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Chapter 18

It's strange, y'know, you dream about something for so long and you think that the reality will never be as good but this? What I have with Sharpay? It is so much better. Sure, we've only been officially dating for about a month, but after Sharpay threatened the entire student body of East High most people stopped being jerks. I say most because I still had some run in's over the first few weeks, until they realised that a) Sharpay hadn't been joking around and b) neither had any of the others.

A jock that thought it was appropriate to ask for a threesome found his clothes hidden after gym and then ended up locked in a dumpster in just a towel after Troy found out. And a cheerleader that decided to broaden her vocabulary to include a new colourful array of insults, found herself covered from head to toe in Bolognese sauce courtesy of Taylor and the Scholastic decathlon team. Although I don't condone that sort of behaviour normally, it did make me chuckle when the cheerleader slipped on the sauce and ploughed right into the rest of her teammates taking them all down with her.

"Hey, gorgeous," Sharpay was waiting for me by my locker as usual.

"Morning!" I practically skipped up to her and planted a quick kiss right on her lips. "You have a good night?"

She pulled me in for another kiss when I tried to open my locker. Not that I was complaining, mind. I'd be permanently attached to her lips if I could be, but for some reason I always felt a little wary about great amounts of PDA in school. Guess I was just waiting for the abuse to start up and drive Sharpay away…

"Relax, Gabs, I'm not going anywhere!" I frowned at her. I don't know how but she seemed to have an uncanny ability to know what I was thinking sometimes. She laughed at my frown. "You always tense up when I first kiss you at school," she explained. "But this usually makes it better…"

She slid a hand up to the back of my neck and pulled me to her, pressing our lips together. I tensed a little but the second I felt her tongue on my bottom lip I gave in and wrapped my arms round her, leaning into the embrace completely. Her tongue pushed its way into my mouth making me moan softly when it touched mine. I felt one of her hands slip under my shirt and up my back… she dragged her nails along my skin making me shiver and hiss into her mouth. She just chuckled.

"Bitch," she bit my bottom lip, tugging it into her mouth for a second before releasing me.

"Yep, what was your first clue, gorgeous?"

"Alright, if I have to watch any more of this I'm going to throw up!" Taylor stood staring at us with her arms folded and eyebrow raised. "You two are just sickeningly sweet, you know that?"

"Aww leave them alone! I think they're perfect together!" Zeke slung an arm round Taylor's shoulder making her roll her eyes and shoo us out of the way so she could get to her locker. "Ignore her, she's just moody 'cause Chad blew her off last night to hang out with Troy." He winked at us, a mischievous grin on his face. "I think she's jealous!"

"I am not jealous!" she slammed her locker with excess force. "Nor am I moody, thank you very much! I am my usual self so If you'll excuse me!" she turned and stormed off down the corridor.

"Zeke, you know what she's like! You shouldn't tease her!"

"Ahh I know, but it's the best part of my day!" I rolled my eyes but he just pecked my cheek, flashed Sharpay a smile and headed after Taylor. "See you in Homeroom, guys!"

I shook my head, turning back to my locker to get my stuff. "So you never did answer my question."

"Hmm? Question?"

"You have a good night?"

"It was alright, I missed you though." The smile that appeared on my face was an automatic response to almost anything the blonde said.

"Taylor's right, you are sickeningly sweet!"

"You got that right!" She shut my locker and pushed me against it, ghosting her lips over my cheek to my mouth. I waited, very impatiently, for the kiss I knew was coming… but then we were interrupted again.

"Sup, love birds?" Chad appeared at my shoulder. "What you up to?" he smiled broadly; well aware what we were doing and that he was interrupting.

"Nothing, thanks to you!" I heard Sharpay growl against my neck. I laughed and wrapped my arms round her, planting a kiss on her forehead.

"You know Taylor's pissed at you."

"What- why?"

"Because you blew her off for- him!" Troy wandered up, fist bumping Chad, and grinning at the sight of Sharpay lent against me.

"Plus she thinks you're cheating on her with freaky call back boy here." I bit my lip as the blonde lifted her head to nod at Troy.

"Why the hell would she think that?" I watched the two boys exchange confused looks before it dawned on them. "Of course!"

"Zeke!"

"I'm going to kill him!" I watched Chad march off down the corridor, Troy hot on his heels.

"You like causing trouble, don't you?"

Sharpay just grinned and pressed a kiss to my jaw before starting off after them, dragging me by the hand.

Ms. Darbus was running late this morning so we all took the opportunity to watch the Soap Opera drama Taylor and Chad were putting on for us.

"I said I was sorry already! What else do you want?"

"Well it's not good enough, Chad! You obviously prefer to hang out with your chromosomally challenged friends than spend time with your girlfriend!"

"You can't talk about my friends like that! I don't say mean stuff about the people you hang with; in fact, I'm always nice to them!"

"And I'm always nice to yours!"

"Huh!"

"And what's that supposed to mean?"

"Last week you said that Jason should be kept under constant supervision in case he stuck anymore crayons up his nose!"

"Hey!"

"And the week before that you said that he shouldn't be allowed glue in case he got hungry and ate it!"

"Hey!" Jason frowned back and forth between Taylor and Chad.

"And just yesterday you said that Troy needed to get a haircut in case someone mistook him for a mop and tried to stick a-"

"Okay!" I leapt out of my seat to plant myself in between the rowing couple. "You guys, this is ridiculous! You two love each other! So let's just forget all this and-"

"Alright, if we're doing it that way, how about the things you've said about my friends?"

"Uh Tay? I think we should just put this behind- wait. What things?" I turned to narrow my eyes at Chad.

"Well a few weeks ago he asked me how Ryan managed to get into school every day without setting off every fire alarm in the place!" Chad paled as mouths fell open.

"What?" Sharpay glared at the boy.

"I was joking!"

"Then he said that he'd bet anything that Sharpay's mom had a loud bark too!"

"What?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing!

"And just yesterday he said he thought Sharpay was insane for changing teams, 'cause she could do a lot better."

There was a long silence as the colour completely drained from Chad's face. Every single person in the room was holding their breath; I could feel it, feel the tension as they all waited to see who would throttle Chad first. But I didn't feel like waiting around to find out.

"Tell Darbus I don't feel well, okay?" I mumbled to Taylor as I grabbed my bag and headed for the door.

"G-Gabs?"

"Gabbie, wait!"

"I'm so sorry, Gabs, I swear, I didn't mean it like that!"

I yanked the door open just as Ms. Darbus appeared. I didn't even bother stopping, I just stepped round her and set off down the hallway.

"Miss. Montez? Are you quite alright?"

I heard Sharpay calling after me. "Gabs, please don't go- You better hope to God that she's alright, you stupid lunk-head, because I'm running out of places to hide bodies!"

"Miss. Evans! Where is everybody going?" I didn't hear anything more as I rounded the corner and headed for the main doors, needing to get outside and clear my head.

The day had started out so well! I'd gotten up bright and early, had a nice breakfast with my mom, gotten a lift to school… and then all hell broke loose. You could say a lot of things about life in Albuquerque, and believe me people did! But you could never say it was boring. I pushed open the door and stepped out into the brilliant sunlight and cool breeze; my eyes slid closed and I just let myself go.

"Gabs…?" Sharpay's hesitant voice made my lips curve up slightly. "Gabs, what Chad said… it's not true. Not at all."

"Isn't it?"

"No! Gabs! How can you even think that?"

I shrugged, my eyes still closed. "Just look at us, Sharpay, we're so opposite that it's unreal. Girls like you don't date girls like me- in fact, girls like you don't usually date girls at all!"

"Exactly! I'm not like all those girls!"

"But you used to be."

"Yes, maybe, but then you came along and made me realise who I really was. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, Gabriella Montez!" I couldn't help the chuckle that escaped my lips; she only usually used my full name if she was mad at me or being serious. "It's true, I swear it is!"

I turned then, opening my eyes to meet her oh-so serious gaze. "I know. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me too. I just- I need to hear it sometimes." I couldn't help all the insecurities that seemed to start chattering away in my head every time I thought about my relationship with Sharpay. She was the most beautiful, the most popular, most talented girl in school! Could you really blame me?

"Then I won't stop telling you. You're everything to me, Gabs, you're the most amazing person I've ever met and I won't let anyone convince you otherwise."

I bit my lip as a full blown smile started to take over. "Yep, Taylor's definitely right! So sickeningly sweet!" I pulled the blonde to me and let her kiss away the doubts and tension and madness the morning had already brought about.

She pulled away and took my hand as we wandered slowly back into school. "Do you actually think anything is going on with Troy and Chad?"

"No! They're best friends! It'd be weird."

"But you kissed Kelsi, and you guys are best friends!"

"She kissed me and anyway, I already explained that! I was confused, about you actually, so it's your fault really." She narrowed her eyes at me but I planted a kiss on her, knowing it would distract her. "Kelsi likes Ryan, you know."

"I know. And he's gay."

"Does she know that?"

"I don't think so."

"Maybe we should tell her…"

"Y'know, for someone who's meant to be bisexual she has really bad gaydar!" I let out a laugh as Sharpay grinned.

Chad could say what he liked, I knew I was the luckiest girl alive to have someone as beautiful and amazing as Sharpay so I wasn't going to waste any more time worrying about what he or anyone else thought. You never know what's going to happen in the future so I was just going to enjoy the here and now, I was happily in love and that's all that really mattered.

AN: And there you have it =) if you're a femslash lover/disney freak like myself, then i have plenty of both already written and posted, check 'em out and tell me what you think.

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