Chapter 8
Troy woke up with the hang over from hell. He looked around the room and sat up. It felt like someone had hit him with a huge truck. He was about to get up when he realized he wasn't wearing any clothes. He tried to pull a sheet off the bed to wrap it around him but felt it being held back by something he looked over on the bed and saw a big bundle of blonde hair.
He gasped as he realized what he had done and felt his stomach drop down to his feet. What was he doing in bed naked with Sharpay? He spotted his boxers at the end of the bed and reached over to them. He put them on and rushed into the bathroom.
"Get a grip man, maybe nothing happened." He said to himself in the mirror. He knew that that was very unlikely but his fears were confirmed when he looked at the trash in the bathroom and saw a used condom wrapper. He swore under his breath and sat down on the floor.
How could this have happened? He realized that he had to get out of there quickly before Sharpay woke up. He searched the room for his clothes and found them quickly. He didn't bother putting them on, he grabbed his shoes and opened the door. He looked behind him to see if he had woken her and sighed with relief to notice that he hadn't. He shut the door behind him and started to walk down the hall. He was almost safely out when he ran into Ryan.
"Oh hey Ryan."
"Hi." Ryan said wearily. He had noticed that Gabriella left the night before in a rush and now she wasn't accepting his calls. Suddenly it clicked. Troy was holding all of his clothes, and he had just walked out of Sharpay's room. A look of disgust came over Ryan's face as he just stood there and stared at Troy.
"Your keys and cell phone are in the bowl." He said pointing over to the table with the bowl on it.
"Thanks, did you happen to see Gabriella last night?"
"Yes I did."
"You did? Why didn't anyone come get me?"
"We didn't have to. She did."
Gabriella woke up to her mom shaking her.
"Gabby honey, wake up. It's already two!"
"Is it?" Gabriella said groggily. Her eyes were sore and tired from all the crying she had done last night.
"Yes, honey are you ok?" Her mom asked her with a concerned look on her face.
"No, I'm not. But I don't want to talk about it Mom. Is it ok if I skip out on ice cream today?"
"Yes honey, do you need anything?"
"Actually, yes. Could you tell Charley to cut down the tree by my window, you know the one that leads to my balcony?"
"Are you sure? I thought you loved that tree."
"I thought I did too. But it needs to go; do you think he would do it?"
"I'm sure of it. I will ask him now. You know I am here if you need to talk."
"I know mom. Thank you. And tell Charley I owe him an ice cream cone."
"Ok honey. I will check on you later." Her mom said as she walked out of the room and shut the door. Gabriella got up and realized she had slept in her clothes. Her white pillow was blackened with mascara and eye shadow from the night before. Just thinking about it brought tears to her eyes.
How could he have done this? With Sharpay Evans nevertheless. Gabriella had never felt so betrayed in her entire life. And to think that she thought she loved him. 'Thank god I didn't tell him.' She thought to herself. But then again, you can't help how you feel. No matter what, she loved him with her whole heart. She couldn't help it.
She felt the tears coming down her cheeks and began sobbing again. She had trusted him. He had been her first everything. Why would he just throw that away? She tried to collect herself and realized how dirty she felt at that moment. She decided to go and take a shower to try and wash this pain away.
She walked into the bathroom and saw the towel Troy had used that day he came over in the rain. Her mom must have washed it and hung it up. Gabriella suddenly felt a surge of anger pulse through her and she grabbed the towel. She took it into her room and grabbed a pair of scissors that were on her desk.
She began shredding the towel into little pieces. It was surprisingly making her feel better. She collapsed from exhaustion and sat in the pieces of the towel. She stayed there in silence when suddenly she heard a chainsaw go off outside. She walked over to the door and saw Charley with goggles, gloves and a big chainsaw starting to cut down the tree.
She felt a wave of sadness hit her and tried to take her mind off of it. She had to take Troy Bolton out of her life.
Troy drove home in a panicked craze. Gabriella had seen him, with Sharpay. How could he have been so stupid? He felt his eyes well up with hot tears. Troy never cried before, not even when he was injured. The more and more he thought about it the more helpless he felt.
He finally made it home to see that his parents weren't there. He ran inside and took the hottest shower he had ever taken. He wanted to wash off everything. He felt so dirty and so useless. How could he screw something so good up? Gabriella was the best thing that had ever happened to him and now she was gone.
He got out of the shower and looked at his phone. It said one missed call. It was from Gabriella at 12:30 last night. She had called him when she had gotten to the party just like she said she would have. Maybe she would answer his call. She wasn't a hateful person. Maybe she would let him explain. But anything he would say to her would just be an excuse. There was nothing he could do or say that could change what happened. He dialed her number and prayed that she would answer. It dialed and then the message came up,
"The number you have reached has been disconnected." He felt his heart grow heavy. She had changed her number. How could he expect anything else? She had feelings too. He didn't know what to do. He felt as if his whole world was crashing beneath him.
Gabriella finished taking a shower and felt a little better. She had asked her mom to call the phone company and have her number changed immediately. She would call her friends later and give it to them, but right now she didn't want to take any chances. The last thing she wanted to do was get a call from Troy.
She sat down on her bed and looked around her room. And saw the red rose he had given her on their first date. She walked over to it and held it carefully in her hands. She had dried it so she could remember that night forever, now she wanted to forget that he even existed. She took the rose and smashed it in between her hands. She took the remainders of it and threw it in the trash. She sat on her bed once again and remembered what had gone on. She had given herself to Troy there.
She felt tears on the verge of coming again and suddenly began to rip the sheets off. When she was done she put them in a big black bag and told her mom to throw them away. She thought that she could handle it by herself but she realized she was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Shakily she reached for her phone and dialed a number.
"Taylor? Can you come over? I really need you right now."
It literally took Taylor five minutes to come to Gabriella's home. The minute she came to her room Gabriella ran into her arms and broke down.
"There, there honey. Tell me what happened." Taylor whispered.
"T-troy. I saw him. With her." Taylor knew exactly who and what Gabriella was talking about. She sat her down on the floor and just held her while she wept. Taylor could only imagine what Gabriella was going through. The man she loved was in the arms of another woman. Actually Taylor wouldn't even consider Sharpay that, she was a monster. Taylor knew there wasn't anything she could say to help Gabriella except be there and let her let it all out.
"Thank you for coming Tay. I don't have anyone else."
"I am going to take that as a compliment, and what are friends for? To help you up when you fall. Honey I am here for you." Gabriella kept crying until there were no more tears. Taylor helped her clean up her face and looked around her room.
"What happened to your sheets?"
"Don't ask."
"Well then we are just going to have to get you new ones." Taylor said. She grabbed her purse and Gabriella's purse and took her hand.
"You just need some good shopping time."
"You hate shopping."
"I know, but you don't, and I am here to help you." Gabriella smiled and told her mom that they were going out for a bit. They walked outside and climbed into Taylor's car to go and get new sheets.
Troy paced around in his room trying to figure out what he could do, but nothing was coming to mind. He had tried calling her house but no one answered. He had tried calling Taylor but she didn't answer. Kelsey said she hadn't heard from anyone since the night before. He was going insane.
He felt like he was about ready to jump out of a window when he finally decided to call Chad. He dialed the number and shortly Chad answered his phone.
"Hello?" he sounded like he had a good hangover himself.
"Hey it's Troy."
"Troy man what happened last night?"
"I don't know for sure Chad. But I think something really bad may have happened."
Troy began to explain the story to Chad.
"Oh man dude. Sharpay?"
"Yeah, Sharpay."
"What are you going to do?"
"I don't know. I mean I need to get a hold of her, but she changed her number. And I tried calling Tay but she hasn't answered her phone."
"I don't know what to tell you dude. But I can say that you really messed up."
"I know that Chad, I don't need to be reminded." Troy replied kind of angrily.
"Sorry man, but I'm not going to sugar coat it, you dug your grave, now you have to lie in it."
"I know Chad. What do I do?"
"Listen man, I can't help you out. Do you want me to come over? For like support or something?"
"No dude, I am going to go to her house. Keep trying to get a hold of Tay, if you hear something call me."
"Ok, if I don't call you first call me when you get home, or if you need anything."
"Thanks Chad." Troy said as he hung up. He walked out his door and prayed that Gabriella would be there.
Troy finally reached Gabriella's house and was relieved to see her car there. He got out of his car and felt his heart pounding like a drum. He made his way to the back of the house to see if maybe she was out on the balcony, if she wasn't he was going to climb up there and knock on her window.
When he got there his heart dropped on the floor to see what had happened. Their tree was gone.
Ok I know this Chapter was depressing, but it might be like that for awhile. Keep reviewing I love it!
