Chapter started: February 18, 2009.
Chapter finished: February 25, 2009.
Author's Note: Well, here's a new chapter.
=HSM3: Senior Year=
-Chapter 26: Applying for Colleges-
"For Martha, Zeke, and Gabriella, welcome back, to all of the others minus my brother welcome to my room," Sharpay said as she threw up the oak doors to her bedroom.
"Nice," Taylor and Kelsi replied as the boys (minus Ryan and Zeke) rolled their eyes at Sharpay's room.
Sharpay's room had stated her true colors of silver and pink along with some black. Her furniture and floor was all done in dark cherry wood, her rugs where black, her walls were a chocolate brown, her curtains were silver silk with sequins and her bed had pink mink fur bedspread with silver pillows and sheets.
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"Wow, do you three have like applications for like every college in the USA?" Sharpay asked Martha, Taylor, and Gabriella as the three pulled out their applications and stuff out as they all sat around.
"Almost," they replied from their spots, Gabriella with Troy in the black bean bag chairs, Taylor with Chad on the pink chaise lounge, and Martha from her spot with Ryan in the set of white bean bag chairs opposite of Troy and Gabriella.
Before Sharpay could reply in walked Jason, Kelsi, and Zeke with trays full of goodies for them to snack on. Smiling they set the trays down before Zeke took his spot beside Sharpay on her bed and Jason along with Kelsi sat down on the love seat.
"Zeke I think you made me die and go to heaven," Gabriella said after swallowing a bite of the cookie she grabbed that he made.
"Thanks," Zeke replied before they all started to fill out applications.
"So how should be go about applying to these?" Sharpay asked them.
"I think we should apply to all of the ones that we want to go together to and then the other ones off to the side like when we're alone," Gabriella suggested.
"I second that!" Taylor and Martha replied.
"I third it!" Sharpay and Kelsi replied and soon everyone agreed.
"So which college first guys?" Chad asked them.
"NYU," Sharpay suggested and everyone agreed.
An hour later, they had finished applying to NYU (the University of New York--New York City), UNC (the University of North Carolina) , Marshall University, PSU (Penn State University), MSU (Michigan State University), and OSU (Oregon State University).
"So you all tomorrow," Sharpay said as they all went to leave to go home leaving her, Zeke, Ryan, and Martha.
Each, taking their other applications and going out to the lite garden and away from each other to apply for the other colleges that they didn't want the others to know about or their significant other.
As Sharpay stretched out on the swing, she pulled out her first application which was to Julliard.
Over across from Sharpay, on the other swing, Zeke picked up his first blank application which was to the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco, CA.
Over on the porch, sitting at the glass table in a padded chair, Ryan pulled out his first application to a college which happened to be his Julliard application as Martha pulled out the same one from her spot by the swimming pool, laying on the sun lounger with her applications.
(With Chad)
Chad took a sip of his milk as he sat at the dinning room table and looked at the application in front of him which was to U of A and then to the next one that was completely filled out for UCLA.
(With Taylor)
"So do the others know about these colleges?" Monica asked Gabriella as they sat together in the garden with a cup of honey lemon tea.
"No," Taylor replied as she looked over to where her sister was holding an application for Yale, UCLA, U of A, Harvard, Princeton, and Georgetown.
(With Jelsi)
Jason looked up from the application he was filling out for U of A and over to Kelsi who was filling out something for a different college.
"How's it coming?" Jason asked her with a smile.
"Great, I just finished one," Kelsi said as she flipped her finished application for Texas State over.
"Me too," Jason said as he flipped over the U of A one and moved onto another one which just happened to be to GCU (the Grand Canyon University) in Phoenix, Arizona.
(With Troyella)
"Hey mija, mijo. We brought you guys something to snack on," Inez said as she walked into Gabriella's room with two cups of hot chocolate, Greg walked behind her with two plates of cookies, Lucille with a plate of chips, and Jack with a bowel of cheese dip and a plate of Gabriella's mom's famous brownies.
"Thanks," they replied not moving their eyes off of their applications from where they were laying, each on a white chaise lounge couch.
The parents just all looked at each other before they set each thing down on the coffee table and each set of parents glanced over their kids' shoulders to find them both applying to different colleges.
"So your…." Jack started to say surprised as the other where that the college applications they both were filling out were DIFFERENT, seeing as Gabriella was applying to Yale and Troy to Duke.
"Shh!" Gabriella and Troy hissed at Jack.
"I don't think they want to know which colleges each are applying to," Lucille told her husband with Inez agreeing as Greg looked over his daughter's shoulder proud as she moved onto the next application which happened to be one from his and Inez's alma matter, the University of California--Los Angeles (UCLA).
Jack watched gleefully as Troy moved onto the next application which was to his alma matter, the University of Albuquerque (U of A).
The parents just decided to leave the teens alone and let them decide their future no matter where it took them as long as it was good, but they already knew it would be blessed seeing as the teens chose to send their lives together in the most special way.
Well, there you guys all go. Sorry, it took so long I've been sick. So I decided to give you a little in look at what colleges some or all MIGHT attend. Surprises await. I hope you enjoyed it, looking forward to wonderful reviews! XOXO.
Happiness. Hope. && Happiness.
The greatest power of all is, LOVE,
Jessica.
TRIVIA: Who REALLY motivates Gabriella to go to Stanford?