Alright so i was planning on having this up last night but i got about halfway through typing and didnt have the energy to type anymore. But its ready now and i really hope everyone likes it because i worked really hard on it. Also thank you to the person who reviewed the first chapter. Any reviews mean a lot to me and so i'd love more reviews for this chapter so i know what everyone thinks of it or if there is anything that i could improve on or just what you thought of the story in general so far.
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It had been 2 days since the day I saw Troy for the first time in 9 years, I thought I missed him in those 9 years I was away but honestly I think I missed him more in these past 2 days than I did those whole 9 years. I guess it makes you miss someone more when you actually have a chance to see the person everyday rather than living across the country from each other. It probably didn't help that I was scared to talk to him either. I mean he lives right across the street from me and it's not like I haven't had opportunities to go talk to him, like when I watched him practice shooting this morning, I could have easily just gone outside to talk to him but instead I sat in my room like a scared little girl afraid to talk to her crush, if I can even call how I feel about Troy a crush because to me I think it's more than a crush but it's not like anything will become of it. He has a girlfriend and we've barely talked since I came back. He probably didn't even mean what he said the other day and probably just said it to be nice or make me feel better, I mean I was sick at the time, or well sick as far as he knew, and if he really cared he would have come over the next day to see if I was feeling better right?
I was sitting home alone while my parents were out buying a few things at the store that we needed. They asked if I wanted to go with them but I didn't really want to. So there I was at home laying on the couch in a pair of short shorts and a t-shirt flipping through the channels of the television figuring out what I was going to do with the rest of my day. I mean I didn't really want to spend the rest of my time here staying in the house all day but it wasn't like I had anywhere to go either. It wasn't like I could just walk over to Troy's house and be like "hey I don't know what you're doing today but you should drop your plans and hangout with me". He'd probably turn me down and laugh in my face for even thinking that we were still friends like before. It seemed like we were still somewhat friends when he came after me though so maybe that was a sign that a piece of our friendship was still alive.
I didn't get much thought in after that as I heard a knock at the door. I knew it couldn't be my parents since they had a key to the house so I snuck a peek out the window and saw blonde girl wearing way to much pink standing outside. I wasn't sure if I should answer or not I mean parents did always say that I shouldn't open the door for strangers but she seemed familiar to me and I didn't want to be rude and ignore the girl so I got up from where I was sitting and got up to answer the door. As I opened the door I got a better look at the girl, she had long bleach blonde hair with hazel eyes and was wearing a light pink shirt under a bright pink sweatshirt with of jean shorts. She looked at me with a slight perkiness to her eyes and finally spoke
"Are you Savannah Davis?" She said cheery tone to her voice as asked the question.
"Um yeah that's me" I said to her a little skeptical as to how she knew who I was. I mean I did live here when I was younger but didn't think anyone would remember me after all this time let alone know where I live "and can I ask what you're doing here or how you even know who I am?" She then looked at me as if I should know who she was when I clearly had no idea at the time
"Hello? It's a small town people talk and how can you not remember me?" she said as if I was supposed to instantly remember who she was but my mind was still drawing a blank "ugh we were friends and in all the same classes from first to third grade" she said trying to hint towards me who she was but I still wasn't getting it she then sighed loudly "oh my gosh forget it, it's me Sharpay Evans.." I then looked at her wide eyed. The Sharpay I remember looked nothing like the girl standing in front of me. The girl I knew had super curly brown hair and didn't wear half as pinker as she was wearing at this very moment. In fact I don't think I ever remember her wearing pink when we were in school together. I shook my head in disbelief that this was the same Sharpay Evans from all those years ago.
"Seriously you can't be the same Sharpay, I mean the Sharpay I remember was well not so blonde" she said. She knew she sounded stupid but it was the first adjective she could think of to describe her without sounding mean.
"Well it's amazing what a little hair-dye and a wardrobe makeover can do. But underneath all this is the same Sharpay just more confident I guess you could say" She said with a smile on her face as if she was proud of what she had become. I was glad that she'd broken out of her little shell that she seemed to be in when she was younger but this girl in front of me just seemed overly confident and made me prefer having the shy little Sharpay back. "So are you going to invite me or make me stand out here the rest of the day" She said almost trying to push her way into my house but I stopped her not wanting to let her into my home yet.
"Um actually I was going to head outside and go for a walk or something but you're welcome to join if you want" I said even though I wasn't quite sure if I wanted her to join me or not. I wanted her to so we could catch up and I could use a friend here even if it was Sharpay and it didn't seem like Troy wanted to be my friend anymore since we haven't spoken for days now. But I wasn't sure if I was in the mood to hang out with Miss Perky for however long that she was going to be around, but I decided to make the most of it.
"Sure we need to catch up so a walk it is" she said turning around heading back down my driveway pretty much expecting that I was following behind her which I was. We started walking down the sidewalk and I felt awkward walking with her not sure of what to say to her or what I was supposed to say to her. "So catch me up on your life I mean a lot has to have happened in all of the time that you've been gone" she said seeming to be prying for information either that or she was genuinely curiously but I wasn't so sure at that point. I just shrugged my shoulders
"There's not much to say, my life has been kind of boring so if you're looking for something interesting to hear I don't think you're going to get what you want to hear" I said honestly to her. What I said was true I didn't really much going on while I was away; I mean I made a few friends but it was nothing worth gossiping over with her. " but yeah, since my life has been so boring why don't we talk about yours what's happened in the life of Sharpay Evans that I should know about" I asked her trying to sound like I really cared which I kind of did but probably not as much as she cared about what I had been up to
"Well as you can see I've changed my look since you last saw me and I've actually gotten into the drama club at school , I'm the president of it actually well co-president with my brother Ryan, you remember him don't you? Well yeah we run the drama club at East High and if I do say so myself it's the best Drama club you could ever be in, maybe you could consider joining in the fall we can always use some new recruits and it would give you some time to see Troy since he's in the Drama club as well. He actually starred in the last musical with his girlfriend, Gabriella" She said to her with a look in her eyes like she was trying to get a reaction out of me but I held myself together not wanting to over-react in front of her. So I just shrugged like it wasn't a big deal
"Wow, Troy's in Drama club, never thought I'd hear those words, he always seemed to me that he'd be a sporty guy but I guess he could be both" I said trying to seem like I didn't care but really I was freaking out. Had things really changed that much I mean before I left Troy was the kind of boy would rather be caught dead than join any type of theatre activity but now he was starring in musicals? This wasn't the boy I knew when I was 8 years old or maybe it just wasn't a side that I'd seen before. All I knew now was that maybe I needed to get over my fear and catch up with Troy sooner rather than later.
So I finished up my walk with Sharpay listening to her go on and on about everything that went on in her life in the past 9 years, I mean everything it was almost getting to the point where it was too much information that I didn't really care to know. As we walked up the driveway to my house she turned to me
"Alright well it was nice catching up with you Savannah, Well have to hangout again soon" she said and before giving me a chance to respond she was already walking back down the driveway and off to where she was going next. I turned around heading into my house seeing that my parents were home but when I walked in expecting to see my parents I saw someone I wasn't expecting to see. Troy. All I could think was what in the world is he doing in my house, I mean I thought he'd be out with his friends or his girlfriend not sitting in my house doing, well I wasn't really sure what he was doing in my house.. and I didn't get the chance to think about that much longer as he interrupted my thoughts
"What were you doing with Sharpay?" He asked me and honestly I was a little taken back I mean why would he care if I was with Sharpay.
"Why does it matter, I can hang out with whoever I want to Troy, you're not the boss of me" I said challenging him, I didn't get what the big deal was if I was with Sharpay. I mean it wasn't like she was going to try to do anything to me and even if she did it wasn't like I couldn't handle myself.
"I don't care If you hang out with her I was just curious as to why you were I mean I never pictured you out of anyone wanting to be her friend" He said to me
"Excuse me, I never said I was friends with her, we went for a walk to catch up that's it that doesn't exactly make us best friends now Troy, but even if I wanted to be her friend why does it matter to you, I mean we were best friends 9 years ago and we haven't talked since then, that doesn't exactly give you the right to tell me who I can can't be friends with. " I said to him starting to get annoyed. He had no right assuming anything about me since we hadn't had a real conversation in 9 years. But I instantly felt bad for what I said as I looked at him seeing the look on his face as he looked taken back.
"Look you're making a big deal over nothing, I was just making an assumption, there's no need to jump down my throat about it. You can be friends with whoever you want its none of my business and your right we haven't talked in 9 years and I came over here to change that and try and get the friendship back that we had 9 years ago but maybe I made a mistake in coming over here. You've obviously changed into someone that I don't know if I want to be my best friend anymore because the Savannah I knew 9 years ago wouldn't have made a big deal out of this, so I don't know what's wrong with you but all I know is if you're going to be like this then I don't know if I want to make this friendship work. So you know what when you find the old Savannah come find me…" He said before brushing past me and walking out the front door leaving me dumbfounded.
I stood there watching him walk out the door and the words he said to me replayed over in my head and it was like a punch to the stomach. I couldn't believe he had just said that to me. He had always been so nice to me and I had never seen this side of him before I mean he had been upset with me before but never to the point where he didn't want to be around me. Honestly he was right I jumped down his throat over a little thing that I really didn't even care about. He was just looking out for me and now I don't know if he'll ever look out for me again. I stood their feeling myself tear up. I then heard my mom behind me
"Is everything ok sweetie?" She asked in a motherly tone. I knew she was just trying to be a caring mom but I just wasn't in the mood to deal with her right now.
"yeah mom everything's fine" I said holding back a sob before running upstairs to my room and flinging myself onto my bed and burying my face into my pillow letting the tears fall down my face. My worst fear had come true, Troy was finally back in my life and he didn't want to be my friend anymore. The feeling of knowing he didn't want to be my friend was like a stab to my heart and I couldn't make the pain go away. I laid there in my bed ignoring the calls of my parents to come down for dinner I just yelled down that I wasn't hungry and they seemed to take the hint that something wasn't right but that I didn't want to talk about it as they didn't say anything after that. I pulled my face out of my pillow and rolled over so that I was now lying on my back and staring up at the ceiling watching the ceiling fan go around. So many thoughts were going through my head I wasn't sure what to do about Troy. I mean I know I was wrong for yelling at him like that but the fact that he was so willing to not be my friend so easily really hurt, but I probably would have done the same thing in his situation, right? I could debate all I wanted but what I knew was that I needed to make things right with Troy and get my best friend back in my life no matter what it took.
So I made a plan, I was going to go over to his house and apologize and hope that he forgives me. I know it's a completely lame plan but it was the only thing I could come up with on short notice. I wanted to make things right tonight because if I waited till tomorrow it could be too late and he might not forgive me. So I got up from my bed throwing my hair up in to a messy bun and threw on a light hoodie over my tank top, grabbed my cell phone putting it in my shorts pocket and walked out of my room and downstairs to where my parents were to tell them that I was going to go over to the Bolton's house to talk to Troy. They said it was fine and out the front door I went.
The walk over to their house seemed to take forever. Maybe it was my nerves getting to me as I walked over to their house and knocked on the door. It was only around 7:30pm when I knocked at the door so I knew that they weren't sleeping since it was still earlier. A few moments after I knocked Mrs. Bolton opened the door and smiled seeing me standing in front of her.
"Hi Savannah, what brings you over here?" She asked me with curiousness to in her voice
"Oh I came over to talk to Troy, is he here?" I asked hoping that he was home this one night and not out with one of his other best friends or Gabriella
"um I think he's still home, he was going to go out with Gabriella tonight but I think he's still here, so why don't you come in and i'll go check and see if he left yet" She says to me opening the door so that I can come in. She then heads upstairs and about a minute later comes back down and over to where I'm waiting for her.
"He's still here, and I told him you were here so you can go head up to his room" She says to me and I nod my head hearing her
"Thanks Mrs. Bolton" I say to her before heading upstairs. My pulse was racing a mile a minute because I was so nervous that he was still mad at me or wouldn't even listen to what I have to say but he wouldn't have let me come up if that were the case right? As I walked up the stairs and down the hallway to his room I stood outside his room a moment trying to gather my thoughts before going in to speak to him. I then knocked softly on the side of the doorway so that he knew I was coming into the room. "Troy?" I said softly walking into the room seeing him sitting on his bed.
"What do you want Savannah, I have a date with Gabriella in a half hour so try to make it quick" He said to me making me only all the more nervous
"I-I" I stuttered out "I c-came over to apologize for how I reacted earlier, you were just looking out for me and I jumped down your throat over it and I shouldn't have." I said sincerely to him "so I'm sorry and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me someday so that we can be the best friends that I know we can be again" I said almost desperately pleading while looking into his eyes. I needed my best friend and it would only devastate me if he didn't accept my apology. He looked at me like he was trying to see if I was actually sincere about my apology and I was I just hoped he could see that I was. He then looked away for a moment seeming like he made up his mind and after a few moments of him not saying anything. I assumed that he wasn't going to so I turned to walk out only for him to finally speak up.
"I forgive you" He said looking at him again as he got up walking over to me "Look I know we all do some stupid things from time to time but I'm not going to hold It against you, I accept your apology and I'm glad to see the old Savannah is still in their somewhere, now let's just hope she stays out because she's the Savannah I want to be my best friend not the crazy Savannah who came out of nowhere earlier" He said to me seriously but with a softness to his voice that distracted me from wanting to be upset for him calling me crazy or well the earlier me crazy
"So can we be friends again?" I said holding my hand out towards him like we were supposed to shake hands and he looked at it like I was crazy but took my hand and surprised me by pulling me into a hug
"best friends" He said into my ear with a tone to his voice that made me want to melt right then and there but I held myself together as I pulled away looking at him with a smile on my face
"of course best friend" I said to him looking into his eyes
"great, and while I'd love to stay here and catch up with you like we should have earlier today I have a date to get to, but I'm free tomorrow, so why don't have a Troy/Savvy day like we did years ago and hangout the entire day" He said with a smile on his face that was irresistible and that I couldn't say no to
"A Troy/Savvy day sounds great, so I'll see you tomorrow then?" I said to him double checking what was pretty much already confirmed
"tomorrow it is and I'll be over around 10am so be ready for a day of Troy-filled fun" He says with a goofy-seriousness to his voice that made me laugh and just made me laugh all the more hearing him say Troy-filled fun.
"Alright I'll be ready, Goodbye Troy"
"See you tomorrow, Savvy" He said with a smile on his face.
I then walked out of the room with the hugest smile on my face. I had my best friend back again and we were spending the entire day together tomorrow and there was nothing that could bring me my mood down... and I went home and spent the rest of the night with this goofy smile on my face and I if anyone had seen me they probably would have thought I was crazy but what I knew was that I was happy and I intending on staying that way as long as I possibly could…
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