Once Gabriella got around to the back she had to go about finding his window, which took quite awhile. Finally she just picked up a rock and hucked it at the window that looked the most promising.

The light went on.

Gabriella stopped breathing.

A shadow moved across the window.

Gabriella bit her lip.

The window slowly opened.

Gabriella gasped.

A blonde head poked out. But it wasn't the right blonde head.

It was Erin's head!

Oh my God! Gabriella groaned and Erin looked around the yard.

"Hello...is someone out there?" She called sleepily.

Gabriella's hand went over her mouth, she wanted to die.

Another light went on and Gabriella's face went from tinged pink to beet red.

Another blonde head peeked out, this time Sharpay's.

Gabriella felt tears running down her face, half from fatigue, half from embarrassment.

"What's going on?" Sharpay half yelled.

"I don't know, someone threw a rock at my window! Well Ryan's window...but whatever."

Erin replied, sounding more awake. Gabriella closed her eyes in horror.

Then a light downstairs came on and then another and another. The lights were moving through, to the back, where all the action was.

Again, a blonde head came out, followed by a pale body.

Ryan!

Oh my God! This isn's happening, this isn't happening, this isn't happening... She chanted in her mind, but sadly, it was happening.

"What on earth is going on out here!" He cried, looking up at Sharpay and Erin.

He stretched over and flipped the switch and the backyard was suddenly flooded with light.

Gabriella was frozen in fright, like a deer in the headlights. All eyes were on her, and she did what anyone else would do.

Run.

She ran out of the yard and back down the street.

"Gabriella?" Ryan called after her, then looked back up at the girls and shrugged.

"Come back inside, Ry, you can call her in a little while." Erin yelled down to him then shut her window, Sharpay nodded and did the same.

Do I go after her, or not...I guess not, I have no idea where she went. I'll call her... Ryan yawned and dragged himself back inside.

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Gabriella ran and was halfway to her house when she stopped.

"I have been running away too much lately, I need to take a stand!" She said to herself, then ran through someone's yard, and then another and another, until she was almost 4 streets over.

She took out her phone and quickly called Troy. "Hello..." He answered sleepily.

"Troy, listen, come outside, fast! I need to talk to you now!" She whispered hurriedly.

"Who are you, to first yell at me and then wake me up not even 12 hours later and demand that I come outside!" He asked furiously.

"Troy, get over yourself. Just come out here, now!" She practically yelled, then hung up.

About 10 minutes later, Troy came out of the house, looking quite unhappy. "What the hell do you want!" He roared quietly.

"Troy, I just want to say, that I am really sorry about tonight, and the last couple of weeks, and what I want to do right now."

Troy looked at her like she was crazy then sighed. "Gabriella, straight up, tell me what's going on." He said wearily.

"Alright, lately I have been feeling really odd. Like different, you know. And it wasn't until really this morning or well last night that it hit me. During RENT, I kept seeing myself with Roger, but Roger wasn't you..." Troy tilted his head and arched his brow.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is that, well, um, you, I, we...Oh! I don't love you anymore and I think we should break up!" She yelled the last part and then covered her mouth with her hand.

Troy gazed into her eyes, not saying anything, then nodded. "I expected that, for some reason, and I sort of understand it. I just want to know why..."

Gabriella sighed. "I'm not sure about anything right now, all I know is that I don't feel for you, the way you feel for me." Troy nodded again then walked back into the house and shut the door tightly.

Gabriella smiled sadly, and walked back to her house, where she fell asleep in the sunshine, with one thing on her mind:

Ryan Evans...