Thanks for the awesome reviews, you know I love them. I'm working on a lot of one-shots right now, to start posting when this story is done. I have so many joined fics, that I probably wont start my own fic before some of those are finished, but you never know, I'm working on a few story-lines though, just if I feel like writing something. Such as... a sequel to Forbidden Beauty, I kinda hope it'll work out, but maybe it wont. Anyway, I'll let you go on with your reading... ;p
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Queen Chica's Spell
Chapter 9.
Too Many Revelations.
"See, I brought chocolate!" Chad said, throwing 6 candy bars at the table in front of his friends, "My mom bought them yesterday, and I figured I might as well snatch a few for us."
"Yummy, I'm on a sugar low." Gabriella mumbled, grabbing one of them immediately. She opened it up and took a huge bite, the others looking at her, a little scared; "What?" she mumbled, swallowing her bite, "I told you I'm on a sugar low!"
"Fine then!" Ryan said, snatching a candy bar too. The others quickly grabbed one too, but Sharpay looked at Troy with regret. If he was gonna eat that, it would go straight to her body! She usually never ate candy, because she gained weight easily, and when there wasn't musical practise, she had to watch what she ate.
"Hey!" she said, as he took a hue bite, "Don't eat that!" she took the candy out of his hand and placed it at the table, "It's gonna go straight to my ass! I mean, your ass! No, my ass! Your ass!"
"So what?" Troy said, taking the candy bar again, "I like chubby girls. No, I mean, I like being chubby. It's really cool."
"No you don't." Sharpay said, taking the candy bar back from him, "That's not fair. It's me who has to live with it later. If you eat that, you're gonna go running."
"I can't go running." Troy mumbled, placing a hand on his stomach, "I'm not aloud to do any exercise."
"Why not?" Sharpay asked, crooking an eyebrow.
"I'll tell you later." Troy said, and he seemed really nervous, "All later. Y'know, we might want to rebuild that whole trust thingy again after I do that?"
"What did you do?" Sharpay asked, worry streaming through her body, "Please tell me what you did?"
"Later." Troy said, quickly snatching his candy bar back and hurrying out of the cafeteria.
"Stay!" Sharpay yelled, running after him, "You're gonna tell me! Wait!"
Chad flinched as the door smacked close behind them, "Oh well…" he said, "And I had agreed with myself yesterday that they were making progress. I guess not."
"No." Gabriella said, whipping her mouth, "They acted all sweet yesterday towards each other. I really thought they'd changed. But even though… They've been acting weird more-so-than usual. Not just towards each other. But with us too. The other day Sharpay couldn't even do her own hair in gym class, and she had no idea what she was saying during Creative Writing."
"Talk about Troy and his basketball skills." Chad mumbled, "He couldn't even throw free throws last Monday. Seriously, we thought he might be sick. And then when we were running tracks, he just sat down and started staring at Sharpay while you guys were having gym."
"Well, they've been spending a lot of time together." Ryan said.
"Huh?" Taylor questioned, "What do you mean time?"
"Troy's staying at our house every night." Ryan revealed, "I find it weird. And it's in Sharpay's room too. But I never hear any yelling from in there and they do their homework and the other day they were dancing when they crashed into each other."
"They've been acting weird since our Movie Night." Taylor mumbled, "Well, do you know what? When they come back here, we just demand them to tell us what's going on! They're our friends, and whether or not the news are bad, they have to tell us!"
"Yeah!" Gabriella agreed, "Hey Chad, do you think you could snatch some candy bars again tomorrow?"
The others laughed, and just then, Sharpay and Troy came back into the room, Troy looking really mad at Sharpay, and that was funny, because normally it was the other way around.
"Did she tell you, Troy?" Ryan asked, looking at his friend.
"No!" Sharpay said, sound like she was really girly-mad, "No, she didn't. She refused, and I want to know it!"
"Calm down!" Troy argued, "You'll know it sooner or later!"
"Fine then." Sharpay said, sitting back down.
"Guys?" Taylor said, catching their attention, "We just had a group meeting, and we demand to know what's going with the two of you!"
"What?" Troy broke out laughing, "Going on? Nothing's going on between us! Why would you think that?"
"You've been acting weirdly sweet towards each other." Gabriella said, as a matter of fact, "And now we want to know it."
Sharpay looked Troy in the eyes, and sighed, "I think it's time for them to know." she said, "Maybe they can even help us?"
"Okay." Troy said, "Come to the Evans resident as soon as you get out of school, and we'll tell you everything."
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"Okay." Chad said, when they were all sitting in Sharpay's room, that afternoon, "Now we really gotta know what's going on, 'kay?"
"Sure." Troy replied, fiddling with his long blonde locks, "You see… When I woke up Saturday morning, something had changed."
"For the better?" Taylor suggested, making an attempt for a joke.
There was no audience whatsoever, so Sharpay quickly continued their story, "You know. The same goes for me. I woke up in the wrong bedroom, and… the wrong body."
"What do you mean ´the wrong body´?" Gabriella asked, crooking an eyebrow.
"Well, I'm sorta stuck here in Sharpay's body, and she's stuck in mine." Troy said.
"Let me get this right…" Ryan begun, "You're switched? Sharpay is in Troy's body, and Troy is in Sharpay's body?"
Troy and Sharpay just nodded, not really answering.
"Oh my God, guys!" Ryan broke out laughing, "You're hilarious! Could you make it a little more Freaky Friday!?"
"Haha!" Gabriella agreed, "Cliché, much?"
Troy and Sharpay looked at each other, confusedness in their eyes. Didn't they believe them? God, that was what they'd been afraid of! That was why they didn't want to tell them, but they had wanted to hear it, and now they were just laughing at them! Unbelievable.
"Guys!" Sharpay said, her blue eyes lightening in a way you would never see Troy's eyes do, "It's true! Stop laughing!"
"You two are unbelievable!" Taylor laughed, tears streaming from her eyes because of it, "Switched bodies, that's so funny! Have you been doing this all week just to pull a prank on us!? God, you two really need to get yourselves a life! I can't believe you couldn't get a better idea though, I thought you were actors!?"
"Yeah!" Chad said, "You did trick us for awhile though, but this was taking it a bit too far! Like Troy would be able to keep his hands to himself if he was in Sharpay's body!"
"He can't!" Sharpay said, crossing her arms.
"Look," Troy said, "If you don't believe us, then let me prove it to you."
"How?" Chad just questioned, that smirking smile on his face.
"Yeah how, Troy?" Sharpay asked, her eyebrows ached.
"Would Sharpay do this?" Troy asked, quickly pulling his mini skirt off, along with his top.
Sharpay lost her jaw, and frantically hid her eyes behind her hands, moving in front of Troy, who just pushed her away, "Oh my God, Troy!" she shrieked, "I can't believe you'd do that! That's so embarrassing!" she shot a look towards her stomach, where her navel was hidden behind a bandage of some sort, "Oh my God!" she then yelled, "You pierced my navel? I can't believe you'd do that, you've so crossed a line! I thought we agreed to stop all this after we made up!?"
"This was before we made up." Troy said, biting his lip, and ignoring their friends, who were obviously confused.
"You know what?" Sharpay said, "Screw this, two can play at this game!" and then she pulled Troy's shorts and t-shirt off too, leaving herself in only a pair of green boxers.
"No!" Troy said, "I can't believe you took on those boxers, I hate them."
"Really?" Sharpay questioned, "I think they're cute. Look, there's bunnies on them." She paused after getting lost in the small bunnies on Troy's green boxers, and looked up again, "But Troy would you please dress me up again? That's my brother over there!" she yelled, pointing at Ryan.
"Oh my God…" Ryan mumbled, as he finally figured everything out, "They really are in each others bodies."
"Finally somebody believes us!" Sharpay said, smiling gratefully at Ryan, "And then, would you please excuse us for a minute, I have to go put some clothes on Troy." She grabbed him by the arm, and pulled him into the bathroom, while the others watched the door smack close.
"I can't believe this…" Gabriella said, "Doesn't stuff like this only happen in movies? I don't believe in this kinda stuff."
"No, but-"
Chad was cut off by Sharpay's (they knew it was her, but it was Troy's mouth which was yelling) yell from the bathroom, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! SEE, I TOLD YOU I COULDN'T TRUST YOU WITH MY BODY! AND WASN'T I STUPID? I ACTUALLY TRUSTED YOU ALONE WITH IT, AND WHAT DO YOU DO? YOU PIERCE MY NAVEL! ONE OF THE THINGS I JUST CAN'T STAND! GOD, TROY, YOU'RE UNBELIEVABLE!"
"I'm sorry, Sharpay!" Troy said, not as loud as Sharpay though, but they could still hear him, because they were very quiet, "It was the other day when we had that fight at school, and I told you to just go home to my house! I said I'd pierce your navel, and I was pissed at you, so I did it… Oh my God, you didn't make me sterile like you threatened to do, did you?"
"No!" Sharpay yelled, "Because I actually think about other people! I can't believe I made truce with you yesterday after this!"
"We made a little more than truce!" Troy said, "We…"
"I'm very a where of what we did, Troy, thank you very much."
"I feel bad for Sharpay." Chad commented.
"Oh my God!" Gabriella suddenly realized, "We have said some things to Sharpay, whom we thought was Troy at the moment, that we shouldn't have said."
"Whoops." Chad commented, a shy smile on his face.
Just then the doors burst open and Troy came out dressed in a bathrobe, while Sharpay was still only dressed in the green, bunnies boxers. They sat down on her bed, Sharpay still fuming mad at Troy. "You know?" she begun again, "I… I still can't fucking believe you pierced my navel, that's so…"
"I just thought it'd look hot on you!" Troy said, "Like I already told you when I took a shower."
"You've seen way more of me, than… Urgh, my life is still going down the tubes."
"Guys?" Gabriella interrupted, "We're sorry we didn't believe you before."
"Do you know what caused this?" Taylor asked. That was such a Taylor-question. Always trying to get to the bottom of things. "Do you have any ideas?"
"We don't." Troy said, playing with his hair again, "I mean… we tried a lot of things. That day when you found us on the floor, Ry, we were just running into each other to see if that would help."
"When did this start?" Chad asked.
"Saturday morning." Sharpay replied, "I woke up in Troy's room, and he woke up here. It must have been something we did Friday night."
"Oh my God!" Taylor said, locking eyes with Gabriella, "The necklaces…"
"What necklaces?" Troy questioned.
"Those we made you wear when we were playing Truth or Dare?!" Gabriella shrieked, "Taylor bought them at this new shop at the mall. Goolah's Shop or something crazy like that! Maybe you should try them on again, and see if it works?"
"Well, mine is right here." Troy said, digging into Sharpay's bedside table. He found it and held it up, "Where's yours, Sharpay?"
"Uhm, at your house I guess." Sharpay replied, "But… weren't you reading something that day too, Tay? Some sort of story!"
"Oh yeah, actually…" Taylor trailed off, "I had totally forgotten about that one. But now when you mentioned it, the story did say something about two siblings fighting, and then they switched bodies."
"Was there anything about how they were switched back?" Ryan asked, hope in his voice.
"I was about to read that, when Sharpay spotted a cute guy." Taylor said, "So I placed the story on the table…"
"… which I cleared a few seconds later, and threw everything in the trash!" Gabriella finished, "Oh my God! I threw it out! What are we gonna do!? We need to figure out how to get you back to normal!"
"Why don't the four of us go down to Goolah's Shop?" Chad said, standing up, "While Sharpay and Troy go to Troy's house to find the necklace. We'll talk to Goolah. Maybe she knows the story, and can tell us?"
"Good idea." Ryan agreed, "We'll meet here after."
"Yup." Sharpay said, she stood up and looked at herself, "I need a shirt, don't I?"
"Yeah." Gabriella agreed, nodding a little.
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"Okay, this does look a little creepy." Chad mumbled, looking at Goolah's Shop, when they were standing outside, "What made you guys go in there?"
"Don't ask." Gabriella said, shaking her head a little, "I just saw the shop from the shop over there!" she pointed behind her to the shop where Sharpay had been trying on clothes, "And well… Tay and I decided to go take a look, while Shar was… busy, and uhm, Tay bought the necklaces."
"Well, if we're lucky, that Goolah woman will know something about them. Can you remember anything you read Tay?" Ryan asked, as they carefully, and a little afraid, stepped into the shop.
"Not much." Taylor said, "I only kinda read the intro. About how… that Queen's brother and sister kept arguing, and then she used her necklaces on them. I can't even remember what her name was, otherwise it would have been easier."
"Let's just ask her." Chad said, approaching the desk, where the African-American woman was standing, just like the last time, when the girls had been there. She looked up, a little surprised by the sight of the four teens.
"Excuse me?" Taylor said, "Hi. Do you remember me?"
"Yes." Goolah said, "You bought Queen Chica's necklaces. How's that working out for ya'?"
"Not very good." Gabriella answered, "You see, I accidentally threw out the story, and uhm… Our two friends, accidentally, switched bodies, so we were wondering if you remember the story?"
"You threw out the story!?" Goolah asked, a little scared, "That was probably the most stupid thing you could do."
"I know!" Gabriella agreed, throwing her arms in the air.
"But don't you remember the story?" Ryan asked, hope in his voice.
"No." Goolah just answered, "Only thing I remember, is… It's Queen Chica's Spell. She did it because her siblings were always arguing, but I can't remember how they got switched back. That's kinda why the necklaces came with a story."
"Oh no." Taylor mumbled, "Well… we're just gonna have to try and figure something out, I guess."
"Yeah," Chad agreed, "Let's go home."
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Troy carefully slid on his necklace, while Taylor held up his long blonde hair. He looked Sharpay, who was also just clasping hers together. When they were both done, they looked at each other, waiting for a miracle to happen. But they didn't spin around in circles, and they didn't feel a rush.
Actually nothing happened, and they were still stuck in each others bodies.
"Try joining hands." Ryan suggested.
Sharpay and Troy grabbed each other's hands, and squeezed their eyes together. They hoped that when they opened them again, they would look at the other, and not themselves. But when they opened them again, nothing had changed.
"Damnit!" Sharpay cursed, standing up, "Fuck this shit! We're gonna be stuck like this forever! We'll, I guess there's no other option than for me to either turn guy and date girls, or date boys and be called a fag!"
"Calm down, Sharpay!" Gabriella said, "We'll figure this out. You're gonna get your own body back, you have to."
"Yeah," Troy said, giving her a small hug, "You will. We're gonna work it out, Sharpay."
"Really?" she questioned, looking at him.
"Really." Troy promised.
"Maybe we could just search the internet?" Taylor suggested, "I mean, we do know what the spell is called, so it's really easy to use Google."
Okay, end of this chapter. Remember to leave me a review, eh?
Tootles, Stessa ;o