Now, it's time for the final part to the sequel of Chemicals React, Headstrong! Thanks again to Yleane for being the single reviewer, and now let's show them how to end a sequel!
Chapter Seven: Headstrong
I'm a straight up kinda girl, I am
I'm a telling it like it is, I am
And that's just the kinda girl I am
Head up, hands up, tell me
You're a honey kinda boy, you are
You're a talented kinda boy, you are
And that's just the kinda boy you are
Head up, hands up, these are
Everyone knew what time it was now at Prom. It was time for Troy and Gabriella to be crowned Prom King and Queen. Mr. Matsui said, "It's that time at Prom again. For the Prom King and Queen to be crowned and share a dance in the spotlight! Troy, Gabriella, please come up here, and Elaine, would you do the honors of crowning the Prom King and Queen." Elaine walked up there, her dress following her up the stairs, and she said, "Troy, Gabriella, each of you should kneel down." Gabriella got down along with Troy, and Elaine saw the crowns being held by two freshman.
Elaine smiled as she lifted up Gabriella's crown and placed it on her, and she said tearfully, "You wear it well." She then lifted Troy's crown and placed it on his head, and she said, "I now show the Prom King and Queen of 2009! The Prom King and Queen will now share their spotlight dance." Troy took Gabriella's hand and she smiled as she followed Troy to the dance floor, and what played was "So This Is Love," by the Cheetah Girls, and Elaine started to let soft tears fall, before wiping them away. Ryan said, "Isto é amor, Ella."
Elaine gasped and said, "You remembered it!" She hugged him, and Ryan said, "Usted es hermoso, y muy cabezota, mi querido Ella." Elaine smiled and said, "Sí, pero usted es encantador y yo nunca debería haberle dejado ir. Ah, como perdí sus elogios, agruing con usted, riéndome con usted, y sus besos." Ryan smiled and said, "Y usted todavía dice el español perfecto, aun cuando no habíamos tomado el curso entonces." Elaine giggled and said, "Pero ahora somos todos crecidos y yendo a la universidad. ¿Cómo nos quedaremos en el toque con todos los demás? Y lo que es más importante usted aprendió a decir el español bien."
Ryan laughed and said, "Yes, but now that their spotlight dance is over, do you want to see how the tango will take the floor?" Elaine didn't notice that the dance went by fast and now "Dance With Me" by Drew Sealy featuring Belinda had came on. "Sure, but you're going to be toast on that dance floor," joked Elaine. Ryan replied just as jokingly, "Bring it on!" Ryan led her to the floor, and also, they were the first couple on the floor. He held out his hand and when she took it, the fast pace dancing begun as he started out the dance fast.
Headstrong, crazy days
When your mind's made up and the music plays
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
Melt down, it's not a crush
In hot room we're in a rush
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
The tango took the floor with Gabriella and Troy being the next couple to follow their lead, along with Sharpay and Zeke. Taylor was suprised that they knew the tango, and asked Chad, "Do you know the tango?" Chad looked at her, and said, "You're kidding, right?" Taylor sighed and said, "I was just hoping that maybe we could do the tango, but I guess not." Chad then said, "Did I say I didn't know how to Tango? I'm sorry, I meant to say, do wish to Tango with me, beautiful señorita?" Taylor giggled at Chad's sudden intrest in the Tango and said, "Sí, kind sir."
The next day came along all to fast for them. Elaine had started to pack, and she looked around, and saw the frame, the one she slapped down. She felt strong enough to take it along, the frame read on the back Ella&Ryan/The Triple Win/First Date in 2008-09 and from that, Elaine smiled as she slipped it into her suitcase. After everything was packed, she picked it up, and whispered, "Goodbye, childhood and East High, hello college and beyond." Elaine didn't know how much longer she could hold back tears.
The limo had arrived, and Elaine went out to get on the limo that would take her to her school, and saw Ryan was there too. She smiled and said, "Hey, Ryan. My roommate's name is Sally Gretchen Winters, what's your roommate's name?" Ryan pulled out the roommate's name he had, and said, "Lucas Alexander Samuels." She nodded, and said, "This is going to be so exciting, I mean, we're leaving childhood, adolecence, Albequerque Middle School and East High School, and going to college, adulthood, jobs, and beyond."
Ryan nodded and said, "This isn't just playtime anymore. It's the real deal, it's either we pass or fail, there's no more do-overs in this new world now. It'll be hard to go on, we may have to question every move we make, and see who we truly can be." Elaine nodded and said, "This is going to be so hard for me. I've never been out on my own before, and this is now. It's like, I'm still me, I'm still the same headstrong, stubborn, smart, and naive girl, but now, I have so many choices to choose."
Elaine and Ryan made it to college without getting into a crash, and Elaine got down first and got her bags. She said, "Harved Law School. The begining of the rest of my life." She walked around to find the dorms, and when she did, she opened the dorm room to find Sally already in the dorm, and she greeted her with, "Hello, welcome to Harverd. I'm Sally Winters, and I'll be your dorm room roommate. You must be Elaine." Elaine nodded and said, "I'm Elaine Harrison, but please, call me Ella."
Gonna feel alive tonight, I am
I'm a postive kind of girl, I am
Leave my troubles behind tonight, I am
Stand up, get up, tell me
Are you gonn' be down with me? You are
Yeah, you're coming along with me, you are
'Cause that's just the kinda guy you are
Stand up, get up, these are
Sally nodded and said, "Would you like some help unpacking?" Elaine said, "Uh, no thanks, I got it." She unzipped her suitcase and first thing she pulled out was her frame with a picture of her and Ryan at the triple win. She smiled again, and put it on her nightstand. Sally asked, "What are you majoring in?" Elaine said, "I'm majoring in law, my, uh, friend who's a guy is majoring in medical science." "You two sound very smart." Elaine nodded silently, and suddenly, Sally said, "Is he cute? And if he is, is he dating anyone?"
Elaine suddenly got very jealous of her wanting to know about Ryan, and she said, "Yeah, he's beyond cute, he's hot. And yeah, he is seeing someone, jealous girl, he's loyal to her." Elaine didn't know why she said the major lie to Sally when in fact, Ryan wasn't dating anyone. Sally then asked, "Well, can I at least know who he is?" Elaine gulped nervously and said, "Uh, he's Ryan. Ryan Evans." Sally said, "That hunk? You know him? And he goes to school here?" Elaine nodded, and Sally said, "Who's he dating? Because the tabliods said you guys were dating."
"How come they think that?" Elaine sounded nervous, but since Sally didn't know her all that well, she didn't pick up on it. "They saw you doing the tango at your Prom! I didn't know you were the girl, even though you did look like her," said Sally. "Uh, that's because we went as friends, and we just did the tango for fun. It didn't mean anything." She just spewed out another lie. Why can't she stop lying about this stuff to her new roommate? Sally looked disappointed, and said, "Well, then can he teach me how to tango like that? It looked so cool!"
"Uh..., I got to go," said Elaine suddenly.
All the way in Houston, Kelsi and Jason were settling into an apartment that Kelsi's mom owned and said they could use since it had two rooms. Kelsi saw it was already decorated, and Jason said, "Does this place have cable?" Kelsi nodded and said, "There's basketball on one channel, I think." Truth was, she didn't care what they watched, because she liked it when Jason said stupid things about shows he didn't know. Jason said, "Nah, let's watch some Disney." She giggled at how sweet he was, and she unpacked some things.
Headstrong, crazy days
When your mind's made up and the music plays
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
Melt down, it's not a crush
In a hot room, we're in a rush
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
Jason looked at Kelsi, who was majoring in all sorts of music stuff, and Jason was majoring in art and business. Kelsi also had started replacing the pictures with the pictures of them and the gang that was being missed already. Kesli heard the phone ring and she picked it up and said, "Hello?" On the other end was Gabriella's voice, Hi Kelsi. It's Gabriella. It's so odd to not have you, Ryan, Jason, or Ella here. "I know, but remember, we picked these colleges." Not Taylor. She would have died to have the chance to go to Harverd. "Well, we didn't force her to go to Brown. We didn't force Ella or Ryan to go to Harverd."
Jason heard her talking on the phone and yelled, "Kelsi, who's on the phone?" Kelsi put her hand over the microphone and said, "Gabriella!" "Tell her I say 'Hi'!" "Will do!" You guys are living together?!? "Yes, for college, oh, and Jason says hi." Back to the point, yeah, we didn't force them to, it was their choice. Ella a lawyer, funny thing is, I actually kind of thought she would end up one. She's so headstrong. "That's very true. Well, I have to finish unpacking with Jason. I'll call you later, just give me your number." Ok, it's...
Brown University, where Sharpay and the rest of the gang was. Sharpay, Gabriella, Taylor, Chad, Troy, and Zeke shared the apartment, and paid for their half of the rent, so they had less to pay then if just one person paid the rent. They had rented a pretty expensive apartment near the campus, and Sharpay heard Gabriella talking to Kelsi, and Sharpay smiled. They always could call each other.
She was dialing her brother's number, and when the person picked up, the voice wasn't Ryan's at all, but the person on the other end said, Hello, this Lucas. Who are you calling for? Sharpay sighed and said, "Are you Ryan's roommate?" Woah, Ryan didn't say he had a girlfriend! "I'm not his girlfriend! I'm his sister!" Oh, Ryan's sister, Sharpay, right? Hold on, RYAN! A muffled voice said, What, Lucas? She heard him say that his sister was on the phone and a groan as he took the phone. Hi sis. "Hi, Ryan. How's Harverd?"
Not bad, could be worse. Ella's doing fine with her roommate, not having yelling for the phone. Sharpay laughed and said, "I'll check up on her later. Have you gotten any homework from school yet?" Are you kidding me? We haven't even started, tomorrow's just the student orentation where they show us around campus. "Really? Well, I've already been through the orentation, and tomorrow I start." Goody for you. "I know! So, did you know I'm majoring in cosmotology? Ella's idea."
Headstrong, melt down
Headstrong, melt down
No way. You actually took Ella's advice? That is so unlike you! "True, but that was before she convinced me I wouldn't have to bother with extra people onstage. I'm also majoring in modeling." Of course you're majoring in modeling, you love to be the center of attention! "True, that is why I majored in modeling. I didn't know you could get a degree for modeling! Or for acting, my other major." You're majoring in acting as well? You know you could get the same results from hanging around mom with all those agents she has. "Yeah, but why do that?"
It's faster. "Well, I got to go. Love ya, Ryan. Tootles." Love you too, sis. Bye, oh, and stop saying Tootles! It's annoying! "Whatev. Bye." She hung up before Ryan said anything else.
Back at Harverd, after Sharpay hung up, Ryan was saying, "Hello? Sharpay? You there? She hung up on me again!" He put the phone down and asked his roommate, "Don't you hate it when someone you're talking to hangs up before they know if you're done talking?" His roommate said, "I've never had that problem before." Ryan's cellphone rang again and he answered, "Hello?" Ryan, it's me, Ella. "Oh, hi Ella. How's it going with Sally?" Uh, I kind of told her that you were, uh, dating someone so she would try and make a move on you.
"Ella, you know I dumped Aurora, she didn't want to work things out long-distance, and I refused to withdraw my 5, 000 dollar deposit for Harverd. Why did you say that I was dating?" Ryan was clearly confused. BECAUSE, Ryan, I like you! Don't you remember what you said? We would try our relationship out again in college! Ryan said, "Yeah, but I didn't know if you still wanted to!" I was waiting forever for another chance with you! I didn't want to lose you a third time for good! "But..." Ryan, please just go along with it.
"Fine, but only for you, Ella." Thanks a million! Bye! "Bye," he said softly. He hung up and had the biggest smile on his face, and said, "Yes!"
I want to know you
I want to show you
I got the stuff now
Didn't you get enough?
Step to the rhythm
Make the decisions
These are the days
We're living, loving, feel so alive
Feel so alive
And we feel alive tonight, we are
We're stepping into the light, we are
Leave our troubles behind tonight, we are
Stand up, get up, these are
Back in Elaine's dorm room, she knew, even though she quite headstrong, she'll never forget anything in the past.
flashback
It's the first day of Albequerque Middle School, and Elaine had shown up the same way her mother did, with sparkle, and she got her first locker ever, and knew that here was just going to be the begining. The first day went by great, she was sweet and nice.
flashback to a different time
It was the first time she was going to cheer for a spot on a team, it was middle school still, the soon-to-be seventh graders knew she probably wouldn't be as good as the soon-to-be eighth graders. However, she started a cheer that seemed impossible to do unless it was at the high school. She finished flashy again, and the panel of judges clapped so hard that it was like the entire gym was full of people clapping. The coach of the eighth grade cheer team said, "I'll take this one, a seventh grader that can cheer better than the eighth graders, just what we need!"
flashback to High School
It's the first day of high school in the Sophmore year, Troy was on starting varsity and captian of the basketball team, and Elaine was head cheerleader of starting varsity, she already was starting to cheer like a college girl on the cheer team. Elaine's sophmore year stated out by her dating Troy for a short period of time until Troy, as the rumors went, dumped her and she became super icy. The funny thing was, Winter Break had just ended as well.
end flashbacks
Headstrong, crazy days
When your mind's made up and the music plays
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
Melt down, it's not a crush
In a hot room, we're in a rush
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
Elaine shook herself and reminded herself that those days had gone by, but it was hard to not resist more flashbacks, and suddenly she flashbacked to when she and Sharpay first made up.
flashback
"Ella, I'm sorry I was such a bitch. I know what I did was very wrong. Can you ever forgive me for being so cruel and evil?" Elaine was in shock from hearing Sharpay actually say the word 'sorry'. She never said she was sorry, and also, she always blamed it on someone else. "Yes. Can you forgive me for being overly blunt?" Sharpay gave a soft giggle and said, "I actually derserved that. You were right, I was a bitch, I always do find some other than me to blame. And I do take advantage of Ryan, you were right about everything."
"Friends?" "Friends," agreed Sharpay, and they gave each other a friendly hug.
end flashback
That was the first time Sharpay ever admitted she was wrong. That was the best thing they ever did as well, declaring peace brought everyone back together again, and Sharpay was the brains of any operation they ever threw together after that. She helped them through everything, and even poured her heart out to them, and even saved Elaine from being killed by Nicholas.
flashback
Sharpay had gotten a call from Elaine and answered, and when she suddenly hung up, Sharpay called everyone up to save Elaine. She was worried that if they missed this, they would be too late to save her.
Headstrong, melt down
Headstrong
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
Immeditaly, when they found her, Sharpay dialed the cops and hurried to protect Elaine from gettin hurt any further. After that, everything went black, but she knew she fell with a smile on her face. Elaine knew that Sharpay actually did care about her, since she was willing to risk her life to save Elaine's own life, the one who was too headstrong to even listen to her.
end flashback
It was hard to believe that all these memories are only from less then one to seven years ago. They seemed like it was only yesterday that these memories happened, like it was just yesterday that her Sweet 16 was mobbed by paparazzi, like it was yesterday that she gave her interview to seventeen.
flashback
Elaine looked around the inteview place for seventeen, the magazine she was going to be inteviewed by. She smiled as she was interviewed by someone she didn't know. "Elaine, what would you like me to call you?" "Ella." "Ella, can you tell us what your feelings on Prom are at the moment?" "Uh, well, I was going to go with my best friend who's a guy in this pink dress that has a lovely train." "Really? Doesn't it feel weird to be going to Prom with a friend who's a guy, like a date?" "Well, we used to be dating, it ended on pretty good terms, so it wouldn't be all that bad."
"Really, so you're going to Prom with an ex? No current boyfriend?" "Well, no. The thing is, most guys think of me as sort of headstrong and stubburn, if I want something my way, it's going to be done my way." "Ah, so this isn't any discourgment to you at all?" "No, if girls are single, why not take time and enjoy life? It's just that guys are atracted to girls who are fun to hang around most of the time." "What about your extracurricular, cheerleading? Does that have any impact on the friends you hang with?" "No, at my school, we don't really have cliques. It's that way because the captain of the basketball team, Troy, is dating one of my friends who's in the decatholon."
"Really? Wide variety, no being picky?" "No, after all, we're only kids, why should we deal with cliques, zits, and school all at the same time? Being famous, having zits, and juggling with my social calender is enought." "That's very wise of you." "Thanks." "Your welcome. However, one pressing question everyone has is: Do you still have feelings for your ex?" "No comment." "Ah. Well, thank you, that's all the time we have. If we want another interview, we'll call you." "Thanks, and your welcome."
end flashback
She smiled. This will be the greatest year yet!
Headstrong, melt down
Headstrong
Headstrong, can you feel the beat?
Melt down
Melt down, can you feel the heat?
The end! What did ya think? And be on the lookout for the sequel: I Can't Take My Eyes Off You, the story of their lives through college. Trailor will be up sometime today, maybe!