Chapter 11:

Accidents

"So I heard what happened with you and Reyna," Reva announced to Gabriella, coming up to her. "I have a list of pranks Taylor Lautner and Rob wrote down. Which one do you think I should use on her?"

Gabriella turned the corner and walked up to her locker. "We're not stooping to her level, Rev. Dad and mom wouldn't want us to do it."

"Can I just pull one? Just one!"

"No."

"That's okay if you don't," Troy said, coming up with the whole group except Ryan and Kelsi. "Reyna had her own prank up her sleeve."

"She wants to either dump some stuff on you or us," Selena clarified. "Most likely you."

Gabriella rolled her eyes and closed her locker. "Okay, so now I'm warned."

"And so, why don't we just prank her with her own prank," Troy suggested. Gabriella frowned. "Fine, but count me out."

Reva grinned. "Maybe we should add some stuff to it," she suggested.

"Or maybe not," Chad said. "The bitch is making her way over here."

"Hi, Gabriella," Reyna said cheerily. She waved at everyone else. "How nice to see all of you! I saved you all seats at lunch."

"Really?" Selena said, smirking. Reyna nodded. "Yeah. Wanna join?"

"Sure," Troy said, grabbing Gabriella's forearm and pulling her away with Reyna. Gabriella took notice that everyone else fled the scene.

"Why don't you step through," Reyna said, gesturing through the big red doors. Gabriella stepped through the door and looked expectantly at Reyna. Reyna frowned and looked up at the door. "Uh, wait. Move." Gabriella moved and looked at Troy with an eyebrow raised. Reyna stomped her foot on the floor a few times before the bucket wobbled. She pushed Gabriella back in the spot. "Okay, uh, go forward." Gabriella moved forward. The bucket stopped moving. Reyna frowned and moved Gabriella back to Troy. Gabriella giggled up at him.

"What the hell is—" Reyna screamed as the bucket toppled over onto her. A red substance came from the bucket. It smelled of mildew from the eighteen hundreds. Gabriella and Troy had to look hard enough to see that it was blood. Reyna let out an ear-shattering scream. "Look, it's Carrie!" a boy from the cafeteria shouted loudly. "Carrie!" another shouted. People started chanting "Carrie!" all around and Reyna's clothes and skin soaked with her tears and the blood from the bucket.

Gabriella bit her lip, lost in though, before stepping up. "Okay, enough!" Everyone stopped their ranting. "I don't care how bad Reyna is, that's still not nice," Gabriella said. She turned to Reyna and saw the shocked look on her face. "You wanted that to fall on me, didn't you?"

Reyna looked regretful. "Yeah…"

"And Karma hit you back, didn't it?"

Reyna shook her head before walking slowly towards the bathroom. Principal Matsui was jogging down the hall. "What happened?"

"Reyna got hit with her own prank," Oliver Sketch said, snapping pictures of "Carrie". Mr. Matsui took the camera away from him. "What do you mean?"

"She tried to get all of the blood on Gabriella," a boy said.

"Can I go see her?" Gabriella questioned. She didn't wait for an answer though. She walked quickly to the girls' bathroom and locked the door behind her. The soft cries of Reyna ran through her ears and her bloody footprints stained the floor. "Reyna?"

"Here to rub it in?" she sniffled.

Gabriella moved over to her form next to a stall. She crouched down next to her. "No, of course not. I'm not like you. I don't enjoy other people's pain and humiliation."

Reyna looked at her. "I don't get it. I've been a major bitch to you and this is how you treat me? If I were you, I'd be laughing with everyone else."

Gabriella sat down next to her. "I told you, I'm not like you." That was the last thing Gabriella said to her. For a long amount of time, they were quiet except for the blood dripping off of Reyna's clothing. Reyna finally broke the silence after fifteen minutes. "The truth is, I'm so jealous of you," she admitted. "That's why I was such a bitch to you, too. And times like these and people like you that makes me want to go back in time and change who I've become."

"Why'd you become this way?" Gabriella asked softly.

Reyna shrugged and stood. "I think that's really not your business. Look, thanks for coming to check on me, but I'm going home so I can wash this disgusting stuff out of my hair." Gabriella grabbed onto Reyna's wrist as she tried to walk away. Reyna looked down at her painfully. "Just let me go," she whispered.

"Tell me," Gabriella pleaded. "I want to know. Why are you like this?"

Reyna looked like she was about to say something. But instead she pulled her hand away from Gabriella and dashed from the bathroom. Gabriella sighed before getting up slowly and washing her hands off. She then proceeded out of the bathroom.

"What'd you say to her?" Maxine asked.

"Nothing," Gabriella said firmly. "Let's just go to lunch."

Lunch was talkative. Gabriella tried to push the thought of Reyna's story to the back of her head, but it was impossible. What had happened with Reyna that was so bad to talk about? She was yanked out of her thoughts as she heard a scream. Sharpay was fanning herself as water soaked her clothes. "Chad, god, I'm soaking wet."

Chad grinned. "That's what she said."

Sharpay looked at him in disbelief. She flung some of her mashed potatoes at him. When it landed in his hair, he seriously screamed like a girl. "You got my hair! It's on fire!"

"Chad, it's not on fire," Troy said, trying to calm him down. But Chad pushed him away and ran out of the room.

"I thought I was dramatic," Sharpay said as she watched him disappear.

G*L*A*M*O*R*O*U*S

"Home, I love you home," Reva cooed, hugging the house awkwardly. Selena bumped into her and yelped. 'Ouch, my lip!"

Gabriella laughed. "It's always your lip, Sel. That's like the fourth time it got busted in less than a month." Gabriella squealed as she felt Troy grab her waist from behind and lifted her up.

"Hey! Put my woman down!"

Troy put Gabriella down and they turned to Sammy who was marching out of the house. "What's this? I turn around for a second and what do I see? Yoda, sick him!" Sammy pulled Yoda from his pocket and threw him on Troy. Troy caught Yoda. "I love tarantulas."

"You'll poison him!" Sammy snatched Yoda away and placed him gently in his pocket. "Now, stay away from my girl and go home."

"Sammy…" Gabriella sighed and ran a hand through her hair. Her teenager hormones wanted to grab Troy by the collar of his shirt and kiss him hard but that was obviously impossible with Sammy here. "This won't work. This isn't a game, this is life."

Sammy looked confused so Gabriella said it better. "Sammy, you're six, I'm seventeen. I'm a whole decade and a year older than you."

"Age doesn't matter," Sammy said. "My mom is only thirty-two and my dad is forty."

"But their closer in age at least," Gabriella said. "Plus, Troy and I are in love. This can't happen, Sam."

Sammy's bottom lip quivered as the information seared through him. "You're mean," he said to Gabriella then turned around and ran into the house. Gabriella sighed and ran after him. He closed his bedroom door in her face and Gabriella jumped back shocked. "Sammy, don't be like this."

"Leave me alone!" He threw something at the door and Gabriella winced. She had never witnessed a little kid tantrum and she had a feeling that one was coming her way. "Sammy, you have to understand. Before you even told me we were getting married, I was already with Troy. And Troy is way older than you. It adds up."

"But what happens when I become your age?"

"Then I'll be dating illegally because you'd be a minor and I'd be an adult."

Sammy poked his head reluctantly out the door. "But you're beautiful and I want to marry you."

Gabriella smiled softly and crouched down to Sammy's size. "I bet there's a girl in your class that likes you as much as you like me. And it'll be better for you because you two can grow together."

Sammy blushed. "Cassandra likes me. She told me and I gave her my ring pop. Which I don't do a lot because I like rung pops."

Gabriella gasped and started tickling Sammy's stomach. He started giggling. "You've been cheating on me, Sammy? Giving jewelry to other woman? I am shocked."

"Stop, stop! I'm sorry, Gabi, but we have a huge age difference. Maybe as time goes by we can work something out." Sammy tried to hide a grin. Gabriella grinned. 'So, you aren't mad a me?"

"How could I ever be mad at you?" Sammy said. "I love you…like a sister, of course. Hey, but before you go to Troy, can I have a kiss?"

Gabriella smiled and kissed Sammy's cheek. His cheeks lit up a bright red color. "Thanks."

Gabriella giggled and stood up straight. "No problem. Now, let's go. I want to talk about this Cassandra character."

Sammy shrugged. "She's pretty, but likes to punch me here." Sammy grabbed his…gentiles and grinned up and Gabriella. Gabriella's eyes went wide. "It hurts, but she says that I can kiss her when she does it."

"Okay, let's go." Gabriella pulled him down the steps and went out back where everyone was. Gabriella trotted over to Troy who was sat by the edge of the pool. She wrapped her arms around him from behind and rubbed his chest. "I fixed everything," she told him. Troy grinned and turned around in her arms. Gabriella grinned up at him before pressing her lips hard to his. Troy gripped her hair and moved her into his lap, but it was a bad move. Gabriella broke from the kiss and squealed as they fell into the pool.

Everyone laughed as they resurfaced. Troy laughed and dived under the water. He grabbed Gabriella's leg and pulled her down. Gabriella squealed and held onto the side of the pool. Troy successfully pulled her down though.

"They are so cute," Kelsi said, giggling. Reva turned to her. "I really love your hair. It's so soft and curly and copper colored." Kelsi smiled.

Gabriella hopped out of the pool and hid behind Chad. "Chad, he's going to kill me and I really don't appreciate it," Gabriella complained. Chad laughed. "Well, I don't know anyone who would appreciate being killed anyway."

Gabriella squealed again as Troy grabbed her and picked her up, He threw her over his shoulder and started for the house. "I'm going to put Gabriella in the closet. Be right back."

Gabriella tried to get out of his grip, but he held her to his chest. Gabriella giggled and bit the shell of his ear. Troy looked at her. "Baby, that was hot, not painful." Gabriella started placing feathery kisses on his neck. Troy sighed as he carried her to her bedroom and closed the door behind them. He put her on the bed and Gabriella pulled him down to her.

"No sex," Gabriella giggled before leaning up and kissing him. Her hands slowly started unbuttoning his shirt and then pushed it off. She pulled back and took a moment to admire his naked chest. "Dammit, Troy," she whispered. "How do you stay in shape?" Troy chuckled before pulling her lips back to his.

He bit her bottom lip and pulled at it softly before sucking it into his mouth. A soft moan vibrated from Gabriella's chest. Her hand fisted in his hair while Troy went to work on unbuttoning her blouse.

Gabriella giggled as his fingers moved sensually across her stomach. "I forgot you were ticklish there," Troy murmured against her lips. Gabriella giggled again and shrugged her shirt off her shoulders.

After ten more minutes or so of making out, Troy stopped them. "I am seriously having a hard on from this," he said and Gabriella's eyes darted to his pants. She giggled at his palpable erection sticking out from his jeans. "Well, the shower is that way, blue balls," Gabriella giggled. She sat up and pulled her shirt on. Troy watched her with disbelief. "Girlfriend, my dick is a mountain and you won't help me? How vindictive."

Gabriella stuck her tongue out at him. "Where'd you get your vocabulary from, lover boy?"

Troy pressed an attentive kiss to her lips, but when he pulled away, he left his lips over hers. "I'm friends with Taylor. I'm surprised I don't know everything and anything."

Gabriella bit her lip at his closeness. "Yeah, I guess so. You better get rid of your excited friend. Don't want the girls to talk." Gabriella slipped from under him and quickly ran from the room giggling.

"Gabriella, I will so get you!"

"Be my guest," Gabriella yelled back as she ran to the steps. She gasped as she tripped over her foot and tumbled down the steps. Her head hit the radiator at the end of the steps and she felt horrendous pain soar through her head. She screamed and clutched her head with her hands. Blood was slowly trickling from the top of her head and over he fingers. .

"Gabriella!" she heard Troy yell. He came running down the steps and to her. "Oh, fuck, Gabriella. Your head is leaking blood. Hold up." Troy ripped his shirt off and pressed it to her pained-filled head.

"Troy, it hurts," Gabriella cried.

"Just stay up," Troy begged her. "Don't close your eyes."

"What happened?" Rosie gasped. She was by Gabriella's side in a second.

"She fell down the steps," Troy said, still pressing his shirt on her wound. Gabriella cried out in pain as he hit a nerve. "Sorry."

"Call the ambulance, Troy. I got it here," Rosie said. Troy gently handed Gabriella's head to Rosie while he fished for his phone. Rosie stroked Gabriella's hair. "How'd you fall?"

"I tripped over my foot," Gabriella said. "My head hurts."

"What the hell happened?" Selena gasped as she came into the room with everyone.

"She fell down the steps. Sel, can you go get her some ice, please?"

"I've never seen so much blood," Reva said, looking down at Gabriella. "Are you okay, Gabriella?"

"My fucking head hurts," she spat. Reva backed away. "Okay, jeez. Sorry."

"Their on their way," Troy announced, taking his current spot. "Can you stand?"

Gabriella shook her head jadedly. A wave of pain mixed with wooziness took over her head. Her eyes began to wilt. "Keep her eyes open, you might have a concussion."

"My rib hurts, too," Gabriella announced faintly. She felt herself being lifted up and taken outside. After that, her world became completely black and nothing.