Thank you to everyone who read or reviewed the last chapter. I did end up changing the title, but not much of the content. I noticed that the hits were severely down, probably because it was over 10,000 words. A lot of the stuff that happened in that chapter that is pertinent to the rest of the story.
Chapter summary: Midterm projects disasters involving destroyed computers and a certain file comes back to bite Chad and Sharpay on the ass.
Disclaimer: I do not own High School Musical or any of the songs in this
Warning : This chapter is not going to be very linear. However, it is shorter than the last one.
Chapter 14 Murphy's Law As it Applies to Midterms.
October 21,2008 4:30 PM
Sharpay was completely exhausted, more so than when she had to put up with Darby's psychotic rehearsal schedule. She wanted to do nothing more than curl up with her favorite boyfriend shape pillow and sleep for the next 48 hours. With her English midterm tomorrow, it will more likely be her and Chad going over their notes together.
During the last two days, Sharpay ran lines with Jackie and Jimmy for the fall musical production of Taming Of The Shrew that will probably be more like the musical version of 10 things I hate about you. She also had to rewrite the script twice. She survived her chemistry midterm with only minimum damage. Although, most of her exhaustion was triggered by the exercise in Murphy's law that was her film class project. She did not want to think about that disaster. Kim was probably planning something horrible what they accidentally did to her computer.
Maybe if she was not so exhausted, she would have notice something was off earlier. Her mind was too cloudy with chemistry formulas to pick up on the dirty looks and snickers from her classmates. Maybe if she wasn't going over the answer to question 4 in her head, she would have picked up on the joke when Penelope started humming What's Your Fantasy in the elevator. Maybe if she wasn't thinking about boyfriends time, she would've asked why her next door neighbor asked her if she finally got Chad's pants unzipped. Instead, Sharpay just pushed the idiot into the door for being crude.
Instead of going to Chad's room first, she stopped off in her own room. Ever since she and Chad started dating officially, her room essentially became a glorified closet. Not that she didn't still hang out with Amanda, it was just that she want to be with her boyfriend all the time. There was also the fact she couldn't sleep without him. For some reason he kept the nightmares away. She was so not looking for it to basketball season and out of town games.
When she walked into the room, she noticed Amanda and her two partners in crime staring at the computer in complete shock. As she got closer to the screen, she realized that they were watching a clip from that Drunken Night 08 that Sharpay didn't know existed until yesterday. She and Chad found out Kim accidentally taped Sharpay giving Chad a lap dance the night she was wasted on hard fruit punch. A very topless lap dance to a very dirty song. Personally, Sharpay just wanted the clip to go away.
"Didn't we talk about not breaking into my computer?" sharpay practically yelled at Amanda. "I thought after Taylor pretty much destroyed our dorm room that you would learn your lesson." If was not for the fact that her pseudo nephew would become an orphan, Kim would be dead right now. She could not believe Kim accidentally taped the very intimate/embarrassing moment between her and Chad.
"Trust me no more breaking into other people's computers. I learned my lesson." Amanda said in all seriousness.
"How can you have this, if you didn't break into my computer. If Kim e-mail this to you I am going to spend the next few weeks torturing her. I don't care what I did to her computer."
"I don't think you can be mad at her, since it's on You Tube." Marc joked from the back.
In the corner underneath the footage of a topless Sharpay grinding on Chad as he sat in a chair with the very dirty version of What's Your Fantasy playing in the background, was the You Tube logo. As Sharpay's mind finally processed that the entire world would be seeing her tried to jump the guy that would become her boyfriend, her world suddenly went black.
October 19, 2008 8:45 PM
Normally Kim found herself crashing, trying to figure out a way to balance work, studying, and her son during midterms. This time everything was under control. An hour ago, she emailed her education project to her instructor. She had all the reading and research for a postcolonial women in literature essay done and should easily have it written by Friday morning. Her other two classes had easy exams complete with study sheets that Kim finished earlier today. Now she was sitting in Chad and Sharpay's room putting the finishing touches on their short film. Alex was sitting on the floor playing with the plush basketball that Chad bought him. Apparently, her nanny had the boyfriend flu again.
The film actually came out pretty good, with the additional interviews from her stepmother Vanessa Kim, the McKessie, and Mr. Bolton. Kim couldn't believe her stepmother Vanessa was the girlfriend that caught Michael McKessie having sex with his former enemy the future Mrs. McKessie, Alexa Brown. Maybe the six degrees of separation thing is true. Although probably the most remarkable thing was that Alexa and Vanessa were best friends now.
The only problem with the project was now the happy couple were bickering over what color the credit should be.
"I think I like the credits better in blue." Chad said to his girlfriend of nine days.
"Of course you think the blue is better. I think the white is more visible." If things go as usual, in about 5 minutes they will start making out followed by five more minutes of arguing to be concluded by Kim getting kicked out of the room so they could have some 'private time'.
"I hate to break up this regular scheduled argument/foreplay. However, I have a kid that probably needs to go to sleep. Just go with the blue credits. Save the document to the memory stick and burn a copy for Mr. West. Then you two can go back to sticking your tongues down each other's throats. Some people don't enjoy watching other people make out when the last time they got any was six months before their kid was born." As if on cue, the last person she got any from decided to call.
"Look I have to take this call. Just save the file." Kim said as she gave the memory stick to Chad and walked out into the hallway for some privacy.
"Hey long time no call." since she told him about their child she tried to keep things as light as possible. They were currently trying to figure out where they were in their relationship.
"It's only been two days. It is so not my fault I am being stalked by my psycho girlfriend. Two months of pure neglect and now I practically have to push her out of my room." Kim wanted to suggest that he break up with the annoying one, but knew better. Troy would just question her motives. Although one thing was for sure, she was going to do everything in her power to make sure Gabriella Montez was not her baby step-mom.
"Maybe she saw you send all those texts messaging to your baby's mama. You did send her some pretty dirty messages a couple weeks ago. All those messages about those wicked things you used to do her with your tongue, in hopes of embarrassing her into dealing with the psychotic one."
"You could have told me my dad was reading those messages. There just some conversations one should never have with their father." She could hear Troy shuddering on the other side of the line.
"Just think in 14 years, you'll be having these conversations with Alex," she said teasing him.
"Oh god no," Troy said with a mock shudder.
"He's exactly like you. Chad calls him Troy2.0 when Sharpay is not around. He's going to do everything you did from sleeping with a girl three years older than him on school property to running off on a 1000 mile road trip without telling anybody. His teenage years are just going to be horrible."
"I was not that bad." She was going to reminds him about getting his girlfriend pregnant at 15, but decided against it. If their child were anything like them, they were screwed. "Also, when is Sharpay not around Chad. Don't they usually have to be within 20 feet of each other otherwise the other one kills over in pain."
"The joys of young love. There currently in the other room probably making out when they're supposed to be saving our project and watching Alex." Kim said sarcastically.
"So what exactly is my son doing right now?" she was always happy when he referred to Alex as his.
"He's playing his basketball in Chad's room while we're trying to finish up. Did you get the file I sent you with your father's interview about how your parents met?
"I can't believe my dad actually did karaoke."
"They were high amounts of alcohol involved."
"No, it's just the same way I meant…
"My replacement," Kim said angrily.
"No one can replace you. You do not like her?"
"Not really. I have not exactly heard the best things about her. Chad doesn't like her because she broke up with EU multiple times over the stupidest things. Sharpay doesn't like her, because she's too perfect and doesn't actually show any emotion other than happiness and perky. I can't repeat what Taylor said when she called a few days ago to check up on her. If I'm going to be replaced, I should be replaced by someone who is a little more…" before Kim could finish her thought, she heard a loud crash felled by giggling and screaming.
"Why do have a feeling that your child just broke something."
"Why is he my kid when he does something bad?"
"I have to blame it on somebody." Walking into the room, she found a disheveled Sharpay and Chad looking very worried. They were looking at the broken glass and plastic that used to be her computer.
"What the hell happened to my computer?" Kim asked so loudly that Troy heard her perfectly fine without the phone being in speaker mode.
"This is so his fault." Sharpay said pointing her finger at her boyfriend.
"How is this my fault? You are the one who kissed me first." Chad shot back at his girlfriend.
"Hey you were the one who kiss back and did that thing with your tongue that makes me lose all coherent thought. Besides, I wasn't the one who lost their balance and knocked the computer off the extra high bed.
"I lost my balance because I got hit in the head with a certain toy basketball."
"That you bought for him. Once again this is your fault."
"Thankfully for you I have accident insurance. Please tell me you burn the CD and save the document on the memory stick before you stuck your hand down her pants." Kim asked the other two trying to stay calm.
"His hands have gone nowhere near my pants. He was…"
"Too much information honey. " Chad said kissing her in a attempt to keep her from revealing any more intimate details. "Don't worry it's on the memory stick." Chad said when they stopped kissing.
"Where is the memory stick?"
"I put it back on your keys and then back in your bag."
"Which is currently being ransacked by your child." Sharpay said pointing to Alex pulling everything out of Kim's bag. Kim turned around to see her child run out the door that she accidentally forgot to shut. Unfortunately, the last person to use the ladies room left the door propped open allowing Alex to walk in without any trouble.
"Alexander Troy Kim give mommy her keys right now." Instead Alex decided to drop her keys in the toilet. Now under normal circumstances she would have time to fish the keys out. Unfortunately this summer for some unknown reason automatic high pressure water saving toilets were installed. As she walked into the stall, the sensors activate causing her keys and memory stick to go down the toilet along with her hopes of having an easy midterm week.
October 21, 2008 4:37 PM
Chad Danforth was not having a good day or week for that matter. He had the misfortune of having his calculus and chemistry midterms on the same day. There's also the fact that he had to listen to even nastier than normal jokes from his teammates about his girlfriend. With less than 10 days until the season, started practices were becoming longer and this meant he had to spend more time with people he hated. In high school he only had to put up with Rickey, now he had three more guys just like him.
When he finally made it back to his room he expected to find his girlfriend passed out on his bed. Unfortunately he found her literally unconscious in her room. He quickly grabbed her favorite perfume to revive her.
"Thank god you're here," Sharpay said as she hugged him. "I have this horrible dream that the clip of me giving you a very drunken strip tease ended up on the Internet."
"Sharpay that was not a dream." Amanda said sheepishly she pointed to the video playing on her computer.
"Oh god" Sharpay said burying herself under the covers. "How bad is this."
"The whole school is talking about your sex tape." Amanda said quietly to the stunned pair. Suddenly a few of the jokes at practice made sense.
"How can we have a sex tape? We haven't even had sex yet." Chad said with a sigh.
"You have not had sex? Nikki asked in complete shock. "You sleep with him night with him every single day."
"Key word is sleep. Contrary to what was in that clip under normal circumstances I am not that forward." Sharpay said from underneath her pillow. If they were alone, he would bring up that full body massage she gave him after practice last Friday. He currently consider that to be the most sensuous experience of his life, even it really was just a massage.
"Somebody's been taking ice cold showers." Marc snickered from the back. It was true, but he didn't need to talk about it.
"Maybe it's his right hand," Nikki added.
"Or her right hand," commented Marc nastily.
"Do you have anything to talk about besides our sex life?" Chad said angrily.
"It's so entertaining and now we have video." Nikki said to the others. "Hey was this the day that Sharpay walked out of your room in just a T shirt or did this happen more recently?" that remark earned a snack from Amanda.
"Do you have to be so rude to my other friends?"
"I don't know why you are complaining, Amanda. You won $300.00 in the pool about when Chad and Sharpay would finally start dating." Comment Marc.
"I guess now we will have to start one for when they will actually sleep together." Nikki said from the side.
"I have 100 on spring break." Amanda said from behind.
"At least someone thinks I'm not easy." Sharpay said hiding underneath the pillow.
"They'll never make it that long. I'll put 50 on Christmas."
"Please more like Halloween and that's pushing it. They'll be lucky to make it to the end of the week. He's had a hard on for… actually he always has one when he's around her." Chad had the sudden urge to throw out Marc the window. Unfortunately, even Mr. Evans couldn't cover that one up. Fortunately, Amanda picked up the look of murder in his eyes and quickly ushered her friends out of the room before he or Sharpay could engage in homicide.
"This may be a good time to go to the cafeteria. As a cafeteria employee I can tell you the food is more likely to be edible if you get there early. " Amanda said as she quickly pulled the two people out of the room before Chad could seriously hurt them.
"You friends are weird," Chad said walking over to his girlfriend who was currently trying to disappear under her comforter set.
"They're not my friends, there my roommates friends. I think she's starting to get a little tired of them." Sharpay said peeking her head out of the comforter. He instantly noticed the tears running down her face.
"It's okay." He said hugging her.
"No it's not. The entire school and most of the world has footage of me trying to have sex with you to the song What's Your Fantasy. Seriously why do you have the song on your mp three player? You were liked nine when it came out."
"It's a good song."
"For a stripper!"
"Which is why you probably did what you did. I'm not going to get a repeat of that?
"Not any time soon, maybe sometime around spring break." She said smile, with all of which was a good sign.
"Think of it this way, you're not famous until you have a sex tape. You're already ahead of the curve. When you become a famous actress, you can tell everybody that you already had your sex scandal." He said kissing her on the forehead.
"Yes but most of them are actually having sex on their sex tape. I'm going to kill Kim for doing this."
"Unfortunately Considering the way it's cut it looks like we did. You know that Kim did not have anything to do with this. She is your best friend. She would never hurt you. Whoever did this was being malicious on purpose."
"When I find out who posted this, I'm going to kill them literally. I know people. I'm sure I could get away with it."
"Making plans for homicide, isn't going to do anybody any good. How about just go back to our room and I may be persuaded to return the favor for Friday." Unfortunately that never happened because Mr. Evans chose that minute to call. Chad had the sudden urge to hide under the covers with Sharpay and not in the fun way.
October 20 2008 11:30 AM
"I talked to the technician this morning. My computer is completely dead and she will not be able to extract the files until Wednesday at the earliest. I just like to thank you to for bringing absolute chaos to my midterm's week." From Kim's tone, Sharpay knew buying a new computer would not smooth this incident over.
"That is the day after the project is due. Can we ask for an extension?" asked Chad.
"This professor only gives extensions when he is legally obligated to." Sharpay said to the other two.
"Our only option is to redo the final version. I can get most of the raw material again. When Taylor was here, she burned a copy of all the interviews we did up to that point. I had already called Troy and Taylor to send the footage that they have. I deleted the original files for my emails two days ago thinking I wouldn't need them." Sharpay was thankful for kim's tendency to e-mail stuff to other people.
"We might be able to put something together in the next 15 hours. Sharpay bring your laptop to my house. There's more space there and I don't care if you two make out in the living room. Just remember my child is present. Although you two are putting this back together mostly by yourself. Because I wasn't the one broke the computer or got so busy getting busy but they forgot to burn the CD.
"That seems fair" Sharpay said a after seeing the very angry look in Kim eyes. There is not an expensive enough computer in the world to make up for this mess.
October 21, 2008 6:39 PM
"Did I mention how sorry I am for accidentally taping that?" Kim said to the group after dropping Alex off with Coach Grandpa.
"Only about 100 times," Sharpay said angrily.
"By the way this makes us even for the computer incident."
"No it doesn't. The entire world has seen me topless performing a strip tease for the guy who wasn't my boyfriend at the time, who just happens to be under age. We won't be even for a very long time." Chad knew Sharpay was ready to pounce at any moment.
"I wasn't the one who posted that on the Internet. I don't even have a copy of the file right now. Because my computer, that you destroyed, is still in the shop for file salvage and transfer to the new computer.
"Can we please stop arguing about this? Kim we're sorry we broke your computer. Sharpay Kim is sorry that she accidentally filmed that scene. However, you know that none of us is responsible for posting it. We need to figure out who had access to the file. Your dad and his lawyers are already getting the file pulled. Let's just stop yelling at each other and do something constructive like figure out who posted the file."
"My dad found out about the post from Ryan. Ryan found out about it from his roommates. I'm definitely not done being mad about this."
"Your father kind of already knew about it." Kim said as she put up a pillow to defend herself as Sharpay through a shoe.
"Penelope didn't leave your calculus class voluntarily she was pulled. I gave all the files from that night to your father. It was the only way we could keep her away from you. I accidentally included all the files." Chad was seriously wondering why he was still alive. Instead of throwing another shoe, Sharpay was hiding under the covers again.
"If it makes you feel better he doesn't blame either of you for what happened. Be glad he knows the full story before he saw the Internet clip, otherwise you would both be dead right now." He knew she was right. If anybody in Albuquerque had connections, it would be Vince Evans.
"Your father's computer is another possible place the computer file could've been accessed from. Other than Troy and Mr. Evans, did anybody else have this file?" Chad ask Kim.
"I don't think so I don't exactly leave my computer lying around. Oh no."
"What?"
"You remember the day you guys got together and I had to baby sit Taylor. After she calmed down some, I let her watch some of the interview footage. I left her alone with my computer for hours. If anybody had a reason for some serious vengeance against the two of you, it would be Taylor."
October 14, 2008 4:55 PM
"Gabriella you are such a horrible friend. I called you days ago to tell you that my boyfriend left to me for Sharpay. He fell in love with someone else. I needed my best friend. Where were you? I know probably getting blitzed at a frat party. You ignore me, you ignore Troy, and you ignore everyone who cares about you. Sometimes I don't even know who you are anymore." Taylor yelled atGabriella after she finally called her back, four days after she left a message Saturday morning after most of the dust had settled.
"I'm sorry, not all of us hold onto the past. I actually have other friends." Taylor noticed Gabriella slight insult.
"I'm not holding onto the past. I just needed someone to talk to. However, you were too busy for that as usual. Don't worry Troy and his ex girlfriend Kim helped me through the whole thing. They make a wonderful team. Kim and I did crying over ice cream thing and watching films together to help me get through what happens. She even called me yesterday to see if I'm okay. I'm actually at peace with the situation right now, no thanks to you." Taylor spat back at her so-called friend.
"What do you mean Troy has an ex girlfriend?" of course Gabriella would focus on that part of her comment. That's what Taylor wanted.
"Kimberly Kim, she is the heir to the Beijing Gardens chain of restaurants and hotels. She graduated the year before you got to East High. She and Troy were together for seven months until she left for college. He was completely in love with her. Don't worry there still really good friends. ." Taylor added extra emphasis to the last part. She really wish this was a video phone so she could see the look on Gabriella face.
"So he was serious with her?"
"Maybe you should ask him. Oh, I'm sorry I have to go. My new mandatory chemistry tutor is here. Apparently, part of my punishment for taking a baseball bat to a plasma television is that I have to learn to ask for help. Sharpay really like that television. I have to go." Taylor hung up quickly on her so-called friend.
Taylor probably should not have done that. Although one she found out about Kim and Troy role in setting up the happy couple, she needed to get a little revenge. She may have made peace with the breakup but that didn't mean she wasn't a little mad. Besides it would probably be best if Gabriella knew about their preexisting relationship before she found out about the baby. Although there was no way Taylor was telling her that. Although she hated Gabriella right now, she didn't hate Troy.
October 22, 2008 5:49 PM
"There's no way I'm going to put something like that on the Internet. Do you think I want everybody to know that my boyfriend left me for someone else?" Chad waited an entire 24 hours before he called Taylor to see if she posted the clip o. He thought about having Kim do it, but he needed to face his ex girlfriend sometime.
"Did I mention I was sorry about that? I never wanted to hurt you. It just, happened."
"Yes several times. I know it was not intentional, but it still hurt. You should be happy I never saw the strip tease clip until a couple of days ago when it was anonymously mailed to me. If I saw that when I was in New Mexico, without hearing the entire story of what happened that night, I would have cut off a certain appendage."
"I get the point. Maybe that anger management classes will be good for you. How is the mandatory tutoring going?" It was hard to have any sort of conversation with his ex girlfriend, especially after the breakup they had. It was like trying to get to know each other all over again.
"I may still have a GPA high enough to transfer to another school. I finally realized that Yale just isn't right for me. I'm looking at Howard, American University, George Washington University, and Georgetown for next school year. If I am in the DC metro, I can do a Federal internship at the same time. I would love to do an internship at the White House or on the Hill.
"My mom is in the DC metro now. She has some connections with the group she's working for. I can talk to her if you want."
"Another thing I didn't know about the person I was with for two years. This is why we really broke up. Where is your girlfriend right now?
"Pre calculus study group with Marc. I'm just hoping she can make it the library without someone yelling taken off your bra or killing Marc. He's currently running a betting pool on when Sharpay and I will either have sex or get married."
"Where can I sign up for that? Personally, my money's is on the Inauguration because I know Sharpay is planning a major trip during the four day weekend no matter who wins. In addition, you will be 18 at that point. She even promised to get me a ticket if she can pull it off. She had better hold that promise, I deserve it after what she put me through. How bad is the fallout over the video? I know I saw a few people on campus watching the video. Fortunately no one knew it was my then boyfriend who Sharpay was trying to undress."
"Even though daddy dearest and his team of lawyers manage to get it pulled up due to the fact the it was stolen and I'm under age in record time, a good portion of the campus saw it. This morning someone printed out screen shots and taped them to the door."
"Your room or Sharpay's?"
"You see, we usually sleep in the same room."
"I would ask how you get away with that. However, considering your girlfriend managed to keep me from being expelled, I am not going to ask."
"That would be prudent," Chad said as Sharpay walked into his room and quickly kissed him. Chad was almost sure Taylor heard the kissing sounds.
"Just because I'm okay with you two being together doesn't mean I want to listen to you make out." Taylor yelled loud enough for both of them to hear without the phone being in speaker mode. Sharpay quickly grabbed the phone out of his hand and put it on speaker.
"Sorry about that. Did I mention how sorry I am about everything? I've been on the other side."
"Can you two please stop apologizing? What is done is done."
"I'm guessing Chad asked you about the video that was posted. " Sharpay seemed very tense talking to Taylor. Chad knew Sharpay still had a lot of guilt.
"There's no way I did would something like that. This whole situation is just as embarrassing for me. By the way has your dad threatened to kill Chad yet?"
"No, but only because Kim showed him the full version a few weeks ago. Chad had a topless drunk girl trying to sleep with him and did nothing but put her to sleep in a separate bed after she passed out. This made him boyfriend of the year material to my father. I know my dad is more interested in the person who put this thing on the Internet. If it was A of U student they're going to be expelled."
"Tell me who posted that on the Internet, I will come down and put that baseball bat to good use again." He clearly heard both girls laughing and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'll let you talk to Chad again. I have to go put my books up in my actual room."
"Your girlfriend is letting you talk to your ex girlfriend?"
"We have a healthy relationship. Besides you hate me remember." He would have said it was because he loved Sharpay with all his heart. He knew better than to tell that to Taylor right now. The wounds were still too bloody.
"Chad, if I hated you, I wouldn't picked up the phone. I do have caller ID. I'm doing a really good job of avoiding Gabriella at the moment."
"Trouble in best friend land?"
"She ignores me for almost two months and now she is trying to be my best friend again. I just can't deal with her at the moment. I need to worry about passing midterms and getting to school in DC."
"She's doing the same with Troy. She has been very clingy for the last week. "
"That might have been my fault. I sort of told her about Kim."
"You told her about Troy having a kid? Are you crazy?" Chad whispered in the phone in case Sharpay was nearby. Kim and Troy didn't want Sharpay to find out until they told everyone else at Thanksgiving.
"I'm not crazy. If you thought I was bad, Gabriella is going to be 1000 times worse when she finds out about Alex. I just told her that Troy's fabulous ex girlfriend was a much better friend than she was. Which is completely true, even though she plotted to get you and Sharpay together. I'm still a little upset about that Troy/Kim conspiracy."
"You can't blame them. If we didn't want to be together nothing would have worked."
"I know, but it still hurts that you love someone else."
"I'm sorry."
"No you're not, but thanks for saying it," she said paraphrasing that famous line. "Falling in love with her was probably the best thing that ever happened to you." He couldn't agree with her more.
October 18, 2008 5:15 PM Pacific time
Gabriella was worry. Troy never mentioned anything about an ex girlfriend. As far as she knew, she was his only serious girlfriend. She was more worried about the fact they were still friends and Gabriella knew nothing about the person. She definitely did not want him to be close to his ex. If she were thinking rationally, she would just ask Troy who Kim was to him. However, she didn't want to have that conversation with him.
Instead, she decides to take the indirect route. She purposely show up an hour early when Troy was still working with his group on their English project. She told him she would just hang out in his room for a little while. Fortunately, Troy left his laptop in his room and never changed his password. Gabriella really did not pay attention the slide show on troy's computer otherwise she would have noticed the Asian girl holding the little boy that looked a lot like Troy. She was too busy looking for emails or diary entries.
After 15 minutes of not finding anything, she decided to go for the video files. There she found several file folders labeled from Kim. Unfortunately, they were pretty much all files of Chad and Sharpay making out. She decided to send this stuff to Taylor. She doubted the girl knew any of this. She decided it would probably be best to send the files to herself first. Unfortunately, she only had time to send one file to herself before Troy came back early. She barely had time to close the computer before Troy came back.
"I'm sorry I left you up here alone. How about we go to dinner?"
"That's okay I was just doing a little extra reading." She tried to kiss him on the lips, but instead he moved slightly and she ended up kissing him on the cheek instead.
October 22 2008 9:35 PM
"We are never going to figure out who posted the files." Sharpay said as she leaned into her boyfriend on their bed. After spending the last 24 hours interrogating everyone who could possibly have access to the files, they still had no idea who did it. Sharpay definitely had fun scaring the computer technician earlier today.
"The file was on too many computers. There are at least three possible places where somebody could have got that file." Amanda said as she sat next to Kim on the other bed.
"All of which multiple people have had access to. Not to mention the fact that somebody could have used some malicious means to get the file." Chad pointed out to Sharpay.
"Did I mention how sorry I was about accidentally filming that?"
"That's the first time today," Sharpay said quietly.
"This whole thing was personal though. It couldn't be some random hacker," Amanda said to the group. They purposely edit the clip to make it look a lot worse than what it was. We have been focusing on who had access to the footage. Maybe you should ask who had access to the footage that despises you enough to do something like this."
"Whoever posted the clip also emailed a copy of the original to Taylor. They included a nasty message about not being able to keep her boyfriend happy." Kim told the entire group.
"What nasty e-mail? Did she tell you about that when you talk to her earlier today?" Sharpay asked in worry.
"You let your boyfriend talk to his ex girlfriend?" Amanda asked in shock.
"I actually trust my boyfriend. Besides he knows if he ever cheats on me, that baseball bat in the plasma will be the least of his problems."
"Unlike Taylor, Sharpay knows people. When she gets done with me, the police will never find my body."
"He's so well trained." Sharpay said kissing him quickly.
"Taylor did mention getting the clip via e-mail before it was uploaded to the web. She also mentioned getting in nasty fight with Gabriella for pretty much ignoring her for the last two months. She neglected to mention the nasty email.
"I knew she was evil."
"You don't know it was her Sharpay." Chad pointed out quickly.
"Who else had access to the files that hates us all that much." Sharpay responded back to Chad.
"She doesn't hate me."
You just broke her best friend's heart. Of course, she hates you. Your also the one who keeps telling Troy that he deserves someone better than her. That's plenty of motivation right there."
"She's currently fighting with Taylor. Considering she's too busy getting the 'college experience' to care about what I did to her friend I doubt she hates me." Chad pointed out to his girlfriend.
"She has always hated me. That is probably enough to make her okay with two people she actually likes, becoming collateral damage."
"Who are you two talking about?" Amanda asked after becoming completely lost in their insider conversation.
"The FMG," Kim said with a high amount of loathing. If he did not know about Kim's previous relationship with Troy, he would be a little shocked at Kim's animosity for someone she never met.
"Who?" Amanda asked again.
"My friends current girlfriend who is a little unbalanced." Chad responded to Amanda's question.
"Unbalanced is an understatement. She spent the last two months ignoring him and now she is at his dorm room every day. During midterms. If he flunks out, I blame her." Kim said in irritation.
"She freaked out a couple of summers ago when I bought him Italian shoes and arrange for him to meet the boosters for the school."
"You were trying to take him away from us." Chad said it in half mocking way.
"You seriously need to learn to share." Sharpay said kissing him softly.
"Like I want to share you. I am very possessive." Chad said increased the intensity. He loved the sound she made when his right hand started stroking that little patche of skin just below her top.
"Get a room." Amanda yelled as she threw a pillow at the amorous pair.
"Already have one." Sharpay said kissing Chad again.
"Are you sure they're not sleeping together?" Kim asked as she left the room.
"I think the fact that Chad has gotten very good at strategically placing books in the morning is a pretty good sign that nothing has happened."
"We should go throw ice water on them."
"As long as it's not happening in my bedroom I don't care. I'm going to go study in my own bedroom for a while."
When Kim reached her car 5 minutes later, she picked up her cell phone to call Troy.
"You better happy that Sharpay loses all cognitive function when Chad kisses her. She was about 5 seconds from figuring out what happened. Chad kissing skills just saved your girlfriends life."
October 21, 2008 8:21 pm
"Did you send the video of Chad and Sharpay to anyone else?" Troy could easily pick up the frustration in her voice. She seems so much more tired than she was in high school. That wicked voice in the back of his mind reminded him it was because he made her a single parent.
"I sent the water fountain scene to my dad. That was it. There's no way I was going to post it on the Internet. Chad's my best friend and although we had some hard times, I consider Sharpay a friend as well. Besides, at least one of us should make it out of this fiasco in tack. Our child deserves one parent."
"The only reason I'm probably still talking to you is they broke my computer two days ago while making out. So now my punishment, instead of writing my paper due Friday, is I get to figure out who most likely posted the document to the Internet. Did anybody else have access to your computer?"
"Why are you asking so many questions?"
"Between our child and our amorous friends my computer is essentially glass and plastic pieces. There's no way the technician was able to get the file in time to post. I'm going to have to send it to a specialist just to get Alex s baby videos back. The only other person I sent the clip to was Sharpay's dad who's secure the file for evidence against Penelope for the rum punch incident. There's a possibility that it was intercepted, but I doubt that happening. This attack was too personal. The poster sent the file to Taylor before posting it. I did not send this to anyone else. That only leaves one possible source.
"Someone got it off my computer."
"Exactly."
"So who had access to your laptop in the last few days?
"Gabriella"
"She definitely had motivation if nothing else. From what I heard, she and Sharpay are sworn enemies."
"There's no way she would do anything like that. She is not going to sneak around my room looking at my files to get revenge on Sharpay. She is not the type of person to do something that malicious.
"Troy, no one is what they seem. Besides what if it wasn't about Sharpay. Taylor told her about us."
"Fuck," that was the only word that seemed to fit. He didn't want to tell Gabriella about having a child until he and Kim worked out all the custody details. He also wanted to keep things quiet until he decided to stay at Berkeley or move back to New Mexico. He did not want Gabriella to find out like this. "She knows about Alex?"
"No or at least Taylor didn't tell her. Who knows what she could have found on your computer?" He thought about the pictures of Kim and Alex he kept on his computer and on his cell phone. Who knew if she put everything together?
"She just mentioned how your ex girlfriend, who you loved very much, helped her through the big break up. Of course, she made it sound like the whole school knew about our relationship. She told Gabriella that we only broke up because I went to college and we're still really good friends. That is enough to get anyone to break into your computer to see if you're still getting it on with your ex. She probably found the files and decided to post them to get back at Chad, Sharpay, and Taylor." Troy knew Kim was right.
It would explain why Gabriella was actually calling him more often. Gabriella was jealous of the possibility he could be close to someone else. He remembered the summer at Lava Springs when she essentially threw a fit because of all the time he was spending with Sharpay. . Unlike then, Gabriella actually had a reason to be jealous this time because his relationship with Kim was very deep. Sharpay would always be just a friend. However, Even without Alex and some weird way he would always be connected to Kim.
"I just like to say, I really don't want this person to be Alex's future step-mom. You know in your heart that she could do something like this if given the right motivation. I don't think I can trust her with our child."
"I don't know if I can either." Troy whispered to himself.
October 23, 2008 7:35 PM
20 minutes ago, Gabriella showed up to his room completely unannounced as he was going over his scene with Yolanda for their midterm performance tomorrow. Gabriella pretty much demanded that he focused his attention on her. She was also freaking out because he would be kissing somebody else on stage. If this had been a week earlier, he would be surprised by her jealous behavior. Now he knew better.
As he watched girlfriend for the first time in months, he realized she wasn't the same sweet girl he met almost two years ago. She had change or maybe he was the one that changed. He caught Gabriella talking about the Chad /Sharpay incident in such a nasty way to Yolanda that it all but confirmed Gabriella as involvement. It was the final pushing needed to do what he had been putting off for months.
"Gabriella we need to talk. Yolanda can you give us a few minutes."
"Sure I'll just go something to drink." Yolanda said as she quickly making her way out of the room.
"Nothing good can start with that sentence." Gabriella said as sat down on Troy's bed.
"I think we should take a break."
"What?"
"I don't have time for a serious relationship right now. I have a lot of other things that I need to focus on including school and basketball." In his head, he added Kim and Alex to the list. When Gabriella started screaming at him and throwing things he realized that Chad got off easy with Taylor.
October 24, 2008 4:19 PM
After the week Sharpay had, she definitely needed to speak to her therapist. The web incident was apparently the talk of the campus. There were even tee shirts. She was currently walking around campus with dark sunglasses and a scarf.
"So other than filling violated because the entire school saw something very personal, how do you feel?" Asked Olivia, Sharpay's therapists.
"5 minutes from a nervous breakdown. I am not going to withdraw like last time though. This time I have Amanda and Kim for support when people call me nasty names. It feels good to have real friends.
"What about Chad?"
"He should probably be as mortified as I am, but he's not. Except for the fact I found out what I did that night."
"He never told you what you did?"
"He probably thought it was safer." Sharpay said with a smile. "Chad has been there for me through this entire thing. It made me realize something very important."
"Was is that Sharpay?"
"That I love him. I'm just scared to fall in love again. I mean you know about all my other relationships. In addition, what I feel for Chad is not high school love. My feelings for Chad are of the messy and complicated until death do us part variety.
"How does this make you feel?
"Absolutely terrified, but in a good way. "
October 20, 2008 1:05 AM
Gabriella sat pudding the last touches on her ultimate revenge again Sharpay Evans and her boyfriend who couldn't keep his mouth shut to Troy. Even though she tried to be nice to Sharpay for Ryan sake, she could not stand the girl. The fact that she successfully took Taylor's boyfriend proves what an evil person she truly is.
Before she transferred to East High and actually have friends, she spent a lot of time playing around with her father's video editing equipment. Of course, that was before the divorce. It was hard to make friends when she moved around so much because of both for their jobs. The computer became her best friend. This allowed her to have skills to completely manipulate the file she found on Troy's Computer. It was bad enough on its own. Sharpay was practically screwing Chad right there on the chair with the appropriate music playing in the back. She already sent the unedited version to Taylor with a nasty note attached. Now all she needed to do was anonymously post this version to the web. Gabriella would finally have the perfect revenge on Sharpay without any consequences for herself. It was the perfect plan.
October 24, 2008 4:32 PM
Chad was quietly waiting for Sharpay outside of her doctor's office. Until this whole thing died down, he didn't want her to be anywhere by herself. The therapy session went well, because she came out smiling. He loved her smile. He grabbed her hand as they made their way to the car.
"So did you have a breakthrough in therapy today?" Chad asked her with a smile.
"Actually I did."
"What was that?" He asked her as he kissed her lightly on the lips
"I love you."