Sharpay thinks she's clear when she sneaks out of the house to Troy her apology meal, but Zeke spies her leaving as he lurks in his parked car outside her house.

Sharpay drives to Troy's house and walks up to see Gabriella and Troy embracing Troy gave me a look that could kill me so I just ran off.

Troy tends to Gabriella's bloody and bruised feet, though he pointedly avoids any attempt on her part to even touch his own wounds, or talk about what happened.

'The good-looking face is ruined' Gabriella sighs.

'I don't want you to get a cold so change into these' Troy handed her his clothes

'Sorry we don't have girl clothes' said Troy

Troy shuts down any more discussion with his face.

'To tell you the truth, I like my face now. I feel like I'm more human. Having a 'good-looking' face is now really boring'. Said Troy

At Gabriella's look of disbelief, he adds.

'I'm not kidding. I didn't even apply medicine in order for it to heal slower'. Admitted Troy

Troy goes to his room to change he took his shirt off to reveal a roadmap of bruises covering his whole torso. As he leaves to get food for Gabriella.

While Gabriella was waiting for him to go get food she talked to her mom.

'Tell me I did well. This is the kind of life you were hoping I would have, Mom. It will be difficult, but just this once, I'm bravely going to try and take this road. Give me strength, Mom'.

Troy stares at the food that Sharpay left, but chooses to ignore it, while Sharpay sits in her car outside only to be surprised when Zeke knocks on her window.

Gabriella is asleep on the floor by the time Troy returns, and he carefully tucks her into his own bed. There's a picture of an island locale on his counter that wasn't there before, and an attached note from Gabriella explains that she was bored and found it in his drawer.

She added that she wants to go there with him tomorrow if the weather is good. 'The first trip we take together, only two of us'.

(Flashback)

'Troy!' shouted Sharpay when she came in Troy's room

'Hey, you're here' said Troy who was currently studying

'Look at his photo I took… I took it so I can give it to you'.

'Hmm interesting'

'Let's go here sometime together'

'I can't I'm busy now that I have to study about being a doctor'

'Fine then, I'm just going to go with another guy'.

Troy snatches the photo and says

'You can't because I'm going with you'.

(Flashback ends)

Troy stares at the picture but ends up putting it back.

Troy brushes Gabriella's hair away from her face as he leans in close, placing a gentle kiss on her cheek while she sleeps.

While everything going on Chad was currently on vacation with Taylor they went to an island. Chad sobs at the water's edge because the resort owner told him Taylor died after eating rat poison, only to find Taylor alive and perfectly well.

'What's wrong Chad?'

'Are you alive or dead' as he falls on his butt from shock

'I'm alive'

'But the owner said you died by eating rat poison'

'Oh no the dog Taylor died'

'What kind of person names their dog a person's name'

'I don't ask the owner'.

'I was seriously going to jump in the water to die'

'Aww Chad'

'Shut up I'm going back to the resort'.

Troy heads out while Gabriella is sleeping to buy her some clothes, but stops when he sees Sharpay's face on the newspaper about her marriage.

He can't help but think of Ryan and his murderous intent on finding his sister, and how he'd mentioned her upcoming marriage to Chairman Montez.

However, when Troy gets a call from Sharpay, he ignores it and turns off his phone.

Sharpay is upset that she can't get ahold of him and a flashback to her conversation with Zeke from the night before. Zeke says Chairman Montez saw the tape of them kissing. What's worse is Chairman Montez already had a meeting with Jason to give everything to Gabriella.

'Let's beg the Chairman' Sharpay tells Zeke through tears

'Let's beg until he forgives us'

'But you know Chairman Montez does not forgive people' said Zeke

'Gabriella Montez also knows everything about your relationship with Troy, and he's the belief that Gabriella's holding on to him just to make you squirm'.

Sharpay breaks down in the car, while Zeke tells her to pack her bags and get out of that house. With people like Gabriella and her father who'll never forgive adultery, Sharpay can never win.

Sharpay then calls Troy again leaving a 'fake voicemail' saying that her brother Ryan is here and trying to kill her'.

'Just this once help me just this once! I have no one else to call please Troy!'

She cries into the phone, before smashing her mirror with a wine bottle to make her situation sound more violent.

The message is saved and Sharpay drops the act. The broken mirror reflect her and she says

'I know exactly what I'm doing'.

Gabriella finally wakes up to the sound of Jason calling, but she ignores her phone. She's surprised how late she slept in, wondering,

'Is this house that comfortable?'

Troy is in front of his gate but puts his phone back on and checks the voicemail, his eyes widening at the message. He drops the bag and runs back to his car.

Unaware Gabriella sits outside waiting for Troy. When she takes a peek outside his gate, she sees shopping bags he left.

She opens the bag and pulls out her new clothes and she smiles when she sees Troy's note inside the bag.

'Let's go on vacation'

She gets a text from him saying he can't make it today so she gets upset but is cheered up when she tries on her new jacket and shoes.

But a text from a private number saying where Troy and Sharpay are Gabriella gets suspicious.

Sharpay is the one behind that text. The room is torn up and her lip is bloody.

Troy rushes to find Sharpay huddled on the floor, with bruises and scratches littering her arms. She puts on a pitiful act for him and it works, he goes to get the first aid kit and she drops the act while alone in the blink of an eye.

Troy finds the first aid kit and when he takes a step to Sharpay he gets a call from Ryan, calling from a police station in New York to see if Troy can bail him out. Troy barely listens to him he realizes that Sharpay had been lying the whole time. Still, he silently goes back to Sharpay and begins to tend her wounds. Gabriella arrives outside in the meantime.

With tears in her eyes, Sharpay appeals to the Troy she knows still loves her, claiming that she was crazy for leaving him. But Troy knows she's just using him.

'Sharpay, you know me very well. You know me much better than I know myself'

Gabriella arrives during this conversation, though she doesn't reveal herself while staying within eavesdropping range. She hears Troy tell Sharpay that he didn't really want revenge- he just wanted to see her desperately.

'I also knew that it was my pathetic obsession with you' said Troy

Troy's voice grows graver as he goes on imitating her when she called him 6 years ago and now with her 'Troy help me' line.

'The Troy from 6 years ago left straight away without thinking the consequences I ran to you like a crazy person'

'You knew I'd come to you like that. No matter what Sharpay, did I understood, I was patient, I forgave you, and you endured it all. You also know this right?' said Troy

He admits that after all his still crazy about her.

'I'm still a lunatic. Someone with brain damage. Someone with amnesia. And someone without pride.' Told Troy

Gabriella stays until Sharpay interrupts

'You told me to just come down, right? Okay, I'll calm down. As long as I have you, I can throw everything away. I will throw everything away and give up everything. I will go down to the old me'

This is all Gabriella can bear to hear, and she starts to zombie her way out of the house as Sharpay continues her complete and utter lie.

Troy finally puts an end to this.

'I don't care where you go, whether is hell or utter destruction'

'I don't understand what are you trying to say Troy?'

'I'm saying that the unyielding feeling I have for Sharpay Evans comes to an end.'

He walks off outside. Tears slip out as he flashes back to all his good memories with Sharpay, but wipes his tears and sees Gabriella racing out of the driveway.

Sharpay calls him on the phone inside and he answers

'Are you leaving me because you have fallen in love with Gabriella?'

Relief floods her face when he says

'I made a mistake. I'm regretting dragging Gabriella into this mess'.

Sharpay then wears a sour expression when she hears what Troy says

'I regret dragging her into this, but I've fallen in love with her' and Troy hangs up.

Jason tends to Chairman Montez, who looks like his about to die. He's thinking of Gabriella despite failed attempts to contact her, and stresses Jason that Sharpay is to receive nothing when he dies. That's the only way he can think of to protect his daughter.

Gabriella yet ignores another call from Jason as she drives back to Troy's neighbourhood, but in a moment of decision, she peels back out just before Troy drives in. They barely miss each other.

Reminders of Gabriella's presence remain in Troy's house, but the vacation picture is what he first picks up. He forgot about the love note on the back that was written by Sharpay. And realizes that why Gabriella wanted to go in the first place.

After Sharpay is cleaned up she struts into a bank vault while Zeke's advice to her reverberates in voiceover

'Chairman Montez is pissed, you have to keep your head down'.

Inside her safety deposit box is a familiar looking crumpled envelope

(Flashback)

During Sharpay's reporter days she got a call from someone with scandalous information about Chairman Montez.

They meet in a hotel room he'd been living out of since the company took everything from him. The envelope is handed over in the hopes that she would air Chairman Montez's dirty laundry to the world – all his bad personal and business dealings, including enough illegal deeds to put him away for a long, long time.

But Sharpay doesn't seem to think the same way, and seems to even come to Chairman Montez's defense, going so far as to tell him to just sell his information back to the company for money. The man claims he heard that Chairman has his eye on a reporter, and guesses that it's her.

He jumps on Sharpay and tries to rape her ripping her clothes while he shoves her to the bed. In a state of terror, Sharpay smashes a bottle over his head and kicks him away, only to have his head fall back on a jutting corner. That blow to the head killed him.

(Flashback ends)

Sharpay now has the envelope and the will to use it.

Meanwhile, Gabriella drives to the vacation spot and takes pictures from the same exact vantage picture. She sends it to Troy in a text, and he's out the door the second he sees it.

While Sharpay heads to Chairman Montez with the envelope, Jason looks torn over having to do his boss' bidding by digging up files on Sharpay and Zeke.

Troy fins Gabriella taking in the sights at the beach, though their discussion turns frank when she asks him whether he's been here before

'It's the first time' he admits

'I decided to come here with someone in the past, but in the end we couldn't go' said Troy

Gabriella asks him pointed questions she knows the answers to, but she's determined to get him to admit what she wants to hear out loud. And when she finally asks who it is Troy loved, he silent weighs his options before answering

'Sharpay Evans'.