Monica7725: Sorry if I confused you, but the girl who was talking to Chad was Chad's sister, not Taylor. Sorry for the confusion.
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Mack shut the door as she walked in the house. The party was pretty good, not as good as some, but still good. She had stayed close to Chad and Taylor most of the night, not knowing many of the other people there. They all knew her though. She must have heard "You're Bolton's sister," eight million times, which was one of the many reasons to stick by Chad and Taylor, they could get her out of that situation. She sat with Sharpay, Ryan, Zeke, Jason and Kelsi for a minute to give Chad and Taylor time alone. She felt bad, Chad had been so excited, yet he was stuck babysitting her most of the night.
"Hey hon," her mom said coming out of the kitchen. "Your brother still at the party?"
She thought about what to tell her mother. She could lie and say that Troy was at Chad's or that he was walking Montez home, or that Zeke was holding an 'after the after party' bash, but she didn't want to say that Troy hadn't been there at all. Her mother would get worried and that wouldn't do any good.
Mack was just about to answer when she heard the door click. Both heads turned to see Troy walking in with his arm out singing 'breaking free'. He had the goofiest grin on his face and Mack knew he had been with Gabriella. Her eyes narrowed to slits.
"Have fun at the party?" Their mom asked. He stopped suddenly, the grin still there.
"What?" Troy asked as he sat in a chair.
"She asked if you had fun at the party." Troy looked at Mack and his eyes widened.
"Yeah, it was a blast." Troy had never been good at lying.
Mack took one look at her mother's face and knew that her mother knew he was lying. "Why didn't you bring your sister home?"
"Um... well... you see... she wanted to walk home?" O.K., so maybe Troy never being good at lying was an understatement. He wouldn't know how to lie if a cow bit him in the butt and told him how.
"Troy where were you?" Mrs. Bolton said with suspicion.
"Don't worry, when I caught him he was on the roof with Mrs. Twinkle Towne," Coach Bolton said entering the room. "What happened to Mr. This-Is-The-Best-Day-Of-My-Life? You should have seen him in the car. 'I'm so happy!' 'I've never been this excited ever!' 'Dad, can you believe it?'" He chuckled a little at the memory. Troy, who sunk very deep in his chair, was turning a very deep shade of red.
"Jack!" Mrs. Bolton nodded toward the embarrassed boy. Coach Bolton was too into his memory to notice and he kept on chuckling. Troy just kept on sinking in his chair and put his shirt up over his face to hide his bright red cheeks.
Mack looked on at the scene that was playing in front of her in disbelief. She had thought that her father was on her side about 'the girl'. She figured that her mother would be happy, but her father? Where had the aliens taken her real dad and who was this impostor?
"Hey, is that my sweatshirt?" Troy asked, desperate for a subject change.
"Yeah, you're welcome for retrieving it from Chad's house because you were too lazy to go get it." She turned abruptly and ran up the stairs to her room. She jumped on her bed and took in the smell of Troy's sweatshirt. It was the 'old' Troy's and the smell was a little different. She felt tears roll down her face again. "I have got to stop making a habit of this," she said to herself. She laid her head on her pillow and wiped her tears with her sleeve. Once her tears had stopped and she stared at the ground. She heard her door open and figuring it was probably her mom, looked up. Instead, she saw Troy.
"Thanks for getting my sweatshirt."
"Anytime," came the hollow reply.
Troy sighed, this was going to be the hardest thing he had to do that night. Finally kissing Gabriella would come in a close second though.
"Mack... I know-"
"You know what Troy? How I feel? If you're going to say that, you mine as well leave now. You have no idea! Right now I think I would rather be Chad or Zeke or Jason's sister instead of your's."
Troy blinked a long blink. He deserved that. He had just listened to his messages and found three really bad ones from Chad, Zeke, and Jason. All of them telling him the same thing. "O.K. Mack, you win. I guess I have been acting pretty mean to you lately."
"Are you ashamed of me?"
"No," Troy had never felt so rotten in all his life. "I guess..., I don't know. I told Gabriella only a few things about home because I didn't really want to talk to her about Dad. I knew he wouldn't like me singing with her and that was selfish on my part to not tell her about my family."
He walked over to the edge of her bed and sat on it. "I'm sorry if I hurt you."
"You really like Gabriella don't you," she said, pausing between every word as if the words were being forced out of her. Troy nodded his head very slowly. She took a deep breath to try and stop tears from coming. She didn't know what these tears were from, but she couldn't control them. Troy took her in his arms and sang to her. She put her face in his chest and knew she was smelling not only Troy, but Gabriella too, and amazingly she was O.K. with that.
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Mack walked up to the house and rang the doorbell. There was shuffling and when the door opened a kind looking woman answered. "Yes."
"Hi, my name's Mackenzie Bolton, is Gabriella around."
"I think she is, hold on a moment." Mack stood on the porch and looked around. The house was a nice looking house with beautiful plants in the yard. Mack looked back at the door to find Gabriella standing in the doorway. Before Gabriella could say anything Mack began to speak.
"Gabriella, I made a huge mistake. I never even met you before I started to hate you. But really, I didn't hate you, I hated Troy's actions, which were probably my fault in the first place. But I blamed you, which I shouldn't have. I just thought that Troy would change and I'm sorry I said all those mean things to you. I was just trying to tell myself that-"
"Mackenzie, you're rambling." Gabriella laughed. "So the rumors are true, you are exactly like your brother."
"I understand if you never want to see me again, but don't take it out on Troy. It'll destroy him."
"Actually, I think what you did was sweet."
You could tell Mack was confused. "What?"
"You were just trying to keep your brother the same. I know, it's hard when someone you love starts to date, you think you'll lose them forever. And, I think if we put this behind us we could be good friends." She laughed a little more before saying, "even if I did hate you, I wouldn't take it out on Troy."
"Thanks. I better go, Mom's probably worried sick." Mack jumped off the porch. Right before Gabriella shut the door Mack yelled, "wait!" Gabriella looked at her eager to hear what she had to say.
"My friends call me Mack."
"Alright, bye Mack."
"Bye Gabriella."
'Maybe Troy liking Gabriella won't be such a bad thing,' Mack thought as she turned down Gabriella's street toward her house. 'Every thing's going to change, but maybe that's O.K.' She looked up at the sky and smiled, skipping the rest of the way home.
Hope you like it. I don't know if I should add more. I like writing about Mack, Troy and the gang. I think it would be cute to show more of a big protective brother Troy (MaybeMack gets a crushthat Troy doesn't like?). Maybe a sequel adding more of Ryan, Sharpay, Zeke and the rest of the guys? Tell me what you think. Review!