Author's Note: At last, the chapter you all have been waiting for! Please review.
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High School Musical is Wicked!
Chapter 9: I Know You Did It
By musiclover94
Last Chapter…
"Are you Ms. Montez?" she asked her timidly.
"Yes, I am," Gabriella replied, picking her head up out of her tear-blotched hands.
"I'm here to inform you that Ryan Evans is…
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in a stable condition. The surgery was successful, but there is still a small chance he might not make it."
Gabriella let go of the breath she unknowingly held as the nurse was talking to her. A pleasant numbness swept over her. Ryan was alive…but then she remembered the other news the intern had for her…'but there is still a small chance he might not make it…'
She distantly heard the woman say, "Would you like to see him?"
Gabriella could only nod. She followed the smiling nurse to wherever Ryan was. When they were at the fateful door, the nurse left her alone, smiling over her shoulder. Gabriella opened the door with a shaking hand. She stepped onto the cool tiles on the floor and saw her love in a horrific state.
Though not as badly bruised as she had seen him before, he had several long stitches all along his arms and head. His eyes were closed, but he was breathing his damaged chest moving up and down. IV needles were all along him like pushpins on a bulletin board. His hair was still matted and there were two skinny tubes in his nostrils.
Gabriella slowly walked over to him, her shoes making a tap-tap on the floor.
"R-Ryan?" she asked shakily, looking down at the battered, scarred face.
"Brie?" he asked hoarsely.
Without hesitation, Gabriella lunged at him, wrapped her arms around his frail neck, and kissed, kissed him as she had never kissed him before. It must have been days before they broke apart and Ryan said, despite the pain he must be feeling right now, "Hello to you, too!"
Gabriella gave a shaky laugh and then said, on the brink of sobbing, "I thought you….wouldn't…m-make it…" She collapsed into Ryan's waiting arms. He patted her hair while she sobbed.
"But I did!" Ryan said, still patting her head.
"They say you might not, though…"
"I'm gonna make it, Gabi, don't worry."
"How do you know that?" Gabriella asked thickly, holding back tears.
"Because you're here." He put one hand behind her neck and kissed her passionately, and Gabriella was kissing back, and it was bliss until…
"Ryan!" Sharpay exclaimed, running over to her twin, her stilettos clacking loudly on the ground. Gabriella and Ryan broke apart suddenly and Sharpay hugged her brother, completely ignoring Gabriella.
"How did this," Enchante Evans said, gesturing to her son's state of being, "happen?"
Gabriella told them the full story, with side comments from Ryan. After consuming this information, Sharpay asked sharply (no pun intended), "Have you told the police about this, Gabi?"
"Yeah, but they wouldn't believe me!" Gabriella said angrily, the hatred flowing through her once again.
Mrs. Evans looked beyond shock. "Why didn't they believe you, Gabriella?"
Gabriella retold the phone conversation, her hatred growing with each word.
The Evans were speechless, but the silence was broken by the door creaking open again, and Chad, Taylor, and, Troy. Gabriella's loathing level was fit to burst. She glared at him with renewed vigor, poised to attack.
"What happened?" Taylor asked, looking at her friend in utter shock.
Gabriella, looking pointedly and unblinkingly at Troy, who looked down, said coldly, "Someone beat him up."
They all looked to Troy, whom Gabriella was still looking at with pure hatred blazing in her eyes. At that moment, they all knew, but they didn't make a move yet, they needed careful planning to efficiently chuck Troy in jail.
The same nurse that had taken Gabriella to the room opened the door and said, "Visiting hours in the ICU are closed." She gave them all a sympathetic smile and closed the door.
Mrs. Evans gave her son a hug and left, along with Chad and Taylor, who murmured words similar to 'get well soon'. Now there was only Sharpay, Gabriella, and Troy left. Gabriella hugged Ryan and stood up, feeling another of Troy's murderous glares aimed at her and Ryan. She was still drying some tears. Before she and the fiery blonde left the room.
Sharpay went right up to Troy and hissed, "I know you did it."
Author's Note: See what I mean about my writing going downhill? Well, please review, even if you disliked it.