THE FINALE
Sharpay and Ryan ran back into the theatre, Sharpay shrieking and not quite knowing what to do. The corridor had been filled with smoke and those orange flames licking at the walls and scorching everything in sight. They stood at the bottom of one of the aisles and at the beginning of the stage.
"What do we do?!" Sharpay turned to her brother, they were both very pale and afraid, he had fear written in his eyes and she could see it.
"You expect me to know?!" Ryan asked in a shrill voice, Sharpay turned away from him exasperated. Maybe I deserve this... She thought quietly to herself and sat down on one of the chairs in the front row, Ryan noticing her real pout and her sad eyes walked over and sat next to her.
"Whats wrong Shar?" He asked, and soothingly rubbed circles into her back with his fingers. Sharpay didn't reply but simply stared at the floor, Ryan suddenly remembered.
"Sharpay, I really think this is not the time to have a mood swing, in case you never noticed theres a raging fire right outside the theatre door!" Ryan exclaimed and Sharpay looked up.
"You're right! We have to get out of here!" She shrieked and stood up, she ran onto the stage quickly and behind the curtains.
"Shar where are you going?!" Ryan asked, following her quickly to see she was pulling and pushing on the backstage theatre door that led to outside, but unfortunately she had no luck. Sharpay kicked the door hopelessly with her high heeled shoe and sighed out of frustration.
"Mrs Darbus must have locked it." Sharpay mumbled, disappointed. Ryan panicked.
"Well now what?! That was our only way out unless we go THROUGH the fire. There are no windows here, do you see any windows?!?!" As he shouted this he ran across the stage in a flurry of panic, waving his arms in the air madly. Sharpay walked over to him and stopped him, she grabbed his arm and slowly loweed it from above his head.
"Its all we can do, I know its smoky and I know we probably won't be able to see, but its all we can do. If we want to get out alive Ryan..." Sharpay let her voice trail off and she turned her head to the door, she could admit she was afraid of what was on the other side, Ryans voice interrupted her thoughts of fear.
"What if the flames are already too close?!"
"Then we..." Sharpay looked around for answer, her eyes scanning the theatre she had seen a million times she found her solution, "We go through that door, its a little further from the school entrance but also from the fire."
Sharpay pointed at the door and Ryan nodded, so up they went hand in hand tearing up the aisle in the theatre Ryan felt the door handle, he jumped away from it and shook his hand cursing under his breath.
"Its hot." He said, rubbing his hand against his shirt, Sharpay looked at him and she got down onto the floor to peer underneath the door, sure as anything there was an orange glow and that could only mean one thing.
Not Good.
Sharpay got back up to her feet.
"Lets go." She said and grasped hold of her twins arm leading him back down the theatre they ran onto the stage and back through backstage where the door to the school was. This time Ryan tested the door handle, it was warm but not too hot to give any suggestion the fire was right outside. Just then they head a loud noise like a bang Sharpay ran over to the stage, the door had been burnt and now the fire was ripping through the theatre, through all the chairs which were made of gorgeous red velvet, and right beside her she saw that the curtains had caught fire from the sparks, she screamed and tears welled up in her eyes both from the smoke and the fact that her precious theatre was going to be nothing more than rubble. Where are the emergency services?
"Comeon Ryan lets go, hurry!!" Sharpay ran and pushed Ryan right out into the hallway where they were engulfed in smoke. It was everywhere, in their eyes and noses, in their mouths and lungs causing them to cough and their eyes to well up further Sharpay could feel tears streaming down her face and when she opened her eyes all she could see was orange.
"Ryan?!" She shouted, unable to see him but she could hear his coughing. Suddenly an arm grabbed her from behind.
"Come on we have to get out of here!" Ryan called grabbing his sister by the arm and dragging her as far as he could see, which wasn't really very far. They came to the end of the corridor, it was less smoky over here but the fire was quick and was soon catching up to them, that was when they heard the almighty crack, Sharpay looked up and the ceiling came crashing down on them.
Outside Troy walked over to the scene, his father had been called as one of the teachers at East High to be told there was a fire at the school so Troy had raced right down his heart was in his throat as he saw the huge blazing fire. It was coming out of all the windows both upstairs and downstairs, the fire brigade were there and the police, and to his misery he saw an ambulance sitting nearby as a just-in-case.
"Hey!" Troy walked over to one of the policemen who looked at him with disregard.
"Not now son, we're trying to put out a fire." He said trying to shove past Troy but Troy moved with him.
"I think my friends are in there." He said, now the policeman was interested.
"Their names?"
"Ryan and Sharpay Evans."
"When did you last see them?"
"Sharpay was upset so she had gone to the theatre to calm down, and I was worried so I called Ryan and he had gone to her, that was the last time I saw either of them sir." Troy paused before adding, "They had the keys to the theatre and have been quite known to stay in there really late, thats why I'm worried. I think it was around 4pm I last saw Sharpay and 4.30pm for Ryan." Troy cringed and took a deep breath, the policeman muttered into his walkie talkie.
"We'll get right on it. We'll call the Evans household, find out if Ryan and Sharpay got home today and if they haven't, they very well might be in there." The policeman patted his shoulder and walked away, Troy pulled out his phone and dialled a number.
"Hello?"
"Gabi its Troy, you should come down to the school right away."
"Why? Whats going on? Is everything okay?"
"Theres been a fire Gabi, Ryan and Sharpay might still be inside and they're trying to put it out now. Just get down here as fast as you can."
The line went dead, Troy put his phone back in his pocket and looked at the school.
Sharpay groaned and opened her eyes, now all she could see was orange. The flames were everywhere and the smoke was in her lungs so she couldn't breath, her eyes felt clogged up with ash and before long she had to close them again, she tried to speak but all that came out was a croak and when she tried to move her right foot a searing pain shot through her body, then darkness.
Ryan opened his eyes, he was surrounded by darkness. Am I dead? he thought to himself but quickly dismissed that when he could still hear the flames, he could taste blood in his mouth and his whole body was in pain, he couldn't move at all. His eyes closed slowly again and it got harder and harder for him to breath, the smoke entering his lungs slowly. Where am I? Wheres Sharpay?! Ryan panicked in his mind before the darkness covered him once more.
Gabriella walked over to Troy, she was speechless at the sight before her the High School just in flames, some of it had been put out and they had worked out its origin too, when she looked up at Troy she could see the fire in his eyes, but she could also see fear and worry.
"They say it started in the cafeteria." Troy croaked quietly, his voice catching in his throat. Gabriella nodded.
"Are you worried?" She asked, crossing her arms and looking up at him.
"Yes."
"Me too."
Troy didn't even look at her, he just kept gazing at the fire and the wreck that was once their school, a place they had gone to everyday and stayed after hours until early evening foir various reasons, now it was all gone and not only was that gone but now perhaps the most important person in his life - Sharpay - might be taken from him too and that was something he couldn't bear. He swalled but it came out as more of a gulp for his mouth was very dry, it felt like cardboard.
"I called Zeke, Chad and Taylor before I got here, I hope you don't mind." Gabriella said quietly and Troy just shook his head but only slightly.
"No." He said just as quiet, "I don't mind."
"Good, because here they are."
Right behind them Chad, Taylor and Zeke walked over Chad and Taylor had their arms around eachother and Taylor felt sick with worry they gave Gabriella a hug, Zeke walked over to Troy.
"Hey man." He said awkwardly staring at his feet. Troy glanced at him and then back at the burning ruins of the school.
"Hey."
"Listen man, I'm sorry about...everything. I should have never been so rough on her or you." Zeke said, scuffing his shoes by kicking them into the ground.
"Its okay."
"I just hope...she can forgive me you know? When she gets out of there..." Zeke looked at Troy.
"If she gets out of there, alive." Troy said looking back at Zeke who nodded. Then the policeman walked over to them, but mainly looking at Troy.
"We have called and Ryan and Sharpay did no return to their house so we are assuming that they were inside the school, where did you say they were again?" He asked, concerned.
"The theatre, they went to the theatre." Troy swallowed again, not that it helped him at all.
"Well we are sending two paramedics with stretchers in, hopefully they will find your friends." The man said and then walked away, leaving the group of friends.
"Wow, I hope they're okay." Gabriella murmured. Troy looked at her angrily.
"Of course they're not going to be okay! In case you didn't notice the ENTIRE school is in flames!" He spat. Gabriella looked at her shoes, Chad put a hand on Troys shoulder.
"Calm down bro."
Taylor gasped and looked at Gabriella who looked back at her confused.
"Has it reached the schools gas supply yet?" Taylor asked in a frenzy, Gabriella narrowed her eyes.
"No...I don't think so, why would that..?" Zeke tried to say but Taylor interrupted.
"When it reaches the schools gas supply, the whole school will go up in smoke!" Taylor shrieked, which sent the others into an awful panic except Troy, who just felt a bit numb. Then as if on cue, the school literally exploded inside, they saw the flames suddenly billow out the window and hear an almighty 'BOOM' before they all threw themselves onto the road. Troy looked at the school.
"Sharpay!!!!"
"Ryan!!!!" Gabriella shrieked, and looked at the remains of the school, then slowly one by one they all got to their feet again. Troy ran to the policeman who was sending more men in.
"What does this mean?" He asked furiously. The policeman looked at him sorrowfully.
"This means that theres an 80 chance your friends, aren't going to be alive when we find them, or in serious damage. But we will find them I promise."
Tears welled up in Troys eyes for the first time in a long time, he couldn't believe it. Sharpay was gone? No it wasn't true.
"How can you say that?" His voice cracked in his throat again, "How can you say that???" He repeated but the policeman did not reply, he simply walked away over to the police car. Troy turned and walked back to the group that had gathered.
"Well what did he say?" Zeke asked, Troy looked at all the eager worried eyes that were on him and shook his head he let a tear escape.
"He said that when they find them, theres an 80 chance they'll be dead."
"But a 20 chance they'll be alive? Thats good right?" Chad asked, and everybody looked at him.
"The odds of that are practically 80 to 1 this can't be happening." Taylor said, obviously distressed. Just then the policeman Troy had spoken to walked over to them, holding his alkie-talkie in his hands.
"We found your friends, they should be coming out now." He said, the group all gathered around the ambulance to see Ryan and Sharpay, Troy knew it was unrealistic but he really expected to see them walk out of there with only a few cuts and bruises but sadly, this was not the case. Troys heart fell, as did the entire group standing around the ambulance when they saw two stretchers being taken out, with the twins on top. When the men got closer, they saw that one was being covered, in a body bag.
Okay well that is it, the end of Happy Together. I have of course decided to write a sequel but i want to write some other stories first so the sequal is not my top priority right now. I think it should be started around March though (If you can wait that long) but until then enjoy the finale of 'Save Me' which is coming up soon and then I will be bringing out 2 New stories, both of which I shall post the trailors to within the next week.
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