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It was a week after the party and Gabriella was being released from hospital. Her mum was away on a business trip so Gabriella would be staying at the Evans until her mum got back, none of the gang wanted her alone after what had happened they wanted to make sure that someone was with her at all times meaning no one could hurt her.

Gabriella was sitting on the edge of the hospital bed in her clothes ready to leave. The room was silent with Gabriella in deep thought swinging her legs back and forth. Since the party she had become really quiet and hardly spoke.

"You looking forward to getting out of here Gabs" Troy asked he was sitting in the corner of the room watching her whilst Sharpay and Ryan where signing her out and getting her medicine from the doctor. Gabriella made no recognition of Troy. He sighed and made his way towards her placing his hand on her shoulder

"Gabs you ok?" Gabriella glanced up at Troy and just nodded her head.

"Are you looking forward to getting out of here?" He tried again trying to get her to talk to him. She shook her head as tears started welling up in her eyes; she looked up at him and broke down.

"I can't do it Troy, I don't want to leave here I'm safe here nobody can get me there's security and stuff. I don't want to leave; they're going to get me"

"Who Gabs, who's going to get you"

"The person trying to kill me," she launched herself at Troy holding on to him for dear life "I'm scared Troy I don't want to die" she mumbled. Troy rubbed her back trying to calm her down.

"You're not going to die Gabs; we're not going to let anything happen to you."

"I'm scared" she whispered into his chest

"I know you are, but we are going to look after you, nothings going to happen." Troy sat down on the bed next to her and held her as she started to calm down.

"Thanks Troy." she whispered into his chest. Troy gently kissed her head

"It's going to be ok Gabs." Sharpay and Ryan walked towards the room and saw Troy comforting Gabriella through the window. Walking through the door Sharpay put a big smile on her face to try and cheer Gabriella up.

"Hey, so we signed you out and we got your medicine so we can leave now, you ready to go?" Gabriella looked up at Sharpay and gave her a small smile whilst nodding her head.

"Good then lets go, everything is set up at home I got your clothes and your school stuff for you so we can go straight back to my place and I was thinking if you want you can sleep with me in my room so your not alone, how does that sound"

"That's great Sharpay. Thanks" She shot her an appreciative smile and Sharpay grew positive that things were starting to get better, Gabriella was speaking more and that had to be a good sign.

Monday arrived and Gabriella was going back to East High for the first time since the attack. The whole school had been talking about it and Gabriella was the main topic of discussion her arrival back to school had been highly anticipated by most students

"Everybody's going to be staring at me Shar I don't want to go in there."

"Gabs you're going to be fine just ignore everyone. Most people are just worried about you that's all they want to know that you're ok"

"One of them doesn't, one of them wants me dead"

"Gabs you have to stop talking like that. Nobody's going to do anything not when the whole group are with you and we have made sure that there is going to be at least one person with you at all times. You have at least one of us in all your classes; we have free periods together when we will watch the boys practice. It's going to be fine you're never going to be alone"

"Ok sorry, I'm still a bit scared."

"Hey don't apologize you have no reason too just remember we are always here," Sharpay wrapped her arms around Gabriella and hugged her tightly "You're my best friend Gabs. I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I can't lose you." Gabriella hugged Sharpay back and pulled away with a smile on her face

"Thanks Shar"

"There's the smile I love now come on lets go find the others" The 2 girls linked arms and made there way towards the entrance of East High.

The rest of the group were waiting by Gabriella's locker for her return to school they wanted her to know that they were all there for her and she had there support. Kelsi stood with the group by the locker it was the last place she wanted to be but she couldn't make herself look suspicious she had to make sure nobody suspected her.

"Hey, there she is welcome back Gabs" Troy said and opened his arms to hug her. She immediately wrapped her arms around Troy and hugged him back. Troy had always been like a big brother to Gabriella, looking out for her and protecting her and now more then ever did he need to do that for her.

"Hey guys," She shyly replied "It's good to be back"

"Only Gabi could be happy about being back at school" Chad laughed. The rest of the group rolled their eyes

"Come on," Taylor spoke up "Lets go to homeroom" The group started to make there way down the halls of East High. Whispers could be heard from the other students Gabriella began feeling paranoid knowing that most of the whispers were about her. Ryan walked up next to her and took her hand interlocking their fingers whilst pecking her on the cheek.

"Hey babe, sorry I didn't come in with you this morning I thought you might need a bit of time alone with Shar I knew you were worried and she's always been better then me at making people feel better"

"Thanks, I really needed the talk she gave me it made me realise some things. Just so you know you make me feel better just by being with me, you don't have to say anything." She smiled at him and kissed him as the group entered the classroom. Ms Darbus was already sitting at the Front of the class she looked up as the group of friends entered the classroom

"Ah Miss Montez, good to have you back" She said smiling at the teenager.

Kelsi sat in homeroom with her head resting on her hands staring ahead. Her plan had completely backfired she had meant to take Gabriella out of the picture but all she had done was made the group become closer to her. She knew now it was going to be harder to get what she wanted that the others were going to watching Gabriella like a hawk. Kelsi knew that it was going to take time she had to leave it for a while so they all thought the person wasn't going to try anything again and then she would finish off what she started and finally take Gabriella out of the picture.

A/N hey sorry took so long to update and i know this chapter isn't very long but i needed to get this done and get this bit of the story out of the way so i can move on to the next bit which will have more Drama.

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