To recap: Troy puts the shirt he was wearing back on so all of the scars disappeared. "I shouldn't have shown you that... it wasn't my place." Troy stood up and walked over to the table and started to munch on some food. He didn't want to look at Sharpay and see her reaction...he couldn't tell what it was...

Grasping quiet loudly light blue tears rolled down her face. She wondered what he meant by the mark on his shoulder. "Why didn't you tell me this before Troy, when I asked you what you knew of my father?" She said taking breaths every now and then. She felt a cold hatred for her father all a sudden. All the color drained out of her face when she thought was he had made Troy do. "Why do you continue to serve such an evil, repulsive man" She carried on, standing up and pasting the room. She was upset that Troy would not even look at her any more. "Why?!"

"What did you mean by something or, Troy, please tell me" She begged.

Troy finally could look at Sharpay, but not really at her he looked at the wall behind her... then as he continued to talk, he eventually looked at Sharpay. "He is not evil and repulsive as you call him. He is your father, and he knows what is best. He's done so much for me and my family that I would be ashamed I did not. That is my duty. He gives me jobs because he trusts me... He knows I will do what is necessary to complete it. You probably don't understand any of this... but it was for your own good to keep you out of all this worry. I would do anything for your father. He saved my life so many times I can not count. So when he asks me to do these things. He does it as a favor. It is NOT an order. I do it because I know I should." Troy looks away from Sharpay getting a little upset, yet he did not know why... The kitten Petals was at his feet rubbing against him purring.

Sharpay heard his words and wonderings ruinously. "No I don't understand" soon she starts heading towards the door and got ready to open it. "And what was I, one of my fathers favors you were paying him", Sharpay said, her mouth was getting dry. She could not see, properly by all the tears drowning her vision. She opened the door, and stepped out, bumping to a twin but not looking directly at him.

Troy angry yet confused, the girl who he might have loved had just walked out that door. He wasn't going to let her get away like Brittany did. Troy ran after Sharpay and took out his gun and locked the door to WWW shut. "No don't leave... I didn't mean it like that..." Troy shot a look toward the Polio twins and they ran off to the back. Troy continued walking

slowly toward Sharpay, "I mean yes it started out that way, but you mean more to me then just some thing I have to do...your important to me."

Sharpay was not going to have any of it. He lied to her and from her dark past she was not going to be lied to again, she was even scared that Troy had pulled out his gun, but this wasn't going to stop her. "Let me out please Troy, I don't want to be near anyone that lied to me anymore", She said with tears streaming down her cheeks. Fiddling with the turquoise ring that he had gave her this morning, Sharpay took it of and put it in her pocket. Of course she still liked/loved Troy but was it all a game to him, so she thought.

Maddie re-entered The joke shop. She came here everyday, she enjoyed it here. The store was full of pranks, joke, and fun. Exactly what Maddie was all about. And the people who came here had to be all about that too? Or possibly just the twins..

Troy looked sad but he couldn't keep her captive in here. Troy opened the doors and let her go. 'She needs some time to think and to calm down' he thought to himself. Troy turned around and saw the Polio twins there staring at him. "What are you looking at? This isn't some kind of entertainment show, move along."

Dustin entered the joke shop too. He was out for his daily walk and figured he'd stop in to see if anything that caught his eye was in. He acknowledged the Polio twins. There were a few people in here, but from what he could see none that he knew. He looked again and noticed Sharpay and Maddie. Dustin had short brown hair that curled a little bit. He's tall, and well-built. His green eyes are if you just looked through a meadow.

Sharpay Walked out of the shop and fell to the ground outside crying, 'Should I go back and apologies' she thought to herself. 'No he lied to you' 'But he said you were important' Her thoughts kept battling inside her.

Dustin noticed Sharpay leaving. She definitely looked upset as she left. Should he go and talk to her? But he realized the same guy he saw with her last night. He didn't want that guy to get mad at him. Not with his past anyway.

Maddie realizes Sharpays departure. She knew the reason, she had overheard the conversation. She didn't understand it. But she knew Troy was just a stupid boy since she met him. 'What a jerk..' she thought to herself. However she knew Troy wasn't having a good time. So to make it worse she walks over it him and pats him on the shoulder saying "Nice going, bud."

Outside, Sharpay saw a blurry Dustin but could not even open her mouth to talk. Wiping away the tears that came so often now, she stood up and dusted herself down. Re-doing her make up and tying her golden hair up and she put back on the turquoise ring and lingered near the main door to the joke shop.

Dustin rushed over to Sharpay. "Hey, what's wrong?" He felt dumb for asking. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." He gave her a concerned look.

"Oh, I just fell out with Troy over a stupid thing, you know" Sharpay said, gaining back her voice.

"Oh, that's too bad." Dustin didn't really know Troy but he had seen him before. He didn't want to judge him, so he it made it hard to talk to Sharpay. He decided the best thing would be to get her mind off of it. "Hm, wanna look around?"

Troy getting furious with Maddie said, "Look girlie you have no idea what just happened so keep your mouth shut or I'll zip it for you. Ok good glad you think I'm some kind of man sleeper. But that's just great and all, and you think you're the best person in the world but hate to break it to you hun, the best person in the whole who makes everything brighter just walked right out that door. I messed up. And I did it big time. I don't need your snobby, nosey little nose to tell me I messed up. So why don't you go somewhere else and bother someone else, before you get in some serious trouble." Troy was furious He just lost the girl he loved and now is having this annoying know-it-all bothering him. And NOW he see's some guy talking to HIS girl. His girl... My girl... Troy became very sad and depressed at that moment... she's not my girl... I blew it...

"I left my bag in the quiet room" Sharpay said. "Its got some pretty important things in. Do you mind coming with me" Sharpay said as she re entered the shop".

Maddie stared at Troy and gave him a look like wow.. She decided to walk over to Sharpay and Dustin. "How are you guys doing?", She asked.

"I wouldn't mind at all!", Dustin said to Sharpay. He noticed Maddie approaching. "Hello Maddie." He spoke towards her.

Troy saw Sharpey and felt embarrassed... "Go ahead..." "Polio!" The two Polio twins came into the room in a hurry. Troy went over to them and whispered "Go into the back and make sure that the quite room is safe to go in... and make sure nothing funny happens or I'll have both of your heads"

Dustin saw that Troy wanted to talk with Sharpey. So he looked at her and said "Go talk to him.", He then leaves her and goes to meet the guy who just walked in.
He notices that the new guy was browsing the shelves and walked behind him. "Hey, I'm Dustin." he introduced himself.

Sharpay watched Troy from across the room until she could not stand it any longer. Walking up to him she Slapped him across the face so hard it left a red hand print, "That was for lying to me" She said, and slapped him again, "That was for being mean to Maddie, and number three, can I talk to you Troy" Sharpey said more softly.

AN/Please review (: