Later that day, Troy was still in his room, but this time watching some television. Troy's mom walked up to his room and knocked on the door. Troy sighed and opened the door and asked, "What now?"

"I need to talk to you. It's about Gabriella." Troy's mom told him.

"Dad already told me." Troy told his mom.

Troy's mom shook her head and said, "This is different. Gabriella's mom called and said that something bad happened to Gabriella."

Troy was astonished and asked, "What happened?"

Troy's mom sighed and said, "Gabriella's plane broke and had cancer right now. So she's in the hospital in Florida. I was thinking that we could visit her for a few days."

Troy smiled and said, "That'd be the world to me." Troy's mom smiled and left Troy's room. Troy thought about how Gabriella got cancer and told Sharpay the news.

"So Gabriella has cancer. Big deal." Sharpay told Troy insensible.

Troy sighed and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow so I can visit Gabriella in the hospital."

Sharpay sighed and asked Troy, "Who's going to take her place?"

"I don't know." Troy said silently and hung up the phone.

Early the next morning, Troy was on the plane to Florida. Troy was of course flying alone with out his mom because his mom was in a meeting. Once the plane landed in Florida, Troy was the first one off and saw an officer holding a sign that said, "Troy Bolton." on it. Troy walked to the officer and said, "I'm ready." The officer stared at Troy and said, "Come on son."

Later that day at the hospital, Gabriella was unconscious and was sound asleep. Gabriella's mom saw Troy walk into the room and said, "This isn't a good time to be here."

Troy paused and asked, "Why not?"

Gabriella's mom sighed and said, "The doctor just came in and said that Gabriella has 3 hours to live. They can't do anything about the cancer. She won't move! She's going to be gone in 3 hours."

Troy was very upset and begged to get a doctor. Lots of doctors ignored Troy and said there wasn't a cure. Troy gasped and ran back to the room and cried for a while. Sharpay sighed and said, "At least you have me." Troy quickly glanced at Sharpay and sobbed. 2 hours and 59 minuets later, Troy was still in the hospital with Gabriella until the machine made a very long beep sound. I think you know what that means.

Troy cried for a little bit and flew back home and told his mom the bad news. "That's awful." Troy's mom said. Troy didn't say anything and ran back to his room upset. No one could possibly take Gabriella's place for the musical. No one was interested. So the musical was a disaster!

"What are we going to do?" Sharpay yelled in stress.

"We can't possibly find a replacement now!" Ryan said, pointing out that Gabriella was gone.

"Replacement? We don't know anyone who could possibly replace her." Sharpay told Ryan.

"We should have auditions!" Ryan said excited.

"Not a good idea!" Sharpay said in anger.

"Who else is there?" Ryan asked.

"I don't know." Sharpay said.

"What are you saying? There are a lot of kids in school that can take her place." Ryan said.

"Everyone there stinks. And they aren't beautiful." Sharpay said rude.