Chapter 2
Sharpay and Troy arrived at her house about half-an-hour later, after changing out of their costumes and saying some last few words. They were currently standing out in the rain, while Sharpay tried to unlock the front door. She finally got it opened up and the two ran inside.
"So this is it! Home, sweet home!" Sharpay said with a sarcastic tone in her voice.
"Wow, Pay, your house is amazing!" Troy was stunned as he walked inside. The house had a sort of Venetian theme to it.
"You wouldn't be saying that if you lived here! I'm home alone a lot, and I don't like being alone in such a big house."
"I could see that."
"Yeah…so, my room is up this way." She said, leading him up a set of stairs and through a single door. "Here it is!"
Troy was amazed at how cool her room was. Her walls were a medium pink, and on one wall, there was a big symbol that said S.E. that was in a lighter pink. Troy recognized the symbol from off of her car, her locker, and everything she owned.
"Pay? What's with the symbol?"
"My father had that drawn when I turned thirteen, and he had it put on everything I owned, so that I would know that that was mine and no one else could call it their's. I have full copyrights to it."
"Wow, that really cool…"
"Yeah. So I just need to take a shower and pack an overnight bag, and we can go!"
"Okay, cool."
"Make yourself at home." And with that, she walked into her bathroom and shut the door. Troy heard the shower turn on, and got up from the bed. He walked over to a set of double doors and opened them slowly. He gasped as he realized that it was Sharpay's closet. It was absolutely huge! He couldn't believe it; she had a full wall of nothing but shoes. And then she had a full sunglasses display, a hat rack, and a half-wall, with nothing but drawers on it. Troy couldn't guess what you would put in your closet in a drawer until he opened the top one. His eyes got really big as he saw what was inside.
"Like what you see?" he looked up to see Sharpay with a grin on her face standing there in a pink towel. She winked at him and walked closer to him. She wrapped her arms around him and looked at him like she was about to kiss him, but instead she just grabbed a pair of pink, lacy underwear out of the drawer that Troy still had open and was standing in front of. He leaned down to kiss her, when she walked out of the closet and back into the bathroom. Troy decided to walk back into her bedroom, before he saw anything else he shouldn't see.
A few minutes later, Sharpay walked out from her bathroom in a pink robe that, along with everything else, had a big SE on the back, which was in rhinestones. "Are we doing anything tomorrow, Troy?" she turned to look at him.
"I thought that we might go bowling or see a movie."
"Okay."
"Hey, by the way, where's Blondie?" Sharpay pointed at the pillows on her bed, and Troy saw a little bit of white hair sticking up from in between.
"She's probably terrified! She's about as scared of thunderstorms as I am, and she's not a big fan of strangers." She walked over to the hiding dog, and picked her up. Blondie immediately hid her face in Sharpay's hair. "Blondie," she pulled her out from her hair, "it's alright, you're okay." Sharpay sat down next to Troy and looked at him and back at Blondie. "Blondie, this is Troy. We like Troy." Sharpay gave Troy a kiss on the cheek, and held Blondie up to him. He took her and put her on his shoulder. Blondie immediately licked Troy on the cheek and barked softly.
"I think she likes you, Troy." Sharpay said with a smile on her face.
"Good, because I can't have my best girl's best pup not liking me, now can I?" All of a sudden a big crash of thunder was heard and Blondie started to shake. Sharpay took her from Troy and held her.
"Troy, I don't think I can leave Blondie, tonight. Not with it like this outside."
"Then bring her with you. My mom loves dogs, and my dad really doesn't care so, you should bring her."
"Are you sure that your parents would be cool with that? Can we call them and ask?"
"If it makes you feel any better, I will call them." He picked up his phone and dialed his mom's number. "Hey mom! Sharpay is being hesitant on coming over because she doesn't want to leave Blondie at home…that's what I told her, she just wanted to make sure it was okay…thanks mom…bye!" he hung up the phone and looked at Sharpay. "So what all do we need for this little one?"
Sharpay laughed and went to her closet and pulled out a pink dog carrier with a compartment underneath to hold all of her stuff. She quickly went back inside her closet and opened a drawer that had all of Blondie's stuff in it. She took out a leash, a bag of dog food, and two bowls. Sharpay came back out of her closet and placed the items in the carrier. Blondie all of a sudden started to get excited when she realized that she was going somewhere. "Let me just get my clothes together and then I'll be ready." Sharpay walked over to her closet and came back out with a pair of white Nikes with a black and pink swish, jeans, and a white shirt with angel wigs on it that said 'Saint I Ain't'. Once she had gotten all of her stuff out of her bathroom that she needed, they were ready to go.
They walked down the stairs just as Ryan was walking in the door. "Hey, Ryan! I'm staying over at Troy's tonight. And I don't know what time I'll be back tomorrow."
"Okay! Have fun!"
"Thanks Ry!" She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and walked out the door. She jumped in the car and left Troy there with Ryan.
"Hey, Troy?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm really glad that you two are together now. You're like all she ever talked about." Troy blushed when Ryan said this and Ryan just laughed. "Take good care of her man!"
"I will, don't worry!"
"See you!"
"See you!" Troy ran down to his car, put Sharpay's stuff in the back, and got in the driver's side. "Alright, let's go!"
They drove the five minute drive to Troy's house and he parked the car in the driveway. They grabbed Sharpay's stuff and ran up to the house, where Troy unlocked the door and opened it. They walked inside to find Mr. and Mrs. Bolton on the living room couch watching an episode of 'John from Cincinnati'. Mrs. Bolton was the first to greet the two teens.
"Oh, hi!" She got up and hugged the two of them. "Now where's our second guest?" she turned to Sharpay, who reached down and took a shivering Blondie out of her carrier. She stopped shaking when Sharpay held her. When she was calm, Sharpay handed her to Troy and Blondie licked him on the cheek and cuddled into his jacket.
"This is Blondie, mom."
"She's so cute! And she's a maltipoo?"
"Yes."
"Well, she's adorable." Mrs. Bolton was still petting the dog.
"Yeah, I think we're going to go upstairs and watch a movie or something."
"Alright."
"Night, mom."
"Night, Mrs. Bolton." Sharpay began to follow Troy up the stairs, when she heard someone speak behind her.
"Please, call me Lisa."
"Good night, Lisa." Sharpay laughed to herself.
"Much better!"
Troy and Sharpay dropped her stuff off in the guest room and then headed to Troy's room to watch a movie. Sharpay sat on the bed with Blondie in her lap. "What movie are we going to watch?"
"I don't know, what do you think?"
"Do you have 'The Skeleton Key'?"
"Of course, that movie rocks!" he picked up the movie and put it in the DVD player. Then he sat down on the bed next to Sharpay. He hit PLAY on the remote and the movie started. At the beginning of the movie, the two were sitting a good foot away from each other, but by halfway through, Sharpay had scooted over right next to Troy with her head resting on his chest. A scary part came on and Sharpay jumped and buried her face in Troy's chest. He smiled to himself as he wrapped his arms around her small body. All this time, Blondie had been under the covers with her face hidden. Soon, the movie was over and it was time for bed. Sharpay went to get up when a clash of thunder hit. Troy saw her body tense up and felt bad.
"Pay, why don't you just sleep in here?"
"Troy, your parents…"
"They'll understand. I don't want you getting freaked out tonight. Plus, we wouldn't want to wake Blondie up, would we?" he motioned towards a lump at the bottom of the bed and Sharpay saw Blondie snoozing happily.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I am positive."
"Okay." She lies down next to Troy and quickly fell asleep.
The next morning, Lisa Bolton was up and about at about 8:30. She decided to check on the kids just to make sure they were okay. First she stopped at the guest room, where she saw nothing but a made bed and a few pink bags. Officially confused, she walked down to Troy's room and slightly opened the door. There, were the two teens. Troy was lying behind Sharpay with his arms around her waist and Sharpay's head was leaning on his chest. Blondie was snuggled up to Sharpay and Sharpay had her hand resting on Blondie's back. Lisa smiled to herself until she realized what she was looking at here. She quickly walked into the room and poked Troy, who barely moved. She did it a couple of more times until his eyes finally propped open. He looked up at his mother, who had a stern look on her face. He knew what was coming, so he got up and followed her down the stairs and into the kitchen. She turned to look at him.
"Troy, we told you she could spend the night if she slept in the guest room. It's unacceptable for you two to be sleeping in the same bed!"
"Mom, it's not like we did anything!"
"It doesn't matter."
"Mom, last night after the movie Sharpay was going to go to sleep in the guest room, but I offered her to stay with me because she doesn't like thunderstorms and I didn't want her freaking out. She was hesitant because she didn't want to upset you, but I told her that you'd understand. So this is all me, mom. She has nothing to do with it."
Just then a half asleep Sharpay came walking down the stairs. How does she manage to always look beautiful? Troy thought to himself. "Good morning, Pay!" Troy smiled at her. Sharpay looked up at him and smiled back.
"Good morning, Troy." She suddenly looked over to where Lisa was standing and looked back at Troy with a worried expression looming on her face. Troy realized what she was implying and just laughed.
"I already told her the whole story, Pay. Don't worry about it." Sharpay got a relieved look on her face.
"Oh, thank the lord! Good morning, Lisa!"
"Good morning, Sharpay! Would you like something to drink?" Lisa was trying to be as kind as possible considering the circumstances.
"I'm fine for now. Just a little sleepy because someone kept waking up last night because of the storm." She looked down by her feet and it was the first time that Lisa or Troy had noticed the little white dog sitting by Sharpay's feet. Troy was amazed at how well behaved the dog was.
"Wow, Pay, Blondie is really well behaved. Did you send her to dog military school or something?" Sharpay laughed at his question and replied:
"No, she's been with me since she was about two weeks old."
"How? Aren't they supposed to be eight weeks before you buy them?"
"I didn't buy Blondie, Troy. When I was thirteen, I was riding my bike over to my friend's house and saw something moving behind a bush at this old vacant house and I decided to check it out. When I looked under into the bush, there were five little brand new puppies that had probably been abandoned by their mother. So, I went back home, got a basket, went back to the house and put the puppies in it. I brought them home and cleaned them up, fed them some milk, and raised them for six weeks. I gave them all away except for one and my father said that I deserved to keep one of them as my 'Good Deed Award'."
"Wow, that's cool! So, what are we going to do today?"
"I don't care, you choose."
"I don't care either."
Lisa perked up: "We could all go bowling, or something."
"That sounds cool with me!"
"Me too!" the two teens agreed.
"Okay, how about we all meet back here at noon and we can go eat and go bowling?"
"Sounds great, mom!" Troy looked at Sharpay and nodded towards the stairs. "Okay, we're going to go upstairs for a while and then I'll take Pay by her house so she can take her stuff and Blondie."
"Alright, see you in a little bit."
"Okay." The two teens headed up the stairs and walked back into Troy's room, grabbing Sharpay's stuff on the way.
"Troy, thanks for talking to your mom. That would have been really awkward for me to explain that." She kissed him lightly on the cheek and walked over to sit on his bed next to Blondie.
"Anytime, Pay! I'm going to go take a shower real quick, okay?"
"Alright! I'll be waiting!" Sharpay said with a laugh in her voice.
"Good!" he walked into his bathroom and shut the door, so Sharpay decided to look at the scrapbook that Troy had on his desk. On the front it said 2004-2005, so it would have been last year when they were sophomores. She flipped open to the first page and saw his basketball picture along with their team picture. She flipped to the next page and saw some pictures of him and the guys just hanging out, but it was when she turned the page that a smile came on her face. There was a whole double page devoted to her. The pages were pink and all the writing was done in silver Sharpie, glitter, or rhinestones. On the page was her yearbook picture, her drama club picture, a picture of Troy and Sharpay from drama that neither of them wanted to take at the time, and then there were some candid shots of her around school and at school events. She smiled when she saw a picture of her and Zeke sitting in the cafeteria eating his cookies. Just then, someone cleared their throat behind Sharpay and she looked back.
"What do you think you're doing, Pay?" Troy asked with a smile on his face.
"Troy, you have an entire Sharpay page?" she was clearly touched.
"Yeah, I have for every year since I've been doing these scrapbooks. I guess I started in eighth grade."
"Doesn't your mom ever help you with these?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Then how did she not know who I was?"
"Oh, I always come back and add your page when it's all done, so she won't see it."
"Oh."
"But this year's scrapbook is going to be a whole lot better because now I can put pictures of you wherever! Maybe some time we'll get the other's out and look at them."
"That sounds good."
"Cool! Are you ready to go, so we can swing by your house?"
"Yeah, let me just get Blondie real quick." She picked up the small dog and placed her in her carrier, but when she started to whine she took her back out. "What is it, Blondie?" Blondie barked softly and Sharpay realized what she wanted. Sharpay handed the small dog to Troy and Blondie licked him on the cheek. Troy set her back down on his bed and she went straight into her carrier. "See, Troy, great minds think alike." Sharpay kissed Troy on the cheek and picked up Blondie. They headed outside, got in the car, and headed to Sharpay's house, where she went in for a couple of minutes and came back out carrying a pink duffel.
"Pay, what's that for?" Troy motioned towards the bag.
"Oh, it's my bowling stuff." She said as if it was completely obvious.
"You never do anything simply, do you?"
"I try not to. If I did, life would get so boring!"
"Life would never be boring with you, Pay!" Troy just laughed when she smirked back at him. "So, how good a bowler are you, Sharpay?"
"You'll have to wait and see." Sharpay said as she winked it him.
"That bad, huh?" Troy joked.
"You're funny, Troy…real funny!"
"And I don't even have to try! Oh my god, I'm starting to sound like you!"
"I'm rubbing off on you this quick? Wow, I'm impressed!" She turned on the radio and on came one of her favorite songs: "We'll Be Together" by Ashley Tisdale. She started singing it and, for the first time, she really listened to the lyrics. She really felt that this was an appropriate song for how she was feeling right now. She looked over at Troy and saw that he was blushing slightly, she guessed from the song. When it ended, the DJ came back on: "That was 'We'll Be Together' by Ashley Tisdale, dedicated to Sharpay Evans from Troy Bolton."
Sharpay just smiled and looked at Troy. He was an even deeper red now. She cupped his face and turned it towards her. "Thank you…" Then she pulled him in for a marvelous kiss.