Best Nightmare

Authors note: Hey. I'm back again! Sorry, my internet has been down for a while, so I had to wait a while. But here's the next chapter! Oh, and I also posted CHFIL. I'm also going to add another story. Not sure of the title. It's most likely going to be Family Friends. You'll see why. R&R!

Chapter 3

The next morning, Gabriella woke up with puffy red eyes. Sharpay immediately got two spoons and stuck them in the freezer.

"Go wash up and get dressed, honey. It'll be better. We'll get rid of that puffiness, Gabs. Don't worry about Troy. He's an asswipe." Vanessa laughed a little and went to the bathroom. When she came out, she bumped into Troy. They had awkward eye contact but Gabriella immediately walked past him as if he was just a tree blocking the way.

"Gabriella-" he started but she was already going down the stairs.

"Gabs, I have the spoons ready." Sharpay said opening her freezer. She got two metal spoons out and placed them over Gabi's eyes. "Don't move!" she said as Gabriella flinched.

"It's cold!"

"Yeah, but do you want to go to New York looking like balloons popped in your eyes? No, I don't think so." Gabriella held the spoons as Sharpay let go.

"Let me go get changed. There's like, 6 more spoons in the freezer. When the ones your using thaw out, put them in the sink and use new ones until you can barely open your eyes. Be right back." Gabriella stood there leaning against the counter holding the spoons. When they got warmer, she dropped them in the sink and got out new ones.

"Whatcha doin?" Ryan said coming behind her.

"Dude! You scared me!" she said not moving her spoons.

"Haha, so what are you doing?"

"Reducing my puffieness."

"Of your eyes?"

"No, of my feet."

"Then why are you-"

"Nevermind. Yes, on my eyes." She said frustrated he didn't understand her sarcasm.

"Oh cool. I heard what happened last night."

"Oh, what happened?"

"Oh well, Troy said—"

"Who's Troy?" Gabriella said cheery.

"You know…" he said trying to explain.

"No, I don't know…" she said back. "But I don't want to know either. He sounds like a big jerk. Probably hideous looking anyway. Ryan, you can do better than jerky guys."

"Yeah…hey!"

"What?"

"I'm straight!"

"Straight of what?"

"Gabi!" he scoffed.

"I'm just joking, Ry." She laughed.

"Okay, well see you out front."

"Bye." She said as he walked away.

She got a new set of spoons and held it for 10 more seconds. When she took them off her eyes, they were numb and she could barely blink.

"Whoah." She whispered seeing everything blurry.

"Sharpay, could you help me up?" Gabriella said thinking Sharpay was in front of her. Ryan was already out front loading all the bags, and Sharpay was curling her hair. Obviously it was Troy, but he didn't say anything. He knew she couldn't see anything of that moment.

He held her arms and back and supported her up the long flight of stairs.

"Hey, your arms are like, huge! It's like Troy's. Except he was probably thinking that I had germs or something, so he didn't want to hold my hands." Troy's face fell completely down. " Ugh. Am I an idiot for falling for him? Remember when I told you I loved him? I think I meant it, but now I'm just hurt and lonely." He didn't think he could frown anymore than he was, but he did. He felt horrible for what he said and what he did. He never meant any of it. It was just an excuse for Sharpay. Gabriella started blinking harder and that was Troy's cue to sprint down the stairs.

"Shar?" she waited for no answer since Troy was already out the front door. "I guess that's a yes. I am officially the biggest idiot ever." She said finally being able to see. She went up to see Sharpay hairspraying her hair.

"Whoah, that was quick."

"What do you mean? I've been curling my hair for like, 20 minutes."

"Well still. You couldn't have just like, walked up the stairs and start spraying hairspray in like, 10 seconds."

"I didn't. I walked up the stairs for almost a minute and curled my hair like, 20 minutes ago."

"But you left to help me and you just ran away. That was pretty quick."

"Gabs, what are you talking about?!" she scoffed. " I didn't leave this bathroom for a second." Gabriella froze.

"Omigod."

"What?"

"Somebody helped me up the stairs."

"Maybe it was Ryan."

"Ryan doesn't wear brown, does he?"

"No, he was wearing yellow…but Troy was wearing brown…" she said meekly.

Gabriella's face turned extremely pale. She thought he had been talking to Sharpay this whole time, but it turned out she told Troy some things she only told Sharpay! Uh-oh...