MUMUS: A Cattle Creek Gang Thanksgiving
Since I've decide to post new Mixed Up; Mashed Up Shorts here after I've written them I figured I would go ahead and post this one that I wrote for Thanksgiving since it is the first part of a three part holiday series.
So this one is based on the following request:
Username: naughtycate at FF.net
Couple: Chad & Sharpay
Rating: M
Quote: "You told me you would still make me pancakes when we got married, but now you won't even put a frigging Eggo in the toaster!"
Setting/Event: Chad and Sharpay's house sometime in the month after their wedding
Random Stuff:
- Pancake mix (appropriate or inappropriate use, you decide :) )
- a room without blinds
- a pink men's dress shirt
A Cattle Creek Gang Thanksgiving
They were the unlikeliest group of friends-everyone thought so. Early on in their public school careers they were labeled by their peers: 2 jocks, 2 nerds and 2 drama freaks. But for the six kids who were born and raised on a Albuquerque, New Mexico cul-de-sac called Cattle Creek Loop (which led to them being referred to as the Cattle Creek Gang), there were no cliques that separated them, they were just best friends.
Between 1988 and 1989, Cattle Creek Loop welcomed five families into its homes all of them in different places in their lives, some were newly weds others and others had been married for several years. There must have been something in the water, or so the saying goes, because all five families became pregnant about the same time and all had their babies during the summer of 1990.
Charlie and Yolanda Danforth were the first couple to welcome their baby on June 5. It was a little boy with a head full of hair and they named him Chad Daniel, after his mom’s grandfather. Six years later, Chad would be followed by younger brother Christopher Scott.
Jose and Miranda Montez were the next couple to welcome a baby a couple weeks later on June 21st. It was a little girl and they christened her Gabriella Marie.
With July came Vance and Darby Evans’ double blessing on the 15th. They named their baby boy, the oldest of the two twins, Ryan Benjamin and their baby girl Sharpay Danielle.
On August 1st, Griffen and Sheryl McKessie welcome their second daughter Taylor Renee to the family. She joined older siblings Logan (4) and Madelyn Rose (2).
The last of the six 1990 babies was born to Jack and Lucy Bolton on August 12. Having decided to wait until the baby was born to find out the sex, they didn’t know until the baby was born that he was a boy and they named him Troy Walker.
From the very beginning of their existence the Cattle Creek Gang did everything together. When they were little it was play dates, birthday parties, potty training, preschool, field trips, sports, learning to ride bikes and learning to swim. And as they got older it started to include school dances, learning to drive, going to prom, graduating, everything that normal kids do with their friends.
With so many people and personalities in the group, they had roles. Chad came up with the ideas, Sharpay perfected them, Taylor converted them into actuality, Ryan tested them out, Troy stood look out and Gabriella sweet-talked them all out of trouble.
Elementary school teachers expressed concern over the six not including others in their play. Upon suggestion the six were split up for classes. Taylor and Troy worked well together, but also had an easy time working with others so they were already paired up. Ryan and Gabriella were both shy and timid around other kids, but with each other to lean on for support they were able to break through their social anxieties. Sharpay and Chad were a lethal combo, but it was felt that paired up with any of their other friends, their dominating personalities would stunt the other student’s growth.
What made Chad and Sharpay a lethal combination was the powerful determination and large case of stubbornness that they both possessed. They were fine in the group when there was someone to mediate between them, but when it was just them things would often get crazy.
Everyone, especially Sharpay and Chad, was aware that a big fight between them could end the friendship they all held close to their hearts. With that in mind, Chad and Sharpay took extra precautions to not push each others buttons, though there were times when he would occasionally slip up and do it for fun.
Then it happened.
It was senior year in high school and Chad and Sharpay were waiting for their friends outside the school and Sharpay was yapping away about something. Instead of paying attention to what she was saying, Chad was trying to figure out what had changed about Sharpay. He knew something had changed about her, but he couldn’t figure out what it was. He noticed the way her lips curled into a smile and felt the sudden urge to kiss her. So he did.
Sharpay was taken aback at first by his sudden action, but after a brief ‘what the hell’ thought, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him back. It wasn’t the first kiss for either of them, but there was awkwardness to it all.
Hearing Gabriella’s laugher growing near, Chad pulled away from Sharpay and she rubbed her lips then motioned for him to do the same as their other friends showed up. Being an athlete, Chad was able to control his labored breathing so it was barely visible and due to the pigment of his skin the flush of his cheeks wasn’t as visible as it was on Sharpay’s.
“Sharpay, are you okay?” Gabriella, ever the mother hen of the group, asked. “You’re all flushed.”
“I’m fine,” Sharpay smiled.
“Are you sure?” Gabriella asked. “You’re breathing is labored, too.”
“I thought I was going to miss you guys so I ran here,” Sharpay lied.
“In heels?” Her brother Ryan asked. “Brand new heels, might I add.”
“We should go,” Chad said, changing the subject. “I believe there is a Wii battle to be fought.”
“You’re going down!” Troy exclaimed, taking the bait.
“You guys are so lame,” Taylor rolled her eyes as the sixome made their way to Chad’s beat up Suburban.
“But you still love us, especially me,” Troy grinned as he wrapped his arm around his girlfriend. Taylor rolled her eyes, but didn’t budge from the romantic gesture.
Chad glanced in Sharpay’s direction and their eyes locked for a second before she looked away as Gabriella called to her. He still didn’t know what it had been that made him want to kiss her, but one thing was sure, he wanted to kiss her again.
An awkward period followed Chad and Sharpay’s first kiss. Neither was quite sure what to do about it, but with nobody to really talk to outside of their group they were on their own. A couple weeks passed before they found themselves alone again for more than two minutes. There was a brief hesitation before they both gave into that needing feeling in the pits of their stomachs and started kissing.
More alone times were discovered, like when his parents took his younger brother to piano lessons on Saturday mornings. She’d sneak over through the fence that connected their backyards and they’d make out in his room. These secret rendezvous happened for several weeks before they were caught in a heavy make out session by Troy.
Needless to say, Troy had been surprised over what he had walked in on and after Sharpay had taken off, he and Chad sat quietly on the edge of Chad’s bed.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Troy asked after several minutes.
“I don’t know,” Chad shrugged. “I don’t really know how it started. I mean, one second I was annoyed that she wouldn’t shut up and then I had this urge to kiss her, so I did. Things kinda went out of hand from there.”
“Have you guys…you know.”
“No! Dude, you have to believe me,” Chad stated. “We’re not ready for that step, besides she’s waiting for her wedding night.”
Troy nodded and an uncomfortable silence filled the room again.
“I don’t even know if we’re dating,” Chad admitted after awhile.
“Do you want to?” Troy asked him.
“Yeah, I think I do,” Chad nodded.
“Then why are you still here?” Troy asked.
News spread quickly around the cul-de-sac about Sharpay and Chad becoming a couple and suddenly, Chad found himself looking at his shoes as Mr. Evans, who he’d always known as Vance, lectured him about how he expected Chad to treat Sharpay.
Added to the lectures were new rules that forbade Chad and Sharpay to be alone behind closed doors or even allowed in each others bedrooms without chaperones. Yet they still found times to be alone together like in the back of the movie theaters or their favorite abandoned drive in movie lot.
They started out just making out but things quickly progressed to fondling and caressing basically anything that did not include a part of his body entering a part of her body. Which Chad assumed would be kept between the two of them, but after hearing her say something to Gabriella and Taylor in the school hallway about a handjob she had given him the night before, Chad got mad. He couldn’t believe she’d actually told them that, not to mention that she had told them in the middle of the school hallway where anybody could hear her. It had lead to their first major fight as a couple and ended with them not speaking to each other for a week.
That week had been the longest week of Chad’s life and he was about to cave and go talk to her when she showed up as his front door. Since nobody was home, they went out to the backyard and sat down on the porch swing. They talked about what had happened and had agreed that there were some things that she could tell her friends and that he could tell his friends, but there were some things that were better kept between them. Besides, he reasoned, the more people that knew she had given him a handjob raised the risk of her dad finding out and killing him.
The rest of the school year had been uneventful for them and they broke up at the end of the summer because he got a scholarship to play basketball out East. They and the others stayed close through emails and phone calls, but it was a tragic event that brought him home to stay.
It happened just a few days after he had returned to school from spring break at home. His father had been in a car accident and had been killed instantly. Chad returned home from the funeral and after being there for five minutes, he knew he had to come home and help his mom and his at the time 12-year-old brother.
He transferred to the University of Albuquerque and was right back in Sharpay’s arms. She was there for him every step of the way, being his shoulder to cry on while he was strong for his mom and brother. It was during that time that he realized his love for Sharpay was stronger than his love for Taylor and Gabriella and when he was with her, he couldn’t picture any place that was better.
Half way through their second year of college, she and her family went back East for a relative’s wedding and because of work he couldn’t go. So he was left housing sitting for her parents and taking care of her 1 year old Yorkshire Terrier Boi. He felt so uncomfortable walking such a girly dog that when she got back, he bought himself a black and white bulldog that he named Amos.
Sharpay was mad at him at first for not asking her about what she thought about him getting a dog, especially since they didn’t know how Boi and Amos would act around each other. They setup a meeting and after a couple butt sniffs Amos stuck out his tongue and gave little Boi a big lick. A trip to the vet later, Boi and Amos were spayed and neutered best friends.
With two dogs to walk, there were weekly trips taken to the dog park and even though Sharpay was hesitant to let her baby play with all the other dogs, with Chad, Amos and Boi’s encouragement Sharpay let her go.
It was on one of those trips in May of their senior year that Chad got down on one knee in front of Sharpay and asked her to marry him. She had cried and said yes and before he could stand up to kiss her, Amos knocked him over and he was covered in dog kisses. It wasn’t until she had shooed the dogs away and helped Chad stand up that Sharpay got to say her yes with a short, brief kiss. It would have been longer, but his face smelt like kibbles and bits.
An October wedding was planned and Chad did just enough in the planning to keep Sharpay happy. She wrote him lists and he’d drag Troy, who had just returned from California with Taylor, and Ryan along with him.
Before Chad knew it, October 27th was upon him and he was standing at the altar waiting for his blushing bride to make her way down the aisle. Unexpected tears gathered in the corners of his eyes when he saw her for the first time, wearing a curve forming and sweetheart neckline strapless white dress with a hint of pink at the top. Her hair was pulled back in a sophisticated bun with a veil covering it.
That had been a month ago. Their week long honeymoon in Hawaii had been great and they’d come home to find out that her parents had one more surprise for them-a house of their very own. While they had been shacking up in Hawaii, their family and friends had moved all of their belongings into a small two bedroom house a couple blocks from the house that Troy and Taylor lived in.
Sharpay had been thrilled with it immediately, gushing over the decorating that her mom and her could do to the place while Chad had stood in the background still too shocked that his in-laws had given them a house.
“It’s all bought and paid for,” his father-in-law had told him before he and his wife left, leaving the newly weds alone.
“Isn’t it great?” Sharpay had squealed as she and the dogs explored every nook and cranny. “I can’t believe daddy did this for us.”
“More like you,” Chad thought.
Returning to work, Chad picked up a few extra hours that he could do at home with the mindset that somehow and someway he would pay back his father-in-law for the house. It might take him years, but he was going to do it.
On Thanksgiving morning, Sharpay woke up alone in the bed with the dogs asleep on the foot of the bed, something they had easily adjusted to. She slipped on the first shirt she found and went to find Chad. She found him in his office, bent over his laptop typing away.
“Happy Thanksgiving,” she greeted as she came over to him.
“Happy Thanksgiving,” he repeated, looking up at her briefly.
“Chad, come on, baby, it’s Thanksgiving, can’t you take a break for one day?” She asked. “We could have pancakes for breakfast.”
“Shar, I have to get this report done before we go to your parents,” he replied. He snatched his hands out of the way as she closed the top of his laptop. “Shar!”
“Fifteen minutes, that’s all I ask,” she said. “Come make pancakes.”
“There are Eggos in the freezer,” he stated.
“Then come put Eggos in the toaster,” she replied.
“What you can’t cook yourself breakfast?” He grumbled.
“I can but I want to have breakfast with my husband,” she stated. “Besides, you told me you would still make me pancakes when we got married, but now you won’t even put a frigging Eggo in the toaster!”
“You know I want to, but I have to work,” he stated.
“That’s your excuse for everything now, Chad! Why the hell do you have to work so damn much?”
“So I can pay your dad back for this house!” Chad snapped, the words flying out of his mouth before he could stop them.
“What?” She asked, staring at him. “Why do you want to do that? It was a gift.”
“Because Shar, he took away the one thing I’m supposed to provide for you,” Chad stated. “It’s like he has no faith in me or my job because he just gave us a house. He didn’t even ask us if we wanted a house.”
“He asked me, Chad, he asked me and I said yes,” she stated.
“Why would you do that?” He asked her.
“Because he asked me what I wanted the most for my life with you and I told him I wanted a house to live in so my husband wouldn’t have to work 60 hours a week to provide a roof over our heads,” she snapped. “You were lucky that your dad worked forty hours a week and had extra time for you, but mine didn’t and he definitely didn’t have time to make his marriage to my mother work, why else do you think they hardly talk and sleep in separate bedrooms?”
“Shar, I-”
“Save it, Chad, get back to your work, it’s obviously more important to you than me.”
Chad sighed as he watched her flee from the room. He wasn’t sure what to do, he wanted to pay her dad off for the house, but at the same time, it was the first time Sharpay had spoken to him so candidly about her father. He was always such a sore topic for both Sharpay and Ryan and Chad knew that his wife needed right now.
Saving his project, Chad shut off his computer and went into the kitchen. He found her beating what looked like pancake mix in a clear bowl faster than an electric mixer.
“You want me to do that?” He asked.
“No,” she snapped, glaring at him.
“Shar, come on, let me make the pancakes,” he said.
“Why, because you feel guilty?” She asked.
“No, because you’re right, it’s a holiday and I shouldn’t be spending my time on work when I could be spending it with my beautiful wife.”
“Bull shit.”
“Come on, Shar, just put the whisk down.” She pulled the whisk out of the batter and threw it on the counter. “Good job now back-”
The words died on his lips as he saw her pick up the bowl of pancake mix and realized that she was going to pour it over his head just milliseconds before she did just that. He snapped his eyes shut as the cold, slimly liquid slid down his curls and some dripped on to the floor.
He opened his eyes and they stared at each other in complete silence for several minutes before a giggle escaped her lips. His own laughter followed shortly after and they soon found themselves laughing really hard.
“Come here,” he grinned as he moved towards her.
“No!” She squealed as he wrapped his gooey arms around her. “Ew Chad, you feel disgusting.”
“Shoulda thought about that before you dumped perfectly good pancake batter over my head,” he stated. “Now say you’re sorry.”
“I’m sorry,” she replied, hoping that would make him let her go.
He grinned and lifted her up onto the counter in front of the kitchen window. He moved between her legs and brought his lips to hers. Their anger forgotten, their mouths moved together in a passion that exceeded the kisses they shared in their teenage years.
When his hands moved to the buttons on her nightshirt, that was one of his old dress shirts that had been accidentally dyed pink after going through the wash with a brand new red bra, Sharpay pulled away.
“We can’t do this out here,” she told her husband.
“Why not?” He asked. She pointed to the blindless window behind her then to the one on the other side of the kitchen. “And your point?”
“The neighbors might see us,” she stated.
“Then they’ll get quite a show,” he grinned before capturing her lips again. He kissed them until they, like his own, were red and swollen. Then he finished unbuttoning her shirt and pushed the material off her shoulders, leaving her naked from the waist up. He teased her already hard nipples with his mouth then kissed his way up her chest to her lips.
Before he could kiss her on the lips, however, she pushed him away and yanked his shirt over his head, tossing the pancake batter soaked shirt onto the floor. She then undid the button on his jeans and used her feet to push them down before he helped by stepping out of them.
“I want you,” she whispered in his ear.
He nodded and glanced around the room before spotting their dining table in the corner. He picked her up and carried her over and laid her back. He dropped his boxers, freeing his throbbing manhood, and she slid her panties down her slender legs and dropped them onto the floor.
She gave him a come hither look that made his manhood twitch in anticipation and he slid a finger into her hot sex to test her readiness and found she was beyond ready. He slid into her in one swift movement and moved in and out of her as the table moved under her.
Neither lasted long and soon he was coming inside of her as she came around his manhood. Spent but wanting to be in his arms, Sharpay sat up and nuzzled her head into his shoulder as they recouped from their round of passion.
“Go take a shower,” she finally whispered. “Get that stuff out of your hair.”
“What about the mess?” He asked.
“I’ll clean it up,” she said. “If you promise to make pancakes when you get out of the shower.”
“Deal,” he kissed her lips quickly before heading down the hall to the bathroom. He showered quickly and was doing his hair when she came into the bathroom. She gave his toweled butt a slap before dropping her shirt and climbing into the shower. “Hey now, no more dirty play when we have to make the rounds before we go to your parents.”
She slid open the shower curtain and flashed him before closing it and giggling to herself.
“Doing stuff like that will not help you get pancakes,” he stated. He heard her giggle again as he finished his hair then just for the thrill of it, flushed the toilet as he left the room, making her scream.
He went into their bedroom and shook his head when he saw the dogs still snoring away. He got dressed then playfully grabbed Amos and growled. This woke both dogs up and they started to bark at him. He grinned and led both dogs out of the room and opened the backdoor for them to do their business.
Knowing Sharpay would be at least forty-five minutes between showering and getting her hair done-something she claimed to be faster at doing than him-Chad decided to make pancakes from scratch. He followed his grandmother’s recipe to a t and was just pulling the first batch off the stove when Sharpay came into the kitchen stressed in a pair of black slacks and a warm scarlet sweater with a pair of black heels on her feet.
“Mmm, something smells yummy,” she purred. “Grandma’s recipe?”
“You betcha,” he nodded. He plopped a couple pancakes onto her plate then started some for himself. As soon as they were done, he put them on a plate and found Sharpay sitting at the table her plate still full. “Did I mess them up?”
“No, silly, I just wanted to wait for you,” she smiled.
He grinned and sat down next to her, thankful for having wiped the table down after their sexual escapade earlier.
After cleaning up their breakfast, they took the dogs for a walk before they got into their car and drove to the cul-de-sac they grew up on. They parked their car in his mom’s driveway and started their rounds at the Montez’s house, greeting Gabriella’s parents and extended family. Then they moved to the Bolton’s house where they found Troy and Taylor having an early meal with his parents and extended family. Then they moved on to the Taylor’s family’s house and said hello to her family and nieces and nephews.
Finally they made it to Sharpay’s parents’ house and were greeted at the front door by a grinning Gabriella and Ryan who were on their way to her family’s house. They exchanged hellos and hugs.
“Did you do something different with your hair, Chad?” Ryan asked.
“Now that you mention it, it looks a lot shinier than normal,” Gabriella added.
Chad and Sharpay exchanged a look and apparently it was one Ryan and Gabriella were able to interpret because she said, “Nevermind. We don’t want to know.”
The couples chuckled before Chad and Sharpay went into the house. They were hugged from every angle and he was happy to see his mom and brother had made themselves right at home amongst the Evans extended family.
After getting separated for fifteen minutes between family members, Chad pulled Sharpay into a spare room and kissed his wife. “I love you, Sharpay Evans-Danforth.”
“I love you, too,” she replied, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him.
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So this one is based on the following request:
Username: naughtycate at FF.net
Couple: Chad & Sharpay
Rating: M
Quote: "You told me you would still make me pancakes when we got married, but now you won't even put a frigging Eggo in the toaster!"
Setting/Event: Chad and Sharpay's house sometime in the month after their wedding
Random Stuff:
- Pancake mix (appropriate or inappropriate use, you decide :) )
- a room without blinds
- a pink men's dress shirt
A Cattle Creek Gang Thanksgiving
They were the unlikeliest group of friends-everyone thought so. Early on in their public school careers they were labeled by their peers: 2 jocks, 2 nerds and 2 drama freaks. But for the six kids who were born and raised on a Albuquerque, New Mexico cul-de-sac called Cattle Creek Loop (which led to them being referred to as the Cattle Creek Gang), there were no cliques that separated them, they were just best friends.
Between 1988 and 1989, Cattle Creek Loop welcomed five families into its homes all of them in different places in their lives, some were newly weds others and others had been married for several years. There must have been something in the water, or so the saying goes, because all five families became pregnant about the same time and all had their babies during the summer of 1990.
Charlie and Yolanda Danforth were the first couple to welcome their baby on June 5. It was a little boy with a head full of hair and they named him Chad Daniel, after his mom’s grandfather. Six years later, Chad would be followed by younger brother Christopher Scott.
Jose and Miranda Montez were the next couple to welcome a baby a couple weeks later on June 21st. It was a little girl and they christened her Gabriella Marie.
With July came Vance and Darby Evans’ double blessing on the 15th. They named their baby boy, the oldest of the two twins, Ryan Benjamin and their baby girl Sharpay Danielle.
On August 1st, Griffen and Sheryl McKessie welcome their second daughter Taylor Renee to the family. She joined older siblings Logan (4) and Madelyn Rose (2).
The last of the six 1990 babies was born to Jack and Lucy Bolton on August 12. Having decided to wait until the baby was born to find out the sex, they didn’t know until the baby was born that he was a boy and they named him Troy Walker.
From the very beginning of their existence the Cattle Creek Gang did everything together. When they were little it was play dates, birthday parties, potty training, preschool, field trips, sports, learning to ride bikes and learning to swim. And as they got older it started to include school dances, learning to drive, going to prom, graduating, everything that normal kids do with their friends.
With so many people and personalities in the group, they had roles. Chad came up with the ideas, Sharpay perfected them, Taylor converted them into actuality, Ryan tested them out, Troy stood look out and Gabriella sweet-talked them all out of trouble.
Elementary school teachers expressed concern over the six not including others in their play. Upon suggestion the six were split up for classes. Taylor and Troy worked well together, but also had an easy time working with others so they were already paired up. Ryan and Gabriella were both shy and timid around other kids, but with each other to lean on for support they were able to break through their social anxieties. Sharpay and Chad were a lethal combo, but it was felt that paired up with any of their other friends, their dominating personalities would stunt the other student’s growth.
What made Chad and Sharpay a lethal combination was the powerful determination and large case of stubbornness that they both possessed. They were fine in the group when there was someone to mediate between them, but when it was just them things would often get crazy.
Everyone, especially Sharpay and Chad, was aware that a big fight between them could end the friendship they all held close to their hearts. With that in mind, Chad and Sharpay took extra precautions to not push each others buttons, though there were times when he would occasionally slip up and do it for fun.
Then it happened.
It was senior year in high school and Chad and Sharpay were waiting for their friends outside the school and Sharpay was yapping away about something. Instead of paying attention to what she was saying, Chad was trying to figure out what had changed about Sharpay. He knew something had changed about her, but he couldn’t figure out what it was. He noticed the way her lips curled into a smile and felt the sudden urge to kiss her. So he did.
Sharpay was taken aback at first by his sudden action, but after a brief ‘what the hell’ thought, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him back. It wasn’t the first kiss for either of them, but there was awkwardness to it all.
Hearing Gabriella’s laugher growing near, Chad pulled away from Sharpay and she rubbed her lips then motioned for him to do the same as their other friends showed up. Being an athlete, Chad was able to control his labored breathing so it was barely visible and due to the pigment of his skin the flush of his cheeks wasn’t as visible as it was on Sharpay’s.
“Sharpay, are you okay?” Gabriella, ever the mother hen of the group, asked. “You’re all flushed.”
“I’m fine,” Sharpay smiled.
“Are you sure?” Gabriella asked. “You’re breathing is labored, too.”
“I thought I was going to miss you guys so I ran here,” Sharpay lied.
“In heels?” Her brother Ryan asked. “Brand new heels, might I add.”
“We should go,” Chad said, changing the subject. “I believe there is a Wii battle to be fought.”
“You’re going down!” Troy exclaimed, taking the bait.
“You guys are so lame,” Taylor rolled her eyes as the sixome made their way to Chad’s beat up Suburban.
“But you still love us, especially me,” Troy grinned as he wrapped his arm around his girlfriend. Taylor rolled her eyes, but didn’t budge from the romantic gesture.
Chad glanced in Sharpay’s direction and their eyes locked for a second before she looked away as Gabriella called to her. He still didn’t know what it had been that made him want to kiss her, but one thing was sure, he wanted to kiss her again.
An awkward period followed Chad and Sharpay’s first kiss. Neither was quite sure what to do about it, but with nobody to really talk to outside of their group they were on their own. A couple weeks passed before they found themselves alone again for more than two minutes. There was a brief hesitation before they both gave into that needing feeling in the pits of their stomachs and started kissing.
More alone times were discovered, like when his parents took his younger brother to piano lessons on Saturday mornings. She’d sneak over through the fence that connected their backyards and they’d make out in his room. These secret rendezvous happened for several weeks before they were caught in a heavy make out session by Troy.
Needless to say, Troy had been surprised over what he had walked in on and after Sharpay had taken off, he and Chad sat quietly on the edge of Chad’s bed.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Troy asked after several minutes.
“I don’t know,” Chad shrugged. “I don’t really know how it started. I mean, one second I was annoyed that she wouldn’t shut up and then I had this urge to kiss her, so I did. Things kinda went out of hand from there.”
“Have you guys…you know.”
“No! Dude, you have to believe me,” Chad stated. “We’re not ready for that step, besides she’s waiting for her wedding night.”
Troy nodded and an uncomfortable silence filled the room again.
“I don’t even know if we’re dating,” Chad admitted after awhile.
“Do you want to?” Troy asked him.
“Yeah, I think I do,” Chad nodded.
“Then why are you still here?” Troy asked.
News spread quickly around the cul-de-sac about Sharpay and Chad becoming a couple and suddenly, Chad found himself looking at his shoes as Mr. Evans, who he’d always known as Vance, lectured him about how he expected Chad to treat Sharpay.
Added to the lectures were new rules that forbade Chad and Sharpay to be alone behind closed doors or even allowed in each others bedrooms without chaperones. Yet they still found times to be alone together like in the back of the movie theaters or their favorite abandoned drive in movie lot.
They started out just making out but things quickly progressed to fondling and caressing basically anything that did not include a part of his body entering a part of her body. Which Chad assumed would be kept between the two of them, but after hearing her say something to Gabriella and Taylor in the school hallway about a handjob she had given him the night before, Chad got mad. He couldn’t believe she’d actually told them that, not to mention that she had told them in the middle of the school hallway where anybody could hear her. It had lead to their first major fight as a couple and ended with them not speaking to each other for a week.
That week had been the longest week of Chad’s life and he was about to cave and go talk to her when she showed up as his front door. Since nobody was home, they went out to the backyard and sat down on the porch swing. They talked about what had happened and had agreed that there were some things that she could tell her friends and that he could tell his friends, but there were some things that were better kept between them. Besides, he reasoned, the more people that knew she had given him a handjob raised the risk of her dad finding out and killing him.
The rest of the school year had been uneventful for them and they broke up at the end of the summer because he got a scholarship to play basketball out East. They and the others stayed close through emails and phone calls, but it was a tragic event that brought him home to stay.
It happened just a few days after he had returned to school from spring break at home. His father had been in a car accident and had been killed instantly. Chad returned home from the funeral and after being there for five minutes, he knew he had to come home and help his mom and his at the time 12-year-old brother.
He transferred to the University of Albuquerque and was right back in Sharpay’s arms. She was there for him every step of the way, being his shoulder to cry on while he was strong for his mom and brother. It was during that time that he realized his love for Sharpay was stronger than his love for Taylor and Gabriella and when he was with her, he couldn’t picture any place that was better.
Half way through their second year of college, she and her family went back East for a relative’s wedding and because of work he couldn’t go. So he was left housing sitting for her parents and taking care of her 1 year old Yorkshire Terrier Boi. He felt so uncomfortable walking such a girly dog that when she got back, he bought himself a black and white bulldog that he named Amos.
Sharpay was mad at him at first for not asking her about what she thought about him getting a dog, especially since they didn’t know how Boi and Amos would act around each other. They setup a meeting and after a couple butt sniffs Amos stuck out his tongue and gave little Boi a big lick. A trip to the vet later, Boi and Amos were spayed and neutered best friends.
With two dogs to walk, there were weekly trips taken to the dog park and even though Sharpay was hesitant to let her baby play with all the other dogs, with Chad, Amos and Boi’s encouragement Sharpay let her go.
It was on one of those trips in May of their senior year that Chad got down on one knee in front of Sharpay and asked her to marry him. She had cried and said yes and before he could stand up to kiss her, Amos knocked him over and he was covered in dog kisses. It wasn’t until she had shooed the dogs away and helped Chad stand up that Sharpay got to say her yes with a short, brief kiss. It would have been longer, but his face smelt like kibbles and bits.
An October wedding was planned and Chad did just enough in the planning to keep Sharpay happy. She wrote him lists and he’d drag Troy, who had just returned from California with Taylor, and Ryan along with him.
Before Chad knew it, October 27th was upon him and he was standing at the altar waiting for his blushing bride to make her way down the aisle. Unexpected tears gathered in the corners of his eyes when he saw her for the first time, wearing a curve forming and sweetheart neckline strapless white dress with a hint of pink at the top. Her hair was pulled back in a sophisticated bun with a veil covering it.
That had been a month ago. Their week long honeymoon in Hawaii had been great and they’d come home to find out that her parents had one more surprise for them-a house of their very own. While they had been shacking up in Hawaii, their family and friends had moved all of their belongings into a small two bedroom house a couple blocks from the house that Troy and Taylor lived in.
Sharpay had been thrilled with it immediately, gushing over the decorating that her mom and her could do to the place while Chad had stood in the background still too shocked that his in-laws had given them a house.
“It’s all bought and paid for,” his father-in-law had told him before he and his wife left, leaving the newly weds alone.
“Isn’t it great?” Sharpay had squealed as she and the dogs explored every nook and cranny. “I can’t believe daddy did this for us.”
“More like you,” Chad thought.
Returning to work, Chad picked up a few extra hours that he could do at home with the mindset that somehow and someway he would pay back his father-in-law for the house. It might take him years, but he was going to do it.
On Thanksgiving morning, Sharpay woke up alone in the bed with the dogs asleep on the foot of the bed, something they had easily adjusted to. She slipped on the first shirt she found and went to find Chad. She found him in his office, bent over his laptop typing away.
“Happy Thanksgiving,” she greeted as she came over to him.
“Happy Thanksgiving,” he repeated, looking up at her briefly.
“Chad, come on, baby, it’s Thanksgiving, can’t you take a break for one day?” She asked. “We could have pancakes for breakfast.”
“Shar, I have to get this report done before we go to your parents,” he replied. He snatched his hands out of the way as she closed the top of his laptop. “Shar!”
“Fifteen minutes, that’s all I ask,” she said. “Come make pancakes.”
“There are Eggos in the freezer,” he stated.
“Then come put Eggos in the toaster,” she replied.
“What you can’t cook yourself breakfast?” He grumbled.
“I can but I want to have breakfast with my husband,” she stated. “Besides, you told me you would still make me pancakes when we got married, but now you won’t even put a frigging Eggo in the toaster!”
“You know I want to, but I have to work,” he stated.
“That’s your excuse for everything now, Chad! Why the hell do you have to work so damn much?”
“So I can pay your dad back for this house!” Chad snapped, the words flying out of his mouth before he could stop them.
“What?” She asked, staring at him. “Why do you want to do that? It was a gift.”
“Because Shar, he took away the one thing I’m supposed to provide for you,” Chad stated. “It’s like he has no faith in me or my job because he just gave us a house. He didn’t even ask us if we wanted a house.”
“He asked me, Chad, he asked me and I said yes,” she stated.
“Why would you do that?” He asked her.
“Because he asked me what I wanted the most for my life with you and I told him I wanted a house to live in so my husband wouldn’t have to work 60 hours a week to provide a roof over our heads,” she snapped. “You were lucky that your dad worked forty hours a week and had extra time for you, but mine didn’t and he definitely didn’t have time to make his marriage to my mother work, why else do you think they hardly talk and sleep in separate bedrooms?”
“Shar, I-”
“Save it, Chad, get back to your work, it’s obviously more important to you than me.”
Chad sighed as he watched her flee from the room. He wasn’t sure what to do, he wanted to pay her dad off for the house, but at the same time, it was the first time Sharpay had spoken to him so candidly about her father. He was always such a sore topic for both Sharpay and Ryan and Chad knew that his wife needed right now.
Saving his project, Chad shut off his computer and went into the kitchen. He found her beating what looked like pancake mix in a clear bowl faster than an electric mixer.
“You want me to do that?” He asked.
“No,” she snapped, glaring at him.
“Shar, come on, let me make the pancakes,” he said.
“Why, because you feel guilty?” She asked.
“No, because you’re right, it’s a holiday and I shouldn’t be spending my time on work when I could be spending it with my beautiful wife.”
“Bull shit.”
“Come on, Shar, just put the whisk down.” She pulled the whisk out of the batter and threw it on the counter. “Good job now back-”
The words died on his lips as he saw her pick up the bowl of pancake mix and realized that she was going to pour it over his head just milliseconds before she did just that. He snapped his eyes shut as the cold, slimly liquid slid down his curls and some dripped on to the floor.
He opened his eyes and they stared at each other in complete silence for several minutes before a giggle escaped her lips. His own laughter followed shortly after and they soon found themselves laughing really hard.
“Come here,” he grinned as he moved towards her.
“No!” She squealed as he wrapped his gooey arms around her. “Ew Chad, you feel disgusting.”
“Shoulda thought about that before you dumped perfectly good pancake batter over my head,” he stated. “Now say you’re sorry.”
“I’m sorry,” she replied, hoping that would make him let her go.
He grinned and lifted her up onto the counter in front of the kitchen window. He moved between her legs and brought his lips to hers. Their anger forgotten, their mouths moved together in a passion that exceeded the kisses they shared in their teenage years.
When his hands moved to the buttons on her nightshirt, that was one of his old dress shirts that had been accidentally dyed pink after going through the wash with a brand new red bra, Sharpay pulled away.
“We can’t do this out here,” she told her husband.
“Why not?” He asked. She pointed to the blindless window behind her then to the one on the other side of the kitchen. “And your point?”
“The neighbors might see us,” she stated.
“Then they’ll get quite a show,” he grinned before capturing her lips again. He kissed them until they, like his own, were red and swollen. Then he finished unbuttoning her shirt and pushed the material off her shoulders, leaving her naked from the waist up. He teased her already hard nipples with his mouth then kissed his way up her chest to her lips.
Before he could kiss her on the lips, however, she pushed him away and yanked his shirt over his head, tossing the pancake batter soaked shirt onto the floor. She then undid the button on his jeans and used her feet to push them down before he helped by stepping out of them.
“I want you,” she whispered in his ear.
He nodded and glanced around the room before spotting their dining table in the corner. He picked her up and carried her over and laid her back. He dropped his boxers, freeing his throbbing manhood, and she slid her panties down her slender legs and dropped them onto the floor.
She gave him a come hither look that made his manhood twitch in anticipation and he slid a finger into her hot sex to test her readiness and found she was beyond ready. He slid into her in one swift movement and moved in and out of her as the table moved under her.
Neither lasted long and soon he was coming inside of her as she came around his manhood. Spent but wanting to be in his arms, Sharpay sat up and nuzzled her head into his shoulder as they recouped from their round of passion.
“Go take a shower,” she finally whispered. “Get that stuff out of your hair.”
“What about the mess?” He asked.
“I’ll clean it up,” she said. “If you promise to make pancakes when you get out of the shower.”
“Deal,” he kissed her lips quickly before heading down the hall to the bathroom. He showered quickly and was doing his hair when she came into the bathroom. She gave his toweled butt a slap before dropping her shirt and climbing into the shower. “Hey now, no more dirty play when we have to make the rounds before we go to your parents.”
She slid open the shower curtain and flashed him before closing it and giggling to herself.
“Doing stuff like that will not help you get pancakes,” he stated. He heard her giggle again as he finished his hair then just for the thrill of it, flushed the toilet as he left the room, making her scream.
He went into their bedroom and shook his head when he saw the dogs still snoring away. He got dressed then playfully grabbed Amos and growled. This woke both dogs up and they started to bark at him. He grinned and led both dogs out of the room and opened the backdoor for them to do their business.
Knowing Sharpay would be at least forty-five minutes between showering and getting her hair done-something she claimed to be faster at doing than him-Chad decided to make pancakes from scratch. He followed his grandmother’s recipe to a t and was just pulling the first batch off the stove when Sharpay came into the kitchen stressed in a pair of black slacks and a warm scarlet sweater with a pair of black heels on her feet.
“Mmm, something smells yummy,” she purred. “Grandma’s recipe?”
“You betcha,” he nodded. He plopped a couple pancakes onto her plate then started some for himself. As soon as they were done, he put them on a plate and found Sharpay sitting at the table her plate still full. “Did I mess them up?”
“No, silly, I just wanted to wait for you,” she smiled.
He grinned and sat down next to her, thankful for having wiped the table down after their sexual escapade earlier.
After cleaning up their breakfast, they took the dogs for a walk before they got into their car and drove to the cul-de-sac they grew up on. They parked their car in his mom’s driveway and started their rounds at the Montez’s house, greeting Gabriella’s parents and extended family. Then they moved to the Bolton’s house where they found Troy and Taylor having an early meal with his parents and extended family. Then they moved on to the Taylor’s family’s house and said hello to her family and nieces and nephews.
Finally they made it to Sharpay’s parents’ house and were greeted at the front door by a grinning Gabriella and Ryan who were on their way to her family’s house. They exchanged hellos and hugs.
“Did you do something different with your hair, Chad?” Ryan asked.
“Now that you mention it, it looks a lot shinier than normal,” Gabriella added.
Chad and Sharpay exchanged a look and apparently it was one Ryan and Gabriella were able to interpret because she said, “Nevermind. We don’t want to know.”
The couples chuckled before Chad and Sharpay went into the house. They were hugged from every angle and he was happy to see his mom and brother had made themselves right at home amongst the Evans extended family.
After getting separated for fifteen minutes between family members, Chad pulled Sharpay into a spare room and kissed his wife. “I love you, Sharpay Evans-Danforth.”
“I love you, too,” she replied, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him.
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