Chapter Two
Ryan's alarm began to scream "Bop To The Top" at six thirty in the morning. Rolling over, he moaned and slammed the palm of his hand down onto his custom made alarm clock from his sister. Staring into his ceiling light fixture, he removed the crust under his eyes formed from tears the night before. "It was all a dream!" He yelled thrillingly. "Kelsi is alive! I'm going to ask her to prom today. After that dream, I can't be afraid!"
He jumped out of his bed and sprinted to his closet and slipped on a black button down shirt with pink plaid pants and a matching fedora. Slipping on his riding boots, he glanced down at his bedside table and saw composed pieces which Kelsi had left in the music room for Ms. Darbus. "It wasn't a dream. Kelsi is really gone and Ms. Darbus wants me to run Kelsi's last show in her honor." A faint mist ran down Ryan's cheeks and fell to his lap. Quickly, he wiped the tears away and ran out of his room in horror almost knocking Sharpay to the floor.
"Watch it!" She screamed almost waking up the enormous house. Ryan gave a single nod and let his head fall. "So, anyway." Sharpay started down the staircase pulling her brother along. "I'm going to tell Ms. Darbus to forget Kelsi's show; since everyone will be so emotional they won't care if we do the show or not, and mention that I should do a one-woman show. They can do Kelsi's show when she was supposed to graduate." Sharpay headed for the kitchen still dragging her obvious sorrowful brother. "Oh, if you want I can let you do an introductory song." Ryan glared with rage towards his sister wanting to scream his heart out but he didn't want to wake his parents. Ryan quickly threw his sister up against the wall and growled letting all his emotion out.
"We've been through this before Sharpay and I am sick of you running my life. You always think I want to be in your shadow. You think I always want to be in shows with you and you have the say if I can or not. Well, you know what, Sharpay? I'm not going to be in the musical this year! So find yourself some other poor defenseless boy to do everything you say because I am done with you." Ryan thrashed his sister off the wall and headed back for his room. Sharpay blankly watched her brother walk up the steps while rubbing her shoulders.
"But wouldn't it be best they do her show next year? She was a junior after all." Sharpay called after her brother forgetting everything he had said putting her hand on her hip.
"She was a senior!" Ryan cried. "How oblivious are you, Sharpay? I bet you don't even know Zeke's last name. You know, the boy who actually likes you!" Ryan stomped into his room and slammed the door behind him shaking the walls and floor.
Ryan sluggishly walked over to his nightstand and stared at the papers as he sat on his bed. "I can't run the show without Kelsi. I may have her music but I need Kelsi's laugh and her voice." Ryan smirked as he thought of Kelsi's luscious brown hair and the way she walked. He began to laugh as he saw her impersonating Sharpay warming up for an audition and running after Troy. "How am I going to live life without her?"
"It's time for school, Ryan. You're already late." Mrs. Evans said knocking on her son's door. Ryan let out a groan and picked up the music he sat staring at for ten minutes.
"Coming." Ryan grabbed his bag and made his way for his scooter kissing Mrs. Evans on the way out. As he rode his scooter down the road towards East High, he couldn't get Kelsi out of his head. He tried his hardest to get her soothing voice out of his mind.
Ryan parked his scooter outside the front doors and raced to make it to first period in time. For once in his life, he was late for school and he could not have ever cared less.