A/N: Sorry for not updating in a while- I have been so busy with school (homework, options etc.) and other things that I really haven't had time to update. Even during half term I have a chunk of 2 projects to do, complete most of an essay and a collage... P.S: Thank you so much for everyone who has reviewed, added to favourites and all that jazz- so appreciated!! Also, once again, sorry for the wait!
Disclaimer: Nothings changed- still don't own anything!
It was now the morning after the party, and allof the girls were in bed asleep or up and about, suffering from really bad hangovers... The guys were all out of bed and laughing to themselves about the state the girls were in- except Gabriella. Gabriella hadn't had any alcohol, or smoked any cigarettes, or basically done much dancing, so she was up and ready as well, doing homework.
About an hour later the girls had begun getting up, some taking aspirin and downing water or just sitting there moaning about how much their head hurt. The younger members of the school were up and... running around with caffeine in their systems. Sharpay wasin a grey vest, which has a pink outline at the top and black shorts, her hair was slightly curly and she had pink and white stripy socks on. She was making her way down the main stairs, after pulling on some trainers; she had woken up about half an hour ago and wasn't suffering from a severe hangover, only a small one that felt like a headache. She said 'hi' Alice at the front desk who was fast asleep, even snoring every now and again, before stopping when she heard noises coming from Miss. Trents' office. Making sure the secretary was still asleep she quietly crept to the wooden door at the office and pressed her ear against it.
"Miss. Trents I am very sorry, but unless you can pay these payments in full, we have no choice but to close down this establishment you call a ... school." She heard a male voice say.
"But sir, what about the girls and their education? Does this not matter to you and the rest of the members of the snooty bank you come from? I think not quite frankly! I do! Listen... if you give me a bit longer than what it says here on the letter, I promise I will come up with the money!" Miss. Trents defended
"Very well, you have two months to pay this and if not I will close down this school- and that is final! I really will do it!"
And with that the man started walking towards the door, Sharpay moved her ear from the door and rushed to the foot of the stairs, watching the man in a suit until he had gone through the door. As soon as he had gone she rushed back to door, placing her ear against it once again.
"My god, my golly golly god, how am I supposed to pay this? Come on, pull yourself together! You can do this! No I can't I have no fucking money!" Sharpay heard Miss. Trents muttering to herself. 'This school can't close! We can't let it! I need to come up with a plan, including the rest of the girls to raise more money to give to this business man. But how?' she thought to herself, walking back towards the door. She opened it, being greeted with the sun high in the sky, its rays shining brightly in her eyes. "God, stupid sun is blinding me!" She muttered under her breath.
Before her, she saw all the boys running around the pitch doing some sort of warm-up, and just to her right was Gabby sitting on a wall, writing something on a piece of paper.
"Hey Gabs, good sleep? Watcha doing?" She greeted her with a huge smile on her face, startling Gabby. "Umm Yes I did and you? I'm just doing homework; it's amazing how little they set at this school and how easy it is!" She replied equally as cheery. "How you aren't doing yours, it is due in tomorrow, is it not? Actually I trust you had a good sleep after all the partying you did last night, I can't believe they were supplying alcohol, daddy always said alcohol is a good drink, but only in small doses. You drank LOADS last night; your kidney is going to be ruined before you're forty if you carry on as you are."
"Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, sweet little Gabby. I can not believe you are doing your homework, you do know the teachers don't even ask for it back in... You're new and you still have a lot to learn about St. Maricannes and the students. 1) No one does their homework, but at least its one thing that you left it to the last minute. Another thing, alcohol is always served at parties, it's great! You really need to loosen up and try it, only a little bit coz I know how much you don't want to upset 'daddy', trying a little bit isn't against the law you know!" Sharpay replied whilst watching to boys run around the pitch before turning her head to look at Gabby. "I came here because I thought you could use the company."
"Thanks," Was all that Gabby said, putting her books down and turning to talk to Sharpay for a little bit.
After a little talk Sharpay had gone back upstairs to change and later came down in a black tank top with the words princess in silver glitter, white shorts, socks like she had worn during hockey match and pink trainers. She went over to the boys when she saw Gabs had gone back inside 'she's probably gone in to read some sort of book she has'
"Hey!" She yelled as she made her way up to the where the guys were, many had already gone to do something else, leaving Chad, Jason, Zeke, Ryan, Chad and Troy there "Morning! How are you all?"
Ryan rolled his eyes at her. " Morning Shar, looks like someone's cheerful and not suffering from a hangover, which is surprising considering the amount of alcohol she had last night," He said before pulling her in for a hug."You know Ry, I didn't actually drink that much compared to some of the teachers," She replied with a knowing look. "Anyway its good to see nobody else has 'ran' from this school, I suppose. Not that it would matter" She finished, the end part of her sentence had a double meaning.
"We were just doing our morning run, now that'd done what do you want to do?" Zeke asked her.
"Well... me and a few of the other girls were gonna go to the pool, would you like to join us?" She politely asked them.
"Wait a minute; this school doesn't have a pool. Does it?" Chad inquired after realizing that there wasn't a pool and he had looked ALL over the school.
"It doesn't... yet. Jodie, Sophie and few other first years are working on that as we speak, and Taylor, Kels, Martha and Gabby as soon as I find her will be working with me, with the hoses, for the water. Kelsi and Martha are doing something to do with science to warm up the water a little. You guys in?" Sharpay explained with a smile.
"But how are they going to make the pool? What about the dirt?" Jason asked, curious.
"Explosives- DUH! And oh you are kidding me, now that's going to take longer... Where are we going to get the tiles and cement? Oh I've got it; I'll just go and ask the woman in charge of anger management, she's bound to have some somewhere... Catch ya later, I'll call you when we've finished the pool, or if you want to help, the pool is going to be round back in the huge area people use to 'chill out'." And with that Sharpay turned on her heel and started walking back towards the front entrance to the school.
'Explosives?' Chad mouthed the other guys. 'God these girls are so freaky, I'll be glad if I can survive the term... Are they even allowed to blow up part of the school? How come we never knew about this study area?' he continued. 'I know, these girls are crazy, but my cousin is one of them so I would appreciate it if you didn't call her that no matter how much crazy she seems. Also about the 'chill out area' it's probably some weird girl thing; at least they're going to let us hang out there, once the pools built of course." Ryan defended, speaking in a normal voice.
"Dude have you heard yourself?" Chad asked Ryan
"Yes I have. If we have to come here we might as well try our best to get along with them and NOT be afraid of them as we're at the same school as them. Now I'm going to go and lend a hand to the pool builders, anyone coming?" He asked, no body else agreeing with him.
Troy hadn't been listening to a word that had been going on instead he was just staring into space, pretending to be listening. "Sharpay wait!" He suddenly shouted before running off, he was going to help with the pool building.
Sharpay had just reached the door, stopping for 30 seconds praying they could come up with an answer to save their school when she heard someone shouting her name; she turned around and saw Troy coming towards her. "What do you want Troy?" She asked him, raising an eyebrow.
"Umm... I came to see if you needed any help with the cement and stuff. I could always help you find Gabby as well if you wanted...?" he asked her with a little bit of uncertainty.
"Yeah, I'd like that. Come on then!" She said, making him smile, she opened the door and walked in. They walked to the desk where Alice was snoring. 'Parties always take the energy outta her, waking her up and dealing with her hangovers are always the hardest part.' Sharpay whispered to him, and Troy just nodded his head in understanding.'How do we wake her up then?' He whispered back, walking to the other side of the desk, when Alice let out a really loud snore.'Really 'quietly'. Like this," She whispered again, going to the left of Alice/
"ALICE WAKE UP, ITS MORNING, GET UP AND OFF YOUR LAZY ASS RIGHT NOW, THERE'S A FIRE!" Sharpay screamed with her mouth near Alice's ear. Once Alice heard the loud shouting, she jumped up in her seat and quickly stood up, falling over her chair in the process. Sharpay and Troy started laughing really hard, and were soon in hysterics.
"Where's the fire?!?!?" Alice asked them, which caused them to laugh even harder.
"I don't know what you're talking about, must have been a dream!" Sharpay told her in between her laughs. "Anyway, we were wondering if you had any pool tiles lying around or cement from the anger management section that we could use." She continued once her laughing had subsided completely.
"Why?" Alice asked.
"No reason... we were just going to blow a hole out back, to make a pool. So can we have the tiles and stuff then?" Sharpay asked calmly, as if it was no big deal. Alice nodded and walked off, telling them to follow her, which they did. She led them through the school until they reached a beat up closet. Alice took out a set of keys and handed them to Sharpay. "There ya go, one of those keys open these closet. I can't remember which one... but have fun! I'm going back to my desk to sleep, after that really strange dream..." She told them before leaving.
"That was your idea of quiet back there? I'd hate to see your version of loud! Oh my god, there must be fifty keys on this thing, how are we going to find the right one?" Troy asked her when Alice had disappeared from sight.
"I never said how quiet I was going to be, and don't be a worry wart, all these keys have labels on, Alice is just so hung over she can't see them, or read them. So judging by these labels, the right key is... this one!" Sharpay told him, holding up a grey key, which was a weird shape. She stuck the key in the door and turned it and the door opened. Inside were barrels and barrels of strange objects. After a couple of minutes of searching through this cupboard they found the cement and tiles, and started dragging them towards the area where the pool was being constructed.
"You've been awfully quiet compared to usual," Troy spoke up after a few minutes, hating the silence that had fallen upon them. "Something bothering you?"
"No there isn't anything bothering me... sorta." Sharpay replied without the confidence she usually had "I'll tell you later, I'm going to tell everyone something important later, its best they know now instead of finding out later!" she continued
'I wonder what's bothering her, I'm really curious now. I can't wait till later to find out... meanie!" He thought to himself, he was brought out of his thoughts by a scream and Sharpay calling out 'Gabs!'
Gabby looked shocked when she heard that scream, 'Can't really blame her' He thought. Sharpay had already ran over there and had begun telling Gabby about the pool before dragging her over to where Troy was and giving her some of the stuff she had been carrying.
"So much for being quiet" Troy muttered to himself quietly as Sharpay started walking ahead.
"I'll say!" Gabby muttered back, overhearing what Troy said. "I can't imagine her being quiet! Should I be scared by her sudden outburst just not?"
Troy snickered at what Gabriella had just said before walking forward to try and catch up with Sharpay, Gabriella following him.
When they got to the area at the back, there were loads of first years; Taylor, Kelsi, Martha and a mix of all the other groups as well ready to help.
"3, 2, 1 EXPLOSIVES, EVERYONE TAKE COVER!" Jodie and Sophie screamed together, followed by a huge bang and a cloud of smoke, making everyone cough.
"There's been a change of plan, in order to do this right; we need to put cement and tiles on the base of the pool, covering all the dirt so the water doesn't get dirty and we swim in a cloud of slippery mud. This shouldn't take long with all of us helping. Start at the base of the pool with the cement and tiles before making your way up the sides. No dirt can be sticking through, now GO!" Sharpay ordered them once the smoke had disappeared. Everyone got straight to work, making the cement wet with the hoses so it would be easier to use, others began carrying it with wheel barrows to the pool side, another group started splashing it on the walls and the last group stuck the tiles on. Ryan had managed to convince the others to come and help and they were splashing the cement on. Sharpay, Kelsi, Martha and Gabriella were sticking the tiles on carefully. The posh tottys, Troy and another boy were using the hoses. The reason the tottys gave Sharpay to use the hoses was 'We can't touch the cement as we've just had our nails done and if we touch that stuff they will get ruined!' Sharpay of course had just given them the hoses to stop them whining.
The twins had managed to pinpoint exactly where to put the explosives so there would be a small ramp in the water, meaning that the water went from shallow to deeper and deeper so none of them could stand up. Taylor had put on the radio, so they weren't working in complete silence. Everyone was working well together. Sharpay had pulled her hair into a side plait so it wasn't going to be all over the place as she was working. All of a sudden an 'idea' popped into Troy's head and he pointed the hose over to where Sharpay and Gabby were working, soaking them... Well Sharpay was wet the most because she was closer to him.
"OH MY GOD, WHO THE FUCK DID THAT? I'M SOAKING AND THAT WATER IS FUCKING FREEZING?!?!?" She screeched as she looked between her and the state Gabriella was in, Gabriella was looking round again but wasn't saying anything. Everyone looked around, and Troy joined in, pretending to not know who had soaked them. When no body owned up Sharpay gave up glaring at everyone and so they all went back to working, Troy laughed to himself at what happened.
At five in the evening, the tiles and everything was done, Sharpay had cement marks on both cheeks and on her forehead, and so did most of the other people who had been in contact with the cement. Troy thought she looked cute like that... but wouldn't admit it to anyone.
Everyone was having a drink (non- alcoholic) and talking. Sharpay whispered something to Gabby, before both of them scurried off somewhere- which Troy noticed but mention anything about it to anyone.A couple of minutes later the girls came back, armed with hoses and turned them on as they pointed them at Troy, making him soaking wet, all his clothes sticking to his body.
"That's for soaking us before! We Figured it out ay! Never underestimate a girl!" Sharpay said winking at him.
"Yeah, that was revenge, and actually, I kind of saw you soak us!" Gabby finished before they walked off after high fiving each other. 'He's cute when wet' she thought to himself.
Everyone laughed at what had just happened here, others complaining about getting a little bit wet as well.
Later that night when everyone else had dried off as well after a huge water fight they had had after Troy had been squirted and where changed in different clothes- pj's to be exact, they were all gathered in the conference room after being told Sharpay wanted to tell them something there. She entered the door a few minutes later than everyone else, no one quietened down, so she started yelling at them to 'shut up'. Upon getting no result so held two fingers to her mouth and whistled really loudly, causing everyone to stop their conversations amongst themselves.
"I asked you all to gather here today, right now because I have something important to tell you all. I overheard Miss. Trents talking to a man in her office and I heard something, something I don't think should be kept from you, something we should be able to prevent together as a team. You see, St. Maricannes might be closed down." She announced.
Everyone exploded with cheers of joy and started dancing around and talking again. Sharpay tried getting their attention again with no luck, so she resorted to whistling like she did before which didn't shut them up either, so she grabbed the nearest glass and threw it at a part of the wall where no one was- this definitely grabbed the students attention.
"That means we'll have to go to NORMAL SCHOOLS! Now if we don't want that to happen we have to think of a way to raise some cash. Who's in?" She continued explaining, but was just met with silence. "Please!" She added quickly.
Everyone thought it over on their heads, they didn't want this school to close, well actually they didn't want to go to 'normal' schools, they couldn't be like they were here, it's be completely different.Even Chad, in a way didn't want this place to close, he hated to admit it, but he was actually warming to it and was willing to give it more of a chance."I'm in; I know none of you want this school to close as well!" Troy said, deciding to break the silence that had fallen upon them. "I'm in as well!" Agreed Chad, then Gabby spoke up, followed by the rest of them. None of them wanted it to close!!
"Now how do you suppose we sort out this situation...?" Troy said. Everyone began thinking of ideas of how they could save their beloved school from closure.Sharpay mouthed 'thank you' to him and Troy just winked back making her smile, before putting on a movie whilst pushed this problem to the back of their minds.
A/N: I have no idea how you build a pool- so can you guys please just go with me on this? Please? Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter Remember to read and Review: D! Thank You! Xx