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im so happy i finished just in time also
anywho its like a little more then 1 month of school left for me. That means a whole lot of exams and studying for me coming up. I'll try to update asap and try not to keep you guys waiting.
So did anyone see the pictures of Zac and Vanessa in Hawaii. OMG they look so cute!! they were meant to be together (;
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Chapter 10
February 10, 2006; 12:03 AM
Everyone was still searching the Evan's house. It has been about 20 minutes since Gabriella and Sharpay heard the noise before. Everyone was getting restless and was wondering whether there may actually be someone in the house.
Chad was walking with Ryan and Jason when his stomach started growling.
"Oh wow, I'm hungry."
Ryan turned around and pointed his flashlight at Chad. "You think? We ate like 4 hours ago."
"Yes I know but haven't you heard of something called a midnight snack?"
The boys started walking again still searching through the rest of the doors when Chad's stomach started growling again, but this time even louder.
Jason just sighed. "Are you really that hungry man?"
"Yes, most defiantly; a turkey sandwich would be great right now!!"
"Hey we are suppose to be searching this section though; we can't just leave our post."
"But Ryan I am super hungry!! I bet my stomach is scaring off who ever is in this house."
"Good then maybe he'll just leave because he can't stand the sound of your stomach."
"Come on Ryan, maybe Chad can just go and grab a quick sandwich and meet us back here. It doesn't sound like the intruder is in this section anyway." Jason said as he tried to defend Chad.
"Thank you Jason!! See I'll be back before you know it."
"Fine….just bring me back a sandwich also." Ryan said as his stomach growled a little.
"Oh hey me too!!" Jason shouted as Chad walked in the opposite direction toward the kitchen.
Troy and Zeke was almost done checking their section. Since they were also guys, their stomach started making noises signaling that it was time to eat.
"Oh look. This is about the time that I go and get my snack." Troy said and he glanced at the screen on his phone and read the time.
"You know since we are almost done, why don't we just go and get something to eat." Zeke suggested as he shined his flashlight at random walls and doors.
"Good idea. One sandwich wouldn't hurt. Also, who would know we were leaving our places anyways." Troy replied as he turned around and made their way to the kitchen.
Chad was already in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on the sandwiches when he heard footsteps coming towards the kitchen. He turned off his flashlight and hid under the island counter and listened as the footsteps were coming closer.
'I am starving!!'
'Yes we know that. Lets just find some food'
Chad by now had recognized the voices. Troy and Zeke.
'Hey look!! Someone left sandwiches here for us. I guess it wouldn't hurt if we took them right?'
'Um I guess not. I guess the girls left them out incase we were hungry.'
'I love those girls.'
'Yea me too'
'So LET'S EAT!!'
Just as Troy and Zeke was about to bite into the sandwiches, Chad jumped out from underneath the island. "DROP THE SANDWICHES!"
Troy and Zeke literally jumped 10 feet in the air and dropped the sandwiches which landed on the floor.
"I said drop them just not on the floor!!" Chad whined as he looked at Troy and Zeke who were now on the floor trying to recover from the shock.
"YO CHAD!! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!!" Troy shouted as he stood up to lend Zeke a hand.
"Hey a man here is just protecting his food."
Zeke stood up and picked up the sandwiches from the floor. "Yea but what do you need 3 for?"
"Hey, Jason and Ryan told me to bring one up for them also. You should know we are all guys, we need our food."
"I guess we should make our sandwiches now." Troy suggested as he rubbed the back of his neck while eyeing the bread.
"Now I got to make two more again!" Chad replied as he took the sandwiches that fell on the floor and threw them in the trash. "Lets get to work men!"
10 minutes passed and the boys were all done with their sandwiches.
"I guess I should take these up to Ryan and Zeke now."
"I guess so. This is going to be a long night."
Troy walked over to the window and just stared at all the white snow that had piled up. "Wow you guys, look at this. The snow is just about to reach the top of the window."
"This really is a bad storm. Do you think we should take a break? It has been an hour and no body has heard anything from the intruder. Maybe he left or something." Zeke suggested as he took a bite into his sandwich.
"How? Through the 2nd floor window? I don't think anyone can walk outside. The wind and snow is crazy!! I bet all the roads are blocked off and everything."
"I guess your rig-" Just then Troy was cut off by the walkie talkie.
'EVERYONE!! Come to the 2nd floor 1st section'
Troy and Zeke raced up to the 2nd floor with their sandwiches still in hand. They found an open door and looked through and saw Ryan, Jason and Chad staring out and down from the window. Chad was still eating his sandwich when he turned around and saw Troy and Zeke standing there.
"Yo you guys have to see this." Was all Chad could say as he finished off his sandwich.
"What are you guys looking at?" Troy asked as he walked over to the window and looked out.
As Troy stuck his head out the window he saw that there was a hole in the snow right below the window that was about maybe 4 or 5 feet deep. Troy started examining the hole more carefully and noticed that at the top of the snow you can somewhat see a little hair sticking out.
Gabriella and the rest of the girls finally showed up. "What are you looking at?"
"I think there is someone buried in the snow." Troy said as he pulled his head back in the room.
Ryan suddenly ran out of the room and 1 minute later came back with a bunch of wall climbing gear.
"Hold on to the rope." Ryan said as he strapped on the gear and walked towards the window.
"What are you doing Ryan?" Gloria asked with concern written all over her face.
"I've never told anyone this but I've done a lot of rock and wall climbing in my day. I guess you can say I'm experienced and someone has to go out and check if there is someone in that hole."
Troy and Chad grabbed onto the roped and helped Ryan out of the window. Ryan slowly hoisted himself down. He tried stepping on the snow but he foot would just sink into the snow. The snow was still too soft and not sturdy enough for someone to walk across.
"Hey guys. Move to the left a little." Ryan shouted back up to Troy and Chad.
Ryan moved closer to the hole and while extending himself from the wall he moved some of the snow that was around the hole. Ryan then saw a unconscious man and tried to shovel the snow with his hand away from his head.
"Hey I've found someone!! I'll grab a hold of him and then you guys pull me up when I tell you too!!"
The rest of the gang grabbed the roped and waited for Ryan's signal.
Ryan held onto the man and shouted for them to pull him up. Everyone started pulling with all their might. Finally they successfully pulled Ryan up to the window. Chad and Zeke went to the window and pulled the man inside as Ryan climbed back into the window. Gloria then ran over and gave Ryan a big hug as Ryan dusted the snow off of him.
"Who is it?" Jason asked as he shined his flashlight on the man.
"Let me see" Taylor asked as she made her way to the front. "OH MY GOD, IT'S KEVIN ROGERS."
"WHAT?!" Sharpay screamed as she pushed her way towards the front also. "Oh my gosh! It is him!!"
"Quick grab a chair and some rope. Lets tie him to the chair incase he wakes up he can't move and we can get the cops." Kelsi suggested as she went and grabbed a chair.
"How do you think he ended up in the snow anyways?" Gabriella asked as he ran to the window the close it so the wind would stop blowing inside.
"I bet he is the intruder and he tried to escape through the window. I guess he tried to jump out but fell through the snow." Ryan said as he finished tying the knot on Kevin's hands.
Sharpay then yawned a little. "What time is it anyways?"
Zeke took out his phone to look at the time. "Oh wow it's already 4:23 AM. We should really get some sleep." Zeke went over to Sharpay and wrapped his arms around Sharpay's waist from behind. "I'm getting somewhat tired myself."
"We can't all go to sleep though. What if Kevin here wakes up?" Jason asked as he pointed to Kevin. "Some of us should stay up at different times to make sure that he doesn't escape again. I'll take the first shift."
Chad got up from sitting on the floor with Taylor and put his hand on Jason's shoulder. "I'll join Jason. We can keep each other awake incase one of us falls asleep. 1 hour later 2 more people will switch with us."
"I'll take the 2nd shift. Who wants to join me?" Troy asked as he looked around the room.
"Count me in Troy." Ryan said as walked over to the guys. "Just wake us up after your time is up."
"Ok well that is the first 2 hours under control. Me and Gabi will take the 3rd hour." Talor suggested as she yawned a little.
"That will give us until 7 when I guess we can try shoveling ourselves out and get the cops." Zeke said as he brang in the blankets that were in the living room. "I'm guessing we should all sleep in here and surround Kevin."
"Ok then. Get some shut eye you guys. It has been a long night."
Jason and Chad pulled up 2 chairs facing Kevin and sat there as everyone else fell asleep. Troy wrapped his arms around Gabriella as Zeke did the same for Sharpay and so did Ryan for Gloria. Taylor and Kelsi slept next to each other wrapped in a blanket to keep warm.
6:25 AM
Gabriella and Taylor were now taking their post as watch while Troy and Ryan were going to get a little shut eye. Gabriella and Taylor were still a little tired but they would be able to manage for 1 more hour. Gabriella and Taylor was just talking in hush tones so they wouldn't wake up the others when out of the corner of their eye they saw that Kevin started to wake up.
"Taylor look!!" Gabriella semi-shouted as she pointed towards Kevin.
"Should we wake up the others?" Taylor asked as he slowly got up.
"Be careful Taylor. Lets see what happens." Gabriella slowly approached Kevin with a bat in hand incase things got a little crazy. Kevin now slowly started opening his eyes while mumbling some things.
"Where am I? What's happening?"
Gabriella motioned for Taylor to come as she stepped in front of Kevin. "Hello Kevin, remember me?"
"What?! What is going on here?! What happened?!"
"Well we found you outside buried under a couple of feet of snow. I guess you can say we saved you but you still don't even say thanks." Taylor calmly said as he stood next to Gabriella with her arms folded. Everyone else started waking up now. After their vision became clear again they noticed that Kevin was awake.
"You think you can try and rob the Evan's house?! Well think again mister!!" Sharpay shouted as he walked towards Kevin looking like she was about to beat the crap out of him even if he was at least 2 times her size.
Zeke then grabbed Sharpay's waist from behind to hold her back. "Come on now baby don't do anything drastic. Troy lets see if we can reach the cops."
Troy went over to one of the house phone and picked it up. He held the receiver up to his ear but heard nothing. "ARG. The line is still dead."
"Maybe we can see a cop past by the house or something." Gloria suggested as she walked over to the window.
"Good idea. Hey guys let's start shoveling our way out. The girls can stay up here as look out for the cops and Kevin here." Jason said as he went and grabbed their jackets.
The guys walked out of the room but not before they each gave their girls a kiss. After all that has happened they all just wanted one relaxing day with no worries at all.
"Hey do you think the snow is hard yet?" Taylor asked as he opened the window.
"I'm not sure. Why do you ask Tay?" Sharpay asked as she eyed Taylor suspiciously.
"I was thinking that if it was hard we would be able to walk on top of it. It would be easier to spot any cops also."
"Well there is only one way to find out." Gabriella said while putting on Ryan's climbing gear.
"Gabriella you can't go out there." Kelsi said with concern in her voice. Everyone was nodding in agreement thinking that Gabi was crazy.
"Hey don't worry. I've done some rock climbing here and there. It wasn't that hard. Just hold onto the rope, I'll test the snow out."
With that Gabriella climbed out of the window and down to the snow. She hesitantly put her foot down onto the snow lightly and felt that the snow wasn't giving in yet. She put a little more pressure onto the snow and felt the snow weaken a little. Gabriella then put her whole body weight onto the snow but the snow did not collapse through.
"It's safe you guys!!" Gabriella shouted up back to the girls. Now all Gabi had to do was help the guys out a little. 'I bet they are still trying to get the door open' she thought.
Suddenly a light bulb went off in Gabi's head. "Hey guys!! Throw me down a shovel!"
"What are you doing Gabriella?!" Gloria shouted as she went to grab the shovel and threw it out onto the mountain of snow for Gabriella.
"I'm going to help the guys a little. The snow is strong enough for support but still a little weak to make it easy for some shoveling."
Gabriella then made her way directly above the path to the front door and started shoveling from the top and throwing the snow onto the road where the trucks would come by and shovel it away. No one was out cause of all the snow so she couldn't cause an accident by throwing snow onto someone's car as they were driving. A few minutes later Gabriella heard a noise that sounded like snow falling. She looked towards where the front door would be and saw that the snow around it had collapsed in. She ran towards it as she looked down she saw that the door was opened and that a heap of snow had sailed right through.
"Troy? Chad? Zeke? Anyone hear me?!" Gabriella shouted downwards.
"Gabriella is that you?!"
"YEA!! You guys ok?"
"Yea we are fine. I think we can climb to the top of the snow now."
The guys then started walking out the door and up the slanted snow. It was kind of hard for them to all get to the top since the snow was not all that secure to hold on to. When the guys finally made it up to the top of the snow they all started shoveling the walk way. Gabriella was shoveling a little when she saw a police car.
"HEY OVER HERE!!" She started screaming. Everyone else noticed the police too and started waving their hands over their heads frantically. The cops finally stopped and Gabriella shouted from above down to them.
"What seems to be the problem miss?"
"Last night there was an intruder in my friend's house here. We caught the guy and he is in the room up there right now. He is the same guy who terrorized me and my friends are East High Monday! Our friends are up there watching him right now as we speak."
The police then turned to his partner and told him to radio in the snow plows and everything. "The trucks are coming to shovel you guys out."
With that everyone jumped for joy as Troy walked over to Gabriella and gave her a warm hug.
"Are you ok Gabi?"
"Yea I'm fine. A little cold, but I'm fine. I'm just happy we caught that guy." Gabriella said as she turned her head towards the room where Sharpay, Taylor, Kelsi, and Gloria was in.
Troy then leaned in and gave Gabriella one of his earth shattering kisses. It was so passionate and Gabriella totally forgot that she was still standing outside. It just sent warmth throughout her body and she loved every second of it.
"GABRIELLA!!"
Gabriella and Troy quickly broke apart and looked up to the window where Sharpay was sticking her head out. "What did the cops say?!"
"They radioed in the snow plows. They are going to dig us out. I think the cops are climbing the snow to get to the window and arrest Kevin."
"Good!! He is just sitting here now whistling and its driving me nuts!! Its like he doesn't care that he is going to jail."
"Maybe he just gave up cause he knows he cant escape from his now." Troy said as he helped pull one of the officers up. "Its that window over there with the girl sticking her head out." Troy told the officers as they slid down the snow heap through the front door. They then made their way up the stairs and to the room where they found the 4 girls surrounding Kevin Rogers indeed.
"The snow trucks are here!!" Ryan shouted from outside.
Everyone started digging a walk through to get out of the house. After 1 hour enough snow was gone that people could walk in and out of the house. The cops hand cuffed Kevin and took him out of the house and placed him into the police car. One of the police men then drove off as a couple of others started questioning some of the gang.
Taylor walked over to Gabriella with Chad's jacket on her shoulders. "I am so glad this is over."
"Yes I know. Where are the others?" Gabriella asked while looking around.
"I think Ryan and Troy are being questioned. Sharpay and Zeke are helping one of the firemen look for the fuse box to try and get the electricity back in the house. Kelsi, Gloria and Jason are getting checked by the doctors now and Chad and I just finished getting checked so I think he is in the kitchen getting food now." As Taylor said the last part she laughed and Gabriella also chuckled a little also.
"What are we going to do with him?" Gabriella said as she shook her head.
"Well I still love him anyways" Taylor said as she looked over and saw Chad coming towards them with a sandwich in hand.
"Sandwich baby?" Chad said as he held the sandwich up to her for her to bite.
"Thanks babe."
Chad and Taylor told Gabriella they were going to go back into the house and walked off. Gabriella then felt warm strong arms wrap themselves around her from behind.
"We really do need sleep now," said the voice from behind which Gabriella could always recognize.
"Yes we do. I'm not getting my beauty sleep here!!" Gabriella chuckled as she turned around to face those baby blue eyes looking down at her.
"You are always beautiful."
Troy then leaned in to give her a light kiss. Gabriella wrapped her arms around Troy's neck and deepened the kiss. They then broke the kiss for air and Troy rested his forehead on Gabi's forehead. "Let's go get some sleep now."
"Yea, ok."
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