Sharpay was still standing where Troy left her. She wasn't sure what to do. She felt around in her pockets.
"Damn! I forgot my cell phone at home!" She looked around.
"At least some of it is still here." She said thinking about Troy's house. She was walking home when she glanced at Troy's house. What she saw didn't make sense at first but it came to her.
"A hole! OMG!" She ran into the house and to the room and she saw exactly what she didn't want too. She ran to Gabriella's body. Gabriella was all scratched up and as cold as ice.
"Troy is gonna be devastated...unless I don't tell him I found her. " With that she ran to the nearest phone and called 911.
"Hello. You need to come over...I found a body from the tornado. She's not breathing...I think she's dead."
"We'll be right over." She hung up the phone. When they got there it all went very quick.
"Does this girl have any family?" He asked. She shook her head.
"I don't think so."
"Then we'll burn her." At the thought of Gabriella being burned she started to cry. She nodded her head.
"Can I speak to her first?" She asked.
"Yeah. Was she a friend of yours?" she nodded again.
"Call me when your done." and then he left.
"Gabriella. I don't know what you were doing with Troy to make you not pay any attention but I hope your last moments with him were good. I'll miss you. I know everyone will. I love you Gabi! Be happy where you are." she was crying harder now and she grabbed her hand.
"Goodbye old friend." with that she signaled to the doctor that she was done. They took her away and she got out of there but as fast as she could. She ran to her house to find her whole family there already.
They just got home when Sharpay burst in the door, with tears in her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Ryan asked as he went to her.
"Troy's mad...don't know where he went...Gabriella...I..." she couldn't finish and ran upstairs and slammed the door.
"I'll go up there and see what's wrong."Ryan volunteered.
"Okay. Your always the best with her." Madi said. When he knocked he heard her yell,
"what do you want?" He opened the door and saw her laying on her bed.
"Can you tell me what happened?" he asked softly.
"I don't want to talk about it!"
"Come on please tell me. So I can help you." what came next was a jumble of words.
"There was a tornado. I went downstairs and then I had to come back up and I saw the biggest tornado ever. When it was safe to come up I went to Troy's house to see if he was okay. Part of his house was destroyed and I found him looking through the pieces of wood. (The next part he couldn't understand.)
"Gabriella is dead! Then I found the body and didn't tell Troy." (He caught this part.)
" I told him everything would be okay and he got mad then he ran off and I don't know where he is now." Ryan came over and gave her a hug.
"Everything will be okay. It just takes time." She pushed him away.
"Gabriella is DEAD! Don't you even care?"
"What? No wonder Troy is mad! Sharpay he'll come around."
"I just hope that he can forgive me."
"It's Troy. You guys have been friends for a long time. You'll get past this."
"I don't want to tell mom and dad. I don't want to repeat it all again."
"I'll tell them. You should come down though."
"I want to be alone." Ryan sighed. She was the type of person to keep it all in.
"Okay. I'll make sure they leave you alone. You can't stay up here forever though."
"Thanks Ryan." he nodded and walked out.
"Poor Troy. Lost Gabriella. He's gonna be in a tough spot for a while. Sharpay too. She likes him so much but Troy doesn't seem to notice."Ryan thought as he explained what happened to his parents.
"We need to talk to her. She'll need help through this."Madi exclaimed.
"No she needs to be alone. Just give her some time." Ryan said but that's not what he was thinking.
"Troy is really what she needs." that's what he was really thinking.
They were walking to the door when Troy saw a hole. The same one that Sharpay had seen earlier. He started running.
"Troy? What are you doing?"Cameron yelled.
"See that hole? I think Gabriella is in there. She might still be alive!" he yelled back at her. She followed him through the half room and up the stairs into the room on the right. Troy was sitting on a bed holding a piece of cloth.
"What's that?" she asked about the cloth.
"A piece of the shirt Gabriella was wearing today. She was in this room, but someone took her out. I know it!" He seemed so certain she didn't know what to say.
"Who would do that?" she finally said. He got very quiet trying not to cry.
"Troy?" he looked up at her and quietly asked, "what?"
"What happened?" Troy took a deep breath.
"I was with my girlfriend-"
"Gabriella Montez?"
"Yeah. Anyways she was at my house, just hanging out. (He figured she probably didn't want to know they were making out.) I guess we weren't paying attention to the weather and suddenly the walls were ripped from the ground. She didn't grab on to anything but I did. I saw her flying through the air. I wanted to help her but I couldn't. I heard her screaming then everything went quiet" Cameron came over and hugged him while he finished the rest of the story in her ear.
"I looked for her but I couldn't find her. Sharpay was helping too.-"
"where'd she go?" she thought he looked guilty at the mention of her.
"I got mad at her. I ran off and then I saw you."
"What'd she do?" he looked really guilty now. He looked down.
"I shouldn't have but you gotta understand that I lost the person I loved the most in this world.
" what'd she say?" she said trying to sound as nice as he did at the ruins of her house.
"She said everything would be okay."
"Oh." she couldn't think of anything else to say. He thought about how he'd acted and was ashamed.
"We should call 911 about your mother now." he said changing the subject.
"I'll get the phone."
"Okay." so he got the phone and tried to give it to her.
"I know that you've so much for me already but could you call?" she wasn't begging him. Just asking.
"I understand. I can do it." she started to take the phone from him.
"No I can do it. I was just thinking." he dialed 911 and waited for an answer. Cameron looked outside and saw people out there.
"Hello. We have a body. W-" Cameron didn't pay attention to the rest of the his conversation.
"They're coming to get your Mom in a little while." Cameron jumped.
"Sorry." he apologized.
"Don't be. I'm gonna go to my Mother. You can come if you want to." she was trying to make it obvious that she wanted him too.
"Yeah. I can bring my cell phone and call Mom and Dad. I'll ask if you can stay with us."
"Troy. I told you I'm not staying."
And I've decided you are. Do you have any money? Do you really want to live alone?" she frowned.
"No to both. I don't want to intrude in your life though." Troy laughed.
"Everyone else does. But that's okay. I want you too."
"I don't know Troy?" he took a deep breath.
"Since Gabriella is gone we're gonna need another girl."
"Troy." they were at her house and her eyes immediatly went to her mother's body.
"Can I say something to her alone?"
Yeah I'll call and go over here. Call me if you want me." he moved away so she could be alone.
"Thank god he came when he did." she thought. (Okay these two things are going on at the same time.
Cameron with her mom...
She knelt by her mother. She grabbed her hand and remembered the last time she would ever talk to her.
FLASHBACK
"Cammie. I;m gonna go upstairs for a minute."
"Mom in case you haven't noticed there's a tornado outside!" she said sarcastically.
"Really? I didn't know that?" she said in the same tone.
"I'll be up there for 5 minutes tops. I just wanna see it."
"The tornado?" Cameron exclaimed.
"Yeah. Like I said 5 minutes and I'll be right back. I promise."
"Mom, your crazy! Don't go up there please!" she tried to persuade her mother to stay down with her.
"You always were scared of storms." she laughed as she went up the stairs.
"Didn't get my adventurous spirit. That's for sure." she was upstairs now. Cameron listened for her Mother and then she heard a scream. Cameron started to panic. She looked out the window to see her mother laying on the ground with a piece of wood through her stomach.
END OF FLASHBACK
"I always hated your curiousity."she muttered.
"Why didn't you listen to me? You were so sure that nothing would happen but I was right this time!" she cried. She suddenly felt a hatred for her mother. For leaving her alone. She felt like she lost her best friend. Then she just screamed.
Troy with his cellphone.
He dialed his Mother's cell phone number.
"Hey Troy." his mother said. (Karen) thinking about Gabriella and what happened mad him choke up.
"Troy?"
"Hi. Something terrible happened." Troy finally said.
"What is it?" she obviously didn't think it was that bad by the tone of her voice he thought.
"A tornado came through." he was trying hard to stay calm.
"Is everything okay?"
"If you would shut up then you would know. EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY!" he yelled.
"Continue then."she said calmly.
"GABRIELLA IS DEAD. I ACCIDENTLY MADE SHARPAY MAD. CAMERON'S MOM IS DEAD! THAT'S PRETTY FAR FROM OKAY, DON'T YOU THINK?" Troy was breathing fast and hard.
"What! Gabriella is dead? What happened?" she said concerned now.
"Mom I've already told this story twice. I don't want to say it again."
"But...okay. You'll tell me when it gets easier for you right?"
"Yeah. Mom I'll try."
"That's all I ask. Now you said that cameron's mom is dead?" she asked, confused.
"A girl from school. Her mom died in the tornado. Her house is destroyed and I was wondering if she could stay with us?"
"Troy? You said that her mom died? What about her dad?" she asked slightl concerned about why he was asking he was asking this when Gabi just died.
"He's always on business trips. She hardly knows him! Besides then she'd have to move school to school. That's what Gabi did with her mom but at least her mom was decent. Please let her stay."
"Troy? I don't know? How well do you know her?"
"I've talked to her before. Give her a chance." she gave in.
"Okay Troy. We're coming home right away. You'll be okay. Love you."
"Love you too. Bye." he hung up the phone. And then came a scream.