Chapter 7: Troy Finally Understands
(This chapter picks up right after the last chapter. The song lyrics and some scenes from chapter 1 and 3 are also going to be in this chapter as well. I might add or reword some of it.)
Father Time and Troy appear right in front of the entrance to East High School. This happens to be where their relationship came apart. Troy looks around and sees that Sharpay is also standing at the entrance to the high school. (This is earlier in the day before the wish and the party.) He sees that Sharpay is looking at something in her hands. He goes over to her and looks over her shoulder and sees that she is looking at the last photograph that they ever took before things got complicated.
Troy, confused walks over to Father Time. "Umm…Father Time?"
"Yes?" Father Time asks.
"Sorry to that I am asking you so many questions, but why are we in front of the school? And why can I see Sharpay? Is she able to see us?" Troy asks feeling very confused.
"Answer to all of your questions. First of all, we are here because this takes place before Sharpay made her wish for you. She was here earlier today, so we are actually seeing her right after she left her house. She had talked to her brother, Ryan before coming here. She was here to think about her past and you were a huge part of her past. No, Sharpay isn't able to see or hear us, as she was alone when this happened."
"I thought that I was going to see things through her eyes?"
"You are going to see things through Sharpay's eyes. But you are to be doing that by watching from a distance."
"Then how can I understand, if I'm not actually seeing it through her eyes?"
"Troy listen to me. You don't really have to be inside someone's mind or body to be able to see things through their eyes. You can do that simply just by watching them from a distance. Seeing how they react to certain events or see the pain that enters their hearts. As well as seeing how their facial reacts to it."
"Okay." Troy says.
"Now in order for you to truly understand, you have to really be paying attention this time around. Because I can tell that you weren't really paying attention the first time around when the Ghosts of Past and Present showed you some of these flashbacks. This time please pay attention to Sharpay. For this is her past, her present you already know some of it."
"Alright." Troy answers.
"Good. Are you ready to begin?" Father Time asks, while looking at Troy. Who nods his head in agreement. "Now listen…"
Sharpay had left her childhood house after talking to her twin brother Ryan. She arrives at East High School, where in beginning she thought that things between her and Troy wouldn't change until they did in the end. She never thought that things would have gotten so bad until she had to force herself to look at everything that had happened.
Sharpay pulls out the picture that she has of her and Troy. It was the last one that they had ever taken. She sees how happy they were and begins to wonder again where it all went wrong. So she begins to sing a song she heard from a movie a long time ago.
Here I stand alone
With this weight upon my heart
And it will not go away
'Funny how this part is true'. Sharpay thinks while beginning to sing.
In my head I keep on looking back
Right back to the start
Wondering what it was that made you change
It's the first day of school and Sharpay Evans walks into the school with her twin brother Ryan.
"Ry, can you believe that we are now freshman?" She asks excited because she is already planning her high school future.
"Yeah! Come senior year you and Troy are going to be homecoming royalty as well as prom royalty!"
"I know! Oh there he is I'm going to go and talk to him. I'll see you later at lunch ok?" She says hugging her twin brother.
"You know it, but we have the same homeroom I'll just wait for you and Troy." He says once he sees how big the school is and not wanting to get lost. Sharpay then sees her boyfriend Troy of four years talking to some guy with afro hair (Chad).
"Okay, let me go and get Troy." She says and walks over to the lockers where Troy and Chad are talking. She sneaks up behind Troy and covers his eyes. "Guess who?"
"Well it can't be my mom or dad. So it has to be my amazing girlfriend!"
"Great guess and you win a kiss". They kiss and she sees Chad standing there. "Hi my names Sharpay," she says extending her hand to greet him.
"Chad nice to meet you," he says rudely when Sharpay was just being nice and friendly. "But do you mind Troy and I have to catch up on how we are going to be co-captain of the basketball team."
Sharpay looks up at Troy wondering why he is just letting Chad some guy who she has never met before talk to her like that. (He and Chad met at basketball camp over the summers while Sharpay was away with her family on vacation. He just didn't think that Chad would ever come between them and he would lose Sharpay forever. ) Troy just looks between the two not knowing what to do but little did he know at the time that Chad was trying to rip him and Sharpay apart. With that Troy and Chad leave to class leaving Sharpay behind hind. Not knowing what had just happened.
Ryan goes over to his sister after seeing the whole thing. "You ok sis?"
"I don't know. I'm not even sure about what just happened." She says as the bell rings for class. With that said they leave for class. Never knowing that in just two months Troy and her would be over.
Well I tried
But I had to draw the line
And still this question keeps on spinning in my mind
That was the beginning when things between her and Troy changed or more like he changed. He Started missing dates and ignoring her at school. It continued for two months until she finally had enough. Or when she called wondering where he was as it was their five year anniversary.
Sharpay is at the movie theater waiting for Troy to arrive. He was supposed to be there 3 hours ago. So she calls his house and his mom answers the phone.
"Hello Bolton residence." Troy's mom Lisa says answering the phone.
"Hi Mrs. Bolton its Sharpay. I'm wondering is Troy there?"
"Oh hi Shar. How are you honey?"
"Good and you?"
"Good, oh but honey Troy isn't home he went to a party at Chad's house and won't be back home until later. Do you want me to tell him that you called?"
"No that's ok I'll just try his cellphone. Thank you though." With that said she hangs up the phone. Lisa just looks at the picture of Troy and Sharpay. Troy has his arms around Sharpay and they are both smiling happy. Lisa and Sharpay's mom Linda (they have been friends since they were kids) had a dream of Troy and Sharpay getting married one day. Little did they know that would never happen.
After getting off the phone with Troy's mom she calls Troy on his cellphone. Only it wasn't Troy who answered though it was Chad.
"Don't you know he's busy having a life without you?" He just says right away without saying hello. (Troy doesn't know about any of this yet)
"What do you mean? He was supposed to meet me here at the movie theater for our anniversary."
"Oh you mean he didn't tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
"He decided that he doesn't want to be with you anymore. In fact he is making out with this really hot cheerleader right now?"
"What?" Sharpay asks trying to keep her tears from falling out of her eyes.
"Yeah here hold on and I'll send you a picture." With that says Chad hangs up the phone. But a few seconds later Sharpay sees the picture with her own eyes.
She then calls Ryan to have their mom come and pick her up. She leaves there with a broken heart. Sharpay knew that she had a choice to make and it was going to break her heart even more. But she needed to protect her heart.
What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
Sharpay knew that when she made that phone call her heart was going to break even more, but she had always thought that Troy only needed time. And that he would come back to her and be the man or boy in this case that she fell in love with. That never happened though as this choice was a choice that stayed that way until she met her husband.
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know
That evening she makes the choice and calls Troy only to get his voicemail and leaving the most painful message in her life.
"Hey you reached Troy leave a message after the beep and I'll try and get back to you as soon as I can."
"Hey Troy, it's me Sharpay. Listen I've been thinking lately and I think that it's time that we end things between us." She hangs up and lies down on her bed crying. Ryan having been there through the whole thing stays there holding her.
"Ry, what did I ever do wrong?" she asks with tears in her eyes.
"You did nothing wrong Pay. Troy made the mistake and now he has to pay the price. He is losing a wonderful girl." Ryan says as Sharpay goes on to crying her eyes out.
"I hope that he will come back to me someday Ry, but as of right now I need to change. I need to make sure that my heart never gets broken by another guy like this again. I don't know if I could take it next time." with that said Sharpay cried herself to sleep that night with Ryan beside her.
Sharpay is now walking away from the school walks to the part. Back than when they were in Middle School after getting out of school. A place where she felt happy whenever her and Troy were together. She sits down on the bench and takes out the picture and touches Troy's face.
'What if I had stayed a little bit longer? Would he had changed if I just gave him another chance? Would he go back to the start to fix things between us? Does he ever miss me?'
Many roads to take
Some to joy
Some to heart-ache
Anyone can lose their way
Life from there on changed. Sharpay changed into the drama queen or the ice queen as Chad likes to call her. She did that so that no one else would ever get close enough to break her heart again. She didn't think that she would be able to heal it a second time. The next day at school her and Ryan enter school and see Troy. He is talking to Chad. (He hasn't heard the message yet. But he will that evening) As Sharpay sees Troy she ignores him and goes to her locker to get her books for homeroom which is drama. She figured that was the way how she was supposed to act around him. By ignoring him like he did to her until she finally had enough. Ryan in the meanwhile glares at Troy because he broke his sister's heart.
Troy having just recovered from seeing Sharpay walk past him tries to go after her only to be stopped by Chad.
"Leave her be man. You have us now." Chad says while giving Troy a fist bump.
"Yeah ok, I'll just meet up with her later I guess. " With that him and Chad head to the same doors that Sharpay and Ryan entered.
Sharpay begins to walk away from the park and walks to the Bolton house.
Life moved on for both Troy and Sharpay. She managed to get into the Drama Club with Ryan and they became co-presidents of the drama club together. While Troy was captain of the varsity basketball team.
Two years later right before leaving the summer for summer vacation. Sharpay saw something that broke her heart all over again. She seesTroy and Gabriella (who there in January)standing by the lockers. Sharpay saw Troy putting a necklace around Gabriella. It just happened to be the same necklace that he had given to her after their first date.
"Oh thank goodness it's finally summer Ry." She said in a happy voice.
"I know! No homework and No school for two whole months." Ryan says.
"I know ri…" Right before she could finish her sentence she saw Troy putting the T necklace around Gabriella's neck. Before anyone could see her tears fall from her eyes she leaves the school with Ryan following her.
Ryan looks back and can only glare in Troy's direction. He leaves after that to take his sister home so that she could cry. And he can hold her while she cries her eyes out again over Troy Bolton.
"Ry, how could he just give her the necklace that he got me for out two year anniversary?"
"I don't know Shar."
"I wish that I never even met him." She said once they were in Ryan's car and he was driving them home.
"Surely you don't really mean that do you?"
"I do and I can't believe that I wasted so many tears on him."
"Shar, I say this to you out of love ok?"
"I know."
"Then you know that it's his lost. And one day he is going to wake and realize that he lost you. By then it's going to be too late and you would've found a guy who is going to treat you like a queen."
While at outside of the Bolton house she thinks back to the day she left for college. The very same day where she saw Troy again for what would be the last time. Or at least that is what she thought twenty years ago.
And if I said that we could turn it back
Right back to the start
Would you take the chance and make the change
Do you think how it would have been sometimes
Do you pray that I'd never left your side
Years passed with Sharpay and Ryan leaving for College. They had gotten into Julliard their dream school. While Troy had been drafted for the MBA right before they graduated high school and he was also going to college on a basketball scholarship. While away driving Sharpay looks outside her window she sees the Bolton house, a house that she knew well or at least she used to know. She sees Troy looking at her so she quickly turns here head and ignores him and continues to drive to Julliard. Her twin brother Ryan is following in his car behind her.
Troy had been standing outside his house knowing full well that toay was the day that the Evans' twins were leaving for Julliard. He remembers hearing around school that they had both gotten in and were going to be leaving a few days after graduation. So when he sees Sharpay driving and looking at his house he waves to her. Only to see that she turns her head back to road and ignoring him.
What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know
Her parents where still very good friends with the Bolton's'. Every time for the past three year her parents went out for dinner she would always not be up for it. Not really wanting to be around Troy. Her parents understood and decided not to push her knowing that she was still healing a broken heart. Jack and Lisa understood as well and even though they were disappointed, but they knew that she needed time to heal. She still kept in touch with Troy's parents or actually his whole family. Everyone in his family was her second family and they always loved her. Troy had always wondered where she was and how she was doing. But her parents would always tell him that something came up.
The real reason why she never went was because she couldn't be around Troy. Without looking back at the memories before being painfully reminded that they we're not together anymore.
If only we could turn the hands of time
If I could take you back would you still be mine
Now here she is 20 years later back inside the Bolton house and she is married. Her being Brain they are at the Bolton's party to celebrate Troy's MBA career.
However before she leaves she decides to goes up to Troy's old room and sees an old photograph of the two of them on the floor. In the photograph she sees how happy they used to be. Troy had his arms around her, and she was happy back then. Also there is a book by Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" she picks up the book and signs and so she lights a candle and says:
"Troy my wish for you this year is the miracle of understanding." With that said and done she blows out the candle and put the book down on the bed. She Flashes back to that phone she made when she had enough of Troy ignoring her.
"Hey Troy, it's me Sharpay. Listen I've been thinking lately and I think that it's time that we end things between us." She hangs up and lies down on her bed crying.
'Cos I tried
But I had to draw the line
And still this question keep on spinning in my mind
She goes back downstairs to her husband. After returning to her husband she sees Troy there by himself.
What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
What if I had never walked away
'Cos I still love you more than I can say
No matter how much had passed by Sharpay always loved Troy. A part of her heart still held on for hope that one day he would find her and sweep her off her feet. That night after coming back from the Bolton's party and talking to her husband. Sharpay dreams as she flashes back to every joy and heartache of her relationship with Troy. Knowing even though she ended things she still loved him. She wanted what was best for them both and for them to be happy.
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know
We'll never know
'What if I had stayed and worked things out would Troy still be the man I fell in love with.' She thinks as she dreams. 'I guess I'll never know what could've been we can't mess with time. I only wish him the best in life.'
After Sharpay finishes singing Father Time looks at Troy and asks, "Now do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand."
"Do you now understand that no matter how many times you hurt her?"
"Yes." Troy says with tears in his eyes.
"Just know before I ask you this I think you deserve to know this. No matter how many times you hurt her, she still loved you with all of her heart. Sharpay wanted you to have the best life after what happened. But instead you turned into an even bigger idiot than you were in high school. You let her slip away."
"I know."
"Now what is your decision? Do you want to turn back time? Do you want to make sure she never leaves your side?"
"Yes." Troy says, but before Father Time can continue, "Last question, who are you?"
Father Time takes off the hood revealing to be ….
"Oh my…" Troy starts saying shock realizing who Father Time was.
Next Chapter will reveal who Father Time is under the hood. It might also be the last chapter. So stay tuned. The other stories I had up I am going to start rewriting them. They will be up again maybe in a few weeks depending how busy I get will work.
Happy Valentines Days!
Lovergirl12
