Chap. 5. Flour Shower and Parties Too.

The following Monday at school was hard. Not only was Gabriella still in the hospital, but also more rumors were going around. One was that Troy had tried to steal Ashley from AJ so he danced with her, kissed her, and then left her. Others were that Troy was mad because Gabriella had interrupted him kissing Ashley so he pushed her in front of the truck. Troy just tried to ignore these, but with everyone saying them right in front of him every chance they got it was hard.

After school they went to the mall. While they were in the food court they saw the last person they wanted to see. Ashley. But this time she was only with Katie.

Zeke spotted them first and pulled Sharpay close to him. He didn't want a repeat of last time. He leaned his head closer to Troy's ear and said, "Don't look now but Ashley's here."

Troy looked forward and saw them. They hadn't spotted them yet. He looked at Sharpay. Apparently she hadn't seen them. "Yeah. Um… why don't we go into this store." He turned and led them all into the Sweet Factory.

Taylor rolled her eyes. "Is that all you guys think of?"

Troy smiled and gave a nervous laugh. "Yeah well-" he was cut off by Ashley and Katie walking in.

"Hey Troysie!" Troy glared at Ashley. He looked over at Zeke to see if he had Sharpay held tight. He saw that all the guys were holding her arms while she tried to break free.

Katie smiled an evil smile. "So Troy. Heard what happened to Gabriella. Pity the truck didn't hit her just a little bit harder."

Ashley flicked her hair over her shoulder. "Yeah. Then she'd be out of the way for good and we wouldn't have to put in so much work to get her out of your life." They both laughed.

Taylor, who had been standing behind Troy, stepped up and slapped them both across the face as hard as she could. Sharpay stopped struggling and just stared at her dumbfounded. Kelsie smiled and leaned her head over to Sharpay's ear. "Ouch! Bitch slap."

Chad stepped up and grabbed Taylor's shoulders before she could do anything else. He led her out of the store with everyone behind him leaving Ashley and Katie standing there gapping.

Once they were far away Sharpay turned to Taylor. "Oh my God! I never thought you would ever do something like that!"

Taylor blushed. "Neither did I."

Chad kissed Taylor's cheek. "Well I thought it was great."

Troy looked at his watch and then back at everyone else. "Well as exciting as this is I need to go."

Jason gave him a curious look. "Where do you have to go?"

"I… uh… I need to run some errands for my mom." Troy waved goodbye and left.

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Gabriella was sitting up in bed doing some homework Taylor had dropped off for her. There's really nothing to do in a hospital. Just then the door opened and Troy walked in. She smiled up at him. "Hey."

Troy smiled. "Hi."

"What are you doing here?"

"Well you see when people have friends who are in the hospital they usually visit them to tell them what they missed, talk a little, tell them who slapped who-"

Gabriella cut him off. "What did Sharpay do this time?"

Troy laughed. "Actually it was Taylor. We saw Ashley and Katie at the mall and when they started talking about you she just stepped up and slapped them both. It was actually pretty cool."

Gabriella sat there stunned. She was touched that someone would do something like that for her. "Wow."

Troy laughed out loud at her reaction. They sat there and talked for a while about school and their friends when Troy remembered that he had come to talk to her about the homecoming night. "Gabriella you know that what you saw at the dance wasn't real. I didn't kiss her. I would rather take the risk of kissing a poisonous snake then her."

Gabriella laughed. "Yeah I know. It's just, when I saw you kissing her I didn't know what to think. She had been hanging around you lately. I don't know. I was stupid."

Troy smiled. "You weren't stupid. I should have straight out told her no."

Right then dr. Levingston walked in. "Good news Gabriella! Your charts say that you're doing fine so you should be out of here by Friday!" Gabriella was beaming.

Troy looked at her and smiled. "Good. It's been lonely with out you." Gabriella blushed and lent up and kissed him.

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Friday came and Gabriella was out of the hospital. Of course she had a brace for her broken ribs and still couldn't stand up completely straight but with the gangs help she would be fine. When she walked into school with everyone on Monday she got a reaction that she hadn't expected.

"Oh my gosh Gabriella! Do you need help?" it was a girl from the soccer team.

Gabriella stood there for a second before shaking her head. A bunch of other girls were coming up to her and asking if she was fine and if she needed any help. Gabriella was surprised and didn't really know how to respond. Finally she made it to Mrs. Darbus' class. She was still very confused but when she looked at all her friends they had huge smiles on their faces.

"Do you guys know why they're acting like that?"

Taylor was beaming. "YES! Well you know Ashley and Katie were talking trash about you while we were at the mall, right? Well Ben, from the football team, works at the store that we were in and heard the whole thing and told everyone!"

Gabriella had a huge smile on her face. "Oh my gosh that's great!" another girl came up and asked Gabriella if she was all right. She nodded.

Mrs. Darbus came into the room. "All right class take your seats. Oh, and welcome back Ms. Montez. Feeling better?" Gabriella nodded. "Good."

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After school Troy drove Gabriella home. Once they got there Gabriella asked him if he wanted to come inside. He nodded. When she opened the door his mouth fell open. Her house was HUGE! The only part of her house he's ever seen was her bedroom. (A/N: not in the way you're thinking! I mean when he climbed up to her balcony.)

"So you want a snack?" again Tory nodded, still in to much shock to answer. Gabriella giggled and led him to the kitchen. She realized that what she wanted was on the highest shelf, which she couldn't reach in her condition. "Troy could you come over here and help me?"

Troy who was sitting at the kitchen table looking around nodded and stood up. "What do you need?"

Gabriella pointed at cookies on the top shelf. Troy reached up and grabbed them but unfortunately knocked a sack (A/N: I don't know what it's called!) of flour off too. It fell on his head and exploded everywhere. After it had settled he looked around and saw that it had gotten on everything, including Gabriella. His face turned beat red, even though you couldn't tell because of all the flour on him.

Gabriella opened her eyes and looked at Troy and started laughing. "Y-you look h-hilarious!" was all she could get out between gasps for breath. Troy relaxed a little and started laughing too. They did this for about five minutes. By then they were on the floor, doubled over from laughing. Troy sat back against the wall and tried to catch his breath.

Gabriella came over and sat next to him rubbing her ribs. "Don't make me laugh like that again. It hurts."

Troy smiled and kissed her head. He looked around the kitchen. "We really gotta get this cleaned up."

Gabriella looked around the kitchen too. "Yeah. Good thing my mom won't be home until late tonight." She got up and left the kitchen. She came back in a few minutes later with mops, brooms, scrubbers (A/N: I don't know what they're called!) and buckets. "Let's start now." Troy got up and grabbed a broom and started sweeping.

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Troy laid back on the floor. "Muscles hurt in places I didn't know existed.

Gabriella came and laid next to him. "Yeah. I can't believe it took us three hours just to clean it all up."

Troy sat up and looked at her. She was still covered in flour. "We need to get cleaned up now."

"Come on. I'll get some towels." And with that she stood up and left the kitchen with Troy behind her. She went upstairs and into her bathroom and got two towels. She handed one to Troy and tried to clean herself of the best she could.

After she got as much as she could off she went into her bedroom and changed. When she came out Troy was in the hall all cleaned up. She smiled at him. "Come on. Let's go have that snack." Troy chuckled and went downstairs with Gabriella. She got the cookies and led him into the living room to watch TV.

Troy sat down on the couch and Gabriella curled up next to him and put her head on his chest. They turned on the TV to see that Just Like Heaven was on. Gabriella smiled. "I love this movie."

Troy gave a disgusted face. "It's a chick flick."

Gabriella looked up at him "Yes but there's romance in it." She lifted herself up and kissed him on the lips. She went to pull away but he pulled her closer. Both of them were so wrapped up in what they were doing that they forgot about the movie.

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Mrs. Montez walked into her house. It was 9:00 p.m. and she had had a long day. "Gabby I'm home!" no answer. "Gabby?" she walked into the living room to see Gabriella curled up next to Troy asleep on the couch. She smiled. She knew that Gabriella was so happy with Troy.

Just then Gabriella woke up. "Mom?"

She snapped out of her thoughts. "Hi sweetie. Shouldn't Troy be at his house? It's 9:00."

Gabriella jumped. "Oh my gosh!" she shook Troy. "Come on Troy! It's 9:00!"

Troy jumped up. "Are you serious! My parents are going to freak!" he bent down and kissed Gabriella on her head. "I'll see you in school tomorrow. Bye." And with that he left.

Mrs. Montez smiled. "You've got some boyfriend."

Gabriella giggled. "Yeah."

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"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" Gabriella had woken up late because she was up late doing her homework since she didn't get any done while Troy was there. She was running late for class but couldn't walk very fast.

When she walked into Mrs. Darbus' class everyone looked at her. "Er… sorry. I woke up late."

Mrs. Darbus seemed to be in a good mood because all she did was nod, although it could have been because Gabriella was still injured.

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It had been a month since the accident and Ashley and Katie hadn't done anything. As a matter of fact they were barely seen. They were probably lying low for a while.

One day at lunch the gang was talking when Sharpay randomly said, "I think I'll throw a party this Friday?" Everyone just stared. "What?"

Zeke, who was sitting next to her, asked, "Would your parents let you?"

Sharpay smiled. "Well my parents are going out of town so they wont be there. What they don't know won't hurt them." No one looked really convinced. "It would be unchaperoned."

Chad smiled. "That's all I need to hear. I'm going."

"Well if Chad is going then so am I." Taylor said.

Gabriella looked uncertain. "So it'd just be us?"

"I think it would be us, Ryan, and Amanda."

"How have they been? Are they, you know, an item?" Taylor asked. Sharpay nodded. The bell rang so they all ran off to class before they could get a detention.

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Friday was finally there and Sharpay's party was that night. Troy was heading over to Gabriella's house to pick her up. When he got there Gabriella came out right away. When Troy saw her, his mouth hit the ground. (A/N: no I do not mean that he fell.) She was wearing a tight red spaghetti strap camie that had sequence designs on it with a jean skirt and brown flip-flops. She had her hair down in its natural curl and had light makeup on.

She walked up to him and kissed his cheek. "You better close your mouth. You're starting to drool."

Troy immediately closed his mouth and turned and opened the door for Gabriella. He got in himself and drove off to Sharpay's party.

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When they got there they rang the doorbell. No one answered. They rang it again and waited a few minutes. As they waited they could hear music blasting. Finally Ryan came and let them in. As Troy looked around he could tell that most of the juniors and seniors were there. Everyone was dancing to the insanely loud music.

'Dance Dance' by Fall Out Boy came on. Gabriella smiled and grabbed Troy's hand. "Come on! Let's dance!" she pulled him out onto the floor where they danced. Soon everybody was watching and cheering for them.

After about five songs Troy pulled Gabriella off the floor to rest for a while. He led her over to the punch bowl. There were some people hanging around it who were acting kind of weird. Troy ignored it and grabbed two cups he led Gabriella over to some chairs and handed her one. When he drank it he thought it tasted a little funny but ignored it because it was Sharpay's.

After about five other cups Troy started to feel a little tipsy. He started making out with Gabriella. Soon the party started to wind down and he didn't realize that he had fallen asleep.

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Troy opened his eyes but immediately closed them because of the bright light shining in his eyes. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around. He was still in Sharpay's house with Gabriella right next to him. He sat up but regretted it immediately. His head hurt and the room was spinning. He was hung over. As he looked around he could see that other people had passed out here too.

He could see Ryan and Amanda in a chair in a corner, Kelsie was passed out on top of Jason on the floor, and about fifteen other people were there. He guessed the other people had gone home.

Gabriella started to wake up. She opened her eyes and looked around. "What happened?"

Troy sighed. "I think someone spiked the punch last night."

Kelsie started to move then sat up. "Where am I?"

Gabriella sighed. "Sharpay's house. How much punch did you drink last night?"

Kelsie gave her a weird look. "Um… I don't know. About four cups I guess. Why?"

"The punch was spiked." Troy said.

Ryan suddenly sat up. "Are you serious?"

Gabriella couldn't help but giggle at the look on his face. "Yeah, but I don't know who did it."

Ryan groaned and looked around. "Do you know where Sharpay and Zeke are?"

Troy looked around too. "Chad and Taylor are gone too. Maybe they're just in another room."

Jason sat up. "Whappend?"

"Someone spiked the punch. Come on. We're going to go find Sharpay, Zeke, Chad, and Taylor." Kelsie said.

He groaned and laid back down. "Go on with out me."

Kelsie rolled her eyes but got off him and left the room with Ryan, Troy, and Gabriella behind her.

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Chad woke up. He had no clue to where he was. He looked around and saw that he was in a bedroom. He looked down and saw Taylor lying her head on his chest. His bare chest.

He shook her while whispering in her ear, "Taylor. Wake up! Come one."

Taylor stirred and groaned and finally opened her eyes. "Where am I?" she looked at Chad then at the room and here eyes got real big. "Did we-?"

"Yeah I think so. Come on. Before someone finds us." Taylor nodded and they both got dressed and fixed the room so it didn't even look like they were there.

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Sharpay opened her eyes and looked around. She was in her room. She had a vague memory of what happened last night with the party. She just didn't understand why she had such a bad headache. When she turned over in her bad she saw Zeke and nearly screamed. She saw his bear chest and her eyes got side.

Zeke started to move. "Wherami?"

"Zeke we need to get dressed and downstairs before anyone finds us. Come on." He looked at himself and his eyes got wide. They quickly got changed and fixed the room and headed downstairs before someone could find them.

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"Urg! Where could they be? We've checked the whole downstairs!" Kelsie was getting tired of looking for Sharpay, Zeke, Chad, and Taylor. They had searched the whole downstairs and outside and still hadn't found them. Everyone else had woken up and gone home so now it was just her, Jason, Ryan, Amanda, Troy, and Gabriella.

While they were heading upstairs they heard someone. "Close the door quietly. Now come on. Let's go downstairs."

Gabriella knew that voice. "Taylor?" they made it the rest of they way up the stairs and saw Taylor and Chad Standing in the hall way outside a bedroom door. Gabriella's eyes got wide. "Oh my… did you guys-?"

"NO!" they both shouted a little to quickly. Everyone looked like they didn't believe them but didn't question them further.

Trying to change the subject Taylor asked, "Where's Sharpay and Zeke?"

Ryan smiled. "Right behind you."

Taylor and Chad turned around and saw Sharpay and Zeke right behind them. Sharpay smiled. "Uh… hello."

Ryan cocked an eyebrow. "What did you-?"

"Nothing." Sharpay looked disgusted that he would even suggest something like that. But knows. After all she is an actress.

Jason's stomach grumbled. "I'm hungry. Let's eat." Everyone nodded and turned and headed downstairs. Gabriella looked at Taylor and Sharpay. She still thought they were hiding something from her.

After breakfast Ryan headed off with Amanda to spend the day with her. Gabriella wanted Taylor and Sharpay to tell her what really happened, and she had a good idea of how to do it.

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(A/N): TA DA! Yey me! I did it! I did it! Ok. My next chapter will be out soon. It might take longer though. The only reason I was able to get this one written and posted so quickly was because I was home sick for a week then I had the weekend so yeah. Hoped ya liked it! Please review!

mwah!

renee