CHAPTER 4

I hope that you all are satisfied with all that is happening (those of you who have not read it yet) and for those of you who have, well I hope you are okay with all the changes. The plot hasn't changed much, it's just that it's a different preparation to the chapters and so on…so yeah. Keep on reading and enjoying your selves! Tell me what you think. You know that I love to hear what you got to say! :)

Gabriella stared at the paper in her hand blankly, not really reading it.

Her thoughts were preoccupied, replaying over and over again all that happened during lunch. Sharpay's voice reasoning in her head after her comment:

"Maybe, I don't know, but one thing I'm sure of, is that without even knowing it, he hurts me. He breaks me." She had said

"No. He doesn't do that. It's not voluntarily. Maybe if you did let him into your life, maybe if he was a part of it, he could help cure you, he could help mending you. Maybe he was sent from God…or something. Why don't you give him a shot?"

'At what cost thought? At what cost would I give him a shot? My heart? Could it ever love again? Would it be able to endure the lost of someone else?' Gabriella thought

She was too busy thinking about all of that, to really notice anything going on in her class: who she was next to, what the lecture was being about— though she had already studied the entire chapter of her sciences studies for this month even if she was only in her first week of school.

She was like a nerd, but Gabriella Montez was a natural. She loved studies and books loved her. It was easy for her to stay up a night studying even I she had a test in more than two weeks. She was always prepared. Plus she absolutely enjoyed science. It was her very best subject.

As busy as she was, lost in her own little world and existence she hadn't noticed when the boy she wanted to utterly get away from, sat next to her, on the high stool. She hadn't realized both that it was the only seat available and so he had a valuable reason to seat next to her.

Only when she felt a nudge in her ribs that she gasped and looked up at the figure next to her, finally getting out of her pacing.

"What?"She almost yelled. Anger started building up in her because she now realized how close she was to the boy she was trying her best to avoid and that her ribs were now burning her from pain.

"Miss Montez, would you mind getting back to Earth and answer the question I asked you?''

This made her look up from Troy and at the teacher with a questioning look. "Would you mind telling us what makes a heart that has been placed in a body, beat faster, as we know—unless you weren't fallowing—that it has no connection to the responsible nerves?''

Gabriella sighted when she was all the eyes turn towards her, the one nearest to her felt like it was piercing through her skin. That's an easy one.

"Adrenaline and the contraction of muscles when in activity.''

"That is correct. Thank you."

Gabriella frowned and was about to go back her pacing when it occurred to her that the pain in her ribs increased. She glanced to the side, as to the cause of that pain. Troy was looking at her too, and when their eyes met, he looked away toward the teacher.

"Did you have to hit me this hard? What is wrong with you? Are you out of your mind?"

"Sorry, I was trying to get your attention so that you may not be in trouble." He whispered back without looking at her.

"Well you shouldn't have done that, because you would probably be the reason of me going to the hospital for injury."

He chuckled silently still not looking away from the board except for a quick second while she was still watching him.

She focused back to the teacher thought and muttered under her breath: "It's not funny and it really hurts.''

He finally turned towards her and focused on her face. Then he quickly raised his hand.

When the teacher saw his movement he spoke quickly "Sir, would you mind if I accompanied Gabriella to the nursery? She doesn't look so good."

Gabriella stared at him with disbelief and frowned harder. The teacher asked what was wrong with her and when she was going to protest, Troy quickly added: "She has headache and feels like puking. I would have to take her fast there.''

Mr. Eugene agreed, and Troy took the stunned girls' hand in his and moved toward the door and out of the room.

He dragged her along behind him not listening to her protests and not giving in her demands of him letting go of her wrist. But when she hit his back hard, he spun her around and pinned her to the wall beside them, having both her arms caught up between the wall and his hands. She was trapped.

"Why are you taking me to the nursery? I'm fine." Gabriella said in a small but strong voice.

"Weren't you the one that said that you were in pain?" he asked in an icy voice.

"I've been through worst." She whispered and she closed her eyes as flashbacks came before her, making her head spin a little at the horrific scene taking place.

She stumbled a little to the side in his grasp and he didn't miss that. He took her in his arms and brought her up bridal style into his arms and walked faster toward the nursery room.

And when he got there he set her up in the long chair that the nurse directed to him. He didn't want to let go of her, and she had fainted for a moment, but he had to leave the room to check up on her. The nurse was going to take her shirt off to check on her ribs and see what the problem was.

After a moment thought, he was allowed back into the room and he found Gabriella still laying in the same position, but this time with a little bit more color in her face. She was still pale thought, and it scared him a little.

"What's wrong with your side?" He asked when he saw the bandages around this area of her body getting out under the nursery robe she was now wearing. She quickly adjusted it so that it was not visible anymore and turned herself away from Troy, adjusting her on her good un-bandaged side and wincing a little in the process.

"Okay."He paced for a moment "I'm guessing that you won't tell me that easily huh?"

There was no answer or movement from the other human being in the room. He sighted and sat in a near chair, watching her.

As she silenced herself and stayed without moving a muscle for so long, Troy—being hidden away from her face—could have thought that she was sleeping. Only her un-evened breathing betrayed her.

"Look, Gabriella, I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what I did to you, I don't know what you want either—"

He was caught up when she spoke for the first time, partially reassuring Troy until he took the scene of her sentence.

"I want you to leave me alone. I want you to go away and never come back. I don't want you. That's what I want."

He frowned and got up. "Well I'm really sorry for have entered your life since that night; I can see it was a mistake to have met you and actually enjoying myself. Sorry for having brought you here to make sure you were going to be okay. I'll make sure next time—if there will be a next time—that I stay meters away from you, to spare you all of this."

He walked out of the room fuming like a red pepper on a hot casserole, and right before her knocked the door behind him, he added icily

"A simple thank you would have been just fine"

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