Hah, soon wasn't very soon, right? I have a reason for that. It's because there's so much emotion in this chapter. It was hard to write. This is the hardest chapter I've written for this story. I've rewritten it over and over. But, I think this version would be good enough. Hope it lives up to expectations. (:

Who's That Girl

Chapter 18- Deceit

Nobody's POV-

"Cameron!?!" Troy exclaimed, in shock. He went forward, and opened the door for him to come in. Cameron grinned at the rest's surprised faces.

"In the flesh and in person." He stated, happily.

"What are you doing here?" Troy questioned, as Cameron gave him a look of disbelief.

"Hello, we planned this." Cameron answered in a 'duh' tone.

"Oh, right." Troy's face contorted into confusion. "Wait, weren't you supposed to be here tomorrow?" Cameron nodded sheepishly.

"Hah, about that." He paused, rubbing his neck. "I asked the jet to stop in Texas, and I grabbed a two hour flight here. No big deal." He shrugged. "Now, where's my cousin?" Nobody dared answered him. He furred his eyebrows, as he looked at their guilty faces.

"Guys, where's Gabriella?" He asked again, as he noticed the bathroom, that was covered in blood. He paled.

"W-why is there blood on the floor?" He wondered fearfully, as anger filled his body. He turned to Troy. "Troy, I told you to protect her! I swear on my grandfather's grave that if you or your stupid girlfriend is the reason for this, I will fucking kick-" Kelsi cut his rant off.

"No Cameron. It's not the idiot or the idiot's girlfriend's fault." She stated.

"Then who is it?"

"Mine." He looked at her in confusion.

"What do you mean?" She sighed as she prepared to tell him what happened.

"Gabriella committed suicide, Troy and I found her and brought her to the hospital. After that, he left to go on a date with Melanie." She started, as everyone started to glare at him. Troy immediately looked down in shame. Kelsi disregarded him.

"I went to tell these guys," she paused, motioning to them. "Then they somehow found a tape proving Melanie's plan to ruin Gabi's life." She shook her head, showing she didn't know how they did. "I went to visit her. She told me to go outside for a couple of minutes to get her food. I came back inside to find them inside, and her gone." She continued.

"And now she's missing, and we're trying to find her. But she's not here, and we can't get this stupid diary of hers to open!" She ranted on, as she jingled the lock, and was about to throw the diary on the ground. Cameron caught it, before it touched the floor. He sighed out of relief.

"Kelsi, don't break this. This was our great-grandmother's diary." He explained, as he lightly placed it on Gabriella's bed. He turned to face them again. "For one, you guys are stupid for not believing her." He started, as he pointed to them. He turned to Troy. "You, a dick, for dating a witch and not knowing." Cameron paused for dramatic effect. "And last, I have a set of keys to open that, you know." He said, as he referred to the diary.

"You do?!" Sharpay exclaimed, as Cameron shrunk back throwing his hands up.

"Yeah, before our grandpa die, he gave Gabriella and me each sets of keys to open that. I have one of my own. He wanted us to remember him, and his side of the family." He clarified, as Jason gaped at him.

"You have a diary?!" He yelled out stupidly, as everyone turned and glared at him. He took a step back, throwing his hands up in defeat.

"Stupid moment, stupid moment. I'm shutting up. Carry on." He replied quietly, sitting down on the bed. Cameron cleared his throat.

"As I was saying, I have the set on me right now." He continued, as is he were never interrupted.

"You wear a locket and bracelet with you!?" Jason blurted out. Everyone gave him death glares. He shrunk back onto his bed.

"Stupid moment, take two." He stated, looking down, as Kelsi sighed.

"Carry on Cam." He nodded.

"And I keep the keys in my wallet." He told them, as he fished his wallet out of his back pocket, and opened it. He pulled it out of the zipper, and showed it to them.

"See?" The rest nodded, as Sharpay beamed.

"Perfect!" She called out.

"Now open it." Taylor told him, as she handed him Gabriella's diary. He nodded and opened it with his keys. He flipped to the middle of the book, and to a random page.

"Hey. Umm, not to scare you or anything, but this'll be my last entry." He read out loud. "No, this isn't one of those bizarre diary funerals that happen when the owner's grown too old." Cameron smiled at her joking personality.

"This entry is for future references. No more, no less. Anyway, I just wanted to say bye. I can't possibly be stopped-" Cameron's reading aloud was interrupted by a scream. He and Kelsi looked up at saw Taylor with tears in her eyes, next to a Chad that was holding a razor to his wrist.

"Oh my god." She breathed out.

"Chad, what the hell are you doing?" Cameron questioned, as he shrugged.

"Gabriella felt so much pain, and I'm supposed to be her big brother." He said "I'm supposed to feel the pain too." He finished, in a shaking voice, as he prepared to run the razor across his hand. Taylor stopped him before he could.

"Chad…don't." Zeke stated, shaking his head.

"Why not? Gabi did it." He argued.

"But we weren't there for her when she did." Ryan reasoned.

"And we are here for you." Taylor stated.

"We're here right now." Sharpay added in. Chad reluctantly lowered the razor, and threw it to the floor. He sighed.

"This really tops the cake, you know? I mean, I was feeling bad before, but now…" Chad trailed off.

"It's an overload of guilt and anger." Troy stated, as he sighed. "Let's just get back to reading her diary."

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The nine teenagers read page after page of her diary, each had tears in their eyes. With every passing page of misery that Gabriella had expressed, the more tears weld up in their eyes. After they had finished looking through all of her pages, they placed the diary back onto her bed.

"I can't believe we didn't trust her. She's our best friend for god's sake." Sharpay expressed sadly. No one knew what to say to that.

Cameron sighed, as he looked through her diary once again, trying to find anything to help them find her. He flipped through the last of the book, and found a very messy entry. He looked at it in confusion, as he read its contents to himself.

"Oh my fucking god." He stated, as everyone looked at him weirdly.

"What's wrong?" Sharpay questioned, looking at his shocked expression.

"She wants to go to the Peanut Diner, and jump off of the roof." He replied in a monotonous voice.

"What?!" Zeke exclaimed.

"Are you serious!?" Chad yelled in disbelief.

"I-it says so right there." Cameron answered, point at the entry he was on. The rest rushed to his side, and peer down to the page, and read what Cameron had pointed out. Surely enough, it said that exact same thing he said.

"Oh my god. Guys, we have to save her before she does this." Kelsi said, tearfully. "We can't let her die."

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Gabriella had heard a couple of cars pulling up outside of her house. She sighed in frustration. Kelsi and Troy were not going to give up! She closed her eyes trying to think of a plan to get out, and end her life the way she wanted. She quickly ran over to the balcony, and retrieved her locket she threw out there. She opened her diary, and turned to one of the last pages. She took the pen, and quickly wrote a false note of what she was going to do, inside.

Upon hearing footsteps downstairs, she locked her diary, and threw the locket back onto the balcony windows. She tossed the diary back onto her bed, and opened the balcony door, and climbed up the tree as quickly as she could. From the tree, she watched as Jason ran up the stairs, and into her room, before shorting running out, and inside again, with the rest of her friends. She observed them looking through the scrapbook, and searching around her room for the key.

Suddenly, she felt someone climbing up the tree she was on. She looked down in confusion, seeing that everyone else was already in her room. She looked down closely as saw that it was Cameron. Her eyes watered at the sight of her cousin. 'That was the surprise Kelsi was referring to.'She thought in her head. She silently shook her head as she climbed higher up the tree. She didn't want to be found.

From the higher angle, she looked down at her balcony, and saw Cameron freaking out, and yelling at them. Soon, they were opening and reading her diary. She climbed down a little lower, to hear what they were saying, since the doors were open.

"…Peanut Diner, and jump off of the roof." She listened to Cameron speak.

She droned off, not listening to them, but instead looking at Troy. He had a serious face on. He looked like he was in deep concentration. She wondered what he was thinking about. She sighed, thinking that she would never see them again. She took a close look at all of them, to memorize how they look. She closed her eyes, trying to hide her tears, but eventually one fell anyway.

"…save her before she does this." She heard Kelsi saying. She shook her head sadly.

"I'm so sorry guys." She spoke out to herself. "It just has to be done this way."

She looked at the rest of them departing her room, as Chad came back inside and knocked Troy of of his daydream. She saw Troy's defeated face, as he stood behind for a couple more moment. Eventually, he ran after the others and Chad. She sighed. She could guess what he was thinking by his facial expressions. He was probably feeling guilt. Guilty, that his girlfriend was the one who cause this.

She was knocked out of her thought once she heard the sound of cars racing off. She sighed out of relief, and climbed down the tree. She jumped onto her balcony, and took in a deep breath. She was actually going to get to commit suicide peacefully, and without their knowing of where she is, she'll be victorious.

Gabriella walked out of her house, and on her way to her destination. Little did she know she was being followed by a lone figure behind her.

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Cameron, Troy, Kelsi, Jason, Sharpay, Zeke, Chad, and Taylor parked their cars in the Peanut Diner parking lot, expecting to see Gabriella on the roof. But she wasn't there. They all got out, and ran inside, hopeful that she was at least safe. They looked around for her, but were shocked to see the person that stood before them.

"Melanie." Troy spat out.

Slight cliffy. (;

Sorry for the shortness of this chapter. I would've added more, but I couldn't, without giving away what would happen next chapter. But to make it up, I'll make the next chapter super long. (: Next will be up in a week's span. I'm working on it right now.

Also, I have to ask this; What do you guys want the gang to do to Melanie? You all know that there's going to be yelling, but anything else? I have a couple of ideas, but I want to hear what you guys think. Nothing too drastic! (;

Okay, now review! And try to make them long please? I haven't received a long one in a while.

-Ilyilyx3

Sneak Peak-

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"You know what I think, I think you're all stupid…"

"You chose me over her, when she repeatedly warned you…"

"You guys are really great friends! As if."

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"If she's not here, then where is she?!?"

"Let's try splitting up!"

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"W-who are you?"

"You really don't want to know."

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Ahh, and the sneak peaks are back. Anyone else excited for the next chapter? (; And, sorry for any mistakes!

P.S. I updated The Mental Guy two days ago. Go and read it!