The get-away
Author. soDEEliicious
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Except .. never mind, I own nothing.
Chapter Four; Third Day
Sharpay woke up early that morning. Gabriella was just so happy that Sharpay was feeling happier and acting less like that snotty self that she just accepted Sharpay into the room. Taylor of course had her doubts, but five minutes into the pillow fight and they were acting like best friends. They had not gone to bed until a good hour or two past midnight and it was only... seven o'clock at the moment. Sharpay opened the door to her room with Troy, dumped her pillow and blanket on to the bed and screamed as she found Troy on her bed.
"Huh? Oh good morning Sharpay." Troy said groggily. "I slept here. The couch, it's not exactly comfortable."
"It's ok. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have screamed." Sharpay said and crept to the bathroom where she took a relaxing shower.
After she was done she had used majority of the hot water so Troy just had to go without shower for the morning. But during Sharpay's relaxing shower session with lots and lots of hot water, the memories from last night flooded her mind. Yehp, the kiss, the everything. How she let her walls of insecurity down and let Gabriella, Troy, Taylor, Ryan, Kelsi, Zeke and Chad all back into her inner circle of friends. Not that she had any before.
"Hey, um we're needed outside." Troy said, running a hand with wax through his hair, styling it on the way.
"Oh just us?" Sharpay asked and immediately punched herself squarely in the nose, mentally of course. She wouldn't have the guts to do it physically. She was still drying her hair.
"I dunno." Troy shrugged.
"Alright. You go ahead. I'll meet you all at the lobby in about ten minutes."
Troy nodded simply and was out the door. She dried her hair as quickly as she could without making it go all frizzy. She sprayed some perfume, took her sunglasses off from the make up desk and was off and out the door. Oh wait, Sharpay went back and took her ear-rings and shot out the door, into the elevator. After a couple of minutes she arrived downstairs, safe and sound. She was so scared of the elevator breaking down on her. That was like her ultimate fear.
"Oh, finally! About time!" Gabriella exasperatedly said and everyone snapped their attention to Sharpay.
"Yeah sorry about that. I thought I had my ear ring but it was back at the make-up desk. So I had to go back. And the elevator was awfully slow." Sharpay said, scrunching her nose.
"Well we got a big day planned ahead of us." Gabriella explained, "So we'll need to be on time."
"We're talking about major big day. Not just some prissy shopping." Chad said, making a square with his hands.
"Shopping is not prissy!" Sharpay gasped, hitting Chad across the arm.
"Ok, sheesh, take it easy woman!" Chad put his hands up as a sign of no harm.
Gabriella giggled. She then realized that they were running behind time. If they wanted, meaning, Gabriella, Taylor, Ryan, Troy, Zeke and Chad, everything to go as planned they had to leave at that exact moment. She wouldn't be surprised if they missed their train or bus!
"Come on guys! We're going to miss our train!" Gabriella said and started dragging Sharpay, who caught Troy's arm, and the gang teased them.
Sharpay turned really red in the face and let went of Troy's arm. Gabriella rolled her eyes. It wasn't that she was jealous of Troy's potential of hooking up with Sharpay. After all they were over. But her friends. They were being a nuisance. Instead of helping out with the plan and helping Sharpay befriend with them and go out with Troy, they were making it quiet the opposite!
"Ugh, don't be silly. Come on!" Gabriella said leading the crowd to the train station.
Once they got to the train station, they were lost. Except Gabriella and Taylor no body else knew how to take the subway. They were all lost. Gabriella and Taylor had to buy the train tickets for them, teach them how to get through the barrier and teach them not to step in the gap, for if you did step in the gap, you would fall and have an unpleasant death. This was all common knowledge for Gabriella and Taylor.
"Seriously, you guys really need to do something with you lack of knowledge on the subway!" Taylor said rolling her eyes.
"It's not my fault." Sharpay whined, after getting over the shock of how big the gap actually was. She needed Troy and Zeke carrying her in. She was that scared. "I swear, I have never seen a gap that deadly!"
They all found seats. It was particularly empty seeing that no one would be headed where they were, unless they had the money and the time. No they were not going to another mall. They were going to... oh wait. You can read and find out. Sharpay went non-stop about how dangerous the subway was earning a couple of weird looks from kids that looked as if they were elementary students. Ryan grabbed onto the seat so hard, his knuckles were white. The boys. They were scared and you could see it. They wouldn't talk, they wouldn't blink. They just sat there petrified.
"Oh guys. Come on. This is our station!" Gabriella yelled with panic. It was their station and the door had opened but they were just too busy being scared. She rolled her eyes, grabbed a couple of them while Taylor did the same. This time Sharpay had to rely on Gabriella, for even the boys were scared of the gaps when they were coming off.
"You were fine with this before, when we boarded the train. Why are you guys so scared now?" Taylor asked.
"Who me? Babe I wasn't scared. I was... acting!" Chad said, his voice rather high.
"Uh-huh, sure." Taylor rolled her eyes and said sarcastically as Chad put his arms around her.
They all followed Gabriella outside, where a bus was waiting for them. It wasn't a public bus, it was one of those shuttle buses and on the side it said YMCA; activity center. Sharpay's eyes widened. She had went there when they were younger and had the worst experience of her life. Ryan getting information of Sharpay's fear from that twin telepathy, laughed out loud.
"What's so funny?" Sharpay asked, whipping around to face Ryan.
"You're... Ahaha... You're thinking of that moment, aren't you?" Ryan laughed.
"Shut up." Sharpay covered Ryan's mouth. "Guys I'm feeling thirsty. Where can I get a bottled water?"
"We're running late. You'll have to get it there." Gabriella said, saying the there, mysteriously.
"Wait, we're not going on that bus, are we?" Sharpay asked, her face showing signs of some panicked out person.
Gabriella nodded and dragged Sharpay to the bus. There they all took their seats and the bus was off. They passed some great scenery and finally after an hour of traveling they arrived at a house. And next to the house there were like fields. On the other side of the house there were cabins.
"We're here!" Gabriella said excitedly and got off the bus.
"Where?" Sharpay asked, scared.
"Here. YMCA; activity center."
"Oh crap, no way!"
"Yes way."
"Come on." Gabriella beckoned the group over.
Sharpay stood there rooted to the spot, while they went through the gate. Troy came back and put his arms around her in a joking manner.
"Come on." He said with his killer smile, directing Sharpay towards the group.
Sharpay walked aimlessly. She was doomed. Great, great. Really great! When they entered the house looking building, there was a big hall down the corridor, after the reception. The receptionist gave them there name tags and they were off, to the big hall. In the big hall, there were two people, looking really weathered. They were wearing shorts and a simple shirt with a helmet and a backpack. Sharpay looked at them with a... Ohhkaaay then look and sat down on the ground with her friends. She looked around and to her relief they were the only group there.
"Hello and welcome everybody. We'll be your guides for the day, my name is Lily," the girl guide said with a cheerful smile.
"And I'm Sky." The guy guide said also with a cheerful smile.
"Today we'll be doing various activities. And I assure you they'll be fun. They're major fun!" Lily cheerfully said.
"So get off your bottoms and let's go have fun." Sky exclaimed.
The gang stood up and followed Lily and Sky into the field. Once Lily and Sky smiled, they looked a tad bit more livelier. There was this huge board standing vertically. Sharpay and Ryan knew what this was.
"This is the... who can tell me what this is?" Sky asked, treating them like Kinders.
"Abseiling." Sharpay said, her face paling while the other shrugged.
"Well done. Someone knows what we've got in store!" Sky said with a clap and a wink.
That was the only thing that kept Sharpay from hyperventilating. Troy saw this and scowled. Not that he and Sharpay were officially going out, but everyone knew that he liked her. How could they not? He was so... the glazed eyes, the slightly gaping mouth. As far as Troy was concerned Sharpay was an angel. That was the reason he had broken up with Gabriella. But Troy had used some other reason. Gabriella noticed Troy's scowls and coughed, braking Sharpay's gaze on Sky.
"So what do we do for this abseiling thing?" Gabriella asked.
"Well you get harnessed, you hold on to that rope and make your way down. And yes it's one hundred percent safe. So who's first?" Sky asked. Lily was already up the abseiling board thing and was ready to harness people up.
"I think I might skip this one." Sharpay said, turning slightly green and hiding behind a bush.
The rest of the day went just fine. They did rock climbing after abseiling, which was funny. Then they did the Giant Swing, self explanatory much? Then the high ropes. Various of activities in the air. That was exciting. Even Sharpay did it. And she was quiet scared. Then they had their archery session where most of them proved hopeless except the perfect sportsman, Troy Bolton. Sharpay blushed every time he looked her way. Wow, what else was new?
The gang were in the hall again, with Sharpay drinking a lot of water, while the boys complained about their wedgies and pains of the harness and the rest of the girls talking about their favorite activity.
"Well it was great to have you guys. We hope to see you next time." Sky started off.
"We hope you come back next time and have a nice day." Lily said with a pretty smile.
"But for now," Sky started, "Good bye." They finished together.
They all said their good-byes, caught the bus back to the station. When they were at the subway, they had their dilemmas with the gap, the boys helping Sharpay on aboard. They all sat laid back in their seats, tired and exhausted.
"Woo!" Ryan exclaimed, "That was one exciting day!"
"Uh-huh! So true!" Kelsi added.
"High rope was soo scary!" Sharpay shuddered, unscrewing the lid of her water bottle.
"Man, if you're gonna say scary, the Giant Swing is the shiznit!" Chad exclaimed, pumping his fists in the air, "It was exciting stuff."
The rest of the ride went like that. When they arrived back at the lobby, Sharpay shot straight up to her room and had a relaxing hot shower. Troy used it after Sharpay. Sharpay flung herself onto the bed as soon as she was out. She was oh-so-tired and couldn't stand to be awake another minute. Oh, sleep time, here I come! That was the last thought Sharpay had before settling into a nice deep slumber.
Author's Note: Yo, sup y'all. Dee again. Sick of me much yet? LAWLLS. Yeaa well, thank you to those two people that reviewed. I found it helpful. Thank you . (x As usual, R/R, C/C is welcome and cookies, hugs and some loving are also very welcome. Love you all , even those lurkers who refuse to review( LAWLS, jokes jokes) aanndd , that's about it. Toodle-oo!