Am I updating too fast? I feel like I'm updating fast and leaving no time for suspense to build ;D it's just that I'm trying to get to the more exciting parts of my story. I'm overly excited! :]

Disclaimer: No, I still don't own High School Musical. It's really depressing ):

Sharpay hid behind a locker and watched Troy, walk down the hall with Gabriella. She turned to her brother, who was standing next to her. "What should I do, Ry?"

"About what?," Ryan questioned.

"About Troy. Gabriella attaches to him like a leech."

"Well, honestly, so do you."

Sharpay glared at her brother. "That's my point. Where do I get my leech time, when she's always around? When Troy and I get married, I don't her still being around. It's not fair."

"You're right, it's not…," Ryan trailed off. "Wait. You guys are getting married?"

Sharpay nodded. "Eventually. And Gabriella ruins everything."

"Yes, Gabriella is horrible," he said, almost sarcastically. "But married? Troy agreed to getting married?"

She bit her lip. "No…"

Ryan raised an eyebrow. "How do you know if he even likes you?"

"Of course, he likes me, Ry," she answered in a 'duh' tone. "Would you claim someone you didn't like as your best friend? No, I don't think you would."

"That's not what I mean, Shar. I mean, does he like you like you like him?"

Sharpay blinked. "Are you assuming that he doesn't?"

"No. But you're assuming that he does."

Sharpay blinked again. He's right. It's not like he acts as if he likes me as anymore than a friend. But then again, I don't either. Because I don't want him to know. Perhaps, he's just hiding it? I mean, how can he best friends with me this long, and not feel anything romantic. I certainly feel it. Then a light bulb went of in her head. She wasn't his only best friend…maybe he felt romantic towards the other best friend. A look of horror flashed across her face.

Ryan stared at his twin, who was apparently having a revelation of some sort.

"Troy is in love with Gabriella."

"What?"

She nodded. "It's obvious. He never acts like he thinks of me as anything more than a friend."

"And how does he act when he's around Gabriella?"

Sharpay shrugged. "How should I know? I tend to look in the other direction, whenever I see them together."

"So maybe, he does like you."

Sharpay smiled at the thought. "You should ask him for me!"

"Ask him, what? If he's in love with my sister?!"

--

Ryan couldn't believe Sharpay was making him do this. If she wasn't his sister and all, he would've said no. But she is his sister, so had to do this. He found Troy at his locker.

"If you're looking for your sister, I haven't seen her all day. I feel like she's avoiding me or something," Troy said as soon as he saw Ryan.

"Uh, no. I just talked to her. And it's not you she's avoiding, it's someone else. " He failed to mention that the someone she was avoiding happened to be Gabriella, whom Troy had been with all day.

"Oh, okay. So, what's up?" He didn't really care much about who Sharpay was avoiding. He was just glad it wasn't him.

"Shar wanted me ask you something," Ryan answered. Troy nodded and gestured for him to go on.

Just then, Gabriella came from out of nowhere and stood next to Troy. "Hey Troy," she said, in a happy voice. Troy smiled in response.

Then she noticed Ryan. "Hi Ryan," she said in the same voice. Surprisingly, she didn't hate Ryan. She didn't even dislike him. It wasn't his fault, he had to share a womb with Sharpay.

"Hey…," Ryan answered, halfheartedly. Inside, he was contemplating the fact that Sharpay might plummet him in to another galaxy for talking to Gabriella.

"So, what was it Sharpay wanted to ask me? Or wanted you to asked me?"

Ryan debated whether or not he should ask in front of Gabriella, who was standing there with a curious look on her face. He voted no. "Uh. I can't remember."

Troy eyed Ryan, suspiciously. Something was up. There was no way, he had actually forgotten; but he decided to let it slide. "Okay, well, tell me when you remember."

Ryan nodded and went off to find Sharpay.

--

"So, what did Troy say?," Sharpay squealed, when Ryan came to her, during lunch.

"He didn't say anything, because I didn't ask him," Ryan admitted.

"Ryan!," she whined.

"I was about to, but then Gabriella-"

Sharpay scoffed. "I should've known, it was her fault."

"Yeah. Right when I was about to ask, she appeared out of nowhere."

"That's what I've been trying to tell you, Ry. She's a freaking gypsy."

"Gypsies don't appear out of nowhere, Shar," Ryan pointed out. "I think, you are referring to genies."

Sharpay shrugged. "Genies. Gypsies. What's the difference?"

Ryan was about to answer, when Sharpay interrupted, "That was a rhetorical question."

"Whatever. By the way, Troy thinks your avoiding him."

"It's not him. It's his pet.," Sharpay replied, referring to Gabriella.

"Yeah, I know..."

There's not a lot of Gabriella in this chap. She's there when Ryan is talking to Troy, but she doesn't really say anything. This chapter was mostly Sharpay & Ryan. I'll make the next chapter more Gabriella-ish, I guess.