A/N: My goodness. I'm so sorry ya'll! I started school again and for some reason I have decided to medical school. Combined with modeling and auditions I've been swamped. KILL ME NOW! Anyways, enjoy this chapter. I apologize profusely for the wait!

Beautiful Bruises 5

Chapter 5: Lies

"ZEKE!" Gabriella screeched out, her usually sultry voice a high pitch squeal.

The moment that Zeke heard his wife's voice like that, he knew. He walked slowly into the computer room, his head bowed.

"Why did you wipe the computer?" She asked, crossing her arms over her chest.

Zeke's face lit up. She didn't know! He was in the clear!

In just a moment, he formulated a lie.

He had been doing it for some years now, what was one more?

"We had a virus. You know that new software I downloaded for the company that we got an AVG warning about? Well I downloaded it anyway. We got a Trojan horse, so I had to wipe the computer. I, and especially you, have done too much work for our careers and our company to have some hacker come in and ruin it!" Zeke proclaimed as he puffed his chest out valiantly.

Gabriella's chocolate brown eyes melted at him and he knew that he had avoided the issue… for now.

"Did you happen to back it up to a junk drive or anything?" Gabriella questioned. She had records for patients on there, and she needed them.

Zeke shook his head solemnly.

"I'm sorry, baby." He apologized. He sounded so sincere that even he believed it.

For a second.

Gabriella smiled brightly. She could get the files from her work computer anyway. There was a junk drive in the computer room somewhere. She would just take it to work the next day.

But she had other plans for now.

She took a few seductive steps towards her husband, tangled her hands in his curly hair, and kissed him long and hard.

"Don't worry about it, baby. Let's go to bed." She whispered and Zeke smirked to himself as he hoisted her up and dashed towards their bedroom, her giggles resounding in his ears.

All he did, he did because he loved her.

…

Sharpay sat with the phone clutched to her ear, her make-up free face red and blotchy from crying.

The person on the other end was silent, the only sound between them Sharpay's sobbing.

"Sharpay… how could you?" They asked, their voice quiet and angry.

Sharpay only cried louder.

She wanted to apologize. She wanted to beg for understand. She just wanted to be happy. She wanted to know that she had done the right thing.

"HOW COULD YOU?!" The voice screamed and Sharpay buried a hand in her hair as the tears began to fall even harder, ricocheting off of the ornate wooden floor.

"Don't you EVER call me again!" The voice demanded and Sharpay dropped her phone to the floor as it beeped and 'call ended' flashed across the screen.

Sharpay wrapped her arms around herself as she sobbed.

She had done the right thing.

She hoped.

…

Gabriella sighed as she searched the whole computer room for that damn junk drive. She knew that they had had one and she needed it so she could get the documents from work to her home computer.

Sure, she could just e-mail it to herself but it would take a longer amount of time and who knew if e-mail was confidential these days?!

As she thought that, she stepped back and knocked into something. She turned around quickly and huffed in exasperation.

She hated that cabinet. They never even kept anything in it-

Gabriella then remembered why it was there. The safe! Zeke probably had left some things on it from the last time they used it and kept it in there.

She opened the cabinet door and saw the safe hidden into the wood. If she didn't know where it was, she would not be able to find it against the wooden surface. She entered the code and sighed with relief when she pulled out the junk drive.

…

Gabriella was happy.

Troy could tell.

It was the way she moved, the way she smiled, the way she laughed.

Everyone was happy in the therapy session today.

Except for him.

After his almost relapse, he calmed down and felt proud of himself, but that pride melted away to depression quickly.

All of his accomplishments felt like nothing. What did he have to show for all the good things he had?

All of the cars, all of the money, all of the estates, and all of the attention, what was it worth at the end of the day? Nothing.

He had to get better. He wanted love, he wanted happiness, he wanted to be sane, and most of all he wanted a family.

As Troy's robin blue eyes observed Gabriella, he realized that maybe he was jealous of her and all that she had. Especially that happiness.

Without saying a word, he stood up and stalked out of the room.

"Troy! Therapy adjourned for the day. See you guys later! Remember what we talked about. TROY!" Gabriella called out, her words a rush as she ran after Troy Bolton.

She felt like she always ran after Troy Bolton.

He whirled on her. "What do you want, princess?" He growled animalistically.

Gabriella took a step from him, fear on her face for just a split second.

Troy felt himself crumble. That was the same look on Sharpay's face before he-

Suddenly, Troy choked out a sob, his shoulder jumping as he covered his face with his hands.

After that second, there was no fear on Gabriella's face. As she led him into her office, he realized that she understood.

She shut and locked the door and guided Troy to a couch. Gabriella gave him his privacy as he cried it out. She believed tears were cleansing, but she felt tears well in her eyes as she watched him.

Why did she care so much?

To distract herself from these thoughts, Gabriella placed the junk drive into the USB on her computer and as she opened up the first few files that popped up, she felt her vision blur and the last thing she heard as she fell out of the chair and hurtled towards the ground was Troy Bolton calling her name.

A/N: Is stoning a thing anymore? I hope not… please don't stone me. I PROMISE when I get five of anything, reviews, alerts, or anything. I will try to update. I have a show tomorrow but after that I swear! I love you guys! Thank you for being so amazing.