Thank you for all who gave me names! I had a rough time picking, you guys come up with some good ideas! I picked Elaine for Mrs. Bolton's name and Karen for Mrs. Boucher, seems as she needed a name too. Thanks to everyone who helped, I appreciate it. Here is the next chapter, hope you like it.
"What happened?" Calum asked. Mack had her face in his chest, making his shirt soaked. He didn't mind. "What happened, is everything okay?" He stared down at her head, not looking over at Bailey or Keisha. He knew those two were giving him looks.
"They think it might be his heart," she said choking on her tears.
"But, how can that be? It was going at a steady beat all the time I was there." Calum said this more to himself than to Mack. He was surprised when she answered. "Apparently, the thing he might have comes and goes. They started monitoring him for 24 hours doing regular activity at about 6 in the morning." She took a deep breath. "I left before they said anything. What if..."
"Shh..." he said, stoking her hair and patting her back.
"I don't him to die Calum. Troy can't die." Calum didn't know what to say. It had never occurred to him that Troy could die. Calum felt tears in his eyes, he hadn't expected her to say that. These last few days had been disaster for her. He held her tight and stared up at the ceiling. On the ceiling tile were hand prints with names inside. The 8Th graders did this at the end of the year, a kind of leaving something of them behind. The first hand he looked at had the name: Troy Bolton.
He heard footsteps and looked down the hall. Teagan was walking calmly down the hall. "Mack, you need to go to the office. Your dad's here."
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Chad, Jason, Zeke and Ryan walked into East High, trying to look like they always did. Ryan tried to strut down the hall- like he and Sharpay had done before they had become friends with the others- but it looked more like an act than any of his shows had. Chad tried to dribble his basketball, but it would bounce off his foot and roll away. Zeke tried to bake chocolate chip cookies the night before but even though he put in all the right ingredients, the cookies tasted wrong. Jason didn't even try to hide anything, he just walked with his head down, bumping into students left and right uttering a simple "sorry" after. Each of them were missing something, a vital ingredient.
Each of them were missing Troy and no one knew what was going on with him.
They walked into Ms. Darbus' room and walked by Troy's empty chair. Chad stared at it the longest, before taking his seat behind it and staring at it even more. Jason looked around the room. Sharpay was trying to keep her head held high. Taylor was getting frustrated with a simple math problem- one Chad could do without a second thought- until she finally just threw her pencil on the floor. Gabriella was talking to Ms. Darbus.
Then the one thing they didn't want to hear was said over the intercom. "Would all teachers please read their e-mails."
Everyone in the class, whether they knew about Troy or not, knew that when teachers read their e-mails at the same time, there was something wrong.
Ms. Darbus shut her eyes and looked back at the class. She stood up and sat on the table in the front of her classroom. "I know some of you have heard about Troy. For those who haven't, he collapsed yesterday at hockey practice."
"Basketball, not hockey," Chad said.
"Well, last night cardiologists were working around the clock with his results from multiple tests. This morning they diagnosed it. Coach Bolton just called, he wanted everyone to know the right thing, and not spread rumors. He has supraventriclar tachycardia which means his heart was beating 'too fast.' It isn't life threatening." Chad's face broke out in a smile for the first time since Troy was admitted to the hospital at the last two words. Zeke and Jason both let out a sigh of relief. Gabriella and Taylor both squealed with happiness. Sharpay and Ryan turned to look at each other before Sharpay turned to the front and did her little clap thing she does. (a/n you know in the very beginning of the movie when they are talking about try outs and she claps to herself...)
"Oh, and boys," she said to Chad, Jason and Zeke. "You guys are having practice tonight."
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"Troy, we're going to keep you over night just to make certain, but you can leave tomorrow," Dr. Andrews said.
"Am I going faint again?" Troy asked. Jack heard the scared tone his voice had and remembered when Troy fainted. Jack had never seen Troy so afraid in his life and shuddered at the memory, hoping that would never happen again.
"Hopefully not. Your fainting was from lack of sleep and stress." Dr. Andrews smiled at Troy's expression. "Why, not want to faint again Troy?"
"No, thank you." His face had a curious look, "will I be able to play basketball?" Jack and Elaine shot each other a glance and Mack looked down at her feet.
"I don't see why not." Mack looked up, had she heard him right. Her brother had a heart condition, but he could play basketball?
"How?" Jack asked voicing Mack's question.
"Other than his heart, Troy should stay as healthy as he was before. We'll put him on some medicine that will control his heart rhythm and he'll need periodic check-ups." He directed the next part toward Troy. "You'll feel it when your heart starts to speed up. When it does stop it, and then the next thing we do is to prevent recurrences. Your parents have all information and don't hesitate to ask questions. There are a few things that you can do to slow it down. I'll tell you about those later and your parents will have directions on how to do anything I show you."
"Alright."
"If you have any questions, I'll be available. Now Troy, I'll show you what to do."
Jack led Mack out of the room so she could get a drink. They sat in silence in the cafeteria until Mack asked a question that had been on her mind all morning. "He's gonna be okay, right Dad?"
"Didn't you pay any attention to what the doctor said Mack? Yes he's going to be fine."
"So he's not going to die?"
Jack shut his eyes. "Yes, he's not going to die. Where did you get that idea?"
"Well, I guess I just jumped to conclusions, conclusions that were wrong. Wednesday I had a dream that Troy died and the family fell apart." She waited a minute. "Are you going to let him play in the tournament?"
"If your mother says yes and he wants to. I think I've been a little too harsh on Troy lately. Meeting with Daniel Boucher again helped me figure that out."
"Dad, what happened between you and the Boucher's anyway?"
Jack sighed. "Before I tell you, make this clear, it's not something I'm proud of..."
As I said in previous chapters, I'm no doctor, I don't know if all of this is medically correct. If it isn't my apologizes. Hopefully there won't be any more medical talk...
Tell me what you think. As for all the other names I received, I'll keep track of them and I'll use them later on in other stories. Thanks! Review!
