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Chapter Six

Piggyback Promises

The raven haired boy threw his bag into his car and drove to school. He still hadn't heard from Lucy, after all she was what he was using to gain information on how Bolton was doing and also she herself was helping him because she was stopping the two from going out.

But he had yet to call Sharpay up about that ice cream date that they had yet to go on, he didn't want to seem over eager or seem to laid back so when he had parked in his regular spot he flipped his phone op[en and dialled and put the phone to his ear.

"Hey, who's this?" Sharpay answered not recognizing the caller ID.

"Yeah hey it's Jeremy" he told her, continuing to make his way into the school building.

"From the ice cream parlour right?" she smiled innocently, even though he couldn't see, their conversation flashed back to her mind; even though they had only talked for a few minutes he had left a good first impression on her.

"Yeah" he confirmed, putting his bag away into his locker and smiling over at a group of girls that were looking over at him.

"Okay well what's up?" she questioned wondering why he had called her, she had given her number to him that afternoon and he hadn't called her since today which is why she didn't know who it was.,.

But she was glad that he didn't call her back to her she was the first guy that had liked her since she had her 'makeover', what hurt her about Troy was that he knew her before her makeover and took no notice of her and now he did but with Jeremy it was to early to say where their relationship was heading.

"I was wondering about that ice cream, do you want to go and get some Thursday after school" he asked her, he was very confident she would say yes unless something had happened which he didn't know about.

"Sure I would like that" she answered to his question, she was a single she was entitled to go out and have fun.

"Good then I'll pick you up from school at 5 on Thursday, is that good for you, because I have practice" he informed her.

"Yeah that's good for me, I got the lead in the school musical and practice should be starting soon"

"Congrats I'll see you there then" he replied into the phone.

"Thanks, yep you will bye"

"Bye" he said and shut the phone and grinned to himself as he saw his friends walking towards him.

Finally he was getting somewhere, he was not going to lose this bet especially not to Troy Bolton he hated that kid.

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The blonde yawned, immediately covering her mouth with her hand, she had been up all night trying to finish these for Gabriella and Taylor she hoped they liked them

First she had the job of finding them, it was like they were always trying to avoid her and wherever she was they never were.

She knew she had to save their friendship before it was beyond repair.

Finally she found them; they were in their homeroom class at the back desks talking and had some note books on their desks.

They both looked up to see who had entered the room and turned to look at each other than they looked back at the approaching Sharpay.

"I know I'm not you're guys favourite person right now but I really am sorry and these are for you" Sharpay told them taking two boxes from behind her to give one to each girl.

They were small jewellery boxes that she had made herself, each was decorated differently, Taylor's in lilac and Gabriella's in blue.

Opening the boxes, they revealed two hand made charms.

There was a whole story to this, when the three girls had meet back in elementary school, they all used to have friendship bracelets and as time went on they would add little charms, to their bracelets and till this day they still wore them, Sharpay with her pink coloured one, Gabriella's again was blue and Taylor's lilac and they had all taken a great interest into making charms and jewellery, hence Sharpay making these for them as an apology for the way she had been acting.

After a long silence of the two not saying a word and Sharpay getting more nervous, she had hoped this would work and gain their forgiveness but she guessed wrong.

Gulping she looked down "Umm okay well I guess you don't like them, I'm sorry that I couldn't make it up to you" she turned on her heel to leave the room, and rubbed her eyes to stop the tears that were threatening to fall.

She had really thought this would work. All she wanted was for her best friends to be back in her life.

"Wait" Taylor shouted.

Sharpay stopped in her tracks, she really didn't need to now that they didn't like them, they didn't want to be her friends etc she had been through enough of that.

The two girls come and stood either side of Sharpay she held her head up wondering what was going to happen, and felt pairs of hands taking her into a hug a hug smile made it's way on to her face and she hugged her friends back.

"We love them" Gabriella let out with an accompanied squeal.

Both charms were identical they were the size of a key ring and Sharpay had sewn the backgrounds which one top were three girls, one with blonde hair the other with brunette and the other with black hair, it represented the three of them.

Something that meant a lot to her, and having placed herself in their shoes she understood where they were coming from.

"Really?"

"Totally how could we not there so darnn cute" Taylor told her swinging her hand around, where the new charm had joined the others on her lilac band.

After all her failed attempts of apologizing this had finally worked when she thought they hadn't liked them, it crushed her she didn't want to lose her friends and now she wasn't going to.

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For the last couple of days, Troy had been debating with himself on when he should ask Sharpay out again. He couldn't ask her out again the next night, he had to leave her hanging and wanting more. But he finally decided he should ask her out again tonight.

Just as he was about to go find her, she walked up to him.

"Hey Troy!"

"Hey Sharpay, how's it going?" he responded to the blonde.

"Really good actually, how about you?" she asked him.

"Well I was about to ask if you wanted to hang out tonight?"

Troy looked at Sharpay's hesitant face and he immediately felt fear. He was going to lose the bet; maybe it was because she had such a horrible time the other night. But she seemed extremely happy at the end of the night. What had he done wrong? The next words out of her mouth were so relieving to Troy.

"Actually, I have play practice. Ryan and I got the lead parts! Isn't that exciting? Anyways, maybe you can come watch me, and then we could go somewhere after? I'm sure Ms. Darbus wouldn't mind as long as you kept your mouth shut." She explained to him in depth and thought that she had started blabbing and was thankful when Troy started talking.

"Yeah that would be great." Troy replied. Just then the warning bell rang "Wanna walk to homeroom together?"

"Have you already forgotten your promise Troy?" she taunted slightly laughing.

"What promise?"

Sharpay made him turn around, and bend down, then she hopped on his back.

"Giddy-up horsie!" she giggled.

"Oh, that promise." he said. Troy then started walking towards homeroom with Sharpay on his back.

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As Sharpay's last class ended, she headed towards her locker. She was extremely nervous, not because of actually practicing, but because Troy was going to be there watching. When she finished gathering the books she would need that night to complete her homework, and slammed her locker door shut, there stood Troy with a single rose in his hand.

"For you" he said handing her the beautiful red flower.

"Oh? For me? You shouldn't have kind sir." she replied in a mock tone.

"Oh, but I did, my lady." Troy said, in a very bad British accent.

"Yeah, Troy, don't do that again." Sharpay said, half-serious.

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When the two arrived to the auditorium, nobody was there yet, not even Ms. Darbus, so it was just the two of them.

Troy and Sharpay sat in an awkward silence for a while, and when Troy was just about to say something, Ms. Darbus and few other students came into the auditorium. Troy sent Sharpay a quick smile as she got up to discuss a few things before they started to rehearse the play.

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Watching the play practice wasn't as hard as Troy thought. It was actually pretty fun; even though the first practice was mainly composed of trust activities and other things to get the cast to bond more so there would be excellent chemistry for the live performances.

Since the cast seemed to be pretty close, Ms. Darbus actually had them start rehearsing some of the songs.

When practice ended, the drama club seemed to be flocking around Sharpay, complimenting her on her voice. Troy made eye contact with Sharpay, sending her a look saying 'I'll wait outside' and headed out to his car.

When Sharpay finally did manage to get out, she got into the passenger seat and she looked extremely tired. She closed her eyes for a few minutes before opening them and looking at Troy and sending him a smile.

"So where to?" Troy asked.

"You pick. Anywhere is fine, as long as I don't have people flocking around me." she informed him getting into the car.

Following her orders, Troy exited the school parking lot, and drove off in the distance.

Author's Note: V: Another chapter!! Yay!! A wrote most of it so she deserves more credit! Read and Review, Much Love.