Chapter 11- Building Suspicions
Gabriella woke up on the grassy field the next morning with a hangover clinging to her head. Her feet were on the field but her head was lying on Troy's chest. She tried to think about what happened last night but that was unachievable. All she remembered was that she made up with Sharpay and sneaked out of the dorm while she was asleep, she shared a kiss with Troy and Troy told her that he was only doing this because of her, and then everything went blank.
She sat up to see an almost entirely lightened sky. The sun was rising and completing more than half of its job already. She grabbed her cell phone out of her denim pockets and read the time displayed. 5:17 AM. She had forty-three minutes to sneak back to her dorm room and get ready.
Gabriella shook Troy lightly, trying to wake him.
Troy's eyes fluttered open to find the beautiful sight of Gabriella Montez shaking him awake.
He smiled at the sight at first but then felt the grass beneath the palm of his hands. He realized that both of them had buzzed out on the field last night.
Like Gabriella, he couldn't remember anything after he had told Gabriella that he only did this for her.
Troy sat up quickly with a terrible hangover trapped inside his head. "Did we…" He didn't get to finish.
"Yes. We passed out on the field last night." Gabriella noticed the empty bottles and bags tossed onto the grass next to them.
"Shit…" Troy checked the time on his cell phone. "We got to get back."
"I know." She picked up the trash lying on the ground.
Gabriella stuffed the lighter, and the empty bags and bottles inside her tote. "Let's go." She grabbed Troy's hand and ran down the field.
"That was a great night even though I don't remember anything that happened." Gabriella smiled at Troy. "Thanks for risking your, I guess, health for me… with drugs." She couldn't find other words to thank him. She placed a kiss on his cheek, almost the corner of his lips lightly. "See you in a while." Gabriella waved before they parted ways to sneak back into the dorm of their genders.
Chad pulled out his cell phone and pulled out his full keyboard on the side.
He was gone last night, again. And hasn't come back yet.
He hit send, and the message was sent to Sharpay Evans.
She's not back either.
Sharpay texted back.
Chad was receiving texts from Sharpay feverishly.
I didn't see her go out last night cuz I was asleep. But I heard the door closing. The texting stopped for a second or two before it continued. Shit, she's back.
Sharpay hid her cell phone under the blankets when Gabriella tiptoed back into the room. Sharpay pretended to be asleep while her eyes were ajar. Gabriella went into the bathroom after putting a blue tote under her bed.
When Gabriella went inside the bathroom, she shut the door. Sharpay could hear the toilet flushing after what seems like vomiting. The blonde grew suspicious so she decided to check what was inside the tote.
Sharpay got up and went under the bed, she grabbed the tote out and looked inside to find empty Ziploc bags, and empty bottles. Gabriella wanted to throw these away outside of the school so she wouldn't get caught. So she thought that putting them under the bed was safe enough.
Sharpay put the tote back under the bed and texted Chad.
They were drinking and smoking pot.
Just as Gabriella and Troy were both eating breakfast together, Mr. Garth decided that he wanted to see them alone.
Gabriella's eyes had both confusion and staleness hidden inside. Troy just got up emotionlessly with Gabriella to follow Mr. Garth.
He led the couple inside an empty classroom, before speaking, he shut the classroom door.
"What part of the rules do you not understand?" He said sternly, directed to Gabriella. "Not once, but twice."
The brunette tended to still act strong. As if like she didn't even care. "What are you talking about?"
Mr. Garth rose his voice a bit. "What were you and Troy Bolton doing so late at night?" He asked, obviously knowing the answer already.
"It's none of your business." Gabriella said daringly challenging the one in charge.
"I'm in charge, so it is my business." Mr. Garth burned holes onto Gabriella's eyes. "These two people told me that you guys have left the dorm really late at night and came back somewhere around five."
"Wait… two people?" Troy was growing a little suspicious. Not at Mr. Garth… but at this one certain person who happened to be his roommate.
"That's not the point." Mr. Garth paused before continuing. "The point is that what is it that you two do not understand? The rule states, no in or out of the school after seven. And the rule also states, that student come here to get clean and straighten their lives back up. Not make them worse. Our responsibility is to stop you guys from smoking, drugs, drinking, and other behaviors. Not continuing in them."
"Well, looks like you've failed your task miserably." Gabriella retorted rudely at his speech.
"Pardon?" Mr. Garth was getting mad… real mad, as if he wasn't angry already.
"I said that you're failing your responsibility pretty miserably." Gabriella repeated. "Do you understand it now?"
Troy stared at Gabriella with amplified eyes. How could she just snap at Mr. Garth like that? He talked back to principals and teachers and parents before, but never had he seen a girl so fearless in front of an adult… an adult you were suppose to treat with respect.
"That's it, Gabriella Montez. One more word, I will send you back home and have your mother deal with you." The tanned and stern man wasn't having it. He had had enough with this petite yet, rude and rhetorical brunette.
"My mother is on a business trip." She said casually.
"Your father then." Mr. Garth didn't have time to think. He just said anyone a child would be close to.
"My father died." Gabriella informed him with that same changeless, casual tone.
"Well… then, I'm sorry." Mr. Garth said lightly. He seemed like he didn't even mean it. As if Gabriella was so much trouble that he didn't even cared for her feelings. "Whoever stays at your house."
Troy watched them argue… not technically arguing, but enough for him to label it as a quarrel. Troy started to feel bad about Gabriella's father though. The way she said it was like she didn't even care about his death… still, it must've been sad.
"I knew it, you don't care." She murmured. "Whatever." Gabriella shrugged.
Mr. Garth sighed and tried to think of a better punishment so he could win this argument. "One more time, Gabriella, and you will go home." Nope… not much better. "I don't care whose there at your house or who isn't. I will call your mother to pick you up, if this happens again. But for this time, I will only call your mother. This is a warning."
Gabriella looked away again. She knew that her mom would be so disappointed in her. But it was better than going home. She liked it here. She liked it because Troy was here.
"And as for you, Troy Bolton…" Mr. Garth started on Troy. "If this happens again, phone call home. And someone already disposed that trash for you." The older man directed that to Gabriella.
Troy had no emotions hidden in his blue eyes. He didn't want to show any. But deep down, he felt a wave of relief dashing up against him. He didn't get in much trouble. But when he reminded himself of the two people that had slipped this information to Mr. Garth, the waves had stopped. Instead, he felt like he was standing inside a burning house.
He knew exactly who had told Mr. Garth. And who these two people could be. And he wasn't going to let them walk away that easily.
A/N: I know that these are short. I know that… but the thing is, I can't have every chapter being 2,000 words long if you want them out fast. I know these chapters aren't coming out exactly fast but if they were to be longer, you'd have to wait longer. And you've got to understand that I have a life outside of writing these Troyella fanfics also. I have school to balance in a week. Here, school starts in a week so I'm getting ready for it. And please do me the favor of reviewing? I decided that I might be doing another story after this one. I have a couple ideas in mind. I might do one where Troy and Gabriella are supernatural and they're escaping from the government that wants to capture supernatural (psychic and etc) people. But I have to get this finish first…. :D So review!
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