Chapter five- First kiss

Disclamier- I don't own HSM or characters. But I wish I did. My life would be so much more entertaining. But I do own the songs.

A/N- I know I havn't updated in the longest time, but I just now got things to settle down, now that it's x-mas break. Which reminds me, Happy Christmas!! And happy holidays!

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"Hey Shar Shar." Gabriella greeted as she came into Sharpay's room.

Sharpay was laying on her stomache reading a book when Gabriella entered. She looked up and smiled, setting her book aside. "Hey girly. You here to see Ry or your fabulous bestie?"

She grinned, sitting on the bed next to her. "Why my very lovely and oh so fabulous bestie of course."

"Well, I appriciate the thought. What's up?"

"Tay and I were going to the mall, you're going too right?"

She nodded, still smiling. "Of course. Tay texted me an hour ago. I was expecting you."

"Wow...stalkerish." Gabriella laughed as Sharpay started to get ready.

"Not the stalker thing again. I told you, I wasn't following the guy. I was just...walking closely behind him." She laughed along with Gabriella.

"Well, speaking of guys...you and Troy seem to be getting along pretty well now a days."

Sharpay turned from her dressing to Gabriella, one eyebrow raised. "What do you mean?"

"I'm just saying, you know...you guys are always together. You seem really comfortable with each other. You're always in close contact and-"

"Woah, hold up Gabs. Troy and I are friends. Nothing more, nothing less. We're friends. End of story."

Gabriella nodded, though not fully believeing her. "Okay. Whatever you say. You and Troy, just friends. That's cool." She tried, but she couldn't quite hide her smirk.

Sharpay groaned. "Gabriella! Troy and I are friends. Just friends." She pronounced slowly.

"Fine. Friends. That's good."

"Besides, if anything ever happened with Troy, you would be the first to know."

"I don't suppose I may be able to find out before Troy? I hate being out of the loop."

Sharpay laughed. "You'll at least be the third to know. Promise."

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"Fake right, fake left." Chad muttered to himself as he dribbled the basketball between his legs as Troy hovered over him, ready to get the ball at any chance.

"Why don't you try shooting the ball?" Troy amused.

"Why don't you try to beat this." Chad lifted up, throwing the ball to the net and making the perfect shot.

"Impressive." Troy said, taking the ball and going back to the end of the court, throwing the ball and making a perfect shot himself. "Real impressive."

Chad frowned. "You've only been playing a couple weeks and you're already better than me. That's just plain not nice Bolton."

Troy smirked, getting the ball and making another shot. "Lifes tough, get a helmet."

"Well I would but I have no cash. And plus I have to be heading home."

"Okay, I'll see you later."

"Yeah, tell Shar and Ryan I said bye. See ya."

"Later man." Troy called after him as he left. Troy continued to throw shots, making each perfectly. He sighed. He loved basketball, and he was good at it. But then, playing also brought back a lot of memories he didn't want. Ones of his father. He'd do anything to rid some of those memories, but he was glad to be able to make new ones here. With the Evans. He loved being here. With a normal, loving family. He hadn't had that since his mom had passed away.

He shook his head of his thoughts and continued to practice. He had to try out for the basketball team soon.

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"Oh, wow." Sharpay said between laughs. "That was amazing."

"I can't believe you actually asked that old guy how he thought you would look in that bikini. Are you insane?" Gabriella scolded, but laughed herself.

"I have to admit, it was pretty hilarious when his eyes almost literally bulged from his sockets, and his mouth dropping to the floor." Taylor agreed.

Sharpay laughed again. "That was fun. But at least I didn't ask that little old lady with the cane. She might have had a heart attack."

"Hmm, I wonder why that old guy and woman were even in Victoria Secret? That's...odd."

"Creepy." Gabriella and Sharpay exclaimed at once.

"So where to next?" Gabririella asked once their laughs had been settled.

"Food court." Sharpay and Taylor cheered together. They didn't veen notice themselves sayign things in unision. By now they were like sisters and really use to it.

Once they got settled in the food court and had their stuff, Gabriella and Taylor shared a knowing glance. Taylor started. "Shar, hon...can I ask you something. With out you getting upset?"

Sharpay put down her food, looking curiously at the two. "Okay."

Taylor took a deep breathe. "We just wanted to mke sure you were okay...with Kyle being...you know. We wanted to make sure you knew we were here if you wanted to talk."

"I'm fine."

"But you won't talk to us about it. Not Ry. Not Troy. Not your parents. We know you loved Kyle. We just want to make sure you're okay." Gabriella said calmly, placing a hand over Sharpay's as if trying to comfort her.

"I'm fine." Sharpay insisted again.

"Okay." Taylor said quickly before Gabriella could say anything. "Take your time. Just know that we're here."

"I will, thanks guys." She smiled, eating again. She knew they were only trying to help her. "Um...guys..."

"Yeah?"

"Duck!" She yelled, pointing to an old man. The same man that was in Victoria Secret earlier.

Taylor, Gabriella, and Sharpay instantly ducked under the table.

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"So I guess this is where I should say goodbye,

I guess I should tell you goodnight,

But with so much left to say and do, it's almost too hard,

And I don't want to go to sleep,

I don't want to move,

I don't ever want to wake up, and find myself alone,

But now that you're not with me,

When I turn out the lights,

All I have of you, is your memories..."

Troy stood at the doorways as he listened to Sharpay singing while playing the piano. He was blown away by her voice and her playing, but also sad. He could hear in her voice that she was hurting. It was obvious. He quitely knocked on the door of the music room, causing her to jump a little and turn around, surprised.

She blushed. "Oh, hi. I uh...didn't know you were there."

He smiled, sitting next to her on the piano bench. "Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt or anything. I just heard playing, and so I stopped. That was really good by the way. You're a great player, and singer."

She blushed even more this time, looking down. "Thanks. The song's still rough though, but-"

"Wait, you wrote this?" He asked, looking over the song.

"Yeah, recently. It needs work."

"No, it was good. Very...heartfelt. It was nice."

She smiled. "Thanks."

"So uh...did you write this about that guy Kyle? You're old friend?" He aked, carefully. He knew as well as anyone that she was trying her hardest to not talk about it. He really didn't want to push her, but he wanted to be there for her.

She nodded sadly. "Yeah, actually. Everyone seems to think I'm not dealing with it right. They think I should talk more about it and get it out, but I am...just in songs."

He took her hand, as if it were second nature, and squeezed it gently. "They love you, they're just concerned. And I know how you feel about writing songs instead of talking about thing. When I was upset I would play basketball instead of-"

"Wait. I thought you said you didn't play basketball."

He gave a nervous smile. "Ask Ryan about that one."

"Wha-"

"Nevermind that." He interrupted. "I just mean that I get why you would rather write songs then talk about it. I get it."

"Thanks."

"So...you want to play me something else?" He grinned.

She smiled. It was too hard not to while Troy Bolton was grinning at her ear to ear. "Fine." She sighed, taking out another song. "But you have to sing with me."

"What? No, no. I can't sing. Me, no singing. Ever."

She laughed, and started playing. "You start." She instructed.

He huffed, but began to sing on her cue. (Troy-italics, Sharpay-bold, Both, italics and bold)

"Everyday you take my breathe away, seeing you standing there, it's making me love you even more"

Sharpay smiled, impressed by his voice, and began to sing along.

"When I try to hide my feelings, it only hurts me, because I want to be with you so badly, it's almost killing me inside"

"We could try to fight it, we could try to deny it, but I can't fool myself, oh 'cause I'm dreaming of you every night, thinking of you everday, when you're gone it's so hard to live without you, ooh baby...I'm in love with you."

They finished singing. Sharpay was grinning, Troy was blushing slightly. "Wow." Sharpay breathed. "You're voice...wow. I didn't know you could sing like that. You're great."

She didn't get an answer, instead...Troy kissed her. She was too suprised to respond right away, but finally melted into it. She put her hands on his neck, while he pulled her closer with his hold on her waist.

It was several minutes before they seperated for air. Both were breathing hard as they pressed their foreheads together.

"I'm sorry." Troy whispered quitely after a few moments of silence.

"I'm not." Sharpay disagrred, pulling him back for another kiss.

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Well I hope you liked this update. It's been a long time coming. And the songs I wrote, and that's why they're really not that good. I couldn't really think of any songs that fir that well.

But I hope you review anyways. And sorry for any spelling errors.

And merry x-mas!

-Lovearies