Hey everyone, first and foremost, thanks again for the reviews. Secondly, I wanted to clear up something about Vanessa's friends, Zac does NOT resemble Troy, Ashley does NOT resemble Sharpay, and so on. Just wanted to clear that up, sorry if there was any confusion, I just thought it would be fun to use the names. So yeah, here's chapter 8.

I'm Coming Home

Albuquerque

Vanessa woke up in her sister's room, her twin sister who she was pretending to be. She walked downstairs and into the kitchen and found a note on the table. She picked it up and read it:

Dear Vanessa,

I'm so sorry but,

I had to leave early this morning.

I'm away on business, but I'll be back tomorrow.

If you need anything,

I already told Mrs. McKessie

so you can stay there or at home if you want.

Love,

Mom.

With that, Vanessa grabbed a quick bite to eat and ran back upstairs. As soon as she stepped into her room, the phone rang. She quickly reached over and picked it up.

"Hello?" Vanessa asked.

"Hey girl," Taylor said on the other line, "My mom just told me that your mom left."

"Yeah, she told me that I was gonna stay with you?" Vanessa questioned.

"Yeah, but I have an idea, why don't we call up Sharpay and Kelsi to come and sleep over to?" Taylor asked excitedly.

"Hey, that sounds great, but is it okay if I come over pretty soon, itss gonna be pretty boring over here." Vanessa asked curiously.

"Yeah, that will be fine, I'll let the others know, maybe they can be over soon too."

With that, the girls hung up and got ready. Vanessa arrived at Taylor's house, and within a few minutes, Sharpay and Kelsi got there too.

Troy was sitting at home bored and decided that he would call Gabriella's house, no answer. He called Chad next.

"Hello?" Chad asked.

"Hey man, what you doin?" Troy said from the other line.

"Nothin much, you?" Chad responded.

"Same, that's why I called you." Troy said as he let out a laugh.

"Ha Ha, you wanna play ball?" Chad asked.

"Sure." Troy hung up with his best friend and went down to his backyard. Chad went straight into Troy's backyard, and they started to play a little one on one. After playing for about an hour, the two stopped and sat down.

"Man, I thought I had you there too." Chad said as he sat down and grabbed a bottle of water.

"Well, you thought wrong." Troy said letting out an exhausted laugh.

"Yeah, way to be supportive." Chad responded.

"Well, you can't beat me, but Gabriella sure can." Troy said.

"What?" Chad asked.

"Yeah, you know how I always said Gabriella is prefect, well she plays basketball too." Troy said.

"Really? Well, that doesn't sound like Gabi." Chad said.

"What do you mean?" Asked Troy.

"Well, don't you think that you would have known about this, that she might have mentioned something about basketball to you sometime during the course of your relationship?" Chad stated.

"Well, I guess," Troy said with a confused look, "but what are you saying, that she has some evil clone walking around?"

"No. I just thought it was weird," Chad said, "whatever, I'm out, I'll talk to you later."

Chad left, and Troy had nothing to do, yet again. He decided that he would try to call Gabriella again, and again, there was no answer. "Why did we have to do this whole cell phone thing?" Troy thought to himself. Troy decided that he would give Taylor a call, maybe she knew what was going on.

"Hello?" Screamed Taylor from the other line.

"Uhh, hi Taylor, is something going on over there?" Troy could hear a lot of screaming and giggling in the background.

"Oh, well I the girls are over here, did you wanna talk to Gabi?" She responded.

"Yeah, thanks." Troy said.

"GABI! YOUR BOYFRIEND WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!" Taylor screamed so loud that Troy had to pull the phone away from his ear.

"Hello." said a laughing Gabriella (Vanessa)

"Hey, what are you guys up to?" Troy asked.

"Oh, well, my mom is out of town and won't be back tomorrow, so I was gonna spend the night here at Taylor's." She said.

"Your mom is out of town?" Troy said, Vanessa knew what he was thinking.

"Yes, and she said I could stay here, or I could stay at home, if I wanted." She let out a little laugh. "Maybe, I'll head home soon?"

"Hmmm, how about I swing by and pick you up soon." Troy said happily.

"Sounds good, bye, love you." Vanessa said.

"Love you to." Troy hung up.

Vanessa was so excited, she had the house all to herself, and her boyfriend was coming over, wait, he wasn't really her boyfriend, and he doesn't even know her real name. Vanessa kept on thinking of what would happen. She decided that she would try and tell him everything, again. She really didn't want to be mean to her sister, but she just couldn't help it. Yeah, she was going to explain everything to Troy, it was the perfect time.

Troy got ready, and walked out the door, his parents were out visiting relatives and they were gone the whole night too. As he walked out, he heard his house phone ring, he ignored it and just went to his car to get Gabi.

San Diego

"Troy, why aren't you answering." said the real Gabriella to the answering machine as a tear began rolling down her cheek. "I need you now, please, pick up the phone, I need to tell talk to you, something happened. I love you." Then she hung up the phone.

Gabriella got into her dad's car, and he took her to the airport.

"I love you Gabi." Greg said, "I'm sorry about what happened."

"Me to, I'm sorry I'm leaving so early, but…" Gabriella was cut off by her dad.

"I know, it's alright." her dad said as he gave her a comforting smile.

"Thanks," Gabriella said as she gave her dad a hug, "Dad?"

"Yeah Gabi?" asked Greg.

"I love you." Gabriella said as she gave her dad a teary smile.

"I love you too, you better go, you might miss your flight, and don't worry, I called your uncle in Albuquerque, he'll be there to pick you up and take you home." Her dad said as he gave her one more hug and a kiss.

They waved goodbye, and Gabriella got on a plane back to Albuquerque, to her friends, her mom, Vanessa, and Troy.

Back in Albuquerque

"What's going on Gabi?" Sharpay asked.

"Oh, well, actually, I won't be spending the night, actually, I'm leaving pretty soon." Vanessa said.

"WHAT! WHY?" the other three girls said in unison.

"Well, my mom is out of town, and so are Troy's…" she was cut off by Taylor.

"Ohhh, say no more, just let us know what happens later." she said with a smile.

"It's not like that, I need to tell him something important." Vanessa said

"Sure, right Gabi." Kelsi added in.

The four girls laughed about what they thought was going on, when in reality they had no idea. Vanessa was pretty set on telling Troy everything. After a few minutes, the doorbell rang, and it was Troy. Troy and Vanessa headed back to her empty house and walked in around 10 at night.

Hmmm, wonder what happened to Gabi? Let me know what you thought of this chapter, cause quite honestly, I think it could have been a lot better, I've been struggling with ideas for these last chapters, yes, the story is coming to an end, possibly 2 or 3 more chapters? It might be more or it might be less, but I still don't really know where the story is going from here, I know what I want to do as far as the main plot goes, but I still gotta work on the details. Read and Review.