You know what I hate? I hate the fact, that I can't seem to remember, how I've written my last chapters, so I always have to open the document containing the previous chapter to find out, exactly how I did. It sucks, that my memory is that bad. Oh, and hi :). The reviews were great as always, and appreciated as always. I know some of you think, that Troy's dad is a jerk, and he kinda is, but don't hate him too much, he might be a hero. Okay, on with it, this chapter takes place a month after the family dinner night at the Bolton's (bless their souls ;b), just so you know, because it has to, and because I said so. Don't you just hate, when your parents tell you that? 'Because I said so', the backtalker in me always replied back; 'well, that's just not a good enough reason for me', and then I got sent to my room. Anyway, considering I love you all so much, I'll let you come with suggestions, of what you think should happen in this story, because nothing is really written in stone, and I'd love to hear some of your ideas. If you're like me, and you're sucker for really unrealistic and out there stories, then you'll probably propose, that they all go on a fieldtrip to the moon to collect green cheese. Okay, I need to stay on subject now, but I can't, so on with the story (please review, when you're done reading the chapter).
Disclaimer; You know, this girl came up to me yesterday and asked, if I wasn't that guy, who had made High School Musical, and I had to flash her to prove, that I was in fact not him. So in case any of you are wondering Nathalie Nielsen & Kenny Ortega Not the same person.
Dedication; This chapter is dedicated to the one and only; smilingrulz! (again). I had a couple of reviews, I really liked, but she took the price again. I am not kidding, when I say it was even better than the last. I think, I'll start a review hall of fame, and all of her reviews to me would be on it. So yeah, this chapter is dedicated to her, because she is amazing, giving me the best reviews in fanfiction history. And because she thinks, Liz is the coolest, there'll be a special Liz scene in this chapter. So this is for you, awesomest reviewer;
I'd Rather Be Special
10. Good Times With a Dash of Annoyance.
A lot had happened in the month after the dinner at Troy's house, both good and bad. As for Troy and Sharpay it had mostly been good, though she found it hard to keep herself from saying those things, that he did not want to hear, but she had prevented it so far. She had saved it by saying things such as 'you should be... wearing your hair like that more often' and etc. Sometimes it was difficult, especially when he sent her that 'you better not be trying to say, what I think you're trying to say' look, and then she had to think fast and say something else.
Everything was good between them, and so far it hadn't been bad at all to have a boyfriend, like Sharpay thought it would've been. Troy was caring and considerate, more than when they were just friends, and he could sometimes be concerned about her, since he only wanted her the best. He loved her, so of course he wanted her the best, and so did she for him. Even though Sharpay had only had one boyfriend, that boyfriend being her current one, she believed that he was the best boyfriend in history; when they had been together for a month, which was only yesterday, he gave her a bracelet, as he knew she loved bracelet, and it was her favorite kind of jewellery. The bracelet had the charms T B + S E, and she had already decided to wear it all the time.
Chad had been going through mostly bad things the last months, but due to his bad karma he had it coming, didn't he? Gabriella had ditched him, seeing as their mission failed, and she no longer saw any reason to hanging out with him, especially when it was totally unnecessary. He had tried to convince her to stay with him, that the battle was not lost, but she had told him, they had agreed to try and keep them from getting together, and now that they were together, they had no business trying to mess them up anymore. Chad did not like that! Even more did he not like the fact, that his popularity had fallen, ever since he was pushed to the ground by a tiny girl, it was completely humiliating the way they teased him, but at least then he got a taste of what it felt like. Plus during the last month he had discovered, that he did more than think Liz was hot, and he did more than have a crush on her; he had actual feelings for her, but she kept on rejecting his on comings, which he did not get. He was on the basketball team, he was suppose to be irresistable. It had just not been a good month for Chad.
Gabriella had been a little more lucky in the good things department. She had finally gotten rid of Chad, so she no longer had to bear with him anymore, and it was great. During her partnership with Chad, she had secretly been hoping for Troy and Sharpay to get together, so she could be done with it, because even though she felt bad for Chad and wanted to help him, she still didn't like, what she was doing to Troy and Sharpay. That was basically it for Gabriella, except for those few times where Chad had come up to her, and tried to convince her to get back in the game, and they should try and split up Troypay. She had told him no.
Chase had had a good month as well as Troy and Sharpay, and she was also about as happy as them. Chase and Zeke was now an on going thing, and they really enjoyed each other's company, and they had already said the l-word to each other, and ever since their first date they had been inseparable. Since Cheke was very happening, and they spent every living moment together, and Chase also hung out with Troy, Sharpay and Liz a lot, they'd had to tell Zeke about Sharpay's whole situation, and the great guy he was, he was of course okay with it. Chase had also gotten a highlight, yes a higlight as in one, in the right side of her hair, and she and Liz had decided, they she should tell people, she had gotten it from a great scare, in case they asked why she got it. By now she had her freezer full of cupcakes, because Zeke liked to bake for her, and she really found it sweet, but there was no way, she could eat that many cupcakes (Liz could, but she couldn't). When her dad noticed all the cupcakes in the freezer, he asked where she'd gotten them from, and even though 'Chase's dad says, she's not allowed to lie', that's what she did, because 'Chase's dad says, she's not allowed to date', and she told him that baking was a new subject in school, and he believed her.
Liz was a nutter butter, and almost nothing could bring her down, so she had of course had a good month. She was the only one in their tight little group, who was still single, but she liked it that way, and whenever Chad would come up to her and bother her, she would tell him to jump up his own ass and die, but not before having told him, that he would look awesome in white. She couldn't help it, it was a habit of hers. She had bought a straightening iron that month, so from time to time she had her hair straight in school, and she told people, it was because she had fallen flat on her face. Silly Lilee, that she was, and she had also forgiven Troypay and Cheke for each having a date on the same night, because she was that kind. Her sister had bought her an orange dress a couple of weeks ago, and Liz had asked her, if she was insane, because nobody looks good in orange, but it turned out, that Liz was a huge nobody in that philosophy. It was all good.
They had just gotten off school that day, and it was now weekend, and they were discussing, what they should do together that afternoon. Liz had suggested a snowball fight, but the rest had turned that proposal down, 'claiming' that there wasn't any snow, because it was june, and there was hotter than hot outside. Liz had been disappointed, but then Sharpay had suggested another kind of fight, that Liz seemed to like; a grass chunk fight (a real thing, me and my brothers always have on of those in the summer).
"What on earth is a grass chunk fight?" Troy wondered out loud, as he walked hand in hand with his girlfriend on a quiet street, with no people outside, they probably found it too hard to dare that task. Chase and Zeke nodded along, wondering the same thing. "And how do you... play it?"
Sharpay looked at Troy, like he was insane, since she had grown up with grass chunk fights. "You don't know, what a grass chunk fight is?" She questioned him, as they walked past a yellow house with a freshly mowed lawn, perfect for a demonstration. "It's very simple. You know those kind of grass chunks, that are on the lawn, right after it's just been mowed?" She paused and watched her friends nod, they knew what it was, and it had an amazing smell. She let go of Troy's hand, and went onto the lawn and picked up a chunk of grass in her hand, and then she smirked at him. He sent her a confused look, he didn't know, why she was staring at him like that, and then she threw the chunk at him, and it hit him right in the chest. "That's how you play grass chunk fight!"
Troy gasped, she didn't just do that! It was payback time. He ran onto the lawn and picked up a grass chunk, which he threw at her, but because she had grown up with these fights, she duck from it, and he missed. She had barely avoided it, and Troy could see, that with the position she was in now, she wouldn't have time to avoid it, if he was quick to pick on up and throw it at her. He was being very fast, when he bent down and picked up another grass chunk, that was being aimed after Sharpay as well as the last one, and this time it hit her.
That officially meant war. Sharpay took a huge chunk in her hand, and then she got up and ran towards Troy. He wasn't prepared for that, so she quickly caught him. She swung her free arm around his neck and jumped on his back, where she stuffed her grass chunk down the back of his shirt, and then she jumped off his back, and ran as fast as she could away from him. She knew all the dirty tricks.
It seemed like fun, so the Chase, Liz and Zeke joined in. Grass was flying everywhere, and it was everybody versus everybody. Liz quickly discovered, that a grass fight was very much like a snow fight, you could rub grass in the face of someone, as well as you could with snow, and that became her dirty trick.
15 minutes into the fight, they all had their dirty tricks. Sharpay's was the shirt thing as mentioned earlier, and Liz did the face rubbing. Troy had discovered, that it was much more effective to stuff it down people's pants, and if he was lucky enough to get it down their underpants in that process, it was all good, because he discovered, that if you got grass down your butt, it was a huge distraction. Chase's dirty trick was to shove the grass in a person's hair, and then rub it in real good, so it got stuck there. Where Sharpay did the back of people's shirts, Zeke did the front, and mostly on the girls, because that was about as annoying as getting it down your butt.
Grass was thrown everywhere, literally, and they were almost all against Troy, because of his dirty little down the pants trick, which nobody liked. They tried to revenged it, but the only one who could really catch him was Zeke, because he was in good shape from basketball. When he caught him, he forced him down on the ground, and then the girls came running with huge chunks of grass in their hands, ready to give him the biggest grass washers in history.
Troy fought his hardest under Zeke's grip, as he wasn't big on getting grass smeared into his face, like the girls were trying to do. He twisted and turned his head, making sure it wasn't still for one second, so they would get an opportunity to attack him, and that's when he was the first to notice a sixth person on the lawn. He saw a pair of sneakers, and he guessed they belonged to the girl, who lived in the house, and it would be best to get the others attention now, so they would be aware of the new person at the scene as well.
"Guys?" He tried his best to get out, though it was very hard, with Zeke on top of him, and he barely had any air in his lungs, but he did get it out. Zeke could hear, that Troy had trouble breathing, so he got off him, and Troy got up from the grass, and so did the girls. "Thanks. We've got company."
They all shot him a weird look, they still hadn't noticed the newly arrived. Troy did a funny head nod back over his shoulder, as if he was gonna say 'behind me', and then they all looked behind him. Out of all the people to own the house, which the lawn they had had their fight on belonged to, they had never expected it to be Gabriella Montez's house. They figured as much, though, when they saw her standing there, eyeing them weirdly.
"What are you doing here?" Gabriella asked, and much to their surprise, it wasn't an angry question, it was more curious and stunned, with the fact they were there. Nobody replied, and she felt sorta bad, even though it was her own fault, for having been a bitch in the near past, helping out Chad with his ridiculous scheme.
"Grass chunk fight. It's good fun." Liz then said with a smile, being herself and not sensing the tension between everybody now. She was just being silly Lilee, as they all called her from time to time. She eyed the grass chunk, she had in her hand, that she had been trying to get in Troy's face earlier, and then she threw it at Gabriella, to illustrate her point, and it hit the latina right in the chest.
"I was gonna ask, what it was, but I kinda figured it out." Gabriella told them, taking a few steps closer to them, offering them a small smile, which Liz, with her naturally smiley face, seemed to be the only one returning. Gabriella wanted to make things right again, and she wanted to be back on people's good side, but she didn't know how, so all she could do was try somehow. "Can I join you in the fight, maybe?"
The five stood in dead silence, blinking rapidly, not knowing what to say. They all knew, what Gabriella had been up to in the past, so how could she just stand there and act, like she hadn't done anything to hurt Sharpay and Troy ever, and like it was all just forgotten. She was unbelievable that girl, and they didn't know what to say, because they didn't wanna waste their time on her, starting a fight. They had to get out of there peacefully, but how?
Liz, Zeke, Troy and Sharpay all looked at Chase for help, because she had always been best under these kind of situations, coming up with a quick excuse. Sharpay was good too, but her excuses were always a little out there, like the one she used on Troy, when she accidently kissed him, 'she was drunk on tears'. Troy would always be looking down at his feet, when he came up with his excuses, and then people would know, he was lying, so he was no good. Zeke would get all nervous, and he wouldn't know, where to put himself then. Liz, well she was Liz, and who would expect her to come up with a smart, quick excuse on the spot like that, no offence to Liz of course, but that wasn't very much like her.
That day Chase wasn't all that quick to come up with something, and she knew the others expected her to, so she was under serious pressure to think fast. She couldn't think of anything original, so she shoved her wrist watch up into Zeke's face, and used the old classic; "Wow, Zeke, would you look at the time? It's getting late!" Zeke and the rest of them quickly agreed, and then they ran out of there as fast as they could, even though it was only 3:30, and the sun was high in the sky, shining directly down on them.
Gabriella watched them, as they slowly disappeared in the distance. She wanted to right her wrongs, she really did, but it was hard, especially when they blew her off like that. Maybe it was for the best, though, because she hadn't really known what to say, and she had interrupted their fun. She could see, that they were mad at her all of them, and the anger was without a doubt clearest in Troy's eyes, and she honestly didn't blame him. She had been a jerk, she knew that, and the key word was had, she was out of all the crap with Chad, he was on his own now.
When the five friends were out of sight, she could hear someone behind her, who was slowly nearing her spot on the grass. She could see the person's shadow in the grass, so she wasn't at all surprised, when he spoke his first words to her. She would notice that ugly afro anywhere, but why couldn't he just leave her alone.
"Hey Gabs." Chad greeted her, as she turned around to face him, the expression on her face not a happy one. That he even dared show up there was beyond her, and act like his self-centered, goofy smiled self, like nothing had ever happened. He had tried to destroy his own best friend and ex-best friend's happiness, and she had unfortunately helped him. That didn't matter now, the past was to stay in the past.
"Don't call me Gabs." Gabriella bid at him, and he immediately wiped the stupid grin of his face, he at least had some brain and had sensed her anger. She gave him her hardest look, and then she folded her arms to continue; "What are you even doing here, Chad? I told you, I'm done with this whole thing. They are an item now, Chad, do you get that? Has it entered your mind? They are a couple, and you shouldn't try to mess with them anymore, do you understand me? Okay, this whole thing was a mistake in the first place, and I should've never agreed to help you, trying to keep them apart. But they're together now, and I'm out. So get off my property!!" She tried to push him off her lawn, but ever since Liz had pushed him to the ground a month ago, he had been a lot better at standing on his two feet, that he didn't budge. Gabriella groaned, he was so annoying it hurt, why couldn't he just take an order and follow it. "Why? Are you sitting on the wire to your hearing aid? I said, get off my property, why don't you get that?"
"Suppose I was here to tell you, that I have secure way to make sure, that Troypay is know more?" Chad questioned, his trademark smirk reappearing on his face. He was creepy like that, and right then Gabriella couldn't imagine a meaner person than Chad. To suggest such a thing with that expression on one's face was simply outrageous!
"Suppose I told you, that Troypay is an on going thing, they should be left alone, and I don't care about your scheme anymore?" Gabriella said, in a way mocking Chad by starting her sentence the same way, that he had started his. She raised an eyebrow in a 'so, what's your answer?' kind of way, and it almost made her look snobby, but only almost. "And I think, you should make nice with them, instead of trying to break them apart. Aren't you the one, who claim that Troy is your best friend? Then why the hell are you doing this?"
Chad took a step backwards, when this weird feeling washed over him. What could it have been? Guilt, perhaps? He didn't know, and he didn't like it. So what if he had fallen a little out with Troy, and so what if they wouldn't be friends again for awhile? He knew, that his best friend would thank him some day. And he didn't care about Sharpay whatsoever, she was supposed to feel his revenge and his pain, and that was gonna be it, he was gonna leave her in her sorrow, when he finally hit her! It was gonna be so good, but he wanted Gabriella's help, and he was gonna get it back. He quickly got back to his old self, and stepped closer to Gabriella again. His plan was gonna work, damn it.
"Because it's the right thing to do, don't you see, Gabby?" Chad tried to reason her, but she didn't appear to want to change her mind, her arms were still folded, and both her brows were raised now, though she didn't look snobby anymore, just upset with him. Chad didn't sense anything, he kept talking. "And Troy's is gonna thank me some day for this, just you wait. I'm doing the right think here, you know, and good deeds always pay off in the end. And nobody cares about Sharpay, so when she loses everything, it'll be okay. Nobody cares, and when I'm done, Troy won't either."
Gabriella noticed something behind Chad, something that would surely make him regret the things, he had just said, and she could feel, she was winning this one. When her and Chad were done, he would be the one on the floor, metaphorically speaking of course. "No, I don't see it, Chad, because what you're doing is wrong, and it will come back to bite you in the ass." Gabriella said, as she kept having eye contact with the person behind Chad, reassuring the person with her eyes that it was all okay. She didn't know, how she did it, but she could see it was needed. The person behind Chad obviously hadn't realized, how much of a jerk Chad really was, and how revenge seeking he was, it was kinda sad. "And are you sure, it'll be okay? Are you sure, that nobody cares?" She unfolded her arms and pointed her finger to the person behind Chad, and he spun around to see who it was, and she was finally revealed. "She cares."
Liz cared, yes. Chad gasped, when he saw her standing there with a black hairband in her hand, which she had obviously forgotten there from earlier, and with a hint of tears in her eyes, which was a very rare Liz thing, but there she was in front of him. Tears and all. It probably meant, that she had heard everything, and she hadn't been meant to. He had been the course of those tears forming in her eyes, and it hurt him deeply. He needed to make it right, and he needed to do it quickly, he couldn't have Liz sad because of him. But before he could even decide what to do, Liz had dropped her black hairband on the grass and had run away from there, leaving him to feel defeated.
"See, that's just not the way, you act around the girl, you really like." Gabriella said in her cold way, as she walked over to Chad and placed a hand on his shoulder, to let him now that he had it coming, and then she let it fall and spun around on her heel, and she headed for the inside.
Chad watched her walk away, he watched her, as she entered her house and smacked the door behind her. Then he just stood the and watched nothing, scratching the back of his head, he was confused. This was not the way it had meant to go down, Gabriella hadn't been meant to win like that, Liz shouldn't have heard all that. Though Gabriella was the least of his problems, and he believed that he could get this plan into the works on his own, and he believed he could fool everybody with it.
Liz... He saw her hairband lie there in the grass, the hairband she had tried to pick up, when she had heard everything. Liz, was a whole other thing. He cared about Liz a lot, and if she was mad at him, he would never get everything, he wanted. He bent down and picked up the hairband, he held it in a firm grip, like it was the closest thing, he would ever get to actually touching her. And as he stood there with the hairband in his hand, he planned his next move in his head.
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Sharpay was home alone that day. Ryan was with Taylor somewhere, she didn't know where that somewhere was, and she didn't care one bit. Her mom and stepfather were both at work, they wouldn't be home untill late, and she didn't care about that either. To tell the truth, all she cared about that afternoon was her boyfriend, Troy Bolton. God, she loved him so much.
They were hanging out in her room, just her and Troy, doing nothing really. They were lying on Sharpay's bed, and she was resting her head and folded hands on his chest, while he was gently stroking her hair with one hand, and had his other arm wrapped around her. It was all they needed, they didn't need to talk always, they didn't need to do exciting things every minute, all they needed was to be with each other and to enjoy the other's company.
Sometimes Sharpay wondered, how she ever became so lucky, despite of having her handicap. She had never believed that she, with her disabilities, could ever have a boyfriend, but now she did, and it was even better than she had imagined. She didn't know, why exactly she was the one he loved, and she wasn't gonna ask. She wasn't gonna bring the freak thing up either, she was just extremely happy, that he saw what he saw in her. He gave her the sweetest feeling.
The only sounds in the room were the clock ticking and Sharpay's soft breaths, now Troy could live without the clock ticking, but he could lay like that forever, just listening to her breathing. He knew forever like that wasn't possible, but he was gonna enjoy every minute of it untill then. He had a feeling untill then would be soon, because his girlfriend got bored easily and did weird things to entertain herself. It was always quite adorable, but then she would at some point turn to bother Troy, and he wouldn't find it as adorable anymore.
"Troy?" He could hear Sharpay say, her voice soft and careful. He expected what would come next to be an 'I'm bored', but it wasn't. "Why did you pick me?"
"What kind of a silly question is that, Pay?" Troy asked with a chuckle, he knew she'd been insecure about things in the past, but those things were gone, and the way she was insecure with him now was too sweet sometimes. "But you really wanna know why, I 'picked' you?" Troy paused and took in a small breath, and then he carried on with his 'something to tell the grandkids' story. "The first day I actually took the time to look you in the eyes, I knew you were it. That's why I picked you, because you're it for me. Is that okay with you?"
"I'm it for you?" Sharpay then asked, her voice touched with emothing, and Troy could almost sense the happy tears in her eyes, and he wrapped his one arm even tighter around her, as if to say, that she really was it. "Do you suppose we'll have kids someday? That is if I'm able to have kids?"
Troy got a weird expression on his face, and decided to speak his mind right away, and wipe that freaky frown off his face. "Why wouldn't you be able to have kids?" He questioned her, and it was because he needed to. It was silly sometimes, all the things Sharpay thought, she couldn't do or couldn't have because of her thing, and wasn't she the one, who had told him off, when he tried to treat her like this fragile little girl back in the days. "Weren't you the one, who told me, it wasn't physical? Then surely you're able to receive that kind of blessing." He became silent, as he thought her question over, and it brought a smile to his face, when he went to reply. "And I know we'll have a little girl someday, named Cheryl in the honour of her mom." They were both dragged into their own little private dreamland, as Troy continued to speak. "She'll have brown eyes just like yours, and chestnut brown hair from my side. She'll be as beautiful as her mom, and as athletic as her dad, and she'll be the most loved little princess in the entire world."
"Little Cheryl Bolton?" Sharpay thought about the name out loud, and at the same time thinking it over in her head. She really liked the idea of it all, when they became old enough for that, and she really liked, that Troy was the one who came up with all that. He was different from guys their age, most guys their age wouldn't talk about kids like that. "Do you think, we'll ever get there?"
"Ever get where?" Troy wondered, though he had a feeling he already knew where, and he was gonna be honest with. "To the point where we are married and have kids? The chances are great of that, I have no intentions of ever letting you go, so unless you have a phobia of getting married to hunky basketball stars, I'm pretty sure we'll end up married with kids."
A silence fell upon them again, and it was a nice and comfortable one, because of the subject they had just talked about. Sharpay was insanely happy, that Troy thought like that into the future, and that he wanted to marry her and have kids with her someday. It was an amazing feeling, especially considering the fact that when Sharpay was 15, she had someone read her hand, and the fortune teller had told her, that her first boyfriend would also be the guy, she would marry, and the way things were now, maybe it would be true?
Troy was very glad, that Sharpay had brought all of this up. It was nice to tell her those things, because he thought about their future all the time, and to be able to now share that with her was great. He wanted it all with her, because like he said earlier, she was it for him. He wanted marriage, he wanted kids, he wanted everything with her, and for a guy who only had 4 months left of being 17, that was quite a lot to want. And ever since that family dinner, where Sharpay revealed, she were supposed to have been named Cheryl, he had wanted that name for their future daughter.
"Troy?" Sharpay broke the silence, and he could hear she was being careful with her voice, and she was shy about, what she was going to say next somehow. He even anticipated her not to say it, but she carried on with a soft voice. "I love you."
Troy chuckled, because the way she said it was just too cute, though he didn't doubt her words were true for one second. "I love you too, Shar." He then said and kissed her hair, while he was still stroking it - he never actually stopped, and then he added; "More than anything in this world."
They would have laid like that forever, if they hadn't been interrupted by an evil little thing, called a telephone. They had been lying there for hours in the same position, and then the phone rang, and it was all, when Sharpay rolled off the bad in a comical way to go pick it up. She stood in front of the phone, waiting for the fifth ring to pick it up, she always did that. It rang for the fifth time, and she finally answered the stupid thing.
"Beauty is here, who's there?" Sharpay greeted whoever it was one the phone with a cheerful voice. She always said that, when she answered the phone, it was kinda like a trademark, and Troy loved that about her, so he never doubted who he got, when he called over there. "Lil, Lil, Lil... LIL, stop crying, please. I can't understand a word, you say."
Sharpay paused, listening to whatever Liz was saying, while Troy thought to himself, that he couldn't believe, that Liz was actually crying over something. It was a long ramble from Liz, Troy reckoned, as he couldn't really hear anything, all he could hear were those muffled sounds, you could always hear from afar, when someone's on the phone. It seemed like forever, when Sharpay finally said something again.
"Ok, so you went to pick up the hairband, then what?" Sharpay questioned her friend on the phone, and for once she was actually the calm one in a situation like that, she was showing her strength, and Troy liked that. Sharpay listened to her friend again, and then she replied. "Oh, my God! He said that?" Pause, Liz said something. "But baby Lil, that's not something, you should worry your pretty little head over. Chad obviously has issues with me, and that's fine. As long as we don't let it bother us, he won't win. Ok, Lil?" Liz said something again, and Troy guessed, that she agreed. "That's good thinking, Lilee. Bye now, and remember that jerk doesn't deserve a spot in your mind."
Sharpay hung up the phone with a sigh, then she went back to her bed and sat down next to Troy, who had moved from lying down to sitting up straight. Lying in Sharpay's bed just wasn't worth it, if she wasn't next to him. She looked him in the eyes with her chocolate brown eyes, and he knew, that whatever Liz had called about had upset Sharpay too.
"What did Liz call about?" Troy asked with curiousity in his voice, and at the same time he tried to sound cheerful to calm Sharpay down somehow. She didn't say anything to him, but that was okay, he knew that she sometimes needed time to think about, what she wanted to answer to certain things. She wanted to sound her best, she didn't wanna sound like some immature brat, or something like that.
She sighed again, a long and defeated sigh. She didn't know, what to do about her old friend anymore. "It's Chad." She then revealed, looking down at her hands, as she let the tears roll down her cheeks, one by one, slowly. "Liz overheard him say some things about me, and she got upset." Sharpay forced her eyes shut, she was struggling with what to say, because she was angry beyond words. "He's won, Troy. I don't know, what to do anymore, he's won."
"Shar... Can I give you a hug?" Troy had to ask, because he knew, that's what she needed right now, as that's what he would need in her place, and he also knew, how she felt about people touching her without permission, so he had to ask. Sharpay looked him deep in the eyes, and finally she gave a small, insecure nod, and he opened his arms for her to lean into, which she did, and he wrapped his arms around in a tight, comforting way. "Like you said to Liz, that jerk doesn't deserve a spot in your mind. It's simply too precious for that. You know what Chad's game is, and the only way he's ever gonna win is, if we let him break us apart, and that's never gonna happen, so Chad is never gonna win. Do you get that?" Troy locked eyes with Sharpay, waiting for some sort of answer, and then she nodded her pretty little head again. "Good! I'm gonna kiss you now, okay?"
Sharpay lit up, because what Troy had been saying was absolutely right, though she had still tears in her eyes. When he said, he was gonna kiss her, it brought huge smile to her face, and then he placed a sweet, little kiss on her lips. It was the kind of kiss she prefered, and she loved him deeply for it.
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Liz hung up the phone with a sigh. Sure, talking to Sharpay had helped, but she was still really upset with, what had happened. She had really believed in the good in Chad, especially since he hadn't done anything official to hurt Sharpay the past month, so he had her fooled, that he'd changed for the better. She was let down, big time, and she didn't know, why it bothered her this much, because it shouldn't, it just did!
She threw the phone on her bed, and started walking back and forth in her room, grabbing her hair in annoyance. She didn't know, what to do with this feeling, because it wasn't natural to her, but ever since that pompom had come back into her life, she had experienced feelings, that Elizabeth Kahlen Kincaid had never felt before. She was feeling annoyed, she loathed Chad with every tiny little bone in her body, and those emotions were beginning to get to much for the little girl, since she had really believed, he was slowly beginning to change.
Ugh, she didn't know, what the hell to do. And why did the thought, that she could change him, keep entering her mind? It was a lost game, she should know that, she should know, that Chad was always gonna be out to hurt others, and there was nothing she could do about it. And what was it, that Sharpay had said? She shouldn't worry her pretty little head about Chad! She knew her blonde friend was right, but she still couldn't help it.
With an exaggerated sigh, she threw herself on her bed right next to the phone, which had gotten the same treatment a little while earlier. She grabbed the pillow at the top end of the bed, she covered her face with it and tried to scream all of her frustrations into it, but it didn't help. When she finally accepted that fact, she removed the pillow from her face and threw it back, where it belonged. She hated Chad for all these new emotions, emotions that Silly Lilee shouldn't be able to feel, because she was Silly Lilee; the cheerful, upbeat and silly girl, but now she felt frustration and defeat, and she didn't like it.
Her once so colourful world had turned so grey in one afternoon. Argh, why did she have to go back and get her hairband? Why couldn't she just have thought in her brain, that goody goody Gabriella would get it back to her, and leave it there? The answer was simple to her; she was Liz, she was too clueless to get one wise thought. That's why she went back there to get the thing, that would complete her outfit, and what did she get out of it? She got her hope shattered, and she didn't get her precious hairband. That's what she got out of it!
She could just... she was ripped out of her thoughts, her rare thoughts, when someone knocked on the door. Liz didn't even bother to say come in or anything to the person, because nobody in her house respected the word privacy. Well, her dad did, but her mom and siblings didn't, and her dad was at work during the day, so it could only be one of the others, so why bother saying the words, when they would just barge in anyways?
She was right. The door was opened, and Liz's mom stuck her head into the room and gave her oldest daughter a smile, almost crossing over to be a smirk. Why would she smirk like that? Liz rolled her eyes, but her mom didn't notice that, otherwise she would have been given the lecture of 'you shouldn't roll your eyes at your parents', so she was a little thankful for that. She disliked lectures from her mom, and she disliked her mom, period. She was a 'Daddy's Girl', a daddy who was never really home.
"What do you want, mother?" Liz asked, trying to cover up the annoyance in her voice and in her eyes, but it was a little too hard, especially since she spoke through gritted teeth. It had become quite a habit, when she spoke to her mom, and unlucky for her, her mother sensed the annoyance this time.
"Elizabeth Kahlen, that's no way to speak to your mother!" Her mother lectured, and Liz fought the urge to roll her eyes, but barely. Then something weird happened, her mother dropped it just like that, so something important must have been up or something? Liz had no idea, but now her mom revealed why she had entered her daughter's room. "Now, I'm just here to tell you, that you have company. A boy."
A boy? Oh, that's why her mother had that weird smile on her face, when she entered Liz's room. It made sense now, but who could the boy be? Liz never really hung out with boys much, except for Troy and Zeke, but that was because they were Sharpay's and Chase's boyfriends. Other than that, she didn't hang out with boys, so she couldn't figure out, who on earth it might be.
"Just... send him up, mother." Liz told her mom, this time she didn't say it through gritted teeth, as she had completely forgotten her annoyance towards her mom in her curiousity. Yep, Liz was a curious kid, and that's why the decision had been easy. She hadn't really been in company mood, but the thought of never knowing who it had been would have killed her.
Her mom simply nodded and left the room, closing the door behind her, leaving Liz alone with her thoughts once again. They didn't revolve around the visitor, though, it was about other things. Mostly why was she still bothered, and why couldn't she let the Chad issue go, why was it so important to her? She could call Chase and have a conversation with her, but then she would be interrupting hers and Zeke's private time, and she didn't want that. Why did it bother her, if she interrupted their alone time together? She had done it with Troy and Sharpay?
Maybe because she didn't really know Zeke, or know how he would react to it? She had known, that if she called Sharpay, neither of her and Troy would be bothered by it much. That, and Sharpay had a way of calming her down, when Liz got upset (which didn't happen often), even if she wasn't calm herself. Liz liked that about her friend, and if she had upset Sharpay by what she'd told her, she knew that Troy would be there to calm her down. That's not to say, that Chase wasn't good to talk to in these kind of situations, but she's like the calm, collected, mothery type in the group, always concerned about others, and Liz could feel that wasn't, what she had needed the minute she called Sharpay.
She loved Chase and Sharpay, like they were sisters to her, and they knew how to be silly with her, which was good for her. Sharpay had a habit of getting silly, when she was bored, or when she just wanted a laugh, and Chase could just turn it off and on. Though next to Liz, they were rarely ever silly and all that she was, 'bright and shiny' as Chase had put it, which was good because it made them, and it also did so they meshed well together. It was weird, because they were so different; Sharpay was the emotional, insecure one. Chase was the calm one, who was always concerned about her friends. She herself was the one, who was totally out there, being silly and saying entertaining things. That's not to say they were like that always, Chase certainly wasn't calm always, far from. Sharpay wasn't always emotionally, she could be strong and stand up for herself, if she had the faith. And Liz, well didn't the moment just now in her bedroom show, that she wasn't always bright and shiny?
Though no matter how much her girls had helped her in the past, especially Chase, none of them could help her with this Chad problem. She had wanted Sharpay's help, yes, and she had gotten her message loud and clear, but even though Chad didn't deserve a spot in her mind, he had still got it. He needed to move out, Liz had decided, but how she got him out of her brain, she hadn't gotten that far yet. That's what she needed to figure out.
Someone knocked on the door again, and Liz got off the bed to go open it, but before she did, she fixed her outfit so it wasn't all wrinkly. She walked over to the door and opened, and the other side revealed the person, who had consumed almost all of her thoughts that afternoon; Chad Danforth. She wanted to slam the door in his face, but he already had a foot inside the door, so unfortunately she had to let him in, closing the door behind him, so the rest of the Kincaid's would hear their conversation.
"What do you want?" Liz questioned him, trying to sound harsh, but once again her voice failed to do so. She sat down on her bed and folded her arms, at least that way she could get the point across, that she was angry with him. "After this afternoon I can't believe, you have the nerve to show up here."
"Officially, or?" Chad asked with his signature grin, attempting to be charming, but failed miserably. Liz sat on her bed in deep silence, so he had guessed, she didn't find him charming whatsoever, and she had that 'get on with it' look on her face, so he thought it would be best to do so. "Officially, I'm here to apologize for the things I said earlier this afternoon. I'm really sorry. Unofficially, I'm here to give you this."
Chad reached into his pocket and pulled out Liz's black hairband, which he offered to her, but she still refused to move. He couldn't force it on her, so he looked around and found a little empty spot on her desk, where he put. Then he turned back to Liz, hoping to see that she had shifted her position just a little bit, but no such luck. He got a disappointed look on his face, though he quickly lit up again, when he heard the sound of her voice.
"It takes more than sorry, Chad." She explained to him, her voice matching the disappointed look, he'd had on his face a few seconds ago, and he hated that her voice had that quality, because he had never heard it before, and he hadn't believed, that disappointment was an option in her voice. "Sorry is just a word, which is thrown around too much without meaning. You need to prove, that you're sorry to me. I don't need it in words, and I don't need it in gestures, such as you bringing back my hairband. I need you to really show, that you mean it." She sighed and looked away for a few seconds, and when her eyes were back at Chad, he had seated himself on a chair, figuring this could take time. "How I wish to believe you, Chad, when you say, that you're sorry, because I don't believe in people being mean like that. And I could accept your apology right here, right now, but I'm not sure you mean it. And how can I be sure? How can I be sure, that it's not just words, like I think it is, and you won't go back to bad mouthing Sharpay tomorrow? If you wanna apologize the right way, and if you truly want my forgiveness, then it has to be because you're done messing with her. Otherwise I can't even consider it."
The things she said took Chad by surprise, because he had never in his wildest dreams imagined, that Silly Lilee would have that kind of depth, and it just made him like her even more. Sitting there without kissing her, without holding her in his arms, it was too hard almost. Everytime he heard her voice, she was too irresistable, and he wanted her. He wanted her forgiveness, he wanted the natural smile on her lips, and the natural glimpse in her eyes to be reserved for him, he wanted everything about her, but how? How could he get all that, when he wasn't ready to let this Sharpay thing go? She had hurt him too much, so he couldn't.
Then there was his plan, he could get Liz through his plan, his plan where he was gonna make them all believe; Troy, Sharpay, Chase, Zeke, Gabriella, Liz, everybody, that he was done messing with Sharpay, and then hitting her hard. It was the final mission in his scheme, and he was positive, it was gonna work, and it would also leave him looking totally innocent, giving him the chance he wanted with Liz. Now was the perfect timing to make Liz think, she had changed him with her words, and make her think he was ready to make nice, so when Troy or Sharpay would doubt his motives, Liz could guarantee them, that his motives were as 'pure' as they could be.
Lying probably wasn't the best way to start the relationship, he longed for with Liz, but it was the only way he could think of, so that's the it was gonna be. Sharpay would get hurt, Troypay would break up, and he would look totally innocent. Liz would probably get upset on her friends behalf, and seek comfort in Chad, or seek him to comfort him for his failed attempt to make nice, either way he got his Lil.
"Ok, I'm ready to make nice. I'm willing to let my grudge go, for you." He informed her, and he was gonna let her in on the plan, he had tried to convince Gabriella to be in on, though he was gonna leave out the details, that it was actually to break Troypay apart, and hurt one of Liz's best friend's. She would be left without a clue of that. "I was thinking, maybe I throw a make up party at the beach, because I know Sharpay loves the beach, and I invite everybody, and I'll let everybody know, that I'm done with my game. That I wanna be friends with Sharpay and Troy again, and that I approve of Troypay. What do you think of that? I thought of it, when I realized just how much, I was hurting people, and couldn't bear it. Will that make you forgive me?"
Liz finally unfolded her arms, and she seemed to think Chad's idea over. "If things go well, then maybe." Liz then said, thinking why the hell not? Chad seemed genuine, so why not give him hope of the forgiveness, she intended to give him, now that she knew, he had actually changed. "Just don't invite too many people, you know how Sharpay dislikes big crowds. They make her uncomfortable and all."
"Oh, I wouldn't dream of that. Thank God, you reminded me." Chad assured her, offering her one of his soft smiles, as he thought to himself, that it was exactly what, he was gonna do; invite lots of people to make Sharpay see, that she didn't belong in Troy's world, and then they would hopefully break up. He moved from the chair to the bed, next to Liz, keeping the soft smile on his face to keep up appearance, so she would continue thinking, that he had actually decided to make nice. "I'm so glad, I ran this by you first. What if I hadn't, and I had invited all sorts of people, and then the concept of the party would have been totally lost in that? It's supposed to be a party, where Sharpay and I can be friends again, and if I hadn't come to you, we probably would have drifted further apart over this party. Thank you so much, Lil."
Liz couldn't help but smile, because was really worked up about the fact, that he could have invited too many people to that make up party of his, and it made her believe in the good of him even more. As she sat there and looked at him, when he had that nice looking smile on his face, she couldn't think of anything to do, except hugging him. So that's what she did, she threw her small arms around him, and gave him a soft, appreciative hug, making Chad's heart soar high in the sky.
IRBS
Troy and Sharpay had moved from her room down to the livingroom, where they were watching one of her favorite movies, Snow White with Kristin Kreuk in the lead, and it was reaching the end. So it wasn't exactly the type of film, Troy would watch, if he was on his own, but he wanted to make Sharpay happy by agreeing to watch it with her, and now that it was near done, he had to admit, that it wasn't half bad. He would definitely recommend it to his littlesister, Tiffany.
He heard a rumbling sound, and looked down at the clock on the VCR, it was nearing 6 O'clock, so it could either be his own stomach, or Sharpay's. He stomach didn't have that rumbling feeling, so he guessed it was probably Sharpay's. He'd swear to God, that his girlfriend did not know how to eat properly, and he didn't know why. He knew for a fact, that the girl didn't eat breakfast, unless she felt pressured into it, and he also knew, that she only ate a tiny amount at lunch, and she didn't eat much at dinner either, he discovered that, when she was over at his family dinner. She didn't do those small meals in between of the supposed big meals, either, unless he gave her something, and it could worry him a little, but she seemed healthy, so he wouldn't bring it up.
Her stomach rumbled again, as the movie ended, and he decided, that it was time to get her something to eat somehow. "Someone is hungry." He pointed out, giving Sharpay a look, so she knew he meant her. He hadn't been given a specific time today, that he should be home, so he and Sharpay had agreed to have dinner together at her place that day. He was getting a little hungry too, and at least he could feel it, when it was.
"Who me?" Sharpay asked, her voice as confused as her face. She didn't feel any hunger, though her stomach did rumble, but she wasn't always hungry, when it did, otherwise she would eat a lot. Troy nodded instead of saying yes, and she thought he was being weird, she wasn't hungry at all. "I'm not hungry, maybe it's you?"
"Yeah, maybe I'm a little hungry too, but it's your stomach rumbling, not mine." Troy tried to reason with her, and she did the same at he did, when her stomach rumbled, she glanced at the VCR clock and saw the time. She looked at Troy with a pair of eyes, that let him know, she was beginning to get his point. "You didn't think, it was that many, did you?"
Sharpay shook her head, because she really hadn't. "No, I hadn't." She confirmed, while trying to figure out, why she wasn't feeling hungry at all, when her stomach obviously disagreed with her. "Maybe we should eat something? I just don't get it, I don't feel hungry."
They both got up from the couch, they had been seated in, and began making their way towards the kitchen, Sharpay walking a little bit in front of Troy, it was her house after all, and Troy didn't feel right entering a room before her. It was a long way, before they finally reached the kitchen, and Sharpay stood still, looking around all confused, because she had no idea, where anything was. It really wasn't a room, she spent much of her time in, so she had to go cabinet hunting to figure out, where everything was.
Troy watched in amusement, as his girlfriend ran around in the kitchen, opening everything that could be opened, so she could find out, where each thing had its place. Then she stopped in her tracks, right in front of Troy, and she looked at him with her big, brown eyes, like she was lost or something.
"What do we wanna eat?" She then asked, because there was really no point in her figuring out, where everything was, when she didn't know, what was needed. "I mean, that was just a waste of time before, I don't even know, what I'm searching for." She paused, as she realized another dumb mistake. "I don't even know, how to cook either, so if I found something remotely interesting, what am I to do with it?" She took in a deep breath, and then she sent Troy a couple of pleading eyes, as she carried on. "Now, what do you want?"
"First of..." Troy began, as he let Sharpay over to one of the barstools in the kitchen. "I want you to let me cook, and then I want you to sit there and relax, while I work my magic, because you do know, that I have chef blood running through my veins." Troy left Sharpay on the stool, and walked over to drawers between the fridge and the zink, where he opened the top one, and wasn't surprised to find knives, forks and spoons in there. He picked up a knife, and then he turned around to face Sharpay, offering her one of his price-winning smiles. "Prepare to be dazzled!"
Sharpay giggled, as Troy turned his back to her again, and then he began wandering around in the kitchen, finding different things he needed for, whatever it was he was making. Sharpay didn't dare speak, because he looked so determined to make her a good meal, to do good things for her over all, and she thought he was cute like that. The feeling she got, when she watched him 'work his magic' in the kitchen, couldn't be described with words, but she was pretty sure, that they took love to a whole new level.
She wasn't even worried, like she was when either her mom or stepdad cooked, because she knew, that her amazing boyfriend would remember, that she was a vegetarian. No, she wasn't the least bit worried, when she couldn't see, what he was making or anything, because she trusted him, not just with this, but with everything. She would trust him with her life, as she knew he wouldn't let anything bad happen to her, if he could help it.
She considered the possibility of Troy making her favorite food, but she couldn't remember, if she had ever told him what it was, so she figured he wouldn't, unless he somehow liked it too and had a craving for it. Even if she had told him her favorite food, the chances of getting it for dinner were still slim, since it was such a childish dish, but she was still hoping for it, she liked it so much.
After about 10 minutes of hard work, Troy placed two plates on the table, one in front of Sharpay, and one in front of himself at the barstool, he was now occupying. Sharpay offered him an appreciative smile, and then she looked down on her plate to see, whatever it was he had made for them. There on her plate lay two pieces of rye bread with banana. She looked over at Troy's plate, and he had the same on his. Her favorite, so he did know.
The only issue she had with it, though, were the two, let's underline two, pieces of bread on her plate, that was just one too many, she wasn't used to eating that much for dinner, but then she looked at Troy and saw him smiling at her, and then she decided to do so anyways. Besides rye bread with banana tasted so good, that it could hardly kill her, so she was gonna take this one for the team.
Sharpay was about to take the first bite of the delicious treat in front of, when she heard a throat being cleared behind them, and she got so startled, that she fell off the stool and landed on her butt on the floor. She quickly got up from the floor, rubbing where it hurt, as Troy jumped off his stool in a much more classy way, and they turned around to face the person at the same time, and then they saw Chad standing there in front of them.
They both didn't know whether to be angry or not, seeing their old friend stand there was a huge surprise, so they didn't know, how they should react to it. All Sharpay could think about, was how on earth he got into her house, didn't people usually knock? She got scared. Troy thought, that it was unbelievable, what nerve he had to show up like that in Sharpay's house, after everything he had done to hurt her, to hurt them. He didn't belong in that kitchen, that much Troy was sure of.
"What are you doing here?" Sharpay questioned, her voice hard and demanding. She had decided to be angry with him being there more than anything, because he had ruined a perfect day by his appearance. He only had to stay there 5 minutes to ruin the rest of Sharpay's day, so she had to get him out of there fast to prevent it. "What now? You make home visits?"
"Whoa, retreat the claws, girl!" Chad exclaimed, holding his hands up in defense. He wasn't there to cause them hurt, the party would take care of that, when they went to it. "I'm not here to cause any kind of trouble, I'm here to apologize, because I'm really sorry for all the things I've done to you."
"Chad, get out of here. You honestly don't expect her to buy that?" Troy yelled, taking a step closer to Chad to be in front of Sharpay, defending her. "You've tormented her for years, and now you expect her to let it go, just because you claim to be sorry? That's not how things work, why on earth would she do that?"
Chad smiled, a friendly smile, a smile Sharpay hadn't seen from him in a long time. "First of all, because it would be a nobel thing to do, and it would make her the bigger person." He explained to them, hoping they would buy this whole thing, as easy as Liz had done it. "That, and I'm throwing a make up party at the beach, not this weekend but the next, to show everybody that I'm sorry for what I've done, and that I wanna be friends with you all again." Chad got eye contact with Sharpay, and saw she was slowly giving in, though she wasn't much of a party person, and he knew that, that's why he had thrown in the beach thing, so she wouldn't think about that. Troy, on the other hand, didn't look like, he was having any of it. "Now, it's all for you, so if you're not into the whole beach party thing, we can do something else. I just wanna be your friend again."
"I don't know, Chad." Sharpay trailed off, and then she looked at Troy for help, and he shook his head, as if to say she shouldn't go for it, that she shouldn't believe her former friend, and she valued that. "It sounds too good to be true, honestly. I wanna believe you, it's not that, but given our past it's just too hard to, you know?"
Chad's smile faded, that's not how he'd thought it would go. He hadn't thought, Troy would be against it like that and drag Sharpay with him, he had thought, that Troy would be up for the idea and drag an unwilling Sharpay with him. Now he saw it wasn't like that, and he knew Sharpay wasn't one to drag people into things, she was too weak for that, so he didn't know, how he should convince them anymore.
"I don't know what to say, guys." Chad said, deciding to make a sob story up, as he went along. If he did that, then maybe they would both take the bait, he couldn't be sure, but it was his only hope, it was all he had, so he had to try it. "I come here, finally with the best of intentions, and you turn me down like that? It's pretty heartless. I just wanted us all to be friends, but you're obviously to cold hearted to see it from my point of view. I really hoped, we could be friends again, but I was let down."
Final touch was, that he looked down at his feet to get the point across, to make them get just how 'sad' he was, and how much he wanted to be their friend again. He had to keep looking down, untill they made their final decision together, which he hoped would be in his favor. He didn't know, if Troy would by the sob thing, but he had thrown the ball to their court, and feet watching was his part now. Please, buy it, he thought.
"Sharpay, he used to be my friend, but I don't trust him anymore, what do you think?" Troy asked his girlfriend, facing her again. This was a hard decision to make, he didn't know if he should give his old friend another chance, because he certainly hadn't deserved it, but Troy had always been one of those guys, who always looked at the best in people, and he also believed, that people could change, so maybe Chad had? He didn't know, it was too hard. "I... I'm torn, it's up to you, Pay."
"But I don't wanna make this decision on my own, Troy. You please do it." Sharpay pleaded him, giving him the puppy dog eyes, the ones he couldn't resist, when they came from her. He fought hard not to give in, because neither of them knew how to make this difficult decision. "I'm way more torn than you. I would want the old Chad back, but I don't know, if he can be that guy anymore, so I don't know what to do."
"That's how I feel, too." Troy quickly agreed, as Chad got more and more annoyed over the fact, that they could just make a decision, but unfortunately he had to be patient, so they would think a little more, that he had actually changed for the better. "I want my old friend Chad again, the one who isn't all grudged up. One, who can accept the girl I'm with and be friends with her. What do we do?"
"I... you know him best." Sharpay lied, both she and Chad knew she lied. They used to be best friends, from when they were in diapers, untill they were 14 and 13. It had been about 4 years, since Sharpay ditched him, but he hadn't changed much, so they both knew, she was lying her nose long. The only one who was clueless at that was Troy, he had no idea, what kind of past they had, he just knew they had been friends once. "What do you think, we should do? I mean, if you could do without his friendship, then that's fine. If you miss him, that's fine too. As long as you make a decision."
"I..." Troy struggled with what to say, it was a long time, think it over kind of situation, but they didn't have that. It had become a right on the spot situation to them, so he had to figure it out right then and there. He didn't know what to say, and he was quiet a very long time, untill he made the decision to be true to his own person and believe in Chad's goodness. "I think, we should give him the benefit of a doubt. He should get the chance to prove himself at that party of his."
Chad looked up from his feet with a huge smile on his face, and patted himself mentally on the shoulder for being such a good actor, if he hadn't been, they probably wouldn't have bought it. He noticed, they were still looking a little weird at him, though they had small smiles on their faces, he still felt under the eye of their suspicion. He didn't like that feeling, and he wanted to get out of there fast, so he would go insane over it, but he had to do it in a good guy way, so they would still think, he had changed.
"I have really taken up too much of your time together, so I'm gonna head off now." He said with a wave, using a cheerful voice. He spun around and headed for the door in a quick tempo, as he yelled over his shoulder to be polite; "See ya!"
Then he was out of there, and it only took about 30 seconds, from when he was out of the kitchen to the frontdoor slammed shut. Sharpay let out a sigh of relief, and so did Troy, and then they went back to eating their so called dinner, as they were both wondering the same thing. They were wondering about Chad, why had he gone 180 on them?
"I wonder, what got into him?" Sharpay said, as she took a bite of her delicious banana bread, fluttering with her eyes at how good it was. Troy had gotten well of with that, it was a success to say the least. "I mean, as early as this afternoon he was bad mouthing me, we know that for a fact, cos Lil caught him in action. And now he wants to be friends again? Do you think, he likes our Lileebeth?"
Troy shrugged, because her guess was as good as his, and neither of them would ever know for sure. They let the subject go, and just enjoyed their night together, and then they would have to wait and see, what the party would bring, once they got that far. For now that was all they could do, and it suited them well.
Ta-daaah :D. Did Nathalie do good? I hope so, because I worked my shrinking butt off on this chapter. I wrote and I wrote, mixing sweat and tears... Okay, I'm lying, I didn't. I've been extremely lazy. I mean, I took a break, and then I began writing again, and then I took on vacation for like a week, and when I got back, my computer was down for almost the same amount of time, and when it finally got back up to working again, I had lost the inspiration I had for it, when I got back from my vacation. Though, when I finally got the inspiration back, it didn't take that many days to write :). So I hope this chapter was good enough for the wait, and I also hope you'll leave me a kick-ass review. Remember, the person who leaves the best review gets the next chapter dedicated to them. So now, let the reviewing begin :). (and I'll begin writing on next chapter of IRBS, when chapter 18 of Twist of Love is done. Anywho, review.)
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Oh, I have a PS; I have the titles of the final 5 chapters right here; 11. It's Just A Party, Right?, 12. Say It Was Just A Dream, 13. Reinventing Myself, 14. You Seem Fine Without Me, and the final chapter, 15. I Was Right, She Is Special. See, if you can figure out, what's gonna happen in them? If I like any of your guesses, I might use them ;b. Now, review :)