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ChapterSEVEN.

Lost Without Him

It had been nearly a week since Gabriella and Troy's 'heart to heart' and things for them had been getting better and better. They had become really good friends over the five days, at school it was just like it was at home. If they saw each other in the hallway they would just smile and start talking, all the pupils were shocked at the sudden change on Tuesday morning, especially since Monday's argument between the pair.

FLASHBACK

Troy and Chad were in homeroom already with the rest of the boys, when Miss walked in shushing everyone to their seats.

"Were's Gabriella?" Chad asked as his friend smirked at him.

"Is someone missing a certain McKessie?" Jason asked as Chad hit him playfully but not deniying it as Troy laughed along. There attention was brought to the front as two girls walked in looking a bit flustered on their rush to class.

Troy and Chad's throats clogged up along with everyone of the boys in the class looking on at Gabriella dressed in white short shorts and a plain black t-shirt with some white flats and big sunglasses on her head along with her hair naturally curly down her back and Taylor wearing a short jean skirt with a black shirt along with white flats and sungalasses matching her friends.

"Montez. McKessie?" Ms asked, then looked up to the clock before conintuing. "To your seats please" As Taylor and Gabriella smiled to each other escaping a detention.
As Taylor took her seat Chad turned to her and smiled.

"Hey"

"Hiya!" She replied with a matching grin. "You look nice today" Chad said.

"Thanks?" Taylor said more like questioned as she blushed looking down. "Don't be embarassed it's a compliment" Chad whispered to her before turning back to the front as Taylor looked up to see Gabriella smirking at her brightly.

"What?" She mouthed as Gabriella just shook her head turning to Troy as he spoke.

"You should have let me give you a lift today like I said"

"Oh well, life goes on" Gabriella said with a smile.

"It most certainly does" Troy said taking in Gabriella's apperance next to him, he leant ovet to Gabriella as Ms turned around.

"Looking hot today Montez" He whispered as Gabriella hit him playfully as he fell back onto his chair.

"Such a flirt Bolton" She declared.

"Only for you Gabriella. Only for you" As he said it they both burst into laughter at their cheesyness and turned to see the whole class staring at them. They turned back to each other and chuckled at their confused classmates.

"I think we created a scene" Troy whispered to Gabriella as she nodded along laughing as their day went on and in a matter of hours they were like the best of friends.

END OF FLASHBACK

Gabriella walked through the halls of East High, Friday morning with a firm frown on her face, being late she walked past her locker to homeroom. Without knocking she walked through slamming the door with her entrance. The whole class turned to see her as Gabriella ignored the teachers calls and walked straight to her seat not noticing any of her friends, like she usually would.

"MS.MONTEZ?!" Ms demanded for the fith time loudly.

"WHAT?!!" Gabriella shouted back from her seat. Ms.Darbus was taken back by her comment, never once had she spoken out of turn, been rude or argumentative, this was definetly not Gabriella.

"Can YOU explain to me what's going on?" Ms said taking a few steps towards Gabriella's desk as Gabriella just sighed angrily before pushing past the teacher and storming out the classroom. As she left the classroom, she ran and ran knowing exactly where she was going as she reached her destination she stopped abruptly by the door as she wiped the tears from her eyes remembering the covnersation with her mother earlier this morning, all the words and prhases that hit her most.

"Gabriella Please just listen to me"

"Jack and I think It's a better idea if you and Troy don't come too close"

"You'll only get hurt in the end"

"Gabriellaa? PLEASE Just think about it"

"It's the right thing to do!"

She looked up to the door.

OFFICE.. As she took a deep breath she opened the door and walked in slamming it shut behind her as Jack Bolton jumped up from his seat.

"Gabriella? Shouldn't you be in class?" A confused Coach said sitting up from his slouch on his chair as he motioned for Gabriella too take a seat.

"I just want to know what yours and Mom's fucking problem is" Gabriella stated as Jack's eyes widened remembering his conversation with Maria the previous night, the one he was so nervous about was the same thing Maria was thinking, that their children were falling for each other, and it wasn't right.

"Look Gabriel-" Jack started.

"NO. You haven't answered the question, I mean one minute your saying how Me and Troy need to get along.. And the Next, The Next YOUR TELLING ME TO STAY AWAY FROM HIM?!" Gabriella shouted, as Jack sighed before standing up.

"Not to stay away from him, just to be careful Gabriella." Jack said as Gabriella looked away with anger. "You'll only get hu-"

"Hurt? I know i heard it from Mom, but I just, i don't get wha-"

"Gabriella just listen to us were only looking out for.." As Jack said placing a hand on Gabriella's shoulder in a friendly manner, but Gabriella pushed it off abruptly walking to the door.

"YOUR NOT MY DAD!!" Gabriella screeched before running out the office and down the hall as Jack called out to Gabriella before sighing and turning back into the office. Gabriella ran to the toilets and just locked herself in there, not caring about lessons, or where she was supposed to be right now, she was just confused. I mean one minute her Mom's telling her to talk to Troy, then to stay away from him, now all she could think about was how her 'family' was getting too much, Jack wasn't her dad and their was no way he was going to be.

She missed her dad, she missed him too much. She done everything with her dad, her Mom was never really around when she was younger, it was her Dad who took her to her first day at school, at pre-school. Her Dad who took her shopping, who cooked with her, who read her bed time stories, who held her when she cried, who helped her when she needed him. As Gabriella dried up her tears she looked into the mirror and cringing at her appearance of messy hair, mascara dried tears. She washed her face quickly, before dashing out, out of the halls, out of the school. There was one thing she needed to do, she had thought about it for a while, and this was the last straw.

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For the rest of the day, Troy and his friends spent the day in worry about Gabriella, since her storm out of the classroom no-one had seen her. They had tried looking for her even Troy ran out after her from the classroom but missing where she was going after his argument with the teacher about leaving the classroom.

As the last bell went Troy met with Taylor and Chad by his car, to set off to their house in search of Gabriella. As they pulled up, they all rushed out the car and into the house.

"I'll go Up" Taylor said immdiately as she entered the house, Troy and Chad nodded before going either sides of the downstairs all with worry in their hearts.

"Where do you think sh-" Chad was interrupted by a scream through the house.

"GABRIELLAAA!" Troy and Chad heard Taylor call out to her best friend in desperation and glanced quickly at each other before racing up the stairs. As they got up the stairs they ran immediately to Taylor's voice crying out to Gabriella. They ran into Gabriella's room to see nothing changed, everything was where it was as normal, but that didn't stay in their minds for long.

As they looked through the bathroom Troy immediately ran to Gabriella's side as Taylor lay there holding her friend in tears as Chad called the ambulance from his phone. Troy looked to Taylor.

"What happend?" He asked with tears forming in his eyes, Taylor shook her head as she pointed up to the mirror with no heart left to look again. Troy looked up to the mirror above them to see Gabriella's handwriting in red pen, Troy's eyes widened in shock at what was written as Taylor just held tighter onto Gabriella's body on the floor.

I'm lost without him.

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As Troy, Taylor, Chad, Maria and Jack waited paitently in the waiting room for news on Gabriella, they all shared the same worried looks. Jack had a look of guilt knowing of his conversation with Gabriella this morning was taken the wrong way by Gabriella. He didn't want to be her dad, he didn't want to replace her dad he just wanted to be there for her.

They all rose as the doctor walked in.

"MsMontez?" He said as they all nodded. "MrsMontez would you like to come outside?"

"You can say it here" She said softly wanting to know about her daughter.

"Okay.."The doctor started. "It seems MsMontez has over-dosed, there were evidence of pills through her system and it seems that around the time MsMontez was found that there lay and empty bottle. Is that correct?" He asked as Troy and Taylor nodded.

"How is she now?" Jack asked as he held Maria.

"She's stable and it seems that Gabriella did stop breathing but, it was only for a matter of seconds as it was the moment the first to find her's movements around her kept her heartbeat up. She's not awake at the moment and we can't rush her, it is best for her not to awake for at least a few more hours just so that her body can respond properly to the liquids we've given her." Jack just nodded and thanked the doctor as Maria cried into his chest, as Taylor started to sniffle back the tears Chad moved next to her to hug her, she smiled softly at him before he embraced her into a hug.

Troy stared onto the floor, across the room not knowing what to think, what to feel. He hated Gabriella not even a month ago, but right now he couldn't even imagine hating her all he could think about was Gabriella's health and how much he wanted her to be okay. He felt too upset, too upset for Troy Bolton, Troy Bolton never cried, he didn't cry when his Mom and Dad divorced he didn't cry when he'd fall when he was younger, he didn't cry.

But he cried when he saw Gabriella's lifeless body on the floor, he was crying now at the thought of losing Gabriella. It was all Gabriella Troy thought, he didn't like her,
he was falling in love with her.

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