Hey Guys, Here is chapter 9

Hey Guys, Here is chapter 9. I am sorry for the delay but I only have the usual excuses but I did have 7 hours of musical rehearsal on Saturday so I have been suffering lol. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with HSM except any of the characters you don't already know because I made them up hehe.

Annabelle? As realization came upon him, Troy stormed out of the house without saying goodbye. He needed to understand.

As Troy walked towards the door questions were running through is already full mind. How could someone hurt the one they 'love'? Annabelle claimed to love him, why would she try to destroy him? Breaking up and getting over Gabi was the hardest thing he ever had to do. Why would someone intentionally do that to another human being?

He continued to question Annabelle's motives as he walked to his car, also wondering what would happen with Gabi and himself when everything got sorted out.

Finally reaching his car he sighed in frustration as he slammed the door shut. He took a few deep breaths and calmed himself down, just like Gabi had taught him. The anger began to build in his chest again as the thought of Annabelle came back. He knew it was her birthday yesterday but she had no right to do it. Now she had to pay for the mistake.

Anticipation grew in his body and his fists held on tight to the wheel. He knew if he got to worked up everything, including his temper, would start spinning out of control so he tried to contain himself by repeating soothing and calming words while pretending that the woman he loved was there with him.

He drove across the highway with his heart pounding in disgust and anger. He could feel his temper beginning to rise and he knew it would soon be out of control. He used to have such a good control over his emotions but even since Gabi came into and left his life, nothing seemed worthy of the effort of having any emotions.

The road seemed to be going on and on, in concurrence with the seconds that were ticking by at a snail's pace.

As the traffic on the road started to increase, Troy's mind flashed back to moment that Gabi had ripped his heart out and stomped all over it. The weeks and months that followed that painful day were excruciating. Everyday the thought of terminating his living status replayed like a broken record. Then he thought of Annabelle and instead of the gratitude and fondness that he used to feel hate, anger and disgust took its place.

He turned into Annabelle's street and his heart began to race. How was going to do this? There was no way that he could just walk in and start yelling when he had only broken up with her yesterday.

Maybe that is exactly what he would have to do. She deserved his anger. He knew that it wasn't misplaced. She had used his high school status to trick Gabi into breaking up with him, so she could have him. What kind of human does that? He thought, and then he figured 'apparently a horny high school cheerleader does'.

He walked up the stairs to her house and rang the doorbell. Looking down at his hands he noticed that they were shaking with anger.

He began rocking back and forward on the balls of his feet while waiting for the door to be opened so he could yell. It was taking awhile and he was wondering wether she was even home. That'd be right, he thought, I want to yell at her and she isn't even here.

"Just a minute!" he heard Annabelle yell while coming down the stairs. Troy grinned mischievously, and went through his speech.

The door was thrown open and standing in front of Troy was Annabelle, in her cocktail dress with a huge smile on her face. "Well, I can see you are really torn up about us breaking up" Troy said with sarcasm dripping out of his voice.

"Troy! What are you doing here?" Annabelle exclaimed with surprise and her face dropped. She almost looked disappointed to see him.

"Annabelle, I came to sort something out! I am extremely pissed off at the moment, and it would be in your best interest to let me come in" his voice started getting lower and more dangerous with every word he spoke.

A look of realisation crossed over her face, as she widened the space between her and door, signalling Troy to come in.

"Now" Troy started "I want to know why Gabriella is sitting in Sharpay's house and crying over the fact that I CHEATED on her with you! Which we both know didn't happen" the level of his anger was becoming clearer to Annabelle by the volume of his voice.

Annabelle mumbled in response, obviously trying to buy enough time to think of a good excuse. "It was probably and rumour, I mean those things can be deadly" She finally spoke up and realised she probably should have kept thinking when Troy's eyes started to look deadly.

"Don't you dare! Don't you DARE!" Troy yelled the last word in annoyance and started to pace, attempting to calm his nerves.

As he began to calm down he started to formulate his next sentence. "Annabelle, I love Gabi more than anything in this world. I know you like me but that is going to far! How could you do that to me? You said you loved me!"

Annabelle looked down and sighed in discontent, she knew that everything he was saying was true. She shouldn't have done it. Even though she knew this she still tried to make excuses "Troy I was the head cheerleader and a horny teenager. I am so sorry and I feel so bad! I mean I was pressured into it, you and I were supposed to be together in high school. Come on, Troy, how can you deny the fact that the basketball captain and the head cheerleader were supposed to date, not you and that know-it-all bookworm!" as soon as Annabelle had finished her rant, she immediately regretted it.

Troy could no long contain his anger. He started yelling so loud and so fast that Annabelle was having a hard time keeping up. "I can't believe you said that … I loved Gabi … You ruined our life … we were so perfect … you better call and tell her the truth … don't you dare try to talk to me after today!" Annabelle only caught a few snippets of his angry outburst but she got the gist, and she knew that she had to apologise to the people she hurt.

"Troy!" Annabelle had to yell, just to grab his attention. "I am sorry and I agree that I need to apologise to you and your friends. Especially Gabi, it was manipulative and I now realise that it was wrong. I'm sorry." She looked down to the floor in shame and Troy saw a few tears roll down her cheeks.

Troy knew that he couldn't trust that what she was saying was real, but he was willing to let her apologise to everyone.

"Come with me know, all my friends are gathered and you will be able to get it over and done with!" Troy suggested with hope as he thought about Gabi.

Annabelle nodded slightly and followed to Troy to his car, got into the car with reluctance and stayed silent the whole ride. To tune out the awkwardness Troy swiftly turned the radio on, but he wasn't expecting what came next.

I don't know why I did the things I did I don't know why I said the things I said
Pride's like a knife it can cut deep inside
Words are like weapons they wound sometimes

Troy felt the heat rise in his cheeks again as he thought about the words, "If I could turn back time, I would!" Annabelle said, and Troy reluctantly believed.

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Back at the house, everyone was crowding around Gabi and worrying, What could have gone wrong? They were getting along so well.

They were brought back to reality by the ringing of the doorbell. Sharpay moved from Gabi's side and peeked through the door.

"What are you doing here Bolton?" Gabi's head snapped up at the mention of his name. "Sharpay, please let us in? Please?" everyone was surprised at the word us.

She opened the door reluctantly and Troy walked in, along with Annabelle. Everyone stood up in defence of Gabi. Gabi had new found strength at the sight of the one girl she hated. "What are you doing here?" she said with disgust. The friends looked in her direction worried about the reaction.

Troy was the next to speak. "Annabelle has something she would like to say …"

Thanks for reading! The song was If I Could Turn Back Time by Cher.

I promise to update next week, but there will be more updates coming soon as I am very soon going on a 2 week break from school YAY.

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