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You're the One That I Want
Chapter 4: The Best Option For Both of Us
By musiclover94
Recap…
Sharpay was stumbling out of the East High front doors, tears smudging her eyesight. She crossed the road and heard a set of tires screeching. She quickly turned her blonde head and saw a terrified-looking driver staring back at her. She quickly his her face again, running to her car, the tears blending wit the slow rain coming down.
"I can't believe opening night's in two weeks!" Kelsi squealed as she walked with Sharpay, and to Sharpay's horror, Gabriella, who looked very smug.
"Freddy my love, Freddy my lo-…" Kelsi began to sing, but Sharpay cut her off, rather brutally than was necessary.
"There will be plenty of time for singing at rehearsal. It's for three hours!" Sharpay said. She still looked heartbroken, as she had when she saw Gabriella kissing Troy. Gabriella slyly hid her wide smirk behind their backs. Sharpay saw it, though. She gave her a vicious look.
"But you always say there's never enough time to practice!" Kelsi sputtered.
"Things change," Sharpay said bitterly. And oh, they had: the rehearsals had gone from bad to worse; Troy was trying harder than ever to make Sharpay turn the other cheek, Sharpay's acting skills to hide her urges to rage at Troy were running low. The previous night, she sang a rather sarcastic version of 'You're the One That I Want', for which Mrs. Darbus gave her a disapproving glance. While this was happening, Gabriella gave Sharpay a huge smirk, which she didn't even bother to hide.
'Another complete run-through tonight!" Mrs. Darbus called shrilly. Everyone bustled to his or her dressing rooms.
"Sharpay, please sound at least a little bit loving toward Troy! Even if your love life is down the drain, mask it from the audience, which you are doing a very poor job of doing right now!" Darbus said, sounding angry, but even more disappointed.
Sharpay felt as if someone had shoved a lead weight in her chest at Mrs. Darbus's words; 'Even if you're love life is down the drain, mask it from the audience…' But she doesn't know, she can't know…right? She gave Gabriella a look, but for once, she didn't look smug and was paying rapt attention to something Darbus was saying to her.
"Rehearsal adjourned!" Mrs. Darbus said happily to the large amount of sweaty and out of breath cast members, "Practice tomorrow at 6 p.m. sharp!"
Sharpay ran like lightning to get her coat. It had been a kind of routine; she immediately get her coat before Troy could talk to her, which he had made a habit of since the disastrous meeting before. But some days, she was deflected from getting out of the theatre in five seconds Troy caught her and attempted to let her know the truth. Today was one of those days.
"Sharpay!" Troy said, holding onto her arm and pleading etched in his face.
"Troy," she said, trying to sound somewhat kind, but it came out sarcastic, "I appreciate that you're trying to make it up to me after I've seen you making out with Gabriella twice," Troy opened his mouth to retort, but Sharpay continued, "but save it. At lease do me the common decency of breaking up with me before I see another session." She finished, hands on her hips.
"Sharpay, you don't understand!" Troy said exasperatedly
Sharpay laughed a disbelieving laugh. "I don't understand!? How do you think it feels for me, Troy? Seeing you sucking face with Gabriella every second you get, thinking that just because you're King of East High, you can keep the other girlfriend from the other. Well, it doesn't work like that, Troy! Nothing works like that!"
After a moment, Troy said, "I'm not going to break up with you, Sharpay."
"Did you just hear what I said!" Sharpay hissed.
"Yes, I did hear what you said," Troy said, trying to keep calm, but his pleading was starting to show, "and it's not true. None of it."
"Then why have you been snogging Little Miss Montez every chance you get when it's in front of me? Because I think it would be the best option for both of us if we just broke up, Troy!" she said, slightly hysterical now.
Troy looked at his feet a moment, apparently choosing the best words for what he was going to say. "The reason Gabriella has been kissing me is because-."
Just then, Mrs. Darbus appeared from the depths of her office.
"The auditorium is closed, Mr. Bolton and Ms. Evans," she said, grabbing her coat.
Without giving Troy another chance for talking, Sharpay grabbed her coat and ran out of the dark theatre.
Tears were severely obstructing her vision once again as Sharpay blindly walked home. She was positive that she would die from the pain in her heart. She crossed the waterlogged street. Just hearing the past couple of weeks events said by the perpetrator were enough, to Sharpay, permanently break her heart. She crossed a 4-way intersection as a dangerously swaying SUV came speeding toward her. She had a millisecond to respond, but she moved too slowly. A sickening crunch of metal and Sharpay's watery and broken world went black.
Author's Note: Sorry that a lot of my stories contain people getting hit by cars, but my writing mind's not the best today. But, nevertheless, I hoped you liked it. Even if you didn't, please review!