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Chapter 2.

"Please, Troy?"

"NO!"

"Please, I really need your help!"

"No, I said no!"

"C'mon, I thought you were my friend!"

"No!"

"Please!?"

"No, Gabriella!" Troy said, making his point clear, "I'm not gonna let Sharpay use me as her little doll! I have too much proud to do that! I'm a guy, okay, I don't want to have makeup on!"

"But you promised to help me too!" Gabriella whined, hitting him lightly on the chest, "You promised to support me all the way with this Popular-project! You can't back out of it now, Troy! You promised! And you'll get to spend some time with Sharpay too!"

"How's that supposed to convince me?" Troy questioned, shooting her a weird look, "Like, spending time with the Ice Princess is fun!?"

"Come on, Troy…" Gabriella giggled, but she still had a begging look in her eyes, and a teasing grin on her face, "I know you like her…"

Troy sighed and looked at Gabriella's begging face, he couldn't admit to her that she was kinda right. The only thing he could do was say yes, and help her, "Alright…" he said, whispering, "But no one will ever know about this, okay?"

"Of course not," Gabriella quickly said, smiling all over her face, "I love you, Troy! And thanks!"

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Don't be offended by my frank analysis
Think of it as personality dialysis
Now that I've chosen to be come a pal, a
Sister and adviser
There's nobody wiser
Not when it comes to popular -
I know about popular

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"I still don't really know, Sharpay." Gabriella said, looking at her new friend, "Troy didn't really seem to want to do this, he seemed really mad that I forced him. Maybe we're taking it too far. Maybe I don't need makeup?"

"Don't be offended by this, Gabby." Sharpay said, quickly shooting her a smile, "But you do. Real bad. You have so many great features, but also some that would be much better covered with a bit of makeup."

"Oh; that's so mean! How can you say that!?" Gabriella shrieked.

"I told you not to be offended!" Sharpay snapped, "I'm here to help. Think of me as the sister you never had. All I do is for you. And I know about this stuff, okay? I am popular, so by getting help from me, you'll become popular too!"

"I guess so…" Gabriella said, "Troy will be here in a minute."

"Cool, I've got everything ready too, so that's tight." Sharpay smiled, just as the door bell rang. She bounced downstairs and opened it to reveal Troy, "Come in, Troysie, we need you!" she giggled, pulling him inside.

They went upstairs together, Troy checking out Sharpay's house. He was kinda taken aback by her room, which was all pink, and then she pushed him down on a chair in front of a mirror, and looked at Gabriella.

"Okay, Gabs, I'm gonna tell you exactly what I do, and you're gonna listen closely." She said, taking out some foundation to cover marks or zits or whatever might occur on teenage skin, "After this, we'll remove it all, and let you do Troy. Then you can go home and practise on yourself later."

"Okay." Gabriella smiled, taking a seat next to Troy, to watch Sharpay's every move. Troy was pretty stiff and uncomfortable, as Sharpay fixed him a beautiful makeup.

"So, I guess your colours are green or blue." Sharpay giggled, "I'll just give you a slight blush too, and then end with your mascara. Some other time, I'll do the smoky thing, that's really cool on a lot of people, I don't know about you, though, Gabby, but we'll see."

She finished Troy's makeup, and held up a mirror for him to see, and he cringed. He had long eyelashes now, real girly, just like Sharpay always had them. And then he had a pink blush along with some green stuff on his eyes, he didn't even know what it was called!

"You're pretty…" Gabriella giggled, trying hard not to laugh, "Oh please Troy, let me take one picture of you!"

"No!" Troy said, shaking his head, "No pictures! No one will ever know about this, you promised, Gabby!"

"Of course." Gabriella smiled, "But it looks good on you."

Both her and Sharpay broke into fits of giggles, as Troy shook his head, and shot them a death glare. Sharpay then got it together, and removed his makeup, letting Gabriella give it a try. She wasn't very good at it, but that was the whole point of her having this lesson to begin with. She held up the mirror too, letting Troy see himself.

"I looked better before, I'll give you that, Sharpay." He mumbled.

Gabriella hit him across the head, and laughed, "I'm trying!"

"Cool, just not hard enough." He replied.

"Shut up, Troy!" Sharpay said, "You'll get better Gabby, I know it!"

Gabriella was about to answer, when her cell started going off. She quickly picked it up, seeing her mom's name flash across the screen. "Hi mom!" she paused, "Yeah, I'll be right there. Give me five minutes, okay? Yup, bye!" she hung up and looked at them, "I've got to go. You'll help him get that stuff off, right Sharpay?"

Sharpay looked at Troy, "Of course… anything for you Gabby."

"'Kay, I'll see ya' tomorrow!" Gabriella smiled, heading for the door, "Bye!"

Troy turned to Sharpay, a teasing smile playing on his lips, "Help, please?"

Sharpay giggled and looked for her makeup remover.

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"There you go. It is gone." Sharpay informed Troy. "But you look pretty good with make-up, you know that?"

"Yeah, I look good all the time." Troy said. Sharpay rolled her eyes. "What? You don't think I do?"

"Do I have to answer that?" Sharpay giggled. Troy looked evil at her but then he smiled.

"Thanks for letting me use you." Sharpay said, after a while with silence.

"You are welcome. But DON'T you tell anybody. I only did this because of Gabriella."

"Admit it you also came here to see gorgeous me." Sharpay said and sent Troy a big flirting smile.

"You are really having an ego trip." Troy chuckled.

"Yeah, so what? You like it!" Sharpay was only a few inches from Troy's face. He could smell her perfume. It was fresh. Troy almost leaned in but Sharpay moved away from him. She sent him a smile and put the stuff in its right place. Troy looked down. Why did she have that affection on him?

She turned around to face him. "Do you want to stay or do you have somewhere to go?"

"Well, if I stay, what do you want to do?" Troy flirted with her.

"Hmm...I don't know. Whatever you want to." Sharpay flirted back. She took a seat on his lap and put her arms around his neck. She looked into his ocean blue eyes and flirting smile playing on her lips. Troy put his hands on her hips.

"Uh, there is a lot we could do." Troy said and added: "in bed" in his mind. Troy looked at her tempting lips. Sharpay slowly started to lean in.

The door opened and Ryan came into her room. Sharpay quickly got away from Troy. "Ryan, what do you want?" she snapped. Troy looked at Sharpay. Two seconds more and they had kissed.

Ryan looked at them both. What were they doing? And what was Troy even doing in their house? "Ehm, I just wanted to ask if we should rent a movie, but I see you are busy doing something else." Ryan said and was already on his way out again.

"Well, why don't we do that? Troy you want to do that too?" Sharpay said, feeling a bit uncomfortable. She looked at Troy. Mostly at his lips. Why did Ryan have to come in there? She had almost kissed the guy she had had a crush on for months. She had never told him that she liked him, she didn't know how to do it.

"Sure that sounds good." Troy was a bit shaky in his voice, but he got a smile on his lips anyway.

"Ryan, why don't you rent a movie and get us a pizza? I am really hungry." Sharpay asked. Ryan nodded and left her room. Sharpay looked back at Troy. She felt stupid; she didn't know what to do with herself. How to break the silence.

"Uhm, well...so?" Troy started, but didn't know what to say.

"Yeah..." Sharpay just said. They looked at each other. "Maybe we just should..."

"Yeah.." Troy rose from the chair. Sharpay took his hand and lead him down to the kitchen. They found some plates and what else they need for the pizza. Sharpay found some candy. They both went into the living room. None of them spoke a word.

"Okay..." they both started.

"You go first." Sharpay said, "I didn't have anything to say, I just didn't like the silence."

"Me neither." Troy chuckled.

"So, am I right when I say that Gabriella really could use some make-up?" Sharpay tried to think of something they could talk about. That was the first that popped into her mind.

"Yeah, sometimes she really could use something. But don't tell her I said that." Troy admitted.

"I promise I won't. It will be our little secret. God, I am hungry." Sharpay exclaimed.

"Me too." Troy smiled to her.

There you go. Another finished chapter from us. Hope you like it, but please review us? Will you? Next chapter of Libby Lee is already half done too, but we haven't started No Sleep Tonight yet. We will get on it though. Next chapter of this should be exciting too.

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