Fifteen minutes later, the East High Wildcats, plus Maddie and London, had entered the Tipton. Moseby had led them to his office, and they all managed to cram into the small area.

"Now, who would like to explain to me what happened?" Moseby said, taking a seat at his desk. He put his chin in his hands and looked at the teenagers expectantly.

"Well, it's… uh… it's very… confusing," Troy stuttered. Gabriella, who was standing next to Troy, held up her hand.

"There's nothing confusing about it," she said. "It's easy to understand."

"Then why don't you explain it?" Troy shot back. They were obviously still bitter about what had happened earlier.

"Fine. I will." Gabriella turned and looked at Moseby. "You see, it started with the Halloween Ball. Maddie showed up late; I went to the bathroom. When I came back, I couldn't find Troy anywhere. I asked London if she had seen him, but she had told me that she hadn't seen him. Then she asked me if I had seen Maddie, but I hadn't seen her since she had gotten here. I didn't think anything about the fact that neither of them were there. I looked around the ballroom again, and then I headed up to our room, thinking that he had forgotten something up there. When I opened the door… I found… I found…" Gabriella trailed off and took a deep breath. The memory, even after everything that had happened tonight, was very painful for her.

"I found Troy and Maddie… kissing. I ran, and then Rick grabbed me when I passed a staircase. He threw me to some guy, Fred, I think his name was, and then we were off to the Tipton basement. Rick had lifted a picture of Carey off a power box, and a bookcase had swung open. There was some type of secret room back there. And in the secret room was another secret room, and Rick and Fred threw me in there. And that's where I found Taylor, Chad, Zeke, Sharpay, Kelsi, Jason, and Ryan. I told them the story of how I got down there, and then, sometime later, Troy had been thrown in. We argued for a while, about the whole Maddie kissing Troy thing. Then Maddie was thrown into the room, and Kelsi had managed to shove her sneaker between the door and the wall, so we escaped. Maddie escaped with us and explained why she had kissed Troy. Turns out that Rick was married to her sister, and had threatened to kill her sister, their two children, and Maddie herself. Then Rick had a gun pointed at Maddie and London, and then you showed up and killed Rick. That's pretty much the whole night in a nutshell."

Moseby looked at everyone else. "Is this true?" Everyone nodded their heads vigorously, eager to get out of the room. "Alright, I'm glad this was settled. I'll have to report this all and do the paper work…" Moseby made a face. "I hate paperwork. As for Rick's friend Fred, he had been found unconscious on the floor of Arwin's work area. I figured that Rick had knocked him unconscious out of anger when he had figured out that you had all escaped."

Moseby reached into his desk and took out several room keys. "Here are some extra room keys for you all. Please, go up to your rooms and refresh yourselves." They didn't need to be told twice. They rushed out of Moseby's small office. As Gabriella and Troy headed up to their room, they heard their names being called.

"Troy!"

"Gabriella!"

"Mom! Dad!" Troy and Gabriella ran towards their parents, who engulfed them in a hug.

"We were so worried about you!" both sets of parents exclaimed at the same time.

"What happened?"

"Where have you been?"

"Who was involved?"

"Is everyone else okay?"

"Was anyone hurt?"

"Are you okay?"

Troy and Gabriella looked at each other and broke into a fit of laughs. "Mom, Dad, relax. We're fine," Troy said in between laughs.

"Yeah, just go upstairs and settle in. We'll tell you everything later, we promise," Gabriella said.

Both Troy and Gabriella's parents got into one elevator while Troy and Gabriella got into another. They rode up in silence, entered their room in silence, sat on their bed in silence. Gabriella could take it anymore. She got up and went out to the adjacent balcony, overlooking the view of Boston. Not even an hour ago, she had been terrified out of her wits. Now, she was strangely calm, almost as if she was in shock. Gabriella breathed in deeply and closed her eyes.

She felt a presence beside her. With her eyes closed, her other senses were enhanced. Gabriella opened her eyes and looked up at Troy, who was standing next to her.

"You know, we still need to talk," Troy said, leaning on the balcony railing.

Gabriella looked down at the ground. "I know."

They were silent for a few moments before Troy opened his mouth. "I wasn't the one to kiss Maddie," he said.

Way to be obvious. "I know," Gabriella said again.

"Then why did you freak?"

"Because I didn't know until Maddie told the truth!" Gabriella exploded. "Do you know what it looked like to me? It looked like the guy that I loved was kissing another girl! Do you know how horrible that looks?" She stopped herself and took a deep breath. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10…" she counted quietly, trying not to let Troy know how distressed she was.

It didn't work.

Troy wrapped an arm around her shoulders. Gabriella didn't bother to move away from him or tell him off. Instead, she leaned into his embrace, eager for his warm touch. In the few short hours that they had been "broken up," Gabriella had found it increasingly hard not to touch Troy. Of course, she wouldn't let him know that.

"You know, when you said that you had loved me in that cell, I had thought that you were just saying that to get me to feel sorry. Now, I think that you really do mean it," Troy said quietly.

Gabriella looked up at him. "Of course I mean it. I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it."

"Well, I don't know how much this will help anything, but I love you too."

Gabriella smiled up at him. "You do?"

"Yeah, I do." Troy said with the same smile on his face. "I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it."

Gabriella giggled and buried her head into Troy's chest. A few seconds later, she looked up into his piercing blue eyes. Troy leaned down and kissed her, more passionately then he had ever kissed anyone before. Gabriella did the same.

Just then, there was a knock at the door. Gabriella and Troy broke apart and went to open the door. There stood Chad, along with Taylor, Sharpay, Zeke, Jason, Kelsi, and Ryan. However, Troy and Gabriella only addressed Chad.

"Chad?"

"Yes?"

"You have the worst timing."

Author's Note: Cheesy filler chapter, I know. I think there will be one shorter chapter where they go to East High, and then an epilogue. I'm eager to start on my other stories! I hoped you liked this chapter; there really wasn't much to it… Oh, and for anyone that's interested, my first High School Musical story is finished. It's called Right on Track. Thanks for the reviews!