Chapter Started: August 11, 2010

Chapter Finished: August 18, 2011

Author's Note: Well, here's a new one readers and reviewers and I hope that you guys enjoy it, even though I've been debating whether to do this one first or the next two first that I'm thinking about, but I'll guess I'll just have to wait and see once I've done with this chapter, huh? Well, here it is, I won't keep you waiting any longer.

=You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home=

-Chapter Six: The House That Built Me-

I thought I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it's like I'm someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I could just come in I swear I'll leave

Won't take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

You leave home, you move one and you do the best you can

I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am

- Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me"

"Gabriella, oh my Mija," Were the first words out of Inez Montez's mouth as she opened up her front door to find her crying daughter, and her daughter's best friend.

"I'm sorry to drop in like this, Ms. Montez, but I didn't know where else to take her right now," Sharpay told her best friend's mother.

"Sharpay, Sweetie," Inez greeted as she pulled them both into hugs before ushering them into the house and into the living room. Making them sit down on the couch, she sat between her two favorite girls. "First off, it's not a problem dropping by like this, and second off, what's wrong, Mija? You looked like you just…"

"We had lunch with the gang," Sharpay spoke softly, answering for her wheeping friend before she scolded at no one in particular and cursed their names as she said, "They decided to bring up old memories, ones that hurt like hell, especially for her, and this is what happened."

"Did…?" The mother asked quietly and instantly, without having to finish the sentence, Sharpay knew what Gabriella's mother was, or rather who, she was referring too.

"Yep, him too," Sharpay replied, "That snide son-of-a-bitch."

"Sharpay," Inez gently scolded the blonde as she cradled her daughter.

"Sorry, Momma Montez, but it's the truth," the blonde replied as Inez took the blonde into her other side.

"Well, it may be true, but it's always best to think of the best in people and not the worst, no matter how true it may be or how impossible it may seem," the wise mother replied…

…it's always best to think the best in people and not the worst, no matter how true it may be or how impossible it may seem… - Inez Montez

Gabriella wrote at the top of her song book's new lyrical page before she wrote down the title, The House That Built Me, and then setting to work on the lyrics and the song chords not noticing her mother and her best friend were watching from the doorway as she began to sing the first verse of the song:

I know they say you can't go home again

I just had to come back one last time

Ma'am, I know you don't know me from Adam

But these hand prints on the front steps are mine

Up those stairs in that little back bedroom

Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar

And I bet you didn't know under that live oak

My favorite dog is buried in the yard

How true those lyrics were was insane for everything that was just pouring from her heart and into a song, both Inez and Sharpay realized. They both knew that the girl no matter how strong she was, could easily be broken because of one, Troy Alexander Bolton. He was the one person, the right person, who had all the right things and ways to break her heart into a trillion little pieces, but to also put all those jagged little pieces of a pure heart, back together.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it's like I'm someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

Sharpay Evans and Gabriella Montez weren't close in high school, never were and never would be was what it seemed to others, but as they say things change and people change and that was definitely the definition of Sharpay and Gabriella's relationship. They started out rougher than anyone else in the world, rougher than Romeo and Juliet (minus the whole tragic true love bit), but soon grew to care and depend on each other for almost everything, which is why Sharpay knew that Gabriella no matter how much of a perfect mask she put on for everyone, she couldn't mask the brokenness inside of her from the people who truly knew her – like Sharpay knew her, like Troy use to know her which Sharpay had pointed to him.

If I could just come in, I swear I'll leave

Won't take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

"I should've listened to her," Sharpay whispered to Inez as they watched Gabriella stop playing her guitar to write something done in her song book followed by a few strums on the guitar strings.

Inez, not knowing what the blonde was talking about, stayed silent and opened her ears up to more than just her daughter's beautiful music, but to her daughter's best friend's whispering.

"She had told me…." The blonde started…

"Sharpay, I really don't think this is a good idea," Gabriella told her best friend as she stood in their hotel room suite's bathroom dressed in her robe, a towel in her hair, and her slippers.

"Brie-Ella, we've been through this," Sharpay softly told her best friend as she slipped out of her own robe and into a pink lacy bra and thong set from Victoria's Secret (VS).

"Shar-Bear, I know, I know," Gabriella replied back in the same tone as she finished rubbing her VS Secret Garden Love Spell lotion on her body followed by a few sprits of her matching body spray.

"Then stop trying to get out of it, Gabriella Marie," the blonde told the brunette as she walked towards the brunette holding the top of her red dress with white polka-dots.

"Don't Gabriella Marie me, Sharpay Anne," Gabriella replied as she zipped up the blonde's dress and helped her fix the spaghetti straps of the super-flattering draped an ruched, body hugging silhouetted dress from Frederick's of Hollywood that had a v-neckline and fell mid-thigh.

"Then stop trying to get out of this lunch," the blonde shot back at her friend as she zipped of Gabriella's chic and trendsetting woven grey sleeveless dress that featured a pleated waist and fell mid-thigh. "We've gotta do this and you know that I know, that you know that deep down inside your heart you wanna do this and have to do this too."

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years

From "Better Homes and Garden" magazine

Plans were drawn and concrete poured

And nail by nail and board by board

Daddy gave life to mama's dream

"I shouldn't have pushed her," the blonde said with tears gathering in the corner of her eyes as she watched her best friend, oblivious to the blonde and her very own mother watch her work her writing, singing and composing magic to make another number one single for the record books of her blossoming career.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it's like I'm someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

"She told me over and over again, from the time we got onto the jet and stepped foot in East High only to spot them, him," Sharpay continued. "I thought buy going to lunch it would slowly start to heal our hearts, her heart and her jagged soul."

If I could just come in, I swear I'll leave

Won't take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

Inez listened to every word and held onto every word that her daughter was singing and her daughter's best friend was telling her while she also kept looking back between the two, one hurting for her best friend and one hurting deeper than in her heart, but in her soul.

You leave home, you move on

And you do the best you can

I got lost in this whole word

And forgot who I am

"Did you heart what she just said, Sharpay?" Inez asked the blonde softly and seeing a tear slip from the blonde's eye as she nodded her head, answering the mother's question, she continued, "Those words right there tell you a lot, say a lot about my daughter. We moved to so many places and met so many different people that it's normal for her to think once you leave a place you've known as home, no matter how long you lived there, you can move on, start anew buy doing the best you can…"

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it's like I'm someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

"Sometimes with the time away from the place or perhaps person you call home you realize that you're not as over them as you think or know deep down in your soul. You realize you're not as strong as you think you are or want to be…"

Sharpay listened to every word that Momma Montez had to say two of the situation.

"But you need to find the courage and the strength to admit it to yourself and accept it before you can admit it to others," Inez continued, "My daughter's probably realizing after all these years that she's not ready to give up the home that built her."

If I could walk around, I swear I'll leave

Won't take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

Well, here it is and I'm hoping that you guys like this one, as for the lunch Gabriella and Sharpay went to with the gang, more flashbacks and opinions on that are on the way in more chapters that are hopefully very soon to come. Now, it's going on four-thirty in the morning here and I'm going to post this tomorrow morning sometime because I'm too tired to do so now. I hope you all liked it. If you have a song or quote that's a favorite of yours, or both, and would like to possibly see it in the story then go ahead and send them in the review or in a PM okay. Oh, and please go do the poll for "More Than Just a Spring Fling & Pure Hatred 2" on my profile, okay? Okay.

Night, xoxo,

Jess(: