Need You More Than Ever
Hiya guys, thanks for all of the reviews, sorry that updates are back to taking a while, but since I went back to school, I've been overloaded with work again, anyway, here's chapter 10, please read it and tell me what you think.
Chapter 10
The gang's heads whipped around, desperately trying to figure out where the bullet had hit, but when they turned to Gabriella, they saw her start to pale completely, and turn a shade of green that no one should naturally be able to turn.
Their gazes all followed hers and they looked down to her foot, which was now pouring with blood. Everyone in the room stood in a shocked silence, all just staring at Gabriella's foot as more and more blood oozed out of the bullet wound.
Unexpectedly, Gabriella started to scream, unable to stand the pain that was coursing through her body anymore, it was a worse than any kind of pain than that she had ever felt in her life before.
Each of the gang and Maria jumped about a foot in the air when Gabriella let out the blood-curdling scream, the room had been silent enough to hear a pin drop after the gunshot.
Her scream however, seemed to shock everyone back to their senses and as she continued to scream, Maria pulled her hair harshly, pulling her in the direction of the bathroom.
The gang all looked at each other, before deciding it was best to follow them and all sprinting over to the bathroom door, which was partially closed, obscuring their view of Gabriella, but they could all see Maria clearly, and worse for them, she just happened to turn around at that point in time and see them.
The guys froze in the doorway, causing the girls to crash straight into them and fall promptly to the floor. Zeke and Jason turned around to help the three girls up, whereas Troy, Chad and Ryan kept a death glare on Maria, making sure that she wasn't going to hurt Gabriella again.
Glaring back, equally as harshly, at them, Maria hissed, "Go sit down again, or I swear to G-d next time I won't miss her pretty little head, or maybe I'll even think about hitting one of you first, now that you know for sure that I will."
Troy shook his head, "No, no way am I leaving her, who only knows what you'll do," he folded his arms across his chest and glared Maria down.
A smirk started to form on Maria's face as she looked at Troy, her hand disappearing out of the gang's line of sight.
Gabriella started to scream, "Troy just do it, please, just go sit back down, all of you, you have no idea what she's capable of!"
The smirk on Maria's face grew as Troy unfolded his arms and paled at the tone of Gabriella's voice, quickly ushering the gang back to the corner, but retreating backwards himself, keeping his eyes trained on the door.
Maria just laughed ruthlessly again and swung the bathroom door closed, completely blocking the view of anything that was happening in there from the gang.
"Damn it!" Troy muttered, hitting the wall hard, before crying out in pain and rubbing his knuckles with his other hand.
"Great going knuckle head, you just made yourself injured and that helped Gabby a lot now didn't it," Taylor whispered insensitively, rolling her eyes at Troy.
Troy glared back at her and pretty soon the whole gang was having a massive hushed argument, minus Chad, who was sat there watching his friends break down and wondering how they could all be arguing at a time like this, when Gabriella obviously needed their help, and that was an understatement.
Chad couldn't take it anymore, "What the hell do you think you guys are doing?" They all turned around to glare at him, none of them had heard Chad speak in the tone of voice that he was currently using before, it was so serious, yet so hurt, "you guys are all arguing over petty little things, when G-d only knows what is happening to Briella in that bathroom at the minute and really, we should be devising a plan to get out of here safely, all of us," he finished as his eyes turned towards the bathroom door.
The gang all looked down, ashamed, and then cringed when a painful scream emitting from the bathroom suddenly backing up Chad's point.
"I'm sorry," the whole group whispered together, and smiled softly, when they realised that they were still as connected as ever, their smiles quickly turned into frowns though when they heard another scream.
Chad nodded, "Right then, what do we do?" He asked, looking around the group, looking for answers, the others all just rolled their eyes and Ryan and Zeke slapped their foreheads.
"You mean that you gave that speech and you had no ideas as to how we would actually get out of here," Ryan hissed at Chad.
Chad ran his hand through his hair sheepishly and nodded, "Well yeah, I heard the speech on a movie and figured that it would fit in here if I replaced the name with Briella." He shrugged and looked around the rest of the group, who were all just staring at him, dumbfounded.
"Right well then we…" Zeke trailed of as the bathroom door swung open, revealing a tear stained face, as Gabriella hobbled out of the bathroom, her foot all bandaged up, and the bleeding apparently stopped. Their joy was short lived however when Maria appeared behind her daughter, the gun pointing into Gabriella's back.
"All of you over here now," she yelled as the scared teens hurriedly snapped to their feet and ran the short distance across the room to stand in front of Gabriella and her mother, each predicting the worst.
Suddenly, Maria pushed her daughter into Troy's arms, stunning the whole room.
Looking at Troy, she murmured, "Take care of her Troy, your a good boy, I'm glad that she found you, make sure that she's alright." The whole group looked at her confused, especially Gabriella, who was now resting safely inside of Troy's embrace, her eyes peaking over his arms at her mother.
Looking Gabriella dead in the eye, she stuttered, "I'm so sorry Gabriella, so so sorry," she then raised the gun to her own head, causing Gabriella's eyes to widen and her breathing to increase rapidly as she started shaking her head, "I love you Gabriella Montez, never ever forget that," and with her final words said, Maria Montez pulled the trigger.
The loud BANG echoed around the room as Gabriella screamed, collapsing beside her mother, her tiny body wracking with sobs as her friends watched on, helplessly.
"No Mommy! Please don't leave me, please don't leave me Mommy, I cant do this without you, I need you Mommy," Gabriella sobbed as she buried her head in her mother's chest.
The gang all watched on, shaken as to what had just happened and completely powerless to help their friend, who looked so small and vulnerable after loosing her second parent that year, tears started to build up behind all of their eyes as they watched Gabriella completely break down and howl for the loss of her parents…
Okay guys, that was chapter 10, sorry for the wait but chapter 11 should be up later tonight or tomorrow, my work load is starting to ease off, so I should be able to update more frequently again, but please review and tell me what you thought of the chapter, thanks for reading.