Author's note- I don't own anytihg related to 'High School Musical'. This is my own story and idea.

Chapter Twelve-

Troy Bolton had lost a lot of things in his short life, but when he saw the girl he wanted to spend the rest of their lives together, willingly fall off the edge of the bridge, he knew he couldn't let her go. So when he felt his body run to the spot where she had just fallen, he miraculously was able to grab her hand and attempt to pull her up. Unfortunately, with the force of his tugging, Gabriella had hit her head on a loose plank and was now unconscious. He threw his other arm around and grabbed onto her other arm, trying his hardest to bring her back up and also not to pull her arms out of their sockets. He finally was able to drag her lifeless body up over the side and fell back on the hard wooden floor with her lying beside him. His breaths were hard and uneven , but he ignored his slight pain and paid all attention onto the beauty next to him. He was going to pick her up and take her back to her house but noticed her stir a little.

"Gabriella? Brie are you ok?" The rain was coming in short hits and then out of nowhere would get harder and faster.

"Troy?" He noticed how disorientated she was, and tried to check her for anymore damages. He felt a wave of displeasure as she flinched at his touch and snapped her hand away from his. "What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here? You just tried to kill yourself Brie. What the hell were you thinking?" He watched as she rose from the ground slowly and take in her surroundings.

"What? You were following me?" He could hardly hear her soft voice amongst the harsh hitting rain, but strained his eyes and ears on her.

"Gabriella I think we should take you to a hospital. You're bleeding." He took in the red wet substance sliding down the side of her face.

She quickly wiped it away and steadied herself before she could fall and make herself more of a fool.

"I don't need your help Troy, just leave me alone." She sharply turned around and tried to leave, tried to get out of the pouring rain, tried to leave the man that broke her heart a few hours ago, but was taken aback when a harsh force pulled her back around to face Troy.

"Are you kidding me with this shit? You just tried to kill yourself! We have to take you to a hospital. Now!" He didn't let go of her arm, but he knew his anger in her actions was making his grip on her tighten.

"Troy let go, you're hurting me." She tried to pry her arm away from him, but he wouldn't let go or loosen his grip.

"No Gabriella. I just saw the worst thing possible to me. Watching you fall to your death. Why do you think I ran in the first place early this morning?"

Early this morning? Gabriella hadn't realized how late it was. She tried to remember the time passing her by, the almost romantic moment her and Troy were going to have. The confrontation of her friends and loosing half of them. Falling asleep in her boyfriend's arms and waking up to find him talking with her friends that remained. And then to finally tell him everything about her life, her friends, her un-loving parents and her unwanted death wish at about 3o'clock in the morning. She noticed the sky wasn't getting any brighter with the Sun, so it would continue on down pouring. No one knew the two were out here. She wondered how she got here and how Troy had found her in the absolute pitch Black. She hardly remembered getting here, she just remembered the pain she was feeling and wanted to get away. And then for her to be standing face to face with the reason she was out here, the reason she was tempted to fall, she didn't know what to do anymore.

"Because you're a stupid coward. That's why! Now let go!"

"NO! You're going to listen to me." She heard his anger in his voice and she almost flinched at how different he sounded. It wasn't the voice she fell in love with.

"Why should I? I pour my whole frikin heart out to you Troy and you fucking left me there crying my eyes out. Why should I let you explain to me why you're a cruel uncaring man who doesn't give a damn about whether I die or not?" She immediately regretted her choice of words as soon as she saw his eyes darken Black and felt his grip tighten and his body tense up.

"You honestly think I don't give a damn whether you die or not?!? I just saved you from killing yourself."

Gabriella felt like she was being told off like a small child. She remembered staring down at the freezing water, but she couldn't remember falling in.

"Why do you keep saying that? I didn't try and kill myself!" Her words took Troy by surprise. The look of confusion overwhelming his face.

"Yes you did. I saw you jump over the edge Gabriella." His voice was harsh and callous, but then changed quickly to confused and scared. "You don't remember?"

"No." She didn't know if he had heard her or not, she hardly heard herself. "I remember looking down at the water, but that's it." She couldn't register what was going on around her anymore. She couldn't feel the rain continuing to spit on her. She didn't feel Troy embrace her into his long wet arms. "I don't remember it. What's wrong with me?"

Troy knew she wasn't asking him. She was talking to herself. He felt the powerful guilt overwhelm him. He knew it was his fault she was out here. Why she was so distraught. Why she was completely drenched in water from head to toe. Why all her pain, her hurt and all the emotional turmoil she was going through, had made her mind blank.

"Brie? We need to get you out of here? You're going to get pneumonia, if you don't already have it." He felt her small body push his away from her, her mind must be coming back. She remembered she was mad at him and didn't want to be anywhere near him.

"Leave Troy. I'm not going anywhere with you."

"Gabriella. It's pouring down with rain, you're absolutely drenched in freezing water, if I don't get you home, you'll die." Bad choice of words as soon as he saw the anger brew deep inside of her.

"Again Troy. Why do you care? Huh? Why did you save me in the first place?"

What Troy said made her take a step back. She never expected him to say anything like it.

"Because I can't live without you. Next time you jump, so will I."

She stood there frozen. Not truly believing what he was saying to her. He wouldn't risk his life for hers. He left her and made her cry all night, made her run her tired little legs all the way out here. He made her want to jump.

"You don't mean that. You don't care whether I live or not. I know that now. I know not to believe you when you say you'll stay with me through whatever. That you would never leave me! You did Troy. You left me there. You left. And I just want to know why?" Troy could recognize her tears beyond the falling rain and it pained him to see it was because of him.

"I was scared." Her head snapped to face him. She was going to finally let everything she had been feeling about her life, her fears out.

"Scared of what Troy? What could you possibly be scared of? Huh?" She didn't wait for him to respond back. "I mean, I'm the one dying remember. I'm the one with a dead heart inside of my chest. I'm the one whose lost most of her friends because I stupidly fell in love with you. I'm the one who isn't able to live the rest of my life. I'm the one that's going to be buried 6 feet under ground and forgotten about." Her breaths were uneven and it was like she had just run a marathon. "I'm the one who was perfectly fine living without love. Without your love. And then you come along and turn everything around. I was fine knowing I would die, without knowing what love truly felt like. I wasn't scared of death before, because I knew I had nothing to live for. But then you and me happened and I wanted to live. I wanted to grow old with you and be with you. And then when I finally let you into the last part of my life, you leave because you're scared." Her tears were still falling and she couldn't really see him, but she felt him close to her. "So tell me…what are you so scared of?" Rain was falling all around them, but neither one cared. Both were breaking inside.

"Losing you." She could hear his striking voice above the rain. "I'm scared that because I'm so in love with you, I won't be able to live without you. I'm scared that if I don't have the courage I want or need to leave this Earth with you when you do, that I'm going to live alone without you. I'm scared of not having you in my arms every night forever. I'm scared that we won't be able to live together, to be together, to get married and have hundreds of little Troy's and Gabriella's. I'm scared of watching you die without me. I'm scared…of losing you." Both stood still as everything around them passed on. Time didn't stop, the weather didn't get any better. They just stood there staring at each other, waiting for the other to finally say something. Then everything froze.

"I need to go."

Ok WOW. And yes, I know it's short again, but I like how this part of the stroy is broken in certain areas. So I take it everyone liked the last chapter haha. It's funny....I wrote a giant Author's note saying I wouldn't be able to update in a while, and all I'm doing is writting this story haha. Sorry if it doesn't quite make sense. I kind of got carried away with their speech's...I've actually downed it a little bit. Haha. Hope you guys are loving these quick updates. They WILL get shorter soon. I've been doing this course for like 3 days....and already got 2 assignments due. Intense. Haha...just got a review telling me to update quickly...well here you go. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. It was easy AND hard to write. Hope you understand each others point of view. Cheers for the reviews and your thoughts. Love em. XD Cheers.