Chapter Two: To Know Your Name
Elaine had finished her English class with Ryan, but she wasn't paying attention to where Ryan was, and ran right into his roommate, Lucas. "Uh, hiya, Lucas. So, you're Ryan's roommate, right," she said, feeling a bad vibe from him. She wasn't sure what it was about him that he didn't like one bit. Lucas didn't know what he was doing, but soon he heard himself saying jealouslsy, "I heard from a birdy that you aren't a virgin." Elaine just stood there in shock, and said in fast French, not noticing her sudden change in language, "Uh, excuse-moi? C'est ne vrai pas! Je suis une viege." Lucas looked at her, wondering what she just said. "Uh, I don't speak French," said Lucas, confused. Elaine looked angrier, and said, once again in French, "Tu es bete! Je parle anglias, ca n'est pas francias!" She stormed off, and Ryan finally arrived and said, "Golly, what'd you say to piss her off like that?"
Lucas said, "I don't know, I told her something I heard, and she started speaking French, and when I told her I don't speak French, she said something about English and French, the only two words in French I know, and stormed off." Ryan sighed and said, "Sometimes she speaks French when she really angry. You must have ticked her off, or made her super shocked, since she only will notice that she's saying English, and dismiss the fact she speaking French. That's why I studied French so I could understand why she was so ticked." Lucas nodded, and he wondered what she had said to him, but he had a feeling if he told Ryan exactly what she said, he would ask him why she gave that reply to him.
Sally had set up a spy camera near where she was going to ambush Ryan Evans, and she was waiting for him right now. Sure enough, Ryan came, and Sally said, "Oh, hi Ryan. You know," she started seductively, "you are as cute as Ella said you were." Ryan looked confused, and said, "Uh, thanks, now, uh, bye-bye." Sally said, "Wait! I had a question on, uh, the science homework!" "Do we have the same science class?," he asked, confused. He didn't know Sally was in his science class, he thought it was his CPR classes, which was needed for medical passing.
"Oh, I meant, on how it was we did that CPR thingy. You know, uh, mouth-to-mouth," she said, coming up with an excuse to start a kiss. Ryan said, "Uh, if Ella was here, I could show you, but she's not here, and it would look like I was cheating if I did mouth-to-mouth to a girl I'm not dating." Sally was wondering if he would ever cheat on his precious Ella, and she said, "Oh, well, too bad. I just really was wondering, because it would be awful for me not to pass the class." Ryan sighed and said, "I'm not sure if you really need help on that. The teacher said you were quite ahead of the class, since you where now on rescue breathing for an infant." "How is that more difficult than saving an adult life?," said Sally, confused.
"Because, with infants you have to be more delicate or else their ribs will break from force. Children around age five would be the only ones who could do the best rescue for an infant," said Ryan. Sally was certain it was now or never, so she just pounced on Ryan, and gave him a kiss that was certain to have been caught by the spy camera. Ryan pushed her off after three to five seconds, and asked, "What the hell was that for? I told you I love Ella, and I would never cheat on her! I'm not that kind of guy!" Sally said, "Sure, by the way, great kiss. Wasn't that wonderful?" Ryan said to himself, "I got a bad feeling about this."
I know your name, but I won't tell
We must keep this secret well
Privacy's hard to find
Eyes are watching all the time
Sally had finished with that, and then wondered what to do with the photo that was very incriminating. She felt a little remorse for what she did, but not enough to not send to POPStar magazine with a detailed 'truth' of how Ryan was cheating on Elaine. She wrote, My bff, Ella, may not know it, since he finally told me that Ella is not really having an open relationship with her. My name is Sally Winters, and Ryan Evans is cheating on Elaine Harrington, daughter of Harrington Homes CEO, Misty Harrington, married to King George Piper in 1992, divorced 2004. Ryan kissed me earlier today, as shown in this photo, but I knew how it was wrong of him to kiss me whilst he was dating my roomie, Ella.
She pressed send, and felt instant satisfaction, then remorse of what she did to her best friend. Was Ryan really worth all the trouble, was it worth hurting her best friend? Was it really worth everything? Sally then managed to convince herself that she did right, she was only protecting her from the future pain of Ryan breaking up with her, right? No, she just wanted Elaine to break up with Ryan, but she figured if she was lucky, she wouldn't find out! God, she needs something for a better paparazzi thing, otherwise that would be the photo the run, and she can't let that happen!
Unfortunately, she couldn't find anything by the next day, and on the front cover of Star magazine was the first run of Sally kissing Ryan, and Sally looked at it, horrified at what she did. Then Sally saw Elaine walking over to the magazine rack, curious about what was in the magazine that often ran articles about her, often untrue, and Sally looked at the magazines and said the the owner, "I'll take ALL your Star magazines!" She slapped down hard, cold cash, and the owner's eyes widen and handed her everything he had here.
The owner noticed Elaine walking over and said, "Sorry, Miss Harrington, but this young lady paid hard, cold cash for all the Star magazines." Elaine's eyebrows raised in curiosity. Elaine asked in a slightly questioning tone, "Um, I must have misheard you. Did you say all of the Star periodicals?"
The owner nodded and said, "I'm terribly sorry, Miss Harrington." Elaine said questioningly, "Sally, why do you what must be at least two hundred and sixty copies of Star?"
Sally thought quickly on her feet and said, "Oh, you know, just a few for collecting, in case some get ruined. You know how they say that sometimes these things can go for lots of money in the future because everyone's so interested in what happened in the past." Elaine's eyebrows raised even higher, if that was even possible, and said, "I'll buy that, for now..." She walked off.
Everybody wants to know our love
Everybody talks about our love
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
Everybody needs to critize
But not of them are even in our lives
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
Sharpay had tossed the new Star magazine in the cart without looking at the cover, she knew that would have something to do with Elaine, but if she looked at the cover, she would of seen what looked bad for Ryan. Zeke picked it up and quizzed Sharpay, "Uh, Shar, your brother is dating our little sis, Ella, right? Because if he still is, then, uh, he's cheating on her." He didn't know how she would react when she realizes it, but she didn't buy it then, Sharpay merely laughed and said, "Ry? Cheat on Ella? You know Ella would tear him bit by bit if he does."
Zeke gave an awkard laugh and said, "Yeah. Just to be sure, should we call him?" Sharpay glared at him, and said, "No way! We'll wait for him to call us!" Zeke simply nodded and said, "Ok..." They walked up to the checkout counter where Gabriella was looking at the Star's article about Elaine with a slightly shocked look on her face and said to Troy, "Listen to this. 'A certain Miss Elaine Harrington needs a new BF! A inside source tells us about how a love triangle was formed with Elaine's roomie, Sally Winters with her BF, who is brother of her other BFF, Sharpay Evans!' I can't believe Ryan would be that stupid!"
Taylor looked at it in shock and said, "Yeah! And look at this..." She looked paled, and it read, 'Oo, spicy! Who'd have guess that this would happen between the world's cutest couple, Troyella? Ooo, talk about being in L-O-V-E! It's rumored that Troy was in fact a virgin before THIS photo was taken, same for Gabriella! Ooo, way too sexy!!!!' Troy looked at it shocked and looked at Chad and said, teeth clenched, "You're dead, Danforth!" Chad said, "It wasn't..." His voice faltered as he read the next article.
Troy looked angry, and he said, "Zeke, later, I want a word with you in the locker room." Zeke looked even more confused at that, and asked, "Why?" Chad looked at him just as angrily and said, "You better hope that Sharpay doesn't see this." Zeke said, totally dimwitted, "What I do?" They just snarled, "You'll find out!" Of course, Gabriella's cellphone went off with "You Are The Music In Me", and she quickly picked up, asking, "Hello?"
"Hi!" The voice from the other end sounded perky and like she just woke up. "Hi Kelsi," said Gabriella excitedly, "did you get the latest Star magazine?" "Yeppers! I don't believe Ryan would cheat on Ella, though. Remember last time? They both couldn't stand it! And also, why would he go with her BFF?" "Who knows what Ryan would do anymore?"
"True, but think, why would he go around her back twice? He hated it the first time, because he was blackmailed. Besides, I don't believe them anymore." Gabriella was getting confused and asked, "Why? You know that most of the stuff they say comes directly from Ella. And this came directly from one of the persons in the love triangle, right?" "Wrong. The reason why I don't believe in the tabloids anymore is because I know the truth. Keeping a relation a secret whilst you are in the spotlight is like seeing Chad going to Princeton. Ain't gonna happen." "You saying that Chad's dumb?" "Yeppers, again!"
Can't get out, can't get through
Need to be alone with you
Must escape or are we allowed
No part of privacy
Gabriella laughed again and asked, "But if this is false, then who do we trust?" "Uh, that'd be no one!" She heard Kelsi's laughter on the other side, and Kelsi continued, "But seriously, trust no one with any information. They twist everything just for a story that's good." "K, Kels, I'll TTYL 'cause I have to go right now." "K, buh-bye!" Kelsi hung up and Gabriella said, "It looks like they were lying about Ryan. But we should double check, just in case she missed something." Sharpay said, "Or we could just wait until Ella wakes us all up at 5 in the morning."
"Why would we do that?" That was Taylor who asked the question, and Gabriella said, "So that way we have a reason to kick his ass."
Elaine still hadn't read the tabloids yet, and Sally wasn't planning on letting her for a while. Hopefully she wouldn't find out about it until much, much later, and then hopefully, she can pass it off as he was innocent, well, he was, but play the innocent card on him. She didn't know she could get it without buying it from a tabloid stand, and that was terrible for Ryan.
Elaine said, "Sally, when where you going to tell me that Ryan was cheating on me?" She had tear in her eyes, and she sounded terrible, like she had been crying, and she looked at her song. It wasn't her, it said, "So Over Love (a/n: want the sheet music to it? I can scan it! I wrote it!)" and instantly, Sally felt worse about what she did. It made it seem like she was the worst best friend ever. Sally said, "Uh, well, the thing is, I didn't want you to get hurt, it was just so mean, I thought, maybe if it was let onto gently, maybe it might not hut as much."
Sally sensed that Elaine wasn't going to take this well, and she was right, Elaine burst into tears. "When is it ever the right time to let your friend know that the boyfriend that she gave two chances already is cheating on her with you? When? It's not fair! I trusted him not once, but three times! This is the third strike, and I'm over love again," she said, sobbing.
Sally looked at Elaine, and said, "Why don't you call your friends? They might make you feel better, shouldn't they?" Elaine sniffed and said in a scratchy voice that made it obvious she wasn't faking her tears, "Ok, I'll call Gabriella first." Elaine completely forgot the time difference and she call Gabriella at 5 in the morning without notice, and she said, "Hey Gabi." "Ella? You do know it's five in the morning over here right," came the mumbling voice of Gabriella with Troy's voice muffled in the background saying in one breath, "Wazgoinon?"
Everybody wants to know our love
Everybody talks about our love
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
Everybody needs to critize
But none of them are even in our lives
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
Elaine sighed and said, "It's about Ryan, and sorry, forgot about the time diff from Harvard to Brown." "Ella's callin', Troy. Go back to sleep. Ryan? I'll deal with him in two hours, k?" "Alright, I'm sorry about calling you at five in the morning again," said Elaine apologetically.
She hung up and heard her cell phone go off with "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You", and she pressed ignore, she didn't want to talk to Ryan right now. Over where Ryan was, he was confused as to why she wouldn't pick up her phone. He hung up sadly and said to Lucas, "I can't believe it. This is the first time she's ever ignored one of my phone calls. She loves it when I call, she never ignores one when we're dating, and if we've broken up, she'll pick up hopefully for a getting-back-together again, our favorite thing to do."
Lucas was looking uncomfortable, and he said, "Maybe you should call someone you could trust with important information like that. Maybe your friends at U of H?" Ryan nodded slowly, unaware of his roommate's suggestion, or even his uneasiness in this situation. Ryan took out his cell phone, and dialed Jason and Kelsi's place at Houston, and the person who answered was Kelsi. "Hey Ry!," came Kelsi's cheerful tone, and Ryan was taken aback by her cheerful tone. Ryan said to Kelsi, "Elaine won't talk to me and I don't know why."
Kelsi made this awkward coughing sound and said, "Yeah, uh, that's kind of because a fake rumor spread about how your dating three girls at the same time. I must also warn you that Sharpay is mad becuase she thinks ya messing around with three girls at once. Is it true?" Ryan suddenly had comprehension drawn on him, and said, "Sally kissed me, published it with a fake article about how I'm cheating on Ella, and the third one is photo shopped! I would never cheat on Ella, I was thinking of asking her to marry me on her eighteenth birthday."
"Awwww, how sweet! You're going to propose to Ella on her birthday, that's so romantic!" "Yeah, I kind of stole the idea from Troy, who was going to propose to Gabriella on her twentieth birthday! It's so sweet, and I just wanted to see what Ella would think of it if I did the same thing for her, since she always thought Troy was super romantic." "Who doesn't? Besides guys, that is." "Uh, I don't know, maybe lesbians?" Kelsi made another awkward coughing sound and her phone made crackling noises, and she said, crackling up, "Oh, I'm so sorry Ryan, I'm breaking up..." A click was heard, and she was no longer there.
Can't the boys with the zooms give a girl just a second?
See the man that I love needs a little sweet attention
I don't wanna seem harsh but this girl's under pressure
I can't go through losing you again
I need to breath just one breath
Walls are closing in so fast
Privacy's hard to find
Eyes are watching all the time
In the locker room, Troy was discussing with Zeke about the tabloid rumor. "Zeke, it says here that you're seeing behind her back some cheerleader off the squad," said Troy, looking furious. Zeke said, confused, "What? Who made up this shit? I'm only dating Sharpay, one chick." Chad said, "Psh, and I'm the Queen of England. You're playin' with her heart, and that ain't cool dude! She might be an ice princess, but that doesn't mean she ain't human! It's inhumane to play with a girl's heart, and it also shows ya stupid."
Zeke look completely confused now, and said, "But I ain't playin' wit anyone's heart! I love Sharpay, and how can you call Sharpay an Ice Princess, after all, she did help you through that sticky spot with Taylor! And Troy, she helped you when you didn't know what to get Gabriella for her eighteenth birthday. Which, by the way, how was she in bed, anyway?" Troy blushed now, and said quietly, "Stop talking about that stupid article." He hated it when people talked about their sex life, love life, fine, but sex life was something he preferred to stay private.
Chad said idiotically, "I don't think they were limited to just the bed, I think they also got some action in the tub." Zeke and the rest of the team looked at their captain in shock and Troy said through clenched teeth, "Chad, you seriously need to learn when to shut the fuck up! I told you my sex life is to remain where it should, in between me and my girlfriend!" Chad said, "But just last year..." "Last year was when we knew everyone, and I didn't have anything to share then!" Chad then said, "Well, when did you say that you were proposing?"
"I said I was going to propose to Gabriella on her 20th birthday! Now shut the hell up Chad, you can be such a MORON," shouted Troy. If he had known about the paparazzi, who only hear only, "Propose, Ella, 20, Day, Chad, Moron," and they thought they had a story off of the very little words they heard. If they stayed around a little while, they would have heard Chad stupidly ask, "Gabi? 20th? What day is her 20th birthday?"
Troy shook his head and said, "I'm thinking it's before Ella's, since Ella is the youngest of us, and sadly, Gabriella got the nickname Baby G, instead of Ella getting the nickname Baby E, since she's the youngest of us." Chad said, "Now that you mention that, I was supposed to be at the recording studio a half hour ago! Thanks for the reminder, Troy!" Troy shook his head and said, "Chad is such an idiot."
The next day, and article was ran on Troy about how he was cheating on Gabriella with a girl named 'Ella', like idiots, because Gabriella was the Ella that was being discussed. Troy looked at the article and said, "What? I said I was proposing to Gabriella on her 20th birthday, not proposing to this Ella chick on the 20th day of something, but I did say that Chad was a moron." Gabriella, back at the apartment, was bawling over how Troy 'doesn't love her' since he said he proposing to some Ella chick on the 20th day of this month. She was also mad at Troy.
Everybody wants to know our love
Everybody talks about our love
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
Everybody needs to critize
But none of them are even in our lives
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
When Troy came into the apartment to try and sort everything out, the first thing that happened was Troy was cornered by Sharpay and Taylor, shrieking at him at the same time, "EXPLAIN YOURSELF!" Troy said, "Listen, what I said was the I was going to ask Gabriella to marry me on her 20th birthday, but it was kind of ruined by the paparazzi, so I have to tell her what my perfect 20th birthday present was and why I was so distant." Taylor said, "Well, you're too late! She hates you already, and there's nothing we could do to let her know that you love her still!"
"What? Nothing at all?" "Nada," repeated Sharpay. Troy said, "Great, and let me guess, she's going to call Ella, right? You know that Gabriella has "Ella" in it, right? That's what I said, Gabriella, the paparazzi didn't stay around long enough to hear everything, and I did say that Chad was a moron." Taylor nodded and said, "Sadly, I agree with that motion."
Gabriella had dialed up Elaine, forgetting that where she was, it was 4 am, her worst time to wake her up. Elaine voice sounded horrible over the phone, with her going, "Ugh, you know it's 4 am, right? I hate waking up before 5." Gabriella said, in a remorseful voice, "Sorry. I forgot, I just wanted to talk to you about something." Elaine sounded to wake up a little, since how she had placed it on speaker phone, which she only does when she getting dressed.
"What is it, then? How big? Relationship big? School big?" Gabriella took a big breath and said, "It's relationship big." Gabriella heard Elaine say, "Hold on, let me take this conversation somewhere else." She heard a door open, and Elaine telling her roommate she'll be out for a while.
Elaine had walked to a place she found that was a very quiet place and said, "How big of a relationship problem? What did Troy do?" She heard Gabriella say, Well, he said something about proposing to someone. Elaine knew what the paparazzi wrote about them, and she had squeezed the truth from Troy earlier, knowing Gabriella would be hurt by that.
"Well Gabriella, it's you Troy was talking about proposing to. You have the name "Ella" in your name, so he said that he was talking about proposing to you on your 20th birthday, as a birthday gift. But now it's not a secret anymore, and also, he had gotten the most lovely pink diamond ring for you! I mean, a pink diamond, those diamonds are rare! And also, he wanted to get married on your 21st birthday, isn't that romantic?" Elaine sounded excited about the prospect of Troy being so romantic to Gabriella. She heard Gabriella squeal.
You mean he's going to propose to me? On my birthday? Oh emme gee, he is SO romantic!, said Gabriella, in a very excited tone as well. Elaine laughed and said, "If you want, we can go shopping for bridal gowns and bridesmaid dresses, oh, who is going to be your maid of honor? Sharpay? Taylor? Me? Or will it be Kelsi?" Gabriella said, in a confused way, I don't know who I'll pick for my maid of honor. I don't want anyone to get mad because it wasn't them. Elaine knew she was right, if she wasn't picked, she'd have gotten mad, but she really wouldn't be all that upset.
"It's OK Gabriella, I don't really care if I'm maid of honor, and I really think that should be Kelsi, since how she was the most loyal and the one who got you and Troy together. I know I helped you guys along the way, but I don't really think I should be Maid of Honor, since how I was really leaning towards making Ashley my Maid of Honor," said Elaine, showing her she could compromise, and keep her friendships intact. But why her? Is it because you've known her forever and been friends with her the longest, or because you don't want anyone in the group to get mad because it wasn't them? "A little of both," said Elaine honestly.
Everybody wants to know our love
Everybody talks about our love
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
Everybody needs to critize
But none of them are even in our lives
Everybody wants to know your name
To know your name
Back at U of H, Kelsi had gotten the Notebook, as it turns out, it was Elaine and Ryan, then Kelsi and Jason, then finally Sharpay, Taylor, Chad, Troy, Zeke, and Gabriella, and then it bounced back. Kelsi said to Jason happily, "It's here! The Notebook is here!" Kelsi showed Jason the cover, which was embellished in Red, Gold, and White, the cover was white, and Red and Gold letters read: The Rest of the Wildcats' Lives: The Journey Begins Here In College, and Kelsi said, "I'll write in it first, ok?" Jason nodded, and Kelsi went to write in it. She passed three pages filled with Elaine and Ryan's handwriting, the first one was Elaine, the second contained both Elaine and Ryan's, and the third just Elaine's.
Hey y'all! It's me, Kelsi. If you wish to know Ella, Ryan didn't cheat on you, Sally kissed him. She told me she was feeling stupid for even trying to split up such a perfect couple. Gabriella, Troy was talking about proposing to you on your 20th birthday, just so you know, and Zeke didn't cheat on Sharpay, that photo was photo shopped. That's all of the truth I know, and also, Chad didn't do anything, that's all I know. Don't trust what they say about you guys' relationship, but thank goodness no one's gotten on Jason's or my case so far.
Next off, here at U of H, I'm doing great in this program for composing music. They're talking about transferring me to a college specifically aimed for young composers such as myself. I turned it down though, I don't think I could go through moving again, it was hard enough to unpack everything with everyone calling me all the time.
Anyway, everybody just critizes your relationship because they're just jealous they don't have someone as special as you guys do, but I would watch out, Ella. They said on the news that Nicholas has escaped from Albequerque prison and is seeking revenge. I wouldn't walk around by myself if I was you, Ella.
And finally, Jason and I are having a great time here. English classes are going great for Jason and I, Jason is excelling in math with my tutoring as well. It's also great that he finally knows how to correctly use the word 'Neanderthals', since he didn't know what it meant until know.
I love college life so far, and it's taking me far now, and everyone, take care. This is supposed to be the biggest time of our lives, being here and having a life to live, so go out there and show them our fun adventurous selves! After all, we're only 18 right now and we're just learning how to live it up now, and also, please stay away from the parties. It'll wreck your grades.
I think that's all I have for, oh, wait, I forgot to mention that I'm turning 19 tomorrow, so I can't wait for tomorrow now, and I'm wondering what Jason got me. And Troy, how much more planning for your proposal to Gabriella until you finally do it? I mean, she just turned 19, she's turning 20 in around two weeks, I believe. I hope you know what your doing, Troy! Love you guys! Love, Kelsi.
Everybody wants to know
Everybody wants to know
Everybody wants to know