Chapter 9

"Where in the hell has he taken them to?" Chad asked, he could feel tears falling down his cheeks. Anger and frustration was in his voice, "Damn it, where has he taken them?" He was getting so tired of not knowing what had happened to his friends. He just so badly wished that they could be found. He couldn't believe that they hadn't yet.

Everyone was currently sitting in the Bolton's living room. They had all been sitting together here for quite awhile. They had brought food over for everyone and they were waiting around for any type of news. They were all desperately wishing for news to come to them.

Only there was never any news.

Because Troy and Gabriella had still not been found.

Chad sighed heavily. He was just so tired of all of this.

He looked around at everyone that was in the room with him. He looked over at Taylor, who was sitting next to him. She was gazing very sadly at him.

"I really wish we knew where Troy and Gabriella were," Taylor whispered, as she was still gazing at Chad, "I hate that we still don't know. I really, really hate it."

"I just wish we knew if they were okay," Sharpay shakily spoke up, "I- I wish we knew if they were still alive."

Jack was currently pacing the floor. He was running his hands through his hair. He suddenly stopped and looked at the group, "My son is still alive, I can feel it," he desperately wanted to believe that; "Troy has to be alive. And so is Gabriella. They both have to be alive! They can't not be alive."

"What if Troy and Gabriella are not alive Jack?" Jason suddenly asked, he was choking up a little, "How do we know if they are or not? There's just no way of knowing for sure!"

"I just know that they are alive," Jack was gazing at the group, tears were starting to fall. Everyone was now looking up at him. He was trying to be strong but he was shaking, "They have to be alive. Both of them. We just have to keep on believing and hoping that they are. We just have to believe."

Jason just nodded as he continued to look up at Jack.

"You're right Jack," Taylor looked at Jack, then she gazed around at everyone, "We have to keep on believing that Troy and Gabriella are both still alive. We have to keep on hanging onto hope. They have got to be alive and we just have to believe that."

If Troy and Gabriella were not alive right now Taylor wasn't sure what this group would do.


Troy suddenly cursed very angrily. He was feeling extremely upset as he still could not seem to break free from the ropes that were tied around him. Fear and Desperation were flowing through him like crazy. He could feel his blood boiling inside of him as he thought about what Trevor had told him earlier that he would do to Gabriella.

Oh God, there was no way he could allow that to happen. There was just no way.

He could absolutely not let Trevor kill his Gabriella.

God damn it!

Tears were now running down his face rather uncontrollably as he kept on desperately struggling to break free. He couldn't stop shaking. He just couldn't stand being like this. He severely hated feeling so helpless, especially right now. He was tired of not being able to do anything at all to get them out of there. He was so insanely tired of being tied so tightly to the pole. He wanted so much to finally be free. He was so tired of not being able to do anything to help his Gabriella right at the moment.

He squeezed his eyes shut tightly and he then immediately started to pray. Oh God. He was desperately praying that he would be able to break away from here and get to Gabriella before Trevor did. He could not let Trevor get anywhere near her again.

More than anything, he just wished that he could be rescuing her right now. He wished that they were already away from here and they were safe. He wished that they were as far away from Trevor as they could possibly be.

It killed him so much that they weren't.

Oh God, he just had to get out of here and save her. He just had to!


Oh Thank God!

Troy had finally managed to be able to loosen the ropes that were tied around his wrists. He eagerly started to untie them. He felt so incredibly relieved as it felt so good to finally be able to bust from the ropes. A few seconds later he managed to quickly untie the ropes that were tied around his feet, and then he finally untied the ropes that were holding him so tightly to the pole. He happily threw the ropes to the floor and he quickly tore the gag off. He immediately took a deep breath after he did so.

He jumped up rather quickly; he ignored the pain that he felt rushing through his body. He had absolutely no time to waste. He was running out of time, and he had no idea when exactly Trevor was planning on going through with his plans. He just had to keep them from happening somehow. His body shook as he was so worried that he wouldn't be able to do anything and things would fail badly. He shuttered at the thought. He just could not let things fail this time. This could possibly be their last chance.

God, he just had to save Gabriella's life.

His heart was pounding wildly as he quickly bolted towards the door.

He just hoped that nothing would stop him.

For he desperately had to save his Gabriella and get both of them the hell out of here before it was too late.