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I Trust You- Chapter Six

Ryan and Sharpay sat down in their usual spots across from each other for dinner. Mary and Richard sat across from each other as well. Sharpay glanced at her father then Ryan nervously. Ryan didn't notice. In fact, he didn't notice anything in the room except one thing: his silverware. They were to hid left instead of right, and they were set up fork knife spoon. Ryan bit his lip. He tried to ignore it, but that was all he could think about. Before he could stop himself he reached out and began to straighten out his silverware.

"So, Sharpay, how was your day?" Mary reached out for the salad.

"It was ok, I mean, all we did was party practically. I'm just glad summer is here."

"That's nice. And Ryan, how was yours?" After a few moments of silence everyone stared at Ryan. He was too busy rearranging his silverware. "Ryan!" Mary snapped. Ryan jumped, hitting the bottom of the table with his knees. Mary smiled. "I said how was your day?" Ryan stared at her, then glanced at Sharpay for help. He glanced quickly at his father, then to Sharpay, and then stared at his mother, completely confused. Ryan knew that if he talked he risked the chance of igniting the bomb…

"Um…-"

"You're just as stupid as ever, aren't you?" Ryan turned to his father.

"Now Richard, I'm sure he's improved-"

"No, he hasn't. I mean, watch!" Richard pulled out a pen and wrote on his napkin. He then threw it at Ryan. "Read that."

Ryan jumped slightly, then reached for the napkin. Ryan stared at the napkin. He didn't say anything. This was more embarrassing than English class.

"Look at him! He's so stupid! It's just one word. Sound it out Ryan." He put on a mock-sweet voice. Ryan's eyes filled with tears.

"Richard-"

"Just look at him Mary! Look at what he does with his silverware!" Richard reached next to him where Ryan sat and scattered his silverware across the table. Richard stood up. "I'm sick to death of him." He stood next to Ryan. "And how many times do I have to tell you to take that stupid hat off at the table!" He snatched Ryan's hat. Ryan jumped. Richard threw it down on Ryan's dinner plate. He gave Ryan a forceful slap across the face and stormed out to the hall.

"Just once." Mary was close to tears. "Just once I would like a normal dinner, Ryan, was that too much to ask?" She gave her son a ferocious glare before chasing after Richard.

The silence in the room was overwhelming. Ryan stared at his hat. He lifted it up and tried to wipe the barbeque sauce off it. He then set it on the table, next to his plate, and began to realign his silverware. Sharpay watched him for a while, then stood up and went upstairs.

A short while later, Sharpay glanced into Ryan's room. 'He must've come up sometime after I did,' she thought. She watched him with a small smile on her face; Ryan sat in the middle of his bedroom. He had a large fish tank, but only one fish. Sharpay smiled. Ryan got that stupid fish almost a year ago. He was walking by a pet store at the mall when suddenly he stopped. He stared at this one fish. Sharpay and her mother came up behind him and looked to. Sharpay had thought it was the ugliest thing she'd ever seen. But Ryan loved it. He refused to move until their mother agreed to let him take it home for a pet. Of course Sharpay wanted a pet too, so her mother allowed her to buy a hamster. The hamster died after a week, but Ryan still had his fish.

Ryan stared into his glass fish tank, following the motions of his fish with his eyes. It was one of those weird fish with the pokey things on it. Sharpay watched Ryan tap the tank a few times, before, suddenly, the fish puffed up into a larger size, looking like a large pokey ball. Ryan jumped and gave a cry of alarm before overbalancing and falling backwards.

Sharpay laughed. Ryan looked up startled.

"I didn't know you were there…"

"Yeah, just thought I'd check up on you…" She was about to leave when Ryan stopped her.

"Shar?" Sharpay turned back to Ryan.

"What?"

"Can I have a hug?"

"What?" Sharpay frowned in confusion.

"Well, when we were little, when something bad would happen, and I would feel sad, you used to give me a hug." Sharpay stared at him. "You know, to try to make me feel better…"

"Grow up." Sharpay rolled her eyes and left Ryan behind. She loved Ryan and all, but sometimes he could be so childish.

Sharpay walked out of the bathroom, having finished her nightly ritual. She could hear her parents fighting in their room. As she climbed into bed, she wondered how Ryan was doing. She got up and slipped her fuzzy pink bathrobe on. She slipped out of her room. She almost tripped over Ryan. He sat on the floor, hugging his knees, right by their parents door listening. Sharpay sat beside him

"Look, it's not my fault he turned out the way he did!"

"Well, you carried him for nine months!"

"So? Would you rather I just have had an abortion? Maybe kept Sharpay and put Ryan up for adoption?"

"Listen, just take your son and leave him with your parents."

"Oh so now he's my son? You're just as much at fault as I am!"

Sharpay gave Ryan a small half-smile, which he didn't return.

"Shar? What does this say?" Ryan pulled the napkin out of his pocket and gave it to Sharpay. She stared at the napkin, which had D-U-M-B-A-S-S written across it in big letters. Sharpay sighed and wrapped her arms around Ryan.

"Sorry about what I said earlier." Sharpay felt Ryan's warm tears seeping through her robe. She kissed his cheek, helped him up, then said goodnight.

Alright, so not very action packed yet, but it will be soon!