Troy picked up the old guitar he found in the closet while looking for a hammer. He ended having to run to the store so he could hang up a curtain in the living room. How they made it this far without having any tools in the house was amazing. Shaking his head he strummed the guitar gently. In high school he was in band for all of one summer. Looking up at the blank wall he thought back to that summer, hanging out in his friends garage. Signing and messing around with their instruments. Not a care in the world. Pre-Angela.
His fingers strummed the guitar again searching for some kind of purpose. Then quietly a song from the past came forward. "I died so many years ago, But you can make me feel like it isn't so," Troy sang softly as he strummed the guitar, his eyes watching his fingers move. "That's great, But I don't wanna play, 'Cause being with you touches me, more than I can say and since I'm only dead to you I'm saying stay away and let me rest in peace." Troy picked up the tempo memories intertwining with emotions. "Let me rest in peace, let me get some sleep let me take my love and bury it in a hole 6 foot deep."
A sharp knocked jerked his attention and he slammed a flat hand over the cords as he looked up to find Gabriella in the door way. "Buffy fan?"
Troy let out a sigh, "I didn't know anyone was home," her hair was pulled back in a low pony tail, she was wearing low rise jeans and plain white t-shirt. Her clothes were so ordinary and yet on her they looked anything but.
"Well, we just got in." Gabriella said leaning on the door frame, she was bare foot.
"Long day?" Troy asked putting the guitar off to the side. Why was he making small talk?
Gabriella shrugged. "Two scenes, girl on girl action. Nothing too crazy."
Troy nodded his head slowly as the idea began to take form in his head. Her skin on someone else's her fingers along soft skin her lips touching lips and soon enough he was shaking his head to clear the images. "Not crazy at all."
"Do you want to help us make dinner?" Gabriella motioned toward the kitchen. "We're making tacos."
A small smile pulled on his lips and Troy looked around his room and nodded. "Sure thing," Troy dusted of his pants and got off the bed.
"So do you always sit alone in your room and play songs from the Buffy Soundtrack."
Troy rolled his eyes, "Can we just pretend you didn't hear that."
"Sure we'll just put that right up there with the whole masturbating incident and taking pictures conversation." She teased with a playful nudge.
Gabriella and Troy chuckled as they came into the kitchen where Sharpay was chopping up onions. "Hey you two," Sharpay said with a raised brow. "What's so funny?"
"Nothing," Gabriella said with a smirk. "I call chopping up green peppers." Gabriella said making her way to the fridge.
"That leaves me with?" Troy looked at both girls.
"Have you ever seasoned taco meat?" Sharpay asked.
"A time or too," Troy said with a small nod. "Angela use to like my cooking."
"So you cooked in the relationship?" Gabriella said rising a brow to Sharpay.
"Yes," Troy said shooting Gabriella a warning look. "What?"
"Nothing," Gabriella said walking past him. "I was just asking, it's not often I meet a guy who cooks."
Troy let out a huff and took the meat from the grocery bag, "Well then, prepare to be amazed." He said winking at Sharpay. He began to fish out a bowl and some other items. He looked up at the window were a small radio was playing pop rock songs, he recognized the iPod in plugged in.
"So about Zeke?" Gabriella said with a raise brow. "Someone still hasn't dished the goods?" she teased splitting the green pepper in half.
"Well he really sweet, and charming. And funny. And smart. And built. And tall." Sharpay giggled a little and then went back to chopping the onion.
"I don't know he looked a little short." Troy smirked in Gabriella direction as he brought a bowl to the table so he could season the meat.
"Well we knew all the boring stuff about him, what's the dirt and don't leave out the details?" Gabriella said with as she chopped.
"And when she says that she means anything remotely sex related you can leave out." Troy said looking at Sharpay with raised brow before adding the seasoning.
Gabriella narrowed her eyes at Troy then at Sharpay, "He's no fun." She said with a pout.
Sharpay rolled her eyes, "We didn't have sex." Sharpay let out sigh, "We had coffee, we went for a walk."
"How long have you guys been talking?" Troy asked.
"3 months." Sharpay said with a sigh.
"You've sucked a man's dick in front of a camera after knowing him for 3 minutes but it took you three month to meet a guy for coffee?" Gabriella pointed out and gave Troy a frustrated look.
"That's different," Troy said before Sharpay could respond.
"Thank you," Sharpay said flinging a small piece of onion her way.
"It's all pink in the dark." Gabriella said under her breath.
Troy narrowed his eyes at Gabriella and shook his head. "Are you going to see him again?" Troy said with a shrug. "Seems like you two hit it off."
"Tomorrow we're going to go see a movie." Sharpay said looking over at Gabriella, "Think like a man, act like a lady I think it's called?"
"Why cause he's black?" Gabriella said with a confused expression.
"Oh my god." Sharpay quickly covered her mouth. "I just suggest a movie because it was a romantic comedy you think he think I'm racist do you?"
Troy looked from one girl to the other. "No." He said with a shrug. "It's a chick flick." Troy smiled. "It has nothing to do with his race."
"Yea beside you stared in My Big Black Boyfriend." Gabriella smiled. "Wasn't there like five black guys in that orgy?"
Troy shut his eyes and cursed under his breath, "Do you have any kind of filter or is it just a straight line from your vagina to the mouth?"
Sharpay let out a loud laugh as she tossed her head back in laughter. Gabriella mouth hung agape as she gave him a shocked expression. "Wow," she said as she fell into the laughter as well. "I think we're a bad influence on you, did you just say vagina?"
"Yes," Troy said a little shocked himself.
Gabriella and Sharpay laughed even harder and Troy began to chuckle himself. Gabriella jumped up and down and ran over to the iPod raising the song. "I love this song." She began rocking her hips as Miley Cyrus played who owns my heart over the radio.
Sharpay tossed her hands up and danced back to back with Gabriella. Both girls began to sing along to the song and danced crazy barefoot in the kitchen. Troy smirked as he watched the girls, as if they were teenagers instead of full grown woman. Free to be who they were as they were not afraid of what people thought of them or changing themselves for anyone.
Suddenly before he knew what was happening Gabriella pulled him into the mix and they were all giggling and fist pumping. Never in a million years did he ever image himself fist pumping in the middle of the kitchen to a Miley Cyrus song.
Gabriella took a sip of her wine before they all collapsed onto the couch. "Dinner was good you guys." Gabriella said lifting her glass in a toast. "I say Friday night is officially taco night."
"Here, here!"Sharpay said with please cry.
"And here is to Sharpay who has hopefully met her dream guy and will be getting laid sometime in the near future." Gabriella let out a laugh and flew back.
"Here, here!" Sharpay said with giggling cheer.
Troy was quite for a moment as he looked at both girls oddly. "I don't get it?"
"What's that?" Gabriella said sitting up on the couch and placing her glass on the table.
"I mean you guys get …'laid' everyday?" Troy said making air quotes around the word laid.
Sharpay rolled her eyes. "That is such a guy way of thinking."
"I'm sorry?" Troy looked back at Gabriella with a confused expression.
"Getting laid and shooting porn are two very different things." Gabriella said crossing her legs. "When we're making a movie its more about putting on a show." Gabriella motioned to Sharpay. "When I'm eating her out its straining my neck, jaw, and tongue because I'm coming in on a side angle so that there's room for the camera guy."
"And not to mention sometimes off scene we need help keeping our legs that open for that long." Sharpay rubbing her thighs, "We have to be in some of those positions for hours at a time."
"Not to mention if you're on scene with an asshole." Gabriella added "Everyone who's been in the business long enough as a list and rules."
Sharpay sipped her wine. "I hate breaking in new guys, they never know how to fuck right."
"What's a list?" Troy said looking back at Gabriella.
"People I will fuck." Gabriella said "I am extremely picky about who I sleep with, I don't sleep with anyone outside the business and currently I rotate between 5 or 6 guys, and you have to come highly recommended for me to sleep with someone outside my circle."
Troy made a mental note of her answer, not that he wanted to sleep with her, it just made life easier knowing the possibility wasn't there. He could help but be curious about their lives, interested in the things they must have seen or the stories that they had. He could ask questions for hours if they would let him.
Sharpay nodded. "Yeah sometimes you just don't have chemistry." She said with a shrug. "I met a guy last month and we clicked, you know, we flirted a little we made jokes it was awesome and I was actually looking forward to the scene." Sharpay rolled her eyes and frowned in disgust. "He had no rhythm, we couldn't quite match up and his penis was…" Sharpay hooked her finger, "A little too much to the right."
Gabriella let out a sigh. "I remember him you ended up working almost all day on that scene. Four hours of being posed on a desk doggie style so we can piece together 25 minutes of footage." Gabriella shook her head.
Troy nodded as he took in the information; it was different from what he expected to hear. "If its so bad then why do you guys do it?"
"I like sex, I like money, I like being my own boss." Gabriella leaned back on the couch. "I mean having my script produced is huge and it might even help me make a transition to the main stream but I'm always going to be a porn star at heart."
"I like being watched." Sharpay smirked. "I mean it's fulfilling fantasies I'd never have a chance to otherwise." Sharpay said with shrug.
"What do you mean?" Troy asked taking a sip of his wine.
"Well when will I ever get the chance to be in the middle of a gangbang where I control everything and everyone is clean and professional." Sharpay said excitement, "Plus I've had sex in some strange awesome places."
Troy nodded and shook his head. "I guess that's a plus."
Gabriella shrugged. "I mean don't get the wrong idea, we learn to master our bodies in a way lots of people don't, we get to experiment , feel new things and take those feelings to an extreme. When you find the right partners like I have it becomes enjoyable because you have that familiar but different chemistry with everyone."
"What about relationships, I mean like your marriage did it end because you wanted to do porn?" Troy asked looking back at Gabriella.
"No, Ricky was just as ass." Gabriella said with a shrug. "When I decided to do it, it was after that year I spent in jail, I was at my lawyers house and he had some porn sitting in his home office and I simply asked if he knew anyone." Gabriella smiled and shrugged. "He introduced me to George and the rest was history."
"You spent a year in Jail!" Troy exclaimed.
"Drug trafficking," Gabriella rolled her eyes, "Just another reason for my failed marriage to Ricky. I mean I got out on good behavior and overcrowding."
"You spent a year in jail."Troy said looking back at Sharpay then at Gabriella. "How am I only just now hearing about this?"
"Well I don't know?" Gabriella reached for her wine glass and lifted it to her lips. "Does that bother you?"
"God no, I just have like 50 new questions." Troy said looking at Gabriella with a shocked expression. The girls giggled and Troy shook his head, "I mean you guys just live in this new amazing world that I just can't image."
"Well what about you," Sharpay asked kicking off her socks with her toes. "How is that job of yours?"
"It sucks," Troy said with a laugh, " I mean this girl Sam, she's seventeen and she's real cool to talk to and she really want to learn about photography but I need to start pulling in some cash or else I'm just not going to make it." Troy said with a shrug.
"Well I can always send some girls your way?" Gabriella said with a shrug.
"Have you ever thought of doing pretty girl photos?" Sharpay asked.
Troy raised a brow, "I'm afraid to ask?"
"Well be we go into our scenes we take pictures, like a photo shoot for the movie cover and posters." Sharpay said holding out a hand.
"Their called Pretty Girl Photos," Gabriella added.
Sharpay shrugged, "If you're as good as you say the industry is always looking for a good camera man, someone who isn't a slime ball."
"Yes," Gabriella said with a disgusted frown. "Some guys will only take pictures of you with your clothes off or will only do it for sexual favors."
"It puts that dark creepiness into the industry," Sharpay shivered and then stretched out with a yawn.
"Say the word and I know a few girls looking to get there head shots taken, you can charge like grand for one photo shoot for like three hours, start off small then go big." Gabriella said with a shrug. "A guy like you could make a killing."
"A guy like me?" Troy questioned.
"You're a sweetie," Sharpay said with smirk. "Girls will adore you,"
"Yeah you're… a real gentlemen." Gabriella said with a small shrug.
Troy thought about for a moment and then slowly began to see the possibilities. "You know what, let's do It." he said looking from Gabriella to Sharpay. "Let me get some cards made up and we can go from there."
"Deal." Gabriella said holding up her glass. "To Troy someday paying his half of the rent."
"Here, Here!" everyone cheered.