College Struggles
Summary: The gang go through tough times at university with family illnesses to secrets as to two members accused of cheating. They are all attending UCLA and all the girls will be sharing an apartment just as the boys will. Someone's dad gets ill and causes them to withdraw from the gang and hurt the ones they love the most. One person's mom is killed just weeks into starting. How will they cope? Two people are helping each other out but with the amount of time they are spending together their other half's start to question them. Will they all still be friends by the time they've finished? Who will suffer heartache and will the pressures of being so different finally get too much?
Sequel to School Trip & School ChaosA/N: Thanks for the reviews. Sorry there isn't much Troyella or any other kind moments in this chapter but I wanted to show more of the Chad – Gabriella brother sister relationship because that will come up in later chapters. This is sort of filler that starts building up drama for some people. Anyway here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing except the plot, Annabelle and Aaron.
Chapter 11
Troy stayed the night at Gabriella's. Taylor phoned the university and explained Gabriella's situation and they agreed she could wait a little longer before having to start giving her time to grieve. Troy still went along with the rest of the gang to their first day of lessons meaning Gabriella was home alone. She had been crying a lot the night before which worried Troy.
The gang was walking to the campus just talking about Gabriella.
"Do you think I should call her and make sure she is ok?" Troy asked for about the millionth time that morning.
"Troy you have already rang her twice. You will just give her an excuse to push you away if you keep ringing. She promised to ring any of us if she needed someone. And think of it this way, if she falls asleep but then you call her again right away she will be mad at you." Sharpay told Troy as they all split of in different directions.
With Gabriella
Gabriella was lying on her bed flicking through her photo scrapbook she and her mom made just for them. Inside there were pictures of her mom and dad when they were younger to when they got married to when they had her. Her mom always said it was just for the three of them. But as Gabriella got to more recent times she noticed a page full of writing. She wiped away her tears before reading.
Well you may be wondering why I'm writing in this when I never do. Well at the beginning of this there is a message written by Fabio explaining what this scrapbook is for. 'This is to be used to put in the memories shared by Fabio, Maria and Gabriella Montez'. Well that is what Gabriella and I have always done. Any memory and we have taken a picture and put it in here. Well now there is someone else I want to add in here and to our future memories and that person is Troy Bolton. He has made Gabriella so happy like she was before Fabio died and I know that he is the one for her. So now this scrapbook is for memories made by Maria & Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton.
Maria Montez x
Fresh tears fell down Gabriella's face as she read the message her mom had wrote. She collapsed onto her bed hugging her mom's teddy bear and just cried.
Gabriella's P.O.V
I need my mom. What am I going to do? I've got no one. No family no nothing. I need Troy. He's the only one who can make all this pain disappear. I want him to just hold him and tell me everything will be ok just like my mom use to.
End P.O.V
With Chad
After his first and only class for the day finished he went home knowing the others had more than one class today. As he walked closer he decided to check on Gabriella first. All the boys had keys to the girl's apartment just as the girls had the guys. He unlocked the door and heard loud sobbing coming from Gabriella's room. He quickly locked the door and went to Gabriella's room. As Chad opened the door he felt his heart drop at the sight in front of him. Gabriella looked so vulnerable and fragile as she cried into her teddy. Chad moved forward and sat down engulfing her in a huge hug.
"Gabs it's going to be ok. I promise." Chad whispered soothingly into her ear letting her cry. As her tears subsided she looked up at Chad.
"Sorry." She said quietly.
"Hey you have nothing to be sorry for. If you want to cry the whole day then do it because I'm not going to leave you on your own. I'll just stay with you. You're my little sister Gabs so you never have to say sorry to me." Chad told her seriously as Gabriella let out a small laugh. Chad looked at her confused. "What?"
"Nothing. What you said was so nice and serious and it made me laugh to see you like that. I don't think I've ever seen you like that." Gabriella explained to Chad.
"Well if you like I can become inappropriate Chad again. My mom thinks that I need help because I always end up saying the wrong things when people are upset." Gabriella smiled.
"Well I would say so far you are doing great at not being inappropriate. So has Taylor forgiven you yet?" Gabriella asked as she changed the subject but still hugging Chad.
"I think so. She's still not completely forgiven me yet though but at least she's talking to me. So seeing as I'm looking after you do you think you can do me a favour and answer a question for me?" Chad asked with a look on his face.
"Maybe if I want to." Gabriella was unsure of what Chad was going to ask.
"What happened between you and Troy the other night?" Gabriella whacked him in the stomach with her pillow.
"That's none of you business." Gabriella answered as Chad grabbed his pillow and hit her.
"Well if you won't give me details you can answer me this. Is Troy actually any good? And do you think he would be better than me?" Chad was trying to take her mind if things and lighten the mood.
"Chad! If I'm your little sister then isn't it wrong to be asking me this kind of stuff?" Gabriella cleverly shot back.
"Well your not my blood sister and Troy is my best friend so its fine so answer." Chad hit her in the stomach with the pillow.
"Fine but not a word to anyone. Yes Troy's amazing in that department and I would guess he is way better than you." Gabriella saw the frown on Chad's face and decided to freak him out. " Troy is so loving when making love, the way he touches me…" Chad putting his hand over her mouth cut off Gabriella.
"I don't want to know. That is too weird." Gabriella smiled triumphantly noticing Chad's expression. She quickly hit him with her pillow before he hit her back. They ended up having a huge pillow face with Gabriella laughing and forgetting about everything for a little bit.
With Troy
Troy walked out of his last class turning on his phone while he waited for the others to check if Gabriella had tried to call him. She hadn't and because he was heading over there in a few minutes he decided not to call her in case she was asleep. Troy spotted all the others and walked over to them.
"Everyone ready to go?" Jason asked as they all nodded. Ryan and Annabelle were going out somewhere so it was only the 6 of them. They walked back talking about their first day before walking into the girl's apartment. They heard loud giggling from Gabriella's room but not only one laugh. Troy gave everyone a puzzled look. They all walked over to the door that was open and smiled at what was going on. Chad and Gabriella were still having a huge pillow fight.
"I'm glad my boyfriend is a good hitting target." Taylor half shouted to be heard over the two. Chad and Gabriella smiled at them all.
"What are you doing?" Troy asked leaning against the doorframe.
"I decided to come pester Miss Montez here and cheer her up." Chad told them as he threw his pillow at her before walking over to Taylor. Troy walked towards Gabriella who smiled at him as he sat down.
"How you doing?" he asked as he kissed her.
"I think I'm going to be ok. Chad made me realize my mom wouldn't want me sulking round all day. Yeah I'm sad but I still have to live my life." Gabriella stood up pulling Troy with her and made her way to the living room. They all sat around talking about stuff before Chad poked Sharpay and nodded his head towards her room. She nodded as she and Chad excused themselves. No one took any notice because it was normal for two people to sometimes want to talk in private and would disappear into another room.
With Chad and Sharpay
"So what's up that we had to come in here?" Sharpay asked as Chad shut her door.
"Sharpay I need your help." Chad started.
A/N: What does Chad need help with? And why from Sharpay? Please review. Thanks!