Author's Note: Hey guys!! I got 19 reviews for the last chapter!!! 16 of which were in the first 24 hours of the story being updated!! You completely thrashed my old record and I love you all for it! Anyway since the alerts are now working, I thought I'd update. I updated during alert failure so you might wanna check that you've read the last chapter before you read this one. Just a precaution.

Extra Note: Just to let you know, I'm putting all my fanfics on suspension. I have my exams during the entire month of May and I really need to study so I won't be updating. Well I might if I have a spare minute but don't count on it. So this is the last chapter you'll get for a while but I made it extra long just to make up for it. I'll also update my other fanfic "It's Been One Heck Of A Year" sometime during the weekend and then that's it. Hope you don't all hate me for it but my last exam is the 30th May and I then I'm all yours! So enjoy this extra-long chapter!

Who Knew?

Chapter 12

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

"YOU BITCH! I HATE YOU!"

Sydney continued to scream while yanking at Gabriella's dark locks. Gabriella herself was yelling in pain, while everyone in the corridor just stared dumbstruck at the two. Even Chad, who actually seemed to be enjoying the catfight. Only Taylor felt the need to try and pry them apart. She lunged towards them and tried to separate them with her arms, but some of Gabriella's remaining hair got caught in Taylor's bracelet and ended up being pulled as Taylor tried to untangle it.

"OW! Taylor!

"Sorry!"

Meanwhile, Sydney decided that she didn't like Taylor and used her other hand to grab onto Taylor's hair. Taylor, on the other hand, screamed at Sydney and reached up to pull at Sydney's blonde hairs. All three girls were pulling, yanking and screaming, oblivious to the world around them.

It wasn't until Gabriella and Taylor's friend Penny saw them at war and rushed over to help. She wrapped her arms around Sydney's tiny waist and lifted her, trying to pull her away from the girls. Admittedly, at first she was only pulling harder on the hair but Sydney finally let go and felt content with just shouting abuse at them.

"I HATE YOU, YOU LITTLE…"

"Right! Miss Stilton!" Penny shouted as Taylor and Gabriella looked on weakly as they rubbed their heads gently after finally freeing themselves from each other.

"Miss Stilton we do not tolerate fighting in this hospital and I will kindly ask you to leave." Penny said sternly.

"SHE, is the reason Troy broke up with me!"

"I don't care if she made out with Mr Bolton." Gabriella cleared her throat to signal to Penny that she was stepping in uncomfortable territory while Taylor and Chad merely sniggered. "That did not give you the right to attack my colleague. Dr Montez, in no way provoked you and therefore gave you absolutely no reason to be so aggressive. Now if you don't leave I will send for someone to remove you from these premises."

Sydney kept tight-lipped and a humiliated frown on her face. She threw Gabriella the dirtiest look you could ever see, assembled her Prada purse on her shoulder, turned around and trotted away, people stepping aside to clear away, not wanting to annoy her after what they had just seen. After she disappeared into the elevator, people started to go on with their business.

Gabriella massaged her head "Thank you so much Penny, she really latched onto my head."

"No problem, now excuse me while I go save the rest of the world." Penny smiled before scuttling away.

"Hey, you!" Taylor said while walloping Chad on the arm "Why didn't you help me?"

"Well I'm sorry but after what Sydney did to you when you intervened, I didn't really fancy trying. I also have a lot of hair, you know?" Chad said, gesturing towards his afro.

"So you'd rather sacrifice me over your hair?" Taylor pouted.

"Honey, you know I'd do anything for you." Chad said while wrapping his arm around his girlfriend. "But seriously, would you like a bald Chad?"

"Ew! Yeah, you're right. Not a pretty sight." Taylor laughed. Then Troy appeared at the door leading into his ward.

"Hey, I heard some screaming from Sydney, what happened?"

"Dude, it took you that long to walk across the ward?" Chad smirked at his best friend.

"Hello? One leg out of action here! And when I did manage to stand up, I kinda slipped on the rug on the floor and I ended up on my back." Troy stated while prodding Chad with his crutch.

"Ow, stop it! Fine I get you. Anyway, me and Taylor gotta go, don't we, Taylor?" Chad wiggled his eyebrows at Gabriella.

"Hhmmm? Oh yeah." Taylor nodded enthusiastically after catching on and then linked arms with Chad and both hurried away. Troy raised his eyebrows but shook his head. He turned to look at Gabriella but frowned when he saw her wayward hair and red face.

"My God, what happened to you?" His eyes widened. "Wait, did Sydney attack you?"

"Oh, no, no, no. I'm just going for the uh…. wind swept look today" Gabriella flustered, wiping a stray hair out of her eye.

"Gabby, if Sydney attacked you, you should tell me." Troy said sternly and Gabriella could see in his eyes that he was genuinely concerned. Her heart melted.

"No, no it's nothing. Anyway, I have to go…" Gabriella mumbled before walking down the hospital corridor, not looking at Troy. He sighed and wobbled back into the ward.

He called me Gabby! He hasn't called me Gabby in years…

Gabriella once again rubbed the top of her head.

You know, I think her fingernails left dents in my head...

"So come on, what really happened out there?" Troy asked Chad.

Chad had come back an hour later and had slumped down in his regular chair.

"Nothing honestly" Chad said, a smile creeping up on his face.

"Chad?"

"Okay, but you promise you won't tell the girls I told you?"

"Promise."

"Okay fine" Chad then started laughing, "Dude you missed the BEST thing I have ever seen! It was like, the cat fight of the century!"

"Seriously?"

"Seriously. Sydney literally grabbed Gabriella by the hair and starts yanking at it like she's swinging a cat…"

"Wait, so she did actually attack Gabriella?"

"Wait till I'm finished! Anyway, so Sydney pulling and screaming and then Taylor tries to help but she ends up getting pulled into the fight. So I'm standing there, and there's three hot girls have a bitch fight right in front of me! It was fantastic! I love Taylor and all, but my god. I wouldn't have stopped it for the world."

"Wow, you're such a caring, considerate boyfriend." Troy smiled, a tone of sarcasm in his voice.

"I know. That's why tomorrow night…" Chad looked over at the patients in the other bed, he looked a bit wary then lowered his voice "Tomorrow night when I take her out for a really romantic date, I'm gonna ask her."

"Ask her what?"

"You know, ask her." Chad said, obviously not wanting others to know what he's talking about but points to his finger on his left hand. Troy realises.

"Oh my God, dude, seriously?" Chad smiles and nods. "Oh my God! Really, even though you've only been going out for a few days?"

"I know but I already know everything about her and, I do love her and I think she's loves me too. Well I hope so."

"So you got a ring and everything?"

"Yep. Not got it on me but it's an 18-carat white gold "Juliet" ring. Cost me an arm and a leg but heck, she's worth it." Chad grinned, looking at his hands as if embarrassed.

"Well that's great Chad, that's really great. I'm so happy for you."

"Thanks. And hey, now that you're single, you can go back to Gabby!"

"Don't Chad"

"Come on, it's obvious. You're both head over heels for each other, you just need to convince her that you won't do a "Chad" on her again."

"You named it after yourself?" Troy raised his eyebrow.

"Well you did do it under my influence. Biggest mistake I ever made."

Well that's true. Although the time he wrote a love letter to Taylor in homeroom and Ms Darbus finding it comes a close second. Why, oh why did he say it was meant for her?

"So if Gabriella comes in right now, tells you she loves you and that she wants to be with you, would you take her back?"

Troy didn't even have to think about it. "In a heartbeat."

"Chad just called, told me that for our date tomorrow night, I should dress fancy" Taylor came in from her bedroom into the living room. Zeke, Ryan, Jason and Gabriella were all hanging out in the living room. Sharpay and Kelsi had been kept back at the theatre working on some last minute rehearsals.

"So that probably means he's not going to take you to McDonalds again." Gabriella piped up from the couch while all the guys smirked.

"Hey, he only took me to McDonalds on a date twice." Taylor said while brushing her hair with her fingers. "And he paid for me the second time."

"So, he wants you dress fancy, must be something special." Zeke looked at Taylor who just smiled while bending down, looking for her shoe.

"Oh he's gonna propose!" Gabriella exclaimed.

That made Taylor stand up straight. "Oh come on Gabriella, we've been dating for three days! Marriage is completely out of the question at this point."

"Yeah right" Gabriella teased. "You've known him since you were in kindergarten, you had a relationship with him when you were 16, he is the love of your life,"

"He also dumped me remember."

"I know, but listen. I know you. I've known you for years and I know that you would not go back out with a guy if you did not see a future with him. Do you see yourself being married to him with little Danforth's running around?"

"I'm not even gonna answer that question. Where is my shoe?"

"It's in the bathtub." Ryan added. Everyone looked at him "Don't ask"

Taylor groaned and headed into the bathroom while Gabriella kept talking. "You won't answer my question because you now I'm right. You do see a future and you will make me your maid of honour or I will have you shot."

"Well Gabby, you can be the maid of honour at my real wedding but right now, there is no wedding." Taylor came out of the bathroom with a drenched shoe dripping along the carpet while Taylor glared at Ryan.

"What? Me and Jason were bored." Ryan defended.

"Anyway, if Chad did propose to you tomorrow night, what would you say?"

"I am also not going to answer that question because Chad is not going to propose. I'll admit, I've dreamed about the day that Chad would propose to me ever since I was 16 and perhaps, maybe, I do see a future with us but you seem to have forgotten that we only got back together three days ago. For God's sake, Ryan there is soap in my shoe!"

Ryan and Jason grinned from the sofa.

"Well anyway," Gabriella continued "Wouldn't it be totally amazing if he proposed to you tomorrow night"

"Gabriella, I refuse to get excited about something that's not going to happen and if you keep going on about it, I'm gonna ask about you and Troy."

Gabriella's teasing smile faded "God, don't even go there"

"That's what I thought. See ya'll later." Taylor left the flat to go to the dentist leaving everyone else in the flat.

"Anyway, I gotta head." Zeke said standing up. "Jason, you coming?"

"Yeah man." Jason got up too.

"Where you going?"

"Well, we're kinda going to the jewellery store." Zeke said suspiciously.

"To get?" Gabriella enquired.

"Well, lets just say that Taylor and Chad might not be the only one's getting engaged." Jason grinned.

Gabriella squealed. "Seriously? Are you both proposing?" Both guys nodded. "I'm so happy for you two!"

"Yeah, well before you get all mushy on us, we're gonna go. See you two later"

"By the way Zeke," Ryan called out "You better have a big budget, you know my sister"

"I know, I'm practically cutting all the wages for the staff just so I can buy the engagement ring." Zeke laughed referring to his restaurant.

After both guys had gone, Gabriella looked at Ryan. "So you and I are the only ones in the group not getting married."

"Yep, mind you. If you say this Penny's as perfect as you say she is, we might decide to elope." Ryan grinned.

Huh! See if I buy them gravy boat as their wedding present!

To be continued...

A/N: R&R and I'll see you guys in a month! (Oh god that's so depressing) Hope you liked the chapter!