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Chapter eight: Lies My BFF Told Me

Sharpay was so happy that the longest weekend in her entire life was over. After surviving what Kim was referring to as the 'not so virginal punch incident', most things were going back to normal. After seeing the footage of Penelope pouring three shots of vodka into her punch, Sharpay walked out of her dorm room with the intention breaking Penelope into pieces. Unfortunately, the witch in question was not there. Fortunately, she did forget to lock her room. Sharpay satisfied her bloodlust by ripping the head off of Penelope's favorite teddy bear and left the decapitated bears head on the evil princess's pillow.

Kim and Chad arrived just in time to keep her from going for another stuffed animal. The two were afraid that she would go after Penelope again. They wouldn't leave her alone all weekend. After picking up Alex from her parents, or rather her step mom's home she brought him over to hang out and study. Before the weekend, Sharpay only saw a few pitchers of the beautiful little boy with piercing blue eyes. Sharpay was sure that she saw these eyes before, but she couldn't remember where.

Kim was very protective of Alex, which explains why Kim yelled at her for 20 minutes this morning for telling Chad the truth. Kim never told Sharpay who Alex's father was. Kim did not even tell Sharpay she was pregnant until she called a week after the Twinkle Towne auditions to tell her that she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on the day East High won the state championship. Chad and Sharpay spent half of Saturday night looking through old yearbooks trying to guess Alex is paternity. So far the only person they were absolutely sure was not the father was Chad.

If she thought Kim was overprotective, Chad was 10 times worse. She should've known he would be that way after his reaction at Lava Springs when she tried to take Troy away. Chad spent the entire weekend with her working on their project together or studying for his individual classes in her room. He even slept in the spare bed in her room Saturday and Sunday night so that he could keep an eye on her at all times. This morning he walked her to her pre calculus class in hopes of avoiding another clash between her and Penelope. Thankfully, for all parties involved Penelope decided to take a different class.

Sharpay could not decide if she loved or hated his over protectiveness. She loved that she finally had another friend that cared about her so much even after just a few weeks. Other than Kim, Chad was quickly becoming the only person she could be herself around. She never felt more comfortable around a person in her entire life, even at after the awkwardness of Friday night. Other than the occasional dirty joke, they really didn't talk about what happen.

The problem was Sharpay was still trying to figure out how she felt about him. She knew she didn't hate him anymore. She was not even sure if she ever hated him. The issue was she was not sure if she just liked him as a friend or wanted something more. Even though she was under the influence of high amounts of alcohol, she remembered how she felt every time she kissed him. It was the most exhilarating experience of her entire life. She loved kissing him, especially those last kisses that occurred when they were completely alone in his room with no audience.

She didn't want a repeat of the entire Troy fiasco. She didn't want to fall in love with someone who was in love with someone else again. Especially someone who already had a girlfriend he was probably in love with. After the Richard incident and Zeke's infidelity, maybe it would be better if she just keep Chad in the friend category. How can your heart get broken if you don't even try?

In the interest of keeping things in the friends category with Chad, she decided to show up to his room with his replacement cell phone and take away from his favorite restaurant. The fact that she changed into a completely different outfit and spent 5 minutes touching up her makeup was completely irrelevant. She told herself the reason why she wanted to change was because a certain high school junior grabbed her ass during her volunteer session at East High and she needed to get the scent of geek off her.

She didn't even bother knocking on Chad's door, instead she just walked in. Currently Chad was sitting on his bed listening to his iPod as he did his English homework. He did not even notice her until she sat on his bed.

"You know most normal people knock Sharpay. I could've been changing." Chad said as he removed his headphones.

"Most normal people lock their doors. Considering you spent the entire weekend in my room against my wishes I have the right to walk into your room anytime I want and see you topless. Besides I know you were the one that put me in that T-shirt Friday night. It's only fair you returned the favor." As soon as she mentioned the T-Shirt incident, he started to squirm. She'd loved messing with his mind.

"You were trying to kill Penelope this weekend!" Chad practically screamed in his defense.

"I was not trying kill her. I was just going to harm her a little." Sharpay said as she sat next to him on the bed.

"You left an animal head on her bed."

"It wasn't a real." She yelled at him in her defense.

"Whatever Sharpay. Why are you here?"

"Probably boredom and lack of new friends, but I bought goodies from Dominique's and your new cell phone." Sharpay said handing the package to Chad.

"Despite the water damage your SIM card was still good. Unfortunately, anything saved onto the phone itself is gone."

"The phone you damaged was a normal telephone. This is an iPhone. There's no way my insurance cover this."

"Consider it a bride to keep quiet about what you saw this weekend."

"Like the fact you spend more money on your underwear than most people spend on their entire wardrobe."

"Custom underwear is expensive. Not all of us look good pulling a T shirt out of the dirty close hamper."

"You think I look good?"

"God you are so cocky"

"You love it anyway. Thanks for the gift but I don't think I can afford the wireless plan for this."

"You don't have to. Daddy is paying for it."

"Your dad is paying for my cell phone? My dad won't even pay for my cell phone."

"Kim told daddy what happened this weekend. Consider this your thank you gift."

"Apparently she omitted certain things. Otherwise I would be dead right now."

"Daddy likes you. You're the only boyfriend I've ever had that he's liked and you're not even my actual boyfriend." Sharpay said with a pout.

"Your father still believes were dating?"

"Chad the only people on this campus who believe we're not dating are the two of us. By the way, you have 17 missed text messages, 15 of which are from Troy. Is there something about your relationship that I don't know?" Sharpay said with a grin.

"You read my text messages?"

"Of course not. Okay maybe I read the one from Taylor. I mean you didn't call her for three days and she only sense one text message. What type of girlfriend does that? I call you every day now and I live down the hall." Inside her mind, Sharpay knew she would make a much better girlfriend then Taylor.

"The extremely busy type. Gabriella never calls Troy at all during the school week."

"That's because you're always on the phone with him."

"How can I be on the phone with Troy all the time, when I spend most of my free time with you?"

"Like that's a lot of time. This is college. How much free time do we have? After I finish up here I have to read three different essays for English and I do not understand anything from chemistry class. Be glad you had high school chemistry before Mrs. Wilson retired two years ago. The woman that replaced her was clueless. Gabriella used to correct her equations all the time. The person who replaced her during her maternity leave was even worse. I am going to flunk college chemistry because my teachers were incompetent." Sharpay said with her trademark panicking voice.

"I can help you with your chemistry homework." Chad said grabbing his food from the bag.

"Don't you have your own work?"

"There wasn't any practice today, so I actually had time to finish it. I'm just working on the reading for English. I cannot believe he didn't even look at our project."

"He's going to work on it when all of our classmates are doing the same project in a few weeks. When there are working on that project, we will not have to. Can we eat first before we start on homework? Dominique's taste horrible after it has been microwave. "

"We could have eaten dinner in the cafeteria. You don't have to keep buying me stuff."

"I know you don't expect me to get you stuff and that's why I want to. In high school other than Kim, most people were only my friend to get things from me. Even my boyfriend's were with me just to get something. The entire time you were friends with my brother you never ask him to get you something. You liked him for him. So therefore, you like me for me.

"Yes, I like you for you. If you want to get things for me that's fine. But if you start giving out Italian shoes again, I will run the other way screaming."

At that moment they heard Chad cell phone play Eminem's When I'm Gone.

"Speaking of Mr. Italian shoes," Sharpay muttered under her breath.

"You program ring tones into the phone?"

"I was bored. There was nothing for me to do today except hand out papers to the freshmen."

"You programmed ring tones into a cell phone in Ms. Darbus's class. Are you brave or suicidal?"

"It's not like she can give me detention anymore." Sharpay said as she grabbed Chad's phone to answer it. "Hello, Chad's dorm room."

"Sharpay wear is Chad?"

"Currently he is staring at my chest again. He has this unusual fixation with my breasts. Let me put you on speakerphone." Sharpay said as she adjusted the telephone setting.

"I am not looking at your chest." Chad answered indignantly.

"Children behave. Your are in college now."

"He started it." Sharpay said as she stuck out her tongue at Chad.

Chad where were you this weekend? You didn't respond to my text messages. I've been trying to get a hold of you for the last three days. I even tried the call Sharpay and I didn't get an answer." To Sharpay, Troy almost sounded like one of those TV moms scolding their child. Not that Sharpay's mom would even care to do such a thing."

"I would have called, but my cell phone had an unfortunate accident Friday night."

"Sharpay did your cell phone suffer the same accident?" Troy asked in disbelief at the excuse.

"No I lost mind before Chad fell into the fountain." At that statement they could both hear Troy laughing uncontrollably.

"Do I want to know what happened?" Troy finally asked when he stopped laughing.

"Not really, it involves Sharpay, a water fountain, and high amounts of alcohol." Chad tells this to his friend.

"That was so not my fault. I didn't know I was drunk at the time. Me ruining your cell phone was no excuse. You could have sent an e-mail." Sharpay said as she started to eat her own food.

"Do you realize how much you sound like my mom right now? I was distracted by trying to keep you from smothering Penelope with a pillow."

"Do I want to know why you're trying to kill Penelope? Troy asked Sharpay as he sighed into the phone.

"Not really, it involves Zeke, Penelope's favorite pastime of trying to screw my boyfriend, high amounts of alcohol, and one of Chad's silly plans."

"Kim did get most of the incident on film Friday." Chad said Troy.

"You're not sharing that film with anybody," Sharpay said as she smacked Chad on the shoulder.

"I thought Zeke was in Chicago?" Troy was extremely confused at this point.

"He is. Apparently, during the after party for the big game last year Zeke and Penelope 'celebrated' in the boys' locker room. Actually it turns out he was sleeping with Penelope behind my back for most of senior year. I found out about it Friday night from Penelope and Zeke confirmed it Saturday." She tried her hardest not to show any emotions as she recounted the incident to Troy.

"I'm sorry Sharpay. I'm surprised I haven't heard of a double homicide." She could tell by his tone that he was actually sincere.

"I've been spending the last three days keeping the girls separated. Although, I think Sharpay did get her revenge Friday night." Chad explained to his friend.

"Chad would this have anything to do with the video I received a you at a campus party where you were dancing inappropriately and making out with a very hot brunette who was not your girlfriend. Exactly how much alcohol did you consume Friday night? High amounts of alcohol could only explain why you cheated on your girlfriend." Sharpay could hear Chad's breathing becoming more erratic at Troy's accusations. Sharpay was not afraid of Troy's reaction to the whole thing but rather Chad's. Chad still believed it was all an act. She decided to use a diversion tactic to get their attention away from the real issue.

"Did you just say I was hot? Your girlfriend would be so jealous"

"You died your hair?" Troy said as if he just realized that the girl in question was Sharpay.

"Yes and I looked so much better as a brunette."

"Yes, but my girlfriend is not here right now to be jealous. I go to school 40 miles away from her and I've seen her once in three weeks. Of course, that one time was when I was helping her move into her dorm room." Troy was definitely telling Sharpay there was trouble in paradise. Last year she would have loved nothing more than for the two lovebirds to break up. Now although, she still believed that Troy was way too good for Gabriella, she just wanted him to be happy even if it was not with her. Now if it was Taylor and Chad who were taking the slow train to breakups-ville she would be jumping for joy right now.

"Enough about me. Please explain to me how I have a video in my inbox of the two of you practically having sex on the dance floor Friday night? By the way Sharpay, if you danced like that I may have survived the musical rehearsals intact last spring." Troy said the last part in a joking tone.

"If I dance like that last spring Miss Darbus would have had a heart attack. Although considering what she is going to make me do Friday night I think that would have been okay. That reminds me Chad, I am taking you shopping Thursday. Miss Darbus has drafted me to chaperone the welcome back dance. You are going to come with me. "

"Why do I have to go?" Chad said in a whiny voice.

"You know I hate school dances. You are going with me to keep Jimmy from grabbing my ass again." Both boys started laughing uncontrollably.

"When did he do this?"

"When I was volunteering at East High this afternoon. This is all your fault, Troy. You're the one that told Jimmy I had a crush on him." Sharpay yelled into the phone at Troy.

"Can we please get back to the matter at hand? How did I receive a sex tape featuring the two of you? " Troy asked trying to redirect Sharpay's anger.

"You did not receive a sex tape. Chad and I would have had to have sex for there to be a sex tape." Turning around to Chad, Sharpay asked, "We didn't have sex right?"

"No we did not have sex. I think you would have remembered that by now if we had. How did you get a copy of what happened Friday?" Chad asked quietly.

"KIM," of Sharpay and Chad screamed simultaneously as they've all realize the only possible person would do such a thing.

"I'm going to kill her," Sharpay strongly. Before she finish getting off the bed Chad's arms were around her in an attempt to calm her down. It amazed her that his touch had such an effect on her.

"Sharpay calm down, you don't want Alex to be an orphan." As soon as the words were said, Sharpay smacked Chad upside the head.

"You idiot Kim said not to tell anybody." Sharpay said to him just low enough for the microphone not to pick up. On the drive to east high this afternoon, where Kim was doing her teaching observations this semester, Kim spend the entire time yelling at Sharpay for telling Chad the truth. She then begged her not to tell anybody else the truth, especially Troy. If it would have been any other guy, Sharpay would have assumed he was Alex's father. However, there was no way super innocent Boy Scout would have Troy with slept with Kim Without her or Chad knowing about it.

"Kim has a kid?" Sharpay could hear the panic and pain in Troy's voice even over the telephone.

"With Chad meant to say was Kim has custody of her little brother. You remember how flaky her biological mom was. That is why she moved back to New Mexico. Can we please talk about me making out with Chad at the party?"

"You rather talk about that then Kim raising a child?" Kim had way too much blackmail material for Sharpay to do anything to upset Kim.

"Have you dealt with an angry Kim before?" Sharpay responded poignantly.

"It wasn't what it looks like. I told you it was revenge on Penelope." Chad answered his friend. A small part of Sharpay was disappointed by that answer.

"Yes, what he said," Sharpay said in affirmation.

"How do you get revenge on Penelope for sleeping with Zeke by making out with Chad AKA Taylor's boyfriend?"

Fortunately, for all involved Sharpay's phone rang at that moment

"I have to talk to daddy. Chad can you please tell Troy what happened? If you touch my Turkey burger I will hurt you. "

After 15 minutes a listening to Chad's crazy story about the weekend and how almost the entire campus believed Chad and Sharpay were dating he was laughing hysterically. It was the funniest story he ever heard. Kim's film definitely did not do it justice. He could not believe that Ryan had set Chad up like that. It was the greatest practical joke ever. He was probably getting back at Chad for accidentally starting that incest rumor sophomore year.

What was puzzling to Troy, was why Chad and Sharpay kept up with the charade. After seeing the video from this weekend and speaking to the two he knew there was something between them. He didn't believe that the two were just friends. There was also the fact that Chad used the phrase were just friends 20 times during this little explanation. No one says there just friends unless they're really not just friends.

"Do you believe me?"

"No," Troy said with all sincerity.

"I didn't cheat on Taylor. You know me I would never do that to her. It was all just for Penelope. "

"I believe that you believe that nothing happened."

"What does that mean?"

"Nothing, it just means as far as you're concerned it was all pretend. However, I do not think you are just friends."

"Sharpay is just a friend."

"Because you have a girlfriend Sharpay is just a friend. Answer me this, if Taylor was out of the picture, would you be with Sharpay?"

After a few moments of silence Chad finally spoke. "So how's everything at Berkeley. Have you made any new friends? How is Gabriella doing?"

"And the winner from most blatant change of subject is Chad Danforth. Now please answer the question if Taylor wasn't around, would Sharpay still be just a friend?"

"I don't know," Chad practically whispered this into the phone.

"That is the only completely honest thing I've heard you say in the last 20 minutes."

"It doesn't matter Troy. I'm not exactly going to break up with Taylor via e-mail. Things are the way they are and playing the 'what if' game does not help anyone. Will you tell Taylor about this weekend?"

"Not as long as you're in denial."

"I'm not in denial." No one did denial like Chad Danforth. Chad didn't even believe his parents were having marriage problems until the divorce papers were finalized and his mom move to Alexandria, Virginia. Troy just hoped Chad would figure things out a little quicker this time.

"Of course not, and I only join the school play last spring for Gabriella."

"How is Gabriella?"

"I'm not sure, considering I've spent more time talking to you and your not-girlfriend Sharpay than my actual girlfriend."

"When did you talk to Sharpay besides today?"

"Once a couple of Saturdays ago, when you were trying not to kill your evil roommate, I called your cell phone and Sharpay answered. Is there some reason why Sharpay feels comfortable picking up your cell phone?

"It Sharpay, one does not question why she does anything."

"She spent 15 minutes blaming your then roommate situation on my decision to go to Berkeley. On Wednesday, we talked about how jealous she was that I actually was taking an acting class during my first semester. Friday night, after I received your picture of her beating up a teddy bear on stage she sent me some weird voice mail. She kept talking about how I was too good for Gabriella and I should go find the love of my life. She also said something about you being a much better kisser then Zeke."

"She said I was a better kisser than Zeke?"

"Another reason why I believe something happened last Friday, even if the two of you are in denial."

"We're not in denial" Troy sighed at Chad statement. It was going to be a very long semester.

"I think this phone call has outlived its usefulness. I'm going to read my history assignment." Troy said hanging up the phone.

Kim sat down at that kitchen table next to her son. She was currently trying to get Alex to eat his carrots and was failing miserably. Right when Alex through another piece of carrot she heard her phone began to play picture by kid rock and Sheryl crow. She knew instantly who was calling.

"How did your conversation with Chad go? Do you believe me now?" She didn't even bother with hello. She just wanted to get through this conversation with him as quickly as possible with her heart still intact.

"I believe you, mostly because I spoke to both of them at the same time. You are right there definitely more than friends. What I don't understand is how it happened so fast. When I left three weeks ago they were still enemies."

"Whatever is going on between those two didn't start three weeks ago. This has been going on since a curly haired boy and a little blonde headed girl got in a fight over chocolate milk on the first day of kindergarten. Come on there was a betting pool in high school about when they would get caught in the janitor's closet. It was just a matter of time before that much passion makes itself known. Now that everyone who told them it was wrong for them to be together is gone…"

"They are going to finally be together." Troy said finishing her sentence like he used to.

"Exactly, the question as are you going to help me get them together? There so stubborn they're going to fight this tooth and nail unless we help them."

"My girlfriend is going to hate me for helping to breakup her best friend and her boyfriend.

"So she will cut you off for a couple of weeks. She will eventually get over it."

"We're not sleeping together."

"That's good. I mean… you and her have been together for 19 months. You and I began sleeping together after just a few weeks. Oh my god your mom was right I was pressuring you. I'm so sorry."

"Kim you're babbling. You didn't pressure me. I wanted to be with you. It's just different with Gabby. I did not even kiss her for the first six months of our relationship. I'm not talking about this with you. I think there's some rule about not talking about problems with your current girlfriend with your ex girlfriend. Especially, if the ex girlfriend left you without even calling."

"Don't bring that up again Troy. I didn't have a choice your mom was going to send me to jail for statutory rape and make sure you never play another game of basketball ever. I didn't have a choice. I had to protect you. I loved you too much to let that happen. Now you're at Berkeley on a basketball scholarship. If I stayed that would not have happened."

"You just disappeared. You never called. How can you say you love to me if you didn't even try to get in contact with me? "

"I couldn't. If I tried to contact you, your mom would have sent me to Jail. I didn't disappear. I told Sharpay exactly where I was. You could have asked her about me at any time. You didn't. You moved on to freaky math girl." Kim used Sharpay's nickname for Gabriella with more animosity than Sharpay ever did.

"I didn't forget about you." The tone of his voice almost broke her heart.

"I will never forget about you. We lost our chants. Here is our opportunity to make sure it doesn't happen to someone else. Are you going to help me? " Kim said this as she picked Up Alex from his booster seat.

"Sure my best friend deserves the happily ever after that we never got."

"Thank you for helping. One question before you go?"

"Okay"

"Do you love her?" Kim knew she was a masochist for asking the question. However, she needed to know the answer.

"Sometimes," Troy answered her in a whisper.

"Did you love me?"

"That's two questions."

"Answer the question."

"Always," his answer made her heart to that thing it always did when he was around.

"I'll call you in a couple of days?"

"I like that. I will talk to you later." Troy said as he ended the call.

"That was your daddy baby." Kim said to Alex as she pointed to the pitcher of Troy on her cell phone.

A/N: Yes, super innocent Troy Alexander Bolton got a girl, two years his senior, pregnant at 15 and has no idea. Best of all neither do Chad and Sharpay.