A/N: Thank you for the reviews over the past two chapters. I really hope you have been enjoying this story, and I apologise for my lack of updates. I've been really rundown and tired with work over the Christmas period. I hope everyone had a festive and merry Christmas and a fun new year. Hopefully 2010 will bring good things for everyone. Here is another chapter and enjoy XxX

Rating:This story will be rated M for Language, Sexual Scenes and both physical and emotional abuse as well as drug usage.

Main Characters Name Pronounced: Kah-Lee

Disclaimer: I own Caleigh, Caleb, Mark, Arielle, I do not own anything associated with High School Musical or The Disney Channel and anything used in this, is just for the purpose of the story. Thank You!

CHAPTER THREE

"Do you have to go? It feels like I just got you back" I asked forlornly as Troy and I stood at the airport. I sighed, tucking my hands into the pockets of my jeans, flicking my hair over my shoulder. His lips twisted a little unusually and he nodded.

"I know Cal, you know how it is. I've got so much work to do but you're heading off to college in a few weeks and then I'll be back before you know it. I promise, I'll phone you and we'll keep in touch. Keep your chin up sweetheart" he said, lifting my chin up as he tucked his fingers beneath it. I nodded, licking my lips softly, not wanting to let the tears spill down.

It was the same every year. Fortunately I was at a camp last year so I never really got to see him, and I didn't have to go through this. It seems to get worse with the passing years.

"I better be the first to get tickets" I warned pointing a finger at him, a small smirk adorning my lips. He nodded and held his arms up in a surrender motion before holding them out. I walked to him, allowing him to embrace me tightly. He held me against him, his arms around my waist. I could feel his soft breath tickling the skin of my neck where he buried his face. I relaxed in the circle of his arms, my fingers threading through his hair and holding his head against me. I buried my nose in his hair, nuzzling against him.

"I'm going to miss you" I said pulling back and looking up at him, crystal clear salty drops threatening to leave my eyes "I always do".

"I'll miss you too. It's not forever".

"It never is" I replied, completing the sentence we've said to each other during all the previous goodbyes we've shared.

He nodded and flashed me a smile, pressing a kiss to my cheek before letting me go and turning to pick up his bag from the floor. He threw it over his shoulder before turning back to me. He pressed his hands into my upper arms and nodded at me before turning and heading for the departure lounge. I watched him go, my heart beat racing and slowing intermittently as he walked out of my life again.

THREE WEEKS LATER

The plane ride was long and tiring and I was just ready to find my room, fall into a bed and curl up in the covers. I dragged my rolling suitcase behind me, the rest was being delivered by courier in a few days time. I lifted it up the stairs, shifted my bag up my shoulder once or twice. I walked into the building where my dorm was situated and looked around. There were other students running and walking and talking and shouting. Some were settling in okay, a few guys were throwing footballs around, cheering and booing when it was caught and missed respectively. There was a long line of people at a desk, a man and woman behind it were being bombarded by multiple students shouting all at one time. I sighed and looked around, flicking my hair over my shoulder.

I headed for the stairs, dragging my case up them as quickly as I could, for it was rather heavy. Stopping at the second floor, I looked down at the slips of paper I was holding and read over them. I checked my room number and then looked up and down as I walked along the corridor searching for the room.

Upon finding my room, I opened the door, letting it swing back and hit the wall. I looked inside, no one was there, but there were things piled on a bed to the right hand side. I stumbled in, dragging my case behind me and pulling it towards the left hand side bed.

The room was large and airy and painted in a lilac colour. It had two sets of casement windows, one near my bed and the other to the left of the other bed. They both opened outwards so you could look down onto the courtyard. The floor was laminated with a soft brown rug laid down on the middle of the floor.

The beds were single and weren't made up yet, so I assumed they just waited on the students bringing their own things.

There was nothing on the walls yet apart from a few pictures of the campus, a fire exit map and the motto of the school was carved along the top of the opposite wall to the windows.

I turned around and dumped my handbag and the few pieces of paper I was carrying onto the bed.

"Hey! Who said you get the left bed?" a voice sounded behind me. I whipped around, my hair flying almost everywhere to stare at the small girl in the door. She was about 5ft 5", very slim and had scarlet red hair. Her eyes were a deep brown colour and she wore no make up on her small elfin face. She was wearing a grey polo neck shirt and a pair of well washed blue denim jeans, her feet were stuck into grey baseball shoes.

"Ummm...well...I just thought seen as you had put your things on that bed..." I stammered looking at her. She walked into the room and came towards me and then smiled, widely.

"I was just messing with you. I don't care what bed you take" she stuck her hand out towards me "I'm Arielle. You must be my roommate Caleigh?"

"Yeah, that's me. I just got here. I was a little overwhelmed by the dorm".

"Yeah, it gets you that way. So where are you from?" she asked, turning away from me. I stared at her back for a few seconds before snapping out of my trance and replying

"Ummm....Albuquerque, New Mexico. You?"

"Boston. Not that far from here actually. So what are you studying?"

"Psychiatry is my major and English as a minor".

"Ummm...Microbiology and Biochemistry. You've got it quite hard. Psychiatry is hard enough as it is but taking English as well. Well, you must be really smart".

"I think its safe to say, we're all smart around here Arielle".

"Mhmmm...I suppose you could say that" she threw a smile at me over her shoulder as I turned to look at her.

We spent the next few hours unpacking, getting to know one another and making the room look a little more like 'us'.

I began to feel very lethargic and looked almost like a zombie when we had finished. I could hardly see 10ft in front of me.

"C'mon we need to go to the common room. The dorm adviser wants to talk to us all" Arielle spoke and grasped a light jacket from her bed to slip it on.

"Uh-uh" I moaned pitifully, dropping down onto my bed, face first. I buried my face in the pillow, telling her I was too tired to even move. She tried to tell me we had to go but I just told her to tell him/her I was far too tired to be doing anything other than sleep.

Two minutes later, I heard the door close. And that was all I heard for a few sweet, blissful hours. Until......

BANG, BANG, BANG!!!

I jolted awake, my eyes almost glued shut. I rubbed them with my hands, trying to find my boundaries as I stumbled off the bed and almost fell to the floor. Righting myself, I looked around the room with a yawn, noting it was dark and the moonlight was shining in through the window, illuminating the floor gently. The door banged again and I groaned, making my way towards it.

I tugged it open, covering my mouth in another yawn to be face with a very angry person at the other side of the door.

"You weren't at the dorm adviser meeting. I told everyone they had to be there, especially new students. Are you that dumb that you cannot even follow the simplest of rules?!?"

I ran my fingers through my tousled hair, my eyes still half closed as I winced at the light coming in from the hall.

From what I could make out he was tall, with dark brown locks, tousled over his face, and shining green eyes. He was wearing a BMU t-shirt, and black jeans and was leaning against the door, both forearms propped up on either side of the frame. His t-shirt had ridden up a little, giving a peek of his smoothly tanned stomach and the little trail of hair which dipped down into his jeans.

"Huh?" I groaned "Sorry, I was really tired from my flight here. I just wanted to sleep. Was there something important that I needed to know?" I asked, still half asleep.

"There were a few important things you needed to know actually" he all but snapped at me "And a few things I needed to know as well. What's your name?"

"Caleigh" I replied through another yawn, covering my mouth "Caleigh Moore. What's yours?"

"Mark Kellar. I'm your dorm adviser".

"Nice to meet you" I reached out to shake his hand. He let one arm down from the door frame and grasped my small hand in his bigger one. I felt a shiver go up my spine and tingles reached all the way to my toes.

"Its nice to meet you as well. Although I would have preferred it to be at the meeting which I instructed everyone to be at...."

"Okay, I get it already. I missed the bloody meeting. I'm sorry, I was so tired. Have I said sorry enough yet. Now please, enlighten me on everything else I had to know 'cause I've got a lot of sleep I need to catch up on before classes begin tomorrow".

I saw him smile through the dark and I stepped back, walking into the room and switching the small lamp on before returning to the door.

"Whoa, its you" he muttered as I stepped back up towards him. I looked up to meet his face.

"Yeah, and I can see now who you are as well. So you're my dorm advisor huh?"

"Mhmmm....this is my third year here. So what are you studying?"

"Psychiatry and English. What about you?"

"Neurosurgery is my major while General Medicine is extra on the side".

"Wow, that's a lot" I commented, running my fingers through my hair again, hoping I didn't look too bad as I stood in front of him. Knowing my luck, my hair would be everywhere, my mascara probably smudged and I've likely got pillow marks on my face.

"Yeah, but its what I've always wanted to do" he smiled, nodding his head.

"So, was there anything else you had to tell me. Or do you think I could go back to sleep?"

"Ummm...here's your schedule and map of the school, list of teachers and people who can help you with anything. If you need any help or need to talk about anything, my room is on the next floor at the end of the hall".

"Okay, thanks Mark".

"You're welcome Caleigh. See you tomorrow" he leaned towards me and pressed a gentle kiss to my cheek "Welcome to Boston" he smiled before disappearing down the corner, leaving me like a giggling idiot in the middle of the room.

END OF CHAPTER

A/N2: Sorry its been so long. I've had bad writers block and I've been trying to update my other stories on my other account as well. XxX