Troyella

Chapter 35: The Break In... [Edited]

"No way man, you're joking right?" Troy laughed walking into his girlfriend's house. The gang had been out for a meal celebrating their success in the concert they had performed that night and were planning to stay over at Gabriella's house.

"No man, I'm being serious Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers." Chad told them.

"How do you even know this stuff?" Gabriella asked.

"Internet" Chad shrugged

"You look it up?" Sharpay asked

"No, I was bored and looked up some useless facts"

"Gabriella, is something different here?" Troy asked, getting a bad feeling.

"Dude, you OK?" Zeke asked.

"Yeah I'm fine, it's just something doesn't seem right"

"Yeah, actually now that you mention it, something does seem different" Gabriella agreed.

"Gabriella wasn't there a photo of you and your family here?" Troy asked, pointing to the mantel piece.

"Yeah and isn't it 11:30?" Taylor asked.

"Yeah why?" Kelsi asked.

"Nothing it just seems Gabriella's clock has stopped."

"Well, could just be the batteries" Troy shrugged getting the clock down off the wall. "...if the batteries were actually in the clock" Troy said, turning it round to show the others.

"So, what? Someone came in and took a picture and stopped the clock?" Sharpay asked.

"What time does it say?" Ryan asked.

"Uh, 9:30" Troy told them

"While we were doing the concert?" Jason asked.

"Apparently so"

"Which means they knew that no-one would be in" Chad realized

"This doesn't make any sense, who would come in and take a picture and stop the clock?" Taylor asked.

"Unless it wasn't about the things they could take" Ryan suggested.

They all looked at him, waiting for him to elaborate.

"What if it was just to say, I got into your house, which means I can do it again, maybe even when you're in"

"That's freaky" Gabriella said feeling uncomfortable in her home.

"I think we should call the police" Tami said.

"Yeah, OK, Kelsi call the police, everyone else; look around for other things that could have been stolen" Troy told them.

Chad and Taylor went to the kitchen.

Tami and Ryan went to the dining room.

Kelsi and Jason stayed in the living room.

Troy and Gabriella looked in Gabriella's mother's room.

Sharpay and Zeke looked around Gabriella's room.

"Who would do this?" Gabriella finally asked.

So far in her mum's room they found her jewellery box emptied, her perfume bottles smashed and the pages of various books ripped and scattered around the room.

"I don't know, I really don't" Troy admitted, honestly.

"It can't be anyone from East High and we're friends with West High now-"

"West High" Troy said suddenly.

"You don't think it was all of them? Do you?" Gabriella asked, surprised.

"No, not all of them, just four girls who go by the name of Stacey, Megan, Lindsey and Haley" Troy said, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Oh God, I think you're right" Gabriella said, feeling a bit sick that they had gone through her house doing God knows what.

"Yeah, we don't have the proof." Troy said. "Yet"

"Yet?"

"If they were careless, they would have left finger prints" Troy told her.

"And if they weren't?"

"We'll get it sorted" Troy promised

Gabriella nodded

"Come on, let's go to the others and see what they've come across" Troy said, as he looked around the room with disgust on how people could do something like this.

"I should phone my mum, I haven't yet"

"Alright. You haven't touched anything, have you?"

"No, you?"

"No, I'll go down and make sure the others haven't either"

Gabriella nodded as she reached for her mobile to ring her mum.

"So, first off, you guys haven't touched anything, have you?" Troy asked.

They all shook their heads 'no'

"Good. Chad? You haven't, right?"

"Dude, I've watched way too much CSI to do something like that"

Troy smiled in approval. "Alright, what did you all find?"

"We found Gabriella's room trashed with photos smashed and ripped, one of you and Gabriella singing they wrote on the back-" Sharpay cut herself off showing the picture to Troy, barely touching it and using her jacket.

'Tone deaf slut'

Troys hands shook with anger at the words as he shook his head burning a hole through the words with his eyes.

"And we found half of her clothes missing; we don't know where they've put them though" Sharpay told him, remembering the open, virtually empty wardrobe. "Her make-up was used to write on the walls and perfumes were all smashed"

"Same thing with her mums room. Perfume bottles smashed, jewellery box emptied and pages of books had pages torn out of them." Troy told them.

"In the kitchen all the silver is gone. China plates and cups are gone. Pasta and other foods are all over the place, glasses smashed, it's like a bomb went off or something." Chad took a deep breath before saying the next part. "They also left the cooker on with a tea-towel just millimetres away from it."

Everyone's eyes widened, Gabriella had come downstairs by now. They all knew that the people who did this could have burnt Gabriella's house down and right now they wanted nothing more than to see the people who did this put in jail for the longest amount of time they could get.

"Um, in the living room, it seems that your wires connecting to the TV, DVD player, CD player, X-Box, Wii have all been melted or destroyed in some way and not only that, the DVD player, CD player, X-Box and Wii have all been taken" Jason told them. "It was all hidden behind the TV"

Gabriella closed her eyes taking all of this in. She couldn't bear to hear anymore, but knew she had too.

"In the dining room, your main computer has been taken, most of your books have been destroyed and they've done some graffiti on the walls" Tami told them.

"Alright, now we know what they've done, let's see if we can find out some other things" Troy suggested.

They all looked at him.

"Find out some other things, like how they got in. It wasn't by the front door because Gabriella unlocked that. Tami was the back door tampered with?" Troy asked.

"It was left wide open, but it wasn't off its hinges or anything" Tami told him.

"They balcony windows to Gabriella's room were smashed." Zeke told them.

They all headed for Gabriella's room.

"Um, shouldn't the police be doing this?" Chad asked.

"Yeah, but if we do some stuff ourselves at least we'll have more to tell them, so then they can get on with finding out who it was quicker" Taylor told him.

"Alright" Troy suddenly stopped in the middle of Gabriella's room. "I think they got in through this way"

"How do you know?" Ryan asked.

"If they smashed it from the bedroom, the glass would be going out onto the balcony, but it's not, the glass is on the bedroom floor, which means it was done from the outside." Troy told them, observing the room.

"He's right" Tami agreed.

Gabriella suddenly thought of something, she raced towards her wardrobe it was opened, she got down a box, her fingerprints would be on it anyway, and prayed.

"Gabriella?" Troy asked

Gabriella breathed a sigh of relief "They didn't find it" she said

"Didn't find what?" he asked

Gabriella turned around and they all saw it was the book he got her for her birthday last year.

"They didn't get it" she smiled, putting it back in her wardrobe. However, her relief was short-lived.

"Is that blood?" Taylor nearly shrieked.

"Where?" They asked urgently.

"Right there, on the floor" Taylor pointed.

"That's a reflection" Gabriella said.

They all looked up on the ceiling.

"You have been warned by us S.M.L.H members of the F of L.O.K...Mess with us again; it will be more than your house that gets destroyed"

"You don't think that really is blood, do you?" Sharpay asked, very scared.

"That's for the police to find out"

"I think it's going to be more than police work now" Gabriella nearly whispered.

They all turned to her.

"Look, they said 'It will be more than your house that will get destroyed'" Gabriella said, nearly crying. "They're threatening me and my family"

"They won't get away with this" Zeke said.

"They can't!" Chad nearly yelled.

"What do you think S.M.L.H and F of L.O.K stands for?" Ryan asked.

"Well, if it's who Gabriella and I think it is" he started, pulling Gabriella into a hug to comfort her. "Then Stacey, Megan, Lindsey and Haley. Four of Londons something Knights" Troy told them.

"Original" Gabriella spoke. "They like to think of themselves as unique and the best. They like to think of themselves as the first for everything. They like to think of themselves as Original"

"Stacey, Megan, Lindsey and Haley. Four of Londons Original Knights." Tami spoke.

"They're going to pay" Troy vowed.

[Edited A/N]:

So, it's a really short chapter, but suspenseful and hopefully you like it all the same :)

Thanks for reading!