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Closer

Chapter 19

By Thetruemeaningoflove

This is from no-one's point of view so kind of like a narrator.

Troyella were staring at Seth who was at the moment was emotionless all the girls (including Lucille) had massive smiles on their faces while the men (apart from Seth) looked like they were proud papa's even Chad but that wasn't what was on Troy and Gabriella's mind at the moment, they looked at him a little worried until he stood and slowly walked out the room. Then Gabriella and Troy looked at each other. The others in the room looked at the door Seth had walked though and their faces changed to sympathetic, Troy kissed Gabs on the head and then walked out of the room to follow Seth.

Once Troy was outside he looked down the hallway to his left and right until he saw any sign of his girlfriend's brother as well as his own friend. When he found him sitting on one of the chairs he thanked the high heavens that he hadn't stormed out of the hospital. He knew that Seth hadn't realized that Troy hadn't come out to find him because he hadn't tried to walk off more or looked up at him.

Troy walked up to Seth and then sat on the seat next to him, the oldest Montez son just kept staring down at his hands.

'What is your problem with me being with Brie?' Troy asked, he was a little annoyed at how it seemed like one of his friends couldn't trust him, they were gonna tell him at a better time but he couldn't help it if Seth's other sister and girlfriends had big mouths even if one of them was his cousin. But by the look of it Seth was trying to find an answer to Troy's question. It was probability just him trying to make up an excuse. The reason that he stormed out was more than likely out of shock but no-one knew what was going thought his head.

'It's not really a reason it's more it's just my sister and your one of my best friends!' Troy had been expecting an answers like that, but he didn't understand how he could say that, nearly everyone had been making jokes that Troyella would be the next 'it' couple at school and even Seth joined in some times.

'And you think I didn't have the same thing going through my going thought my head when you asked Sharpay?' The more Troy said it the more annoyed he got, it wasn't like all of a sudden he was gonna break up with Gabby one-day because he had had enough of her or something because people had said that it was obvious that Troy liked her and the fact that she was still his best friend, and he knew he couldn't live without her even if her tried.

Seth looked at him and it looked like he didn't understand. 'Dude why would you really care that much, there's a difference Gabi is my sister, Sharpay is your cousin, you don't have the same kind of relationship me and Gabs do!' Seth had really gone one too far with that, and Troy had changed from pretty annoyed to downright angry. He shot up from his seat and anyone around could tell that he was pissed off. 'I don't have that kind of relationship with Sharpay after 18 years we have been treated like brother and sister, I'm there for her when she's upset and she's there for me. Don't you dare start talking shit about me not giving a fuck about not caring for her maybe I wanted her to be happy and just let you to do what you wanted even if I wasn't really happy about it!' Troy had started yelling at Seth and soon after he had started Seth had stood up from his seat and walked up to Troy right in his face.

'Yea well how do I even know that you even give a shit about my little sister the only time that I have seen you upset was when Gabi was first brought in hospital!' Troy and Seth had started to attract people's attention and although no-one looked like they were gonna get security neither one of the boys had noticed.

'You that I don't care fuck about Gabriella, when I was the one who was first there when she was hit to the ground, I was the one there when she found out that you were moving in with Sharpay, I was the one there when she found out that your mom was never coming back and I can tell you now that I will be there whenever she needs me. I don't give a shit about what you say, she means a whole lot more to me that you will ever know!' There was almost his crystal blue eyes where almost black from all the anger he was venting off and he made sure that when he was staying it he was looking dead into Seth's eye's 'And for your information I was upset while Brie was in hospital but I never showed it, most people we shocked when I let myself go in here the first time but after that maybe I kept it to myself, I showed that I wasn't in a good mood but I didn't want everyone else to watch me breakdown. That doesn't mean that I was scared shitless that Gabs was gonna die on me because when everyone else thought the worst I always had to be the one that was positive. So don't you dare say that I don't give a fuck!' Troy stared to walk away and went to open the door, he could feel tears in his eyes but it didn't matter so he turned around before he opened the door that lead to his girlfriend.

'And I don't think I ever saw you cry in front of ever-one.' Troy didn't have to say it very loud but he knew that Seth had heard him after he had sat down and had his head in his hands.

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Troy stepped in the room and watched as everyone stared at him, there were tears in his eyes and he knew that if he looked at anyone other than Gabriella then the salty tears would roll down his face. But he soon found himself wrong as the tears did fall as he looked at the girl in the bed who he really thought was gonna die. Everyone had changed places in the room and somehow Gabriella, Sharpay and Alexandra were sitting on the bed, with Gabriella on the end.

Emotionlessly Troy walked over to the seat that was by Gabi and sat on it placing his head on her lap letting tears fall down from his eyes as they landed on his girlfriend's stomach. Everyone around him looked at each other as Gabriella started to play with Troy's hair, somehow all the other people in the room managed to communicate and made a joint decision that they should leave the couple alone for awhile. Josh had tried to put up a fight not wanting to leave either Troy or Gabriella but when Sharpay promised him ice-cream he soon changed his mind and let Troyella have some peace.

The two of them sat there for a moment in silence. Gabriella didn't have a clue what to say, she had been there when Troy had cried and no-one else was but she always knew the reason, but now sitting in the hospital room with Troy silently crying into her lap she didn't know what to say or do so she just continued to run her hands through his hair.

After a while Troy lifted his head up and stared at Gabriella, she gave him a sweet smile back and Troy gave a weak one back but anyone could tell that he still wasn't happy the only way that he would was if he would tell someone what was wrong. Gabriella new that she was the only one that he would open up to after knowing him for her whole life he had only started being open with her when she started High School and before then he managed to keep it all bottled up, somehow.

'Babe what's wrong?' Troy had to think before he answered the question he knew what was wrong but he didn't know how to but it in words.