Recap!

Shortly Zeke, Jason, Taylor, Sharpay, Kelsie, and Ryan (A/N that's the gang) had all filled the hospital. Then the police came. Chad told them everything and told them not to bother Gabriella for she will tell you the same thing just you won't be able to understand underneath all the hysterical tears. Everyone was crying.

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Soon after talking to Chad the police went to arrest Mr. Bolton for child abuse. Having no idea that anyone knew he didn't have time to make a run for it. He was placed in jail and the trial was set the day before school started, which was only 4 weeks away.

A week later…

Gabriella was praying everyday that Troy would wake up that day. It had been a week since he was in the hospital. They did the surgery and stopped the internal bleeding but, they weren't sure when he was going to wake up. They couldn't really predict that because he had gotten a lot of beatings to the head and body.

Gabriella hadn't left the hospital all week. Mrs. Bolton had left for a little while because Chad forced her. When Chad tried to get Gabriella to go he got screamed at severely. He stopped trying after that.

Day and night you could find Gabriella by Troy's hospital bed, holding his hand, praying, talking to him, playing with his hair, or just sitting by him to keep him company. Many times Mrs. Bolton was there too. Lately though, she had been coming in for 3 or 4 hours and then leaving because it was getting too emotional and depressing for her.

It was 3 weeks before school started and Gabriella hadn't gotten much too eat or barely any sleep in the past week and a half.

"Go home Gabriella. Go take a shower, eat a real meal, and get an actual night's sleep tonight. I'll stay with him. You can come right back in the morning. First thing." Mrs. Bolton pleaded.

"I can't do that. I can't bring myself to leave him. Not like this, he just seems so helpless. I just can't bring myself to leave him. Anyways I've lost my appetite to worry and I won't be able to sleep any with him here, like this. I just couldn't so there would be no point." Gabriella responded.

"Go home, just for a few hours. Go home and see your mom. I'm sure she misses you plenty."

"Fine," Gabriella gave in, "I'll be back in 2 hours."

"See you then."

"Bye Mrs. Bolton"

"Bye Gabriella darling."

At Gabriella's house…

Her Brother was still there. He hadn't done anything yet but, Gabi just didn't want to see him, not while she was going through this. Part of her had forgotten he was even there so walking through her front door to see him in her living she absolutely lost it. All her sadness turned into her anger and she took it all out on him.

"WHY ARE YOU DOING TO THIS TO US AGAIN? CAN'T YOU TELL WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE? YOU HURT US AND THEN YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO COME BACK! GET OUT JUST GET OUT!" she screamed at him. she started throwing all his crap at him and said she was going for a walk she'd be back in a half hour and he'd better be gone.

On the walk…

'I need sleep, I know I do. I've never lost it like that before. This is just too much for me. Troy in the hospital not waking up, my brother back, I didn't even see my mom. I just can't function normally without him, with him hurt the way he is. He looks like a little 5 year old who has no power against anything in there. It's not him. It hurts me to see him like that. I just need for him to wake up. I need him to be here for me. I need to see his smile again, hear his voice, and watch him flip his hair. Oh the little things I miss. The simplest things, his laugh, his white teeth, his hands always doing some sort of motion, him playing with my fingers when we held hands, and his personality, I miss those the most. I need him; I need him the most right now. I could just kill Mr. Bolton right now for doing this. What did Troy do to deserve this? He was perfect. I've never seen him do anything, ever to deserve this cruel punishment. No one deserves this. No one.' All these thought were running through Gabriella's head. She was just not looking where she was going and when she looked up she was at Troy's house. She found the spare key and unlocked the front door. She ran up to Troy's room and laid his bed, smelling his scent. She laid there for 10 minutes and then started to head back to her house. She burst open the door madder than ever. She searched the house he was gone. Thank god. She went up to her mom's room to talk to her. She felt like she hadn't seen her in forever.

"Hey Mom."

"Gabi?"

"Ya mom it's me. Sorry for not coming home. Something terrible has happened. Troy's in the hospital. His dad has been beating him for a long time and he got him really good this time. He hasn't woken up yet. It's been a week." She then burst out in tears.

"Oh Gabi I'm so sorry. Come here." Gabi lay down next to her mom. Her mom stroked her back trying to calm her down. She was crying hysterically. It hurt her so much to see her daughter like this. As soon as she got her crying to calm down she pulled her into a tight hug and Gabi being so tired couldn't fight the sleep.

At the hospital…

The whole gang was there, just hanging out in his room, by his hospital bed. They got his mom to go home and get some sleep herself. It had been 3 hours since she left. Gabi had left 5 hours ago. They were all talking and catching Troy up on their summers even though he couldn't hear them. They all acted happy until Kelsie broke down crying. Jason tried to call her down but it started the waterworks for all the girls and then soon the boys too. They were all in one big group hug until they heard a loud high pitched ringing coming from one of the machines. They were all shooed from the room by a larger crowd of nurses rushing in. Chad was watching from the window seeing all the nurses run around frantically. Finally about 10 minutes later they came out. The one in charge came out last and the whole group bombarded her with questions.

"Stop, just stop talking. He's fine. That was a good thing that just happened. He's breathing on his own now. This is very good. It means he could wake up really soon within the hour or in the next few days."

"Thank you so much." Chad said. They all filed back into the room except for Chad. He stayed out and called Gabriella, he thought she should be here for this. Especially if he could wake up soon.

"Hello?" Said a very soft voice.

"Hey Gabi, you need to get to the hospital soon. He's breathing on his own now. The nurse said there is a possibility that he could wake up today."

"Oh my god, thank you! I'll be there really soon. Bye Chad."

"Bye Gabi."

Then he called Troy's mom and told her the same thing. After that he went into the lobby to wait for them to arrive. First to arrive was Gabi. She ran right up to Chad and gave him a gigantic hug and then ran into Troy's room. Shortly after came in Mrs. Bolton, who hugged Chad too and then both of them walked into the already crowded hospital room. Everyone managed to find a seat. Gabriella was sitting as close to Troy as she could get and was basically squeezing his hand. Everyone else had taken a seat around him. It reached 12am and Kelsie, Jason, Sharpay, Zeke, and Ryan had to leave leaving Chad, Taylor, Gabriella, and Mrs. Bolton. Chad got Gabriella to loosen her grip before she cut off his circulation. It was pretty silent except for a few sniffles here and there. Gabriella laid Troy's hand on her palm and stroked the top of his hand. After about 10 minutes of doing that Gabriella felt his hand twitch.

She gasped. "Oh my gosh, his hand just moved."

A/N

Cliffhanger. I've heard it said that sometimes people twitch right before they die, but that doesn't apply here. I'm not killing anyone.

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