A/N: Hey sorry it took a while to update. This chapter isn't too long cuz I've been really busy lately so yeah. I'll try to update after this as soon as I can. Hope you enjoy!!

I sat in the middle of my front hall for what seemed hours. In that time it had started to rain. It had been doing that a lot lately. I gazed out the window at the rain pouring down and soaking the grass and flooding the street. Ryan's face, bruised and bloodied, popped into my mind. I thought back to the day when I had found him lying, in pain, at the side of the school. Cries of anger and sadness escaped my mouth. I finally managed to pick myself up and walk to the nearest telephone. I picked it up and dialed Taylor's number.

"Hello?" I heard Taylor's voice say when she answered.

"Taylor, hi. It's Gabi." I mumbled.

"Hey hun. What's wrong?" She asked. I guess she had heard the despair in my voice.

"I just… I need you to come over. Can you?"

"Of course, Gabs. I'll see you in a few, okay?"

"Thanks Tay." I hung up and slumped over to my couch and lay down. I guessed I was in a state of shock. Knowing that I had lost Troy all because of Ryan and his lies made me feel… Empty. I lay there motionless for a few minutes when I heard my doorbell ring. I got up slowly and saw Taylor through the window. I walked to the door and let her in. I led her into the living room and for a few moments we sat in silence.

"Okay, Gabs. What's up? What's going on?" She said breaking the silence. I slouched over and put my head in my hands. I felt the tears escape my eyes again and I felt Taylor come over and rub my back soothingly. "Gabs, what's wrong? Please tell me. Is it Troy??" I gave a slow nod. "Oh, hun what happened." I sat up and told her the whole story. Of how I first met the 'real' Ryan Evans and how I had cheated on Troy with him and how it was in fact Ryan who had beat himself up and not Troy or Chad. After I finished telling her everything we sat in silence once again. I looked at her face and saw no expression.

"Taylor?" I said. She got up slowly and walked in a circle in front of me.

"Okay so… You cheated on Troy, one of the nicest guys ever, because Ryan, one of the weirdest guys ever, told you he had beat him up?" She asked trying to process all of the information. I nodded quietly. "And then… You told Troy and then you broke up with him…?"

"Well I guess you could put it that way." I mumbled sadly. The way she said it made me sound like such an idiot. But I guess she was right,

"And then Sharpay, who hates you, came and told you that Ryan beat himself up 'cause he's insane,"

"He's not insane…" I protested quietly. Taylor stopped pacing and looked at me with shock quite evident in her expression.

"Not insane? GABI. Look at what he did! He's crazy! He's a crazy, psychology MESSED up, liar." She shouted. I flinched and put my head down again.

"He… Maybe he had a reason…"

"No, Gabi. The only reason is that he's pissed off at everyone for how they treat him so he's getting revenge by messing up your life and Troy's,"

"You don't know that, Tay! He needs help. Something is wrong with him. I know he's ruined everything but maybe if I help him-," I started saying but Taylor cut me off.

"Help him?! Gabs you've helped him enough! You've given him what he wanted, Troy's life to be ruined. Ryan has every reason to hate Troy and now you've helped him get his petty revenge but you got hurt in the way too."

"What do you know!? You think you know everything Taylor, but you don't! You don't know anything about Ryan OR me! There's a reason behind this and I need to find it out!" I yelled. Taylor became silent. She walked to the front hall. "Where are you going?!" I called, following her. She reached the front door and turned around.

"If this is how you feel about this then I'm outa here, Gabi." She said, "I'm not gonna watch you mess your life up even more. So when you come to your senses, call me." She said and left. I stood there speechless. Why had everything become so confusing? In one day I had broken up with the most amazing person I've ever known, found out that Ryan had lied to me the entire time, and I had just lost my best friend. I tried to cry but it seemed as though all my tears had run out. I ran upstairs to my room and found a random CD lying on the floor. I noticed it as the CD my cousin had burned for me. I put it in my CD played and pressed play. I didn't recognize the first song. It was a punk/rock/pop song by a band I didn't know. I let it play on.

No sir, well I don't wanna be the blame, not anymore.
It's your turn, so take a seat we're settling the final score.
And why do we like to hurt, so much?

I can't decide
You have made it harder just to go on
And why, all the possibilities where I was wrong

That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating.
And that's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.

I wonder, how am I supposed to feel when you're not here.
'Cause I burned every bridge I ever built when you were here.
I still try holding onto silly things, I never learn.
Oh why, all the possibilities I'm sure you've heard.

That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating. (beating)
And that's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.

Pain make your way to me, to me.
And I'll always be just so inviting.
If I ever start to think straight,
This heart will start a riot in me,
Let's start, start, hey!

Throughout the song I felt every single piece of hope I had slip away. Taylor had been right. Troy had been right. In a weird way, Ryan had been right. I was the only one who believed that there could be good in every situation. I was wrong and now all the things I had were gone and I had no one left.

Why do we like to hurt so much?
Oh why do we like to hurt so much?

That's what you get when you let your heart win!
Whoa.

That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.
That's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.

Now I can't trust myself with anything but this,
And that's what you get when you let your heart win, whoa.

When the song had finished I lay there replaying it in my head. How could a song sum of everything I was feeling? But suddenly I was brought out of my thoughts by a knock at my front door. I raced downstairs and opened the door. As soon as I did I regretted it.

Standing at my front door was Ryan Evans.

A/N: Did you like? Anyways if anyone's wondering the song used in this chapter is called "That's what you get" by Paramore.