This story is absoultly amazing. I read the whole thing so far in one day. It's dark and so different from everything I've ever read, and the storyline is so unique. The way you worte how eveything seemed to be so perfect then Gabriella tries something like this, it must be really confusing for her as well as everyone else, espically Troy and its beautifully written. Its such an amazing story, please update soon.

One of my fav chapters!! I'm glad I waited until I was distraction free to read this (even though it took me forever!) because all the detail and emotion in this chapter just sucked me in and hooked me.

First off, I have to say a BIG thank you for taking two full sentences to describe Troy's hair for the evening. :D You know that I broke into a smile and read those lines over twice before moving on. It sounds like just the type of hairstyle I would like on Troy btw and a perfect match for his outfit. :) I also completely loved the descriptions of the girls outfits, the room, the food...the whole evening. The details made all the difference for me in this chapter for some reason. They just really set the tone. Especially the little details between Troy and Gabriella--when he was holding her 'small hand', when he was noticing how great she looked, when he lovingly squeezed her thigh at dinner, when she looked at him "allowing for Troy to see the faintest hint of a returned glimmer in her eye."--loved it all!!

There were a few parts that made me laugh (and were a nice touch), but my favs are probably Sharpay's response of "What? It is.", Troy's tie-caught-in-the-limo story and Chad's fitting line of "I.Love.Meat". haha Very cute.

I love how the chapter went from fun and lighthearted to serious to fun and lighthearted to serious back to fun and lighthearted. It was so well done and I think mimicks real life exactly. Sharpay was a breath of fresh air into the story and it seems to Gabriella. The way you wrote her relationship to Troy and Gabriella felt so real and so natural. It was really fun and compelling to read.

I love John Mayer and that song. Thought the lyrics were perfect for this chapter--not that they always aren't. :)

wow. i've just read the whole story and can i just say that it is absolutely amazing. I loved Sharpay in this chapter, i loved how you portrayed her - it was absolutely fantastic and she was the perfect person to say what needed to be said.
great job!

I've read this chapter like, five times now, and each time I just sorta hit this place where I feel like I should have all this poignant stuff to say because you're just really awesome and I don't know why you're associating yourself with my fluff but.. yeah I just.. okay attempting to be coherent.

This was really perfect.

Confession, is that I was worried when you first wanted to introduce Sharpay that it would be a bit... 'contrived' I guess is the word. Forced. That you just wanted to include Shar so worked out a way. But it just worked so beautifully, she really is the only person within their circle who would be capable of being able to bring reality crashing down. I just had this feeling of nausea when everything was all perfect and sitting around and looking beautiful and having this elaborate evening and I knew it wasn't right but it was like I was content to go along with it because things have been so strained with their whole scenario.

And then when Sharpay broke them from that rose coloured glasses Utopia that was never actually there, it was like I was shaken from it as well, I felt like I was being shouted at too. It was really confronting on a few levels that I don’t really know how to put into words.

My other remark was generally that in the opening section I really enjoyed the Troy/Sharpay interactions. You’re just making me ITCH to get out of this high school land and write my future fic stuff. It was natural, they both still maintained their unique Troy and Sharpayness and yet the connection was there and it didn’t broach into that icky Troypay land and of course only you would be capable of capturing that world so naturally, without forcing Sharpay to be someone that she isn’t.

Anyway yeah… sorry for the belatedness of this review, I think it just took me a while to be in a place to really take it in and give the feedback I wanted to give.

-Dani xo

I'm glad Sharpay just went out and said it.
UD soon!

P. S. Hope everything turned out good for u in the plane!

are they going to start working through things now

Great chapter Auds! I have wanted to do what Sharpay did the whole time! about time someone made them talk about what happened. You can't ignore it. I loved how you wrote the emotions in this one. Your description of Sharpay had me smiling too :)

wow, that one was really deep

thata was really amazing..all that's needed now is for troy to grt his head out of his butt

Sharpay Evans is my absolute hero. She finally knocked some sense into all of them. LOVED IT! Great job Audrey. It was fantabulous.

And don't worry. All the other responsibilities unfortunately come first. So it's okay. Take your time :D

Update when you can!

Love,
Nel xo

I'm so glad that Sharpay is in town. Awesome chapter. Can't wait for the next one.

Hope you had a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Better late than never, right? I've had this starred in my inbox to come back to so long, that it went down to the next page of e-mails and I forgot for a while... whoopsie? Do you still love me? Haha.

I've really enjoyed the Troy centricism of the last couple of chapters; and just the focus on the characters around Gabriella. Writing the tale purely from her perspective would be a) mind numbingly draining for you b) would just be difficult to portray accurately and c) I think in many ways is disconnects you from some of your audience; I think there are people who would find this story so confronting to the point of struggling with it and by representing that through Troy, it allows your reader to connect to what he's going through, and to what their friends are going through - not only are they having to deal with supporting Gabriella, but they are supporting Troy.

And what a brilliant mechanism to reintroduce Sharpay. Well done, my darling, hahaha. I'm really looking forward to seeing your take on a future, slightly matured Sharpay.

-Dani xo

awesome! shars coming

i think it is about to get interesting

Wow, Audrey. That chapter was so powerful. I was fully engrossed in it and hanging onto every line. I could really feel and even kind of relate to both Chad and Troy's 'side' of the situation. It was great, just great.