Chapter Two: Drama at breakfast

[Sharpay's point of view]

I strutted down the white corridor towards the auditorium; I needed to let out some of this frustration. The drama from breakfast played out in my mind as the students parted like the red sea all trying to avoid my deadly wrath, I just needed to keep myself together until I got to the auditorium. I couldn't let anyone see me cry. I started to walk faster as I felt the tears in my eyes threaten to break the facade I usually held so well. I pushed open the heavy oak door only wide enough for me to slip through, closed it quickly then leant my back against the cold, solid wood to try and catch my breath. I gave the room a quick scan to check I was alone then walked down the sloped gangway towards the stage at the front of the room, carelessly dropping my large gold bag onto one of the seats as I went. I walked to the centre of the stage, the place where I felt most at peace, and sunk to the floor, my hands falling into my lap and the tears cascading down my cheeks.

"You and daddy are going to come and see the show this year, right mom?"

"Kitten, you and Ryan both know we can never make any promises when it comes to attending things like that" The twins mother said as she placed a small stack of pancakes onto the table

"But mother, I have a starring role! Besides Asher has been fine for ages an-"

"Sharpay" Sharpay's mother interrupted sharply "I tell you this every time one of your little... 'Whims' come up. We won't know until the day"

Ryan smiled at his younger brother who sat across from him at the table "Shar, if they can't make it we completely understand. I mean as long as Asher is oka-"

"No!" Sharpay yelled standing up from the table, nearly knocking over her chair in the process "It's not fair! It's always about him! You know you have other children too, it's not just Asher"

"I suggest you sit down and keep quiet young lady! You know perfectly well that your brother's health comes before anything else" Mr Evans growled with authority at his daughter "now I don't care how brilliant this role is, you need to sort out your priorities. Family always comes first."

"Ha. This isn't a family. This is two parents putting one of their children on a pedestal just because he's sick, while the other two get pushed to the side. I mean I would have thought you'd have learnt by now that you can't just ignore me half my life-"

"We do not ignore you!" Mrs Evans glared at the young blond standing before her.

"Yeah well it sure feels like it. All Asher has to do is sneeze and you act like the world is coming to an end" Sharpay said as she slammed a fist down onto the table.

"I really wish you guys would stop talking about me like I'm not here" spoke the youngest Evans.

"Sometimes I wish you weren't here!" Sharpay spat.

Silence fell upon the table. Mr Evans was taking slow steady breaths trying to contain his anger, while Ryan sat starring at his twin trying it hard to believe what she had just said. Asher looked up at his older sister, her eyes showed a mixture of anger and disbelief at what she had just exclaimed, he then looked towards his mother who immediately put an arm around her son and kissed the side of his head and muttered "Sharpay doesn't mean anything she is saying. She is just having a selfish moment"

I knew everything I had said at breakfast was out of line, but sometimes it's just hard to control myself. Everything was always about Asher, no matter what I did, good or bad. It was always him.

"Sometimes I wish you weren't here!"

That sentence kept pushing its way to the front of my mind, no matter how hard I tried to stop it.

I didn't really mean it. It was just a spur of the moment thing; I was angry and needed to let it out. He's my brother and no matter how my parents treat me, I still love him. I know it's not his fault. I didn't mean it.

No matter how hard I tried to convince myself otherwise, I knew there was some truth behind those spiteful words spoken at breakfast.

I looked up quickly towards the auditorium doors as I heard footsteps and muffled voices approaching, then rubbed the back of my hand across my wet cheeks to try to hide any evidence of my tears. The footsteps stopped outside the doors but the voices carried on. It was Kelsi, one of the very few people in the school that wasn't afraid of me. I kind of admired her for that; she wasn't scared to let anyone know how she felt about them. I stood up and hurried over to the tiered seats to grab my bag- just because Kelsi wasn't scared of me didn't mean I wanted her to see me like this- then made my way up the isle taking a deep breath to ensure I was ready to put up the facade.

Kelsi walked in, wearing brightly coloured clothes that I'm sure only pre-schoolers wore, followed by some brown haired guy I hadn't seen before with an awkward look plastered across his face.

Must be new.

I raised my arms and pushed my way between them muttering "move" as I went, all the time keeping my head down to make sure they didn't see my tear stained face. I squinted slightly as I made it out into the bright white hallway which hurt my eyes; it was much darker in the auditorium.

As I turned to make my way towards the girl's toilets so I could re-apply my make up, I felt someone walk into me with such force it nearly knocked me off my feet.

"Watch where you're going, Jackas-"

"Hey there you are! I've been looking for y- have you been crying?"

I looked up to see my twin brother standing in front of me "oh, it's you..."

Ryan took hold of my arm and pulled me across to the side of the corridor out of the way of the crowds of people rushing to homeroom. I pulled my arm out of his grip and avoided eye contact with him.

"Shar? Why are you crying?" he asked me. Isn't it obvious?

"Why do you think?" I retaliated.

"If this is about everything at breakfast... you brought it on yourself, I mean if anyone should be crying, it should be Asher. What you said was harsh."

"You think I don't know that?" I growled at him "I can't help the way I feel about all of this Ry! I wish I could but I can't. So just-"

"Calm down, will you? People are starting to look"

I turned my head to glare at everyone in the corridor who had slowed down to listen into my conversation and smirked slightly with satisfaction as they all looked away and hurried off to the separate destinations.

I love having power.

I turned back to Ryan getting rid of the smirk on my face and replacing it with an apologetic pout "I'm sorry about what I said and I'll say sorry to everyone later, now if you excuse me I need to go and sort out my make-up before people think I'm trying to start a new trend"

Ryan chuckled lightly at my poor attempt of a joke but went along with it to try and make me feel better "I'm sure you could pull it off"

I smiled and shook my head slightly as I walked away in search of the toilets.

TBC

Well I'm super sorry for the extremely late update, I don't really have an excuse other than "I couldn't be bothered"

But hey, it's better late than never, right?

Please review and tell me your thoughts/opinions and ideas. It would be much appreciated!

Alice xoxo