As soon as she came downstairs her mother rushed to her side.
"I'm sorry. He'll forgive you! I'm sure he's just hurt right now. I'm so glad your okay!" She hugged Sharpay but she hardly noticed. (Or listened.) She felt numb to everything. She remembered the look in Troy's eyes.
"Sharpay!" She simply looked up. Her mother looked like she wanted to help but couldn't find the words that would work.
"It's okay." She said, her voice sounded strange to her. She could hear the pain and guilt in her voice. Her father came over and hugged her.
"Do you want something to eat?" Her father was never good with emotional things. She shook her head to his question.
"I'm not hungry." She said in the same tone as before. She saw her mom look at dad.
"I'm okay mom. Your right, Troy's just hurt right now. I'll be back later."
"Are you sure?" Her father asked. she nodded in response.
"Where are you going?" Her mother yelled, but she didn't answer. Instead she started walking away. She heard the door slam.
"Sharpay!" She heard Ryan yell, but she ignored him too and kept walking.
"Sharpay!" He whirled her around so he could she her face. She just stared at him.
"What did you do?"
He ran over to Cameron. He pulled her up and held her tight.
"LET ME GO! I HATE YOU! I HATE EVERYBODY! I HATE YOU MOM! YOU BITCH, YOU LEFT ME ALONE!" She started hitting him. "She left me Troy. She left me." She was crying and hitting but slowly calming down. He still had to hold on to her tight.
"She left me. I hate her!" She stopped hitting him.
"She doesn't hate you and I know you don't hate her." He said softly. He could feel her breath. Her face was red and he could tell that she was trying to calm down.
"I'm sorry. Do you hate me now." She said ashamed of what happened.
"No." On instinct he bent down and kissed her. It was about a minute long before she pulled away. She just looked at him. He could tell she wanted to do this but was uncertain about whether they should. He was hurt and at the moment he didn't care what he did. He bent down and kissed her again. They stood there just kissing each other when Troy grabbed her hand and led her to his house.
"She isn't resisting." He thought. They got to his room when she asked him,"What about Gabriella?"
"She wants to do this so why does she care about Gabriella?"he thought.
"Who cares? She's not here anymore." He replied. He took his shirt off and started kissing her. At first she went along with it thinking he's right she's not here anymore. But she remembered how upset he was over this whole thing.
"Troy. I can't do this. I really like you but I don't want to be your rebound girl." She left the room and he followed her.
"Gabi-Cameron!" she turned back.
"See Troy. You still love her. I'm gonna go and see if I can find anything at my house. I'll be back later. If you want to talk, I'm here." He nodded.
"And I thought she wouldn't care. She's right. I'll apologize to her when she gets back." he thought. Then he laid on his bed and fell asleep, thinking about his real love.
"I didn't do anything!" She replied instantly.
"Don't lie to me." He thought.
"Sharpay I know you. I can tell when your holding things back...or lying." he added. He didn't know what she did but whatever it was she was scared.
"I didn't do anything!"she insisted. She started walking away but Ryan grabbed her shoulder.
"Don't lie to me."
"I'm not!" she grabbed his hand and pushed it away. "I didn't do anything!" She repeated. Her eyes never broke away from his. But he knew that she did that to throw people off. That reverse Psychology stuff.
"That isn't gonna work with me, Sharpay. I know you too well."
"Look Ryan just trust me." she was basically pleading with him to leave her alone.
"How can I do that when I know your lying?" he asked.
"Ryan? You wouldn't understand. I had to do what I did." She was crying and she looked really guilty.
"What did you have to do?" she didn't seem to be paying attention. She just kept talking like he never said anything.
"If Troy would've seem that I don't think he could handle it, seeing her like that. I mean I could hardly stand it." she instantly covered her mouth.
"You found Gabriella's body? Sharpay! What did you do with it?"
"I had it burned." She mumbled. When she looked up she had tears in her eyes.
"Please don't tell him. He would hate me!" Lucas hugged his sister.
"I won't say anything. I promise!" he looked at Sharpay and behind her stood a girl with her mouth wide open.
"Shit!" he thought.
"Chad! What are we gonna do?" Taylor cried. Chad was looking for a way out.
"Calm down Taylor."he said.
"We're stuck in your living room, Chad! How can I calm down?"
"There's a way out we just have to find it." he replied. "Help me look instead of standing there being useless.
"Your right. I'll help." they looked for about an hour. They looked everywhere for a hole or something that they could break more and get out.
"I know there's a way out but I don't know where it is!"
"I know. We might have to make our way out. Until then we can live here for a while. We have food, water, and entertainment." Chad said.
"Bathroom?" Chad looked around.
"Here you go." he said handing her a bucket. She raised her eyebrow.
"A bucket?"
"Don't worry I won't to look." he said half joking, half serious. Taylor looked around.
"So what do you have in mind as for getting out of here?"
"Well I was thinking that this wall over here leads to the hallway with the front door in it."
"We'd have to break the wall."
"Yep. This is a living room I'm sure something is in here that we can use to break it."
"I'm tired. I wish I knew what time it is." Taylor said. They looked at the couch.
"Who gets it?"Taylor asked.
"Both of us.
"How does-" she stopped mid sentence as she saw what Chad was doing. He'd walked over to the couch and pulled out a bed.
"It's a pullout." He smiled at her, his eyes laughing. Taylor blushed thinking about being in the same bed as Chad.
"Well just so you know your gonna be wearing your boxers and pants. No nudeness." She said.
"God it would be hard to resist him otherwise." she thought.
"Okay?" Chad said laughing at her red face.
"Turn around I've gotta use the bucket." so Chad turned around. He was getting tired too. Who knew how long it had been. He took off his shirt and thought about what to use for sheets and blankets.
"Done."
"Wow! He looks hot!" she thought.
"There's some blankets on the couch we can use. He put the sheets on while she took off her bra and shorts. They crawled under the blanket and closed their eyes but did not go to sleep. Both were trying hard not to think about what they could be doing right now. They knew that this wasn't the time. He rolled over and at the exactly the same time so did Taylor. They knocked heads and burst out laughing. They kissed and fell asleep with Chad's arm around Taylor.
She was running. She couldn't believe it. Then a hand came over her mouth.
"Don't scream."said Ryan Evans. She was breathing deep.
"How much of that did you hear?" he asked just like they'd been talking before. He uncovered her mouth.
"Enough to know that she's right. Troy will be devastated." she said angrily.
"And you were gonna keep it a secret." she glared at him.
"Like you said this would devastate him. Do you think I wanted to see him in more pain?"
"You haven't seen him and he deserves to know. He wants to know what happened to her.
'How would you know that?"
"Cause I've talked to him.
"Look my sister did what she thought would be right. I don't want to see her in pain either and she was just trying to save him from feeling what she did when she saw her." he said emotionally.
"She loved him and he loves her and he wants to know!" she said remembering the look on his face when he found the piece of her shirt and how he'd cried.
"You should've seen the look on his face and what this almost drove him to do!" she yelled thinking about the kissing and him to taking off his shirt.
"And you wanna cause him more pain.?" he said trying to get at her soft side. She obviously liked him.
"And to think your supposed to be his friend." she ran off.
"I'm so sorry Troy. I wish I didn't know."