WT: Do Something Right
Genre: Romance, Drama, Humor
Main Characters: Kelsi, Ryan & Jason
Pairings: Ryan/Kelsi (The Entertainers), Jason/Kelsi, Zeke/Sharpay, Troy/Gabriella, Chad/Taylor, Huff/Bayli
Listen to: Givin' Up This Fight by Lara Fabian
Dedicated to: Bec & Holden
Summary: Kelsi was tired…tired of trying to make something out of nothing and while Jason tried to fight for it, she let go…and found her best friend there for her, who somehow, always knew what type of ice cream was needed on a day like today.

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Do Something Right
Wildcat Red

It wasn't ruby red or even a garnet red but more somewhere in the middle. Some called it 'Wildcat Red' and if you were lucky enough to be wearing any kind of Wildcat Red jewelry or clothing, you didn't give it up. Not for anything. There were over 2500 students that attended the three story high school and if you were a female – which was more than half – to be even considered to wear or be in possession of Wildcat Red was the ultimate goal of your high school career. It wasn't hers. Never was and never had been. She was there purely to get her degree and move onto Juilliard, like everyone expected her to. She would've never imagined that she, the shy piano player, would ever be in possession of Wildcat Red. And here she was – ready and more than willing to give it up.

Kelsi Nielsen sat at the piano in the barren auditorium and let out a heavy sigh, knowing this day would come sooner or later. He had cheated and lied and hurt her more than words could ever say. More than once. Yet, she had stayed with him on pure faith that he would change and maybe a bit because of the Wildcat Red. Setting the round band that pierced her eyes with a crimson color, Kelsi put her hands to the slightly stained ivory keys and expected something to come out of her to play and bring the stage to life…but nothing came. She just sat there – during biology class when she should be learning all about the worm's anatomy – and stayed silent.

There was nothing more to do and nothing more to say. Giving back this particular Wildcat Red was what every girl dreaded, and she did too, but her reasons were entirely different than anyone else's. The convincing herself that it would all go away and things would return to normal just was not happening. Taking the ring back in her hands, Kelsi stood and grabbed her bag off the ground. It was time.

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I'm sorry

The words, written softly from hands he only wished he could still hold onto, stared at him in the face. Chad was lingering around his locker, talking about the ice cream social later this afternoon and how he really wanted to win the contest this year. Of course, they all had just witnessed the impossible too. Chad didn't eat lunch, all so he could win the competition that would be between him and last year's champion – Greg DeLucia. But Jason was hardly listening. All he could do was stare at the contents of his locker. This was it and he didn't want to believe it; couldn't actually. What girl in her right mind would voluntarily give up Wildcat Red? Jason took the ring back in his hands and unfortunately, knew why she did.

"I hope the flavors are actually good this year. I don't want to be stuck with like…pistachio or something," Chad rambled on as Zeke and Huff, two of their teammates strolled by and stopped to entertain Chad while Jason stood and stared blankly into his locker. "Come on Jay, what is…" the co-captain's voice stopped as he pulled back Jason's locker door. "Is that…"

Jason didn't have any words, he just shook his head in confirmation and slammed the door back, shoving the ring back onto his right hand and shrugging it off like it was nothing. He was disappointed and a bit hurt, but he didn't want his friends to see him like that. Ever. And he didn't want to say it aloud because if he did, then it would actually be real. And he didn't want it to be real.

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"Ryan! Ryan!" He groaned inwardly as he saw Georgia and Haley galloping over to the ice cream booth with an eagerness that only seagulls had when they wanted food. Georgia and Haley, East High's other set of popular twins were literally and physically a pain in his side and he never could shake them…unless he was with Chad going somewhere. The girls were afraid of Chad for his hair alone. God, how he wished Chad was with him now and he thought he would never say that.

"Hi girls," he smiled briefly and turned to the booth, eager to grab his ice cream, watch Chad make a fool of himself and see where Kelsi was, but the twins were not going to let him go that easily. It was never easy getting out of their hands. "What brings you here?" Ryan mentally slapped himself over the head for that one.

"Um, Ice Cream Social? Hello, school event of the month!" Haley giggled and let her hand slide onto his arm, something that never ceased to amaze him at how she flaunted herself.

"It is Ryan, you should definitely know that. I mean, you're Ryan Evans, King of East High," Georgia was next with the poor attempts at complimenting and if someone was passing by, flirting with him. The sophomores never learned.

"I've been here for four years girls, I know what the Ice Cream Social is," Ryan rolled his eyes, grabbing his cone full of Superman ice cream and headed off to find Kelsi. The Ice Cream Social was usually their thing, had been since even before they started East High.

They were best friends since elementary and had this undying love for mint chocolate chip ice cream and really bad rock music. Sharpay used to call them freaks, but that only made them closer, mocking how Sharpay was also one with her Broadway themed bedroom. Breezing past Georgia and Haley, Ryan quickly caught up with Taylor and Martha, who he had seen him with the twins.

"You two are awful," he muttered as they took a seat on the blanket by the other Wildcat girlfriends, including his sister.

"What did we do?" Taylor laughed, leaning into Martha which only started a laugh fest. "Come on, Ryan, seeing you being hounded by them is too funny."

"Not so much on this end. Those two try way too hard," Ryan licked his cone, saving the drips from landing on his hand and looked at the blanket where only four instead of the usual five sat, lounging and waiting for their boyfriends to stop being pigs and come back to them to actually enjoy the event. "Where's Kels?"

The girls looked between each other, assuming Ryan would've been the first one to know since he was the closest to Kelsi, but it obviously hadn't reached him yet. "You haven't heard?" Sharpay said slowly, watching her brother stop licking his cone long enough to realize something big was up. "Kelsi's not coming."

"What?" He snapped his head up to his sister's words. "What do you mean she's not coming? This is our thing."

"Ry," Gabriella placed her left hand on his arm and got his attention. "She broke up with Jason today."

Ryan stared blankly at Gabriella before moving from his spot again, not saying a word as he tossed his cone and fled the social. Why didn't she tell him? He couldn't wrap his head around that one but he knew where he needed to be and it wasn't here.

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"Hi Ryan," Mrs. Nielsen greeted him with a soft smile as he let himself into the Nielsen's two story home and went straight to the kitchen. She was in the middle of cooking a big dinner and he didn't want to interrupt the makings of that. It was no secret to him anymore that Samantha Nielsen was the best cook in Albuquerque, save Zeke with his crème brulee. "I hope you're hungry."

Ryan smiled at her, pulling up the bag of 5 pints of ice cream in the grocery bag in his hands up onto the counter. "Um, not at the moment. Kels in her room?"

"I hope you're not spoiling her or your dinner with all that ice cream, are you?" Samantha eyed him and opened the freezer to put all but two into it, knowing her daughter would probably need it over the weekend.

"Um, was planning on it."

Samantha turned around and got out two spoons from the drawer for him, "Good." She paused and let out a tiny sigh and he knew that he definitely needed to be here now. "Go take care of my baby Ryan."

"I'm on it."

Ryan pulled the two pints of ice cream into his arms and headed towards the stairs in pursuit of Kelsi's room. It was the back room and filled with everything that concerned pianos and elephants. Their friends didn't really know about her elephant obsession which Ryan always teased her about. From ceramic elephants made in China to the soft cuddly ones on the edge of her bed, there were elephants everywhere and if he had to predict the scene right now, he could tell you that she would be sitting in her picture window and clutching her favorite elephant, Yama. Yama was always her favorite. Juggling the containers in his hand as he walked down the hallway, Ryan almost jumped out of his shoes as Nick, Kelsi's older brother stepped out of his own room.

"Did I scare you?" Nick started to laugh at him.

"Just a bit, yea. When did you get home?" Ryan asked. Nick Nielsen attended UCLA and almost never made it back to Albuquerque anymore because of his class schedule which was outrageous. There were so many hours in a day and week, Nick just never seemed to pay attention to them.

"Yesterday. Needed a break. Got a vacation. Going in?" He jestered to Kelsi's room and spied the ice cream.

"Yea, planning on it."

"Good luck, not that you'll need it though," Nick said and let himself slide down the front stairs with ease and Ryan could hear him yell something to Samantha before the front door open and closed.

Shaking his head, Ryan reached for the doorknob and let himself in, smirking a bit when he saw her just as he predicted. He watched her as she turned to see him walk in and toss the pints on her yellow tinted bedspread and looked straight back outside to the sun shining in the distance. Within a few seconds he was by her side and holding one pint of breakup food in his hand and as she leaned into his side, he wrapped his arms around her tight, just wanting to give his best friend comfort and not push the issue of why he was possibly the last to find out. That wasn't important right now.

"That's not Superman," Kelsi muffled into his side as he loosened his grip around her tiny frame. "Didn't you go?"

"I did, only to find that the person I usually want to share this day with wasn't there. So, I improvised," Ryan gave her a spoon and she gladly took it from his hand. "And this really isn't a Superman kind of moment right now, it's more…"

"Mint chocolate chip," she whispered with a smile, "the green kind because the white kind just isn't the real deal," Kelsi said softly and dug her spoon into the cold green contents of the small container that was freezing Ryan's hand. "Thanks Ryan."

"Hey, I'm always here. But next time, if there is a next time which I highly doubt, you tell me first, got it?"

"Got it," Kelsi let out a small giggle when he told her that and savored the mint flavor in her mouth. He always got it right. This was most definitely a mint chocolate chip moment.

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Author Note: This will most likely turn into a drabble story like Amazing did. So even though it says 'complete' at the moment, it's really not. Baci!