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Ladies and Gentlemen Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Ryan woke up Monday morning with a yawn. (Hmm..) He looked around the
hospital room, his eyes searching for the clock. Once he found it he let
out a shriek that woke up his mom and sister.
"Ducky, what's wrong?" His mom asked while she yawned. "Are you feeling
okay?"
"Yeah mom, I'm fine. But...I'm late for school I need to get going," Ryan
grabbed the crutches that the nurse gave him the other day to use and
stood up. "I need to get to school. I promised them I would be there."
He then stopped and looked down and laughed. "But first I need out of
these hospital robes."
"Ry...are you really going to school today? I mean do you think you can
handle it?" Sharpay asked from over on her hospital bed, her eyes
fighting to stay open.
"Yeah Shar...I'll be fine, don't worry about me. Go back to sleep, you
need your rest," He crutched himself over to his sisters bed and smiled
down at her. "Are you going to be okay today?" A look of concern covered
his face. He was having second thoughts about going today. Mainly bcause
of his sister, he thought he might need to be here...for her.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, I'm recovering pretty well. Ryan...thank you for
everything. I could not have asked for a better brother." Sharpay's smile
sparked and a tear fell from her eye. Ryan knew she would be okay.
"Okay...mom can you drive me home so that I can get ready for school? I'll
probably get there halfway through the day, but hey, at least I'm
showing up." He glanced over at his mom and then looked back at his sister.
"Get some rest, mom will be back as soon as she drops me off." He kissed
his sister n the cheek and crutched himself out the door.
Chad woke up that morning anxious. He spent more time then usual
getting ready that morning. Worrying about every little detail. (I have to
look good; Ryan will be at school today.) He looked over at the
clock... (Oh shit, I'm going to be late if I don't leave now.) He threw on
his school outfit and checked the mirror one more time just for good measure.
(Hmm...so this is what it feels like to actually care about your
appearance.) A smile played across his lips as he walked out of his bedroom.
"Mom I'm leaving..." He looked around...but his mom was no where to be
found. (Hmm...I guess she went to work already.) Without giving it another
thought, Chad walked out the door, Troy was already in his drive way.
"Hey man, ready for school?" troy smiled at his friend. Troy was looking
forward to this car ride, he had some things he wanted to talk to his
best friend about. "Hurry up and get your ass in here"
"I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming. God don't rush me," Chad laughed as
he jumped in his friends car. "Ready for another week of school?"
"Oh you know it," Troy joked "But I need to talk to you about
something." His face suddenly serious.
Chad looked over to his friend. "Okay man, what's up?" He eyed his friend
curiously..."Is it...about Ryan?"
"How did you know?" Troy asked his face still looking serious. "It's
about you two..."
"There is no us two Troy...but yes you are right...I am gay." Chad looked
at his friend returning the serious look. The car was silent for
several minutes a nervous look coming over Chad's face.
"Dude...I already knew," Troy laughed slightly. "It's obvious you have a
thing for Ryan. I've actually known for a while now."
"Really?" He was just about to ask Troy how obvious he was, but they
pulled into the school parking lot. Instead he let the conversation
drop and reached into the backseat for his bag. "Well hopefully a certain
someone will be in school today." Chad smile went from ear to ear, happy
that his friend accepted him and that his crush would be there today.
"Yeah, lets hope," Troy got out of the car and started walking towards
the school.
Chad walked into the doors and instantly looked around for Ryan. His
eye's instantley went to Ryans locker, and then they scanned over to
Sharpay's...usually if Ryan isn't at his locker, he is at hers. He thought
about it some more. (Wait, Sharpay won't be here today, so he wouldn't be
at her locker...would he?) His eyes searching the halls as he looked for
Ryan. (Hmm, I wonder where he is...maybe he couldn't come today.) He
decided to go to his locker, a depressed look displayed on his face.
Ryan crutched himself into the school doors just as the lunch bell
rang. (Well I guess I didn't miss to much.) He fixed his bright pink hat he
was wearing, awkwardly it was one of his favorites. Pink just matched
his skin tone extremely well. (Well, since Sharpay isn't here, I guess I
can sit where ever I like at lunch.) He walked into the lunchroom and
smiled. The first person he saw when he looked around was Chad
Danforth...and he also noticed all of Chad's clothes were matching, and he
actually looked like he cared today. Ryan couldn't help but smile. Chad never
dressed bad, Ryan considered him one of the better dressers in the school,
but still that wasn't exactly saying much.
Chad looked up from his food, and a broke out into a huge smile, there
standing in the entranceway to the cafetia, was none other then Ryan
Evans. His hat shone brighter then the sun. Chad let out a little laugh and
got up walking towards Ryan. "Hey Evan's, need help with your crutches?"
"Hey Chad," Ryan laughed and looked at his crutches..."Nah, I've got it
under countrol."
"How about you come sit with us today...since Sharpay isn't here." Chad
looked at Ryan hopefully.
"Sounds good to me," Ryan started working his way towards Chad's table
when his crutch hit spaghetti that was on the floor, and flew out from
under him. He started falling backwards but luckily Chad was there and
caught him. He looked up at the dark boy and smiled. "Thanks, Chad."
"Anytime...be careful though we don't need you getting hurt...again."
Chad laughed a little and he grabbed the other crutch for Ryan handing it
to him. They both reached the table and Ryan sat in between Chad and
Gabriella, Troy sat next to Chad. "Hey guys, look who decided to show up."
"Yeah, I did." Ryan smiled at the table and Gabriella gave him a big hug.
"Are you feeling okay, Ryan?" She asked with concern. "And how is Sharpay
doing?"
"I'm doing fine, thanks Gabriella. And Sharpay is also recovering very
well." Ryan smiled at her and then surveyed the table. He then realized
that he should have sat across from Chad. At least he would have
something nice to look at. His grin almost doubled in size at what he was
thinking. He looked over at the boy next to him. Chad seemed to be locked in
conversation with Troy...something about how many points each one
scored in the last basketball game and how much they would score in the
next game.
"You like him, don't you?" Gabriella whispered in his ear so that only
he could here it.
Ryan looked at her like she was crazy. "Umm...He's straight...He's also
the second most popular guy in school. Thanks Gabs, but it will never
happen." Right as he said it, his grin faded.
"Oh come on, you never know until you try."
"I don't think it's going to hap..." Before he could finish his
sentence he felt a hand rest on his leg. He turned his head to look at Chad,
but once he did the hand was gone and Chad was locked back into
conversation with Troy. (What was that...Was it an accident?) He turned his
head back and saw that Gabriella had a huge smile on her face.
"What?" She asked still smiling wide
"I think his hand was just on my leg...like one moment it was there,
the next it wasn't." He couldn't help but smile again.
"I told you. I think he likes you"
Ryan laughed aloud when she said it the whole table looked at him with
weird expressions on their face.
Chad looked over at Ryan. "What's so funny?" He looked at Ryan
smiling...(I put my hand on his leg...what was I thinking? I could have
messed up our whole friendship. I mean could someone like him really like
someone like me? He's rich...I'm...me. Good thing I pulled away fast enough.
Hopefully he just thought it was an accident.)
"Nothing, Inside joke between me and Gabriella," Ryan smirked at Chad and
then tuned his face back to Gabriella. He let out a soft sigh and then
leaned in to talk to her more so no one could hear them.
"Dude, you need to try something with Ryan. I can tell you like him, and
he likes you too." Troy stated like it was common knowledge. "I mean,
if you don't act soon it could be to late.
Chad glanced at Ryan and then turned back to Troy. "I can't, I mean look
at him, He takes an hour picking out an outfit, I take five minutes. He's
rich, I'm middle class. His parents probably would flip, and what would
his sister think?"
"Dude, this isn't about Sharpay...and I don't think he would care if you
weren't rich." Troy smiled at his friend. "Come on, just talk to him,"
he said as he stood up. "I'm going to grab Gabriella and go for a walk."
With that both of them walked away leaving Ryan and Chad alone at the
lunch table together. Kelse was practicing her Piano, Zeke was in the
gym and Jason was probably hitting on Kelsi. Chad laughed at the thought
of Jason hitting on Kelsi...(Poor Kelsi.) Then he looked over at Ryan,
and his heart and stomache both did a flip.
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I would actually like to apologize for this chapter. I don't really like it but I couldn't think of any other way to do it. So I'm sorry for my less then stellar chapter and lets just hope the next chapter turns out much better.