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Chapter 3

"G-girlfriend?" Sharpay stuttered and racked her brain, unaware of her startled expression that was so clear to everyone around her. She was sure Troy had never mentioned a girlfriend before; believe her, she would have noticed! She shook her head and forced herself to smile at the girl in front of her. Be nice, she scolded herself. She held out her hand and grinned.

"Hi, I'm Sharpay. Its great to meet you. Troy never mentioned he had a girlfriend." At that moment she had turned to look at Troy herself, he blushed and avoided her eye gaze. Maybe she had just been hallucinating when she thought Troy was about to kiss her? The brunette giggled, a high pitch laugh and pulled Sharpay into a hug. Well, she hadn't been expecting that, she felt suffocated and unable to breathe. After all she was being forced upon someone's shoulder right now. Troy silently chuckled to himself and murmured:

"Take it easy Gabs, she's not accustomed to your hugs yet. You're going to suck the life out of her." Gabriella giggled again and let go, leaning into Troy and trying to kiss him on the cheek, he didn't lean down like he usually did though. Sharpay smiled gratefully at Troy and he grinned back, wondering if he was in the doghouse with his new roommate. She wondered if she should be mad at him. On the negative side, she had generally thought he liked her and wondered if there was ever the possibility of them consuming a relationship – it happened in movies. And more then once Sharpay's life and played out like she was in an exact movie. And he had flirted with her. She was sure of it. She'd have to give Taylor a call to be sure but still, her heart was telling her so.

On the positive side of being nice to Troy instead of slapping him and storming out of his place, he hadn't ever made a gesture to make her believe that anything was going to happen between them, nor had they discussed relationships. She'd never thought to think that he would have a girlfriend. Deciding, that right now she would only look like a fool if she yelled at him and perhaps if she did get annoyed with him – that would only make it more obvious that she had in fact grown feelings for her roommates. Who knows? Maybe Troy and Gabriella wont even last long?

"Oh, we've been dating for about two years now." Gabriella gushed as they all sat around Troy's table, stuffing their faces with hamburgers. Sharpay forced a smile.

"Oh…how…fantastic!" She took another bite and mentally slapped herself. This Gabriella girl seemed nice, you know…if she wasn't in love with the guy that Sharpay supposedly wanted to be with. Troy had been pretty quiet and hadn't said much after he had offered to whip up some burgers. Turned out – the guy could cook. Which was awesome! Every girl loves a man who could cook. Sharpay felt oddly weird, referring to Troy as a man, which in reality that's what he was. She suspected it was because he was the first guy she had ever spent time with that wasn't her age and not just trying to get into her underwear.

"Man Troy, these are so good!" Ryan said as he munched a mixture of burger and bread between his teeth. Kelsi made a loud 'yuck' noise and Gabriella playfully slapped him on the arm. Troy rolled his eyes and offered the last burger to Sharpay, he was sitting next to her with Gabriella on his other side. Gabriella was mainly talking to Ryan and Kelsi though.

"Oh no thanks. I'm full." Sharpay patted her stomach for emphasis, he chuckled and nodded, offering the last burger to anybody else. When everyone declined, Zeke decided to shove it one.

"Yeah, Troy these are good but nowhere near good as my cooking." The table was filled with laughter; Sharpay sat up, her eyes now on Zeke. Did everyone cook but her? Well, she suspected all these guys didn't grow up with a personal maid, cook and a guy who would drive you anywhere you wanted.

"So, you cook to?" Zeke looked up, grinning and wiggled his eyebrows.

"Do I ever?" He winked and Sharpay giggled. Troy felt a twinge of jealousy hit his gut. He knew he shouldn't feel guilty, him having a girlfriend and that but he had found with Sharpay around, he was feeling things that he well, never felt before. He wouldn't dare tell Sharpay that maybe it wasn't a good idea to still live with him though; he couldn't bare to be parted from her now. Even if she was making goggle eyes at Zeke, of all people. He loved him, but he was a player. He had tried to make a move on Gabriella before she threatened her pooch to scratch his eyes out. Kelsi and Jason stood up, Kelsi leaning on Jason as she yawned.

"Okay, guys I think we are going to go." Ryan and Zeke got up to.

"You staying Gab?" Ryan asked, and she shook her head, she turned to Troy, placing a small peck on his cheek.

"I have work in the morning." He nodded in understanding and both he and Sharpay headed towards the door.

"It was nice meeting you all." Sharpay called out in hush whispers as it was now quite late at night. One by one, they turned around to nod and smile and Troy closed the door, he leaned up against it. Suddenly, Sharpay felt this wave awkwardness engulf her. She made her way to the table and began piling up plates, taking them tp the sink. Troy watched her, his eyes moving as every limb she had, moved. She was beautiful…but he had a girlfriend. A girlfriend who he had felt himself falling out of love more and more everyday – even before he met Sharpay, which he had to remind himself was only two days ago.
"What are you doing?" He questioned when she flipped the tap on. Was she seriously going to wash up? At one in the morning?

"What does it look like?" She tried to joke but he could tell there was harsher line beneath it. He sighed and made his way over to her, grabbing a towel to dry up – there was no way he was going to allow her to do it all.

"Well, let me help you."

"No, no its fine." She tried to stop him and take the towel off of him but he held on tight, when she refused to let go, he placed his hand on her wrist and used his other to lift up her chin, conveniently dropping the towel to the floor. He smiled in front of her and he saw her lips curl, slightly.

"Are you mad at me?" He asked. She shrugged and flicked her hair.

"What would I be mad about?" Her eyebrow was quizzical, although he was sure she knew what he meant, he sighed again and grabbed the towel, washing up the plates. When they had finished, he began putting them away. "Thanks for helping me." It was the first thing she had said since the silence had overcome them before. He couldn't help but grin at her.

"Your welcome."

They sat watching bad TV for ten minutes before Troy sat up and stretched. Sharpay couldn't help but watch as he flexed his muscles and watch as his t-shirt rode up a little, showing skin. She sucked in her breath and forced herself to look away.

"Right I'm off to bed." Troy half-whispered as if he were afraid to wake the neighbours…through a brick wall. She smiled. Can I join you? She scowled mentally inside her mind. Seriously Shar, he's got a fucking girlfriend. A ridiculously nice, pretty girlfriend. There was no way Sharpay could compete with her, not that she was planning on it but still. She muttered goodnight and headed into her own room, after switching the TV off.

Her still-full boxes had swamped her room and she tried to wheedle her way through them to lie on her bed, she decided she would just sleep in her underwear instead of even attempting to find suitable nightwear.

She stripped down to the red lacy set she had put on that morning – it seemed Sharpay was unable to own a suitable pair of knickers. She moved two boxes on the floor, quietly not to wake Troy up and lay down on the bed.

In a minute, she had whacked her head against a box, her legs were no doubt covered in bruises now and she was in serious pain, she yelped and found herself topple onto the floor along with three million other boxes and suitcases, she cried out in pain.

Troy, hearing the commotion, ran to Sharpay's room to make sure she was all right. He threw open her door and at first couldn't make out where she was. That was until he heard a few moans and some blonde hair appeared out of nowhere. He made his way over to her, as quickly as he could, careful not to hit any more boxes over. He moved the clothes and suitcases that fell onto her and gently lifted her up.

"Are you alright?" He asked, his voice filled with concern. She barely nodded, still whimpering. He figured it must have hurt, the boxes were plastic and had sharp corners not to mention the items Sharpay owned weren't exactly light either. "Come on, lets see if you're going to live!" He chuckled and she managed a small laugh, wincing in pain as she did so.

"I'm sorry." Sharpay mumbled as Troy somehow managed to lift her upon to kitchen counter. He was quite tall, so his head was almost level with hers. "I tried to be quiet, so I wouldn't wake you up." She continued. "But I totally forgot that I had put my boxes and clothes onto my bed. I just stripped down and threw myself onto the bed." She gave herself a little laugh, realising how stupid she had been. Troy chuckled and let out an "ouch" when she had told him. He opened one of the cupboards and found an old First Aid Kit the owners had left behind, He checked over her and realised she had a cut on her knee and some slight bruising on her stomach. He grabbed a small sponge and began dabbing at her knee, Sharpay pulled away at first, she didn't like blood and the water was stinging her cut.

"I'm sorry Shar, but I don't want you to die from this." He placed his right hand over her other leg without realising. She looked down at him, her eyes wide.

"You really think I could…die from this?"

"Oh yeah definitely. I was training to be a doctor you see and this one girl came in, had the smallest cut on her arm and poof just like that was dead." Sharpay gasped and he wondered if she thought he was actually being serious. Minutes passed when Sharpay suddenly looked at him again.

"You're lying." She said through gritted teeth. He laughed and nodded.

"Okay I am. But you have to admit you almost believed." His eyes glittered and she playfully hit him.

"Whatever, just get back to making sure my knee doesn't need to be cut of will you?" She joked and he bowed as if she were a princess making her giggle. Once he was finishing cleaning her cut, he placed a plaster over the top, soothing it out gently, Sharpay had to bite her lip to stop herself from moaning. Its just Troy's hands were so…manly. She giggled in her head at how lame she sounded but she didn't want to think of anything else, in case they led her thoughts astray.

He next moved on to the bruise forming on the left of her stomach, he wasn't quite sure what to do with this, so just began to rub it tenderly. Sharpay leaned her head back a little, she had completely forgotten about the lack of clothes she had on but right now despite the pain that was still there her stomach was starting to feel a little more comfortable. Troy ran his finger over it gently, trying to make her feel better. His eyes were set onto her closed ones, he felt himself below, pick up as she bit her lip.

"Oh Troy, that feels really great. Your amazing." She muttered. He'd never felt this way before. Never felt so aroused at such a simple gesture. He wanted to stop, he tried to stop in case he stopped thinking and tried to ravish her on the kitchen counter top. It was then that he realised. She was only in her underwear. Red. Lacy. Half her breasts visible. Underwear. He breathed in deeply and forced himself to look away. How was he supposed to carry on like this? Falling more and more for his roommate – that was three years younger then him – and beginning to like her more then his own girlfriend.

It wasn't so much the age that bugged him or Sharpay it seemed, it was more like, he knew what people were like. Three years was not a lot but give the stages they were at now, Sharpay being just a year over legal, he was sure people would frown upon it. After all, Gabriella was the same age as him, so he'd never really experience a younger woman.

Troy moved his hand away and Sharpay opened her eyes. Troy hadn't turned the light on but she could still make out his face and his eyes, his deep blue eyes that she knew, given the chance she would just fall into and do just that. Just fall and fall and fall. She through herself out of hypmotized stage and looked down.

"Shit!" She muttered, louder then she anticipated.

"What? What is it?" Troy asked, suddenly worried if she was hurt anywhere else.

"I'm…" Her eyes followed to her lack of clothing and he too blushed along with her. He scratched the back of his neck and played with his hair, messing it up.

"Oh, I erm…hadn't really noticed." He lied. "Its no big deal."

"I'm so sorry!" Sharpay complained, throwing her head into hands. "I've made such a bad impression!" Troy chuckled, lightly and pulled her into a hug. Shocked at the way her half-naked body felt against his.

"Its okay. I don't want you to ever feel like that. You've made a great impression. I can't wait until you really settle in." He smiled and he felt her lips curl up against his chest.

"Thanks, Troy. It really means a lot that you went out of your way to help me." She reached up to kiss him on the cheek and moved down, so that she could. He was a little taller then her. He smiled at her and she began to make her way back to her room.

"Wh-where are you going?" Sharpay turned around, confused and pointed to her room. "You can't sleep in there Shar. Boxes are everywhere!"

"I'll erm…try to be quiet. I'm so sorry if I woke you as well." He waved her off and somehow slipped his hands around her waist.

"Don't be silly, Shar. It's late, just share my bed. If it makes you uncomfortable I will sleep on the couch-"

"No!" Sharpay said a little to fast and loud. "I mean, are you sure? I don't want you to feel uncomfortable and your definitely not sleeping on the couch because I am not kicking you out of your own bed because I was too stupid to remove some things." By the time she had finished she had rested her hands on her hips and had a stern look on her face. Troy was quite amused. He just nodded at her and directed her to his room, his arm still around her waist.

How he was going to get to sleep, lying next to Sharpay, he didn't know. He had a feeling that tonight would be hard and intoxicating.

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