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Chapter 11

Several minutes later Ryan, Gabriella, Taylor and Chad all pulled in at Gabi's house. They followed Gabi in the front door. As Gabriella shut the door behind them her mother, Susan, came around the corner. "Oh Gabi, your home" She smiled and then seemed to notice Taylor, Chad and Ryan for the first time. "Hello Taylor and…"
"Mom, this is Chad Danforth…" Chad waved, "And Ryan Evans…" Ryan smiled.

"Nice to meet you Chad, Ryan" Susan smiled.

"Well, we're going upstairs mom…" Gabriella smiled before leading her friends upstairs to her room.

"Nice room…" Ryan said as they walked in the door to Gabriella's room.

"Oh…uhh... Thanks" she smiled weakly as she shut the door. "So… what do you guys want to do?"
"I don't care…" Ryan replied.

"What is there to do?" Chad asked, in a clueless way.

Taylor rolled her eyes while Gabriella replied, "um… I have… a Game Cube…" Chad smiled at this.

"Great, where is it?" he exclaimed, already on his way to the door.

"The Den, downstairs" as soon as she replied Chad was already on his way down the stairs. Ryan soon followed. Taylor and Gabriella slowly walked behind.

"Boys" Taylor said, rolling her eyes. The girls sat on the couch behind the boys and watched as they played; though Ryan had no idea what he was doing and Chad was winning by a mile.

Troy and Sharpay

Troy lead Sharpay to his house as slow as he possibly could. It was 15 minutes later before they even reached the street his house was on, and another 5 before they reached the yard. As Troy lead Sharpay up the front walk, Jack came around the corner of the house and greeted his son, not seeing Sharpay. "Troy, your back! Come on, let's go practice that move before lunch…"

Troy forced a smile, noticing that Jack had not seen Sharpay. "Dad…" he started but Jack cut him off.

"And whom, might I ask, Is this?" Jack spotted Sharpay.

"Oh… this is—" Sharpay cut Troy off.

"I'm Sharpay Evans…" Sharpay introduced herself, she held out a hand to Jack, but he didn't shake it, he ignored it.

"Sharpay Evans the Drama girl?" Jack asked, looking at Troy, Who just nodded. At this point Sharpay yanked her hand back, offended that Jack ignored her. Jack glared, but said, nothing more as he walked around the side of the house. Troy knew this wouldn't be the last he heard about Sharpay tonight.

Once Jack left Troy turned to Sharpay, "Sorry about that…" Sharpay was still offended but nodded. "So, shall we go inside?"
"K..." Sharpay forced a smile as she followed Troy in to his house. Once they stepped inside Mrs. Bolton greeted them.

"Hey Troy" she smiled, then noticed Sharpay, "Why hello…"
"Mom, this is Sharpay Evans…" Troy introduced.

"Hello Sharpay, what brings you here?" Mrs. Bolton gave a warm smile to Sharpay.

Sharpay forced a fake smile; "I... came for…" she looked to Troy for help.

"Oh… she's my partner for this school project…" Troy lied, not wanting to tell his mother the truth, yet, "Right Sharpay?"

"Hun?" Sharpay looked up from where she was examining her light pink nails, "Oh… ya… right…?" she didn't even know what she was agreeing to though.

"Ya… so, we're going upstairs to work on it…" Troy grabbed Sharpay by the arm and pulled her up the stairs behind him.

When they were safely in Troy's room, with the door shut, Sharpay spoke up, "So what was I agreeing to again?" she asked as she looked around Troy's room.

Troy's room was an average size room. He had a bed in the corner, that was unmade and had clothes sitting on it. A clothes basket full of clothes in the corner. A computer on a wooden desk against the wall, and a closet, with the doors hanging open and sports things in the floor of it.

"Oh, that you came over to work on a school project…"

Sharpay smiled, "Why didn't you just tell her the truth?" she questioned.

"Because…" Troy started but Sharpay cut him off.

"Never mind, lets just do something," She smiled, sitting down on his bed and watching as he sat down next to her.

"Like what?" he questioned.

"Oh, I don't know… that project?" Troy smiled as she teased him some more. They talked for about another 30 minutes before Sharpay looked at Troy's alarm clock and seen it was 10 'til 1. "Troy… I guess I need to go now, it's a 15 minute walk home and I have to be back by one… I'm already late…" Sharpay explained as she got up from where she was sitting and walked toward the door. Troy also looked at the clock and then got up and grabbed his car keys from his desk.

"I can drive you?" he offered. Sharpay couldn't help but to smile.

"Ok…" she replied, and walked out the door, down the stairs and toward the front door. She passed Mrs. Bolton on the way out the door.

"Leaving already?" Mrs. Bolton asked with a smile.

"Ya, I have to get home…" Sharpay replied as Troy came down the stairs.

"Mom, I'm driving Sharpay home" Troy called as he walked out after her.

"Ok, be careful and it was nice to meet you Sharpay!" Mrs. Bolton called after the two.

"You too…" Sharpay waved as she climbed in Troy's car and waited for him to drive them to her house.

Mrs. Bolton watched as they drove off and then closed the door, smiling. "I know there's more to the story then a school project..." she told herself going back in to the kitchen, "Oh well… he'll tell me when he's ready…" Mrs. Bolton continued to smile 'til Jack came in the back door.

"Where's Troy?" Jack asked, stopping through the house.

"He took Sharpay home" Mrs. Bolton replied.

"That girl…" Jack muttered under his breath as he sat down at the table.

"I think Sharpay's a very nice young lady" Mrs. Bolton said (whom we are now calling Julia) hearing her husbands comment. Jack said nothing more; he just opened the paper and began to read. After all, he could always get on Troy about it later.


There it is, hope ya liked it... Read and review and I'll update once I get back from Pennyslvainia. Tootles!