I know a lot of you want to know about Troy and Gabriella's secret past, but I assure you that it's gonna be revealed soon! Again, I'm starting this chapter only a couple days after I released the last one and I have no idea when this is going to be done. Every writer out there probably went to school or are going to school right now and you know what I mean.

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Good Comes Last

by: Laugh, in laughnsmile96

Chapter Eleven: The Climb

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna want to make it move
Always going to be an up-hill battle,
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

Miley Cyrus, The Climb

Taylor winced as she heard Jayden's soft whimpers for his mother as he slowly drifted himself into sleep...

Gabriella shivered as she remembered Dylan's face once again. It had started to mildly haunt her, but she resisted.. She didn't want any headaches, again, when all of her new friends were around. As soon as the two entered the house, everyone started piling in. Taylor was first. She looked in pain and lost when Gabriella opened the door , but her face totally changed when her eyes were set on another pair of brown ones. Then, Chad. He jumped in and immediately started the party. Troy and Gabriella were seated out and dead tired on a sofa each. After Sharpay arrived, Gabriella stopped taking the door and let Marissa take over. Slowly, the incoming crowd soothed.

The get-together went on. The guys crashed in the living room along with Troy's Xbox 360, pleasantly leaving him on the sofa . Ladies sat in a little group in a corner of the marble kitchen corner laughing along with their nonsensical talk. Time had passed increasingly. The sun outside slowly slipped being the hills and slept for the night. For the posse that is currently in Troy's house, the day has just begun.

"Dylan," There is was again. His name. The unknown. The torture. Gabriella knew he was important, somehow. It had struck her at times that she would very least expect it and then she would sink into silence. She could be anywhere at any time, even laughing her face off, but suddenly his name would jump at her. Gabriella feared being alone, now. As if, he would appear or interrupt her imagination once again if just she was alone. After everyone left at around two am that morning, Gabriella and Troy stayed downstairs, cleaning up. Plastic plates, with cheesy grease and tomato sauce littered the floor and red cups of coke scattered here and there. Troy didn't have a choice to go to his bedroom. His kidneys couldn't take that much, not yet. So, he lied down on the black leather couch downstairs. Gabriella sat for awhile, after throwing a way the last piece of trash. She immediately began a staring contest with the ground. Her eyes may have been blank, but her mind whirled in all different directions. Fear started to overcome. She curled up in a ball.

It was that kind of 'horror movie' fear. It was more of insecurity and everything related. Gabriella wanted so much to have it stop; to not constantly want to figure what went on in her past. She was uncomfortable and as far as she knew, being with someone every single moment was a lubricant for that emotion. Unconsciously, she knew it wasn't helping. So, Gabriella remained downstairs with Troy through the rest of the night.

Troy wasn't surprised Gabriella had gotten up first. He woke up at nine, facing the ceiling, on the ground, right next to the sofa he had collapsed on earlier in the night.

"Morning!" Gabriella faced him with a bright smile. He flashed his dirty teeth back at her in an attempt to smile. That's when his eyes widened and realized he had fallen down from the sofa. He quickly got up from the hard wooden floor with a slight crack.

"Whoa, careful there ,Troy," Gabriella joked. "Might put a dent in your liver," Troy chuckled. Gabriella looked down and continued spooning her eggs. Troy picked the rest of himself up and dragged his body to the bathroom.

"Breakfast is getting cold, be quick," a warning went out before Troy went into the cold bathroom. He shivered as goose bumps lines his arms. The glass basin sprinkled with warm water as soon as Troy turned on the tap. He interrupted the water flow with his hand and splashed his face.

Troy came out of the bathroom with a fresh face. He approached the frying pan and grabbed a plate for himself. With a full plate, Troy sat on the other side of Gabriella and took a bite of his eggs. She was just about finishing.

"So, plans for today?" Troy shrugged lazily, chewing his food.

"Hang out," he said after swallowing.

"Works for me," Gabriella looked around and landed on her feet again. She scurried upstairs leaving Troy to his lonesome selves. Undisturbed, he continued eating.

Upstairs, Gabriella slipped into her room and shuffled to the connected bathroom. A couple of minutes later, she came out off the bathroom all showered up. Her body remained wet and wrapped in a towel. Gabriella ran her fingers over the light colored hangers and picked out one at random. It was light yellow sundress that reached down to her knees. Since the two weren't planning anything special today, and they were going to stay inside, Gabriella slipped on the dress. She scanned herself in the mirror and added a sweater to her attire. Gabriella looked at the dress carefully. It was a little large for her, but only in the area of her belly. It looked she had bought this in the maternity section. Although, Gabriella really didn't remember buying the dress. Shrugging the feeling off and telling her self that she would live with the large belly. She ran her hair through with a comb and took some time to carefully straiten her locks. With one last look at her self in the mirror, Gabriella scurried downstairs back again with Troy.

Troy heard very light taps on the floating staircase. He looked up and smiled at Gabriella's figure. She was beautiful. It was strange that the fact only approached him now. Surely, he always knew that Gabriella was beatuful, a very pretty sort, but the fact never came out like that. Her trail was light and gentle, yet filled with energy. Troy's smile never left his face. He sat on the living room couch that he was sleeping on earlier that night. The TV set was on.

"What'cha doing?" Gabriella landed on the couch next to Troy. She glanced at the television and relaxed her face. A basketball game. Somehow Gabriella wasn't surprised, but a scrawny face really stood out of the Lakers team. Troy tensed. Gabriella didn't know this side. She didn't know he was a basketball star.

"That's you," Troy nodded, seriously."You played basketball?" He nodded again.

"Well, before, this," he pointed to his abdomen. "and before you," he pointed to Gabriella. It didn't stike Gabriella at all that he was saying he was the reason she had ended up in the hospital without any memory of her past. Before the two could lie in their thoughts, the doorbell rang. Gabriella jumped to get it.

A few moments later, Troy heard a Gabriella greet their guest with "Hey, Jesse". Her tone gave away that there was smile on her face. Troy got up from the couch and walked over to the door.

"Hey, man" Jesse said to Troy. Troy replied with a similar hello and a smile. He was glad that Jesse had come over. Company and someone to relate to would do good. The three were soon seated on the leather couches and staring at the TV once again. Troy sat on one end of the couch, Jesse next to him and Gabriella beside Jesse. Boredom seeped through the house, and soon a weight fell on Jesse's shoulder. Gabriella's was fast asleep. Jesse smiled as he remembered memories of the past. Now, she didn't remember anything. He was hurt. But, he couldn't blame anyone.

"Dylan" Gabriella arose to consciousness. Ugh. Not Again. She had said his name again. Why does this happen? Who was this? And where the hell was she? Gabriella stayed with her eyes closed. And listened for any clues to where she was. A gasp was heard. She opened her eyes. To her astonishment the whole gang was there circled around the TV. Gabriella felt a headache coming. She winced, and reluctantly, she made her way upstairs.

Downstairs, the living room was quiet. Everyone was calling back the previous instances that had just come back. Troy, thankfully, broke the era of silence.

"There she goes, again," He shook his head, confused as he followed her path upstairs. "Does she even know who that guy is?" he asked. "Dylan". All eyes came to Troy. Jesse was next to him, his brown eyes in sympathy for Gabriella's high school pain. The sofa they sat in only had space for two. In the next sofa was Sharpay, on the ledge and Zeke below her. Taylor and Ashley sat next to each other, then. Matt sat on the love seat next to the fire place and Chad on the ground with his beloved basketball. All eyes and minds tracing back to their related high school past. Smiles erased.

"Troy, Dylan was Gabriella's boyfriend in sophomore and senior year," Matt had said. It seemed everyone wanted to take turns explaining to Troy what was going on.

"Those two were friends the previous years, we all hung out," Sharpay said. "And 11th grade was the first time they wanted to be something more,".

"They really tried so much to keep it going and for sometime it was true the two had finally clicked. Everyone believed it," Matt explained. "Dylan had gone on an early summer vacation with his family to Hawaii, so Gabriella was left alone for the last days of school in senior year,".

"And every year on the last day of school some senior would hold a party," Jesse said with a smile on his face remembering his turns in East High.

Zeke turned in the last statement, "Gabriella missed Dylan not as boyfriend, but as a best friend. His vacation made her believe that she was truly not interested in Dylan the way that he thought. She became confused. So, that night she blew it. She wanted to forget about everything just one night before her future. So, she did," It was funny how much these guys knew about Gabriella.

"Gabriella slept with someone that night and two months later during summer, when Dylan was back and all her memories of senior night were gone, she found she was pregnant," Silence.

"Well?" Chad and Troy both said at the same time. "Who did she sleep with?" Chad asked.

"She didn't tell us," Sharpay said with shame in her cheeks.

"And then?"

"Dylan was angry," Troy said in sarcastic tone to Chad. The whole group burst into quiet chuckles to themselves.

"Was he?!" Taylor shouted. "He refused to talk to her, after sometime he began teasing her. Gabriella was so glad that she had moved to California to go to college. Her heart had shattered,"

"What about the baby?" Troy asked eager for answers. No one spoke.

"Abortion," Jesse finally uttered. "Dylan forced her into abortion,".

Spare me the extra tone of guilt

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