A/N: I am so sorry that I haven't updated sooner!! I haven't had a lot of time to write this summer!! Thank you for all the reviews!!! 107!!! I can't believe I have that many!!! I am sorry for leaving you guys in a cliffhanger!!! Well on with the story!
"Someone should talk to him…"
"What would we say?"
"What can we do?"
Ben had been sitting on a chair in the waiting room and hadn't moved a muscle. All he did was stare at a door that led to an operating room were Gabriella was having a C-Section. Dr. Patterson's news kept replaying in his head. She has suffered from a pre-eclampsia… You could lose them both…
The gang, including Troy, were trying to figure out what to do. Now they were not only worried about Gabriella and Abby, but also about Ben. They all knew that it would break him if Gabi and Abby didn't make.
"Maybe we should try to talk to him again." Chad suggested.
"We tried that and he didn't listen to any of us." Ryan replied.
"I could try to talk to him." Troy said.
"Troy, you are the last person he wants to talk too. You're lucky that we even let you stay." Taylor stated.
"You're lucky I didn't get my hands on you!" Sharpay fumed. She was the only one who still wanted to kill him.
"Sharpay, calm down. We have enough things to worry about and we don't need to worry about you too." Zeke said as he put his hands over hers.
Kelsi, who had been silent throughout the entire conversation, started to smile as an idea formed in her head.
"I know we can't talk to him, but what if we called someone who can."
"What do you mean?" Chad asked.
"Guys, think about. Besides Gabriella, whom would Ben go to when he had to talk about anything?" Kelsi waited for the others to answer.
"Natalie" the gang said simultaneously.
"Who?" Troy asked.
"Natalie is Ben's older sister. We met her when she came to visit. She is the coolest 23-year-old I've ever met." Ryan answered. (A/N: Think of a 23-year-old version of Evan Rachel Wood)
"I'll go call her and Ben's parents." Kelsi said, but before she left the room Troy stood up as well.
"I'm going to call Gabriella's mom. She deserves to know the truth." He and Kelsi left the room and then it became silent. No one knew what to say. They were all worried about losing one of their best friends.
Things didn't change when Troy and Kelsi came back. Natalie said that she would get there as soon as possible and Mr. and Mrs. Clark were on their way. When Ms. Montez learned the truth, she started to sob. She couldn't believe what she had done to her daughter. Troy could only understand her saying that she would be there soon.
The silence continued until Ms. Montez ran into the room. Everyone could tell that she had been crying but who could blame her. What she did next surprised everyone. It even got Ben's attention. She walked up to Troy and smacked him across the face.
"How could you turn me against my daughter?" she screamed. When he didn't answer, she raised her arms again to smack him when someone grabbed her arm.
"He might be the one who lied to you but you were the one that believed him. If anyone is blamed for turning you against your daughter, its you." Ben stated, his voice was so cold and emotionless that even Sharpay got chills down her spine.
He let go of her arm and sat back down. Ms. Montez took a seat and didn't say a word as guilt rushed through her body. The gang looked at one another and nodded. They were going to comfort Ben whether he liked it or not.
Troy walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder but he shook it off. He was about to try again but was stopped by a woman he had never seen before. She was tall and had blonde hair. She had blue eyes that could read anyone like a book. She also had pale skin.
"I'll take it from here." Natalie said.
The others watched how she sat next to Ben and put her am around him. He didn't shake it off.
"Hey little bro" she whispered to him. The room was so silent that everyone could hear her.
"It's going to be okay. They are both going to be fine." She continued.
"How do you know?" It wasn't the cold voice that the gang heard before, but it was a voice that shook with so much emotion. Ben turned and looked at Natalie, she flinched when she saw the anguish in his eyes. She knew how much Gabriella meant to him.
"Sometimes, you need to have a little faith." She answered.
Right then and there, Ben broke down. He put his head on her shoulder and cried.
"I can't lose them. I can't." he repeated again and again. Natalie kept whispering soothing words into his ear while she held him.
Kelsi was about to go and comfort him when Ryan stopped her. She looked into his pale blue eyes and immediately went weak in the knees.
"This is something that only his sister can do." He told her and Sharpay smiled.
"Trust us." she said.
Once Ben's sobs subsided, Natalie made him look at her.
"Ben, you have to be strong. For both of them."
He nodded in response and wiped his last tear.
"You okay man?" Zeke asked.
"Not yet but I will be." Ben said with a small smile forming in his lips.
"There's the smile we know and love." Taylor said.
Everyone was still worried about Gabi and Abby but they all decided to think positive. They were all having their own conversations with one another.
"So where's Annie?" Kelsi asked Natalie.
"I left her with Tom." Tom was Natalie's husband.
"How is he?" Taylor asked.
Natalie didn't get a chance to answer because Dr. Patterson came into the waiting room. Silence fell over the room. Ben was the first to walk up to her.
"How are they?" He asked afraid of knowing what she would say.
"Gabriella is stable. She got through the C-section so the worst has past. She is right now resting but she will make a full recovery. She just can't have anymore emotional stress." Ben felt relieved for a moment but that was soon replaced by worry.
"What about Abby?" he felt Natalie squeeze his shoulder.
"Ben," she started cautiously, "you have to understand that Abby was born premature. She's very weak but the main problem is that one of her lungs isn't fully developed. She can't breathe on her own. A machine is helping her breath by breathing for her but we can only do so much. Her lung will be fully developed by tomorrow. If she doesn't start breathing on her own in the next 48 hours, we will have to turn off the machine."
Ben's heart broke into millions of pieces after that.
"Does Gabi know?" he asked. His eyes stung with tears but he wouldn't let them fall.
"That' s another thing I wanted to talk about. She can't know." The doctor said gravely.
"How can Gabriella not know that her own daughter might not even get a chance to open her eyes?" Kelsi asked.
"If she finds out about this, it will cause her emotional stress and that is the last thing we want her to have." Dr. Patterson explained.
"Can we at least see her?" Zeke asked quietly. Gabriella was like the little sister he never had. She was his best friend that's a girl and if it wasn't for her, Sharpay wouldn't have given him a second look.
"You all can see her but one at a time." Everyone looked at Ben.
"I have to see her." He stated and Dr. Patterson led him to her room.
"They don't deserve this." Taylor said.
"No one does." Chad replied.
When Ben stepped inside Gabriella's room, his hear sped up. Even when Gabriella had dark circles under her eyes and was really pale, she was still as beautiful as ever. He slowly walked to her and stroked her cheek. He felt like he hadn't seen her in days.
"Gabi," he sighed, "how am I supposed to be strong when I can't even think straight?"
He sat in a chair next to a chair next to the bed and held her hand. The only noise heard was the sound of machines connected to her. He knew that the others wanted to see her so he stood up to leave but when he was about to open the door he heard someone.
"Ben?" Gabriella whispered, squinting her eyes because the lights in the room were too bright.
"Gabi!" said Ben as he rushed to her. He immediately hugged her, loving the fact that her arms were holding him again.
"I thought I was going to lose you." He said as a couple of tears fell from his eyes.
She wiped them away and answered, "Your not getting rid of me that easily."
Before he could say anything, she asked, "How's Abby?"
Her happiness turned to worry when he didn't answer.
"Ben, tell me how she is?" she asked, her fear rising.
"Ben, tell me!" she yelled in despair as tears began to form in her eyes.
"Gabi, calm down." He said, trying to keep her stress free
"Just tell me what happened to our baby." She whispered.
Ben took a deep breath as he thought about what he was going to say…
A/N: Please REVIEW!!!!! Just take a minute to review!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! Will Abby survive? Will Gabi learn the truth? You will have to review to find out!!!!