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Chapter 2

"Shhh, Gabs, it's alright.", he said rubbing her back, "What happened? Let's go sit outside"

Gabi let out a small nod before saying, "But what about class, you're going to be late, I don't want you to get into trouble too.

"Don't worry about it, I wasn't in the mood for going anyway," Chad laughed.

Chad wrapped his arm around Gabi's shoulders and led her to the oval under a tree so nobody could see them cutting class.

"So, mind telling me what happened now?" he said.

"Not really, but here I go… it's… ummm… well… it's Troy", she sobbed.

"Oh great, what's he done THIS time?" Chad answered, putting emphasis on the word 'this'.

Every time Troy and Gabi had a fight, Gabi would come and talk to Chad seeing as her Taylor had died, leaving Chad to become her best friend, as Troy and Chad were no longer friends. She had become close to Chad and they always asked each other for advice seeing as neither of them really had any more friends.

Sure Gabi had Sharpay, Ryan, Kelsi, Jason and Zeke but Chad had nobody as the team sided with Troy after the massive fight (A/N he doesn't really talk to Sharpay and Ryan); but Gabi and Chad liked each other's company the most.

(A/N sorry if that made no sense, also just to let you know when Taylor died, Gabi dropped out of the decathlon team)

"He… he… he's been cheating on me", she cried even more, "with one of the skank cheerleaders… I saw her, lying on top of him, in…"

"You're kidding?" Chad interrupted, "Ok sorry that was a stupid question you wait here, I'm gonna go find Troy and kill him… He has to know that he can't keep doing this to you!!"

Chad started to walk off hurriedly with his fists clenched, but Gabi stopped him.

"Chad, wait!" she said standing up and quickly running over to him, "Don't worry about it, he isn't worth it. Can we please just get out of this stupid place? I can't be here. Not now. Please?"

Chad laughed, "That's not the Gabi I know. Wanting to cut school… but it's fine with me. One question, what if we get caught?"

This time Gabi laughed, "I could say the same about you, it's not like you to worry about getting caught."

"You have a good point there… Let's get out of here."

They linked hands and ran back into the school hall to get their bags from their lockers. They heard a door open and saw Ms. Darbus come out so they quickly ran into an empty classroom so they didn't get caught trying to sneak out. As soon as she walked past they quickly ran out of the hall and kept running until they were out of sight from the school.

"Well, that was fun", Chad said puffing away.

"Yeah, I'm surprised we didn't get caught. I swear Darbus can smell fear… and I was scared there." Gabi laughed. "Hey Chad?"

"Yeah?"

He turned around to face Gabi as he was in front of her.

"Thank you", she said.

Chad had a confused look on his face.

"For what?"

"For being a great friend. You've always stuck by me." Gabi started to cry again.

"Hey, hey, Gabs, what are you crying for? I'll always be here for you. You don't ever have to worry about that." He replied and pulled her into a hug, "So, where are we off to now?"

"Well… ok, I have an idea, but I don't know whether you're up to it or not…" Gabi said.

Chad looked at her with a come-on-and-tell-me-I'm-up-for-anything-look.

"Ok, ok dude, chill… I was thinking maybe we could go and see Taylor's grave… if you're up to it…" She told him.

Chad laughed at the way Gabi had used the word dude. She had never used it before.

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea… I need to talk to her anyway," he said and Gabi looked at him with a smile on her face.

"Ok, let's go."

When they had seen Taylor's grave and said some prayers, in hope that she would be able to hear them, they made their way to Gabi's.

Unfortunately for them, Troy was sitting on her doorstep waiting for her. As soon as he saw them he got up.

"Gabi please listen to me, I'm sorry." He cried, walking up to her, but Chad stepped in front of her.

"Troy, I think its best you just leave… she obviously doesn't want to s-" he said until Gabi had cut him off.

"No Chad, it's ok… really", she said, stepping out from behind him.

Gabriella told him to go and wait for her inside.

"Troy, what are you doing here? I told you we're over, I'm sorry Troy, but I can't be hurt any more. And please don't call me Gabi anymore, it's Gabriella to you, only my friends call me that" she said as she started to walk past Troy, but he grabbed her arm.

"Troy let me g-" she said crying.

"No Gabi, I can't…" he said cutting her off.

Chad had heard the arguing and looked through the window to see what was going on. He could see Troy grabbing onto Gabi's arm and her crying, so he went out and started screaming at Troy.

"Troy just leave, she obviously wants you to just go and leave her alone."

Troy let go of her arm while she ran up to Chad and held him tight.

Chad screamed again, "Troy, just go!!! I mean it".

"Fine whatever, but Gabi, I really want you to know, what you saw, it meant noth…" but before he could finish Chad had kneed him in stomach.

"Chad!" Gabi screamed… "Stop it, please, stop!"

Chad kept kicking him until he saw how much Gabi was crying and stopped. He apologised to her. She pushed him inside and helped Troy up.

"Troy please just go!" she said.

Troy didn't want Chad to attack him again so he agreed and left.

Ok, that wasn't a very good ending to the chapter, but I didn't know how to end it.