Hope you like it! Here's Chapter 26!
As Troy and Mack walked up to Chad, Zeke, Ryan and Jason, they heard the last bit of their conversation.
"So, tonight..."
"Yeah, we'll make them wish they never knew us!"
"Who?" Troy asked. All four turned their heads immediately. Ryan opened his mouth to say something, but it never came out because Chad gave him a glare.
"No one Troy," Chad said looking between Troy and Mack. "Absolutely no one."
"Mack, why don't you go get something," Troy said. He handed Mack some money and pushed her toward the building. Mack started to walk to the building, but when she saw that Troy was no longer watching her, went behind a tree.
"So, Troy, we still on for tonight?" Jason asked once they thought Mack was gone.
"About that guys..." Troy said, but Chad interrupted him. "What do you mean?"
Troy sighed. "Are you sure we can't get caught? I mean, if I get caught, my dad will kill me, bury me, dig me up and kill me again."
"Positive," Ryan said. "Sharpay, Gabriella and Taylor helped us plan it."
"When they didn't know what it was going to be used for."
"Troy! Stop," Chad said. "We can't get caught, but why did you bring Mack? She's the one who you should be worried about."
"I know, I'm going to drop her off before we go. Can we think this over more before we do it?"
"What's there to think over," Zeke said. "Its the perfect plan."
"I'll come, but I'm not doing anything. My dad's watching my every move as it is."
"Oh, come on Troy! Don't you want revenge?" Ryan asked. Mack suddenly knew what was happening. They were going to do something to West High. She got up quietly and ran in the other direction toward East High, where she knew her dad was.
The run wasn't that far, but she had to cross multiple streets, which took up a lot of her time. When she got to the school she ran up 3 flights of student infested stairs and turned right. She slowed down to a jog when she approached her father's room. She burst through his door out of breath, interrupting a meeting.
"Dad!"
"Mack, what are you doing here? Are you okay? Is it Troy?" He stood from his seat and the other science teachers put on worried looks.
"He's gonna do something. I heard them talking about it-"
"Whose them?" Coach Bolton interrupted.
"Chad, Zeke, Jason, Troy and Ryan-"
"Where did you see them? I told Troy to pick you up from school, did they come too?"
Mack's face dropped and heart shattered. "You told Troy..." she said, more to herself than to her father. She had thought that he came on his own free will, like he had when they were younger. She thought that Troy had come to be with her, not because their father told them too.
"Yeah, I didn't want him hanging around the school. So what's so important that you had to interrupt my meeting for?"
Mack stared down at her shoes, suddenly very fascinated how they had stayed so white since September. At the moment she cared more about what they were going to do, then what happened to Troy. "They're gonna do something to West High. I don't know what, but I know they are. They were talking about revenge or something..."
"Jack," one of the science teachers said. "You take her, we'll finish the meeting and I'll talk to you tomorrow."
Coach Bolton led Mack out of the room and down to the car. He sat her down in the passenger's seat and walked around to the drivers side. After he sat down, he looked over at her and said, "okay Mack, tell me everything, from the very beginning."
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"Okay guys, I think that's enough," Troy said, his voice quivering.
"Troy, calm down," Chad said from a ladder. "We're just doing to them, what they did to us last year."
"Then why are sinking to their level?" Troy asked.
"We're not, this has been going on for years! Hand me the paintbrush, will you Troy?" Jason asked.
"No, you get your own paintbrush. Maybe we should leave now, before somebody comes. I think you have done enough."
"I think you've been hanging around with Gabriella too much," Chad said, "all her rule following has gone to your head. Three months ago, you would have done this without a second thought."
"A lot has happened in three months. I mean, this isn't a winner's attitude, destroying another team's gym..." he changed his voice, "oh look at the time, I've got to go to rehearsal, see ya."
"You don't have play practice until 4:30. We know your schedule."
"I have to go over the stuff with Darbus that I missed when I was out," Troy lied as he walked toward the door of the gym. He stopped mid step when he saw Cam and his team standing in the doorway.
"What are guys doing?" Cam asked, his face suddenly stricken with anger and he turned to Troy. "This is what you do to someone who apologized to you? My dad was right all along, you are heartless. Oh, wait," Cam said as if he was mistaken, "your heart just doesn't work." The Knights laughed at their captain's joke.
Cam walked over to Troy and looked straight into his eyes, "heart stopped beating today Troy, because you're acting like a ghoul."
"No, but I can't believe I was so stupid to think you actually had the heart to apologize. My heart might not work right, but your's would make the Grinch feel sorry for you." The Wildcats, who had walked up behind Troy, cheered appropriately.
"I can not believe I felt sorry for you for one minute. You deserved every single thing that happened to you." Cam looked outraged, "you almost died and you didn't change one thing about you. I'm thinking that that little incident was suppose to kill you, not put you in the hospital for a couple days. You are so ungrateful."
Troy's hands were in fists and his knuckles were pure white. This time, Troy threw the first punch.
In case you forgot, the last time Cam and Troy fought, Cam threw the first punch.
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