Thank you to everyone who read or reviewed the last chapter. This is the beginning of semester two.
Sorry this chapter took forever. I encountered severe writer's depression again. I think this was the most difficult chapter to write since chapter seven. I've rewritten this chapter at least 10 times.
There's also the fact that I caught some sort of virus that impacted my ability to dictate to the computer. I was under doctor's orders not to dictate (write anything) for a few days.
Chapter 28: The Honeymoon Is Over
January 6, 2009 3:50 AM.
Sharpay couldn't sleep. She never could when he wasn't with her. They've been together for less than six months and she couldn't deal with being away from him. She wondered what her therapist would say about this when they show up for their couple session tomorrow.
On away game days, she usually averaged about 3 hours asleep. At some point during the night she would have one of those nightmares and would be unable to return to sleep. If she had one of these nightmares when Chad was with her she would go back to sleep as soon as she felt his soothing touch. She never told him that.
For the second night in a row, she couldn't sleep. She was too stressed to sleep. It probably did not help that her new roommate snored badly. The earplugs didn't work and she was already told she couldn't suffocate the girl in question with a pillow. Stupid new roommate and stupid RA enforcing stupid policies.
Tonight she managed a grand total of two hours and three minutes of sleep. On the first night she got two hours and twenty-seven minutes. Due to yesterday's little surprise it was even harder to sleep tonight. She doubted she would survive this semester if things continue like this. She was almost desperate enough to ask her Dr. For sleeping pills tomorrow.
She waited in bed for another 10 minutes just thinking about the last three weeks and the hell that was the first day of the second semester. She absolutely hated that A of U had one of the shortest winter breaks of any college in the country. The only saving factor was their school year ended early. In contrast, her brother would not be leaving for NYC until Saturday and Troy is only going back to Berkeley today because he has a game tonight.
At the time she hated being with Chad in that tiny little apartment with the bad furniture and the bugs that couldn't be killed. Now she wished she could go back because at least they were together.
At 4:07 AM Sharpay gave up on trying to sleep. She would turn on her computer to surf the Internet if she didn't think her new roommate would get mad since her first class was not until eight. Chad made her promise not to antagonize the girl in the other bed, but it was so much fun.
They were trying very hard not to kill each other but it wasn't going so well. They were working with the old adage the enemy of my enemy is my friend. They were trying to put the past away, but it wasn't quite working.
She was not planning on actually sharing a room with this woman but things never go as planned in the life of Sharpay Evans. She blamed the schools ridiculous policies and her father.
Last semester she and Chad could have stayed at the mansion but that was no longer an option. On the day after Christmas her father told her and Ryan that instead of the mansion being sold to another family, it was being bulldozed and the estate was being redeveloped. They started demolition on her birthday. Ryan and Taylor had the misfortune of the spending the rest of break at her (adopted) parents' house.
Sharpay quietly got out of bed, grabbed her laptop, and headed out to the common room. She saw her boyfriend reading his textbook for Calculus C. Chad studying before 5:00 AM was never a good sign.
"You did not sleep last night?" she asked sitting next to him on the couch. He quickly put an arm around her and kissed her on the forehead.
"Not really. I think my theory about not being able to sleep at away games due to postgame adrenaline is wrong. How much sleep did you get last night?" He asked her as he tightened their embrace.
"Just enough to function." He looked at her as if he knew she was lying, but he did not caller on it.
"How's your new roommate?" She asked changing the subject.
"We're still in the honeymoon stage. Although maybe it helps that we already know each other. He also knows that if he makes any more stupid jokes about our sex life I will hurt him." Sharpay laughs a little at that comment.
"So far this semester I haven't caught him having sex with his significant other on top of my desk. He doesn't blast opera at 5:00 AM. He doesn't leave his underwear in the middle of the floor.. He's not a nudist thankfully. Let's be honest, you are the only one I want to see naked. Unlike Amanda or Kim he didn't ask us if we consummated our relationship in aspen on our birthday. Considering its him I'm actually surprised." Chad said that last part with a laugh.
"I'm shocked. This is Marc we are talking about. This is the same guy who made jokes about me going down on a Popsicle in the middle of the cafeteria."
"I think he's finally scared of you. I think the most positive thing about Marc being my roommate is he doesn't snore. It is really too early to tell." Chad said as he started stroking her hair.
"The honeymoon is definitely over for me and her. One would think she could listen to her music wearing headphones, but no she can't. How can anybody study with rap music blaring? I can't believe she got a 3.75 last semester and I only got a 3.5."
"You are so cute when you're jealous," Chad said with a cute little smile.
"Trust me, I'm not jealous of her. Did I tell you we got into a fight yesterday over who should use the bathroom first. She can't stop snoring. Last night she ate one of my whole wheat organic Pop Tarts without asking. " Chad was laughing hysterically at this point. It got worse during the Pop Tarts comment. She had the sudden urge to throw a pillow at him, but she stopped herself because that would mean leaving his arms.
"Now I know all the bitchiness in high school was caused by sleep deprivation." That comment definitely got him the pillow. "You're going to have to tell me the story of how you ended up with Penelope as a roommate. How the hell did that happen?"
"It was a mixture of guilt, desperation, and stupidity. The only way I could get Penelope to take Kelsey is place in greeting the midterms at EHS was too switch rooms with her. I assumed that because I was able to spend all of last semester living in your dorm room, I would be able to do it this semester. How was I supposed to know that Richard had an uncle on the Board of Directors that now had a grudge for me?"
Sharpay knew the enforcement of rules that were looked over last year was some weird sort of punishment. After yesterday's conversation with her father and Lisa she knew that they would have to go along with it for now.
"Why can't our school allow opposite sex roommates?" Chad asked his girlfriend kissing her on the forehead.
"Because when another school tried it recently the local papers depicted it as allowing students to live in sin. Parents don't want to send their children to a school where something like that could happen."
"I think that argument is completely ridiculous because theoretically I could be involved with my current roommate. Although, I'm not his type."
"You're seriously going to have to tell me how you ended up with Marc as a roommate. I thought you were still pissed at him because of the bet thing."
"It was our brilliant scheme to get around the stupid rule. Although when we came up with this plan we were under the impression that Amanda was still your roommate. We assumed that you and Marc could just switch rooms and nobody would know what was going on. To be honest you're the only person I can actually tolerate living with."
"I think you have to be able to live with your soul mate otherwise you'll end up killing them for leaving the toilet seat up." Sharpay said with a laugh.
"It was one time. I said I was sorry."
January 4, 2009 9:35 PM
From the fact that the flyers for the section meeting were in black and white instead of purple and pink Sharpay knew something was wrong. Their last RA was very into glitter and sequence. She reminded Sharpay a lot of Elle Woods from the Legally Blonde films. Sharpay absolutely loved her because she looked the other way when Sharpay spent the night with Chad.
Technically no life form higher than a fish could live in a dorm room unless they were assigned to that room. Although upperclassmen (like Chad) were allowed to have overnight guests of the opposite sex, freshmen (such as Sharpay) were not. Freshmen (students with less than 30 credit hours) were not allowed to stay overnight in the rooms of other students. Sharpay was breaking that rule for most of last semester.
Due to unfortunate circumstances Crystal wasn't there RA anymore. After the incident with Penelope their RA from last semester was moved to another building.
From her reputation, Jade Perez was scary. Her opening remarks to their floor proved that. She did not even do an icebreaker before getting straight to the uncomfortable part of the meeting.
"Let's get one thing straight. I'm not your last RA. I'm here to actually enforce the rules. The last RA let you get away with a lot of things that I will not. Rules exist for a reason." Jade stated bluntly without making eye contact with anybody in the room.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Amanda whispered to Sharpay.
"A lot of things happened in this building last semester that were completely unacceptable. We had an unescorted guest who demolished two dorm rooms and cause serious damage to the community room." Sharpay was about to point out that Taylor was escorted when she caused several thousand dollars worth of damage to the building and Sharpay's personal property. However, she didn't see the point. she doubted it would make a difference to Jade. She just didn't seem like a reasonable person.
"We also had another student who engaged in inappropriate sexual activities in almost every space on this floor." Sharpay heard Chad's next door neighbor William whisper, "At least you didn't have to listen to it for six weeks." Everyone tried not to laugh at that.
"I walked in on them having sex in the shower three times. I am spraying down his entire side of the room with Clorox before I sleep on his old bed." Marc said with a shudder but Jade just carried on.
"There have been reports of students cohabiting with members of the opposite sex." Ms. Perez looked directly at Sharpay when she said that. "The school does not allow students of the opposite sex to live together except those who qualify for married student housing."
"You might as well say the school has a policy against students living in sin. Although is it really living in sin if they haven't slept together yet?" Marc said under his breath causing Chad to give him a dirty look. Sharpay had a feeling that Chad was going to kill his new roommate by the end of the week.
"There are strict rules on the book that forbade such actions. All students will live with their assigned roommates." This is the last thing Sharpay remembered as everything faded.
January 5, 2009 7:53 AM.
As Chad walked into his first class of the day, he wondered why he decided to take physics first thing in the morning. This was probably just as bad as taking calculus in the morning last semester. He didn't really have a choice because the other session was offered right during basketball practice.
In the future, he would have to remember not to schedule any classes involving formulas before 10:00 AM. If it wasn't for his ability to learn anything by reading the textbook, he would be completely screwed.
Due to their OCD RA, he seriously doubted he would be missing class this semester because he got too caught up with Sharpay. Jade the evil one actually yelled at him this morning for cuddling on the couch with Sharpay in the community room. It was obvious she was singling them out. Sharpay scheduled an emergency meeting with Lisa this morning to see if there was any way around the regulation.
Chad read through the regulations himself last night. He couldn't find any way out of it until they were married or if Students for Equality were successful in getting the rule changed this semester. If they decided to stay at A of U next year they would be getting an apartment anyway. They could not get an apartment now because first year students were required to live on campus, except for commuter students. He and Sharpay no longer qualified as commuter students because their parents no longer had residency in Albuquerque.
Chad knew he would have to deal with the whole housing situation when he met Sharpay for lunch. Lunch will be the only time he would see her during the day. On Mondays and Wednesdays this semester he didn't have any classes with Sharpay.
After his daily physics class at 8:00 AM he had Calculus C at 9:00 AM on everyday but Tuesday. On Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:00 AM in a building across campus from the math department, he had Intro to Acting. The only reason he was even taking a acting class this semester was because Sharpay was originally going to take it with him. Now that she's not an acting major there was no point. However, he still needed to take the class for his art credit.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, he had Intro to Women's Studies, his only class with Sharpay this semester.
After a noon lunch with Sharpay he had organic chemistry. His advisers said something about this being a suicide schedule, but Chad really wasn't paying attention. The lowest grade Chad got last semester was an A- in his film class because he criticized George Lucas in his final essay. Chad could handle a full class load. Once basketball season ended he would have a lot more time to study.
Looking over the classroom, he noticed Kim in the first row. He has not seen her sense the day after Christmas when they drove her and Troy to the Airport to go back to San Francisco for a few days. She was supposed to pick them up at the Airport yesterday but Ryan and Taylor came to pick them up instead.
"Why are you taking physics?" Chad asked he took a seat next to her.
"You know you can at least say hi." Kim said in her usual sarcastic mode.
"Why should I? You don't. I'm more interested in finding out why you're taking an advanced physics class."
"Education majors are required to take one physics class." Kim said nonchalantly as she pulled out her laptop.
"Education majors usually take the easy physics class." Kim just laughed at him. Like there is such a thing as an easy physics class.
"All the sessions of the "easy physics class" conflict with my schedule. Because I am minoring in mathematics, I have taken the prerequisites for this class. They are allowing me to substitute the harder physics class. I have a headache just thinking about it."
"How is my favorite nephew doing?"
"Enjoying his last day of father son bonding before Troy has to fly back tomorrow and he begins daycare. I have no idea how we're going to keep this up for a year." Chad didn't know either. Chad could barely make it through an away game without Sharpay. He didn't know if he could take Kim and Troy's current situation. He quickly put an arm around Kim to comfort her.
"It will be okay. Troy will be back next Thursday for the Berkeley vs. A of U game and then you'll be with him in DC for the inauguration."
"That game is going to be so much fun." Kim said with a tiny smile.
"Best friends now rivals playing against each other, it will be the game of the year. I'm going to have so much fun when I kick your boyfriend's ass on the court." Chad said this while smiling.
"Like that's going to happen. Speaking of old high school friends, guess who's transferring to A of U this semester?"
January 2, 2009 6:23 PM.
Kim sat inside the Ruby Friday's by the A of U campus after arriving back to New Mexico 2 hours earlier. The best part of Kim's time in San Francisco was being with Troy for three weeks. For once it felt like they were a real family even if it was short lived
The worst part, other than the Gabriella situation, was trying to find the house. They finally decided on a four-bedroom townhouse near campus complete with backyard. They would need the backyard because Alex inherited Sharpay's dog. Kim had no idea how her best friend talked her into taking her dog for the rest of the school year. One thing was for sure Alex would not give that puppy back at the end of the year.
Despite the fun she had on vacation she was happy to be back. She just wished Troy could stay with her. He would be leaving in a few days no matter what.
She somehow managed to convince her stepsister and stepmom to come get her, Alex, and Troy from the Airport together. After three weeks of being in the same city, Taylor was on speaking terms with her biological mom. Ryan made some excuse about there not being enough room in the car if he came. Kim personally thought Ryan was being a coward because he could have met them at the restaurant like Jack.
Ryan had nothing to worry about. The dinner was amicable if a little tense. It probably helped that Kim's father was away on business. Jay Kim still wanted to beat the hell out of the guy who got his little girl pregnant. Kim felt sorry for her new little sister who would have to deal with the wrath of their father.
"Has anybody heard from the happy couple?" Taylor asked as she popped one of the Buffalo wing appetizers in her mouth.
"Not since they got to the resort Wednesday. If Chad got the birthday present he was supposed to get, you won't hear anything from them until they got to the Airport tomorrow." Kim said as she placed some boneless buffalo wings on Alex's plate. Her almost father in law started choking on his water at that point.
"I still can't believe that Chad's mom and Sharpay's dad got Chad and Sharpay four days in aspen for their birthday." Vanessa stated in shock.
"Caroline is doing this to prove that she's okay with their relationship." Jack said trying to justify his girlfriend's actions.
"Considering the fact that she was two years younger than Chad is now when he was conceived she doesn't really have room to talk. Being a hypocrite does not look good on anyone. We're going to have the same problem?" Kim says looking at Troy. Technically Troy was a year younger than Caroline was when they conceived Alex.
"Essentially yes," Troy said from beside her.
"As for Sharpay's father, it was probably a guilt gift. This is the type of thing Mr. Evans has been doing sense Sharpay and Ryan were little children. Forget Sharpay's sixth birthday, by Sharpay her first puppy. Forget to come to Ryan's little league game, treat the entire team to a special meeting with the New York Yankees. Completely ignore the signs that your wife was beating the hell out of your daughter for years, give your future son in law $300,000 to buy an engagement ring. Although the custom made Tiffany engagement ring made a excellent Christmas present." Sarcasm dripped off Kim's voice as she spoke.
"Vince needs to be careful with gifts like that. I doubt the NCAA will be happy." Vanessa said cryptically to the others at the table.
"I doubt that they can infer favoritism because Vince offered to pay for Chad to go to college anywhere in the country if Sharpay decides to go somewhere else next year." Taylor told everyone else at the table. Kim was the most shock because she knew all about Sharpay's dad forcing her to go to A of U.
She never got to ask for clarification because her boyfriend was in a guy hug with the number four person on her hate list. He was right behind her mother, Troy's mother, and Richard. He seems so cocky to Kim in that moment, acting as if nothing changed. He was there chatting with his old friend and his basketball coach.
Troy's acting skills kicked in instantly and he was able to fake civil behavior. She did enjoy Zeke's reaction when Troy introduced her as his wife. (It was easier to introduce her as his wife then to explain the crazy situation.)
"What happen to Gabriella? You were completely in love with her in high school."
"No I wasn't," was all Troy said before Zeke started talking to his dad.
Jack also did pretty well faking pleasantness. He had years of practice dealing with students that he didn't like that well.
Unfortunately, Taylor needed more time in anger management. She went off completely when Zeke said something about the Taylor/Chad situation. Just because her and Chad are now friends didn't mean the issue was not still raw in some ways.
"First of all you broke up with her. You have no right to be pissed off that she moved on to someone else. Unlike you, he actually loves her. You were the one who was fucking Penelope behind her back. Don't act like you were the innocent party." Taylor said in full out bitch mode. Kim personally thought he was more shocked to hear Taylor say a curse word.
"You know about that? How do you know about that? I would think you and Chad were not even on speaking terms after he started fucking someone else behind your back?" This is not the type of conversation she wanted to have in front of her child at a family restaurant. She's pretty sure she sees Troy cover Alex's ears every time the F word is used.
"Chad and I are still friends. I'm even friends with Sharpay now. How that happened, I am not sure. Most importantly a couple weeks ago I had lunch with your real ex girlfriend. You know the cheerleader from West High that you did for three years but didn't want anybody to find out about. Sharpay and Penelope are both ready to tear your dick off for your little stunt. My suggestion is for you to go back to Chicago before your ex girlfriends decide to castrate you with a dull butter knife." Kim hasn't seen Taylor this angry since she saw the video of Taylor taking a baseball bat to Sharpay's television.
"That's going to be hard considering I'm going to A of U next semester." That caused Kim to drop her glass off the table.
January 5, 2008 9 10:01 AM.
Amanda was already overstressed for the new semester and the only class she had so far was Chemistry 152. The classes were not the only thing stressing her out this semester. Sharpay and Penelope were both pissed at her because of the room situation. It was not her fault. How was she supposed to know they would get and RA who would enforce the rules? In addition, Marc and Chad didn't consult her about their little plan. She was really mad at Marc for that. This additional stress was added on top of her job, classes, and cheerleading.
Although the thing stressing her out the most was her GPA. Amanda was only able to get a 2.73 GPA last semester. For her scholarship she must maintain a 3.0. If she doesn't bring Up her GPA she's going to lose her scholarship.
These thoughts have been going through Amanda's head as she sat in the classroom for Intro to Acting 115. Sharpay talked her and Chad into taking this class with her this semester. Now Sharpay was not in the class. At least she would have Chad to partner with. As she was thinking that thought Chad walked through the door of the classroom.
"Shouldn't you be out of breath after running from the math building?" Amanda asked him as he sits next to her.
"The only thing we did in calculus today was received the syllabus. That doesn't even make sense because everybody in that class already has the text book. I would've been here earlier but I needed to talk to Sharpay about something. I tried to catch up with her after her meeting with Lisa, but I missed her by 5 minutes. Apparently the meeting went really badly and Sharpay managed to crack the glass in one of the doors when she was leaving." That was not a good sign.
"Couldn't you just text message her? Unless you were trying to find her for a quickie in one of the supply closets," Chad was giving her the look of death.
"That will not be happening anytime soon, especially in any place that could have a camera. Some conversations are not text message appropriate." Chad said keeping something back from her.
"I'm assuming that from your anger you didn't get your original birthday present?" Chad's mouth went completely wide at that comment. Somehow Kim manage to convince Sharpay to sleep with Chad for his 18th birthday. Judging by the sexual tension that remains, that didn't happen. "Did everybody know that Sharpay was planning on poppy my metaphorical cherry for my 18th birthday?" Chad said in a pissed off whisper that only she could hear. "She back out at the last minute? You're too tense for someone who actually got laid. If you are at that point in the relationship I really don't want to know. I'm also thankful I am no longer Sharpay's roommate. It was bad enough walking in on you going down on her."
"The situation is complicated. I don't want to talk about being the first person to stay in the honeymoon suite at Snow Gardens and not have sex. Not have traditional sex any way. " She would have pushed, but she heard yelling from outside the classroom.
"What the hell are you doing here?" They both heard Penelope scream at the top of her lungs.
"The same thing you are, attending classes." Even though she only heard the voice once before during the altercation before thanksgiving she recognized it instantly. It probably helped that Chad broke his pencil as soon as he heard the voice.
"So that's why you are looking for Sharpay this morning."
January 5, 2009 10:05 AM.
Technically Sharpay did not have class until 10:00 AM this semester. Usually her day started at 7:30 AM where she would be the teaching assistant for Dramatic Writing with her future father in law. She would then come back to campus for 10:00 AM class. On Mondays and Wednesdays she had U.S. Women's history 1880 to the present with Marc.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, she had intro the women's studies during the same block. It was the only class she had with Chad. At 12PM she had lunch which she managed to schedule at the same time as her boyfriend.
At 1:00 PM she had intro to business. She practically grew up at her dad's company. Intro the business seemed a bit redundant. On Mondays and Wednesdays she had Creative Writing 315 from 3 to 5. On Tuesday, Thursday and Friday she had economics.
Because Sharpay was free this morning she decided to talk to Lisa about the Jade situation. As everything else in Sharpay's life the situation was political. Richards uncle Roger Windom was also on the Board Of Directors for A of U. That was why her dad couldn't keep Richard out of the school or get him removed from her class last semester. Uncle Roger was pissed off at her and Penelope for destroying his nephew's reputation and getting him expelled from the university. The RA from hell was just the beginning of the wrath of Roger. She, Chad, and Penelope would be under a microscope for the rest of their time at the school. Lisa's hands were tied because her contract is up for review at the end of this semester.
Sharpay walked into her 10:00 AM class yelling at her dad who was presently working out some development deal in London. The conversation wasn't going good. Her father couldn't intervene because of a new policy being considered by the board to allow opposite sex pairings in dorm rooms. If he decides to go against the policy and people find out that his daughter is living with her boyfriend in the dorms it would look bad.
"So basically you want me to be your puppet just like always? You want me to smile for the cameras, okay. Dad there's not a guilt gift in the world that will make up for this." Sharpay didn't even bother saying goodbye to her father as she hung up her phone.
"I see things are going well with your father." Marc said to her as she took a seat next to him.
"As usual my dad goes back on his promises. Once again he needs me to play happy family to advance his career. This time he's bringing Chad along for the unpleasant ride." Sharpay said in anger.
"Because you're now engaged, Chad is part of your family. By the way let me see the new ring?" Sharpay instantly waved her custom made Tiffany engagement ring in front of his face.
"My roommate has taste." Marc said looking at the beautiful ring.
"If not common sense," Sharpay said angrily.
"He wanted the exchange to be a surprise." Marc said in chad's defense.
"It was a great surprise." Sharpay said sarcastically.
"If you want I can disappear for a couple of hours today?" it almost seemed like he was giving her a peace offering.
"I'm not going to kick you out of your own dorm room. Besides Jade will probably inspect the room with a black light. She'll probably enforce that silly rule about not having sex in the dorm rooms if you have a roommate."
In the last 24 hours she's undergone a crash course on A of U policies on student housing and cohabitation. She doesn't even want to have sex with her boyfriend in the dorms; she just wants to be able to cuddle.
"Okay now I know there's a double standard going on. Nobody enforces these ridiculous policies. Blaze was screwing his girlfriend in the common room. He kicked Chad out all the time just so he could have sex."
"You are a political science major, haven't you figured out by now that everything is political."
January 5, 2009 10:45 AM
He should've ran the other way as soon as he saw Zeke enter the room. Instead, he sent a quick e-mail to his mom asking her to look in to the restraining order. He was pretty sure having a class with Zeke was a violation.
He was just glad Sharpay was not taking this class anymore. Dealing with Penelope was bad enough. He and Amanda actually had to physically restrain her for the first part of class. Because it's an acting class the professor didn't ask questions.
Sharpay's old advisor Sarah Long was actually teaching the class. She spent the first 15 minutes going over the syllabus and the web site where the materials for the class will be housed. She didn't see a point of students paying $80.00 for a book that they would only use three chapters from. After spending $250 on his Physics book and $200 on his Organic Chemistry book he was happy for any relief.
They were currently going around the room doing an introduction exercise.
"Hi my name is Amanda Summers. Yes I realize my name is really close to the name of a character on Ugly Betty. Thankfully it spelled different, but at least I have the same name as a fun character. I'm originally from some tiny town in Arizona. I ended up at A of U because this school has a better program for students with disabilities and I got a scholarship."
"Have you ever had any acting experience before?" the professor asked from the sidelines
"I'm a cheerleader so we perform all the time. In high school we sometimes did skits but that's about it. My former roommate talked me into taking this class before she decided to switch majors." At this Amanda takes her seat next to Penelope. As soon an she was seated Zeke took the stage.
"My name is Zeke Baylor. I am originally from Albuquerque but just transferred back from the culinary school of Chicago. My parents had the misfortune of investing my college fund in the wrong stocks."
"Have you ever been on stage before?" The professor asked this of him.
"My girlfriend talk to me into doing the senior play last year. That is the only thing I've ever done."
"You're now ex girlfriend." Penelope muttered under her breath.
"Speak up child. This class is about free expression." He was sure the professor will regret that statement very quickly.
"Zeke has a lot of experience in acting or at least in pretending to be something he's not. For example, he pretended that he wasn't dating the head cheerleader at his rivals school for three years. He also walked around playing the role of the nice guy when he was cheating on her with another girl who was completely clueless of the entire situation. Mr. Baylor here is a wonderful actor. He had me and the other woman fooled for three years." Everyone could hear the ice in Penelope's voice.
"I think you're wrong Penelope. He can't hide his expression of surprise."Amanda pointed out with a snicker.
"A real actor has at least a decent poker face." Chad added as he started laughing at Zeke's shocked behavior.
"Enough of that. I assume you're the ex girlfriend?" She asked pointing to Penelope.
"I am Penelope Castro, an education major originally from the Albuquerque area. I starred in every single production at West High for all four years. I'm taking this class because my stupid education advisor wouldn't waive the course requirements. Unfortunately I was stupid enough to date this pathetic excuse for a human being in high school. He dated me and my rival at the same time. Chad here is dating his other high school ex girlfriend."
"No one date Sharpay Evans. They merely pick up her coffee and dry cleaning in hopes that she might put out. Hell will probably freeze over first before the ice queen spreads her legs." Zeke said the words with as much arrogance as possible. Chad feels Amanda place a hand on his shoulder as he gets ready to attack Zeke.
In the back he hears one of his male classmates joke, "You're definitely new on campus or very unfamiliar with You Tube." Chad looks back and sees the guy wearing one of the Fantasy Girl T shirts. The next time he sees Gabriella he's going to kill her no matter what Troy says.
"You're sadly misinformed. Trust me, the entire floor can hear when Sharpay or Chad have an orgasm." The entire class is laughing. Zeke is furious and Chad is repressing the urge run.
"I didn't tell you the best part, they are getting married." Penelope said as she grabbed his hand and showing off Chad simple platinum engagement ring. Chad decided to where the international symbol of "get the fuck away, from me I am taken" after the incident with the high school cheerleader offering him a blow job. Apparently Tiffanys does carry engagement rings for men if you pay enough money. He and Sharpay have a matching set.
Zeke breaks his pencil and Chad stands up to introduce himself to the class. His fellow classmates make the situation better or worse by mentioning the sex tape incident in glorious details, as well as, the kissing scene at the East High fall production of The Taming of the Drama Queen. Chad loves torture early in the morning. It helps get his mind off the fact that Taylor, Troy and Kim waited three days to tell him about this entire debacle.
January 3, 2009 3:32 PM
Taylor sat in the cell phone waiting area at the Albuquerque Airport trying to figure out how to tell her boyfriend sister that her ex was moving back to town. She had other things to worry about like staying with her adoptive parents this week as her father terrifies her boyfriend.
"Sharpay is going to go through the roof when she finds out. Chad's going to go through the roof. Chad wants to kill him. Actually, Sharpay wants to kill him." Taylor tells this to her boyfriend.
"I want to kill him. If I was at the restaurant with you yesterday, I would've been booked on assault charges by the end of the evening. However, you have to tell her Taylor." Ryan tells her as he kisses her gently.
"You know she's going to kill the message are."
"Probably," Ryan says as he pulls her head into his lap and begins to stroke her hair. This is a little hard to do with a steering wheel in the way.
"I don't need to tell her anything. She did still my boyfriend. I deserve a little revenge. Kim can just tell her Monday." Ryan starts laughing when she says that. He obviously realized her earlier statement was an excuse.
"That works for me." Ryan said as he kissed his girlfriend again as they see Chad and Sharpay walked to the car.
January 5, 2009 12:03 PM
"Are people that afraid of me?" Sharpay asked her boyfriend as they walked to one of the restaurants near the drama building. After seeing Zeke, she didn't feel like going anywhere near the cafeterias.
"Yes" Chad said giving her a chaste kiss on the lips.
"I just can't believe he is actually taking acting classes. This whole thing seems like a setup." A few minutes earlier, she told him all about the trouble with Richard's uncle.
"It seems like a possibility. It seems like the perfect way to get back at both you and Penelope. Fortunately, this morning I was only embarrassed. For two people who haven't had sex our sex life is quite public." Chad said that part with a laugh.
"Whose fault is that?" Sharpay said pointing at him.
"Yours. It's not my fault that you keep molesting me in front of cameras when you're tipsy."
"Please tell me you got the surveillance tape from the elevator at the resort?" Sharpay was seriously trying to repress the entire birthday sex incident.
"You better be happy that the resort has everything on computers and I was able to hack into the system."
"You're still making us see my therapist about the incident?"
"Yes."
January 1, 2009 7:22 AM
The winter sun broke through the curtains causing Sharpay to wake up from her uncomfortable sleep. The clock across the room read 7:22 AM. She had no idea what trigger her to wake up this early the morning after her 19th birthday. She woke up to find a bottle of water and Tylenol next to her, but no Chad. He was probably still pissed off after what happened last night. Trying to go down on him in the elevator was a really bad idea.
She had enough alcohol in her system at that point to barely remember unzipping his pants and falling down to her knees. She distinctly remembers him pushing her away. The fact that she woke up alone told her that he was pissed off about what happened.
The suns streaming into the room was making her sick and she walked across the honeymoon suite to close the windows. That was a Mistake and within seconds, she was running to the bathroom.
After emptying the contents of her stomach into the toilet she sits down against the marble tiles. The coolness felt good on her over heated skin. At that moment she realizes she is wearing Chad's "69 is my favorite number" T shirt. Considering what happened last night Chad will not be finding out if that statement is true anytime soon.
She felt warm arms go around her as the bottle of water and the Tylenol are pushed into her hands. This is what she needed. He was her ultimate hangover cure. She just needed his touch to make everything feel better.
"Where were you this morning?" She said in a whisper as she swallowed the medication and started slowly drinking her water.
"I thought it would be best if I slept on the couch in the living room area." He said to her as he began to massage her shoulders.
"You were afraid that I was going to molest you again." Bits and pieces of her drunken seduction came into her mind and she hung her head in shame. "We have to be the first couple in history to have the honeymoon suite and sleep in separate beds." Sharpay said leaning back into his touch.
"it's okay. I like being different. We are probably the first couple in the history of this place to have the honeymoon suite and not actually be on our honeymoon. Why did your father get us the honeymoon suite?"
"Kim had the room upgraded to the honeymoon suite. Daddy just got us the regular room and the first class plane tickets. It was his usual guilt gift." Sharpay said with a touch of anger
"I love the snowball fight yesterday. I didn't like last night when you got completely wasted just so you wouldn't be scared to have sex with me. I would like to know where you got the ridiculous idea that you needed to sleep with me last night."
"It was not a stupid idea. Kim suggested it your birthday present on the 26. It was the perfect birthday present." She said in her defense.
"It is not the perfect present, if you are not ready. If you have to drink an entire bottle of champagne to calm yourself down enough to have sex with me you're not ready." She could sense a bit of anger in his voice even though he was forcing himself to stay calm.
"It was a good idea for a present. What one thing can I give you that shows that I love you? The only thing I could give you that will say that is myself."
"I already know that you love me. How many times do I have to tell you, I don't need to be inside you to know? I don't even need the words anymore. I just know." He said this as he kissed her on the forehead.
"I wanted too. We do everything else together. I'm not afraid of your tongue and fingers. Why am I so terrified of your penis?" She asked that question more to herself than him.
"Considering the sounds you make, I know you really enjoy my mouth and fingers. Also I don't think you are that afraid of certain parts of my anatomy. You seem to enjoy bringing me off by wrapping your hand around me enough. You usually don't have to be completely smashed to do a hand job."
"The first time I was." She practically whispered this confession.
"I would've remembered if you were. You have a tendency to throw up when you consume alcohol. I will not do anything with you if you're not 100% in your right mind. I will not even kiss you if you are taking Nyquil." He said that last part as a joke to break the tension.
"You know I don't always throw up when I drink. You've seen me drink a glass or two of wine with dinner before without any reaction. As for the first time on thanksgiving in Troy's room, I drank two glasses of wine before." She could see his shocked expression
"That was not grape juice my mom gave you?" Chad asked her tentatively.
"No, she saw me shaking badly after the showdown with Darby. By that point Amanda already told me about what happened in the pool house. You know how much I hate keeping things from you. I drank just enough wine to take edge off."
"Apparently you drink enough to make you do something you didn't want to." Chad said with a bit of anger.
"Trust me I wanted to touch you like that. I wasn't drunk just buzzed enough not to be scared. The fear was gone and I got so high from your reaction that the fear never came back. I thought if it worked before it would work again."
January 6, 2009 9:15 AM.
Sharpay sat in bed working on her writing project for English 315. The class is different from any writing class Sharpay ever heard of before. The class had several crazy projects including alternative history X. This project is basically when you take a moment from history or your own life and rewrite it with a different outcome. Their first assignment was to write a short story where they would change one event in their life. They were supposed to write about how changing that one element changed everything.
There are so many things sharpay would change if she could. After the last few days she decided to do something fluffy. In her story Ms. Darbus decides to have Chad fill in for Troy when he doesn't show up for the senior musical. She kissed him on stage and falls completely in love three months early.
"Can you write anything that doesn't us kissing or having sex in public?" Chad says as he reaches over and powers down her laptop after saving the file.
"I have you know that is an actual class assignment." Sharpay says as she goes in to kiss him.
"You can finish up after you get some sleep. Because our 10:00 is canceled neither of us have class until one. I'm also positive that neither one of us got more than 3 hours asleep in the last three days." Chad says pushing her on the bed and kissing her forehead gently.
"If I wasn't so exhausted I would hurt you."
"Love you too."
A/N: When I'm feeling better does anybody want to see me write an alternative version of the senior musical where Chad is Troy's understudy instead of Jimmy?