* Hey everyone! Look who's back? I'm sorry it's been a while but I've been busy with school, midterms, and two other stories! Why is it that I'm always working on three stories at a time? Don't know, guess that's just me. But hey, I'm back and ready to throw some real surprises into this story! So let's get cracking!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own 'Desperate'. It's the property of the ADORABLE yet TOTALLY SEXY David Archuleta and his record company.
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" Hey-hic-Emmett!", called Sharpay.
Emmett just looked at Sharpay. Her usually shiny blonde hair looked lackluster. One eye had blue glittery eye shadow on and the other had dark gray eye shadow on. Her lip gloss was smeared all over her mouth and she wore pink sweatpants and a gold sequined tank top. On her feet was one pink flip flop and the other was a black stiletto boot.
" Sharpay, are you drunk?", Emmett asked the blonde.
" Why-hic-do you-hic-say that?", asked Sharpay, swaying on her feet.
" Um, have you looked at yourself?", replied Emmett.
From the parking lot, a very thrilled Alice was pulling out her cell phone and taking pictures of the drunk diva while Kelsi looked on and laughed.
" What's going on?", Gabriella asked her friends.
She and Jacob had just arrived on his Harley. Turning to them, Kelsi barely managed to say in between her fits of laughter, " Do you see Sharpay?".
" No, why- oh, my goodness!", cried Gabriella, catching sight of the blonde.
" Wow. Is she hammered?", asked Jacob.
" Totally!", squealed Alice, snapping away.
" Alice, just stop", snapped Gabriella.
" Why? This is good stuff! It's going to be all over Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, the works", Alice argued, turning to look at her friend.
" It's not funny anymore, Alice! How would you like it if someone put pictures on the internet of you drunk?", Gabriella pointed out.
Before Alice could answer, someone began singing very loudly and very off-key,
" You're reaching out
And no one hears you cry
You're freaking out again
'Cause all your fears remind you
Another dream has come undone
You feel so small and lost
Like you're the only one
You wanna scream
'Cause you're desperate
You want somebody
Just anybody
To lay their hands on your soul tonight
You want a reason to keep believing
That someday you're gonna see the light…
You're in the dark
There's no one left to call
And sleep's your only friend
But even sleep can't hide you
From all those tears and all the pain
And all the days you're wasting
Pushing them away
It's your life
It's time you faced it
You want somebody
Just anybody
To lay their hands on your soul tonight
You want a reason to keep believing
That someday you're gonna see the light
'Cause you're desperate, desperate
'Cause you're desperate tonight
Oh, despera-".
Then Sharpay plummeted forward into Emmett's arms, ending the song.
The whole school burst into laughter at Sharpay's horrible rendition. Alice's laugh was the loudest laugh.
" See, I'm-hic-good!", insisted Sharpay then began crying into Emmett's shoulder.
Emmett wrapped his arms around the blonde, feeling bad for her. Then he turned to the laughing student body and yelled, " Hey! Could you show just the tiniest bit of compassion, you assholes?".
That shut everyone up immediately. They all stared at Emmett with looks of anger and surprise.
" We've all had our bad days! It's not right to laugh at someone when they're having a meltdown! Especially if that someone is one of the best actresses in the school!", Emmett continued to shout at the student body.
Sharpay looked up at Emmett with big eyes and asked him, " You think I'm-hic-one of the-hic-best actresses-hic-in school?".
" I do", Emmett told her honestly, looking her full in the face and smiling.
" Oh-hic-Emmett!", cried Sharpay, throwing her arms around him.
" Emmett!", roared Alice, running up to him.
" Don't-", Emmett began to say.
" You can't-", Alice interrupted.
" Shut up, Alice! And let Emmett talk!", Kelsi ordered.
Alice stared in shock at her girlfriend but held her tongue.
" Thanks, Kelsi. Now look, I really like Sharpay and really badly want to go out on a date with her. I get why you don't like her because she's a supposed whore and acts as though she owns this school but if you allow me to date her, I can change that. I can make her be more human to all of us going here. Does that sound fair enough to you?", Emmett told his younger sister.
Alice just stared at Emmett, her mouth hanging open then she shook herself and fixing Emmett with a glare, said, " We'll talk about this more at home".
Then with that, she grabbed Kelsi by the hand and marched off into the school.
" She's mad", stated Emmett.
" You pretty much whipped her in front of the whole school so yeah, she's mad", Jacob pointed out to Emmett.
" And it's not going to get better because I need to know why she was having breakfast with Jasper the other day", Gabriella put in.
" Who's Jasper?", Emmett questioned.
" An old acquaintance who's visiting in town for a couple days", Jacob told Emmett.
" And Alice was having breakfast with this dude? Where?", asked Emmett, curious.
" IHOP", Gabriella answered.
" Has she said anything to you?", Jacob asked Emmett.
" You know Alice. Sneaky and crafty little bitch. Won't tell me anything and if I even ask, she'll threaten to post some very embarrassing baby photos on the internet", Emmett answered honestly, as he scooped Sharpay up in his arms.
" I have a very sneaky suspicion that there was more to the breakfast date at IHOP. I think Alice had slept with Jasper", Gabriella confided.
" What? Um, Gabriella, you do know she has a girlfriend, right?", cried Emmett.
" Yes, I do know that. It's just a suspicion but I can't shake it. I want to get Alice to tell me the truth, even if I have to get Kelsi to help me", Gabriella told Emmett.
" Well, good luck with that", Emmett wished her as he turned to leave.
" Hey, where are you going? School's that way!", Jacob called after Emmett.
" I know. I can't let her go into school looking like this. I'm taking her home to get washed up and sober", Emmett called back.
" Meaning you're going to screw her, right?", Jacob asked.
" No! What kind of a guy do you take me for? Geez!", cried Emmett then continued towards his truck.
" The kind that screws drunk women!", Jacob shouted after him.
" Go screw yourself!", Emmett yelled back as he put Sharpay in the passenger side of his Jeep then went over to the driver's side.
" How mature, Jacob", commented Gabriella as she walked into school with him.
" Hey, guys! Did you see the callback sheet?", Troy asked as he and Ryan skipped towards them.
" No, what did it say? Did we get called back?", asked Gabriella, excitedly.
" Don't tell her, Troy! Let her go see for herself", Ryan told Troy.
" Come on, Jacob!", cried Gabriella and they sprinted towards the bulletin board where the callback sheet was posted.
It read in large italic writing:
Final Callbacks are scheduled for Friday after school
Troy Bolton & Ryan Evans will be doing their callback at quarter to 3
Jacob Black & Gabriella Montez will be doing their callback at ten after 4
**For their final callback, it is recommended that they prepare an entirely new song to sing set to choreography that they themselves design to go with the song. It should be noted that the choreography should consist of any Ballroom or Latin dance technique, most preferably the Tango, the Paso Doble, the Foxtrot, the Waltz, the Quickstep, the Rumba, the Samba, and/or the Cha-Cha. It should also be taken into consideration that they make their choreography look very sharp and professional for there is going to be a surprise judge watching the callback with me and who will help me to choose the best callback audition. So with that duly noted, I wish you all the best of luck**
Sincerely, Ms. Darbus
" WHAT?!", cried Gabriella and Jacob.
" We have to DANCE?", shrieked Jacob.
" And we only have four days to pick out a new song and create choreography to go with it? That's insane!", shouted Gabriella.
" That's showbiz, sister", Ryan said from behind them.
" What are you going to do?", Jacob asked nervously.
" Troy and I were thinking of doing the Samba. It's a real party dance and I have the perfect song in mind to sing as we dance", Ryan answered with a big smile on his face.
" What dance do you recommend we do?", asked Gabriella.
" I think you should go for a dance that's the polar opposite of our dance: the Waltz. It's a very classical dance, very elegant, very romantic. The man has to lead and the woman is to look like a swan floating across the dance floor with beauty and grace", Ryan told them.
Jacob snickered. Gabriella looked at him and asked, " What? You don't think I'm graceful?".
" It's not you I don't think is graceful. It's me I don't think is graceful", Jacob replied.
" Not to worry. I have some family friends that are professional dancers on that show, Dancing with the Stars, that are coming in to help Troy and me. Maybe I'll ask a couple to help you with your waltz", suggested Ryan.
" Oh, would you, Ryan? That would mean a lot to us", Gabriella said to him.
" Sure, why not? As much as I would love to see you both stumble through the waltz on your own, I feel that would be too cruel. I mean, I'm not my sister. So I'll have them call you and break a leg", Ryan replied then left.
" Yeah, you, too! Now isn't this awesome? We'll have professional dancers helping us! How bad can it be?", cried Jacob, excitedly.
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* Did you just seriously ask that question, Jacob? If you ever watched Dancing with the Stars, you would know that dancing requires a lot of blood, sweat, and tears! And most come back from dancing with plenty of scars so if there's any of you out there who think dancing is just a frilly little sport, you are dead wrong. So this is going to be fun to write! I'm a total DWTS fan and can't wait to write in Derek Hough, Karina Smirnoff, Lacey Schwimmer, Maksim Chmerskovsky, Mark Ballas, Julianne Hough, Edyta Sliwinska, and all of them! And I think you might have a slight suspicion who the guest judge might be. All I will say is he's my favorite DWTS judge. So please leave me a review and I'll see you all soon!