"Lucas?" He turned towards her, "I like you too."
After that, everything was a happy blur for Ashley. Lucas and she spent the rest of the night out by the pool, talking, laughing and kissing until finally the sun began to come up and they stumbled back to the hotel.
The rest of the cast was sitting in the girls room, murmuring tiredly amongst themselves. As soon as Luc and Ashley walked in, they all stopped talking and stared at them.
Vanessa was the first to break the silence, "Oh my God!" She screamed, pointing to their clasped hands and grinning.
"Hi everyone!" Lucas cheered, grinning from ear to ear. "I guess this is kind of obvious but, we're finally together!" He informed them and everything clapped.
"Well it's about time!" Monique yelled, squeezing Ashley tightly then hugging Lucas. Corbin and Drew clapped Lucas on the back and Zac nudged him a little, "A little twincestuous, huh?"
Lucas blushed and they all laughed. That day, everyone from minor cast members to the crew smiled or congratulated them on finally seeing the light. Zac and Vanessa filmed the rest of 'Breaking Free' and that night they finished reshooting stuff from the balcony scene.
Sadly, the next two days were to be spent on the finale, which meant filming was almost over. They all rose extra early to don their costumes and makeup then they went to the big gym to stretch.
Kenny gathered them all in a circle in the middle of the gym, "This film has been one of the best experiences of my life, and I hope you all feel the same way. We've seen everything from injuries," He glanced at Ashley, "To fights," He looked over at Vanessa, "To new found friendships and love! Today should be about celebrating our lives as they are now because we won't always have this special moment! So today, let's have fun and really knock 'em dead! Now what team?!" He yelled and everyone screamed, "Wildcats!"
"What team?!"
"Wildcats!"
"What team?!"
"Wildcats!"
"Wildcats!"
"GET'CHA HEAD IN THE GAME!" Then they all began to jump around and scream. Ashley and Lucas walked over to the table and Lucas shrugged into his dress shirt.
Kenny told him to not wear it while they warmed up because the gym was too hot. Zac was only in his wife beater and was talking to a couple of the backup dancers. A camera came over to the twins and they began to talk about the craziness of all of the hustle going on.
"I'm a little nervous!" Lucas confessed, running a hand over his stomach,
"Oh, he'll be fine because he's perfect!" Ashley laughed, giving an "Ok" sign. Lucas laughed and shoved the hanger in her face and she ducked away. Kenny pulled out his handy megaphone and ordered everyone into position to get ready for filming.
Ashley stood just out of the camera range with Bonnie while Lucas jumped into the stands and began to chat with some of the people acting as fans. Vanessa stood on the other side of the gym, trying to put her shoe on and Zac positioned himself across from her behind a bunch of people.
"Everyone ready?" Kenny pumped them up. "Yeah!" They hollered back, "Okay, ready, set, action!" He yelled and the music started to play.
The cheerleaders did their little line then everyone started to move around in what looked like chaos but was actually perfectly choreographed. Zac began to lip sync to Drew's voice and glide around.
Britney, one of the cheerleaders, jumped out of formation to grind with him then spun away while Zac did the stupid guy chest bump with one of the extras. Then Corbin head-locked him and ruffled his hair. Vanessa slid into frame and began to spin around with Monique and Olesya. She grabbed Jared's hand and danced with him then he spun her around.
She was supposed to land in Zac's arms but instead, Zac grabbed her hair and she was knocked over. "I am so sorry!" Zac exclaimed, leaning down and helping her up. She grimaced at him and rubbed the tender spot on her head from where he'd pulled her hair.
"It's alright!" She reassured. Kenny started them again and they all had fun doing the dance.
Lucas ran across the bleachers and began to hip thrust. Ashley caught Vanessa's eye and they both silently giggled behind their hands, "Lucky!" Vanessa mouthed at her and Ashley winked back.
Kenny yelled "cut" and Lucas wiped some sweat from his brow. He jumped onto the ground and the extra dancers grouped around him.
"You guys ready?" Kenny asked them, gesturing for Chucky to move closer to them. "Okay, action!" Kenny yelled. Lucas jumped across them and they lifted him up easily. Kenny nodded to Ashley who walked forward and began to walk under him.
Suddenly, Lucas came crashing down on top of Ashley but thankfully, he caught most of his weight with his arms. One of the dancers had sneezed and let go of Lucas so he fell to the ground.
Lucas quickly rolled off of the young blonde and leapt to his feet then bent over her, "Ash! Ashley! Are you okay?" He demanded, pushing her hair out of her face to reveal her grinning.
"Couldn't keep your hands off me for more than five minutes, huh Luc?" she asked, holding out her arm.
Lucas rolled his eyes and grabbed her outstretched hand and easily lifted her to her feet.
"Are you sure you're okay, Ashley? Did you hit your head or anything?" Chucky asked, running his eyes over her to look for any bruises.
"I'm fine! My head hurts from Lucas' impressive six-pack squishing me but other than that, I'm great!" She laughed then flounced back to her original waiting spot.
"Well, okay! They build them tough in Jersey!" Kenny laughed and they started again. By lunch time, Vanessa and Ashley's feet were on fire from all of the dancing in heels. The boys stripped down to their undershirts to cool off and everyone was sprawled on the floor.
"You guys are doing awesome!" Kenny told them, handing out water bottles and sack lunches. They all mumbled their thanks and drained their waters.
"So after lunch, we should do all of the stuff before the song starts! Like the almost kiss and the "break a leg" scenes so we can focus on the after part tomorrow! Is that cool?"
"Yeah!" They all cheered, happy not to have to dance anymore. After lunch and a quick makeup check, everyone went to new positions. Zac was talking to one of the guys when Vanessa ran in and threw her arms around his neck, "Congratulations, Wildcat!" She squealed, laughing.
"What about your team?" He asked, spinning her around, "We won too!" They leaned in to kiss then paused with their mouths a centimeter apart so Corbin could jump in.
Unfortunately, Corbin was talking to Olesya and missed his cue.
"Anytime now, Corbin!" Zac muttered threw clenched teeth.
"Do we just kiss?" Vanessa asked. "Sure!" Zac laughed and quickly covered her mouth with his.
Kenny cleared his throat into the microphone, pointing it at Corbin, who jumped and looked around, "Oh yeah!" He remembered, then grabbed a basketball and jumped between the young couple, "Team voted you game ball, captain!" He choked out, trying not to laugh.
Kenny rolled his eyes, "Just a little late there, Mr. Bleu!" Corbin grinned sheepishly, "My bad!"
"Let's do it again," This time, Corbin jumped in at just the right time and they moved onto his and Monique's scene.
"You're coming with me to the after party, right?" He asked, cradling her in his arms.
"Like on a date?"
"Must be your lucky night!" He teased arrogantly. Monique giggled and grabbed Vanessa, "Chad just asked me out!" She squealed. Ashley and Lucas strutted up.
"Well, it looks like we're going to be the understudies in case you can't make one of the shows, so break a leg." Ashley put a hand on her hip and tried to look cool. Vanessa widened her eyes and glanced at Lucas.
"In theater that means good luck!" She started to walk forward but was stopped by Chris, "Hey Sharpay!" He started and said his line. Ashley smirked at him, "And why wouldn't you? Now bu-bye!"
She started to walk away but he stopped her again, "Here, I baked you these cookies!"
"Ew!" She wrinkled her nose and kept walked. Lucas stepped forward and took the cookies, "Nice game!" He nodded and grinned. Chris laughed a little, "Thanks!"
"And cut! That was great you guys!" They all smiled tiredly and shrugged off to get changed and go back to the hotel.
Lucas leaned close and brushed his mouth against Ashley's ear, "You know, we never did get to do our double date…" He whispered, wiggling his eyebrows.
Ashley turned and replied, "What ever are you suggesting?"
"You, me and anyone else who wants to come! We could go mini-golfing, bowling, see a movie, whatever."
Ashley laughed, "I love mini-golfing!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands.
Vanessa, who had been eavesdropping, jumped a little, "We should! Let's all go out because this is like our last night as a cast and we need to have fun!"
"Yeah!" Monique yelled, wrapping her arms around Drew's waist. Drew rubbed her shoulders and chuckled, "I take it you want to go too?" Monique gave him a 'duh' look and he sighed, "Alright! Corbin, you in?"
Corbin and Olesya, who had been kissing, pulled away and looked around at all of them.
"Sure, why not!"
"You have no idea what we're talking about, do you?"
"Sure I do!"
"What then?"
"Uh…hockey?" He guessed.
"I knew it!" Ashley yelled.
"We were talking about mini-golfing, Einstein!" Zac informed him.
"Oh! Sure! You wanna go, O?"
"Hell yeah!" Olesya cheered. "Then it's decided! To the mini-golf place!" Lucas yelled and they all walked down the street.
Sorry about not updating last weekend! It's hard having two stories!! This one's kinda short and uneventful but it's better than nothing! Oh and I don't know what cheese whiz up the wazoo actually is but Lucas called HSM that so I decided to be clever and quote it! Do you guys want me to put the mini-golfing in the next chapter? I was going to put it in this one but I have another story to update and I'm tired! If you want me to, let me know in a review and I will! Thank you so much, as always! Love ya a hundred red skittles!
