Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

By CorbinBleuFanatic1

Chad Danforth had fallen asleep hours ago. Taylor McKessie knew she had to break-up with Mike Benson. But how could she, when her overprotective best friend won't let her anywhere near the guy?

Taylor admired his overprotective-ness but at the same time it could get to be annoying. Taylor was glad and lucky to have someone like Chad in her life but she needed to break up with Mike, to stand up for herself, to tell him it was over. And hope he didn't get mad and hit her.

Taylor kissed Chad's forehead, grabbed her keys and her phone, and climbed out of bed, trying not to make the bed shake or creak, trying not to make a lot of noise.

She looked back only once, just to make sure Chad was still sleeping, that he wasn't following her. Taylor loved Chad's worried-ness but Taylor didn't want to sacrifice Chad's life by waking him up and making him follow her. No, this was something Taylor had to do all by herself.

When she got to Mike's house, the lights were on and the door was slightly open.

When she walked into the house, it was almost like Mike was expecting her. He appeared out of the shadows and slammed the door.

"What are you doing here, Taylor? I thought you'd be with your boyfriend."

"I needed to come over here." Taylor paused, hoping Mike didn't sense her fear. "We're done, Mike. We're through. I'm not going to stand by and watch you destroy my life and my friends."

Mike just laughed his maniacal laughter. "You'll soon find out, Taylor McKessie, that breaking up is hard to do!"

Taylor stood her ground, trying to stay calm on the outside while she was screaming with fear on the inside.

"Take one last look, McKessie. This room will be the last thing you see." Mike smiled down at her. "Forever."

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Chad Danforth turned on his side and opened his eyes, expecting to see Taylor's face smiling at him. But instead, he was met with an empty space.

"Tay?" Chad called throughout the house. "Taylor, are you here?" Chad ran to the window and looked out. "Her car isn't in the drive." Chad racked his brain, trying to think of any place Taylor could've gone. And every time he thought about it, his mind kept drifting back to Mike Benson. "Why would she go there?" Chad wondered out loud. "Still...couldn't hurt to look."

Chad grabbed his coat, his cell phone and car keys, and headed out the door, his frantic footsteps echoing throughout the house.

Chad stopped the car outside of Mike's house and saw Taylor's car. He was shaken to the core by a woman screaming. A voice he knew all too well.

Taylor!

If he even hoped to save Taylor, he needed all of his friends.

He frantically sent text messages saying Taylor's in trouble. Needs help. Come to Mike Benson's house to all of his friends. But when none of them answered after a few minutes, Chad called Troy first.

"Who the hell...?" Troy wondered, half asleep.

"Sorry if I woke you up, dude," Chad said, "but Taylor needs help. She's at Mike's place..."

"What in the world is she be doing there?"

"I don't know but she's in trouble. Can you come to Mike's house?" When Troy said he'd try, Chad added, "Okay, good. You call Gab and Ryan and Sharpay. I'll call Kelsi, Jason, and Zeke."

"Okay, Chad." Troy said before he hung up, "Don't worry, man. I'm sure Taylor's fine. She can be tough when she wants to be."

Chad nodded his head and said, "I hope so."

Within ten minutes, Jason, Kelsi, and Zeke agreed to meet there. Five minutes after that, the whole gang was outside of Mike's house, ready to save Taylor, watching Chad pace in front of his blue Mustang.

"Let's go, guys," Chad said, holding his pocket knife out in front of him.

The guys went in first, before the girls, making sure it was okay.

Chad stopped dead in his tracks when he got into the middle of the house.

"Tay?" Chad asked quietly. But Taylor didn't answer.

"Chad, look out!" Chad heard Gabriella Montez call.

Chad looked behind him quickly, just in time to dodge Mike's fists.

"Get away from my girlfriend!" Mike yelled.

"She isn't your girlfriend anymore," Troy said, trying to hold Mike back. Troy looked at Chad, nodded to Taylor, then to the door and said, "Help Taylor, man. We'll take care of him. Gabby, call the cops." He looked over his shoulder. "And some help would be nice."

As Troy said that, Jason, Zeke, and Ryan rushed over to help him. Even Kelsi started to come over but Sharpay and Gabriella held her back.

Taylor opened her eyes and was glad that she was in Chad's arms and not Mike's.

"I think its time we told someone," Taylor whispered. But it hurt to talk. "About everything, Chad. Not just about Mike hitting me. About everything."

"Its about time, Tay," Chad told her, helping her out onto the sidewalk. "But you're okay now."

"What was she talking about?" Gabby wondered after she got off the phone. "What else was happening, besides what that sick bastard did to her?"

Troy was shocked. In the time that they had known each other, Troy has never heard Gabriella curse. That was a whole other side of her that anyone rarely saw.

Within minutes, an ambulance was here, taking Taylor and Chad to the hospital. The cops also came about two minutes behind the ambulance and arrested Mike Benson for aggravated assault.

When they got to the hospital, Taylor was too weak to talk so Chad talked for her, telling the doctor everything that had happened. And about the eating disorder, which the doctor didn't take lightly.

"We have to go over this with Ms. McKessie but once she's okay to go home, there's a special place in New Jersey that she can go to."

"What kind of a place?" Chad wondered just as his friends came through the door.

"It's a place for people with eating disorder's, like Taylor's, to go and get help. It usually lasts several months but it can sometimes take a year or more to help them overcome their disorder. Where are her parents?"

"Out of town."

When Chad told them where they were, the doctor excused himself to call her parents.

"Taylor has an eating disorder?" Gabby, Sharpay, and Kelsi wondered.

Chad looked down at the ground, then back at his friends. He slowly nodded his head sadly.

"But she's okay now."

"Is she really, Chad?" Zeke wondered. "What if this eating disorder gets even worse? What if it escalates to the point that Taylor's only skin and bones? What if this rehab thing doesn't help her at all?"

"Wow, you're just Mr. Negative today, aren't you?" Chad wondered. "Don't you think I already thought about those things, Zeke? I'm scared to death for her. But I don't wanna show my fear because I don't want her to be scared about it." Chad paused. "You gotta promise me something, guys. No matter what happens, no matter what the doctors say, you have to put on a brave face. If Taylor knows we're scared, she will be too. So try and be strong for her. Okay? Can you promise me that?"

They nodded their heads and said, "We promise."

But was it a promise they could keep? Or a promise they make and then break?

Did you like it? Plz R&R:D I might not write more for a few days because we're moving so I might be without the computer for several days. But I had to write one more chapter before I have to shut my computer off. Anyway, plz R&R!

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