Author's Note: Hey everyone! Thanks for all your reviews, I think I got a record number of reviews for the last chapter. Well a record number for me. lol Anyway, here's the next chapter!

Who Knew

Chapter 11

No One's POV/ Gabriella's POV/ Troy's POV

"You know, I know we haven't seen each other in years Chad, but was it really necessary for you to put me in a headlock and give me noogie?"

Ryan stood up straight while rubbing his head, glaring at Chad who was on the couch, beaming brightly.

"What can I say? I missed you man! I missed all the fun we had in high school"

"Yeah, just grab the rest of the basketball team and stuff me in a locker, things will be exactly like they were in high school."

"I never stuffed you in a locker!"

"Yes you did, back in freshman year…"

"Guys! Please, we can relive precious memories later, but now, we have more important matters." Taylor announced coming out of the kitchen and placing two bowls of mixed nuts on the coffee table. Zeke and Jason raised their eyebrows at the bowls.

"Wow, mixed nuts. You really go all out for company, don't you Tay?" Zeke smirked.

"Well, since SOMEONE decided to eat all our food a few days ago, we haven't had time for a grocery run."

"You know what? I like nothing better than a bowl of mixed nuts. Practically a meal, don't you think Zeke?" Jason commented.

"Absolutely."

Taylor smiled as she went back into the kitchen to help Kelsi and Sharpay. Then the front door opened to reveal Gabriella.

"Hey Gabby!"

"Hey, what you guys doing?"

"All depends on what you bought." Taylor said, coming back into the living room with the girls by her side to greet Gabriella.

"Well" She opened her bag "I brought some red wine for the girls, some beer for the guys, and…. 4 bags of potato chips for…well, the guys."

"I knew there was a reason we were friends with you!" Zeke exclaimed while he motioned for the chips.

"So what do we do about Troy and Sydney?" Chad asked.

It had been 45 minutes since Gabriella had come home and every one had delved into the alcohol and chips (which we pretty much dominated by the guys) and they had helped Chad get up to date with the entire goings on in their lives. After he had had a ten-minute conversation with Jason about his sport store Cross and the possibility of Chad doing some promotional opportunities for him, "For old times sake" as Jason put it, it had finally clicked that there was still the problem with Troy and his back-stabbing, thinks-her-name-is-a-capital-city, idiot of a girlfriend.

"Well should we tell him?" Sharpay enquired while filling another glass of wine.

"Well we shouldn't" Taylor stated, motioning to everyone except Chad and Gabriella. " I mean, apart from you two, none of us have really been in contact with him in years. I don't think it would be right if we go up and say, "Hey Troy, how have you been the last four years? Oh by the way, your girlfriend is cheating on you""

"Well that's not completely true, you bumped into him at the hospital yesterday." Gabriella mentioned.

"Yeah, right after he accidentally stabbed me in the toe with one of his crutches."

"Oh, right.

"Well then which one of you two tells him?" Kelsi asked as she snuggled into Jason and twirled her hair.

"Well honestly," Gabriella put her glass on the coffee table, "I don't really feel comfortable telling him. After all, I am his doctor and we have all this history and really, it is none of my business…"

"Well let's face it Gabby, it will be awkward for anyone. And after all, you were the one who saw her." Chad said. "You did see her, didn't you?"

"Of course I did. The girl dropped $300, she didn't think it was that much money, and when she saw me, she didn't recognise me. And plus, the guy she was with, my God, granted I only saw his back, but he had a body that looked like it had been developed by NASA."

The girls giggled whereas the guys just rolled their eyes.

"So, I take it, Chad is the one who's going to tell him?" Sharpay asked.

" I guess so. You okay with that, honey?" Taylor looked at her boyfriend.

"I suppose so. I'll tell him tomorrow when I visit him.

"That's settled."

Troy got back into bed the next morning after a short walk up and down the corridor on his crutches. He had fallen down twice, once knocking over a nurse carrying a pile of bedpans. Funnily enough, she looked like the same nurse who had collided with the dark-haired doctor on his first day here.

I honestly think I'm getting worse on these crutches…

Troy had been told by Gabriella that he would be able to go home in a couple of days, if he was lucky. Then again, that was right before he ran slipped and banged into Gabriella…

Yep, definitely getting worse…

So at this rate, he'd be lucky to be getting out before the end of the century.

Troy smiled when he saw Chad enter the ward. Chad on the other hand, did not smile with the same sort of warmth. It was like he was fake smiling.

"Hey, Chad. What's up?"

"Not much" Chad sat down in the armchair next to Troy's bed. "Oh, I brought you something." Chad dug his hand into his jacket pocket and fished out an envelope. He handed it to Troy.

"I was at Taylor's last night. Everyone in the gang was there and they wanted me to give you this "Get Well Soon." card."

Troy opened the envelope and looked briefly at the picture on the front of the card but the opened it to see the familiar handwriting of all his old friends. There was the short scrawl of Zeke, the flowery, almost unreadable note from Sharpay, there was even the little circles above the "i"s known to be Taylor's doing. Everyone was there, wishing him well, except one person.

"I take it Gabby didn't want to sign"

"Well, you know…. And she is your doctor after all."

"Yeah." Troy mumbled, closing the card. "Well it was nice of them anyway, tell them I said thanks."

"I will." Chad started fidgeting. Then realised he had a job to do. "Look, there was something else I needed to tell you."

"Yeah?"

"Well, you see, it's about Sydney."

"Oh don't go on about her again, Chad! I know you would prefer me to be with Gabriella but she won't…"

"That's not what I'm talking about. You see, Troy. Sydney was seen yesterday. On the street. With another guy."

Almost instantly, a lump formed in Troy's throat. His stomach turned.

Oh no… not again. She promised she wouldn't do this…

"Wow…um, who saw her?"

"One of the guys on the team who wishes to remain nameless." Chad lied.

"Wow," Troy repeated. "Are you sure it was her?"

"Positive."

"Oh."

"I'm sorry man. Are you okay?"

"…yeah. Yeah I'll be fine. I just need…"

"Hey Troy baby!"

Both men turned around to see the one and only Sydney strutting towards them with a grin on her face. She leaned forward and kissed Troy on the cheek. His expression didn't change.

"I missed you so much"

"Yeah, whatever, um Chad? Could you leave us alone for a second? I kinda need to talk to Sydney…"

"Sure, no problem." Chad stood up shooting Troy an encouraging smile walked out the ward.

"You know I realised something. A few days ago, we all absolutely hated Troy and Chad when they turned up at the hospital and now, well, I'm with Chad and we're all sympathetic towards Troy and trying to help him. Weird how things change. Huh?"

Both Taylor and Gabriella were walking through the hospital corridor just making general conversation when they saw Chad crouched down at the end of hall looking into Troy's ward.

"Hey, what's going on?" Gabriella asked when they walked towards him.

"Well, I've just told Troy that Sydney's cheating on him and now Sydney's turned up pretending to be the perfect girlfriend and now I think, Troy's going to tell her straight. Wanna see?"

Now all three crouched to look through a small window into the ward. Right now, not much was happening. All they could see was the back of Sydney's head and Troy's serious face.

"Hey, Taylor? You know you look very hot in those scrubs." Chad winked.

Taylor giggled while Gabriella rolled her eyes "Guys, you can satisfy all sexual tension later but right now can you give up flirting for one second?"

"Hey, I was not flirting! I was…merely complimenting Dr McKessie on her uniform. And the fact she looked very… warm" Chad defended while Taylor giggled some more.

Yeah, and I'm the Queen of the Fairies!

"Look, can you two just…oh" All conversation stopped as they saw what was happening.

Sydney, apparently disliking what she was being told, had stood up, grabbed her purse and instead of just sauntering out, she had started repeatedly hitting Troy around the head with it. Everyone in the ward watched, mesmerised. People passing the ward even stopped to look at the action.

"You know, as his doctor, you really should go in there and stop…"

"Ssshhhh!"

After walloping Troy for what felt like a hundred times, Sydney left the ward in a huff. Not before she screeched something that to everyone else, seemed like something only dogs could hear but Troy could oddly enough understand. She stopped when she got to the hallway and the three of them automatically stood up straight and tried to look as innocent as possible. Sydney recognised Chad and started talking to him. Or yelling, in her case

"TROY just dumped me! He said I was cheating on him when CLEARLY I was not! I mean come on! Why would I cheat? And who on earth saw me with…hey?" Sydney's eyes suddenly landed on Gabriella.

Oh crap!

"Weren't you the girl who picked up my money for me yesterday?" Sydney asked nicely obviously not clicking.

"Uh…yeah." Gabriella answered, her stomach doing back flips.

"Oh, well thanks again." Sydney then turned around and walked away. All three of them exhaled in relief. They smiled at each at each other until they heard a very loud, dramatic gasp. All eyes turned on Sydney. Her eyes were wide, mouth wide open and she was pointing at Gabriella.

"You!"

Oh… well I guess it finally clicked then…. OH CRAP!

"You… oh my God, YOU!" Sydney hurried back towards her, her heels clacking down the corridor.

"It was nice knowing you…" Gabriella heard Chad mumble.

Then before Gabriella knew what was happening, instead of a slap across the face, which would be far too normal, Sydney grabbed Gabriella's dark curls and started to yank at them screaming.

Well, she may be a bitch but she sure can pull!

To be continued…

A/N:... lol I'll update soon. R&R people! x x x