Author's Note: Just warning you in advanced, this chapter is really depressing, one of the saddest i've ever written. But don't worry, things will get better (well, you would absolutely hate me if they didn't, wouldn't you?). R&R x x x
Chapter 10: End of Something Great
Taylor: Wait, wait, wait! You can't go!
Gabriella: Why not?
Taylor: well, this is supposed to be a holiday!
Chad: Have you spoken to Troy yet?
Gabriella: No. And I don't want to...
Taylor: But, maybe you can work things out
Gabriella: There's nothing to work out any more! Today, he told me he loved me! And I believed him! And I loved him back
Taylor: And you still do!
Gabriella: I don't know, everything's changed
Chad: Look Gabriella, I really don't think you should leave until you've talked to Troy. At least hear his side of the story. He still doesn't know that you're mad
Gabriella: Of course I'm mad!(starts to cry) I've just realised that the last 5 months have been for nothing. It was all a lie. How do we know he's not been with Sharpay when she was still out with Zeke? I just... I just can't bare to have my heart taken, ripped and stomped on again. It's just... it's too hard!
Troy walks into the room
Troy: Oh my god, Gabriella, are you all right?
Troy walks up to Gabriella to give her a hug put she pushes past him and runs crying into the bathroom and locks the door
Taylor: Gabriella?
Troy: (to Chad) What's wrong with her?
Chad doesn't answer and just looks at him accusatively.
Taylor: Gabriella, are you okay?
Gabriella: Just leave me alone!
Chad: Come on Taylor, let's go.
Taylor reluctantly leaves the bathroom door and she and Chad leave the room.
Troy: Gabriella, honey?
She doesn't answer him
Troy: Gabriella, please tell me what's wrong
Still no answer
Troy: Is it something back home or...
She still wont reply
Troy: well, is it... is it something I've done?
He can hear her starting to cry again
Troy: What is it, what have I done?
She continues to cry
Troy: Well, I don't know what I've done wrong. You know I love you and...
Gabriella: How can you say that?
Troy:(taken aback) What?
Gabriella: How can you say that you love me?
Troy: what, because... because I do!
Gabriella: How can you say that after everything you've done with her...
Troy: With who?
Gabriella: SHARPAY!
Troy is completely stunned
Troy: What, I haven't done anything with Sharpay... I don't even like her that much...
Gabriella: Oh yeah, but you must like her enough to stick your tongue down her throat!
Troy: ...what?
Gabriella: Oh, admit it! You're cheating on me!
Troy: Gabriella, I would never cheat on you! Not with HER! Not with anyone! I love you!
Gabriella: I don't believe you.
Troy: but where the heck is this all coming from?
Gabriella: Our friends! Not just one but all five of them came to tell me! Everyone knows what you've been up to Troy!
Troy: But... but I haven't been up to anything! And what on earth do they know? How the heck did they come up with this?
Gabriella: Does it matter? One of the other "holiday-makers" told them.
Troy: Well whoever it is, they're lying, Gabriella!
There is a painful silence among the two. All that can be heard are Gabriella's sad sniffs
Troy:(his voice begins to tremble) Gabriella? Gabriella, please believe me! I'm nothing without you! Just believe me please?
She is silent for a while then...
Gabriella: I don't know if I can trust you again...
Troy: You can! You always could!
Gabriella: It's too hard, Troy. I don't know who to believe. I think... I think this is the end for us.
Troy: What? No! Don't say that!
Gabriella: That's it Troy. We're finished.
Troy: Gabriella?
Troy, heartbroken by everything that's just happened, collapses at the door while Gabriella rests her head on the bathtub and continues to weep.
To be continued...
A/N: Heart-breaking or what?