No reviews, but it's OK, since I personally want this story done with before I forget the plot I had in mind. Oh, and the making girly talk with a diary, that's based off a personal experince, don't ask, but I wanted to show how scared she was.

Troy, Both, Gabriella

Chapter Three: Start of Something New

Livin' in my own world
Didn't understand
That anything can happen
When you take a chance

Elaine was preparing for her double date with Nicholas, her heart hammering as she waited for the limo. She had dressed casually for her date with Nicholas with not much makeup on, a simple tee, jeans, Vans, and her hair in a side ponytail. She twiddled her thumbs and took out her journal again.

Later on Wednesday, April 4th, My Room

I'm now waiting for Nicholas to pick me up with the limo and Gabriella said that she'll be here because she got the limo to pick up Nicholas. Ryan's usually a very trusting guy, there must be a reason why he doesn't like my new boyfriend. I guess he still has feelings for me, kind of like I do, but hey, this isn't a movie where it works out in the end. It's over, and he has to accept that.

I hate when my logic goes against everything, including my heart, but this is for the best. I don't want another heartbreak just in the begining, even though Ryan was one in a million. I'm just so confused, and it pains me to say this, but I'm still in love with Ryan, even though it's time to move on! Why can't I move on, anyway?

You know, for Troy and Gabriella, everything worked out in the end, like a fairytale, and it was a magical. Sort of like a movie, if only Ryan and I could be like that, a movie. Then I'd be the best friend he falls in love with in the end we'll have a huge laugh, playing that happy song that you hear when it ends, and it fades to black showing the names of the actors...

I sound crazy, don't I? And now I'm asking a book if I sound crazy, yup, I've gone crazy alright. Why is it that nothing ever seems to come out the way I planned? I mean, I know that nobody's perfect, but for God's sake! No one should have to live this lie, and I just want him to come back to me, because I made a huge mistake, and his foolish pride isn't letting him let me apoligize for it!

I never believed in
What I couldn't see
I never opened my heart
Ohhhhh
To all the possibilities, ohhhhh

Oh snap, they're here. Listen, I have to go, I'll tell you how the date went. God, and now I'm making girly talk with a diary, well, this thing is a girl diary, right? Forget it, I have to go! TTYL!

Elaine snapped her dairy shut when she heard the doorbell ring, announcing the arrival of her date. She opened the door, and instead of her date, she saw Ryan. With a sigh, she let him in anyway. "What do you want?" She sounded pretty mad about the whole thing, and Ryan couldn't blame her, since he did dump her and then trashed the new guy, but she has to listen to him right now. "Ella-" Ryan started to say before Elaine cut him of and said viciously, "Don't 'Ella' me!" "Ella, that's your name! You hate the name Elaine, what else do I call you? Elle? Fine, Elle, I don't care that you're dating someone else."

"Then why did you trash talk him? That's bullshit and you know that," she said fiercly. "I'm getting to that, Elle. Now, he's all wrong for you, and I'm just getting a bad feeling about him. Think about it, when have I ever been wrong?" "The time you dumped me," she said, in a way that showed depression, and sort of like when someone says something stupid and they reply that maybe they're right.

The doorbell rang again, and Elaine said in a hearbroken tone, one she had never used before, "I have to go. That's my date." "Elle, don't do this!" "Listen, Ryan, I'm a free person, free to make my own decsions, and if I want to go out with him, then I will!" "Elle, you don't trust him either." "No, I just don't like how he acted at first. He scared me like that, moodswings."

Ryan looked sad as she opened the door to show Nicholas, and Nicholas look trimphuant. "Why's Ryan in your house?" "No reason, he came over to calm my nerves, we stayed really good friends after the breakup." Nicholas nodded and said, "Ok, just as long as it's only a friendly relationship."

I know...
That something has changed
Never felt this way
And right here tonight
This could be the...

Nicholas took her outside and to the limo. "Wait! I forgot something," said Elaine, quickly rushing back to the house. Ryan stopped her, and said, "This?" He was holding out her diary, and it was still locked, with the keys still in place. Elaine looked shocked, and whispered, "You didn't read it?" "No. If you don't trust me, then maybe I should try and build you trust to me again." Elaine gave him a small kiss on the cheek, and whispered to him, "Thanks. For not reading my diary, I mean." She went off to the limo, and Ryan's heart shattering once more.

He sighed, and went to go back to his limo. Ryan still didn't trust Nicholas, the way he suddenly got defense of seeing him there, and the way he looked when she had opened the door.

Start of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you... oh
And now, lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
Feel in my heart
The start of something new
Ohhhh, yeah

She looked out the window and sighed, and said to Gabriella, "Why is it that everything is suddenly changing before my very eyes?" "I don't know. That's one question I can't answer for you, Ella," said Gabriella. Elaine looked away, and sighed. Elaine just wanted one thing, and that was for everything to just go back to when her and Ryan did their mindless flirting, endless agruments, and practical jokes on Amber and Ashley. Elaine then took out her journal and started writing.

Wednesday, April 4th, In the limo to McDonald's

They say that with the end of every old relationship brings forth another new one, like what death symbolizes in the Tarot Cards, but I don't want that at all. I just want to turn the hands of fate back to when Ryan and I did our mindless flirting, endless arguments, and practical jokes on each other as well as Amber and Ashley. Nothing ever stays the same, and it's never like a movie, where it all works out in the end, and you get that special kiss, the one where fireworks go off, and there's all this intensity.

I threw all that away just to get rid of Ceclia, and it wasn't worth it, none of it was. I can't take this, I don't even know if Nicholas is truly who he claims to be, or an imposter, like Ryan said he is. Why is it that everything I say always goes back to Ryan, everything from dating to girl talk, from shopping to video games, from birthdays to school work, from cheerleading to drama club, anything goes back to Ryan? How does he play so big of a part in my life when he's not even in my life anymore, can someone tell me that?

Do I even like Nicholas, or is he just a filler-in until Ryan comes back to me? Is he just the replacment boyfriend, as in, I am so totally on the rebound with a really cute guy, that isn't Ryan? Now I'm getting myself confused with minumim effort, just by trying to figure out my feelings and find out who I'm really in love with. Ryan promised never to break my heart, but broke it anyway, and yet, I'm still madly in love with him, and it's like nothing can ever stop me from loving him, not even logic.

Now who'd of ever thought that... um
We'd both be here tonight... yeah
Oh, yeah... the world looks so much brighter
Brighter, brighter
Oh, with you by my side
By my side

I know that once Ryan dumped me, I should have had my Icy Cheerleader Bitch personality for at least a week, but not once when Ryan Evans dumped me did I ever become that girl. It's a mystery even to me why I won't be a bitch, why I won't even discuss the breakup or how I feel to anyone because I would always trash-talk the boy that dumped me. It's like, there' nothing bad for me to say about him. I don't know why, there isn't anything bad about Ryan and how he treated me, as a matter of fact, I think Ryan had every right to dump me for being so dramatic.

I know that Ryan had a very good reason to dump me, and that's what scares me the most is that people actually can have reasons to dump someone. I've never seen anything other than just being the girl I was before Ryan ever entered my life, I've alwasy loved Shaskspeare, but Ryan was able to get me to admit it to everyone. I confided in Ryan about everything, from the type of music I loved to what my hobbies were. Ryan was the first one to even know that I loved art, and the one to let everyone know about my passions beside cheerleading.

I better go. ttyl!

Elaine closed her diary as they pulled up to the McDonald's and were dropped off, Elaine looking a little scared, but trying to suck it up still. The date was fine, but when Elaine ordered a fried chicken Cesceor salad, Nicholas said, "That doesn't sound very filling. Why not spring for a number 10?" Elaine looked at him, and said, "That's filled with Trans fat, and I prefer salad. Oh, and I'd like some ranch dressing with that, and instead of it fried, can I get it grilled?" The guy behind the counter nodded and Nicholas didn't look very happy.

Gabriella said, "Um, I'll take the same as Ella, please, except with Italian dressing instead of ranch." Troy said, "I'll take a number one, extra cheese, no tomatoes, and can I get it Super Sized, please?" Nicholas said irritably, "I'll have a number 2, super sized please." The guy said, "That'll be a total of $15.26." Nicholas took his wallet out and started to count the money he had and sighed, handing the guy a twenty. The guy then started counting the change and handed him his change, saying, "Your order will be done momentarlly."

I know... that something has changed
Never felt this way
I know it for real
This could be the...

Elaine sighed, and got a coke and asked Nicholas, "Why did you try to order for me? I know what I wanted." Nicholas said, "I just thought you might want something a little heavier." "A number ten is filled with fats that clog your artieries and high contents of high fructouse corn syrup, which I most certaintly don't want. I'm not a child, I can order what I want, and a number ten would have made the bill twenty dollars exactly!" Nicholas sighed, there was no arguing with her right now, they were in a public place on a double date, so he should go along.

"Whatever you say." Elaine's eyebrow raised suspicously, and she shrugged it off, going to a table with Gabriella, saying to her, "Did you see that? He tried to order for me! Talk about controlling, and then he tried to pick a fight with me about what I wanted to order." "I told you he sound like an aggressive boyfriend, the only reason he did hit you was probably because we're in public on a double date." "Yeah, that's one good thing about having chose a public place and two good friends to go on a double date with."

Troy sat down next to Gabriella and Nicholas came with the food. The rest of the date was pretty much silent, unlike with Ryan, who Elaine would have chattered and bickered with non-stop, yet always end up having fun, making the entire date intresting. Elaine loved that, she tried to make small talk, yet nothing could work, not art, cheerleading, drama club, Shakspeare, music, or even basketball! At the end of the date, she went inside with her journal and opened it again.

Wednesday, April 4th, after the date, my room

Wow, the date started off with a small fight about my order, and then got super dull. I don't know how it happened, but Ryan just seems to fill the silence with me, helping me make small talk and bicker constantly about something, like what kind of fight we're having. I just loved the constent small bickering, and nothing was ever major bickering, sort of like it was the glue that made the date perfect, the kind of date I loved going out with. I don't know, I just thought it was cool how he stood up for himself about something I would say about something that he didn't agree with.

Start of somethin' new
It feels so right to be here with you... oh
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new

Whatever it is, I just can't believe that Ryan is causing it. Ryan was the one who caused me heartbreak and misery, and Ryan's the same guy I fall in love with time after time, no matter what Ryan does to my heart, like it's a game. I just wish that it was Ryan that this date was with, I don't know why, but I still have feelings that I never knew where possible for someone to have towards someone. I just want Ryan all over again, and I don't know, it's like I'm getting a bad vibe from Nicholas still.

I hate this. ttyl.

She fell asleep, and dreamt. She woke up the next day, singing, "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams you will lose your heartache, whatever you wish for you keep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In morning you will wake to find fortune that is smiling on you, a dream is a wish... you make with your heart, in dreams you will start to wake, you will find fortune that is smiling on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. A dream is a wish, your heart makes, when your feeling small, in dreams you will lose you heartache, whatever you wish for you keep, in dreams you will start, to wake in the mornging to find fortune that is smiling on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah."

Moments later, before she even got out to the car, she opened the door to see Nicholas. "Uh, hi, what are you doing here?" Nicholas grinned, and pushed her back inside, with Elaine stumbling on her heels for school, her skirt flowing backwards away from her hair, and the top wrinkling. "What was that for?" Nicholas went inside and locked her door. Elaine looked a little scared, and said, "Look, I have to go to school, we'll be late for school." "So?" Elaine remembered that she didn't see her diary this morning, and look in his hands to see her diary.

"Still have feelings for Ryan? You said it was just a platonic relationship," Nicholas said. Elaine said, "It is! He'll never be with me!" "Really? It says that you spilled everything to him. And that you get a bad vibe from me." "Duh! You just read my diary, I wonder where the bad feeling is comming from?," said Elaine sarcasticly. He slapped her, and she had a shocked look on her face. "Did you just slap me?" Nicholas then said angrily, "Never use sarcasm on me! And secondly, don't ask questions!" He slapped her again, and she had an ever bigger look of shock on her face.

I never knew it could happen
'Till happened to me
Ohhhhh, yeah

He slapped her once more and said, "Don't say anything to the cops.," before he left, and she then grabbed her cell phone out of her purse and shakly dialed Ryan's instead of the cops. "Ryan?... It's me, Ella... No, you can call me Ella again... Yes, Nicholas is just as bad as you said he was... I'm sorry that I didn't believe you... Yes, that would be great... Thanks... Wait, Ryan, I need to tell you something else... I still am in love with you... Yes... Alright... Bye," Elaine hung up, a little sad. Ryan came with her limo, and Sharpay ran up to her house and came in.

"Elaine, are you ok? Ryan's just told me he abused you, how did he abuse you?" Elaine turned her face so the cheeck he slapped twice was most visable, and there was a big red splotchy cheeck. Sharpay looked shocked, and hurried to go get some ice, and she pressed it down on her cheek, saying, "Are you going to tell anyone else? Should we tell the cops?" Elaine looked at her, and said, "No, it's fine, he only did this once, and it wasn't sexual, so I don't mind. I'm strong, I can handle it." She went to the limo, and Ryan kissed her cheeks, and said, "Feel better soon."

"I'm feeling a little better already," she said with a smile.

I didn't know it before
But now it's easy to see
Ohhhhh

Ryan said, "Just be careful with him, and try not to let him hurt you anymore. You're a very strong, beautiful, taletend, headstrong girl, and you should never let anyone tell you otherwise, because if they don't see that, then they're just idiots." Elaine smiled and mouthed, "Thanks." Elaine then made the mistake of looking into his green eyes, and she got lost in the sparkle of the emarald greeness of them.

She knew that if they hadn't of broken up, what could have been there, was now gone, and was never going to come back. The past had came back to haunt her as she was being tortured by her current boyfriend. Elaine knew that sooner or later, she'll never be able to see him again, and she got lost in a dream where everything was normal again, but at school she shook herself out of it, and held her head high. The past is due for a comeback, and it had to pick today, the day that Elaine wanted perfect to come back to haunt her.

Elaine wondered how everything would have turned out if she had never let Ceclia get to her. Elaine wondered what she had said to Nicholas to cause him to do that her as she opened her locker. Elaine found a note from Nicholas saying, Ella, I'm sorry I hit you. You were right, I did read your diary and that would cause any girl to get a bad feeling about a guy. I did overreact, and I want to make it up to you. Meet me in the library during free period.-Nicholas. Elaine looked at it suspicously, did he play her for a fool?

Obviously, because Elaine was a fool, a fool for walking away from Ryan Evans, and she sighed. Elaine guessed that meeting Nicholas would prove if he was telling the truth to her, or was lying once more. To be honest with herself, Elaine really didn't want to see Nicholas again, but it was nessesscary for her to do if she wanted to see what was going on with him and the multiple personalities.

It's the start of somethin' new
It feels so right to be here with you... oh
And now... lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of somethin' new
It feels so right
So right... oh
To be here with you
And now...
Lookin' in your eyes
Lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
Feel in my heart
The start of somethin' new
The start of somethin' new
The start of somethin' new
Somethin' new

Wow, if you couldn't have guessed, it's the fact that Ella and Ryan's relationship has completly changed once more, not platonic, not romantic, it's more of a onesided veiw of what could have been a great relationship. And how Ryan is pulling Ella through even though he broke her heart. Finally, review equals more to the story!