Kelsi always spent her free periods in the auditorium strumming the chords of the piano
Kelsi always spent her free periods in the auditorium strumming the chords of the piano. Today she was focusing on a complicated song she wrote in Just like Kindergarten. It was Gabriella's lament about Troy's hypocrite basketball love.
Kelsi was just about to get to the most emotional part of the song when she heard someone clear their throat. She looked up, alarmed and saw a bright smiling face staring down at her, happily.
Um, hi, Jason," she said awkwardly. "I didn't even know you knew where the auditorium is."
"Well, I can surprise people sometimes," he joked, "of course I know where it is. So what are you working on?"
"Don't you have basketball practice right now?" "No, Coach Bolton isn't here, today, and although Troy was supposed to run practice, he decided the team needs a break which is definitely true. We're going to the national finals, you know."
"I know," Kelsi mumbled. "That's great. Congratulations."
"So what exactly are you working on?"
"A new song I wrote," Kelsi answered, slightly embarrassed.
If Jason wasn't interested, then he was a good actor. "Oh, is it from the musical you are working on?"
Yeah," she replied sheepishly, turning bright red.
"Can I hear it?" Jason asked.
"Um…I don't think so. I'm not a good singer."
"
Come on, Kels," Jason implored, "let me hear it."
"You'll laugh."
"Why would I laugh at you? You're my girlfriend. I would never laugh at you."
Kelsi's heart fluttered out of control when he called her his girlfriend. The butterflies in her stomach batted their wings at a furious pace. "Oh, alright." Kelsi began to play the interlude and sang quietly:
It's funny when you find yourself
Looking from the outside
I'm standing here but all I want
Is to be over there
Why did I let myself believe
Miracles could happen
Cause now I have to pretend
That I don't really care
I thought you were my fairytale
A dream when I'm not sleeping
A wish upon a star
That's coming true
But everybody else could tell
That I confused my feelings with the truth
When there was me and you
I swore I knew the melody
That I heard you singing
And when you smiled
You made me feel
Like I could sing along
But then you went and changed the words
Now my heart is empty
I'm only left with used-to-be's
Once upon a song
Now I know you're not a fairytale
And dreams were meant for sleeping
And wishes on a star
Just don't come true
Cause now even I can tell
That I confused my feelings with the truth
Cause I liked the view
When there was me and you
I can't believe that
I could be so blind
It's like you were floating
While I was falling
And I didn't mind
Cause I liked the view
Thought you felt it too
When there was me and you
"Wow," was all Jason could say. "That's amazing."
"It's okay," Kelsi replied, turning a bright crimson red.
"It's amazing," Jason repeated, leaning in. Kelsi hesitated for a second, then obliged, letting him capture her lips in an embracing kiss. She felt those butterflies in her stomach again. I must be hungry she thought to herself. There's no way I'm actually feeling something here. But, Kelsi was
wrong. She was loving it. She wanted him to kiss her, again and again. She loved it, she loved the feeling.
"I love you," Jason whispered to her for the second time.
She hesitated for a second then replied, "I love you too," thus beginning the biggest problem in the plan. Kelsi Neilson was falling for Jason Cross.
"That girl has got him completely wrapped in her fingers!" Sharpay shouted jubilantly to Gabriella and Taylor that night at Gabriella's house. "He's eating out of the palm of her hand."
"Just like we planned," Taylor smiled. "This is going to work perfectly."
"As long as Kelsi doesn't fall in love with him," Gabriella added jokingly. The three girls burst out laughing.
"Kelsi Neilson fall for Jason Cross?!" Sharpay squealed, roaring with laughter. "How unrealistic is that?"
"Very," Taylor choked.
"So…when is she going to dump his ass?" Gabriella asked the other two girls.
"Let's give them a while," Taylor suggested, "make him fall for her even more…"
"And make it hurt worse," Sharpay finished. "We're so mean."
The three girls laughed again. "He deserves it," Taylor reasoned. We aren't doing anything bad. We're just throwing the he gives other girls back in his face. We're teaching him a lesson, one that luckily, our boyfriends already know."
"Yep, Troy definitely knows it," Gabriella chimed in happily. "
I'm glad we don't have to teach it to him. "
.
"Before he met you, Gabi," Taylor told her, "we might have had too."
"Guys, I feel kind of bad," Troy told his friends Chad and Zeke.
"Why?" Zeke asked.
"It's not like Jason actually likes Kelsi," Troy explained, "and she seems to really like him. When the month is up, he's going to dump her, and she is going to be humiliated, and then she'll find out about the bet. Gabi will kill me, Taylor will kill you, Chad, and Zeke, and Sharpay will make you history.
"He seems to kind of like her, I guess though," Chad pointed out. "Notice he isn't complaining, and relax, they will never find out about the bet."
"But what if it slips?" Troy asked.
"It won't," Zeke assured him. "We aren't stupid, Troy. We understand what would happen." Zeke slid his hand across his throat. "You guys think you'd have it bad with your girls! Gabriella and Taylor angry is nothing compared to angry Sharpay. See what I'm saying?"
"Yeah, true," Chad replied.
"Well, you know what one month is?" Troy asked them.
"No…what?" Chad wondered aloud eagerly.
"Jason's sweet sixteen party," Troy reminded them. "At the party, he'll be reprieved of all the burden of a girlfriend he'd rather not have. And our "birthday present" to him could be his winnings, unless of course he loses the bet, and we can just get him normal stuff."
"I have a feeling he'll be winning this bet," Zeke said. The other two murmured in agreement. "Like we said, he isn't complaining, so I'm betting he doesn't mind the whole long-term relationship stuff very much."
"Long-term relationship?" Chad scoffed, "I hardly call one month a long-term relationship."
"For Jason it is," Zeke reminded him.
"So in two weeks it's my sixteenth birthday," Jason casually mentioned to Kelsi while they were walking through the park. "And my parents are throwing me this huge party at Magic Lightning, you know that club on Stone Rock Cliff Street. It's two Saturdays from now, and I'm making sure you can come before I send out invitations."
"Yeah I think I can," Kelsi replied. "Sounds like fun."
"Yeah, I'm really excited," Jason told her, "and you know what else it is?"
"What?" Kelsi questioned.
"I can't believe you're forgetting already," Jason joked, "how can know you truly care about me?"
"What are you talking about?" Kelsi laughed.
"It'll be our one month anniversary of course," Jason said. "How could you forget?"
Kelsi laughed. "It feels like we've been going out so much longer than that…in a good way."
"Yeah, it just feels right, I guess. You don't feel like other girls."
"Well, I hope I don't, you only date those girls for about a day each," Kelsi pointed out," and were at two weeks…
"And counting," Jason finished. "I never dated the right girls. I always went for cheerleaders, and they have no brains. You have a brain, and I like smart girls."
"Well, it took you a while to realize cheerleaders are stupid, I must say," Kelsi said.
"Yeah well, would you rather I figured it out earlier and not found you and dated someone like Taylor instead?" Jason asked.
"Taking a million years was just fine," Kelsi said quickly. Jason laughed and kissed her.
"I can't wait to show you to all my friends and family who don't go to East High," Jason told Kelsi. "They'll love you, and I think you'll get along with all them just great." He kissed her again.
"Well I can't wait to meet them."
After the date, Kelsi went to Gabriella's house for a sleepover with the girls and of course, full detailed questioning about the date.
"Tell us everything," Sharpay said, wrenching Kelsi from the doorstep, and violently pulling her inside the house. Kelsi was slightly in a daze.
"It was…great," Kelsi sighed, "really fun. It's not so bad…dating him. I could get used to this, easily."
"Well that's good," Taylor, said, "you still have to date him before breaking his heart."Kelsi wasn't listening. She had completely forgotten all about" breaking up" with Jason. She actually liked him, at the moment, and to Sharpay, it was becoming obvious.
"Kels…" she began suspiciously. "Are you okay? You seem different."
"I've never been better," Kelsi answered breathlessly. "Never ever better."
"Are you sure?" Gabriella asked.
"Guys…she's fine," Taylor said, "she's just had her breath taken…OH MY GOD! DO YOU LIKE HIM?"
Kelsi snapped out of it when the loud voice racked through her head
"What…no…never…gross…how…can…you…suggest…that?"
"You like him, Kels…this is so wrong," Sharpay groaned, her head flying into her hands. She couldn't believe it that she had actually fell for Jason. The plan was full proof she hated him so how did this happen. Maybe there were more things that she had to consider. They had started to see the change in Jason's attitude and also how he treated Kelsi. Maybe he had changed maybe Kelsi was right about him. Hah and maybe pigs will fly some day.
Kelsi looked at Sharpay with a scarred look on her face. She would now have to tell the truth there would be no lying because she couldn't lie about it any more and she was just tired of doing it. " Sharpay look I can't do this any more okay yes I like Jason okay I Kelsi Neilson Love Jason Cross. I no that there's no way that you will be able to listen to what I'm saying but I know he has changed I just know he has. I can see it in his eyes and the way he holds me and how he kisses me and when he tells me that he loves me.
I can see the pain and heartache he feels in his eyes whenever I bring up what he did to me. He said that I deserved to slap him for what he did guys. He probably would have let me do it to. I told him that I had forgiven him but he insisted up and down about how he had to earn my trust back and prove to me that he had changed. On the date we had he wore a wedding ring that I gave him which I though that he had probably got rid of a while ago. He kept it because he loves me guys just like I love him.
Sharpay looked at Kelsi with confused eyes. She had never heard her say anything with such passion and with such fire before. She had figured that Jason would never change that he had no heart or spine. But from what Kelsi had said about him maybe it was a true transformation like a butterfly. She was Kelsi's friend and she would not abandon her if this was her choice to be with Jason. But she would not be unwatchful about the whole thing. She would be keeping a eye on him. Gabriella was the first person that began to speak.
" Kelsi if you are so sure that he has changed then we believe you and support you and Jason in this Relationship. We just hope that he doesn't hurt you again. But Kels there's something that there all kind of confused about. What is with the wedding ring you were talking about? Taylor was the next of them to speak.
" Gabriella's right we only want you to be happy. But did you forget to tell us that you were married at one point in your life. Sharpay added to what the girls had been saying.
" Kelsi I may still be a little suspicious of Jason's sudden change in behavior and attitude. But if you say that he has changed then he has changed. But Kels can u please tell us the deal with the ring. Kelsi gave a light smile and went to her backpack and took out a VHS and put it into the VHS player. They all sat down on the couch and began to watch what was now starting to play.
What could be on the tape. Could it be evil dmeons. Child pornography of some kind. Or could it be a jelsi wedding from when they were just about 5 years old. I guess you'll have to wait to find out. Sorry it took so long for me to update i have been really busy with school. but im back in the groove of things and i'm gonna post the last chapter of everyday sometime next week. So hope you liked what i wrote and dont stop breaking free and remember i'll update as soon as i get 10 reviews.
