Hi, thanks for the reviews. You guys read my mind sometimes, I have to admit, some of you predicted what was gonna happen. And you might be interested to know this; the girls from my class and I just got in second in the school tournament; football, so I'm really hyper. I didn't think we were that good, anyway, you're probably uninterested, picking your nose by now, so I'll move on with the story instead… ;p
Disclaimer; I don't own High School Musical.
When Will They See?
Chapter 14.
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Maybe it's a fairy tale,
but I believe in happily ever after.
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Zeke entered the school the next day, awfully quiet.
He couldn't believe what he'd seen.
It was unbelievable. It was like a wake-up call, but he didn't know how to use it, so he had thought and thought about it.
What he had seen on the TV during the game the day before, was so not good.
He wondered who else had seen it. If Chad had, or maybe Jason, it would be out soon.
He could only hope that he was the only one who had seen it, so the secret was his a little while. Until he knew what to do with it. All he knew was that he should probably talk to Troy about it.
He was so curios. He wanted to know what was going on.
But he was also a little jealous.
Things had almost happened between him and Sharpay after the Championship game. But only almost.
She had been into his cookies way more than she had been into him.
So she'd told him that. She always told people the truth, and that was perhaps what he liked so much about her. Not just her looks like all the other guys at school.
They just thought she was hot.
But Zeke wondered what Troy was seeing in her. If he really liked her, or if he was just using her?
He didn't know what to think, and he certainly wanted to find out.
He looked around the hall, trying to catch a glimpse of Troy, but he was nowhere to be seen.
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Sharpay entered the school, her head high, like always.
She felt everyone's eyes land on her, but she just slandered down the hall, her silver hells clicking as she did so.
She casually stopped by the auditioning list, to see if anyone else should have signed up, and got a shock she couldn't have prepared herself for.
She wanted to scream like the time she'd seen the call-back list for the Winter Musical, but decided it was better to lay off a little with the Ice Queen-ness, after all, she was about the change herself.
She shook her head.
She couldn't believe it.
They had some nerve!
She marched away from the list, her hells clicking now more than ever, since she was so angry. She stopped behind Ryan, who was getting something in his locker.
He didn't notice her.
"Hm-rhm?" Sharpay said, angrily clearing her throat.
He turned around, startled. At first, his face lit up by the sight of his dear sister, but he frowned when he saw how angry she was. Then he realized, she must have seen it…
"You just can't let me do what I want, can you?" Sharpay asked, hands on hips.
"Huh?"
"You just have to ruin everything!" Sharpay exclaimed, "You're low, Ryan, you really are!"
"Am I low?" Ryan asked, "At least I ain't auditioning with Troy Bolton! That idiot!"
"You know as well as I do that Troy is not an idiot!" Sharpay said, her voice calm, though you could hear a bit of emotion.
"No, I don't!" Ryan exclaimed, "How would I? He spent so many years ignoring us, why are you suddenly talking to him?"
"Because we had to do a project together!" Sharpay said, "And this is not just about the stupid audition, Ryan, and you know it! What was all the fuss with Aaron about, huh? Why, exactly why, can't I call him? Tell me, Ry, because I want to know!"
"Because you can't do it to dad!" Ryan said, "It would break his heart, Sharpay."
"And what about my heart?" Sharpay whispered, her eyes filling with tears, "Doesn't it matter what I want? Doesn't it matter what I feel?"
"Sharpay, everything is about you!" Ryan exclaimed, catching the hall's attention, "All we do at home! We gotta eat this, we gotta go there! ´Please, drive me to the mall´!"
Before Sharpay knew what she was doing, she'd slapped Ryan across the face, "You're pathetic Ryan." She spat, and then she turned around and marched down the hall.
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The minute Troy entered the school, the jocks were all over him.
"Have you heard?" Chad asked.
"What?" Troy asked.
"Gabriella is auditioning with Ryan Evans for the Spring Musical!"
Troy stopped, "She is?"
Chad nodded, "Yeah, I don't get it. Taylor wouldn't tell me exactly why, but I think Gabriella was a little jealous of Sharpay."
"Probably." Troy said, "Where's Sharpay?"
Zeke looked up, quickly, "Why do you ask? Do you need her?"
"I gotta talk to her about it. Maybe she'd like to not audition." Troy quickly made up.
"Oh, Troy?" Zeke said, before he walked away, "Did you catch the game yesterday on TV?"
"No, I went." Troy said, "Why?"
"Orgh man!" Chad exclaimed, "None of us had time to watch it, except Zeke!"
"And you know what I saw?" Zeke said, "I saw something very, very interesting…"
Troy's eyes widened, "W-what?"
Zeke nodded, "You want to know what I saw?"
"Hmm, not right now!" Troy said, glancing at Chad and the other guys, "Maybe later, ok?"
Zeke nodded, "Okay…"
Troy quickly threw a ´See ya later´ and hurried down the hall to find Sharpay. She was probably by her locker. He could easily find it, because it was the only pink one between the regulars.
He stopped right next to her, seeing she was busy with her make-up; "Hi."
"Hi," she smiled at him through the mirror, "Have you heard?"
"About Gabriella and Ryan? Yup."
"I freaked when I saw it." Sharpay said, "And I got so angry at Ryan that I slapped him."
"What?" Troy couldn't believe that Sharpay was able to do that. She was so delicate. She couldn't hurt anybody.
"Yeah…" she turned around, looking at him, "So, what are we gonna do?"
"What do you mean?"
"About the audition?"
"Oh…" Troy paused, "We're still gonna audition, right?"
"You want to?"
"Of course I do!" Troy said, "We're better than them. We're gonna get the leads."
Sharpay giggled, "If you say so. Listen, I'll catch you later, ok? We don't want to make too many people see us."
"Sure, at your house after school?"
"Always."
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Kelsi left Ryan and his red cheek at their table in the cafeteria to go find Sharpay.
She needed to talk to her.
Ryan had been going on and on about how bad he felt about everything that had happened in the last couple of weeks, and she wanted him to be happy. Therefore, she had to talk to Sharpay.
They would have to make up.
She approached Sharpay, who was at her locker, placing something in it.
Kelsi paused when she saw that it was a picture. "Uhm? Is that Troy Bolton?"
Sharpay quickly turned around, startled, "What are you doing?"
Kelsi's mouth was wide open, "Oh my God! Troy is playing with dolls!"
Sharpay quickly placed her hands on top of the picture, and shot Kelsi a dirty look; "What do you want, Nielson?"
Kelsi shot her a huge smile, and said; "I wanted to talk to you about Ryan."
"What about him?" Sharpay snapped.
"He's sorry, Sharpay." Kelsi said, "I don't know what's going on between the two of you, but he feels bad. You gotta talk to him, he's your brother!"
"No, he's not!" Sharpay exclaimed, smacking her locker shut.
"Excuse me?"
"You don't know anything about Ryan and I, Kelsi." Sharpay snapped, "So please stop pretending like you do. Maybe someday I can tell you, maybe not. But Ryan and I have a lot more to us than just being the Evans twins, okay?"
Kelsi just nodded, surprised by Sharpay's sudden outburst.
"Ok, let's go get some lunch?" Sharpay said, her voice totally different from just two seconds ago.
She went down the hall, and Kelsi just followed her. She almost had to run to keep the same phase.
They found their table in the cafeteria, and Sharpay sat down, not even looking at Ryan. She had shot Troy a smile when she walked past him, but had decided not to talk to him.
He was talking to Zeke anyway.
"I saw you." Zeke whispered, making sure that no-one heard him.
"What exactly did you see?" Troy asked.
"You and Sharpay." Zeke said, as a matter of fact, "She looks really good when she's not wearing all that glitter clothes, doesn't she? She almost looks normal. Is she a good kisser?"
Troy lost his jaw, "I'm not gonna answer that!"
"Oh, you want people to know?" Zeke asked. He knew it was blackmailing, but he liked toying with Troy. He would never actually break Troy's secret, but Troy didn't need to know that.
"No!" Troy said, "Yes, she is a good kisser. A very good kisser."
"Have you slept with her?" Zeke asked.
Troy mentally kicked himself for saying all this stuff, Sharpay would absolutely kill him if she knew he told Zeke about their relationship, but she didn't want people to know either, "No, not yet." He answered.
"Uuuh!" Zeke said, "Is it coming?"
Troy shot him a shy smile, "I think pretty soon."
"So, she is the reason you broke up with Gabby?" Zeke said, "I would have never guessed that!"
"No, I don't think anybody would." Troy said.
"So, how did it happen?" Zeke asked, as he looked around once again to see if anyone was listening, "Was it like, during your project?"
Troy shook his head, "I've known Sharpay and Ryan for years. Our parents were best friends, so we used to play together a lot when we were younger. But then we grew apart, but I thought it would be nice to catch up again, so Sharpay and I got together. It sorta blossomed from friendship to a lot more." Troy chose the easy story, instead of the complicated one.
Zeke couldn't help but chuckle of the boyish grin Troy had on his face. He could tell that he really did like Sharpay a lot. And Zeke was fine with that, at least her boyfriend would be someone sweet and worthy when it couldn't be himself. "That's good for you Troy."
"Are you okay with it?" Troy paused, "I mean, I know you've liked her for what? A whole long time?"
"Yup!" Zeke said, "But it's ok. She tried to like me, but it didn't really work out. I'm glad if she's happy with you."
"I think she is." Troy said, "And you will see once we go public about our relationship. I think you'll also realize that Sharpay has a lot more to her than what meets the eye."
"Really, like what?" Zeke was getting interested.
"I don't want to tell." Troy smiled, "You'll have to wait and see."
Zeke nodded, "Ok, I understand that."
"Thank you," Troy said, "And thank you for not telling everyone about us."
"I would never do that, Troy." Zeke said, "You would know that if you spend more time with me and the team. But I guess you've been spending time with the girl in stead, eh?"
"Hmm," Troy said, "Tell me if I gets too sappy, but… I can't get enough of being with her. Just this weekend, we got together right after school Friday afternoon, and my dad dropped her off after the game. We spend every single minute of the weekend together. It was amazing."
"You don't get too sappy, Troy." Zeke said, "I'm kinda romantic too. I mean, if I had a girlfriend, I'd be just like you."
"Good, because I know Chad wont understand." Troy said, gesturing towards their friend, who was in one of the many arguments he had with Taylor everyday.
"I know, but that's their way of making things work." Zeke smiled, "Every couple does something different. What do you and Sharpay do?"
Troy thought about it, "I don't know… Everything just happens. We just have fun, and we can stare at each other forever without saying anything. It's really amazing."
Zeke let out a chuckle, "I'm happy for you man. You never really hit it off with Gabby, did you?"
Troy shook his head, "No, not really. And then Pay came along."
"Pay!" Zeke laughed, "That's a cute pet name. You guys are cute."
Troy just nodded.
He knew they were.
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Troy knocked on at the front door of the Evans' home, still a little flushed from the intense practise he had.
Sharpay opened the door, real quick, "Hi Troy!" she smiled, dragging him inside, "Are you tired?"
"A little." Troy admitted, "My dad was getting on my nerves a lot today."
"Oh, he wouldn't do that!" Sharpay laughed, "Come on upstairs with me. We have a music room with a piano and everything. We can really get started."
"So, what song did you choose for us?" Troy asked, "It has to be really good, since Gabriella and Ryan probably will do their best."
"It's a song from Hayden Panettiere's album, I already told you so." Sharpay said.
Just then they entered a big room. Troy was taken aback for a second. It was huge! There was all kinds of instruments, and a big sound system.
"Wow…" was all he managed to say.
"Yeah," Sharpay smiled, sitting down at the piano, "My father always said we needed the best. This way we'd have a better chance to grow and be something huge. He always wanted me to follow my acting skills and get in on Broadway, but I don't know… Maybe it's not really the right thing for me."
Troy sighed and sat down next to her, "There's a long time till then, Pay." He said, "Things can change until. Just wait a while and see what happens."
"Yeah, I know." she said, cracking her fingers, "My main concern is getting the leads now. We'll have to work hard, Troy. We have to be exceptional. We have to do something spectacular. You know why Mrs. Darbus always chose me and Ryan to do the leads?"
"Because you were the best?" Troy said, raising his eyebrows.
"No!" Sharpay smiled, "Because we did something no-one else did. We dared to do something different. And that's what's important in this business. You don't want to see the same thing over and over again. When a Caster is having auditions for a part in a movie or a play or whatever, they have hundreds, maybe thousands in for the same part."
Troy nodded, nudging her along. He wanted to see her point.
"And all of them can be good actors and actresses. They can all have been in things before where they were good. But they're all the same – they all have to do the same monologue, and the caster is looking for the one person who does it different from the others. That's how you become a great actor, Troy. You have to dare be different. Plus do what your heart tells you to do."
"Of course," Troy smiled, "That's important. So, what's this song called?"
"It's ´I Fly´" Sharpay simply replied.
"Okay, do you mind playing it for me? I don't know it."
"Of course not, silly!" Sharpay smiled, "But it's not really a duet, so we'll just split it up. And you know what I thought of? I thought it would be nice if I played the piano myself."
"Really?"
"Uh…" Sharpay got a dreamy look on her face and sighed, "I can just see myself… March right up there and wipe Kelsi off the chair. She think she's the only one who can play… well, she's WRONG!"
Troy chuckled, and Sharpay quickly joined him. After all, it was only a joke.
Then Sharpay made herself comfortable in the chair, and pressed a few keys. And then she begun…
"La La La La, La La La La
La La La La La La
La La La La, La La La La La
Six AM
Radio Playin'
Stumble out of bed
Runnin' out the door
A brand new day
Never thought I'd have this feeling
Never thought I'd get this far
But I'm okay
And I fly When I fly
I reach out my hands and touch the sky
That's right in front of me
And I try
Just let go, relax, enjoy the ride
And I feel free
When I fly
Thinkin' back
When there were days
I could barely make it out the door
So much doubt
Changed my mind
Change my ways
Wasn't gonna do this anymore
I turned around"
When she played the part before the chorus again, Troy quickly decided to join in. He could almost remember the lyrics from the chorus. He'd always been good remembering that kind of stuff.
"And I fly
I reach out my hands and touch the sky
That's right in front of me
And I try
Just let go, relax, enjoy the ride
And I feel free"
Sharpay smiled and him and shortly laughed.
"Like a butterfly Fly And I fly And I fly
Who lost his soul
I choose not to hide
Anymore
Oh oh oh
Fly
I close my eyes and kiss the sky
That's right in front of me
And I try
Just let back, relax, enjoy the ride
And I feel free
I reach out my hands and touch the sky
That's right in front of me
And I try
Just let go, relax, enjoy the ride
And I feel free
When I fly
When I fly
When I fly
When I fly
When I flyLa La La La, La La La La
La La La La La La
La La La La, La La La La"
She finished, pressing a few keys.
Troy clapped his hands together. "It's a beautiful song, but don't you think it would be better just sung by you?"
"Probably." Sharpay teased, "But seriously, I don't have any other ideas for a song for us, so I figured we might take a chance. I can play and sing, and you can sing."
"Okay," Troy then decided, "We'll do that song. And the monologue you've found for us."
Sharpay smiled and placed a kiss on his lips, "I thought so."
So, I decided to end this chapter here. I know it's not really great work and awfully short, but I'm back with more soon, I promise. Tomorrow or the day after, I can almost promise. I hope you guys liked this chapter, as some of you predicted, someone did see the game on TV, but I decided Zeke should be the only one, and he's nice, we like him, so he wont tell on them. But don't worry, there ain't too many chapters left, so the school will soon know. (maybe sooner than you guys think ;p) Thanks for reading anyway, and I'll go back to my All-American Rejects music again. I just changed it to listen to ´I Fly´ while I wrote, but I'm gonna switch back now :) And also, I do already have two story-lines up for new fics after this one is done, so you wont get a break from me too long, I hope that's ok, and that I'm not getting annoying. After all, I do leave ten feet long authors notes ;p
Friends quotes for the friends fans;
Joey: I mean, this soap opera is a great gig, but... am I missing opportunities? You know, I've always thought of myself as a serious actor. I mean, should I be trying to do more independent movies?
Mackenzie: (at the other end of the line) I don't know... You know what? I'm gonna put you on with my bear. Hold on. (she puts the phone at the bears ear)
Joey: Hey bear, I need some career advice.
Oh, lol, Joey crack me up, well all the Friends does. I'll catch you later, tootles, Stessa.