The get-away
Author. soDEEliicious
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Except .. never mind, I own nothing.
Chapter Three; Second Day
"Hey Sharpay..." A voice whispered in Sharpay's ear as she rolled around in her bed, trying to ignore the source of sound. "Sharpay, wake up."
Sharpay's eyes creaked open as she stretched and stifled a yawn. What came next woke up everyone within the distance of two rooms from the room Sharpay was in.
"Get away from me!" She kept screaming, kicking Troy and punching him.
"Ok, ok!" Troy muttered, holding his hands up to show no harm.
"What were you doing so close to me anyway?" Sharpay asked, psh, demanded more like.
She was blushing. Troy was all the way across the room, in front of the bathroom, his hair looking wet and shirtless. He still had his hands up in the air.
"I was trying to wake you up quietly. The other guys are all awake. They asked me to wake you up."
That was the truth. And it was all part of their plan.
"Come on, get up. There's a lot to be done today." Troy said with a smile and moved closer to her in order to usher her out of her bed.
"All right, all right." Sharpay stretched for the last time and kicked her blankets aside.
She was starting to warm up to Troy. After all that crush-y feeling still never escaped her. No, but she wasn't going to disturb Troy, get in his face just to say hi. No, that was not the new Sharpay. She got up, and walked towards the bathroom with her towel. After thirty minutes of getting ready for a big day she came back outside and found Kelsi, Gabriella, Taylor, Jason, Zeke and Ryan outside in her room. Well, her and Troy's room.
"What are they doing here?" Sharpay asked, giving a glance at Troy.
"Why? Are we not allowed in here? What were you doing?" Ryan asked, wriggling his eyebrows.
"Immature." Sharpay said fixing her ear-rings in the mirror.
"Well at least she didn't call me a dick." Ryan said happily, a smile on his lips.
Sharpay rolled her eyes. They all ushered her outside. Especially the girls. Sharpay turned around and frowned at them all.
"Where are we going?" She asked grumpily.
"You'll know in about ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, once—now!" Gabriella said with excitement. The boys looked equally excited. When Sharpay got out of the car, she saw her favorite Mall, just out of Albuquerque. I smiled. But quickly wiped it off as the other saw me.
"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Gabriella exclaimed excitedly and they all rushed inside.
Sharpay couldn't help but get excited. She tried to hold that smile down, but she couldn't. She was at her favorite mall, how could she have? They moved in groups, following Sharpay. By noon, the boys were exhausted, Sharpay had thousands of paper bags littered about around her, and the rest of the girls were smiling from their success. Even Taylor was. Sharpay smiled back at them all. 'This feels good.' Sharpay thought to herself, actually recognizing the fact that being happy and feeling loved was actually a good feeling.
"Come on guys!" Sharpay exclaimed, jerking her newly bought sunglasses onto her head, "We must shop! We came here to shop, not to sit around at the food court and waste our time! Chop, chop!" She pulled on Troy's sleeves a blushed when everyone started looking at her.
"Ooh, someone's developed a little crush!" Gabriella ooh-ed, and the other girls followed suit. Troy started blushing as well.
"Shut up." Sharpay muttered. But then a confused look dawned her face. "Isn't-" But she was cut off as everyone got up scraping their seats against the floor.
"What are you waiting for? You're the one who wanted to shop more! Chop chop!" Troy mimicked in a friendly way.
"Huh?" Sharpay asked confusedly to find out that the gang had gone a couple of metres while she was wondering about a very important question. "Oh right." With that Sharpay attempted to run towards the gang, but failed by tripping over her one thousand plus shopping bags. "Help?" She asked, her hand raised in the air.
"Sure." Troy replied first, laughing heartily with the others. The other gave him a ooh-you-in-love-too? look. I just rolled my eyes.
"Come on guys, you too. You can hold this bag." Sharpay said assigning at least five bags to each person.
They continued their shopping spree. The boys wanted to really leave by the time one o'clock came, but Sharpay had some more shopping to do. Finally at around four o'clock after many shop keepers had to shoo Sharpay out for returning to the store, they got back in the car and were off. Sharpay had a couple of bags around her even after cramming as much as she could in the trunk. The girls thought she was going to be bankrupt as they held on to their one bags. They were too cheap to spend the amount of money as Sharpay had.
"I'm going to sleep early, g'night guys." Troy said.
"Me too." Sharpay piped up eagerly, collected her bags from everyone else and got into the elevator, before it shut on her.
"You sleeping early too?" Troy asked, seeing that they were the only two people in the elevator.
"Nah, I'm going to check out my newest addition to my... new things!" Sharpay exclaimed delightedly.
"Oh man, I'm gonna be stuck while you spray yourself with perfume and all that smelly girly stuff, aren't I?" Troy asked, mock feigning horror.
"It is not smelly girly stuff!" Sharpay argued, smacking Troy in the forearm.
They could've sworn that there were firework between the two of them when they had briefly contacted each other. Sharpay, feeling this, immediately removed her hand from Troy's forearm and the rest of the elevator ride was quiet. They were like, standing on the other side of the elevator. Ding, came the sound that alerted them that they were stopping. They both got out of the elevator and went inside to their suite, Troy being the gentleman he was by holding open the door and carrying more than half of Sharpay's heavy shopping bags.
Sharpay immediately sat herself in front of the little make-up desk they had. There she applied perfume, lip gloss, foundation, eye liner, sparkler and all those type of girly things. Troy was suddenly unable to sleep and sat up in his couch bed watching Sharpay. Sharpay, making sure that Troy had his eyes closed, changed outfit after outfit. Troy peeked, giving into temptation and got the smack of his life.
"Eugh, boys." Sharpay groaned while changing into a different pair of outfit. "How do I look?" She did a little twirl in front of Troy.
"It's... pretty." Troy replied.
"Pretty?" Sharpay scoffed, "That's it? It's not sexy? It doesn't cling on to me in all the right places like my hips? My boobs?" Sharpay cried out indignantly. That was the fifth time he just said, it's pretty. What a lame duck. Realizing that she had just asked the weirdest question in Troy's life, she blushed and murmured a little sorry. "Sorry, I just got carried away. Before," Sharpay paused, indicating that before was, before she became so meaner, "when I went shopping with my mom, she used to say those things. How beautiful I looked. I guess you're not a girl then."
"Dude! I'm a boy!" Troy cried out, also indignantly.
"I know, I know." Sharpay giggled. "I had enough of this, maybe I'll continue tomorrow night."
Sharpay changed into her pajamas. She lay on her bed, her hands behind her head. She was just looking into the ceiling, doing nothing but looking up at the ceiling.
"So, what are you thinking about?" Troy asked, noticing Sharpay staring at the ceiling.
"Oh nothing." Sharpay dismissed the subject.
"You know what?" Troy asked.
"What?" Sharpay responded.
"You've changed in the two days I've seen you this holidays-" Troy was cut off, however, as Sharpay said, "Is it a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Good thing. I'm proud of you in a way, I never thought possible." Troy finished.
"Thank you? But I'll probably change back. If not to my meaner self than to my mean self." Sharpay said with a sigh.
"Why?"
"I don't know. Musicals were the things that mattered to me the most. Acting like a snotty girl was what got me noticed. Now acting like a snotty girl won't get me noticed and acting won't get me noticed. What can I do to get noticed? Nothing but act snottier than before."
"Do you want to act like a snottier version of your snotty self?"
"Nah, not really. But then how else am I going to get noticed? Gabriella seemed to have taken it all away from me."
"Whoa you called her by her first name!" Troy said with a grin, "On a serious note, hey it doesn't have to be like that. If you act like yourself, as in your right now self, you'll have plenty of friends. Real friends, Sharpay. Not just some stupid acquaintance."
"Do you think I want to be like this?"
"Hmm, no. I think you want to be like your brother. Get out there and make friends. Actual friends." Troy said walking over to Sharpay's bed and sitting on the edge.
"Anywho, even if I changed, no one will stick by me. I doubt Ryan will. His developed a weird temper. You, you're probably all talk. And yeah..." Sharpay said, her face drooping sadly.
"I will. I promise I will, if you promise that you'll change." Troy said lying down next to Sharpay.
"No way. Are you serious? You're out of your mind, Troy." Sharpay said softly, giving him a glance.
"No I swear! Then try it for the first week! Please?" Troy asked.
"...Alright." Sharpay said after much hesitance, "You better not be all talk, because if you are, I'll never let you see the living daylight, ever again. And I mean it literally!"
"Whoa. Ok, ok, calm down." Troy said with a nervous chuckle, "And did anyone tell you how pretty your eyes were."
"No." Sharpay said, with a grin.
Suddenly, Troy lifted his weight off the bed, and hovered on top of Sharpay, holding his own weight. There he slowly lowered his arms, until their lips were touching. Sharpay immediately warmed up to the kiss. There were of course, chemistry. Suddenly, Sharpay pushed him off of her.
"Troy, you have a girlfriend. We shouldn't be going about behind Gabriella's back." Sharpay said breathlessly.
"Huh? What girlfriend?" Troy asked.
"Oh, don't play dumb. You have Gabriella!" Sharpay said flushed.
"No I don't. Well not anymore. We decided it wasn't working out..." Troy said his eyes drooping.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't know. No one told me." Sharpay apologized.
"It's ok. But I'm surprised no one told you..."
"Who would? I'm a practical loner."
"Sorry Sharpay. I should've known that you didn't feel that way about me. G'night."
"I think I might sleep with the girls tonight." Sharpay said, "G'night Troy."
Sharpay took her pillow and her blanket, quickly crept to the door, threw it open and walked across the hall, towards Gabriella and Taylors. She smiled sheepishly as she threw their door open.
"Hi guys, can I sleep here tonight?" Sharpay asked.
"Yeah, sure. Come." Gabriella motioned for Sharpay to join them on the bed, where they were having a pillow fight.
"Troy being annoying?" Gabriella asked with amusement.
"Oh, yeah. He is."
Author's Note: Dee again. I don't have much time online seeing that it's the first of January 2007. Guys, happy new year! Keep the reviews coming. And like usual, C/Cs are appreciated as well as some loving and some cookies. : Love y'all. Catch y'all later.