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Closer

Chapter 12 'A New Photo'

By Thetruemeaningoflove

As soon as the doctor said that it could take months I couldn't move and if I could I wouldn't have been able to make myself look around at the others, all I heard was the door fly open and then people start crying, I knew that all the girls and my mom had started crying again and that it was Seth that had ran out of the door. I couldn't really blame him for walking out, Seth is the kind of person that doesn't cry well I don't cry but if I did I didn't care if any of my friends saw me but Seth wasn't like that, not even Sharpay had seen him cry and they had been going of for like years.

The doc looked at me then gave a sympathetic smile 'I'm sorry' she began to walk away, I jus nodded then walked back over to were I was sitting before and watched the scene in front of me. My mom was still crying and there was my dad holding her like he had done for the last 2 hours we had been waiting, I smiled a little someday I hoped that I could be a proper gentleman like my father, Taylor, Sharpay and Alexandra were sitting together hugging and crying, Stephen had left to look for Seth and Chad was sitting in shock like I was.

Gabriella could never wake up!

I know that the doctor hadn't said that but I knew that was possible, after all I did watch the national news and people sometimes took years to wake up and the hospitals only looked after a patient had been in a coma for like 6 months anymore and the relatives and friends of the person would have to pay for private care or they would be took off life support.

I remembered that the doc had said that we were aloud to see Gabriella anytime we wanted from now on, my parents had had Gabi moved to a private room and this meant that we could stay with her and visit her anytime we wanted. I looked up Ella's brother and sister as Seth had came back to us. 'Alex, do you and Seth wanna go and see Brie?' Alex nodded and then dragged Seth off to Brie's room where the rest of us waited.

Sharpay came and sat next to me and I wrapped one of my arms around her then put a small kiss on the top of her head. She rested her head on my shoulder then looked up to me 'Will she be okay?' I looked down to Shar and saw her blood shot eyes and the mascara that had ran down her face, I knew at home she had waterproof make-up but when we started the day this morning we thought there was no reason to cry, the worst thing that could have happened was the Wildcats lost the game but obviously we would have been wrong as today was one of the worst days in a long time.

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Two days later and Gabi still hadn't woken up, yesterday we didn't have to go to school but today we did, as we walked into the school gates everyone looked at us with sympathetic faces, none of us were dressed in our normal cloths we were all in sweats even Sharpay. I didn't know about the others but I certainly hadn't slept since Brie had seen in hospital.

I walked over to my locker and I picked out my books for my first lessons and then groaned as I saw someone walked over to me 'Jamie what the hell do you want?' Some people turned around while others walked past trying to listen to what was going to happen.

'Well I was wondering if you would want to come to Jay's and Becca's party with me?' I looked at her then gave her my answer 'Unbelievable!' she looked at me really confused and then I shot her a look, that made her think of what she was going to say next.

'What you mean I am unbelievable?' she looked really confused which I totally didn't understand everyone in East and West High knew that Gabriella was in hospital as it had been on the national news and radio as well as the school radio.

'Well Brie is in hospital so while you may be partying I will be at the hospital hoping she wakes up soon!' after I said that Jamie looked a little guilty which I never thought I would see and then I added something to the end 'Plus I broke up with you on Saturday so if I was going to the party I wouldn't want to go with my ex!' She didn't say a word after that she just nodded and walked away which I was thankful for.

The next thing I found was that Jason came running up to me, he played the basketball game with us on Tuesday and since then had transferred to our school and right now he looked as worried as hell.

'How's Gabi?' Jason's voice was kinda shaky. I was glad that he was fitting in with us really well and he had known what Gabi was like at school. I smiled and then nodded my head 'She's stable at the minute but unfortunately not awake yet' I received another sympathetic smile, Jason then nodded his head and walked off to the other guys on the basketball team.

I saw the gang walk over to me they all had small smiles on their faces but I didn't have one at all, I started to get a confused I was more unhappy then Alex and Seth but I didn't understand why. It was almost as though life wasn't as good without Gabriella, don't get me wrong I'm not suicidal it's just that Gabriella's sweet innocent giggle could make any depressed person smile and bring happiness back into a room.

Everyone was holding hands as they walked to me, at least they were a little happy and not totally devastated, there was no need for it as we all knew that Brie was strong so she wouldn't leave without a fight, he chuckled a little when Gabriella first found out that she couldn't be on the cheer squad because she wasn't in senior year she didn't stop trying until she got and in the end the team realized that she was to good not to have on the team.

'What are you all smiling about?' I asked and many of them looked up at me in surprise I hadn't really spoke unless it was necessary the most shocked looked Sharpay as she was the one I was around 24/7 then she let a small smile appear on her face.

'Well we were in the gym and they have put a new photo up!' Sharpay was smiling like an idiot and I didn't understand why it was just a photo of us playing a game against the Black Nights nothing big about that.

'So?' I really, really didn't understand why everyone was so happy about a picture of the Wildcats and Knights?

'It's of me, you and Giggles!' When Sharpay said that I looked up from my locker and a small smile appeared on my face, Chad began to laugh at this but he soon stopped when Taylor hit him around the back of the head.

I closed my locker than began to walk backwards and shouted 'I'll meet you guys in homeroom, so don't wait for me!' after I said this I turned around and ran to the gym where I went to look for the photo that made me smile and just the thought made me feel better.

In the gym there was already 4 pictures, one of the whole Wildcats team that had been taken recently so Jason was on it, then there was a picture of Zeke shooting the ball into the net, on the other end of the photos was a picture of Chad he was doing the same pose as Zeke had been doing in his, in between Zeke's and the new photo was me doing a slam-dunk into the net (they are like the photo's in HSM3 cafeteria the ones Troy pulls down in scream) then there was the newest photo.

It must have been taken when I wasn't looking but it was of me, Brie and Sharpay like she had said, I took my phone out from my pocket and took a photo of the massive photo in front of me, the picture was of the pre-game when I had been mucking around with Sharpay and Gabi, Sharpay was laying on the floor giggling while I was spinning Gabriella around.

It was in that photo that I noticed something, I was always happier when I was around Ella maybe that was why I was taking everything harder than everyone else, then another thing hit me…..

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OHHHHHHHHHH what happens find out next time.