Battle of the Highs

Chapter 13

Sharpay's POV

I was getting ready to go dress shopping with the girls; Gabi, Becca, Beverly, Taylor, and Kelsi. My phone started ringing and I picked it up.

"Hello?" I said.

"Sharpay, it's uh me Kyle." he said smiling.

"Oh, Kyle what's up?" I asked him. I couldn't help but smile

"Well uh, Gabriella came to talk to me today and." he paused. "I'm really sorry about blaming everything on you, I should've known you wouldn't do something like that. She blamed everything on herself, she said you had nothing to do with it. As much as I didn't want to believe her, I did. So I told her I'd make up with you and I really hope you're not mad at me, and I hope you still wanna go to homecoming with me?" he said nervously.

I smiled bigger, Gabriella kept her word. No matter how mad I was at her, she was a great friend to me an amazing girlfriend to my brother. "I'd love to go to homecoming with you." I said smiling.

"She also told me, that we both have to wear white." he said.

"Why white?"

"I don't know, she just said white. Something having to do with how our schools are enemies and how I guess I'm surrendering?"

"Makes sense, I guess. Well white it is." I smiled into the phone.

"Well, bye Sharpay." he said.

"Bye Kyle." I hung up the phone and ran downstairs Gabriella and my brother were lip-locking at the front door. The door was still wide open, she wasn't even one step into the house. I tripped on the last step and they both pulled away. Troy started laughing and pointing, while Gabriella hit him and asked if I was okay.

"I'm fine." I answered smiling.

"Daniel what color are you and Becca wearing?" Gabriella asked him.

"Orange." he said.

"Orange what the hell kind of color?" Troy said.

"I think orange is pretty." I said.

"To bad nobody gives bloody hell about what you think." Troy said. Gabriella hit him again and then Daniel spoke.

"Don't talk to her like that, talk to her how you to Gabi." he said.

"Whatever." he rolled his eyes. "She's going to homecoming with that West High boy, she doesn't deserve respect."

"Sharpay, we really don't exactly like the idea of you going with him." Daniel said trying to be nice.

"Guys, me and Shar gotta go. We're meeting the girls there then going shopping, I'll bring her back before midnight." Gabriella laughed.

"Bring her before 10." Daniel said sternly. "There's a game tomorrow Gabriella!" Gabriella gave him a thumbs up then closed the front door. I got into the passenger seat of her car and saw Marcy Davis in the backseat.

"What's she doing here?" I asked her.

"I'm dropping her off." Gabriella said.

"Why, I thought you hated her." I whispered. Marcy sighed deeply.

"I don't hate my bestfriend." she spoke up. "I just needed to talk to her, we needed to make up before things get bad."

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"I can't-I can't tell you. If anyone finds out about this I'll have a ruined reputation." she said. I turned around and looked at Marcy and snorted.
"Well I didn't know your reputation was more important than your bestfriend." I snapped.

"I can't believe you just said that to me. You don't understand what will happen if Jordan-shit." she covered her mouth. Gabriella gasped and stopped the car and pulled over.

"What is Jordan making you do?" she asked her turning around.

"Fuck it, my house isn't too far. I'll just walk." Marcy said getting out of the car. Gabriella locked the door and glared at Marcy.

"Don't lie to me." she said sternly to the West High cheerleader.

"I can't tell you, I can warn you that you're gonna get hurt badly, and I don't want you to hate me or anything. If you need me just come talk to me, this is probably the last time we'll have a civilized conversation until after homecoming." Marcy sighed then picked up her stuff and got out of the car. She waved at us then started walking down the sidewalk. Who knew Marcy Davis had a heart? Who knew Marcy Davis gave a shit? Why is everyone at West High constantly talking about Homecoming to us? It's not that important seriously.

Gabriella sighed and looked at her friend walking down the sidewalk, she pulled off the curb and continued to drive to the mall.

"You okay?" I asked her.

"I-I'm fine. I just, I don't think I wanna go dress shopping anymore I'm feeling a little sick." she said. "I'll drop you off, and just tell everyone I wasn't feeling good."

"You're going home?" I asked her, she nodded then sighed.

"Yeah." she said gripping onto the steering wheel looking at the road.

"But why? Dress shopping should take your mind off everything."

"I just, I just wanna sleep for a few hours." she sighed.

"Come on Gabi, homecoming is in two weeks. You need to get a dress, you and brother are bound to be homecoming king and queen so you guys.. .Fabulous." I said smiling. Fabulous. Such a good word, but weird that I'm using it. She giggled at me and parked then looked at me.

"If I got a dollar everytime I heard you say that word, I'd only be able to shop off the dollar menu at McDonalds." she laughed at me.

"What, word? Fabulous. It's pretty explanitory word. Fabulous."

"Damnit, Sharpay. Shut up!" she snapped at me still laughed. We got out of the car.

"I thought you were going home?"

"You just brightened my daaaay!" she sang and hugged me. We got to the entrance and everyone else was there waiting for us.

"What took you guys so long, Kelsi and Taylor already started looking." Beverly said.

"Well then I guess we should too." Gabriella shrugged we walked into the mall and went into the first dress store we saw.

"What color should me and Troy wear?" she asked them.

"Pink!" Becca said cheerfully.

"Troy said no pink or related shades."

"How about, gold?" Beverly said looking at a gold dress.

Gabriella's POV

"No, to flashy." I shook my head.

"How about blue?" Sharpay asked me. I squinched I liked that color.

"Maybe-" I started until Kelsi said.

"No, me and Jason are wearing blue!" Kelsi said.

"Me and Chad are wearing red." Taylor said smiling.

"Who are you going with Beverly?" I asked her.

"Lucas McCartney, soccer player. Ring a bell?" she said smiling.

"I know him."

"We're wearing turquoise."

"Daniel and I are wearing orange."

"Me and Matthew are wearing light pink." Mia said smiling.

"What about you Sharpay, who are you even going with?" Beverly asked anxious.

"I'm probably gonna go by myself, I was just thinking of wearing white?" she said shrugging.

"How about yellow for you and Troy?" Becca said picking a yellow dress. My eyes widened it was gorgeous! I picked up the dress and tried it on, to my suprise it fit perfectly.

"I love it!" I said squealing. I looked at Becca she smiled at me. The dress was strapless, and form fitting. The chest area had gems on it, and the the skirt ruffled, it was above my knee in the front then in the back it went to the floor. I love this dress! Becca was in an orange dress, it was off the shoulder, one shoulder had a strap on it, while the other didn't. It stopped above her knee and had a one arm had a long sleeve while the other bare shoulder side didn't. It made her look hot!

"You look hot!" I said. Everyone came over and agreed, we both bought our dresses and went to the next store.

"Becca, I'm sorta jealous you're dress makes you look so hot." Beverly said truthful. Becca laughed and blushed.

"Thanks, I hope Daniel likes it."

"He will, trust me girl. He will love you in that dress." Mia said assuring her. I smiled at them.

We went into the next store and I ran over to this chili pepper red ball gown. It was floor length, and poofed up at the bottom while the top half had a corset top that was full of sliver rhinstones. I picked up and looked at Kelsi.

"This is beautiful." I said.
"I like this one!" she said pointing to the short version of the dress.

"That ones pretty to." I shrugged. "This one is gorgeous." I picked up another red dress it was short and looked like a pencil dress at the end of the dress if poofed up.

"I like this one still Gabi!" Kelsi said. "I'll try then all on!" she picked up the three dresses and I went over to Beverly. She screamed and picked up a dress.

"THIS IS MY DRESS!" she yelled. "THIS IS IT!" Picking up a turqoise dress that I couldn't exactly see.

"Beverly why are you yelling?" Mia asked.

"I'M SO HAPPY!" she screamed again happily.

We were at the mall for another five hours before we all got our dresses, shoes, and jewelry. We were walking to the pretzel store when we were stopped.

"Well, well, well look what we have here." we heard a deep voice. We all turned around and Marcus, he was with Jordan and one other guy I didn't recognize.

"Hey Gabriella. How are you? You look amazing, by the way." The guy I didn't recognize said.

"Um, right thanks." I nodded.

"Oh let me introduce you. This is Landon, Gabi." Jordan said.

"Oh." I said looking at him.

"Gabi, I must admit you look sexy right now. I mean if we were still together you wouldn't walk out the house like that." Jordan smirked at me.

"Stop calling me that." I cringed.

"You know what? You ladies all look rather tasteful. What are your boyfriends thinking letting you out of the house all alone?" Marcus said looking at us with lust in his eyes.

"Too bad none of us find, one of you attractive." Mia spoke up smirking.

"I'm pretty sure Gabi still finds me somewhat sexy. You always used to attack me-"

"I didn't ever attack you, Jordan and stop calling me Gabi." I said rolling my eyes. He walked up to me and grabbed my forearms.

"I love you, Gabi, you know I do. Just take me back and we could end this whole war, it's so easy." he whispered in my ear. I yanked my fore arms away from him.
"Maybe I wanna do it the hard way?" I said looking at him. I started walking away and everyone else followed me. I turned around and smiled at Jordan.

"Bye Babe." I said to him. He winked at me and I rolled my eyes. We got outside the mall and looked at eachother.

"Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" Becca asked mother-like.

"No, Becca I'm fine." I shook my head. I smiled at her.

"I don't wanna go home." Beverly groaned.

"You guys wanna hang out at my house?" I asked them shrugging.

"Would your parents mind?" Kelsi asked unsure.

"My parents are always gone." I said. "I have a pool?" I said.

"Yeah! Lets go swimming!" Mia said cheerfully.

"Girls Night In?" Beverly asked.

"I think yes!" Taylor said smiling.

Marcy's POV

I walked over to Jordan's house. I knocked on the door and Kyle opened it. I smiled at him. "Uh, hey Kyle is Jordan here?"

"No, um you wanna come in?" he asked.

"Yes, uh. Where's your brothers room?" I looked around.

He pointed to the door with a big yellow 'J' on it. She nodded. "Uh, right." I went into his room and saw his computer still open I went over to it and opened the recording up, I was gonna delete when I heard Jordan's voice downstairs. I slammed the laptop closed.

"What are you doing?" Jordan smiled at me. "Pleasent surprise seeing you here." he chuckled.

I picked up the laptop and looked at him. "Jordan, you need to leave her alone."

"Leave who alone, and why?" he asked smirking.

"You know who, she's my bestfriend she trusts me. I don't want-"

"Whatever bitch, just give me back my computer." he went toward me and I yanked it back away from him.

"No. Leave Gabriella alone-"

"Marcy!" he growled. I tripped backwards the computer slipped out of my fingers and fell out the window that was wide open. My eyes widened, I looked out the window to see the laptop broken, in two pieces. "Marcy, Marcy, Marcy." he shook his head. "I guess you do want the whole school to see your video, don't you?" he looked at me angry.

"No, Jordan please don't." I begged him.

"Why not? You broke my computer." he smirked. "You know what, I have something for you to do."

"W-What is it?" I asked him nervously.

"I think you already know what I'm going to say." he smirked at me.

"Jordan, no I can't I-"

"Okay, let me send that video.."

"FINE, FINE I'll do it!" I yelled looking at him.

"Great." he smirked at me.