Gabriella clambered up the beach to where her clothes lay and heard her cell ringing. She answered it and waved to Troy who was still in the sea.

'Hello?'

'Gabs where are you! Rumors are flying round the school! Do you wanna tell me exactly what's going on here?' Sharpay said.

'No, not really' Gabriella said, giggling.

'You're not with Troy are you?' she asked.

Her tone of voice made Gabriella instantly stop joking around.

'Yes, why, what's the problem?'

'Oh Gabi, we're in deep shit here, I'm talking up to our necks'

'What are you going on about Shar?' Gabriella asked concerned.

'Well-'

30 minutes earlier

Sharpay sauntered out of her class and found herself walking directly behind 3 of 'the elite'. She walked slowly so they wouldn't hear her heels clicking on the floor but close enough to hear what they were saying.

Lucky for her, these three could only concentrate on one thing at a time so they wouldn't have noticed if she'd bared all to them as long as they were deep in conversation.

'I still don't see what's the matter' Jason said.

'Dude, let me spell it out for you, Troy made a plan to crush Gabriella didn't he?' Chad asked slowly.

'Yep'

'So everything was going well when he got her to go out with him wasn't it?'

'Yep'

'And the next part of the plan was to dump her in front of everyone and hurt her wasn't it?'

'Yep'

'But now he's gone off with her and most likely ditched the plan, which leaves us in a very bad place' Chad finished.

'Yep' said Jason, grinning idiotically.

Chad just shook his head and walked off, them following close behind.

Sharpay whipped her cell-phone out and pressed speed-dial 1, for the 10th time that day.

Present time

'So you see, you've both been planning the same thing, so it's all headed for disaster'

'No it's not' Gabriella said.

'Huh?'

'If we've both been planning the same thing, we can't both be mad at each other can we?'

'Oh Gabs, this isn't right, you should just forget about him while you can, it wont end up happy, I guarantee one of you will be hurt'

'Then we'll just have to prove you wrong' she replied, shutting the phone and going to join Troy.

'Hey gorgeous' he said, splashing her a bit.

'Hey'

'What's wrong, you sound down'

'Troy, I know about the plan' Gabriella said, studying his face.

He paled, and he ran a hand through his hair.

'Gabs, I know nothing can make up for it, but I honest to god made a promise to myself to stop it, ever since Matsui saw us I knew I really didn't want to go through with it, I'm really sorry. I understand how-'

'Troy, it doesn't matter, 'cause I was doing the same thing'

'What?' Troy asked in disbelief.

'I also made a plan to crush you, I wanted you to hurt, see that I can play games too, but then I realized I might actually like you'

Troy just sank back into the water and floated, staring at the sky. Gabriella joined him and they stayed there together, not speaking, just being.

A/N

Yay or Nay? What do you say? Hey? Lol, had a rhyming fit there! What do you think? Have I lost my touch? Constructive criticism always appreciated! xxx