Chapter 7

I hope you guys really like this one! I'm not gonna ask, I'm not gonna ask, I'm not gonna ask…I have to ask. REVIEW! Plz. Oh and am I the only one who thinks the guy who played Roger in Rent (Adam Pascal) is TOOOOO HOT? Oh and yeah, some ppl are kinda confused. So let me clear it up…Neither Ryan or Troy has AIDS. That is a rumor that was made up and is spreading fast! Okay? Alright

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Ryan's p.o.v

Troy strokes my hair as I lay my head on his bare chest.

"So, you really think Gabriella started all this?" I ask

"I know it, Ry" he says

"Well, if you say so. Can you imagine what school's gonna be like in about a week?" I ask

"I try not to think about it" he says as he rest his hand on my chest

He puts his hand over my heart and keeps it there. I know he feels my rapid heart beat, from all this stress.

"Your heart's beating pretty fast" he says "stop worrying, I'll handle everything babe"

"Okay" I simply respond

I know that there's no way Troy could possibly handle all of this on his own. So while he handles Chad and the basket ball team, I'll handle little Gabbi. Me and Gabriella were never really friends, we say hi when we see each other and sometimes she'll be at a party with Troy, while I'm there with …some guy I hardly know. But I and Gabbi never talked on the phone or anything like that. So I won't feel any guilt confronting her. However, I highly doubt that she's capable of anything like this. And such a hard rumor at that. If this gets to everyone, it'll just build onto the stereotype that all gays have AIDS. I mean, God, why AIDS, anything but that. This is so middle school, but at the same time it's serious.

"Ry, you sleep?" Troy ask

I snap out of my state of mind.

"Huh? Oh, no, I was just thinking" I say.

He tilts my head up and kisses me again, softly. I grab the back of his neck, deepening the kiss. I feel him growing under the covers. He pulls me on top of him. He pulls away and looks my in the eyes. Suddenly the power goes completely out. Troy smiles and lightly bites my bottom lip. He pulls my face closer to his and I lick his lips. He quickly slips his tongue into my mouth. He moves his hand away from my head and reaches under the cover to grab my ass. He squeezes and I hold back a laugh. I roll next to him and wait for him to climb on top of me, but instead he just stares and smiles.

"What?" I ask, in a whisper so as not to be heard by his parents.

"Nothing, it's just … it's just like I imagined, laying there in the dark." He says

I smile

"Yeah?" I ask "what you do when you think of me?" I tease

He smiles and lifts the cover to show me how 'excited ' he is

"What do you think?" he ask crawling on top of me

I spread my legs, as he leans in and kisses my neck. He moves lower to my chest. As he connects his lips with my nipple there's a knock on the door. Oh no! I tap Troy's shoulder, but he doesn't stop.

"Troy, someone's at the door" I whisper in my lightest whisper.

"I don't care, babe" he pants

I grab his shoulders and push him away, as I had to do before. He looks angry.

"Ry" he whines

"Someone is at your door" I say

He whips his head towards the door. His eyes widen. The knock gets louder.

"Troy! Open this Goddamn door, right now!" His dad screams through the door

"Alright!" Troy yells back

Troy looks back to me and stares. Oh great, I'm supposed to come up with a solution for this problem. I motion for Troy to get off of me. He lifts up and I quickly get off the bed and search the ground for my pants. I grab them and my shirt and crawl under the bed. Troy, who was putting on his clothes as I was collecting mine, goes to the door. He takes a deep breath and opens the door. His dad is standing at the door, he's red from anger. He places his hand against Troy's chest and pushes him towards the bed. Troy gets back up.

"Sit down" his dad whispers, or at least it sounds like a whisper from under the bed.

"No" Troy says

"So you're a queer now?" His dad ask

"I'm gay, if that's what you mean" Troy says

Good job baby, stand up for your self. Don't let that ass intimidate you. Troy's feet move closer to his Dad's.

"No your not! I didn't raise a fag!" His dad says "I don't know what you're going through, but stop it now! You need to be a man!"

"OH AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BEING A MAN HUH?" Troy yells "CHEATING ON YOUR WIFE AND LEAVING YOUR KID, SLEEPING AT SOMEONE'S ELSES HOUSE AND BREAKING YOUR PROMISES EVERY DAY! IS THAT BEING A MAN!"

There's silence.

"Get out" his dad says

"What?" Troy ask, his adrenaline rush dying down

"GET OUT…NOW!" His dad repeats "I WANT YOU OUT, I WANT YOU GONE!"

"FINE!" Troy yells back.

His dad turns and leaves. I hear his feet down the stairs and out the door, followed by the sound of a truck pulling out of the driveway. I slowly come from under the bed. Troy helps me to my feet. He's actually crying. Not sobbing or yelling, but there are slow tears falling from his eyes. His face is blank for awhile, until I embrace him from the side, that's when he turns to me, his bottom lip shaking.

"Where am I gonna go?" he ask in a broken voice "I have no where to go"

"No, you can always come to my house Troy" I say "okay?"

He nods his head and walks over to the closet and pulls out a red and white gym back with "Wildcats" printed on the side. I sit on the bed and wait. He goes to his dresser and pulls out tons of folded shirts and rolled socks. That's defiantly a mother's touch.

"You need help?" I offer

He shakes his head and keeps packing. Oh man, am I the cause of all of this? I am aren't I?

"Troy, I'm sorry" I say

Troy stops packing and looks at the floor. He quickly walks over to me and kisses me, hard. He pulls away and looks in my eyes.

"Don't ever say that again" he says "it's not your fault or mine, okay? Its there's, it will always be there's."

He leaves and goes back to packing. Good, we're on the same page.

Troy's p.o.v

Ryan's mom lightly taps the end of her cigarette on the astray in her room. Usually people who smoke gross me out, but with her it's different. She doesn't look like trash when she smokes; she looks like one of those old fashion movie stars. Before smoking was known to harm you. Her room is the biggest in the house; it's a dark violet and gray. Her bed is enormous; she looks tiny as she lies in the middle of it smoking. I can see where Sharpay got her attitude from. Ryan's mom's face is painted through out the room. Some are full body pictures and others are just her face. It's like a teen's room covered in posters of a cute celebrities, but the celebrity is herself. There are mirrors everywhere and one VERY large vanity table in the corner, next to her closet, which is bigger than my room, but no where near as big as her bathroom. The air smells like perfume and alcohol.

"So?" Ryan says

Ryan's mom takes another puff of her long brown cigarette and flips her long black hair. She stares at me in the eyes and I fell like running for my life. She's beautiful but intimidating.

"I don't know darling" she says to Ryan, but keeping her eyes on my.

"Mom, he was no where else to go" He says grabbing my hand

"That, I understand. I just don't know how I feel about your boyfriend sleeping with you" she says, now looking at herself in a nearby mirror.

"I'll sleep on the couch" I offer, forgetting the rule about letting Ryan talking.

She looks at me and her dark red lips curve in a smile. She turns back to Ryan.

"How does Mary Agnus about a boy in the house?" she ask

Mary Agnus

"Who cares? She got to go to Europe with her boyfriend!" Ryan says

I think aloud

"Who's Mary Agnus" I ask

His mom looks at me in surprise.

"You've never met my daughter?" she asks "she is Ryan's twin"

I have to laugh

"Mary Agnus?" I ask

"Yes. Named after my Grandmother" she says raising her hand as if to put her Grandmother on a pedestal.

"Look" Ryan says changing the situation "can Troy stay or not!"

His mom looks around for awhile.

"Fine, do as you will" she says with a smile

Ryan doesn't waste anytime; he grabs my hand and leads me to his room. Past a waving Sharpay sitting on Zeke's lap on her bed. I have back at her and Zeke. All the while I'm laughing on the inside, knowing that Sharpay isn't Sharpay at all. Mary Agnus…priceless.

"What are we gonna do?" Sharpay ask, as she sits next to Zeke on Ryan's desk.

"I don't know yet" I say

"Well, whatever it is it has to be good" Kelsi says

I still can't believe it's gonna take all of us, Kelsi, Ryan, me, Sharpay, Zeke and even Taylor. But if Gabbi would go to my mom, then who knows what she'll do next and I wanna make sure we're all on the same page. I just wish Chad would pick up his phone.

"How about we just hit her with a car" Sharpay jokes.

"Not funny!" Taylor says "you guys I don't know how I fill about plotting against her, she still is my friend even if she's being a bitch. Maybe she just needs to calm down"

"Calm down my ass! She said my brother had a deadly disease! Once I see her, I'm killing her" Sharpay says

"Look we're not getting anywhere." Zeke says

"Right" I agree "let's focus"

Suddenly Taylor's phone goes off. She picks it up and her eyes widen.

"Um, hey Gabbi" she says

Sharpay reaches out to take the phone, but Zeke pulls her back.

"No, I'm uh… at home. Oh, you're on your way? Yeah I can't wait"

She hangs up the phone and gets up.

"I gotta go" she says and makes her way to the door.

Sharpay follows her, Taylor stops and turns around.

"What are you doing?" she ask

Sharpay looks confused

"I'm about to wait for her at your house and then I'm gonna kick her ass" she says as if she's explaining herself "didn't I already say this?"

I think she's serious.

"Come sit down" Zeke says

And with out a second thought, Sharpay turns and walks back to Zeke. He's the only one who she really listens to.

"But Zeke…I really wanna kill her" she whines

Ryan and Kelsi laugh, but I can't help but feeling the same way. I wanna kill her. But her revenge will come soon enough. School should be interesting.

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