Need You More Than Ever
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Chapter 6The gang were all sat around in Kelsi's bedroom, taking it in turns to sit out on her balcony, and watch the Montez household opposite, looking for any sign of life.
Kelsi herself was pacing the full length of her room, backwards and forwards again and again, and those who were currently in the room were watching her intently.
"You know guys I'm really scared that something really bad is going on," Kelsi whispered, looking at them all sorrowfully, including Troy, who could currently not look anyone in the eye as he believed the same thing and also believed that he had made things worse for the one true love of his life.
"Come on Kelsi, we've been here since nine am this morning and nothing suspicious has happened at all, maybe you're just over-reacting and Miss goody two shoes all of a sudden just thinks she better than us for some reason," Sharpay scoffed, as Troy balled his fists in fury and Kelsi whipped around, anger radiating from the petite brunette.
"You want to know the real reason I called you all here today Sharpay?" Kelsi yelled, getting louder with each word, "it's because at half seven this morning I was woken by screams coming from that house, followed later by the most heart wrenching sobs that I have ever heard, and you know what the worst part about it is? I knew it was Gabriella. I knew that for some reason she was in desperate pain and I just lay in my bed listening, I didn't do a damned thing to help her!" Kelsi broke off as her body started to shake with sobs and Jason immediately rushed in from his spot on the balcony to comfort his girlfriend, whispering sweet words in her ear, all the while glaring over her head at Sharpay, who looked shocked by Kelsi's sudden outburst.
"I'm sorry Kelsi, I'm so sorry, I didn't know. I'm just so mad that she hasn't come to talk to any of us about it, when she's in such obvious pain, we'd all help her in a heartbeat and she knows that, so why's she not coming to any of us?" Sharpay asked, getting teary herself as Zeke moved to hug her.
"That's exactly what I said to her yesterday," Troy spoke up, the first words since he'd arrived that morning and everybody turned to look at him. Tears started to flow down his cheeks as he continued, "I broke up with her yesterday. And that's one of the last things that I said to her, that any one of us would help her in a heartbeat. When I did it, I thought that it was the right thing, but now I've heard what you've just said Kelsi, I'm not so sure anymore, and I hate myself so much for causing her more pain than she's already in."
Troy looked disgusted with himself as he finished and punched the wall hard, repeatedly, as he slowly sank down to his knees and put his face in his hands, letting his sobs wrack his body.
The gang watched on in shock, all of them had known Troy, or at least who he was, since pre-k and not a single one of them, even Chad, had ever seen Troy Bolton break down the way that he was breaking down now, it was like he was losing everything that made him Troy Bolton.
Taylor was the first one to react, running over to Troy and joining him in his sobs for her best friend, who she knew was slowly slipping away, even with their best efforts to stop it.
Soon the rest of the gang joined in the hug and they all just sat there, in the middle of Kelsi's bedroom floor holding onto each other, and sobbing for all that they were losing.
After a while, Ryan pulled away, figuring that someone should take back over looking out to see if Gabriella was moving.
"Guys," he shouted urgently, "she's out there, but she's limping pretty bad, I can't see what's wrong with her." The rest of the gang, Troy included ran onto the balcony when they heard the panic in Ryan's voice.
Sure enough, there Gabriella was, hanging laundry out to dry in her garden, and wincing with every slight movement that she made. Suddenly she dropped the basket she was carrying and yelled out in pain as she crashed to the ground.
"Gabriella," Troy breathed out, before turning around and running out of Kelsi's room, hurtling down her stairs and out her back door, hopping the fence that was keeping him from Gabriella in a heart beat, the rest of the gang following moments later.
Troy was the first to reach her, and bent down beside her, encircling her in a hug as she cried in pain. The rest of the gang arrived and watched in horror at the state that their friend was in.
Gabriella abruptly pushed Troy off of her, ignoring the hurt in his eyes as she turned around to glare at her friends, trying to discount the shooting pains that were coursing through her, due to her injuries.
Troy slowly stood up and joined their friends in looking at Gabriella.
She glared back at them all, "What the hell are you all doing here?" she hissed, as her glare fell onto Troy and hardened even more. I've got to push them away, it's the only way I can keep them all safe, she thought to herself, never releasing her glare.
The gang looked back stunned at what had happened to their best friend.
"Well Brie, you fell over, so we ran over here to help you out, plus Kelsi said that she heard screams coming from here this morning, is everything all right?" Chad tried, tentatively asking her.
Gabriella snorted, "first of all don't call me Brie, that person is well gone, second who do you all think you are walking in here and acting like the heroes?"
Every word she said was killing her, she didn't mean any of it, she'd give anything for them to be her heroes at this point in time, and Troy could see that in her eyes, but he also knew just how stubborn his ex-girlfriend was and how she would do anything to keep them safe.
Troy's head was whipped up and he was drawn out of his thoughts as Gabriella suddenly turned on Kelsi.
"And you!" the gang, except Troy, had never seen Gabriella this angry before now, "what the hell do you think you're doing spying on me? Did I ask you to look out for me? I'm not a baby, I can very well take care of myself!" she screamed, if anything getting louder with each word.
Something was desperately wrong for Gabriella to shout at Kelsi like that, Troy knew instantly, something much worse then any of them could even possibly imagine, the only time that she had ever erupted like that before was when he nearly got himself killed for performing a dangerous stunt on his bike, using oncoming traffic to make it seem funnier, when all that really happened was that he ended up in the ER.
"You know what," her voice was quieter now, but still sounded annoyed, "can all of you just get out of here? Can you all just stay the hell out of my life and leave me alone?" She practically whispered the last part, but they all heard it anyway, as if she had just screamed it at them, it rang through all of their ears.
The gang stood their looking horrified at what she had just asked them to do, until someone finally had the guts to speak up.
"If that's what you really want us to do, we'll do it Gabriella, but we're only concerned about you, you've changed so much from the sweet girl we used to know," Taylor said quietly as she looked at her ex best friend, shaking her head.
Gabriella smirked, an expression that the gang had never seen cross her features before, it wasn't a playful happy smirk, more like a more dark and terrifying one which made the whole gang shiver in fear of what Gabriella was going to do. "If you think I've changed now Taylor, just wait until Monday at school."
Giving her shocked friends one last glare, Gabriella turned and flounced back inside her house, trying to keep her charade up, before any of them realised just how much was actually wrong with her, and they turned to walk back towards Kelsi's house, each looking back over their shoulder from time to time.
However, as soon as she reached her kitchen door and stepped inside, she fell to the floor in agony and loneliness, before straightening up and trying her hardest to complete today's tasks that her mother had left her, before she came back.
As she looked cautiously out of the window, her eyes caught on those of a certain blue-eyed boy, who just looked at her with sorrow filled eyes.
"It's for the best," she whispered and as though he had heard her, Troy shook his head, and turned to leave her life once again, for the second time that week.
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