A/N: I'm sooo Sorry for not updating, I've been super busy. Anyways thanks for the reviews they were all really helpful! I feel so stupid for spelling Albuquerque wrong. I don't think my spell checker caught that. Anyways here's the next chapter!
Disclaimer: If you haven't already figured out, I don't own hsm as much as I'd like to.
Day 3, St. Thomas
Sharpay woke up from a deep slumber. She climbed out of bed and walked outside her balcony, she saw the ship was already docked. She looked at the islands surrounding the ocean. It was a sight to see. She turned her head and looked at Troy's empty balcony. She felt bad for yelling at him, she knew that all he wanted to do was look after her and she couldn't help but feel greatful for that. She climbed her balcony over to his. She slid his door and noticed that he was still in bed. She smiled as she tip toed to his bed. She smirked as she saw him lightly snoring. She quickly pounced on the bed, causing Troy to wake up and instantly fall to the floor screaming.
Sharpay fell on the bed laughing. "You sound like a girl when you scream!"
Troy stood up and crossed his arms. He was in his boxers showing off his tone muscles. "What are you doing here?"
Sharpay stopped laughing and smirked. "I felt sort of bad for what I said yesterday, so I just wanted to apologize."
Troy raised his eyebrow. "Oh really, well nice to know, you can leave now."
Sharpay scrunched her eyebrows. "What? I just apologized, which by the way takes a lot for me to do, considering, I don't ever and I mean ever, do that! What's wrong with you Bolton? I mean you try to get in my love life, and then you sit here and just turn into a total ass when I try to fix my mistakes!" She yelled; her face was extremely red.
Troy saw this and backed away slowly. "Chill, I meant you can leave now so I can change." He said with a scared expression on his face.
Sharpay started to relaxed. She slightly blushed and got up from the bed. "Oh...heh...well um…my bad."
Troy just smirked. "It's cool."
Sharpay nodded. "Well I'm going to go now. I'll see you later." She said as she walked towards the door.
"Wait, what are you doing today?" Troy asked.
Sharpay shrugged. "I thought about finding Gabriella and seeing if she wanted to shop."
Troy nodded. "I was planning on going to Magens Bay."
"That sounds fun." She said.
Troy nodded. "If you want, me and Ryan can wait till you guys are done shopping, then we can all go to the beach."
Sharpay started to think about it. She finally came to a decision and nodded her head. "Okay."
Troy smiled. "Cool."
Sharpay smiled back as she walked out of the door. She stopped once she was outside, realizing, she didn't have her key with her. She sighed as she turned around and knocked on Troy's door. Troy appeared with a confused look on his face once he saw her standing there.
Sharpay smirked. "No key." She walked inside and went outside to Troy's balcony. She climbed over and walked inside her room. She was glad that she settled things between her and Troy. She knew she could lose her temper at times, but she never thought anything of it. She sighed as she walked inside the bathroom and grabbed her bathing suit that was drying on a line that was built inside the shower. She quickly changed and went to her bedroom. She threw the clothes on her bed and walked to her dresser, she pulled out a pink cover up that tied on her neck like a halter top. She grabbed her Holllister beach bag and started to fill it up with a towel and other necessary items. She wasn't in the mood to deal with her hair so she tied it in a messy bun and slipped on some flip-flops. She made sure to get her sun glasses before she walked out the door. Her next mission was to find Gabriella, now she didn't exactly know her room number, but she figured that she might be down at the windjammer getting breakfast. Of course that's were most people were at this hour. Sharpay walked down the long hallway and found an elevator. She pushed the up button and waited. No later then two minutes, the elevator opened. She stepped inside and pushed the button to her destination. The elevator instantly started moving and came to a complete stop after a few minutes. The doors opened and Sharpay walked out and started to walk around. She was pretty sure she was on the right deck; then again this was only her third day on the boat. She was about to give up till she finally saw a sign that said 'Windjammer Cafe'. She sighed with relief as she walked in and saw a huge line of people. She shook her head as she walked around trying to get a glimpse of people. She finally saw Gabriella sitting by the window just watching the ocean and the island. Sharpay smiled as she walked up to her and sat down.
Gabriella turned her head to look at Sharpay and instantly smiled. "Hey! Where were you last night? Some of the guys said that you got in a fight or some sort and just bailed."
Sharpay rolled her eyes. "Just a little misunderstanding, that's all."
Gabriella nodded her head. "So what do you plan on doing today?"
"Well I was going to go shopping with Troy and Ryan. Then maybe go soak up some sun at the beach. You wanna come?"
Gabby seemed to think about it for a minute till she finally nodded her head. "Yeah, I'll come."
Sharpay smiled. "Ahh, I'm so excited! This is seriously going to be fun. What room are you in, so I can come get you when we leave?"
"I'm on Deck 4, in room 425." She replied.
Sharpay nodded. "Okay, just a deck below mine. I'll see you in an hour."
Gabriella nodded as Sharpay got up walked out of the windjammer. She found and elevator and pressed the down button. More people started to crowd the elevator as she waited. This only bugged her more, because she knew once the elevator opened the people would all rush to get in. Once the doors opened, sure enough people were rushing to get in. Sharpay managed to squeeze in. She waited as the elevator made many stops till it finally hit her floor. The doors opened as she fought through to get out. Once she was out, she walked down the long hallway to Troy's room. She knocked on his door and waited for him to answer. She was about to knock a second time till he finally opened the door wearing a pair of swim trunks (A/n: The ones that he wore when he went to Hawaii with Baby V.) and a white undershirt. He had on a pair of sunglasses which Sharpay didn't want to admit, but it looked pretty damn good on him.
"Hey, since I told Gabby that we would meet her in an hour, do you want to go next door to Ryan's and watch a movie on TV. or something?" She asked.
Troy nodded. "Sure."
She walked over to Ryan's door and knocked as Troy followed her and stood behind her. Ryan answered the door with a pair of shorts and a pink shirt that said, "Real Men Wear Pink." Sharpay rolled her eyes at that statement and walked inside with Troy following her.
"Ryan can you explain why are you dressed like that? We're going shopping and the beach. I'm sure you don't want to get those good clothes wet." She asked as she sat on the couch. Troy sat down next to her and tried to look like he was interested in the conversation that was going on.
Ryan scrunched up his eyebrows. "Shopping? Shar, I really don't feel like Carrying around bags."
Sharpay scoffed. "Ryan, I have my beach bag, it's pretty big and I don't plan on buying clothes, I just plan on buying cute little gifts, that's all."
Ryan sighed. "Fine, but I swear if there is a single ounce of clothing that you buy, I'm not going to be the one buying it."
"Believe me, there's not."
Ryan nodded. "Good, now I'll be back, I'm going to change." With that he left the living room.
Sharpay sighed. "I can't believe him, just thinking that I'm going to buy clothes and to top it all off, he won't be a generous man and offer to carry them."
Troy raised an eyebrow. "Well from what I hear, don't you always buy clothes that he always has to carry?"
Sharpay's face scrunched up. "Fine you win."
Troy smirked. "Thank you."
Sharpay turned on the TV and flicked through the channels till she saw the movie 'The Wedding Crashers' and she started to watch it. Troy didn't complain he was just glad that it wasn't a chick flick. After a while Ryan came out of the bedroom, wearing a pair of swim trunks similar to Troy's. He noticed the TV running and decided to take a seat next to them. The watched for a while, till Sharpay glanced at the clock on the TV and noticed it was already 8 AM. She quickly turned the TV off and got up from the couch.
"I told Gabriella that we would wing by to get her before we leave, so let's go." She said as she grabbed her Hollister beach bag. The gang headed out the door and looked for an elevator. Once they found one, Sharpay pushed the down button. She waited for a few minutes till the doors finally opened. They all got in and Sharpay pressed Deck 4. It didn't take long to get there. It only seemed like a minute, till the doors opened up again. Once again, the gang got out and Sharpay started going down the hall trying to find the room. After a few minutes of getting lost, they found the room. Sharpay knocked and waited for Gabriella to answer. The door opened and Gabriella came out wearing a bathing suit cover up and some flip-flops. Her hair was pulled back in a pony tail and she had some sunglasses covering her eyes.
"Hey!" She smiled.
Sharpay grinned. "Gabriella, I'm not sure if you met my brother, but this is Ryan." She said pointing to him. "And of course you already know about Troy." She said. Troy gave her a look as if he wanted to know how she already knew him. "She saw you when you can and gave me hell about my bathing suit." Troy just nodded.
"Well hi, I'm Gabriella." She said politely.
Ryan smiled. "Hi." He kept staring at her like she was the greatest thing on Earth. Sharpay just rolled her eyes. She knew Ryan already had a crush on her. It's funny since he barely even knows her.
"So are you guys ready to go? " Troy asked.
Everyone nodded as they head for an elevator and pushed the down button. They waited for a while till the doors finally opened. They all got in and Ryan pressed Deck 1. They waited till the doors opened and they all got out. They saw a long line of people going through metal detectors and waiting for their stuff to be returned to them. Sharpay sighed; she knew this was going to take a while. To her surprise the line was going pretty fast though. It was only fifteen minutes till she found herself going through the detector. Once she was done, she gave her room key to the crew member who swiped it with the machine, basically telling them that she left the boat and she was indeed an actual passenger on the boat. Once she stepped off the boat she saw a whole different site. She saw people running around trying to get on tours and Cabs everywhere just trying to pick people up. The rest of the gang soon joined her and they quickly ran to a cab. Ryan got in the front as the others got in the back.
"Can you take us to best places to go shopping?" Sharpay asked the cab driver.
"Sure." He replied with a friendly smile.
"This place is so beautiful!" Gabriella exclaimed as she watched the sites from the cab window.
"Not as much as you." Ryan said.
"What?" Gabriella asked.
Ryan started to panic. "Uh…not as much as the UK!"
"You went to the UK?" Gabriella asked with interest.
"Of course." He said.
Sharpay just rolled her eyes. That was a lie, good thing Gabriella didn't seem to notice. Even though Sharpay would love to see Ryan try to explain the truth. Before Sharpay could continue her thought, the cab came to a stop. Ryan paid the cab driver and got out with the others. Sharpay saw shops all around her. She couldn't believe her eyes; it was like a shopping mall right in front of her.
She squealed with delight. "Let's go!" She ordered as she grabbed Gabriella's hand and started to go in a shop. It felt like hours to Troy and Ryan. They went to a total of nine shops.
"Shar can we please go to the beach now?" Troy begged.
Sharpay smirked. "Fine, if you insist."
"Oh I insist." Ryan said. He looked for a cab and saw one coming down the street. He held his hand up and waited till the cab pulled up to them. Troy got in the front seat this time while Ryan got in the back with the girls.
"Can you take us to Magens Bay?" Troy asked. The cab driver nodded as he started to drive.
Gabriella scrunched her face up with confusion. "I thought you said we were going to a beach…not a bay."
"It is a beach, that's just the name of it." Sharpay said. Gabriella nodded and started to look out the window. The ride was pretty boring till they caught sight of the beach. The cab driver stopped and Troy paid him as everyone got out. Sharpay was instantly amazed. The sand was white and the water was just beautiful, pure blue. (A/N: Okay, I'm not really sure if it looks like that and I'm not really sure if it is really a beach. I just looked it up on a site and they said it was. For all I know the site could be lying.) Sharpay smiled as she walked out on the sand and started to find a place to lay her stuff down. She found an open area that was close to the water, but not too close. She set her Hollister bag down as she took out her towel and laid it on the sand. She then took off her cover up. She laid down on the towel and turned to see that Gabriella had done the same thing. She put her sunglasses on as she closed her eyes just relaxing. For some reason she couldn't relax. Mainly, cause she felt a pair of eyes on her. She opened her eyes to see Troy staring at her.
"Like what you see Bolton?" She smirked.
Troy blushed and quickly turned away. "Yeah right Evans."
Ryan's eyes were on Gabriella. She had on a simple white bathing suit that fit her body very well. Troy noticed him staring and hit his arm. "Let's go in the water or do something." Ryan nodded as he followed Troy. Once the boys were gone Gabriella started to smile.
"He's really cute." She said.
Sharpay scrunched her eyebrows in confusion. "Who is.?"
Gabriella giggled. "Your brother!"
Sharpay gagged. "Ew! He is not and I repeat not cute."
Gabriella rolled her eyes. "That's because he's your brother. What about Troy though I can see you have the hots for him."
Sharpay scoffed. "Yeah right."
Gabriella laughed. "He's seems nice to you."
Sharpay just grunted. "Yeah well, he has to be."
"No he doesn't." Gabriella replied.
"Yes he does, because he knows that if he's not nice I could easily say something to Daddy and get him in trouble." She said.
Gabriella raises an eyebrow. "That is a little first gradeish isn't it? I mean telling your Daddy when someone is mean…just doesn't seem mature."
Sharpay sighed. "I know and I just said that to get my point across. I wouldn't tell my Daddy if Troy was mean, that's just a waste of time. Instead I would kick Troy's ass."
"I doubt you would do that." Gabriella said.
"Oh you don't know me well enough. Get on my bad side and you will truly see." Sharpay said as she turned over on her towel.
Gabriella just rolled her eyes. "Just admit that you like him.'
Sharpay scoffed. "Yeah right, when hell freezes over."
Gabriella smiled. "Oh don't deny it."
"Don't deny what?" Troy asked as he and Ryan came back from getting something to drink.
Sharpay shot Gabriella the 'don't say anything look.' "That I have a really…bad temper at times." She quickly said. It wasn't really a lie, she did have a temper.
"Isn't that the truth." Ryan said.
Sharpay shot him a look. "Shut it Ryan!"
Troy rolled his eyes. "Why don't we go in the water?"
"Oh hell no, I'm not getting wet." Sharpay said.
"Uh...then why did you come to the beach?" He asked.
Gabriella rolled her eyes. "To tan duh."
Ryan gave her a confused look. "But your already tan."
"So, it doesn't hurt to get a little darker. Just not too dark." Sharpay replied.
Gabriella smiled. "Exactly."
Ryan and Troy rolled their eyes. "Well if you're not going in the water then we will make you." Troy said with an evil grin.
"Don't your dare!" Sharpay warned. It didn't help though because Troy and Ryan had already picked the girls up, they threw them over their shoulder and dropped them in the water.
Sharpay screamed. "AHH! It's freaking cold!"
Troy gave her an innocent smile. "Oops…my bad."
Sharpay glared at him and started to splash him. It soon turned into a splashing fight, girls against guys.
"What's the matter Bolton are you scared that girls are actually beating you?" Sharpay smirked.
Troy grinned. "I wouldn't be so full of myself Evans; I'm just going easy on you. You have to remember that I'm a major basketball star at my college." He said as he flexed his muscles.
Sharpay rolled her eyes. She did have to admit, his muscles were really toned and nice looking. She caught herself looking till she had to literally snap out of it. "Me being full of myself? Please, I'm not flaunting my muscles around."
Troy smirked. "That's because you don't have any."
Sharpay glared at him and patted her stomach. "I believe this stomach counts as muscles Bolton."
Troy rolled his eyes. "Yeah less talk more fun." He said as he tackled her in the water. They started to roll around till they reached the sand. Troy stopped when he realized what position they were in. He was on top of her panting hard and she was below him staring at him. He looked in her eyes and got lost at their beauty. The two found themselves inching closer for their lips to meet. Their lips had only an inch of space between them till they heard a loud scream. They jumped apart to see Ryan tickling Gabriella.
"Ryan stop, I'm going to throw up from laughing to hard!" Gabriella said.
Ryan smiled. "As long as you don't barf on me, I'm okay."
Gabriella gasped between laughs. "That's meant." She said as she tried her hardest to put a pouty face on.
Ryan just laughed as he got stopped and grabbed her hand. He stopped and notice people leaving the beach. He figured the boat would be leaving in a few minutes.
"Hey lets go, I think its time to head back." He said.
The gang agreed as they got up and gathered up their stuff. They quickly found a cab and got in. The boat wasn't far from where they were at. It only took about ten minutes till they climbed out and paid the cab driver. They quickly ran up to the boat and checked back in. They had to go through the whole metal detector thing again. When they were done, they head towards an elevator and waited.
"Well this has been fun." Gabriella said.
Everyone nodded. "Yeah, I'm tired out." Sharpay said with a yawn.
Ryan nodded. "Me too, but Dinners in a few and I'm starving."
Everyone nodded. "Okay fine, I'll eat then head to bed." Sharpay said.
The elevator door opened and everyone got in. They pressed the necessary deck and waited. Gabriella's floor was first.
"Bye guys. Sharpay I'll give you a call tomorrow to see what we're doing." Gabriella said as she stepped out. The elevator started to move again and finally opened up to the fifth floor. The gang stepped out and started to walk down the long hallway. Troy and Sharpay hadn't said a single word to each other. Ryan didn't question it. He just thought they were in another one of their fights. Sharpay didn't really know what to think. She kept repeating to herself that she was just caught up in the moment, but something kept telling her that she really wanted that kiss. She chose to ignore it as she reached her door.
"I'll see you guys a dinner. " She said as she swiped her key and opened her door. She walked in her bedroom and opened up her closet. She chose a nice black dress that showed her body off in all the right places. She quickly changed out of her swim suit and hanged them in the bathroom to dry. She then slipped on some black high heel shoes. She looked in the mirror as she noticed she wasn't wearing any make up. She sighed as she quickly got her make up bad from the bathroom and started to apply mascara, eye liner and a bit of lip gloss. She put her hair in a pony tail, and grabbed her black clutch purse. She walked out the door only to find Troy coming out as well.
"Hey….you wanna go down there together?" He asked.
Sharpay nodded. "Sure." She could tell he wasn't so sure about their moment at the beach either. She was glad she wasn't the only one.
The two walked to an elevator and pressed the up button. They were in silence while waiting. Sharpay was counting down the decks till it hit theirs. When it finally did, she silently praised god for not making the situation anymore awkward then it was. She stepped inside and waited for Troy to push the button. When it did the elevator instantly jerked up, causing Sharpay to fall on Troy. He caught her with his arms around her waist.
"Sorry!" She said while blushing.
Troy smirked. "No problem." He let go of her waist even though he wished he could just hold her like that forever. It felt so right her, body in his arms; it was like a perfect match. Troy had no idea were these sudden feelings were coming up from. He pushed them aside as the elevator doors opened. He and Sharpay walked out and headed to the dinning room. He saw that David, Stacey, and Ryan were already there. Troy had no idea how Ryan got ready so fast. He just shook his head as he walked over there and joined them with Sharpay.
"Hey guys, glad you could join us. I heard from Ryan that today was pretty fun." David said.
Sharpay smiled. "Yeah Daddy it was alright."
David smiled. "Well that's good. Stacey and I went on this tour on the Island. Pretty interesting."
Ryan rolled his eyes. "Sure Dad."
"No really, it wasn't something you would learn from school, it really was interesting." Stacey said.
Troy grinned. "Aunt Stacey you wouldn't know what school is like. Back in your day school was way different."
Stacey laughed. "True, but I always hear how it's so boring from other kids."
Sharpay smiled. "Now that part is true."
Sharpay was exhausted once dinner was over. She just wanted to sleep. When her Dad asked if she wanted to see the show, she turned him down and decided she would go snuggle up in a blanket on her balcony as the waves made her fall asleep. David kissed her on the cheek and left with the others. Sharpay found and elevator and got in. She pressed the button to her deck and waited. She was starting to notice that the elevators didn't take long to bring her to room, which she was thankful for. She stepped out when it stopped and walked down the long hallway to her room. She opened the door with her room key and instantly kicked off her shoes. She walked into the bedroom and saw that the maids had made her a towel turtle. She thought it was the cutest thing. She took a picture then gently moved it to her dresser. She saw that they left more chocolate. If Sharpay didn't know any better she would have thought that they were trying to make her fat. She just sighed as she moved the chocolates and the activity book for tomorrow on the dresser. She quickly changed into a Victoria's secret Pajama pants that said pink on the butt and a long sleeve pink shirt. She grabbed her blanket and made her way on the balcony. She sat on a chair and snuggled against the blanket. She was enjoying the peace till she heard a loud thud next to her. She quickly turned to see Troy standing on her balcony in his pajama pants and a under shirt with a blanket.
She gave him a confused face. "What are you doing?"
He pulled up a chair next to her and sat down. "I thought you could use some company."
Sharpay smiled. She thought it was sweet that he would ditch the show to sit with her. "Thanks but aren't you tired?"
Troy nodded. "Yeah and your idea seemed cool. I would be cool to say that I stayed up all night looking for sharks in the ocean."
Sharpay raised her eyebrow. "You do know that you can barely even see the ocean at night right? You would need some lights which the main pool deck would provide that."
Troy shrugged. "My friends are stupid, they wouldn't know the difference. Like my friend Chad. He thinks he knows everything, it's more like his hair is the one that knows everything."
Sharpay giggled. "What do you mean?"
"He has a huge afro. By the size of that thing, it could eat someone." He said.
Sharpay smirked. "Doesn't he think about getting a hair cut?"
Troy shook his head. "Oh no, that thing is his so called baby."
"How can his hair be his baby?" Sharpay asked.
Troy shrugged. "Don't ask me."
Sharpay just laughed as she watched the stars. "I always loved the stars, their so bright and it's amazing how their made."
Troy looked shocked. "You mean you actually know how their made?"
Sharpay giggled. "Yes just because I may be the type of girl who doesn't pay attention in class, I do take in some stuff."
Troy smirked. "I would have never guessed."
Sharpay laughed and playfully hit him. "Shut up!"
Troy laughed and started to look at the stars. Sharpay could feel the breeze come through and she wrapped her blanket around her more. Troy notices this and laughed.
Sharpay glared. "It's not funny. I'm cold she pouted."
Troy got up and made her stand up. He sat down on her chair and grabbed her blanket, she was about to protest till he made her sit on his lap and wrapped both of their blankets around them.
Sharpay smiled. "That's better."
Troy smirked. "Thought so."
The both of them watched the stars. In a deep thought, so much was going through their minds. They had so many mixed feelings going on.
"I'm gonna have to put a stop to these stupid feelings." Sharpay thought.
Little did she know Troy was thinking something similar to it.
"That's it; I can't stand these feelings anymore. For now on she's just another girl and only another girl. No one special." He thought.
They both feel into a deep slumber thinking about their problems. Sharpay was soon going to find out that she wasn't going to be able to stop them and Troy was going to learn how wrong he was.
A/N: Okay not my best chapter. I personally thought it was a little boring. I promise the next chapter will be more animated. I just wanted to update and not keep you guys waiting any longer. I also hope I didn't rush into the Troypay moments too fast. If I did I'm sorry, I'll try to slow it down a bit. Till then review please!