Alright well as promised here's the next chapter on time. I'm gonna try to have the next chapter up later this week.
-As for the one-shot based on the songs i'd love it if more people voted but if not i'll still write one anyways; i was actually thinking of writing two depending on how much free time i have and i'll try to have those up early this week if i have the time. I was thinking about writing a one-shot for halloween tommarrow so look out for that as well if i decide to write one.
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Alright well enough of me talking and on to the Chapter :)
I was sitting on the couch at Taylor's house when Sharpay hit me playfully with a pillow "Gabi come on stop pouting".
"Yeah I'm sure Kyle will realize he screwed up and he'll make it up to you" Kate said to me
They all thought that I was being quiet because of Kyle, but that wasn't the case. I was quiet because every second I was watching the clock as it moved closer and closer to midnight and past midnight. I should be happy that it's technically tomorrow but there's still this fear inside of me that even though it's the next day that I'm still going to wake up and I'll have to live the day over again.
I'm hoping that I've done enough. This morning I would have sworn that just not going to the party was enough to give me my tomorrow but now all I can think is what else could I have done to change things? Was there something I missed that could possibly send me back to seeming to be never-ending today?
Taylor then decides to turn the TV off snapping me out of my trance.
"What should we do now?" Taylor asked all of us, which leads to Kate slipping down on the floor in front of the Ouija board we had been goofing around with earlier, we would ask it questions and well the spirits probably weren't involved as we were essentially making our own answers moving it around the board
"Let's try the spirits again" Kate says giggling and puts her fingers onto it shoving it forward as it lands on No "Look its working this time" She says which just causes Sharpay to roll her eyes.
"Kate you didn't even ask a question" Sharpay replied dully to her obviously not wanting to deal with the Ouija board again.
I just kept staring at the clock as it kept going and time seemed to be rushing by.
"We need some music" Sharpay announced
"I agree" Kate said agreeing with her and they then run out of the room together where the stereo system is.
"Please Don't..." I try to get out but it's too late as the music starts blaring loudly in the house and just makes my head pound even more than it already is.
A moment later I hear Taylor bursting out laughing and I look up and see Sharpay and Kate in the boxer shorts and tank tops that we were all wearing but they had added something to their outfits. They now had ski goggles and mittens on their hands and ugg boots on. It was pretty obvious that they had raided in the closet filled with winter items that was down the hallway.
Sharpay has a ski pole in her hand and she's acting like she grinding onto and Taylor and Kate are just laughing at her. I just cover my ears to try and shut out some of the noise I can hear Kate telling me to uncover me ears and have some fun but I'm just not in the mood.
My head is literally pounding and I feel like it's about to explode with everything going on around me and with all the thoughts going on in my head. I close my eyes hoping that blocking out the visuals might cause some of the pounding in my head to stop.
And then there's silence and I'm scared if I open my eyes I'll be back in my room and starting all the day all over again.
But when I open them I see Taylor's mom yelling at her and I take my hands off my ears and I catch her saying that they need to turn the music off and settle down before someone in the neighborhood calls the cops for being too loud.
I then feel a sense of relief come over me and I feel like I want to cry but all I can do is just burst out in laughter causing everyone to look at me.
"Were you girls drinking?" Taylor's mom asks us
"No mother" Taylor says annoyed that she was even asking that
"Were just having a little good clean fun Mrs. Mckessie, no alcohol involved"
"Well keep having fun, just keep it down, I'm going to bed" She says
"Fine mother" Taylor replies to her
"Goodnight Girls" Taylor's mom says and then turns and leaves the room.
"We were just having a little good clean fun Mrs. Mckessie" Kate says mocking Sharpay
"Oh shut up" Sharpay replies and throws a pillow at Kate hitting her in the head causing her to just burst out laughing
"Girls!" Mrs. Mckessie replies from where she's at and that only causes us to start laughing even more and I start to feel like everything is going to be normal again.
About an hour and a half later we were all laying down. Me and Sharpay we're on the long leather couch with our feet touching each other, or Sharpay tapping her foot against mine trying to piss me off but honestly I really don't think anything can make me mad right now. Taylor is on the king sized air-mattress with Kate
"Is anyone awake" I ask softly seeing if anyone will answer
"Oomph" I hear from Sharpay
"If you guys had to pick one day to relive over and over again what would it be?" I asked
It was silent for a few moments and I assumed that they were all asleep and I wasn't even tired. I'm too excited thinking that my never-ending day had finally been stopped and it was tomorrow. I think about what I would do on my perfect day. There would be no school that day and I'd be spending time with my friends and family.
I slowly feel my eyes starting to fall closed and I feel a darkness coming over me like I'm about to fall when I hear a beeping sound and for a moment I think it's my alarm and that it might possibly be starting all over again. I then move and hit something and hear and "Ow" and realize that I hit Sharpay and I feel myself calming down. I hear the beeping again and I realize it's a phone ringing.
I then see Taylor sitting up and moving around looking for her phone.
"Taylor make it stop" Sharpay says to her
"I'm trying Shar, but I can't find my phone"
"Well find it"
A moment later the ringing stops and Taylor has her phone in her hand
"seriously it's almost 3 in the morning, who the hell would call me at 3 in the morning?" she says mumbling annoyed
"Maybe it's Chad Danforth professing his love to you" Sharpay says to her
"Ha so funny" She says laying back down on the air mattress. We then start hearing voices coming from Taylor's parents' room. They are trying to be quiet but I swear I can hear Taylor's mom say "Oh my God that's horrible"
"Tay-" I'm about to say but I'm pretty sure Taylor heard the same thing I did as she gets up turning on the light and then sits back down on the bed curling up in a ball
"Something isn't right" she says softly. Sharpay finally takes the blanket off of her realizing that whatever is going on isn't stopping anytime soon
"What's going on?" Sharpay says rubbing her eyes but no one replies to her.
It's like something comes over the room, a realization that something horribly wrong has gone on. We then hear footsteps coming towards the room and Mrs. Mckessie has walked into the room looking like she's seen a ghost.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Taylor asked her mom
"Listen girls, what I have to tell you is upsetting and I'm only telling you because I think that you should know" Taylor's mom says to us obviously stalling to control herself enough to tell us the news.
"Mom just tell us"
"I'm sure you all know Martha Cox" She says to us and we all nod our heads in shock, that of all people she would be bringing up that it would be her.
"What about her mom?"
"Well you see her- well um that was Mrs. Danforth on the phone, The Cox's neighbor" She tells us "There has apparently been cops and ambulances on the street for the past hour"
"Yeah so?" Taylor asked and I don't know why but I'm just as confused as to what's going on as she is
"Martha Cox is dead, she killed herself tonight" Taylor's mom finally musters out but it's so quiet that I'm shocked I could even hear her.
We all just sit there in silence and in shock of what's just been told to us. I look over at Sharpay and I think that this is the first time I've ever seen her perfectly still and silent. It was scary and I feel so weird and I feel like I want to say something but I have no words
"How?" Kate asked softly
Mrs. Mckessie sat there a moment trying to pull herself together before replying
"Mrs. Danforth said she heard a gunshot but she didn't think anything of it, she said she just assumed it was firecracker or someone goofing around"
"She shot herself?" Taylor barely mustered out looking like she was about to cry. "Why?"
"They have no idea, there was no note" Mrs. Mckessie told her "I just thought you girls should know" She then goes over to Taylor hugging her and kissing the top of her head and then leaves the room.
We sit there in silence a few moments after she leaves until Kate breaks the silence
"Do you think that she might have killed herself over the candy cane we sent her?" Kate asked seriously
"Don't be stupid Kate" Sharpay snapped at her. I can just tell from how she's acting that this has clearly upset her. "Seriously I mean this wasn't the first time we've sent her one"
"Yeah well that's probably just made it even worse that it's been more than once" Taylor says
"At least we knew who she was, most people had no idea who she was" Sharpay says looking down at her hands looking almost guilty like she might actually feel bad and that maybe the candy canes might have had something to do with what happened.
"Still.." Taylor was about to say something but Sharpay cut her off
"She's just better off this way" Sharpay says but we just look at her in shock. That was a really low shot even for Sharpay. "Oh come on, you know you were thinking the same thing. She was miserable and now she doesn't have to deal with it anymore"
"But things could have gotten better-" I say trying to reason with her
"They wouldn't have and you know it" Sharpay replies
"Seriously Sharpay" Taylor says to her disgusted by how Sharpay is acting
I'm just in shock that Martha even did it. I mean I knew she didn't have the best life but I never thought she'd consider shooting herself. That just sends a shiver down my spine thinking of her taking the gun and actually doing it. It's just why would anyone choose to end their life in that type of violent manner, I mean she could have drowned herself walking into the water never looking back or something. Just the thought of seeing her lying in a pool of her blood just it's horrifies me.
"Maybe we shouldn't have been so horrible to her" Kate says
"Oh seriously Kate, you can't be mean to someone forever and then as soon as they die feel bad about it" Sharpay says to her
"Well I do feel bad Sharpay" Kate replied back to her
"Well then you're a hypocrite, and that's worse than anything" Sharpay says to her "now if you'll excuse me I'm going to try and get some sleep" She then lays back down on the couch and there is silence again
I'm not sure if Taylor fell back asleep or not but I hear her say she's going upstairs and I get my answer. A moment later Kate says she's going with her. They are clearly upset with the situation and being around Sharpay's attitude is just worsening everything.
After they leave I lay back down myself and listen to Sharpay breathing and it makes me restless. I have so many questions back no idea how to get the answers at this moment. I then get up slowly to not wake up Sharpay but she isn't sleeping
"You're not going upstairs are you?" She whispers to me
"No Bathroom" I reply softly back to her. I then make my way quietly out of the room. I head down the hallway and past the bathroom and I find the spare room with all of Taylor's old school stuff in, just the room I was looking for. I then go over to a box with her old yearbooks in it. I then pick up one from elementary school.
I open to a page and find me in my 2nd grade class picture for Mrs. Anderson's class. I see myself standing towards the side of the page slightly away from my other class members. I then start flipping through the pages and I find the page I'm looking for a moment later. I see Mrs. Farley's class, the class that Sharpay was in 2nd grade. I find Sharpay in the front row center wearing a little pink dress and a smile on her face for the camera. Next to her is a slightly bigger girl who seems to look familiar that's standing almost arm and arm with Sharpay. The girl looks well happy and it takes me a moment to realize that the girl was in fact, Martha Cox.
I then go to look in the 3rd grade yearbook but this time they are in different classes. But I look through a few pages and I find a picture of them together their arms wrapped around each other both wearing the same t-shirts. They look like well best friends to anyone who was looking at the picture.
I then go to the 4th grade year book and I again find that Sharpay and Martha are in the same class with their arms around each other looking like best friends.
But when I go to look in the 5th grade yearbook I find Sharpay right away but it takes me a little while to find Martha. When I do find her it's on the same page as Sharpay but I realize she's in the top corner looking alone like she'd rather not be in the picture at all.
It then hits me that 5th grade was the year of the girl scouts sleepover incident. I then put the yearbooks away to make it look like I had never been in there. My heart just then starts beating fastly and I feel sick all over again. I then head back to the room but feeling dizzy and I go to grab the wall but it ends up not being the wall at all
"What's your problem" Sharpay says to me "Why are you looking at me like that"
"Oh you scared me" I say to her
"What were you doing?" She asked me referring to why I was coming from somewhere other than the bathroom.
"You were friends with her in elementary school Sharpay" I just blurt out at her like I'm accusing her of some type of crime
"It's not our fault Gabi, you know she's miserable" She says to me
"Yes I know" I say to her
"And I heard her mom does drugs and just that her whole family is crazy" Sharpay says like she's defending herself.
It then takes me a moment before I reply "Was"
"What?"Sharpay asked me
"She was miserable, she's not anything anymore" I reply to her and she doesn't say anything. I then just walk past her and back to the room and lay myself down on the couch.
I lay there thinking about the time Sharpay and I had been driving in her car home from the mall and we were laughing having a good time. She then goofed off and pretended like she was about to hit another car "Don't worry they will always swerve first" She told me and it was like they heard her as they moved out of the way almost going into the ditch on the side of the road.
That's the last thing I remember thinking about before I closed my eyes and the dream takes over again.
The dream where I'm falling forever in the never-ending darkness.
Well I hope you liked the Chapter :)
-and just so there's no confusion this is NOT the last chapter; there are still many more chapters to come so please keep reading the story if you like it and get other people to read it as well :)
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