haha I told you I'd update way way way WAY sooner this time! lol.
Previously:
"Can I come up there?!"
"Now you're just asking for too much!"
"Come on Sharpay!"
Sharpay groaned. "Fine. Come in through the front door but I swear to god if you try anything stupid again I will file a restraining order on you! Ya hear?!"
"Okay you have my word!"
"Good."
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Me and My Best Friend's Boyfriend.
Chapter Eleven - Just Give Me a Chance.
Sharpay sighed in annoyance as she departed from the porch and slid the glass doors shut. Troy was seriously impossible to deal with. What the hell could he want now? Shaking her head, she caught a glimpse of herself as she passed by her full length mirror. She stared at her reflection and noticed how her clothing was sort of revealing- it was only her pajamas, but still.
"Shit." she ran into her walk-in closet in search of something simple to put on that didn't make her feel totally naked. She was sure this 'talk' with Troy was going to be awkward enough, and she didn't want to be adding even more reasons that would make her feel uncomfortable. But she didn't really have much time to ponder over what to wear for that long since Troy was on his way up now.
She settled quickly for a white Abercrombie sweatshirt and navy blue sweats- not her typical everyday outfit, but it would have to do for now. At least she didn't feel nude anymore- but more like she was drowning!
Sharpay left her room and walked at a fast pace down the hallway, and when she reached the top of the steps, she saw Troy already about halfway up the stairs. Expecting him to follow her back into the living room (because she wasn't exactly comfortable with having him in her bedroom anytime soon) she continued on down the steps. She was too busy staring right at him to realize that she was taking too big of a step, so she missed the stair completely and tumbled right on down the staircase. Troy gasped and tried to break her fall by catching her but that resulted instead in both of them falling the rest of the way down together.
Sharpay landed on top of, of course no one other then Troy himself with a small "Oomph!" on the hardwood floor at the bottom of the steps. She was to embarassed by her clumsiness to even move a muscle, and he was too busy gazing up at her lovingly with his head in the clouds to make any attempt to move either.
Neither of them realized that their faces were just inches apart.
They both looked up at the sound of footsteps coming their way.
"Hey what's going on? I heard a loud thud and-" Ryan stopped himself with a gasp, followed by a chuckle at the sight of his twin sister lying right on top of Troy Bolton. "Well I hope I'm not interrupting anything." he smirked and then added, "But before this goes any further you do know there are vacant bedrooms in this house right?"
Ryan's wise cracks made Sharpay's face flush anymore. She glared up at her brother and quickly scrambled off of Troy while hissing angrily through gritted teeth, "Shut up Ryan!"
Troy slowly climbed to his feet; never once taking his eyes off of the blonde beauty standing (rather uncomfortably) before him.
Ryan giggled. "What are you doing here?" he asked Troy curiously. Troy shrugged. "I just need to talk to your sister." he answered. Ryan glanced back and forth between the two of them before shrugging and leaving the room. Both Troy and Sharpay were silent for a while after he left, until Sharpay broke the silence by clearing her throat and asking him in a quavering voice "...What do you need to talk to me about?"
Troy didn't reply.
"Well?" she asked impatiently, "before midnight Troy, please. It's late as it is!"
Troy blinked. "It's like eight."
"Whatever." she clasped her hands together. "What is it?"
Troy nervously rubbed the back of his neck with his left hand. "Well, I um..talked to Gabriella after you...ran out of her room."
Sharpay remained silent, waiting for him to continue.
"We worked everything out...I think."
"...So you're back together?" Sharpay asked softly, missing the point and not knowing whether to be sad, confused, or happy for them.
"What? No. Quite the opposite actually."
Sharpay swallowed. "What?"
"She forgave me. And she's not mad at you anymore."
"So why isn't she telling me this!?" Sharpay snapped- not exactly believing him. It just seemed too unrealistic- for Gabriella to act like everything was peachy with all three of them again when she had been screaming and yelling hateful things that same day.
Troy shook his head and shrugged. "I don't know Sharpay."
"So why're you here?" she asked him slowly. He sighed.
"I just thought you should know that Gabriella said that basically she wouldn't care if..." he gulped. "If we...got together."
Sharpay took a moment to reply. She bit her lip. "Basically?" she repeated. "What's that supposed to mean?" she shifted her weight to one leg awkwardly. Troy sighed again.
"...I just wanna be with you Shar." he admitted, even though that was completely off topic as to what they were tocking about. Their eyes locked. "Because I love you."
Sharpay stared at him long and hard, until she couldn't bear to look at him any longer. She turned away from him, with tears in her eyes.
"Well we can't always get what we want." she said quietly, refusing to make eye contact again. Troy felt his heart sink because of her words. A tension filled silence filled the room.
"Fine." Troy spoke finally- his voice cracked and low. "I'll go then. But first you need to look right at me and tell me you don't have any feelings for me what-so-ever. Then I'll believe you. Then I'll leave you alone."
Sharpay slowly raised his eyes to meet his. "I..." she started, "I..." this was the hardest thing she would ever have to do in her life. Blinking back tears, she took a deep breath and slowly answered, "I don't."
Liar!! a tiny voice in the back of her head screamed at her. You freaking liar!
She felt like cutting herself at the painful look that crossed Troy's handsome face right at that moment, because obviously she was the cause of his hurt. He, himself, was in fact trying not to cry. And he had learned long ago that boys are never supposed to cry, so he held himself back and gave her a small nod.
"Okay." he said, "Then...bye."
Tearing his eyes away from her, he quickly began to shuffle out of the room. Sharpay stood guiltily staring at the floor until she heard the sound of the front door slamming shut a minute later.
Ryan must have heard it too, because he poked his head back into the room only seconds after.
"So what'd he want?" he asked. Sharpay just shrugged and slouched guiltily back up the stairs to her room.
The next day, Wednesday, Sharpay hadn't wanted to go to school again but she was forced against her will by her twin brother. Ryan literally dragged her out of bed at 7:10 AM and made her go. She had only had enough time to take literally the fastest shower of her life and throw on jeans, her white saltwater sandals and a basic baby blue tee from Hollister. She didn't even have enough time to put on her make up so she was feeling quite ugly when she walked through the front double doors of East High school.
Keeping her head low, she rushed to the girl's bathroom and dug her make up bag from her purse first thing- before even bothering to stop first by her locker.
Sharpay was right in the middle of applying her waterproof mascara at about 7:40 when the bathroom door was pulled open, and in stepped, of course, Gabriella. Sharpay caught a glimpse of her surprised reflection in the mirror, before the latina girl casually walked into one of the stalls. Sharpay was putting on her dark brown eyeliner when Gabriella came back out.
Both girls ignored each other at first while Gabriella began washing her hands at one of the sinks and Sharpay went about her business, but both of them could feel the awkward tension building between them- especially since they were the only two in there. Sharpay caught Gabriella staring at her out of the corner of her eye.
"...Hi." Gabriella was the first to speak. Sharpay froze, but quickly shook it off and turned to her with a casual shrug and an echoed "Hi." before turning her attention back to her own reflection in the mirror as she began applying her strawberry lipgloss. She could feel the other girl's dark eyes burning holes deep in the side of her head, but she tried to ignore it, until after a while she couldn't take it any longer.
She slowly turned her head back to face Gabriella, and the two girls just stared at each other for a long while before something suddenly seemed to click on in both of them at the same time.
"I'm sorry!" both girls finally cried at once and in a split second Sharpay had dropped her lipgloss back into her purse and they were hugging tightly with tears streaming down their faces. They held onto each other and sobbed for a long while before Sharpay finally spoke.
"Wait..why are you sorry!?" the blonde girl asked, pulling away slightly and frantically wiping her mascara stained cheeks with one of her hands- so much for putting on make up!
"For screaming at you! I was acting like such an over dramatic bitch yesterday Shar, I'm so sorry!"
Sharpay nodded and choked back another sob. "I forgive you Gabby!"
"Thanks, but why are you sorry?! You didn't do anything- remember? Troy admitted it was all his fault."
Sharpay froze, remembering that Troy had basically lied just to get her out of it- and that just added more guilt to her ego. But she replied anyway,
"For not telling you about what happened sooner. Best friends tell each other things. And I didn't. I'm sorry too."
"It's ok. I forgive you too then." Gabriella smiled and sniffed as she too wiped away some of her tears from her red-rimmed eyes.
"Gosh...look at us." Sharpay said with a tiny chuckle, referring to their emotional actions. "We're train wrecks."
Gabriella chuckled also in suit. "Yeah."
Sharpay hiccuped. "Friends?"
"No." Gabriella shook her head. Hurt and confusion flashed through the blonde girl's eyes, but Gabriella hugged her again for reassurance and corrected her statement;
"Best friends."
Sharpay smiled. "Right. Best friends." she sniffed. "Forever." she added.
"So...did you talk to a brown hair-blue eyed certain someone yesterday?" Gabriella asked her friend when they pulled away. Sharpay turned back to a sink and splashed water on her face to wash away the smeared combination of mascara and eyeliner. Gabriella did the same.
"Um he came to my house last night. Why?" Sharpay asked as she dabbed her face dry with a paper towel.
"Good. He told me he would." The brunette answered with a devilish grin as she dug around in her own purse for her make up bag.
"Wait...what? What do you mean Gabby?"
"He told you I forgave him too right?" Gabriella asked- ignoring her questions. Sharpay frowned thoughtfully. "Yes, but I wasn't sure whether I believed him or not."
"Well, it's true. I mean come on...it's obvious he has feelings for you, heck- he even said so himself." Gabriella said as she leaned over the sink to the mirror and applied her mascara. Sharpay coughed and did the same.
"...And you're okay with that?"
Gabriella shrugged and turned to face her. "Of course I am." she blinked.
"But I thought..." Sharpay trailed off. Gabriella sighed.
"Troy loves you Sharpay. He loves you. And I'm pretty sure you feel the same way about him. And who would I be to stand in the way of that?"
"But I don't! I don't have any feelings for him!" Sharpay insisted, and once again that tiny voice in the back of her head shouted;
LIAR!
"Sharpay, look me dead in the eye and repeat what you just said." Gabriella said calmly. Sharpay sighed and turned to face her best friend- she'd done this once, so she could do it again, right?
"I. Don't. Have. Feelings. For. Him." she repeated slowly. Gabriella rolled her eyes. "Say; "I, Sharpay Evans am not in love with Troy Bolton."
"What?" Sharpay gaped at her.
"Say it."
Sharpay shook her head and turned back to the miror. "Gabby...what difference does it make? I'm not saying I do, but even if I did have any feelings for him at all, which I don't, but if I did, I would never go out with him in a million years."
Gabriella scoffed. "And why not?!"
"I would never do that to you! What kind of a friend goes out with her friend's ex boyfriend?!"
"Uh...the kind that's madly in love with the ex boyfriend?" The brunette girl answered in a 'duh' tone of voice. Sharpay narrowed her eyes at her.
"Okay maybe, only, I'm not!" she said, crossing her arms stubbornly over her chest. "Besides, where's this all coming form? Are you saying you want me to get with Troy? What changed, Gabriella?"
Gabriella sighed. "Well, I realized how unfair I was being to the both of you. I just want you to be happy Shar. This is exactly what I told Troy too, that I want the both of you to be happy and I know you can make each other happy. And since I care about the both of you, I'd deal with it if you were together. Besides- Troy and I talked it out, we're okay anyways. I'm already practically over him."
Sharpay raised an eyebrow. "Practically?" she shook her head. "Well practically isn't completely, so I'm not going to date him. I'd never do that to you!"
"But I wouldn't care if you did Shar!" Gabriella tsk-tsked. "And besides, the last thing I want is for you to feel like you need my permission to make yourself happy."
"I am happy," Sharpay said, "I'm happy that we're still friends."
"Yeah, but you could be happier."
"I'm fine with the way things are." Sharpay said- brushing her off.
"Mm really?" Gabriella asked in a tone that meant she didnt buy any of what Sharpay was trying to make her believe.
"Yes, really." Sharpay snapped.
"So you keep saying that 'you'd never do that to me'," Gabriella said, "that's implying that you have feelings for Troy."
"And how is that?"
"You only refuse to go out with him because you seem to think I'll be an emotional wreck that will hate the both of you forever if you do."
"I do not. I just don't like him like that."
"I'm not understanding you Sharpay!" Gabriella said- raising her voice slightly. "First you're implying that you won't be with him because of me, then you're saying that you won't be with him because you don't even have any romantic feelings for him. So which one is it?"
Sharpay sighed. "It's both."
"Well can you at least eliminate you're first reason? Cause I wouldn't mind if you were with him. How many times do I have to repeat that before you get it through your blonde head?" Gabriella only half-teased. But she was also admittedly becoming slightly annoyed at her friend's denial type of behavior. Who was she trying to convince of anything she was saying? Gabriella? Or herself?
"Fine I'll eliminate the first reason just cause I'm sick'a hearing you talk about it." Sharpay laughed. (Forced laughter) "But that still leaves reason number two!"
"You're really not interested in him? At all?"
"...No. And what about Darren?"
"Oh come on! The guy's not even your boyfriend!"
"Yeah well, who said he couldn't be eventually?"
"Give me a break, Sharpay. If you liked him that much you'd be talking to him nonstop on the phone or something. And when was the last time you talked to him?"
"...Last night?"
"Liar."
"Well who cares when I last talked to him? He's...just busy, that's all."
Gabriella shot her an annoyed look. "Go out with Troy."
"No."
"You and I both know you like him. So I still don't understand why you won't go out with him!"
"Gabriella..."
"Just tell me why at least! And give me an honest answer."
"I just don't want to get hurt, okay?!" Sharpay finally said.
"What?" Gabriella asked- quite baffled and not to mention confused by her answer.
"Just think about it Gabby, he kissed me twice when he was with you. How do I know he wouldn't go behind my back and kiss some other girl when we were together? I just can't risk it!"
"But I don't think he would. It'd be different with you then it was with me."
"How do you know?! Why would it be different?"
Gabriella rolled her eyes as if the answer was obvious. "Because I think he's truly, geuinley, deeply in love with you. And I just can't believe that neither of us ever saw it before. I don't think him and I were ever in love- maybe what we felt together was delightfully close to love, but it wasn't love. And that's why I know I have to let him go- it's why I'm already letting him go."
"Why?" Sharpay asked softly.
"Didn't you hear a word I just said? Because he didn't and doesn't love me! Plus I kinda already like someone else."
"Yeah well I guess you can say the same for me. And wait what? Who?!"
"Dang don't be so judgemental. Give the boy a chance. And I'll tell you later."
"No tell me now."
"Nooooo."
"Gabriella! Tell me!"
"Not yet but I promise you'll be the first person I do tell."
"Fine then why don't you just tell me now then?"
"I don't know. I don't even know if I like him but I think I do. I'll have to spend more time with him to see."
Sharpay frowned. "You got over Troy that quickly?! I thought you said you weren't even completely over him yet."
"Well I basically am."
"So who do you 'possibly' like?"
"I already said I'll tell you later!"
Sharpay sighed in exasperation. "How about, if you tell me, I'll agree to...at least work things out with Troy."
"Fine that sounds fair enough."
"Cool then so tell me."
"Is it a deal then?"
"Yeah it's a deal."
"Are you crossing your fingers?"
Sharpay sighed and held up both of her hands to show that she wasn't crossing her fingers. "No. So we have a deal! now tell me."
Gabriella smirked. "Okay, I'll tell you. But only if you talk to Troy right after this conversation is over."
"Fine I will! So tell me your little secret, now would be nice."
Gabriella shook her head. "Nope sorry. I said I would tell you - but I never said when. So I choose some other time."
"Gabriella!" Sharpay exclaimed madly, "Fine then two can play at that game. I'm not going to talk to Troy until you tell me. So there. Ha."
"Sorry Shar- but the deal was if I told you, then you'd go and talk to Troy right after this conversation was over- and whatta ya know? I'm officially ending it."
"That's not fair! You can't do that!"
"Ahh but I can."
"No, you can't."
"I just did. Now go talk to Troy."
Sharpay threw her hands up in the air. "Fine! Damn it you are impossible!"
Gabriella just giggled as Sharpay threw her things into her purse and stormed out of the bathroom.
Sharpay gripped her purse tightly with both hands nervously as she slowly made her way up to Troy at his locker. She couldn't believe she was doing this- it was so weird how easily she gave into Gabriella's wants and demands. She could easily blow off their deal and chicken out, but for some reason she decided not too. But still, that didn't change the fact that she was still afraid and nervous about facing Troy right now after the way she'd treated him yesterday.
"Hi Troy." she greeted him nervously. He was taking a textbook out of his locker. The look he gave her was unreadable to her. But he didn't say anything. He just went back to his locker.
"Can we talk?"
He sighed. "I already tried talking to you yesterday. And sorry but I'm not really in the mood for being rejected again today, haven't you already hurt me enough?" he answered coldly. "I mean, what more do you want?"
"I don't think anyone's ever going to be in the mood for rejection though." Sharpay said lightly with a casual shrug, and he scoffed quietly.
"And yet people still do it. Funny thing huh?"
Sharpay swallowed. "I'm sorry okay? I never meant to hurt you like that."
"Really?" Troy shook his head. "Because I thought that was your complete intention." he spat sarcastically. When she didn't answer, he finally turned to her and sighed. "What is it you really want? You'd better make it quick, cause school starts in eight minutes."
"I feel bad about what happened last night," she started, "I was just...afraid."
"Afraid of what?"
"Of being with you. I just...I didn't want to get hurt." she admitted.
"You're the one who hurt me. And I would never hurt you anyway. Why would you think that?"
"You kissed me when you had a girlfriend. Which just shows me that you can't be a loyal boyfriend."
At that sentence, Troy felt as if he'd been slapped in the face. How could she say such a thing?!
"Well maybe you have a point there, and I can see why you might think that, but I would never do that to you. And the only way I'll ever be able to convince you of that is if you would just give me a chance." he paused and then added sadly, "But I guess it doesn't matter anymore, since you don't like me like that at all anyways."
Sharpay coughed. "I lied." she whispered.
"What?"
"I lied." she repeated- louder this time, "Do you know how hard it was for me to look you directly in the eyes and tell you I didn't have any feelings for you? Extremely."
"So what are you saying then?" Troy asked- his heart thudding loudly in his chest. She offered a small smile.
"Show me that you can be a loyal boyfriend, Troy Bolton. And then we'll see where things go from there."
"Are you actually giving me a chance?"
Sharpay's smile grew wider. "Looks like it."
A/N: tsk tsk Wow. Don't ya just love how I make Gabriella change from "grr I hate you" to "I want you two together" just like THAT? lol! I honestly don't believe it would happen like that in real life, but hey, this is fanfiction so I can make her do whatever I want xD. Same goes for Sharpay- she was sooo in denail but then she randomly came right out and said it. LOL.
Anyways, I think there's only going to be a few chapters left. So I think this story is almost over...maybe. I think. lol. :P :3
also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY EVEN IF YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY NEVER GOING TO HAVE ANYWAY OF KNOWING I'M SAYING HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUT WHATEVER I'M STILL SAYING IT ANYWAYS!! lol so um yeah HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY TISDALE! May your twenty third birthday be filled with love happiness and joy because we all love you!
lol.
Please review. :)
-Serena/HeSaidSheSaidx
