Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last chapter. I live in the DC area, so your reviews will help keep away the cabin fever and encourage me to write tomorrow when I will obviously be snowed-in again.
The good news is I am going to do a rewrite of HSM3. I'm even planning on doing original songs if I can figure out how to write that sort of thing in prose. My question to everybody is should I write that story in the Scenes From Freshman Year universe with all the baggage that includes or should I start from scratch? I'm currently leaning to the same universe but I'm open to suggestions.
It'll probably be sometime in March or April when I upload the first chapter. I also want to finish my new short story The Girl Behind the Mask. If you need more C/S please read that story.
Disclaimer: It is already obvious I don't own HSM. If I did, I doubt my version could be on the Disney Channel. This chapter has a lot of songs written by other people in it. All lyrics are used without permission but with great respect for the artists.
Warning/spoilers: This chapter contains a true college party. There is underage drinking, bad language, and sexual content in this chapter.
Chapter 29: WTF?
January 10, 2009 8:33AM
Vanessa pulled up to her stepdaughter's house a little after 8:30 AM with Alex safely in the backseat. She loved spending time with her grandson. As far as she was concerned, Alex was hers. Jay's first wife had no claim on him. Any woman who would try to murder her grandchild doesn't deserve him. Just like Taylor's sperm donor has no claim on her.
Unfortunately, she has been spending less and less time with Alex these days. Maybe that is why she agreed to keep Alex last night so Kim could actually be a normal college student for one night.
Now that Troy is back in Kim's life it made sense that Kim wouldn't need her or Jay's help as much. There is also the fact that Alex's other grandfather now lived in the house next door.
The lawn of Jack's new house has as many infamous red cups and beer bottles as Kim's does. On Kim's lawn on there is a half naked person spread out on a sleeping bag. She couldn't help but think how stupid somebody could be to do that in January. It looks like Kim's plans for a simple karaoke party between friends fell apart.
Judging by the chaos outside, she doesn't bother knocking. Instead, she uses her key that Kim gave her. Inside the house isn't much better. For some reason she's reminded of the after party scene in the film 16 Candles.
The first thing she notices is a fist size hole in one of the walls. There is trash everywhere along with Alex's toys. Vanessa notices a decapitated teddy bear sitting on the stairs. At this point she wonders if she should take Alex back to her house or at the very these drop him off at Jack's house.
As she walks into the living room she sees her daughter curled up with Ryan on the longer couch completely unconscious. Even with the lowlight, she could see her daughter's boyfriend had a black eye. Not that Taylor was actually calling Ryan her boyfriend. Taylor's stubbornness must have been genetically inherited from the sperm donor. She refuses to give Taylor's biological father any recognition beyond that. She hoped that Taylor didn't run into the man when she transferred to DC next year.
On the opposite side, sleeping in the love seat laid Kim. As soon as Alex saw his mom, he wiggled out of her arms and walked over to Kim. Within seconds, she was up.
"Okay that's a great way to wake up." Kim says as she hugs her son. Kim quickly got up from the couch and walked over to her through the sea of cups and bottles. Vanessa notices that she was a little wobbly on her feet.
"Is that sleep deprivation or a hangover? I'm going with hangover because you're sleeping in the living room." Vanessa said to her stepdaughter.
"I'm only sleeping in the living room because I'm gonna have to burn my bedroom set after the drunk and stupid did dirty things in my bedroom. This whole thing was an absolute disaster. . I did not get everybody out of here until 4:00 AM. If anybody other than Jack or crazy college students lived next door to me the cops would've been called. Trust me I am sleep deprived not drunk. "
"I'm pretty sure all the crazy college students were here last night." Vanessa says as she points to Kim's very broken coffee table. "What happened last night?"
"It's a very long dysfunctional story. I blame Twitter and my own stupidity. My first mistake was thinking I could have a normal party in the first place. My second mistake was letting Taylor and Ryan invite some of their high school friends that were still in town."
"I want to hear this story." Vanessa said as she pointed to the overturned sound system.
"Let's go pick up breakfast and I will tell you everything. I wonder how hard it will be to get a cleaning crew to come in to fix this on the weekend. Give me a couple of minutes to change and kicked out the winners for most idiotic drunk hook up from my bedroom. I should have listened to Chad." Kim mumbled as she went upstairs.
January 8, 2009 7:55 AM
"I can't believe you're having another welcome back party. Do you remember what happened last time?" Kim noticed the look of shock on Chad's face.
"I remember exactly everything that happened. You and Sharpay decided to keep Penelope away from you by making out and practically having sex on the dance floor. Penelope got pissed off and added three shots of vodka to Sharpay's drink. Unfortunately, my roommate really did think you should make crystal light with hard liquor and Sharpay got totally trashed. This led to Sharpay doing angry breakup karaoke where she destroys my son's teddy bear. The night ends with Sharpay molesting you as you and her make your very first almost sex tape."
"That was not my fault. You are the one who left the camera on in Sharpay's bedroom."
"That was an accident. You know how sorry I am about that. Try to remember that it was Troy's former girlfriend that posted it on the Internet. I'm the good friend that did not press charges when you hacked into the Security System at one of the hotels that my family owns to get rid of the footage of Sharpay trying to use a certain appendage of yours as a lollipop. By the way I have a copy of that. If anybody has the right to be mad about last time it's me. Do you have any idea how long it took me to get Alex to fall asleep that night after your girlfriend destroyed his favorite teddy bear?" Kim said with a touch of annoyance.
"That should be incentive enough for you not to have this party." Chad said flippantly as he pulled out his physics book.
"It's going to be a simple karaoke party between friends. I need a distraction. Troy's back at Berkeley and is only 40 miles away from the psychotic one." Even though she now knows that Gabriella is clinically unwell she was still uncomfortable about her being so close to Troy.
"You don't have to worry about Gabby. I know Troy probably better than you do. If he didn't go back to her after the trench coat incident you have nothing to worry about."
"There are other reasons why I need to do something fun. Did I mention that I get to spend 90 minutes a day with insane high school juniors? I have Jimmy and Tierra in the same English class. They're going to kill each other. It's not even the good type of tension that you and Sharpay had in high school. They want to kill each other and not do dirty things in the Janitor's closet."
"Jimmy has Marc and Kerri for that sort of thing." Chad said with a wicked smile.
"You are too much. Let's not forget that my almost father in law is teaching this class. No one should ever have to teach with her father in law. Starting a brand new curriculum two weeks from the championship game does not make for much fun on my part. I should be happy I'm in one of the class is that he's actually familiar with. He's way too stressed right now and your mom is 2000 miles away."
"Please don't talk about that sort of thing."
"It is so much fun to mess with you. I can't make these jokes with Troy anymore because he threatens to withhold sex if I say such things. Which reminds me pleased don't do dirty things in my house tomorrow night. At the very least don't do it in public. No one enjoys chocolate cake as much as Sharpay did yesterday. I saw your hand go under the table at dinner."
"I hate you." Chad whispered under his breath. "You have no idea what I was doing yesterday."
"Trust me I know exactly what you were doing. You know that you and Troy are a lot alike. You two probably share ideas."
"In my defense it was sex therapy homework." She just rolled her eyes when he said that. "Is there any reason why Sharpay and I should come to this psychotic party?" Chad asked her ignoring her reaction.
"You guys can stay over in the guest room this weekend so I don't have to listen to Sharpay complain about the lack of cuddling."
"Will be there as long as I get the room that my mom didn't use two weeks ago." Kim didn't have the heart to tell Chad that both rooms were utilized for that sort of thing. Troy had the misfortune of walking in on his father and Chad's mom doing certain inappropriate things.
"Don't worry about it. I now have two again because my almost father in law just moved next door."
"How did that happen?"
"The guy I bought this house from also owns the house next door. After the last group left the house so damaged that it took a month to repair the guy was happy to have someone mature renting the house."
January 9, 2009 7:55 PM
It was the worst week Penelope ever had. It was worse than the week her grandmother died and the winter musical was canceled at West High due to budget cuts. The problem of this week went beyond having Sharpay as her new roommate or the psychotic RA that was out to get her and Sharpay.
Sharpay wouldn't be such a bad roommate if she didn't wake up at 3:00 AM screaming at the top of her lungs. The words were usually, "Richard get the fuck away from me." Penelope couldn't be upset because she had the same nightmare. She wondered if she would be going through this three years from now.
In high school, she always thought Sharpay Evans was perfect. Now she realizes that wasn't accurate. For years she was jealous because Sharpay got to go two a good school with decent AP programs. Penelope was stuck at the extremely impoverished West High where they were lucky to have one production the year and had no college prep programs.
Penelope used to assume Sharpay had the perfect family with two parents and a brother who loved her. Penelope had a mom who was never there and a stepfather that liked to throw things. Now she knew neither of them had anything resembling perfect at home.
She hated Sharpay because she had Chad. Penelope was stuck with the frogs. Penelope hated Sharpay for years thinking she had the perfect life only to realize that perfection was a broken illusion.
Compared to the situation with Zeke, her Sharpay issues were tolerable. Both she and Sharpay were good at pretending things were okay when they were not. They could survive the next few months with minimal damage.
The Zeke situation is what is causing her the most problems The breakup was bad and nothing was ever resolved. Last summer when he dropped off his special brownies for Sharpay at the Albuquerque community theater, he wasn't expecting to see her there. He actually dropped the Tupperware Container when he saw her. When he left after giving Sharpay a sweet little kiss on the cheek, she followed him out to the parking lot.
It was a miracle that no one else saw her yell expletives at him in three languages. He had the audacity to blame her for the situation. She was angry and hurt. She actually loved him and he was fucking someone else behind her back. She would find out months later that Zeke's relationship with Sharpay never went beyond tiny kisses. However she didn't know that when she slammed her knee into his dick.
She hadn't seen Zeke since that day until Monday when she ran into him in the hallway outside of their shared drama class. She had the same urge to knee him in that area again but didn't. Although that may have something to do with Chad and Amanda physically restrain her.
Spending 4 hours a week with the ass that broker heart was torture. She hated him down to the essence of her soul. Unfortunately a stupid parts of her still loved him. She was such an idiot.
Tuesday after the game, Chad tried to convince her to switch classes with him. She wouldn't leave the class even after she found out that Mr. Windom was out for her blood. Her new year's resolution for 2009 was not to run away.
"I'm not changing classes. If I do that, he wins along with everyone else." Penelope said to the other three on the way back to the dorms.
"She's right. If we let them force us to change our life in any way Zeke and Richard win." Sharpay said from the front of the car. They both ended up staying in the class.
Penelope tried to ignore of the entire situation. She threw herself into her work at school and at East High. Being a teaching assistant at the high school that she despised for four years was a surreal experience in itself. Seeing pictures of her ex in the trophy case didn't help the situation that much. She couldn't pass by the gym without the urge to throw up.
Despite the mental torture, she had been doing a good job of avoiding him physically except in class. In drama class, she worked with Chad with Amanda acting as a buffer. Chad treated her as a little sister which was surreal considering she was a year older than him. She would take being treated as a sister over being treated as a pariah like last year.
When Zeke tried to talk to her after the basketball game Tuesday, she ignored him. When he followed her and Amanda back to their building after cheerleading rehearsals on multiple occasions, she slammed the door in his face.
After the week from hell, she needed a release. A party with people who didn't quite hate her any more seemed like a good idea. Knocking Richard unconscious made her quite popular with this group. Karaoke appeared to the performer inside her.
She put on the most skimpy outfit in her collection along with her "come fuck me" hills. Her hair was flawless and her makeup was dark in a sexy way. She was going out with one goal in mind. She is going to get Zeke out of her system tonight or died trying.
She rode to the party with the golden couple of A of U. She was not that upset about them being together anymore. She made peace over winter break. She was much more upset about the ass standing in Kim's living room.
"What the hell is he doing here?" She and Sharpay yelled simultaneously. She doubted Kim would invite that ass to this party. He looks so smug trying to hit on her fellow cheerleader. She was ready to kill him. She was halfway to him when she felt Chad and Kim pulled both her and Sharpay into another room.
It was 8:00 PM and she already knew that Chad was right. This party was a bad idea. She was expecting 20 people and there were already 70 there. Things wouldn't be so bad if she didn't let her stepsister talk her into inviting some of their old high school friends to the party.
She met Jason and Martha at brunch with Troy on the day before Christmas. They both seem nice enough although they were a little shocked about her relationship with Troy. Actually, the shock was only little when you compare to their outright disbelief at Chad and Sharpay being halfway to the altar. Martha fell out of her chair when she saw Chad and Sharpay making out with each other. Even though Jason already knew, he still didn't believe it. He actually thought the engagement ring was a joke. Kim was starting to believe that the people that know you best don't know you it all.
During her invitation, Taylor forgot to tell Martha and Jason not to bring Zeke or Kelsey to the party. Zeke came with Jason and Martha brought Kelsey. This was a disaster in the making. At least Zeke brought a peace offering of triple chocolate chip cookies. Kelsey was just being a bitch as usual.
She knew that the Taylor Kelsey situation was going to be explosive. She just didn't think that Taylor would be the one hitting Ryan. Kelsey being the same pass aggressive witch from high school decided to tell Taylor all about Ryan hitting on Chad back when she was still dating him. Taylor was pissed and ended up smacking Ryan upside the head. Of course, this was after Ryan unsuccessfully tried to get Zeke to leave. There's now a hole in her wall due to male stupidity.
Ryan and Taylor have already kissed and made up. Or maybe they're just making out to make Kelsey angry. She didn't care as long no more of or furniture got broken. There probably doing inappropriate things on the dance floor just to piss off Kelsey.
Now she had to deal with psychotic Sharpay and Penelope who noticed Zeke tried to hook up with Amanda. Fortunately, for them, Amanda doesn't do ass holes.
"It's not like I invited him. Your brother did not invite him either. They invited Jason, who didn't know that Zeke was not welcomed. Your brother already tried to kick him out once and now I have a lovely fist print in my family room." Kim said in an effort to keep Sharpay from killing someone.
"I'll take care of it. This is one of those times were having a lawyer on retainer comes in handy." Sharpay looked ready to kill. Chad and surprisingly Penelope grabbed her before she could do damage.
"He's not worth the assault charges. You were the one that said if we change our behavior we are letting them win." Penelope said quickly as she pulled Sharpay back.
"Do you have to throw my words back in my face?" Sharpay said with a touch of anger.
"That's the only fun I can still have. With this truce we can't make snide remarks at each other anymore." Penelope said under her breath.
"Oh there's still much fun to be had. I feel this is an excellent time for psychological torture." Chad said kissing Sharpay lightly on the lips causing her to calm down instantly.
"That is my specialty." Sharpay said with a wicked smirk.
"I love a little revenge." Penelope said with a smirk that scared Kim.
"I already know you have an evil scheme in that brilliant head of yours?" Chad said this as he kissed her on the temple.
"I think we should do the exact same thing we did to Richard." Sharpay said with another trademark grin.
"I thought the whole point of this exercise was not to be brought up on assault charges. Not that I've really wouldn't enjoy beating the hell out of that fucking prick. It is not the first time I've kicked him in the dick." All of them couldn't help but nod in agreement.
"Do you remember back in October when you and Richard caught us doing inappropriate things at a store?"
"That was when you two pretended to have sex in the dressing room just to piss Richard off. He was so angry."
"How did you know we're pretending?" Chad asked with a wicked grin.
"I have a hundred dollars in the pool. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to tell. If you could have sex on the day we get a new president I win the bet."
"You two are not going to pretend to have sex in my living room or anywhere else." Kim said with hands on her hips.
"Who said anything about pretending?" Chad said smirking as he dragged Sharpay out to the dance floor.
"I'm still going to have to call the cops." Kim said sighing into her hand.
"That's fine for them. Now how am I going to get back at the prick?" "
"Just do what Sharpay did last time. Although please stay away from my son's toys."
"Make a sex tape with a really hot guy?" Penelope asked sarcastically.
"Broken heart karaoke. You and Sharpay are a lot alike in that you are both able to sing your feelings away. I suggest I Will Survive or You're So Vain. The classics are always best. If you just happened to dirty things on the dance floor with someone hot that's just a bonus." Kim said as she left the room to go keep people from destroying her house. She starting to think high school students were easier to chaperon.
10 minutes later Kim heard Penelope singing the first few of lines the Pink song So What with modified lyrics.
"I guess I just lost my boyfriend, I don't know where he went. So I'm gonna drink my money. I'm not gonna pay his rent. I gotta a brand new attitude and I'm gonna wear it tonight. I wanna get in trouble. I wanna start a fight." As Penelope sings every word, she could hear the anger and pain in her voice. When Penelope downed two shots of very hard liquor before starting the second verse of the song Kim knew this was going to be ugly.
January 10, 2009 8:45 AM.
The first thing Amanda realized when she woke up was that she was not in her room. The solid blue comforter and the pictures of Troy and Alex on the nightstand told her that. She must be in Kim and Troy's bedroom. The winter sun was coming through the curtains aggravating her headache.
She knew she drank way too much last night because it was the only way to keep certain thoughts away. She didn't remember anything last night after Penelope snapped and she started doing shots of Jack with the offending party. That Jack did a pretty good job of making her think the guy wasn't a complete dick.
She quickly pulled back the covers only to realize she wasn't wearing anything. On the nightstand was her black bra. She noticed a person like shape next to her and she started to panic. Her heart began to beat faster when she noticed the condom wrapper on the floor. At least in her stupidity she was smart enough to use a condom.
Memories where starting to come back to her. Flashes of teeth biting breast and fingers caressing delicate flesh entered her mind. From her memories, it was a good sexual encounter even if it was a stupid one.
Amanda didn't do random hookups usually. She hasn't been with anybody since the summer when she broke up with her high school boyfriend. However, Alcohol will make you do truly stupid things like sleep with the wrong person. She was almost positive who she slept with last night but needed to confirm her suspicions. Amanda pulled back the covers and truly realized how bad the situation was. "I am so fucked."
"You are just figuring that out now?" She heard Kim's accusing voice from the hallway and had to fight the urge to hide under the pillow.
January 7, 2009 10:25 AM
Amanda wished Chad and Penelope consulted with her before they started their evil plan to stay away from the stupid one. In the interest of the principle "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", Penelope and Chad were presenting a united front against Zeke. Instead of working with her friend, she was stuck working with a guy who she thinks is a total prick.
Currently they were doing this acting exercise where they were to convey a certain emotion without words. Chad accidentally drew sexiness and was currently giving Penelope a fake lap dance. Like the guy needed to act to pull off sexiness. He radiates sexiness from every pore.
If she was not friends with Sharpay she would be jealous. Because Sharpay was her friend, lusting after her boyfriend who happened to also be her friend was a big no no.
Yet for the last few months, certain thoughts kept creeping into her mind. It was completely innocent at first until she walked in on Chad between Sharpay's legs. She couldn't get the expression of pure ecstasy on Sharpay's face out of her mind. That's when her mind started to wonder what it would be like to be in Sharpay's place.
Amanda thought some distance would help the situation. That's the real reason why she suggested that her and Penelope switch rooms. She hoped that if she didn't have to spend as much time around the happy couple her feelings would go away. So far they haven't and she wondered if other people would pick up on it soon.
"Somebody's jealous." She heard Zeke say next to her.
"What do you mean by that?"
"It is obvious. You're sitting back here wishing you were out there with him."
"He's a friend."
"A friend that you want to…"
"Please shut up, you don't know me. What I want or don't want is completely irrelevant. Even though you want to believe otherwise, Chad and Sharpay love each other very much. It would be easier to break in to fort Knox been to break those two apart."
"I seriously doubt Sharpay has changed that much. The entire time we were together, she was chasing after Troy. She probably still wants to be with Troy and is using Chad as a substitute."
"Trust me I know all about the Troy's situation. Troy's happy with Kim and Sharpay's happy with Chad. Sharpay and Troy are really good friends now."
"Then you realize how ridiculous the whole thing is. Sharpay and I didn't have an exclusive relationship. If she could follow Troy like a lost puppy than I could be with Penelope."
"Unfortunately you never told Sharpay and Penelope that. Neither girl seems like the type for polygamy." Amanda said as she heard the entire class began to clap.
"Wonderful job Chad." There professor said as Chad and Penelope took their seats. "Up next we have Zeke and Amanda. Amanda your emotion is going to be anger."
As she walked to the center of the classroom, she could hear Chad say, "If I knew that was an option I would've worked with Zeke. I'm starting to really love this class." Amanda felt the same way when she smacked Zeke across the face.
January 9, 2009 9:46 PM
"I cannot understand why your sister is so mad at me." Taylor asked her friend/sex partner after surviving a 10-minute rant from his angry sister. For some reason she wasn't willing to refer to Ryan as her boyfriend under any circumstances. Especially after what Kelsey told her tonight.
"Because when you invited Jason to come to the party you forgot to tell him that Zeke was not to set foot in this house under any circumstances. You better be happy that she is too distracted singing love songs to Chad to do something other than scream at you." Sharpay was currently singing the Alanis Morissette song Head over Feet.
"You've already won me over in spite of me and don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet. Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are. I couldn't help it. It's all your fault." Sharpay sang the last of the chorus with her trademark pout. Also During the harmonica parts Chad and Sharpay started making out. Those used to the A of U golden couple are not surprise. However, most of their high school friends who didn't witness the evolution of Chadpay were shocked. She could see Martha traumatized expression from here.
"You're the one who forgot to tell Martha not to bring Kelsey. I did not want to spend my Friday night with your ex girlfriend." Taylor said pulling away from his touch. She was still angry. Even though she started making out with him every time Kelsey was close enough to see.
"You are still upset about that?"
"You made a pass at my boyfriend in high school." Taylor said with a high amount of anger.
"In my defense I really didn't think you guys were actually dating. You and Chad never kissed in public or did anything beyond holding hands. In contrast, we all get worried when we don't see Chad and my sister making out constantly. You and I are always kissing in public. It just seemed strange that you and him didn't have a physical relationship."
"Your point is?" Taylor asked him with hands on hips.
"There was this rumor going around back in high school that you and Gabriella were Chad and Troy's cover." Ryan said this to her in the near whisper. Ryan can't be saying what she thinks he's saying. There's just no way. Then again, her stepsister made some joke about leaving Troy to Chad and Sharpay in her will. Maybe it wasn't a joke, this is Kim we're talking about.
"What do you mean cover?" Taylor asked Ryan to clarify hoping not to get the answer she knew was coming. If Chad cheated on her with Troy, she was going to kill him.
"Do you remember how badly Chad reacted when Troy started hanging around Gabriella?"
"Yes"
"Remember how sulky he was when Troy was around my sister during the summer of 2007?"
"The popular belief is he was upset because Troy was too close to Sharpay."
"That makes sense now because we know Chad is my sister soul mate. At the time, we didn't know that. The rumor mill thought it was the other way around. In addition everybody could see that Troy's relationship with Gabriella was very superficial."
"Everyone but Gabriella, Troy, and your ex girlfriend could see that their relationship was superficial. Add to the fact that Chad kept me at arm's length for our entire relationship and you have the ultimate rumor." Great her relationship with Chad was so bad in high school that everybody actually thought he was with Troy. How could she not see this at the time?
"That summer it seemed like the rumor was true. Everybody knew Chad was acting like a jealous lover. I thought it was the perfect time to make a move. You'll be happy to know that when I tried to kiss your boyfriend he pushed me away immediately."
"At least he was able to resist one Evans." Taylor said sarcastically.
"Unfortunately it was the wrong one." She heard Zeke say snidely from behind her. Taylor just rolled her eyes before asking Ryan to get her a drink. She needed something stronger before she had to deal with the young and conceded. She also didn't want Ryan and Zeke to start fighting again. She made a point of kissing Ryan deeply before he left because she knew that Kelsey was watching again.
When Sharpay's love song ended, Penelope and Sharpay decided to channel their anger into a duet. Earlier in the evening Penelope was being the very angry ex girlfriend singing songs like Cry Me A River, You Oughta Know and Lovesick. Taylor listened to that song a lot during the beginning of the Chad Sharpay fiasco.
Sharpay decided to take the opposite route by singing songs about how much she loved Chad. This explains her previous choice. It didn't bother her. She could obviously see the difference between Chad's relationship with Sharpay in his relationship with her. Despite the initial anger, she realizes that Sharpay really is Chad soul mate.
She was not angry about Chad and Sharpay being together but Zeke definitely was. She could see it as he watched Sharpay and Penelope perform the Janet Jackson songI Betcha Think This Song Is About You. She started laughing hysterically when both girls sung the line, "Greedy mother fuckers, Try to have your cake and eat it too," looking directly at Zeke. The whole thing was funny. The look on Zeke's face was priceless.
"What were you expecting them to do The Boy Is Mine? Sharpay is not Brandy and Penelope is not Monica. Well they may do that song over Chad but not you." Taylor said remembering the story of how Sharpay ended up kissing Taylor's then boyfriend in the first place at Kim's last party.
"I don't know what I was expecting them to do. I don't know why they are so upset."
"Maybe it had something to do with the fact that you were making Sharpay brownies while Penelope was giving you head in the locker room. Girls don't like being cheated on." Amanda said passing the infamous red cup to Taylor. "Ryan told me to give you that. He's worried that if he comes back over he may kill him." Amanda said pointing at Zeke.
"Again I don't know why everybody is upset. We didn't have an exclusive relationship. If she could try to hook up with Troy, I could be with Penelope." Taylor didn't have the energy to explain the Troy situation. Besides she wasn't really supposed to know the real reason behind Sharpay's Troy crush in high school.
"What about Penelope? She was in love with you." Amanda said with a touch of anger.
"Penelope doesn't do love, just like Sharpay doesn't do love."
"Trust me both of them do love. I think those two picked the perfect song for you. God you are way too cocky."
"You would like me, if you got to know me." Zeke said putting an arm on Amanda. Amanda quickly pushed him away.
"I doubt that. I'll see you later. I'm going to perform next." Amanda said making her way to the stage and Taylor went to find Ryan. She saw him talking with Kim. She took the opportunity to ask her stepsister to verify that a certain rumor from high school was untrue with her fiancé. As Kim started laughing at her because of her request, she heard Amanda sing the first few lines of the TLC song Silly Ho.
"I ain't never been no Silly Ho. Waiting for your call like the other girls want you. I ain't never been no one to mess with someone else's mess. That's not a thing for me to do." As Amanda sung the words she looked directly at Zeke. There was definitely something else going on here.
Sharpay was currently against Chad on the dance floor as the sounds of Usher where played in the Background. She loved being with him on the dance floor like this. It was as close to sex as she was willing to get with him at the moment.
She could feel his reaction every time her body made contact with his. He was hard against her and she loved it. She could still feel that spark of electricity as he started to touch places he probably shouldn't with this many people around. However, that didn't stop him Wednesday at that restaurant.
"You said you didn't dance," She whispered to him as she placed another hot kiss against his neck. At that moment she felt him turn her around.
If you're a bad girl
Get at me bad girl
Ooh work me baby
Shakin' it the way I like
I'm ready to be bad
She could feel his desire for her pressed against her backside. She couldn't resist thrusting back into him. This is how she would build trust with him. Who knew doing sex therapy homework could be so much fun.
I need a bad girl (say yeah)
Get at me bad girl
"Only with you." He whispered into her ear. She could feel his breath on her neck as he pulled away. His fingers were making their presence known on her hips and thighs. He pushed into her again as his mouth made contact with the overheated skin around her collarbone. She could feel tongue and teeth worshiping her. He was cleansing her body of all its imperfections.
"What are you doing?" The words came out as a breathy whisper because he felt so good pressed up against her hard and wanting. She felt in control knowing that she can cause this reaction in him even though she knew she became completely undone around him. This is what she needs to feel comfortable.
I need a bad girl (bad girl)
If you're a bad girl
"I'm just following doctors' orders or maybe I'm just seeing if I can get you to come on the dance floor." He said turning her around. She can feel the moisture flow to her core as she listens to his sex laced voice. She feels him pressed into her harder than before.
Instinctively she wrapped one leg around him. She needed to feel friction against that part of her anatomy that needs him. Finally, years of dancing classes paid off. She would never try this with anyone else. He was the only one she trusted to be this out of control with. They were kissing each other again. Their mouths are battling each other for dominance.
Oh, I wanna take one to the restroom
So close I'm smellin' like your perfume
If you're a bad girl
Get at me bad girl
"The song and you are giving me such naughty ideas or maybe it's just you." He whispered the words against her lips as her began to massage her breast through the black material of her dress. For some reason she decided not to wear a bra today.
Ooh work me baby
Shakin' it the way I like
I'm ready to be bad
I need a bad girl (say yeah)
Get at me bad girl
What sexy lady's comin' home with me tonight?
"Upstairs." She moaned out as she pressed down on his erection one more time. She was already halfway gone. At this point they were not really on the dance floor anymore but slowly making their way to the stairs.
"Did you drink any of Kim special punch?" He asked as he continued touching her.
"I'm completely sober and I still want you to make me come." As she said the words, Chad pulled her up the stairs to their room for the night. Unfortunately, they ran into Kim before they made it to the room. Her angry gaze was more effective than any cold shower.
"Oh no you don't, back downstairs right now." Kim said pushing them down the stairs. "You two can have private time after you help me with the psychotic college students. I have too many drunk people in my house and I need help controlling the masses."
"We will help you as soon as I'm more relaxed." Chad said as he pulled Sharpay back upstairs.
"Not happening." Kim said grabbing Chad by the wrist. "Just think really unpleasant thoughts like me showing Mr. Evans the footage from the elevator at Snow Gardens on Sharpay's birthday or was it already past midnight. You do know what he'll do when he finds out you and his daughter had another incident with a camera." Kim said pushing them back to the karaoke area.
"I hate you."
"No you don't because I'm the mother of your favorite almost nephew. Stay here and tried not to have sex on the dance floor again. You can keep people I don't know from doing inappropriate things in my bathroom. Now excuse me while I go get yelled at by your brothers ex girlfriend who is still angry about me breaking up her favorite couple to write songs for." With that, Kim was gone.
"I hate your best friend." Chad said with a pout.
"No you don't. You're just sexually frustrated."
"Very frustrated. Now that she is gone we could probably sneak back upstairs."
"She still watching and I want to get invited to stay again later on. If we do stupid things now you can forget about spending the night in the same bed until after finals. We can have played time later."
What the hell was he thinking coming to this party? When Jason suggested coming here, it sounded like a good idea. He wasn't expecting Sharpay, Penelope or Chad to be there. Jason forgot to mention that the party was at the house of Troy's wife Kim.
Just the thought of Troy being married to someone that wasn't Gabriella was shocking without the fact that they have a two year old together. Unlike the others he went to high school with, he knew to keep his mouth shut. It just proves you can never really know a person. Maybe if they knew that back in high school, Sharpay would have willingly given up on Troy once and for all. Zeke loved Sharpay but Sharpay didn't love him.
It was obvious from the fact that Sharpay didn't have an initial reaction to his arrival at the school when at least Penelope yelled at him his suspicions were true. The first thing Sharpay did when she saw him Monday was kiss Chad. Actually, it was more than kissing. She jumped on top of Chad and literally wrapped her legs around him as her mouth descended upon his causing him to go into the wall. Zeke had no idea a kiss could be that soft core.
Every time after that encounter she would kiss, touch, or engage Chad in some intimate way every time she saw Zeke. She was basically telling him that he wasn't worth a reaction from her. He was beginning to wonder if the constant groping was for his benefit alone. If she was doing such a thing, maybe she really did care about him at some point. The Truth of the matter is he couldn't see Sharpay in love with anybody but herself.
So far this evening he watched Penelope go through the best of angry breakup songs. She actually ripped a teddy bear on stage at some point. He didn't understand why she was so upset when they were in a just sex relationship. It wasn't liked they were actually dating.
The torture continued with Sharpay singing love songs to Chad. That was just round one. The entire time he was trying to hook up with Amanda, Sharpay was simulating sex with Chad on the dance floor. Sharpay wasn't like that in high school. She would break his hands if he even thought about putting them on her back side. Chad was doing more than that. He actually saw them make a run for the bedrooms before Troy's wife kick them back downstairs.
He was so shocked by the display that he asked Amanda if they were really like that.
"Remind me to show you the "fantasy girl" video clip Monday. Trust me this isn't for your benefit. They are always like this. During midterms last semester, they were making out so hard they actually broke a computer because they forgot it was on the bed. There's a reason why it seemed like Sharpay have an actual orgasm on the dance floor.. You don't have a chance in hell getting back with her. She loves him and he loves her. It would take an act of god to get Chad away from her." He could sense the anger in her voice again. He instantly picked up on the way she looked at Chad. It was obvious she didn't think of him as a friend.
"Trust me, I know better than to try. You I'm not so sure about. Somebody sounds jealous." He said sarcastically.
"I'm not jealous. It's just not possible to break them apart. Now that little show is for you." A few minutes earlier the DJ started playing Poker Face by Lady Gaga. Penelope was on the floor rubbing up with some girl that Zeke didn't recognize.
Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun
And baby when it's love if its not rough it isn't fun, fun
"Enjoy the show Zeke. Excuse me as I go look for a guy who's not a prick. If you see one let me know." He really liked that girl.
Penelope was actually having fun. She ended up dancing with Nikki and Marc instead of hot random strangers, but that was okay. She couldn't believe that her and Marc actually made out with the same guy once. A person who was now in the drama II class she was assisting to at EHS. While she was dancing in a very obscene way with Nikki just to piss Zeke off they talked her into going up on stage to do another song.
"Come on you have to do "single ladies". He was so jealous right there. You have to do it. " Nikki said pushing her to the stage.
Chad was currently on stage singing Sharpay another love song. The current selection was Wanna Love U Girl by Robin Thicke. She had no idea how Kim got karaoke versions of some of these songs.
"Shes the kind of girl u wanna marry." Chad actually grabs Sharpay's engagement ring as he sings that line.
"The kind of girl u walk the whole earth 4. Put her on your back and just carry. Her attitude is hotter than the earths core." Now that was definitely Sharpay, Penelope thought to herself.
"When shes around nothing else matters. Untouchable shes got her own force field. Sooner or later someone will get at her. If I dont someone else will. Wanna love u girl, wanna love u girl." As Chad sang every word to Sharpay, you could tell that he really did love her. The ode to love made Penelope slightly nauseous. She was okay with the two being together but she was jealous of the fact that Sharpay had someone that really did love her.
"I'll sing the song just so I don't have to listen to any more love songs from the golden couple. I think I prefer it when they were making out in front of me all the time."
According to Murphy 's Law, whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Because she spent the night watching the person she was in love with for three years throw himself at one of her friends she thought nothing else could go wrong today. As everything in the life of Penelope Castro, it all goes to hell in the most spectacular way possible.
Instead of putting the code in for Single Ladies Marc accidentally put in the code for Broken-hearted Girl. She didn't want to sing the song because it was close to how she was feeling. She made it through the first verse without crying. She even made it through half of the chorus with minimal shaking. However When she sang the lines, "I know that I love you, but let me just say, I don't wanna love you in no kind of way, no no. I don't want a broken heart. I don't wanna play the broken-hearted girl," she broke apart.
She ran off the stage crying into the front yard. Somehow, he managed to catch up with her before she left the property.
"You loved me?" he says as a question not as a statement. Even after the horrible display of emotions, he still doesn't get it.
"You are just figuring that out now you fucking prick. Did you think we were just fuck buddies?" The expression on his face told her that's exactly what he thought they were. That just made her fall apart.
Before she even knew what she was doing, she had him on the ground. The first punch was so hard she knew that she drew blood. The second and third punches were worse. She stopped counting at that point as she continued taking her rage out on him. For some reason he never punched back.
She felt Marc and Nikki pull her off as she heard Sharpay say "I knew one of us was going to snap eventually." Despite the high amounts of alcohol she consumed earlier the site of blood running down Zeke's face sobered her up quickly.
"C'mon you've had way too much to drink." Nikki said pulling her in to the house.
She can hear Marc say, "this would not have happened if she sang Pink's U + Ur Hand instead."
When they got to one of the guest rooms Penelope just lay down on the bed and started to cry. This is such a mess.
Because she was the only one who could be in a room with Zeke without trying to kill him, Amanda was the one that helped after Penelope snapped. She started cleaning him up in the kitchen because some idiots were having sex in the guest bathroom. Kim sent them to her and Troy's room with a medical kit when they started to get blood on her kitchen table. Amanda decided to take a bottle of Jack with them. She wanted to hear what really happened from Zeke's perspective and felt alcohol was the only way to get some real answers at this point.
"I didn't know. I am such a fuck up." Zeke said sitting on the toilet in the master bathroom.
"That is the first intelligent thing you've said all day." Amanda said as she began to wipe the blood away as painfully as possible. She heard a hiss of pain when she poured alcohol on the cut. That made her feel better.
"You're having too much fun with this."
"You think. How could you not know that Penelope loved you?"
"I think I'm going to need more alcohol before I can begin this story."
"I did bring an entire bottle the Jack Daniel's."
It took most of the bottle and 45 minutes for the truth to finally come out.
"Why did she have to fall in love with him?" Zeke said slurring.
"I've been asking myself that same question."
"Do you have any idea how hard it was to be in the shadow of Troy and Chad? They always seem so perfect. It was so hard to be at school where you have to be Disney perfect." Zeke said taking another drink from the bottle before passing it back to Amanda. At this point, there was probably only an inch left.
"I've already heard this rant before. Although I think it was Chad and Troy getting absolutely wasted after thanksgiving hell. Trust me they are not perfect. Even Troy Bolton couldn't be Troy Bolton."
"That explains the two year old and not Gabriella wife."
"They're not married yet. They just told you that because it was easier than explaining why Kim had his last name already. Troy wants to marry her but Kim said ho."
"That doesn't make sense." Zeke said taking the bottle back from her.
"I think it would if we were still sober."
"Sobriety is overrated."
"I agree. If I was sober I wouldn't do this." Amanda said with slurred words as she kissed him.
January 10, 2009 2:25 AM Pacific time
Troy couldn't stop laughing at the question his girlfriend just asked him.
"I think the rumor about me and Chad was started by the same people who started the incest rumor about Ryan and Sharpay."
"Chad was the one who started the incest rumor." His fiancée pointed out to him in an annoying way.
"I forgot about that. I'm closer to Chad than almost anybody except you, but it was never in that way."
"My stepsister made me ask. This party has been such a disaster. Kelsey and Taylor managed to break a coffee table and give Ryan a black eye about an hour ago. At this Point, I'm happy that Ryan and Taylor likely snuck off to the bathroom to do dirty things again. Fortunately, the very sober Chad and Sharpay are helping me kick everybody out or keep people occupied by doing more love song karaoke. I got really good footage of Chad doing Senorita. Although Chad is mad at me because I won't let him do dirty things with Sharpay upstairs." Troy starts to laugh at that.
"I told you not to have this party."
"Yes, I know better now. The worst part was listening to several of your high school friends wondered why you left Gabriella for me." There was the Gabriella insecurity again.
"You know I love you."
"I know that. It didn't make the evening any less uncomfortable when Kelsey said the only reason why you and I are engaged is because you knocked me up."
"You know that's not true."
"I know that. Oh god, I'm going to have to burn the sheets now." He heard his girlfriend say in a way that made no sense.
"What are you talking about?" Suddenly he could tell Kim switched the phone to speaker mode. It sounded like somebody was having very loud sex.
"I think Ryan and Taylor doing unspeakable things in our bedroom. But there's only one way to know for sure. "
"You're not actually going to look are you?"
"Of course, I'm going to look and then I'm going to kick them out. Someone is having sex in our bedroom. For somebody who had sex with me on the roof of the school, you are such a prude." Kim said as he heard her open the door and quickly slammed it close.
"Oh god I think my eyes are still burning. There must be copious amounts of alcohol involved for Amanda to do something that stupid."
"I told you not to look." Troy chastised his girlfriend.
"We're going to have to burn the whole bedroom set. I really like that bedroom set."
"It cannot be that bad." Kim had to be exaggerating.
"Yes it was. I just saw Amanda having sex with Zeke in our bedroom.
"What the fuck?"
"My sentiments exactly."
To be continued
A/N: Below is the soundtrack for this chapter in order of appearance.
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
Carly Simon: You're So Vain
Pink: So What
Alanis Morissette: Head over Feet.
Justin Timberlake: Cry Me A River
Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know
TLC: Lovesick.
Janet Jackson: Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)
Brandy and Monica: The Boy Is Mine
TLC: Silly Ho.
Usher: Bad Girl (I use the song for the sound, not the lyrics)
Lady Gaga:Poker Face
Robin Thicke: Wanna Love U Girl (I wished I could I use Sex Therapy or Diamonds, but the songs are too new.)
Beyoncé: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Beyoncé: Broken-hearted Girl.
Pink: U + Ur Hand
Justin Timberlake: Senorita