Thank you to everyone who has reviewed this crazy story. Thank you to everyone who is still reading.
For anybody wondering how Taylor and Chad can get along after everything that happened read the companion story Gabriella Ryan Taylor Manhattan. The big Taylor Chad showdown is actually in chapter five of that story.
Warning: sexual dialogue
Chapter 27: Adventures In Adult Land Part II: High School Never Ends
Disclaimer: I don't own anything recognizable. There are also a couple of properties that I name-drop in this chapter; I don't own those properties either.
December 18, 2008 11:35 PM
Chad hated away games. Let's be honest he hated basketball period these days. Away games were the worst. He hated being away from Sharpay. He already knew that he could not do any career that would keep him away from her for extended periods of time. That meant NBA superstar was definitely out.
Not that he really saw himself playing basketball beyond this season. He wanted to strangle most of his teammates at this point. He didn't fit in and unlike in high school he wasn't going to act stupid just so he could. At least at home games he had Sharpay to cheer him on from the bleachers. That made it bearable.
He just got back a little while ago after being forced to listen to his teammates complain about losing the game by one point. He had too much adrenaline in his system to fall asleep. Usually he would hang out with Amanda or do homework until he could go to sleep. Tonight that was not an option.
Other times he would call Troy and they would compare away game horror stories. He knew better than to call at night when Troy was with Kim. Chad didn't know what was worse interrupting father/son time or interrupting Troy/Kim fun time. He didn't want to do either.
He thought about taking a walk outside. It was snowing pretty heavily or at least it was snowing heavily for someone who rarely saw snow. In the morning, he would probably go out in the snow but tonight the only thing he really wanted to do was call Sharpay.
"What are you doing?" Chad asked as he called his girlfriend.
"I am currently moving my things into the guest room downstairs. That way I can actually get some sleep tonight." Sharpay said to him with a hint of bitterness. He could tell she was tired and extremely irritated.
"Why are you moving downstairs?" Just then Chad heard moaning and groaning in the background. "Do you have porn on? If you needed a release, all you had to do was call. I can tell you all the wicked things I want to do to you. There are so many places I want to lick and touch." He said the last part using his bedroom voice.
"I'm not having phone sex with you." He could hear a tiny bit of annoyance in his girlfriend's voice.
"I am board and still suffering from a postgame high. I have too much energy to sleep and it's snowing outside."
"You do know I'm rolling my eyes at you right now. I'm not here for your entertainment."
"That's not what you said last night. Oh wait you were calling me god at the time." He said with a quick laugh.
"Again, I am rolling my eyes. That was two nights ago. I thought you only got that postgame high when you actually won?"
"How do you know the outcome of the game? I thought you were judging the talent show?"
"I followed on my cell phone when I was supposed to be judging the competition. Don't tell anybody. It kept me from throwing things at Tierra." It was never a good sign when Sharpay hates you enough to not even bother pronouncing your name correctly.
He would tell his girlfriend that it was absolutely adorable that she was keeping up with his game at the talent show, but he was cut off by a voice that he remembered quite well yelling, "Faster Ryan. Oh my god, I'm going to come." It was so loud that the cell phone was picking it up despite not being in speakerphone mode.
"Was that Taylor?" Chad asked Sharpay in shock. A loud string of expletives coming from both Ryan and Taylor confirmed it.
"Those are the sounds of my brother and your ex girlfriend having very loud sex in the next room. Thank god, dad is in Singapore. I'm surprised the bed hasn't broken yet. I swear they're doing this on purpose. I know that after more than two months and thousands of text messages our relationship is better, but I think she's doing this to torture me. This is my punishment for dating you. I'm going to have to devote an entire therapy session to this. I'm scarred for life." He knew his girlfriend was upset, however, he couldn't help but laugh. She was in full blown drama queen mode.
"It's not that funny Chad. This is not what I wanted to deal with after surviving my adventures in high school land. All I wanted to do was come to the mansion, lay in bed with a nice heating pad, and work on one of my short stories."
"Is this one of your special short stories?"
"Now I'm just glaring at you through the phone. Do you think of anything besides having sex with me?"
"I'm not thinking about having sex with you. I'm thinking about doing everything else, like slowly kissing every single inch of your skin as you lay completely bear on our bed. In my mind I'm currently running my tongue over that certain spot. You know what I am talking about. The one that always makes you scream. Since you don't want me to talk about my mouth sucking on that most precious part of your anatomy, you can tell me all about your day." He heard a hitch in her breath when he started talking dirty to her.
"You're so evil. Shouldn't you be sleepy?"
"You know I'm not going to go to sleep any time soon. Just talking to you helps me relax. Tell me what happened today?"
"I'll tell you everything as soon as I get to the guest room." He could hear Sharpay picking up things in the background.
"Come on they have to be done by now? Shouldn't he be too terrified to touch Taylor after yesterday's meet the parents dinner?" Just then his girlfriend switched the phone to speaker mode and he heard more "love sounds" from the room next door.
"That never stopped you. I told you this was her true revenge against me. I stole her boyfriend and now she's making me listen to her doing things to my brother that I want to repress."
December 18, 2008 8:35 AM
Sharpay had no idea why she agreed to do this. It was already painful being here packing up Ms. Darbus's class room Tuesday. She wasn't supposed to come back until the second week in January. That was before everything was changed by a stupid cancer diagnosis.
Sharpay knew things were worse than what she was told because Ms Darbus wasn't able to stay another week to oversee the final exams herself. Sharpay tried not to think about how tired Ms Darbus sounded on the phone when she and Ryan called her yesterday on the way to the apartment from hell.
An hour into the Drama I performances, Sharpay already had a massive headache. Over the course of the next two days each student in groups of two will perform a scene from a play or film chosen by Ms. Darbus.
Some of the performances were really good. Chad's Cousin Carmen performed a scene from the play Graceland with her best friend Margarita Rodriguez. Other performances were absolutely horrible. She wished Ryan would let her pour her iced cappuccino on top of Donny. He screwed up half his lines. However, she didn't feel like channeling Darby at the moment. It was obvious to sharpay that he didn't rehearse enough.
Unlike in previous years, this semester the performances had an audience. The evil principle that they all hated decided that the two teachers taking over the drama department next year should monitor the final exams. Their students sat in the back watching the performances. If the performance was good, they clapped. If it was bad they threw things. By the end of Donny's performance from Hamlet the stage was covered with paper.
Jack and Ms. Ortega agreed with Ms Darbus's suggestion that three students familiar with the performing arts should grade the performances. Sharpay blamed Kim for her current predicament. If Kim was not off in California house hunting with Troy, she would be the third person. Instead they were stuck with Kelsey. Penelope would have been a preferred alternative.
If her brother and his ex girlfriend kept arguing she doubted that either of them would be alive to grade the second day's performances. She could understand the animosity on Ryan's part. Ryan and Kelsey have been friends for years and she cheated on him. It wasn't just "I fell in love with someone else" cheating. It was "I am sleeping with someone else behind your back" cheating. Then she had the audacity to accuse him of being with Taylor before the break up. In between performances, Sharpay had to listen to snide comments being traded back and forth.
Sharpay was a little surprised they were yelling at each other. Kelsey usually stayed quiet. According to what Ryan and Taylor told her, Kelsey has been giving him the silent treatment sense after Thanksgiving.
"I thought you said she was ignoring you," Sharpay whisper to her brother during the last performance of the morning. The cheerleader who offered her boyfriend a blowjob last Friday was currently on stage performing the final scene from Romeo and Juliet. Nicholas Cross had the misfortune of being her partner. Sharpay personally wished stupid cheerleader number one was actually drinking poison up there.
"This is the first time since the initial argument that Kelsey has said more than five words at a time to me. She has mostly stuck with icy glares and making out with Natasha in front of me. I think she's a little upset about Taylor's revenge last weekend." Ryan whispered back to her as his cheeks became tinted with redness.
"What did you and Taylor do? Please keep the details down to a bare minimum. I'm already nauseous." Sharpay whisper to her brother in annoyance.
"After surviving the most uncomfortable meet the parent's scenario ever Kim called to check up on us last night. By the way she said you need to call her. Any way she told us all about this incident where you got back at Richard by pretending to have sex with Chad at the best menswear store in town. We did the exact same thing to Kelsey, except we did not need to fake it."
"Nice to know at least one of your girlfriends didn't need to fake it. You never know. I'm sure you had no ideal I was faking it." Kelsey said sharply as she turned back around to face the stage just as stupid cheerleader number one screwed up the most important line in the entire scene. Sharpay concentrated on the scene trying not to think about what they were referring to. She did not want to think about her brother having sex with anyone. Denial was a wonderful place to be sometimes.
"Trust me I knew Kelsey. You're not that good of an actress. I'm not offended. I usually had to think of someone else just to get off." That was not a visual that Sharpay wanted to have in her mind. Sharpay was trying her hardest not to pay attention to this conversation. She was focusing on stupid cheerleader number one as she essentially molested Nicholas onstage. Unfortunately for stupid cheerleader number one Nicholas's girlfriend was in Ms. Ortega's 10th grade English class. Stupid cheerleader number one was in serious trouble.
The Present
"Stopped laughing Chad," Chad could hear the Irritation in his girlfriend's voice.
"I'm not laughing about Kelsey and Ryan. Okay maybe I am a little. Just the thought of Kelsey talking about that sort of thing is too much. I think the funnier part was happening onstage. Why didn't anybody stop stupid cheerleader number one from molesting Nick on stage."
"Ms. Ortega felt that we should let all the performances go uncensored. We gave extra points to Nicholas for not reacting when she started molesting him during the kissing scene. Your future stepfather was too busy laughing at Ryan and Kelsey. He didn't stop until Kelsey decided to let us all know that my brother had a crush on you and Troy last year."
"Your brother has good taste. However you are my favorite Evans." He said with a laugh.
"You're not bothered by the fact my brother had a crush on you?" Okay maybe Chad should not have said that last statement.
"I already knew. While you were busy chasing Troy during the summer of 2007, your brother decided to get back at you by making a move on me. I'm thinking subconsciously he already knew what was going on between us. Everyone else did. You have no idea how upset he was. He felt like you completely ditched him for Troy."
"I know. I was a horrible bitch to my brother and everyone else. I'm doing much better this year. What do you mean he made a move on you?" Sharpay said that last part as if she just realized what he said before.
"He tried to kiss me. It was after the baseball game. I played it off as if he was joking. We never talked about it again. I have you and he's with Taylor."
"This goes under the category of things you will never tell Taylor."
"Yes. You understand what happened. Taylor may kill him. Can we please talk about the Kelsey and Ryan bickering?"
"I am having so much fun making you squirm. They say turnabout is fair play." Thankfully before the torture could continue he received another call.
"You'll have to wait another minute to continue torturing me. I'm getting another call." Chad said as he switched over.
"Has the separation anxiety kicked in yet?" Kim asked as soon as he switched the call.
"You could at least say hi first." Chad said to her in annoyance.
"Where's the fun in that? I just want to see what's going on with you. Troy is trying to get Alex back to sleep and I thought I would give them a little space. I was bored. I know you will still be up. I figure Sharpay would probably be asleep by now."
"Actually I'm talking to her on the other line. Let me conference you in." Chad said activating the necessary function.
"Hey Sharpay, that was Kim. Your best friend is now on this call, so please refrain from talking about what you want me to do when I get home tomorrow."
"I have a sudden urge to throw a pillow at you. But you're not here. How's everything kim?"
"Only mildly chaotic. That's an improvement for us. No one's trying to kill us. No one's getting arrested. No one's trying to sleep with my future husband. We are only being followed by two reporters. Alex actually behaved today at the away game. We're having a nice normal family vacation for us." Kim said to her friends.
"What are the not so normal parts?" Chad asked her.
"We started off by helping Troy's ex torture her roommate. Your plan worked brilliantly sharpay. I have pictures, but I haven't had time to send them yet." Kim told her friends excitedly.
"I told you it would. At least now Mercedes and Gabriella know that Troy is yours. Seriously I can't believe Gabriella's roommate conspired to break Troy and Gabriella up just so she could date him."
"Didn't you try the same thing?" Chad said to Sharpay. If he was in the same room as her he would never say such things out loud. It did not matter because she chose not to answer.
"Gabriella I'm not worried about. She's handling this surprisingly well considering everything that happened. Although it's probably the drugs. After marking my territory at the sorority house, I had an interview at Stanford. I'm sure if I wasn't worth a bit under three hundred million dollars I would not even gotten an interview."
"Money does have its privileges. I've miss money. I can not even go shopping." Sharpay said with sadness.
"You're crying after four days. Try two years with a kid. Although I'm starting to get a little upset about how people treat you differently because you have money. My encounter with the realtor Tuesday reminded me so much of high school when people only talk to us because we were wealthy." Chad knew that didn't just applied to money. He knew half of his "friends" in high school only talk to him because he was co captain of the basketball team.
"Sucking up to people because of what they can give you is not a trait solely associated with high school students." Chad said in irritation.
"That's very true. When the realtors first saw me and Troy he gave us to one of his underlings to show us some nice college student apartments. The guy tried to take over after my credit check. We decided to stay with the underling Janus. She has been showing us some very nice houses and condos. I'm not looking at mansions. I like to think of myself as Warren Buffett rich. So what's going on with you guys?"
"Another away game and chance for me to spend time with the guys I can't stand. You know the usual. Sharpay is the one who had to deal with the bickering toddlers." Chad told Kim.
"More like a bickering Ryan and Kelsey. I think my parents have been more civil to each other during the divorce." Sharpay said in irritation.
"Okay that doesn't make sense. Chad you're practically best friends with Taylor and you cheated on her with someone else." Kim said in astonishment.
"That required a lot of text messaging and hours of groveling." Chad said to the other two.
"Gabriella and Troy are on speaking terms and he is marrying me. If they can tolerate each other, why are Kelsey and Ryan at each other's throats?"
"I think the drugs are the only things keeping Gabriella from attacking you. Things are never as simple as they seem. Kelsey has a tendency to internalize anger. She is the opposite of Jackie. Because you are here you might as well hear the next part of the story." Sharpay said as she continued on with the story.
December 18, 2008 10:17 AM
After the Drama I final ended with a shouting match between Kelsey and Ryan, Jack made her sit between her brother and Kelsey during the drama three presentations. This wasn't such a good idea. Despite all outward appearances, Kelsey and her never really got along. They were frenemys at best. Their relationship has always been very passive aggressive in nature. Kelsey would give the best songs to Troy and the FMG. Sharpay changed Kelsey's lyrics and arrangements just to piss her off. Sharpay would convince Ms Darbus that a one woman show would be most appropriate and Kelsey would secretly sign up everybody to be in the show. However, they never confronted each other directly.
In the past Sharpay was civil to Kelsey because she was her brother's friend and later girlfriend. She couldn't stand her for what she did to Ryan. At least she told Taylor about what happened between her and Chad eventually. She didn't keep it a secret like Kelsey did. The only thing keeping her from smacking the girl upside the head was she was friends with Kelsey sister Jackie.
Sharpay was still edgy from the last performances when the drama III students took the stage. There are only 12 students in this class. They will perform twice over the next two days. The main difference was Drama III students were allowed to choose anything they wanted to perform as long as they could find a copy of the script. Students chose scenes from everything from Ugly Betty to Star Trek.
Sandi AKA the girl she caught on the roof at the welcome back dance, with her two partners performed a scene from the episode Lovers Walk from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The fashion obsessed fake friends that Sharpay had in high school would fall out of their seats if they saw Anita's Betty costume.
"I grew up watching Star Trek. I don't remember there being that much 'tension' between Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk. At least not that type of tension. " Jack said to Sharpay as Cory Huntsman and Shawn Matthews walked off the stage after performing a scene from TOS. She could hear Ryan snickering at this comment.
"This is coming from the man who did certain things with Chad's mother AKA your best friend in my pool house over Thanksgiving. Friends being more than friends shouldn't surprise you." Sharpay said in exasperation.
"I'm not responding to that. I can't believe Ms Darbus let you guys do this sort of stuff. "Jack said to her.
"Because the principle always over censored the school productions Ms Darbus would always let us go a little bit wild with our finals pieces. The Drama III class has the lease restrictions. Kim's class actually performed the entire episode/musical Once More, with Feeling for their Drama III exam." Sharpay said as she marked down her grades for the last performance.
"Up next we have Tiara Gold performing a scene from the film Singing in the Halls." Ms. Ortega announced from behind.
"I thought the pieces were supposed to be performed with at least two people?" Ryan asked his sister.
"They are. However, nobody would work with Tiara. Ms Darbus gave her special permission to work alone. Why do you think Sandi had a Spike and an Angel to work with?" Sharpay said as she picked up the script for this performance.
"I'm surprised that never happened to you. You were the bitch of the drama department." Sharpay heard Kelsey say the last sentence under her breath. Sharpay took a deep breath to steady herself until the performance was over. She didn't have the energy to deal with Kelsey at the moment.
Finally the bell rang and the morning torture session was over. She walked over to Jack and Ms. Ortega to hand them the results from this morning's performances. The real reason she did so quickly was she was 30 seconds from shoving her designer shoe into Kelsey skull.
"Here are the grades from the last group of students. Cory and Shawn did the best followed by Sandi's Group. I gave Anita extra points for the costume, but Rachel did not pull off Amanda Tanned Somers at all. I would suggest Tiara repeat this class next year but if Ms Darbus does return, I don't wanna put her through that torture. For someone who spent two years at a performing arts school, she has a lot to learn. These 3 hours have made me completely rule out the possibility of becoming an education major." Sharpay told the two teachers as she took the empty seat next to them.
"I thought you already decided you are to be a Broadway actor. That's always been your dream/delusion." Kelsey said snidely from the front.
"I wasn't talking to you." Sharpay said with an eye roll. "If you were still talking to my brother instead of ignoring him or shouting at him because of perceived infidelities you would know I'm not an acting major anymore. I love being onstage. I just don't want to do it for the rest of my life."
"Maybe you just finally realized you don't have the talent for it. Gabriella was so much better than you at just about everything." Kelsey said with smugness that Sharpay never saw from her before. Maybe Kelsey grew a spine in college. However, considering the cowardly way she broke up with Ryan Sharpay severely doubted it. If she didn't promise Troy that she would keep quiet about the Gabriella mental illness thing she would say something about how Gabriella's acting skills were cultivated by her trying to act like Miss Mary sunshine all the time.
She actually felt Jack and her brother holding her back from hurting Kelsey. Fortunately, Ms. Ortega step in before anything bad happened.
"Kelsey, why don't I walk you to your car. I am on Lunch at the moment. You do not need to be back here until 2:00 for the afternoon class." Ms. Ortega said essentially pushing Kelsey out of the auditorium
"Seriously what did you see in her?" Sharpay said out loud as soon as Kelsey was out of the room.
"I'm thinking it was a temporary lapse of good judgment." Ryan said to his sister.
"Are you gonna be able to work with her this afternoon." Jack said to the two of them in concern.
"Not really but I don't have a choice." Sharpay said with an angry sigh.
"If you can find someone else that is qualified to do the grading I will personally ask Kelsey not to come tomorrow." Jack told Sharpay quietly.
"This wouldn't be happening if Kim was here. Excuse me while I go yell at your future daughter in law. I would call your future stepson to complain but he's on an airplane at this point."
The Present
"I'm sorry I was not here when you called. I think we were already on the plane to the game. Although I've might've been chasing Alex around the hotel room. I'm not sure anymore." Kim said to his girlfriend.
"That's okay,"
"Do you really have to keep making all the future stepfather jokes?" Chad asked his girlfriend. The joke was starting to get a little old.
"I told you earlier I like making you squirm." Sharpay said to him.
"I do the exact same thing with Troy. I am currently teaching Alex how the call your mom grandma. You do realize that you and Troy will probably be steps siblings within six months of the divorce being finalized." Kim said to them. That thought made him uncomfortable and happy at the exact same time.
"Probably. Why couldn't they have done this when we were still in high school?"
"No ideal. As much fun as I'm having with you guys talking about how we're all going to end up related someday. However, my boyfriend just walked in and my toddler is asleep. I'll talk to you in the morning if I regain consciousness before noon." With that Kim disconnected from the call.
"Just for that we're putting her and Troy in the same suite as Ryan and Taylor when we go to DC next month. The two couples can compete to see who's louder." Chad said with a laugh.
"Speaking of DC, your mom called me at lunch today."
"Why did she call? I thought you guys worked out all the inauguration trip details already? Seriously, how did you get that many tickets? On the other hand, is she calling about her Christmas plants?"
"The inauguration trip stuff is already handled. We were able to get that many tickets because Kim and I are well connected. She mostly called to see we are upholding the rules of the challenge. She agreed to me staying here after I explained everything." Chad was surprise that Sharpay told his mom everything. "Now she's looking into if I can still press charges against Richard. She mostly called to make sure I wasn't actually going to kill Kelsey this afternoon. Apparently your future stepfather was worried."
"I will let that once slide because I love you. Did you find a suitable replacement?"
"Yes but it only cost me my soul and my roommate."
December 18, 2008 3:15 PM
Sharpay was going to kill her brother and his ex girlfriend. She was so desperate that she asked Penelope if she would fill in. Despite the temporary truce, the situation must be bad if she was volunteering to spend all day tomorrow with Penelope.
The afternoon was going better than the morning performances. That may be because this is her class and they were used to working with her. To keep her and Ryan from reaching over to strangle Kelsey during the performances Ms. Ortega was sitting between them. So far the bickering stayed down to a minimum.
"Okay up next are Jackie and Jimmy Who will be performing a scene from Love the Musical." Sharpay said as she pulled out the scripts for that scene as she continued to ignore everything else. This is the last performance for the day thankfully. Unfortunately she had to come back tonight for the talent show. She was beginning to wonder why she wanted so much control over the drama club in high school.
This time Ms. Ortega's class was sitting in the back watching the performances. Poor Jason and Kerri had to sit through this twice. She could see Kerri smiling the moment Jimmy got on stage.
"Do you love her?" Jackie asked Jimmy as the character Rebecca.
"It does not matter who I love. It doesn't concern anybody but me. Why should you care?" Jimmy said to her in response.
"I've always cared. You were too blind to see it before." Jackie spat back and bitterness. Her performance was so good Sharpay almost thought it was real.
"I saw it perfectly well. I've always known that you were in love with me. But I'm not in love with you. You're my best friend. I love you as a friend but it's never gonna go beyond that. I can't see you as my lover." Jimmy stare looked so cold at that moment.
"No because you love Kerri. I know she's been in your bed." That was the wrong name. She was supposed to say the name Christina. The only indication that Jimmy picked up on the slip was the look in his eyes. He continued with his lines as planned except he switched the name. Sharpay was probably the only one who knew the slip was deliberate. This was not good.
"Kerri is just a friend." Jimmy said looking Jackie directly in the eyes.
"No she's not. I saw you kissing her. Last Friday night when you were supposed to be with me, I saw you kissing her." Jackie screamed at him.
"Those aren't the original lines." Sharpay heard Ryan whisper as the scene continued. Sharpay turned around to see Kerri sinking down in her seat. They both knew this was no longer a performance.
"I do not know what you're talking about." Jimmy said reciting his line from the actual script. Strangely enough, it was probably the truth.
"Oh stopped the act. Stop pretending. I know exactly what's going on. I know you're fucking my so-called best friend." When the F word fell from Jackie's mouth Sharpay was just happy the principle wasn't there to see it. Sharp language was only allowed in the Drama III performances.
"They are not acting anymore are they?" Jack whisper to Sharpay from behind. He was probably the only one beside her that knew of the real relationship between Jimmy and Kerri.
"No they're not." Sharpay said in a whisper turning back to the stage.
"You're right I do care about Kerri. However we're not sleeping together." Jimmy said that last part out with true anger.
"Don't lie to me. I saw you in her sneak into the janitor's closet Tuesday. Did she do a good job sucking your cock? Was she as good as your boyfriend? According to the rumor mill my so-called best friend is really good at that. That's the only thing I can think of that would make you choose her over me."
"We got to get her off the stage." Kelsey said in a whisper as she finally caught on to what was going on.
"Let the scene run its course." Ms. Ortega said to the other three.
"She's about to out him in front of the entire school." Kelsey's said in horror.
"We are the only ones that know it's gone off script." Sharpay said in a whisper.
"Don't look so shocked. I knew all about Marc. I saw you with him. I saw you with her. I loved you but you didn't care. You're such a prick." Jackie said as she slapped him across the face and ran off the stage. The students were all clapping except for Kerri and Jason who knew what they just saw was real. Kelsey instantly went to follow her.
"Don't follow me Kelsey. I don't need your fake concern now. Ice cream can't cure this." Jackie practically yelled at her sister as she marched off angrily. "I will go get her. Sharpay you're in charge of the class." With that Ms. Ortega left the room.
The present
"How did she find out?" Chad said in shock as Sharpay told him of the entire incident this afternoon.
"Do you remember during the summer of 2007 how I tried to win the talent show?" Sharpay asked him. He had no idea how this related to the current situation.
"Let's see you essentially bribed Troy with Italian shoes to sing with you, stole a song that Kelsey wrote for someone else, and purposely eliminated your real competition. Did I mention how happy I am that we are now on the same side?" The way his girlfriend's mind worked scared him sometimes.
"My evil schemes only work now because I have you. Any way Tiara wanted to win the talent competition by any means necessary. Of all the people performing, who was most likely to win before today's events?"
"It would have been Jimmy and Jackie. Jackie said Kelsey was writing her a song specifically for the competition."
"We both know that and so did Tierra. For some reason even though she was a junior, she was at the dance last Friday. She saw Jimmy and Kerri sneak off to the gym Friday night. She convinced Jackie to go into the gym to see him make out with her best friend. Tiara also convinced Jackie to keep quiet until today."
"This would effectively eliminate her competition." Chad said answering her unspoken question.
"Exactly. It went better than Tiara planned because Jackie got suspended for her little stunt this afternoon. Even if they kissed and made up right after, Jackie wouldn't be allowed to stay in the show."
"Please tell me Tiara didn't win."
"As we've all known since the beginning Jimmie Zara is no Troy Bolton. When Tiara asked him to sing with her he told her, and I quote "fuck off."
"Our little Jimmy is growing up." Chad said mockingly. "So how exactly did Tiara not win?"
"Other than having no singing voice whatsoever, it turns out that Tiara forgot that Kerri can sing."
"The golden couple won the competition and the evil villain was taught a valuable lesson. This all resulted in you handing out a trophy to the winner."
"If only things could be that simple. The big difference is I actually learned my lesson. Don't roll your eyes at me Chad Danforth. Tiara is just going to try this again next semester."
"You try the same thing again next semester." Chad pointed out to her.
"Because Kelsey set me up. She could have just told me she didn't want to do the one woman show. Instead she does her normal passive aggressive thing and enlisted Gabriella sunshine to help. I hope the new drug combo will make Gabriella less perky." Sharpay said in her defense.
"So things are not going to end with a Disney happy ending."
"Things are never that simple. You and Troy were on speaking terms again by the time the talent show happened that summer. However, everyone else snubbed me for a good six months. Kelsey and I have never been friends. Kerri is so mad about Jackie's little performance that there's no way they're going to be able to be in the same room together any time soon. Jackie is still upset because Kerri got the guy. Finally Jimmy's upset because his best friend is no longer talking to him. There's also the fact that the entire school now knows that he had a boyfriend at some point. I thought I was done with high school drama when I graduated high school." Sharpay said with an annoyed sigh.
"That's what happens when you spend so much time around high school students."
"I would agree with you if it wasn't for the fact that my brother and his ex are the ones being the least mature. Their reaction is pure high school."
"High school never ends."
"Does this mean you're going to start singing that song?
"No, but you know it's true. No matter how much we grow up we are still going to have to deal with petty jealousy and people who judges us before they know us. The only difference is we get to change clicks.
"Thank god for small favors. So are you sleeping now?"
"Not yet. Can we have phone sex now?" he asked her as a joke.
"Not going to happen. You may not be tired yet, but I am."
"Go to sleep. Love you."
"Love you too."
A/N: I'm a firm believer that Ryan was actually hitting on Chad during the I Don't Dance sequence from HSMII. I only got that DVD for that sequence. I decided to write my own crazy interpretation of those events in this chapter.
I've been reading way too much Star Trek 2009 fanfiction lately. I just had to throw that little joke in there.
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