Well, here's what eveybody's been waiting for. The final chapter! Yey! I've finally done it!

Oh, so everybody knows, everybody has gone the way I said they did. yes, there's a little bit of tweaking here and there, but you get it.

Disclamier: Me, own, HSM? I wish!


They're gone. All of them. Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, Ryan, and the love of my life Gabriella. My best friend, who had been there for me, the people who had become my friends, and the woman that had opened my eyes forever more have all disappeared. No longer do they walk this retched reality we have named Earth. All because of me.

That's right, you heard me, I said they left because of me. So, throw your rocks and insults, punch me to the size of the pulp that I should be. I deserve it, I deserve it all. They didn't need to leave, they wanted to. If I had never entered their lives, then they'd still be here. They're smiles would still be walking the halls. They're families wouldn't be making a petition to have me put in jail.

It was two weeks ago, when each of their bodies were buried. The principal had a huge ceremony. I had made a huge speech, everybody not noticing the tears on my face, but the words of my lips. That's when they knew that it was me that had caused this. When I spoke of the ties to them all. My love of Gabi, my good friendship with Chad, my meddling of Zeke and Kelsey.

You're all thinking, where do Zeke and Kelsey come in? Kelsey was dating Ryan and Zeke was dating Sharpay. That's where they come in. But, I didn't know it was meddling until it was too late. I hadn't even known that Kelsey had been dating RYan or Sharpay was with Zeke. Once I found out, I felt terrible. I felt like elephant-crap when I heard what happened to the Evans Twins; to everybody.

Which leads me to here. A large lake, 15 feet deep, not very far from the school. The swim team would coem out here in the summer. I'm here to bring myself to where I belong. Satan's doorstep.

I can't stand this pain much more. I need to leave. I know that I won't see them because I know I won't be welcomed into that joyous cloud of light where Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan now lie as angels.

I bet Satan is now laughing at what I've done. Atleast, that's what the good book of the Big Guy says. That he will laugh at all you wrong and all you hurt. But if you redeem yourself, than the laughter will stop. But, I'm sorry, but this isn't one of those things that you can redeem yourself of. The cause of somebody's death. No, nobody could ever redeem themselves of that.

My sneakers were gone, running away with my soxs. My feet slipped into the water. It was as cold as the Artics. Good, I thought. It'll be slow. I deserve.

I took in a breath as I stood from my kneeled position. I looked at the blue water, seeing my reflection, the heaven's clouds behind me. To anybody else, I would seem like a God before now. Before now, I would seem like so much mroe than God himself.

But I'm not. I am a plague. You think of me as a Messiah of basketball, but I'm not. I nothing more worthy that the waste of the most pathetic creature on this Earth.

I began to feel a rising in my body. A hatred towards myself. This feeling, a feeling of a burnign fire towards what I did to everyone and how people could think of me as the almighty. I splashed the reflection away, watching for a second as the water rippled before sitting back down.

I analyzed this hatred for a moment. I think people had called this rage. A fiery burning passion of hate towards something. I had never felt this way, especially not about myself. But after today, I believe anything is possible.

I stand once more, emptying my mind of anything that could be distracting. But, that was impossible. So I brought out my help.

A nine-millimeter gun. My father's. He had bought it, without my mom knowing, for protection. Albuquerque was quite crime-infested, just so ya know. I had taken as a step of help. I was going to use it and nothing was gonna stop me.

As I felt the cold metal to my temple, I began to think how everybody's life would be better. My family wouldn't have to bother with a trouble-maker kid on their hands anymore, although my Dad would have to find a new basketball star. That wouldn't take him long.

The kids wouln't have to bother with a murdurer in the school.

The parents could put away that silly petition. It had 153 signatures on it.

I nodded, the slightest, but still, I nodded. This was the best. The best for everybody. My whole body broke out on a cold sweat. Esoecially my hand holding the gun. Before I could even breath, my finger slipped...

...and the trigger went off.

The bullet went through my head in a flash, but the pain lasted alot longer. I felt the crimson substance begin to fill my mouth. The air was in my lung, but no new air could get in. I was choking on my own blood. The gun slipped from my hand as they began to shake. In fact, my whole body began to shake. And I couldn't control it.

I tripped over my foot, falling into the water. A thousand knives hit my body, all at once. I couldn't think. I couldn't think about anything but the pain that was eating away at my body.

Jack Dawson was right about cold water. I had seen the movie yesterday, my last day alive. I was flipping through channels and I stopped on Lifetime, I think. Titanic was on and that one girl...Rose, I think, was on the edge of the boat. The writers couldn't have been more correct about what happened when you hit freezing cold water.

As my eyes began to flutter close, I saw the blue water begin to turn purple. The only possible reason why: my own blood.

As my body began to numb and my mid faded into the darkness, my lips quirked into a smile. Sure, I was going to hell and sure, I was going to suffer eternities of pain and sorrow, but atleast everything would be alright for the others.

And that was it. After that I D-...

I died.

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As his soul flew from his body, he awaited the fate that awaited him, the smile still on his face. He breathed once more, not for the air. He didn't need that now, but to relax himself. His eyes closed as he waited to see the fires of hell.

But, as he reopened them, he didn't see many fires before a small tan being latched themselves onto him. He looked to see who it was and staring up to him was nothing other than...

Freaky-math girl Gabriella Montez. He stared at her with awe. She smiled that smile of hers that He had fallen in love with. "What, your not surprised to see me? I thought you loved me." She stepped back, playing insulted.

He stepped towards her, taking in her in his arms. "Of course, I still love you. It's just...what am I doing here?" Her looked at her. A long blue dress draped her from chest to floor. Her hair was bounded in curls. He looked in her eyes, but his own were diverted by feathers. Behind were the myth of all...Gabriella had wings.

"You don't deserve to be on the enemy's land. You are to be here, with us." He turned to see my best friend, walking hand and hand with Taylow McKenzie.

His eyes blurred with tears. "Guys..." was all he could murmer.

Gabriella smiled once more. She took his arm in hers, bouncing him towards her. "Come on."

And...with that...they all walked along heaven, eternal peace raining all around them.

And forever more, there was nothing but smiles in heaven of the six teenagers.

...Because of Troy...

THE END!

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