A/N: I'M BACK. LOOK DOWN. EW, NOT THAT WAY. I MEAN THE STORY.

She was shocked. Taken aback, even. I mean, it's not every day she gets even a hint of care or concern. Especially not from Troy.

Troy. Troy, gorgeous Troy. She never would have expected anything from him, and yet.

Maybe she could give him a chance?

She should stop being so paranoid; not everyone is out to get her.

Wait. Something's wrong. Oh yeah. Troy stopped kissing me.

"Sorry, that was out of line. I shouldn't have done that, Shar. I, uhh, sorry."

WHY DID YOU STOP?!

"Yeah, it probably was."

"I was just-"

"It's okay."

I didn't mind.

"You wanna get something to eat? Or maybe-"

"Do you wanna just talk?"

"Uh, okay."

"Good, I wanna show you a place. You'll love it."

Troy grabbed Sharpay's hand and led her out of the house. He brought her to the park that he made the promise to get Gabriella the necklace. In that same park, there's a deserted playground, deserted because it was so secluded and in a corner of the park obscured by trees and bushes. It was a relatively small playground, which was partly the reason why not many people could find it.

But, for such a small playground, the swing was pretty good.

In Sharpay's opinion, anyways.

Troy and Sharpay used to go there when they were young, in kindergarten. They used to push each other on the swings, or rather, Troy used to push Sharpay on the swings, and have loads of fun. Neither of them forgot it.

Troy took Sharpay's hand and led her to sit on the swing, she was surprised, but did as he wanted.

"Just like old times?"

"Yeah, just like old times."

It was peaceful. It was sort of endearing.

He was sort of endearing.

But, then again, putting yourself out to some guy that you barely even know and letting yourself being as vulnerable as possible is as endearing as you can get.

Well, he's not just some guy, and you don't 'barely know' him.

They swung around for awhile, and played around with the slides and see-saw.

The see-saw was much more fun for Sharpay though, cause Troy was heavier and kept going down so he kept pushing himself upwards and Sharpay kept getting pushed downwards.

Troy thought her giggles and squeals were cute.

Troy got stuck on the slides because his legs were too long and his nylon track pants weren't really ideal for sliding on plastic slides.

Sharpay thought the way he looked so frustrated when he couldn't slide down the slide the whole way was cute too.

They headed back to Sharpay's house. The whole trip to the park was mostly silent, besides the short sentences and the excited screams of Sharpay and the frustrated groans from Troy. It was awkward, but both of them enjoyed it.

Sharpay enjoyed it because it was so long since she truly had fun like this. Like eons. And she least expected it to be because of Troy, but little did she know he would have so much more fun than she thought it would.

Troy, on the other hand, liked it because he could be himself, and he didn't have to conform to what others expected him to be. If he was frustrated, he could show it, if he was happy and having fun, he could show it. He also didn't expect it to be because of Sharpay, but what the heck. He liked her enough.

Or more than enough. Way more.

He could help but feel more than he should have felt for her. He didn't know why he kissed her earlier on, but it was one of those things that just happened. It seemed right and he definitely didn't regret it. He just did it because he felt like doing it and since he was a 'free man' now, it was fine, right? He just hoped it meant as much to Sharpay as it did to him. Even though Sharpay was known to be notorious but after hanging out with her for the afternoon, he realized that she wasn't all that bad.

He felt nice holding her hand as they walked to and from her home. It was warm and loving, not the cold and just plain disturbing. It was comfortable.

She also felt nice holding his hand, and you have no idea how nice it felt her hand in his, how loved she felt and how good she felt actually having someone. No someone someone, but at least a friend. She also felt comfortable.

And although both of them didn't know it, they were slowly falling for each other. They were slowly getting over their fears and they were slowly being who they wanted to be. They were getting more and more comfortable with each other and they are gradually getting less and less awkward with one another.

A/N: Here it is. Okay, I want some suggestions to where Troy and Sharpay could hang out as friends and fall in love as well, cause I really want a thing going here that's not slip short but not a marathon either. Just like a coffee place or anything like is fine, I just wanna know what you're thinking because I have minimal ideas.