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Chapter two- Stress

Gabi's P.O.V

The bell rang signaling the end of another day at East High. God I wish it had come sooner. I'd had to sit behind Amber all the way through the last lesson, Social Studies, and listen to her talking with Alicia about how Troy 'couldn't keep his eyes off her' or 'was so freakin hot' and was 'getting bored with his ugly, frigid freak' which I think would be me.

I ran out of class as soon as the bell had gone, wanting to get away as fast as I could, ignoring Sharpay calling me, running past the gym and blanking Coach Bolton's worried questions. I bit my lip trying to stop the tears from falling as I carried on down the Hall ignoring some of the strange and concerned looks I was being given. I saw Troy at his locker and slowed down to talk to him, if ever I need anything I needed to be in his arms right now.

But she was already there, hell she always was. I could see Troy trying not to get into conversation with her but at the same time I knew as long as she kept talking he would, he didn't want to be rude and just walk away or tell her where to go. As he reached into his locker Amber saw me, gave me a smug smile and raised her eyebrows at me, knowing I wouldn't do anything. She gently tugged down her top to show more of her chest flicked her blonde hair over her shoulder and then turned to face Troy.

I looked passed the two and saw Chad further down the corridor analyzing the scene. I caught his eye and saw him willing me to do something, anything, just to be confident and stand up for myself for once. Chad was like the brother I never had, always supportive and he always listened to my problems. Sure I knew he discussed them with Taylor, Kelsi and Sharpay and Zeke and Jason. I knew he told them what was going on but I also knew he respected my wishes and didn't tell Troy. He wanted to, but Troy was under pressure to keep his grades up, and with another playoff on Friday he really didn't need me being over sensitive. And right now, I saw that Chad was going to intervene and say something. I shook my head at him- I didn't want to cause a scene I just needed to get out of school, I needed to be free of the stress.

Chad's P.O.V.

I saw her shake her head at me and sighed. It was no good, she wouldn't. I felt Taylor slip her arm into mine and heard her sigh to. I silently cursed Troy for being so damn blind to it all- couldn't he see her breaking under the stress of it all? But then Amber would never do anything obvious in front of Troy, she'd been forcing herself onto him even since 7th grade so it wasn't like Troy would notice it as anything new.

"He is trying not to get involved you know." Taylor said to me as I watched Gabriella watching. Not moving, not speaking just watching, as always. The hurt and pain reflected in her eyes as she watched Troy carry on, oblivious to the situation.

"He is trying to ignore her without being rude and he hasn't seen Gabi."

"I know that Tay, but why won't she back off?"

"Cause she's a scheming witch that will hurt anyone to get something she wants, that's why." Sharpay answered, coming up and leaning on the lockers next to us.

"Well I have had enough, she needs to tell Troy, infact why hasn't she?" Tay asked

"Cause Gabi is being Gabi and putting others before herself as always. She doesn't want to stress Troy out before the playoffs. She knows he has too much pressure in his life from everyone else about it and she doesn't want to add to it. "

"But she's going to have a nervous breakdown!" Shar shouted, drawing attention to the three of us, but more than that, causing Gabi to put her head down and begin running back down the corridor again, tears glistening on her exposed cheek.

Gabi's P.O.V

I heard Sharpay shouting and figured she had had enough of me refusing to tell Troy.

And that was it. I saw Chad and Taylor looking sympathetically at me- well I didn't need their sorrow. I didn't need them interfering. I saw Sharpay looking fed up with the situation- how the hell did she think I felt? I saw Amber flirting like crazy- well I had nothing left in me, she could just take him. And Troy, well he hadn't even seen me, or clicked onto what she was doing. He just let her carry on doing what she wanted. I sighed and biting my lip wasn't gonna help me now. The entire corridor of people had gone quiet, the only noise coming from Amber's high pitched voice.

And I let go. Of the pain, of the stress, of constantly fighting to be with Troy. Tears spilled down my cheeks and I turned on my heel and ran. I did what I always did when I couldn't cope. I ran away.

And the noise started up again as people made their way out of the building.

I heard Troy call my name but I couldn't stop and let him see me crying- he didn't need the pressure any more than I did.

Troy's P.O.V

I saw Gabi's retreating figure and shouted after her, but I don't think she heard me. I turned to see Shar, Chad and Tay. Amber had finally shut up and gone so I closed my locker and walked over to them.

"Uh guys why was Gabriella running away?" I asked as they all looked to the floor. I knew something was up and they didn't want to have to tell me from their reaction. Chad was the first one to look back up and speak.

"Dude, that's what I was talking about this morning. She came to see you, she needed you and yet she couldn't come and see her boyfriend cause Amber was there, flirting away as always" Chad told me softly as Sharpay looked up and nodded along to what he was saying.

"Yeah, she had to put up with hearing Amber talking all lesson, about how you wanted her and were gonna dump Gabi. Then I guess she came to see you and well…" Taylor explained as I felt my heart drop.

She didn't deserve all this extra stress, and when she needed me, I wasn't there. I let her down.

"Right, well uh I'm gonna like um go and see her; we've got a date tonight we can talk right?" I asked unsure of what to do. The only thing I knew was that I needed to talk to Gabi.

"Yeah Troy, all she needs is you."

I nodded at them and walked out toward the school bus. I saw Zeke and Jason at the back of the bus and went to sit with them, ignoring the cheerleaders calling me, ignoring Ryan shooting me a questioning look. I fell into my seat and ran my hand through my hair, Taylor's voice running over and over in my mind- 'all she need is you'. I felt Zeke push a cookie into my hand. I looked at him and he shrugged back at me as Ryan left his original seat and walked down the bus to sit next to me. Jason saw me looking confused and whispered "Shar texted us all. You'll figure out how to make it better for her Troy, you cannot be in love like you to are and not be able to sort out each others pain"

"OMG Jason, you do have a soft side!" Zeke yelled causing the entire bus to lean round their seats and stare at us. Jason hit Zeke on the head as I smiled slightly and sighed.

All she needed was me, and all I needed, all I ever needed was her. So why was love so damn complicated?

A/N Well there you have it people!

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