Returning Nightmare

A/N: I have to admit, the last chapter wasn't too great, but I hope this one is better! By the way, I'm extremely sorry for the lack of updates. School was hectic for me and I had finally so I barely had time to write. However, I'm on Spring Break now so hopefully, I can make up for all the chapters I have missed (if you know what I mean!)

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter 4

Troy stood outside in the front entrance of East High anxiously waiting for Gabriella. He was really nervous about what Gabriella wanted to tell him. He knew whatever it was, he would be there to support her. He looked at his watch noticing Gabriella was 15 minutes late, and he began to worry. He kept taking glances at the door whenever he heard it open to see if his girlfriend was the one leaving the school.

Meanwhile, Gabriella was running down the hallway trying to get to Troy so she could talk to him. She flipped open her cell phone and freaked out when she found out she was extremely late. She continued running while texting Troy to tell him not to worry when she bumped into someone before she could even send the message. The person, who she bumped into, harshly grabbed her arms and she screamed in pain. She couldn't see the person's face until she looked up. She gasped and was speechless.

"So we meet again Gabriella." Jake smirked still clutching her arms.

"Let me go!" Gabriella shouted.

"Uh huh. Not until I'm done with my business that I didn't get to finish before." Jake said leaning into her neck. Tears started to form in Gabriella's eyes remembering what happened before. She wasn't going to take it so she knew she had to do something. Before Jake could get to business she kneed hard him where it hurt the most and punched Jake in the face. Jake screamed out in pain and fell to the ground. Here was Gabriella's chance to get away and she took it. She ran down the hallway wiping away the tears.

"You bitch! You better watch your back from now on!" Jake screamed. Gabriella shivered. Her life is in danger.

'I need to tell Troy! He needs to know!' Gabriella thought. She reached the front doors and opened it running into the Troy's arms.

"Gabi! What's wrong? What happened?" Troy said holding on to his shaking girlfriend trying to calm her down.

"We need to get out of here! Now!" Gabriella said panicking. Troy nodded and grabbed her hand and they ran to his car. They hopped in and Gabriella started to calm down and breathe normally when they started driving. Troy reached over to hold Gabriella's hand she gave him a small smile but inside she was scared for her life. She had no idea what Jake was going to do now. All she knew was that she needed to let someone she trusted know about what was happening because she couldn't handle it on her own. Gabriella looked in the mirror and frowned looking at her red puffy eyes. Jake was taking control over her life and it needed to stop.

Upon arriving at Gabriella's house, the couple unbuckled themselves and got out of the car. As they approached the house, Gabriella opened the door to notice that her mom wasn't home. They dropped their things on the couch and sat down. Troy wrapped his arms around Gabriella and she snuggled closer to him.

"What happened, Gabriella?" Troy asked softly rubbing her arms.

Gabriella sighed. "It's now or never." she thought.

"Troy, there's something important that I need to tell you. It's about my past." Gabriella said leaning up to look into Troy's eyes. He nodded to tell her to continue. Gabriella took a deep breath and started to spill everything.

"Two years, before I moved to Albuquerque, I went to South High School. Everything was great. I had tons of friends; I was doing well in my classes. Things couldn't have been any better." Gabriella smiled slightly at the memory. "One day Jake Thompson started at South." Gabriella frowned saying his name. "I was the outgoing type back then and I knew it was hard starting at a new school, especially in the middle of the school year so I decided to befriend him. I never knew I was making the biggest mistake of my life by doing that." Gabriella's voice grew angry and harsh but immediately calmed down when Troy grabbed her hand to give it a tight squeeze to calm her down.

Gabriella looked at Troy thankfully and proceeded on. "We became really great friends; the best of friends actually. We hung out a lot and things were good between us. Then he started to tell me he had feelings for me. I was shocked because I only considered us friends. And that's what I told him. I asked him if he was fine with it and he said 'yeah'. I thought that was the end of that, but I was wrong. Jake started acting really weird around me. He never really wanted to hang out anymore. I asked him if he was angry with me but he said no. I took it okay but I was hurting inside. I was walking home alone from school one day and all of a sudden someone covered my face with a bag or something." Gabriella's eyes grew glossy and tried to blink away the tears that were almost falling. Troy's heart started to break afraid of what Gabriella was going to say next.

"I was dragged into a house and upstairs into a room. Then the bag that was covering my face was ripped off and I saw his face." Gabriella stared at Troy with a look of sadness in her eyes. "Troy. It was Jake." Troy started to get angry and curled up one of his hands into a fist. "He…he said that I never should have rejected him. That…I was going to regret it now." Gabriella couldn't look into Troy's eyes anymore. "He pushed me down onto a bed that I recognized as the one in his bedroom. Jake starting kissing my neck and started to move towards my lips. I tried so hard to stop him but I couldn't!" Gabriella's voice started to break. "Jake…he started taking off his clothes and then my clothes. But then we heard the door downstairs opening and his parents' voices so he stopped. Jake threw my clothes at me and told me to put them back on so I did. He told me to not say anything about what just happened and to keep it between us or else I was going to pay. We went on later that night like nothing happened. The only person that knows what happened that afternoon was my mom and now you." Her voice grew quiet; it almost turned into a whisper. "Jake Thompson, my supposed best friend gained my trust and threw it all away in one afternoon by trying to rape me." Gabriella broke down in tears crying quietly in Troy's chest.

A/N: I know this is really short but I needed somewhere to end in a dramatic and almost cliffhanger way. It was extremely hard to for me to write since it was kind of emotional for Gabriella and I've never written anything like this before so it may be sort of bad. Please review and constructive criticism would be great too since it would help improve my writing. Thanks!