A/N: Hey guys! Yay! I'm updating! This chapter is probably the shortest chapter I've written of this story. Of course, other than the trailer. But you guys are awesome reviewers!
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Okay guys! Here's the fifth chapter! I'm trying to make the chapters longer than in my other stories and I think I'm doing great!
This Is War
Chapter Five: Guess Who's Back
"Our what?" The girls said together.
"You're mom." Ryan repeated.
"Great to see you're acquainted. Now, I have to leave. I have a meeting in an hour. I'll see you guys tomorrow!" Mr. Preston said as he started walking out of the theatre.
"Bye Mr. Preston!" The girls called after him.
Then Ryan pulled Leslie to the side. "Excuse me girls… I need to have a talk with your… mom." He said.
When they were a fair distance from the girls, they started talking.
"What are you doing here?" Ryan asked Leslie.
"I'm making a living! I'm a playwright now!" Leslie said.
"I thought you said that you were never going to come back?" Ryan asked.
"Well, I guess I just missed my girls." Leslie said.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" Ryan asked sternly.
"It means I miss my girls!" Leslie shouted.
"No, it means that you admit that you came looking for us." Ryan said.
"Okay, yeah, I came looking for you. Is it a crime now to visit my own daughters?"
"To me it is! We're doing just fine!" Ryan shouted.
"Ryan, do you understand that you're a guy? These girls need a mother! They're not going to run to daddy for "girl" issues! They would be too embarrassed!"
Ryan sighed. "Look, ever since you left us, we've been doing just fine. I fulfilled my dream of becoming an actor, I've raised smart girls, and our life is good. And now five years after you leave you come back? What happened to, 'I can't take this anymore! It's now your responsibility yada, yada, yada'?" Ryan said.
Leslie sighed, "Look I just wanna see my girls." Leslie said trying to get through Ryan to get to the girls. But Ryan blocked her.
"Over my… cold… dead… body." Ryan said.
"Why does this have to be an issue? All I wanna do is be a mother to them. I don't want them to grow up thinking what a horrible woman I am! What's wrong with that?"
"What's wrong is you left us in the first place. If you didn't want them to think horrible thoughts about you, then why'd you leave?" Ryan asked sternly.
Leslie is in tears now. "I honestly have no idea." She said.
"Well then, that's your problem. What made you think I'll get back together with you anyway?" Ryan said.
Leslie looked shocked. "What gave you that idea?"
"I just thought that since you wanna be their mother and I'm their father, then, you know…"
"No! I don't want to get back together with you! I want to see my girls, not you!" Leslie shouted.
"Well, it isn't gonna happen anyway!" Ryan shouted.
"Oh don't worry about that. I've got all the time I need to make those girls love me. They're gonna be here tomorrow, and the next day, and the next because of rehearsals, and I'm going to be here everyday too. And don't you even dare make them quit the play because look at them; they want to do this play. And they're gonna hate you if you take them out. And in no time, those girls are gonna be under my custody."
"Custody? What? Are you saying you're gonna take the girls from me?" Ryan asked.
"Oh I'm not just saying it. I'm doing it." Leslie said. Then she started walking away.
Suddenly, Leslie turns back around. "Oh, and Ry, I already have a boyfriend. And he's a much better lover than you." She said. But in the inside, she kicked herself for saying that because she knew it was a lie. How could I say that? Ryan's the best lover I've ever had! Am I that furious? She thought.
"Really? And who would that be?" Leslie heard Ryan call after her. Then she quickly went outside the theatre and brought back a guy.
"Ryan, meet Troy Bolton."
Ryan was speechless. Troy Bolton? The Troy Bolton? Is dating Leslie? He thought? Finally, he said something. "Troy?"
"Hey Ryan." Troy said.
Meanwhile with the girls, they started making a plan as soon as their parents walked away.
"Our mom is pretty." Rachelle said.
"I know. Maybe that's why dad fell for her." Roxanne said. Rachelle nodded. Then the girls thought of something for a very long time and looked at each other.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Rachelle asked Roxanne.
"If you're thinking of making them get back together then yeah."
"Good. But we'll have to see if she's nice first because we don't want a mean mom." Rachelle said.
"Yeah." Roxanne said. Suddenly, they see their mom walk away and say something to their dad.
"Oh, and Ry, I already have a boyfriend. And he's a much better lover than you." They hear her say.
"Do you know what that meant?" Rachelle whispered to Roxanne. "No clue." Roxanne answers.
"Really? And who would that be?" They heard their dad say. Then their mom walked out of the theatre and brought back a guy.
"Ryan, meet Troy Bolton." They hear their mom say. They saw their dad was speechless.
"Great, there's a plan down the drain." Roxanne said.
"No it's not. We'll just have to make our mom fall out of love with… what's his name-" Rachelle said.
"Troy." Roxanne said.
"Whatever. And make her fall in love with dad." Rachelle finished.
"Yeah! But… what about Ms. M? We made dad fall in love with Ms. M!" Roxanne said.
"Oh… Then we'll just have to make dad hate Ms. M." Rachelle said.
"We can't do that to Ms. M! Or dad." Roxanne said.
"Do you want a mom or what?" Rachelle said. Roxanne nodded. "Then we have to do this!" Rachelle said and then they heard their dad say something.
"Troy?" He said.
"Hey Ryan." The guy said.
Meanwhile with Gabriella, she just finished her shift and is now headed to the mall to hang out with her friends.
Gabriella looked at her watch. It read 3:50. Ten minutes until I'm late. Gabriella thought.
A few minutes later, she arrived at the mall and went to the usual place where they meet. The food-court.
"Hey Gabby!" Sharpay said perkily.
"Hey Shar!" Gabriella said just as perkily. "Hey Tay! Hey Kels! Hey Taysha!" Gabriella said to the rest of her friends as she sat down.
"My, someone's happy today." Taylor said.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you guys. Gabby's in love." Lataysha said.
"Really? So who's the lucky guy?" Sharpay asked.
"I don't know his name." Gabby said.
"So you're in love with a guy, but you don't know his name?" Kelsi said.
"Pretty much." Gabriella said. "He gave me a free ticket to see a play in Broadway. Which reminds me, Shar, why aren't you doing Broadway?" Gabriella asked.
"Because I have to finish filming a movie with Channing Tatum."
"Oh." Gabriella said. "So Tay, how are Chad and little Devon doing?" She asked.
"They're both fine, Chad took Devon to Central Park. It's been a long time since those two had father and son time." Taylor said.
"What about you Kels? How are Jason and the baby?"
"Jason's good. He's actually here in the mall somewhere, hanging out with Zeke. And the baby is doing well. We found out that it's a girl."
"Aww… what are you gonna name it?" Lataysha asked.
"I don't know yet. We still have to look up some baby names." Kelsi said while rubbing her stomach. She's due in five months.
"What about you Shar? How are Zeke and Ryan?" Gabriella asked.
"Zeke's doing fine. As Kelsi said, he's here somewhere hanging out with Jason, and Ryan's doing fine as well, he's doing a play right now." Sharpay said.
"Great to know!" Gabriella said.
"So, who's up for some shopping?" Lataysha asked. Everybody raised their hands. "So what are we waiting for? Let's go shopping!"
About an hour later, Sharpay's sidekick rang to the tune of "Seasons of Love" from RENT. She answered it.
"Hello… hey Ry… I'm shopping… Ry, you know it's girls afternoon out… can't it wait… are you sure… alright… I'll be there in a few. Tell the girls auntie Shar is coming. Toodles!" Sharpay said as she turned her sidekick off.
"What was that about?" Taylor asked.
"Ryan needs me to come over. He said it's really important." Sharpay sighed. "I guess this shopping trip is over for me. See you guys on Wednesday!" Sharpay said as she took her shopping bags and went to her car.
A few minutes later, she ended up outside of Ryan's house. She took her set of keys, found Ryan's house keys and opened the door.
"Ryan? I'm here!" Sharpay shouted. The next thing she knew, two small bodies were squeezing her body.
"Aunt Sharpay!" the twins shouted. Just as Sharpay heard that, she let go of the twins.
"Excuse me? What did you say?" Sharpay said.
"Oh, sorry." Roxanne said.
"We forgot." Rachelle said.
"What did I say to not call me?" Sharpay asked.
"Never call aunt Sharpay, 'aunt' unless in front of important people because it makes her feel old." The twins said together.
"And?" Sharpay said as she waited for an answer.
"And treat aunt Sharpay like you would treat your friends." The twins said.
"Very good! Now where's your dad? He told me to come here."
"Oh, he's in his private office working on something." Roxanne replied.
"No he's not. He's right here." Ryan said as he went through the doorway. "Shar we need to talk."
"Ooohhh, Sharpay's in trouble." Rachelle said.
Sharpay chuckled. "No I'm not! I'm not in trouble right?" She looked at Ryan and raised an eyebrow.
"No you're not, now can we just talk? Can you girls excuse us? Uh… you can go take a swim in the pool."
"Okay!" The girls said as they ran up to their room to change. Sharpay followed her brother to his private office.
"So, what did you want to talk about?"
"Leslie's back."
Sharpay stared at him in shock for about a minute. "I'm sorry, can you run that by me again. I think I have my earring stuck in my ear." Sharpay said as she pretended to fix her earrings.
Ryan sighed. "Leslie's back."
Meanwhile with the girls, they were about to do a dive.
"Ready?" Rachelle asked her twin. Roxanne nodded. They started counting down. "3… 2…" Then they got cut off and fell in the pool because they were startled by a very, very, very loud high-pitched scream.
Ryan took his fingers out of his ears. But quickly put them back in when he knew there was gonna be more screaming to come.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S BACK?" Ryan heard his sister scream just as loud as if his fingers weren't in his ears.
"I mean she's here in New York. She's the playwright of the new play I'm doing."
"Are you kidding me? I thought she left you?"
"She did. She came back and now she wants custody of the girls."
"Well she's not getting it. Not unless she gets through me first."
"You care about my girls that much?"
"Hey, what can I say? They're chips off the old block. They're like mini-mes."
Ryan put his face in his hands. "What am I going to do? I don't wanna lose my girls."
"Don't do anything yet. She hasn't made a move yet. If she does, tell me, and I swear by nana's grave that I will do anything in my power to stop her."
Ryan raised his head. "You're awesome, you know that?"
"I've been told that." Then they stood up and went to the backyard to check on the girls.
"You girls having fun?" Sharpay asked.
"Yeah." Roxanne yelled back.
"Did you girls finish your homework?" Ryan asked.
Rachelle sighed. "Yes dad, we finished our homework. So what was that really, really loud scream about? Did Sharpay break a nail?"
"No I did not break a nail! And we can't tell you what it's about. It's top-secret adult stuff." Sharpay said as she winked.
"Oh yeah, 'adult stuff'." Roxanne said putting air quotes around "adult stuff".
"Well girls say good-bye to aunt Sharpay now."
"Aww… you're leaving already?"
"Yeah. I have to go. I have to get back to my friends. But…" Sharpay said as she looked at her watch. "…You girls can come with me if you want. I'm going to the mall."
"Dad, can we go please?" Roxanne said.
"Yeah, we promise we'll be good!" Rachelle said.
"And I promise to take them back before eight."
"Yeah, you'll bring them back at 7:59." Ryan said sarcastically.
"PLEASE?" All three girls shouted. Ryan sighed and then smiled. "Fine. Go have fun. But bring them back before eight okay little sis?"
"Yes big bro."
A few minutes later, Sharpay, Rachelle, and Roxanne arrived at the mall and met up with the rest of the girls. But Gabriella was nowhere to be found.
"Where's Gabby?" Sharpay asked.
"Oh, she had to go. She still had to finish lesson plans. And who are these little princesses that look a lot like you?" Lataysha asked.
"Oh, these are my nieces, Rachelle and Roxanne Evans." Sharpay introduced them.
"Hello ladies." Rachelle and Roxanne said as they curtseyed.
"Hi. We're your auntie's friends. I'm Taylor. But you can call me Tay." Taylor said.
"I'm Lataysha." Lataysha said. "But you can call me Taysha."
"And I'm Kelsi. But you can call me Kels." Kelsi introduced herself.
"And if Gabriella were here, she'd say, 'I'm Gabriella, but you can call me Gabby.'" Sharpay said.
"It's very nice to meet you." The girls said politely.
"Now, I promised these girls that I'd take them shopping so I hope we're not done yet."
"Oh no! We're only halfway done." Kelsi said.
I hope you guys liked that chapter. And now, I'm going to start writing the next chapter. Might take me a whole week until I update though because I have a lot of quizzes to study for.
By the way, the thing I wrote on the trailer, about how Roxanne, Rachelle, Ryan, Gabriella, and Leslie are gonna bump into each other, is not exactly gonna happen because Leslie already met Ryan and the girls. But I might just improvise and still write it, but in a different way.
So, until next time! See ya! Oh, and R&R