Mistakes
Hey guys, I am a million times sorry for not updating sooner, school and work have been a nightmare, but anywhere, here's chapter 9 (finally), and hopefully chapter 10 should be out soon, please read and review, and I hope that you like it!
Chapter 9
Walking down the corridor, Matt's head whipped from side to side, praying that he would find his girlfriend soon, and scowling when all he saw were random people who he didn't know, most of who were gaping at him like he was a celebrity, making him shuffle uncomfortably, as the bell suddenly rang out shrilly and there was a stampede of feet, everyone charging down the corridor to make their lessons in time, leaving a slightly dazed Matt in the corridor.
Shaking his head, Matt sighed softly, but his ears perked up and he tilted his head to the side as he heard the soft tinkering of piano keys, with a hushed melodic voice filling in the words.
There's nothing we can't do
Just wanna be with you, only you
No matter where life takes us
Nothing can break us apart
You know it's true
I just wanna be with you
Grinning again, Matt turned on his heel, and sprinted along the corridor to the auditorium, chuckling softly when he pushed the doors open, watching mesmerised, as Lilly-Ella frowned slightly, chewing at the end of a pencil, writing something down quickly, before replacing the paper, and reaching for the piano keys once more, softly starting to play the new notes which she had added to the song, humming the notes with it from where she sat in front of the piano in the centre of the stage.
Beaming, Matt bounded down the aisle way, leaping onto the stage, and bursting into laughter as Lilly-Ella gave a slight shriek and turned to glare at the person that had unexpectedly invaded her space on the stage, one hand placed over her heart.
"Matthew Thomas Baker! Are you trying to give me a heart attack before I even reach seventeen?" She shrieked, but Matt just grinned at her, flicking his hair out of his eyes and moving to sit beside her on the small piano bench, placing a quick kiss to her temple, before turning to her music sheets and moving them in front of him, glancing over the notes, and placing his hands over the piano keys as he softly started to play the song that his girlfriend had just written, trying not to laugh as he watched her eyes widen, her looking at him, as he grinned back at her, glancing back at the music sheet once more, before beginning to sing.
Lilly-Ella, Matt, Both
I got a lot of things I have to do,
All these distractions our future's coming soon
We're being pulled
A hundred different directions
But whatever happens
I know I've got you
Thinking that Matt was done, Lilly-Ella smiled and looked up at him, her hands drawing away from the piano keys, "Wow, who knew that Poster Boy could sing?" Lilly-Ella grinned slightly, leaning up and kissing his cheek softly as Matt just laughed.
"I could say the same thing about you Star Girl, I mean who knew that the brainiac chick could not only run track and beat most of the jocks apart from her super hot, fantastic, amazing boyfriend," Matt grinned, wiggling his eyebrows, and Lilly-Ella rolled her eyes, shoving him playfully, "timing wise during gym, but can also write and sing music as well, you're going to take East High by storm when everyone gets to know you Lilly-Ella." Beaming once more at her, Matt ran his hands along the keys, immediately starting to sing again as Lilly-Ella giggled slightly, before joining in.
You're on my mind
You're in my heart
It doesn't matter where we are
We'll be alright
Even if we're miles apart
Matt beamed as he turned his head to look at Lilly-Ella, and gently nudged her with his shoulder, which she quickly retaliated to, trying to stifle her laughter as she carried on singing her lyrics, a smile lighting up her face.
All I wanna do is be with you
Be with you
There's nothing we can't do
Just wanna be with you, only you
No matter where life takes us
Nothing can break us apart
You know it's true
I just wanna be with you
Yeah yeah
Just be with you
You know how life can be
It changes overnight
It's sunny then raining, but it's alright
A friend like you
Always makes it easy
I know that you get me
Every time
Through every up, through every down
You know I'll always be around
Through anything you can count on me
The pair turned to each other and grinned once more, Matt's hands still working like magic on the piano keys, although neither one needed the music sheets anymore, just looking at each other was providing them everything that they needed, already knowing that even though they had just met three weeks previous, they had a stronger connection with each other, than they had ever had with anyone else in their lifetimes.
All I wanna do is be with you
Be with you
There's nothing we can't do
Just wanna be with you, only you
No matter where life takes us
Nothing can break us apart
You know it's true
I just wanna be with you
I just wanna be with you.
"You're just full of hidden surprises aren't you," Matt grinned, his lips finding hers as he pecked them softly, before pulling away, a pout appearing on her face as he chuckled lightly.
"Well, wouldn't the school be pleased to know that their basketball star could sing," Lilly-Ella grinned mischievously, as Matt's face paled, "Ooh, even better idea, there's a sign up sheet outside the auditorium for anybody wanting to be a part of the talent show in two months time."
Getting up from the piano stool, Lilly-Ella began to make her way to the steps at the side of the stage, before feeling a pair of strong arms wrap themselves around her, spinning her around in circles, her laughter bouncing off of the auditorium walls, as Matt placed her back down facing him.
"You wouldn't dare Miss Bolton, otherwise I know somebody else whose name would be joining mine only moments later, and let me give you a hint, her initials are L-E. A. B.," Matt grinned as he watched a pout form on Lilly-Ella's face once more, and she folded her arms, "Stop pouting babe, it only makes me want to do this more," Matt chuckled, lowering his mouth onto hers, as he unfolded her arms, and wrapped his around her waist, pulling her as tightly to him as humanely possible, and feeling her arms slip up around his neck, beginning to play with the strands of his hair, as his tongue slipped soundly into her mouth, and the two of them began battling for dominance, eventually pulling apart and resting their foreheads together, breathing heavily as they beamed at one another.
Hearing a sniffling sound, Lilly-Ella's eyebrows shot up, and she looked at Matt, who looked equally confused, as they stepped apart from each other, and surveyed their surrounding area, Lilly-Ella watching as something moved behind the deep red curtain, before tugging on Matt's hand, and heading backstage to where the movement was.
Rounding the corner, both Matt and Lilly-Ella's mouths dropped open, as they looked at Sassy Mitchell, the current ice queen of East High, on her knees, sobbing into her hands with her cell phone sat beside her.
"Sassy, what's wrong?" Lilly-Ella enquired quietly, disentangling her hand with Matt's, and walking towards the distraught girl, whose head had shot up and the sound of the brunettes' voice.
"What does it matter to you Bolton?" She sneered, glaring at Lilly-Ella, "But if you really want to know, my parents have just informed me that they aren't gonna bother coming to see me for another three months, all because mother needs a three month shopping freaking trip in Paris, when they've just spent six months away from me in London," Sassy screeched, showing Lilly-Ella the text with all of the information on, before hurling her cell phone across the room, watching as it smashed into tiny little pieces, and both Matt and Lilly-Ella winced, Matt moving forward to stand beside his girlfriend. "But please, don't let it be a hindrance on your perfect little lives."
Both Matt and Lilly-Ella's eyes turned cold as they turned back to face Sassy. "We don't lead perfect lives Sassy, far from it actually, parts of my life I would consider to be hell, and I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, and I know that Lilly-Ella feels the same," Matt spat out, hurt mixed with anger flashing through his golden eyes and Lilly-Ella's cerulean eyes.
"But…but, you're the basketball boy who everyone loves," She snivelled slightly, her mascara streaming down her cheeks as she turned to look once more at Lilly-Ella, "And you're the new girl who everyone is already starting to be loved like the schools new queen, and whose captured the basketball captains heart," whimpering softly, Sassy looked away from the pair, not noticing how both of them winced as she summed them up.
Sighing, Lilly-Ella dropped to her knees beside the sobbing girl, her boyfriend watching her curiously, "Sassy, you've got me all wrong, I'm nothing like this schools queen, G-d if you'd known me at my last school, you would've had a field day," Lilly-Ella laughed bitterly, and looked away as both Sassy and Matt turned to her with inquisitive eyes, neither knowing much about her life at her old school, apart from the fact that she was the smartest one there, "I was the schools 'freaky math girl'," she snorted softly as she put air quotes around her old title, "Pure and simply because I was smart, I was different, I didn't fit in, I became the target of everyone at that school, even the alleged nerds wouldn't come anywhere near me, I was a total outcast from the minute my best friend, my only friend, left in the third grade, to the time I stepped foot in East High. I ended up the butt of everyone's jokes, and I had at least seven times the amount of homework that I should have had from middle school to where we are now, thanks to the sports teams. But thanks to coming here, I can be anyone I want to be, I can completely reinvent myself if I want to, but I don't, I just want people to see me and like me for me." Lilly-Ella smiled softly, "And so far it seems to be working," She turned and beamed at Matt, who chuckled softly and grinned back, his topaz coloured eyes gleaming with joy.
"Yeah but you have no idea what it's like to be abandoned by family," Sassy muttered harshly, a glare fully fixed on Lilly-Ella, as the brunette whipped around to scowl at the blonde, and Matt sucked in a harsh breath, begging for Sassy to take back what she had just said, and praying that he wouldn't have to see that horrible, hurt look on his girlfriends face, when she delved into the past with her mother once more.
Lilly-Ella's eyes narrowed as she glowered at Sassy, "Don't you dare tell me that I don't know what it's like to be abandoned, my own mother left me on the day I was born, and that's the only detail that I know because my Dad refuses to tell me anymore, so G-d alone knows what else she said about me, or what else happened, so don't you even go into what it feels like to be abandoned, at least you saw and see you're parents some of the time, I have no idea what my mother even so much as looks like, I could have passed her a million times and I wouldn't have known," Lilly-Ella shrieked, the tears slipping freely down her face by this point, as she held up her trembling hands in a useless attempt to stop the flow of water.
Feeling a soft hand placed upon her own, Lilly-Ella looked up, straight into a pair of sincere, emerald green eyes, "I'm really sorry Lilly-Ella, I had no idea, but I really am truly sorry, you don't deserve any of what's happened to you, my previous behaviour included, I hope that you can forgive me, and I'd really like the chance to get to know you better, you know, if that's ok," biting her bottom lip nervously, Sassy held Lilly-Ella's gaze.
Nodding slightly, Lilly-Ella pulled Sassy in for a hug, smiling a little at how sincere the blonde haired girl had been with her words, and pulling back to study who she hoped would be a new friend.
Matt dropped to his knees and tenderly captured Lilly-Ella in his arms, hugging her tightly as he pulled her backwards onto his lap, kissing the top of her head gently as he sighed softly, resting his head where moments ago his lips had been, and looked up at Sassy with stormy, conflicted eyes, the caramel colour having been replaced with a muddy chocolate colour which made Sassy cringe inwardly, "Have you never wondered how even though I'm the basketball boy, the so-called G-d of East High that will save the school and win them another championship, that I never seem to have any friends around me, at least not until Star Girl moved here?"
Cocking her head slightly, Sassy blinked her emerald green eyes and nodded slightly as she studied the conflicted young man, "Yeah, that always has been something that I've wondered. I mean, I obviously didn't go to middle school with you, but I've heard people who did say that the old you is finally coming back since Lilly-Ella appeared."
Matt smiled softly, and buried his head deeply into Lilly-Ella's hair, sighing deeply, until he felt a small hand on his cheek, and brought his head out of his girlfriend's hair, only to have Lilly-Ella's head instantly whip around to look at him, curiosity and concern shining in her eyes as he gently placed a kiss to her shining lips, before looking at Sassy once more. "They're right Sassy, ever since Star girl joined East high, the old me is starting to come back, thank G-d, I honestly don't know how long I would have lasted otherwise, I would've probably self destructed, given a little more time," Matt chuckled dryly, and winced slightly when he felt Lilly-Ella's grip on his jeans tighten slightly, before her fists uncurled and wrapped around his arms that were still holding her tightly, "About two and a half years now, I lost everything that was ever important to me." Matt blinked a few times to clear the tears that were welling up in his eyes, and momentarily studied the wall behind Sassy's head, before taking another shaky breath, and launching back into his own story, "I was always so close to my parents, my Dad was my idol basically, he's the reason that I play basketball, the first thing that he did when I learnt how to walk was take me out onto our basketball court and start teaching me," Matt chuckled softly, and a small smile flitted across both of the girls' faces, "And my Mom was always so supportive it was unbelievable. They both needed, and deserved really, some time off from their hectic schedules, including taking me to basketball practices and games constantly, so they left me here with my grandparents, and took off a month long road trip. The day they were due back, I was so excited it was unreal, I couldn't wait to see them again, finally, it was the longest that I'd ever gone without seeing them. I didn't know then, that I had already seen them for the last time. Way after I'd gone to bed that night, disappointed that I hadn't seen them, I already knew that something was wrong from the looks on my grandparents faces, there was a knock on the door, two police officers were there to tell us that they had died, they were hit by a speeding truck, they never stood a chance." Sobbing quietly, Matt buried his face into Lilly-Ella's hair again, as she turned around and engulfed the shaking boy in a hug, Sassy watching from the sidelines as her own tears streamed down her face.
"I'm so sorry Matt," Lilly-Ella whispered softly, lifting her face from his, and resting their foreheads together, as she gently raised a hand and wiped away his tears, kissing the spots where the trails were still visible.
"I know, I know," he muttered softly, holding her tightly, as he pulled her back onto his lap, and the two of them rocked gently, Sassy's confusion growing, Matt looked up at her, and a tiny smile flew across his features, before disappearing once more, "I bet that you're wondering how the hell I wound up with no friends after that, huh?"
Sassy looked up at him and nodded softly, "Yeah, I mean it just doesn't make any sense, you'd think that after that you're friends would stick with you, and I'm really sorry for what happened to your parents Matt."
Matt looked at her and smiled softly as he watched the ice princess of the school chew on her lip shyly, "Thanks Sassy," He murmured quietly, sighing and kissing the top of Lilly-Ella's head once more, "Lilly-Ella already knows this part, don't you?" He questioned the brunette quietly, as she nodded and turned in his arms to face Sassy again, "My three best friends were triplets, Cooper, Cal and Connor Henries, I was with them since we were born, basically, and the four of us were never apart when we were awake, got ourselves into a lot of trouble, but it was what we were best at," Matt chuckled and Lilly-Ella giggled quietly, "But three and a half months after my parents death, their Mom got moved for a job, and they obviously had to move with their Mom and Dad, the last I heard they somewhere in Connecticut, I hear from Cooper every so often, but to the others, it's like I've dropped off of the face of the earth, Coop says it's cos they feel guilty about leaving me when I needed them, but I don't know," Matt shrugged slightly, and shifted round so that he was sitting next to Sassy, instead of facing her, leaning onto the wall, with Lilly-Ella still situated on his knee, one arm wrapped securely around her, as he held the other one out to Sassy, beckoning her to the pair, as he wrapped his other arm around her.
"G-d, aren't we such a happy, lucky bunch of people," Lilly-Ella muttered sarcastically, resting her head on Matt's shoulder, as Matt and Sassy burst into laughter, soon joined by Lilly-Ella herself. Standing up, Lilly-Ella looked back down at her boyfriend, the brunette boy, who was starting to let a little joy back into his life, and her new friend, the blonde haired girl, whose ice was starting to melt bit by bit, and held her arms out to them, "Come on guys, I think that we need to head back to mine for some junk food and trashy TV." The others looked at each other and laughed, nodding as they each grabbed one of Lilly-Ella's arms, pulling her down on top of them again as the petite girl shrieked, much to their amusement.
Three hours later, Matt felt about ready to kill himself, as he looked back and forth between the sobbing Lilly-Ella, and the sobbing Sassy, his golden coloured eyes wide with part amusement, and part fear for what was running through the girls heads.
"I can't believe he just left her," Sassy sobbed hysterically, as Lilly-Ella nodded, the two of them clutching to each other and the tub of Ben and Jerry's cookie dough ice cream they were sharing.
"Uh-huh, I know, Jack and Rose were just so perfect for each other," Lilly-Ella snivelled, more tears streaming from his eyes.
Rolling his eyes, Matt suppressed a laugh as he looked at the two girls, "I am never ever letting the two of you watch Titanic ever again," he muttered under his breath, only to look up and see two angry girls glaring at him, before a torrent of cushions came flying straight for his head. "Ow!" He howled, as both girls burst into laughter, their tears instantly forgotten.
He looked at the girls and grinned, diving on top of them and tickling them both as they screamed for mercy, all three of them amazed at how well they were getting on, given what their backgrounds would have been at so many other schools, the jock, the drama geek and the nerd, the three of them only stopping what they were doing when they heard laughter in the doorway, and their heads shot up to see three figures stood in the entryway to the room, two of which were very familiar to Matt and Sassy.
"Uncle Ryan, Aunt Taylor!" Lilly-Ella screamed, pushing the stunned Matt and Sassy off of her, so that they fell into a heap on the floor, as she ran towards her 'Uncle' and her 'Aunt'.
"Hey Kitten," Ryan chuckled, wrapping his arms around the teenage girl, as he lifted her from the ground, laughing as she squealed and he placed her back on her feet, her arms instantly winding around Taylor.
"And what am I, chopped liver?" Troy muttered darkly, as Lilly-Ella and Taylor pulled away from each other laughing and eyed him up and down, looking back at one another again.
"Yep," They answered simultaneously, laughing even more as Troy started to do a fish impression, his mouth opening and closing, before he lunged forwards, and grabbed Lilly-Ella, tickling her and pulling her into a hug at the same time.
"I love you Daddy," she muttered, wrapping her arms tightly around him, and burying her face in his chest, before pulling away, a radiant smile filling her face.
"Yeah, I should think so," Troy laughed, before looking back at Sassy and Matt, who were now standing, watching the quartet in confusion, "Are you gonna make any introductions, or am I gonna have to ask them instead?" Troy questioned his daughter with a raised eyebrow, as she blushed, and moved back over to her friends, wrapping an arm around each of them.
"Daddy, this is my boyfriend Matt, and my friend Sassy, you guys, this is my Dad, Troy Bolton, and obviously you know Taylor Danforth, and Ryan Evans, my aunt and uncle," Lilly-Ella grinned at the staggered pair, before giggling, and pulling them into the kitchen, "I'm making chocolate sundaes for those who want them, whoever doesn't, well then your missing out!" She screamed through the house, and everyone laughed, the three adults slowly making their ways to the kitchen, Troy grinning at the fact that he now had two of his best friends back, who would look out for his daughter as well, and that his daughter was finally happy, knowing how difficult it had been for her at her old school in L.A., but as much as he tried to stop thinking about it, Troy couldn't help but wonder, just how long would this happiness last?
Once again guys, I am so so so so sorry for leaving it this long, school and work have just taken over, but I'm hoping to have the next chapter out by the end of next week at the latest, and then my Christmas holidays start, from school at least, so please review and tell me what you thought of this one!