Chad's dark gaze swept the roomful of people who were there to say a last goodbye to a young man who had died far too young. He saw Taylor and Gabriella sitting together at the front of the room, Jason, Martha, Ryan, and Kelsi clustered together talking. Zeke and Tiara were huddled around a sobbing Sharpay, and Jimmy and Danny were hanging out together in a remote corner, looking very uncomfortable.
And Troy – the closest thing that they had to Troy, anyway – was right there at the front of it all. But what made Troy, Troy, Chad realized, was actually gone. Chad didn't know where he had gone exactly, but he had an inkling.
Troy had written in his yearbook Brothers may be thousands of miles apart, but they're still brothers. His friend had meant it as a spoof off of what he had said at Lava Springs about their fight, and he had been right. Chad wondered though, was heaven still close enough to count? He thought so.
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