As/n: Here's the last chapter. I've decided to do the sequel, but it might not be out for a while. I've already started to get notes together for it, but I think I might want to write it all at once and change it a little bit if I need to. Anyway, here's the story.

Poem is by me.

Chapter 10: A New Heartbeat

Whatever happens,

Whenever it does,

Wherever it leads,

However long it takes,

Whoever it brings me to,

I will follow you,

I'll follow you 'til the end of time,

I'll look to the skies just to see your grace,

Wherever you go,

You can expect me to follow,

Follow your ways forever,

Trust in your love forever,

And dance,

To the new heartbeat…

You left behind for me.

'Cause no one knows if shooting stars will land,

No one can count the stars there are,

All I know is that there was one more star in the sky,

The night you had to die.

Troy walked over to his wife and put his arm around her shoulders. "We've got to be strong tonight… we've got to do this for Chad," she nodded, and he added in a whisper, "and for Taylor."

She reached into her pocket and drew out a picture. The picture was of her and Taylor at the Scholastic Decathlon. "Besides you she was my only friend."

Troy pulled her into a protective hug. Across the room, Sharpay was in Zeke's arms, a tear rolling down her cheek. Next to them, Jason was holding Kelsi tightly and whispering some words of kindness in her ears. Ryan and Brie had gone to arrange for a taxi service to be waiting for Chad who still thought that Taylor was having her baby.

A few minutes later, the doctor walked out into the lobby and motioned for them to go with him.

"I can take you in to see Miss Sabrina now."

They walked behind the doctor to the room where the baby was. Upon reaching the room, they saw the white sheet over a body. While everyone else walked over to where Taylor was, Kelsi picked up the baby in her arms. She rocked her back and forth, humming the beginnings of a song she was writing.

"I'll be here for you, Sabrina," she whispered in the baby's ear when she had finished the song. Little did she know, Sabrina would remember those words for the rest of her life.

Everyone else came over to where Kelsi was, salty tears running down their pale faces. Kelsi handed the baby to Troy and walked over to where Taylor lay, peacefully in her final rest.

Minutes passed that seemed like hours; an hour is an eternity to the mourning. Ryan and Brie were back, and they said that Chad's flight was landing about when they were leaving; now all they had to do was wait.

ooHSMoo

Chad ran through the halls with one thing on his mind: his baby and his wife were waiting for him just down the hall. He imagined what Sabrina would look like, and how it would feel to hold her in his arms. He wondered what Taylor would say to him about missing the birth. He imagined everything that he thought could happen, but when he arrived, he realized that he had forgotten another possibility: the one that had occurred.

"But I have too much to say to her."

Kelsi put her hands on Chad's shoulders, guiding him to where Taylor now laid. He didn't want to believe it; he couldn't.

The newborn baby was passed to him, but holding her was much different than he had imagined. She was the image of her mother, and he couldn't bear it.

Everyone but Troy left him there, leaving the two friends alone in an awkward scene.

"How could you?" Chad mumbled, still facing away from Troy.

Troy knew what he was talking about, and he knew the answer. However, the answer wasn't what his friend wanted, and Troy knew that he had to make himself the bad-guy here.

"It was a hard choice."

Chad turned around to face him, angrier with every falling tear, "No it wasn't! You should've chosen Taylor. We could have lived through a miscarriage, together. Now, I'm all alone raising Sabrina."

"No one should end a life before it starts, Chad," Troy spat bitterly, leaving behind the coaxing best friend he had tried to be.

"It wasn't your decision in the first place!"

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah! Why did you do it?"

Troy thought desperately, "Don't do it, Troy. You know you shouldn't," but he was only human.

"Because that's what she asked me to do!" he stormed out of the room.

Chad looked through his tears at the baby in his arms. The nurse had dressed the baby before he had gotten there.

"I didn't know babies came with hats. Life may get you done sometime, Sabrina, but right now: you've got a hat. There's nothing to worry about. Daddy's got you," he looked out the window to the night sky. Tonight, he knew, there was one more star out there, and he was going to find it and follow it wherever it went.

Hush, little baby, don't you cry.

Daddy's going to give you a whole new life.

As/n: Babies come with hats is credited to "The West Wing". I just thought it was kind of a cute little thing to say. That's the end of UnGuaranteed Heartbeats. Look for Half a Heart sometime in late March or sometime in April.