Author's Note: Okay, I decided to continue this, but it might be a bit squeaky for the first couple chapters because I'm getting back in the Wicked swing! Please review.
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High School Musical is Wicked!
Chapter 5: Fireworks and Rain
By musiclover94
Recap, since it's been a while…
Gabriella rolled her eyes; "Nothing will stop Sharpay from getting to Troy."
"And, besides, that would mess up the plot." Troy said. He was walking on the right side of Gabriella.
"It would!" Gabriella said.
"Do you think green body paint is washable?" Gabriella asked.
Kelsi burst out laughing. "Yeah, I think it is." she sputtered in between breaths.
HSMHSMHSMHSMHSMHSMHSMHSMHSMHSMHSMHSMWICKEDWICKEDWICKEDWICKEDWICKED
"Every moment, as long as you're mine…" Gabriella hummed to herself as she walked to a dress rehearsal with Kelsi and Taylor, who was an Ozian.
Kelsi and Taylor exchanged meaningful looks with each other.
"What?" she asked defiantly.
"Oh, nothing…" Taylor drifted.
"I can't believe opening night is in two-and-a-half weeks!" Kelsi squealed.
"And amazingly, this green dye is doing wonders to my complexion!" Gabriella said.
"Hey guys," Ryan Evans clutched a stitch in his side.
"Where's Sharpay?" Gabriella asked; the twins were almost inseparable.
"I escaped her constant rants about how she should be Elphaba for the umpteenth time. It's completely pointless. I wouldn't put it past her to have memorized every one of Elphaba's lines," he said bitterly.
They looked at each other in surprise; they had never heard Ryan talk ill of his sister before.
"Aren't you excited? The play starts in two-and-a-half weeks!" Taylor squealed.
"Of course I am!" Ryan said.
"And you and Gabi are playing lovers," Kelsi said, raising her eyebrows.
"And poor Troy has to play Boq, who pines after Sharpay for almost the entire play," Ryan said, trying to get off the Fiyero/Elphaba topic. He had blushed a deep scarlet, as Gabriella had. But they could detect a sort of pride that Troy wasn't Yero.
Attention!" Mrs. Darbus called shrilly. The cast fell silent.
"We are doing the complete run-through today, tech and makeup included! Everyone report to their dressing rooms,"
"Do I look okay?" Kelsi asked. She was wearing her Nessa costume, consisting of a plaid skirt and a red and white sweater-vest with her hair in short curls.
"Bea-utiful, dalin'," Gabriella said, pausing on her green makeup applying and looking Kelsi over.
"Outlive a lie…for you and…" It was very how much Sharpay was mimicking Kristen Cheno. Not good…Gabriella thought backstage, as a plastic baby was her role in the opening scene.
"No one mourns the wicked…" Taylor fit the part of angry villager perfectly.
Gabriella spotted Jason seducing Cara, decked out as Elphaba's Mother. He didn't have the gray streaks in his hair that he had when he was the older Wizard.
"You and Ms. Elphaba will be rooming together," a senior portraying Morrible said, giving an awful grin to Sharpay.
"Bu-!" Sharpay said. Even without her extensive theatre training, she could have pulled that off, based on her true loathing of Gabriella.
"What is this feeling, so sudden and new? I felt the moment I laid eyes on you…" Gabriella and Sharpay were glaring at each other.
"…We don't mean to show a bias, but Galinda, you're a martyr…" Taylor, who also doubled as a Shizian student, gave her an I-really-don't-mean-this look.
Kiss me too fiercely, hold me too tight
I need help believing, you're with me tonight
My wildest dreamings, could not foresee
Lying beside you, with you wanting me…
Just for this moment, as long as you're mine…
I always thought Ryan was a bit weird, Gabriella thought while singing to Ryan's brown eyes, but he's really not that bad…But she remembered the promise she had made to Troy. But now, thinking about it, he was being really overbearing on her…
Somehow I've fallen under your spell
But somehow I'm feeling, it's 'up' that I fell…
Ryan had never given Gabriella Montez much thought before this. She was just The New Girl to him. Before this. Now, he was quickly falling for her, and not just because it was scripted. But he remembered his promise to Sharpay not to get too friendly with Gabriella than was necessary…
Every moment, as long as you're mine
I'll wake up my body, and make up for lost time
Say there's no future, for us as a pair… Ryan sang, looking deep into Gabriella's kind eyes. Though they were the same color as Sharpay's, they were never full of loathing as hers had. Gabriella's were full of kindness…
And though I may know, I don't care…
Just for this moment, as long as you're mine
Come be how you want to, and see how bright we shine
Borrow the moonlight, until it is through
And know, I'll be here, holding you…
As long as you're mine…
As they sang the last note in perfect harmony, the cast who were situated in the seating waiting for their cues, and the people who wandered in from their after school activities, burst into raucous applause, many of them gave them standing ovations.
"What is it?" Ryan asked Gabriella.
"It's just," Gabriella looked down at her hands, looking beat, "for the first time," she whispered the last word, "wicked."
This was It. Gabriella leaned in, slightly closing her eyes, preparing for the moment, Ryan following suit.
Their lips met. Ryan's hand was in her long dark hair and her arms were around her neck. Gabriella hadn't felt like that when she had kissed Troy, not even their first kiss at Lava Springs. When she kissed Ryan, it felt like fireworks were popping over them and soft rain falling on them; the ideal kiss.
The auditorium was once again filled with ringing applause and there wasn't a dry eye in the place, except Sharpay, who looked menacing in her Good Witch costume, glaring the pair, and Troy, who was looking intently at his script, though not moving his eyes.
"You and Ryan looked pretty smokin' there," Kelsi joked, poking Gabriella in the arm teasingly.
"You know it was just good acting," Gabriella smiled through her lie.
Troy, who was striding beside them, said nothing.
"Sharpay looked mutinous," Taylor said, grinning.
"As always," Ryan said. Gabriella laughed, and, when Troy wasn't looking, laid her head on his chest. Ryan was slightly surprised by this gesture, but gave Gabriella a hug.
Taylor and Kelsi once again exchanged looks at the pair, not bothering to hide the meaning. Instead of denying it, Gabriella just sighed and looked up at Ryan, who smiled back.
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