A/N: This chapter is…. Confusing I guess, kinda a filler. That's about all I have to say. And sorry I haven't updated in a while but right now I'm suffering from insomnia and so I decided to write. Hooray. Oh and thank you to EVERYONE that reviewed and put this story on alerts and fave stories lists. Enjoy! I'm looking forward to seeing the response from this chapter.

Chapter 2:

Has no one told you she's not breathing?

Hello

I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to

Hello

April 15th, 2010-3:45 p.m.

"Shut up, man! That's the dumbest thing you've ever said!" Troy exclaimed as he slapped his best friend, Chad Danforth, on the back.

"Nah, I'm serious man! She wants me! It's creepy! But… she's hot. So I… I agreed to go on a date with her this weekend." Chad defended himself, his brown eyes shining in amusement.

Troy's eyes went wide from shock.

"She's crazy, Chad! I know she's hot but you need to STAY away!" Troy warned, shaking his head at his "brother".

Chad shrugged.

"Well, I need SOME company for the weekend, since Gabby has your ass whipped." Chad joked, his brown eyes squinted as he waited for Troy's reaction.

Troy rolled his aqua eyes at his friend, and decided to ignore his "whipped" statement.

"Well, I happen to know that Gabriella's best friend is single… and she's attractive." Troy teased, a slight lull in his voice.

"She one of those math geeks?" Chad asked, raising his eyebrows in question.

"Yeah, but she's really nice, cool, and-." Troy looked around for any signs of Gabriella before he finished the last part of his sentence. When he didn't see her, his face lit up into a smirk.

"And she's very attractive." He finished.

Chad chuckled darkly. "Maybe I'll have to check her out then."

"Please do. And cancel your date with-."

Troy sentence stopped as they neared his and Gabriella's locker. Gabriella always waited for him there after school, so that he could take her home before basketball practice. Today, though, she was nowhere to be found.

"Where's Gabriella?" Chad asked, worried about his friend as well.

"I don't know." Troy said, his bright eyes shining with worry.

The only time that she had stopped waiting for him was when he said he couldn't do callbacks with her years ago. Was she angry with him? Or with another guy?

Troy's stomach twisted as the last question popped into his head.

Gabriella was gorgeous and could have any guy she wanted. He knew that she didn't see why she was so attractive, but every guy in the school did. And a lot of those guys were just as attractive as Troy…

Troy pushed the thoughts out of his head. Gabriella would never cheat, never. He couldn't remember doing anything wrong, and even if he had, she couldn't be THAT mad at him, could she? Mad enough to cheat? That just didn't sound like his Gabriella.

He didn't have a clue what was going on, but he was about to find out.

Troy said goodbye to his best friend, and then looked around for someone who might now where she was.

Ryan Evans was speed walking down the hallway, his arm linked with his pretty blonde sister's. They seemed to be locked in an intense conversation. But Troy didn't have long before he had to go back to basketball practice, and he didn't have the patience to wait for answers.

Troy knew that Ryan's sister, Sharpay, hated Gabriella because Troy had picked Gabriella over her, but he also knew that his girlfriend and Ryan were best friends.

"Ryan! Ryan! RYAN! RYAN!" Troy called out over the murmur of students walking and talking to each other.

Sharpay whirled around, an angry scowl on her face. Who dare interrupt her and her brother's conversation? When she saw it was the Troy Bolton however, she put on a seductive smile and she and her twin waltzed over to the handsome basketball player.

"Ryan, do you know where Gabriella is? She usually meets me…"

Troy's sentence stopped sort when he noticed the tears that were welling in Ryan's eyes.

"I'm sorry." He murmured sadly, lowering his head in shame.

"Ryan! Head up! The Evans never show weakness and we never EVER show shame!" Sharpay scolded in her high pitched voice. Like a trained puppy, Ryan's head snapped up defiantly at her words.

"What are you sorry about?" Troy asked, ignoring Sharpay's outburst and starring at Ryan in confusion.

Using all of his acting ability, Ryan held in his tears, and he calmly told Troy everything.

Math and physics were the only things that Gabriella understood. She sometimes understood them more than she understood herself.

When she was in her starch white lab coat, she was a scientist, someone that could heal and create beautiful things. But, unknown to some people, science could always destroy and rip apart the beautiful things it created as well. Science could not always perform miracles.

Most days though, she wish that it could though

Gabriella shook off the negative thoughts and began writing down the equations again.

Besides, there were only two types of equations, solvable and unsolvable, and either way, each of the problems came out with an answer. Whether they could be solved and come out with a final equation or number, or the problem was just impossible, and couldn't ever be solved, even by Einstein himself.

However, Gabriella ALWAYS liked for her answers to be right. Unfortunately, she had a feeling that that was not going to happen today.

The brown haired girl finished scribbling, in her neat loopy handwriting, the equation down on her white notebook paper.

Gabriella put on her goggles, and got out the chemicals that were needed for the equation.

She absentmindedly began mixing the chemicals. The color of the two specific chemicals were blue and brown. 'How ironic', she thought to herself. She smiled briefly as she mixed the colors.

Her smile vanished, though, because when blue and brown mixed, the color of the chemicals formed an ugly black color

The beautiful Latina girl flipped the on switch on the Bunsen burner, waited a few seconds until it was heated up, put on gloves, got out the tongs, and gently lowered the test tub full of the chemicals onto the burner.

Just as she took a step back and put the tongs on the table, there was a knock on the door.

Gabriella turned and quickly unlocked and opened the door.

Troy was standing there, confusion on his face.

"Troy, are you ok?" She asked, but he didn't say a word, just came in and shut and locked the door behind him.

Gabriella remembered her mother's words and felt fear creep into her heart. What if Troy was dangerous, and was just playing with her because she was vulnerable?

He sure did look dangerous at the moment, his blue eyes misty, and his fists clenched.

"Did something happen this morning, after I left you to get to my first block class?" He ground out through clenched teeth.

Gabriella tried to gulp down the nauseous feeling that suddenly rose in her throat. She nodded her head yes, for fear that if she spoke, her voice would crack, and she would fall apart.

"Those bastards!" Troy yelled, turning around and punching the wall angrily, a habit he had when he was ridiculously upset. His rough knuckles were peeled and bleeding, but he didn't care. His whole body was shaking from anger, and he wanted nothing more to find those three boys.

The fact that those stupid boys put their hands on Gabriella made him want to-

"Troy!" Gabriella suddenly exclaimed, rushing forward and wrapping her arms around his waist from behind.

She buried her head in between his shoulder blades and did not release her hold on him until he finally stopped shaking.

A/N: I'm SO sorry I haven't updated in months! Theatre has started at my school and I have been really busy preparing for that. This chapter was kind of boring, but the next one will be really depressing, and everyone is going to hate me after I write it. Haha. Hope you enjoyed anyway. Love ya! *blows kisses*