Ryan trudges up to his room silently crying to himself. He peeled off his egg-covered shirt and threw it into the laundry shoot. Why would Troy do this to him? Hadn't Troy been the one that had started the whole thing? Ryan collapsed into a heap upon his floor and started to sob. There was suddenly a knock on his door. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and said,

"Come in". He pretended to be reading over his homework. It was Sharpay and she was holding his shirt that he had just thrown down the shoot. She was holding it with the tips of her fingers as though it was contaminated.

"What is this?" she asked him bitingly. He fought with himself internally. Pat of him wanted to tell her everything that had happened and part of him wanted to keep the special moment he and troy had shared and the embarrassment to himself. That half of him won.

"Nothing" he said, "Science project gone wrong." She rolled her eyes.

"Don't try to lie to me" she said angrily, "It's pointless." He pulled his knees into his chest and sighed. Then he told her the whole thing.

"What an ass" she said when he had finished. "That's a really shitty thing for him to do." Ryan was surprised. Usually Sharpay would have said something about it being his own fault, and how he should have seen it coming. But this time she showed him through her eyes how truly sorry she was for him. He suddenly found himself sharing things with her that he'd have never dreamed he'd share with anyone let alone his overbearing sister.

"Ryan," she said softly after he'd stopped, "I hate to say this but… You have about as much of a chance with Troy Bolton as I do."

"What are you talking about?" said Ryan in shock, "You have a huge chance with him. I always hear him calling you cute."

"Yeh." She laughed bitterly, "Until Chad tells him that I'm a total bitch and that he should ignore me." Ryan nodded in understanding. Troy did anything that chad told him to and that seemed to be the biggest roadblock in Troy's life.

"Look all I know is that you are a really great guy and you deserve so much better than Troy Bolton. He's a class one asshole." Ryan nodded and bid his sister goodnight then logged onto his computer.

His buddylist popped up and he scanned the names.

Singerstr1 (Sharpay)

Lalalalee688

Gaynproud7 (Reece)

Rainbowboy12

And several others. Then all of a sudden a message popped up saying,

"BballTrojan would like to add you to his buddy list. Accept/Deny"

He hit accept unsre of who it was.

BballTrojan: Look don't block me please!

Songndance17: Who the hell is this?

BballTrojan: …. Promise not to block me?

Songndance17: yeh sure w/e

BballTrojan: Troy

Ryan seriously contemplated blocking him at that very moment but was too interested in what Troy could possibly have to say to him.

Songndance17: What…

BballTrojan: I'm really sorry. Its just that I… I… I don't really know how to handle this whole thing so I'm not handling it at all. I'm just hoping that if I ignore my feelings they will go away. Can you please forgive me?

Songndance17: No.

With that, Ryan logged out of his computer and climbed into his bed. He wanted to forgive Troy but he felt he couldn't if he wanted to keep his pride. He fell asleep and dreamed about the night that he and Troy had been together. It was vivid and it didn't end with a phone call, in fact it didn't end at all, it just kept on going until Ryan's alarm clock went off.

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"Cant sleep?" I asked him. Now it was his turn to nod and he sighed as he stared into what remained of his Hot chocolate. All of a sudden he said,

"Ryan, I think I'm gay."