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Chapter five

Girls Wanna Have Fun; Boys Wanna Ruin It

"Girls just wanna have fun. The phone rings in the middle of the night, my father yells what'cha ganna do with your life…"

Gabriella's music played as she ran along the street, filling the silence that her mind was set at. The morning sun fell against her bare back and she adjusted her short shorts as she turned onto her street. She stared out in front of her, concentrating on the same grey-white color of the sidewalk that she had looked at for the past three miles, ignoring the pain her legs were currently in.

She smiled a relieved smile when her house came into view and she did a dance in her mind as she skipped up her front porch stairs. She ran into the house, pulling out her headphones as she made her way into the kitchen. She stopped abruptly and stumbled forward when she came face to face with the basketball team.

It was only ten thirty! They were already here? She thought as she scanned the room for her brother's face. They guys' had their eyes glued to her, even Troy and Zeke and she shifted uncomfortably in her spot. Typical boys; staring with their mouths fallen open, quiet in a matter of seconds.

"Charlie!" Gabriella scowled her brother quickly. "Why are they here so early?"

"We thought we'd hang out before practice." He explained with a shrug as he put a few grapes in his mouth.

"You could have told me that before I left for my jog to save me from this awkward moment!" Gabriella told her brother with a shake of her head.

"What awkward moment?" Charlie asked her, mumbling through his full mouth.

Gabriella plucked her sports bra strap, making it smack against her hot skin, indicating that her outfit was pretty embarrassing to show off.

"It's not my fault that you run in your underwear." Charlie said honestly.

Gabriella groaned as Troy chuckled accidentally and she shot him a warning look as she walked across the kitchen towards the fridge. She pulled out a water bottle and closed the refrigerator quickly.

"I need to spend some time with girls." Gabriella mumbled as she shook her head, heading out of the kitchen.

She walked to her room, finally aware of her aching body and she walked over to her bathroom, setting her water bottle down on the counter. She looked at herself in her mirror and groaned at her sweaty figure. She sighed and shut the bathroom door, making sure it was locked securely.

"When the working day is done, oh, girls just wanna have fun, they wanna have fun!"

Gabriella was walking out of her room in blue shorts and a white tank top with an aqua bikini underneath. She had gotten a phone call from Sharpay after she took a shower, inviting her over for a swim with the girls and there was no way Gabriella was going to pass up girl time.

She found her keys in the kitchen drawer and walked to her car, slipping onto the hot leather seat and made her way to Sharpay's house. She smiled as she waited on Sharpay's front porch once she rang the doorbell.

"Hey, Gabriella!" Ryan said when he answered the door with a smile. "Sharpay and Taylor are in the back."

"Thanks. Nice sunglasses." Gabriella complemented as she walked past him, down the long hallway of Sharpay's house to the back French doors.

Every time Gabriella stepped out onto the Evan's back patio and looked out at the huge backyard, she felt like she was stepping into a music video. The sky looked bluer than it really was against the crystal water of the pool and the stone walk ways circled around the backyard. She waved at Sharpay and Taylor once they spotted her by the door and she walked over to them, smiling as she set her beach bag on her usual chair.

"You have no idea how thankful I am to be here, out of my boy-packed house." Gabriella told her friends as she pulled her sunglasses over her eyes.

"I'm happy that I could save you." Sharpay smiled as she stood up from her chair, where she was just applying a new coat of number fifteen SPF suntan lotion. "Ready to float?" She asked in excitement.

"Yup." Taylor said for Gabriella as she stood up from her chair, adjusting her pink arm floaties on her arms.

Gabriella smiled at her friends and left her shorts and shirt on her chair before they all lay on the raft big enough for all three of them to lie on. They laughed as they got situated on the floating raft and eventually they were settled, ready to tan, and practically napping.

"Zeke's coming over after practice to bake desserts for my parents to try." Sharpay told the girls in a relaxed voice as they floated along.

"You must be excited." Gabriella assumed with a smile as she kept her eyes closed.

"I am." Sharpay sighed with a smile.

"Chad asked about you today, Taylor." Gabriella smirked.

"How many times do I have to reject him?" Taylor asked her friends in annoyance, hearing their mumbled 'I don't knows' as they all stayed perfectly planted in their spots. "I mean, he's totally disgusting."

"How long has he liked you, Tay?" Sharpay asked with a small laugh.

"Gosh, I don't know, since middle school." Taylor said in disbelief.

"That's funny." Gabriella admitted.

"Maybe to you, but he's always throwing disgusting comments at me and now I'm starting to hear his voice when he's not around! I'll be looking at my outfit in the mirror and I'll just hear…"

"Ta-ay-lor! You're looking hot!"

"Yeah, you said that really well, Gabriella." Taylor laughed.

"Uh… that wasn't me." Gabriella said slowly.

"Oh my God, keep your eyes shut! Maybe it was just the wind!" Taylor whispered in a panicking voice.

Gabriella squeezed her eyes shut tighter when she felt a constant stream of water on her stomach, hoping that when she opened her eyes, she wouldn't find anyone squirting her with what she knew in reality was a squirt gun. The girls groaned and slowly opened their eyes. They saw black dots at first, but as their eyes adjusted to the bright sun, there they were… the stupid-always-there basketball team.

"Charlie!" Gabriella shouted. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" She protested as he squirted her in the face with a hand held squirt gun.

"Guys! I swear!" They heard Zeke say as he walked quickly over towards his teammates from the back doors of the Evan's house. "If you ruin this job for me by traumatizing the girls, I'll kill each and every one of you!" He threatened.

The team laughed quietly at Zeke and the girls looked over at him, eyeing him suspiciously.

"Sorry, Shar, they followed me here." Zeke said with a sigh. "I tried to stop them."

"It's okay." Sharpay said as she smiled softly at Zeke. "Everyone, but Zeke and Troy can leave." She glared at the team and Charlie held her gaze.

"All for one. Team rule." He stared at her and she glared deeper at him.

"Charlie, this isn't funny!" Gabriella told her brother. "Hasn't your team seen me half naked enough today?!" She asked, getting you-have-some-explaining-to-do looks from Sharpay and Taylor.

"No." One of them coughed.

Gabriella scanned the group seriously, trying to figure out who the punk that 'coughed' was and she guessed he was the one Troy shoved, smiling softly. Sharpay sighed deeply and a defeated look appeared on her face.

"Fine, but don't interrupt Zeke or us! There's a basketball court inside." She admitted to them.

"We don't want to play basketball." Charlie smirked.

"Then go home." Sharpay said as she crossed her arms and leaned back onto the raft.

The girls followed her lead, ignoring the guys and before long, their raft moved with the wild current of the water as Charlie did a cannon ball in the deep end of the water, followed by the rest of the team, except Troy, Zeke, and Chad. The girls screamed, covered in water and slipping off of the raft.

"Taylor!" Gabriella screeched once she came up from underneath the water, knowing her best friend didn't know how to swim.

Troy felt his heart beat a little faster as he saw Gabriella's panicked look and he sprinted to the other side of the pool, sinking his arm into the pool and pulling Taylor up in one swift movement. Taylor's eyes were wide in horror and she let out a relieved sigh as she gave Troy a wet hug.

"Thank you." She said out of breath.

"No problem." He said with a small smile, already knowing about her lack of swimming ability, all thanks to his emails with Gabriella.

"Are you okay?!" Gabriella, Sharpay, and Chad asked as they scurried over to Troy and Taylor.

"I'm fine." Taylor said confidently.

"Good, 'cause you're too hot to lose!" Chad said with a nod.

The group groaned in annoyance and together they pushed Chad into the pool with ease. Sharpay nodded in satisfaction and skipped over to Zeke, taking him inside to talk with her parents. Gabriella smiled at Troy, his wet right sleeve, making her laugh softly. She instantly got back to the recent almost-drowning-best-friend problem and rushed up to the side of the pool, peering down at the basketball team.

"Charlie! You could have killed Taylor!" Gabriella shouted at her brother.

"Yeah, not cool, man." Chad said as he tossed a blow up basketball into a small net at the deep end of the pool.

"Stop yelling, sis." Charlie laughed.

"I'm not going to stop yelling! When I get my hands on you I'm going to--" She was cut off when Charlie leaped up and grabbed her, pulling her into the pool.

Gabriella slapped the water with her hands as she came up for air and she glared at Charlie and the team as they laughed loudly.

"I hate you." She told Charlie angrily as she grabbed the raft her and her friends were just sitting on and sat down on the edge, dangling her feet into the water.

"Troy, man, come on in!" One of his teammates said as he tossed Troy the pool basketball.

Troy laughed, catching the basketball and he flicked his flip flops off and took his shirt off, tossing it on Gabriella's chair before he jumped into the water. Gabriella couldn't help but gasp when she saw Troy's toned body. She knew, obviously because of Charlie, that the whole team was well built, but seeing Troy, her emailing buddy, and best friend looking that good made her sweat. Taylor shot her a look from her spot on the lounge chair and Gabriella smiled, telling Taylor she was just as shocked as she was.

Taylor and Gabriella's secret communicating stopped when Gabriella was suddenly being splashed. She squinted her eyes to keep out the water and spit the water away as it entered her mouth. She laughed quietly as the person stopped and she eyed Troy as he walked over to her in the shallow end.

"Are you scared of the deep end?" He asked with a chuckle as he put his hands on either side of her, pulling the raft with him.

"Maybe." Gabriella smirked.

Troy nodded, knowing that Gabriella and her friends weren't big fans of being in the water because of Taylor's inexperience and because all three of them had their almost drowning moments when they were younger.

"Do you trust me?" Troy asked as he raised his eyebrow.

"If I say no are you going to be crushed?" Gabriella teased him, nodding after to indicate that, yes, she did trust him.

"I won't let you drown." He said honestly. "The deep end isn't that bad."

"Promise not to let go of me? There are a lot of people in here and I could drift off and you never know I could suddenly lose my swimming skills and drown." Gabriella babbled, trying to delay the fact that she was going to end up in the deep end again.

Troy laughed and shook his head, pulling Gabriella off of the raft. Gabriella, not expecting the sudden action, tightened her grasp around Troy's neck and screeched softly. Troy laughed again and walked a little bit before he reached the deep end.

"You're a wimp." He smiled as he treaded water with Gabriella at his side.

Gabriella rolled her eyes with a smile, shoving Troy lightly. Chad swam over to the side of the pool by the shallow end where Taylor's chair was at and he leaned against the wall as he spoke to Taylor.

"Are you sure you don't want to come in?" Chad asked. "I'll hold onto you like Troy is holding Gabriella! I won't let you drown." He said with a flirty smile.

Taylor peered over her magazine she was currently reading and raised her eyebrows as she looked at Chad.

"No thanks." She said in a monotone voice.

"Please." Chad begged.

"No." Taylor said again.

Chad sighed and pushed himself up and out of the pool. He walked over to Taylor and stood next to her, peering down at her.

"You're dripping on me." She told him as she flipped her page. "And you better not throw me in."

"Since you won't get in the pool, I'll get out." Chad told her, sitting down next to her.

Taylor pulled out her Ipod and placed her headphones on, scanning over her magazine. Chad looked over at her in disappointment, but at the same time, he was happy to be sitting next to her, getting the opportunity to be close to her. He leaned back into his chair, closed his eyes, and sighed, and Taylor looked at him, and smiled.

"Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world; I wanna be the one to walk in the sun, oh, girls wanna have fun."

"Burgers are ready!" Zeke called to the group drying off around the pool.

The group laughed as they walked together over to the grill and the three girls smiled as they let the guys go before them. They were watching the guys interact with each other from under an umbrella by a round glass table.

"So, today wasn't that bad." Sharpay said with a smile as she watched Zeke.

"That's because you probably made out with Zeke in the kitchen the entire time." Taylor joked.

"Is my lip gloss smeared?!" Sharpay asked quickly.

Taylor and Gabriella exchanged a look and both started laughing loudly.

"I was joking, but apparently that's what you were doing!" Taylor teased Sharpay with a smile.

"Shut up." Sharpay groaned in embarrassment as a few of the guys glanced their way.

"Well, Gabriella was getting her flirt on too." Taylor told Sharpay.

Gabriella gasped loudly and her eyes widened.

"I was not!" She protested.

"Were too." Taylor shot back as she skipped over to the grill.

"So, Gabi..." Sharpay started as she nudged her friend playfully.

"I was not flirting!" Gabriella whisper yelled as she scouted along towards the grill.

Sharpay smirked as Gabriella left her side and as Zeke filled the empty space. He pulled her close to him and smiled as he looked into her eyes.

"She was totally flirting with him." Sharpay told Zeke, who heard most of the conversation.

"And he was flirting back." Zeke said to her with a smile.

They nodded together, looking across the pool at the group of friends. The lights around the pool suddenly went on as the sky reached a certain darkness and Zeke kissed Sharpay softly, laughing as the basketball team hooted and hollered from their spots.

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