Author's Note: As the title states, this is inspired by the Lindsay Lohan movie (one of her few notable ones) Freaky Friday! Except I'm using Sharpay and Gabriella.
This will be a Troypay and Ryella. But Gabbie will be in Sharpay's body so I guess it'll be a bit of a 'twincest'. And Sharpay will be in Gabbie's body so it'll still kind of be a Troyella! Yeah. Bit weird.
Mad Monday
Chapter 1
Crappy Monday
Ms. DarbusIf there was one thing Ms. Darbus always tried her hardest to practice it was patience. The teachers that taught her how to be a teacher never let her forget that teenagers were brats; conniving, ruthless, evil little brats and she would do better to focus on the syllabus than on changing their characters.
Still, she kept her ideals intact as she walked into East High School. For the first week at least. After that, Ms. Darbus realized that kind but firm, sweet and wise, gentle and understanding were principles destined to be thrown out the highest window of a twelve-storey building.
It was not easy for Ms. Darbus to abandon her dreams of being the best teacher to ever grace the face of the earth, but over time she came round to reality and learned to toughen up on her students, the demon spawn. She learned how to handle them and their problems, settle their disputes, and counsel them without actually interfering in their lives. She was not a friend, she was not a parent, she was a teacher, entrusted with the young and pliable minds of America's future. And with that realization in mind she did become the best teacher in East High, if not the world.
But when it came to the two girls sitting on the other side of her desk, she had no solid plan on what to do, except tear her hair out until she was left with nothing but sporadic, blonde clumps on her pink dome of a head. They made her mad, in every sense of the word, constantly driving her patience to the limit and beyond.
Sharpay and Gabriella. No matter what she said or did, they were always going at each other over something. Boys, friends, musicals, and Ms. Darbus took on some of the blame for throwing Gabriella into the competitive field of theatre (even though Sharpay was her only real competition). Yes, Sharpay and Gabriella harbored a fiery loathing for one another, and it all started with Twinkle Towne. Who knew a production with such a sweet and wholesome title would give birth to one of the deepest evils on earth? Darbus certainly didn't, and now she would have to repair the damage. They were in her homeroom after all. Damn and blast!
She sighed and clasped her hands on the mahogany desk in her classroom. She wondered what could be the matter now.
"And what could be the matter now, girls?" she inquired wearily.
The two glowered at each other.
"She put pig's fat in my locker!" Sharpay piped up. She was dressed in a red cardigan with a pink empire-line dress underneath. And Ms. Darbus knew that under the table there was a pair of ridiculously high cherry-red stilettos. She had to smile at the girl sometimes as she watched her walk by in the hallways. Sharpay would probably shriek and collapse into sobs of indignation if Ms. Darbus ever expressed her opinion that Sharpay was a carbon copy of her when she was a girl, except for the bizarre, rapidly changing fashion statements.
"That was after you put a tarantula in mine!" Gabriella challenged in her high, sweet voice. So very different from Ms. Darbus, but the teacher also saw in this particular student, a mistake she used to make. Caring too much what people thought of her.
"You said in Biology that that was the only 'exotic arachnid' you've never seen in real life. I thought it would further your education. I was being considerate."
"Well, so was I! Lord knows you could stand to gain a few pounds."
Sharpay gasped.
"Girls." She did not raise her voice. She did not need to. The terseness in it was enough. She had seen them in her classroom one too many times and she was starting to get cheesed off. That wasn't going to stop them, though. Darbus knew that once they left her classroom with detention and a call to their parents they would be at it again in two days.
So what on earth could she do other than talk to them? Something more…affirmative was necessary for these lunatics. But what? Ms. Darbus mind went swiftly to an old lady she had once met. A wise woman of Asian origin, who claimed to be able to…help people in very unconventional, yet ultimately effective, ways. While Ms. Darbus liked and respected her (she did make the most fabulous spring rolls), she shirked her 'methods' as she did everything else concerning the supernatural. But now the situation was becoming desperate. Darbus was becoming desperate. But was she desperate enough?
"Girls," she continued regally. "I think it goes without saying, but I am sick andtired of seeing you in my classroom! It is getting to be quite frightening! Tarantulas, pig's fat? You're destroying school property! Now you are in my class and my Drama Club therefore you are my responsibility within this school. Once again, it goes without saying, but that reflects very badly on me. Don't you care at all that your feud is damaging my reputation? Don't answer that, Sharpay. Now this is the final straw, you two. You are looking at suspension if you pull anything worse than these stunts today. I want you to apologize to each other. Don't make that face at me! Apologize! And mean it."
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment.
"I'm…sorry. Sharpay."
"I'm…sorry. Too. Gabriella."
Well, they certainly didn't mean it. But they said it, which was a start.
The two were dismissed. Darbus was sure she would fling a chair at them if they left any later.
When the door closed behind the grumbling pair she leaned back and sighed.
"What a truly crappy way to start the week!"
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