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Okay, here's chapter six! I hope you guys like it!
This Is War
Chapter Six: Playing Match-Breakers (A/N: You know like the opposite of matchmaker? Yeah, I know I'm lame but whatever)
"I feel really bad doing this to Ms. M." Roxanne said.
"I know, but if we want dad to hook up with mom, we're gonna have to do it."
Roxanne sighs. "I guess you're right."
The rest of the day during class, Rachelle and Roxanne try to injure Gabriella so she wouldn't have to go to the play. Roxanne finished her banana and put the banana peel in Gabriella's path.
"All right class, turn to page forty-two in your textbooks and read about the states of matter." Gabriella said as she walked in the room. Roxanne and Rachelle waited for her to fall but she didn't. When they looked at where she walked, the banana peel wasn't there anymore.
During recess, Rachelle tried to throw a softball at Gabriella's head. As it was about to hit her, a basketball was thrown in the air and blocked the softball.
Back in the classroom, Roxanne pushed Gabriella's science trophy off of her desk so it would fall on her foot. But before it could hit Gabriella's foot, someone pulled Gabriella's chair back and the trophy missed.
While Gabriella walked down the hall, Rachelle walked in front of her and put her foot out so Gabriella would trip. But suddenly, as if on cue, someone called out, "Ms. M!" and Gabriella turned to the other direction to see who called her.
At the end of the day, Roxanne and Rachelle met up after school.
"This isn't working!" Roxanne said.
"Did you just now notice that?" Rachelle asked sarcastically.
"So what do we do now?" Roxanne asked.
"Turn to plan B." Rachelle answered.
"Which is what?" Roxanne asked.
"Humiliate dad in front of Ms. M." Rachelle answered.
With that, the girls went back to Gabriella's classroom and sat in front of Gabriella's desk.
"Hi girls, you're gonna wait for your dad today?" Gabriella asked.
"Yeah, he's gonna pick us up from now on." Roxanne answered.
"Really? Why's that?" Gabriella asked.
"You know why Ms. M." Rachelle said while she winked. Gabriella blushed.
"Well, I can't wait to go to the play next week." Gabriella said.
"Yeah, um, about the play, I heard that they were gonna postpone opening night." Roxanne said.
"Why?" Gabriella asked.
"They needed to rewrite a scene." Rachelle said.
"Oh… your dad must be devastated." Gabriella said.
"What about their dad?" Ryan said as he walked through the doors with a bouquet of flowers in his hand.
"Oh, your daughters were saying that opening night was gonna be postponed because they needed to rewrite a scene and I said that you must be devastated."
"Opening night's not gonna be postponed. Where did you girls hear that?" Ryan asked his girls.
"Oh, you know how it is on the set dad! All these rumors and stuff going around, I guess my sources are wrong." Roxanne said.
"Oh." Ryan said and he turned to Gabriella. "Um… these are for you." Ryan said as he gave Gabriella the flowers. Gabriella took the flowers as the girls bit their lips.
"Roses. My favorite. How did you know?"
"I didn't. I just got the habit of getting roses because those are also my old high school girlfriend's favorites." Ryan said.
Roxanne nodded at Rachelle to start.
"Oh dad! What is that smell?" Rachelle said.
"Did you forget to put on deodorant again?" Roxanne asked.
Ryan blushed. "No. I remembered to put some on right before I left."
"Well, you better put some more, because that stench is killing me!" Rachelle said.
Roxanne turned to Gabriella. "You have to excuse our dad Ms. M."
Rachelle turned to Gabriella as well. "Yeah, he really has bad BO."
Ryan blushed even more. "No I don't. Here, smell it." Ryan said as he put his armpit in Rachelle's face playfully.
"Oh dad! Get that away from me!" Rachelle said. Gabriella giggled.
"I really don't, the girls just like humiliating me." Ryan explained.
"Oh, and dad, remember that day when you had beans for lunch?" Roxanne asked.
"Oh yeah, then a few minutes after lunch, you pooted the 'Star Spangled Banner'." Rachelle said, Ryan blushed, and Gabriella laughed even harder.
"Dad, what about that time when you had to kiss your own sister in a play?" Roxanne said.
"Or that time…" Rachelle continued. The more stories they told, the more Ryan blushed and the more Gabriella laughed.
"Okay girls, I think it's time to go!" Ryan said as he pushed them out the door. Then he turned back to Gabriella.
"I'm sorry, you probably shouldn't have heard those." Ryan apologized.
"It's okay, we all do embarrassing things sometimes." Gabriella said. Ryan smiled.
"So, will I still see you next week at opening night?" Ryan asked.
"You certainly will." Gabriella replied. Ryan smiled. "Great. Um… I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Ryan said as he smiled at her before walking out the door.
A few minutes later, Ryan straps the girls in their seats.
"What has gotten into you girls?" Ryan asked as he took his seat on the driver's side.
"What do you mean?" Roxanne asked, oh-so innocently.
"I mean, why were you girls trying to embarrass me in front of Ms. M?" Ryan said.
"We just thought that if she knew who you really were, she'd like you for who you really are." Rachelle said. Then she turned to Roxanne and silently mouthed, 'yeah right'.
"Well, I appreciate your help girls, but it didn't seem like it worked. Why don't you just let your old man turn on the charm and you girls just watch?" Ryan suggested.
"But we really want to help!" Roxanne said.
"I think you've helped enough." Ryan said.
An hour later, since Gabriella doesn't have a shift at the lab on Fridays, she's at the mall with Sharpay, Kelsi, Taylor, and Lataysha.
"Sharpay, why do you look so out of it?" Lataysha asked.
"I just got horrible news from Ryan this past Monday." Sharpay answered.
"Well, is there anything we can do to help?" Kelsi asked.
"Don't really know yet." Sharpay said. "Can we please change the subject?"
"Gladly. So Gabriella, have you found out what the guy's name is? Other than his last name?" Taylor asked.
"No, not yet. I didn't get the chance to ask him."
"Wow Gabby, one simple thing you have to do and you can't do it." Lataysha said.
"Yeah, and I thought you were the smart one." Kelsi said.
"You know, all you have to do is say, 'I didn't quite catch your name,' or, 'what's your name?'" Sharpay said.
"Yeah, okay, I get it you guys. Don't rub it in." Gabriella said. "Can we just go shopping now?"
Meanwhile, in the theatre, Ryan and the female lead, Veronica, are rehearsing a scene on stage while Rachelle and Roxanne are taking a break. Leslie approaches them.
"Hi girls." Leslie greeted.
"Hi Ms. Davis." Both girls replied.
"Now what did I tell you? Call me Leslie. Or 'mom' if you'd like."
"I think we'll stick to Leslie for now." Rachelle said. "If that's okay."
"Oh, it's fine. I don't expect you girls to call me 'mom' when we've only known each other for about five days. But what I want to know is, are you girls having fun?"
"We sure are." Roxanne said.
"Yeah, we love your script." Rachelle replied.
"Where did you come up with the idea of a guy going to college, has kids, has his 'girlfriend' leave him and then five years later, she comes back?" Roxanne asked.
Leslie smiled. "Sometimes, things just come to me." Then she winked at them. "What size shoe do you girls wear?"
"Kids seven." The girls answer. (A/N: Don't really know how big that is, I just made it up)
"Perfect. I went to the mall this morning and while I was passing a shoe store, I saw these adorable booties! I thought, 'hey, maybe the girls will like it,' so I got them. Thank goodness it was the right size." Leslie said as she pulled two shoeboxes from a shopping bag and handed them to the girls.
"Thank you so much!" Rachelle said as she opened the box and found a pair of boots that she wanted.
"These are so cool!" Roxanne said as she tried hers on. "Fits like a glove!"
"I knew you girls would like it."
"So, Leslie, when and how did you meet our dad?" Rachelle asked.
"I met him back when I started college. We bumped into each other in campus trying to look for our dorm rooms. Our luggage spilled and our clothes mixed together. He helped me up and we introduced ourselves. So when we finally found our own dorm rooms, we kept going back and forth from each other's dorm room so we could return each other's things. Then we found out that we had the same classes together."
"When did you have us?" Roxanne asked.
"I had you girls late in my junior year of college."
"Did you and dad get married?" Rachelle asked.
"No we didn't. We found that we really didn't like each other like we thought, so we didn't marry each other. We just lived together after college for your sake."
"Why'd you leave us with dad?" Roxanne asked.
Leslie sighed. "You know what? I seriously have no idea."
"Do you wanna get back together with dad?" Rachelle asked.
"Actually, I don't. I don't know why, but I'd rather not. Besides, I have a boyfriend. And I'm pretty sure that your dad doesn't want to get back together with me either."
"We think he does." Roxanne said. (A/N: Remember, everything the twins say, is all a lie)
"He talks about you all the time." Rachelle said. "Like how he thinks you've gotten prettier, how your plays are amazing, stuff like that."
"Really? Hmm… that's something new. Are you sure?" Leslie said.
"We're absolutely positive." Roxanne said.
"I think your dad's just trying to be nice." Leslie said.
"Yeah, if being nice means he kisses your picture everyday." Rachelle said.
"I didn't even know he has a picture of me."
"He keeps it on the desk of his private office at home." Roxanne said.
Whatever Ryan. I already have a boyfriend. Leslie thought.
Ryan finished rehearsing with Veronica and is now cooling off in his dressing room. He came out with a totally different outfit, ready to go home. He approached the girls.
"Girls, you ready to go home?"
"Yeah." Rachelle said.
"We were just telling Leslie how you think of her every single day." Roxanne said.
"What? What are you talking about?"
"You know what we're talking about dad." Rachelle said, winking at her dad.
Ryan looked at Leslie, and then he looked back at the girls. "Girls, can you excuse us for a while? We need to talk about something important."
"Take your time." Roxanne said as they walked off. They still kept an eye on their parents though.
"Look, whatever the girls told you, it's not true."
"Yeah I figured that out when they said you had a picture of me on your desk in your private office."
"They told you what? I don't even have a picture of you! Maybe the one in the yearbook, but that's it!"
"I thought so."
"The girls also told me last night that in your office, you have a picture of me next to your computer, half naked in my boxers."
Leslie thought for a while. Then she finally spoke. "Um…"
"Don't tell me you DO have a picture of me next to your computer half naked in my boxers."
"What? No! No, no! I invited the girls in my office for cookies yesterday, and they probably saw the picture next to my computer. It had someone half-naked on there. But, it's not you! It's Troy."
"Woman, you are poisoning my daughters' minds with porn pictures of Troy Bolton!"
"They're my daughters too! And it's not porn. He's only half-naked. And I wouldn't put a picture of you half-naked if my life depended on it."
"I would never ask you to."
"See, this is why I don't want to get back together with you!"
"What? And you think that I would want to get back together with a porn-watching whore like you?" Ryan said. Leslie stared at him wide-eyed.
Meanwhile with the girls, they're discussing how else to get their parents back together.
"What do you think they're gonna talk about?" Roxanne asked.
"Don't know. But I hope it's something romantic." Rachelle said
"Maybe they're talking about the play and stuff." Roxanne said.
"Doubt it. Dad won't talk to Leslie if it wasn't something absolutely important." Rachelle said.
"Yeah, you're right." Roxanne said. Then they watched their parents together in silence for a while.
"I think they're getting along well." Roxanne said. They saw their dad say something to Leslie, and then she looks at him for a while. Then Leslie did something unexpected. She slapped him. The girls winced.
"I think you spoke too soon." Rachelle said.
"You think?" Roxanne asked sarcastically.
Back with Ryan and Leslie, Leslie is now shouting at Ryan.
"You had absolutely NO right to call me that. If you call me that one more time, I will take the girls in the middle of the night and go far, FAR away! Do you understand?"
Ryan eyed her for a while. Then he finally spoke. "You lay a single finger on them, you will regret the day we ever met."
Leslie came closer. "I already do." She said, and then she walked away.
As she walked outside the theatre, she met Troy.
"Where have you been? I've been calling you all day and all I get is voice mail."
"I've been around. Watching the girls. Making sure they're out of trouble. I saw they were trying to injure their teacher."
"Why were they doing that?" Leslie asked.
Troy just shrugged. "I don't know. But every time they try to injure her, something happens that saves their teacher. It's like someone's watching." Yeah, and that someone is me. He added as an afterthought.
"The girls have been acting weird lately, it's…" Leslie said while trying to think of the right word.
"Weird?" Troy suggested.
"Yeah… weird." Leslie said as she took Troy's arm and they walked off.
So did you guys like that? I promise that Chad, Jason, and Zeke will be in the next chapter. I know you guys think I'm neglecting them, but no worries! They'll be here next chapter! So please R&R! I really appreciate it!