Disclaimer: All I own is Billie and crotch ball, you should totally play it one time!
Kelsi walked through the doors of East High, her stomach doing summersaults with every step. Although it wasn't true, she felt every eye in the hall was on her, scrutinizing her. So far, she had no reason to be scared. She hadn't seen anyone she needed to confront and she secretly wished that it would stay that way. Unfortunately, there was no such luck.
"Kelsi?" Gabriella inquired, lightly tapping her shoulder. Shocked, Kelsi span around relieved that it was only Gabriella.
"H-hey Gabby, what's up?" Kelsi asked a bit too casually
"I wanted to see what was up with last night. Kelsi, what happened?" Gabriella asked genuinely worried. Maybe she cared about Kelsi more than Kelsi thought. She didn't know how to reply, she knew she could trust Gabriella but she wasn't sure about pouring out her heart in the middle of the East High, she didn't want to draw attention to herself.
"Um…someone said some things that made me upset…" Said Kelsi, averting her eyes to the ground.
"Like who?" Gabriella asked, studying Kelsi's hurt face as Kelsi's mind replayed the cruel words that were said to her.
"Sharpay…" Kelsi said softly, shuffling her feet. As if the mention of her name summoned her, Sharpay appeared seemingly out of nowhere before Gabriella could reply.
"Hello ladies!" She said cheerily, faking that perfect smile. Both girls just glared at her.
"What do you want Sharpay?" asked Gabriella, annoyed. Kelsi felt her cheeks burning up. "This was it" she thought to herself. Sharpay's expression changed to a scowl as she looked the girls up and down.
"I just wanted to tell Kelsi that rehearsals are off for today, I have a hair appointment after school" she said. "This is your chance, Kelsi. Say something, use those little things called words" Kelsi thought to herself. But before she could say anything, Sharpay had flipped her hair and walked away.
"Oh that girl is so awful." Gabriella said. Kelsi nodded and turned back to her locker.
"I'm sorry I left last night" she apologized.
"It's ok, Kelsi. I just want to know you're ok" she assured her. Kelsi probably didn't realize it, but she was half of the reason her and Troy were together. If Kelsi didn't trip over and have them sing "What I've been looking for" together, then they never would have gotten the call back and the rest of the events following wouldn't have happen. Kelsi nodded, she hoped she would be alright. She had a fantastic family, more friends then she thought, which reminded her that she hadn't seen Billie since the whole event.
"What did she say?" Gabriella inquired. Kelsi turned to face Gabriella she was hesitant, but decided she would tell Gabriella what happened.
"Well, I kinda have a crush on Ryan" Kelsi started
"Oh that's so cute!" commented Gabriella
"And Sharpay told me that he didn't like me and that no one like him would ever like someone like me and all this jazz…" Kelsi trailed off. Gabriella just shook her head with a distasteful look on her face.
"I swear to god that girl has nothing better to do then hurt people, its quite sad really…" they both laughed.
"Hey guys" a cheerful voice said. It was Billie standing there eating an ice cream.
"Hey, where'd you get the ice cream?" laughed Kelsi. Gabriella looked at Billie as if she was a bit strange but then laughed as well.
"What? You've never seen a girl eat an ice cream before? I got it at the shop on my way to school, I was hungry" she defended.
"Fair enough" said Gabriella, "Well I better get going, I'll talk to you guys later" she smiled and walked off.
"Hey, I went to your house after school yesterday…but no one was home" she said devouring the dairy dessert in her hands.
"Oh yeah, um I was home…but I was asleep" Kelsi said, "why'd you come over, not that I don't want you over its just…strange" she clarified. Billie stopped remembering what she had to tell her friend.
"Oh um… I heard something yesterday that you might wanna know…" she began, Kelsi nodded for her to continue, but as soon as Billie opened her mouth to go on the bell rang, signaling it was time for homeroom.
Kelsi sat at her normal spot in home room, but she noticed that Ryan wasn't there. This was strange; Ryan was almost always at school. Other than that, everything else was normal and Kelsi tried her hardest to pretend to be listening so she wouldn't get another detention. Homeroom finished and Kelsi headed to her first class, history. "oh crap!" she thought to herself, "I haven't done the homework Mrs. Chalmers set for me last night." She rushed to her locker thinking of excuses she could use to get her out of detention. All of a sudden Billie popped her head next to Kelsi's shoulder.
"Boo!" she exclaimed and Kelsi jumped. "What have you got first?" she asked, scanning Kelsi's timetable that was blu-tacked to her locker door.
"History" Kelsi groaned, "I haven't done the homework that she set for last night, she's gonna flip"
"Hm, I've got chemistry, wanna wag?" Billie asked. Kelsi had never skipped a class in her life and to be honest she was a bit chicken to. Although she wasn't as bright as Taylor or Gabriella, she was still a bit of a goody goody and didn't want to get in trouble, but she was going to get in trouble either way. "Sure" she said and shoved her books back into her locker. "Where do we go?" she asked hesitantly, looking around the halls to make sure that Mrs. Chalmers was no where near her.
"Never wagged before, aye?" Billie enquired smiling.
"N-no" Kelsi said as they started to walk out the halls.
"Aw, noob" Billie teased pushing her.
"Hey! I'm just not a rebel like you" Kelsi protested.
"Well, I say we go to the park, unless your teachers go walkabout looking for truants?" she asked her eyes narrowing.
"I've never heard about it before" Kelsi said as they exited the school through the back way.
They reached the park and before Kelsi knew it, Billie was swinging off the monkey bars and giggling like an eight year old.
"You get amused by the smallest things" Kelsi commented, sitting down on the swings.
"Well, you know what they say 'small things amuse small minds'. At my old school me and my mates created this game called crotch ball. It was awesome" She laughed, walking over to the swing next to Kelsi.
"Yeah? What do you have to do?" Kelsi asked, beginning to swing.
"Well, the aim of the game was to piff a tennis ball at your opponent's crotch as hard as possible. We should play it sometime" Billie said, reminiscing her "crotch ball" days.
"Thanks, but I'll pass. It sounds painful" Kelsi said, getting higher and higher on the swing.
"Not when you play with me. I have a terrible aim. Broke a window once." She added. The two girls swung in silence for a while and listened to the serenity of the perfect spring day. Billie seemed so confident in her self, who she was and what she was going to be, this sprung a question in Kelsi's mind, what did Billie want to be?
"What do you want to be?" Kelsi asked.
"Umm…." Billie thought for a moment. "I don't really know, I'd like to do something with animals. Maybe a park ranger or something. I'm not really sure. What about you?" she asked Kelsi.
"Well, I know I want to see if I can write music for a living. But I know that's a long way a way. If it happens, I'll be stoked. But if it doesn't, then I guess I'll settle for something that pays the bills." Kelsi said.
"Awesome" Billie stated and jumped off the swing when it was at full height. Her landing was anything but graceful and she tumbled across the ground, she stood up covered in bark.
"Ta-da!" she exclaimed as she stretched her arms out in "spirit fingers". Kelsi laughed and shook her head.
"You're not scared of anything are you? You must get hurt a lot" Kelsi asked and stated at the same time, slowing down on the swings.
"Never broken a bone" She gloated, "Nah I have what they call Urophobia, it's pretty bad" she added. Kelsi looked confused as she stepped off the swing.
"Urophobia?" she questioned
"Fear of urinating" Billie said with a stern look on her face. Kelsi just nodded.
"You fool!" Billie laughed, "I'm joking. Nah seriously, I'm really scared of needles. I faint and cry every time" she said.
"Oh my god you're an idiot" Kelsi laughed and sat down on the luscious green grass. "Where did you learn that?"
"I get bored easily" Billie said bluntly.
"So you look up phobias on the internet?, man that's sad…" Kelsi joked picking at the yellow weed-flowers that were growing in the grass.
"Hey, wanna stay at my house tonight?" Billie asked picking up her bag to leave, the bell would be going soon and they didn't want to skip both first periods.
"Sure" Kelsi said delighted. It had been years since she'd stayed at a friends house, and spending time with Billie was always fun.
"Hey, I could even show you how to stick up for yourself against that blonde thing. Whaddaya reckon?"
"I think that sounds great" Kelsi smiled as they began to walk back to school. Kelsi was about to learn some very valuable life lessons.
A.N: Thanks for reading, Thanks for all the reviews! They mean the world to me! Keep em' coming!