Chapter 10 – Never Leaving Her Side
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"What about Gabriella?" Gina asked.
I turned to face the Gina. Her face was distraught, and she was hoping that her daughter had not suffered to bad. I turned back to the doctor, to see a grim look on his face.
"Gabriella's situation was extremely serious when we got here, the largest and most urgent injuries being the stab to her stomach and her internal bleeding. Gabriella was rushed into surgery, and those have been taken care of. Her arm is broken, as well as her kneecap. Her knee was also fixed a bit during her surgery. Unfortunately she will have to use crutches for a long time because of the damage. She also had many bruises adorning her body, particularly her stomach and face. The gash on the side of her face was also stitched up. The injury we are most concerned with is the one to the back of her head. She appears to have hit her head really hard. This blow has sent her body into a coma, shutting it down in order to fix it. Though many scans have been done, we cannot see any long-term damage to her brain." Everyone's eyes in the room were welled up with tears.
"Will…will she be okay?" Chad asked nervously.
"In any other circumstance, these injuries separately could have been treated easily and so she would have made a full recovery. However, having all of these injuries at one have but her body into shock. The problem we are facing right now is that her body may not get out of this, because of all her other injuries. We are also worried about the internal bleeding. Though we believe we have fixed it through surgery, there could still be some long-term consequences of the internal bleeding."
"What are you saying?" I questioned. The entire gang eyed the doctor as they awaited his response.
"Honestly, sir. I'm not sure Gabriella will make it through the night."
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Troy's P.O.V
I woke up to find myself staring into white walls. Where was I? It was then that I remembered the previous events. The nurse talking to me, then the policeman talking to me. I remembered asking about Gabriella, but not getting any answers. I sat up in my bed. I had to find out how Gabriella was! I tried getting out of my bed, but then all these monitors' around me began beeping like crazy.
"What the…?" I asked myself. My answers would soon be answered when I saw two nurses and a doctor run into the room. They began checking all of the machines around me, and one of the nurses forced me back into my bed.
"Troy, why did you try to get out?" She asked me.
"Gabriella…" I responded. She knew whom I was talking about. I looked around the room. The two nurses left the room, and so it was just the doctor and I.
"Troy, I understand you want to get out of here?" I was asked. I nodded my head.
"How's Gab…" Before I could finish asking my question, the doctor continued talking to me.
"I can go release you right now. You can go and meet your family and friend who are in the waiting room. They can answer all of your questions." I nodded again. I was going to get out of here, and was going to go straight to Gabriella.
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Jack's P.O.V
Waiting in the room was doing nothing. We were not allowed to see Troy or Gabriella yet, and the waiting was killing every single person in the waiting room. Particularly, Gina Montez. She was the most frightened, especially after the doctor's news that Gabriella may not make it. She went quiet, sitting in the corner of the room, staring into space. I couldn't take the silence anymore. Grabbing the remote of the table, I turned on the TV that was over our heads. Turning up the volume, I realized that the news was playing. Everyone's eyes were turned towards the TV.
"Earlier today, Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton, who had gone missing, were found. Gabriella had been kidnapped from her camp earlier in the week, and Troy, her boyfriend, was so fed up that he went out and searched for her himself. It turns out that the kidnapper had a past with Troy, yet it is unknown yet what that is. All that is known is that he was named Daniel Anderson, and that he was pronounced dead at the scene of the crime. His alleged killer was his assistant in the crime, who became fed up with his horrible treatment…"
I turned off the TV. We were all staring at the blank TV screen.
"He's dead?" Sharpay asked.
"Yeah…" Chad responded.
"It's what he deserved!" Taylor yelled, before bursting back into tears. I was rubbing Lucille's back softly. I glanced at Gina Montez, who seemed to still be in her own world. Before I had a chance to walk up to her, the doors to the rooms were opened, and in walked my son. Everyone, except Gina, ran up to him, hugging him and asking if he was okay. When everyone was finished, the only one that had her arms around my son was Lucille.
"Dad?" He asked me.
"Yeah son." I looked straight into his eyes.
"How's Gabriella?" My heart broke. How was I going to tell my son that the love of his life might not live? He saw the expression on my face, and his face immediately saddened. He knew what was going on. He turned and looked to see Gina still sitting in the corner. He got out of Lucille's arms, and walked towards her.
"Mrs. Montez?" He asked softly.
Troy's P.O.V
When I saw Mrs. Montez sitting there, and in combination my dad's face, I knew that Gabriella was in a critical condition. Before finding out how bad, I walked towards Mrs. Montez. She looked like she needed someone.
"Mrs. Montez?" I asked. Her face turned, showing me the tear-streaked face. I crouched down beside her, rubbing her back soothingly.
"She'll be okay, Mrs. Montez." I said softly to her. "She'll pull through, I just know she will!" I made it seem like I was confident, when really I wasn't. I had to put a fake face on for Mrs. Montez otherwise she would crack. She looked up at me gently, with a soft smile gracing her face. She stood up, taking me with her.
"Troy?" She asked.
"Yeah?"
"You really believe that?" I smiled. I do. I was starting to believe it. Gabriella was going to be okay, because she had to be okay. Without her I couldn't live, and there was no force in the universe that could be so cruel as to take away the only thing that I was living for.
"Yeah, Mrs. Montez. I do." She smiled at me.
"You're a good person, Troy. My Gabi is lucky to have a man like you!"
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We had been sitting around the waiting room for hours, waiting for more news on Gabi. Doctors were walking around the room, but none had even come and told us something more. My parents had informed me of Gabi's situation. My heart broke hearing all of the severe injuries that her body had received. I could not believe that my girlfriend was in a coma. That when I did get the change to see her, I would not be able to see her warm brown eyes, or hear her angelic voice speak.
The rest of the gang all went home to rest and I promised them that I would call them the second something changed. Mrs. Montez also went home to rest, having gotten no sleep since Gabriella went missing. Only my parents and me were waiting in the room. All was quiet until we heard the door to the waiting room open. Our heads turned to see the doctor walking up towards us.
"We have a broader diagnosis of Gabriella's situation." He told us.
"What is it?" I heard my dad say. I was just focusing on the doctor intently, hoping the news he had for us was positive.
"Well, after more research, we have discovered that she will need physiotherapy for her knee. Also, her internal bleeding had stopped. The main concern of ours is the blow to the head she had. It doesn't look like she will be awaking from her coma any time soon. We are also concerned that her internal bleeding may have caused some of her inner organs to not function properly. That would make it difficult to even attempt to bring her body out of the coma." Tears were covering my eyes right now.
"Wh…when can we see her?" I asked.
"One person may go visit her at a time. She's in the Intensive Care Unit, room 33." He left us.
"Troy, you should go first. Talk to her." I looked at my father's reassuring look, and nodded. I stood up and walked towards where the doctor indicated her room was. As I approached her door, I reached for the handle, and paused.
I had no idea what awaited me when I opened the door. But one thing was certain.
I was never leaving her side.
AN: Hey, sorry it's so short, but I promise the next one will be longer. Also sorry I haven't updated in a long time. Long story short, I was at a cottage, where there were no plugs and no Internet, so I couldn't post and chapters or even write them because my laptop had no battery.
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