High School Musical 3:Senior Year Chapter 5

Summary:Troy gets confused about his feelings for Ryan is scared about the first day of senior year.

Pairings:

Troy/Ryan

Chad/Ryan

Warnings:This might show some Chyan and mostly Straight couples involved here!

Chapter 5:Figuring things out

After Troy dropped Gabriella off at her house he got into his car to drive
back home. He couldn't stop thinking about everything that had happened;
Gabriella was staying. She had explained to everyone that her mother had
noticed how she had become distant and unhappy, she hadn't made any friends in
her new neighbourhood or at school, and she missed Ryan too much. The blond
boy was like her brother, and she knew he felt as if she was the nice sister
he always wanted.

Troy thought that Ryan was a good friend; after all he was the one who had
helped him become friends with Chad again. At first he hadn't liked him, it
wasn't a secret, he had no intention of ever befriending the drama student and
he was often jealous of how Gabriella would mention how sweet the blond boy
was. But that was in the past and this summer had made him realise how much of
a nice guy Ryan really was, and he was determined to make sure he kept his
friendship with him for as long as possible. But Troy couldn't help but think
maybe there was something more than friendship lurking between the two boys.
There was an unknown energy that left Troy feeling warm and fuzzy whenever
Ryan was around, it was a feeling that Troy had missed when he wasn't near the
blond boy.

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Ryan sat on his bed, his head half buried in his pillow as he tried to block
out the world. He was a little nervous; tomorrow was the first day back at
school; first day as a senior. He was scared, his mind was playing tricks on
him, running through scenarios where all his friends he had made over the
summer had left him and he became Sharpay's shadow again. He didn't want that,
how could anyone possibly want that? The worst thing was he didn't want to be
known as 'The **' because now everyone knew, and he was scared. He felt tears
prick at the back of his eyes, he didn't want things to go back to how things
were before. No, he wanted everything to stay like this summer.

Feeling the need to talk to someone, anyone, he grabbed the phone and he
instantly knew who to call. Once the ringing stopped and someone answered,
"Hello?" The sharp tone of someone answered the call and Ryan frowned.

"Um.. are you okay?" Ryan asked, because the person on the other end
didn't sound at all okay. When there was no reply to his question he sighed,
"Can I speak to Gabby please?"

"No, no you can't. She's busy. Call back later." The call ended and Ryan
was a little startled. The tone of the woman's voice made Ryan cry harder. He
needed Gabriella, he needed to talk to someone. He buried his head in his
pillow and cried hard. He didn't care any more, he just had to let everything
out.

Lucielle Evans opened the door to the house, she had just been shopping and
of course she had brought her two children clothes that they didn't
particularly need but she knew they would like them. She smiled knowing Ryan
would be in, she excitedly picked up the bags with his clothes in and headed
up to her sons bedroom.

She reached the door and was just about to open it when she heard a slight
muffling sound coming from her sons room, she dropped the bags realising
immediately that her son, her baby was crying. She wondered maybe if something
had happened between him and Sharpay? The two hardly fought but when they did
Ryan always felt bad about it, and he was the one who ended up in tears. Or
maybe it had something to do with his friends? Maybe a fight? She didn't know,
but she wanted to. She knocked on the door, and waited till her son called her
to come in.

"Ducky...what's wrong?" His mom asked softly, Ryan looked up his eyes red
from crying. He looked down quickly, he refused to cry in front of his mom. He
wiped away his tears trying to hide the evidence.

"I'm fine mom." He lied, his mom saw right through it and sat on the bed,
once he felt the weight on the bed he couldn't help but move closer. He clung
to his mom who held him back tightly, she rubbed a well manacured hand down
his back in soothing motions hoping to calm him down.

"Ducky... shh it's okay... please tell me what's wrong ducky?" She
whispered softly in his ear. Ryan tried to be calmed by his mom but all he
could think about was tomorrow.

"I'm scared mommy." Ryan admitted painfully. He hated to show any signs
of weakness, especially to his parents.

"Why ducky? Why are you scared?" She asked confused, what was her son so
scared of?

"I'm scared that..." He sniffed loudly, "That I'm going to loose all my
friends... I don't want to loose them mommy please don't let me loose them."
His mum tried to shush him and calm him but it didn't work. "I don't want to
go back to my old life mom, I don't want to be the shadow any more. I love
having friends..." Ryan wanted to stop crying, but he couldn't he just
continued to spill his heart out to his mom who was all too willing to listen.
"I don't want to loose Gabby, she's like a sister mom, she's so nice and
caring and sweet and I can't loose her! She reminds me of Sharpay mom when she
was little, when she let me have the spotlight... when she acted like she
cared about me and not just herself..." He felt a little better letting
everything out, but he hadn't realised that his sister had heard everything he
had admitted, and she was now crying too in her own room.

Later that night, Sharpay creeped down the hallway to his brothers room and
opened the door. She had thought maybe Ryan would be asleep as it was so quiet
in there but she saw her brother sat on his bed staring at a picture she
guessed was Gabriella and sighed heavily causing her brother to jump.
"Sharpay, what are you doing in here?" He asked and Sharpay sat next to
him on the bed.

"I wanted to apologise I've been a horrible sister." She began. "I hate
seeing you unhappy, you're my brother and I love you. And well... if you want
to be with your friends tomorrow, I wont stop you."

"Really?" Ryan eyes widened, why was his sister being so nice?

"Yeah, really. I just want you to be happy, Ry." Sharpay said softly.

"Thank you, Shar." Ryan smiled. Sharpay pulled him into a tight hug, and
Ryan whispered again in her ear; "Thank you Shar, really thank you."

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