Chapter 1: Sharpay's side
At The Evans' Family Mansion:
Sharpay Evans- Foster is now twenty-four years old and has just recently returned to Albuquerque, NM. She is visiting her parents along with her husband Brian Foster. They met while attending college together and have now been married for three years. Sharpay hasn't visited her parent's house she left and went to Yale where she met Brian. It's now been six years since she has been in her former room the one she had since childhood and before she moved out when she went to college. Since Brain went to help her parents with something and she had decided to stay home. While at her parent's house she is going through her old stuff. When looking around in her old closet she finds a box. That box just happens to be her ex-box containing memories from when she and Troy were together from all those years ago.
Sharpay signs, picks up the ex- box and sets it down on the bed. She didn't even notice that Ryan had walked in. Who also is visiting their parent's this weekend.
"Hey Shar, what are you looking at?" Ryan asks already noticing the box but not what was inside the box.
"Oh hey Ry, I'm just looking at some old memories from a long time ago." Sharpay answers.
"Really and what memories would those be?"
"Just the ones from when Troy and I were together. I had forgotten that this box was here or that it even existed since it's been forever. I don't even remember what's inside it."
"Are you still thinking about him after all this time? I thought that you had gotten over him after you and Brian met?"
"I did get over Troy. I got over him in college, but that doesn't mean that part of my heart has ever healed. It's the part that never healed and is still hurting Ry." Sharpay says as she signs again. Inside of her hand is a picture of her and Troy. That picture was taken of them one day before their first day of High School in their freshman year. They had been dating since the fifth grade until the middle of freshman year when things just suddenly changed.
"I know but, it has been over ten years since you guys were last together."
"I know that too but, I still can't help but look back and think about where everything went wrong though and what could have been." She says getting off the bed and grabbing her jacket with the picture still in her hand. Ryan is left in her old room knowing that she needed to be alone with her thoughts. The topic of Troy always had her thinking what if things could've been different or if she had choose to stay with him.
(Sharpay leaves her family house and goes to East High. The place when in beginning she thought that things between her and Troy wouldn't change until they did in the end.)
Here I stand alone
With this weight upon my heart
And it will not go away
In my head I keep on looking back
Right back to the start
Wondering what it was that made you change
(Sharpay flashes back to the start when things began to change. She just never thought at the time that Troy would break her heart. Where she would end up breaking up with him and she would close her heart off to another relationship after. )
It's the first day of High School: Freshman Year
(two months before Sharpay breaks up with Troy)
Sharpay Evans walks into the school along with her twin brother Ryan. She sees her boyfriend Troy of four years talking to some guy with afro hair (Chad).
"Ry, can you believe that we are now freshman in high school?" She asks excited because she is already planning her high school future.
"Yeah! Come senior year you and Troy are going to be homecoming royalty as well as prom royalty!"
"I know! Oh there he is I'm going to go and talk to him. I'll see you later at lunch ok?" She says hugging her twin brother.
"You know it, but we have the same homeroom. I'll just wait for you and Troy." He says once he sees how big the school is and not wanting to get lost.
"Okay, let me go and get Troy." She says and walks over to the lockers where Troy and Chad are talking. She sneaks up behind Troy and covers his eyes. "Guess who?"
"Well it can't be my mom or dad. So it has to be my amazing and beautiful girlfriend!"
"Great guess and you win a kiss". They kiss and she sees Chad standing there. "Hi my names Sharpay," she says extending her hand to greet him.
"Chad nice to meet you," he says rudely when Sharpay was just being nice and friendly. "But do you mind Troy and I have a lot to catch up on. Being as we are going to be co-captain of the varsity basketball team."
Sharpay looks up at Troy wondering why he is just letting Chad some guy who she has never met before talk to her like that. (He and Chad met at basketball camp over the summers while Sharpay was away with her family on vacation. He just didn't think that Chad would ever come between them and he would end up losing Sharpay forever. ) Troy just looks between the two not knowing what to do but little did he know at the time that Chad was planning to break him and Sharpay up. With that Troy and Chad leave to class leaving Sharpay behind hind. Not knowing what had just happened.
Ryan goes over to his sister seeing the whole thing. "You ok sis?"
"I don't know what just happened?" She says as the bell rings for class. With that said they leave for class. Never knowing that in just two months Troy and her would be over.
Well I tried
But I had to draw the line
And still this question keeps on spinning in my mind
(That was only just the beginning when things between her and Troy started too changed or more like he changed. He began missing dates and ignoring her at school. It continued for two months until she finally had enough. )
Sharpay is over at the movie theater waiting for Troy to arrive. He was supposed to be there 3 hours ago. She calls his house and his mom answers the phone.
"Hello Bolton residence." Troy's mom Lisa says answering the phone.
"Hi Mrs. Bolton it's Sharpay. I'm wondering is Troy there?"
"Oh hi Shar. How are you honey?"
"Good and you?"
"Good, oh but honey Troy isn't home he went to a party at Chad's house and won't be back home until later. Do you want me to tell him that you called?"
"No that's ok I'll just try his cellphone. Thank you though." With that said she hangs up the phone. Lisa just looks at the picture of Troy and Sharpay. Troy has his arms around Sharpay and they are both smiling happy. Lisa and Sharpay's mom Derby (they have been friends since they were kids) had a dream of Troy and Sharpay getting married one day. Little did they know that dream would never happen.
After getting off the phone with Troy's mom she calls Troy on his cellphone. Only it wasn't Troy who answered though but it was Chad who answered Troy's phone that fateful night.
"Don't you know he's busy having a life without you?" He just says right away without saying hello. (Troy doesn't know about any of this yet)
"What do you mean? He was supposed to meet me here at the movie theater for our anniversary."
"Oh you mean he didn't tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
"He decided that he doesn't want to be with you anymore. Plus he told me that he was never in love with you. In fact he is making out with this really hot cheerleader right now?"
"What?" Sharpay asks trying to keep her tears from falling out of her eyes.
"Yeah here hold on and I'll send you a picture." With that said Chad hangs up the phone. But a few seconds later Sharpay sees the picture with her own eyes.
She then calls Ryan to have their mom come and pick her up at the movie theater. She ends up leaving there that night with a broken heart.
That evening she makes the choice to end things with Troy. So she calls Troy only to get his voicemail this time and leaves the most painful message in her life.
"Hey you reached Troy leave a message after the beep and I'll try and get back to you as soon as I can."
"Hey Troy, it's me Sharpay. Listen I've been thinking lately and I think that it's time that we end things between us." She hangs up and lies down on her bed crying. Ryan having been there through the whole thing stays there holding her in his arms. Listening to her cry her eyes out until she finally falls asleep.
What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know
(Life from there on changed after that night. Sharpay and Troy both went their separate ways. She ended up changing into the drama queen or the ice queen as Chad likes to call her. She did that so that no one else would ever get close enough to break her heart again. She didn't think that she would be able to heal it a second time. )
The next day at school her and Ryan entered the school and saw Troy. He is talking to Chad. (He hasn't heard the message yet. But he will later that evening) As Sharpay sees Troy; she just ignores him and goes to her locker to get her books for homeroom which is drama. Ryan in the meanwhile glares at Troy because he broke his sister's heart.
Troy having just recovered from seeing Sharpay walk past him tries to go after her only to be held back by Chad.
"Leave her be man. You know how girls are and plus you have us now." Chad said while giving Troy a fist bump.
"Yeah ok, I'll just meet up with her later I guess. " With that he and Chad head through the same doors that Sharpay and Ryan entered.
Many roads to take
Some to joy
Some to heart-ache
Anyone can lose their way
(Life moved on for both Troy and Sharpay. She managed to get into the Drama Club with Ryan and became co-presidents. Two years later Sharpay saw something that broke her heart all over again. She sees Troy and Gabriella (who has moved there in January). Sharpay saw Troy putting a necklace around Gabriella's neck. It was the same necklace that he had given to her after their first date. Back when he had asked her to be his girlfriend.)
Junior Year:
"Oh thank goodness it's finally summer Ry." She said in a happy voice.
"I know! No homework and No school for two whole months." Ryan says.
"I know ri…" Right before she could finish her sentence she as saw Troy putting the T necklace around Gabriella's neck. However before Troy or anyone else could see her, Sharpay runs out of the school with Ryan following right behind her having seen what had upset her. Once she gets into Ryan's car and the tears start to fall from her eyes.
Ryan takes them home and he holds her in his arms while they are inside of their house. She is once again crying her eyes out over Troy Bolton.
And if I said that we could turn it back
Right back to the start
Would you take the chance and make the change
Do you think how it would have been sometimes
Do you pray that I'd never left your side
Junior and Senior Years of High School passed and before anyone knew it Sharpay and Ryan leaving for College. Sharpay had gotten into Yale law and Ryan had gotten into Julliard their dream schools, while Troy on the other hand had been drafted for the NBA. While driving Sharpay sees the Bolton house, a house that she knew well. Her parents where still friends with the Bolton's. Every time her parents had gone out to dinner with the Bolton's, she would always not be up for it or come up with an excuse and one excuse being that she did want to be around Troy. But her parents understood and decided never to push her knowing that she was still healing a broken heart. Jack and Lisa understood as well and even though they were disappointed they however knew that she needed time to heal. Troy in the meantime had always wondered where she was and how she was doing. But her parents would always tell him that something else came up.
Part of Sharpay always knew that another reason for not going was because she didn't want to look back at the memories before being painfully reminded that they we're not together anymore. Part of her had also hoped that Troy would always come back to her someday but when he started dating Gabriella that dream and hope faded as time went on.
Troy's House:
Now here they are ten years later and Sharpay now being married to Brian they are at the Bolton's house and where his parents are hosting a party to celebrate Troy's NBA career. After a few hours and catching up with Troy's parents who still love her as their own daughter, she goes up the stairs to Troy's old room and sees an old photograph of the two of them on the floor. She sees a candle on Troy's desk and lights it while saying:
"Troy my wish for you is to have the miracle of understanding."
(With that said and done she blows out the candle and goes back downstairs to find her husband. After returning to her husband's side, she looks around and there she finally sees Troy standing in the middle of the room there by himself. )
What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know
If only we could turn the hands of time
If I could take you back would you still be mine
Sharpay and Brian left after being at the Bolton's house. They wanted to get some sleep before sharing their news with her parents and brother the next day. For they had a special gift for her parents and brother. That gift and surprise being is that Sharpay is pregnant with her first child. They decided to tell her parents while they were visiting.
"So what did you do today love?" Brian asks while he gets into bed.
"Oh I just went out for a walk."
"You go anywhere special?"
"No not really just wanted to see what had changed in ten years. Not a lot though." With that said she gives Brian and hug and kiss.
(Then goes off to sleep leaving Brian to read his script being as he is this big movie and music producer.)
'Cos I tried
But I had to draw the line
And still this question keep on spinning in my mind
What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
What if I had never walked away
'Cos I still love you more than I can say
(While Sharpay is dreaming she flashes back to every joy and heartache of her relationship with Troy. Knowing even though she ended things she still loved him. She wanted what was best for them both and for them to be happy. It took her time until she was ready to move on and she wanted the best for Troy. )
'What if I had stayed and worked things out would Troy still be the man I fell in love with.' She thinks as she dreams.
(She had always wondered if she stayed if Troy would become the man that she fell in love with. But in the end she had to let go of the what ifs. When she met Brian her heart was finally ready to move on. )
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know
We'll never know
'I guess I'll never know what could've been we can't mess with time. I only wish him the best in life.' With that last thought she dreams of the future with her husband and baby.