That day was our graduation day, I was excited but a bit scared of the future and going our separate ways, so I was sitting next to troy and chad, and monica was backstage making sure everything was fine, sharpay was sitting 2 rows behind us putting a lot of make up trying to cover the bruise, then monica came running and pulled me from my hands and whispered come with me I need you! so I went with her, and she said gabriella.. I need to ask you a HUGE favour! I said okay.. sure! she said remember taylor? The girl who lost her voice and can t say the speech? I nodded so she said well I need you to say the speech I said oh no! I can t monica! I have got nothing prepared and I can t! I am sorry! she gave me the puppy dog face and said please gabby! I really need it! so I put my head in my hand thinking, and troy saw me, so he came and said what s wrong? monica explained, and he looked at me and said gabriella.. I know you can do it! I said no.. troy I can t! he said you are the best writer I know, and I always feel your words in my heart, and so will they! Come on gabby! I said okay.. I ll do it monica said YES! and hugged me then troy gave me a kiss on the cheek and left to sit next to chad again. When monica made sure I was going on stage she went to take her seat next to chad who held her hand.

I said hello everyone.. I am gabriella Montez.. I am here as a substitute for taylor who is ill so she can t say that speech today.. so.. I have been in this school for 4 years.. and this school is a place I ll never forget.. you see.. in this school I met my best friend who is a sweet supportive girl, she is practically everything you would wish for, and also here I met a person who changed my whole life, who gave me hope to cling to life, who helped me through the darkest time of my life also here I learned that dreams have to be chased to come true, and you should always dream big, and know that no matter how dark your night is, the dawn will come again.. in this place you will feel like you can be anybody you want to be, but you should be yourself anyway! Because that s the only one you were meant to be.. so I ll leave this school.. but I ll carry with me all the memories, laughs, smiles and maybe even tears! I ll never forget any face I saw here, because everyone of you influenced me in a way.. thank you all.. I hope all your dreams come true! then I left the stage.

And I walked back to my seat where troy hugged me tight and said I knew your words would touch my soul.. you are so beautiful gabby! I said thanks troy.. I love you! so the teacher said okay, thank you gabriella Montez for those beautiful words, you will be missed. I smiled at her and whispered thank you.. suddenly I found sharpay whispering you think that was beautiful, wait till you see what I have in mind! I didn t answer her, but I found her walking towards the stage, staggering, then she grabbed the microphone from the teacher and said okay okay people! I think we are giving her a bit more than she deserves! I mean that girl went to rehab, she also went to therapy, who knows what else happened when she disappeared! I mean we all know who is the real queen of the school, we all know who will be missed, and that would be me ofcourse! And there is a little surprise I have for you guys.. then she brought some pictures she had with her and showed them and said you see.. the guy who was with her in her darkest times or whatever, he was with me too! See the date of the pictures, all those pictures were taken while they were supposedly together ! I mean come on guys! Who would leave me.. for this? I looked at him with tears in my eyes, then I stood up and ran away, but as I was walking I heard sharpay falling on the stage, I ran towards her anyway because I knew a few things about medicine, so I made them give her some space to breathe, and then I got her some water, and perfume to make her regain consciousness, then after she was waking up bit by bit I said she is drunk.. take her to the nurse s office and she ll be fine then I walked away again.

Troy followed me and said gabriella.. please talk to me! I kept walking, I no longer wanted to be weak infront of someone I didn t trust anymore, but he didn t stop following me, so as I was crossing the road I almost got hit by a car! So he ran to me and said gabby are you okay? I pushed him away and said I am fine! Just go away troy! And don t ever call me gabby again.. you don t get to do that anymore! so I ran to my house, to find monica there, I ran to her arms and hugged her and cried my eyes out. A while later we went up to my room, she sat and I put my head on her lap and she said did you talk to him? I said there is nothing to talk about.. you saw those pictures! Oh my God monica I feel so stupid.. I gave him everything! I would have given him my life monica! How could he do this to me? she said hush don t cry.. everything is going to be alright.. but I think you should atleast give him time to explain! I said no monica! I won t hear anything from him again! Troy and I are over! I ll go to my college far far away from him, and he can have a happy life with sharpay! she said okay.. we will talk later.. I said monica! Today is the day when his father goes to court! she said oh my God really? I said yeah.. I promised him I would be there.. but now I won t! monica looked at me in compassion and I said I can t then she kissed me on the cheek and said get some sleep.. and I ll tell chad to go with troy.. I nodded and then she smiled at me and turned off the lights and left. I cried for an hour or so, until I was too tired and my eyes burned, so I went to sleep.