Sharpay's P.O.V
Ding! Dong!
I rang the doorbell to Chad's house, at six in the evening, waiting patiently. Ryan was with me, humming a strange song.
I had to admit, I was really quite excited about that, the sleepover, I mean. I needed some time to have fun and forget about everything that was going on around me, it was for one night, but that was better than nothing.
Chad opened the door and poked his head out, and took a glance around the surroundings, as if watching to see if anyone had followed me here. Having satisfied with his neighbours, he pulled me into his house. Or more specifically, he grabbed me by the wrist, and tugged me into the house. Ryan followed behind me.
I was surprised, and confused. I shot him a questioning look, but he just shrugged in response. I didn't want to bother him so I just let it go.
Ryan ran off to the toilet, he had been holding it in for god knows how long. Soon after I settled on the couch with all my stuff on the floor, chatting with Taylor, who came before me, the doorbell rang. I turned around, expecting to see Gabriella.
I didn't even know what came over me to let myself be persuaded by Taylor that it would be a fun girls night when the sleepover was held at Chad's place. I would have thought that Troy would have come, too. But I knew my friends; they wouldn't do that to me. They knew what I went through, or, at least one of them did.
Right. Tonight, we would just have fun without me worrying about anything.
Oh, my god.
Troy just walked in the door.
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!?!
Where's Taylor?! I'm so going to kill her. I'm going to murder her. Why is she doing this to me! Are you insane, Taylor? Wait. I'm going to have to talk to her privately. I find her hiding in the kitchen, hiding from me, probably, but who cares!?
I pull her and lock her and myself into Chad's guest room.
"What the hell?! Why did you invite him?!"
"I wasn't the one, Chad invited him, not me!"
"Then, why didn't you stop him from inviting Troy?!"
"Calm down, okay? I couldn't because that would seem too suspicious and they might think that I know something that they don't!"
"Yeah, okay, I'm calm. I guess that makes sense."
"Yeah, so what are you going to do, now?"
"I don't know. I guess I'll leave, but don't even know if he saw me."
"No! Don't go! This was supposed to be a fun night! Come on, are you going to let a guy spoil that?"
"Uh, yeah. Obviously. He already ruined my life, so what's one night?"
"Come on, Sharpay. Let's just ignore him and show him that we don't need any guy to make us happy? Okay? I'll ignore Chad tonight, if you want."
It's really sweet of her to offer that. She's the only one that I can talk to now, so I really shouldn't turn her down, but I really don't know what to do.
"I guess I'll stay, but if things get out of hand, then I'll leave straight away, agreed?"
"Yeah, it's your choice anyways. Come on, let's get out of here."
"Right, so is Gabriella coming?"
"Yeah, but I think she'll be late, if she's not here by now."
Taylor opened the door and motioned for me to get out. The moment we left the room and entered the living room downstairs, she quickly got out of the living room and dragged Chad with her. So much for ignoring the guys!
Ryan was no where to be found, so maybe he was still in the toilet.
Spotting Troy on the sofa, I don't what came over me, but I guess I was hoping that he would forget about that day and we would be friends again, so I went over and sat down on the armchair across from him.
Why the armchair, you ask? Well, I guess it's because there's no space for anyone to sit next to me and that makes me fell slightly better with being around Troy, but I don't know if he would want to forget that time. Oh my god. Where's Taylor when I need her?Finally noticing that I was in front of him, Troy looks up and gives her a weak smile. Obviously uncomfortable about this situation, there was an awkward silence that floated around the room, not really uncomfortable, but not that friendly, either.
Ding! Dong!I was kind of relieved that Gabriella was here, so that there would be less tension between them, Sharpay sat up and opened the door for Gabriella, leaving Troy to stay seated on the couch on his own.
I pulled Gabriella into the house and smiled her a silent 'thank you'. She returned it, probably thinking that it was a welcome smile and stepped into the house. She immediately spotted Troy there and shot me a confused look. I just shrugged in return.
"Hey, Gabriella."
"Yeah, hi Sharpay."
"So, what's up?"
I really needed to cheer up and I wanted to forget about Troy for a second. When something really bugs me, the only thing that gets my mind off it is to focus on another thing.
Gabriella then pulled me closer to her and whispered into my ear.
"What up with him?"
So much for focusing on something else.
"Nothing."
It's the truth.
"Yeah, right. Okay, so where's Chad and Taylor? Wait, don't answer that."
I laughed and that caught Troy's attention. He looked at me and smiled, I shot him a confused look and shrugged.
Just like old times.
"Yeah, they ran off. So, what do you want to do in the mean time?"
"We could order pizza first." Troy pitched in, suddenly.
"Yeah, what kind do you want? Or should we wait for Taylor and Chad?" I asked.
"Nah, just order pepperoni, they should be fine with that." Gabriella spoke.
"Okay." I agreed.
I picked up my cell phone and found the number to the pizza parlor. I spoke to the man on the other line and he said that they'd take about half an hour. I hung up and turned back and saw Gabriella smiling at me and Troy staring into space.
I merely shrugged; at least this was better than having to deal with a confrontation about that day.
I went to the kitchen, finding Taylor watching Chad stuff himself there, and called them out, to make the tense atmosphere less…tense.
Taylor immediately sensed my feelings and pitched in.
"Let's play some games!" Taylor improvised.
"Yeah, okay, we order the pizza already, is pepperoni okay with you?" Gabriella asked.
"Yeah, that should be fine. Okay, let's play truth or dare!" Chad said, excitedly.
"Uhh, no way." I put in.
I knew where he was getting. I'll be getting myself into trouble if I agreed to play.I shook my head and headed back to the armchair.
"Hey, come on! Let's just have some fun tonight, okay?" said Gabriella.
"Nah, I don't feel like playing truth or dare." I refused.
"Come on, didn't you agree to ignore the guys tonight?" Taylor chipped in.
"You didn't ignore Chad like you were supposed to. So I guess I don't have to either." I rebutted.
"Come on Sharpay, you are scared are you?" Chad teased.
Okay that did it. I am not going to be labeled as scared! No matter how much I'll hate playing truth or dare, I'm going to. Chad, you are so dead.
"I'm not scared! I'll play, okay!? Just later." I retorted.
"Yeah, let's watch a movie, okay?" Taylor soothed.
"Yeah, I'll pick the movie!" I exclaimed, much too happy to get out of playing Truth or Dare. For now, anyways.
I rushed off to the drawer where all Chad's DVDs were kept. Searching through the movies, I saw one that caught my eye. I saw a movie that Chad really shouldn't have in that drawer.
"Wait, why is there The Notebook in here?" I asked.
"I…uhh…don't know?" Chad replied, but it came out more like a question.
"Right. I know what you do. You mock and tease people about it, but actually, you were the first one to buy the DVD when it first came out and when you watch it every night, you hang on to every word." Sharpay concluded.
"Ha! Yeah, right." Chad rolled his eyes at me. But I bet he knew that I was right.
We settled down in front to the television, with Taylor and Gabriella on the couch, Ryan on the seat in between them, Chad on one armchair and me on the other. That left Troy with nowhere to sit. He, surprisingly, sat down in front of me, on the floor.
He looked up to me and smiled. I smiled back, uneasily though.
Not bothering about him any longer, I tried to focus on the show. I shifted a few times through out the movie, and he rubbed his palms against my legs.
I was kind of nervous, I must admit, as I was going to see his reaction to meeting me again. I didn't expect him to forget about it, but it really surprised me that he would actually not speak one word of that day. But he did rub my legs…
And I didn't stop him.
The movie was over sooner than I thought. The pizza arrived in the middle of the movie and we devoured all of it in less time than it took to arrive!
I was really happy, just watching the movie, not having to worry about anything else. Nothing in particular. I shrugged off the weird feeling that I was getting from all that rubbing and tried to act like it didn't matter.
It was hard.
"Great! Now that the movie's over, we can play Truth or Dare!" Gabriella burst out.
Gabriella, you are so dead.
"Yeah, thanks for reminding me, Gabriella! I almost forgot! Now, Sharpay. Didn't you agree to play, earlier?" Chad asked, obnoxiously.
"Let's play something else, first?" I asked.
"Like what?" Ryan questioned.
"Oh, I know! Let's do a quiz about how we know our friends!" Taylor suggested.
"How do you play it?" Gabriella asked.
"Okay, everyone pair up! Chad, why don't you help me? Uh, you can get some food from the kitchen!" Taylor put in.
"Sharpay, you can't pair with Ryan, you two know each other too well!" Taylor protested.
"Yeah, Sharpay, Ryan, I'll pair with you." Gabriella took charge.
"Okay, Sharpay so you'll pair with Troy. Now, I'll tell you how this game works. We'll take turns, first the girls, then the boys, I'll ask a question, and you'll have to write out the answers or what you think the answers are on these white boards. When it's the girls' turn, the boys' will guess the answer and the girls' will give the correct one, and vice versa. Like, game shows, you know?" Taylor explained while giving out four miniature white boards.
With everyone's markers poised to write, Taylor decided to ask an easy first question.
"Okay, please guess what the girl's favourite colour is!" Taylor asked.
"Okay, now show you answers!" Taylor said a few seconds later.
Gabriella flipped her white board, and what was written it was:
BABY BLUE
Ryan, with his white board facing Taylor, looked confused. It was written:
NAVY BLUE
"So, does it count?" Ryan asked.
"I guess." Taylor decided.
She then looked at my white board.
WHITE
She looked at me, confused.
Then, hesitantly, she looked at Troy's.
He wrote on his white board:
WHITE
"Hey, Troy, how did you know that? I always thought that it was pink." Ryan asked.
Troy just shrugged his shoulders.
I smiled.
Awkward…"Okay! Next question! What is your partner's ring size?" Taylor asked cheekily.
I looked at Troy, and he looked back at me. I shrugged my shoulders and he smiled.
Ring size? Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me? How would I know what Troy's ring size is? I'll just have to guess.
This time, Gabriella and Ryan got each other's answers wrong.
It was our turn to show our answers.
I flipped my white board.
18 ½
Troy flipped his:
18 ½
Are you serious? Are you kidding me? I guessed Troy's ring size! Oh my gosh! What!
A/N : This is the first part of the sleepover, but it just some babble, mostly, but I want to post it so I can work on the next chapter for Immunity: The Necklace of True Love's Kiss. So the next chapter for this story won't be up soon, it might be up in 3 weeks, sorry. The earliest is 2 weeks, I guess. I'm really sorry for the short chapter but I wanted to post something.