Chapter 3.

The twins stayed there in the music room until Sharpay had managed to pull herself together well enough to go to the bathroom to fix her makeup. Once they had finished talking it was almost time for lunch so Sharpay quickly ran to the bathroom and re-glamorised herself and Ryan sauntered off to find Gabriella and the rest of the gang.

After taking one last glimpse in the mirror Sharpay made her way over to the theatre and waited for Troy to join her, which wasn't that long apparently considering that a few seconds after walking into the theatre she heard "Serena, I can't do this anymore, we're lying to everyone about who we are with and somebody's going to end up getting hurt. Maybe we should just come clean. Or maybe we should leave, at least that way we can be together and be left alone, nobody to have an opinion on what we're doing, at least nobody who's opinion we actually care about. Please I can't carry on sneaking around like this, we have to do something."

She responded to this by flipping her long, luxurious, shiny blonde hair behind her shoulder and saying "But I can't just leave my friends and family behind without any explanation. But we can't tell them, they would kill us or worse." Then coming out of character she said "I don't believe you do need help Bolton. I asked you to learn one line not the whole section of dialogue it came from"

"Well, I thought I should try very hard since you might blow up at me or something if I didn't exceed your expectations."

"I must admit I am very, very impressed with your dedication to this. This may go better than I had originally presumed it would."

"Sharpay, you know I will try my best to make this play a success. I mean everything I do I try so hard in and I'm not going to make this any different. It means a lot to me, maybe not as much as it means to you but still I want it to go well. And in order for that to happen I want to make sure that we can play off one another and act well together. Perhaps my approach was a slight lie but it worked, it got you to work with me when I wasn't certain that you would."

"Of course I would have. I was going to ask you to run lines with me privately anyway so that I could see the same for myself. Like you said the play means a lot to me. So lets tick to just running lines instead of you pretending your struggling with yours."

"Deal. So you are still coming round to mine to practice after school?"

"Sure. But can we stop by the diner on the way, I wanna pick something up."

"No problem. We have to drive past it anyway. Are you about ready to leave? I was told on my way here that our last period isn't happening today."

"Cool. Let me just go find Ryan and let him know that I definitely won't be giving him a lift home today."

"Or, you could just give him your keys and let him drive your car home and I'll give you a lift."

"Or I could do that. Come on then we still gotta go find him."

After a few minutes they found Ryan and explained to him what was happening. He gladly obliged and took Sharpay's car keys without hesitation. The three teens said their goodbyes to one another and Ryan walked off to Sharpay's silver Audi TT with the convertible roof as Troy and Sharpay walked to Troy's Jeep.

As he had promised Troy stopped at the diner so that Sharpay could go and collect whatever it was that she needed. Through the window he saw her stop at the counter and say something to the waitress before the waitress handed her a white envelope. He then saw her quickly stuff the envelope into her Gucci bag and stroll out then get back into his car.

"All done. Let's get to your place."

"Okay dokey." He replied then drove on to his house.