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Tim Crothers, the Assistant Producer for the Bachelorette, walked into the Bachelor/Bachelorette offices with the day's mail in his hand. He sat down at his cheap office-standard metal desk and began sorting through the mail, there were at least a dozen more entries that had come through that day and it was his job to pick out the good ones to show to Jerry Fox, the Producer.

Tim started to pop in the disks one by one into his outdated computer and after the first few they all started to blend together. Every guy told the same bullshit story they had their closest female friend write in an attempt to sucker in both the Bachelorette staff and the audiences. But then he opened a brown envelope that was heavier than the rest. The reason was found when he opened it, inside was a large stack of pictures that were obviously developed for other reasons than the show. The pictures were of a guy at the beach, who, in Tim's masculine opinion was not all that bad looking—his skin was tanned, with defined muscles (obviously from a sport) with sandy brown hair and striking blue eyes. He popped the disk into his computer and an African-American man with big dark curly hair came up on the screen, "Hey, my name is Chad Danforth..."

Enticed, Tim watched the entire video. Although the option was available to nominate a friend for the show, it was very rarely done and when it is, it is usually a ridiculous joke. However this time these two friends convinced Tim that they may actually be serious about getting their friend on the show, plus they have a great plot twist to add to the story. As soon as Tim was convinced himself, he called over Jerry immediately to take a look at it. Just like Tim, Jerry thought the idea was great. Although skeptical about a few details, he knew he would be able to work it out with either the contestant or his friends. Both producers commended the boys for the good idea to put their friend on the show and the plot twist to come along with it. That Chad guy is right, Tim thought, it will most definitely boost ratings!

"I can't believe I'm kind of moving to LA, I never thought I would be going over there," Sharpay Evans said incredulously to her best friend Monica. She wasn't the same girl she was in high school, now she was far less demanding, egotistical and overall less dramatic. In high school, Sharpay would be having a fit at this moment; calling Daddy and making him make them bend the rules and move the show to where she wanted—New York City—and have the Producer allow her to come to the studio and control everything. Because honestly, she felt that Los Angeles and the whole "California scene" was too laid back for her, she still liked to have control over as much as she could. But, she has grown as a person and learned that people won't just do things because you don't like it or because you want to try to pay them off, sometimes you have to just do it and deal with it.

Monica laughed, "I know, I know, fifth time you've told me." She winked. "But hey! You're going to be on TV, and be the star of your own show with tons of guys drooling at you all the time. So what if it starts out in LA? You always travel anyways, plus you'll move back! Unless your fiancé wants you move somewhere else..." She stuck her nose up in the air as she shoved one of Sharpay's shirts into her suitcase. If that happened she would really miss her best friend; she met both Evans twins the first week they moved out to New York. Being born and raised in New York, Monica knew her way around the city and she became their personal tour guide, from that the three of them became best friends and have been ever since.

"Right, like I'll move anywhere! I don't see myself leaving this place anytime soon, I love New York!"

Sharpay's phone rang, "Hello? Oh hi, Jerry! How are you? I'm fine thanks, just getting ready to come out your way. My e-mail? For my flight? Okay. How about the list? Is it ready? Do I get to see it? Ha ha, yes I know... I'll see you soon. Bye."

"So?! Did he cave? Will he give you the guys' names?" Monica was more excited about the experience than Sharpay was.

"No," Sharpay said with frustration. "It was a long shot but I thought if I batted my eyes enough, he would send them to me."

"Oh well, I'll just have to watch it! Slash you have to constantly send me updates!" Sharpay just rolled her eyes at her best friend but nodded anyways, knowing full well they'd be on the phone every night discussing the day's events.

At seven thirty the next morning Chad was awoken by the unnecessarily loud ringing of his cell phone. "Hello?" He answered groggily.

"Mr. Danforth?" A voice asked in a very professional tone.

Chad shot straight up, his intuition telling him it was the call he had been waiting for, "Yes sir, that's me!"

"My name is Jerry Fox, I am calling regarding your entry to the Bachelorette."

He took a deep breath in an attempt to stay calm, he was excited about their devious idea but also very nervous. "Hi Mr. Fox, what did you think of our tape?"

"I just want to straighten something out first... You want me to put your friend on our show without him knowing who the Bachelorette is and without her knowing who he is? You want us to put him on our show so that he can get over some girl. You think that Sharpay will okay being his rebound girl?"

"Umm... Yes? Well not about being the rebound... He's already had lots of those... It wouldn't be a rebound... He's ready for another relationship, it's what he wants, he just doesn't exactly know it yet..."

"I see... Well I was calling to tell you that we would like to put him on our show. What you said just there confirmed it, which pleases me. You and your friend are right, all of us over at the studio thought that your idea was brilliant."

"Thank you sir!" Chad said with pride.

"How can we shoot the video about him that we will show at the beginning of the show?"

"Well, would it be alright if I called you back about that? We haven't told him we signed him up yet. So what we will do is break it to him first and then give you a date? Is there one that works best for you?"

"We would like to shoot it on Wednesday. Please call me when he knows so we can work out the finer details. And Chad?"

"Yes sir?"

"He better not say no."

"Don't worry sir, he—" It was too late, Mr. Fox had already hung up.

By this time, Chad was already out of bed and half dressed in such a rush to get over to Troy and Dan's. He had his fingers crossed and was wishing on all the stars in the sky, even though they are invisible in the morning. The phone call from Jerry really excited him but it also made him extremely nervous that Troy would say no and it would ruin their whole plan. He didn't give himself too much time to worry though because the excitement over came him, and he would have to really sell it if he wanted to get Troy to buy into the idea.

"What the hell?" Troy woke up to the banging on the door of his apartment, in his groggy state he thought it was loud enough to wake the entire building, he opened the door to a very peppy looking Chad which made him even less impressed to be woken up.

Not far behind Troy was Dan, who was also awoken by the banging. However, as soon as he saw the excitement in Chad's face, he knew, "Did you—"

"I did!" Chad exclaimed.

"Is he?"

"He is!"

Troy, completely unaware of what was going on between his friends, started to ask what they were talking about but then decided it was too early to care and started to head back to his bed. With Troy's back turned walking away sluggishly, Chad quickly and quietly whispered the essence of what Producer Jerry told him to Dan.

"Troy where you going man?" Dan called after him, realizing his roommate was walking away.

"Back to bed," he responded in a calm manner but had underlying tones in his voice that this was the obvious decision.

Chad caught up with Troy and stepped in front of him, "Oh no you don't! We have something to talk to you about!"

"Um, okay," Troy was nervous, he hadn't seen Chad that giddy in a long time and Dan looked pretty happy as well.

The three men went through the hallway, crossed the open living room and into Dan and Troy's sleek and modern kitchen to get coffee. Dan and Chad took a seat at the bar style island while Troy fixed a pot of coffee for them; they all were silent.

"Okay," Troy said abruptly. "I can't take this silence, what is going on here?!"

"This is so exciting, I promise," Chad exclaimed.

"But you have to promise not to be mad," Dan continued cautiously.

Troy narrowed his striking baby blues suspiciously, "What did you guys do?"

Both Chad and Dan started to smile as though they felt they were so ridiculously smart for what they had done and together said, "You're going on The Bachelorette!" Then the two high-fived, just like Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother.

Troy, who had been listening very hard to what they had to say, started to laugh. He was in stitches because there was no way he heard his friends correctly. His laughter died down to a completely straight face when he realized neither Dan nor Chad was laughing along with him, instead they wore the exact dead serious expression Troy now had on his own face. "You aren't kidding."

Chad shook his head.

"What the fuck guys! Why couldn't it be one of you two if you thought it was so brilliant? I don't need that shit in my life right now! Hold on, this better have nothing to do with Gabriella..."

"Well seeing as I'm married and Dan found the ad first, we thought it would be fun for you! The chick who's the Bachelorette is really something. Plus it's exactly what you need, go make some new friends, have some fun with a new girl and travel around; you can't complain about that!"

"Who is this Bachelorette? Why haven't I heard you mention a name yet?"

Dan piped up, "Well actually that has been on purpose, the Producers think it would be fun if you don't know who she is. That way it can be just like a real 'blind date' when you get out of the limo for the first time."

"And they're doing this for all of the guys?"

"Yeah man, it's this new thing they're trying out this season," Chad lied and he really felt quite guilty about doing that to his best friend but he knew it would work out in the end.

Troy sighed in defeat, "And you think this will actually be a fun experience?" Both boys nodded feverously. "Alright then, what the hell right?"

By that time their coffee was ready, Troy handed them each their cup of joe and the three of them made a morning cheers to new adventures, as crazy as Troy still thought his friends were.

Sharpay walked down the runway towards her plane with determination, she was nervous about this whole experience. For the past few years Sharpay had not been one to advertise her personal relationships, especially not over national television. However both Monica and Ryan constantly pointed out to her her reason for joining the show: to have fun and meet new people. Living in New York, Sharpay never had a problem finding guys, but she had a terrible time finding the right guy—her biggest problems seemed consist of gay guys, who she loved but they make it hard to find straight guys that measure up to the same standard, and if they weren't gay, they were flat out douche bags. As she boarded the plane and the flight attendant showed her to her seat in the third row, Sharpay was in a daze. She kept thinking about her reasons for going over and over in her head to keep her from getting out of her seat and running right back off the plane to Ryan and Monica who she had left behind at the terminal and forgetting the whole crazy idea. But NO, Sharpay thought to herself grasping the arms of her seat, you're Sharpay Evans. Be the fucking ICE QUEEN if you must but you cannot back out of this now because of some silly butterflies!

Throughout the flight Sharpay kept herself occupied by making conversation with the person in the seat next to her, a manager for some band that she did not recognize but are apparently making quite the name for themselves, and watching a bunch of television shows and movies on her personal screen—she even came across some old Bachelorette episodes. Los Angeles must be getting close now, she thought as the flight attendant came over the loud speaker to prepare the passengers for landing.

"Well here goes nothing," she mumbled to herself. To the next chapter in my life, however long or short that may be.

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