Update 11/26/2009: This is the new Chapter Three

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If I owned high school musical, Chad would have been with Sharpay by HSM3.

Chapter Three: How to Lose Your Roommate in 48 hours or less

Joshua Rodriguez was a 22-year-old fifth year senior with a double major in computer science and graphic design. He grew up in a tiny town in New Mexico with no stoplights and one stop sign. His scholarships and his job as a resident adviser were the only reason he could afford to stay in school. Normally his job was easy. Evans hall was an honors student dorm with mandatory quiet hours, two study rooms, and a state of the art computer lab. His duty was to keep the freshman from getting alcohol poisoning and making sure and no one slept in the computer lab. Unfortunately, that would not be the case this year.

On Monday during RA orientation, Joshua found out that two of his students will be moved to other dorms so one of the Trustees little princess of a daughter and her boy toy could be in Evans hall. When the little princess moved in on Tuesday with designer luggage and camera crews in tow, Josh knew he would not like this person at all. Her only redeeming quality was that she helped him create the name stickers for the residence on his floor. Apparently, applying glitter to things makes her happy. On Friday, when Chad moved into the dorms complete with arguing parents and a mini sporting goods store he knew neither of them belong in this residence hall.

On Sunday morning, Joshua's assumptions were proving correct. Two days after moving in both Sharpay and Chad's roommates requested transfers. Apparently, Sharpay roommate Drusilla has an aversion to pink. Chad's roommate just cited irreconcilable differences. Josh really did not care; personally, he just wanted an excuse to get them out of his building.

"Classes have not even started yet and you two have managed to scare away both your roommates. This is the first time in my three years as a resident adviser that I have had students begging for new roommates after less than 48 hours." Josh practically screamed at them.

"It was not our fault," both said in unison.

"That's not what they said," answer Josh.

"I don't see what is wrong with having a little pink here and there," responded Sharpay.

"I'm on the basketball team I need to have my equipment in my own room." Chad added.

"Both of you need to learn to respect your roommates needs and desires." Said Josh in response.

"But they don't need to respect our rights?" Sharpay asked in defense. Josh decided to ignore her question.

"You painted the room pink without asking your roommate for permission."

"I asked Sarah a month ago at orientation if it was okay to paint the room pink and she said yes. How was I to know that you would switch out my roommate with someone who changed her name to that of a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" Argued Sharpay even though she knew Josh was obviously not listening to anything said.

"You through her black comforter in the trash," Josh yelled at Sharpay.

"Yes, after she did the same thing to me and destroyed my dishes."

"Her grandmother made her that comforter on her deathbed."

"I didn't know it had sentimental value, considering that it was made in China." Sharpay answered sarcastically.

"I don't care," he said to both of them. "Chad, you have no right to throw out your roommate's opera CDs"

"I did not do that. He is lying. Did he tell you that he did that to my iPod? Not that you would believe us."

"I know you two are used to getting whatever you want, being the rich spoiled brats that you are. I'm not your daddy and I don't care. Neither one of you belongs in this building and both of you will be out here as soon as I talk to the resident director. Stay here." Josh said as he left the RA offices, slamming the door behind him. He was sure that the occupants of the room would be gone from the building within the hour.

48 hours earlier: Friday afternoon

Chad and Sharpay walked back into Evans hall with Ms. Sanchez behind them almost in tears. The lunch went well overall. Sharpay even manage to get his parents to stop arguing for the duration of the meal. Now it was time for Ms. Sanchez to say goodbye to her baby boy.

Please do not do something stupid this semester. I love you." Ms. Sanchez said as she pulled her son into a hug and kissed his cheek.

"Mom your embarrassing me," Chad said as he pulled away from his mom.

"Sharpay it was lovely meeting you. If Obama wins the election you two will have to come up to DC for the inauguration."

"That's a wonderful ideal. Daddy is always giving money to various campaigns, I'm sure I can get tickets."

"Take care of my baby, Sharpay" Ms. Sanchez said just loud enough for Sharpay to hear.

"I will" Sharpay whispered back as she and Chad began to make their way to their rooms on the sixth floor.

"Your mom seems nice." Sharpay said in an effort to break the silence.

"She is when she's not yelling at dad," Chad answered as they stepped out of the elevator and began walking toward Sharpay's room. "I can't wait to see your room. Is this the first time you're going to a non-pink room?"

"You'll be amazed what you can convince the school to allow with a donation or two. Pink is now on the approved list of room colors. Unfortunately, it has to be a light pink." As the two walked closer to Sharpay's room, they notice a blonde woman standing in the door, ordering people around.

"Just put the pink stuff over on the floor, will have to get replacements later." Said the woman in the doorway.

"What are you doing with my stuff?" Sharpay asked the woman as she stormed into her dorm room.

"I'm sorry I thought we sent an e-mail that said no pink. My baby hates pink. Darlene just can't stand the color." The blond woman said s she moved all of Sharpay pink things out of the room.

"It's Drusilla mom. We have to take down your posters as well. I hope you don't mind, don't worry will replace them." Drusilla said as she ripped Sharpay as posters off the wall.

"The painters will be here Monday to get rid of this ugly pink color." Drusilla's mom added from the side of the room.

Recognizing the signs that the mountain lion was about to pounce on the two unsuspecting women, Chad grabbed her arm to drag her away from the room.

"While you two finish in the room, Sharpay is going to help me unpack. You two ladies have fun."

As soon as they were down the hall, Sharpay was beginning to shake with anger.

"I never thought I would see someone who was a bigger diva than you"

"The diva is going down."

"Just breathe Sharpay. Just think of spring break in Cancun. If you kill your roommate, you will not get to go there.

"I was thinking maybe somewhere in India or Japan."

That works. Every time the little princess and mommy dearest over there makes you mad just think about your spring break plans."

"Does that really work?"

"I survived working for you for the summer by thinking of my new car, of course it works."

Just as the two were approaching, a basketball flew past them. A voice from within Chad's dorm room said, "I hate sports."

"Just remember Chad, visualize something positive." Sharpay smirked as she used her camera phone to capture the entire scene.

Saturday morning.

Chad sat in the downstairs study lounge reading his textbooks, as he listened to his iPod. He desperately needed to listen to something other than opera. At this point, he would be willing to listen to selections from Twinkle Towne. At this moment, Chad was never madder at Troy then he was now. If Troy would have came to U of A, then Chad would not be stuck with the roommate from hell. After throwing all of Chad sporting goods out the door, Chad's roommate Patrice, began to blast opera music threw their room. Although, Chad did not have time to read all the rules of Evans hall, he knew that loud music was prohibited. Yet the RA said nothing. Chad realized he would be moving out of this room in two weeks, when he had to prevent Sharpay from hitting Patrice after he insulted musical theatre. Apparently, Patrice believes that musicals are the lowest form of entertainment. His comments on hip-hop were even worse.

Both Sharpay and Chad agreed to do whatever was necessary to survive the two weeks until they could switch dorm rooms, even if this meant allowing their roommates to walk all over them. Now Chad was hiding out in the study lounge studying for classes that have not even started yet. His girlfriend would be so proud.

"Are you hiding from your roommate from hell?" Asked a voice from the hall.

"It's either that or grabbing my basketballs from your dorm room to throw at his head. Thank you for keeping them."

"Thank you for keeping all my pink stuff, I was positive that the vampire wannabe was going to throw the stuff in the trash again. We can take the stuff to the mansion today if you want. You can keep it there until you get a different roommate."

"Why can't we stay in the mansion until we get different roommates?"

"Because daddy would fly back from his business meeting, just to kick you out of my bedroom… I mean the house."

"I know you want me in your bedroom, but I have a girlfriend." Chad said with a small smile.

"Very funny, curly top. Only 13 days until we can get different roommates. Look on the bright side, your roommate isn't using your new dishes as an ashtray."

"13 days, just 13 days" Chad began to repeat in an effort to calm down.

Present

"He didn't listen to a word we said," Chad said in annoyance as soon as Josh exited the room.

"He does not want us here because we don't meet his image of what the perfect honor students are supposed to be like." Sharpay responded to Chad.

"So he's going to get rid of us because he doesn't like us."

"Essentially yes," responded Sharpay.

"That's just great," Chad said as he sat back down on the chair. "We have just as much right to be here as anyone else."

"They wouldn't have let us in the honor dorm if we didn't meet the minimum requirements. We were both honor roll students in high school and neither have Mickey Mouse majors."

"I'm not a brain"

"High schools over Chad and I'm not your girlfriend. I do not care that you are smarter than I am. I also do not care that jocks are not supposed to be intelligent. You do not think I saw the chemistry and calculus books on the table yesterday. You can fool your friends, but not me."

"How did you know about the honor roll thing?"

"It was on your job application for Lava Springs last year."

"OK, so I'm a brain. Apparently your one as well. But what are we going to do?"

"Josh is just the RA. We will speak to his superior."

"How are we going to do that we're stuck in this room."

"Don't you just love modern technology?" Sharpay said as she pulled out her smart phone.

"Hello, Lisa it is Sharpay. How was your summer at Lava Springs? That is fabulous. Lisa, I know we should have talk to you as soon as things started going bad. We are having problems with our roommates and RA. We thought we could resolve them ourselves or hold out until we could transfer rooms. That is not an option anymore. I am going to be sending you some videos of what has been going on. I am an Evans; of course, I am going to get evidence. Word of mouth testimony is worthless. Thank you for looking into this Lisa." Sharpay said as she hung up the phone.

"You are a genius," Chad said as Sharpay began to send the files to the head of Residents Life.

Josh quietly waited in the living room of the Resident Director for his section. He was confident that will get rid of his two problem students. The testimony of their roommates would guarantee that the two would be out before classes even began.

"Sorry to keep you waiting Josh, but have received a very interesting phone call from the head a Resident's Life Lisa Sherman. It seems that there are some major problems on your floor." The Middle age woman said as she walked into the room.

"That's why I came to speak with you; it seems that two of our students are causing major problems. I feel it would be best if they were removed from the building instead of just sent to another room in the complex.

"Yes two of your students are causing major problems. Just not the two you think. Why don't we watch a video that was just sent to me a few minutes ago?"

After 30 seconds of watching the video, Josh knew that he just lost.

"I'm so sorry about what happen to you and Chad. You should that told me what was going on earlier." Lisa said as she led the two back to their rooms.

"We thought we could handle it." Sharpay said in defense.

"We had no idea that the RA was out to get us," Chad added.

"We're here to help students, not let our own prejudice cause us to treat them badly. Your roommates have been reassigned to private rooms in other buildings. Your RA is now on probation and is being moved to another building as well. In two weeks, you too will receive new roommates. Hopefully it will go better the second time around."

"I hope so too" Sharpay said quietly.

"It's nice to meet you Chad, I'm so glad that Mr. Evans asked for you to be in the same building."

"What?" Both yelled in unison.

"Mr. Evans felt it was best for you and your boyfriend to live in the same building. I think your brother suggested it first. From the videos I could see Chad really cares about you sharpay."

Before Chad could argue, Sharpay pulled him away saying, "Thank you Lisa, for all your help."

"Don't say anything Chad, you can yell at Ryan later after we pick up our stuff from the mansion. I'll let you drive the convertible." Sharpay said as she dangled the keys in front of Chad.

"I am only staying quiet because you are letting me drive the convertible." He said as he took the car keys from her.