Disclaimer: Do I own HSM, it's characters, or Disney Channel? No. Do I own the plotline? Yes!

A/N: I know...only one day between chapters...so what? I'm bored lol N E Wayz, I'm so excited at how far this story has gotten...I already have the ending...pretty much the last chapter...written (in my head). I plan for this story to have 20 chapters...6 to go! I want to thank everyone on this site who's written a HSM fan fic...especiallly the Troy/Ryan ones...I drew about 95 of my inspiration from those stories! Also, I want to thank everyone who has read and reviewed "Inertia of a Lonely Heart" I see that it was a hit! Oh yea...I realized that I completely blew off the fact that they're still in shool in this part of the story, so I made up for it. I made Sharpay explain it...they were on spring break lol.Ok, well here's chapter 14...PLEASE REVIEW!

Chapter 14:Camisado

Ryan's P.O.V.

I had been sitting there next to Troy's body, waiting for him to wake up. An hour went by...nothing. Two hours...nothing. It was nearing the third hour of my wait, then I heard a noise. I looked over at Troy...he was waking up!

"Troy?" I said, excitedly.

His eyes slowly fluttered open, and he looked over at me...at the worried and anxious look on my face.

"Hey, Ry...what are you doing here?"

"I've been here for three hours waiting for you to wake up."

Troy let out a groan of pain as he sat up in his bed.

"What happened Troy?"

"Umm...well, I was uh, driving home when a...uh, a car came out of fucking nowhere and uh, was driving right towards me,like it was trying to attack me!...and I uh, tried to swerve and miss it, and I uh...hit a tree."

Oh my gosh...did Troy think I'd really fall for that? "Come on, Troy...you never say 'uh' that much...tell me the truth...what really happened?"

Troy didn't say anything. I could tell he was thinking hard about another stupid lie to tell me. I could see tears well up in his eyes. He looked down at his hands placed gently in his lap...I could now hear him weeping...

"Troy...?"

"I was so mad...confused...furious!...at everything in my life...I didn't want to deal with it...and I told myself I didn't have to deal with it."

Oh no... I thought to myself. "Troy...did you...?"

"Yes...I...I tried to...uh...kill myself...I'm sorry."

He was saying 'uh' again...but this time, I knew he was telling the truth.

I got up and sat down in the bed next to him. I held him close to me and put his head against my chest. We layed down together.

"It's okay Troy...I'm here now...I'll protect you..." I said in almost a whisper. I really wanted to help and protect Troy...I wanted to save him...and I knew that it was a good thing that I wanted to do...because I had to do it.

I put Troy's face in my hand, and lifted him up to me. I kissed him lightly on the lips, being sure I left him wanting more. He put his hand on my neck and we were practically making out in the hospital bed.

I sat up a little and took my shirt off. I layed back down next to my love. He was wearing one of those paper hospital gowns, so I just tore it off and threw it on the floor. Troy unbottoned my pants and slid them down to my knees, along with my boxers. I slid my hand down to his erection and began stroking him, as he did the same to me. We were still kissing, and moaning between every sloppy kiss.

Finally, I stopped kissing him, and I started stroking him faster and faster, and he moaned louder. "Oh...Ryan...oh..."

"Oh, God...yes...Troy..." I moaned as he was still stroking me.

We came at the same time, and Troy reached over to a box of tissues, and we cleaned up our mess.

Troy was still really sore, and hurting badly, so he couldn't move much, which meant we couldn't make love yet. I got up and put my clothes on. I leaned over and kissed Troy again.

"It's late. I should get some rest...and so should you. I'll come see you tomorrow." I said.

I left, and on my way home, I saw Sharpay.

"Hey, sis...need a ride?"

"Hey, Ryan...yea, sure."

She got in the car and I told her what happened...about Gabriella killing herself, and Troy atempting to kill himself.

"Oh my gosh, that's terrible." was all Shar could say.

"Yeah..." I said.

"You know..." Sharpay continued. "...tomorrow is the last day of spring break...Troy is about to have to face everyone again. How many people do you think know about Gabby killing herself?"

"I'm not sure...hopefully, no one knows about anything that happened." I said.

Shar and I got home, and she went to her room while I went to mine. I sat down on the edge of my bed, trying to absorb all that's been happening. I sort of laughed when I remembered Troy's lame explanation of what happened...this town is a clone of Mayberry...as long as I can remember, there hasn't been a single camisado...and Troy tried to make me believe that that's what happened to him.

Sometimes, it's silly little things like that that make me love him so much...