Title: Songbook

Author: SMARTALIENQT

Summary: A collection of mostly unrelated drabbles, based on the "Call to Fanfiction" challenge on the Ryelsi Fans! community on LJ. Fluff, spoilers, Ryelsi, Relsi, RyanKelsi, RxK.

Disclaimer: Ibid $4,000 for chapter 1!

Word Count: 277 words. It was originally 100 words, but I had to redo it because people told me to make Ryan do something fantastic, and the original had him… sort of randomly get forgiven. It sucked, so I redid it.

Songbook

Gift

"How did you know it was my birthday?" Kelsi asked suspiciously as she looked at the large round box.

Ryan grinned sheepishly. "I didn't. But everyone knows what Happy Birthday sounds like, even if it's in French, and French is just down the hall from Spanish."

Kelsi looked horrified. "They were that loud?" She remembered whom she was supposed to be mad at. "And so you thought you could buy me off with presents? Jason tried that, Mr. Evans, and it didn't work then, and it won't work now!"

She turned, dropping the box behind her. Ryan grabbed her hand. "Kelsi, wait!"

She glowered at him. "What?"

This is it, he thought. Tell her!

"I didn't take you to prom because of Sharpay. Well, I did, but only at the beginning. And then we started talking, and joking and laughing with each other, and then I realized I wasn't just taking you to prom for Sharpay anymore. I was going to tell you, but you got mad at me before I could finish what I was going to say."

"And what were you going to say?" She was quiet now.

Breathe. "That I don't just like you because Sharpay made me. You're sweet, and patient, and caring. You make amazing music. You're not petty or shallow. And…" Breathe, Evans, "…I think I love you."

"Still not convinced," she said, though a smile hovered around the edges of her lips.

"Will this help?"

He held out the box again. She opened it, gently ripping the paper and carefully untying the ribbon. She pulled out a bright red fedora.

"This isn't–"

"Yes."

"Not your–"

"Oh, yes."

"Come here."

A/N: I am bowled over. Seriously. I am flattened by the enormous amount of reviews I got, and most of them were along the lines of "Get them back together or I'll sic elephants on you!" So I went back, and I saw that I never actually got them back together – there was a semi-forgiving thing in the original 'Gift' (if you squinted really, really hard), but not a whole big thing like this was. And I hated the original last sentence. So I changed the whole thing last night, and it had to be long, I'm sorry, but it was worth it, I think. I think I'll post the original one separately, if enough people are interested.

Wow. That was long. I'll shorten it to one sentence: "I love you all, so please review!"