she needed her bother to ruin her plan. And just when she almost had Gabby persuade.

"What's up is that your sister has some harebrained idea about me impersonating her for this guy she's met in the next room."

Ryan looked confused.

"He's temporarily blind," Sharpay interjected, none too kindly. "So he's never seen my face, and most likely never will. But his friends are coming to visit him this afternoon and he wants them to meet me and see what a 'babe' I am. But we all know that's not the case, don't we?"

Ryan's face colored, but he still shook his head. "I don't want any guy coming onto my girl." His arm snaked around gabby's waist possessively

"Oh, puh-lease…." Sharpay rolled her eyes dramatically. "Think of it as a temporary loan."

"Even Gabby looked exasperated with him. "Cut the Neanderthal routine, Ryan. I'm a person, not your property."

"But you're my girl!"

"But Sharpay's my best friend and your sister."

"You're not seriously thinking about doing this, are you? Ryan sounded angry.

"What if I am?" now Gabby was on the defensive, Sharpay decided to keep quiet and let the two of them argue it out. Maybe Ryan's attitude was just the push? Gabby needed to send her into Sharpay's camp on issue.

"Because it's dumb, that's why."

"Yes, it's dumb but Sharpay's my Best friend and you're her brother, let me just do this for her, she wants my help."

"If my sister asked you to jump in front of a moving car, would you do it?"

"That is so lame. Just the kind of thing you'd tell a two-year-old. Which I'm not!" Gabby whirled around and started for the door. "I'm going to buy myself a coke. Cool off, Ryan!"

She grabbed her purse and flounced out the door. Ryan Glared after her. "Why can't you just let her do this? It's not going to kill you that she pretends to be me."

"You don't get it, people will think she's not her, they'll just think she's you when they see her walking down the streets or something."

"Well I'm sorry, but it's up to Gabby not you to decide if she wants to help me or not." Sharpay told her brother with a lot of anger.

"I really care for gabby. She means the world to me. Are you going to try and ruin us?"

Sharpay felt a sense of power and for a minute wanted to see her brother squirm, but the feeling passed when she remembered how badly she needed gabby's help. No use causing a scene simply to get revenge. "Wreaking people's lives isn't my style," she told him. "But I would appreciate a good word from you. It would help this deal go down much more easily."

Before he could respond, Gabby swept back into the room, a can of diet cola in her hand. "The vending machine hardly had anything good." She grumbled.

Ryan took a deep breath and steeped in front of her. "I've been thinking while you were gone.

Sharpay resisted the urge blurt, "That's what you smell burning-Ryan's brain."

"I think you should help Sharpay"

Gabby glanced from Ryan to Sharpay and back again to Ryan. "I was gone less then ten minutes. How did she persuade you so quickly? Especially when she's been working me for an hour."

" I overreacted. What she wants is really sort of harmless." He glanced to Sharpay. "Sort of like wearing a mask for Halloween. This guy will be happy. Sharpay will be happy. No one will know it's you. And then that's the end of it."

Sharpay ignored her brothers' bad humor and nodded eagerly. "I told you, Gabs, it'll only take a few minutes, and you don't ever have to do it again.

Gabby's shoulders drooped. "I hate it when people gang up on me. Especially people I care about."

Sharpay felt a twist of guilt and vowed she'd make it up to gabs sometime. "I'll be grateful forever."

Her phone rang and she grabbed the recever. It was Troy. "Hi." She said cheerfully.

"You're in your room."

"You sound surprised."

"You usually run off."

"Now, now." She chided.

"Listen, my friends Chad and Jason are here. They were cohorts in my famous rocket-fuel stunt, except they didn't get hurt. Anyways we want to come by and say hello."

"Don't do that!" Sharpay cut her eyes to Ryan and Gabby, tuck the receiver beneath her chin, and pointed frantically at the wheel chair she'd confiscated earlier from the nurses station. "What I mean is, why don't I come to your room? It's a mess here I don't want strange boys around." Gabby rolled her eyes. "I can be there in five minutes," Sharpay added, ignoring Gabby.

"Sure, no problem," Troy told her. "Come soon."

"I can't stay long," she warned. " I have visitors coming too, and I want to be in my room when they arrive."

"No problem. Stay ten minutes. Stay an hour. I only want my friends to meet you." She heard a smile in his voice. "I only want them to meet the most special girl in the whole world."

i realized that one part i messed up cause i had to rewrite it to make ryan sound like her brother and not her best friends bf. well let me knwo what you think.