Hello, people, thank you so much for the good response! I've just been busy with an evil history paper that's worth like a quarter of my grade, so I REALLY need to do super-duper good on it. (because apparently getting a B- in history and being on second honors for the second term in a row isn't good enough…grrrrr.) But whatever. I just keep writing new chapter bits in study and meaning to post them, and then I never get a chance to because I'm an idiot and I always have better things to do. And then I got the flu and had to go to the hospital because I was apparently really dehydrated, so I have EXCUSES! And I know you're all reading this, just tell me if you like it PLEASE! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!
Gabriella stood frozen, watching the scene unfold in front of her. Zeke lay at the other side of the room, blood blossoming in a small puddle around his still form. That didn't matter. It was what she had almost been waiting for. But Troy…Troy wasn't supposed to be lying just like Zeke was, pale and unmoving, with a similar bloodstain on his shirt, spreading slowly. He couldn't be. It wasn't supposed to end like this. No. Never like this.
The scene seemed to twist and bend, shrinking before her eyes until it had disappeared, and the moment where this had all begun was replaying again.
Zeke had shoved her down onto the bed, pressing his mouth against hers. Her tears were falling silently. She heard voices outside, indistinguishable, but did it matter what they were saying? Zeke didn't seem to hear the voices, or if he did, he was seemingly ignoring them.
"Let them find us." he whispered suddenly. "I don't care. They can never stop our love, Gabriella."
"No…" Gabriella whispered, but she was drowned out by other voices.
Troy and Chad suddenly burst in. It took Troy all of two seconds to pull Troy off Gabriella and punch Zeke in the face. Zeke retaliated, and soon the two were wrestling on the floor, with Chad trying to pull Gabriella out the door.
"Troy, no! Just leave him! He has a gun!" Gabriella shouted. She broke away from Chad and tried to pull Troy off her captor.
"You can't stop the fact that we love each other!" Zeke snarled.
"She's mine! She never belonged to you! She's mine!" Troy snapped back at him. His foot nudged the gun that had fallen off the table where it had been lying. He instantly stood up and grabbed it, pointing it at Zeke.
"Troy, put the gun down." said Gabriella, staring at her boyfriend. "Please don't do this."
"Put it down." said Zeke. "You know you can't. You know you won't. You're not strong enough."
A sudden gunshot rang out. Zeke lay on the floor, barely breathing.
But how had the second shot been fired? Gabriella looked around, refusing to believe what had just happened. A second gun lay on the floor between all of them. It couldn't be. It couldn't. It wasn't. Troy could not be on the floor, lying just like Zeke was, pale, unmoving, bleeding. Dying.
She hurried to Troy's side, dimly aware of the voices of her friends and foes alike. It didn't matter who they were.
"Gabriella…" he whispered. His eyes closed and he moved no more.
Mwahahahahahahaahaha…I had to. There will be one or two more chapters after this, but it's getting near the end. You have to review if you ever want to see the end. I'll have Troy in limbo forever if you don't review. Same with Kelsi. And anyone else I feel like putting in limbo until your reviews set them free. PLEASE REVIEW! oh yes, and also, thank you so much for the 200 reviews! thank you especially Daydreamer299, who was my 200th reviewer! i would have sent you a PM thanking you about 10 more times and then just kinda died, but it was an anonymous review. :( so I'll just thank you here and hope you read this. Again, please keep reviewing! And also, this story was beta read by the amazing wonderful awesome lovely RemyTheReaper, who is my beta reader. so yeah.