Author's Note: So thank you so much for the reviews I got the last chapter. Thank you. Really. It means a lot to me. Again, I do not own High School Musical, but I do own this plotline. So no stealing, please.

I'm going with the whole weird approach again. I hope you like it. Some of these passages may be poetry. Just a heads-up.

Dedication: This chapter's dedicated to A Dawn Delivery because of the brilliant review I received. Thank you.

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"I'm trying to make it through each day

I'm falling apart in every way

I'm finding it harder to get by

There's a hole in my heart and I don't know why,"

"Slipping Away" by Sum 41

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She stepped out into the rain that day. The rain pelted around her, whipped at her fragility. It pained her to step outside because she had been hiding for so long.

She wouldn't have gone out. He made her. Her father made her. He said she had been waiting too long for something to change and that it wasn't going to happen. That she needed to get over what had happened in the past. That her mother wasn't coming back.

She had cried. Tears had spilled over the lids of her red-rimmed eyes. She had run her sweater sleeve over her eyes, something she wouldn't ever do while her mother was alive. But now her mother was gone.

She wanted to stay locked up forever. Stay and keep herself closed behind those doors, hiding from what she knew had happened.

Her brother didn't help. He stood silent, only looking at her with his wide, helpless eyes. He hadn't said anything since the accident. He hadn't uttered a word since their mother had passed. He twisted his hands nervously, pulled his hat further down over his hair, and stayed quiet.

She wondered what happened to her brother. He was her twin; they shared everything. And now they didn't even talk.

She stepped out into the rain, watching as the water pooled into the holes in her canvas shoes. She felt the wetness soaking deep into her skin where it wouldn't be able to come out.

Just like what she knew had happened wouldn't come out.

She stepped out into the rain that day.

Author's Note: So it's short again, but that's a whole part of the vignette-like style. But please review anyways?

-Finn

Review replies: (I'm only doing it for this story)

Ghostwriter626: What are you confused on?

KelsiLovesLucas: Thank you. I have no idea where I'm going with it, but I like the approach I've taken so far. Usually I rush my stories, so I'm trying to keep this consistent.

Mr. Fishy: Thank you. I hope you liked it.

A Dawn Delivery: Thank you. I'm glad you liked it; I try to do that with my summaries and prologues, and sometimes they really don't work. Thank you so much though. Yes, Sharpay is interesting. Oh, this could pass as an original fiction. It was an original fiction, but I kind of wanted to post it here because I get about 0 reviews on fictionpress, so yep. It's a fanfiction/original fiction. We'll see how it goes. You'll notice I won't ever say her name in this though.