6:30, car home from hair appointment

Well, formal day has arrived. I checked out of school at lunch with Taylor,
Sharpay, and even Ryan. We headed to the nail salon and got our french
manicures. Ryan got his nails done too, but not decorated like us(yes men do
get their nails done ))

When that was over, we went to the gym to work out for an hour so we could
fit perfectly in our dresses. Mine already fit fine, but I thought it might be
fun hanging with my friends, so I went. We headed for the locker room, changed
out then made our way to the treadmills. Ryan thought it would be funny to put
the speed on 10, but that didn't go over to well. He took two steps then
crashed and burned on the treadmill coming out with carpet burn(no, technically
treadmill burn, but same dif)

He left to go and "pick up his dry cleaning" when we all really knew he just
wanted to go home and cry to his mommy.

As we were jogging along in a 3-4 speed radius Sharpay announces something
totally shocking that I never saw coming.

"The thing is ladies, Ryan isn't going home to cry OR pick up his dry
cleaning."

"Well, tell us what the heck he's doing!" I said in my tired, running voice.

"He's picking up Robyn's corsage, then taking her to dinner at Le Chocolate.

"Nu UH! Not possible...REALLY?" The shock on mine and Taylor's face was
priceless. I saved the awkwardness(is that a word?) and said,

"Phew, UH I'm kinda tired...want to hit the locker rooms?"

"Yea, sounds great, I'll see you girls at the dance!"Sharpay said, as we parted
our ways and headed to the beauty salons.

7:30

Okay, here I am in the car with Troy and for some reason I have a really funny
feeling in my stomach, and it doesn't feel like nerves(and trust me, I know the
nerve feeling). Troy's looking over my shoulder at the moment so I'm going
to----

8:35
police car

yea I know, don't jump to conclusions here. I'm not in trouble with the law I
swear.

When we pulled up at the dance, there were police cars and ambulances galore. I
was terrified and Troy turned to me and said, "What do you think happened?"

"I don't know Troy, looks pretty serious."

"Should we investigate?"Troy asked

"Sure Joe Hardy, let's go." I said, even though I wanted to stay put where I
was.

"Okay I'll only be Joe if you'll be my Nancy." Aw this was sweet, but I don't
think Joe from the Hardy boys ever dated Nancy Drew. But hey, it's the thought
that counts.

We got out of the car and police officers were blocking the door to the gym.
They wouldn't let us in no matter how hard we tried. Well, actually let me
rephrase that, no matter how hard TROY tried. Here is an example of his
desperate manuver to get inside:

"Please officer I'm part of the yearbook committee!" Lame right? Heehee. This
is worse,

"But I think there's doughnuts inside that I left and I'll share one with you
if you let us in! How bout it officer? We got a deal?" You can pretty much
figure out what the officer said after that. I told Troy it would be easier to
just wait and find out later. He didn't like the idea so I got out my phone and
said,

"Okay Troy, you call Chad and Zeke and find out as much as possible. I'll call
Sharpay and Taylor and find out all I can kay?"

"Yes mam Nancy!"

I called Taylor first, I trusted her the most. For some reason she must have
had it on silent or something because she didn't pick up. Same with Sharpay. I
even called Kelsi, and she didn't pick up either. I hoped Troy was having more
luck than I was.

"Hey Troy? Any luck?" I asked.

"None, man have you heard Chad's answering voice mail thing, it's kinda dumb."

"Troy! No time for answering-machine-making-fun-of! Even though you're right it
is kind of stupid haha."

For the next five minutes we stood there making silly Chad impressions. It was
the best. But right when Troy was doing his version of "I can't make it to the
telephone" A police tapped his shoulder and said,

"Young boy, I'll need you to leave the premises right now. Same for your
sister." Okay first off, haha Troy's a young boy! But second, why in the world
do people automatically assume Troy is my brother. Maybe the offier has a crush
on Troy like Robyn did when she used the 'sister' line. Haha. Troy seemed mad
about the young boy and sister thing so he replies,

"Well, OLD BOY my GIRLFRIEND Nancy and I don't have a ride for oh say an hour."
Old boy haha classic. But the ride home thing wasn't wasn't true; we could get
a ride in 5 minutes from my mom if we needed to, but Troy wanted to stall and
figure out the case. I think the officer caught on and said,

"What is your name young man and I'll take you and Nancy home." I guess he
didn't like the fact of being called an old man, so he switched to calling Troy
and 'young man'.

"My name is Joe and I guess we will accept the ride."

"Well Joe and Nancy, hop in the car I don't have much time." I turned to Troy
and asked why he jumped at the chance at leaving. He just looked at me and
whispered, "I thought maybe we could get some info from the old chum!" Not a
bad idea, but so far sitting here now, it hasn't worked yet. And we're puuling
into my driveway now. Troy noticed and gave one last try.

Back inside my house

So woah. Troy managed to get some big info from the guy. I mean...well let me
just continue with the story. Troy looked at the officer (with puppy eyes, hard
to resist!) and said,

"Look dude, just tell us one tiny hint about what might have happened. We have
a right to know, and I have high blood pressure and if I get nerv----

"OKAY OKAY just shut up with the fake sicknesses." Man the officer really
catches on. Haha I'll make fun of Troy for a long time on his 'high blood
pressure'. Then, after the news the officer let out of his mouth caused me to
skip a heartbeat.

"Well Joe. It involves a serious death."