Author's Note: V: Hello my peeps!! I really liked this chapter, just as much as the last one and I hope you guys like it too! More Troypayness!!! Much Love!!

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Chapter Five

You Can't Stop The Beat

When Troy got out of his car, he slammed the door quite hard. He looked extremely furious when he was walking down the halls, which scared the students. Troy Bolton hardly ever got mad, and when he did, everybody stayed out of his way.

When he reached his locker, where the gang usually waited for him, and got his books and slammed his locker door too, the group of friends immediately knew Troy was mad. And, unfortunately for Sharpay, being new to the group and all, didn't know to stay away.

Today, Sharpay was in an unusually cheerful mood, maybe because it was about doing so well in the musicale, or just because the make-over made her happier, but she decided to sneak up on Troy.

Sharpay walked around, standing behind Troy, and put her hands on top of his eyes, not noticing the gang shaking their heads and mouthing at her to stop.

"Guess who." She whispered in his ear.

"I don't know who, but if you don't get off of me, I'll make you're life a living hell."

"Looks like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed." she replied. When Troy heard the actual voice of the person, he immediately turned red and turned around to apologize.

"I'm sorry Sharpay; I didn't mean to snap at you. Please forgive me!" The apology sounded sincere and desperate to Sharpay so she decided to forgive him, but not before she played with his mind a bit.

"I don't know Troy…"

Oh no, Troy thought, I'm going to lose the bet.

"Sharpay, I'll do anything you want, just forgive me please?"

"Well I guess I could think about it if…You give me a piggyback ride to homeroom?" she stated.

"Done." Troy bent down a bit so Sharpay could hop on.

"Don't forget to carry my books too, Troy." she said.

It was an extremely awkward situation for Troy. As Troy carried Sharpay down the halls, all the students shot weird looks at him, and when they did, they looked away quickly. Troy didn't know this, but every time somebody did give them a weird look, Sharpay would send them an ice glare.

When they arrived at homeroom, Troy bent down again to let Sharpay off.

"So do you forgive me yet?" he asked.

"I guess I do, but only if you give me a piggyback ride to homeroom for the rest of the week."

The deal worked out for both of them: Troy got forgiveness so he still had a chance to win the bet, and Sharpay's feet wouldn't hurt as much from walking in her heels.

-

Sharpay absent-mindedly tapped her pencil on her desk in a some-what robotic beat.

"The marching band will be having a meeting today at lunch in the band room, don't be late." Ms. Darbus said as she read through the morning announcements.

"Lastly, the casting sheet and call-back list has been posted for those of you who auditioned and would like to see if you have gotten a part." Just as Ms. Darbus finished, the bell rang signalling the end of homeroom.

Sharpay quickly ran to the drama bulletin, dragging Ryan behind her, who was trying very hard to keep a hold onto his books.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

"Ow! Sharpay, what's so bad that you have to scream so loudly in my ear nearly causing me to go deaf?" Ryan asked.

"WE GOT THE PARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed.

And with that said, the twins headed towards their next class together, Ryan with a big smile on his face, and Sharpay with an even bigger smile. That'll show Lucy.

-

Bring.

The bell rang through the whole school. Time for lunch.

Sharpay walked into the cafeteria, she walked by the table Gabriella and Taylor sat at, trying to get eye contact, but it was unsuccessful, so Sharpay continued walking to the popular table.

When she got there, Troy pulled her over to sit beside him. He had already bought her lunch for her, as an act of apologizing one more time.

As Sharpay was eating her lunch, she could hear Lucy talk about how her complexion isn't as perfect as it was yesterday.

"I think this cafeteria food is making me break out!" she complained.

Without knowing it, Troy and Sharpay rolled their eyes at the same time.

After Lucy said that, Ryan pointed out to her "I think it's making you break out on your arms and legs too."

When Sharpay heard this, she thought it didn't sound right. In fact, it sounded weirder than weird. So she decided to ask Lucy a simple question.

"Lucy, have you had the chicken pox yet?"

"No, I haven't. What's your point?" Lucy replied.

"Well I think you've had it now."

"WHAT?!" and with that, Lucy ran from the cafeteria to the Nurse's office, making the rest of the table burst into hysterics.

-

She had fished out her chemistry text book and when she had a giggle she recognized, she looked up quickly too quickly, hitting her head on the locker

"Ouch" she cried rubbing her head looking for where the voices where coming from.

Both Taylor and Gabriella were further down the hallway where Taylor's locker was situated.

Slowly making her way over to them she tired not to look too suspicious, they both looked so happy and even though they refused to talk to her or take any of her calls after their fight last week, that didn't mean she stopped caring about them.

"Oh my god, I can't believe it" Taylor squealed in happiness still jumping around.

" Tay, I'm so happy for the two of you" Gabrielle said genuinely, she was happy that Taylor was happy and that Chad had finally asked her.

"I know, Chad finally asked me" she grinned at how long it had taken Chad to ask her to finally be his girlfriend, but she knew he had seemed like he was going to ask her but chickened out, but he finally did and she couldn't be happier about it.

"I love that boy" she added in glee, this had totally made her forget about the situation with Sharpay.

She and Chad had been 'hanging out' for two months now and even though there were no strings attached they didn't see other people and Chad really did want to ask Taylor to be his girlfriend and now he had.

"I know, Tay, you guys are so sweet" Gabriella smiled telling her friend.

Sharpay had managed to get closer to them without them noticing she was pretending to look at the notice board and had held her chemistry book up to cover her face.

But after hearing Taylor's happiness and knowing why she couldn't contain herself and pretend like she wasn't there.

There was also the point that they were still fighting and Sharpay hoped that would end soon too.

" Tay, why didn't you tell me that Chad asked you to be his girlfriend?" Sharpay asked smiling as she made there way over to the two girls.

"Um Sharpay" Gabriella said as she turned to look at her.

"You know I still care about you guys" Sharpay informed them, something they were in doubt about.

"Don't give us the third degree Sharpay because if you cared about us like you say you do you never would have ignored us for a whole week to go and hang around with the popular people which I remember you saying you hated people like Lucy Robson and now all of a sudden she's your best friend" Taylor explained in depth, she told them she cared but she didn't show it and everything Taylor had said was true and Gabriella agreed with.

"I really didn't know you guys felt like this if I had-"the blonde tried to say, she couldn't believe this is what she had put her two closest friends through.

"That's exactly the point you've changed" Taylor notified her, not only had she changed in appearance but in personality too, in some ways it was good but in contrast it was also bad in some ways.

"Sharpay we're not doormats" Gabriella spoke, they didn't want Sharpay to use them just when it was convenient for her, like talking to them when she was free.

Taylor had, had enough of the conversation and she wasn't going to let her mood get ruined so nudged Gabriella to let her now she was leaving as she had nothing more to say.

" Taylor's right you have changed and we don't know where the Sharpay we loved and was our best friend has gone"

Taylor hadn't gotten very far, so Gabriella caught up to her and the two walked away together.

They left a very remorseful Sharpay, but was it too late for her to fix her broken friendships?

-

It was all over school that what Lucy had shrieked about was actually chicken pox and she was going to be off school for at least a week, which made the school body very happy because Lucy bullied anything that walked, she even made a teacher cry once, and that was how mean Lucy Robson really was.

Troy was overjoyed when he had heard the news about Lucy, no he wasn't mean but he was happy that she wasn't going to be in school for a few days, to any outsider it was obvious what she was trying to do and that was to keep Troy and Sharpay has far away from each other as possible but it seemed the more she did that the more they seemed grow closer.

He couldn't wait to see Sharpay now because without Lucy's presence it meant that he had the chance to get closer to Sharpay and finally make his advantage count.

-

Jeremy slammed his phone down, it was impossible he hadn't heard from Lucy in the past two days and he had just got off the phone with her mom when he had finally got through and she told him that Lucy had the chickenpox and was unable to come to the phone.

This incredibly messed up their plan, because now he was unable to get Sharpay's number, sure he had talked when they were at the ice cream parlor but he had forgotten to ask for her number, which he planned to get form Lucy but he couldn't now because she had gone and gotten the chickenpox.

-

The days of the week had gone quickly and still Troy hadn't got a chance to ask Sharpay out and he didn't want to do it over the phone.

It was Friday at lunch and he was at his locker putting some books away before he went into the cafeteria.

"Heya Troy" a voice called from behind him, he recognized the voice as the blonde.

Turning to look in her direction, he plastered a smile on his face and shut his locker "Hey Sharpay" he replied to the greeting.

"Let me just put my books in my locker and then we can go to the cafeteria together if you want" she offered motioning to the big pile of books in her hand.

"Sure" he told her, staying where he was.

He leaned against the locker next to hers and waited for her to finish this was his chance to finally ask her what he had wanted to all week.

"Sharpay I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tonight" he asked her coyly trying not to be too evasive.

"Sure" she bit her tongue to stop herself from squealing in delight, but she felt her voice sounded much higher than normal.

"Do you want to go the movies?" he asked knowing that was a safe date and they might even go to get some food later, but it wasn't anything o heavy and it was all for the bet, there was always a movie that they could watch.

"Yeah, I'd like that" she gleamed, unable to stop herself.

She laced her arm around his and they made their way to cafeteria.

-

Getting out his car, he took a quick look in the mirror, he was wearing an American eagle top and some green khakis.

Before he had the chance to knock on the door of the Evans house Sharpay had already skipped down the porch steps.

Her hair was up in a ponytail and she was wearing a yellow dress that fell just below her knees and some flip flops.

-

They had talked all the way on the drive to the mall and were now in the line talking about what movie to watch.

"Um what about Harry Potter?" he questioned looking at the movie posters.

"Huh" Sharpay said having not paid attention to what Troy was asking.

"I said what about Harry Potter?"

"Yup sure" she smiled continuing to look at the poster that interested her most.

He knew she hadn't been paying attention and followed her eyes, and came face to face with the newly released poster of Hairspray.

So that is the movie she wants to see he thought to himself

"You want to watch Hairspray don't you?" he asked her knowing this was the perfect chance to prove to her that he cared about her and giving himself a better chance of winning the bet.

"Yeah, don't you think Zac Efron is like so hot" she blabbed out and clasped her hand on her mouth, did she just say that out aloud.

"Sharpay another guy doesn't think another guy is good looking okay?" he tried to tell her.

"Okay" she laughed dragging him to the till.

"Can we have two tickets to see Hairspray?" he asked the cashier.

"Yeah that'll be $9 thank you" the guy said touching the screen in front of him, which produced their tickets, which he handed to them after Troy gave him the money.

The two teenagers continued to make their way into the movie theatre.

"Food" Sharpay said as they were approaching the food stand.

"Can I have medium salted popcorn and a large diet coke, with a Hershey's bar please" she smiled telling the employee.

"Sure that will be $7.50" the girl told her having tapped in the order.

"I'll pay for it" he told her, leaning over her shoulder to hand the girl the money. She could feel his breath on her bare shoulder and turned to look at him, he responded with a smile.

There was no way any date of Troy Bolton's was going to pay.

Sharpay was touched that he had paid for her and allowed her to get whatever she wanted to eat and he paid for it, she knew this was a date, but he had said hang out, but the more time she was spending with Troy the more she liked him.

Troy had got some popcorn and a drink, and they headed into screen to watch Hairspray.

-

"You can't stop the beat" Sharpay sang loudly skipping out of the cinema.

Troy laughed as he tried to follow her.

Author's Note: as you can see we incorporated the release of Hairspray into the chapter it came out on Friday how many of you went to see it or will go to see it? I have and I loved it and V will, hope you enjoyed the chapter and don't forget to leave a review :), A