Chad wrapped an arm around Taylor and pulled her tight against his side. He didn't know what else to do. What could he do?

"That! Is what I'm talking about!" Troy barked at the principle as he pointed towards Taylor's locker as the two came down the hallway. Principal Matsui didn't seem to know what to do either.

"Don't worry Mr. Bolton we'll find whoever did this and punish him or her but in the mean time I'll get the janitor to clean this up" he excused himself and headed back towards his office, Troy looked after him his eyes almost popping out. That was it! He'll try and find the one responsible? They all already knew who was responsible.

As the students around them all left to their next classes the three teenagers stood rooted in place waiting for the janitor to show up and start to clean. He did fifteen minutes later with a bucket full of soapy water and a sponge. That was it, he put the bucket down and told them he had a lot of other things to do so if they wanted to get rid of the writing on the locker they had to do it themselves. Troy swore loudly over the janitor and Drew as he picked up the sponge and started scrubbing the locker so hard his knuckles were turning white.

"Stupid fucking ass people, why are we stuck here cleaning up Drew's mess, why isn't he or the janitor who gets paid to do this shit ass job not here cleaning this up?!" Troy growled as he continued to clean the locker. Taylor cautiously walked up behind him and tried to take the sponge away from him to clean it herself "No you don't!" he pushed her away and continued to rub against her locker "If you cleaned this it would be like- I don't know what it would be like but your not cleaning this up. I swear next time I see Drew I'm gonna kill him!"

"Troy, put the sponge down" Taylor said softly trying to lower his arm and take his hand in hers.

"No I won't until all of this is gone"

"Troy-"

"He fucking insulted you Tay, he rapes you and then writes slut on your locker. I won't allow that"

"Troy" she wraps her arms around his waist and holds him tight to her so he can't push her away like before "He has already done the worst he can do to me, this locker is nothing"

"Maybe not to you but to me it is. I love you!"

"I love you too that's why you can't let this get to you. This is nothing, it's fixable and by the looks of it you've fixed it" she said with a soft smile as she looked over at her locker where most of the writing was gone but the obscene picture was still there. Chad picked up the sponge, that Troy dropped when he wrapped his arms around Taylor's shoulders squeezing her tight, and started cleaning the rest of the locker up as the other two held each other tight not daring to let the other go.

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"Troy, Taylor over here!" Chad waved them down to the jock tables that were already full. The two sat down next to Chad that had Gabriella in his lap munching away on a brownie.

"These weren't as good as the last one's" she complained too Chad who looked kind of embarrassed.

"Honey, Zeke made those"

"Oh, I'm sorry"

"It's okay I just have to win you over" Zeke said with a light shrug of his shoulders before returning his attention to Martha that was sitting next to him.

"Yeah he'll win you over to the dark side soon enough" Chad said letting out a little laugh at his own joke.

"Oh I get it because the brownie is dark" Gabriella said with a big smile plastered on her face earning herself a kiss from Chad who was happy someone got his joke.

"You two were made for each other in brownie heaven" Jason said looking at the two over Kelsi's shoulder.

"Brownie heaven?" Ryan asked from behind Troy and Taylor.

"Ryan!" Taylor cried as she quickly stood up and threw her arms around the none suspecting boy almost making him fall over "I missed you"

"I was only gone for a week" he said wrapping his arms around her and rubbing her back.

"I know but I was worried about you, where were you?" she asked as they broke apart and she sat down in Troy's lap making room for Ryan to sit between Troy and Chad.

"Sharpay thought it would be a good idea to get away for a few days so she could tan" everyone at the table rolled their eyes "What? Even though she didn't wanna go away because of what happened to me doesn't mean she was not nice when we were gone"

"What she only made you get her a new drink every hour?" Mark one of Troy's team mates asked with a laugh.

"Yes" Ryan answered shortly making everyone at the table burst out in laughter.

"Ryan my man, you need to learn how to say no to your sister" Chad said as he spotted Sharpay strutting in to the cafeteria.

"I can say no to her!" Ryan protested.

"Really then here's your chance to prove yourself" he said with a small smirk as Ryan turned around to come face to face with Sharpay.

"Ryan, come on let's go"

"No I think I'm gonna stay here"

"Ryan!" she yelled attracting everyone's attention in the cafeteria.

"Sharpay, I'm gonna sit here and you can sit where ever you want, okay"

"Just wait until we get home" she said with an evil glint in her eyes before walking up the stairs to the drama kids table.

"I'm a dead man"

"Hey at least you die a free man" Troy said taking a bite from the sandwich Taylor was offering him.

"Like that helps!"