Flashback

"Alright let's go through it one more time" Troy said, "you get Gabriella in the middle of the night and just trek somewhere for half an hour. As long as she is nowhere near anyone else's camp site alright? We leave her with a map and broken compass and leave her with the note. You got the note Chad? What you write?" Troy asked snickering.

"I got it actually" Zeke said, "I wrote, 'navigate your way out of this bitch'" Zeke said, reading of the paper, folding it back up and putting it back in his pocket. All the boys laughed out loud.

"Perfect" Troy said with a wide grin on his face.

"Okay, so 1am on the 4th day okay?" Chad said to Troy, Zeke and Jason who were planning their ever so clever prank on Gabriella.

"Alright, so that'll be the 24th yeah? I'll find a way to get her out of the tent at about 12:45 ok?" Troy said to them and they all nodded. "And I don't care where you guys take her…don't bother waking me" he said laughing.

"Zeke and I will collect her" Chad said. "Ha there she is" Chad said nodding towards Gabriella who was putting books in her locker. Everyone looked over at her and snorted at her. Troy noticed how small and fragile she looked. She was like a porcelain doll. And a porcelain doll couldn't handle the prank that they were going to pull. Whatever Troy thought. He ignored that reflection in his mind and decided to continue on with the plan.

"This'll be great" Troy said reassuringly to himself

End flashback.

"What the hell is this? What's going on!?" Gabriella yelled as she got put in a tent in the middle of nowhere, "who are you? Are you from East High?" Gabriella asked again, but the people who brought her to this already set up tent had already gone. She saw that they had chucked a few items in with her. A torch, a map, a compass, a packet of bread and a piece of paper. She grabbed the torch and read the note.

Navigate your way out of this bitch

Gabriella burst into tears immediately. Troy was behind this. She didn't mean anything to him, he didn't care for her one bit, she was just a ploy. Every little thing has just been to lure her in so they could all go ahead with this game. Gabriella grabbed the torch and shone it around her tent, it wasn't like the tent she a Troy was staying in, and it was much smaller. She walked outside in her bare feet and saw that she was in a smaller area. Troy and her had a big area to set up camp in. This was tiny, and Gabriella was petrified. She cried harder and plopped down on the hard tent floor. Don't they realise what they could do to me? This could lead to a court case! Gabriella thought. What was she supposed to do now? Die in the wilderness?

Meanwhile, Troy was rushing as fast as possible down every path he could find until he could spot Chad's tent. "Chad!" he called out, "GABRIELLA?!" he called out even louder. He bolted up and down hills and shone the torch everywhere possible. He scanned every twig and every spec of dirt but could not find anyone. "FUCK!" he yelled out. Troy knew that Gabriella would be thinking he had been planning the prank all along. God knows how bad she would be feeling at the moment.

Gabriella was beginning to feel sick from fright and heartbreak. She had no idea what time it was or where she was or what was happening! The only thing she knew, was that she wanted to get the hell away from where she was. She snatched up the torch, shoved the compass in her pocket, grabbed the bread and folded up the map and held it in her mouth, which was starting to dry up. She hadn't had water in a long time. She tip toed outside and knew her feet were going to get scratched up from the lack of shoes. The tears kept sliding down her face, but she wasn't making any noise. She slowly kept stepping forward and forward. She looked at the map briefly but there was no way she could figure out where she was with the broken compass.

4 hours had gone by and Troy couldn't find anyone. Not a soul! Earlier he had been sick from worry and anger, what if she got bitten by a snake or attacked. What if she fell off a cliff again? Troy tried not to think of those thinks as it would make him feel worse than he already did. Finally, in the distance, he saw a small flickering bit of light. His eyes widened and he sped off in that direction. "Chad!" he called out. He practically opened the tent and shone the torch in, "Chad?"

"What the hell? Get out of here!" he heard a female voice say, "Chad's tent is like fucking 3 seconds away down the path. Piss off" the girl said and Troy already bolted away.

"CHAD!" he yelled out. Once he reached the next campsite he basically yanked Chad out of the tent and shone the torch right in his face, "where is she?" Troy growled deeply in his throat like he was an animal.

"Whaaaat?" Chad mumbled, rubbing his eyes.

"Gabriella. WHERE IS SHE!" Troy demanded an answer again.

"Oh" Chad said starting to laugh, "I have no idea where we took her" he said laughing again, thinking Troy was here to laugh about it.

"God dammit Chad!" Troy said, grabbing his shirt by his neck and tightening his grip every second.

"What the hell?" Chad said, trying to get out of Troy's grip.

"Do you realise what you could've done?!" Troy bellowed.

"Why do you care?!" Chad shouted.

"BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT HER!"

"You've got to be kidding me right?" Chad said. Immediately, Troy punched him in the face sending him to the ground.

"I don't want you doing anything but look for her!" Troy yelled as he made his way back to his camp.

The sun began to rise and Gabriella's lips were very, very chapped and she was very, very thirsty. She dared not have any bread as that would make her even more thirsty. The souls of her feet were bleeding a little bit, and there were so many scratches to her arms that she could have looked like a walking corpse. "I can't believe I haven't passed anyone! I wish they didn't send the other 3 quarters on the other side of this fucking mountain" I should never have came! Gabriella said in her mind. She began to cry again and felt a tear drop land on her grazed knee from where she fell over. Gabriella dropped the bread and picked it up again, "this fucking BREAD!" she yelled and chucked way into the bush, in a place she would never have been able to get it again. She attempted to run but her feet were so sore that she was having trouble simply walking. She couldn't believe how far out she had been taken. They must've taken her in the wrong direction because none of the areas she was walking through looked the least bit familiar.

Another hour had gone by and Troy let a few tears trickle down his cheeks as he sped towards a tent he had found. "Gabriella?" he said, plunging his head inside. She wasn't in there, but he saw a white piece of paper all scrunched up.

Navigate your way out of this bitch

Troy recognised the note to be Zeke's and Troy growled deeply in his throat. He slammed it back down on the ground and started running again calling out her name.

"I just have to keep going downhill until I reach the bottom, then I can make my way to the national trust's cabin and go home" Gabriella said to herself. By now, she was walking slower than a legless man. She didn't care about what she stepped on anymore, she didn't think her feet could be in more pain. Ahead of her, she saw water, and another cliff which lead down to it. She smiled briefly and made her way to the very edge. She looked down, smiling again. The water looked extremely welcoming. Her eyes began to shut and she simply let herself drop off the edge.

Troy screamed out in frustration, not knowing what to do anymore. He bent over and rested his hands on his knees, gasping for breath. He looked ahead of him and saw a figure slowly falling off a rock. It was Gabriella, he could tell. She was wearing a bright red singlet top. It would take him a while to get there, but he was going to get there, not matter how long it took. He cursed out loud and dried of the tears slipping down his face by running so fast.

As soon as Gabriella hit the cold water, she managed to wake up and resurface. She didn't care if the water was contaminated with poison, she drank as much as she possibly could and before she drowned from it, she clawed her way to a protruding rock from the middle of the lake, nowhere near a bank. She scrambled up and immediately fainted, which lead her into a deep sleep.

Troy found the rock she had jumped from and ran to the edge looking down to see if he could spot her anywhere. His heart stopped when he saw her lifeless body lying down on a rock. He took off his shoes, chucked them to the side and jumped as far out as he could. He hit the water in pain but ignored it, he swam over to the rock and climbed up. "Gabriella" he gurgled. He wiped his face and ran his hands through his hair and put his hands on her shoulders shaking her. "Gabriella!" he said again. He saw she was breathing so she didn't need CPR. He pressed his forehead against hers and whispered her name again. Suddenly, Gabriella's eyes snapped open and she scrambled away from Troy. She stood up keeping her balance with one hand and holding the other up in front of Troy.

"Don't come near me!" she yelled.

"B-"

"But nothing! You could've killed me! I could handle the bullying for the rest of the year Troy but not a prank like this" she said, choking on her constant sobs and barely getting the words out.

"I wasn't behind it Gabriella!" Troy said walking towards her.

"Yes you w-!" Gabriella stopped her sentence as she squealed and fell back into the water. Troy ran over and quickly saw her emerge, she was fine. "Yes you were!" she said spitting some water out of her mouth, "you're just saying that so I won't tell on you!!" she yelled. She watched Troy step into the water but didn't want him to come in, "stay there! Stay on the rock!" she yelled as she swam away. She was a pretty fast swimmer when she wanted to be. She finally reached the part of water we she could just stand up, but she heard Troy dive in after her. She saw a bank she could get to in time, but she was wrong. Troy immediately glided next to her like an eel and emerged right in her face.

"I didn't want to do it!" he yelled.

"Yes you did. I was stupid to think that you actually liked me" Gabriella snapped.

"I do like you Gabriella! I DO! I spent the last 5 hours looking for you, looking at these scratches on my arms! He said holding his arms out. I punched Chad in the face for taking you away!"

"It was Chad! It was you! You're best friends!"

"NO!" Troy yelled again, "I'll be honest. I did plan it before we came Gabriella, I did okay? But as soon as we started camping out I completely forgot about it. But as soon as you went missing I remembered. That's the honest truth."

"Too much shit has happened Troy. I can't trust you" she said splashing a lot of water in his face. Troy just ignored it and wiped his face again.

"If you don't believe me Gabriella, why do you think I am here in the water with you now? Why would I have jumped off that cliff? If I was behind it still do you think I would've really bothered?" Troy said. He watched her glare at him, but noticed her expression started to soften. Troy splashed some water in her face too, just not as much as she did to him.

"Hey!" she said angrily and splashed him some more. Troy just splashed her back.

"You did it to me!" he yelled back.

"You deserved it!" Gabriella yelled once again. Soon enough, they were both in a heated splashing contest and suddenly, Gabriella felt two hands firmly grab her shoulders and a pair of lips crashing down on hers. She immediately melted into the kiss and felt her whole body go limp, Troy knew she needed rest.

7:30pm

Gabriella had gotten so tired that Troy was carrying her back to the tent. When they finally arrived, Troy placed Gabriella in the sleeping bag and mentally kicked himself for forgetting about the stupid prank. She was safe in my arms…and I just let her go! Troy got in the sleeping bag with her and wrapped his strong arms around her, intending on keeping her safe from anything that could harm her.

"Nothing can get to you now" Troy whispered in her ear. Unexpectedly, he began to hear Gabriella sob quietly. "What's the matter Gabriella? You're safe now…" Troy said comfortingly.

"Troy, you had no idea how I felt out there all alone" Gabriella said in between tears.

"I can't imagine. Gabriella you made your way to water, you followed the map even though it was difficult, you got found. You're a super hero. I'm so, so sorry. "

"It's okay. It's just…it brings back really bad memories. I had a little sister…and thinking of what happened to her makes me sick in the stomach. I thought I was in the same situation as her…" Gabriella started to cry harder and harder now. Troy figured she seemed more distressed about her little sister, and now what had just happened to her.

"Do you want to tell me what happened?" Troy asked soothingly while brushing a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Troy it will make you cry"