Need You Now
Need You Now
Hiya guys, thanks for the reviews, anyway, here's chapter 4, hope you enjoy it, please review and tell me what you thought.
Chapter 4
As four am rolled around, the gang had finally given up on Gabriella returning home that night, and had all decided that it was best if they just went to sleep and gave her some time to think for herself, and then she could talk to them in the morning if she wanted to.
However, at four am that morning, Gabriella had finally figured out what she was going to do to get away from Rick this time. This time, she wasn't going to just sit around and take it. This time, she was going to run. She was going to run far away from LA, hopefully to a place where he would never find her.
At four am that morning, Gabriella walked slowly and quietly into the apartment, standing still when she heard a sudden movement from the front room as she passed it, and laughing softly as she saw Ryan mutter something to himself in his sleep before rolling over on the sofa and going back to sleep.
Gabriella now knew that she'd have to be extra quiet as she walked through the main room to get to her own, as Ryan was an extremely light sleeper, and if he woke up and saw her, he'd immediately wake up all of the others, and the last thing that Gabriella wanted right now was for everyone to wake up.
She gently opened the door to her own room and grinned softly as she saw Troy leaning over the side of the bed, one foot rested on the floor, and his other arm dangling, his fingers only an inch or so from the floor, as he snored softly.
Tears started to stream down her face as she gently prised an old suitcase, one of the ones she always used for returning home to Albuquerque, out from underneath the bed, and quietly opened her closet, emptying it of as many clothes as possible, her eyes constantly wandering back to her slumbering fiancée, unsure as to whether or not she should wake him and tell him she was leaving or not. As far as she was concerned, she was in a lose lose situation, it was either break his heart, or break his heart, and Gabriella couldn't stand watching the man she loved cry, so she decided that she would leave him sleeping and he would find out on his own the following morning.
Next, she wandered into the bathroom that she shared with Sharpay, laughing softly in the dim lighting as she saw a note that Sharpay had evidently left for her on the mirror, written in a lipstick that Sharpay never used, much preferring just lip-gloss.
Hey Boo,
When you get in, please come and wake me up, I'm missing you like crazy and I'm going out of my mind with worry! Please come wake me up and we can talk about whatever you want.
Luv ya, Pay
Gabriella gently traced a couple of the letters of Sharpay's incredibly neat handwriting, before frowning and once again resuming her task, gathering up all of her essential supplies, such as her toothbrush and toothpaste, her make-up, her collection of miniature shower gels, which Taylor had given her for her twenty-first birthday only a week and a half prior to when this nightmare began, and all of her hair things, in amongst others.
She then walked back into her own room, smiling once more through her tears when she saw Troy still lying in the same position. She quickly dumped all of her vanities into her bigger case, before collecting the few photos and the photo album that she had around her room, and dumping them in as well.
Taking a deep breath, she grabbed her cell phone and moved back into the bathroom, dialling a number that she had never used unless she was ordering something for two or more people, usually herself and Troy.
"Hello, how may I help you this morning?" a voice asked, picking up after only the second ring.
Gabriella rolled her eyes, wondering how anyone could be so perky and upbeat at quarter past four in the morning, "Umm yes, well you see I need a flight out of LA, as soon as possible please."
"Where to?" The energetic voice asked once more, and Gabriella could hear her tapping away on a computer keyboard.
"Anywhere in the country if that's possible," Gabriella answered, twiddling her thumbs nervously as she sat on the edge of the bathtub.
"Right, well then we have a flight leaving in just over an hour and a half, if you can make it here on time, and would you like one way or two way?" The voice questioned, and Gabriella sighed softly, her eyes flickering back to her bedroom door, where her fiancée lay snoozing, not having a clue about what she was doing.
"One way only, and I'll be there," Gabriella stated firmly, as she hung up the phone and buried her face in her hands, sobbing silently.
Opening the bathroom door, she saw that just down the hallway, Kelsi's door was also open, so she decided to go and investigate, saying her own goodbye to her good friend.
She ginned as she arrived at Kelsi's door, and saw Jason in the same position that Troy was in on her own bed, only Jason had Kelsi leaning on the side of him, pushing him further and further out of the bed gradually. She took one look around Kelsi's room and smiled at how the room reflected her musically talented friend, painted a dark creamy colour, with black music notes, which Gabriella herself had painted, being the artist out of the friends, dotted around the room, and Kelsi's keyboard sat in the corner, surrounded by paper covered by different songs that Kelsi was currently working on.
"Goodbye guys, I'll miss you," Gabriella whispered softly as she pulled the door closed and ventured a little further down the hallway to Taylor's room.
Stopping outside the room, Gabriella lightly pushed the door open and beamed at her slumbering brother and one of her best friends. Chad was lying full length on the bed, one hand up behind his head and one arm wrapped safely around Taylor's waist, who had her own hands resting on his bare chest, with her head resting on top of them.
Gabriella smiled as she thought of the last four years with Chad as her actual legal brother, she was right when she said that they had been the best four of her life, and she knew that even as she ran away, she would never forget the four years where she actually had parent figures to turn to when she was in a tight jam and needed help, as well as a brother who stuck by her through every little thing that she did, and never left her side when she needed him the most.
Smiling sadly, she ambled back up the hallway and straight past her own room, opening the door to Sharpay's room.
It was evident straight away that Sharpay had been crying, from her tear stained face, and Gabriella immediately felt guilty as her best friend lay facing towards her, one hand under her head, the other holding onto Zeke's hands, which were wrapped around her petite waist, as he too lay facing the door, his front pressed tightly against her back.
She would miss all of them, she knew she would, as she closed Sharpay's door, casting one final look at her best friend, before quickly peeking at Ryan, still well aware that he was the light sleeper in the group, and moving back to her own room, to say her final goodbyes to the one person who she had ever loved and the one person who had helped her show the world who the real Gabriella Montez was.
She silently pushed Troy back onto the bed from his weird position, stopping only shortly when he started to mumble something. She cried silently to herself as she pushed a stray lock of hair out of his eyes and gently kissed his forehead, before placing another gentle kiss on his lips, thankful that he was a very heavy sleeper.
"Goodbye Troy, I love you, always and forever," she whispered their saying as she placed one final kiss on his lips before grabbing her suitcase and bag and walking out of the room, the tears now cascading down her face as she refused to look back.
She carefully placed the note that she had written on the small table beside the front door, knowing that Sharpay would put the post there the following morning, as she always did, and see the note immediately. Gabriella then slipped her engagement ring off of her finger and placed it on the note, along with her cell phone and apartment key.
Looking back one last time, Gabriella closed the door to her apartment and headed for the lift and out of the apartment block, towards the awaiting taxi.
"Where to Miss?" the driver asked kindly, seeing Gabriella's tears still streaming as he sat back in the car after loading her suitcase into the trunk.
Gabriella took a deep breath, "Los Angeles International please," she whispered firmly, looking over her shoulder, and watching her old life disappear into the distance, all by four thirty in the morning.
Well guys, that was chapter 4 please review and tell me what you thought, the more reviews I get, the quicker chapter 5 will be posted.