OMG OMG OMG i know you all want to kick my ass for taking such a long time to update and for that i say, please not too hard.
anyways, finally here is chapter 8. i hope you like it, i think you will really like the next chapter. i have the beginning planned out and i think its really good so far :D
well i would like to dedicate this chapter to CompetiveSwimmaChick. she has reviewed for each of my chapters AND i just love all the comments she leaves about her dream of becoming a movie director and then turning this into a movie. i support you all the way:) 3 (remember, i better get a comfy chair. lol (; )
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Following My Footsteps
Chapter 8- Cut To The Chase
Everyone was sitting inside the pizza parlor eating their pizza while having a really global discussion.
"So Gabriella, I know you might not be comfortable with this subject so stop me anytime. Anyways, how long were you and Jimmy going out?" Sharpay asked as she took a sip out of her soda. Everyone then turned their heads to look at Gabriella.
"Um well, I guess about six months. We met during the summer at the school's athletic convention."
"Wow Gabriella. How did you ever survive all this for so long?" Amber replied. "And I cannot believe it took you this long to tell me as well!!"
"I'm sorry Amber. I was scared, you know that." Gabriella replied.
"Yea I know, but that's all in the past." Amber replied as she looked around the table. "I can just tell that we are all going to be great friends."
Gabriella smiled as everyone else smiled back.
"Well I think we should be leaving soon. I have to head home and finish that English paper due Monday. You know Ms. Gibson." Chad said as he finished his soda.
"Oh yeah! Shoot, I totally forgot about that paper!!" Troy replied as he smacked his forehead with his hand.
"I think we should all head home now. Hey Gabriella, how about all of us girls take you out shopping tomorrow. My treat!!" Sharpay said as she got all ecstatic.
"Sharpay, how can you afford that?" Gabriella asked as she finished her pizza.
"Oh, Sharpay and Ryan's parents own Lava Springs Country Club about an hour from here, so that equals mucho money." Chad replied as he nudged Ryan in the ribs with his elbow playfully.
"Haha Danforth." Ryan replied as he pulled out his wallet. "Pizzas on me."
Ryan threw a $20 bill on the table as they all stood up.
"See what I mean Gabi." Chad replied as he put his arm around Taylor.
Gabriella chuckled as Sharpay came over to her.
"So tell me that you will definitely come shopping with us tomorrow. Girls only!! We will go crazy shopping, so crazy that we are going to make the boys drive over later just so we can stuff our shopping bags into their cars." Sharpay said as she held onto Gabriella's shoulders.
"You know, that sounds like a lot of fun!" Gabriella replied as she looked at all the other anxious girls waiting for her answer.
"Great! So it will be me, Gabriella, Amber, Sharpay, and Taylor tomorrow shopping till our hearts content." Sharpay replied as she pulled out her keys. "Ok, Zeke, Kelsi and Jason with me since they are on my way home. Ryan, you gotta drop Amber off and Taylor is on the way there as well. So that leaves Chad and Gabriella with Troy."
"We will call you tonight with the deets about tomorrow ok Gabriella?" Kelsi said as she was about to jump into Sharpay's car.
"Yea, I'll talk to you guys later." Gabriella replied as she got into the back seat of Troy's car.
"Man, going to the mall just to carry all your bags is a pain you know that." Chad playfully said as he pulled over his seat belt.
"Aww poor Chad. Maybe this would help you work those arms and build some muscles." Gabriella replied as she playfully hit Chad's arm. Troy began to crack up as Chad folded his arms.
"Haha Gabi." Chad replied as he stared at her through the rear view mirrors.
Gabriella just laughed as they pulled up in front of Chad's house. "Now you two don't start making out now, you hear?"
Gabriella gasped as Troy suddenly felt uncomfortable.
"Haha Troy. I see that face. I'll see you guys." Chad said as he turned and walked towards his front door.
"Um…yea ok I guess next is your house." Troy said as he was about to start driving again.
"Wait!"
Troy turned around and saw Gabriella climbing into the front seat.
"Comfy?" Troy asked as he smiled.
"Yes, thank you very much." Gabriella replied as she put on her seat belt and smiled back at Troy.
The ride towards Gabriella's house was a comfortable silence with maybe a joke or two. Once they arrived at Gabriella's house, she was taking off her seat belt and about to open the door when Troy grabbed her arm.
"Wait, Gabriella. Will you meet me by the fountain Monday during lunch?" Troy asked as he gazed into her eyes.
"Yea, sure Troy. What for though?"
"I want to show you something." Troy replied as he smiled.
"Ok. Ill see you tomorrow I guess. Bye." Gabriella replied as she gave him a kiss on the cheek. She then got out of the car and opened the door to her house and walked in.
Troy had his right hand up to his right cheek, lightly touching the spot where Gabriella's lips touched. He then smiled and drove out of sight.
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Gabriella, Amber, Taylor, Kelsi and Sharpay were walking around the mall. They had just arrived and was making a scan of all the stores first before they did any real shopping.
"Look you guys!! Papaya is having a sale today!! We better make sure we check out the store later." Sharpay said as she pointed towards the store.
Taylor looked at the store and noticed that next to the store was a Foot Locker. In front of Foot Locker there was this huge group of guys that for some reason looked familiar to Taylor. They all looked like they were in high school, but Taylor still couldn't shake the feeling that she knew them from somewhere.
"Ok, that's all the stores. American Eagle is right there. Lets go in there first." Kelsi said as she pointed towards the store.
Taylor was snapped out of her thoughts as she followed the other girls towards AE. She just shook the thought and thought it didn't matter anyways.
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After going through a couple of stores, they all were getting hungry so they decided to head to the food court.
"Look you guys, there's a table right here." Amber said as she took a seat in one of the chairs.
Everyone else took the remaining seats and placed their bags by their feet.
"What are you guys in the mood for today?" Sharpay asked as she pulled out her wallet. "It's on me of course!"
"Oh Sharpay, I don't think I can let you do that. You treated us to so much already." Gabriella said as pulled out her own wallet.
"No Gabriella!! I said I was treating all of you guys to a shopping day and this is still part of shopping day. Now put away your money before I decide to shove it somewhere uncomfortable."
"SHARPAY!!" Gabriella said as she lightly hit Sharpay.
"Oh you know I love you guys." Sharpay replied as she started to look around at the variety of foods.
Taylor was scanning the food court as well when she came across the same group of guys that she spotted before in front of the Foot Locker.
"I know I've seen them before…" Taylor whispered as she squinted her eyes a little.
"Taylor who are you looking at? Some hot guy?" Amber laughed as she looked in the same direction as Taylor. "Oh no."
Amber quickly turned her head and looked down at the table with her hand cover the side of her face a little.
"Amber what's the matter?" Sharpay asked as she looked in the same direction as Taylor. "Hey don't those guys look familiar to you?"
Gabriella was about to turn her head when Amber grabbed her arm.
"No Gabriella don't. Those are the guys from the West High basketball team minus Jimmy." Amber said as she pulled Gabriella somewhat down with her.
Gabriella turned her head to try and catch a glimpse of the guys. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw the group of guys and in deed they were the former West High Knights. Gabriella then quickly turned her head and ducked down with Amber a little.
"I knew they looked familiar!!" Taylor said as she looked back at the other girls.
"I think we should leave but try not to attract any attention to ourselves." Kelsi said as she slowly grabbed her bags by her feet.
"Yea, Gabriella and Amber you guys should slowly leave first, we will be right behind." Sharpay said as she grabbed her purse and bags.
One by one the girls quickly but slowly got up and left. Just when they were almost out of the food court, they noticed that the Knights were walking toward the exits as well. The guys seem to not have noticed Gabriella or the others yet since they were so wrapped in their apparent interesting conversation. The girls started weaving around the crowd a little more quickly then before to leave. Almost out of the Knight's sight, Gabriella's phone suddenly rang.
All I want to do is stand close to you
Be by your side
All I want to do is make the world revolve
Around you and I
What I would give up
What I would go through
To get it right
All I want to do in this lifetime is make you mine
All I want to do in this lifetime is make you mine
Her phone rang real loudly and it attracted the attention of most of the people around her, even the West High Knights.
Kelsi turned her head slightly and noticed the guys were coming towards them and faster. Boy did they look angry.
"Guys we have to run!! They see us and are coming!!" Kelsi shouted as she started to take off.
"UGHH STUPID TROY!!" Gabriella shouted as she started to run as well.
"Troy? You mean you set that ring tone for Troy? AWWWWW." Amber said as she was running side by side with Gabriella.
"You guys I don't think this is the time, they are catching up!!" Taylor said as they continued running. "These bags are not helping either. I think we should just drop them, maybe they would distract the guys."
"As much as I would hate to ruin clothes, I would hate for them to ruin my hair even more." Sharpay said as she pulled out a shoe box. "Eat this ass holes!!"
Sharpay then threw the box of stilettos at the guys. The box opened and out went the shoes hitting 2 guys in the face with their heels.
"Come on, empty out your bags!" Kelsi shouted as she threw her clothes at the guys and getting one of them in the face.
The guy who had Kelsi's shirt covering his face had to stop to take the shirt off, but then suddenly a couple of guys behind him couldn't stop in time and collided right into each other.
The girls dumped out all of their bags and there was still 4 guys left.
Gabriella's phone suddenly started to ring again.
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10 minutes earlier
"She didn't pick up." Troy said as he hung up his phone.
"The other girls wouldn't pick up their phones either." Zeke said as he put his phone away in his pocket. "Knowing Sharpay and them they would have either turned off their phones or put their phones on vibrate in their purses so they can have a disturbance free shopping day."
"Well they did say we were suppose to come at 1:00 to meet up with them for lunch." Chad replied as he took a seat on one of the empty benches.
"Hey man, there's a sale at Foot Locker. We should definitely check that out later on." Jason said as he was scanning the map of the mall.
Just then the guys saw a bunch of security guards running past them towards the food court.
"I wonder what happened there." Ryan asked as he took a seat next to Chad.
Just then they looked outside the main entrance and saw news vans and police cars pull up to the mall.
The televisions inside suddenly changed to the news and showed the same lady standing outside the mall reporting the news.
'I'm Sandra Pense, and I'm here standing right outside Albuquerque mall where there seems to have been a disturbance of some sort.'
All the guys looked up at the tv and paid close attention to it as many police officers ran in and ran towards the food court.
'I have been told that a group of teenage girls are being chased by a large group of teenage boys which started out at around 20 guys narrowing down to 4 left in the chase. The reason for the chase is unknown for now. The 16 boys who have been obstructed by clothes thrown at them apparently from the girls have been captured and arrested, now the chase continues on with the other 4 boys left.'
"That is so weird, I hope the girls are ok." Jason said as he sat on the bench and rested his head in his hands.
Troy looked down at the floor and then back up at the tv, he had a bad feeling about this for some reason. He didn't know why, he just did.
'I am here with Officer Tommy Copper. Officer, do you have any information which would help us figure out why these girls are being chased?'
'Well we have identified the guys as the former players of the West High basketball team. They have all been suspended before and kicked off the team with charge of attempted rape and assault to one student before. We have not identified the girls yet, but there are 5 girls being chased.'
'Thank you Officer. More of this story brought to you in a few.'
"Oh my god. Those bastards?! You don't think…" Chad started to say as he looked at the rest of the guys. Then suddenly out of no where they heard screaming.
The girls suddenly ran by the guys and behind them sure enough were four former knights.
"HELP!!" They heard one of the girls scream, so then they ran after the guys.
"Come on, we have to stop those guys!!" Ryan shouted as he quickly picked up the pase and launched himself at one of the guys. Sure enough Ryan tackled him to the ground while cops came up and put hand cuffs on the guy while he put up a fight.
Jason and Zeke then launched themselves at two other guys and tackled them to the ground as the cops hand cuffed them.
Troy and Chad then continued running after the last guy who sure enough was catching up to Gabriella.
The last guy who was chasing after Gabriella was Randy and he sure was angry. He finally caught up to Gabriella and hooked her around her neck with his arm pulling her backwards while falling to the ground. Randy with his arm around her neck started to suffocate Gabriella.
"I'm going to kill you right now bitch!!" Randy started to scream as Gabriella was gasping for breath. The girls noticed and was running towards Gabriella as the rest of the guys finally caught up.
"GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF OF HER!!" Troy shouted as he bent down and punched Randy in the face.
Randy loosened his grip as Gabriella escaped to the side while trying to breathe normally again.
Troy picked up Randy once more just to punch him again and watch him fall to the ground.
"DON'T YOU OR ANY OF THOSE OTHER GUYS EVER FUCKING GO NEAR THESE GIRLS AGAIN!!" Chad shouted at him as the cops came and handcuff Randy.
Troy was so heated but suddenly calmed down when he remembered about Gabriella and ran to her.
"Gabi, are you ok?" Troy asked as he sat down and wrapped his arms around Gabriella and then lifted her into his lap.
Gabriella was coughing and breathing heavily. Around her neck was a very visible red mark that went straight across her neck where Randy was choking her.
"Sir, we need to have a look at her and the rest of you girls."
Troy looked up and there were paramedics standing just over him.
"Oh yea sure, let me carry her to the ambulance." Troy said as he stood up with Gabriella in his hands.
They all then started to follow the paramedics. Once outside while the girls were getting checked, Troy couldn't help but start shaking as he was sitting on the bench just a couple of feet away. Chad then came over and sat next to Troy.
"Hey man, you ok?" Chad asked as he put a hand on Troy's back.
"I could have lost her right there Chad." Troy just said as he ran a hand through his hair and then rested them on his lap. "You don't know how scared I was when I saw Randy pull her down."
"Hey, she's safe now and that's because of you." Chad replied as he patted Troy on the back.
"We should have been more careful…I should have been more careful. That was so stupid of me for thinking that nothing would happen."
"Troy! You can't beat yourself up for this. No one knew that this would happen, you can't always think that you have a whole plan for everything when every second something unexpected just happens."
"Yea, you're right." Troy stood up and stuck his hands in his front jean pockets. "Thanks man."
"Hey. I'm just here to help. How about we go check on how the girls are doing, it looks like they are starting to get out of the ambulance." Chad said as he stood up.
"Yeah. Let's go."
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