Chapter 7:

Sharpay showed up to school late in hopes of avoiding certain people in the hallway. Little did she know that there was a little surprise waiting for her. She walked up to her locker thankful everyone was already in class, even if she did get chewed out for being late.

She stared at her locker in anger as she noticed the small red note taped to her locker with a single rose. She rolled her eyes as she walked up to her locker. The only way she was going to get rid of this guy is by telling him exactly how she feels… She hates him.

My Beloved Sharpay,

I'm sorry if my disappearance angered you after you song. I heard it sung by a friend and I immediately thought of you. You are the most beautiful person in the world but it is as if you never see me. If you follow the roses on the wall to be favorite place I promise I will keep no more secrets from you. Just give me this one chance and I'll leave you alone forever.

Prince Charming

Sharpay grabbed her books and slammed her locker. She would meet him alright. Shed show him the Sharpay that everyone feared, the ice queen. She would be so mean that no one would ever fall in love with her. She'll live alone in her own little apartment with a little dog as her only companion.

Ignoring the texts she got from Cassandra, Sharpay walked around the whole school. I was as if she was never going to find this place. Then she came up to a small stairway hidden by the giant wall and hallways. This was a place not meant to be seen. It seemed so familiar…. This was where she followed Gabby to when she was skipping class. It couldn't be, could it? There was no way Troy Bolton was going to be waiting for her at the top of those stairs, not after he told her off last night.

She walked up the stair a little scared. Maybe she didn't want to tell him off. She just wanted someone to hold her, someone to protect her from the storm. He could be the one person that truly understood her and even loved her. She couldn't really just push him away.

She entered Troy's special room to see her secret admirer with his back turned to her and wearing the same outfit. She didn't know what to say. She wanted him, she hated him. She didn't know what love was. She didn't want to give it a chance. Everything that she saw as love was ruined.

"I knew you would come." He said finally the tension began to fill. He never looked at her. He just looked out at the portrait of the day sky.

"What do you want? I'm not some little bimbo who thinks little plans like these are hot."

"I know. I made the assumption that you would find this romantic. I am ashamed that I disappointed as I have. I only wanted to make you happy."

"What?"

"When I look at you… I see someone who is lonely. Someone who needs to laugh every once in awhile. I see someone who needs to find love. I feel I can be just the man to show you everything. I didn't want to rush things in fear you would see who I am and not only see what you think you know."

"Oh."

"I just wanted to talk to you… to hear you voice."

"I."

"Tell me Sharpay what do you want?"

"I don't know." She could feel a tear fall down her cheek. Moments later they started to flood out of her eyes. In her entire life no one cared enough to ask that simple of a question. No one cared enough to just wonder what she really wanted, not even Ryan.

"Tell me. You know. You have dreams… fears… There is something deep inside of you waiting to be released."

"I want to be someone else. I hate my life. I hate my father for beating my mom. I hate my mother for letting him. I hate Ryan for never comforting me and telling me that it isn't our business. I hate all my peers for only seeing me as the ice queen. I'm too afraid of what they might think of me to be nice. I want someone to look me in the eyes and really care when a new tear falls. I want someone to tell me that I really can sing. I want to eat pizza and cotton candy with out my father telling me that I am fat. I want to be loved. I want to know what love is. I want to just have something, anything. I don't want to be alone anymore. I hate crying myself to sleep. I hate staring at the knife in the kitchen and thinking no one will miss me."

"I'd miss you."

"I want to believe that this is real. I want to be that you really do have feeling for me and won't…"

"I'd never break your heart. Id be everything you want me to be if you let me. Sharpay… I want to be everything that you want. I want to live and breathe only for you. I can't stop thinking about you. All I want is you. This is as real as it gets. The only heart that is going to get broken is mine if you walk out that door and never give me a chance."

"I don't even know if I worthy of love."

"You're worth every last drop of love that I own in my being. You are worth the world in my eyes."

Sharpay shook her head as the tears began the fall all over again. She couldn't take this. Pouring her out to someone not knowing who they are or what they really think. She couldn't take walking out the door and never giving this a chance. She wanted to be swept off of her feet by her prince charming. The only way she was leaving was if he dragged her out.

"Then tell me who you are."

There was a growing silence but he did turn around. He had his hands on the mask deciding what to do. If he showed her who he was, he just might lose any chance he had with her. He went about this all wrong. He couldn't lose her before he even had her…

"I don't know if I can."

"Why not?"

"I don't want you to run out of hear screaming. I made a mistake Sharpay. I told you something I didn't mean because I was afraid of the way you were going to react. I lied and I want to take it back.

Sharpay couldn't let him finish. She just knew that it was too good to be true. There was no love left in the world for Sharpay Evans. Maybe that knife wasn't looking so bad anymore…