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Chapter 12: Troyella's First

The girls stormed out of the locker room and into the hallway before the guys could catch up with them. Gabi was in the lead, and she was pissed. She stormed around the school until she found what she was looking for, Mr. Ritter's room, losing all of her friends around the history department. Blasting through the door she interrupted a freshman biology class.

"Ms. Montez? Can I help you?" Mr. Ritter was the wrestling coach, a friend of Jack's, and head of the science department. He'd know how to handle what was going on.

"We have a problem." Mr. Ritter and the rest of the class took in her appearance. The entire school knew who she was. She was Gabriella Montez. Troy Bolton's girlfriend. She held the stony look that the rest of the group kept up, but they could tell that underneath she was beyond seething. She looked ready to kill.

"Class dismissed." Mr. Ritter said, everyone sat still.

"Now." Gabi hissed. She marched up to the front of the classroom when everyone was gone.

"Okay Gabi, what's going on?" Mr. Ritter asked

Gabi breathed a sigh of relief, letting the stony look wash away from her pretty face, she was getting a headache. Rubbing her temples she said quietly, but with an unusual amount of venom in her voice, "It's Jack."

"Who Jack?" Mr. Ritter asked, though he had a couple of ideas

"Jack Bolton."

Mr. Ritter nodded, "What happened?" Mr. Ritter was willing to be a thousand bucks it had to do with basketball and how hard he was working the team, he'd seen Troy today, he looked like death, and Gabi looked out of her mind with worry.

"He's going to kill them, hell, he's going to kill all of us if P.E. keeps this up." Gabi whined.

"I think we need to start from the beginning." Mr. Ritter said, Gabi nodded and began telling her story.

"Okay, we lost her." Taylor stated

"Thanks Captain Obvious." Sharpay hissed

"Well where would she go?" Kelsi asked.

"We should split up. And get the boys to help." Ryleigh suggested. They all agreed.

"Where are the girls?" Chad whined waiting outside the locker room for them.

"Who knows. They're female, they take forever." Zeke said. Suddenly Ryleigh, Sharpay, Kelsi, and Taylor came sprinting around the corner.

"Wait." Jason began frantically looking around, "The locker room's that way." He finally said, the girls groaned.

"We need to find Gabi." Ryleigh said

"Why where is she?" Troy asked concerned

They all shrugged, "She went storming out of the locker room, we lost her near the history department." Taylor said.

"Okay, we'll split up in couples and I'll go alone, let's find her. We have free period off by the way." Troy said.

"Okay here's what we'll do." Sharpay began listing off the places each couple would take.

"So I'm really afraid that someone's going to get hurt." Gabi finished

"Troy in particular." Gabi nodded, "100 suicides?" he shook his head, this didn't sound like the Jack he knew, I mean everyone wanted to beat West, but not at the cost of losing a player.

"I just want it to stop. Troy is staying at our house now, that's why he had to do the suicides. I mean he got punished for staying at his best friend's house. This is so weird. I've thought of Jack as almost a second father, he's been so amazingly kind to me, I don't know what's come over him. Lucille is concerned too. Plus I'm worried about their grades and life outside basketball. Chad's appetite has decreased. Lisa said he didn't want breakfast. I think basketball might be stressing him out." She groaned, "And we're all worried."

"All the girlfriends?" Mr. Ritter asked

Gabi nodded, "And Ryan and Ryleigh. Ryan's glad he decided against trying out for the team, he almost did. And Ryleigh's so thankful he doesn't play. So am I, it's one less person to stress about."

"How many practices are they having?"

"Morning, free period, after school, and gym is a practice, that's why we're all near dead." Gabi answered

"And Troy would get them at home too." Mr. Ritter mumbled. "I'll see what I can do. Don't stress too much. If they start to take a turn for the worse come tell me."

"Thank you Mr. Ritter." Gabi gave him a hug before leaving.

They all met at Ryleigh's locker, "No luck?" Ryan asked

"None whatsoever, wait where's Troy?" Zeke asked

Troy left his and Gabi's secret hiding spot, a tree out in the back of the school. "So much for that bright idea, wait a minute." Troy mumbled sprinting towards the science department on the other side of the campus.

He stopped outside Mr. Ritter's room. This was Gabi's favorite class, and her favorite teacher. She'd trust Mr. Ritter. He glanced in the window of the door. She was just hugging him, "Guess she's done." Troy thought. Stepping to the side he waited until she closed the door.

"I feel so much better now." She said aloud

"I'm glad you feel better." Troy watched her jump at the sound of his voice, "Because we've been combing the campus looking for you." He looked mad.

"Well you found me." She joked

"It's not funny Gabriella, we were seriously worried." She flinched, he used her full name, he was angry.

"Look, you don't have to get all emotional about it. I was at school, where the hell would I go?" she yelled at him.

"I'm not emotional, I am damned angry." Students passing stopped to stare.

"It's not my fault whatever you are. I was with a teacher Troy. This is a school, we have teachers and students often interact with them." She fought back

"Look you took off, we were worried that something was wrong." He argued

The gang heard the yelling from around the corner and went to look, "Uh-oh, they're going at it." Sharpay mumbled.

"Something is wrong Troy." She sighed, "Don't you get how worried I am about you and the rest of the guys. This scares me, it actually scares me." Tears trickled down her face, but she resolutely wiped them away. "I was talking to someone who would listen with open ears."

"I have been listening." He argued

"Yeah when I yell at you and make you listen. Troy you brushed me off this morning. And I don't want excuses as to why you did it. Mr. Ritter just listened. I didn't have to force him to." She looked at the students. "This is none of your business so scatter." She demanded. The hallway was clear in 30 seconds. "I'm going to the library. I'll see you at home tonight." She walked away, keeping her gaze focused ahead of her.

"Um did they just?" Kelsi whispered asked

"I think so." Ryan said

"Tonight'll be interesting." Ryleigh commented dryly

"It'll suck, that's what it'll do." Chad spat

"I've never heard Troy mad like that." Zeke said

"I've never seen him that worried." Taylor responded

"Boo's just concerned, so is Troy, they just let their emotions out in the wrong place." Sharpay said

"Oh dear," Jason said, "Troyella had a fight." Everyone looked at him that summed it up. This didn't look good.

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