Chapter 10- Fire

Gabbi was starving the next day at lunch. She was enjoying a salad when Chad started to poke fun at her.

"Hey…Hey guys, who am I?" he then put his head on Taylor's shoulder and pretended to sleep. Needless to say Gabbi flicked a piece of a carrot at him.

Troy couldn't help but chuckle a little. Gabbi rolled her eyes but started to crack up once she saw the Chad was seriously sleeping on Taylor's shoulder.

Taylor pushed his head off of her shoulder and it hit the table. The lunchroom was roaring with laughter.

Chad always had a way of lightening the mood. Or brighten Gabbi's day. But Troy was a whole other league with making Gabbi happy.

"Do you guys want to go shopping later?" Sharpay asked. All the guys moaned.

"Please?" Gabbi asked Troy and giving him the puppy look.

All the other guys gave in except for Troy. He glared at them.

"I promise I won't buy more than five bags of things!" Gabbi said.

"Fine." He said.

"HAHA! I had my fingers crossed!" she yelled. They all laughed.

"Then I'm not going." He said.

"Ok, here's the deal. For every bag you carry you get one of these…" she said as she kissed him.

"I'm in." he said. Gabbi giggled and the bell rang. For the rest of the day Gabbi was extremely bored. She was already ahead in all of her classes.

Free period Gabbi walked to her favorite spot to read. As she was walking up a flight of stairs, she heard her name being used in a conversation….

"All I know is that Skye has it out for Gabriella." A girl said.

"Well so you know what she's going to do?" asked the other girl.

"No, but she did say something about the championship game tomorrow." Answered the other girl.

Gabbi stood there wide-eyed as she heard them finish up their conversation.

She leaned up against the wall and slid down it. She pulled her knees up to her chest and took a deep breath.

"It's ok, you'll be fine. She's not going to touch you. All you have to do is try to figure out what she's going to do or keep a good eye on her at the game, that's all." She thought to herself.

"Gabs, you ok?" she heard someone ask. She looked up and saw Brian a friend of Troy's.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just tired." She said.

The bell rang. Brian helped her up.

"Thanks Brian." She said as she walked off to her last class of the day. She walked into her L.A class and took her seat beside Sharpay. Zeke sat on the other side of her.

"Hey Gabs, you ok? You don't seem like yourself." Zeke asked her.

"Yeah, you look really distant and like you're not here." Sharpay added. "What's up?" she asked.

"I-I'm fine, really, I just want to get home and sleep. I'm just really tired." she said unconvincingly.

"Well if you're sure." Sharpay said.

"I am." She said. And before anything else could be said the teacher started the class.

In the middle of class they heard what sounded like to be a small explosion in the room next door. Seconds later they heard screams and the fire alarm go off. They all jumped up and ran out of the classroom and onto the football field.

The rest of the school was already out, they were the last ones. Gabbi looked around and saw everyone with their girlfriends or their boyfriends or just friends hugging each other as they watched flames break out in the school.

Gabbi looked around and found Troy, she ran over to him and he wrapped his arms around her.

"You ok?" he asked her.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine, what's going on?" asked a frightened Gabbi.

"I don't know but I heard some sound coming from a few classrooms from down the hall." He said.

"I know, it was the room next to mine, it sounded like a small explosion." She said still in Troy's arms as she watched as the flames got bigger and bigger.

A few minutes of being out there they heard another, much bigger explosion. They heard sirens making their way towards the school. They watched as their school was completely engulfed in flames.

"Look, there's your dad, maybe he knows what's going on." She said.

Troy nodded and they made their way over.

"Dad, what's going on?" asked Troy as he was joined by Taylor and Chad.

"We don't know yet but we are going to send the students home." He answered.

Everyone was as far as they could possibly be from the school. As the firefighters were working on putting the fire out the students began to walk home. Chad and Taylor were with Troy and Gabbi.

"Guys, let's go to my house, that way we can all just hang until things get sorted out." Chad said. We all nodded as we made our way to his house.

"You can see the smoke from here." Taylor said looking out the window.

"It looks like one heck of a fire, I wonder what started it." Chad said looking out as well.

"I better call my mom and let her know that Gabbi and I are alright." Taylor said as she took out her cell phone from her pocket.

She called her mom…

(Taylor/Her mom)

"Hello?"

"Hi mom, it's Taylor, listen, there was a fire at school but I called to let you know that everyone's alright, we are all at Chad's right now."

"Oh my god! I was wondering where all the smoke was coming from! Are you sure you're ok? Do you want me to come home?"

"No mom, we are all perfectly fine."

"Well if you're sure."

"I'm positive, so I'll see you later then."

"Ok, bye sweetie."

"Bye mom."

Taylor walked back out to the living room where Chad, Gabbi, and Troy were.

"My mom almost had a heart attack; she said that she could see the smoke from there." Taylor said as she sat down next to Chad.

"I think I did have a heart attack." Gabbi said.

"I never thought that we could have a fire in school." Chad said.

"I guess all those stupid fire drills went to good use." Troy said.

"I hate those. They make you stand outside forever." Taylor said.

They were talking for a while when Chad noticed that Gabbi said a word.

"Gabbi, you alright? You haven't said a word." Chad said.

"And that's just not like you, you're usually always saying something." He added.

"Yea, you seem like you're thinking about something." Troy said.

"I heard these girls talking earlier during free period." Gabbi started.

They all looked at her with faces urging her on to talk.

"And they said that…Skye…'has it in for me'." She said.

"Let me tell you, I'm about this close to going to her house and beating the crap out of her." Said a very angry Taylor as she pinched her fingers together showing how close she was.

"Then they said something about her being at the championship." Gabbi said.

"Which I guess isn't going to happen now." Gabbi added.

"Gabbi, why didn't you tell me this before?" Taylor asked.

"Well I was just trying to sort things out in my head first." Gabbi said.

"Well, until the game, I don't think she will come near you." Chad said.

"Yeah, but we can't just assume that. I mean she already hurt you." Troy said to Gabbi.

"Let's stake out in front of Tay's house!" Chad said excitedly.

"Um, how about…uh…no!" Taylor said.

"My mom would think you're stalking us!" Taylor exclaimed.

While Taylor and Chad were bickering Gabbi rested her head on Troy's shoulder. She felt him kiss the top of her head. She turned around and smiled.

"You've got nothing to worry about Brie." Troy said.

"I know." Gabbi said.

"For the millionth time you are not going to stake outside my house!" Taylor yelled. Meanwhile Troy and Gabbi were laughing at them.

Troy's cell rang.

"Hello?" he answered….

Oooo, who is it?!?! Lol.