Okay, thanks to those who helped me pick out some colleges. This chapter is basically about Troy. Gabriella is sort of in this one, she'll be in it more as the story goes along.

Anyway, I got High School Musical the junior novel yesterday! It's a little different from the book, but it shows their thoughts and it's pretty funny. The first thing Troy thinks about when the fireworks go off is if he should kiss Gabriella and Chad falls out of the tree during detention! They changed the lines a little so some of them aren't as good as the ones in the movie, but...anyways.

Chapter 10

Troy laid his head down in Gabriella's lap. He had felt dizzy all day and he hope that laying down would help. He took a deep breath and Gabriella started to play with some of his hair. He shut his eyes but the dizziness wasn't going away.

"Troy are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," he said, while taking deep, slow breaths. Then he quickly stood up and ran to a trash can and threw up. He didn't know what could have come back up, he hadn't eaten at lunch because he didn't want to be sent home because he puked it up. Today was their second game. All he had to do was last another hour -one more class- without getting sent home and he could play.

"Are you sure," Gabriella asked. He looked to her, but his vision was blurred. He put his head in his hands to steady himself, but it just made Gabriella worry about him more. "If you're sick, you should go home. The team won't be mad at you."

She put a hand on his forehead. "You don't have a fever."

"It's just something I ate," Troy said. His stomach curled at the words, this was the first time he had ever lied to Gabriella. The only thing he had eaten this morning was an apple for breakfast. "I'm going to go find the guys and tell them."

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"No, I'll go myself. You go find Taylor and Sharpay." She squeezed his hand before going off toward front of the school. Troy grabbed his bag and walked toward the bathroom. When he got there, he looked around to make sure that no one was in there and then opened his bag.

He took out the container that held his heart medicine. He looked at it in disgust before opening the lid and pouring some of the pills in his hand. He was supposed to get a refill yesterday, but he hadn't taken one of the pills from the prescription he held in his hand. He took his water bottle in his hand and poured the drink in his mouth before popping a good amount of the pills in his mouth.

"Troy?"

He spit out everything he had been about to swallow in surprise. He turned to see Chad and Cam staring at him. "What are you doing," Cam asked.

Chad didn't wait for an answer. He walked over to Troy and grabbed the container. "I thought you were mad at me," Troy asked Chad.

"I am. You're smarter than this! The directions say to take three every day, not take them all in one sitting!"

"Why didn't you take your medicine," Cam asked.

"Because, I just want to be normal. What kid do you know takes heart pills because his isn't working right," Troy said after a pause.

"You," Chad said. "And a bunch of other kids around the world that want to live. What made you take them now?"

"I've been really dizzy lately," Troy said after pause.

"Well," Cam said. "We don't need you overdosing so lets take three and put the rest in your bag."

Chad and Cam watched carefully as Troy swallowed the pills, watching every one slide down his throat. They looked at each other and Chad walked up to Troy and clapped him on the back. "So dude, do you remember what we were fighting about?"

"No," Troy said. The two laughed because they both remembered the fight in the ice cream parlor. This was what they always did when they wanted to forget about something, they pretended it didn't happen.

The bell rang signaling the end of free period. "Well, Darbus is going to be happy," Cam said. "Late again."

The three ran down the hall and slipped into Darbus' room right as the late bell rang. "Boys, where have you been."

The three looked from one to the other. "We were at the nurse," Troy said. "I didn't feel very good and I need to play in the game tonight."

"I'll give you a warning boys, find your seats." Chad gave Troy a hidden low-five as they sat down. The class looked at Troy, they all knew Darbus wouldn't go easy one anyone if they were late except Troy. But still, if he was late without an excuse she would have given him a detention, whether he needed to play in the game tonight or not.

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"Hey Troy," Chad said, walking toward Troy who was tying his shoes. "Nervous?"

"Who isn't? We have scouts watching us."

Chad smiled. "Let's go warm up a little."

The two walked out to find Cam talking to a man. Cam didn't realize it, but the man was a scout for UNC. Chad and Troy chuckled as Cam started talking about his grades, unaware that the man wasn't an East High parent like he said he was.

"Wildcats, over here!"

Chad and Troy ran to Coach Bolton and situated themselves in the circle of players. "Hey Cam, who were you talking to," Chad teased when Cam jogged over.

"Some parent, whose daughter likes me."

"Cam, that was a UNC scout," Troy said holding back a laugh. Cam's eyes widened and everyone -even Coach Bolton- couldn't fight back a laugh.

"Cam matches the uniform," Chad yelled as Cam blushed.

"Okay guys," Coach Bolton said, calming down the group of kids. "As we know now, UNC has a scout here so play your best. Cam and Troy, your the guards. Chad go three and Jason four and Zeke you're center. Wildcats on three. One, two, three."

"Wildcats!"

Chad, Troy, Jason, Cam and Zeke jogged out onto the court as the crowd cheered. Soon, the game was underway and the Wildcats were ruling the courts. In the middle of the second quarter, the Wildcats were up 35-12. Cam was doing great as was Jason, Chad and Zeke. Chad looked over to the UNC scout and saw him smiling when Cam sunk a three pointer- his second of the night- making the score 38-12.

Troy was also having a great outing. He had made almost as many shots as Cam. The defense had started getting rough with the Wildcats, but especially with Troy and Cam. The other team's center, who was supposed to be guarding Zeke, was at least 6' 7'' 300 pounds and used every pound to slam into Cam as he went up to shoot a lay-up.

"Foul! 52 green, two foul shots for 2 red!"

Coach Bolton ran out onto the court and knelt beside Cam. "Are you okay? Where does it hurt?"

"My back," Cam said. "But I think I'm fine."

"Get up and walk it off." Troy and Chad both grabbed one of Cam's hand and pulled him off the ground. The crowd clapped as Cam walked up the court and jogged back down to take his place at the foul line. The referee passed him the ball and the crowd went silent. Both times he shot, the only sound heard in the gym was swish.

At half time the score was 46-12. "Way to hold them boys. Cam, hows that back?"

"Bruised, but fine."

"Good. Okay, I think the cheerleaders are done with their thing, go out and shoot around a little."

Cam, Troy and Chad walked out last. They grabbed a ball and started passing it to each other. "You think we'll win?"

"Cam, don't jinx it!"

"Sorry, just wondering."

The game started and Troy was bringing the ball down the court when the ball got away from him and the guy guarding him got an easy lay-up.

"Cam, take the ball down, Troy get over here," Jack yelled from the sidelines. "What's the matter son?"

"Nothing Dad, it bounced off my foot."

"No more of those easy shots okay. Go!"

Troy jogged back out as Chad took a shot. The ball went in and the team started making their way back down the court. "Troy," Chad yelled. "Stay down this end, we'll get offense."

Cam stole the ball and got a fast break. Chad raced after him in case he needed help, but Cam had it. Chad started to jog back to defense but started running, noticing Troy start falling. He fell beside him and listened for breathing. "Shoot," he whispered. "Someone call 9-1-1! Hurry, he's not breathing," he yelled.

"Come on Troy, take a breath," Cam said kneeling next to Chad. "Is his heart beating?"

"I haven't checked," Chad said. "Come on Troy, fight through it."

"It's not beating," Cam said after he tried to get a pulse. "Where's the ambulance," he yelled.

"The paramedics will come through the gym doors," Jack said. "I can hear the sirens."

"Good thing East High's close to the station," Chad said.

The players had already cleared a path for the paramedics. Almost all of the people had stayed in their seats, in too shock that Troy had collapsed to move.

"Come on Troy..."

So yeah, Troy's heart stopped.

Not good.

Will he make it and if he does, what's going to happen to him?

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