Chapter 21: Four Thanksgivings and a Nervous Breakdown

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November 30, 2008 5:23 PM

Amanda pulled up in front of the Albuquerque Airport to pick up Marc and Nikki.

"Shouldn't there be a kissing couple in the backseat of the car?" Marc asked as he placed his luggage in the trunk.

"Shar never lets anybody use her car." Nikki said as she sat in the front seat of the car.

"The happy couple is currently recovering from a weekend spent with crazy family and even crazier frienemies. I will never complain about my family being dysfunctional ever again. Troy, Sharpay and Chad's families make mine look like the Cosby family."

"It couldn't be that bad." Marc said as he got in the backseat. "It's not like anybody got arrested."

"Actually multiple people were arrested."

"Somebody got arrested on thanksgiving?" Nikki asked as she put her seatbelt on.

"It was probably black Friday. Sharpay got into a fight over a pair of Jimmy Choo."

"Black Friday was pretty tamed compared to the previous two days. On the day before thanksgiving, Chad and Sharpay got arrested for getting into a fight with Sharpay's ex boyfriend. In the end, nobody pressed charges. "

"I don't get why Chad and Sharpay are so upset about her ex doing the same thing they did to Taylor." Nikki said snidely.

"It wasn't the same thing. Zeke slept with Penelope for months with no intention of ever telling Sharpay. At least Chad and Sharpay actually apologize to Taylor." Amanda said defending her friends.

"What else happened?"

"Nikki you will be happy to know you no longer have the youngest sibling in the group. Chad is getting brand new twin half siblings by a girl he went to high school with."

"Why does this all sound like something straight out of a soap opera?" Nikki asked her friend.

"All of Thursday was something straight out of a soap opera. The cops were called in. Two people were arrested at a very Bolton thanksgiving. Some couples got together. Several others broke up. On top of that one person is currently undergoing a psychiatric evaluation."

"I always assumed Sharpay was a little off. Let me guess Chad dumped her and she went off the deep end." Marc said with a little laugh.

"Okay now you're just being ridiculous. Actually, one of the things you're taking bets on has occurred." Amanda said to the other two.

"Which one?" Both of her friends asked her.

"We're starting this story at the beginning. Nikki can you please get my new phone out of my bag and look at the photo gallery?" Nikki quickly did as Amanda instructed.

"Why do you have a picture of two older people making out on your phone?" Nikki asked as she pulled up the file.

"That's Chad's mom making out with Alex's grandfather."

Thursday November 27, 2008 6:23 AM

"I thought I wouldn't be waiting for someone to sneak in until Alex got into high school." Kim said to her almost father in law as he tried to sneak into her house carrying a backpack.

"I thought you'd still be asleep."

"Alex is spending the night with my dad and Troy's here. Do you honestly think we're going to be sleeping?"

"Not really."

"I would still be basking in post orgasmic bless if I didn't receive a text message from Amanda this morning." Kim said as she passed her cell Phone to Jack.

"I really don't need to hear details about your sex life with my son."

"I didn't need to find out about you doing the exact same thing with Chad's mom. Just be happy that Troy was unconscious when I open the message." Kim noticed Jack go completely pale when she said that.

"Oh god," was all Jack said as he sat on the couch.

"I know that your marriage is already falling apart. I don't even like Lucy and I think what you did was stupid. What were you thinking? Cheating doesn't solve anything. This type of behavior leads to baseball bats in Plasma televisions.

"It is not what it looks like." Jack said in his defense.

"So you're not groping Ms. Sanchez's breast in that picture? " Kim said in a yelling whisper. There was no way she wanted Troy to wake up and here this conversation.

"Things are more complicated than that."

"Please tell me what could justify you doing something this stupid. You slept with Chad's mother. You are like a second father to him. You slept with his mother when you were still married to Troy's mother."

Instead of responding to her verbally Jack handed her the letter that the lawyer gave him yesterday. If she didn't already hate Lucille Bolton she would despise her now. Good thing Alex was at her dad's house because she started referring to Lucille by every expletive known to man.

"Are you done screaming?"

"I need to break something. Just tell me this, did you take off your wedding ring before or after you slept with Chad's mother?"

"I threw it at Lucy when I ask for a divorce last night."

"That explains why the bitch called us. At least you technically ended your marriage before you screw Chad's mom." Kim said sarcastically as she sat next to him on the couch.

"I am not telling Troy or Chad about what happened. As far as Troy is concern you were here all night. You will have to tell both of them eventually. Things have a way of coming out."

"You're probably right."

"There's some really good divorce lawyers at Vanessa's firm. Since I'm a major contributing factor in this divorce, I probably should pay for it."

"No you're not. Other than what she did to you and Troy there's still the fact she slept with a 23 year old."

"How dare she call me a pedophile? She is sleeping with someone that is only five years older than Troy."

"Lucy has always been a firm believer in 'do as I say, not as I do'."

"I hope you're not like that. I really don't want to have a brother or sister younger than my own child."

"It's a little too late for that considering your stepmom is pregnant."

"What do you mean Vanessa is pregnant?" Kim yelled so loud that she woke up Troy.

Breakfast was unbelievably tense and Chad didn't even know his mother screwed his best friend's father last night. Amanda couldn't even look at Chad during breakfast. She promised Kim she wouldn't say anything. Chad's mother definitely looked guilty. She didn't make eye contact with Chad and Sharpay once during the entire breakfast.

The ride to the first thanksgiving was worse. Chad kept making cutting remarks about his father not telling him about Tiffany. Amanda started laughing when Charles answered his son by saying, "This isn't the type of thing you break over the telephone. I thought it would be best if I told you in person."

Chad was going to continue, but Sharpay stopped him with the following: "Taylor, fountain video, baseball bat."

Amanda actually spent the drive talking with Tiffany about their common major. Tiffany prepared Amanda for the horrors of organic chemistry. Amanda found out from Tiffany that Chad will have a brand new brother and sister by February 14.

Amanda walked up to the door of Great Aunt Claudia's home with Chad and Sharpay.

"Since there your family shouldn't you be in front?" Amanda asked the two hiding behind her.

"My dad side of the family is nicer to non relatives."

"Cowards" Amanda said as she rang the doorbell. An Older woman who looked like a darker version of Chad with less wild hair was hugging him.

"You've grown so much sense I saw you last year." Chad's Great Aunt Claudia said before grabbing onto Amanda. "You must be Sharpay. I've heard all sorts of wonderful things about you."

"Aunt Claudia," Chad said trying to correct the woman.

"I absolutely love your hair."

"Aunt Claudia."

"Where did you get your extensions done? They almost look real."

"That's because they are." Amanda said in annoyance as she pushed the woman away. "Before we continue this parody of a scene from an Ashton Kutcher film, I should let you know I'm not Sharpay. The very angry girl behind me is your nephew's girlfriend." Amanda said pointing to Sharpay as Chad try to calm her down.

"Please tell me you're not Charles's new girlfriend. I know my nephew likes his girlfriend's young, but I hope not this young."

"I'm Sharpay's roommate. I'm here to make sure they keep the PDAs down to a minimum. The pregnant 21 year old is the mother of your brand new Great niece and nephew."

Troy walked to his future father in law's house with his father beside him. His girlfriend was still ranting about no longer being an only child. If her suspicions about Taylor were true, she already had a stepsister.

"Did you have to tell her about Vanessa?" Troy asked his father.

"It was an accident."

"There are other reasons I'm upset such as the fact that after I get through this family lunch I am going to have to go to your mom's house."

"Last night we agreed to give her one more chance."

"That was last night. Circumstances change." Kim said quickly as she kissed Troy. "I just want to go inside, see my son, and yell at my father. How can they do this to Alex? He's going to be two years older than his aunt or uncle. They're going to make fun of him in school." Kim said this as she knocked on the door.

"Taylor's mother let them inside the house and promptly confiscated their cell phones. Vanessa wanted a blackberry free thanksgiving. Troy noticed his son playing with a plush basketball with Jason. As they walked inside his dad quickly grabbed the ball to play with Alex. That's when Troy realized his father wasn't wearing his wedding ring anymore.

Caroline walked through the main mansion in a restless state. She had nothing to do but think about what she did last night until she had to leave for her mother's house in one hour.

In the harsh light of day, she realizes how stupid she was. No matter how she tried to justify it, she did the exact same thing to Lucy that Tiffany did to her. Maybe it was worse because she just slept with her best friend of 18 years. A friend that was slowly becoming the one person she trusted the most.

She slept with the father of her son's best friend. Jack was almost another father to Chad. Jack was a better father to Chad than Charles ever was. What was she thinking? It didn't matter that Lucy was already doing the same to Jack.

To keep her mind off her colossal mistake, she decided to check out her son's room. She knew that Chad and Sharpay shared a room. There were too many boxer shorts and T shirts for this room to solely belong to Sharpay.

As she walked into the room, she noticed her son's boxers lying on the floor. He still couldn't pick up after himself and apparently his girlfriend had the same habit.

She quickly through the offending garments in the large laundry basket located in the walk in closet. If she didn't know better she would assume this was the bedroom of a married couple. Caroline wasn't sure she wanted her son in this serious of a relationship at 17. At least her son was actually in love with Sharpay and Sharpay loved him. That was when she heard her phone ring.

"What are you doing?" Jack asked her from the other side of the phone. She was surprised that after everything that happened the night before that he actually called.

"I am surprised you called."

"I told you I would. Despite everything, we're still friends.

"I'm just kind of worried. You're my best friend. I don't want to lose that. Especially if yesterday was just a onetime thing.

"Do you want this to be a onetime thing?"

"I don't want this to be just a drunken mistake. It's just everything is complicated. I'm in DC now and I don't think I will move back here. We probably should have had this conversation before I let you take off my clothes last night."

"Probably, it was so much fun at the time. I personally would like a repeat performance tonight. I'll settle to know what you're wearing right now. "

"No repeat performances until the papers are signed. I'm definitely not having phone sex with you in the room my son shares with his girlfriend. Chad and Sharpay act so much like a happily married couple it's scary. I wanted him to have the childhood I didn't have. He's practically married at 17." Caroline said with a sigh as she walked over to the desk and sat down in the chair.

"Caroline I know you. You want Chad to have the life you didn't have. Just as your father wanted you to have the life he didn't have. Did you ever think that maybe Chad should get to live the life he wants to live?"

"This is coming from the man that pushed his son had first into basketball. You completely freaked out when Troy tried out for a play."

"I eventually came on board. Although I kind of wished I put my foot down about Berkeley. Things would be so much easier right now, if Troy was at A of U."

"Now you want Troy in New Mexico for Alex and Kim, not basketball. You are evolving."

A very Danforth thanksgiving was not going well. At least three other relatives including Chad's grandmother assumed Amanda was her.

Chad's grandmother already hated her because she had no kitchen skills whatsoever. It wasn't her fault she grew up with a personal chef. Chad was just as bad as she was. As her and Chad were being kicked out of the kitchen she heard Chad's aunt Esther say "Thank god she's rich, otherwise they would starve." Maybe she and Chad should take couple's cooking lessons next year.

After the kitchen incident, Sharpay had to keep Amanda from getting into a fight with Aunt Claudia. Amanda and Claudia were having a conversation about Amanda's major when they started to talk about her learning disability. Aunt Claudia managed to say five of the seven things never to say to a person with a non-visible disability within a 5-minute period. Sharpay was able to pull Amanda out before she began yelling at Aunt Claudia for her use of the R word and the term handicap.

By the time they actually sat down for lunch Sharpay was ready to leave. The fact that they assigned her and Chad to the kiddies table made her want to leave faster. Chad six year old nephew kept throwing food at her. Adding greater insult to injury was the fact Amanda was invited to sit at the adults table.

"I can't believe they're letting Amanda sit at the adults table." Sharpay said in annoyance to her boyfriend.

"I told you my family would treat non relatives better. They assume that because were related by blood we have to forgive them for their stupid behavior." Chad said as he grabbed a piece of Turkey off her plate.

"Can I sit with you and Sharpay? Tiffany asked as she gestured to the empty seat next to Chad.

"Shouldn't you be sitting with my dad at the adults table? " Chad asked in surprise.

"Your Aunt Esther gave the last seat to Amanda. Your family loves Amanda. She's the brilliant premed major and I am the whore that sleeps with 40 year old men. They don't want to know that I have a 3.9 GPA or I have my choice of any med school in the country." Tiffany said as she took a seat next to Chad.

"Welcome to the family. Mom and I were the black sheep of this family. They only reason they tolerate me is because I am a up and coming star on the A of U basketball team." Chad said to Tiffany and Sharpay.

"Why do they treat you like that?" Tiffany asked Chad.

"A million different reasons, none of them I want to talk about. Next year you and my new brother and sister will be forced to deal with the wrath of the Danforth family."

"At least you are not denying the existence of your new brother and sister. Considering your reaction yesterday I figured you state in denial about the entire situation until the twins got here."

"I was just a little surprised because he never told me that he was dating someone else." Sharpay notice a very angry expression on Tiffany's face.

"Charles told me that you knew all about our relationship and the twins. I'm not that surprise considering the bastard never can tell the truth. It's not the first time he has lied to me. 'No the condom didn't break' 'I not married.' I'm pretty sure I love you was a lie to." Chad was too much in shock to pick up on the true meaning behind Tiffany's angry words.

"What are you talking about Tiffany?" Chad asked as things started to come together.

"They never told you." Tiffany said in an almost whisper.

"Tell me what?"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to. He told me that him and your mom were already divorced. I didn't know he was lying until she walked in on us." At this point Tiffany was crying hysterically.

Sharpay was expecting her boyfriend to start screaming at Tiffany and his father. He didn't say a word. He just calmly got up from the table. Before Sharpay had time to grab onto a crying Tiffany, Chad had knocked his father out of his chair.

"How the fuck could you have done that to mom? How could you cheat on her with someone who is barely older than me? Tiffany didn't even know you were married, because you lied to her."

"You don't have a right to be high and mighty. You did the exact same thing to Taylor." Charles spat back from the floor.

"I didn't with sleep was someone else while I was dating Taylor." Chad said angrily.

"You did fall in love with another person."

"I wasn't married to Taylor. I didn't promise her till death do us part. Unlike you, I realize what I did was wrong. Sharpay also knew full well that I had another girlfriend. Did you ever apologized to mom for what you did? Did you apologize to Tiffany? No you probably blamed me like you always do for all your problems. I'm the reason why you didn't get to play in the NBA. I'm the reason why you were in a marriage that you hated. Are you going to blame the new kids for all your problems now?" Chad said yelling at his father.

"You and your mother were the reason why I didn't get to do a lot of things. Why should I apologize to your mother? She did the same to me."

"What are you talking about?"

"When I was with Tiffany your mom was screwing her best friend behind my back."

"Mom would never do that to you. I know you two never loved each other and the only reason why you got married was because of me. However, mom actually took her marriage vows seriously. Unlike you, Coach Bolton is not a self satisfying prick who is only concerned with getting off." When Chad mentioned Coach Bolton Amanda's entire body went rigid.

"Please get off your pedestal and see reality. Everybody is a sinner including you." As Charles said the words to his son, Chad turned around and ran out of the house.

She and Amanda quickly made their apologies and got out. As soon as they were safely outside Sharpay asked Amanda, "Why did you freeze up in their?"

"I can't tell you." Amanda said in a whisper.

"You know something?"

"This morning I woke up early to work on the English paper from hell. When I went to get some cereal, I ended up taking this picture." Amanda said as she passed the phone to sharpay. Sharpay accidentally dropped Amanda's phone in a puddle when she saw the picture of her high school gym teacher groping her boyfriend's mother.

Present

"He actually punched out his father." Marc asked in surprise

"Yes."

"Did they call the cops?"

"According to Tiffany, no. We were already gone by that point. As we were leaving the dysfunctional Danforth family, things were going to hell at the Kim house."

November 27, 2008 12:06 PM

Kim was having a very hard time at her parents' house. The entire time she was helping Vanessa in the kitchen she wanted to ask her about the pregnancy and Taylor. She never could because someone would always walk in.

The entire morning she felt like she was walking on eggshells. Maybe that's why she exploded during dinner. It probably did not help that she was already on her third glass of wine.

They were going around the table saying what they were thankful for, when Vanessa and her father took the opportunity to announce the birth of their new child. By May, Kim was going to have a brand new baby sister.

"I'm certainly not thankful for the replacement child." Kim said under her breath, but everybody still heard her.

"Kim we are not replacing you. I will always love you." Mr. Kim said as he grabbed Kim's hand. Kim just pushed him away.

"I know you're not trying to replace me. You're trying to replace Taylor." Kim didn't mean to say the name out loud. The look on Mr. and Mrs. McKessie faces proved her suspicions. Taylor was the daughter Vanessa gave up 19 years ago.

"Kim can we not talk about this now?" Vanessa pleaded with Kim.

"Don't you think it's time everything comes out. There's so many secrets going on in this room and I'm so tired of it." With that Kim ran out the door and Troy followed her.

"Troy go back inside. Give me a little time." Kim pleaded with her boyfriend.

"I am not going to leave you like this." Troy said wrapping his arms around her. "Besides I need to know if you know why my father isn't wearing his wedding ring. Was that another one of the secrets you were referring to?"

"It's on the list. You're going to have to ask your dad."

"Does it have anything to do with my dad sleeping with Chad's mom?"

"How do you know about that?" Kim asked as she stopped walking.

"I overheard them talking on the phone upstairs when I went to get Alex a different pair of shoes."

"Things are really complicated. Go back inside and talk to your dad. Meet me at the Starbucks down the street in 90 minutes. You guys need time to talk and I just need to calm down."

"You have 90 minutes to calm down and then I'm coming to get you."

"Thank you," Kim said as she kissed Troy quickly before she left.

Jason has always been observant. He always picked up on the fact that Taylor acted a lot more like Aunt Vanessa than mom and dad. Taylor even looked more like Aunt Vanessa. There was also the fact that Aunt Vanessa was helping to pay for Taylor's education. Now everything made sense.

"Taylor's not my sister?" Jason asked as soon as Kim and Troy were out to the door.

"Of course Taylor is your sister." Jason's mom said trying to calm him down.

"I'm not talking about in a legal or in an emotional way. Is Taylor my biological sister?"

"No," Vanessa answered for of both his parents. "Taylor is my biological daughter. When she was born, I wasn't able to keep her for various reasons. Your mom and dad being the loving people they are, offered to take care of her and let me still be part of her life."

"Does she know?" Jason asked all in the room.

"No," Jason's father said in a near whisper.

"Were you ever going to tell us?" Jason said as he got up from the table and ran up the stairs.

"Jason," that was the last thing he heard his mother say as he walked himself in Alex's room.

30 minutes later Jason snuck out the second floor window.

The ride to his grandmother's house was unbelievably tense. Neither Amanda nor Sharpay said a single word on the way there. If it wasn't for Sharpay holding his hand the entire time he would think he was alone. He wished someone would talk so he wouldn't have to think about what his father said.

At first he didn't believe his father. There was no way his mother would cheat on his dad. Then again, he never thought he would cheat on Taylor. Everyone thought Chad was a carbon copy of his father. In reality he was much more like his mother.

Chad was convince his father only saw Tiffany as a sex toy that he accidentally got pregnant. Chad would never cheat on his girlfriend for just sex. That is why every time Penelope proposition him he ran away screaming. Nevertheless, he did cheat on Taylor by falling in love with someone else and making out with that person. If he could fall in love with someone else during a committed relationship Chad knew his mom could do the same.

His mom and Coach Bolton have always had a really close friendship. Almost like him and Sharpay during their denial phase. As Sharpay pulled in front of his grandmother's house Chad realized how highly probable it was for him and Troy to end up steps siblings.

Other than his strange thoughts about his mom, thanksgiving with his mom's family was going much better. No one assumed that Amanda was his girlfriend or put their foot in their mouths

Because they arrived an hour earlier than they were supposed to, they were currently helping get things together. Amanda was setting the table with his aunt Mariah as Chad and Sharpay helped in the kitchen. Chad's Grandmother Katherine was actually showing Sharpay how to do something in the kitchen instead of expecting her to know automatically. Chad started laughing hysterically when Sharpay ended up covered in putting due to problems with a hand mixer.

"Laugh all you want. The only reason I'm not throwing this pudding on you is I forgot to bring you a back up outfit."

"I'm not laughing at you." Chad said as he walked over and grabbed one of her pudding covered hands.

"Yes you are."

"Maybe, but I like this look." Chad said as he placed the pudding covered finger in his mouth and began to suck on it.

"That's enough of that. I would like to be at least 65 before I have my first great grandchild."

"Sorry grandma," Chad said letting go of Sharpay's hands.

"Sharpay you can get cleaned up in the bathroom down the hall. Your boyfriend and I will go get your back up outfit." Just grandmother said as they walked out of the house.

"I like her. She's definitely less pretentious then your last girlfriend. At least she offered to help, though the poor child doesn't know how to use a hand mixer. She did not start yelling at me for perpetuating the female stereotype of the homemaker." Chad's grandmother said as they grabbed Sharpay's outfit out of the Lexus.

"You never had the opportunity to meet high school Sharpay. Let's just say pretentiousness was a major component of her personality. Sharpay doesn't know how to cook because she grew up with servants to do that for her. One of us is going to have to take cooking lessons otherwise we're going to starve. I doubt we will want to live off takeout once were married."

"So this is a serious relationship?"

"Yes, I really do love her."

"Why do love her? Because if you only love her for her looks and good sex, you're in trouble. Those things can go way in time."

"We have not had sex yet."

"Maybe one of my babies will actually be able to wear white on their wedding without it being a farce."

"I love Sharpay because she understands me and I understand her. She supports me even when she thinks I'm being crazy. I've never trust anybody more than her. I know her secrets and she knows mine. We talked things out instead of running away. Sharpay's my best friend and my partner In everything. If I didn't love Sharpay beyond the superficial it wouldn't work. She drives me crazy sometimes and I still love her." Chad answered his grandmother as they walked back in the house.

Chad was now waiting on the couch for Sharpay to finish changing when his Cousin Carmen walked in.

"What are you doing here? You usually skip these things." Chad asked as he hugged the only cousin he could tolerate. He hadn't seen her sense her performance at the play because she was in a different Drama I section than the one Sharpay works with.

"That's because daddy hated grandpa and grandpa hated him. Now that everybody's dead, it doesn't matter anymore." Carmen finished solemnly.

"I'm sorry."

"It has been over a year Chad. I'm okay. My half brother and guardian Jose believes I should spend as much time around my remaining family as possible."

"I don't think I ever met your half brother. I'm not even sure if he was at the funeral."

"The funeral was hard for both of us. He always did holidays with his mom. Let me introduce you to him and his cougar of a girlfriend." Carmen said that last part bitterly.

"You don't like the new girlfriend."

"She's evil and old enough to be my mom." Carmen complained as they walked into the dining room. Inside stood the devil herself.

Chad knew that Sharpay would be walking out of the bathroom at any moment to see her mother there. At the same time he saw his mom and Mr. Evans walk through the front door. Chad forgot that his mother invited Mr. Evans to join them as a way to thank him for letting her stay at his house for the holiday. This was going to be a disaster.

Tiffany was standing in Aunt Claudia's kitchen handing her boyfriend an ice pack. Part of Tiffany wished she was the one who punch Charles. She didn't understand why she kept going back to this man.

"Did you really always blame Chad for the things you didn't get to do?"

"What type of question is that honey?" Charles said as he unsuccessfully tried to grab her hand.

"It's an honest question Charles. I had your son's childhood. My father always blamed me for not living the life he wanted. He did it every day until he left when I was 12."

"I'm not your father. I love you." For some reason Tiffany didn't believe him anymore.

"Do love me or just the way I make you come? You can't answer that question can you? Are you with me right now just because the condom broke again?"

"That's not why I'm with you."

"I am not going to put my children through what I went through." Tiffany said as she walked to the door

"Where are you going?"

"Away from you," Tiffany said as she slammed the door behind her.

Tiffany had no idea where she was going. She wondered through the neighborhood until she came to a shopping mall. She walked into the Starbucks and ordered a strawberry lemon ice. Tiffany tried to call her Aunt Laura, but couldn't get a hold of her.

After a second attempt, Tiffany saw an old friend from her junior year when she was on the academic decathlon team.

"Kimberly Kim what are you doing here. I figure you would be chasing after your Broadway dream.

"I was in New York for a little while, unfortunately things change. I'm back at A of U majoring in education right now. Let me order my coffee and then we can catch up."

When Kim sat down at the table the first thing she said was, "You're pregnant!"

"I know I'm young, but I'm actually happy about it."

"Tiffany I can't say anything." Kim said as she pulled photographs out of her bag. "This is my son Alexander Troy. He will be two in January. I'm that old cliché of the girl getting pregnant in high school."

"I'm sure your story is less sordid than mine." Tiffany said as she continued to drink her lemonade.

"Alex's dad is three years younger than I am."

"My babies' dad is 19 years older than I am and he's a complete ass."

"How did you end up with an older man?"

"You remember how my grandmother was really sick right. I went to college in Cleveland to helped take care of her. It was hard for most guys are age to understand what it's like to be responsible for a sick parent or grandparent. I couldn't do a relationship with guys my own age." Tiffany heard Kim laugh at that.

"You've always liked older guys. Everybody knows that you had a crush on Coach Bolton in high school."

"Can we please not talk about That? I'm trying to repress the fact that I try to sleep with our high school gym teacher. So anyway, I started dating an older businessman who was actually from Albuquerque who came to Cleveland on business a lot. As far as I knew, he was divorced. It turns out one summer when I was visiting my mom here, we hooked up at his house and his wife walked in on us."

"That's not good."

"Not at all. I ended up breaking off the relationship in the summer of 2007. His marriage actually ends and I went back to Cleveland to watch my grandmother die. She died in April of this year.

"I'm sorry. I know you two were really close."

"Thank you. I didn't take her death very well and spent most of April in and out of bars. At one of these bars, I ran into my ex-boyfriend and ended up having comfort sex.

"Which is why you're currently very pregnant?"

"I was planning on not telling him. Unfortunately, I ran into him in October at a grocery store. He just took a job in Cleveland. I had to tell him the truth. Now he wants us to get married and be a happy family. I was going to go along with it until I realize what he did to his first wife and older son. Now I'm sitting here with you at Starbucks trying to figure out what I should do."

"I understand what it's like to be young, scared, and pregnant. Let me tell you what I went through during my pregnancy with Alex. Maybe it will help you make your own decision."

After Kim stormed off and Jason locked himself in Alex's bedroom, the lunch deteriorated quickly. Troy tried to preoccupy himself by feeding his son. It was kind of hard given the tense atmosphere. At least his almost father in law was not stareing him down.

With 30 minutes left until he needed to pick up Kim, he made his excuses and took Alex to the car. As soon as Alex was safely in his car seat he asked his father the two questions he needed to know the answer to.

"Dad, do you want to tell me why you're not wearing your wedding ring?"

"Don't we need to go pick up Kim now?" His father asked in an obvious attempt to change the subject.

"We have 25 minutes. If the first question is too hard, maybe you can tell me why you slept with Chad's mom last night."

"Did Kim tell you what happened?"

"I overheard you talking to her on the phone when I went to pick up Alex's shoes."

"Do you want to hear the sanitized for your consumption answer or the truth?"

"I think I want the truth."

"Let's start with why the wedding ring is missing." Troy's father said as he passed a large envelope to Troy. "That is the letter that Kim's mother gave me yesterday."

"Do I really want to read this?"

"No, but you need to."

It actually felt good for Kim to have a grownup conversation was someone her own age. She couldn't talk about parenting or what she went through with her friends like Sharpay. They had no idea what it was like.

"I still have no idea what to do." Tiffany said as she took one last drink of her Lemonade.

"For now you're going to come with me and my boyfriend to thanksgiving at his house as we tell his entire family that he has a two year old son. Then I will call the hotel that you're staying at and get you a separate room. Because I am now a major shareholder in the company that owns that hotel, I'm sure I can get you another room. You can figure out what to do about the babies' daddy later. I personally feel you should just sue him for child support and set up a joint custody arrangement. There's some great divorce/family lawyers at my stepmom's firm."

"That sounds like a good idea." Tiffany said quietly.

"It looks like my boyfriend is right on time."

"You did not tell me your boyfriend was Troy Bolton. You got pregnant by golden boy Troy Bolton in high school?" Tiffany said in shock.

"I forgot to tell you my new last name is Bolton.

"Okay you win for most sordid pregnancy situation." Tiffany said as Kim helped her get up from the booth and walked outside.

"Troy this is my friend Tiffany Jackson from high school. She's going to be coming with us since she just broke up with her stupid boyfriend."

"You broke up with Charles?" Kim heard Jack asked as he got out of the front seat of the car.

"I don't want my children raised by a lying bastard." Tiffany said as she got in the front seat.

"At least you wised up a lot faster than Caroline." Jack mumbled under his breath.

"Your boyfriends name is Charles. "

"You forgot to tell Kim you are having Chad's half siblings?" Jack asked Tiffany. Both Troy and Kim looked at Tiffany in complete shock.

"I knew I forgot one important detail." Tiffany said as she put on her seatbelt.

"Okay, you win for most sordid pregnancy situation." Kim said

"I'm assuming this is another one of those contributing factors for yesterday's insanity." Troy asked his father as he went to sit in the backseat with Kim and Alex.

"Major contributing factor,"

Caroline walked into her mother's house just as her son started yelling at someone she never saw before.

"We already met Carmen. This evil woman used to beat the hell out of my girlfriend when she was a scare child. When she got older she just used psychological abuse." Caroline never saw her son that angry before.

"I don't know what you're talking about." The woman said in denial. Caroline suddenly remembered her 10 year old son telling her about that girl he made fun of being covered in bruises.

"Yes, Darby tell us all about how you hit our daughter. Let's let the public finally see you for the monster you really are."

"This is your ex husband?" Her late sister stepson said as he let go of the woman's hand in shock.

"Eventually, but not yet. They haven't found her to serve her with the papers. Let me guess my evil, backstabbing, and treacherous soon to be ex wife never told you she was still technically married."

"What's going on? What is she doing here?" Caroline heard Sharpay said as she walked into the room.

"It turns out your mom's boy toy is my cousin's half brother."

"What is going on is your wretched flavor of the month boyfriend and father are making a scene."

"It is such a shame mother if people see who you are underneath the designer suits. For too many years, I kept up the pretense of the perfect happy family. I played the role you want me to play perfectly. Not anymore mother. As for Chad, you better get used to him being around because he will be your future son in law."

At that remark, Darby started referring to her son by all sorts of nasty terms. Caroline had to be held back by Amanda and her sister Sarah. She had the sudden urge to deck the bitch.

The soon to be ex Mrs. Evans finished off her tirade with "As if she would ever marry someone like you. I'm sure you are good for a fling, but not much more." Caroline could see the anger in Sharpay's eyes

"Mom unlike you, I don't care how people perceive me. I've never cared. That was you. I finally found the one person I wanna be with and I really don't care if he doesn't come with his own yacht. As hard as it is for you to believe mom, I do love him completely and unconditionally." Sharpay said as she walked over to Caroline's son and grabbed his hand.

"You know I see us together growing old in Manhattan and fighting over the last pop tart. I can see us raising cute little kids with my eyes and your crazy hair."

"I was thinking somewhere in Silicon Valley, but I like your fantasy to." Chad said as he kissed her forehead.

"Do you want to make it a reality?" Caroline could see her son nod yes.

"Chad Daniel Danforth will you marry me?" Caroline saw Sharpay's mother fall to the floor. Caroline felt like joining her. How could her baby be thinking about getting married at 17. Maybe this was an elaborate performance to get back at Sharpay's mother. One could hope. The evil woman certainly deserved it.

"Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?" Caroline heard her son asked Sharpay.

"Like we do anything nor…" Sharpay was cut off by Chad kissing her. Caroline could hear the rest of the family clapping behind her. Even Mr. Evans was smiling. Why was he smiling? Their babies were too young.

"Why are you happy? You're not even that surprise. "

"Because I knew this day was coming when your son introduced himself to me as my future son in law. Their happy right now. We can talk about logistics later. Let them be happy for the moment."

"I'll take that as a yes." She heard Sharpay said as she pulled away from Chad's kiss.

"I thought you said the engagement doesn't count if a ring was not involved?"

"Consider this a loner." Caroline's mother said as she handed Chad her engagement ring.

45 minutes later after Sharpay's mother was kicked out of the house by her now ex boyfriend, they were walking back to the car.

"You think you could have remembered three weeks ago that my mom was screwing one of your relatives?" Sharpay said to her son as they walked to the car. Mr. Evans already left a few minutes earlier to make his flight.

"He is my cousin's half brother. I've never met the man before. Besides it was dark when I saw him with your mom."

'If you let me know Carmen was your cousin I would have been able to put things together."

"Sharpay on my mom's side alone I have eight aunts and uncles. I have over 25 first Cousins on my mom's side. Altogether I have 36 Cousins. Sharpay even I don't know who all my Cousins are."

She would interrupt this argument to ask her son if the engagement was real if they didn't find a crying 12 year old sitting in Sharpay's car.

"Jason what are you doing in my car?" Sharpay asked the boy.

"Did you know that Taylor's not my sister?"

"They just had to get engaged on thanksgiving. Couldn't they have waited until Christmas" Marc complained from the backseat as they pulled into the parking lot of Evans hall.

"Looks like you lost another bet." Nikki said with a laugh.

"How come you didn't e-mail us these pictures as soon as it happened?"

"These are not my pictures. These are all courtesy of Cousin Carmen. By that point my phone was unusable due to Sharpay throwing it in a puddle."

"Judging by your new phone, Sharpay give good replacement gifts.

"Trust me things would have been a lot better Thursday if we actually had cell phones that were working. While we were in New Mexico experiencing true thanksgiving chaos, Lucy was pulling off one last desperate attempt to break up Kim and Troy."

"What did she do?" Nikki asked as she got out of the car.

"She probably got his ex girlfriend to show up." Marc said as he made his way to the trunk of the car.

"That is a story for tomorrow at lunch."

"You can't leave the story there." Nikki said in annoyance as she grabbed her bag from the trunk.

"I'm tired and have survived the weekend from hell. Due to the chaos of this weekend, I still don't have my English Paper done."

"If you tell us, I will proofread your paper." Nikki said in one last attempt to get her finish the story tonight.

"Chad already said he would Tuesday. This is why I need to hurry up."

"C'mon tell us what happens? We still don't know who got arrested." Marc said to Amanda.

"I'm personally going with Kim and Lucy." Nikki said to Marc.

"I'm thinking Lucy and Caroline." Marc said to Nikki.

"I promise I'll tell you tomorrow." Amanda said as she pulled away from the building.

A/N: I won't be updating the second part tomorrow, but I will be posting as soon as possible. I doubt that I will be able to get it up by thanksgiving. I probably could have something out by Monday. I could use some encouragement to write faster. If anybody wants to guess who gets arrested in a review be my guess.